To-morrow-To Mrs. Thrale-To write to Hector. To Dr.

Taylor.

21. I went to Mrs. Thrale. Mr. Cox' and Paradise met me at the door and went with me in the coach. Paradise's loss". In the evening wrote to Hector 3. At night there were eleven visitants. Conversation with Mr. Cox. When I waked I saw the penthouses covered with snow.

22. I spent the time idly. Mens turbata. In the afternoon it snowed. At night I wrote to Taylor about the pot, and to Hamilton about the Foedera 5.

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23. I came home, and found that Desmoulins had while

even affected me. I was talking to Lady Charlotte Lindsay, the daughter of Lord North, about the apartments, when she said with a good deal of emotion, "This is an interesting visit to me. I have never been in this house for fifty years. It was here that I was born; I left it a child when my father fell from power in 1782; and I have never crossed the threshold since." Trevelyan's Macaulay, ed. 1877, i. 299.

' Mr. Cox was a solicitor. It was at his house in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, that Burke and Johnson had argued with too much warmth over the management of the defence of Baretti on his trial for murder. 'Burke and I,' said Johnson, 'should have been of one opinion if we had had no audience.' Life, iv. 324. It was at the same house about thirteen years earlier that had taken place Jeremy Bentham's 'first conference with Dr. Markham,' the Headmaster of Westminster, afterwards Archbishop of York. 'It was,' said Bentham, 'an awful meeting-with three reverend doctors of divinity at once, in a large room, to whom a trembling lad was introduced, who had been talked of as a prodigy.' Bentham's Works, x. 27. See also ib., p. 29, for the disquiet caused the

boy by 'a tip' (to use his own word) of five guineas from Cox.

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'John Paradise was born at Salonichi, brought up at Padua, and by far the greatest part of his life resided at London; was passionately fond of learned men, and opened his house to all descriptions of them.' Annual Register, 1795, ii. 49. See Life, iv. 364. A very large estate belonging to him in America 'had been attached by an order of the United States, who had threatened its confiscation unless the owner appeared in person to claim it.' Jones, the Orientalist, was on the point of sailing with him to America as his legal adviser, but the voyage was abandoned through Paradise's irresolution. Teignmouth's Jones, p. 247; Johnstone's Parr, i. 84-6.

I was away been in bed. Letters from Langton and Boswel. I promised Lowe'six guineas. Corrected proofs for Shaw.

24. Sunday. I rose not early. Visitors Allen, Davies 3, Windham, Dr. Horseley3. Palfry, 2s. 6d. Dinner at Strahan's. Came home and chatted with Williams, and read Romans ix. in Greek.

To-morrow begin again to read the Bible put rooms in order ; copy Lowe's Letter.

25. M. I had from Strahan £78. At night of the Bible I read 11 p. and something more in 55'.

26. Tu. I copied Lowe's Letter. Then wrote to Mrs. Thrale’. Cox visited me. I sent home Dr. Laurence's papers with notes. I gave Desmoulins a guinea, and found her a gown.

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27. W.-At Harley-street. bad nights-in the evening Dr. Bromfield' and his Family. Merlin's steelyard 10 given me. 28. Th. I came home. Sold Rymer for Davies: wrote to Boswel ". Visitor Dr. Percy "2. Mr. Crofts. I have in ten days written to Aston, Lucy, Hector, Langton, Boswel; perhaps to all by whom my Letters are desired.

The Weather, which now begins to be warm gives me great help. I have hardly been at Church this year, certainly not since the 15 of Jan. My Cough and difficulty of Breath would not permit it.

1752 dear Tetty died. I have

I have heard him call him "a dirty rascal" and "a dirty scoundrel."' Bentham's Works, x. 41.

Miss Williams. Post, p. 114. 7 This letter has not been published. 8 Mrs. Thrale had taken a house in this street for three months of this year. Hayward's Piozzi, 2nd ed., i. 165.

9 Letters, i. 178, n. 6.

10 Mention is made of Mr. Merlin, the very ingenious mechanic' in the Early Diary of Frances Burney, ii. 58, 300. See also Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 6, 52.

now uttered a prayer of repentance and c.'; perhaps Tetty knows that I prayed for her. Perhaps Tetty is now praying for me. God help me. Thou, God, art merciful, hear my prayers, and enable me to trust in Thee.

We were married almost seventeen years, and have now been parted thirty.

I then read 11 p. from Ex. 36. to Lev. 7. I prayed with Fr. and used the prayer for Good Friday.

29. Good Friday. After a night of great disturbance and solicitude, such as I do not remember, I rose, drank tea, but without eating, and went to Church. I was very composed, and coming home, read Hammond on one of the Psalms for the day. I then read Leviticus. Scot3 came in which hindred me from Church in the afternoon. A kind letter from Gastrel +. I read on, then went to Evening prayers, and afterwards drank tea with bunns; then read till I finished Leviticus 24 pages et sup.

To write to Gastrel to morrow.

To look again into Hammond.

30. Sat. Visitors Paradise and I think Horseley. Read II pages of the Bible. I was faint, dined on herrings and potatoes. At Prayers, I think, in the Evening. I wrote to Gastrel, and received a kind letter from Hector. At night Lowe. Pr. 5 with Francis.

31. Easter Day. Read 15 pages of the Bible. Cætera alibi.

1 Contrition.

He wrote from Lichfield on July 26, 1775:-'When I came I found Lucy at her book. She had Hammond's Commentary on the Psalms before her. He is very learned, she says, but there is enough that anybody may understand.' Letters, i. 357. Addison, quoting Fell's Life of Hammond, says :—'As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these dis

tempers on him at the same time.' The Spectator, No. 574. Franklin, in a letter written in his old age, utters the same thanks.

3 Scott had chambers hard by in the Temple, where Johnson and Boswell dined with him on April 10, 1778. Life, iii. 261.

Mrs. Gastrell of Lichfield. Life, ii. 470. For Johnson's answer to her letter, see Letters, ii. 248.

5 Prayed.

The other book in which he made the remaining entries is, I fear, lost.

At

152.

At the Table.

Almighty God, by whose mercy I am now permitted to commemorate my Redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ; grant that this aweful remembrance may strengthen my Faith, enliven my Hope, and encrease my Charity; that I may trust in Thee with my whole heart, and do good according to my power. Grant me the help of thy Holy Spirit, that I may do thy will with diligence, and suffer it with humble patience; so that when Thou shalt call me to Judgement, I may obtain forgiveness and acceptance for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

153.

At departure, or at home.

Grant, I beseech Thee, merciful Lord, that the designs of a new and better life, which by thy Grace I have now formed, may not pass away without effect. Incite and enable me by thy Holy Spirit, to improve the time which Thou shalt grant me; to avoid all evil thoughts words and actions; and to do all the duties which thou shalt set before me. Hear my prayer, O Lord, for the Sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.

These prayers I wrote for Mrs. Lucy Porter in the latter end of the year 1782, and transcribed them October 9, -841.

Almighty God, Father of all mercy, help me by thy Grace that I may with humble and sincere thankfulness remember the

He was staying in her house at Lichfield on that day.

2 Mrs. Thrale recorded in her Diary on Sept. 20 of this year :-'And now I am going to leave Streatham (I have let the house and grounds to Lord Shelburne, the expense of it eats me up) for three years.' Hayward's Piozzi, 2nd ed., i. 171. On July 28,

1790, she wrote:-'We have kept our seventh wedding-day and celebrated our return to this house [Streatham] with prodigious splendour and gaiety. Seventy people to dinner... Never was a pleasanter day seen, and at night the trees and front of the house were illuminated with coloured lamps, that called forth our neighcomforts

comforts and conveniences which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when Thou givest and when Thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me.

To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may so pass through this world as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happiness, for Jesus Christs sake. Amen1.

O Lord, so far as, &c.-Thrale 2.

Oct. 7. I was called early 3. I packed up my bundles, and used the foregoing prayer, with my morning devotions somewhat, I think, enlarged. Being earlier than the family I read St. Pauls farewel in the Acts, and then read fortuitously in the Gospels, which was my parting use of the library.

155.

Sunday, went to church at Streatham. Templo valedixi cum osculo. Oct. 6, Die Dominica, 1782.

Pransus sum Streathamiæ agninum crus coctum cum herbis (spinach) comminutis, farcimen farinaceum cum uvis passis, lumbos bovillos, et pullum gallina Turcicæ; et post carnes

bours from all the adjacent villages to admire and enjoy the diversion.' Ib. p. 304.

In 1783 Jeremy Bentham visited Lord Shelburne at Streatham, who at that time was negotiating the Treaty of Peace with France. 'At one of the dinners Gibraltar was the topic, and Rayneval [one of the French negotiators] was very desirous it should be given up by the English. There were among the guests those who thought Gibraltar was not worth keeping.' The Viscount de Vergennes, the son of the Prime Minister of France, said to Bentham:-' Are there any such people in England as authors?' The portraits of 'the wits of the age' whom Reynolds had painted for Thrale were still hanging

3 He was perhaps going that day with the Thrales to Brighton. He was there on the 10th. Letters, ii. 273. 'I came to Brighthelmston in a state of so much weakness that I rested four times in walking between the inn and the lodging.' Life, iv. 156.

See Letters, ii. 319, where he says:-'I carried my budget myself.' 5 Acts xx. 17-end.

Life, iv. 159. 'I bade the church farewell with a kiss.'

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