and thence, it is to be lamented that the contrary evil resulted—that neither the disciples, nor the non-conformists, of this anonymous choak-dog[1] have preserved an item of the present case; and the Author has waited in vain, while
"Year chases year, decay pursues decay,"
for some disclosure from the self-edited, or the post-humous memoranda, of the one, or the other, noble lord, or distinguished commoner, honoured with some office near his Majesty's person, or frequently in his way at the period in reference (which assimilates with the chronology of Junius.) The visits of the Princess Dowager of Wales to fortune-tellers, attended by the heir apparent to the crown have reached posterity,[2] with other matters, scarcely
- ↑ The name given by the shipwrecked sailors of the Antelope packet to a marmalade or sweetmeat esteemed by the inhabitants of the Pelew Islands: and with which they were presented.
- ↑ The following passage in the "Diary of a Lover of Literature" (Thomas Green, esquire, of) which the Author had not seen when he wrote; is too much in accordance with this melancholy neglect.—'The education of the Prince appears to have been a wretched one. Shut up from all liberal
maker, presented his "Treatise on the Use of the Globes," to the King, who had given him permission to bring the volume out under the royal sanction, his Majesty looked over the dedication, and said, "This is not your writing." "No Sire," replied Adams, "It was composed for me by Dr. Johnson." I thought so," answered the King; "It is excellent—and the better for being void of flattery, which I hate."—The Life and Times of William 4th. By John Watkins, LL.D.
