him lie along by himself upon the grass near it, and talk away as though three or four people were with him.'-'Did you ever see any of his writings?' 'I was once tempted, I remember, to take a peep; his papers used to lie in a loose pile upon the table in his study, and I had longed for a look at them a good while: so, one morning, while I was waiting in the room to shave him, and he was longer than usual before he came down, I slipped off the top sheet of paper, and expected to find something very curious, but I could make nothing of it. I could not even read it, for the letters looked all like in one.'' He was very affable in his manner?' 'O yes! he had no pride; he was very free in his conversation, and very cheerful, and one of the best-natured men that ever lived.'-'He seldom was much burthened with cash?' 'No, to be sure, he was deuced long-winded; but when he had money, he would send for his creditors and pay them all round; he has paid my master between twenty and thirty pounds at a time.''You did not keep a shop yourself at that time?'

No, Sir; I lived with one Lander here, for twenty years; and it was while I was 'prentice and journeyman with him, that I used to wait

on Mr. T. Lander made his majors and bobs, and a person in Craven Street, in the Strand, made his tie wigs. An excellent customer he

was to both.'-' Did you dress any of his

visitors?' Yes; Quin and

George, I think, he was called.

Lyttleton, - Sir

'You

Yes,

He was so tender-faced, I remember, and so devilish difficult to shave, that none of the men in the shop dared to venture on him except myself. have seen The Seasons,' I suppose? Sir; and once had a great deal of them by heart (he here quoted a passage from 'Spring'.) Shepherd, who formerly kept the Castle Inn, shewed me a book of Thomson's writing, which was about the Rebellion in 1745, and set to music; but, I think, he told me it was not published.' -The cause of his death is said to have been taking a boat from Kew to Richmond, when he was much heated by walking?' 'No, I believe he got the better of that; but having had a batch of drinking with Quin,, he took a quantity of cream of tartar, as he frequently did on such occasions, which, with a fever before, carried him off.' [Mr. Robertson did not assent to this.] He lived, I think, in Kew Foot-lane? Yes, and died there, at the furthest house, next

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Richmond Gardens, now Mr. Boscawen's: he lived some time before at a smaller one, higher up, inhabited by Mrs. Davis.'-' Did you attend him to the last?' ( Sir, I shaved him the very day before his death; he was very weak, but made a shift to sit up in bed. I asked him how he found himself that morning?

Ah, Wull,' he replied, I am very bad, indeed.' Taylor concluded by giving a hearty encomium on his character."