to Protestantism in the year 1754, after allowing something to the conversation of his Swiss tutor, says :—

'I must observe that it was principally effected by my private reflections; and I still remember my solitary transport at the discovery of a philosophical argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation—that the text of scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence is attested only by a single sense-our sight ; while the real presence itself is disproved by three of our senses— the sight, the touch, and the taste.'-Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, ed. 1827, i. 67.

Jean Pierre de Crousaz.
(Vol. v. p. 90.)

Gibbon, describing his education at Lausanne, says :

"The principles of philosophy were associated with the examples of taste; and by a singular chance the book as well as the man which contributed the most effectually to my education has a stronger claim on my gratitude than on my admiration. M. de Crousaz, the adversary of Bayle and Pope, is not distinguished by lively fancy or profound reflection; and even in his own country, at the end of a few years, his name and writings are almost obliterated. But his philosophy had been formed in the school of Locke, his divinity in that of Limborch and Le Clerc; in a long and laborious life several generations of pupils were taught to think and even to write; his lessons rescued the Academy of Lausanne from Calvinistic prejudice; and he had the rare merit of diffusing a more liberal spirit among the clergy and people of the Pays de Vaud.'-Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, ed. 1827, i. 66.

The new pavement in London.

(Vol. v. p. 95, n. 3.)

'By an Act passed in 1766, For the better cleansing, paving, and enlightning the City of London and Liberties thereof, &c., powers are granted in pursuance of which the great streets have been paved with whyn-quarry stone, or rock-stone, or stone of a flat surface.'A Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain, ed. 1769, vol. ii. p. 121.

Boswell's

Boswell's Projected Works.

(Vol. v. p. 103, 12. 2.)

To this list should be added an account of a Tour to the Isle

of Man (ante, iii. 91).

A cancel in the first edition of Boswell's' Journal of a Tour to the

Hebrides.'

(Vol. v. p. 172.)

In my note on the suppression of offensive passages in the second edition of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (ante, v. 168), I mention that Rowlandson in one of his Caricatures paints Boswell begging Sir Alexander Macdonald for mercy, while on the ground lie pages 165, 167, torn out. I have discovered, though too late to mention in the proper place, that in the first edition the leaf containing pages 167, 168, was really cancelled. In my own copy I noticed between pages 168 and 169 a narrow projecting slip of paper. I found the same in the copy in the British MuseMr. Horace Hart, the printer to the University, who has kindly examined my copy, informs me that the leaf was cancelled after the sheets had been stitched together. It was cut out, but an edge was left to which the new one was attached by paste. The leaf thus treated begins with the words 'talked with very high respect' (ante, v. 170) and ends 'This day was little better than a blank' (ante, v. 172). This conclusion was perhaps meant to be significant to the observant reader.

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Boswell's conversation with the King about the title proper to be given to the Young Pretender.

(Vol. v. p. 211, n. 2.)

Dr. Lort wrote to Bishop Percy on Aug. 15, 1785

'Boswell's book [The Tour to the Hebrides], I suppose, will be out in the winter. The King at his levée talked to him, as was natural, on this subject. Boswell told his majesty that he had another work on the anvil-a History of the Rebellion in 1745 (ante, iii. 184); but that he was at a loss how to style the principal person who figured in it. "How would you style him, Mr. Boswell?" VI.-5

"I was

"I was thinking, Sire, of calling him the grandson of the unfortunate James the Second." "That I have no objection to; my title to the Crown stands on firmer ground-on an Act of Parliament." This is said to be the substance of a conversation which passed at the levée. I wish I was certain of the exact words.'-Nichols's Literary History, vii. 472.

Shakespeare's popularity.
(Vol. v. p. 277, n. 6.)

Gibbon, after describing how he used to attend Voltaire's private theatre at Monrepos in 1757 and 1758, continues :—

"The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.'-Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, ed. 1827, i. 90.

Archibald Campbell.
(Vol. v. p. 406.)

Mr. C. E. Doble informs me that in the Bodleian Library 'there is a characteristic letter of Archibald Campbell in a Life of Francis Lee in Rawlinson, J., 4°. 2. 197 ; and also a skeleton life of him in Rawlinson, J., 4°. 5. 301.'

Cocoa Tree Club.

(Vol. v. p. 440, 22. 1.)

Gibbon records in his Journal on November 24, 1762, a visit to the Cocoa Tree Club:

'That respectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the first men in the kingdom in point of fashion and fortune, supping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat or a sandwich, and drinking a glass of punch. At present we are full of king's counsellors and lords of the bed-chamber, who, having jumped

into the ministry, make a very singular medley of their old principles and language with their modern ones.'-Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, ed. 1827, i. 131.

Johnson's use of the word 'big'

(Vol. v. p. 485.)

On volume i. page 545, Johnson says: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.'

Atlas, the Duke of Devonshire's race-horse.

(Vol. v. p. 490.)

Johnson, in his Diary of a Journey into North Wales, records on July 12, 1774—

'At Chatsworth.

Atlas, fifteen hands inch and half.'

Mr. Duppa in a note on this, says: 'A race-horse, which attracted so much of Dr. Johnson's attention, that he said, "of all the Duke's possessions I like Atlas best."'

Thomas Holcroft, who in childhood wandered far and wide with his father, a pedlar, was at Nottingham during the race-week of the year 1756 or 1757, and saw in its youth the horse which Johnson so much admired in its old age. He says: 'The great and glorious part which Nottingham held in the annals of racing this year, arose from the prize of the King's plate, which was to be contended for by the two horses which everybody I heard speak considered as undoubtedly the best in England, and perhaps equal to any that had ever been known, Childers alone excepted. Their names were Careless and Atlas. There was a story in circulation that Atlas, on account of his size and clumsiness, had been banished to the cart-breed; till by some accident, either of playfulness or fright, several of them started together; and his vast advantage in speed happening to be noticed, he was restored to his blood companions. . . . . Alas for the men of Nottingham, Careless was conquered. I forget whether it was at two or three heats, but there was many an empty purse on that night, and many a sorrowful heart.'-Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft, i. 70.

....

Sir Richard Clough.

(Vol. v. p. 497.)

There is an interesting note on Sir Richard Clough, the founder of Bâch y Graig, in Professor Rhŷs's edition of Pennant's Tours in Wales (vol. ii. p. 137). The Professor writes to me :-'Sir Richard Clough's wealth was so great that it became a saying of the people in North Wales that a man who grew very wealthy was or had become a Clough. This has long been forgotten; but it is still said in Welsh, in North Wales, that a very rich man is a regular clwch, which is pronounced with the guttural spirant, which was then (in the 16th century) sounded in English, just as the English word draught (of drink) is in Welsh dracht pronounced nearly as if it were German.'

Evan Evans.

(Vol. v. p. 505.)

Evan Evans, who is described as being 'incorrigibly addicted to strong drink,' was Curate of Llanvair Talyhaern, in Denbighshire, and author of Some Specimens of the Poetry of Antient Welsh Bards translated into English. London, R. & J. Dodsley, 1764. My friend Mr. Morfill informs me that he remembers to have seen it stated in a manuscript note in a book in the Bodleian, that 'Evan Evans would have written much more if he had not been so much given up to the bottle.'

Gray thus mentions Evan Evans in a letter to Dr. Wharton, written in July, 1760:

The Welsh Poets are also coming to light. I have seen a discourse in MS. about them (by one Mr. Evans, a clergyman) with specimens of their writings. This is in Latin; and though it don't approach the other [Macpherson], there are fine scraps among it.' -The Works of Thomas Gray, ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London, 1858, vol. iii. p. 250.