PREFACE... prefents the Reader with preliminary Extracts

from Boswell .... his pertinaceous affiduity in collecting

materials... Claims to fcrupulous authenticity . . . fingu-

lar modesty in affimilating his lucubrations to the Odyffey

alfo his exemplary equanimity, in which he in-

finuates an advantageous comparison between himself and

the great Duke of Marlborough, of whom he gives those

morofe cold-blooded mortals, as he is pleased to style them,

that prefume to diflike his Book, a ftory to apply, &c.

....

REMARKS ON BOSWELL, &c.

Boswell returns to London, Anno. 1762, his disappoint-
ment, causes and confequences

Johnson an avowed enemy to Scotland, Scotchmen and

Actors, &c. yet he wrote a Play, and in spite of his
prejudice had to thank them for his Penfion

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Firm; in its mercantile acceptation explained

Quotation from Shakespear, &c.

Bofwell's own Character fcrutinized and developed

Elegant Compliment to the Author of Sidney Bidulph

Bofwell and John Gilpin, his prototype

ib.

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5

ib.

9

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12

Second-fight, a wonderful convenience to petulant Authors

who otherwise perhaps might be taxed with obliquity

A conjecture concerning David Hume, and his admired

Archetype Tacitus, who gives an Account of the In-

habitants of the German Ocean, from whom, it may

be prefumed, defcended the "many men, many women,

and many children," who in modern times, as Johnson

gravely told Dr. Blair," could write the Poems of Offian" 13

Penfions, an Account of

Quotation from Shakespear's Merchant of Venice

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20

The Author of Swift's Life did not call Boswell pigmy 15

Arguing for Victory, an infidious and indefensible practice 23

Croupier, what

Obfervation on an Irish Act of Parliament, &c.

Davies on the fame fubject from his Life of Garrick

ib.

25

ib.

True

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True History of the Act for Infolvent Debtors, Anno. 1766,

fo far as it refpects the fubject in agitation

Extract from the Journals of the Irish House of Commons,
fetting forth the substance of Mr. Whyte's Petition in
behalf of Mr. Sheridan

Extraordinary Compliment paid Petitioner by the Com-

mittee of the Irish Houfe of Commons on the Motion

of Mr. Tottenham

ib.

31

Petitioner's fuccefs and confequent behaviour of Mr.

Sheridan's Creditors

ib.

34

34

Letters from Mr. Sheridan, &c. to Mr. Whyte in confe-

quence of his application to Parliament.

Mr. Sheridan at Blois, finishes his Dictionary, &c.

Mrs. Sheridan at Blois writes a Comedy called a Trip to

Bath, two additional Volumes to the Memoirs of Sidney,

and a Tragedy in Profe on part of the fame Story
Mr. Sheridan's Letter from Blois, giving an Account of
Mrs. Sheridan's Death

4

Sheridan Family, an Account of, &c.

Quotation from Pope

EXTRACTS AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, &c.

Real History of the Gold Medal given to the Author of

Paragraph from Bofwell refpecting Swift and Sheridan

New Anecdotes of Johnson. The Stone Posts, Lady's Shoe,

Tu Doces, Infcription on a Tea Chest

Offian's Poems, Johnson's opinion of,

Cock-Lane Ghoft, account of, and Johnson's pretended
detection

54

Poems of Offian, the Rev. Dr. Young's (now Bishop of

Clonfert's) account of

Johnfon's Corporal Prowess afferted, and illuftrated by a

ludicrous Feat in the Play-house at Lichfield

Riot at Smock-alley, called Kelly's Riot, &c. account of 57

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Johnfon

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Johnson in the capacity of an educator of youth

Sheridan, his academic honours and profeffional confe-

quence, which nevertheless failed to procure him that

independence he honeftly aimed at

Interesting and authentic Sketch of Theatrical History,

including a brief account of Barry, Woodward, Moffop,

Victor, Sowden, Brown, Ryder, and Dawson, their

fruitless struggles through life, unmerited distresses, and

lamentable end

Reflection on the utility of fuch details, earnestly recom-

mended to the serious confideration of youth

Particular inferences refpecting Sheridan and Johnson
Anecdote of Sheridan and Faulkner in the European

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75

ib.

Magazine, &c. too haftily adopted

Notion of independence imbibed from Swift

Sheridan's conduct respecting his creditors

ib.

idle notion of his extravagance refuted

narrowly escapes the fnare laid for him by his

80

ib.

printer

State of the Irish Stage before he, fatally for himself,

affumed the management

81

The application to Parliament in his favour in danger of

being defeated

82

Sheridan arrives in Dublin from France, and having com-

plied with the requifite forms, has it in contemplation
to call a meeting of his creditors

ib,

A difference of opinion on this point between his Friend

and him occafions a coolness of fome continuance

Sheridan not preceptor to the Queen

Kouli Khan, Angria, Hyder Ali, Dumourier, the
O'Reillys, and the Aurelii

Coalition between Sheridan and Moffop suddenly brought

about, and fuddenly diffolved

83

85

ib.

87

Quotation from Pope

88

ORIGINAL

Introdu&ion

ORIGINAL LETTERS.

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Letter 1, Mrs. Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, London, Novem-

ber 11th, 1758

90

Particulars concerning Richard-Brinfley Sheridan, &c. 91

2. Mrs. Sheridan to Mr.Whyte, London, March 29, 1759 93

Death of Miss Pennington

3. Mrs. Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, Windfor, Sept. 12, 1759 96

Arrival of her Children from Ireland

4. Mrs. Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, December 2, 1759 97

Windfor, March 21, 1760 99

5. Do.

6. Do.

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- London, Feb. 26, 1761 ΙΟΙ

English Grammaf, Art of Reading, &c. Sidney Bidulph,
Tragedies, Prologue, Epilogue, &c.

7. Mrs. Sheridan to Mr.Whyte, London, Feb. 25, 1762 104

A little Orator for the first time brought forward

8. Mrs.Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, London, March 30,1762 106

9. Do.

London, May 31, 1762 108

10. Do.

London, Nov. 29, 1762 110

The Discovery, a Comedy, extraordinary circumstances

attending its introduction to the Stage-Mr. She-

ridan's Dictionary, &c. encouraged by a Penfion

from his Majefty, &c.

II. Mrs. Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, London, May 12, 1764 113

Ode to Patience . . . Smock-alley in flames, &c.

...

12. Andrew Millar to Mrs. Sheridan, on failure of the

Dupe, with a prefent of a 1001. Bank Note

118

13. Mr.Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, Chester, April 30, 1764 119

20. Mr. Sheridan to Mr. Whyte, Blois, Aug. 1, 1766

36

21. Do. Account of Mrs. Sheridan's Death, Oct. 13, 1766 37

22. Edmund