iqzl 
 
 CORNELL 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 THE 
 WORDSWORTH COLLECTION 
 
 FOUNDED BY 
 CYNTHIA MORGAN ST. JOHN 
 
 THE GIFT OF 
 VICTOR EMANUEL 
 
 OF THE CLASS OF I919 
 
THE FARINGTON DIARY 
 
George IY. who figures in the Diary as Prince of Wales 
 From the Paintiiis; bv Siy Thomas Lawrence in the Vatican, Rome 
 
 [Fronlispiece 
 
THE FARINGTON 
 
 DIARY 
 
 BY 
 
 
 JOSEPH FARINGTON, 
 
 R.A. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 
 JAMES GREIG 
 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 
 
 A "Life of Thomas Gainsborough," and a. "Life of Sir 
 
 Henry Raeburn "i 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 
 (SEPTEMBER 20, 1806, TO JANUARY 
 
 7, 180S) 
 
 With Fpontispieee and twelve other" illustrations 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 
 GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 
 
 1924 
 
 
^ VOL. I. 
 
 First edition published December, 19Z2 
 Second „ „ „ 1922 
 
 Third „ „ February, 1923 
 
 VOL. II. 
 
 First edition published August, 1923 
 
 VOL. III. 
 
 First edition published March, 1924 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 First edition published November, 1924, 
 
 Printed in Great Britain 
 
 fy^^ 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 The fourth volume of Farington's Diary opens with the interesting 
 and pleasant gossip of a house party in the Autumn of 1806 at Taplow 
 Court, Lord Thomond's riverside residence. In two entries the Diarist 
 gives significant pen-portraits of himself. The first self-sketch was made 
 on October 5, before a dinner " off plate " at which champagne was 
 carried round, claret, port, madeira and sherry being served afterwards. 
 " I drank Sherry & Port," says Farington, " Lord Thomond chiefly 
 Madeira." Pascoe Grenfell, M.P. for Great Marlow, was one of the 
 guests and the host warned the others to " touch upon the conduct of 
 Administration delicately as Mr. Grenfell is attached to Lord Grenville," 
 who was then Prime Minister. To Lord Thomond, Farington replied, 
 with characteristic caution, " I never express my sentiments on that 
 subject till I hear those of others." 
 
 On the following day a large party was to dine with Sir John Turner, 
 and Lord Thomond said that Dr. Lawrence [of " Rolliad " fame], Pascoe 
 Grenfell, and Sir John Turner " wd. have all the talk to themselves so 
 that the others . . . might be silent." Farington modestly answered : 
 " I never liked to Hear the sound of my own voice but in small parties 
 of those with whom I was well acquainted." Dr. Lawrence was a glutton 
 as well as a talker, as we gather from the same entry : " It was sd. 
 that we are to have a pike of 13 pounds weight. I [Farington] sd. Dr. 
 Lawrence having the reputation of being a large eater wd. make a figure 
 at it. — They sd. His appetite is prodigious. Sir Wm. Scott's wife says 
 that if the Doctor dines where there are sweet things none wd. be left 
 for the next day." 
 
 One more personal reference to Farington, this time in relation with 
 Wordsworth. The incident must be given in the Diarist's own phrasing. 
 
 " Constable remarked [on December 12, 1807] upon the high opinion 
 Wordsworth entertains of himself. He told Constable that while He 
 was a Boy going to Hawkshead school. His mind was often so possessed 
 with images, so lost in extraordinary conceptions, that He has held by a 
 wall not knowing but He was part of it. He also desired a Lady, Mrs. 
 Loyd, near Windermere when Constable was present to notice the singular 
 formation of His Skull. — Coleridge remarked that this was the effect 
 of intense thinking. I observed to Constable if so. He must have thought 
 in His Mother's womb." 
 
 Returning to the river-party at Taplow, we learn from Lord Thomond 
 that the manners of the Prince of Wales in Society are the most finished 
 
vi Introduction 
 
 that can be imagined. He is captivating in the highest degree, has read 
 much, holds conversations most agreeably, sings and " observes with 
 nice attention any encroachment upon His importance, but does not express 
 it at the time." The picture of the Prince, however, is not wholly flattering, 
 and " Finally our conversation on this subject ended with saying ' Oh, 
 King live for ever.' " 
 
 Public schools are severely condemned by Dr. Gretton, who kept a 
 private one at Taplow. " He said the bane of the public schools is that 
 the parents of many of the Boys fill their pockets with Bank notes, and 
 opportunity is allowed for the expenditure of it viciously." He describes 
 the characters of the three great Schools by saying that the " youths 
 at Eaton are dissipated, gentlemen ; — those at Westminster dissipated with a 
 little of the Blackguard ; — and those at St. PauVs School the most de- 
 praved of all." Nor is Rugby unscathed. " In it are many of the Sons 
 of Gentlemen but more of those who are the Sons of Manufacturers at 
 Birmingham, Wolverhampton &c., who have little sentiment of the 
 disgrace of any dishonorable act as their inclinations lead them." At 
 Harrow the " Boys are gentlemen, as are those at Dr. Gretton's own 
 school, where they never expend more than two guineas a year." At his 
 request the parents supplied their sons with a guinea and if they re- 
 quired more he gave them " a shilling at a time." 
 
 In Chapter III. Dr. Gretton tells an extraordinary story of a Royal 
 Academician who was a greater rogue than painter, and he also speaks 
 of the good society in the neighbourhood of Taplow. " The Commercial 
 men ' bear the Bill.' At Craufurd Bruce's you dine of Plate, and Cham- 
 pagne, Tokay — Hermitage, &c., are proposed to you in succession as 
 soon as you have begun to eat. — Pascoe Grenfell still exceeds Bruce ; 
 His Plate is gilt." 
 
 Lord Thomond gives a droll description of the Prince of Orange, 
 who had recently died. " While the Prince was in England He was 
 often treated with most disrespectful levity by the Prince of Wales and 
 His Brothers. They would pluck His Hair, & on His moving His Head 
 round, another would do the same on the other side making Him the 
 sport of the Company. The King, on the contrary, always behaved 
 to Him with kindness & respect." 
 
 The sad case of Sir John D'Oyly and the great extravagance of his 
 wife are discussed : " In one year Her Bill to Mrs. Beavais the Dress- 
 maker amounted to £700, and Mrs. Beavais to keep well with the wait- 
 ing maid of so good a Customer, sent Her a present of a laced Cloak, but 
 the maid did not think it of sufficient value & returned it. — Another was 
 sent, but that wd. not do, and a third, worth towards 20 guineas, was 
 presented and graciously accepted." Lady D'Oyly's jealousy and its 
 consequences are made the most of by Mrs. Partington, who also tells 
 us that her Ladyship's passion for dress " continued to the last. Three 
 weeks before Her death she ordered Hats to the amount of ,^30 when 
 Sir John could scarcely raise 30 shillings." 
 
 In further gossip at Taplow interesting reference is made to the 
 
Introduction vii 
 
 Princess of Wales (who figures prominently in the volume), to the love 
 sacrifice of Mr. Penton, of Pentonville fame, and the romantic story of 
 one of Lord Eliot's ancestors. Fear of the Ministry, political intrigue and 
 captured frigates also form subjects for discussion at Lord Thomond's 
 table, as do the Duke of Manchester's industry, and Mr. Grenfell says 
 that if it were not for the Methodist preachers the Cornish people would be 
 " Savages.''* 
 
 In Chapter IX. we read that Lady Oxford never allows a book of 
 any kind except such as she may have read and approved, to lay in a 
 room to which the children have access ; Dr. Hayes describes the grief 
 of the mourners at Fox's funeral, where he finds Sheridan " greatly 
 altered & Has no doubt from His appearance that His liver is much in- 
 flamed, — & thinks it will ere long terminate in Dropsy. 
 
 Architects' fees, William Beckford's singularity and persecution, 
 James Barry's character and qualities are talked about, and, throughout 
 the volume, war echoes occupy considerable space. The menace of 
 Bonaparte's victories in Prussia and Poland seriously affected the public 
 and the Press. 
 
 On November 23, 1806, it is stated in BelVs Weekly Messenger " that 
 Europe is lost. Russia can only be saved by an immediate Peace, and 
 England, as having no farther object in the war, must from every motive of 
 prudence be a party in the same general peace." At dinner tables are 
 heard despondent remarks that the storm gathering around us must 
 break on us, and " that, seeing the fall of other nations, the people of this 
 country may possibly become reconciled to whatever may happen to 
 them." On the other hand, money is abundant in the City, where the 
 only fear is that " Ministers wd. give way & not adhere to their resolutions. 
 . . . The times are critical, but all we require is to maintain our reso- 
 lution." 
 
 Much is heard of eminent men occupied in various spheres of life. 
 Questioned on his death-bed by the Bishop of Lincoln respecting religion 
 and prayer, Pitt in substance said, " From my situation in life & public 
 cares weighing heavily upon me I have not attended so much to those 
 duties as I wished and desired, but you know my mind.'''' He afterwards 
 added, " I rely entirely upon the infinite mercy of God, through the merits 
 of my Saviour Jesus Christ." 
 
 Fox, on hearing his own " command of words " extolled, observed that 
 " certainly He had a word but Pitt always had the Word'' It was also 
 remarked of Pitt that he " never uttered a sentence ungrammatically. 
 Porson, the Greek professor, said that every sentence uttered by Pitt 
 was so regular and correct as to appear as if formed in his mind before it 
 was expressed. On the contrary Mr. Fox plunged into the middle and 
 found His way through it as well as he could." 
 
 The last illness and death of John Opie, R.A., " the Cornish wonder," 
 are recorded at length, and note is made of Hoppner's jealousy and childish- 
 ness, of how he offended Farington and snubbed a lady. Turner is 
 characterized as conceited and his pictures are called crude blotches, there 
 
viii Introduction 
 
 are interesting anecdotes about Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Coke of Norfolk 
 is represented as an " incessant talker," politician and clever business 
 man, and Wordsworth, as art critic, " thought Historical subjects shd. 
 never be introduced into Landscape, but where the Landscape was to be 
 subservient to them," and so on. He thought the Royal Academy of 
 1807 " a poor exhibition," and upset Sir David Wilkie by proposing 
 subjects for him to paint. Wilkie was then famous and when Sir John 
 Leicester asked Turner the price of his picture of a Forge, Turner answered 
 that he understood Wilkie was to have 100 guineas for " His Blind 
 Fiddler, and He should not rate His picture at a less price." Catalani, 
 the celebrated singer, appeared at the Opera for the first time on Satur- 
 day, December 13, 1806, in a new serious work called La Semir amide 
 by Portogallo, and on the 21st, Farington says, " she has ,^2000 for the 
 season — and a benefit. She is about 24 years [she was 26], — and is 
 married." Later he informs us that Mrs. Billington had ^2,500, but this 
 is concealed from Catalani, who " produces greater profits to the Opera 
 House than were ever before known, the receipts of the House, exclusive 
 of Boxes, is upon an average between 6 & ^^700 a night. . . . She is very 
 much attached to Her Husband, & cannot be approached by those 
 who would offer temptations to Her." 
 
 Ralph Kirtley, Sir Joshua Reynolds' old servant, is responsible for 
 the following pathetic story. " From the time that Sir Joshua found 
 He must die He appeared to wish that no one should visit him, but he 
 could not refuse Mr. Burke. He lay whole nights seemingly witht. 
 sleep, but silent, except that after a long interval in the night He wd. 
 hastily call out Ralph as if to assure himself that He was not alone." 
 
 The kindness of Princess Sophia of Gloucester is recorded, and we 
 learn that Dr. Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, got into trouble with the 
 Prince of Wales because he complained of the " great negligence shewn in 
 educating and attending the Princess " Charlotte of Wales, whose 
 preceptor he was. As an instance of this neglect " the Bishop noticed 
 that Her nose requiring to be wiped, she did not apply Her Handkerchief, 
 but wiped Her nose with Her sleeve, as vulgar people do." 
 
 Many more entertaining entries could be summarized, but readers must 
 go to the text itself and find by means of the full index subjects such as 
 " The Prince and Metcalfe," " Coalition against Bonaparte," " Lord 
 Thomond as Waiter," " Soane cleaned the Shoes," " Artists and Critics," 
 " Holt, a PoHtical Writer," " Women and Art," " Boxer and DuelHst," 
 " Indiscretion of the Marchioness," " Greeks Ignorant of Anatomy," 
 " Constable declines," " Freedom of the Seas," " Newspapers and the 
 Public," " Coleridge and Kindness," and " The Lovers of Angelica 
 Kauffman." 
 
 Editorial interpolations in the text are placed, as in previous volumes, 
 within brackets, and Farington's spelling and punctuation are preserved 
 throughout. 
 
 To Mr. T. P. Greig belongs the credit of compiling the Index, and 
 Mr. Robert Harris again helped in the proof reading. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Bubb's Statue of Pitt— Taplow Court— Oh, King, Live for Ever— Great Riders 
 
 — The Prince Sang i 
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 The Prince and Metcalfe — Public Schools — The Chaplain's Table — Not Proud 
 
 but Sound 5 
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 Greater Rogue than Painter — Deeds Not Worth Sixpence — Found Out — And 
 Poisons Himself — Induced to Marry Him — She Died Next Morning — An 
 Affected Coxcomb — Good Society 8 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 Sir John D'Oyly — Maid to his Wife — The Prince of Orange — They plucked His 
 
 Hair — William III. — Lady D'Oyly's Bill — Sir John Neglected 13 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 Coalition Against Bonaparte — Pitt and God's Mercy — Sir John D'Oyly — His 
 
 Unhappy Marriage — Lady D'Oyly's Jealousy — Ill-suited Connections. ... 17 
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 Lord Thomond as Waiter — Princess of Wales — Merry be our Hearts — Mr. 
 Penton's Sacrifice — Cursed StufiE — Commercial Fortunes — A Romantic 
 Story 21 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 Fear of the Ministry — A Dreadful Accident — Political Intrigue — Captured 
 
 Frigates — Farington's Caution — God Forbid ! 24 
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 
 A Cornish Baronet — Built of his own Timber — A Dinner Party — Savages and 
 
 Methodists — General Miranda 28 
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 
 Fox's Funeral — Novels Not to be Seen — Inflamed with Tears — Architects' 
 Fees — Beckford's Singularity — Sir Richard had No Taste — A Painting 
 by Barry — A Paying Guest 31 
 
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 CHAPTER X 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A Doctor's Charges — Language and Insurance — Defeat of the Prussians — A 
 
 Prototype of Colonel Lawrence — Unarmed and Fearless — He Kept a Diary 35 
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 
 Ships in Commission — Lawrence and West — Lawrence and Henry Hope — 
 
 Business is Business — The Blind Fiddler — Burns and Wordsworth 39 
 
 CHAPTER XII 
 
 Hoppner's Jealousy — Prussia had Fallen — Dinner with Sir George — Opie's 
 
 Ingratitude — Sheridan Neglected — Soane Cleaned the Shoes 43 
 
 CHAPTER XIII 
 
 Artists and Critics — John Linnell — Lawrence and the Princess — West Anti- 
 
 EngUsh — Sheridan Wins — R.A.'s Perplexed — Hoppner Childish 47 
 
 CHAPTER XIV 
 
 The Hardwickes — The Duke as Visitor — Europe is Lost — Falling Nations — 
 
 A Crust in Her Hand 51 
 
 CHAPTER XV 
 
 Lawyer or Attorney — Sheridan's Talents — West and the Presidency — The 
 Prince's Health — The King and the Baronetcy — Cheapness before Art 
 — Paid Large Wagers 53 
 
 CHAPTER XVI 
 
 Canova and Flaxman — Pitt always had the Word — Farington and Hoppner — 
 
 West Elected 56 
 
 CHAPTER XVII 
 
 West and Wyatt — Holt, a Political Writer — Bonaparte's Blockade — Prince 
 
 and Lord Granville — A Younger Brother 59 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII 
 
 A Great Singer — Peculiar Disposition — E. Edwards, A.R.A. — Picture of Bona- 
 parte — Lady Worsley 62 
 
 CHAPTER XIX 
 Wars and Wealth — Sir John Carr 66 
 
 CHAPTER XX 
 
 Lord Warwick and a Picture — Women and Art — Art Patrons — Celebrated 
 
 Banking House 69 
 
 CHAPTER XXI 
 Schoolmasters — A School at Ealing — Professional versus Amateur 72 
 
 CHAPTER XXII 
 
 Hoppner and Lawrence — Christian Humility — Army Apothecary — Rev. 
 
 Sydney Smith 75 
 
Contents xi 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lord Warwick's Protege — Detestable Conduct — Boydell and Business — 
 Russian Victory — A Great Project — Life and Liberty Safeguarded — 
 Military Defences 77 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV 
 
 Shee and Hoppner — Sir Joshua and the Bishop — The Duke of Bronte — A 
 
 Book Collector — Captain Thomas Man by — Authors and Publishers 82 
 
 CHAPTER XXV 
 
 Catalani at the Opera — Wordsworth — Society of Antiquaries — The Banker 
 
 and Sir Joshua 86 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI 
 
 Capture of Curacoa — Waggery — Commerce and Landed Interest — Flaxman 
 
 Fully Employed — Hogarth and Barry 89 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII 
 
 Boxer and Duellist — Wine and Brandy — I Named Pitt — Lawrence's Financial 
 
 Troubles — Russian Victory at Eylau 93 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII 
 
 Settled at Last — Indiscretion of the Marchioness — Sir Home Popham Cheered 
 
 — Pitt's Monument — The Prince's Tailor — A Proud Merchant 96 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX 
 
 A Committee of Taste — R.A. Generosity — Sir John Leicester — Wilkie and 
 
 Teniers 100 
 
 CHAPTER XXX 
 
 Lord Mulgrave — Political Matters — The Ablest Man— Girtin the Artist — A 
 
 Famous Editor — Art and Naval Matters 102 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI 
 
 Franco-Russian War — New Publications — Princess Sophia's Kindness — 
 
 Canning " In the Sky " — Turner's Early Patron — Arthur Devis 106 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII 
 Resmolds and Burke — On Speculation no 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIII 
 
 A Famous Painting by Turner — An Inferior Performance — Opie Read Every 
 Book — Turner's Conceit — Moral Virtue — Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne 
 — Giorgione's Feeling 113 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV 
 
 Death of Opie — Doctors Differ — Blessed Him — A Gross Feeder 117 
 
 CHAPTER XXXV 
 
 Cause of Opie's Death — Opie's Fortune — Mrs. Opie — Opie's Art — The Blind 
 
 Fiddler 120 
 
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 CHAPTER XXXVI 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Vanity of Mrs. Opie — Fuseli's Impatience — Hobbema — Opie's Origin — 
 Lawrence's Financial Troubles — Dardanelles Forced — Imprudent Con- 
 duct — Extravagance 123 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVII 
 
 The Duke and Duchess — Barry and Titian — Wordsworth as Art Critic — A 
 
 Card and Apology — Too Near the Prince — The Prince could be Gracious . . 128 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII 
 
 Wordsworth's Opinion — Turner's Crude Blotches — West's Easy Temper — 
 
 Farington and Pitt's Portrait — Turner and Wilkie — A Chattering Display 1 32 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIX 
 
 A Rembrandt for ;^200 — Wordsworth — Wilkie Might Make ;^i,ooo — The 
 
 King's Navy — Mr. Coke Talked 135 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 Coke of Norfolk — Dishonest Land Steward — Business First — Unprincipled 
 
 Politicians — An Expert Engraver 138 
 
 CHAPTER XLI 
 Bishop and Princess — Royal Etiquette — Eggs and Spinach — A Rembrandt. . . 141 
 
 CHAPTER XLII 
 
 A Shameful Affront — Pocket Boroughs — Gainsborough Letters — Nollekens 
 
 and the Elgin Marbles — Pitt's Bust and Portrait — Lascelles and Pitt. ... 144 
 
 CHAPTER XLIII 
 
 Wine, a Kind of Poison — Too Much Talk about Art — English Integrity — 
 
 Wilkie and Sir Joshua — A Rembrandt Masterpiece — Imagination and Fact 148 
 
 CHAPTER XLIV 
 
 Rembrandt — Perfection — Bought in — Clergymen's Duty — Angerstein — 
 
 Party Spirit 152 
 
 CHAPTER XLV 
 
 Sir Joshua's Relatives — Young the Actor — Origins — An Ignorant Alderman. . 156 
 
 CHAPTER XLVI 
 
 Dramatic Criticism — Kemble and Young — Politicians and Great Men — To 
 
 Marry an Heiress 160 
 
 CHAPTER XLVII 
 
 Jerningham and Fox — A Scandal Monger — William Etty — Eminent Statesmen 164 
 
 CHAPTER XLVIII 
 
 A Famous Architect — Constable Declines — Ignorance and Acid — Sheridan 
 
 and Athol Brose 167 
 
 CHAPTER XLIX 
 
 A Romantic Story— The Cardinal's Casket — Napoleon Defeats the Russians 
 
 — Professional Wits 170 
 
Contents xiii 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Style, Profligacy and Speaking — Athletics — R.A. Domestic Troubles — Re- 
 markable Prediction 173 
 
 CHAPTER LI 
 
 A Successful Portrait Painter — A Clever Family — Life in Old Quebec — 
 
 Landseer's Father 177 
 
 CHAPTER LH 
 
 Angerstein and a Rembrandt— Fuseli and Pitt — Grattan and Perceval — Poet 
 
 and Actor — Greeks Ignorant of Anatomy 180 
 
 CHAPTER LHI 
 
 Ague and Arsenic — Peace with America — A River Party — Freedom of the Seas 183 
 
 CHAPTER LIV 
 Lord Thurlow — Sheridan Spoke Well — Women 186 
 
 CHAPTER LV 
 
 A Reynolds Sale — Constable — The Best Man in the World — A Saintly Bishop . . 188 
 
 CHAPTER LVI 
 
 Gossip at Lady Thomond's — A Great Project — He Knew Piranesi — Mr. Anger- 
 stein's Habits 191 
 
 CHAPTER LVn 
 
 A Famous Banker and Actress — Great Banking Firm — Fuseli and the Prin- 
 cess — Unrecorded Sale 195 
 
 CHAPTER LVni 
 
 Protection in Heaven — Pitt — Teeth and Eyes — Not Calm Enough — Attack 
 
 upon Denmark — Organ Playing Condemned 198 
 
 CHAPTER LIX 
 
 Public Institutions — England Invincible by Sea — A Good Landlord — -A 
 Norfolk Family — Barclay of Urie — How to Live Long — Roughed into 
 Manhood 201 
 
 CHAPTER LX 
 
 The Duke of Clarence — Jackson the Bruiser — A Glutton — The Navy 205 
 
 CHAPTER LXI 
 
 Louis XVIII. in England — Sir Joshua's Sister — Lawrence's Palette — Claude 
 
 and Dutch Painters — Lord Winchelsea 208 
 
 CHAPTER LXn 
 
 War against Denmark— Beauties of Bath— Artists at Bath— Not Art 211 
 
 CHAPTER LXni 
 
 Hanbury of Kelmarsh— Constable and Mulready Students— Hoppner Snubs a 
 Lady— Lord Egremont— Lady Louisa Manners— French Ports Blockaded 
 —Warn ng to Neutrals 214 
 
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 CHAPTER LXIV 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Calumnies — Catalani's Salary — A Curious Case — White Wine and Red — A 
 
 Successor to Burke — A Cambridge Librarian 218 
 
 CHAPTER LXV 
 
 A Total Abstainer — A Gloomy Room — Maintain our Resolution — He Wore 
 
 Pink Ribbons — Ward is Grateful — Denmark and Britain 222 
 
 CHAPTER LXVI 
 
 Dissipated Young Men — The Grosvenor Family — Constable's Uncle — West 
 
 Weeps — R.A. Affairs 225 
 
 CHAPTER LXVII 
 
 Sir Francis Baring's House — Russia and England — Art Gossip — Buonaparte 
 
 — Newspapers and the Public — American Censure 229 
 
 CHAPTER LXVIII 
 
 Miss Walpole the Actress — Coleridge and Kindness — Turner Professor of 
 
 Perspective — Northcote's Declarations 232 
 
 CHAPTER LXIX 
 
 Embargo on Russian Vessels — Sheridan's Impecuniosity — The Foundling 
 Hospital — Crotch and Catalani — Overcharged with Wind — The Noblest 
 Music — Wordsworth and Wilkie 235 
 
 CHAPTER LXX 
 
 Wordsworth's High Opinion of Himself — Money and Mentality — The King and 
 
 Smirke — That Damned Academy Business — R.A.'s as Democrats 239 
 
 CHAPTER LXXI 
 
 Beckford and his Fortune — Beckford and Persecution — In Love with Beck- 
 ford — Lawrence's Bravura 242 
 
 CHAPTER LXXn 
 
 America Desires to Remain Neutral — Art in France — He Meant Farington — 
 
 West and His Taxes — Bubb Doddington — Story of a Portrait 245 
 
 CHAPTER LXXni 
 
 Extravagance — Application — A Nation of Traders — Led Astray — The Royal 
 
 Family Leave — Death of Angelica Kauffman 248 
 
 CHAPTER LXXIV 
 
 Pitt's Coat — " The Sea-Sick Minstrel " — He Related a Joke — Great Collectors 
 — Lord Melville's Nephew — Pictures by Richard Wilson — Great Style 
 in Painting 252 
 
 CHAPTER LXXV 
 
 An Artist's Income — Passing Rich — Manner not Mind — The Lovers of Angelica 
 
 Kauffman — Buonaparte in Germany 256 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 George IV., who figures in the Diary as Prince of Wales. 
 From the Painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the 
 Vatican, Rome Frontispiece 
 
 Queen Caroline as Princess of Wales. From the Painting 
 
 in the Victoria and Albert Museum .... Facing p. 48 
 
 Angelica Catalani. From a Print in the British Museum . ,, 62 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds. From a Self-portrait in the National 
 
 Portrait Gallery ......... 0° 
 
 Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester when a child. By 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds. From a Print in the British 
 Museum .......... 107 
 
 J. M. W. Turner. From a Drawing by T. Phillip in the 
 
 National Portrait Gallery ....... ^4 
 
 John Opie, Esq., R.A. From a Print in the British Museum ,, 124 
 
 Coke of Holkham. From a Portrait by Gainsborough, the 
 
 property of the Earl of Leicester . . . • • .. ^3° 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lady Louisa Manners. From a Print in the 
 
 British Museum ......... 216 
 
 Two Drawings by Farington from Pictures by his master, 
 
 Richard Wilson . . . • • • ... 220 
 
 William Wordsworth. From a Print in the British Museum „ 238 
 
 Wniiam Beckford (Vathek). Painted by Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds. From a Print in the British Museum, 
 engraved by T . A . Dean 242 
 
THE FARINGTON DIARY 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 1806 
 
 Bubb's Statue of Pitt 
 
 September 20. — Rossi I met. He informed me that on Thursday 
 last, the Court of Common Council decided in favour of a model hy Bubb 
 of a monument to Mr. Pitt. — Bubbs estimate of expense was some hundred 
 pounds less than that of any other candidate, which influenced many of 
 the Citizens to vote for it. — It was decided by a show of Hands & He had 
 a great majority. — Rossi had the next greater number. — Rossi said that 
 witht. able assistance Bubb is not qualified to execute it.* 
 
 Lawrence I called on at His desire to see His progress in the picture 
 of Lady Fludyers Children.! — I told him his plan was very good, but 
 that there was too much middle tint in it, & that it wanted splendour, 
 but I expressed an apprehension of giving Him trouble & taking up His 
 time in making alterations. — He said " that completion was very desireable, 
 but He had not yet ceased to aim at perfection. . . ." 
 
 [Morning Post stated that the expences of Lord Nelson's funeral 
 amounted to ^14,000.11.6 — Those of Mr. Pitt to ^6015.2.6. — From small 
 note-book,] 
 
 * J. G. Bubb contributed Irregularly to the Royal Academy from 1805 to 183 1, The 
 Pitt monument referred to is in the Guildhall, where also is a statue of Mercury by the 
 same sculptor. See entry under December 4th : " Cheapness before Art." 
 
 t Maria Weston was married on October 5, 1786, to her cousin, Sir Samuel Brudenell 
 Fludyer, second baronet, and by her left one son, Samuel, third baronet, and two daughters, 
 Maria and Caroline Louisa. Sir Walter Armstrong does not refer to this picture in his 
 " Life " of Lawrence, nor has it, apparently, ever been exhibited. 
 
 Sir ^amuel, the first baronet, when Lord Mayor of London, entertained George III. 
 and several members of the Royal Family in 1761. He was ground landlord of Fludyer 
 Street, Westminster, which was cleared away to make room for the new Foreign Office. 
 See Vol. IIL, page 303«. 
 
 VOL. IV. I 
 
2 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 Taplow Court 
 
 September 23. — I left London a little after one in the Marlow Coach 
 & got to Taplow Court [Lord Thomond's residence] 25 miles at 10 minutes 
 past 5 in time for dinner. — 
 
 We had a fine Haunch of Venison at dinner. — I observed that Lord 
 Thomond no longer drinks Port Wine. — He drinks Madeira, & that very 
 moderately. Mr. Hayes said that in the year 1786 He was in Paris & 
 to improve Himself in the French language attended a French Abbe. 
 — ^There was at that time a disposition to undervalue Louis i6th. their 
 King. — Mr. Hayes observing 5 busts placed in a row in the Abbe's room 
 asked Him who one of them represented. The Abbe replied it was a 
 Bust of Louis 1 6th & He had placed Him between two Busts, one of 
 Henry 4th. — the other of the Duke of Sully, Henry's minister ; He had 
 done it that being so placed a little sense might be put into Him. — 
 
 Mr. Hayes is Son to Judge Hayes, one of the Welsh Judges. He 
 travelled abroad with Lord Brome.* 
 
 Lord Thomond expressed a full belief that the story of the Warming 
 Pan related of James 2nd's Queen was true & that the child, afterwards 
 called the Pretender was not horn oj Her Body. — 
 
 Oh, King, Live for Ever 
 
 September 24.--After the ladies retired Lord Thomond spoke of the 
 Prince [of Wales] and said His Manner in Society is the most finished that 
 can be imagined. His look, His address, the tone of His voice, are 
 captivating in the highest degree. He has read a good deal, & is ready at 
 quotation ; Has a respectable share of classical learning, and holds 
 conversations most agreeably. — He is very high, has much pride, and 
 observes with nice attention any encroachment upon His importance, but 
 does not express it at the time. He has a disposition to make people 
 laughable to others, and does it skilfully, by encouraging an exposure of 
 a weakness and leading the person on " to ridictde Himself.^'' He sings ; 
 & from his extensive intercourse with a variety of characters has 
 abundance of anecdote. — I asked what His temper appeared to be ?— At 
 
 * Viscount Brome, only son and heir of the first Marquess Cornwallis, was Tory M.P. 
 
 or Eye, 1795-96 ; for Suffolk, 1796-1805 ; and Master of the Buckhounds, 1807, until 
 
 his death. In 1797 he married Louisa, fourth daughter of the fourth Duke of Gordon. 
 
 She was born in 1776 and died in 1850 ; he died on August 9, 1823, aged 49, when the 
 
 Marquessate of Cornwallis became extinct. 
 
 On February 13, 1792, Mrs. C. Cornwallis wrote : " Lord Brome is, I assure you, 
 everything you can wish. He has left Eton, and is just now in town to prepare for his 
 journey to Yverdun, [accompanied by young Mr. Hayes], where, by all accounts, he is likely 
 to pass some time to great advantage, in learning French. He grows both stout and tall." 
 
 The Hon. Vicary Gibbs states that Lord Brome, having expressed to the Duchess of 
 Gordon some hesitation about marrying her daughter on account of supposed insanity in 
 the Gordon family, he received from the Duchess the gratifying assurance that there was 
 not a drop of Gordon blood in Louisa ! 
 
1806] Oh, King, Live for Ever 3 
 
 the bottom peevish, & not the most pleasant ; and no reliance can be had 
 upon Him. — I observed that it seemed to be a proof of a bad taste to 
 associate, as He does, with ordinary, & even despicable men, giving them 
 a preference in making up His habitual Society. — His Lordship sd. it was 
 His misfortune to have been vitiated while He was young. — Finally our 
 conversation on this subject ended with saying " Oh King live for ever". — 
 His Lordship desired me to inform Him what He stood indebted to 
 me for the picture I have painted of " Taplow Woods". — Upon my 
 hesitating a little. He urged to express it in two words & to speak as if 
 It was to Mr. Angerstein. — I mentioned 40 guineas ; He sd. it was less 
 than He expected. He spoke in the same liberal manner abt. the Frame, 
 & on my telling Him the price was ^5.18.0. sd. it was very moderate. — 
 
 September 25. — We dined at the Spring most agreeably a little 
 after 4 oClock. — I walked to it from the House in 25 minutes. They 
 call it near two miles. — Our dinner consisted of Cold meats, excellent, 
 and fruit afterwards. We returned home in the Barouche abt. | past 6. 
 but the latter part of the way. Lord Thomond got out & I walked with 
 Him to the root House & to some other points by moonlight. — He told 
 me He had known the place 70 years, it being so long since He first came 
 from Ireland. It was at that time in the possession of His Uncle whose 
 eldest daughter He married. Taplow was purchased in 1706 by the Earl 
 of Orkney & Cliefdon in 171 2. His Uncle married the Heiress of that 
 family. 
 
 Great Riders 
 
 Lord Thomond said that all the walks in Taplow woods had been 
 made by himself, & every time He came into them He felt new pleasure. 
 He told me He was now 82 years old, & on my remarking upon His fine 
 Constitution, He said that peace oj mind, contributed greatly to it. He 
 lived well with others & without pride. He expressed much pleasure of 
 a speech of the King to Him. His Majesty with whom He was much 
 accustomed to Hunt said to Him one say, " You and I ride more than 
 any other two gentlemen in England." He said He had always felt 
 sensibly the honor of having been so addressed by His Majesty, it con- 
 veying a sentiment of His Majesty's opinion of Him. — 
 
 The Prince Sang 
 
 After dinner the Prince of Wales was spoken of & Lady Thomond 
 was warm in Her admiration of His grace and manner. — Once when the 
 Prince & a Party dined with them after the Ladies retired much con- 
 viviaHty prevailing, the Prince sung a Song with which the Company 
 were much delighted. Lord Thomond in His rapture expressed a fervent 
 wish that Lady Thomond had heard it, on which the Prince being willing 
 to gratify His Lordship Lady Thomond was brought in & the Prince 
 again sung the Song, after which, feeling the awkwardness of Her situa- 
 tion, He gallantly took Her Hand and walked with her to the door. 
 
 VOL. IV. I* 
 
4 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 The conduct of the D . . . . s of Y . . . .* was mentioned by Mrs. Dee 
 [from Lisbon] as giving much more occasion for remark. — She has walked 
 to Kensington Gardens witht. a Servant, arm in arm with Culling Smith,f 
 whose wife, Lady Anne Smith has a situation in Her establishment. 
 She has also walked with 20 others. The D. spoke to K. 12 months ago 
 abt. Her manner of going on and of a Divorce. — K. reminded Him of 
 His own infidelity in that respect & sd. He wd. only bring trouble upon 
 Himself. — 
 
 * In " The Grevllle Memoirs " " the Duchess is clever and well-informed ; she likes 
 society and dislikes all form and ceremony, but in the midst of the most familiar intercourse 
 always preserves a certain dignity of manner." At her death on August 6, 1820, Greville 
 says, " She is deeply regretted by her husband and her friends and her servants. Probably 
 no person in such a situation was ever more really liked." 
 
 t Charles Culling Smith was Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Granville Govern- 
 ment, and died in 1853. 
 
 Lady Anne Culling Smith, daughter of Gurrell Wellesley, first Earl of Mornington, 
 was born in 1768, and married in 1790 the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, after whose death in 1799 
 she married Culling Smith, and died in 1844. Hoppner painted a beautiful portrait 
 of her and her children by her first husband, Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy, who became. 
 Marchioness of Worcester, and Anne Caroline Fitzroy, who died unmarried in 1835. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 1806 
 
 The Prince and Metcalfe 
 
 September 25. — Lord & Lady Thomond now concurred in saying 
 that the Prince never oppresses His company by assuming importance 
 but gives His countenance to those who stand most in need of it. It is 
 only when He sees a disposition to intrusion, or improper famiHarity 
 that He shews anything repulsive. — Mr. Philip Metcalfe, member for 
 Horsham,* felt the ill consequence of having made an inconsiderate 
 remark. He was during His annual residence at Brighton for the Season, 
 well reed, by the Prince, & was very often of the dinner parties ; and 
 also of Mrs. Fitzherbert's parties. 
 
 One day when at dinner with the Prince, He happened to sit next to 
 Lord Petersham, who remarking to Him the magnificence of the enter- 
 tainment, Metcalfe replied by quoting a Spanish proverb, signifying, 
 " Luxury abounds, but who pays for it ? " — The next day Metcalfe 
 met the Prince accompanied by Lord Petersham. The Prince, as usual, 
 spoke cheerfully to Metcalfe, but Lord Petersham did not notice Him, 
 which the Prince observed, & after parting from Metcalfe asked Him 
 why He did not speak to Metcalfe ? Because, replied His Lordship, 
 I will not speak to any one who shows disrespect to your Royal Highness, 
 & then told Him what passed the day before. — The Prince from that 
 time has never noticed Metcalfe, & to mark His disapprobation, on the 
 following day invited to dinner a person who was on a visit to Metcalfe, 
 without including Him. 
 
 It was agreed that Metcalfe acted imprudently, — Lord Petersham 
 ungenerously or rather mischievously, — and the Prince not with much 
 dignity in regarding it. — 
 
 September 26. — Mrs. Partington! sd. she has been told that Dr. 
 Baillie, the Physician gets ;^9000 a year. — She said His manner is coarse, 
 & He has a Scottish Brogue, — but has an honest mind. — 
 
 • See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t Probably the wife of Partington, the fashionable dentist, referred to by J. T. Smith 
 in " Nollekens and His Times," and the Mr. Partington who, according to Lysons, owned 
 the house at Barnes (? Twickenham) in which Henry Fielding resided. In 1811 Parting- 
 ton's niece, widow of Admiral Stanton, was the proprietor of this house. 
 
6 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 Sir John Turner's we dined at. I had not seen Dr. Gretton since the 
 year 1792.* We were in the Autumn of that year at the Duke of Mont- 
 rose's in Scotland together. — He proposed to me to ride with Him to- 
 morrow. 
 
 Public Schools 
 
 Publick Schools were spoken of. Dr. Gretton keeps a private one 
 at Taplow. He said the bane of the public schools is that the parents 
 of many of the Boys fill their pockets with Bank notes, & opportunity 
 is allowed for the expenditure of it viciously. He described the Characters 
 of three great Schools by saying that the youth at Eaton are dissipated 
 gentlemen ; — those at Westminster dissipated with a little of the Black 
 guard ; — and those at St. Pauls School the most depraved of all. — He said 
 Eaton at present is upon a sad footing ; the Master, Dr. Goodall, having 
 lost much of His Authority from want of resolution. He expelled a Boy 
 some time since, which being opposed by the youth of the 6th (the highest) 
 form, He gave way & recalled the Boy & of course in so yielding is subject 
 to objections of that form. — He said Rugby School is also upon a bad 
 footing. In it are many of the Sons of Gentlemen, but more of those 
 who are the Sons of Manufacturers at Birmingham, Wolverhampton &c. 
 who having little sentiment of the disgrace of anything dishonorable 
 act as their inclinations lead them. — He said, in His school, no Boy, 
 though some are 18 years of age, expends more while at School, than two 
 guineas a year. He desires the parents not to give them more than one 
 guinea & if they require more. He gives them a Shilling at a time. — At 
 Harrow also, He said, the Boys are gentlemen. — 
 
 The Chaplain's Table 
 
 He spoke of the abolition of the Chaplains table at St. James's, — 
 & sd. the allowance to each Chaplain, instead of the table, is ^30 a year : 
 but though a gainer by it, as instead of being required to reside in London 
 a fortnight in each year. He only goes to town one day in the year, and 
 preaches, which is all the duty required from a Chaplain. — A very large 
 quantity of Plate has been accumulated it being the Custom for each 
 Chaplain on being advanced in the Church so as to give up His Chapelancy 
 to give a piece of Plate, — with His name upon it. — 
 
 September 27. — At Eleven oClock Lord & Lady Thomond & Mrs. 
 Partington went upon the water on a fishing party having appointed 
 to dine at the Spring. His Lordship lent me a Horse & Servant & I 
 rode to Dr. Gretton's at Hitcham House, one mile from Taplow. There 
 I walked abt. the grounds with Mrs. Gretton who shewed me several 
 
 * The Rev. George Gretton, D.D., nth Wrangler, and Fellow of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, was inducted rector of Hedsor Parish Church on October 29, 1803, on the 
 presentation of Frederick, Lord Boston. He resigned and afterwards became chaplain to 
 the King, and Dean of Hereford from 1809 to 1820. Dr. Gretton had a large family, and 
 he and his wife Mary were buried at Hitcham, Bucks. 
 
1806] Not Proud but Sound 7 
 
 of Her Children, Her eldest Son, a clergyman, aged 25, 8c Her youngest 
 Child, a Boy, 3 years old. She said she had had 15 children.— I then 
 rode with Dr. Gretton through Burnham Wood, & by Dropmore till 2 
 oClock. — He spoke of His general good fortune in life, & told me that He 
 was very happily circumstanced in respect of property. He set out in 
 life without having anything & now could retire to a House in Notting- 
 hamshire, near which He has a small estate, & could sit down possessed 
 of ;^700 a year. 
 
 He said He has now 26 Boys under His Tuition. The vacations are 6 
 weeks dated from the 20th. of July, and a month from the 20th. of 
 December. — He spoke of Lord St. A[saph], and said the world take Him 
 to be proud but He does not think Him so. He sd. His Lordships under- 
 standing is sound, & He knows no person to whose judgment He wd. 
 sooner refer in a difficult case : But His Constitution is bilious & irritable, 
 which makes Him very uncertain as to chearfulness or being reserved. — 
 He sd. Lady St. A[saph] is ill suited to Him ; she is rapid, intelligent ; 
 but has little judgment ; She is quick, while He is ice. — He has 5 Children 
 by this marriage. His eldest Son by a former marriage is almost 21, & 
 posesses a constitution like that of his father, but has not His mental 
 ability. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 1806 
 
 Greater Rogue than Painter 
 
 September 27. — [Dr. Gretton] complained much of the great loss 
 He had sustained by His Brother who was connected with Hodges 
 [R.A.] in a Bank which they set up at Dartmouth.* He said His Brother 
 had great abihties for His profession but had become drunken & depraved. 
 After the death of Hodges He allowed His Brother ^^200 a year to main- 
 tain Him so as to enable Him to proceed in His profession as an Attorney 
 after the Bank had stopped ; but all His wishes were frustrated by the 
 habits He had adopted, — & He now allowed Him a pittance regardless 
 of what may become of Him. — He spoke of Hodges with great bitterness, 
 saying that He had neither religion or principles : that he was a swindler 
 & a cheat. — He sd. His Brother unfortunately became acquainted with 
 Hodges in the following manner. — John Carr, brother [in law] to Mr. 
 Hodges, had been placed with an Attorney in London of the name of 
 Pugh, who proved to be a flimsy man, & in other respects such, as to 
 cause Hodges to be disatisfied with Him. At that time Dr. Gretton had 
 a living at Dartmouth, & His Brother was estabhshed there as 
 an Attorney. 
 
 Deeds Not Worth Sixpence 
 
 Hodges prevailed upon the Doctor to induce His Brother to take 
 John Carr to be His clerk, which caused an intercourse between Hodges 
 & Him, and the former made a proposal to the latter to set up a Bank 
 
 • William Hodges, son of a blacksmith in Clare Market, Drury Lane, was born in 1744, 
 and studied first at Shipley's Drawing School in the Strand, and afterwards under Richard 
 Wilson, the landscape painter. In 1772 he accompanied, as draughtsman. Captain Cook 
 in his second voyage round the world, and his sketches were published in the narrative of 
 the expedition. He was elected an Associate of the Academy in 1786, and a member 
 in the following year. Hodges published in 1793 an account of his " Travels in India," 
 during 1780-3, and, settling at Dartmouth, in 1793, he opened the bank referred to in 
 Dr. Gretton's story of Hodges's depredations, which is wholly new. 
 
 Hodges was married first, on May 11, 1776, to Miss Martha Nesbit, who died in child- 
 bed within a year ; second, on October 16, 1784, to Miss Lydia Wright ; and third to 
 Miss Carr, who was " much beloved and praised by Romney." By his third wife, who 
 died shortly after her husband, he had five children, 
 
 8 
 
1806] Deeds Not Worth Sixpence 9 
 
 at Dartmouth & shewed to the latter Deeds not worth sixpence to prove 
 that He was worth ^^i 2,000, all of which He offered to lodge as a founda- 
 tion ^ to begin their Banking business upon. — The matter was com- 
 municated to Dr. Gretton who objected to it, but without the Doctor's 
 knowledge an agreement was made & the Bank was estabhshed. At 
 that time a Mr. Seal, a gentleman of good property, engaged with them. 
 His name was 12 months in the firm, but He seeing something which 
 He did not like, withdrew from it, and left Hodges, & — Gretton the only 
 partners. Gretton attending to his business as an Attorney left the 
 Management of the Banking business to Hodges & a Clerk & looked at 
 the books only occasionally. — Thus matters wore on. Hodges went to 
 London & called on Dr. Gretton and told Him that they had discounted 
 some Nezvfoundland Bills to a considerable amount which had reduced 
 their Cash, and desired the Doctor to accept two bills of ^£500 each payable 
 in a few months, upon which Hodges could procure money, to suit their 
 convenience till the Bills shd. become due. After some hesitation the 
 Doctor consented but required to have the Bills as a security. Hodges 
 sd. they were in the Country, but He wd. send them. — Soon after Hodges 
 informed Him that He shd. not require His acceptance of the Bills He 
 had proposed to draw. 
 
 Found Out 
 
 The Doctor afterwards discovered that it was owing to Hodges's 
 Banker refusing to give Cash for the Bills if drawn which they did because 
 they suspected that ultimately the Doctor would he obliged to pay them & 
 they wished to prevent His sustaining such a loss. He also discovered 
 that no Newfoundland Bills had been discounted & it was all a fiction 
 contrived for His private accomodation. — The final blow up was occa- 
 sioned as follows. — Gretton looking into the Books one day discovered 
 that Hodges had drawn bills in the space of one fortnight, to the amount 
 of near ^^2000 for the purpose of paying His own debts incurred in London 
 before He left that place. Among the rest was one to a Taylor for 
 upwards of ;^300, the Taylors name something like Marcellus. — Gretton 
 immediately expressed His astonishment at the transaction, & instantly, 
 Hodges present, gave a charge to the Clerk, never again to draw a Bill 
 at the request of Hodges without his knowledge & consent, and other- 
 ways expressed Himself strongly. Before they parted Hodges told 
 Gretton privately, " That He might as well have put Him in His Coffin 
 as said what He had done to & before the Clerk." — The next day Gretton 
 went to London & in a few days information was sent Him that Hodges 
 was dead. — 
 
 And Poisons Himself 
 
 Dr. Gretton then said, Hodges poisoned Himself. In the night before 
 His death Mrs. Hodges noticed to Him that she perceived by His breath 
 that He had been taking Laudanum. — He was then a good deal con- 
 vulsed, but said He had taken a little to reHeve His stomach. He 
 
10 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 gradually became worse & died the next morning. It appeared that He 
 had drank all the Laudanum that was in a bottle & that it was an Ounce. — 
 Dr. Gretton then spoke of His [Hodges] marriage with the niece of 
 Mr. Whitehurst of Bolt Court. It seems she had been disappointed in 
 love by a person of the name of Griesley, & it operated so upon Her 
 spirits as to cause Her to have recourse to intoxication. — She did not 
 always drink brandy or other such spirits, but had recourse to drugs & 
 spirits which produced that effect & lay in a small compass.^Before 
 Hodges went to India she refused to marry Him ; but when He was on 
 the point of going He appHed to Dr. Gretton to try whether He could 
 not induce Her to give Him hopes on His return from India where He 
 expected to make a fortune. A little time before Hodges sett off, Gretton 
 conversed with Her and she at last permitted Him to give Hodges en- 
 couragement, and Gretton proposed to go to Him early the next morning 
 to inform Him of it, but at 5 oClock that morning the Doctor having slept 
 at Her Uncles House, she knocked at His room door & dropping a note 
 into His room, desired Him to read it before He went to Mr. Hodges.— 
 
 Induced to Marry Him 
 
 In it she withdrew Her -permission & further expressed that it wd. 
 make Her miserable were she to marry Him. — All these particulars the 
 Doctor regrets that He did not mention them to Hodges, but merely 
 stated that He had not been able to make the hoped for permission. 
 From India Hodges frequently wrote to Her & after His return she was 
 induced to marry Him. The Doctor performed the ceremony. It was 
 settled that they shd. dine with Mr. Whitehurst, Her Uncle, in Bolt 
 Court & that in the even'g she & Hodges shd. go to His House in Queen 
 St. Mayfair. — She was very low in spirits ; they dined at an early Hour, 
 & the afternoon appearing long Hodges proposed to Gretton to go out 
 upon some occasion. — They returned to tea & the Doctor then perceived 
 a great alteration in Her appearance & manner. Her Head seemed 
 to be in a light, incoherent state & Her mind wandered strangely. The 
 Hour of separation having arrived the Doctor led Her to a Hackney Coach, 
 & on their way she said to Him " I have seen Griesley today." — He replied 
 He was sorry for it. He [Griesley] being a married man & she now 
 [married] she ought not to have seen Him. She replied " I only saw Him 
 as He passed, there " added she, " I see Him again ". I then, said the 
 Doctor to me, saw that Her Head was affected, & immediately suspected 
 for the first time, that she drank. 
 
 She Died Next Morning 
 
 This was in the month of October, & in the January following I 
 happened to be again in London and met Hodges at Mr. Whitehursts. 
 He then told me His wife was in a very bad way ; that she drank, & 
 finding that the habit was inveterate in Her, He had given orders to supply 
 Her with as much liquor as she requested. — This the Doctor disapproved, 
 
1806] She Died Next Morning ii 
 
 & calling upon Hodges the next day had farther conversation with 
 Him respecting it. On His conduct being condemned Hodges became 
 warni & insisted that Gretton should see Her & He took Him to Her 
 Bedside &_ addressing Her said " Lydia, do you know who this is ? "— 
 She took httle notice, and only said " Umpgh " and then put Her hand 
 to a pot & drank.— This the Doctor said was Brandy which was suppHed 
 as often as wanted. The next morning she died. — 
 
 Of the last Mrs. Hodges, the 3rd. wife, the Doctor spoke in warm 
 terms of regard, saying she was a pure and excellent woman. — 
 
 I asked the Doctor what He thought of the Understanding of Hodges. 
 He said. He never could Understand Him so as to judge ; His far fetched, 
 hard words, and His simihtudes, had such an effect that He could form 
 no conclusion as to His understanding. 
 
 An Affected Coxcomb 
 
 _ He said that after He fully discovered His Character, He talked of 
 Him to Lord St. Asaph, who expressed much surprise that the Doctor 
 should not sooner have seen through Him. His Lordship thought any 
 one might have done it in half an Hour. For my part sd. His Lordship, 
 I thought Him an affected Coxcomb in manner, and I found that in his 
 dealing with respect to His prints of views in India, that He had no prin- 
 ciple, — and I soon discontinued the work. — 
 
 Such was the Doctors statement respecting Hodges, who in many 
 respects acted wrong, & very improvidently, which reduced Him to a 
 situation in which He certainly had neither wisdom, integrity or firmness 
 enough to cause Him to do that which He ought to have done : but the 
 knowledge I had of Him enables me to say that He had many good 
 quahties & fell a sacrifice to a want of a better Head and to extravagant 
 notions caused by pride & ostentatious liberahty. 
 
 Dr. Gretton gave me a sad acct. of Dr. Langford,* late one of the 
 masters of Eaton, who absconded on acct. of Debts amounting, it is said, 
 to ^26,000. — His income from Boarders & from Preferment was so large 
 the Doctor said He ought to have been worth 3^100,000, — It is now re- 
 ported that He is in Nottinghamshire & passes under the assumed 
 name of Doctor Loyd. — 
 
 Good Society 
 
 Dr. Gretton spoke of the good Society they have in this neighboroud : 
 but in respect of sumptuous living. He said the Commercial men " bear 
 the Bill.'''' — At Craufurd Bruce'sf you dine of Plate, and Champagne, — 
 
 * William Langford, younger son of Edward Langford, of St. Albans, and Mary, his wife, 
 landlady of the " White Hart " of that city, was a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 
 of which he was a fellow, D.D. (Lambeth), 1778, lower master at Eton, 1775-1803, and 
 Canon of Windsor, 1787-1814. He died in 18 14 at Sydenham. See Eton College Register 
 and Vols. I. and IH. of the Diary. 
 
 t See Vol. in., pages 6-jn. 
 
12 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 Tokay, — Hermitage, &c. are proposed to you in succession as soon as 
 you have begun to eat. — Pascoe Grenfell* still exceeds Bruce ; His Plate 
 is gilt. He began the world without any fortune & is now supposed 
 to be in the rect. of ^20,000 a year, from His share & Concern in Copper 
 works, being a partner with the Williams's. — 
 
 * See Vol. III., page 102 and note. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 1806 
 
 Sir John D'Oyly 
 
 September 27. — The Spring [on the Thames] we dined at. — At 
 Dusk we returned home, Lord Thomond & myself by water. At tea time 
 we had conversation respecting Sir John D'oyley.* — Mr. Partington 
 was at school with [him] & their intimacy has continued. — Sir John 
 remitted from India through the hands of Child & Co. ^80,000, and 
 afterwards reed. ^^25,000 more : but all was wasted by a most expensive 
 wife and hangers on of Her family. — When Sir John first came to England 
 He told Mr. Partington He wd. not expend more than ;^2000 a year, and 
 indeed had Himself no inclination to expense. — Mrs. P, said He is but 
 a weak man, but has good intentions. Lord Wellesley just before His 
 Lordship left Calcutta, appointed Him a Receiver in one of the Districts 
 which brings Him in ^(^4000 a year, & He will probably remain in India 
 during the rest of His life. — 
 
 September 29. — Being Michaelmas day we had Giblet Soup, & a 
 Goose, with other things for dinner. — The comfort of a small social party 
 was acknowledged & Lord Thomond bid me remember that He engaged 
 me for the next Michaelmas day. 
 
 Maid to his Wife 
 
 We had a bad account of the state of Mr, Penton who lives near.f 
 He had three Physicians with Him & it was proposed to cut off His 
 Hair & apply a Blister to His Head. — He is 70 years of age ; has been a 
 Aandsome man, with a fine head & Hair, of which He has always been 
 
 * Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, sixth Baronet, of Calcutta and D'Oyly Park, Hampshire 
 "born in 1754, was a Bengal merchant, Collector of Calcutta, M.P. for Ipswich, 1790-96, 
 and intimate friend of Warren Hastings. In 1780 he married Diana, widow of William 
 Cotes, of Calcutta, daughter of William Rochfort, niece of Robert Rochfort, first Earl of 
 Belvidere, and granddaughter of George and Lady Elizabeth Rochfort, who was daughter 
 of Henry Moore, third Earl of Drogheda. Sir John died at Calcutta in 18 18, and was 
 succeeded by his son, Sir Charles D'Oyly, who was a distinguished amateur artist. 
 
 t Henry Penton (who gave his name to Pentonville) was M.P. for Wmchester and 
 a Lord of the Admiralty. He died in 18 12. On his estate the first buildings of Penton 
 .Street were erected about 1773. 
 
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14 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 careful ; so that Lord Thomond said in whatever state of health He might 
 be He never appeared but with His Hair in nice order. — His manners are 
 very courteous & gentle. Lord Thomond spoke of the great sacrifice 
 He had made by forming His present connexion with a Woman who was 
 maid to His Wife which caused a separation. By this woman He has 
 two daughters now grown up, who are in some degree noticed, but their 
 mother is not seen by Ladies. — Lord Thomond said. She is a fine woman, 
 & that Mr. Penton has spoken warmly in Her praise for Her attention 
 to Him. But it has caused Him, who was formerly much in the world. 
 Member for Winchester, & a Lord of the Admiralty, to live many years 
 in, comparatively, a secluded state, in which He has appeared to be 
 obliged to those who called upon Him. — 
 
 The Prince of Orange 
 
 After the Ladies retired, Lord Thomond talked of the late Prince of 
 Orange, who, while He was in England, His Lordship was much acquainted 
 with. — He said the Prince was very plain in His person, (/ have ojten seen 
 Him) and had a thickness in His pronunciation, but He had a very good 
 understanding, and most extensive Historical information having read 
 much. — His Lordship said that while the preparations were making for 
 the Duke of Tork's expedition to Holland, He called upon the Prince 
 at small lodgings which He had near the Chapel in Conduit St. The 
 Prince expressed Himself very strongly against the Plan of the Expedition, 
 saying. That the Duke was going to land in that part of Holland which 
 was filled with His (the Princes) enemies : That He had no friends at 
 Amsterdam, or Rotterdam, ^c. and that it was in North Holland only 
 where any success could be expected. — The expedition notwithstanding 
 made an attempt and as the Prince predicted wholly failed. — 
 
 They Plucked his Hair 
 
 While the Prince was in England He was often treated with most 
 disrespectful levity by the Prince of Wales and His Brothers. They 
 wd. while He was sitting at table, when His Head was turned from 
 them pluck His Hair, and on His moving His Head round, another would 
 do the same on the other side making Him the sport of the Company. — 
 The King, on the contrary, always behaved to Him with kindness & 
 respect. — The Princess of Orange, Aunt to the King of Prussia, had great 
 dignity. When after the Peace of Amiens, it was necessary for the 
 Prince & Princess to go to Germany to take posession of their newly 
 alloted Teritory, they set off with much heaviness of Heart. The Princess, 
 on leaving Hampton-Court, where they had resided, was so much dis- 
 tressed that the blinds of the Carriage were drawn up to prevent Her 
 from being seen. — Their eldest Son was a fine, and accomplished young 
 man. While He was in England He became desperately in love with 
 the Princess Mary, but the King, under the circumstances in which the 
 Orange family were, would not consent to their Union, & mairied a 
 
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 German Lady, but did not live long, — The family, in the person of the 
 Second Son, is now established in the posessions alotted to them at the 
 peace of Amiens, & in the new Confederation of the Rhine, He is made 
 the Head of the College oj Princes. — 
 
 William III 
 
 Lord Thomond spoke most warmly of the Character & great abilities 
 of William the Third, who saved Holland & preserved the liberties of 
 England. — He said that however much William was attached to Holland, 
 He never after He became King of England allowed those feelings to 
 operate against the interests of this country. William suffered much 
 mortification here. Those men who had been the cause of His coming 
 over, afterwards turned against Him in opposing His measures. — Lord 
 Thomond sd. History does not produce another instance of three men of 
 one family following each other in Succession, who posessed such great 
 talents & other high qualities as William the third, — His Father, — & 
 Grandfather. — 
 
 Lady D'Oyly's Bill 
 
 At tea Mrs. Partington spoke of the great extravagance of Lady 
 D'oyley. — In one year Her Bill to Mrs. Beauvais the Dress-maker, 
 amounted to ^£700. — Mrs. Beauvais, to keep well with the waiting maid 
 of so good a Customer, sent Her a present of a laced Cloak, but the 
 maid did not think it of sufficient value & returned it. — Another, was sent, 
 but that wd. not do, and a third worth towards 20 guineas was presented 
 and graciously accepted. — Such is the way in which a good understanding 
 is kept up between a dressmaker and the maid of an expensive Lady 
 to induce Her to encourage that disposition. — Sir John D'oyley, she sd. 
 expended ^20,000 to be returned Member for l-pswich, & only by that 
 obtained a Seat for one parliament. — With all their profusion of expence 
 everything was so ill ordered that they never kept a good table. Mrs. 
 Partington reminded Lady Thomond that at an entertainment Hashed 
 Wood-cocks were sent up. — For one entertainment, a Supper & Ball, 
 given by Sir John at His House in Portland Place, He contracted with a 
 person for the whole expence & paid Is^o. — Rochford, Brother to Lady 
 D'oyley, used Sir John's House as He wd. have done a Tavern, & when 
 Sir John & Lady D'oyley were out of town, would invite His acquaintance 
 & call for Champagne &c. witht. the least consideration. — 
 
 Sir John Neglected 
 
 When Sir John had but Httle left of all that He brought from Indis, 
 He was induced to enter into partnership in Dubhn with a Mr. Spurling 
 who married a Sister of Lady D'oyley, Gustavus Rochford, Her Cousin,— 
 
 and Granger, Her nephew. Their object first was to estabhsh a 
 
 great Distillery, but they overbuilt themselves at a vast expense, & the 
 Union taking place and the advantages of Distilleries in Ireland having 
 
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 become thereby comparatively less, they found it necessary to convert 
 their estabhshment into a Brewery. — Sir John advanced ^12,000, and on 
 his leaving England to go to India settled with His Partners, That 
 they shd. retain His ^12,000 and pay Him no interest for Six years, but, 
 if at that period the Concern shd. be prosperous He was to be paid 
 interest and to have a share of the profits. He was not, however, to be 
 bound beyond His 3^12,000 for any disappointments which might happen. 
 — Since the concern has failed; Sir John has lost His ^12,000 & Mr. 
 Spurhng ^70,000. — 
 
 Mrs. Partington said that it was painful to see how much Sir John 
 was neglected, after His circumstances declined, by most of those who 
 had courted Him while He was in affluence. — Very few indeed appeared 
 to notice Him. — 
 
CHAPTER V 
 
 1806 
 
 Coalition Against Bonaparte 
 
 September 30. — Breakfasted ^ past 10. — We were much gratified 
 to find in the newspapers that the Blockade has been taken off the Ports of 
 Prussia, which gives hope that a strong Coalition may again be formed 
 against Buonaparte's aim at Universal Controul. — 
 
 Sir John & Lady Turner I called upon. He had gone out in the 
 Carriage. Yesterday He had the Gout in His Head & Stomach, but 
 relieved Himself by taking Usquebah. 
 
 I sat S'ometime with Lady T. We talked abt, the G's. She said 
 V.G.* was an odd man : That He is in his family suspicious, & locks up, 
 & looks into matters which are quite out of His province, and such as a 
 man should scarcely know. — Mrs. Thurston, formerly Miss Alworthy, had 
 been long known to Sir John Turner. She had one Boy & three girls by 
 Mr. Thurston & has one Child by V.G. — While Mr. Thurston lived she 
 was humoured in the extreme, every attention being paid to Her, but 
 in V G she finds one who will rule. — She spoke most warmly of the great 
 kindness she & Sir John receive from Lord & Lady Thomond, with whom 
 they were made acquainted by Sir Wm. Scott, j on their first coming to 
 Taplow. — She said the open & chearful manner of Lord Thomond banishes 
 reserve & makes every Society into which He goes pleasant : but she 
 observed that His high rank which gave Him authority to address others 
 as He does enabled Him to produce an effect which persons of less pre- 
 tension cd. not with any propriety attempt. — On my leaving Her she 
 expressed a hope that I would dine with them on Monday next with Lord 
 & Lady Thomond. — Lord Thomond told Sir John this summer that He 
 is 83 years of age. — 
 
 On my way back I met Lady Thomond and Mrs. Partington & she 
 asked me to go with them to call upon Mr. & Mrs. Grenfell but they 
 were not at Home, — Mr. GrenfelU has two Sons & a daugr. by a former 
 
 * Valentine Gardner (brother of Alan, first Lord Gardner), who married Frances, 
 second daughter of Samuel Holworthy, of Elsworthy, and widow of Framington Thruston 
 (formerly Willis), of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 X See Vol. III., page io2«. 
 
 VOL. IV. 17 2 
 
18 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 marriage, & Six Children by His present Wife. Lady Thomond shewed 
 me the eldest girl, an elegant child, but the lower part of Her face ap- 
 peared as if the Skin was off from a Scald, or having been burnt. She 
 sd. the Child was born without a Skin, and though all the other parts were 
 now covered, the lower part of Her face remains in the state I have de- 
 scribed. 
 
 Pitt and God's Mercy 
 
 We dined at 5 oClock, Lady Thomond had a Devonshire pie, made 
 of mutton and apples. — Lady Thomond spoke highly of the Bishop of 
 Lincoln saying He is an excellent man. Mrs. Rose wife of Geo : Rose 
 M.P. related many particulars respecting the death of Mr. Pitt which she 
 had received from the Bishop's wife. — It was at 3 oClock one morning 
 that Sir Walter Farquhar* awoke the Bishop to inform Him that Mr. 
 Pitt could not live. The Bishop immediately arose & said no time ought 
 then to be lost but that Mr. Pitt shd, be acquainted with His situation. 
 After this was done The Bishop, when alone with Mr. Pitt spoke to Him 
 respecting religion & prayers. — Mr. Pitt in substance said to the Bishop 
 " From my situation in life & public cares weighing heavily upon me I 
 have not attended so much to those duties as I wished & desired, hut 
 you know my mind." He afterwards added " I rely entirely upon the 
 infinite mercy of God, through the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ." 
 
 Lady Thomond spoke of the great disregard of religion in many 
 fashionable persons. She said Sir Willoughby Aston happening to be at 
 Taplow on a Sunday She asked Him to go to Church. He replied, He 
 wd. go to oblige Her Ladyship, but He had never been at Church since 
 He was married which was twenty years ago. She told [him] if He had 
 no better motive than to oblige Her she wd. not desire Him to go, & He 
 did not. — 
 
 Sir John D'Oyly 
 
 October 1. — Before breakfast I walked with Mrs. Partington & she 
 spoke of the unhappy state of Sir John D'oyley during His residence in 
 England. He brought from India ^80,000 & ^25,000 was afterwards 
 remitted to Him, the whole of which was wasted so that He had not 
 money sufficient to fit Him & His daugrs. out & to pay His expences when 
 He returned to India. She, Lady Thomond, & Mrs. Boscawen, to save 
 
 * Of whom it has been said : " A man whose memory is scarcely done justice to, 
 though he was sought after, trusted, and courted in Ufe. If ever there was a man, one 
 who had the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove — that man was Sir 
 Walter Farquhar." 
 
 Sir Walter, born in October, 1738, was son of the Rev. Robert Farquhar, Minister of 
 Garioch, Scotland. Educated at King's College, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, he 
 entered the Army Medical Service, and took part in Lord Howe's expedition to Belle Isle 
 in 1761. Leaving the Army, he settled in London, where he became eminent as an apothe- 
 cary and physician. He was created a Baronet in 1796, and appointed Physician in Ordinary 
 to the Prince of Wales. Sir Walter died in London on March 30, 1819. Sir Henry 
 Raeburn's third contribution to the Royal Academy (1798) was a portrait of Sir Walter, 
 which was engraved by W. Sharp. 
 
1806] Sir John D'Oyly 19 
 
 expence made use of Cloaths left by Lady D'oyley at Her death, and 
 turned them to the best acct. they could in Clothing & decorating the 
 two daugrs. who soon after their arrival in India were married, one to a 
 Son of Sir Walter Farquhar, the other to a Son of Sir Francis Baring ; 
 they are both very amiable. — Accounts from Bengal lately reed, from 
 His relations state that Sir John who has a strong impression of religion 
 on His mind, has become low in spirits, & they are apprehensive that it 
 may proceed to something like religious melancholy. — He declines 
 Society, and, when He walks, which He does two or three Hours every 
 day, He seeks to be alone. — He wrote to Mrs. Partington that having 
 seen His Children settled He felt that He had nothing more to do in this 
 world & was resigned to leave it. 
 
 His Unhappy Marriage 
 
 All His misfortunes & Unhappiness proceeded from His unhappy 
 marriage with a vain & weak woman. The weakness of Her mind 
 rendering her incapable of rational conversation. He sought for it in 
 others who might happen to be associated with them. This created in 
 Her a violent Jealousy, not of anything criminal, but of His preferring 
 others to Herself. — Mr. Johnson at Calcutta was employed in the Law 
 & His Sister resided with Him. — Having occasion to go to Moorshedabad, 
 Lady D'oyley warmly requested that He would bring His sister with 
 Him. This Miss Johnson wd. only agree to upon Condition that she & 
 Her Brother shd. not stay more than a fortnight ; Lady D'oyley was so 
 much delighted with Her that she wd. not allow Her to return to Calcutta, 
 and the acquaintance having become established Miss Johnson was 
 induced to return with them to England, where Sir John said He would 
 be Her protector. During several years, except when upon occasional 
 visits, she continued to reside with them, & in Her Sir John finding a 
 rational companion, directed much of his conversation to Her. 
 
 Lady D'Oyly's Jealousy 
 
 This made Miss Johnson an object of Lady D'oyley's Jealousy on 
 acct. of that notice & preference, it was also the same with respect to 
 Others, & she made His life unhappy. She often bewailed the loss of Her 
 first Husband, saying He shewed her more attention. — She was not 
 satisfied unless He was fondling & kissing Her in a manner disgusting 
 to those who saw it. — She once became so affected by passion in conse- 
 quence of that jealousy as to cause a miscarriage, which Sir John felt so 
 sensibly that He had resolved to separate from Her & to reside abroad, 
 saying that passions carried to an excess as to cause such consequences 
 was murder, & He was made in some degree a participator. At different 
 times He resolved on separation, and His temper was sometimes so worked 
 upon, that He wd. say very bitter things to Her. — When He resolved to 
 dispose of D'oyley park. He did not inform Her of it, and an advertise- 
 ment appeared of which the first knowledge she had was from the Apothe- 
 cary who attended the family who mentioned it concluding she knew of it. 
 
 VOL. IV. 2* 
 
20 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 On the whole Mrs. Partington said Sir John is a very good kind of 
 man & had He married a woman of better understanding & a different 
 disposition He would [have] passed through [life] happily & respectably. 
 — Lady D'oyley died of a Dropsy. — Her passion for dress continued to 
 the last. Three weeks before Her death she ordered Hats to the amount 
 of ^30 when Sir John could scarcely raise 30 shillings ; that incon- 
 siderateness which had ruined His fortunes continued to the last. — 
 
 Ill-suited Connections 
 
 Lady D'oyley's Brother, Wm. Rochford got an estate from Sir John 
 valued at £7000 in an extraordinary manner & settled it upon Miss 
 Spurling* of Essex, who He married. She had abt. ^^10,000. They lived 
 very unhappily and ill usage broke His heart, after being long a slave 
 to Commands. — He might have married the daugr. of a rich farmer 
 with 3^40,000. Her name was Lacey. She was a Roman Catholic. 
 Such are the effects of ill-suited connexions, — improvidence, folly & bad 
 humours. — 
 
 * Probably Miss Sperling, of Dynes Hall, Essex. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 1806 
 
 Lord Thomond as Waiter 
 
 October 1 . — At breakfast Lady Thomond said that when the Queen 
 dined with Her at Taplow, Lord Thomond stood the whole time behind 
 Her Majesty with a Napkin under His Arm, & changed Her Majesty's 
 plate. 
 
 The Prince of Wales, Father to the present King, resided at Cliefdon. 
 He carried state very high in some respects, never admitting any persons 
 of whatever rank to dine with Him & the Princess at Cliefdon House, but 
 when He chose to associate more familiarly. He went with the Princess 
 as incog : to a small House where Craufurd Bruce now resides & there 
 admitted a few to dine with them. — 
 
 Princess of Wales 
 
 Lady Thomond does not think the Princess of Wales has much 
 sensibility. She has been of that opinion from the time of Her being 
 married, when she appeared to be so easy & unaffected during the cere- 
 mony, more like one who was a spectator than one who was changing 
 Her state in life, as to shew great want of feeling. — We all agreed that 
 the familiar manners of the Princess are not suited to Her station in 
 this Country. — She called one day at Mrs. Cholmondely's who resides 
 at lodgings in Jermyn St. Mrs. C & her daugr.* were at dinner. The 
 Princess bid them go & not mind Her, & sat down waiting till they had 
 finished their meal, & then proceeded to conversation. — She calls at 
 Houses in Her neighboroud at times when it is not convenient to them, 
 & has when she has found them at dinner, said she would walk in the 
 garden till they had finished ; in the meantime if persons who happened 
 not to be of the family were at dinner they were obliged to go away. — 
 
 Lord Thomond passed a pleasant day at Mr. Cannings. — Carp 
 Turtle &c. Hock, Claret, — Madeira. The Turtle was dressed too high 
 & His Lordship suffered inconvenience from it. — 
 
 • See entry under October 4. 
 21 
 
22 The Farington Diary [1806 
 
 Merry be our Hearts 
 
 After the Ladies retired Lord Thomond, as usual, gave His first 
 Toast " The Ladies," — His last toast is always " Merry be our Hearts." — 
 He always has a toast to each round of the glass. — He continues to drink 
 Madeira or Port moderately, in all, barely a -pint. He told us He went 
 to Germany as an Officer in the year 1746 & carried the Colours of the 
 Guards at the battle of Laffeldt in 1747. — He said that at that battle the 
 Corps to which He belonged would have been cut to pieces by a Corps of 
 French Cavalry, which was within 50 yards of them, when most oppor- 
 tunely the Scotch Greys dashed in upon the French and broke them — 
 That battle He sd, was lost owing to the misconduct of the Prince of 
 Waldeck, who being jealous of the Duke of Cumberland having the Chief 
 Command, kept back the German troops & left the English to be over- 
 powered. 
 
 Mr. Penton's Sacrifice 
 
 Lord Thomond & Sir John spoke of the great sacrifice in respect of 
 Society which Mr. Penton had made in forming His present connexion.^ 
 Miss Judd who lives with Him was Mrs. Penton's maid. After His separa- 
 tion from Mrs. Penton in consequence of Her having discovered the con- 
 nexion. He took Miss Judd to Italy, and had her taught Musick & 
 languages. — Her voice is fine, and she sung so well that Mr. Penton 
 said ^^1500 a year was offered to Her if she wd. appear upon the Italian 
 Stage. The offer was made at Rome. — She is a fine woman, & now abt. 
 43 years old. She sits at the head of His table, and is extremely civil & 
 attentive, but Sir John observed that you perceive that she had not 
 always been in the situation of a gentlewoman, in Her manner there is 
 still something which expresses Her to be of a lower order. — Lord 
 Thomond & Sir John have often dined with Mrs. Penton when she has 
 been at table. — The daughters are very modest & pleasing. — 
 
 Cursed Stuff 
 
 We dine at 5 and drink tea abt. 8. — At tea Burkes book upon the 
 French Revolution was spoken of. — Lady Thomond said that admirable 
 & Highly esteemed as that work now is, when it was first published The 
 Prince of Wales asked Lord Thomond " How the Devil could your friend 
 Burke publish such a Farrago of Nonsense ? " Lord Thomond verified 
 what Her Ladyship had said & repeated the words. — Fox also said " It 
 was Cursed Stuff." — Such is the effect of Party spirit, which suppresses 
 truth & overpowers judgment. — 
 
 October 2. — I went with Mrs. Partington to Sir John Turner's, and 
 heard Lady Turner's relation of the conduct of Devillet the French 
 Priest, who resided with them abt. 18 months. He first came to them in 
 1796 having been recommended by Dr. Scott, Rector of Simonburn. 
 Devillet was abt. 33 years old, & had officiated as a Priest at Evreaux in 
 Normandy. — After having resided with them 18 months, He persisted 
 against all request & urging in remaining with them & said He would do 
 
1806] 
 
 Commercial Fortunes 2S 
 
 so till after the Revolution. — They then resided at Swale House in 
 Northumberland abt. 9 miles from Alnwick & 2 from Fenton. After 
 having got rid of Him there with extreme difficulty, He entered their 
 House in London repeatedly so as to oblige Sir John to apply to the 
 Marlborough St. Magistrates, & three times He was taken away by 
 Constables. — The last year they did not see Him. — 
 
 We dined at 5 oClock. — Lord Thomond spoke to me of the good 
 neighboroud which they have at Taplow, and of the great commercial 
 fortunes of some of them. I have sd, His Lordship one side Craufurd 
 Bruce, & on the other Pascoe Grenfell, and am only a mile between them. 
 But Your Lordship is at the top of the Hill, I replied, & He smiled. — 
 
 October 3. — At breakfast Mrs. Partington read part of a letter from 
 Mr. Partington mentioning that He had been informed the Prince of 
 Wales during His present Tour has been much out of spirits ; has said 
 little to anybody ; after eating 2 or 3 bits He has ordered His plate to be 
 taken away ; & in return for the great preparations made for Him, He 
 has expressed little acknowledgment, to those who have entertained Him. 
 A medical gentleman who formerly attended Him has expressed much 
 surprise at the great alteration in His appearance. — 
 
 A Romantic Story 
 
 After breakfast I mentioned to Lady Thomond my intention to 
 stay till Tuesday next, she sd. they shd. be glad if I wd. stay a month ; 
 and that I wd, come whenever it may suit me. — 
 
 We dined at 5. — Four Servants wait at table every day. One out 
 [of] Livery & 3 in Livery. — There are always two Courses & a Desert. 
 When there is no company [Lord Thomond] does not drink at dinner 
 more than two glasses of wine. 
 
 Lady Thomond mentioned that at Lord Elliot's* in Cornwall the 
 dining room is filled with family portraits. Among others an Ancestor 
 of His Lordship who was a Colonel in the Service of Charles ist. — The 
 Army in which He happened to be was defeated & He with others fled. 
 Being close pursued He entered a House to which He was a stranger & 
 running up stairs opened the door of the first room that was before Him. 
 It was a Bedchamber in which two Ladies were in Bed, He told them 
 that He had no chance of escaping from the enemy who were in pursuit 
 of him but by being permitted to hide Himself in their bed. They 
 granted it, & very soon some of the enemy entered the room & demanded 
 the Colonel. The ladies denied having any knowledge of Him & exclaimed 
 against the outrage of coming into their Bedroom. — Every part of the 
 room was however searched, but not finding Him they retired. When 
 the Colonel could make His acknowledgments He did so, & told the Ladies 
 who he was, that he could not marry both of them, but if either of them 
 would accept Him He shd. be most happy. One of the Ladies accepted 
 Him & they were married. — 
 
 * Edward Eliot Craggs, Lord Eliot, of St. Germans. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 1806 
 **^ Fear of the Ministry 
 
 October 3. — A note was brought from Mr. Grenfell who was just 
 arrived from London to inform His Lordship that 5 French frigates, 4 
 of them full of troops, are taken. It is supposed they were destined for 
 Buenos Ayres. Sir Saml. Hood lost an Arm in the engagement, but 
 was doing well. — This raised our Spirits, & I told Lord Thomond that / 
 was afraid of nothing but our Ministry, who I am still apprehensive retain 
 too much of Mr. Fox's conceding disposition with respect to Buonaparte 
 & France, from the unaccountable stay of Lord Lauderdale at Paris. — 
 
 It was said that the troops in the French frigates taken by Sir Saml. 
 Hood consist of Brabanters, — Swiss &c. who express a great desire to be 
 employed in the English Service & seem very glad that they were 
 captured. — 
 
 A Dreadful Accident 
 
 October 4. — Sir Francis Hartwell, a Commissioner in the Navy came 
 from town in one of the coaches to the Dumb Bell. — At the conclusion 
 of dinner He informed us of a dreadful accident which has happened. 
 The Princess of Wales accompanied by Lady Sheffield & Miss Chol- 
 mondely were going in a Barouche to Mr. Locks at Norbury Park & having 
 some where on the road taken Post Horses the Drivers at a turn near 
 Leatherhead drove too close & the Barouche was overturned. The 
 Princess was much bruised, — Lady Sheffield was not hurt, but Miss 
 Cholmondely pitching upon Her Head was killed on the spot. She only 
 opened Her eyes once. 
 
 Our party was much struck with this acct. but particularly Lady 
 Thomond who had lived long in habits of intimacy with Miss Cholmondely, 
 who was daugr. to the late Revd. Mr. Cholmondely, Uncle to Lord 
 Cholmondely, & Sister to Lady Bellingham. — Lord Thomond sd. Miss 
 Cholmondely had long wished to be abt. the Princess of Wales's person 
 before she was reed, by Her & that she had become a confidential friend 
 to Her. The sad event which has happened shews how little we can 
 foresee what our wishes may lead to. — Lady Thomond was very low all 
 
 24 
 
1806] A Dreadful Accident 25 
 
 the even'g. — She seemed to pity Lady Bellingham most, as the survivor. 
 Mrs. Cholmondely, the Mother, seemed to be thought by Lord T. & Sir 
 Francis to be of a disposition not hkely to feel very pungently. — 
 
 Political Intrigue 
 
 After the Ladies withdrew Sir Francis informed us that when Lord 
 Grenville proposed to Lord Howick to leave the Admiralty the latter 
 urged that Lord St. Vincent should be appointed. Lord Grenville did 
 not approve it, but after they parted Lord Howick with Lord Grenville's 
 permission drove to Windsor and proposed it to the King, who said " No, 
 No, Lord Sir Vincent does very well at Sea, but is not so proper to be 
 at the Admiralty." This step taken by Lord Howick it is supposed will 
 not be very well thought of by Lord Grenville, as it was not with his 
 inclination proposed, — though He left it to Lord Howick. 
 
 Sir Francis said. Lord Howick was not much attached to His situation 
 at the Admiralty, to which He found Himself in many respects incom- 
 petent. — The unhandsome behaviour of the Ministry in refusing the 
 thanks of Parliament to Sir Home Popham & Sir David Baird for taking 
 the Cape of Good Hope was mentioned. It was ascribed entirely to 
 Lord St. Vincent's dislike of Sir Home Popham & His influence with 
 Lord Howick caused the thanks to be withheld. Lord Grenville signified 
 that it was a determination of the Foxites, — with which He had nothing 
 to do. — 
 
 Whitbread is proposed to be Secretary at War, but insists upon a 
 Seat in the Cabinet because Windham had one while He was in that 
 situation. — The opinion now given was that the Ministry is not formed 
 of persons who will be very cordial, 
 
 [Crauford] Bruce thought the capture of Buenos Ayres a great ac- 
 quisition to commerce ; but He sd. the markets will at first be greatly 
 overstocked for He believed the value of a million wd. be sent at the first 
 burst. He sd. it would be attended with the good effect of disseminating 
 our manufactures into every corner of South America. That Country 
 it was agreed can never again be held by Spain & the true policy to keep 
 it out of the hands of the French wd. be to induce them to establish 
 themselves, under our Naval protection, into a free, independent, govern- 
 ment. It wd. require too many troops for England to undertake to 
 attach it to Herself. — Mrs. Bruce is a native of Rochdale in Lancashire, 
 where she was much admired while Miss Polly Smith. — 
 
 Captured Frigates 
 
 Sir Francis told me that captured Frigates are upon an average pur- 
 chased at the rate of about ^^12000 each, but to render them fit for British 
 service, in which the internal equipments are very different and much 
 more compleat, it usually costs ^12,000 more to make them fit for our 
 service, — so that the profit to the Country is little or nothing. The value 
 of Captures is in depriving the Enemy of that force, & also of having 
 
26 The Farington Diary [180^ 
 
 vessels whicli may be much sooner prepared for service than others cd. 
 be built. — He sd. the French never equip their Ships as we do, Ours are 
 often so equipped as to be enabled to keep the Sea for 4 or 6 months 
 together witht. going into Port ; whereas the French are seldom able 
 to remain out of Port more than 6 or 8 weeks. He said Linois, in the 
 East Indies, was never more than 2 months witht. going to the Mauritius 
 or the Cape of Good Hope. — 
 
 October 5. — Sir Francis Hartwell remarked that while Lord Grenville 
 acted with Mr. Pitt He appeared to be a very able man, but since He 
 became first Lord of the Treasury He has done nothing that manifests 
 great ability. — 
 
 Farington's Caution 
 
 Lord Thomond informed me that Mr. Palmer, who is on a visit to 
 Mr. Grenfell resides in Windsor Forest. A few months ago He married 
 Lady Madelina Sinclair, a widow, daughter to the Duchess of Gordon.* — 
 We dined off Plate as yesterday. — Champagne was carried round at dinner. 
 After dinner Claret, Port, Madeira, & Sherry. — Four Bottles of Claret 
 were drunk. I drank Sherry & Port & Lord Thomond chiefly Madeira. 
 
 Lord Thomond told me before dinner that we must touch upon the 
 conduct of Administration delicately as Mr. Grenfell is attached to Lord 
 Grenville. — -I told His Lordship that I never express my sentiments on 
 that subject till I hear those of others. — 
 
 Sir Home Popham was spoken of & the great services He has rendered 
 at the Cape of Good Hope & Buenos Ayres. Mr. Grenfell sd. it was to 
 be hoped that He could show some authority for the expedition to Buenos 
 Ayres, and that He had not undertaken it witht. orders, though it was a 
 great advantage to this Country. A Precedent of His going upon His own 
 judgment wd. he dangerous. — Lord Thomond sd. Sir Home had done great 
 things for the Country & the people felt it, and had expressed it by votes 
 in London, at Manchester &c. He thought the thanks of Parliament 
 having been witheld from Him after taking the Cape was very ungracious. 
 —Sir Francis said that the ill disposition of Administration against Him 
 had been fully shewn by one circumstance. It was not the intention 
 of Ministers to fire the Tower & Park guns, or to publish an Extraordinary 
 Gazette, upon receiving information of the capture of Buenos Ayres. 
 They actually sent to the Gazette Printer to have it put in the Common 
 Gazette. 
 
 * Lady Madelina was a clever girl and was married first to Sir Robert Sinclair, a Scottish 
 baronet. He died six years afterward, and her mother failing to match her with the Earl 
 of Aberdeen, Lady Madelina became the wife of Charles Fysshe Palmer of Luckley Park, 
 Berks. She died in 1847 and is buried at FinchampStead with her second husband. 
 
 Constance, Lady Russell, in her " Three Generations of Beautiful Women," says 
 that he was the son of Henry Fish, of Ickwell, Bedfordshire, who assumed the name of 
 Palmer on being left East Court, Finchampstead, by his kinsman, Charles Palmer. Sir 
 John Gordon Sinclair succeeded to East Court at the death of his mother, Lady Madelina 
 Fysehe Palmer, but sold it shortly afterwards to Mr. John Walter, of Bearwood, in whose 
 family it now remains. 
 
1806] 
 
 God Forbid ! 27 
 
 Luckily a friend of Sir Home Popham happened to be there at the 
 time & it being at a late Hour, He suggested to the Printer that if it was 
 to be put into the Ordinary Gazette the Gazette wd. not be ready /or the 
 Mail Coach. This the Printer availed Himself of, & assigned it as a 
 reason in a communication to Ministers, who then in that Dilemma 
 ordered the Guns to be fired at 5 oClock in the afternoon, though they had 
 reed, the information at 7 oClock in the morning. An Extraordinary 
 Gazette was also then ordered. — The above fully shews how much Lord 
 Howick &c. partake of the envy & Malignity which Lord St. Vincent is 
 known to bear to Sir Home Popham. The desire of Lord Howick to 
 have Lord St. Vincent again at the Admiralty was mentioned. Mr. 
 Grenfell in this concurred with us by saying " God forbid."* 
 
 * In the expedition against the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, Admiral Sir Home Riggs 
 Popham (1762- 1 820) co-operated with the land force under Sir David Baird, and the 
 Colony surrendered on January 10. He then sailed for Buenos Ayres to liberate the 
 inhabitants of that place and Monte Video, who, he was told, were " groaning under 
 the tyranny of their Government." Accordingly he, accompanied by a small English 
 force, left Table Bay, and in the middle of June arrived in the Rio de la Plata. The Spanish 
 troops offered little resistance, and, the Governor of Buenos Ayres having fled, the town 
 surrendered on July 2, but was retaken a few days later, and some thirteen hundred British 
 troops were made prisoners. Popham was helpless, apart from blockading the river, until 
 October, when reinforcements arrived and enabled him to occupy the harbour 
 of Maldonado, 
 
 On January 5, 1807, Popham was superseded, and on his return to England he was 
 arrested, tried by Court-martial, and " severely reprimanded." His action, however, 
 was popular in the city, and business men holding that it was a brave attempt to secure 
 new markets, presented him with a sword of honour. Popham was afterwards promoted 
 to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and was made a K.C.B. in 1815. Besides being a fine seaman, 
 he was also a student of the scientific phases of his profession. 
 
CHAPTER VIII 
 
 1806 
 
 A Cornish Baronet 
 
 October 5. — Sir Francis & Mr. Grenfell spoke of Trelawny* a Cornish 
 Baronet of an Old family. He was at School with Sir Francis. — He 
 was born in 1756. At 20 years of age He was a decided Methodist & 
 was accustomed to preach publickly. — Mr. Grenfell while a school 
 boy, in 1776, Has heard Him preach in that character. He was after- 
 wards ordained — Deacon & Priest of the Protestant Church, but is now 
 a Bigotted Roman Catholick. — I asked whether there appeared to be abt. 
 Him anything of insanity or flightiness, to which they said No. — Sir 
 Francis said He was a very handsome Boy & indicated nothing of what 
 has since appeared in Him. At Truro, I think, Mr. Grenfell sd. He heard 
 Him. 
 
 Built of his own Timber 
 
 Mr. Palmer spoke of the Duke of Manchester having been employed 
 during the last summer in superintending the building [of] a vessel of 
 50 tons in Kimbolton Park, of Timber growing on His own estate. — 
 After the whole has been put together it is then to be taken to pieces, 
 & conveyed by land & water carriage to Bermondsey. — Upon the Plan 
 upon which it is built He expects that it will be a prime sailor, but shd., 
 it not answer. He proposes to sell it to be used as a Cod Smack. — His 
 passion for sailing induced Him to this attempt. Thus is life passed, 
 some employ is necessary. — 
 
 Mr. Palmer told me that the Marquiss of Tavistock informed Him 
 that the Duke of Bedford's anxiety abt. Mr. Fox was relieved after 
 He had undergone the first operation by some of the Medical Men 
 assuring His grace by letter that they entertained strong hopes of his 
 doing well. — Mr. Palmer mentioned the great strength of Coll. Vicars 
 of the Horse Guards. He said the Coll. bore Him upon His Arm held 
 out & moved His arm round with Him. He sd. the Coll. was a very 
 
 * The Rev. Sir Harry Trelawny, bart., who married Anne, daughter of the Rev. 
 James Browne, rector of Portishead and vicar of Kingston, Somerset. 
 
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1806] A Dinner Party 29 
 
 good natured man, had prevented many quarrels & never Himself got 
 into any. — 
 
 October 6. — It was said that today we are to have a large party 
 to dinner at Sir John Turners. — Lord Thomond said that Dr. Lawrence,* 
 ■ — Grenfell, & Sir John, wd. have all the talk to themselves so that His 
 Lordship, — Lord Boston, — Mr. Palmer & I might be silent. Lady 
 Thomond wd. not agree to it saying that with His natural good spirits 
 if His Lordship shd. be silent she shd. feel that He must be ill. — I 
 sd. that in so large a company I shd. be desirous to say little, as I never 
 liked to Hear the sound of my own voice but in small parties of those 
 with whom I was well acquainted. — 
 
 It was sd. that we are to have a -pike of 13 pounds weight. I sd. 
 Dr. Lawrence having the reputation of being a large eater wd. make 
 a figure at it. — They sd. His appetite is prodigious. Sir Wm. Scott's 
 wife says that if the Doctor dines where there are sweet things none wd. 
 be left for the next day. — The Doctor has always been a great Foxite, 
 and says Mr. Pitt was more obliged to Windham, than He to Pitt. — 
 
 After breakfast Lord Thomond shewed me His farming conveniences. 
 — He does all His farming business before breakfast. His Steward then 
 attending with a report of the proceedings, & on a paper marked how 
 the different farming men, & Artificers, are to be employed that day ; 
 so that His Lordship knows where to find them. — I spoke of the health- 
 ful occupation and the advantage of having a motive for being in the 
 open air. — He said, at His time of life He cd. not go on witht. it. 
 
 We dined at Sir John Turners at \ past 5 oClock. — We had two 
 Courses and a desert. The dishes were silver, — we dined off China. ^ 
 Four large Silver Vessels held wine at 4 corners of the table. — Burgundy 
 & Liquers were served round. — Claret, Madeira, Port & Sherry were 
 circulated. — Lord Bostonf spoke to me of having met me before. — 
 Dr. Lawrence, also, of having met me at Lord Thomond's & Sir Joshua 
 Reynold's. — 
 
 Savages and Methodists 
 
 Mr. Grenfell yesterday said Methodists abound in Cornwall and 
 well it is so. He sd. as the people wd. otherways be Savages, — many are 
 situated far from a Church, & wd. have no religion hut for the Methodist 
 Preachers who on a Sunday evening draw them together, & engage 
 them for that time which they wd. spend at the Ale-house. 
 
 October 9. — Brand,t the Secretary of the Antiquary Society died 
 of an Appoplexy. He was 63 years old. He has left His property to an 
 Aunt aged 86 and Superannuated, & under the management of a Servant. 
 His living was abt. j^300 a year. The Duke of Northumberland, & 
 
 * See Vols. I. and III. 
 
 t See Vol. TIL, page 104. 
 
 J The Rev. John Brand. See Vol. III. 
 
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 St. Mary Hill parishioners, appoint a Minister alternately. — His Salary, 
 as Secretary, was abt. ^90. a year, and an apartment, Coals, and Candles. 
 — His Books, & Prints are supposed to be worth between two & three 
 thousand pounds. — His Collection of Prints of Portraits is judged to 
 be worth a thousand pounds. — He was much mortified at Lawrence 
 not having finished the picture of Mrs. Lysons & Mrs. Price which was 
 begun in May 1801. — 
 
 Lawrence set off on Sunday last with Mr. Angerstein for Sir Francis 
 Barings in Hampshire to paint three portraits. — 
 
 General Miranda 
 
 October 10. — Harker, a respectable man, came to cut my Hair. 
 
 He told me that general Miranda* has at this time a House in Grafton 
 St. Fitzroy Square, where a Lady who lived with him while He was in 
 England, & Her Child, now reside. — Harker dressed the Generals Hair 
 more than two years, and said He is a stout man, about 5 feet 1 1 Inches 
 high, and is towards 60 years of age. — He speaks English so as to be 
 perfectly understood. He frequently attended at Mr. Pitt's Office, 
 and was for a considerable time doing business there, though it was so 
 managed as not to be made pubHc, — He bore an inveterate hatred 
 against Buonaparte & frequently sd. He had neither honor or principle. 
 — It is undoubted that Miranda is supported by this country in his 
 attempt against South America, though it has been done secretly. He 
 is a Spanish subject & for sometime served in the French Army. 
 
 * Francesco Miranda (1750-1816), a Spanish-American General, served under Du- 
 mouriez in Flanders, but; accused by the Jacobins of treason, was ultimately banished from 
 France. In 1806 he went to Guatemala, where he had previously taken part in a revo- 
 lutionary movement, but was arrested in 18 12 and died in a dungeon at Cadiz four years 
 afterwards. 
 
CHAPTER IX 
 
 1806 
 
 Fox's Funeral 
 
 October 10. — Mr. Fox's funeral took place to-day. — I walked to 
 Pallmall & saw that street lined with people, & the street gravelled ; but 
 I did not [wait] to see the procession. 
 
 Novels Not to be Seen 
 
 October 13. — Robert Smirke drank tea with me. — Lady Oxford* 
 shews the greatest attention to the education of Her children. She 
 is constantly with them from ten oClock in the morning till one, during 
 which time they receive instructions. Lady Jane, a child of 10 years 
 old has made such advance in learning various things as to be remarkable. 
 — Lady Oxford never allows a book of any kind except such as she may 
 have read and approved, to lay in a room to which the Children have 
 access. Novels & such like are not permitted to be seen. — Lady Oxford 
 blames Her Brother for having introduced Arthur O'Connorf to them, 
 of whose real character they had no Idea. 
 
 Lord Oxford has ^13000 a year, but at present pays ^^4000 a yr. 
 out of it. His mother posesses an estate of ;^50oo a yr. adjoining His 
 property. This will come to His Lordship at Her death. — 
 
 There is insanity in the family of Mr. [Uvedale] Price. His eldest 
 daugr. 22 or 3 years old, has been confined, but now visits with them. 
 She is deformed & has many singularities. — Price is answering [Payne] 
 Knight's book. — A decided coolness has subsisted between them. Lady 
 Oxford was apprehensive of Knight remaining with them till Price & 
 His family came, which she shd. have felt herself obliged to prevent 
 by informing Knight of it had He continued with them till near the 
 period. — Lady O : sd. Knight is not liked in the country. 
 
 Inflamed with Tears 
 October 15. — [Dr.] Hayes called. — He was at Mr. Fox's funeral, 
 walking as a Member of the Whig Club. — He sd. that at the grave He 
 
 * See VoL II., page 36. 
 
 t Irish rebel, with whom Lady Oxford went about In Paris in the autumn of i8o2< 
 See Index, Vol. II. 
 
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 observed several who were greatly affected ; particularly, Lords Holland, 
 Fitzwilliam, & Howick, — also Mr. Whitbread, all of whom had their 
 faces inflamed with tears. — The Duke of Norfolk also appeared to be 
 much impressed, — also Lord Grenville & Lord Carlisle. — Sheridan also, 
 — Hayes thinks Him [Sheridan] greatly altered & Has no doubt from 
 His appearance that His Liver is much inflamed, — & thinks it will ere 
 long terminate in a Dropsy. — 
 
 Russell* died at Hull, aged 6i. — His habit of life had for sometime 
 been very singular, — Finding that if He eat a dinner at the usual time 
 it made Him very heavy & incapable of application during the remainder 
 of the evening, He was accustomed to eat His substantial meal in the 
 morning at breakfast time. — His professional application was very 
 great, & to that & to His study of the appearance of the moon. He often 
 devoted the Hours of the night till 2 or 3 oClock in the morning. 
 
 Architects' Fees 
 
 October 16. — Jeffery Wyatt called to mention his being upon the 
 list of Candidates to be an Associate. — On the back of his Direction Card 
 He had put a list of Houses built for various persons to shew that He 
 was a Regular Architect. — He talked a good deal abt. His Uncle James 
 Wyatt, now President of the Royal Academy. — He sd. He had now been 
 out of town 4 months witht. once having come to London. He has 
 moved from Mr. Codringtonsf to Mr. Beckfordsl & from thence to 
 Lord Pembrokes & the Marquiss of Hertfords, backwards & forwards, 
 neglecting all his business in other places. For the distance He travels 
 He charges Half a Crown a mile, but does not charge for time while 
 travelling ; but when stationary at any House He charges five guineas 
 a day. — I, said Jeffery charges two shillings a mile jor travelling, and 
 three guineas a day while stationary. — He said His Uncle is a very 
 singular man. He will often employ Himself upon trifling professional 
 matters which others could do, while business of importance is waiting 
 for Him. — When a Commission to build a house or to do other professional 
 business is proposed to Him by a Nobleman or Gentleman by whom He 
 has never before been employed, He will eagerly attend to it till He has 
 got all the instructions necessary for the commencement of the work, but 
 then He becomes indifferent to it & has lost many great commissions 
 by such neglect they having after long delay been put into the hands 
 of others. — ^At times He will when at the House of an employer work very 
 hard in making designs & will frequently leave the Company & bottle 
 after dinner to go to His Clerk. — Such is the irregularity of his habits. — 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t Christopher Codrington obtained the vast estates of his uncle, Sir William Codrlngton, 
 second baronet, who disinherited his own son. The baronetcy, created in 1721, was in 
 dispute for some years, but in 1876 a fresh baronetcy was conferred on Sir Gerald William 
 Henry Codrlngton, of Dodington Park, Gloucestershire. 
 
 X William Beckford. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
1806] Beckford's Singularity 33 
 
 jeflfery sd. that abt. 4 months ago He (Jeffery) was at Fon thill & 
 saw the Abbey which is so strictly forbidden to be shewn that His Uncle, 
 who was then there, could not undertake to shew it to Him. He there- 
 fore threw Himself in the way of Mr. Beckford who asked Him to go 
 to the Abbey where He dined & staid the night. The Miss Beckfords 
 did not then reside at the Abbey or at the Old House at Fonthill, but 
 at a House in a neighbouring village. Such is Beckfords singularity. — 
 Not long since Sir Richard Hoare of Stourhead* apphed to Mr. Beckford 
 to see the Abbey which Mr. B. granted and attended Sir Richard when 
 He came for that purpose. These civilities which passed between them 
 were reported to the neighbouring gentlemen who took such umbrage 
 at it, as conceiving that Sir Richard was giving countenance to Mr. 
 Beckford that a gentleman wrote to Sir Richard in His own name & 
 in that of others to demand of Him an explanation of that proceeding 
 as they meant to regulate themselves towards Him accordingly. Sir 
 Richard applied to His friend the Marquiss of Bath upon it, & represented 
 that He had no further desire but to see the Abbey & the meeting with 
 Mr. Beckford was accidental & to Him unexpected. — Such is the 
 determination of the Wiltshire gentlemen with respect to excluding 
 Mr. B. from all gentlemanly intercourse. 
 
 Sir Richard had No Taste 
 
 Jeffery said that He concluded Mr. Beckford had heard something 
 of what had passed, as at breakfast He said before Jeffery " He wondered 
 
 how He could be such a d d fool as to allow Sir Richard to see the 
 
 Abbey." — With respect to the stain upon Mr. B's character He seems 
 to act like an innocent man & does not avoid a subject of that nature. 
 — Mr. Beckford sd. that Sir Richd. Hoare while looking over the 
 Abbey made some good observations but He afterwards sd. " Sir 
 Richard had no taste." — 
 
 James Wyatts sons have been very improvident. — The eldest had 
 He remained at Calcutta wd. have been appointed by Marquiss Wellesley, 
 Secretary to the Governor General, a place of ^10,000 a year. He com- 
 plained of ill-health, but it was sd. to be only a Home fever, — a desire 
 to go Home. — 
 
 A Painting by Barry 
 
 October 17. — Carlisle, the Surgeon,t called, & proposed to me to 
 go with Him to Dr. FryersJ House in Newman St. to see Barry's picture 
 of the " Birth of Pandora.'''' A picture which had been his chief Study 
 & Boast during 33 years at least. — I went & saw it & found it to be 
 such a production as I might have expected. Ingenuity in the Design, 
 
 * See Index, Vol. II. 
 
 t Sir Anthony Carlisle. See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 X Edward Fryer (1761-1826) studied in London, Edinburgh, and Leyden, graduating 
 M.D. at the Dutch University town on January 29, 1785. He came to London in 1790, 
 became Physician to the Duke of Sussex, and died in Upper Charlotte Street on January 9, 
 1826. Dr. Fryer attended Barry in his last illness, and wrote the artist's life. 
 
 VOL. IV. 1 
 
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 but nothing extraordinary & a great deal of Mythological circumstance 
 attended to, but in respect of power of execution & colouring very 
 defficient. — Poorly & ill-drawn, disproportioned figures, — and the colour- 
 ing as had as well could be. — On the whole I told Carlisle that I thought 
 it far short of anything extraordinary & very much indeed below those 
 great works of the Old Masters, which Barry had attempted to rival. — 
 I told Carlisle that in the hands of a man who had more power in the 
 practise of the art the design would appear to much greater advantage 
 & do Barry more credit, — that Lawrence for instance would be able 
 to make much of it. — He admitted this. — Carlisle told me that Barry 
 died of an infiammation of the Lungs, & named the species of the dis 
 order, saying it was such as people who are advanced in years & asthmati 
 cally inclined are subject to. Barry was in that state. He sd. had 
 Barry been bled at an early period of his disorder He might probably 
 have been saved. — He sd. He was surrounded by Roman Catholics.— 
 
 We then talked of the character & qualities of Barry & I found 
 from the information I reed, from Carlisle that I had not been mistaken 
 in the judgment I had formed of him. I had long been of opinion from 
 the knowledge I had of his disposition, that He had saved money, although 
 He allowed it to be reported that He was in a state of necessity, and 
 permitted a Subscription to be opened for his benefit at the Society of 
 Arts room in the Adelphi. — Carlisle now told me that being one of those 
 who have the management of his affairs He cd. inform me that Barry 
 at his death, posessed ;£i500 in the American Funds, — ;£5oo Bank Stock, 
 — and had ^£400 at Wright, the Bankers in Henrietta St. Covent Garden, 
 which had laid there 3 years. Yet in these circumstances & posessing 
 such a misanthropical contempt of the world & the utmost independence 
 of spirit, He anxiously encouraged the above Subscription, which was 
 made as for one Destitute. — His affectation of independence on mankind 
 was carried to a ridiculous length.— 
 
 A Paying Guest 
 
 When He has drank tea with Stubbs the painter. He wd. lay Six- 
 pence upon the tea-board, because He wd. be under no obligation to 
 Him but for his company. — He wd. do the same at Houses where He 
 occasionally dined. Carlisle said Barry wd. in the midst of his bluster- 
 ing of independence and disregard of mankind suddenly change His 
 manner of Behaviour if a Person of some weight & authority came 
 in & would then assume a courteous address. — He was very 
 unsteady in His resolutions, was easily impressed with an opinion, 
 & as readily was converted to its opposite by the person He next met. 
 — He read Latin pretty well ; and from some papers found in His 
 posession appeared to have been at the latter part of his life studying 
 the Greek language. — At the bottom He was of a timid disposition & 
 had no real reliance upon Himself. — He dreaded a rival in his desire 
 of acquiring fame ; & only began to profess to adulate Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds when that great Artist, from infirmities, ceased to practise. — 
 
CHAPTER X 
 
 1806 
 
 A Doctor's Charges 
 
 October 17. — Carlisle told me that in his practise as a Surgeon 
 when He goes out of town He charges at the rate of a guinea a mile ; 
 and that for every day He might be detained at any place He should 
 charge Ten guineas a day, or Seventy guineas a week ; which He observed 
 was not too much as more than that might be lost to Him eventually 
 owing to His being absent when persons might apply to Him & thereby 
 losing their custom. — 
 
 Language and Insurance 
 
 October 23. — J. Offley's I dined at. — Minet, who was born in Por- 
 tugal,* told me that the affinity of the Portuguese to the Spanish language 
 is such [that they] understand each other so far that the people of either 
 country could travel in the other by the use of their respective languages, 
 or Lingo as He called. The Portuguese, however, wd. better understand 
 the Spaniards than the latter wd. the former. It is by the ear they 
 understand each other, making out the signification of the words. When 
 written the languages are very different. — Minet told me that an Officer 
 ordered to go abroad and wanting money for His outfit &c. may insure 
 His life at any one of the Public Offices of Insurance. That at 31 years 
 of age He might insure His life on a policy for 7 years at the rate of 5 pr. 
 [cent.] per annum viz : £50 a yr. for ^^1000 insured. — The Policy thus 
 obtained the Officer may obtain money upon [it] by offering it at the Stock 
 Exchange or elsewhere, and wd. there probably obtain ^^500 upon it. 
 Not more because the person who might advance the ;^5oo wd. have to 
 pay annually the ^50 premium till the Officers death to secure Himself. 
 
 * Joseph Minet, wine merchant, was born in Lisbon, and baptised in St. Catherine's 
 Church, in that city. His family were Huguenots, and two of its members came to England 
 in 1686, Isaac (from whom comes Mr. WilHam Minet, of Fountain Court, barrister, and 
 author of the " Huguenot Family of Minet "), and Thomas, ancestor of Joseph. James, 
 Joseph's father, went to the Azores, married Maria Dupont, and apparently must have 
 reverted to the Roman Catholic faith, for his three children were all baptised Catholic. 
 Joseph came early to England, and married a Huguenot lady, named Brissault, and his 
 descendants live at Ealing to-day. 
 
 VOL. IV. 35 3* 
 
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 In fact the Policy wd. be a security for 3^500 in case of the Officers death, 
 who should He live to return home wd. be liable to be arrested for the 
 £500 & the premium advanced to continue the insurance. — 
 
 October 24. — Calcott called. He told me He was born at Kensing- 
 ton gravel pits in the House in which He now resides. — He sd. He has 
 found an advantage in residing a little way from London as He is not now 
 so liable to have His time invaded by Loungers who in London were 
 accustomed to call upon Him to look over His Portfolios. — 
 
 Defeat of the Prussians 
 
 October 27. — J. OfHey called and informed me that an acct. had been 
 reed, from Lord Morpeth that the Center of the Prussian Army had been 
 defeated by Buonaparte on the 14th of October ; — that the Duke of Bruns- 
 wick was wounded & carried to Magdeburgh, — & the King of Prussia had 
 two Horses shot under Him. — 
 
 Boaden* I met while walking before dinner. We talked of the defeat 
 of the Prussians. "What else, sd. He, cd. be expected." — The weaker 
 are overpowered by the stronger. Were an Epic Poem to be written and 
 Milton were on one side of you & Tom D'urfey on the other which wd. 
 you expect most from ? — He called Buonaparte an extraordinary man, — 
 that in using his power all proceeded from one head, His own. — That 
 all His operations agreed to a point. — 
 
 October 28. — Calcott dined yesterday with Willis [F.S.A.] at Ken- 
 sington. — He has one Son & three daugrs. the eldest daugr. towards 30 
 years of age, — the second abt. 23 or 4 highly (Classically) educated. — 
 The Son is a Clergyman. — Calcott supposes Willis to have places to the 
 amount of near ;^2000 a yr. — He seems a good deal altered in spirits & 
 appearance since He lost a daugr. of 15 yrs. of age abt. 10 months ago. — 
 When He has company He passes the Bottle chearfully & will take Him- 
 self towards a Bottle. He mentioned to Calcott His long acquaintance 
 with me. — It began in 1769 at Old Slaughters Coffee Youse, St. Martins 
 Lane. — Mrs. Willis sd. Willis is not 60 years old, but He must be in His 
 6oth year at least. — He is Coll. of the Kensington Corps of Volunteers 
 & is much respected. — 
 
 Sir Wm. Paxton now Member for Carmarthenshire made a fortune 
 in the East Indies. He is Brother to Mr. Paxton, Wine Mercht. of 
 Buckingham St. York Buildings & of the late Mr. Paxton, Portrait 
 Painter, who died in India. "]" — He is a partner with Cockerill &c. at a 
 Banking House in Pallmall. — 
 
 October 30. — To-day a confirmation of the defeat of the Prussians, 
 by the French, at the battle of Averstadt, on the 14th of October, was 
 reed, from Hamburgh. 
 
 * James Boaden, Editor of the Oracle. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 t John Paxton, who went to India about 1776 and died at Bombay in 1780. 
 
1806] Defeat of the Prussians 37 
 
 [The Hamburgh paper of the 21st inst. brought the Prussian account 
 of the disastrous battle fought near Aversdat on the 14th. of October, 
 on the High road between Navenbergh & Erfurt, — the attack was made 
 at 3 in the Morning by the French. The Conflict lasted till 5 in the 
 afternoon, when according to the information reed. Marshal Ney's divi- 
 sion of 10,000 men, coming up fresh, gave a decisive turn to the affair. 
 It was the Center of both Armies which were particularly engaged, 
 Buonaparte directed the whole of the French operations. The killed 
 and wounded on both sides are generally estimated at 40,000 men. The 
 strength of the Combined Armies united is computed at 200,000 men. — 
 On the receipt of the above account at Berlin a number of the following 
 Bulletins were circulated : " The King has lost a Battle. — The first duty 
 oj a Citizen is to he tranquil. This is what 7, the Governor, demand, of all 
 the inhabitants of Berlin. The King and His Brother are living.''^ Pre- 
 vious to the above battle the battle of Schleitz, with which the Canipaign 
 opened, was fought, on the loth of October, in which Prince Louis 
 Ferdinand, of Prussia, Cousin to the King, was killed. He was abt. 
 35 years of age. — On the nth of October an action also took place 
 at Saalfield. The troops in both these actions, on the Prussian side were 
 under the general orders of Prince Hohenhoe. — From small note-book.] 
 
 October 31 . — Daniell mentioned the unhappy death of Sutton 
 Sharpe who abt. three weeks ago was found drowned at the bottom of 
 one of His Vats in His Brewery. — He had been sometime in a state of 
 low spirits. 
 
 A Prototype of Colonel Lawrence 
 
 November 1. — Henry Salt,* formerly my Pupil, called. — He landed 
 on Sunday last at Portsmouth from the Neptune Man of War, in which 
 He came with Lord Valentia a passenger from Gibraltar. He had ac- 
 companied His Lordship in a very extensive tour in India. They left 
 England in 1802 in the month of June. Salt was Six months in Abys- 
 sinia, and met with several persons in that country who remembered 
 the Traveller Bruce. He sd. much of what [James] Bruce published was 
 authentic, but He also added a good deal of the fabulous. — He described 
 
 * Henry Salt (1780-1827), youngest son of a doctor, was born in Lichfield. Intending 
 to be a portrait painter, he studied drawing under Glover, the water-colour painter, and, 
 coming to London in 1797, he became a pupil of Farington, and, in 1800, entered the 
 studio of John Hoppner. Drawings made by him illustrate " Voyages and Travels to 
 India," 1809, by Lord Valentia, in the same year. " Twenty-four Views in St. Helena and 
 Egypt " were published by Salt himself, and in 18 14 he published " A Voyage to Abyssinia," 
 for which he received ;^8oo, with a share in the profits. In the following year he was 
 appointed Consul-General in Egypt. During his period of office there he took a great 
 interest in excavation, and formed for himself three large collections. The first was 
 bought for the British Museum for ^2,000 (Salt said it cost him ^^3,000) ; the second 
 went to the French Government for ^^10,000, and the third was sold after his death at 
 Sotheby's, and realized ,^7,168 i8s. 6d. Salt, who was a man of strong physique and 
 restless temperament, died from a disease of the spleen in October, 1827, and was buried 
 in Alexandria. 
 
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 Abyssinia to be in a true Feudal state but very barbarous. — Perpetual 
 Hostility is kept up by what in Scotland wd. be called Clans who are 
 constantly at War with each other. Axum, was the principal town which 
 Salt visited, & there He found some antiquities which it is expected will 
 throw some light upon a controverted point in History. — He travelled 
 in Abyssinia in an Arab-dress, but as an Englishman, and was well treated 
 but suffered great privations & underwent many difficulties owing to 
 the wretched & unprovided state of the country. The Christian religion 
 is established in Abyssinia, it is a species of the Greek Church inclining 
 to the Koptic. He mentioned a single stone erected at Axum, which is 
 80 feet high. Bruce gave a very imperfect drawing of it. — 
 
 Unarmed and Fearless 
 
 Lord Wellesley provided every accomodation to enable Lord Valentia 
 to accomplish the object of His voyage to the Red Sea after He left Cal- 
 cutta by which means His Lordship had a very correct Survey made of a 
 part of the Coast with which our Mariners were not before acquainted 
 in consequence of which many vessels had been lost. It was now found 
 that there are several excellent Harbours on that Coast where Ships in 
 bad weather may find safety. — An apprehension of danger jrom the natives 
 had prevented any attempts from before being made, but Lord Valentia's 
 party landed & presented themselves to the Natives unarmed and as 
 having perfect confidence in them which had the desired effect, & soon 
 created an equal degree of confidence on the part of the natives who wd. 
 visit the Ship unarmed & fearless. 
 
 Salt spoke of the many circumstances which had taken place during 
 His absence. He had not heard from any of His friends in the last 
 years. He saw in an English newspaper, an acct. of the death of His 
 Brother Dr. Salt. — On coming to London He met a person in the street 
 who told him His Father had again married. He also had learnt that 
 His Sister, widow of Dr. Hall, was married to Coll. De Visme & has two 
 children, — & that they make up ^looo a year between them. — He sd. 
 that He found in London that in four years & a Half Lads whom He 
 knew had become men, & young girls Women. — 
 
 He Kept a Diary 
 
 He sd. He had kept a regular Journal & Had the good fortune to 
 preserve every drawing and all that He had written. — Lord Valentia 
 had also been very industrious in writing a Journal, & was now consulting 
 proper persons as to the best mode of preparing for publication an acct. 
 of the Tour. — His Lordship did not go to visit Abyssinia. Salt sd. His 
 Lordship had too great a stake in life & was of too much importance to 
 have His life risqued by it, but for Himself it was comparatively of no 
 consequence. — He sd. He was to go this night in the Mail to Lichfield 
 to see His Father. — He was 26 years of age in June last. — 
 
CHAPTER XI 
 
 1806 
 
 Ships in Commission 
 
 November 1 . — [The Naval returns, up to this day, state the number 
 of Ships, In Commission to be — 
 
 Of the Line, 130, 
 
 Fifties 12. 
 
 Frigates 163. 
 
 Sloops &c 181. 
 
 Gun Brigs & under 261. 
 
 T ^ ,. 747- 
 
 In Ordinary. — 
 
 Of the Line 52. 
 
 Fifties 13. 
 
 Frigates 60. 
 
 Sloops &c 46. 
 
 Gun Brigs & under 5. 
 
 923. 
 
 Building : 
 
 Of the Line 38. 
 
 Frigates 31. 
 
 Sloops &c 51. 
 
 Gun brigs & under 8. 
 
 Total : 1 05 1. 
 
 From Small Note-book.] 
 
 Lawrence and West 
 
 November 3. — Lawrence called having returned from Sir Francis 
 Barings, Stratton Park, in Hampshire this morning, — where He had 
 been from the 5th. of October. — He painted portraits of Sir Francis, — 
 
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 His Brother, — and His Son in Law & Partner, in one picture, each figure 
 a half length. — Before He came away Sir Francis desired to know what 
 He was indebted to Him. — Lawrence mentioned 260 guineas, but Sir 
 Francis sd. it shd. be 300 gs. — which I think was the least He ought 
 to have as His price in London is 80 guineas a half length, — so that He 
 was but moderately paid for loss of time & inconvenience. — His portraits 
 (the Heads being finished) have given great satisfaction, & the more so 
 from being compared with those painted by West. — Sir Francis asked 
 Lawrence whether West ever took the opinion of any Artist upon His 
 works ? adding that while West was painting for Him, He made a few 
 observations but West paid no regard to them. 
 
 Lawrence and Henry Hope 
 
 Henry Hope* of Cavendish Square came on a visit and once before 
 Lawrence spoke of the Royal Academy with more freedom than was 
 becoming as a Member was present, but Lawrence very properly cut 
 Him short. — Hope sd. it wd. be adviseable to have for a President a 
 person not professional, but a man of distinction, Sir George Beaumont 
 He then named. — 
 
 November 5. — Thomson [R.A.] called. He spoke of electing a 
 President in the room of Wyatt, & sd. He wd. never vote for Him. — 
 I sd. the Academy now saw what they had done in causing Mr. West to 
 resign the Chair. — He asked whether He might not again be elected ? 
 I replied that all I knew was, that Mr. West had expressed to me the 
 comfort He had felt from having quitted that situation. He asked 
 " Why might not the members have each two Balls to enable them 
 each to have a power of nominating two persons." In which case a 
 Member might vote for Himself and for another. — I sd. I saw no good 
 in that : but I saw that shd. any Painter except West be elected it wd. 
 cause much Heart burning in others. — 
 
 Lysons & Lawrence dined with me. — Lawrence told me that it was 
 manifest to Him that Shee & Hoppner do not hold intercourse together.! — 
 
 • Henry Hope, wealthy merchant and art collector. 
 
 t Mr. W. Roberts writes: In the Farington Diary, November 5, 1806, the Diarist 
 says : *' Lawrence told me that it was manifest to Him that Shee and Hoppner do not hold 
 intercourse together." Of course, the troubles at the Royal Academy over the President- 
 ship may have caused at least a temporary coolness among some of the members. I doubt, 
 nevertheless, if Lawrence was justified in his observation. I have a copy of Hoppner' s 
 " Oriental Tales, translated into English Verse," 1805, on the fly-leaf of which is written 
 the following inscription to Shee : " June 7, 1805. My dear Shee, — I request your accep- 
 tance of this little volume in testimony of our mutual friendship, and as a humble tribute 
 to your virtues and talents, which none can regard with greater admiration, nor cherish 
 with more affectionate zeal than yours ever faithfully, J. Hoppner." 
 
 In the George Daniel Library there was a copy of Shee's " Rhymes on Art," 1805, 
 on the fly-leaf of which was written : " My dear Hoppner, — In return for your elegant 
 volume let me request you will accept this little work as a testimony of ardent esteem and 
 friendship. While the two books remain they will prove that in a time of much pro- 
 fessional jealousy there were two ■painters at least who could be emulous without being 
 
1806] 
 
 Business is Business 41 
 
 November 6.— Mr. Packe & Revd. Mr. Whalley called.— They spoke 
 highly of Mr. Fawkes the new Member for Yorkshire,*— saying that 
 He is a man of great abiHties & information ; — a Scholar, acquainted with 
 Arts & Sciences & likely to make an excellent member. — He was sup- 
 ported [by] the Duke of Norfolk & Lord Fitzwilham.— 
 
 Belvoir Castle stands in Leicestershire, the Stables in Lincolnshire. 
 The Duke [of Rutland] has caused His Brother to offer for Leicestershire. 
 The Duke has a large estate in that County. Altogether His property 
 is reckoned to be ^40,000 a year & He is disposed to take care of it. — 
 He lays out money in building, but does not game, or squander His 
 money idly. — A subscription was made in the County for the Volunteers. 
 The Duke subscribed ^500, but He took for His Corps poo from the 
 general funds of ^8000 & thereby saved His own pocket. It is remarkable 
 that in that family it has been usual to portion the younger Brothers 
 by giving to each an annuity only & that ^500 a year, — the rest to be done 
 by the family interest. The Duke gave the Receivership of the County 
 of Leicester to Mr. Mansfield a Banker in Leicester, it is worth £3000 
 a year, but He conditioned that His Brother shd. be paid from it ,^1500 
 a year, viz : one half. — 
 
 Sir G. & Lady Beaumont called having come to town yesterday. 
 We talked a little abt. poHtics. He sd. He cd. scarcely bear to read the 
 accts. from Germany. — They were going to Wilkie^s to see the picture 
 painted by Him for Sir George " The BHnd Fidler."— Sir George had 
 been a month at Lord Mulgrave's in Yorkshire where Wilkie & Jackson 
 also were. Sir George said Wilkie painted well anything that He saw 
 & understood to represent, " Cattle, more justly than Berghem, less of 
 the Manufactory." — 
 
 The Blind Fiddler 
 
 November 7. — Being engaged to dine with Sir G. Beaumont He 
 called upon me before dinner & we walked to Wilkie's in Soho row, 
 No. ID, but did not find Him at home. — We saw His picture of the 
 " Blind Fidler " which He painted for Sir George. I was surprised at 
 the merit of it viz : truth of expression, judicious arrangement, and 
 agreeable tone of colouring. I had only two remarks to make viz : 
 
 envious ; who could contend without enmity, and associate without suspicion. That 
 this cordiality may long subsist between us is the sincere desire of, dear Hoppner, yours 
 ever faithfully, Martin Archer Shee. Cavendish-square, December 7, 1805." 
 
 I think it will be conceded that Lawrence was in all probability entirely mistaken in 
 supposing that " Shee and Hoppner do not hold intercourse together.'' 
 
 [Mr. Roberts will find in Vol. III., page 211, a reference to the Shee-Hoppner quarrel, 
 and in the present volume, under February i, 1807, it is stated that Shee " has no longer 
 intercourse with Hoppner." The probable cause of the estrangement also is given. — Ed.] 
 
 * Charles James Packe, of Prestwold Hall, born 1726, High Sheriff Co. Leicester. He 
 died in 1816, and was succeeded by his eldest son. His second daughter (by his first wife) 
 was the mother of the first Lord Bateman. The Rev. T, Whalley, of Ecton, near Northamp- 
 ton ; Mr. W. R. Fawkes, of Farnley Hall, Turner's great friend and patron. See Index' 
 Vol. II. 
 
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 that the colour of the ground was rather too grey^ and that there was in 
 some of the Hands a Httle of a manner' i touch. — Sir George told me 
 that when He gave Wilkie the Commission He proposed 25 guineas to 
 Wilkie, but when He met Wilkie, at Lord Mulgrave's in Yorkshire, 
 being informed that the picture was finished and hearing from Lord 
 Mulgrave how much it had been commended [by Holt] in " BeWs Weekly 
 Messenger " He gave Wilkie 50 guineas for it. — On our way from Wilkie's 
 I told Sir George that I hoped Wilkie wd. be careful how He reed. Com- 
 missions, — that His -pictures are gold, and He should reap all the ad- 
 vantages He is entitled to. — 
 
 Sir George sd. that Jackson says Wilkie is very oeconomical, from which 
 Sir George apprehends the greatest danger is that He may become fond 
 of money. — The hope that He may continue to practise as He does at 
 present with care & attention, studying nature. Had West done so 
 from the time He painted the Pylades y Orestes He wd. have produced 
 extraordinary works & not have fallen into that Polygraphic like 
 manufacturing mode of painting which He has adopted. — 
 
 Burns and Wordsworth 
 
 At dinner Sir George spoke of Mr. Pitt & His shyness. When in 
 company He seldom proposed a subject for conversation. After tea 
 Lady Beaumont read some poetical compositions of Burn's — & Words- 
 worth. — The latter is now with His family in Sir George's farm House 
 at Cole-orton. — Wordsworth's House at Grassmere is too small for his 
 family & too cold in the winter. He is employed on a poem — the progress 
 of His own Mind, viz : How He was affected by objects & circumstances 
 as He advanced in life. — This work He proposes to delay publishing till 
 He shall have made Himself more important & [of] course what respects 
 Him more interesting, by some production of a different kind. — 
 
CHAPTER XII 
 
 1806 
 
 Hoppner*s Jealousy 
 
 November 8. — Hoppner called on me, — on the state of the Academy. 
 He sd. it was impossible to go on with Wyatt [P.R.A.] if the Academy 
 shd. be left unsupported it must fall. He sd. difference of opinion in 
 the Academy on certain points had prevailed but He always had a great 
 respect for me. He sd. that He looked with a belief that it was my wish 
 to have Lawrence elected President, but that not thinking it at present 
 practicable I was willing to fix upon some one who wd. not interfere 
 with Lawrence. He said it seemed extraordinary that a man of my 
 Character shd. be so partial to one so different from me in His conduct 
 as Lawrence was. — I replied to Him that His notions were founded on 
 Jealousy ; that I had while I held intercourse with Him seen more of 
 Him than I did of Lawrence & never gave to the latter a preference. 
 Our conversation on this point concluded with His agreeing to vote for 
 West which I sd. wd. be the best thing possible to prevent Jealousy & 
 difficulties. — 
 
 Lawrence I called on. Kemble has informed Him that Stafford 
 cost Sheridan much money. Every Election drained His purse. Each 
 time not less than ,^8,000. — 
 
 Prussia had Fallen 
 
 November 9. — Went to St. James's Chapel, and while I was walking 
 before the time of going into the Chapel Edwards [A.R.A.] came up 
 being on His way to Hampstead. — He told me His pubhcation of the lives 
 of the Painters is in great forwardness. . . He noticed the state of affairs 
 in Europe owing to the overwhelming power of Buonaparte, & said it 
 must have an end 'ere long. — That Prussia had fallen a sacrifice to Her 
 want of a good principle & that if that Monarchy should be abohshed it 
 must be recollected that it was but a new one, — 
 
 Lysons called — At Ralph Price's* yesterday He met the Editor of 
 
 * Third son of Sir Charles Price, first Baronet, of Spring Grove, Richmond, Surrey. 
 
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 the Times.* Mr. Walter Junr, has the superintendance of that paper 
 and has a very honorable mind & refuses to admit into it many things 
 which other papers take. — [The editor] said that Monday next being 
 Lord Mayors Day He had in his posession 7 tickets. One of them was 
 given to them, the other Six He purchased for 35 guineas. The money 
 was paid from the Newspaper Fund, as the Tickets were to be presented 
 to persons who assist them in obtaining information for their paper. 
 Lysons understood that they are Foreigners ; 8c that paper is now allowed 
 to have the best foreign intelligence. 
 
 Dinner with Sir George 
 
 Sir G. Beaumont's I dined at. The Revd. Sydney Smithf was talked 
 of. — Sir George sd. that when Smith lectured at the British Institution 
 there was a levity & indifference in his manner that seemed but ill suited 
 to the office, — and He gave some instances of it. Davyl who lectures 
 there upon Chemistry, said that Smith is not reckoned to have much 
 reading, or extensive information, but Has talent, & is now well reed, 
 at Holland House, 8c may probably be a Bishop. 
 
 When we went to tea, Wilkie not having come into the room. His 
 picture of the Blind Fidler lately painted for Sir George was spoken of. 
 Dance said " It had all the discriminations of Hogarth, 8c was ten times 
 better painted." 
 
 Wilkie told me that He was born in the County of Fife in Scotland, 
 at a country place : that He was placed in Edinburgh for the purpose 
 of improving Himself in drawing & attended the Drawing Academy 
 established there for the purpose of improving Manufactures & en- 
 couraging the Fisheries, four years ; during which time Graham, the 
 
 * The term editor In 1806 was perhaps less definite than It Is nowadays, and there may 
 not have been a de facto editor of the Times In 1806. At that date young John Walter II. 
 had recently come Into the general directorship of the paper, and his chief adviser was 
 William Combe, author of " Dr. Syntax," who was living within the rules of the King's 
 Bench, but was often allowed out, and visited Printing House Square. Crabb Robinson 
 has an Interesting reference to Combe In his Diary. " There is," he says, " another person 
 belonging to this period (1809) who is a character worth writing about ; Indeed, I have 
 known few to be compared with him. It was on my first acquaintance with Walter [of 
 the Times] that I used to notice in his parlour a remarkably fine old gentleman. He did 
 not appear to work much with the pen, but was chiefly a consulting man. When Walter 
 was away he used to be more at the office, and to decide at the dernier ressort. His name 
 was William Combe." Crabb Robinson, the Diarist, also was on the staflF, and It may 
 be him who is described by Lysons as " Editor of the Times." Had it been Combe, Lysons 
 would doubtless not have forgotten his name, for the antiquary and Dr. Syntax were 
 familiar, whereas Crabb Robinson was a newcomer. 
 
 t See Index, Vol. III. 
 
 X Sir Humphry Davy (i 778-1 829) was a native of Penzance. Papers on nitrous oxide 
 secured for him the post of Assistant Lecturer on Chemistry to the Royal Institution, and 
 shortly thereafter he was raised to the chief lectureship. In 181 5 he Invented the miners' 
 s afety lamp that bears his name. 
 
1806] Dinner with Sir George 45 
 
 Painter, superintended the Students.* Wilkie came to London at the 
 end of May or beginning of June 1805. He had while He was in Scotland 
 painted the Village fair which I saw sometime ago. — He was not under 
 any Master while He was in Scotland. — He spoke of Saunders the Miniature 
 painter who He sd. was encouraged to come to London by Sir Walter 
 Farquhar [the physician]. He sd. Saunders had great ability, and 
 finding that miniature painting hurts His eyes proposes to practise in 
 large. — 
 
 Wilkie & Haydon spoke of a Boy of 14 years of age of the name of 
 Lennel, Son to a Carver & Gilder, who they said attends the Academy, 
 & has shewn them scenes of Courts & Alleys, — also a stump of a tree 
 all painted with extraordinary fideHty, — upon a small scale. f 
 
 Opie's Ingratitude 
 
 November 10. — Hoppner spoke of Opie's ingratitude to Him. While 
 He was striving to obtain the Professorship of Painting He was continually 
 at Hoppner's, but having obtained it He came no more. 
 
 The Middlesex Election commenced to-day when the show of hands 
 was in favor of Sir F. Burdet, & Mr. Melhsh, on which Mr. ByngJ 
 demanded a Poll. — S. Lysons was warm in his expressions against Burdet 
 saying He was a Jacobine Sc wd. be willing to ruin His country. — [Mellish 
 and Byng were elected.] 
 
 Sheridan Neglected 
 
 November 11. — He [Lawrence] expressed a great desire for Sheridan 
 to be returned for Westminster, & said He had been much neglected by 
 the Fox party, who had never forgiven Him for not seceding from the 
 House of Commons when they did ; or for what He did at the time of 
 
 * John Graham (1754-18 17) was a painter of considerable abihty, and while master of 
 the Trustees Academy, in Edinburgh, his native city, he had as pupils Sir David Wilkie, 
 Sir John Watson Gordon, and Sir William Allan. Graham lived and worked in Londor, 
 after having served his apprenticeship as a coach-painter, up to 1798. While in the south 
 he met many eminent artists. Gainsborough praised the Donkeys in his picture of the 
 " Disobedient Prophet," Mulready sat for the young Solomon in one of his Biblical subject! , 
 and two of Graham's historical paintings were engraved for Boydell's Shakespeare. 
 
 t John Linnell (1792-1882), landscape painter, whose pictures had a great vogue at one 
 time, was a staunch friend of William Blake until the latter's death, and Linnell's possessions 
 included Blake's plates and replicas of the drawings for the " Book of Job," the drawings 
 for " Paradise Regained," and those for the Dante series and the plates from them, zA 
 the result of commissions from Linnell. 
 
 In the Linnell sale in 1918 the 102 drawings for the " Divina Commedia "fetched 
 7,300 guineas. The twelve for " Paradise Regained " ^2,100, both lots were purchased 
 by Mr. Frank Rinder on behalf of the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery, Mel- 
 bourne. The 21 drav/ings for the " Book of Job " made 3,800 guineas. 
 
 Linnell's daughter married Samuel Palmer, the eminent water-colour painter, and their 
 son, Mr. A. H. Palmer, now seventy-two years of age, is engaged on a life of his grand- 
 father, and has at his service a vast number of wholly unpublished documents relating to 
 Linnell's career. 
 
 : See Index, Vol. II. 
 
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 the Navy Mutiny to support the Administration by His speeches in the 
 House of Commons. 
 
 Sir Francis Baring spoke of Lord Castlereagh and sd. He had done 
 business with Him & found Him a man with a very Clear Head, who at 
 once saw into the marrow of a subject. That He is a man of a cool & 
 equal temper & is not ruffled by speeches in the House of Commons 
 or by any attacks upon Him, & does not aim at more than plain speaking. 
 — Sir Francis has much anecdote & is very communicative & Lawrence 
 regretted that He had not at the time made minutes of many things which 
 He said. 
 
 Soane Cleaned the Shoes 
 
 November 12. — Dance shewed me a letter reed, by Him from Soane 
 dated Oct. 4th. expressing the greatest regard for Him. — The letter 
 was forwarded to Dance at Sir G. Beaumonts to whom He shewed it. 
 Dance did not reply to it, & sd. He should not after what He had experi- 
 enced from Soane ever again have any communication to Him. — After 
 tea He made Charles Dance write a Copy of it, which He gave me. — Sir N. 
 Dance sd. He well remembered Soane being a Servant in Dance's House 
 when a youth & had himself been with Him often in the Kitchen while 
 He was cleaning the Shoes &c.* 
 
 * George Dance and Sir John Soane were architects and Royal AcademicIanSc Sir 
 Nathaniel Dance, George's nephew, was a commander in the service of the East India 
 Company. See Vol. II., page 272 and note. 
 
 Mr. Arthur T. Bolton, Curator of the Sir John Soane Museum, writes : I trust that 
 you will allow me, in the interests of historical students, to correct the very false impression 
 taat to-day's extract from Farington's Diary may give, as to the real relations of Dance 
 and Soane. Tea-table gossip is notoriously unreliable, and artists are the first to laugh 
 in cooler moments over the things they say about each other under the stress of party 
 feelings. 
 
 The relations between Soane and Dance, although on opposite sides in R.A. poHtics, 
 remained intimate to the latter's death in 1825. I have read letters [of what date ?] 
 from Dance to Soane, expressing his thanks in the warmest possible terms. The last 
 acquisition of Sir John Soane was the Dance Cabinet. Sir N. Dance wrote to invite 
 Soane to purchase it, frankly for the benefit of his family, and the veteran architect in 
 his 83rd year travelled down to the country for that purpose. As to that version of the 
 entry of Soane into Dance's office I regard it as a legend. I know of no evidence to that 
 effect, but think that it was effected through James Peacock, Dance's senior assistant, who 
 remained an intimate old friend of Soane's. 
 
 [Mr. Bolton is, of course, entitled to his opinion as to what is legendary, but fact is an 
 obstinate opponent. Our correspondent says, for example, that Sir Nathaniel Dance — 
 does he mean Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland or his nephew ? — " wrote to invite Soane 
 to purchase it [The Dance cabinet] . . . and the veteran architect [Soane, we assume] 
 in his 83rd year travelled down to the country for that purpose." 
 
 Now Soane was not 83 until 1836, whereas both Sir Nathaniels were dead long before 
 that date. The one died in 181 1, the other in 1827, so that neither could have written 
 to Soane in 1836. 
 
 F. M. O'Donohue says in the Dictionary of National Biography that Soane " was 
 engaged as an errand boy by George Dance, the younger." It is surely to Soane's credit 
 that he rose from being an " errand boy and cleaner of boots " to be a Royal Academician 
 and a knight. — Ed.] 
 
CHAPTER XIII 
 
 1806 
 
 Artists and Critics 
 
 November 12 — Sir George Beaumont & Mr. [Uvedale] Price called 
 on Dance yesterday & requested Him to go with them to-day to call 
 on Robert Smirke to see His design for the front of Lord Lowther's in- 
 tended House at Lowther. This was in consequence of Price having told 
 Sir George that He had seen a drawing of Robert Smirke's, a design for 
 that House, which He did not approve, & Sir George being hastily affected 
 by what Price sd. considered Himself to be called upon, having united 
 with Dance in recommending Robt. Smirke to Lord Lowther, to prevent 
 a design made in a bad taste from being executed while it was possible 
 to do it. 
 
 They accordingly went, and on Robert Smirke shewing them the 
 drawing of the House, as it is intended to be executed, Price declared 
 it to be quite another thing & professed to approve it much. — Robt. 
 Smirke also showed them several drawings of Greek antiquities to which 
 He had put backgrounds in water colours. Dance sd. He was much 
 disgusted on observing Sir George took no notice of the buildings, the 
 objects which the drawings were made to represent, but employed all 
 His attention to the tinting of the Skies 8c backgrounds, those secondary 
 matters, which He criticised & recommended improvements of the effects 
 in a way, that shewed Dance how much He was filled with an opinion 
 of his own taste & judgment in such matters, a weakness which Dance 
 was sorry to see. 
 
 I told Dance that in this & such like ways Artists are seriously affected 
 by these Critics, who run abt. & in many respects do much harm to the 
 Professors. — Dance said He thought Price had no taste or true feeling 
 for works of art, that it was all assumed. — 
 
 John Linnell 
 
 November 14. — Sir George Beaumont called today. He came to 
 town with an intention of remaining a month, but finds He cannot 
 apply to anything & therefore proposes to go to His Mother at Dunmow. 
 — Yesterday He took Hearne to Wilkie's to see the " Blind Fidler," 
 
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 which Hearne commended in the highest degree. — But Sir George says 
 there is not everywhere a disposition to approve what Wilkie may do. — 
 Sir George thinks the health of Wilkie not strong. He had a stomach 
 complaint at Lord Mulgrave's. — He has advised Wilkie to walk every 
 day. — He spoke of Haydon as being a very promising young artist, — 
 and also of the Boy [Linnell], whose paintings of Alley's &c. now at 
 Wilkies are admirable, & the Skies blended with the other colours like 
 Canaletto. — 
 
 Lawrence and the Princess 
 
 November 15. — Lawrence called to enquire abt. Academy matters. 
 He is still apprehensive that a Maneouvre may be attempted to get 
 Hoppner into the Presidency. — He told me that Mr. Perceval, the late 
 Attorney General,* came to Him on Wednesday the 24th. of Septr. 
 with two Magistrates & He deposed on oath to the truth of the Declara- 
 tion He had made respecting His attendance upon & intercourse with the 
 Princess of Wales. — Mr. Perceval told Him that after having given a 
 deposition respecting His intercourse with the Princess Captn. Manby 
 had added a general declaration of His innocence of any improper conduct 
 with respect to Her Royal Highness & He wished Lawrence to do the 
 same. — Lawrence sd. that He thought that would be fully done by His 
 stating that once only He was left alone with the Princess and that nothing 
 took place but what all persons might properly have been witnesses to. — 
 The Conclusion of this business has been as follows, — When all the 
 examinations of persons had been gone through to oppose the evidence 
 against the Princess given before the Commissioners, Lord Eldon, Mr. 
 Perceval & I understood Mr. Plumert drew up an answer for the Princess 
 which was carried to the King by Lord Eldon, who to His great surprise 
 after what Had before passed between the King & Him on that subject 
 refused to receive it, and said He could not receive anything but what 
 came to Him through the hands of the Commissioners. — Such is the timid 
 state of His Majesty's mind, and so fearful is He of incurring difficulties ! — 
 
 West Anti -English 
 
 November 16. — [Smirke] mentioned that Hayes who has been much 
 with West had spoken to Him of the excessive indiscretion of West, 
 situated as He is with the King, in speaking in the manner He does of 
 the state of Europe & His partiality to Buonaparte. He talks in such 
 a way as cannot be agreeable to the feelings of Englishmen & He ought 
 to be advised to the contrary. Smirke told Hayes that I was the most 
 
 * Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), fourth son of the Earl of Egmont, was Attorney- 
 General under Addington (Lord Sidmouth) and in Pitt's last Ministry and Chancellor of 
 the Exchequer in the Portland Government. Premier in 1809, he carried the Regency 
 Bill in 181 1, and was shot the following year in the lobby of the House of Commons by 
 BeUingham, a Liverpool broker. 
 
 t Afterwards Sir Thomas Plumer, Master of the Rolls. See Vol. IIL, page 218. 
 
Queen Caroline as Princess of Wales 
 From the Paintins' in the Victoria and Albert Museum 
 
 [To face p. 48 
 
1806] West Anti-English 49 
 
 proper person to speak to Him.— I told Smirke that West certainly has 
 not an English mind, & is kept to this country only by the Income He 
 receives from the King, & by His Sons having married here, — in this He 
 fully agreed. — 
 
 [In the illustration of the PoHtics of Europe, in Bell's Weekly Messenger 
 this day it was predicted " That if Russia come into Contact with France, 
 — that is to say, unless Russia make an immediate peace, — Petersburgh 
 will, in all probability, be in the hands of the French, and one of the 
 House of Buonaparte become the Emperor of the North." — From small 
 note-book.] 
 
 November 18. — Called on Smirke & sat with Him near three Hours 
 during which time He was employed in toning two pictures with Asphal- 
 tuin mixed with Japanners Gold Size to make it dry & a little Wax to fix 
 it, and Prussian Blue. 
 
 C. OfHey's I dined at. — Forrester* who is a native of Perth said that 
 Paul the candidate for Westminsters Father is now a Taylor at Perth. — 
 Paul is now about 36 or 38 years old. His conduct, while He v, as a youth, 
 was irregular, and He left Perth to go to India, having but an indifferent 
 character at that time. About 6 years ago He returned from India & on 
 His going to Perth was but indifferently reed, by respectable people, 
 but He was generous to His Father on whom He also settled an Annuity, 
 and established His Brothers in business, and for such acts was respected 
 & acknowledged. — He returned to India after that period & the last time 
 came back supposed to be worth ^80,000. — 
 
 Sheridan Wins 
 
 Lawrence came to tea. — Sheridan [three days ago] carried His election 
 for Westminster with which they were much pleased. 
 
 [The Election for Westminster terminated — the 15th day. 
 
 For [Admiral] Sir Saml. Hood 5478 
 
 Mr. Sheridan 4758 
 
 Mr. Paul 4481 
 
 Majority for Mr. Sheridan 277. 
 — From small note-book.] 
 
 R.A.'s Perplexed 
 
 November 19. — [Thomson, R.A.], sd. He is fully sensible of the 
 dislike to Hoppner & that it has arisen from his own conduct, which has 
 been intemperate & offensive to most of the Members. Lawrence, on 
 the contrary, has not been complained of for calumniating the members 
 or anything directly ofFensive, but His cold, distant, reserved manner 
 has disgusted many. On the whole He should rather choose to vote 
 
 * Edward Forrester or Forster, partner in the Offley firm of wine merchants. See 
 Vol. III., page 10. 
 
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 for Hoppner however convinced of His feelings. — He admitted that as 
 the Academy is circumstanced it wd. be best to vote for West, though 
 He did not like Him. I asked Him what it wd. be best to do in case 
 West should decline the offer made to Him. He did not know. I gave 
 it as my opinion that it wd. be most prudent then to vote for Dance. 
 He sd. it had not occurred to Him but certainly as a man He shd. much 
 prefer Dance to West, and however little disposed He might be to vote 
 for an Architect as an example had already been set perhaps it might 
 be best circumstanced as the Academy is. — 
 
 He said that while He was at Sir John Leicester's, in Cheshire, the Duke 
 of Gloucester was there & talking of a new President for the Royal 
 Academy He sd. He had in His mind those members who were most 
 likely to be elected. Sir John knowing who He meant said He differed 
 from Him in opinion and a wager of five guineas was laid each to name 
 His men. — The Duke named Bourgeois, — Beechey, — & Loutherburgh. — 
 Sir John named Hoppner & Lawrence. — The Duke indeed sd, that 
 Bourgeois & Beechey had told Him that unless it was at the Kings 
 request they would not accept the Office. — Thomson laughed at their 
 self importance. 
 
 Hoppner Childish 
 
 He acknowledged fully that no dependence can be placed on Hoppner. 
 He may be led like a Child while you are with Him, but the next day 
 may be outrageously of an opposite opinion. — He said Hoppner had at 
 all times expressed great respect for me notwithstanding He had acted 
 towards me with so much hostility. — He said that he had been told 
 that Wyatt's party look for the reelection oj West ; Cosway has expressed 
 it, as being our intention. I sd. that must have arisen from the proba- 
 bility — the necessity for it, — and not from any real information of our 
 intention as it could not have been communicated to Him. 
 
CHAPTER XIV 
 
 1806 
 The Hardwickes 
 
 November 19. — Lysons came to tea. — He and His Brother were 
 last week at Lord Hardwicks in Cambridgeshire and were much pleased 
 with the family. The daugrs. 3 in number are from 17 to 20 years of 
 age, and are very easy & pleasant in their manners & not at all affected 
 by their late situation in Ireland while their Father kept a Court being 
 Lord Lieutenant. — Lord Royston, the eldest son is now at Petersburgh. 
 
 Lysons mentioned that it is now ascertained that the infant daughter 
 of Mr. & Mrs. Richd, Price is totally blind *^~ Mrs. Price attributes it to 
 her having often seen at Church, during her pregnancy, a woman who in 
 a remarkable manner perpetually rolled her eyes about. — Mrs. Price 
 in consequence made an observation before she was delivered " whether 
 she might be affected by it." — 
 
 The Duke as Visitor 
 
 After Lysons was gone we talked abt. the Academy & I communi- 
 cated to Him what had passed with West & that His answer had not 
 yet been given. — I told Him of the Duke of Gloucester having named 
 Bourgeois for President. — He said the Duke had been on a visit at 
 Lord Crewe's in Cheshire & had made them very weary of Him by His 
 fastidious pride and the trouble He gave. — At table the Bottle is never 
 passed by Him so that others wait till it has been returned /rom Him. 
 The Prince of Wales, & His Brothers knowing His disposition, oppose 
 it, & endeavour to get the better of his fastidious habits. — At Crewe 
 Hall, He did not relieve the family from the trouble of having Suppers, 
 but a Hot Supper like a dinner was each night to be provided. — Miss 
 Crewe and Her young female friends would sometimes retire from the 
 general apartment to another sitting room & there set down familiarly 
 to work. The Duke wd. come into the room & they according to 
 Etiquette wd. stand up, from which He would not reheve them, but after 
 saying a word or two to them, would continue for a quarter of an Hour 
 keeping them in that situation. 
 
 * Richard Price, of The Lawn, South Lambeth, was fourth son of Sir Charles Price, 
 and married on October 4, 1805, EUzabeth Nigel, daughter of Henry Heyman, Consul- 
 General for the Hans Towns. 
 
 The present baronet (the sixth) is Sir Charles Rugge-Price. 
 
 VOL. IV. 51 4* 
 
52 The Farington Diary [1806 
 
 Europe is Lost 
 
 [November 23. — In Bell's Weekly Messenger this day it is stated, 
 " That Europe is lost. — Russia can only be saved by an immediate 
 Peace, and England, as having no farther object in War, must from 
 every motive of prudence be a party in the same general peace." — From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 Falling Nations 
 
 November 27. — J. Offley's I dined at. Forrester brought us from 
 the City an acct. of two of the Hamburgh Mails now due, having arrived, 
 — That the Duke of Brunswick is dead of his wounds, — & that the City 
 of Lubeck had been taken by storm. — C. Offley's reflections were, that 
 the storm gathering around we must expect it [to] break upon us, and 
 that seeing the fall of other nations, the people of this country may 
 possibly become reconciled to whatever may happen to them. — 
 
 [The following passage in a Proclamation addressed to His Soldiers 
 was issued Oct. 26th. 1806 and signed Napoleon, from our Imperial 
 Camp at Potsdam : " My whole people have risen, indignant at the 
 unworthy capitulation which the Prussian Ministers, in their delirium, 
 proposed to us. Our roads & frontier towns are full of conscripts, who 
 burn to march in our footsteps. We will no longer [be] the sport of a 
 treacherous peace, and we will not lay down our Arms until we have 
 obliged the English, those eternal enemies of our nation, to renounce the 
 scheme of disturbing the Continent, and the tyranny of the Seas^ — From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 November 29. — C. & Mrs. C. OfHey called to invite me to dinner. — 
 He brought an acct. of Hamburgh being taken possession of by Genl. 
 Mortier for Napoleon. 
 
 A Crust in Her Hand 
 
 November 30. — J. Offley's I went to dinner. — Mrs. Thomson told 
 us of Dr. Walsby a prebend of Canterbury having had 18 or ^20,000 left 
 
 Him abt. a year & Half ago by an old woman of the name of B , 
 
 a remarkable character for penuriousness. She was accustomed to attend 
 the Cathedral Service, & one day went up to Dr. Walsby & told Him 
 she wd. leave Him ^100 in Her Will. From this time He kept up a 
 communication with Her & for some years reed. Her at His table every 
 Sunday at dinner, though she was so dirty as to be disgusting to the 
 Servants. — When the Doctor was informed of her Death it is said He 
 went to Her House & shut Himself in it. — She was found dead with a 
 Crust in Her hand. Her penury was excessive & her character very 
 bad having it is said, defrauded a relation of ;^I500. — She left the Doctor 
 nearly Her Sole Heir. His view in His conduct to Her was evident & 
 a very unfavourable opinion of Him has been since entertained, which 
 Mrs. T. thinks has affected His spirits & His looks. — He gave nothing 
 to Her relations. — 
 
CHAPTER XV 
 
 1806 
 
 Lawyer or Attorney 
 
 December 1 . — Lysons called. — He told me the Revd. Mr. Dibdin* 
 who solicits to be Secretary to the Antiquary Society, is nephew to 
 Dibdin the Musical Composer. — He was a Senator of St. John's College, 
 Oxford, & was afterwards sometime at Worcester, where He issued notices 
 that He wd. act as a Lawyer or Attorney at certain prices, for whoever 
 might be disposed to employ Him. He was afterwards sometime at 
 Gloucester where He had the management of a Sugar Baker concern. 
 — Willis [F.S.A.] of Kensington, is Dibdin's great friend in endeavouring 
 to procure the Secretaryship. He has known Him abt. 3 years. 
 
 Lysons very much reprobated the manner in which the outside 
 of the new Gothic Buildings near Westminster Abbey are completed. 
 It is not with stone but with a Composition, not much cheaper than 
 stone. It is said Wyatt has a concern in the Patent & therefore urges 
 the use of it. — 
 
 Sheridan's Talents 
 
 Lawrence I called on, — & saw His picture of Sir Francis Baring Sec. 
 We talked of the situation of public affairs.- — I observed that there 
 is no one to whom we can look up with much feeling of confidence as 
 posessing superior wisdom and abilities. — In reckoning up the different 
 political men He mentioned Sheridan as having the best talents, I 
 agreed with Him that if the talents He has displayed in preserving 
 considerable importance through a career of profligacy which wd. have 
 overset any other man, had been prudently applied to politics He must 
 have been at the head of affairs. — He thought highly of Lord Castlereagh 
 & sd. Canning is much to be reckoned upon, and is allowed to have 
 great integrity. — 
 
 • Thomas Frognal Dibdin, D.D. (1776-1847), nephew of Charles Dibdin, the song- 
 writer, was author of the popular " Bibliographical Decameron." He was unsuccessful 
 in his application for the secretaryship of the Antiquarian Societj. 
 
 53 
 
54 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 West and the Presidency 
 
 December 2. — Mr. West called to speak finally respecting His again 
 accepting the Chair of the Royal Academy. — He said He had not heard 
 anything from Windsor of the state of the King's mind with regard 
 to the Academy & Wyatt. For a little time past the King has appeared 
 to be rather hurried in his manner, dresses Himself 3 or 4 times a day, 
 & is on the whole in such a state as those abt. Him when they observe 
 it do not like to address him upon any subject but what is absolutely 
 necessary, but wait till He is more calm. — That the Queen & Princess 
 Elizabeth are very much disatisfied with Wyatt is certain, & West believes 
 the Queen wd. be glad to hear of His [West] being again in the Academy 
 Chair. — He then went into the business of His series of pictures intended 
 for the Chapel at Windsor, & sd. that His taking the Chair, ought to be 
 followed by an Order to Him to complete that work. But He added, 
 Wyatt had converted that part of the Castle intended for the Chapel 
 into Cloisters. — He sd. He considered the pictures in their present state 
 as only prepared for finishing and said, that if they were put up it would 
 require two years to enable Him to complete them to their proper effect. 
 He added, " That time was now to Him becoming precious for in Three 
 years (two years He shd. have sd.) He should be 70 years old." 
 
 He then sd. that what He had experienced in the Academy & the 
 abhorrence in which He held many of the members of it, rendered it 
 hateful to Him, and that there was one on the spot (Richards) who had 
 been a chief cause of all the troubles & who was a spy upon it, which 
 increased His dislike to the place ; that His tranquil plan of life wd. 
 be broken in upon by His again taking the Office upon Him, & that 
 He could not think of holding it more that 12 months, but that as it 
 wd. afford the members an opportunity to make a proper representation 
 of what had been experienced since Wyatt was in the Chair, & restore 
 order. He wd. accept it. — I replied to Him that it appeared to be that 
 He might with propriety decline the Chair after the expiration of 12 
 months, if He shd. then be so inclined, as at His period of life it was 
 reasonable that He should consult His own comfort & convenience. — I 
 was now authorised to communicate His consent to accept the Chair 
 & that I shd. give Him information of what might pass upon it. — 
 
 The Prince's Health 
 
 December 4. — Boyd ell spoke of the great interruption to Commerce 
 which wd. be experienced by the taking of Hamburgh. It is also sd. 
 in the City that [the] administration have sounded leading men in the 
 City to know, whether a ^20 per cent. Income Tax wd. go down. — A 
 report prevailed He sd. that the Prince of Wales is dead. — It is certain 
 added He that He cannot live, at least so says an Eminent Medical Man. 
 That He can never recover from the state He is in. — He has now the 
 strongest tea made for Him, which stands till it is Cold & It is then iced 
 before He drinks it to allay an internal heat. — 
 
1806] The King and the Baronetcy 55 
 
 He told me that a person who was Secretary to Lord Sidmouth 
 while He was Speaker of the House of Commons had informed Him, 
 that sometime since a long list of persons proposed to be made Baronets 
 was laid before His Majesty, among whom the Foxites had put down 
 Alderman Combe, — Bate Dudley, — Perry, Proprietor of the Morning 
 Chronicle, — & Dennis O'Brien. The King sd. He would consider abt. 
 Combe & rejected the others perempterely.* 
 
 Cheapness before Art 
 
 Woodthorpe, the City Town Clerk, is indignant at the letter written 
 to Him by Rossi, & reported it to be of a most scurrilous kind, Burch, 
 the Common Council Man, also very much disapproved it. Boydell 
 had not seen it. — It will be read to the Committee of Common Council 
 but not to the general Body. In deciding on the Models offered for 
 Mr. Pitts monuments, cheapness was the first consideration. Bubb 
 who has obtained it canvassed the Members of the Common Council 
 and gave Cards on the back of which He put the mark which He had 
 put on His model that it might be known. — 
 
 Paid Large Wagers 
 
 Boydell sd. that Harvey Combe had been guilty of what might be 
 called a swindling transaction in respect to obtaining a majority at 
 His Election. He had laid large wagers that He wd. be at the head of the 
 Poll, and to secure it privately canvassed & brought up Votes after He 
 had with the other candidates disclaimed it, and while they in conse- 
 quence were inactive. — 
 
 He desired me to ask West for the use of 5 of His drawings by Claude 
 to make up with those belonging to Lord Spencer a set. He spoke 
 with great indignation of a proposal made to Him by Schiavonetti the 
 Engraver, for engraving a Plate from Devis's picture of the Death of 
 Lord Nelson. — Schiavonetti proposed to engrave it in three years, to have 
 ^500 dozvn upon receiving the Picture & Plate ; 3^500 more when it 
 should be half finished ; & ;^500 more when it should be completed. 
 He also stated that having but indifferent Health, He should be allowed 
 to take the picture y Plate with Him to France, & there to execute it. — 
 This unreasonable & unsafe proposal Boydell rejected, and has since 
 entered into an agreement with Bromley, the Engraver, who is to under- 
 take it, & to finish it in two years for ^800. — Woolet had only ^^250 or 
 ^300 for engraving the Death of General Wolfe, & this plate is to be the 
 same size. 
 
 • Harvey Christian Combe, brewer, Alderman of Aldgate Ward in 1790, and Lord 
 Mayor in 1799. The Combe Delafield Brewery, largely extended, still exists in Castle 
 Street, Long Acre. He died at Margate on August 13, 1832. Bate-Dudley, first editor 
 of the Morning Post and founder of the Morning Herald was created a Baronet in 18 13. 
 Dennis O'Bryen (175 5- 183 2), dramatist and political pamphleteer. Fox appointed him, 
 in 1806, to the Patent OflSce of Marshal of the Admiralty at the Cape of Good Hope, at 
 a salary, it was said, of ;^4,ooo a year. 
 
CHAPTER XVI 
 
 1806 
 
 Canova and Flaxtnan 
 
 December 5. — [Flaxman, R.A.] said He had been informed that an 
 offer had been made to Canova the Itahan Sculptor, to execute a statue 
 of Mr. Pitt for Cambridge, but that Canova had refused. — He said Lord 
 Elgin had told Him (Flaxman) that on His way from Greece, being at 
 Rome, He shewed several articles of Greek Sculpture to Canova & proposed 
 to Him to restore such parts as were wanting. Canova advised His Lord- 
 ship to let them remain as they were, but added if you wish to have them 
 restored there is one in England (Flaxman) who can do it as well as I 
 should be able to perform such a task. 
 
 Pitt always had the Word 
 
 Dr. Hayes sd. that He had learnt among His Political friends that Mr. 
 Fox always spoke highly of Mr. Pitt's powers. Jekyll, the Council 
 saying one day before Mr. Fox, that He had well considered a certain 
 point of Law & had prepared Himself to speak upon it, & wished Mr. 
 Pitt wd. afford Him an opportunity to meet Him upon it. Fox, in 
 answer recommended to Jekyll first to try His powers against Pepper 
 Arden* 
 
 At another time Fox hearing some of the Company in which He 
 happened to be extolling His great Command of words, observed to them 
 that certainly He had a word but Mr. Pitt always had the word. — It having 
 been commonly observed that men eminent at the Bar as Pleaders do 
 not make much figure in the House of Commons, it has been noticed that 
 there is a manifest difference in this respect between the Pleaders in the 
 Kings Bench & those in Chancery, the latter have frequently been dis- 
 tinguished in the House of Commons, the former scarcely ever. — The 
 mind is narrowed by the habit of pleading upon the principle they do in 
 
 * Pepper Arden (1745-1804) was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and entered 
 the House of Lords as Baron Alvanley, Cheshire. He was a great orator and ready wit, 
 which made him a master in debate. He owed much to Pitt, but more to his learning 
 and sound judgment. His two sons succeeded him as Barons : William as second, Richard 
 Pepper as third, at whose death the Peerage became extinct, 
 
 56 
 
1806] Pitt always had the Word 57 
 
 the Kings Bench, while in Chancery the principle is more liberal & 
 extended. 
 
 It was observed of Mr. Pitt that He never uttered a sentence un- 
 grammatically. Person, the Greek Professor, said that every sentence 
 uttered by Mr. Pitt was so regular & correct as to appear as if formed 
 in His mind before it was expressed, — on the contrary Mr. Fox often 
 plunged into the middle of a sentence & found His way through it as well 
 as He could. 
 
 December 6. — [Mr. Thornton, the late Minister at Hamburgh arrived 
 & brought intelligence that all the British Merchants at Hamburgh had 
 been declared by Buonaparte prisoners of War. — That British property 
 of every description is to be confiscated. — England is declared to be in 
 a state of Blockade. 
 
 December 7. — The proposal suggested of attacking foreign Property 
 in the English Funds strongly protested against in Bells Weekly Messenger, 
 — contending that with our Integrity we should lose our Liberty ; our 
 character wd. be gone, our feelings debased. Honesty the best Policy. 
 — From small note-book.] 
 
 Farington and Hoppner 
 
 December 8. — I had a good deal of conversation with Owen & 
 went over many particulars of Hoppner's conduct to me, & told Him 
 that though I had & should receive Hoppner frankly & civilly, I certainly 
 should not while His mind continued to be what it has long been, go to 
 His House & promote intercourse with Him, — & that my communi- 
 cations with respect to Mr. West had been made through Thomson. — 
 He said that Hoppner could not be depended upon. — West out of the 
 question (who was the most proper man to be President), Hoppner & 
 Lawrence were the persons most proper for the situation. — I spoke to 
 Him of the unfounded Jealousy of Hoppner, of my having a great desire 
 to make Lawrence, President, & declared to Him that I had never held 
 conversation with Lawrence upon such a subject. 
 
 West Elected 
 
 December 10. — A general meeting of the Royal Academicians was 
 held. Mr. West was elected President. 
 
 First Ballot. Second Ballot. 
 
 West l6 West 17 
 
 Loutherburgh 4 Loutherburgh 4 
 
 Hoppner i 
 
 Beechey I 
 
 22 21 
 
 I told Lawrence I had now fully experienced that Fuseli was in- 
 capable of real attachment or gratitude & shd. act towards Him accord- 
 ingly. — We conversed abt. Him & His manners, which have been 
 
58 The Farington Diary [I8OG 
 
 frequently such as to make His friends afraid to introduce Him into 
 Company. — Wm. Locke took Him from the Annual Academy dinner to 
 the Opera & introduced Him into Lady Templetowns Box, where He 
 behaved so ill, & talked so improperly, that the next day the Ladies 
 were all exclaiming against Him. — 
 
 December 11. — Baker called. — Had been sent to by Mrs. Edwards, 
 & had been with Her, and given Her ,^5, — sd. He wd. if Sir Wm. Bhzzard 
 wd. bear one half of the expence of the Funeral, pay the other Half : 
 did not like [to think] that Poor Edwards* shd. be buried by Charity even 
 from the Academy. — I shewed Him that we must look to Mrs. Edwards, 
 His Sister, & do what shd. be best for Her & might obtain from the 
 Academy more than wd. be required for the funeral to enable Her to go 
 on, & that a pension might be secured for Her. He agreed to this as 
 being prudent, & went to an Undertaker, Mr. Edmonds, & with Him came 
 back to me. It was then agreed that Edmonds shd. make an estimate 
 of the expence & send it to me & Baker shd. call on me in the even'g. — 
 
 Betty I sent to Mrs. Edwards, the acct. she brought was that abt. 
 five weeks ago Her Brother was suddenly struck with a pain between 
 His Shoulders which He believed to be Rhuematick. — For a time He 
 suffered a good deal of pain from it but it gradually subsided, but He had 
 a fixed uneasiness on his Breast & a shortness of Breath, such as He had 
 never been accustomed to feel, unless when He had walked fast in Cold 
 zveather. — Yesterday He was up, & walked abt. His room, and had 
 dinner, but did not eat well, which caused His Sister to say as He had 
 made a bad dinner He shd. have his tea early. ^His Bed was in the 
 Front Parlour. Milbourne Junr. a young man, was sitting with Him 
 in the other Parlour in conversation when abt. J past 4 oClock in the 
 afternoon He suddenly complained & desired Milbourne to assist Him 
 to the other room, who being alarmed called out & let Him slide to the 
 ground ; & an old woman who was assisting Mrs. Edwards in washing 
 being in the Back Parlour, came to them — they placed Him on the bed 
 where He died immediately. — His sister said He had of late grown fat 
 so as to be noticed for it, & His friends had remarked how well He 
 looked. — 
 
 Yesterday morning I reed, a note from Him with some proof Sheets 
 of His Lives of the Painters, He complained of shortness of breath but 
 hoped it wd. go off as He recovered strength. 
 
 * Edward Edwards, A.R.A., author of " Anecdotes of Painters." See Index, Vols. 
 I. and III. 
 
CHAPTER XVII 
 
 1806 
 
 West and Wyatt 
 
 December 11. — West was very well pleased with all that had been 
 done. — He did not know how the King wd. take it, but sd. should His 
 Majesty strike His pen through His name He shd. not be uneasy abt. 
 it but leave it to the consideration of the people. — He wished Dance to 
 go up with the papers of Election, as the King had a high opinion of 
 Dance and after what He had experienced from Wyatt there was no know- 
 ing what effect it might have on His Majestys mind. He sd. that Wyatt 
 owed His situation with the King, and the place of Surveyor General 
 of the works, to the Queen & Princess Elizabeth, which was to make 
 Him a compensation for the trouble & loss of time which He had suffered 
 in attendance upon the Queen & the Princess, building Frogmore &c. 
 &c., for which it is believed He never reed, any pecuniary recompence. — 
 Indeed Wyatt told a person with whom West is acquainted that His 
 expenses & great loss of time, in attending upon the Royal Family had 
 been the ruin of Him. 
 
 Holt, a Political Writer 
 
 West expressed a desire that I & Dance with Smirke wd. draw up 
 some statement of what had passed at the Academy & the state of the 
 Society. I told Him that might be best done by telling the facts simply 
 to a person with whom He is acquainted & had a high opinion of viz : 
 [Holt]* the Political Writer in Bell's Weekly Messenger. — He imme- 
 diately gave me the highest commendation of him ; said He is a very 
 extraordinary man ; that He was born in Norfolk & is the Son of a 
 Clergyman who has a living somewhere, He believes, near Holkham ; 
 that He is not more than 25 or 26 years of age ; was educated at West- 
 minster School & was in the same Class with Lord Henry Petty. That 
 He is much patronised by Mr. Windham, & ere long will probably be in 
 Parliament. — I said the Political writing in Bell's Messenger had often 
 been almost Prophetical. He replied that He has excellent information, 
 
 * See Index, Vol. HI. 
 
 59 
 
60 The Farington Diary [18O6 
 
 and is the Author of a Pamphlet which now makes a great noise " The State 
 of the Negotiation of Lord Lauderdale,''' but it is not known that He wrote 
 it. — He said that Mr. Holt speaks of Mr. Windham with great admiration 
 saying " He has a most elegant mind" but of His Judgment He smiles 
 when He speaks. — 
 
 Holt thinks the Emperor of Russia acted a very bad part in His 
 negotiation with France. D'Oubril* was certainly sent to Paris with 
 unlimited powers, but the administration of Russia at that time was 
 what is called the " Peace administration." — During the negotiation 
 another set of persons came into power and formed what was from their 
 dispositions called " The War Administration." These induced the 
 Emperor to disavow D'oubril's Treaty, — which being known encouraged 
 Prussia to present Herself ; but Buonaparte did not allow time for a 
 conjunction of their forces but destroyed by His quickness the power 
 of Prussia singly, — the Negotiation of Lord Lauderdale went on fairly 
 & openly, till towards the conclusion when there was something not quite 
 consistent. — 
 
 West then spoke of the able manner in which Holt had written Criti- 
 cisms on the last Exhibition. He said that He first knew Holt through 
 His son Ralph, and that Holt had said to Him, that It was His desire 
 to obtain some knowledge of the Polite Arts of which He declared Himself 
 to be quite ignorant. West recommended to Him to read the discourses 
 of Sir Joshua Reynolds, & Vasari's lives of the Painters, &c. which He did 
 & in Six months. 
 
 Bonaparte's Blockade 
 
 December 12. — Baker called. We talked of Buonapartes Blockade 
 of the British Islands. Bakerf sd. that finding the British power the 
 only obstacle to His universal sway & that which prevents the fully 
 establishing His usurpations, He has become desperate & will subject 
 the Continent to any difficulties in order to distress us. — Baker added 
 that it will be to our interest never to make peace with Buonaparte while 
 He holds His present position. — He remarked on Fox and the great harm 
 He had done His Country while in opposition. 
 
 Prince and Lord Grenville 
 
 December 15. — This day I sat to Edridge who began a drawing 
 of me for His Collection of Portraits of friends. — He told me Charles 
 Long is held in such respect by His friends that He had an offer of a Seat 
 in Parliament from three different friends. He accepted that of Lord 
 Lowther & is returned for Haslemere. — Upon the formation of a Ministry 
 after the death of Mr. Pitt, an offer was made to Mr. Long by Lord Gren- 
 ville of such a place as might suit & be agreeable to Him. — Mr. Long 
 told this to Edridge. He declined the offer, as He could not, with pro- 
 priety, quit the friends of Mr. Pitt viz : Lord Castlereagh, — Canning &c. — 
 
 * See Index, Vol. III. 
 
 t George Baker, print collector and lace merchant. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
1806] 
 
 Prince and Lord Grenville 61 
 
 There is certainly a difference subsisting between the Prince of Wales 
 & Lord Grenville, sd. to be owing to Election arrangements. The 
 Prince is not popular. In some companies a toast is given, " The Prince 
 of Wales Jor everP — 
 
 C. Offley's I dined at. — Wm. Burroughs told me there are now abt. 
 260 Boys at Harrow School. The young Duke of Dorset is there. He is 
 abt. 13 years old, is a good tempered Boy & well liked. He is called by 
 the Boys, Dorset only*. Mr. Burroughs informed me that Hughes^ is 
 made a Canon Residentiary of St. Paulas, in consequence of which He gives 
 up all His other preferment. — 
 
 A Younger Brother 
 
 December 16. — Ant : Carlisle called to speak to me respecting His 
 Brother [Nicholas] offering Himself for the Office of Secretary to the 
 Antiquary Society. He sd. His Brother is younger than Himself & was 
 born of a different mother, a second wife, sister to Captain Scottowe, 
 formerly in the East India Company's service ; that He inherited a fortune 
 of abt. ^16,000, which unfortunately [he had] been induced to engage in 
 Shipping speculations for the Slave trade, but the connexions He formed 
 proved to be bad, & eventually He lost the whole of His property. — He 
 
 has since been engaged with Mr. R [ ], Secretary to the Speaker of 
 
 the House of Commons, in estimating the population of Great Britain ; 
 which has led Him on to Topographical studies & He has been assiduously 
 employed in forming a Topographical Dictionary. He had a good school 
 education, & is a very good Scholar. He had, said Carlisle, a great 
 advantage over me in that respect. I was taken from School at the age 
 of 14, but He remained there till He was near 19. — He is unmarried, 
 continued He, & having been kind to me when He had property & I had 
 not, He now lives with me.— I told Him that my vote had not been 
 engaged & I desired to vote with those of my friends who are the best 
 judges of what the Society requires ; that Lysons appeared to be inclined 
 to His Brother, & that must have a great effect in His favor. That I 
 understood His Brother's name is now hung to be balloted for to be a 
 member & wd. be elected towards the end of January. — Carlisle came in 
 a handsome Chariot. 
 
 [In the Herald this day it was stated, that John Carr, Author of *' The 
 Stranger in Ireland," on the loth inst. reed, the Honor of Knighthood at 
 DubHn Castle from the Duke of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant. — From small 
 note-book.] 
 
 * Lord Byron, who was one of his school-fellows at Harrow, commemorated him 
 n a set of verses, beginning, " Dorset, whose early steps with mine hare strayed." 
 t Rev. Dr. Thomas Hughes. See Index, Vols. I., H. and HI. 
 
/ 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII 
 
 1806 
 
 A Great Singer 
 
 December 17. — Madame Catalani* the celebrated Opera Singer 
 made Her first appearance on the Enghsh Stage on Saturday last in a 
 new Serious Opera called La Semiramide, [by Portogallo] she had before 
 appeared and excited admiration at Madrid, Lisbon, Naples, and Paris. 
 
 On December 21 Farington wrote, — I went to the Opera & heard 
 Madame Catalani sing in the Opera of Semiramide. She has ;£2000 for 
 the Season, — and a benefit. She is abt. 24 years of age, — and is married. 
 — Des Hayes, Madame Des Hayes, & Parisotf danced. — The Prince of 
 
 Wales I saw with Lord and Lady Melbourne in their Box. — Lady 
 
 BelasisJ was also in it. 
 
 Dr. Moss,§ Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, is expected to be the 
 new Bishop of Oxford. He is a Son to [Charles Moss] the late Bishop 
 
 * Angelica Catalani was born on May lo, 1780, at Sinigaglia, and when about twelve 
 years of age her fine voice attracted the attention of the nuns at the Convent of Santa Lucia 
 at Gubbio, a town famous for its pottery. In 1795 she made her first appearance on the 
 stage at the Fenice, Venice, as Lodoiska in Mayr's opera of that name. Her fame soon 
 spread, and, as Farington records, she made her debut in London on December 15 at a 
 salary of ^^2,000 for the season, with ;£ioo to cover the expenses of the journey to London, 
 and " one Benefit Night free of expence in the month of March, at which a new opera 
 would be performed." She received enormous sums while in England — for example, 
 200 guineas for singing " God Save the King " and " Rule, Britannia," and at a single 
 festival, ^2,000. Catalani was a great singer. Her voice, we are told, was of " extra- 
 ordinary purity, force, and compass . . . with a sweet, clear tone." She had faults, due 
 mainly to careless training at the convent. She died of cholera at Paris on June 12, 1849. 
 
 t Mile. Parisot, when dancing at the Opera in 1798, wore a dress which the Hon. 
 Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, denounced as indecent. In 1807 she married Mr. 
 Hughes, of Golden Square. 
 
 X Lady Anne Belasyse, daughter and co-heir of Henry, second and last Earl of Faucon- 
 berg, by Charlotte, sister of Peniston, first Viscount Melbourne. She was married on 
 July 19, 1 79 1, to Sir George Wombwell, and died on July 7, 1808. Romney painted her 
 portrait in 1791. 
 
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1806] Peculiar Disposition 63 
 
 of Bath & Wells, & posesses property to the amount of ;^3000 a year, so 
 that He wants only Dignity. 
 
 [Daniel] Gardner who painted in Crayons & lived in Bond Street 
 formerly, died July 8th. 1805 of a Liver Complaint. He had been much 
 accustomed to quack Himself & did not know his disorder. — He was ill 
 abt. Six months. — He died posessed of 15 or ;^i6oo a year, which His 
 Son, an only Child inherits. He is abt. 29 years old, & is a Barrister. 
 Gardner's disposition was peculiar. He was extremely parsimonious. 
 His great delight was in arguing in which He occasionally brought upon 
 Himself severe animadversions, which generally caused Him to be more 
 respectful to His opponents afterwards. — Hearne said He had experienced 
 it. — 
 
 E. Edwards, A.R.A. 
 
 Poor Edwards's funeral I was called upon to attend at two oClock by 
 Mr. West, Hearne & Edridge. We found at the House several persons. 
 Sir Willm. Blizzard, Cousin to Edwards, & an eminent Surgeon in the 
 City, desired to read a paper, during which time Mrs. Edwards withdrew. 
 It stated the character & merits of Edwards, & then proceeded to state 
 the great comfort and assistance which He had derived from His Sister 
 who had passed Her life in serving Him, and trusting that Her good 
 qualities wd. render Her an object to be assisted by those of Her Brothers 
 profession who had regard for Him. — After He had finished Mr. West 
 spoke His kind sentiments, & I told Him that tomorrow night a Council 
 wd. be held at the Royal Academy for the purpose of taking Her situation 
 into consideration. 
 
 Sir Wm. Bhzzard, who is an eminent Surgeon, said, that the Body of 
 Poor Edwards had been opened & some water was found in the Chest, 
 which to a stronger constitution might not have caused much difficulty, 
 but He had not [the] power to contend with its effects, at least that is 
 probable. — Sir William did not open Him but proper persons were em- 
 ployed & made that report to Him. — I told Sir WilHam privately that 
 I hoped the Academy wd, give ^50 to Mrs. Edwards at present, & put Her 
 on the Donation list for -^12. a year, 
 
 Humphry called in the even'g having dined with Daniell & there 
 [had] been first informed of the Death of Edwards, — He sd, Edwards 
 was as much a character as any man He had ever known, & proceeded 
 to recapitulate several of His acts of Heroism & resolution, so dis- 
 proportioned to His bodily distortion & weakness, & said it were to be 
 wished that His excentricities & peculiarities could be recorded, they wd. 
 make a History as entertaining as Don Quixotte, — He sd. all things con- 
 sidered He thought it was well that His life had thus terminated, as He 
 had thereby been saved from any exposure to difficulties at an advanced 
 period of life. — 
 
 December 18. — Mrs. Edwards I called on & talked with abt. Her 
 
64 The Farington Diary [1806 
 
 late Brother & His affairs in order to be prepared for the Academy 
 Council to-night. She told me he owed as follows, viz : 
 
 L 
 
 To Mr. Young, the Landlord of His House 1 14. 
 
 To His Taylor, abt. 15. 
 
 Half a Years Taxes. 7. 
 
 And sundry small debts, the whole not exceeding. 15. 
 
 151. 
 
 To pay this she had nothing but His Household furniture, Books, 
 prints, & pictures, — I told Her I hoped to obtain ^50 from the Council, 
 which wd. defray the funeral expences & leave to Her near -^30. — That 
 I felt assured she would next Summer be put upon the Donation List 
 for 10 or 12 guineas a year, which wd. be continued to Her. That I had 
 no doubt of the intended publication of Walpole's lives of Painters & 
 Engravers which Her Brother had prepared would produce profit, — 
 She said. His work on Perspective had not been profitable, but that was 
 of a very different nature & less likely to sell. — She told me she was 59 
 years old, Oct. 17th. last. 
 
 She told me her Brother set off for Italy in July 1775 and returned 
 to England abt. the end of Septr. 1776. She sd. she had remarked a 
 decrease of His bodily strength during the last 12 months. He could not 
 walk long, or fast as before, witht. being fatigued. Abt. 3 months ago 
 He said to Her, Sally, I should be sorry to go before you, as you would 
 have difficulties to experience ; but it would also be bad for me were you 
 to go first, for I should much want your assistance. — It is abt. a month 
 since He complained of a pain in one of His arms, which ascended to 
 His shoulder, & afterwards to His back ; He thought it Rheumatism. — 
 He did not appear to be seriously alarmed at any period of his indisposi- 
 tion. On the Monday even'g before He died. He had his bed warmed, 
 but was so much fatigued with walking up two pair of stairs, that His 
 sister, the next day, had his bed brought down & placed in the front parlour. 
 He slept in it that night, & died the next day. — She said she had been 
 much struck with the appearance of His complexion, which had not a 
 uniform gradually decreasing colour, but all appeared to be of a purity 
 almost to white, except a circular spot of red on each cheek. 
 
 Picture of Bonaparte 
 
 After breakfast I called on Masquerier* & apologised for not 
 attending Mr. Dibdins last Lecture at the British Institute. Masquerier 
 told me that He had profited to the amount of ;^iooo by His 
 picture of Buonaparte. He had been enabled to purchase the House in 
 which He now resides & after having accomodated Himself with painting 
 rooms & others for Domestick purposes, had let the front of his house 
 
 * A life of Masquerier was published by the Connoisseur m 1922. See also Index, Vol. II. 
 
1806] Lady Worsley 65 
 
 for ;£i40 a year. — He shewed me a portrait of Lady Worsley & Her 
 present Husband who after the death of Sir Richd. Worsley,* she married 
 several months ago, — He had lived with Her before, & was a Musician ; 
 His name is Hummel. — Sir Richard having died witht. a Will, she came 
 in for half His personalty, besides such a proportion of Her own fortune, 
 which was ^90,000 as to have an Income of 5 or £6000 a year, which, after 
 the death of Her husband, on whom she has made a settlement, is entirely 
 at her disposal ; which consideration is supposed to have caused a 
 restoration of affection & intimacy between Her and Her Sister, Lady 
 Harrington. — She is towards 50 years of age. Her Husband is abt. 30. 
 
 * Sir Richard Worsley, of Appuldercombe, Bart., M.P., F.S.A., F.R.S. (1751-1805), 
 antiquary and traveller, married in 1775, Seymour Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Fleming, 
 Bart., of Brompton Park, Middlesex. In Walpole's Letters (VIII.) are chronicled the story 
 of her liaison with the Earl of Peterborough, who first met her at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 
 and her amours with others. In 1782 Worsley claimed ^20,000 against George M. Bissett, 
 of the Hampshire Militia, for crim. con. with his wife, but was awarded only one shilling 
 damages on the ground of his connivance. Lady Worsley by royal Grant changed her name 
 to that of Lady Fleming, and according to the Gentleman' s Magazine for 1805, she was 
 married a month after her husband's death, not to Hummel, but to J. Louis Couchet. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 

 CHAPTER XIX 
 
 1806 
 Wars and Wealth 
 December 18. — [The following table is from a small note-book : 
 
 THE WARS OF GREAT BRITAIN SINCE 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 Wars. 
 
 Who 
 With. 
 
 When Began. 
 
 In What Reign. 
 
 Debt 
 Beginning of 
 Each War. 
 
 Average 
 
 Annual 
 
 Revenues. 
 
 Duration 
 
 of each 
 
 War. 
 
 I 
 2 
 
 3 
 4 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 France 
 
 France & Spain 
 
 Spain 
 
 Spain 
 
 France 
 
 America .... 
 
 France 
 
 France 
 
 May 7, 1689 
 May 4, 1 70 1 
 Dec. 16, 1718 
 Oct. 19, 1739 
 May 18, 1756 
 April 19, 1775 
 Feb. II, 1793 
 March 9, 1803 
 
 William III. . . 
 
 Anne 
 
 George I 
 
 George II 
 
 George II.-III. 
 George III. . . . 
 George III. . . . 
 George III 
 
 £ 
 664,263 
 
 16,500,000 
 
 50,000,000 
 
 50,000,000 
 
 74,000,000 
 
 136,000,000 
 * 
 
 272,000,000 
 619,000,000 
 
 3,000,000 
 
 3,700,000 
 
 4,000,000 
 
 6,000,000 
 
 7,000,000 
 
 11,000,000 
 
 25,000,000 
 
 37,000,000 
 
 7- 9- 3 
 II. 10. 9 
 2. 5.28 
 8. II. 30 
 6. 8.21 
 
 8. 4.15 
 
 9. 1. 1 6 
 
 
 In the year 1664 a computation was made of the wealth of this nation 
 by many able writers : — Sir W. Petty,t esteemed the most correct, by 
 which it appeared the total value of all property landed y -personal, 
 consisting of Houses, Lands, gold & Silver Coin, Plate, Shipping, wares, 
 merchandise, Furniture &c. amounted to no more than £250,000,000, 
 and the annual profits of the same to £15,000,000, which among 5,000,000 
 
 * In this peace of nine years the Debt increased £26,000,000. 
 
 t Sir William Petty (1623-1687), physician, mechanician, political economist, and 
 Surveyor-General of Ireland. 
 
 66 
 
1806] 
 
 Wars and Wealth 
 
 67 
 
 of people, the then population of England, amounted to ^3 each person's 
 clear yearly income, on a plan of equalization. 
 
 In the year 1800 the yearly income amounted to 402,000,000 being the 
 profits of the landed & personal, at 15 pr cent, arising from 2,700,000,000. 
 — viz : 1,250,000,000, landed property, and 1,450,000,000 personal of 
 every denomination ; which among 15,000,000 of people, the present 
 population of this nation, is abt. ^27 to each persons share, on the above 
 plan, which is nine times more, at the present time, than 140 years ago. 
 And, in order that each person may have as much income yearly as they 
 enjoyed then, allow this £15,000,000, per year at that time to be £45,000,000, 
 because the present population of this nation is 3 times greater now than 
 at that period. There will then (when this £45,000,000 is taken from 
 £402,000,000, the present yearly income) remain £357,000,000 as the 
 yearly income and clear profits over y above what we then enjoyed. — 
 Could the nation be prevailed on to contribute 12 months of that their 
 
 THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 TO 1805. 
 
 
 Where Ended 
 
 Debt Con- 
 
 Total Debt 
 
 Duration 
 
 Debt Paid Off 
 
 When Ended. 
 
 and 
 
 tracted in 
 
 at End of 
 
 of Each 
 
 During Each 
 
 
 By Whom. 
 
 Each War. 
 
 Each War. 
 
 Peace. 
 
 Peace. 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 
 £ 
 
 Feb. 10, 1697 
 
 Earl Pembroke, at 
 
 Ryswick. 
 
 20j035,737 
 
 20,700,000 
 
 4. 2.22 
 
 4,200,000 
 
 Mar. 13, 1713 
 
 Earl Strafford, at 
 Utrecht. 
 
 35,500,000 
 
 52,000,000 
 
 5- 9- 3 
 
 2,000,000 
 
 June 13, 1721 
 
 Duke of Somerset, 
 at Madrid. 
 
 6,000,000 
 
 56,000,000 
 
 18. 4. 6 
 
 6,000,000 
 
 Oct. 18, 1748 
 
 Earl Sandwich, at 
 Aix la Chapelle. 
 
 28,000,000 
 
 78,000,000 
 
 7. 7. 
 
 4,000,000 
 
 Feb. 10, 1763 
 
 Duke of Bedford, 
 at Fontainbleu. 
 
 73,000,000 
 
 147,000,000 
 
 12. 2. 9 
 
 11,000,000 
 
 Sept. 3, 1783 
 
 Mr. Grenville, at 
 Paris. 
 
 110,000,000 
 
 246,000,000 
 
 9. 5. 8 
 
 From the beneficial 
 effects of the Sinking 
 
 Mar. 27, 1802 
 
 Marquess Corn- 
 wallis, at Amiens. 
 
 347,000,000 
 
 619,000,000 
 
 0.1 1. 1 1 
 
 Fund there has been 
 paid off since the year 
 
 
 
 To Feb. 1805, 
 
 715,000,000 
 
 
 1783 to Feb. 1805, the 
 
 
 
 96,000,000 
 
 110,000,000 
 
 
 sum of ;^i 10,000,000 
 
 £605,000,000 the National Debt, Feb. — , 1805. 
 
 clear profits only, it wd. be sufficient to discharge the whole of the present 
 National Debt ; which as £600,000,000, of Stock £400,000,000 sterling 
 wd. nearly accomphsh. This might be done by contributing the profits 
 of one month in the year, for 12 years only, and this on nothing else but 
 our clear profits only, all kinds of labour is entirely out of the question. 
 If any should say we are paying our debts of our Ancestors, by paying 
 the national debt, it may with truth & justice be said so we ought, for it is 
 by their labour, since that period, that we have those extra riches which 
 we now enjoy ; for before that time they were not in existence to be 
 
 VOL. IV. 5* 
 
68 The Farington Diary [I8O6 
 
 enjoyed, but handed down gradually, since the above computation was 
 made in 1664. Were this patriotic act to be accomplished, let us see how 
 we shd. stand. — Deduct the then total riches, ^250,000,000 from the 
 present property of the nation, £2,700,000,000 there will then remain 
 the enormous Balance of 2,450,000,000. Here is a balance of above 6 
 to I in our favour. It would be therefore equally ungrateful in us to 
 refuse to contribute to discharge the debt as for a rich heir to a great estate 
 refusing to pay a tradesmans bill of ,^10 contracted by his father, who had 
 left him £120 to pay it with. 
 
 Our present taxes are under ,^40,000,000 yearly, with all the burthens 
 of the War, and our clear annual income, and profits £402,000,000, which 
 is above 10 times this demand ; therefore, even the whole of our present 
 taxes. National Debt included (if equitably laid) would only be a tenth 
 part of our clear profits ; and three fourths of this goes to pay the interest 
 for the National Debt. Between the years 1664 and 1700 our annual 
 taxes were abt. £3,000,000 on the average, and our yearly profits only 
 £15,000,000, which is ont fifth part. Thus our ancestors were paying a 
 fifth and we only a tenth, with all our National Debt. — From small note- 
 book.] 
 
 Sir John Carr 
 
 Sir John Carr* was mentioned to me by Westall. He returned from 
 Ireland two or three days ago & dined with Westall yesterday. — He 
 went to Ireland abt. a month ago at the Solicitation of several persons 
 of rank, and was introduced to the Duke of Bedford, & recommended 
 to Him to receive some distinction, on which the Duke knighted Him, 
 and used many very obliging expressions. — It is probable He will 'ere 
 long receive more solid advantages. Lady Dowager Moira told Him 
 she expected His title wd. be followed by something more substantial. 
 His favorable acct. of the Irish nation in His late publication " The 
 Stranger in Ireland ", has made Him many friends in that Country, viz : 
 The Ponsonby'sf — [Henry] Grattan, — Lord Moira &c. &c. — 
 
 He told Westall an Anecdote yesterday. When He was in Prussia in 
 1804 He visited the Palace at Potsdam, where He was shewn a very fine 
 Chrystal valued at £3000, which made part of a Chandelier. On His 
 admiring it, the person who shewed it said to Him very gravely in French, 
 " It will not be two years before this will be in Paris ". — A remarkable 
 proof of the known disposition of many in that Country. — 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t Ancestors of the Earl of Bessborough. 
 
CHAPTER XX 
 
 1 806- 1 807 
 
 Lord Warwick and a Picture 
 
 December 19. — Battersbee [the banker] called having come to 
 town for His daughter. He told me Lord Warwick does not reside 
 at Warwick Castle & probably never will again. His affairs are in the 
 hands of Trustees. His Son, Lord Brooke, on whom the estates are 
 entailed will not do anything while His Father continues to employ 
 Vancouver as His Agent, — His Lordship pressed Battersbee much to lend 
 Him ;£iooo but He had the prudence to decline doing it. — His Lordship 
 borrowed l^iooo of a person with whom Battersbee is acquainted, and 
 such is His inconsiderateness that though He borrowed it for family 
 purposes, being in the greatest need. He that very day gave the whole 
 of it for a picture. 
 
 The Marquiss of Hertford* lives magnificently at Ragley, 9 miles 
 from Stratford on Avon. When Battersbee has dined there with only 
 His Lordship & Lady Hertford & the Chaplain, there has been two 
 jull courses & a desert, and 8 servants waiting. He has made Ragley 
 a very fine place. There is so much wood that it is estimated He might 
 cut down ^30,000 worth but He will not touch a tree. — He is considered 
 near in what respects money notwithstanding, & frequently pays His 
 Bills by drafts on Ransom & Morland at two months. He is very atten- 
 tive & obliging & Lady Hertfordf particularly so witht. pride. 
 
 December 25. — In the even'g J. Offley [wine merchant] mentioned 
 to me His intention of no longer keeping a Carriage & Horses. — He 
 
 * The second Marquess. His share in forming what is now known as the Wallace 
 Collection was the "Nelly O'Brien" by Reynolds, and Romney's "Mrs. Robinson 
 (Perdita)." 
 
 t His second wife, who was the eldest daughter (and co-heir) of Charles Ingram, ninth 
 Viscount Irvine (see Burke's Extinct Peerage). 
 
 The third Marquess was their son. When the latter was, in 1827, Envoy-Extraordinary, 
 carrying the Order of the Garter to Nicholas I. of Russia, the magnificence displayed 
 by him made a sensation even in a Court which outshines all in Europe and partakes of 
 Asiatic splendour. It was, however, the fourth Marquess and his heir, Sir Richard 
 Wallace, who collected the bulk of the treasures at Hertford House. 
 
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70 The Farington Diary [I8O6-I807 
 
 shewed me that the expence attending it amounted to ^367 a year ; 
 that as He had no House rent to pay, He could, without a carriage, 
 continue to Hve as well as He now does for ;^8oo a year. — He said, that 
 He might retain the Carriage which wd. cost Him £10 sl yr. for taxes, 
 & have horses whenever He might require them. I strongly recom- 
 mended to Him to adopt this Oeconomical Plan. — 
 
 Women and Art 
 
 December 30. — Hoppners preface to His poem in which He spoke 
 freely of Madam Le Brun was mentioned. — Mr. Pitt said He had often 
 wondered that more women had not studied the Arts as it seemed to 
 be a pursuit so well suited to their dispositions — Edridge modestly 
 observed that it had been proved by Michael Angelo & Raphael &c. 
 that it was a study which required the greatest powers. — Mr. Pitt 
 mentioned Mrs. Damer — Edridge said, little cd. be given to Her, & that 
 Angelica who had done much better in a more difhcult branch of art, 
 was but weak compared with masculine exertions.* 
 
 Mr. Pitt did not then drink more than a pint at & after dinner — 
 drank Coffee & tea — but in even'g there was always a fowl dressed of 
 which He wd. eat a wing — & afterwards drink two or three tumblers 
 of strong port wine & water — There was nothing assumed in His manner, 
 & He conversed easily — & talked a good deal — but there was always 
 something abt. Him that prevented familiar approach. — 
 
 1807 
 
 January 2. — Smirke called in the even'g. He did not like Edridge's 
 drawing of me, saying it had a mean & peevish expression. He thought 
 that by Dance much superior to it.— He shd. not have known that by 
 Edridge. 
 
 January 3. — Smirke spoke with much approbation of my picture 
 of " The Ouse Bridge" & said " I might leave that as my Monument." 
 — C. OfHey said it did not look like a modern picture. 
 
 January 8. — Hoppner has established a kind of Conversazione 
 every Wednesday even'g at His House, Tea, — Whist, — Sandwiches & 
 Wine, — 
 
 Art Patrons 
 
 Woodfordej told me He was born at a Village near Castle Carey 
 in Wiltshire. — That an Uncle of his, an Attorney, having business with 
 the late Mr. Hoare of Stourhead, had carried some drawings which He 
 
 * Madame Vigee Le Brun, eminent painter ; Mrs. Damer, the sculptor ; and Angelica 
 Kauffman are the women referred to. 
 
 t S. Woodforde, R.A. See Index, Vols. II. and III. The D.N.B. says that Wood- 
 forde was born at Castle Gary In Somerset; but Dr. Robert E. H. Woodforde states that 
 the artist was born at Ansford in Somerset, and that he was a relative of the Rev, James 
 Woodforde, extracts from whose diary were published in book form this year (1924). 
 
180 7] Art Patrons 71 
 
 had made, when between i6 & 17 years old, to Mr. Hoare, who im- 
 mediately offered Him encouragement ; allowed Him to draw from 
 pictures at Stourhead, & then sent Him to London to study at the 
 Royal Academy, — Mr. Hoare died in a few years, but the Father of 
 the present Sir Richard Hoare, who was the head Partner of the Banking 
 House, and the first Baronet of that name, on succeeding to the fortune 
 of his Cousin, Mr. Hoare of Stourhead, offered to send Woodforde to 
 Italy, and to allow Him j^ioo a yr. for 3 years. Woodforde was then 
 23 or 4 years of age. He went to Italy, & in 2 years His Patron died ; 
 but His Son, the present Sir Richard Hoare coming to Rome abt. that 
 period, promised to continue the allowance so long as He, Sir Richard, 
 should remain in Italy, which He did till Woodforde had been absent 
 from England abt. 6 years. He then returned with Sir Richard through 
 Germany to England, & for sometime after the allowance was continued 
 to Him, and until He told Sir Richard that He found Himself getting 
 some money. — In all He reed, from the Hoare family between ^^1500 
 & ^2000. 
 
 Celebrated Banking House 
 
 He told me He had been informed that the profits of the Banking 
 House are estimated at ^30,000 a year, and that it is a rule for the Head 
 partner to have half oj it, the second partner half of the remainder, and 
 so on in proportion. — Sir Richard has four Brothers all of whom are in 
 the Banking House, and a Sister* married to the Honble. Mr. Fortescue. — 
 Sir Richard Hoare's estate is estimated at between 9 & ^10,000 a year. 
 He is now in His 49th. year, & has only one Child, a Son [Henry, who 
 died in 1836], abt. 22 years of age, who has been at Oxford. Sir Richard 
 is now busily employed on a work on the Antiquities of England, including 
 a very full acct. of the Druids, & Druidical monuments & vestiges. — A 
 work of great labour & expence, which, it is expected will not [be] sold 
 at less than ^20 a Copy when published. f 
 
 The late Mr. Hoare, of Bath, portrait painter, was not a relation 
 of this family but was much esteemed by the late Mr. Hoare of Stour- 
 head. — His eldest daughter married Mr. Hoare, J uncle to the present 
 Sir Richard, who was called " fat Harry." He was a " Jovial liver " 
 & died several years ago. His widow now resides at Beckenham in 
 Kent, — but has no family. — 
 
 * Henrietta Anne married first Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, secondly Captain the Hon. 
 Matthew Fortescue, R.N. She died 1841. 
 
 t Ancient History of North and South Wiltshire, 2 vols., royal folio, 1810-19, with 
 97 plates, published at lp.\ \ a large paper edition ^31 los. 
 
 X Henry Hoare, second son of Sir Richard Hoare, Knight, married Mary, daughter of 
 William Hoare, R.A,, of Bath. 
 
CHAPTER XXI 
 
 1807 
 
 Schoolmasters 
 
 January 8. — Yart, a pupil of mine before I went to Houghton 
 [June, 1773] called. He told me he has had 14 Children, of which 7 
 are now living, viz. : one Son who is named Joseph Farington, & is now 
 in the Queens regiment of [ ] and 6 daughters, the eldest 25 
 
 years old, & a governess at Lady Oxendon's* in Kent where she has 
 80 guineas a year. — He Has 3 other daughters situated in similar capa- 
 cities. — He had another Son, named after me, who was my God Son, 
 but He died. — He spoke much of what comes under his inspection as 
 a drawing Master, and sd. the Art in this Country never will advance 
 owing to the inundation of young men who throw themselves into it 
 & practise superficially for a livelihood. — He spoke naturally as the 
 world appears to Him, judging from what He experiences in His pursuit 
 & in His Circle. — 
 
 A School at Ealing 
 
 He has taught drawing at Dr. Nichols school at Ealing 13 years, & 
 spoke very highly of the admirable manner in which the school &c. is 
 regulated. — There are now 186 Boys. Dr. Nichols is abt. 36 years old, 
 & has 9 children. He said Dr. Nichols keeps an excellent table ; dines 
 with the Boys y other Masters at 3 oClock, so that the weight of study 
 is during the morning. — Yart attends twice a week, and has several 
 other schools. — He taught drawing at Dr. Goodenough'sf school but 
 
 * Lady Oxendon's husband was Sir Henry Oxendon, Bart., whose family had resided 
 at Dene in Kent from the time of Edward III. Sir Percy Dixwell Nowell Dixwell- 
 Oxendon is the present representative of this ancient family. 
 
 t Dr. Samuel Goodenough, D.C.L., 1743-1827, was in 1808 elevated to the Episcopal 
 Bench as Bishop of Carlisle. Dr. Goodenough was married to Miss Elizabeth Ford, sister 
 of Sir Richard Ford, who has been several times mentioned in the Diary. [See footnote, 
 Vol. I., page 174.] This lady was the great-great-aunt of Mr. R.Ford, who owns a superb 
 collection of pictures and drawings by Richard Wilson. 
 
 Mr. Ford sends the following rhyme about Dr. Goodenough on his preaching before 
 the House of Lords : 
 
 " 'Tis well enough that Goodenough before the Lords should preach, 
 For sure enough, full bad enough were those he had to teach." 
 
 It was William Goodenough, M.D., who married, on June 2, 1770, Anne, eldest daughter 
 of Anthony Addington and sister to Henry Addington, first Viscount Sidmouth. She died 
 June 12, 1806. 
 
 72 
 
1807] A School at Ealing 73 
 
 that was upon a different Plan. Only 15 Boys were taken & at 150 
 guineas a year. — Three or Four Sons of the Duke of Portland were 
 educated there, but the Duke never ■paidjor them ; but He did eventually 
 much better for Dr. Goodenough, by first presenting Him to a hving 
 of ^400 a year value ; — then obtaining for Him a Canonry of Windsor ; 
 and lastly the Deanery oj Rochester ; the whole, amounting to between 
 2 and ;^3000 a year. — He has retired from the school abt. 5 or 6 years 
 & is abt. 6j years of age. A nephew, of his own name, married one of 
 his daugrs. and now has the School. Quere, did not Dr. Goodenough 
 marry a Sister of Lord Sidmouth & obtain most of the prefferment 
 from Him ? 
 
 January 11. — Nollekens sat to day to Edridge for a drawing a 
 Portrait of Him. — He was to attend at Carleton House at 12 oClock to 
 proceed in making a Model for a Bust of the Prince of Wales. — The 
 Prince had already sat once or twice to Him & has commenced great 
 famiharity with Him, calhng Him " His friend Nollekens ". — 
 
 Lord & Lady Lucan* are separated. She resides in Cheshire. 
 There are 5 or 6 children of whom His Lordship is very fond. Her 
 infidelity to Her first Husband, Mr. Howard, with His Lordship, renders 
 the obtaining a divorce now impracticable. — 
 
 Professional versus Amateur 
 
 January 12. — [John] Landseer called in the even'g. — He shewed me 
 a copy sheet of printed Lectures, which were read at the Royal Institu- 
 tion. — He had proposed to pubhsh them on his own account, but had 
 now sold the first edition of 750 Copies to Longman & Co. of Paternoster 
 Row.f He sd. He had written a Preface in which there was matter 
 that might He had apprehended, be liable to action at Law, but He had 
 put it into the hands of Sir Saml. Romilly, the Solicitor Genl. who had 
 returned it with an opinion that it might safely be published. — He 
 told me that the new proposed publication, to be called the Director, 
 was first offered to Prince Hoare for Him to have the management of 
 it. Hoare proposed that Projessional men should, write in it, but to 
 this Mr. BernardX who proposed the undertaking to Him objected, saying 
 that what should be written ought to be by those who looked on rather 
 than by those who practise. — Hoare soon after went out of town, and 
 in the Country reed, from Mr. Bernard a Prospectus of the work, & a 
 
 * Lady Lucan was Elizabeth Belasyse, third daughter of the last Earl of Fauconherg. 
 She was divorced by Act of Parliament in 1794 from Bernard Edward Howard, afterwards 
 Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 t " Lectures on the Art of Engraving delivered at the Royal Institution," published 
 London, 1807, 6s. The notes accompanying this work severely commented on Josiah 
 Boydell and on a pamphlet which Boydell had issued. The lectures at the R.I. were cut 
 short by John Landseer's dismissal on the ground of disparaging allusion to Alderman 
 John Boydell. John Landseer (A.R.A.) was the father of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. 
 
 X Afterwards Sir Thomas Bernard. See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
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 signification that He (Bernard) should conduct it. — Hoare upon this 
 determined to pubhsh a work of a similar nature, & had reed, assurances 
 of support from FuseH, Opie &c. and desired to be assisted by Landseer 
 who agreed to it. — 
 
 Dr. Monro's* Second Son, a youth 15 years of age, now attends the 
 Royal Academy regularly. — It had been His Father's intention to educate 
 him for the Navy, but the inchnation of the Son prevailed. — Dr. Monro 
 has 5 Sons and one Daughter. 
 
 * Dr. Monro was Turner's early patron, and his son, Henry Monro, who was born in 
 1 79 1, won a premium of 100 guineas at the British Institution. An artist of considerable 
 promise, he died in 18 14. 
 
CHAPTER XXII 
 
 1807 
 
 Hoppner and Lawrence 
 
 January 19. — Lane called, — was with Hoppner yesterday, — who sd. 
 did not before know that He had an engagement with Lawrence, — but that 
 He worked for Him occasionally,— offered Him 20 guineas for 8 copies of 
 Mr. Pitts portrait, & signified that He might further employ Him. — Lane 
 took time to consider the offer, but now I evidently saw He was inclined 
 to leave Lawrence, having no hope that matters wd. go on better, said 
 fretting abt. it caused His illness the last spring. — I then told Him 
 Lawrence ought to know what had passed. He said He wd. go to Him, — 
 He did & returned much heated, sd. that on his communicating to 
 Lawrence that He had been with Hoppner, He bowed & left him. — 
 
 Lawrence I called on. He was much agitated abt. Lane's business. 
 I told Him what Lane had said. He assured me that Lane declared 
 He should leave Him, — and that it was in consequence of that that 
 He bowed & left Him. — I represented to him how much the necessity of 
 arrangement increased. — 
 
 Christian Humility 
 
 January 20. — Wilson* told me that He had frequently met Dr. 
 Horsley, the late Bishop of St. Asaph,t at Mr. Palmer's, Brother to Mrs. 
 Horsley the Bishop's second wife, & partner with Wilson in a House 
 of India Agency. — He always found the Bishop proud, — holding commer- 
 cial men at great distance, a man not to be approached by persons of 
 that degree, — carrying Himself very high — no semblance of Christian 
 Humihty. — The period at which He died was unlucky. — He had insured 
 His lije for the benefit of His Creditors, being much in debt, and the 
 Policy expired upon the day on which he was taken ill., Tuesday., and He 
 died on the Friday following, so that His Creditors derived no benefit 
 from his insurance, but claiming upon His property left it is supposed 
 there will be about 15 shilHngs in the pound for them. — 
 
 * Lestock P. Wilson, of 2, Frederick Place, Old Jewry, and Coopersale Grove, Epping, 
 was fourth officer on the Calcutta (H.E.I. Co.) in 1771-72, and ended his seafaring career as 
 captain of the Exeter in 1798-99. Afterwards he acted as an East India Agent, tendering 
 for the Cambridge, 768 tons, on November 9, 18 10, for example. See Vols. II. and III. 
 
 t Dr. Samuel Horsley. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
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 The Bishoprick of St. Asaph is about £7000 a year. — The Bishop 
 left only one Child, a Son, abt. 28 or 30 years of age, to whom He had 
 been enabled to give Church preferment to the amount of abt. ;^i5oo 
 a year, — but He has been a very dissipated man, — & is in debt to the 
 amount of ^£1400. His Church preferment is sequestrated, & a plan 
 has been formed by which in 12 years His debts will be paid & He will 
 again be in possession of His Income. — When He obtained His valuable 
 preferment. He began to build upon it upon a very large & expensive 
 scale which has been stopped. 
 
 Army Apothecary 
 
 Wilson told me that John Calvert Clarke is a Bankrupt. He was, 
 with His partners, in the Gazette on Saturday last. — He had been 
 Apothecary to the Army, that is, had provided medicines for the Army, 
 
 under the order of Mr. [ ], by which principally, though his 
 
 disposition had led Him into speculations. He had acquired ,^40,000. — 
 When peace was made in 1782, He concluding that the army would be 
 reduced, & the demand for Medicines become much less, — was induced 
 by hope of advantage to connect Himself with two persons, Merchants 
 in the City, and advanced to them for His share in the concern ^40,000. 
 — The whole business was transacted by them, for He was otherways 
 too much occupied to examine their proceedings, — and though some- 
 thing of difficulty might have been mentioned to him yet the real situa- 
 tion of the concern was witheld from Him till it could not be concealed 
 from Him that a Bankruptcy must take place ; — thus in 3 or 4 years He 
 lost his whole fortune — He has by His second wife four Children, & by 
 His former wife one child. 
 
 Rev. Sydney Smith 
 
 Mr. Mady* spoke of the good luck of Sydney Smith, | a popular 
 preacher, who having been introduced at Holland House, so gained 
 the regards of Lady Holland that lately one day when He dined there 
 in company with the Lord Chancellor Erskine &c. &c. when the gentlemen 
 went up to tea, Lady Holland addressed the Chancellor, & said He must 
 make Her a promise. — He replied, by desiring to know Her request, — 
 she said It was for the first living He had to give away, that it shd. be to 
 Mr. Sydney Smith. — The Chancellor sd. it shd. be so, — & the next day 
 a living of ;^6oo a year becoming vacant He presented Smith to it, over- 
 looking, as Mr. Mady said, many old and most respectable claimants to 
 His favor. — 
 
 Dr. Holland a Physician, who married one of Lord Erskines daughters 
 was spoke of. — When Lord Erskine was made Chancellor He said to 
 Holland — " Leave yr. Physick & turn to Divinity." — Holland understood 
 the hint, — took orders, & has already two or three livings. 
 
 * Chaplain at St. James's Church. 
 
 t The Rev. Sydney Smith. See Index, Vol. III. 
 
CHAPTER XXIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Lord Warwick's Protege 
 
 January 23. — [Thomson, R.A. spoke of] an Artist of the name 
 of Wallis* a Landscape painter, who is lately returned from Italy. 
 He at his outset reed, assistance from Lord Warwick. — While at Rome 
 when the French first took possession of it, He behaved to the English 
 Artists who were there in an infamous manner, having acted as a Spy 
 upon them, & given such reports of them to the French Commanders 
 as were intended to bring them into difficulties. — Duppa, — Thomson, 
 — Head, &c. &c. were there at the time. Thomson wishing to proceed 
 to Germany was desirous of obtaining a Passport from the French Com- 
 mander in Chief, General St. Cyr, & at length obtained admission to Him. 
 On his requesting the General's signature to a Passport, the General sd. 
 it wd. not be required, the general order He had reed, to leave Rome wd. 
 do ; but on Thomson repeating His request, saying it might prevent 
 future difficulties, the General proceeded to sign it, & while looking at 
 the paper, smiled, & asked " Do you know Mr. Wallis,'^ — Thomson ac- 
 knowledged that He did, as much as He would know of such a man. — 
 The General continued smiling & said " A clever man " — This hint of 
 General St. Cyr perfectly corresponded with what the Artists had heard 
 of Walhs's conduct. General St. Cyr was a man of fine appearance & 
 elegant manners, quite a man of rank, abt. 35 years of age. — 
 
 Detestable Conduct 
 
 In so great detestation was Wallis held, that one day coming into 
 the EngHsh Coffee House at Rome, accompanied by Gandy,-\ all who were 
 
 * John William Wallis was a Scottish landscape painter, who about 1812 became a 
 picture dealer. Duppa and Head were artists. See Vols. II. and III. 
 
 t Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843), who was a pupil of James Wyatt, the architect, 
 won, in 1790, the gold medal at the Royal Academy Schools for a design of a triumphal 
 arch, and while in Rome, was awarded the Pope's medal in the first class for architecture. 
 
 Elected an A.R.A. in 181 1, he became associated with Sir John Soane, and his brilliant 
 talents were "chiefly employed on works for which Soane got the chief credit," says 
 Lionel Cust in the Dictionary of National Biography. Gandy wasof an impracticable 
 nature, and his life, saddened by disappointment and poverty, ended in insanity, it is said. 
 He died in December, 1843, leaving a son, Thomas Gandy, portrait painter. Joseph 
 published two works, one in 1805, " Designs for Cottages, Cottage Farms, &c.," and " The 
 Rural Architect." Drawings by him are to be seen at the Soane Museum. 
 
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 present immediately rose & retired from that room in which they were to 
 another & ordered their Coffee to be brought to them. — 
 
 WalHs had married an Enghsh Woman who attended Him to Rome, 
 where His ill behaviour to Her, it was believed, caused Her to lose Her 
 senses. — He availed Himself of the Code of Laws respecting Divorce 
 at that time estabhshed by the French, & agreeable to it, took a Roman 
 woman to Wife, having, in the French manner, repudiated His lawful 
 wife. — Thomson sd. that His conduct altogether had been such as to cause 
 Him to be an object of execration to all that knew Him. — 
 
 At Hoppners a few nights ago He was spoken of as being returned to 
 England and Reinagle Junr., who had known him at Rome, sd. He 
 would inform the government of his Democratick conduct & the danger 
 of his principles in order to have him sent away, but this as He is an 
 Englishman, it was shewn cannot be, but Hoppner sd. if some particulars 
 were given to Him, he would take care they should be communicated 
 where they ought to be. Thomson sd. He has ingenuity in His pro- 
 fession, and a manner that may enable Him to introduce Himself to 
 persons who ought to be guarded against Him & He hoped / & others 
 wd. be aware of Him. 
 
 Wallis has got into acquaintance with Beechey. — He is between 
 40 & 50 years of age. — 
 
 Smirke calling in the even'g. A few days ago Wallis called upon Him 
 sent up His name " Mr. Wallis from Italy." — He was a stranger to 
 Smirke, who found Him a talking man, who spoke of His jriend Lord 
 Mount Cashell, &c. &c. — of Italy as the only country for an artist ; 
 England not a country to paint in ; — seemed to hold British Art very 
 cheap ; — sd. Architecture had been his particular study, — that He 
 had seen one specimen of Wyatt, which was so bad, that it [would] 
 be difficult for an Architect of good taste to do anything so ill, though 
 He were to attempt it with that view. Smirke sd. His aspect is of a 
 very forbidding kind. — 
 
 Boydell and Business 
 
 January 24. — Boydell called & declined purchasing Lawrence's 
 plate of the Bishop of Gloucester ; but offered to sell the prints from 
 it upon a Commission of 20 pr. cent, and that Lawrence should receive 
 80 guineas, the price He had paid for it, out of the first money reed. 
 to that amount, the expenses of paper & printing &c. having been de- 
 ducted ; and that after 80 guineas had been paid, the Plate shd. then be 
 considered to be their joint property, for which Boydell wd. take upon 
 Himself the printing & pubHshing ; but all expenses to be paid before 
 any profits shd. be divided. — He sd. He has established a communi- 
 cation with Branscomb's and other principal Lottery Offices, by means 
 of which He should be able very much to forward the sale of whatever 
 He might publish. He gives to the Lottery Offices with which He 
 engages Seven & a Half per cent, upon all they sell for Him. They in 
 
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 consequence are able to allow a profit to the Country Offices, for promoting 
 the sale in every part of the Kingdom. 
 
 J. OfHey called in the evening & informed me that a letter was this day 
 reed, by Sir Gilbert Heathcote while sitting as Chairman of a Committee 
 of the House of Commons, from Lord Howick, informing Him that 
 His Lordship had reed, a letter from Lord Hutchinson stating that the 
 Russians had defeated the French, that the latter had lost 4,000 men. — 
 The Committee gave three cheers, — & Mr. Parker, a member of it, carried 
 the news into the City where it produced a great effect. — All the News 
 Offices, this evening, have the information in large Characters. — J. 
 Offley also met a Mr, Noble who told Him that Mr. Freemantle, a Lord of 
 the Treasury, had just mentioned to Him, that the Austrians had declared 
 War against the French.* 
 
 January 26. — Mr. Phippsf I dined at. — The victory of the Russians 
 was much talked of. — West said " in forming His judgment on such reports 
 He looked to daUs, & to positions. — As to Buonaparte returning to 
 Warsaw from Osterniske [Ostrolenka], what wd. He have done had He 
 defeated the Russians, He must go somewhere for Winter quarters & 
 accomodation," inferring that He had did not prove that He had been 
 beaten. — Our byass is generally shewn by our manner of receiving 
 information. — 
 
 [The Herald contained an Official Note which was on the 24th (Satur- 
 day) transmitted by Lord Howick to the Lord Chancellor, — the sitting 
 Committee of the House of Commons and the merchants at Lloyds. — 
 
 Bulletein — Jany. 24, 1807. 
 
 " Lord Howick had just reed. intelHgence, of the truth of which 
 He has not the least doubt, that an action was fought between the 
 Russians and French, on the 27th of Deer, last, which continued three 
 successive days, and on the last of which the French retreated, with 
 the loss of 4,000 slain, & eighty pieces of Cannon. — The Scene of action 
 was at Osterniske [Ostrolenka], sixty or seventy miles from Warsaw. 
 The enemy made this retreat to within eight miles of that place, and 
 were also entrenching themselves at Magdeburgh " (Marienburg). — Small 
 note-book.] 
 
 A Great Project 
 
 January 27. — We looked at Hogarths Works. BoydellJ pays an 
 annuity of ,^250 a year for this property to a woman§ who is now upwards 
 of 70 to whom, Mrs. Hogarth left the plates. — This annuity has been 
 paid upwards of 20 years. — Boydell said that the work now sells very 
 
 * Lord Howick, afterwards second Earl Grey. Lord Hutchinson, afterwards second 
 Earl of Donoughmore. See entry under February 7th, and Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 t The Hon. Augustus Phipps. See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 t Josiah Boydell. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 § Mrs. Mary Lewis, cousin of Hogarth's wife, who was a daughter of Sir James Thornhill, 
 the historical painter and Hogarth's master, and made a runaway marriage with Hogarth. 
 
80 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 well, I understood Him on an average 40 sets in a year. — He said that 
 the Plates had never been retouched. 
 
 He read to me a grand plan for a most extensive publication which 
 might be called, I said, " The History of the world exemplified." — A 
 Series of pictures to be painted of subjects commencing with the Old 
 Testament, and proceeding in Classes, through the Histories of all nations, 
 forming together a whole, & each part being a complete work of itself, — 
 this could be carried into execution by the use of Thirty or Forty 
 Thousand pounds, and shd. Alexander Davidson,* wishing to distin- 
 guish himself as a Patron of the arts be disposed to advance that sum & 
 carry on the work in conjunction with him, He had no doubt that the 
 sale of 400 sets wd. pay all expences. — 
 
 Life and Liberty Safeguarded 
 
 He spoke of the manner in which "Judicial business is carried on by 
 the Judges, — They do not wait till the Hour of trial comes on but the 
 evening before have documents of the matter put into their hands for 
 their consideration ; by which means they come into court fully prepared 
 by a knowledge of the nature of each case. — Lady Alvanley told Mrs. 
 Boydell that the late Lord Alvanley,t Chief Justice of the Common 
 Pleas, was occupied, in Term time, from soon after dinner till 12 oClock 
 at night, in reading papers respecting what was to come on the following 
 day ; also obliged to be up by Six oClock in the morning to prepare to go 
 to the Court. — The consequence of so much previous consideration is 
 that the probability of the Issue of each trial is pretty well known before 
 it comes on. — 
 
 Boydell sd. that the present Recorder of the City had told Him, That 
 when [he] carries up a list of Convicts to the King in Council for final 
 decision, the whole matter of a trial is gone into, being read by Him, 
 & questions are asked sometimes by the King, & sometimes by the Lords 
 of Council, such as whether such or such questions were put to Witnesses 
 to throw more light upon the matter. — Thus guarded is the life & liberty 
 of a British subject. — 
 
 At a trial at the Old Bailey,an Alderman of London may put a question 
 to a witness ; but He must do it through the Judge. — Fielding,X the 
 Council, might have made a more distinguished figure in the Law than 
 He has done, having suflBcient ability, but He is too indolent. Garrozv, 
 at His outset, owed much to Fielding, who being too lazy to do the 
 business which was offered to Him, turned it over to Garrow. — 
 
 * Alexander Davison. See Vol. III., page 295. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. I. and III. 
 
 X William Fielding, oldest son of Henry Fielding, the novelist, was baptised on 
 February 25, 1748. He practised on the Northern Circuit, but, as suggested by Boydell, 
 had little business. He became a Magistrate for Westminster and died in 1820. Like 
 his father, he had considerable conversational skill, could sing a good song, and tell stories 
 to the taste of the younger barristers on circuit. Sir John Fielding, the notorious Bow 
 Street Magistrate, was his uncle. 
 
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 [January 28. — Miss Lee's* new Play of " Assignation " performed 
 the first time — at Drury Lane Theatre — and was dissaproved and with- 
 drawn. — From small note-book.] 
 
 January 29. — Lord Harcourt called, in one of the Royal Coaches, 
 but I declined being at home, as I was busily engaged. 
 
 J. Offley's I dined at. — Captn. Thomson spoke of the vast expence 
 incurred in forming Military defences at Dover & in its vicinity. The 
 whole is under the direction of General Twiss, and 3 or 400 men, besides 
 Officers are daily employed for that purpose, & as new ideas occur, works 
 of great labour are done away and another plan adopted. It is also 
 said it wd. require 40,000 men to defend the works, as they are very 
 extensive. All that can be said is that the money laid out is among 
 ourselves. — After tea a Courier was purchased which raised our spirits 
 by informing us that the 49th. or 50th. Bulletien of the French Army had 
 been reed, by our government, in which they allow that they had on the 
 27th. of Deer. 7000 men killed and 19 Generals. 
 
 * See Vol. III., page j6n. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
CHAPTER XXIV 
 
 1807 
 
 Shee and Hoppner 
 
 February 1. — Shee [R.A.] is separated from all parties in the 
 Academy. He no longer has intercourse with Hoppner, & it is under- 
 stood by Woodforde that it is founded upon Shee's objection to the 
 conduct of Hoppner, who being a member of the Council sent many 
 pictures for Exhibition in an unfinished state, & availing himself of 
 having access to the Academy rooms, finished them there, which Shee 
 says, is, virtually, as much against the meaning of the Law respecting 
 the admission of Pictures intended for Exhibition, as it would be to 
 keep them back beyond the time limited and then send them in. 
 
 Sir Joshua and the Bishop 
 
 February 2. — West said He had examined the Books of the Academy, 
 and also recollected circumstances respecting the Electing the late 
 Bishop of Limerick, (then Dr. Barnard, Bishop of Killaloe) Chaplain 
 to the Royal Academy. — It was in October 1791 that Sir Joshua Reynolds 
 wrote to West on the subject. Sir Joshua finding His Health declining, 
 it being only four months before His death, thought proper to send a 
 second letter of Resignation to the Royal Academy ; which He did on 
 the loth. of November 1791 ; but previous to it wrote to West inform- 
 ing Him that the Bishop of Killaloe would be glad to accept the Office 
 of Chaplain to the Royal Academy, provided it could be previously 
 [ascertained] by private application that it would be agreeable to His 
 Majesty. — Sir Joshua desired the Bishop to write to Him to that effect, 
 which He did, & West happening then to be at Windsor, Sir Joshua 
 wrote to Him & enclosed the Bishop's letter, & desired Him to obtain 
 His Majesty's sentiments upon it. West immediately carried both letters 
 to the King, who entirely approved the proposal & added that " It would 
 begin with an Irish Bishop ; but He might perhaps be followed by an 
 English Bishop." — West having signified to Sir Joshua, His Majesty's 
 approbation, at a general meeting on the loth of November, the night 
 on which Sir Joshuas letter of Resignation was read, Mr. West sat as 
 Deputy President, at Sir Joshuas request, & proposed the Bishop of 
 
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1807] Sir Joshua and the Bishop 83 
 
 Killaloe to be Chaplain & He was immediately elected. The resignation 
 of Sir Joshua was not accepted, & it was the sense of the whole Academy 
 that He shd. be continued President & that a Deputy might act for 
 Him when required. 
 
 West said that He had now thought it most prudent to call a Council 
 this evening at which he shd. propose the Bishop of Exeter to be Chaplain 
 & that notice of it might be included in the Summons for a general 
 meeting tomorrow. — I mentioned to Him that the Bishop when Elected 
 ought to have Lecture Tickets sent to Him, for Himself 8c others, as 
 Academicians have, as it would add to His idea of the appointment & 
 also probably bring an addition of respectable company on those 
 occasions. — He approved it. — 
 
 The Duke of Bronte 
 
 [February 7. — Yesterday, Earl Nelson was presented to His Majesty 
 by Lord Grenville, upon His receiving the grant of a Pension and estate, 
 and His Majestys permission to accept the title of Duke of Bronte, in 
 Sicily, and also Viscount Trajalgar, (eldest Son of Earl Nelson) upon his 
 assuming that title, instead of his former one of Viscount Merton. His 
 Lordship, as a Knight of the order of St. Joachim, wore the Riband & 
 Star of that Order, which lately adorned His Uncle, the immortal Nelson, 
 the Hero of the Nile ; and the Sword presented by His Majesty the 
 King of Naples, to that ever to be lamented Chief. We understand that 
 the Diamonds in the mounting of the Sword are of many thousand 
 pounds value, and that it is the most brilliant ever exhibited at this 
 Court, having been a present from His most Catholic Majesty the King 
 of Spain, to His Son, the King of Naples. 
 
 Messrs. Barker & Dunnier arrived in town with dispatches for govern- 
 ment from Russia. They left Petersburgh the 8th. of January, at which 
 time great rejoicings prevailed there on account of the decissive victory 
 gained by General Bennigsen over Buonaparte [in Poland, near Pultusk], 
 on the Narew on the 26th. of December. The total loss of the French 
 as stated in the account of the Russian Commander-in-Chief to his Court 
 was 4,000 killed, — 6000 prisoners, and 81 pieces of cannon : that of 
 the Russians from 1500 to 2000. — A masked battery of the Russians 
 swept away 3000 of the enemy. — This was the battle in which the French 
 in their 47th bulletein, stated that the Russians were so completely 
 routed & dispersed, that they could never again make head, as an Army, 
 & that therefore the French had nothing to do but to go into winter 
 cantonments. — From small note-book.] 
 
 A Book Collector 
 
 February 13. — Waldron, the Shoemaker, who resided formerly in 
 Basinghall Street died the last day of April last at the age of 65. — He 
 left a widow, & one child only, a daugr. who is married, & has children. 
 He died possessed of property which will produce near l^iooo a year. 
 His father had saved some money, — which was inherited by Waldron 
 
 VOL. IV. 6* 
 
84 The Farington Diary [i807 
 
 & another Son, who also died & Waldron was His Heir, He married 
 a woman who had abt. ;^I500, She died, & He married Her Sister who 
 had abt. the same Sum. — His passion was for collecting Books & Prints, 
 and the Collection He made is estimated at ;^3000 being a very choice 
 one. It is now to be sold by King & Co. 
 
 Captain Thomas Manby 
 
 February 14. — Lawrence I passed the day & evening with looking 
 
 over accounts & preparing them. — It was expected the P s wd. 
 
 have gone to Court on Thursday last in consequence of what she had 
 
 reed, from the Commissioners : but it now appears that the P has 
 
 come forward upon the foundation of something which happened at 
 High Cli^ near Ramsgate or Broadstairs. — It is said a Gardener has 
 given evidence of having seen Captn. Manby* go into the House at 
 unseasonable Hours. — Lord St. Vincent was examined by the Commis- 
 sioners & said He had, at the time the P s was at High Chff, a letter 
 
 stating that she understood [the] residence there wd. be insecure unless 
 a Ship was stationed near that place, & she desired a frigate might be 
 sent & named the AJricane, Captn. Manby, which was accordingly 
 
 ordered thither. — The P s now speaks of Captn. Manby with great 
 
 contempt, which some think is not prudent. — 
 
 Authors and Publishers 
 
 February 15. — Baker's I dined at.f Duppa complained much of 
 the conduct of Robinsons, the Booksellers, in Pater-noster-row, on acct. 
 of their conduct respecting the publication of " His Jail oj the Papal 
 Potver.'"X The first edition was 500, and the books were sold at 5s. — 
 for this edition they paid him ^40. — but a second edition was published, 
 750, and for this they brought Him in Debtor 25 guineas. — He remon- 
 strated with them and they told Him that they had considered Him a 
 gentleman & that He did not look for profit. 
 
 A Mr. Beresford is the Author of a book intitled " The Miseries oj 
 human lije " which has sold prodigiously, so as to produce to Beresford 
 a profit of ^iooo.§ 
 
 • Afterwards Rear-Admlral Thomas Manby. See Vol. III., page 297 and note. 
 
 t George Baker. See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 X Richard Duppa. See Vol. II., page iii. "A Journal of the most remarkable 
 Occurrences that took place in Rome upon the subversion of the Ecclesiastical Govern- 
 ment in 1798." 
 
 § James Beresford (1764- 1840), miscellaneous writer, second son of Richard Beresford, 
 was born at Upham, Hants. Educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, he 
 became rector of Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, in 18 12, and died there on Septem- 
 ber 29, 1840. The full title of the work was " The Miseries of Human Life ; or, the 
 Last Groans of Timothy Testy, and Samuel Sensitive, with a few supplementary Sighs 
 of Mrs. Testy," London, 1806-7. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott, and ran through 
 geveral editions. Beresford \vas author also of poetical translations and religious books. 
 
1807] Authors and Publishers 85 
 
 Duppa dined a few days ago with P[rince] Hoare at Murray's the Book- 
 seller, in Fleet Street. Cumberland, the Author was there & read a 
 paper which He had written on Plays something in the manner of 
 Johnson's lives of the Poets. — It was very well written & Hoare urged 
 Him to let it be published in His new periodical work, " The Artist." — 
 Hoare told Duppa that He had a very able paper on " Knight's principles 
 of Taste ", — (by Hoppner). — 
 
 It appeared at the time of Mr. Pitts death that several of his friends 
 had advanced money to Him, viz : Lord Camden, C. Long, J. Smith, 
 the Bishop of Lincoln, & two or three others — ^£2000 each. — After Mr. 
 Pitts death the Bishop was the only one who claimed His money. — 
 
CHAPTER XXV 
 
 1807 
 
 Catalani at the Opera 
 
 February 16. — Lawrence I dined with ; and we proceeded in the 
 investigation of His business. [He was then in financial difficuhies.] — 
 Comrie, an Attorney, called from Taylor of the Opera House, to desire 
 Lawrence to paint a picture of Madame Catalani.* — She produces greater 
 profits to the Opera House than were ever before known, the receipts 
 of the House, exclusive of Boxes, is upon an average between 6 & ^joo 
 a night. These great receipts will enable Taylor & the other Proprietors 
 to clear off their incumbrances. — Catalani is engaged at ^2000 for the 
 Season. — Mrs. BiUington had ^£2500 but this was concealed from Her 
 by Gould who engaged Her, and told Her that no Foreigner had reed, 
 more than 3^2000, from which she concluded no person had reed, more 
 than that Sum. — She is very much attached to Her Husband, & cannot 
 be approached by those who would offer temptations to Her. — 
 
 Lord Abercorn has been in Ireland, & so many estates let for a term 
 of years have returned to Him that He has raised His estates _^30,ooo 
 a year, making His rent roll £60,000 a year. — 
 
 Wordsworth 
 
 February 17. — Dance I dined with. — We had much conversation 
 on Poetry. Smirke expressed Himself strongly on the great excellence 
 of Wordsworths poetry, and said while reading some of his poetical pro- 
 ductions He had been quite overcome. — Dance also appeared to be much 
 delighted with them. — Both scouted mere versification, which is too often 
 admired. — Dance sd. that alone is true poetry, which expresses the strong 
 feelings of the mind of the author so as to cause the heart of the reader 
 to vibrate in unison with those feelings. — He said that He had never 
 been affected by the works of Dryden, so as to acknowledge Him to have 
 been a great poet. — 
 
 Smirke on Sunday last dined in company with Roscoe, the Historian, 
 & was much pleased with Him. He said Roscoe had the simplicity of a 
 
 * Angelica Catalani. See entry under December 17, 1806. 
 
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1807] Wordsworth 87 
 
 farmer, has much anecdote, & no affectation. — Roscoe spoke of Whit- 
 breads speech on the late Negociation for Peace with France, with great 
 admiration. He said Whitbread seemed while delivering it to be inspired. 
 Roscoe seemed entirely to concur with Whitbread that the French 
 government was really in earnest to make peace, & that it wd. have been 
 prudent to have agreed to it. — 
 
 February 18. — Gandy called to ask in what manner He could 
 apply to the Royal Academy for the situation of teacher of ferspective 
 in the Royal Academy — I told Him His application should be made by a 
 letter addressed to the President & Council. — He told me He practised 
 perspective in a way different from that which had been hitherto taught. 
 Instead of working upon a strait line, He works upon a curve line by which 
 He avoids the error of lengthening the lines falsely toward the ends of 
 the pictures. — 
 
 Society of Antiquaries 
 
 February 19. — Society of Antiquaries I went to it being the night 
 appointed for the Election of a Secretary in the room of the Revd. Mr. 
 Brand. Lord Leicester, President, in the Chair. — 
 The Candidates were : 
 
 Nicholas Carlisle Esqr. brother to the Surgeon. 
 
 The Revd. Mr. Dibdin, Lecturer at the British Institution. 
 
 The Revd. Thos. Cox. 
 The room was extremely crowded. Mr. Ray of the Temple spoke before 
 the ballotting began against the practise of having lists scored with the 
 name of a Candidate prepared to be delivered to Members. — Lord 
 Leicester, rose, & said that, in the conduct of the business there was 
 no favor or partiality ; but He avowed that He had espoused the opinion 
 of those gentlemen in the Society who were desirous of placing as Secretary 
 Mr. Carlisle, a gentleman perfectly competent to the duties of the Office, 
 and this He did as He shd. ever be disposed to support the opinion of 
 those gentlemen who had for Twenty Three years, given Him their 
 support in the situation He now filled. — Another person spoke and seemed 
 to disapprove this open avowal of His Lordship. Lysons in a low tone 
 sd. the custom of scoring lists for delivery was usual, & that unscored 
 lists might be had. — 
 
 The Ballott was then begun, — Scrutineers having been appointed. — 
 Each Member delivered a List of all the Members, having made a score 
 under the name of His favorite candidate. And also a piece of paper 
 on which He had written the same. The former (the List) was to make 
 Him Secretary, — the latter, to make Him a Member of the Council. — 
 
 I was among the first who voted & got home at 20 minutes past 8. — 
 The whole of the Council, except Willis, had publickly declared for 
 N. Carlisle. — I remained at home after returning from the Society & before 
 Eleven Daniell sent a note to me which He had just reed, from A. Carlisle 
 stating that the Election was over, and the result as follows, — viz. : 
 N. Carhsle 125. — Dibdin 72. — Cox 25. 
 
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 [Commodore Sir Home Popham* arrived in London on Tuesday 
 even'g last from Weymouth. He sailed from the River Plate Deer. 27th. 
 last, and made the quickest passage ever known from thence, viz : in 50 
 days. Admiral Sterling, who superseded Him arrived there on the 22nd. 
 of Deer, but witht. any troops or transports whatever. — From small 
 note-book.] 
 
 The Banker and Sir Joshua 
 
 February 20. — Lawrence called and informed me that He had reed. 
 a letter from Mr. Coutts last night & this morning had seen Him and had 
 desired I might call upon Him to day respecting His business, which Mr. 
 Coutts agreed to. — At 3 oClock having prepared a Statement and plan, I 
 went to Mr. Coutts & sat with Him more than Half an Hour. I was 
 much pleased with His manner. He wished success to the plan, & said 
 He shd. do nothing to oppose it. — He told me He was acquainted with 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds while He was pupil to Hudson. He said when 
 Sir Joshua began to get money He did not know what to do with it being 
 totally ignorant of such matters, which having communicated to an 
 acquaintance of His who resided in the Temple, this friend desired to 
 have his money & He would settle it for Him in the public funds. — 
 Sometime passed before Mr. Coutts was informed by Sir Joshua how He 
 was proceeding ; but having heard it. He desired Sir Joshua wd. ask His 
 friend in what Fund the money had been placed. The answer Sir 
 Joshua brought to Mr. Coutts was that it was in the Long Annuities. — 
 Upon this Mr. Coutts applied at the Bank to see how it stood, but was 
 there told that no money was in that fund in the name of Sir Joshua. — 
 Mr. Coutts reported that to Sir Joshua & urged Him to ask His friend 
 about it, who still persisted that the money was vested in the Long 
 Annuities. Sir Joshua desired Him to converse with Mr. Coutts abt. it, 
 & they met, & after some time his friend acknowledged that He had 
 not laid the money out in the Funds, but had employed it in some specula- 
 tions, but that made no difference as the money was safe. This unprin- 
 cipled conduct gave cause of alarm, but by proper management the money 
 was gradually recovered. 
 
 Mr. Coutts's manner was remarkably soft & humane. He reminded 
 me of Mr. Lock & of Gilpin [R.A.]. — He said He had never known an 
 instance of a person getting into difficulties about money matters 
 witht. His principles being vitiated by His necessities : — Indeed, He 
 added, It originated in some want of principle, as those of strict prin- 
 ciples are too guarded & prudent in their conduct not to keep clear of 
 falHng into such a situation. — I observed that Mr. Coutts read & wrote 
 witht. spectacles, though He must be at least, from the above acct. near 
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CHAPTER XXVI 
 
 1807 
 
 Capture of Curacoa 
 
 [February 23. — An Extraordinary Gazette was published to day 
 giving the leading particulars of the important capture of the Dutch 
 Island of Curacoa, in the West Indies on the first of January last, by 
 four frigates under the orders of Captn. Brisbane of the Arethusa. — The 
 other frigates, The Latona, Anson, and Fisguard. — The Tower & Park 
 guns were fired on Saturday afternoon. 
 
 An Order of Council was issued that all British Vessels which have 
 cleared out from any of the Ports of the United Kingdom to Buenos Ayres 
 & the river Plate, may proceed to any Port in St. Domingo not occupied 
 by the French or Spaniards, there to dispose of their cargoes, & to lade 
 produce in return, or to tranship Cargoes to Neutral vessels, & to send the 
 same for sale to any hostile Colony, & to bring back returns on board 
 such Neutral Vessels to any port of the United Kingdom. 
 
 Sir George Yonge appointed Governor of Tortola. — From small 
 note-book.] 
 
 Waggery 
 
 February 25. — Sir Francis Baring said it was very true that a 
 whaggery was played off upon His friend the late Marquiss of Lansdowne. 
 A letter written imitating Mr. Pitt's hand was sent to the Marquiss as 
 from Mr. Pitt requesting an interview with His Lordship signifying that 
 it was upon government business. — To this His Lordship wrote an 
 answer to Mr. Pitt expressing His readiness to wait upon him at such time 
 as might best suit him, and adding a compliment that the weight of govern- 
 ment at that time rested upon Him who was best able to bear it. — On 
 receiving this unexpected letter Mr. Pitt did not write an answer, but 
 poHtely called on Lord Lansdowne, & on accosting Him, told His Lord- 
 ship that some persons had endeavoured to make themselves merry at 
 their expense. — 
 
 Lawrence told me that His Sister estimated the expences of Her 
 Fathers family while he lived in Greek Street to be ^800 a year. 
 
 February 28. — Sheridan has promised Prince Hoare to furnish 
 Him with an Essay on Novel zvriting which He wrote a long time since 
 
 89 
 
90 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 & intended to have prefixed it to an edition of his Mothers Novel of 
 Sidney Biddulph* — Northcote attended the two Lectures read by Opie 
 at the Royal Academy on the i6th & 23rd inst. — The introduction to 
 the first Lecture Northcote thought to be much Opie's own & the ori- 
 ginality which was in it made it more interesting than what followed, 
 as in the after parts of His Lecture He treated of subjects which He could 
 not do but by adopting the opinions of others. Boaden sd. " That He 
 tore whole leaves out of Fuseli." The introduction seems to have run 
 much upon the want of patronage in this Country. 
 
 Commerce and Landed Interest 
 
 March 1. — Sir Martin Folkes called after Church time. We talked 
 of [Admiral] Sir Home Pophams case His trial being impending.! — He 
 noticed the impropriety of Sir Home in assuming the authority of a 
 Secretary of State in writing letters to the principal Commercial towns 
 after the Capture of Buenos Ayres. — His sentiments were not favorable 
 to any possibility of Sir Home's case, unless He could shew that He 
 had official orders. — For his own part He sd.. He could hardly wish that 
 we should occupy the Spanish posessions in the South America ; He said 
 that were they added to what is now posessed in India, it would be 
 encreasing the weight of the Commercial interest to such a degree as to 
 overwhelm the landed interest of this Country. 
 
 He mentioned the great proportion of Commercial men who have now 
 obtained Seats in the House of Commons, who with all their wealth, pay 
 little of Taxes, in comparison with what falls upon Country gentlemen. 
 He said they who had 4 or ^^5000 a year, & who formerly experienced the 
 comfort of independence & ease now go on with difficulty. — Upon such 
 the burden really falls. — 
 
 I mentioned Mr. Whitbreads plan for educating & maintaining the 
 poor. He appeared to think it a doubtful matter ; but He said Mr. 
 Whitbread had gone abt. in the most prudent way, by giving time, & 
 by soliciting the opinions of the Magistrates throughout the Kingdom.— 
 
 Flaxman Fully Employed 
 
 March 2. — Flaxman I called on to see his model for Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds's monument, which having modelled in Small, He is now 
 modelling one half the size of the marble figure which is to be above 7 
 feet. Metcalfe, Malone & Lady Thomond have finally approved this 
 design, — He told me that He had been in Competition with Bacon for a 
 
 * Frances Chamberlaine, wife of Thomas Sheridan. Her novel, " Miss Sidney 
 Bidulph," was published by Richardson in 1761, and met with high approval. The second 
 part was issued in 1767. 
 
 t See entry under March 11. 
 
1807] Flaxman Fully Employed 91 
 
 Monument to Lord Cornwallis* to be erected at Bombay by a subscription 
 made at that place. The Commission was sent to Lord Teingmouth &c. 
 who referred the Models of Flaxman & Bacon to The Marquiss of Staf- 
 ford — Charles Long — Lord Dartmouth — Henry Bankes & R. Payne 
 Knight, — who have decided in favor of Bacon, saying it was a more 
 magnificent design than Flaxman's. — Flaxman is to have a compensation 
 for the trouble He has taken & Lord Teingmouth &c. have informed Him 
 that He shall execute a Cenatoph. 
 
 He expressed himself to be very easy about the matter, & shd. be so 
 if He should not obtain one of the government monuments, saying that 
 He was fully employed, and thought more abt. excelhng in his art than 
 of anything else. — He sd. Bacon's designs for the public monuments were 
 not to his taste, — but He thought there were many ingenious parts in 
 Westmacotts designs, — & He also saw merit in those by Rossi. — 
 
 He told me the Students of the Academy felt under such obligation 
 to Fuseli that they had resolved to present Him with a Silver Cup as a 
 memorial of it, & had already subscribed £-^6 towards it meaning to 
 make it 3^40. — The subscription half a guinea each. — Wilkie had called on 
 him to request He wd. make a design for it, — which He promised to do, 
 and desired to be admitted to subscribe His guinea, as having been a 
 Student, declining their offer to remunerate him for his trouble. — He 
 sd. Fuseli by his attention to the Students has extremely advanced 
 them in drawing, 
 
 Hogarth and Barry 
 
 He regretted that Fuseli was not continued Professor of Painting 
 & the more so from having heard Opie's 2nd. Lecture on Monday last, 
 which He sd. had a Democratic spirit in it, & was charged with complaint 
 of want of patronage, instancing Hogarth 8c Barry as great geniuses 
 neglected. — In the latter instance He observed " That the public wd. 
 bury Him who they had starved.^' This He sd. was a false statement 
 of the matter. The public by a subscription had acted generously 
 to Barry & He by His offensive manners brought all the dishke upon 
 Him which He experienced. — Hogarth peevishly dedicated His print 
 of the March to Finchley to the King of Prussia, because the picture had 
 not been approved by the Monarch of his own country, but it was not 
 hkely to be so. — How cd. the King be supposed to approve a picture 
 which represented those troops who were going out to defend His Crown 
 
 * Mr. S. M. Edwardes, The Indian Antiquary., Meraldene, Chislehurst, writes: It 
 is of interest to recall the fact that Sir James Mackintosh, Recorder of Bombay, originally 
 wrote to Flaxman, asking him to undertake the work. 
 
 Bacon's statue, which is 6ft. 3in. in height, was erected on the old Cotton Green, 
 and now stands in the modern Elphinstone Circle Garden, opposite the Town Hall, Bombay. 
 It has long been regarded with veneration by a section of the lower classes ; and Hindu 
 constables of the Bombay City Police, if summoned to the head poHce office for reprimand 
 or punishment, are accustomed to worship the statue, offering it flowers and a cocoa-nut, 
 in the hope ot securing thereby a light punishment (see the " Bombay City Gazetteer," 
 Vol. III.). 
 
92 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 against Rebellion, in so disgraceful a manner, — licentious, disorderly & 
 with obscenity.* 
 
 * " The March of the Guards to Scotland in the year 1745," usually called " The March 
 to Fmchley." This famous painting is graphically described in Christopher Smart's 
 '* Student," also by Hogarth's friend, Justice Welch. George II. was incensed with Hogarth 
 for burlesquing the " gentlemen of the Army," and, it is said, even hinted that he should 
 be picketed for his offence. The artist, on his part, was so angry that he inscribed the 
 print to the King of Prussia, as " an Encourager of Arts and Sciences" and the German 
 Monarch, highly gratified by the honour bestowed on him, made fitting acknowledgment. 
 When Hogarth sold his works by lottery in 1750, it was found that the " Fortunate Chance 
 was Number 1941, which belongs to the said [Foundling] Hospital and that same Night 
 (April 31) Mr. Hogarth delivered the Picture to the Governors." The painting still hangs 
 in the Guilford Street institution. Sullivan's well-known print after it was published in 
 December, 1750. 
 
CHAPTER XXVII 
 
 1807 
 Boxer and Duellist 
 
 March 2. — Carlisle sd. He was one of the Surgeons who attended 
 Mr. Richardson who at the end of the last Summer [September 21, 1806] 
 was wounded in a duel with Baron Hompesch,* He was shot through 
 the body, the ball passing through the Liver, Lungs, & grasing some of the 
 Vessels near the heart. — On receiving the wound, He fell, and was con- 
 vulsed, & for an hour appeared to be dying, but afterwards recovered 
 His senses, & was brought to His lodgings in Parliament street & was 
 able to walk from the carriage to an apartment on the ground floor, & 
 to assist in undressing Himself, — His constitution being very strong He 
 was able to endure the vast evacuations that could alone save his life 
 by preventing inflammation & fever, as had suppuration taken place 
 His death wd. have been certain. — In 13 days 236 ounces of blood were 
 taken from his arm, besides 3 quarts of blood from his side. He was 
 reduced to the lowest state possible witht. extinguishing life. For 
 the 5 first days He had no sustenance allowed Him, & then only a piece 
 of toasted bread which had been steeped in water. — Some female friends 
 at one period having observed Him to be very low, gave him \ a pint 
 of milk porridge, which soon raised His pulse from j6 to 120 and it 
 became necessary to bleed Him twice to prevent the worst consequences. 
 
 At last He recovered & is now quite well & may live 30 years longer, 
 but He is an intemperate man, and associating with Officers at Woolwich 
 has since been twice drunk, & been as many times bled. He is a younger 
 brother of a person of good fortune in Kent, & has an estate of His own. 
 — He is a Boxer ; and Hompesch is a Duellist. In the quarrel between 
 them in a street in London He knocked Hompesch down once or twice, 
 
 • Mr. Ernest Taylor writes : Various details of Baron Hompesch's extraordinary 
 career and character are given in " The Taylor Papers," pubUshed by Longman several 
 years ago. This duel Is also referred to therein, and Sir Herbert (then Colonel) Taylor 
 was one of the military authorities to whom Hompesch actually asked the question whether 
 he ought not to challenge Richardson again, seeing that the latter had eventually recovered 
 from his wound. Taylor's reply was that If he did challenge Richardson again he certainly 
 deserved to be hanged. The etiquette of " giving satisfaction " in those days was Indeed 
 remarkable ! 
 
 93 
 
94 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 & as a blow given In Germany, cannot be expiated but by the death of 
 one of the parties, Hompesch since Richardson's recovery has consulted 
 military persons, " whether He ought not to challenge him again." — 
 Hompesch behaved very ill at the Duel, His pistol when fired a second 
 or third time only flashed in the pan, but the second of Richardson attend- 
 ing to what He considered to be the Laws of Duelling, instantly appealed 
 to the Baron's Second, That He ought not to fire again before Richardson 
 had pulled His trigger. While words were passing between them the 
 Baron levelled His pistol & shot Richardson. He is said to be a paltry 
 Character. 
 
 Wine and Brandy 
 
 Carlisle does not drink wine. He found it did not agree with him & 
 he left it off. He said persons who are in the habit of drinking wine if 
 they pass through the period of from 40 to 50 may go on & live to 70 or 
 80 : — but it is a cause of disorders frequently coming on at 60. — He 
 allowed that those who drink wine are less liable to infectious Jevers than 
 those who abstain from it. — In His opinion it is better to get drunk once 
 a week than to drink a fint of wine every day. — The Liver, He said, is 
 disturbed by wine. — He admitted that there are constitutions to which 
 it is necessary & as such He occasionally prescribes it. — 
 
 Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar) was spoken [of] as being in a breaking up 
 state. — Carlisle & Mrs. Carlisle were at a House where in one day He 
 drank a hottle oj Brandy. He said, there were three things which wd. 
 preserve a man. " Fire, Flannel, and Brandy." — 
 
 Home Tooke has been a drinker of Brandy. On one occasion He 
 sat opposite to an Acquaintance, & they drank to each other glass for 
 glass of pure Brandy, each encouraging the other to fill His glass. — 
 
 I Named Pitt 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Burroughs was yesterday at the Annual Welch Feast at 
 the Free Masons Tavern Sir Charles Morgan in the Chair. There were 
 more than 400 persons present. — The Prince oj Wales's health was drank 
 in the Common way witht. any particular emotion, but the Health of the 
 Princess oj Wales was drank with long continued and singular applause, 
 manifesting most forcibly the public feeling in her favour. 
 
 Sir Robert Salusbury asked me who I thought was the greatest 
 Orator I had ever heard. I named Mr. Pitt. He agreed with me, and 
 sd. He saw, as through a perspective glass, to the end of every subject. 
 In his speeches He preserved a regular flow of expression, clear & con- 
 tinued, while on the contrary Mr. Fox often hurried on to perplexity & 
 had to return & recover the thread of his argument. 
 
 Lawrence's Financial Troubles 
 
 March 4. — After breakfast I called on [ ] Antrobus* 
 
 and Coutts Trotter at the Banking House & was with them from Ten 
 
 * Edmund Antrobus (c. 1750-1826), who was knighted in 18 15. 
 
1807] Lawrence's Financial Troubles 95 
 
 till Eleven oClock. — Trotter produced a plan which He had formed in 
 which in order to enforce a regular attention to business He proposed 
 that Trustees should be appointed under a penalty of ,^1000 to engage 
 that L. shd. do what He proposed within a given time. — I objected to the 
 penalty ; He sd. such a responsibihty cd. only be expected from one who 
 had an interest in urging L. to apply, therefore it ought to be a Creditor. 
 I told Him if the proposal shd. be made to Comrie [the soHcitor] it might 
 overset the whole plan, by His insisting upon having his money imme- 
 diately. — I expressed my hope that if / y Lysons were appointed we shd. 
 be able to do all that could be done, though we shd. not bind ourselves 
 under a penalty. — He sd. He had such experience of the difficulty of 
 making L. attend to any promise that He wd. not again undertake it. 
 — Finally it seemed probable that / y Lysons shd. act as Trustees & 
 that rects. & payments shd. be made in the books of their House, by 
 which they wd. see how matters went on. — Trotter sd. He wd. send me 
 a Copy of his plan. — 
 
 Russian Victory at Eylau 
 
 March 8. — Lord Thomond's I dined at. — Sir Francis Hartwell came 
 to tea & brought an Extraordinary Gazette just published, — stating that 
 Genl. Bennigsen on the 7th, and 8th. of Febry. at Eylau near Konnigs- 
 bergh, repulsed & finally defeated the French Army under Buonaparte 
 destroying upwards of 12000 of them — the Russians lost 5 or 6000. — 
 
 His Lordship said that while Admiral Byng who was afterwards 
 shot at Portsmouth, was in confinement at Greenwich previous to His 
 being removed to Portsmouth to take His trial. His Lordship then an 
 Officer in the Guards had for a time the care of the Admiral, who had not 
 the least apprehension of what wd. be the sentence upon Him. The 
 virulence of party against him was excessive. The windows of the rooms 
 in which He was confined had Bars put before them, and the Chimney 
 also to prevent His escaping. At the latter He was indignant, & asked 
 whether they supposed He shd. become a Chimney Sweeper. — He talked 
 to Lord Thomond (then Captain O'brien) of his garden at Wrotham, & 
 expressed a hope of seeing him there. — He was a fine handsome looking 
 man. — The sentence upon him was Death for Cowardice. — Lord Thomond 
 reprobated the punishment as most unjust. — 
 
CHAPTER XXVIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Settled at Last 
 
 March 11. — Mr. Angerstein told [Lawrence] that He heard the long 
 depending matter respecting the Princess of Wales had at last been settled 
 to Her Royal Highness's satisfaction. — From another quarter He had 
 learnt that after the Commissioners had acquitted Her Royal Highness 
 of the accusations brought against Her & recommended a prosecution 
 of Lady Douglas for calumny, His Majesty signified that He would see 
 Her Royal Highness & she proposed to go to Windsor. — But it was 
 signified to Her that His Majesty shd. first visit Her. This she was 
 privately informed by some of the younger females of the j amity was a 
 -put 0^ caused by the Prince of Wales who went to Windsor & had a long 
 audience of His Majesty & seemed to be well pleased with the effect of it. 
 — Upon this the Princess wrote to the King expressing what was due to 
 Her character & that she shd. if forced to the necessity, 'publish all the 
 ■proceedings, that the world might judge of Her conduct & that of those 
 who were Her enemies. Some days passing witht. any answer being 
 reed. Mr. Perceval the late Attorney General, gave directions by Command 
 of Her Royal Highness to have them printed at a private press, & some 
 part being finished. He wrote to the Marchioness Tozvnshend Mistress of 
 the Robes to Her Highness, to inform Her of it. 
 
 Indiscretion of the Marchioness 
 
 She imprudently & improperly witht. further communication went 
 to Booth, a Bookseller & informed Him that such a publication was coming 
 out. — This He told to Cawthorne Printer & Bookseller, to Her Royal 
 Highness, who being hurt at not being employed went to Mr. Perceval 
 to speak abt. it. Mr. Perceval was surprised at the indiscretion of the 
 Marchioness in this stage of the business, & informed Him that He, Caw- 
 thorne, or others, had nothing to do with the matter nor had He anything 
 to say to Him upon it, & dismissed Him. It is understood that the Prince 
 of Wales had referred the whole matter to His own Council & it is now 
 concluded that they have represented to Him that the pubHcation might 
 more affect Him than Her Royal Highness. — 
 
 96 
 
1807] Sir Home Popham Cheered 97 
 
 Mrs. William Lock [the " beautiful Miss Jennings "] called upon 
 Lawrence today & with Her came Her Father Mr. Jennings, a very sin- 
 gular man. He dresses like a pauper, — wears a Hat which He wore 
 30 years ago ; and never has His shoes cleaned. He is supposed to be 75 
 or 6 years old. He was formerly a Count in His appearance, dress & 
 manner. — 
 
 [The trial of Sir Home Popham terminated. The sentence of the 
 Court Martial was in the following terms : " The Court is of opinion 
 that the Charges have been proved against the said Captain Sir Home 
 Popham ; — That the withdrawing, without orders so to do, the whole of 
 any Naval Force from the place where it is directed to be employed, and 
 the employing it in distant operations against the enemy, more especially 
 if the success of such operations should be likely to prevent its speedy 
 return, may be attended with the most serious inconvenience to the public 
 service ; as the success of any plan formed by His Majesty's Ministers 
 for operations against the enemy, in which such Naval force might be 
 included, may, by such removal, be entirely prevented. And the Court 
 is further of opinion, that the conduct of the said Captain Sir Home 
 Popham, in the withdrawing the whole of the Naval Force under His 
 Command from the Cape of Good Hope, the proceeding with it to Rio 
 de la Plata, was highly censurable ; but in consideration of circum- 
 stances, doth adjudge him to be only severely reprimanded, and He is 
 accordingly severely reprimanded." — His Sword was then delivered by 
 the Provost Marshal to the President, Sir Wm. Young, who directed 
 Him to return it to Sir Home Popham, which He did with a respectful 
 salutation. — 
 
 Upon Sir Home quitting the Ship, He was cheered with loud acclama- 
 tions from a vast number of boats which waited the issue of the trial ; 
 and also from an immense number of people assembled upon the Beach, 
 who followed Him to the House of Captn. Madden. — From small note- 
 book,] 
 
 Pitt's Monument 
 
 Westall [R.A.] called in consequence of Pi.yne Knight & Charles 
 Long having been with him to look at His design for Mr. Pitt's monu- 
 ment. Long was pleased with it. Knight when alone with Westall 
 told him He did not approve Westmacott's design for Mr. Pitts monu- 
 ment & said " it consisted of a figure speaking what another figure was 
 recording & two other figures sat like persons weary of hearing it." 
 Knight doubted whether the Committee wd. allow Rossi to execute 
 Westall's design as He had already one of the large Monuments given to 
 Him, — & asked whether Nollekens or Flaxman would not do it ? Westall 
 rephed " He believed not," and added that Rossi was empty of work, 
 but the others were fully employed. — Knight desired Westall to send His 
 design to Him tomorrow, in order that it may be laid before the Committee 
 of Taste on Saturday. — 
 
 VOL. IV. 7 
 
98 The Farington Diary [i807 
 
 The Prince's Tailor 
 
 [Joseph] Minet* I dined with. William Offley [wine merchant] 
 employs Weston a Taylor in Bond Street, who also works for the Prince 
 of Wales. West[on] told WilHam a few days since that the Prince is 
 extremely reduced in his size, so much so that Cloaths which He formerly 
 wore hang like great coats upon Him, and are obliged to be taken in 
 greatly.f He also said that the Prince looks very old & wrinkled, very 
 much so considering his age. His Domestics speak of it with much 
 concern fearing for their situations. He eats now at dinner only Fish 
 y Salad, & drinks no wine. — West[on] also observed that his temper 
 is not so good as it was. He is hasty abt. trifles, about the placing of 
 a button, and peevish. — He goes to Mrs. Fitzherberts in the evening 
 & remains with Her till two or three oClock in the morning when He 
 goes to bed & lays till 12 or one oClock. — Since the death of 
 Mr. Fox He has worn Black Cloaths only, & since Christmas last has had 
 only two suits, which is very little compared with what He had formerly. 
 — West[on] believes He has some hundred suits of Cloaths in his ward- 
 robe. — 
 
 A Proud Merchant 
 
 Minet mentioned that George Barclay, member for Bridport, & a 
 Merchant, having constantly voted with the Fox party, obtained the 
 appointment of a Commissioner to decide upon Prussian Captures after 
 war with that power commenced. — Having been made a Bankrupt a 
 few years ago, He paid 20 shillings in the pound, with interest, but being 
 a man of excessive pride & overbearing haughtiness He never has shewn 
 himself upon the Exchange since that period. On Friday the 28th. of 
 February last in the morning He went to Blackwall where He passed the 
 day, & in a House there drank a bottle of Brandy. It appears that He 
 went out with an intention to destroy himself. He had pistols in His 
 pocket, but does not seem to have had resolution to use them ; however 
 in the evening He took a Boat at Blackwall & came town-[wards] & soon 
 after the Boat had passed London Bridge He threw Himself into the 
 Water. 
 
 He was caught in the water by a man & struggled hard with him but 
 was at last got out & carried to a House apparently dead : but in abt. 
 an Hour was recovered. From papers in his pocket it was found who He 
 
 * See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t At the Old Coffee Mill, 3, St. James's Street, S.W., now occupied by Messrs. Berry 
 Bros., the wine merchants, all the eminent people of the Kingdom were weighed from time 
 to time and their names and weights were registered in books, which are still preserved, 
 as are the huge scales then used, and indeed still so used to-day by Messrs. Berry. Here 
 are some extracts showing the weight of the Prince of Wales at various dates : 
 
 1797, Dec. 5th, i7st. 81b. Boots. 
 
 1798, Jany. 2nd. i6st. 81b. After gout. 
 1805, Jany. 21, list. i2jlb. Boots. 
 The Prince was not again weighed. 
 
1807] A Proud Merchant 99 
 
 was. He was desirous that his name should not be mentioned, so that in 
 the Newspapers it was noticed witht. a name being given. He was 
 taken to His House in Grafton Street, Bond Street. — Minet remarked. 
 That after His Bankruptcy He always passed Him (Minet) with an assumed 
 look of haughtiness, as much as to say, " You won't look upon me as you 
 did formerly, but I despise you." — It is now fixed that He is to quit 
 business which will be a happiness to His partners. — He maintained His 
 parliamentary interest at Bridport by professing to be a Dissenter. 
 
 VOL. IV. 7* 
 
CHAPTER XXIX 
 
 1807 
 
 A Committee of Taste 
 
 March 16. — Westall called having been with Mr. Knight who informed 
 Him that the Committee oj Taste which consists of 1 5 persons, on Saturday- 
 last decided that Westmacott should have Mr. Pitts monument & that 
 Flaxman should have Lord Nelson^ s. Mr. Knight mentioned the liberality 
 of Westmacott who had permitted that Flaxman shd. adopt part of a 
 design He had made for a monument to Lord Nelson. — Westall's design 
 for Mr. Pitts monument cd. not therefore be adopted, & Mr. Knight 
 was desired to express to him the thanks of the Committee for the 
 communication of His design. 
 
 R.A. Generosity 
 
 West I called on & found Him & Mrs. West together. He was 
 painting a sort of Apotheosics of Lord Nelson, to be engraved for Clarke's* 
 life of Lord Nelson. — I spoke to Him abt. Nixon. He sd. the Academy 
 had paid near ;^70o in pensions, donations, &c., & applications were 
 still coming in. 
 
 Mrs. West mentioned the inconvenience of H coming to their house 
 just before dinner time & said it could not be continued. West sd. it 
 was an interruption to Him at present, as when He has begun a work, 
 it so occupies His mind that both in the day & by candle light He per- 
 severes in executing His thoughts. — Besides He sd. the conversation is 
 wholly uninteresting mostly in some way abt. Himself — a sort of innocent 
 insanity. — At times Mrs. West sd. He talks of His possessing great 
 property, at other times that He has not one guinea to rub against 
 another. 
 
 [At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Academy William Turner, 
 R.A. offered himself, by letter, a candidate to fill the Office of Professor 
 of Perspective. — From small note-book.] 
 
 * The Rev. James Stanier Clarke. See Vol. III., page 1 59. 
 100 
 
isori] Sir John Leicester loi 
 
 Sir John Leicester* has bought Turner's view of Schaffhausen which 
 was exhibited last year, the price 300 guineas. — 
 
 Calcott saw the Prince of Wales at the Opera on Saturday last & 
 thought He looked thin & broken, and that His countenance was the 
 reverse of chearful ; His brows Knit, & He did not seem to pay any 
 attention to what was passing on the stage ; & went out of the Box & 
 returned several times. — Sir John Leicester, who is one of the Princes 
 adherents says, that if the Princess does, as she has threatened, publish 
 the report of the Commissioners, the Prince will publish everything 
 relating to Her conduct. — I asked what that could be ? I had no doubt 
 that everything had been brought forward that could be adduced, as 
 it had been evident how strong a desire there had been to criminate 
 Her. — He sd. the Prince had little to look upon with satisfaction. His 
 conduct not having insured Him popularity or ground for agreeable 
 reflection. 
 
 Wilkie and Teniers 
 
 We dined [at Mr. Phipps's] abt. \ past 6. — ^After dinner Lord Mul- 
 grave led the conversation to Painting, & little else was talked of before 
 we went to Coffee. He described a picture which Wilkie is now painting 
 for him " The Rent Day ", and sd. it wd. surpass that of the " Blind 
 Fiddler " which He had painted for Sir George Beaumont. He sd. He 
 believed Wilkie wd. go beyond Teniers, Ostade & all who had preceded 
 Him, as He not only gave exquisitely the ordinary expressions of the 
 human countenance but those of thought & abstraction. — He sd. that 
 He had made an agreement with Wilkie to have all his studies & sketches 
 for whatever pictures He may hereafter paint, and will furnish a room 
 with them at Mulgrave Castle, to preserve them & will endeavour to 
 educate His Son to posess a proper taste for them. — He sd. that Wilkie, 
 Jackson, y Haydon, now associate together constantly, — dine together 
 somewhere for a shilling or eighteen pence & afterwards go to the Academy 
 to study. — Wilkie & Jackson both appear to have a high opinion of the 
 ability and judgment of Haydon. 
 
 * See Vols. II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER XXX 
 
 1807 
 Lord Mulgrave 
 
 March 24. — Jackson* was brought to Lord Mulgravef by a Dissent- 
 ing Clergyman who frequently visits His Lordship. — At that time, abt. 
 5 years ago, Jackson was at Whitby 2 or 3 miles from Mulgrave Castle, 
 where He painted miniatures very badly, but showed talent in sketching 
 likenesses on paper. His Lordship finding something abt. Him that was 
 agreeable became His Patron, & caused Him to come to London, & 
 afterwards got permission from Lord Carlisle for him to copy pictures 
 at Castle Howard where He was live months. He remarked that He 
 is disposed to be indolent, but has still strong hopes that He will distin- 
 guish Himself. — He is of a very ingenuous nature, warm in speaking of 
 the professional merit of his friends & quite free from jealousy. His praises 
 having no qualifying alloy. 
 
 Lord Mulgrave spoke of process[es] in painting and gave His opinion 
 against a glazing system. He thought the true way would be to attain 
 as much as possible of the effect intended by what is called fair painting, 
 and when that has been done to refine & add with glazing tints whatever 
 may be wanting to make the effect complete. 
 
 Political Matters 
 
 At tea I sat next to Lord Mulgrave & had a great deal of conversation 
 with him. Genl. Phipps came in from the House of Commons & some 
 conversation took place respecting the present state of political matters, 
 a new administration being now forming. — I expressed to Lord Mulgrave 
 my surprise at Lord Grenville having so risqued his situation, after the 
 proof He had of the King's mind upon the Catholic question. He sd. 
 that as Lord Grenville while in opposition had moved a question upon 
 that subject, He supposed He now had wished to answer in some degree 
 the expectation of the Catholics by introducing the proposal of enabling 
 Catholics & Dissenters of every description to hold the highest situations 
 in the army. — He sd. the motion had been made by Lord Howick certainly 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. t See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 102 
 
1807] Political Matters los 
 
 without His Majesty's concurrence, & a strong declaration of the King 
 against it, had caused the Ministers to agree to withdraw it, but His 
 Majesty required from them a pledge that they wd. not again bring it 
 jorward ; this they refused to give ; and avowed to hold themselves 
 at liberty to bring it forward whenever it might appear to them adviseable 
 so to do. — I told His Lordship that some people were of opinion, from the 
 rashness of the measure, that Lord Grenville sought the occasion as it 
 wd. cause His withdrawing from Office. He dissented from this opinion, 
 & being satisfied that Lord Grenville had no such wish. — 
 
 The Ablest Man 
 
 I noticed the great friendship which had subsisted between Lord 
 Grenville and Lord Wellesley^ and asked how that would operate between 
 them if the latter shd. now come into Office. He replied that there 
 had been great friendship between them from their youth, but that 
 Lord Grenville had not since Lord Wellesley's return from India, shewn 
 a disposition to promote His being employed. — Of the effect of a Change 
 of Administration His Lordship seemed to have no unpleasant appre- 
 hension. He said that as to ability that now forming would be stronger 
 than the ex-administration. He sd. Mr. Perceval is the ablest man in 
 the House of Commons. — I asked Him what Mr. Canning wd. be. He sd. 
 He had been mentioned as to be first Lord of the Admiralty. I asked 
 what then wd. Lord Melville be appointed to ? He sd. He understood 
 that Lord Melville is not to hold an Office at least at present, but that 
 Mr. Dundass His Lordships Son, is to have an appointment. — He thought 
 it wd. have been better judged to appoint Lord Melville at once, as His 
 experience & ability are well known, — and that after such an acquittal 
 as He had had, when the government influence was in the hands of 
 those who moved the prosecution of him, there could be no sufficient 
 reason for hesitating to appoint Him now to a situation of responsibility. — 
 
 Girtin the Artist 
 
 Lord Mulgrave asked me to call upon Him to see a portrait which 
 Jackson is painting of one of his Lordships daughters. — His Lordship 
 spoke much of His own delight in Landscape scenery, & how great His 
 pleasure is in passing through His walks and grounds, & opening & 
 rendering more tasteful & perfect the various views & scenes at Mulgrave 
 Castle. — He never wishes to come to town & only does come [when] 
 occasions require it. — He spoke with much regard of the memory of 
 Girtin the Artist,* who was with Him a Httle time at Mulgrave Castle. 
 He thought Him a good natured open dispassioned man. — He then 
 laboured under Symptoms of an Asthma which not long afterwards killed 
 Him. Girtin having a desire to carry to Paris a Panorama view oj 
 London with a view to exhibit it there. Lord Mulgrave procured Him a 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III., and " Thomas Girtin's Water-Colours," by Randall 
 Davies, 1924. 
 
104 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 Passport ; but when He arrived at Paris He was not permitted to exhibit 
 it. 
 
 Coll. & Mrs. Welsh came in the evening. He is now a Candidate for 
 the East India direction. I noticed to Lord Mulgrave the interesting 
 expression of Mrs. Welsh's countenance ; which He said was beautiful 
 & very remarkably interesting. She is sister to Lady Mulgrave. — 
 (ci-devant, Miss Makins). 
 
 A Famous Editor 
 
 March 25. — Lawrence finds the general sentiment in favor of a 
 change of Ministry. — Perry,* of the Morning Chronicle has resigned His 
 Office of Secretary to one of the Boards of Commissioners of accounts. 
 
 The salary was ;^6oo a year. Lord Grenville signified to him that He 
 might retain it ; meaning that appointments of that description wd. 
 not be affected by a change of Ministry. But Perry felt the daily at- 
 tendance from Eleven to four tedious, — and also that He shd. be em- 
 barassed in conducting His newspaper. His wife was also against His 
 continuing in that situation. — 
 
 Art and Naval Matters 
 
 March 28. — Lord Mulgrave I called on at lo oClock & found Captn. 
 Moorsumf & Wilkie there. The former was writing, being appointed 
 Private Secretary to His Lordship who on Thursday last was appointed 
 First Lord of the Admiralty. — Wilkie was examining Specimens of 
 Carpetting wanting a piece to paint from in His picture of " The Rent Day" 
 — Lord Mulgrave shewed me a picture by Vanderneer, with which He was 
 much delighted : a fine picture ; also one by Salvator Rosa, & others. 
 — After looking at the pictures I got into conversation with Captn. 
 Moorsum, while His Lordship transacted business in another room, 
 meaning to go with us to His Brothers, Mr. Phipps, to see a picture 
 painted for Him by Moysey.J Captn. Moorsum said something re- 
 specting the change of Ministry, and we both expressed our surprise 
 at the conduct of Lords Grenville & Howick.§ 
 
 He told me that at Naval Courts Martial the decission is by a Majority 
 of one or more. That when the Court retire to decide upon a trial a ques- 
 tion is put whether the charge has been proved, beginning with the 
 Junior Officer & proceeding to the others the Senior Officer being the last 
 called upon. — When a majority has decided, all the Officers sign it so 
 that it appears to have been a unanimous decission, & must remain so, 
 with out Parliament shd. require the Members to declare & explain. 
 
 Sir George Beaumont called upon me in the afternoon being just 
 come to town. — He looked pretty well, but complained of debility through 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I. and II. t See Index, Vol. III. 
 
 I See Index, Vol. III. § See Index, Vol. III. 
 
1807] Art and Naval Matters 105 
 
 the Winter. — He told me His Mother was born in 171 8 & has only to 
 complain of being a little deaf. He said there did not appear to be 
 anything likely to prevent Her living till 181 8. — He had called at Wilkie's 
 and saw His picture of " The Rent Day " & did not appear to me to be 
 so much struck with it as with His former works, He asked me " whether 
 Wilkie did not seem to be finishing very much " ; signifying by it, too 
 much. — 
 
CHAPTER XXXI 
 
 1807 
 
 Franco. Russian War 
 
 March 29. — Easter Sunday. — Mr. Angerstein's I dined at, the party 
 small. — Mr. Angerstein talked a good deal abt. the War between the 
 Russians & French. He said General Bennigsen who commanded 
 the Russians against Buonaparte at the battle of Eylau, is a native of 
 Hanover and abt. 63 years of age. He was Page to George 2nd. — 
 He remained on Horseback all night on the 7th of February previous 
 to the Battle of the 8th. though the weather was most inclement. On 
 the evening of the 8th. after the Battle was over & the enemy repulsed 
 everywhere, He with those about Him fell upon their knees & gave 
 thanks to God for the Victory. 
 
 The Cossacks have annoyed the French unremittingly. They were 
 carried to the War with their minds inflamed against their enemy. Their 
 General on his march through Russia bought as many prints of Buona- 
 parte as He could obtain & distributed them among His Corps, telling 
 them " That was the man He wanted." — 
 
 The Grand Duke Constantine is inveterate against the French ; but 
 there is a French party in Petersburgh who endeavour to influence 
 the Emperor through the Emperor's Mother. — He gave them a proof 
 of His feeling towards them by selecting their leader to be the Bearer 
 of the Order of St. Andrew, the Highest Order of Russia, to General 
 Bennigsen after the battle of Eylau. 
 
 Mr. Angerstein told me that He was born at Petersburgh. He 
 appeared to be very well pleased with the change of Administration, 
 & assured us that He knew the Prince of Wales disapproved of the 
 Catholic question having been brought forward. — He said that He was 
 well acquainted with Lord Nelson, and had heard him express a hope 
 that He should die in battle. After tea He shewed us a large drawing 
 made for Him by Havil with which He was much pleased. West said 
 that a style of drawing had been practised in this Country such as had 
 not been seen in any other, and that with Thomas Sandby it originated. 
 
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1807] New Publications 107 
 
 March 31. — The two first Numbers of Prince Hoare's* publication 
 " 7he Artist " were not much approved ; but Hoppner's letter in the 
 3d. Number is thought better. Longman & Rees in Paternoster Row, 
 have issued proposals for a pubHcation of Prints from celebrated Pic- 
 tures, the Prints to be coloured, & accompanied with Letter Press, the 
 whole to be under the management of Ottley & Tresham [R.A.] ; & 
 it is sd. the former is to have looo guineas for His trouble, & the latter 
 500.t — This work will mihtate against a pubHcation of the same nature 
 carrying on by Miller, the Bookseller of Bond St. & the Revd. Edwd. 
 Foster.! — Calcott has finished a Landscape, an evening, of which Thomson 
 speaks highly, & recommended it to Sir John Leicester who has bought 
 it. — 
 
 Princess Sophia's Kindness 
 
 April 1. — Mrs. Wheatley§ attends the Princess Sophia of Gloucester 
 twice a week to teach Her drawing. They send a Sociable [carriage] 
 ior Her, & treat Her with great kindness. — They are very charitable 
 & considerate. The Princess Sophia last week noticed to Mrs. Wheatley 
 the death of Her Mother & observed that she might be required to be 
 at some expence upon the occasion & gave Her ^^lo on acct. — They 
 often employ Mrs. Wheatley to distribute charity for then, & always 
 with a desire that it shd. not be known. — They are greatly attached to 
 the King, and are well pleased with the change of Administration, a^ 
 they consider the new Ministers to be the King's friends. 
 
 The Duke of Cambridge having lately on some occasion spoke in the 
 House of Lords, it was observed in a newspaper that the Duke was 
 always a supporter of the King. The Duchess|| upon reading it said 
 "She did not know that the King wanted any support."— They are 
 attached to the Princess of Wales, & visit, & correspond with Her. — The 
 Prince still insists upon further investigation. 
 
 Mr. TrowardIT has sent all His pictures except His celebrated picture 
 of Our Saviour by Leonardo da Vinci, to Philips to be sold. He gave 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t " British Gallery of Pictures," published 1818, at £12 12s. Proofs on India paper, 
 ;^25 4s. Coloured and mounted, 150 guineas. 
 
 X " British Gallery of Engravings," London, 1807-13, £2 2s. each. Large paper, 
 l3 13s. 6d. 
 
 § See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 II The Duchess of Gloucester. 
 
 ^ Troward, who lived in Pall Mall, like Buchanan, was regularly engaged in picture- 
 dealing. The collection numbered only fourteen pictures, but they were of good quality, 
 and some of them reahsed comparatively high prices. Lord Kinnaird paid £'i,S7S for " A 
 BacchanaHan," which was considered to be the finest Nicolas Poussin in the country. 
 " The Son of God Creating the Universe," said to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci 
 for Francois Premier of France, and a portrait of Francois himself, also ascribed to Leonardo, 
 fetched together ^1,680. The total was ^^6,418 133. See Vol. II., page 267 and note. 
 
108 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 ;£3500 for 6 pictures, but expects much more for them. He disposes 
 of them from a consideration of His family of 6 Children, but probably 
 has a further motive from having engaged in a great Soap making scheme 
 to be carried on at Vauxhall, which will require 3^200,000 to be laid out 
 before anything can be gained. — 
 
 Canning " In the Sky " 
 
 Lawrence also called. — West was with him today to see His picture 
 of Sir Francis Baring &c. & told Him he had made an advance in the Art. 
 Sir Francis sat yesterday & spoke of the New Administration as being 
 men of Ability. He thought is was probable that on acct. of His age, 
 and habits of business, that Mr. Perceval wd. take the lead in the House 
 of Commons. He sd. Canning is a man of talents, but " is sometimes 
 in the Sky ". — Mr. Wall, Sir Francis's son in law told Lawrence today 
 that the government oj Russia complained oj the coldness oj our late govern- 
 ment in respect oj assistance to carry on the War, and that Buonaparte 
 wd. probably avail himself of that feeling & endeavour to make peace 
 with them. — 
 
 Lord Howick is considered to be the principal cause of pressing 
 the King on the Catholic business. 
 
 Turner's Early Patron 
 
 Machell sd. the opinion in their part of Yorkshire was that if Mr, 
 Lascelles had stood the contest at the last Election Wilberforce wd. 
 have been obliged to give way. — Fawkes* had so distinguished himself 
 by His Oratory at a former meeting at York that vast expectations were 
 formed of him, that He wd. have equalled Pitt or Fox ; but Machell 
 observed it might have been a speech prepared. — 
 
 Constable called to desire me to call to see 2 pictures prepared by 
 Him for the Exhibition, in one of which He thought He had got some- 
 thing original. — He spoke again of Calcott's large Landscape & said it 
 was apparently too much a work of art & labour, not an ejffusion. — 
 His smaller pictures He thought better in that respect. 
 
 C. Offley came to desire me to call on Corboldf to see a picture 
 " The Bard " from Gray, painted for Offley. The weather being bad 
 I declined going out on which He went to Corbold who soon returned 
 with Him & brought the picture which I was much pleased with. — 
 Corbold told me that He was a pupil of MarisX ^ resided with Him 
 in Glanville Street, in the year 1773 in the House in which I at that 
 
 * W. R. Fawkes, of Farnley, Turner's early patron. See Index, Vol. I. 
 
 t Richard Corbould (1757-183 1 ) painted in oil and water colours portraits, landscapes, 
 and historical pictures, but was best known as a designer of books. Two of his family, 
 Henry and George, also were artists. 
 
 X R. Marris, who contributed landscapes to the Royal Academy between 1780 ^nd 
 1784, 
 
1807] 
 
 Arthur Devis 109 
 
 time resided. Maris came from Lincolnshire, & was pupil to Arthur 
 Devis* whose daughter he married. 
 
 * Arthur William Devis (1763- 1822), painter of portraits and historical subjects. 
 While on a voyage as draughtsman in the service of the H.E.I. Coy., the Antelope (Captain 
 Wilson) was wrecked oflp the Pelew Islands. The crew landed on one of the islands and 
 built a small ship, and on the way to Macao Devis was shot at from the coast, one arrow 
 entering his body, the other his cheek. The latter wound permanently injured his jaw. 
 He exhibited sixty-five pictures at the Royal Academy between 1787 and 1821. After 
 the Battle of Trafalgar he went on board the Victory and painted the " Death of Vice- 
 Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., in the Cockpit of H.M.S. Victory, 21st October, 
 1805." This picture is in Greenwich Hospital. Devis is buried in St. Giles's Churchyard. 
 
CHAPTER XXXII 
 1807 
 Reynolds and Burke 
 
 April 3. — Lawrence I called on & sat with Him while He gave the last 
 finishing touches to His picture. — He told me CarHsle had called upon Him 
 this morn'g & sd. it was all over with Opie : that He had first complaints 
 which appeared to be Rheumatick, but there now seemed to be a compli- 
 cation of disorders, & that He had a complaint in His bladder. He sd. 
 He hourly grew worse, & it must be a change of which there was no 
 prospect, that could recover Him. — He afterwards said, " He will die.'^ 
 Lawrence also sd. that Tijon the frame maker, had called on Him and sd. 
 that He had seen Opie's servant, who sd. He did not believe His Master 
 wd. recover, though the Physicians gave His mistress hopes. — 
 
 Lawrence I dined with, and saw His picture of Sir Francis Baring 
 Sec. nearly finished. — He told me that Ralph Kirtley, Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds's old servant, had informed him that from the time that 
 Sir Joshua found He must die. He appeared to wish that no one should 
 visit Him : but He could not refuse to see Mr. Burke. He lay whole 
 nights seemingly witht. sleep, but silent, except that after a long in- 
 terval in the night He wd. hastily call out Ralph as if to assure himself 
 that He was not alone. 
 
 Miss Lee,* late of Bath, came in. She told me she & Her Sister 
 have taken a House at St. Avan's 2 miles from Chepstow, upon the heights 
 near Piercefield : That Mr. Wells the present owner of that place is very 
 kind as a neighbour and allows them free access to His Park. He gave 
 ^95,000 for that place. He has 2 Sons and a daughter. The daughter 
 is as J air as Her Mother, but the eldest son brown, and the 2nd Son dark 
 as his father.f 
 
 * Miss Sophia Lee. See Index, Vol. III. 
 
 t In a reference to Piercefield in September, 1803, Farington says that Mr. Wells 
 " is a Creole of very deep colour, but Miss Wells [his sister] is fair." Piercefield, which 
 the Diarist characterised as " a specimen of very bad taste in architecture," was built by 
 Humphry Morrice, passed to a Mr. Smith, who failed ; was bought by Colonel Wood and 
 sold by him to Mr. Wells. That gentleman was very " exact about admission to see the 
 grounds. Every person who goes for that purpose is required to write His or Her name, 
 and the book is carried to him every Saturday night, from which He transcribes all the 
 names into a book which He keeps in His own possession." 
 
 110 
 
1807] On Speculation ill 
 
 April 5. — Northcote this day, in the Artist, publislied a letter vvitht. 
 His Initials, upon the evil consequences of Persons becoming hasty 
 Patrons to unproved abihties, thereby bringing forward young men 
 whose early efforts end in disappointment. 
 
 Payne Knight had seen his [Westall's] picture of the sleeping Nymph 
 & advised Him to ask 300 guineas for it. — Westall sd. He proposed to 
 ask 200 gs. — Knight sd. when an Artist painted a picture on specula- 
 tion He had [the] right to ask a price different from what He made the 
 rule for works ordered. — If He made a lucky hit He had a fair claim to 
 an extraordinary reward. — Lord Oxford told Westall that Knight's 
 income does not exceed ;{4000 a year, & Knight told Westall that He does 
 not save anything. — 
 
 April 6. — Lady Beaumont much disapproved of Hoppner's letter 
 to Mr. Charles Greville* & thought the Fly Flap very well written — 
 Daniell did not concur with Her in sentiments. 
 
 Marchant [R.A.] called to desire me to procure invitations to the 
 Academy dinner for Mr. Rose & Mr. Bankes.f — Mr. Bankes has had 
 the misfortune to lose His eldest Son a fine young man 21 yrs. of age. 
 His Father at His desire, had bought Him a Commission in the Army, 
 & He was going to Sicily to join His regiment some months ago in the 
 Blanche, Captn. Rankin, which Ship struck upon a rock & was lost. 
 Many were saved & He was intreated to come into the boat but refused 
 saying. He had considered it, & thought it most safe to remain in the 
 Ship, — The boat got safe to shore. — Mr. Bankes has two other Sons 
 & two or three daughters. He stood for the County of Dorset at the 
 
 * The " Fly Flap," by C. F. G., consisted of a criticism of the first number of the 
 Director, edited by T. F. Dibdin. Mr. Frank Rutter, editor of a little volume entitled 
 " Essays on Art by John Hoppner, R.A." (1908), in re-publishing Hoppner's reply, 
 suggests that C. F. G. was the Right Hon. Charles Grey, afterwards the second Earl 
 Grey, whereas he was Charles Francis Greville, second son of the first Earl of Warwick. 
 Greville died unmarried in 1809, aged 60 years. A Fellow of the Royal Society and 
 F.A.S., he was acquainted with Hoppner. His collection of pictures and other works of 
 art was sold in 18 10 and reaUsed fully £,Sf°°- 
 
 t George Rose, Vice-President of the Board of Trade in the Portland Ministry. Henry 
 Bankes (1757-1834) was a politician and author, and grandson of Sir John Bankes, Chief 
 Justice of the Common Pleas in the time of Charles I. From 1780 to 1826 he sat for 
 the Close Borough of Corfe Castle. In the later year he was elected for the County of 
 Dorset, which he represented until 183 1, when he was defeated. He was a Trustee of 
 the British Museum, and wrote " A Civil and Constitutional History of Rome, from 
 the Foundation to the Age of Augustus." His third son, George Bankes (1788-1856), 
 was the last of the Cursitor Barons of the Exchequer, and entered Parliament in 18 16 as 
 his father's colleague for the family Borough of Corfe Castle, which he represented until 
 1823. He was the author of " The Story of Corfe Castle and of Many Who Have Lived 
 There," and of " Brave Dame Mary." On the death of his elder brother, William John 
 Bankes (in 1S55), the traveller, he succeeded to the family estates. 
 
112 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 last Election against Mr. Portman,* but lost it, it is sd. owing to his not 
 having declared Himself sooner. It cost Him 3^7000 & Mr. Portman 
 £10,000. — Mr. Bankes was extremely affected by the loss of His Son; 
 it appeared to make a stronger impression on him than on Mrs. Bankes. — 
 
 * Edward Berkeley Portman, of Bryanston, and Orchard Portman, Dorset. His son 
 (1799-1888) of the same name sat for Dorset from 1823 to 1832, and for Marylebone from 
 December, 1832, to March, 1833. Four years later he was created Baron Portman of 
 Orchard Portman, and in 1873 was advanced in the Peerage as Viscount Portman of 
 Bryanston. Portman and Bryanston Squares and Orchard Street, Marylebone, get their 
 names from this family. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIII 
 
 1807 
 
 A Famous Painting by Turner 
 
 April 7. — Westall called. The pictures &c. sent for Exhibition were 
 examined yesterday. Turner's large picture, a Sea piece* is inferior 
 to His former productions, but a small picture of the inside of a Farrier's 
 Shop, is a very clever picture. — Calcott's large picture an Upright, 
 an even'g, is of a better colour, — but half of the Sky might be taken away 
 & the picture wd. be better for it. — Philips' pictures are very indifferent, a 
 half length of Lord Thurlow is the best. — Woodforde seems to improve. 
 — Some water colour drawings, & Sketches with black lead pencil, by 
 Mrs. Charles Long, were much admired for their taste & freedom. — 
 
 An Inferior Performance 
 
 A large picture by Manjredif, an Italian Artist, containing several 
 portraits as large as life, proved to be a miserable performance. This 
 Artist, it seems, came to England with a high opinion of his powers. 
 He was employed by a Mercht. to whom He had recommendations, to 
 paint his family which He has thus done. He surprised the Mercht. 
 by demanding 1000 guineas for it. The Mercht. sd. He wd. give the 
 highest price given to our English Artists, but demurred at the demand 
 made. — On this Manfredi lowered His price to 500 gs. — It is debated in 
 Council whether to keep the picture or not, but after all that had been 
 sd. of Him, it was judged most prudent to exhibit the picture ; but that 
 the sanction of the Academy might not cause the Mercht. to be imposed 
 on, it was resolved that a letter shd. be written to Him by the Secretary, 
 
 * The " Sun Rising Through Vapour," which is one of the best of the pictures in 
 Turner's first transition stage, was exchanged with Sir John Leicester (Lord De Tabley) 
 for No. 476, now in the Tate Gallery, and was bought back by Turner from Lord De Tabley 
 and bequeathed by the artist to the nation on condition that it and " Dido Building Car- 
 thage " (498) were hung between Claude's "Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca" (12) and 
 " Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba " (14). The four pictures are placed in this order 
 in the National Gallery. 
 
 t The picture by B. Manfredi, who is not mentioned in Bryan's Dictionary, was 
 " A Lady and Her Family " (307). Besides that group, his " Galatea " (142) also was 
 hung in the 1807 Academy. 
 
 VOL. IV. 113 8 
 
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 informing Him that the Council thought it a work of very inferior quaHty 
 and were only induced to allow it to be exhibited, from a desire to show 
 to Foreigners all the attention in their power. — ^A letter to this effect was 
 accordingly written by Westall at the desire of the Council to be copied 
 by Richards. — 
 
 Opie Read Every Book 
 
 Williams said He met a gentleman & Lady at Bath who were natives 
 of Cornwall, & had near the place where Opie was born*, a genteel House, 
 in which they had a Library. While Opie was a youth they admitted 
 Him to it & believe He read every book in it. He wd. read the whole 
 days, & frequently in fine weather lay upon the grass Hours together so 
 employed. — Williams has his family in town, but has hired rooms in 
 Bond St, from Slade to paint in only, & pays 70 guineas a yr. for them, f 
 
 Turner's Conceit 
 
 Lawrence I called on & found Mr. West there. He told us that Calcott 
 seemed to be in danger of falling into manner^ & wanted middle tint in 
 his pictures which defficiency caused His large picture to appear by any 
 other than broad day light a mass of dark upon a mass of light, wanting 
 the sweetness and agreeableness of medium tints. — His upright landscape 
 was of a better colour. — Turner has greatly fallen off in a large Sea piece, 
 — He seems to have run wild with conceit. — 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. West sent this morn'g to Opie's & were answered that 
 He seemed to be better, from some symptoms. — Lawrence having left 
 the room, I asked West how [he] liked His picture of Sir Francis Baring 
 &c. He replied in the warmest terms of approbation. I sd. that picture 
 would not be rivalled. " Oh 1 sd. He, That picture, & His Circular one 
 exhibited last year, puts them all at a distance." 
 
 Moral Virtue 
 
 Mackintosh,! the present Chief Justice at Bombay, was mentioned by 
 us. He sd. He seemed to have very little feeling of the beauty of moral 
 virtue. At His outset at Edinburgh, He had made himself remarkable by 
 His expressions of ridicule & contempt for revealed religion. He after- 
 wards in His Lectures delivered in London, spoke with reverence on this 
 subject, which drew upon [him] many reproaches from those who had 
 formerly attended to His other opinions. During the French revolution, 
 at least at the early part of it. He was supposed to be posessed with French 
 principles, & was also a Foxite : but His self interest, it was believed, 
 
 * John Opie was born at St. Agnes, about seven miles from Truro. See Index, Vols. 
 I., II. and III. 
 
 t Solomon Williams was born in Dublin, where he studied at the Academy before going 
 to Italy. He was a member of the Bologna Academy, an exhibitor at the Royal Academy 
 and British Institution, and a foundation member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 
 He died on August 2, 1824. 
 
 t Sir James Mackintosh. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III, 
 
J. M. W. Turner 
 From a drawing by T. Phillip in the National Poytt-ait Gallery 
 
 [To face p. 114 
 
1807] Moral Virtue lis 
 
 caused Him to abandon those prejudices, — and He became an Advocate 
 for th^ opposite opinions in politics. — While a Foxite He had become 
 intimate with Dr. Parr. Happening one day to dine at Sir Willm. Milners 
 in company with the Doctor, Quigley the associate of Roger O Connor 
 [Irish revolutionary], was spoken of & his punishment for Treason. 
 Mackintosh said Quigley seemed to be a Character of the worst kind. 
 Upon which the Doctor [Parr] replied, " No, Jemmy, not of the worst 
 kind ; He was an Irishman^ 8c might have been a Scotsman ; — He was 
 a Priest, 8c might have been a Lawyer ; He was true to His cause, & 
 might have been an Apostate, Jemmy.''^ — Mackintosh in conversation 
 disapproving the conduct of one of his acquaintance, did it upon the 
 ground of its impolicy, as to the morality oj it that is nothing, said He. — 
 This being remarked to one of His acquaintance. He said, " That is 
 Mackintosh." 
 
 Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne 
 
 Lawrence called in the even'g in raptures on having seen a picture 
 by Titian at Buchannan's* in Oxendon St. — the subject Bacchus & 
 Ariadne. f He described it to be the finest piece of colouring that He 
 had ever beheld for splendour, force, & freshness. He said the Titians 
 at the Marquiss of Staffords could not be mentioned with it. The colours 
 of it Blue, Green, red and yellow. The landscape part being pushed to 
 the extremity of colour in depth & feelings. In one corner Titian seems 
 after He had otherways finished the picture, to have dashed a piece of 
 bright yellow drapery, on which is a golden Vase, & this part alone by its 
 effect proves it from the hand of Titian. The yellow colour used is such 
 as we have not, Naples yellow wd. be weak to it. — There are in parts of 
 the trees evident marks of the touch of the Pallet Knife. — Lord Kinnaird 
 has bought the picture for 3000 guineas. — 
 
 Lawrence on his way to me called upon West & informed him of the 
 picture. — He told me He now saw He must discharge a colour from His 
 Pallet, Terra di Siena, which He sd. is an impure colour, & has often led 
 Him off from that purply freshness which shd. be attempted & caused 
 him to fall into heavy & leathery colouring. He said that when He first 
 saw His Circular picture in the Exhibition last year, He felt that it was 
 too much upon the yellowish brown and was heavy. — 
 
 Giorgione's Feeling 
 
 April 8. — Buchannan's in Oxendon St. I went to with West & Law- 
 rence & saw the picture of Bacchus & Ariadne by Titian. — West said it 
 
 * William Buchanan, celebrated picture dealer and author of " Memoirs of Painting." 
 t Lord Kinnaird, who paid Buchanan, the dealer, 3,500 guineas for the " Bacchus 
 and Ariadne," wanted 5,000 guineas for the picture. The National Gallery paid 3,000 
 guineas for it, one-third of 9,000, which sum included the price given by the nation for 
 " Christ Appearing to Peter " by Annibale Caracci and the " Bacchanalian Dance " by 
 N. Poussin. 
 
 VOL. IV. 8* 
 
116 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 was painted when Titian was abt. 50 years of age, & full of Giorgione's 
 feeling of colour. — At a later period Titian aimed more at grandeur & 
 character, but at this period His mind was occupied by a desire to produce 
 the utmost splendour of colouring. — He traced out the ground on which 
 it was painted, & shewed that it was upon a ground of bright yellow, 
 glazed down to a tone to suit the intended colour of his picture. But 
 the whole Jrom the beginning was worked with thin colours, through 
 which the light within as He called it, proceeding from the first ground, 
 gave the lustre which was so extraordinary. He said whoever should 
 attempt to copy that picture, unless He proceeded in that way, would 
 make nothing more than a heavy work of it. — 
 
 He said the picture was really in fine preservation, but it was morti- 
 fying to see that Burch the picture cleaner had been putting colour upon 
 it, in many parts. Upon the Sky with Ultramarine & had stippled colour 
 upon parts of the flesh. He said if the picture was His He wd. take 
 off the whole of that Burch had done, for He knew He was the person that 
 had done it in order to make the picture appear more showy ; He knew 
 His hand. — He sd. it ought to bear a price like the fine Claudes, 4 or 
 5000 guineas. — 
 
 The late Lord Kinnaird who was a man remarkable for an avaricious 
 disposition, had the following lines put on the gateway of His Park — 
 
 Here's a Park witht. Deer, 
 A Cellar without Beer 
 A Kitchen without Cheer ; 
 Lord Kinnaird lives here. 
 
 Sir George [Beaumont] was full of Wilkie^s performance " The Blind 
 Musician [Fiddler] " & hoped it wd. not be hung in the Exhibition near 
 any " Boiled Lobsters " i.e. glaring pictures. — He seemed to be disatis- 
 fied with Owen's cold expressions abt. Wilkie. Owen had sd. that Wilkie 
 imitated the Flemish masters, & signified that He ought to attempt 
 something more. — 
 
CHAPTER XXXIV 
 
 1807 
 
 Death of Opie 
 
 April 8. — Opie's door I stopped at & met Prince Hoare, & the 
 Apothecary, who said Opie's pulse was better this morn'g, but that He 
 had yet no passage through Him, & was partly delirious, & partly dozing, 
 He said He might continue to live 3 or 4 days, or might go off suddenly ; 
 but did not appear to entertain any expectation of his recovery. — Prince 
 Hoare told me that it had not at last been ascertained what His complaint 
 was. It was thought to be in the bladder, but was not so ; the physicians 
 who first attended him judged it to be inflammatory, & bled him & purged 
 him. Dr. Alderson, Mrs. Opie's father, came from Norwich & gave a 
 different opinion. He thought it arose out of a morbid habit 8c tended 
 to putridity. — Mrs. Opie [Amelia Opie, the poetess] distracted at this 
 difference of opinion called in Dr. Vaughan, who agreed with those who 
 first judged of the case, & Dr. Pitcairne & Dr. Bailie being also consulted 
 differed from Dr. Alderson. Such was the sad uncertainty. 
 
 April 9. — At 9 oClock Thomson [R.A.] called looking very pale & 
 distressed which I saw indicated the death of Poor Opie. This I signified 
 & He began with a disposition to weeping to speak like one who blames 
 himself on account of the coolness which had of late subsisted between 
 him and Opie : but added, He trusted, that He had at this period done His 
 duty by the attention He had paid to Opie. — I comforted Him by speaking 
 of the unreasonableness of his blaming Himself on account of a little mis- 
 understanding, as it was what human nature is perpetually liable to, 
 while our natural infirmities continue, and might also be founded upon a 
 reasonable cause. At the same [time] I said it was a natural consequence 
 (where real affection had subsisted) when a final separation takes place, 
 for the Survivor to regret that any interruption shd. ever have happened 
 to suspend kindness & intercourse. — He then gave me the following 
 acct. — 
 
 On Friday the 9th. of March, Opie was invited to dine with a Society 
 called the Irish Society of which Harvey Combe is President [the Brewer 
 and Lord Mayor]. It is held at a House in the City. — Opie went there & 
 
 117 
 
118 The Farington Diary [i«07 
 
 found the room in which they dined large & cold, with a fire laid perhaps 
 only an hour before the company came. He felt cold & uncomfortable 
 during the entertainment & to warm himself probably drank a little 
 more wine than He was accustomed to drink. The night proved very 
 cold, with Snow, & He had to walk home ; & that evening felt unwell 
 from it. The next & following days, He was still more indifferent, & 
 complained of a pain in his back, & in a little time of a suppression oj 
 Urine. Carlisle, the Surgeon, was applied to, who by the use of a Catheter 
 drew off the Urine, & it was at first thought a surgical but soon appeared 
 to be a medical case. Dr. Ash, a friend of Opie's, Son to the late celebrated 
 Dr. Ash was called in, & there now appeared great disorder in the vessels 
 abt. the groin, with so violent a pulsation, that it was feared a rupture wd. 
 take place. On this acct. He was blooded. He appeared still to grow 
 worse, & was confined to His bed. To the pain in his back & suppression 
 of Urine were added pains in His lower limbs, & these symptoms caused 
 it to be reported that He had the Rheumatism. 
 
 Doctors Differ 
 
 On Thursday, April 2nd, Dr. Alderson, father to Mrs. Opie came 
 from Norwich, and that afternoon told Thomson, that whatever might 
 be said or done, Opie never wd. recover. He differed from Dr. Ash in 
 His opinion of the disorder, & considered it the effect of a morbid habit. 
 Opie had been thought on the Thursday to be something better, but Dr. 
 Alderson said that was nothing. Dr. Vaughan had before or was now 
 called in, and agreed entirely with Dr. Ash as to the propriety of treating 
 his case as had been done, and Doctors Pitcairne & Bailie also were 
 added to the consultation and fully concurred in it. — Their attention 
 was great, they all visited him twice a day. — He had been in a state of 
 Delirium several days, with only slight intervals. His head was shaved 
 & blistered, to relieve Him in that respect. There had been no passage 
 through His bowels for a considerable time. — Carlisle a few days ago 
 felt the lower part of the bowels & found them in a torpid state, the indent 
 of a pressure upon them remaining ; and they crackled like dry parchment. 
 
 Carlisle had for many days told Thomson that Opie wd. not recover. 
 He spoke highly of Dr. Ash & sd. He knew more of Physic than any of 
 the Professors. — Yesterday morning Opie's pulse was better, & Thomson 
 calling upon Mrs. Opie, she smiled, & sd. " You do not know what I have 
 heard of the consultation." — Thomson knew that she was deceived in 
 what she supposed. — Dr. Ash told Thomson that it was not yet known 
 where the real cause or seat of his disorder was ; it might be owing 
 to an intense cold which had fallen upon the spinal marrow. — Lately 
 there had been an oozing from the back. — Last night the Physicians 
 decided that all hope was gone, all the bad symptoms having increased. 
 At 10 oClock Dr. Vaughan tenderly communicated to Mrs. Opie that if 
 nothing more cd. be done, she might be assured that He wd. continue 
 to be without pain. At half an Hour past 4 oClock this morning He died. 
 
1807] Doctors Differ ii9 
 
 — Thomson heard him sometime before to groan heavily, but CarUsle 
 said He was insensible & felt nothing. — 
 
 Thomson said that on hearing Opie was seriously ill He wrote to Him, 
 offering that in case any of his pictures intended for Exhibition shd. 
 require to have some little matter done to them He shd. be happy to 
 give His assistance. 
 
 Blessed Him 
 
 On receiving this letter Opie desired to see him. He found Opie in 
 bed who put out his hand to him and blessed Him. He desired him to 
 do something to a picture of the Duke of Gloucester which Thomson 
 promised to do. — On Friday last He took the picture into Opie's bed 
 room & asked him what He wd. have done. Opie looked at it, but did 
 not say anything & then turned and put out his hand & catched as if 
 something was before him, and afterwards slided His hand under the 
 pillow as if searching for something. He also spoke but in such a way as 
 to shew Thomson that He was delirious. — Thomson did what was neces- 
 sary to the picture and on Saturday sent it to the Exhibition & says it is 
 one of Opie's best pictures. — Since that Time Thomson has been in con- 
 stant attendance during the night, & administered medicines till He cd. 
 no longer bear to do it, from the pain of seeing Opies sad state & witnessing 
 His delirium. He had occasionally momentary recollections, & recog- 
 nised persons, but it was only for a moment. Sometimes the delirium 
 operated so violently that He would start up suddenly in his bed, so 
 as to oblige those abt. Him to hold Him down, — and this at a time when 
 his lower limbs were in such a state from the condition of his back &c. 
 that He could not move witht. assistance. — Finally this case has baffled 
 the sagacity of the most eminent medical men & it will not be known 
 till His body has been opened which is to be done by Carlisle to-morrow 
 at Eleven oClock, what was the real nature of his disorder. — 
 
 A Gross Feeder 
 
 Opie's mode of living was spoken of. He was very abstemious in 
 respect of wine^ but Dr. Alderson observed that He was a gross feeder ; 
 eating of made dishes in preference to plain meat ; and eating pickles 
 & high sauces or whatever of that kind was before him. — Carlisle sd. that 
 shd. Opie's case appear upon opening the body to be what He supposes, 
 it is a very singular case, only one instance of the kind being upon record, 
 and that given by a Physician at Rome. An inflammation of the spinal 
 membrance above the Os Coxcygus \Coccygis\ which in its effect extended 
 to the Brain and caused the Delirium. — 
 
CHAPTER XXXV 
 
 1807 
 
 Cause of Opie's Death 
 
 April 10. — Carlisle came. He had this morning opened the body of 
 Opie & found everything as He had expected it wd. be. — ^An inflammation 
 upon the spine above the Os Coxygus [Coccygis], — an inflammation of the 
 Brain, part of which was dissolved, — and 5 ounces of water in the Brain, 
 whereas there ought not to have been more than half an ounce. There 
 was also inflammation in the bowels. — The case was singular, & like 
 that described by the Roman Physician. — It was incurable from the 
 first, — but being inflammatory the principle which had been acted 
 upon was right. — Had it been possible for Opie to have recovered He 
 wd. have been for the remainder of his life an Idiot. Carlisle sd. that His 
 skull was both externally & internally of a singular form. — 
 
 Carlisle observed that weak minded people have generally small 
 heads and thick skulls ; and that very few, if any, very strong minded 
 persons, those who have strong common sense, ever become insane. 
 Upon dissecting the heads of great numbers who have died insane, the 
 foregoing observations have been made. — 
 
 Opie's Fortune 
 
 April 11. — Thomson I dined with. — He told me that it was now 
 ascertained that Opie died worth property to the amount of ,^12000, 
 to the surprise of Mrs. Opie* who did not suppose Him to be worth more 
 than ;^30oo. Yet He had repeatedly sd. to Thomson " That He shd. 
 starve." Yesterday in a dirty Cupboard a £50 & a ^10 notes were found, 
 & this morning among lumber in a Closet, an old rag in which there 
 was 195 guineas in gold. — The posession of this property did not expand 
 his mind, but He rather became more covetous. He wd. only allow 
 Mrs. Opie to keep one maid servant^ and He had generally an Invalid 
 Man servant at low wages. 
 
 Dr. Alderson, Mrs. Opie's father was averse to Her marrying Him. 
 In His first intercourse with Opie He formed an unfavourable opinion 
 of Him. — At dinner there was a dish which was very good, and the 
 
 * See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 120 
 
1807] Mrs. Opie 121 
 
 Doctor having tasted would have had more, but Opie witht. regarding 
 others, emptied the whole dish into his own plate. This the Doctor 
 decided to be a proof of gross selfishness. — Mrs. Opie had at an early 
 period of Her life somehow been impressed with a feeling that Opie was 
 a very extraordinary man. — At a subsequent period when she saw 
 him His figure & manner so little corresponded with the image in Her 
 mind that Her admiration was suspended. 
 
 But after some intercourse His attention to Her & solicitation caused 
 Her again to be influenced by His reputation for ability & she married 
 Him. — Her Father upon their marriage agreed to allow Him 200 guineas 
 a year. She was 26 or 7 years of age. By Her Novels & poems she has 
 also acquired money. The last year she reed. 3^400, and upon the rect. 
 of this money Opie consented to have his House in part repaired & made 
 more respectable. — But Opie concealed from Her his real circumstances ; 
 and was very parsimonious in His allowance to Her, & in all that related 
 to Her expences. — His mind had nothing liberal in it. He was sordid 
 & selfish. At a time when from the fortune He had made & by His 
 professional practise, He had a considerable income, He gave in to the 
 Commissioners of the Income Tax only ,^50 as professional income and 
 3^150 a year as His junded property ; and it was remarkable that the 
 Commissioners admitted the report. — 
 
 Opie's Art 
 
 Thomson [said] His professional power was [at] its greatest height 
 about 14 years ago, Nine years ago He fell off ; but for sometime past 
 has painted better pictures, though His conceptions have been common 
 placed, and His taste of colouring much inferior to what it was at an 
 earher period of his life. He agreed with me in thinking that it did not 
 seem probable that Opie wd. ever paint better than He had done & that 
 as an Artist He had gone his full length. — 
 
 Thomson became pupil to Opie in August 1791 being at that period 
 17 years old. He paid 1 00 guineas for that year ; and Opie lived then 
 so pleasantly with Him, & on so equal a footing, as to make the time 
 pass very agreeably. At the expiration of that year Opie told him that 
 if He pleased He might remain another year witht. being at any expence, 
 Thomson only went to Opie's to study. — He also attended the Royal 
 Academy & there became acquainted with several Students viz : Owen, — 
 Turner, — Shee, — OHver &c. — He had in the year 1788 obtained a premium 
 at St. Omer's in France, for a drawing. — Before He went to Opie it had 
 been proposed to His Father to place Him with Graham (now at Edin- 
 burgh) who demanded 300 guineas. — 
 
 Thomson saw the present Emperor of Germany at Vienna. He 
 is a Uttle mean-looking man ; but is sd. to have a very good disposition. 
 The Archduke is also a Httle & mean-looking man, but has abilities greatly 
 superior to those of his Brother. — 
 
122 The Farington Diary [is 07 
 
 The Blind Fiddler 
 
 [Owen R.A.] sd. Wilkie's " Blind [Fiddler] Musician," was vastly 
 superior to His work of last year " The Village Politicians," and really 
 justified even Sir George Beaumont's extravagant praise. 
 
 April 12. — Willde I met on my way home. He was much gratified 
 on my telling Him His picture was placed upon the Chimney Board. 
 I asked Him how He went on with His picture of " the Rent day " He 
 sd. slowly. I sd. I concluded He wd. not now see much of Lord Mulgrave 
 as He is first Lord of the Admiralty. But He told me His Lordship 
 had been with him several times since He had that appointment & had 
 not at all slackened in thinking abt. the arts. 
 
CHAPTER XXXVI 
 
 1807 
 
 Vanity of Mrs. Opie 
 
 April 12. — Northcote I called on. — He hoped the Council of the 
 Academy wd. hear no more respecting Opie's Funeral. All that had 
 been proposed arose out of the vanity of Mrs. Opie, which far exceeded 
 even that of Mrs. Cosway, — He remarked on the proposal of having 
 Opie interred in St. Pauls, three days before He died, for such a wish 
 Thomson had communicated to Owen at that time, but it originated 
 with Mrs. Opie. — It was surprising that it shd. have done so, as most 
 persons cd, not have borne to think of his funeral while He was living. — 
 West now is upon His guard respecting it. He says that shd. any further 
 apphcation be made it will then be a matter for the Council to debate'. — 
 Northcote did not think Opie posessed more than j^200 a year. — 
 
 Fuseli's Impatience 
 
 Yesterday after dinner He had a contest with Fuseli who insisted 
 that all modern artists, even Raphael, were weak in the power of giving 
 expression to their figures. Northcote held a contrary opinion. He said 
 the discriminations of character were better [given] by the moderns 
 but by the ancients as far as we know of their work, little of that kind 
 was to be seen. Fuseli mentioned the Laocoon. Northcote said. 
 That was a man upon the Rack ; it was one in the extreme of bodily 
 distress. Fuseli named the Niobe. Northcote sd. that was a similar 
 instance. — The Quoiter, He said, was one of the best instances of expression 
 that was to be found in the Antique. — Fuseli became impatient, & 
 left the room. 
 
 Hobbema 
 
 Sir George Beaumont told Hearne yesterday that having spoken to 
 Payne Knight of Edwd. Coxe's Hobbima* which is to be sold this 
 week. Knight said Hobbima was a fine painter, but He did not now feel 
 
 * This Hobbema was a " Wooded Landscape with Cottages and Figures," Number 21 
 in Smith's Catalogue Raisonn^. In Coxe's sale on April 23, 1807, it fetched ^^588. His 
 fine collection of 70 pictures was sold by Peter Coxe, the auctioneer, who had been a 
 collector for thirty years, and purchased from the Calonne collection, the Orleans, Sir 
 William Hamilton, Laborde, and others, 
 
 123 
 
124 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 so much interested abt. His works as formerly, as we have now 'painters 
 coining J orward in this country, who much surpass Hobbima. 
 
 April 13. — Thomson's I went to at \ past 3 oClock, & met Sir John 
 St. Aubyn, Mr. Penwarne, & Prince Hoare. 
 
 Opie's Origin 
 
 Mr. Penwarne sd. that Opie was born at St. Agnes, a village in 
 Cornwall, abt. 4 or 5 miles from Truro. That His Father was not in 
 so low a situation as has been reported. That He was a Carpenter & Joiner 
 in a decent situation of Life. Opie's education must have been very 
 limited, as good schools were not established in that part, but He was 
 taught to read & write. The first time that He shewed an inclination 
 to drawing has been thus related by His Sister, He was acquainted with 
 a young man of the name of Mark Oates who is now a Captn. of Artillery. 
 — Opie happened to call upon Him & saw a drawing of a Butterfly 
 made by Him, was seized with a desire to attempt to make one like it. 
 In this [he] succeeded so well as to become quite eager to make further 
 attempts in drawing. His Father kept a Horse on which Opie rode 
 to Truro & purchased some pencils & colours. 
 
 Penwarne told me that Opie's Sister had informed Him that Opie 
 was at ten years of age a very good Arethmitician, & at that early age 
 He set up a sort of school, & taught writing and accounts to many much 
 older than Himself. — Before He was twelve years of age He had for 
 sometime been under the tuition of Dr. Wolcot so far as to receive advice 
 & instruction in painting, the Doctor having much love for the art & 
 a few pictures in His posession. He began to paint portraits at a very 
 early period, and when not more than thirteen years of age went to 
 Padstow a town at some distance where He remained three months, 
 and at the end of that period returned to His Fathers dressed in a new 
 suit of cloaths & having twenty or thirty guineas in his pocket. — 
 
 Prince Hoare spoke of the Jealousy which at one period subsisted 
 between Opie & Northcote. — Wolcot had been very much with North- 
 cote but was considered afterwards as urging Opie against him. Fuseli 
 on this in allusion to a picture of the death of James, King of Scotland 
 painted by Opie, in which Opie represented Wolcot & Himself as two of 
 the Assassins, made the following Epigram, Northcote's name being 
 James — 
 
 Unhappy James ! What mercy can'st thou find. 
 When Wolcot strikes before, & Opie stabs behind ? 
 
 Westall I met. He told me Sandby had reported at the Academy 
 that Sir George Beaumont had called upon Him yesterday to learn 
 where His own & Wilkie's picture were placed in the Exhibition. — ■ 
 Sir George said that " The Academy ought to set aside their laws upon 
 this occasion & elect Wilkie an Academician at once, witht. requiring 
 that He shd. first be an Associate." Sandby spoke of it as a very strange 
 
John Opie, Esq , R.A. 
 From a Print in the British Museum 
 
 [To lace p. 124 
 
1807] Lawrence's Financial Troubles 125 
 
 proposal & Northcote remarked that if such a circumstance shd. ever 
 happen it ought to be in a case where the performance should be in the 
 highest & not the lowest department of art.— 
 
 April 14. — At Eleven I went to Mr. Coutts and was an hour with 
 Mr. Antrobus and Coutts Trotter upon Lawrences business.— The King's 
 pictures they considered to be quite distinct from, and as an Income 
 over and above the ^2700 a year mentioned as professional Income 
 [earned by Lawrence]. — The rects. for the King's pictures had been as- 
 signed over to Mr. Coutts so that no other person could receive that 
 money from Government. — They appeared perfectly satisfied that it 
 wd. be best to let the matters remain in my hands, & I told them I wd. 
 from time to time inform them how everything goes on. — 
 
 April 15. — Penwarne told me that He first knew Opie in the year 
 '^TIT' — That in 1778 Lord Bateman was upon the Coast of Cornwall 
 commanding a Regiment of Militia, & Opie painted a portrait of Himself 
 for His Lordship. — Opie was attentive to money in Httle matters, but 
 He had hberal feehngs. He gave support to His Father & Mother & 
 Sister ; and wd. have had His nephew brought up to study the law, 
 but His conduct was bad, & He is now a private Soldier in a regiment 
 of Militia. 
 
 Dardanelles Forced 
 
 J. Offiey's I dined at. — Accounts were circulated today of Admiral 
 Louis* having forced the passage of the Dardanelles, and brought 
 the Turks to negotiate a peace & separate themselves from the 
 French. — 
 
 On April 17th Farington entered in a small note-book : — The News- 
 papers today confirmed the report that on the i8th. of February the 
 English Squadron consisting of the — 
 
 Royal George 
 Windsor Castle 
 
 guns 
 100 
 no 
 
 Repulse 
 Thunderer 
 
 guns 
 
 74 
 74 
 
 Canopus 
 
 74 
 
 Standard 
 
 64 
 
 Pompee 
 
 74 
 
 
 
 4 frigates & several Fire ships and Bomb-Vessels passed through the 
 passage of the Dardanelles, overwhelming the Turkish fleet of one sail 
 of the Line and Six frigates, & came to anchor within gun shot of the 
 Seraglio at Constantinople on the even'g of the 20th. 
 
 * Sir Thomas Louis (1759- 1807), Rear- Admiral, was a native of Exeter. In November, 
 
 1806, he was in command of a small squadron to examine the defences of the Dardanelles, 
 as a preliminary to the forcing of the passage by Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth in February 
 
 1807. Louis' ship, the Canopus, was fired at by the Turks on its return through the Straits 
 on March 3. She was considerably damaged, but only three men were wounded. Duck- 
 worth's squadron afterwards went to the coast of Egypt, under the command of Louis 
 who died on board Canopus on May 17, 1807. 
 
126 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Imprudent Conduct 
 
 April 16. — Lawrence told us that Lord Whitworth yesterday men- 
 tioned to Him the imprudent conduct of the Marquiss of Douglas at the 
 Court of Petersburgh. The British merchants delivered to His Lordship 
 a statement of certain grievances which they had to complain of and 
 expressed strongly their sentiments of the government of Russia. His 
 Lordship instead of considering this representation & forming from 
 it such a statement as it might be proper to present, sent the paper 
 itself^ in which was language improper to be used when a government was 
 to be addressed, & accordingly the Russian Government was so disatisfied 
 with it that Lord Douglas wd. have been recalled if the late Change of 
 Ministry had not taken place. — Lord Lewison Gower has been ap- 
 pointed in His place. Lord Whitworth sd. that when Lord Lewison was 
 at Petersburgh in that capacity before He did not well accomodate 
 himself to their habits. 
 
 The Nobility dine at three or four oClock, have their routs &c. at early 
 hours, & sup at Ten oClock & retire to rest soon after. Lord Lewison 
 on the contrary did not vary from his habits whilst in London, but 
 passed much of the day in bed, and sat up late. — Lord Whitworth also 
 mentioned that the Russian Ministers do their public business in a manner 
 different from those at other courts. They do [so] while standing at a 
 fire, or riding out & seemingly when in easy & accidental intercourse with 
 those from other courts. — Lord Whitworth was Minister at Petersburgh 
 several years. — 
 
 Mr. Angerstein mentioned the tardiness of the late Administration to 
 grant money to Russia. The Ministers of that Court said " We can defend 
 our Country, but if we advance from it we require pecuniary assistance." 
 — They desired to have a Loan raised in England to be repaid by Russia, 
 but our late Ministry were more willing to give a specific Sum, than to 
 adopt the other proposal. — 
 
 Extravagance 
 
 Hoare spoke of the raptures of Cumberland* upon reading " Shee's 
 Rhymes on Jrt"f — He had spoken lightly of Shee's poetry, which caused 
 Hoare to ask Him whether He had ever read it. He sd. He had not. 
 Hoare pressed Him to do it ; upon which He & Sir James Bland Burgess 
 read " the Rhymes on ^rt," together ; and both were in such transports 
 with it, that they immediately took a Coach & drove to Shee's and 
 introduced themselves to Him, as strangers who were gratified in the 
 highest degree by what He had written. — This morning Hoare saw 
 Cumberland at His lodgings, and heard him declare that " The Rhymes 
 
 * Richard Cumberland (1732-181 1), dramatist, who wrote an epic called the " Exodiad " 
 in conjunction with Sir John Bland Burges. See Index under Cumberland, Vol. III. 
 and under Burges, Vol II., page 233«. 
 
 t See Index, Vol. III. 
 
1807] Extravagance 127 
 
 on Art " is the best poem ancient or modern in our language. — Hoare 
 mentioned Milton at which Cumberland hesitated a little, but declared 
 that Dryden & Pope fell before it. — 
 
 April 19. — Lysons called. He said that from ^500 a yr, the amount 
 of his Salary as Keeper of the Records in the Tower, deductions are made 
 for Land Tax, Income Tax^ — and Fees, which reduce it to ;^290. — 
 
CHAPTER XXXVIl 
 
 1807 
 
 The Duke and Duchess 
 
 April 20. — Mrs. Stodart called & brought her Son & daugr. being 
 on Her way to Walmer Castle Captn. Stodart* being appointed upon 
 the Staff to Major Genl. Payne, — which gives Him ;£3oo a year additional 
 Pay. — He was a little while ago in that capacity to Genl. Lenox (now 
 Duke of Richmond) who she says is a most friendly man & perfectly 
 free from pride, but the Duchess is of an opposite disposition, being 
 excessively proud, & disdainful of persons of inferior rank. They have 
 13 Children. She is very jealous of Him. — The Duke is a social man, & 
 in Company will sit to the last, but if He happens to visit a man who only 
 drinks water He will join Him in that, being perfectly accomodating. 
 While in Camp, he lay in a small tent, — wrapped a Cloak round Him, & 
 made a Saddle His pillow. — Since he became Duke, no change has taken 
 place in Him. — 
 
 Barry and Titian 
 
 April 21. — At Eleven o'Clock I called on Sir Nathaniel Holland. 
 We talked of the sale of Barry's pictures. He said Barry's " Birth oj 
 Pandora " was a very incompetent attempt to do something great. It 
 was defficient both in design, in form, & in colouring. Jupiter was a Huge 
 
 * Captain, afterwards Major, Stephen Stoddart (1763-18 12), of the Sixth Dragoons, 
 was married to Katherine Randal (1773-1824). He was thrown from his horse and 
 killed near Limerick in 18 12. 
 
 His son, Charles Stoddart, horn in 1806, was at first in the army, but, placed on half-pay 
 in 1834, with the rank of captain, he became secretary to the Royal United Service Insti- 
 tution and secretary to the Institute of Civil Engineers. In 1835 he went to Persia as 
 Military Secretary to the future Sir Henry Ellis, and was in the Persian camp during the 
 Siege of Herat by Mahomed Shah, until he left with John (afterwards Sir John) McNeil. 
 In June, 1838, however, he was sent back with a message to the Shah, who was afraid of 
 the threat of war and raised the siege. 
 
 Shortly after the retirement of the Persian army Stoddart was more than once im- 
 prisoned by the Ameer of Bokhara, whither he had gone on diplomatic business, and finally 
 (on June 17, 1842), he and Arthur ConoUy were by the Ameer's orders, beheaded in the 
 public square in Bokhara city. Charles Stoddart was described as " a very clever, well- 
 educated, and agreeable man," and Conolly said of him, " he is such a friend as a man would 
 desire to have in adversity." 
 
 128 
 
1807] Barry and Titian 129 
 
 figure in the upper parts but the lower limbs were so small in propor- 
 tion that such a figure could not stand. It was the case with several other 
 figures in that picture ; and many of the limbs appeared to have been 
 executed in imitation of parts which He had looked at in the antique, 
 but these limbs were not of the same character with the other parts of 
 the figure to which He had attached them. — What attempt there was 
 at colouring was as bad as possible, He seemed to have no sense of it. 
 On the whole He sd. Barry Had talked & bullied people into a belief of 
 His being a great artist. — He said His Venus rising Jrom the Sea was His 
 best performance. In that He had the Venus of Medicis in his eye, & 
 made something of it, but He had spoilt the picture by rubbing a brick 
 dust colour over the upper part of the figure. — 
 
 He spoke of the Bacchus & Ariadne by Titian belonging to Lord 
 Kinnaird. He said it was impossible that Titian could have left the Sky 
 in the state it is, almost pure Ultramarine, like a Lapis Lazuli stone, 
 while another part of the sky is quite Hot. — He did not like the figure of 
 Bacchus leaping from His Car, nor that of Ariadne. In some parts there 
 is fine colour, but on the whole it is a picture more fit for an Artist to 
 examine for the purpose of studying what is good in it, than desireable to 
 hang up in a room for general admiration. He thought the picture 
 had been in the hands of bungling picture menders. — 
 
 He mentioned Wilkie with great approbation, saying that His merit 
 was of the right sort, so true in all respects. — 
 
 He complained of not having a good painting room at His House in 
 the Country. He had no light good to paint by but what faced the South 
 & He had been much embarassed by it. — 
 
 Wordsworth as Art Critic 
 
 April 28. — Sir George & Lady Beaumont & Wordsworth called, & 
 I went with them to Grosvenor Square, & saw a picture by Wilson sent 
 by Mr. Bowles to be disposed of. — Rogers had seen it. Sir George 
 proposed lOO guineas to be the price. Segar had looked at it, & thought 
 the edges of some of the trees were painted by Carr. I told Sir George 
 that the whole was by Wilson. — 
 
 Wordsworth said. He thought Historical subjects shd. never be 
 introduced into Landscape but where the Landscape was to be subser- 
 vient to them. — Where the Landscape was intended principally to 
 impress the mind, figures, other than such as are general, such as may a 
 thousand times appear, and seem accidental, and not particularly to 
 draw the attention, are injurious to the effect which the Landscape shd. 
 produce as a scene founded on an observation of nature. — He thought 
 this picture by Wilson excellent, but objected to the foreground dark 
 trees on the left hand which seemed to Him like a skreen, put before the 
 more distant parts. — Sir George shewed me a small landscape brought 
 from Italy by Coleridge which I thought an indifferent picture witht. 
 any appearance of original study. 
 
 VOL. IV. Q 
 
130 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 A Card and Apology 
 
 May 2. — ^At noon Mr. Malone called having just reed, a note from Mr 
 Windham signifying that He had not, He supposed through mistake, 
 reed, a Card to the Academy dinner and apprehending it might not be 
 known to the Members, & that He might be supposed to have omitted 
 to send an answer, desiring Mr. Malone to mention to the members 
 that He had not reed, a card. — I told Malone that this was another proof 
 of the neglect of Richards [the Secretary], for that Mr. Windham, with 
 other great political Characters, are always to be invited, & so it stands 
 in the Invitation List. — On this Malone sd. He wd. walk to Mr. Windham's 
 in Pallmall & set all to right. — 
 
 The Academy I went to at | past i & told West & Owen what had 
 happened. West expressed much mortification at the misconduct of 
 Richards & desired me to do whatever might seem proper. — I therefore 
 wrote a note to Mr. Windham in the name of the President & Council, 
 with a Card and apology, & Owen copied & sent it. — 
 
 I then returned home to dress & went back to the Academy J before 5 
 & saw the Prince of Wales & the Duke of Kent looking at the pictures in 
 the Library attended by West. — I had conversation with many. Mr. 
 Angerstein took me to the door of Richards's room to speak to me abt. 
 Lawrence's [financial] affairs. He sd. what had been done was a last 
 stake ; He noticed His having a right disposition but yielded to indolence 
 with respect to His affairs. Mr. Angerstein did not remain to dinner, 
 being affected by Jaundice & looked very yellow. — He & everybody that 
 mentioned the Prince noticed how very ill He looked. — 
 
 Too Near the Prince 
 
 I had placed Lord Thomond's name next to the Prince of Wales's 
 seat, but He desired me to remove it 2 seats from Him. — I spoke to Mr. 
 Windham abt. the Card not having been sent earlier, — He replied very 
 pleasantly " That the dinner to Him was so much an object, that He could 
 not suffer the disappointment when it might have arisen from a mistake." 
 — Sir N. Holland sd. to me that when He contemplated the picture of 
 Sir F. Baring by Lawrence, and thought of the period when Hudson was 
 considered at the head of the Art it was surprising that such a progress 
 should have been made, and authorised me to tell Lawrence so. — He 
 said that picture was of first-rate quality, in which opinion Geo : Dance 
 joined him. — Owen said to me " That He felt what Lawrence's picture 
 was, That it was high art & quite His own : He added that He knew 
 very well where He himself stood & was not deceiving Himself," meaning 
 as much below that excellence. — Mr. Bernard asked me " whether I 
 did not think a premium for the best Historical picture of a subject from 
 the English History for which Academicians only shd. be competitors 
 might not be proper to propose from the British Institution." I ex- 
 pressed doubt of the Members of the Academy being willing to be Com- 
 petitors. — 
 
1807] The Prince could be Gracious isi 
 
 Hoppner told me that the Prince of Wales sat to Him abt. a fort- 
 night before the pictures were sent to the Exhibition, — As Hoppner had 
 been several times disappointed by the Prince, He then said, He feared 
 He shd. not be able to finish it in time, adding, that His bodily health 
 did not enable [him] to make great exertions, upon which the Prince 
 put His hands to Hoppner's cheeks and patting them said, " Oh, you have 
 constitution enough to do anything." — Hoppner said the Prince had at 
 times a gracious manner that was most engaging & subduing. — The 
 Prince then buckled on a belt which belonged to His Robes & found it 
 too wide by lo or 12 Inches, so much had He shrunk in size. — He seemed 
 sensible that His constitution was in a bad state. — The Duke of Clarence 
 being present told Him " He wd. not live three months." — At dinner I 
 observed He only eat Fish, & salad & a little pudding, & drank no wine ; 
 but He ate some Horse radishes at the end of the dinner. — He had 
 none of the joy and gaiety, & spirit of address which I had at other times 
 seen in Him. — Hoppner said He is supposed to have an Atrophy. — 
 That He does not abstain from meat & zuine from their being forbidden 
 by his Physicians, but from [the] nauseating [effect of] both. — 
 
 We began dinner abt. \ past 6 and the Prince retired at \ past 8 
 accompanied by the Duke of Kent. — West had given " Health to the 
 Prince of Wales," upon which there was much clapping, which expressed 
 the general feeling that He wanted it. — ■ 
 
 VOL. IV. 9* 
 
CHAPTER XXXVIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Wordsworth's Opinion 
 
 May 4. — At noon went to the Exhibition, just opened. — I there 
 met many. — Peter Coxe* thought Lawrences picture of Sir Francis 
 Baring too gay in colour, & the draperies of Mr. John Baring & Mr. Wall 
 fluttered. He said the flesh was also too purple. — He admitted that the 
 picture had great force and overpowered those of Owen and Thomson 
 placed next to it. — Boaden on the contrary thought the picture a noble 
 piece of art, finely coloured & said Lawrence was a great creature. — Words- 
 worth & His wife or Sister I met. He thought it a poor exhibition, & 
 she said it was the worst she had ever seen. — [James] Ward I met. He 
 thought Lawrences picture equal to the works of Vandyke or Rubens. — 
 He invited me to meet Lord Somerville & Mr. West at his House at dinner, 
 on Saturday next, His Lordship being that day to stand Godfather to 
 one of his children. — 
 
 Turner's Crude Blotches 
 
 May 5. — West I called on & found Ward colouring a print from West's 
 King Lear, which having been bought by Fulton [the American engineer 
 and artist] is with His Ophelia, to be shipped for America next week. — 
 West said Calcott was falling off ; His trees were like Jried parsley. — 
 He had been to Turner's gallery & was disgusted with what He found 
 there ; views on the Thames, crude blotches, nothing could be more 
 vicious. At best, He said, Turner was only copying himself. — He said 
 Lawrence was studying His art with energy, and was adopting the true 
 mode of proceeding viz : to begin & finish what He may begin, instead 
 
 • Peter Coxe, who died In 1844, was a son of Dr. Coxe, physician to George II. 's 
 household, and brother of the Venerable William Coxe, Archdeacon of Wiltshire. Edu- 
 cated at Charterhouse School, which he left at the age of fifteen, he later became an 
 auctioneer and dispersed some Important collections of pictures. Coxe, who made a 
 fortune and retired from business, was the author of the poem which Irritated Hoppner. 
 Published anonymously in 1807, it was entitled " Another Word or Two ; or Archi- 
 tectural Hints in Lines to those Royal Academicians who are Painters, addressed to 
 them on their re-election of Benjamin West, Esq., to the President's Chair." He also 
 wrote " The Social Day : a Poem in Four Cantos," 1823. 
 
 132 
 
1807] West's Easy Temper 188 
 
 of filling His House with dead coloured pictures. — I, said He, shd. be 
 distracted to be in a House crowded with pictures begun. — 
 
 Mrs. West spoke to me of the little encouragement Mr. West had 
 met with. She sd. any notion that Mr. West was rich was unfounded. — 
 That Mr. West never had a shilling in thejunds in his life, & that she could 
 say more. She said His easy temper had caused Him to allow His sons 
 to be brought up improvidently. They could contribute nothing to 
 lessen His expenses. — She said she had an intention of going to Bath 
 on acct. of Her paralytic complaint, but Mr. West could not afford it. 
 
 West walked with me to my House to see the Susannah, by Rembrant, 
 and declared it to be on this examination, a work of the first quality of 
 Rembrant, and agreed that it would be advisable for the Academy to 
 purchase it. He sd. He shd. converse with Richards abt. giving up the 
 duties of Secretary. I told Him I thought Tresham wd. try to obtain 
 the office. He sd. if He got it. He (West) wd. soon quit the Presidency. 
 — He said Rigaud had not [the] temper for it. — He knew only of One 
 Man [? Farington] who was fit for it. 
 
 Farington and Pitt's Portrait 
 
 May 7. — Passed the whole morning with Lawrence whilst He painted 
 a portrait of Mr. Pitt from Mr. Angerstein's Bust of Him by Nollekins & 
 from his remembrance of Mr. Pitt. — I sat to Him to enable Him to judge 
 of the colouring. He finished the head & I thought it an admirable 
 likeness. 
 
 Lawrence told me that whilst Lord Thurlow was sitting to Him 
 for his portrait He said He had been out of luck when He sat to Hoppner, 
 who had not " delivered Himself of the Archbishop of York " — meaning 
 that the Archbishop having lately sat to Him that impression was on 
 his mind & caused Him to make a resemblance between them. — 
 
 May 8. — Meadows, the Engraver, called, & I gave Him a note of 
 introduction to Lady Thomond. — He said it took Him 2 years to engrave 
 the whole length portrait of the Duke of Leeds from Lawrences picture 
 & He had but 200 guineas for doing it. — 
 
 Turner and Wilkie 
 
 Wilkie thinks his [own] picture wants richness of colour in some 
 respects. — Sir George thinks it might be improved by adding a rich 
 colour to those abt. the Blind fidler, perhaps an Eastern vessel ; or warm 
 reflected lights on the Chair might give it. — He sd. Sir John Leicester 
 had told him that He had asked Turner the price of His picture of a Forge. 
 — Turner answered that He understood Wilkie was to have 100 guineas 
 for His Blind Fidler & He should not rate His picture at a less price. 
 Rogers has given Sir George for Mr. Bowles 100 guineas for the picture 
 of Villa Madame by [Richard] Wilson. It is a three-quarter size & the 
 price Wilson had was 25 guineas. — Sir George expressed high approbation 
 of a half length portrait of Lord Buckinghamshire by Beechey now 
 
184 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 in the Exhibition, & thought it, next to Wilkie's picture, the best in the 
 room. — He mentioned that before the Academy dinner Hoppner had sd. 
 to Lord St. Asaph " We shall have Sir G. Beaumont there carrying every- 
 body up to Wilkie's picture, and not suffering any other to be looked at ; 
 adding, Sir George does great harm to the Art." 
 
 Jokes had passed with Beechey upon Lawrences picture of Sir F. 
 Baring. Sir George remarked on Sir Francis turning his head from those 
 He was listening to as if to hear Thunder ;— Beechey sd. He turned His 
 head from Mr. Wall as if the latter on looking on the Book before [him] 
 announced a deficit of j^ioo,ooo. — 
 
 A Chattering Display 
 
 Sir George sd. Owen is improving much. — He sd. he hoped [Payne] 
 Knight had enough of what He liked in Westall, in his picture of Flora ; 
 meaning the gaudiness of it. — He remarked on West so strongly speaking 
 of the merit of the water-colour drawings now exhibiting by that [the 
 Water-Colour] Society, & sd. He wondered at it. For His own part 
 when He went into the room there was such a want of harmony, such 
 a chattering disj[)lay, that it afforded him little pleasure. There were 
 some effects of rays ^c. that were ingenious, but no breadth or solidity. 
 — [Warwick] Smiths* view of the Colisseum was the best in the room. — 
 
 West had spoke of the state of the Arts. He said there was no en- 
 couragement for the higher branches, not so much as there was 40 years 
 ago. — All the encouragement went for trifling works. — 
 
 Daniellst I dined at. — Daniell told us of a conversation which Humphry 
 reported to Him as having had with Sir G. Beaumont respecting Wilkie's 
 picture. Sir George had spoken of it as being perfect, which fired 
 Humphry, who opposed that opinion, sd. He had seen the School of 
 Athens & other works of Raphael &c. &c. [in the Vatican] — that Wilkie's 
 picture was upon a wrong principle of perspective in composition, the 
 smaller figures being in the front, & the larger behind. — Sir George noticed 
 this conversation to-day, & sd. Humphry appeared to be superannuated. — 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I. and III. 
 
 t Thomas Daniell, R.A. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIX 
 
 1807 
 
 A Rembrandt for £200 
 
 May 12. — Called on Westall. By a Law passed in 1801 moved by 
 Flaxman & seconded by Daniell " not more than ^50 in one year can be 
 granted as assistance to any Academician, Associate or Other person 
 witht. the concurrence of a general Assembly & the sanction of the King," 
 — therefore the Council having already granted to Nixon [A.R.A.] 50 
 guineas cannot do more than pay His pension for this year, & recom- 
 mend to the Council of the next year to grant Him ^50 after Christmas. — 
 A vote was passed to purchase the Susannah by Rembrant for ^^200 — 
 It was unanimously agreed to.* — 
 
 May 13. — This day I sat to Lawrence for the beginning of a Three 
 quarter portrait. — Lysons came there and thought Mr. Pitt's portrait 
 wonderfully like. — 
 
 Wordsworth 
 
 Lawrence was at Sotheby'sf last night where Richd. Sharpet ex- 
 pressed disapprobation of Wordsworths poems just published, saying He 
 had carried His system of simplicity too far, and had proceeded to 
 puerility. — Sir George Beaumont after Sharpe was gone sd. to Lawrence 
 that " He supposed the Blood Hounds would now be upon Words- 
 worth." — 
 
 May 14. — The Princess of Wales went to Court after an absence of 
 two years. 
 
 * The Royal Academy apparently never purchased the " Susanna." According to 
 Mr. Hofstede de Groot, this version of " Susanna " was in the collection of Edmund 
 Burke (1769), sold in the sale of pictures of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1795, and afterwards 
 passed, respectively, to Sir E. Lechmere, Charles Sedelmeyer, and the Kaiser Friedrich 
 Museum, Berlin, where it was in 191 1. 
 
 t William Sotheby, poet. See Index, Vol. II. 
 
 X Richard (Conversation) Sharp (1759-1835) was a hatter who made a fortune and took 
 a keen interest in politics and literature. His friends included Dr. Johnson, Burke, Samuel 
 Rogers, Sydney Smith, and Wordsworth, who said that Sharp knew Italy better than 
 anyone he had ever met. See Index, Vol. I. 
 
136 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 May 15. — Lawrence I called on. He had just reed, a letter from a Mr. 
 Evans of Norwich requesting Him to paint a whole length portrait of 
 Mr. Coke [of Norfolk].* 
 
 May 17. — Hoppner I called on & went with Him to Sir John Leices- 
 ter's & saw the Collection of pictures by British Artists only. — Hoppner 
 told me that Sir G. Beaumont & Sir A. Hume did not approve the 
 pictures by Turner. — He sd. Sir George now begins to remark that Wilkie 
 does not imitate the surjaces oj objects faithfully, but rather makes them 
 all appear as of the same quality. — He spoke of Lawrence's picture of 
 Sir F. Baring &c. & sd. there was much in it which He could not do, 
 but still He saw in Lawrences pictures something wanting which He could 
 do ; meaning in the colour & general affect. — He said Shee would never 
 make a good painter : He had not an eye. — 
 
 May 19. — Lawrence I dined with. — He had yesterday had conversation 
 with Sotheby respecting G.B. [Sir George Beaumont] & the latter ac- 
 knowledged that He had not a strong mind, & could not bear to be pressed 
 deeply upon any subject. Lawrence gave His own opinion fully. The 
 other remarked that G.B. always had a novelty to support, but never 
 seemed to dwell upon the merits of those who were established. — 
 
 Wilkie Might Make £1,000 
 
 Mrs. Phlpps, while speaking of Wilkie, said " How much might He 
 not make by exhibiting His pictures for his own advantage ? " — Sir 
 George [Beaumont] sd. He might make ;^iooo. — We were of one mind 
 abt. it. He mentioned that He & Lord Mulgrave had each ordered two 
 pictures Jrom Him, & He shd. expect to have another in addition to that 
 He had already, at sometime. — He made some observations, " That 
 Wilkie might acquire more transparency." — He should not look any 
 longer at the pictures of Teniers but those of Ostade, & Rembrant. 
 
 Tlie King's Navy 
 
 May 23. — Called on Lord Gardner at breakfast time at Mrs. Corn- 
 wall's [a relative of Farington]. — Lord Gardner told us that He had applied 
 to the Admiralty to make William [Farington's nephew] a Captain but 
 had been refused, as it was said, " from an objection to opening the door 
 to promotion." — He therefore said William must have patience. He sd. 
 He had thought the promotion might have been granted to Him on 
 acct. of his having lejt Ireland. He said He had got William appointed 
 to the Ville de Paris in which Ship He [Lord Gardner] was to Hoist His 
 Flag, — and all His officers were to be sent to Her. — He saw the King 
 on Wednesday last, who told Him the Ville de Paris was a better ship 
 than the Hibernia as the latter carried Her lower ports too near the water. 
 — The King sd. alluding to administrations " that He did not like changes," 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
1807] The King's Navy 137 
 
 — to which His Lordship replied " that He hoped His Majesty wd. have 
 no more changes." 
 
 Blackwall I went to, where in Perry & Wells's Dock a 74 gun Ship 
 was launched, named the EHzabeth. — Lord Mulgrave [first Lord of the 
 Admiralty] threw a Bottle at Her Bow & named Her when she began to 
 move, — There was a great concourse of people. — The Launch took 
 place at 35 minutes after 2, & at 3 a large Assembly was formed in one 
 of the work Houses, where 5 tables were placed & covered with a Cold 
 Collation of which I judge 500 persons partook. — This lasted half an Hour. 
 Toasts appropriate & cheers were given. — 
 
 Mr. Coke Talked 
 
 May 26. — Mr. Coke of Norfolk sat yesterday to Lawrence for a whole 
 length portrait. He said that painted by Opie had not been approved. 
 Lawrence said Mr. Coke talked incessantly, & so moved His head about, 
 that it was very difficult to obtain a true view of his face. — I recommended 
 to Him to mention to Mr, Coke that He must for a time be steady in 
 sitting or no faithful portrait of him could be given. 
 
 May 27. — Lawrence I dined with. — We talked of his having parties 
 at his house upon the Plan Sir Joshua Reynolds had, & He purposed 
 to commence by inviting — Wm. Spencer, — Sharpe, — Sotheby, & Kemble. 
 — Sharpe thinks highly of " Knights enquiry into the principles of taste," 
 & says He had read it over three times & on the last reading thought 
 more highly of it than before. — Lawrence thinks Knight will be mortified 
 by Hoppners remarks upon it.* — Knight tells a story well, but while He 
 endeavours to excite mirth in others laughs a good deal himself. — On 
 the contrary Sir Geo. Beaumont while He attempts to produce the same 
 effect in those who listen preserves His gravity & that most when He 
 comes to the point of ludicrous description.— Lawrence thinks Sir George's 
 manner on such occasions more artificial than that of Knight. — Knights 
 Jorte is discussion & description ; He has no talent for repartee. — Bowles 
 has something of poetry in what He writes : but has a good deal of folly 
 about Him. — 
 
 * To the Artist^ May 23, 1807, Hoppner contributed a scathing review of Payne 
 Knight's " Inquiry into the Principles of Taste." 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 1807 
 
 Coke of Norfolk 
 
 May 28. — Lawrence called in the evening. Mr. Coke of Norfolk 
 sat to him today & read a letter He had just reed, from York expressing 
 that if Lord Milton should not be able to make a successful effort at the 
 election on the day following viz : the 27th inst. they should begin to 
 despair. — Mr. Coke acknowledged the abilities of Wilberforce, but signi- 
 fied that He had left those who when in Administration had carried 
 through His measure of the abolition oj the Slave trade, & to whom He 
 stood indebted for it. Lawrence replied that Mr. Wilberforce might 
 have due sense of the value of their assistance & of their good conduct 
 in that instance, but it did not lay him under an obligation to support 
 them in other matters contrary to his judgment. — At another time 
 Mr. Coke said, It seemed odd that a man of Wilberforce's narrow fortune 
 with little property in the County, should oppose Himself to such famihes 
 as those of Ld. Fitzwilliam & Lord Harewood, Thus showing His 
 own feeling of the claims of Aristocratick power. — He spoke of the 
 Norfolk election & said " He had fought the County " — He said the 
 expences on both sides at the election in October last, He & Windham 
 against Coll. Wodehouse cost ^^70,000. 
 
 Dishonest Land Steward 
 
 He said that He had no Land Steward, but did all that business him- 
 self & has done it during many years. There had been a strong lesson 
 in his own family to induce Him to undertake it. — A Boy of the name 
 of Caldwell was recommended by a person at Norwich to the late Earl 
 of Leicester, for some family purpose, & came to Holkham with half 
 a guinea in his pocket. — He was gradually advanced by the Earl & 
 at last became Land Steward in which capacity He amassed ^^100,000. — 
 The following instance showed how He carried matters on. — A Tenant 
 of Lord Leicester being desirous to have his Lease renewed sent Caldwell 
 a goose pye, & with it a letter in which He mentioned that Mr. Caldwell 
 would find an Egg, which He desired him to look into. It contained 
 ^2000 with which Caldwell was so well satisfied that the Lease was soon 
 
 138 
 
Coke of Holkham 
 From a Portrait by Gainsborough, the property of the Earl oj Leicester. 
 
 face p. 138 
 
1807] Dishonest Land Steward 139 
 
 granted. — When Mr. Coke took possession of the estate He was deter- 
 mined to dismiss Caldwell but the latter insisted that under the will 
 of Lord Leicester He could retain His office. Mr. Coke went into Chan- 
 cery with him & in 3 years had a decission in His favour. The above 
 story wd. have been brought forward had the Law suit been continued 
 as the man who gave the ^2000 acknowledged it. — 
 
 Business First 
 
 Mr. Coke said that He does all His business in the morning between 
 the Hours of 7 & 10 after which time He is at leisure to shoot or for any 
 other amusement. He said that He makes it a rule to answer every 
 letter the day he receives it. — He told Lawrence that He is now 56 
 years old. — Lawrence said He looks like a man of 40 years old & not 
 more. — He spoke of Sir Francis Burdett & said He had seen a great deal 
 of Him & thought Him sincere in His professions ; that He was a great 
 Advocate for an Agrarian Law, & declared that were it adopted He 
 should willingly give up all beyond l^'^o a yr. & that mankind wd. 
 be in a happier state. — 
 
 [William] Cobbett* was mentioned & Mr. Coke spoke of His being 
 a strong though rough writer. Lawrence remarked that though He 
 wrote strongly He had not yet been able to convince the people that 
 Mr. Pitt was " a shallow-headed fellow." — Mr. Coke sd. that in the whole 
 length portrait Opie had painted of him he had totally failed. 
 
 May 29. — Wilson's I went to in the even'g & heard Mrs. Miles play 
 on the Harpsichord — She teaches the Princess Charlotte of Wales & 
 has j^300, a year for it. 
 
 Lawrence I saw in the afternoon. Charles Longt & Sir Abraham 
 [Hume] had called to see the portrait of Mr. Pitt. Lawrence saw that 
 Long did not approve the likeness ; but said it was a very fine picture, 
 & like, & that the Coat was the best black He had ever seen painted. 
 Sir Abraham seemed to think it more like than Long did. — Mr. Dacre 
 AdamsJ & Mr. Courtenay§ afterwards met them & Long said that the 
 picture was not so like as that by Hoppner but was a better picture. This 
 made no difference in the opinion of Adams & Courtenay. — West I met 
 at Lawrence's. He said the picture was as like as if Mr. Pitt had sat 
 for it, and there were in it many circumstances expressed with all the 
 care of nice attention to the individual. — 
 
 Unprincipled Politicians 
 
 June 1 . — I had company to dinner. We dined in my great painting 
 room in which & in the drawing room I had a fire. — Lawrence told me 
 that Mr. Coke sat to Him today, & while sitting reed, a letter from York 
 
 • See Index, Vols. I. and II. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 X William Dacrcs Adams, Commissioner of Woods and Forests. 
 
 § John Courtney, M.P. See Vols. I. and III. 
 
140 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 stating that Lord Milton was behind Lascelles* as well as Wilberforce, 
 Mr. Coke then said He gave up all hope of Lord Milton succeeding, as 
 now Lascelles might put the long oath to Milton's voters which wd. 
 delay the polling & prevent His bringing up a sufficient number. Coke 
 added that He well knew the management of Elections & what might 
 be done to occasion delay. — He told Lawrence that He dined with Lord 
 Howick the day before, who told Him that they (the opposition) should 
 number 240 in the House of Commons, & that very early after the meeting 
 of parliament, they should bring on a question to try the strength of the 
 two parties. — He also sd. that it was understood that government meant 
 to proceed against Sir Francis Burdet on account of His scandalous 
 address to the Electors of Westminster, & that the Opposition meant to 
 support Him. — Such is the unprincipled disposition of a political party, 
 which Condemning the act of Sir Francis, wd. support Him notwithstand- 
 ing to create difficulty to the Ministry. 
 
 An Expert Engraver 
 
 Wm. Daniell [R.A.] told me that John Byrne finding no profits to 
 arise from the publication of plates to accompany LysorC s Brittania, 
 has declined having any further concern in it, as He cannot afford to 
 wait for profits. — Cadell & Davis applied to Wm. Daniell to make draw- 
 ings for a continuation of the work & to superintend the engravings & 
 to become a partner in it. — He consulted me upon it this morning & 
 I advised Him not to engage in it but upon specific terms lobe f aid jar 
 whatever He might do. — He told me that He has become so expeditious 
 in executing works in Aqua-tinta that He has been able to execute a 
 plate for the publication of Animals in one day, & that He charged Ten 
 guineas for each plate. — He said that He had lately executed 20 plates 
 for Sir John Carr'sf Stranger in Holland, to be published by Philips, 
 & that Philips paid Him ^^200 for them, & that He executed the whole 
 of them in Six weeks. — They were done from Sketches made by Carr, 
 and Philips wished much to have his (Daniells) name to them as the 
 engraver, but that He wd. not consent to, as He wd. not appear in that 
 capacity but where He worked from his own drawings. — He sd. the 
 great facility which He had acquired in executing in Aqua-tinta was 
 obtained by the most severe application for Seven years together after 
 He arrived in England from India. — He said He had worked from 6 
 in the morning till 12 at night. — 
 
 June 2. — Marchi [Sir Joshua Reynolds' Assistant] called. — He 
 had seen the Exhibition & spoke highly of Wilkie^s picture of the Blind 
 Fidler. He said it was so sober & solid & well managed as to put down 
 all those that were near it, — Westall's Flora appeared fiery & poor by 
 it ; and Turners Forge flimsy. — He much disliked Northcote's portrait 
 of the King on Horseback, — said the Horse was hard & liny, & the back 
 ground tame & without taste. 
 
 * Edward Lascelles, afterwards first Earl of Harewood. See Vols. I. and III. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER XLI 
 
 1807 
 
 Bishop and Princess 
 
 June 2. — [The Rev. Mr.] Hughes called — He told me the Average 
 income of Seven years past, of a Canon Residentiary of St. Pauls is 
 ^1795 a year. That He shall be required to reside three months in the 
 year unless prevented by illness or some other reasonable cause. — 
 He said He was just come from the Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Fisher) 
 and had found Him in a state of flurry of spirits in consequence of an 
 interview with the Prince of Wales yesterday. The Bishop, as Preceptor 
 to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, has felt much anxiety on account of 
 the great neghgence shewn in educating & attending the Princess. The 
 arrangement in the first instance was likely to produce difficulty. — 
 The King appointed the men who were to superintend & give instruction 
 to the young Princess, & the Prince of Wales appointed the Women. 
 Difference of opinion & sentiment has accordingly prevailed among 
 them, & the Bishop has complained of the bad mode of proceeding ; 
 while on the contrary the women, viz : Lady Clifford* &c. have prejudiced 
 the Prince of Wales against the Bishop, who has been treated with great 
 disrespect by His Royal Highness, He said He had written a letter 
 to the Prince respecting the young Princess & no notice was taken of 
 it. The Prince had passed Him, had looked at him witht. noticing Him. 
 
 Royal Etiquette 
 
 In this situation feeling it necessary to do something, about six 
 weeks ago the Bishop went to Windsor & applied to the Princess Eliza- 
 beth to obtain that He might speak to the Queen on the subject. A 
 time was fixed and it caused a notification from the King for the Bishop 
 
 * Lady Clifford or de Clifford was Princess Charlotte's governess, and, according to 
 Lady Charlotte Bury, in the " Court of England under George IV.," Lady de Clifford seems 
 to have been " a good natured, common-place person, and the young Princess appears to 
 be attached to her, which is a good indication of her Ladyship's temper." The same 
 diarist states that the ordinary Royal Family dinner party always weighed heavily on the 
 Princess, whose mother thought that Lady de Clifford kept the Princess Charlotte too 
 rigidly righteous. Lady de Clifford, however, assured the Princess of Wales that " Princess 
 Charlotte has liberty enough with me." Lady de Clifford died in South Audley Street 
 in August, 1828, aged eighty-five years. 
 
 141 
 
142 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 to come to Him the next morning. — The Bishop went to the King & 
 was with His Majesty an Hour, but to His surprise and mortification 
 the King did not say one word respecting the young Princess or those about 
 Her. — The Etiquette with the King is that His Majesty must commence 
 the conversation y choose His subject. Whether from the King at 
 that [time] being troubled with the PoHtical changes which were taking 
 place, — whether from disinclination arising from a wish not to be troubled, 
 the effect of blindness & old age coming upon Him, so it was that nothing 
 was said & the Bishop returned as He went. — Feeling it however neces- 
 sary that something shd. be done, He yesterday obtained an interview 
 with the Prince of Wales & after a conversation of two hours left Him, 
 as He thinks mutually disaiisfied. — 
 
 In this state things cannot remain ; either the Bishop must give 
 up His situation or the Women must give way. — The Bishop complains 
 of most improper proceeding in respect of want of attention to the young 
 Princess, both in what regards Her personally & to Her instruction. — 
 In the afternoon she is left solely in company with ajemale servant only, 
 which, though she appears to be a well disposed young person, the Bishop 
 deems to be highly improper. Her manners are not attended to. As 
 an instance the Bishop noticed that Her nose requiring to be wiped, 
 she did not apply Her Handkerchief, but wiped Her nose with Her Sleeve 
 as vulgar people do. 
 
 The Bishoprick of Salisbury which the Bishop has very lately obtained 
 is worth ^4,000 a year. 
 
 June 3. — Lane* I called on at 41 Charing Cross & found him copying 
 a portrait of Mr. Pitt for Hoppner. — He desired to mention to me that 
 Hoppner called upon him a week or 10 days since & after looking at 
 the Copies making by Lane walked abt. the room & then said " That 
 Mr. Pitt being dead, people began to forget him, and He did not think 
 that He should want more Copies." He then asked Lane how much He 
 paid for His lodgings & was informed by Lane that He paid a guinea 
 and a Half a week & had taken them for Six months. — Hoppner then 
 said He wd. pay Lane what wd. be due for His Lodgings for the time 
 He had engaged them — Lane reminded Him that He had said that 
 after He shd. have finished the copies of Mr. Pitts portrait which had 
 been proposed Hoppner sd. He wd. find Him other employ. Nothing 
 further passed of an explanatory kind ; but on Saturday last Hoppner 
 sent to Him an order for another copy of Mr. Pitts portrait making the 
 fifth ordered. — From this I plainly saw that Hoppner was not satisfied 
 with Lane's copies & wished to stop His proceeding to make more. — 
 
 Eggs and Spinach 
 
 We [Steers and Farington] went to Segar'sf the picture dealer. He 
 told us that Barretts popularity was so great as a painter that 30 years 
 
 * Samuel Lane. See Index, Vok I., II. and III. 
 t David Seguicr. See Vol. III., page 232. 
 
1807] Eggs and Spinach 143 
 
 ago He was glad to get what He could from Him to sell again & paid 
 Him. high prices. He said Barrett carried Himself very high, & spoke 
 of Wilson as being defficient in finishing His pictures. This Segar told 
 to Wilson, who replied " He complains of my not finishing my pictures 
 & I see His eggs 13 Spinnage" alluding to Barretts green & yellow 
 colouring, — 
 
 Segar told us that a Lady had advanced to Stubbs [the animal painter] 
 a considerable sum of money & Had a Bond of Security which gave Her 
 a claim to His pictures &c. — These were sold the last week & the prices 
 were kept up by Her agents & many articles were bought in. It is 
 understood that after Her Debt is paid there will be little left. — 
 
 A Rembrandt 
 
 June 4. — Lawrence I called on & went with Him to De Corfs* 8c 
 with Him we went to De Lafontainej at Sablionaris in Leicester fields, 
 where we saw several pictures lately imported by him ; viz : a Sea 
 port landscape, even'g by Claude, of a very warm colour, & fine for which 
 the price named was 3000 guineas, — A picture of Boats by Rembrant, 
 very good — A picture called Corregio, very indifferent, for which 3000 
 guineas was asked. — An exquisite picture by Rembrant, " The Woman 
 taken in Adultery," for this 5000 guineas was asked. Mr. Angerstein 
 came and looked at the pictures & went away saying, " two things are 
 wanting for such purchases, money & room to place them." 
 
 De Cort told us that Lord Aylesford had said to Him that He had 
 undertaken to learn many different things ; that it had been his rule 
 to persist in applying to whatever He desired to learn for the space 
 of three years, & if at the end of that time He should not have made 
 sufficient progress He gave up the pursuit. — He had studied drawing, 
 & Painting & Architecture ; also had learnt to ride the Great Horse, — 
 and had become an expert Archer ; and other things. — 
 
 * Hendrick De Cort was born In Antwerp in 1742, and settling In England, became a 
 regular contributor to the Royal Academy. His pictures, which represented architec- 
 tural subjects, were painted in the Italian style of the period. He died in London in 18 10, 
 
 f Lafontaine was a Paris dealer, and in his sale at Christie's in 1807, the Claude 
 "Landscape and Seaport" fetched ;^i,995, Correggio "Virgin and Child," ;^3,i5o; 
 Rembrandt's " The Woman taken in Adultery " was sold for ;([5,250 and is No. 45 in 
 the National Gallery. [See entry and footnote under June i6.] The " Boats " may 
 be No. 967^ in Hofstede de Groot's " Catalogue of Dutch Painters." 
 
CHAPTER XLII 
 
 1807 
 
 A Shameful Affront 
 
 June 4. — Lawrence told me that Mr. Coke yesterday related to Him 
 the particulars of those proceedings at Norwich which caused a petition 
 to be presented against Him and Mr. Windham.* It was owing to an 
 affront offered to Mrs. Berney and Mrs. Atkins, who having rode through 
 the streets of Norwich holding a Poll bearing the Colours of Coll. Wode- 
 house the other Candidate, some of Coke & Windhams party placed two 
 Prostitutes in a Barouche & drove them abt. in imitation of those ladies. 
 — Mr. Coke sd. that on hearing of it. He did what He could to prevent 
 it, but found one of His Nephews at the Head of the mob, which He could 
 not stop. — Owing to this circumstance, the petition having been success- 
 ful, Mr. Windham lost His Seat for Norfolk, which otherways He would 
 probably have possessed during His life. — At present Windham is doubt- 
 ful whether He shall be able to secure a seat in Parliament, as shd. Lord 
 Milton not succeed in Yorkshire, He must vacate the Seat given to Him 
 by Lord Fitzwilliam for Higham Ferrers. — 
 
 Pocket Boroughs 
 
 Government, Mr. Coke said, have bought up all the Boroughs they 
 could and at high prices ; giving £6000 for a Seat. Tierney\ has been 
 looking out for one, for which He would pay ,^4000, but has not suc- 
 ceeded. — 
 
 Lord Thanet has behaved very handsomely to Mr. Courtney, who 
 being very poor, and tired of parliament. His Lordship who had before 
 bought Appleby for Him, now gave Him leave to dispose of a Seat for 
 that Borough, which accordingly Courtney has done to Mr. Cuthbert 
 for ^4000. — 
 
 Mr. Coke spoke of Lord Howick, and sd. " Howick is the first man 
 on his side in the House of Commons, but He is not popular. He is 
 
 • William Windham. See Index, Voh. I., II. and III. 
 t George Tierney. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 144 
 
1807] Pocket Boroughs 145 
 
 Hot & irritable, but He is sincere & not ill-tempered." He said the 
 Opposition now reckoned upon counting 196 members on their side. 
 
 Mr. Coke sd. to Lawrence that Lord Fitzwilliam had sd. He wd. 
 expend ^150,000 to carry Yorkshire for his son Lord Milton, yet wd. 
 probably lose it, from not carrying down the London voters at the com- 
 mencement of the Poll which He might have done for ;^3000. 
 
 Gainsborough Letters 
 
 June 5. — Downman called to request my interest to be elected an 
 Academician & hinted that if not chosen He shd. resign His Diploma of 
 Associate. I gave him only general answers, and said His residence not 
 being in London might be an objection. He said that though He now 
 lived at Exeter, He comes to London every year. He said He had 
 married the daughter of the late Mr. Jackson, musician, of Exeter, the 
 intimate acquaintance of Gainsborough. 
 
 Mrs. Downman has in her posession a large Collection of letters* 
 written by Gainsborough to Jackson, in a truly original & singular stile. 
 — Mr. [Thomas] Jackson who was Minister at [Turin] is now at Trieste, 
 finding it difficult to get to England, as Buonaparte is desirous to seize 
 Him.— 
 
 NoUekens and the Elgin Marbles 
 
 June 6. — Nollekens had seen the works in Sculpture brought from 
 Athens by Lord Elgin, & did not find anything fine amoung them. He 
 could not believe them to be the work of Phidias ; but on Mostynf speak- 
 ing of their fine effect when upon the temples at Athens, He sd. Well, 
 when they are all arranged, and put into such situations as to be properly 
 seen, & the broken parts united we shall see more of them. — Nollekens 
 shewed us the Casts taken from the faces of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, & the 
 Duchess of Devonshire after their deaths. He sd. He had refused to 
 make a Bust of the Duchess of Devonshire from the Cast, as He could 
 not undertake to make it like what she appeared to be. In consequence 
 Lady Besborough had taken away lYve first Cast which was taken. — 
 
 * Mention of these Gainsborough letters Is of much interest. It is well known that 
 considerable correspondence passed between the artist and William Jackson, whose music 
 to an adaptation of " Lycidas " was favourably received at Covent Garden. In fact, 
 twelve letters by Gainsborough to Jackson were purchased by the Royal Academy about 
 forty years ago from a great-niece of Jackson's brother Thomas, to whom the musician 
 left them. 
 
 According to this story, it would seem that the " large " collection of letters referred 
 to by Farington was a separate batch bequeathed by William Jackson to his daughter, Mrs. 
 Downman. If that is so, her letters may yet be awaiting discovery. Mrs. Downman 
 had two sons and one daughter. 
 
 t Probably the Mr. Mostyn who married Miss Cecilia Thrale, daughter of Mrs. Piozzi, 
 who on April 4, 1820, wrote : " This moment brought me an agreeable letter from Mrs. 
 Mostyn. She and her youngest son are very gay at Florence, acting English plays, &c. . . . 
 All among Lord and Lady performers, of course." After Mrs. Mostyn's death in 1857 
 a collection of relics of her mother were sold at Sillwood Lodge, Brighton. 
 
 VOL. IV. 10 
 
146 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 ^ Nollekens told us He shd. be 70 years old in August next, & Dance 
 said He was 66 years old in April last.— Nollekens told Him He looked 
 as well as He did 30 years ago, & added " That He had always a laughing 
 face," meaning that His good humour had preserved his health. 
 
 Pitt's Bust and Portrait 
 
 On our coming away Dance* told me that He thought the Bust of 
 Mr, Pitt had much of his air & look, but it seemed to Him not to be true 
 to the proportions of Mr. Pitts Head, the upper part of the head being 
 too small, & the nose not the true form. — He added that having con- 
 versed with Mr. Pitt He had a full recollection of him & noticed that His 
 look, the pecuHar look of his eyes had something in it, when speaking 
 upon business, that " had more oj spirit than flesh in it." On the whole, 
 however. He thought this Bust the best representation of him. — He said 
 having heard Hoppners portrait of Mr. Pitt much spoken of He went to 
 the Exhibition to see it & was greatly disappointed. He sd. He should 
 not have known it to have been intended Jor Mr. Pitt. 
 
 Nollekens told us that He had 52 Busts of Mr. Pitt to execute in Marble. 
 — x^Lnd had eight of Mr. Fox, of whom He had before executed Twenty 
 one Busts. He has now 100 guineas for each Bust. — 
 
 Dance told me that He shd. surprise me by telling me that His Brother, 
 Sir N. Holland,! is going to build a House in Piccadilly, & this at 72 
 years of age. But it is with a view to make an agreeable residence for 
 Lady Holland, who has great pleasure in associating with Her friends who 
 are in high situations. He sd. He supposes Sir Nathaniel expends 
 3^5000 a year, & believes He has ^30,000 a year, so that it wd. only be 
 the expense of surplus income for one year. — 
 
 Nollekens told me that when Stubbs died there was no money in the 
 House, but abt. ^20 was owing to Him by a person. His House was 
 mortgaged to a lady a friend of his, and He owed her money besides. 
 His pictures & effects produced at the sale upwards of £4000, but the 
 Lady had been ill-advised & bought 'fn. pictures for which high prices 
 were bid; one in particular for which Mr. Thos. Hope bid upwards 
 of ;^200, yet she wd. not let it go. 
 
 Boswell called.! He said affairs looked so ill He was afraid to say 
 " What News." — He wished Wilberforce & Lascelles to succeed for 
 Yorkshire. — He was glad Lord Howick had lost Northumberland. He 
 could not forget former circumstances, and that His Lordship, then Mr. 
 Grey, was the only Member of the House of Commons who appeared in 
 colours when the House was in mourning for the death of the King of 
 France. — His haughtiness has lost Him Northumberland : He would 
 not condescend to ask for votes. — 
 
 * George Dance. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III, 
 
 ■[• See Index, Vols. I. and II. 
 
 X James Boswell, the younger. See Index, Vols. I., II. and IIL 
 
1807] Lascelles and Pitt 147 
 
 Boswell wished for Lascelles to succeed as He was the Member who 
 moved for all the Honors voted to the memory of Mr. Pitt by the House 
 of Commons. — He spoke of the death of General Paoli [the Corsican 
 soldier], His old friend. He died at the age of 82 of a suppression of 
 Urine, to which He had been long subject. — He had a Pension of ^2000 
 a year from our Government, but had many Corsican friends to assist 
 for whom He had an open table. — His figure had undergone a great 
 change : from being very large & stout He had become very thin : but 
 His spirits were good. — 
 
 Boswell spoke of the very great number of deaths which had happened 
 during the last winter & spring, but particularly in the months of March 
 & April. He lost two friends not older than Himself who were carried 
 off by colds & fever. — 
 
 VOL. IV. 10 
 
CHAPTER XLIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Wine, a Kind of Poison 
 
 June 6. — [George] Dance I dined with. — We dined a little before 5 
 — and had Port, Madeira, & Red Champaigne* — Drinking was spoken of. 
 Dance told me I knew a person who never in his life was intoxicated ; it 
 was Sir Nathl. Holland, His Brother. — He added that Sir Nathl. always 
 objected to wine ; and, when alone, He believed did not drink any ; 
 but in company passes the bottle so as to keep up an appearance of 
 drinking some wine. Sir Nathl. has a strong prejudice against wine & 
 thinks it a kind of poison. — To Tea He has no objection. — - 
 
 Sleeping was a topick of conversation. Mostyn sd. that He sleeps 
 8 or 9 hours witht. intermission, but on waking finds no disposition to 
 rise suddenly, no elasticity, but rather an inclination to dozing. — He 
 seldom dreams, at least so as to have any impression remaining. — Sir 
 N. Dance on the contrary sd, that His sleep is short, not more than two 
 hours at a time, & that in the morning He awakes rather debilitated than 
 refreshed. He passes the night in a state of dreaming & irritation which 
 were He to refrain from wine He said, would probably not be the case, 
 
 * Mr. H. Warner Allen writes : The red " champaigne " to which Farington refers 
 is presumably a still wine. Henry VIII. owned a vineyard in Champagne, but he drank 
 nothing from it but still wine, since Champagne was only invented in the late Seventeenth 
 Century. It must be remembered that both Burgundy and Champagne are produced 
 from the pinot grape. Red still champagne, unfortunately, will not travel, but it still stands 
 in high repute in its own country, and M. Paillard, of Bouzy, has offered the writer a 
 really delightful Bouzy of 1893. Professor Saintsbury, in his " Notes on a Cellar Book," 
 speaks with great affection of a red Verzenay of 1868, and the wine-lover in old days found 
 at the Haute Mere Dieu Hotel of Chalons-sur-Marne a fine choice of this fascinating wane. 
 A proposoi the remarks of Mr. H.Warner Allen concerning the still red "champaigne" 
 referred to in the delightful Farington Diary, it may interest its readers to hear of a few 
 more varieties of that classical beverage, says another correspondent. 
 
 "I was present on the 9th December, 1903, at a luncheon, when the following rare 
 specimens of red non-mousseux champagne were sampled, specially shipped by Messrs. 
 Moet and Chandon, of Epernay, for the jubilee of one of their friends in this country : 
 
 1865 Bouzy. 1874 Verzenay. 
 
 1865 Verzenay. 1870 Ay. 
 
 1874 Bouzy. 1870 Bouzy. 
 
 1874 Ay. 1870 Verzenay." 
 
 148 
 
1807] Wine, a Kind of Poison 149 
 
 but He has not yet had resolution to do so. — Dance sd. that He con- 
 sidered 7 Hours sleeping quite sufficient. If He goes to bed at Eleven 
 He wakes at 4, and generally rises at 6 or means to do it. — 
 
 Too Much Talk about Art 
 
 After dinner the 13th. number of the Artist was brought in, & Dance 
 read it through. The writers in this number were P. Hoare, — Hoppner 
 & Cumberland. — At the conclusion Dance expressed to the purpose 
 " That there was much sound & little sense." — Northcote had exposed 
 himself by undervaluing Nicolo Poussin. — Of Shee He said, That from 
 what He had seen of Him He was convinced that He would never do much ; 
 He had undertaken to write upon His art before He understood it. — He 
 said it appeared generally that those who knew most of their art were 
 least disposed to talk much about it. — He spoke of the bad taste of the 
 buildings now erecting & those which have been erected near Westminster 
 Hall, & Abbey, of which Groves has the direction. He sd. He had been 
 applied to to make designs for a continuation of those buildings but had 
 not taken any notice of it. — 
 
 Dwellings calculated for comjort were spoken of. Mostyn sd, Windsor 
 Castle & such like were not suited to it. Dance thought that in great 
 buildings comfort might be had, but that certainly magnificence was an 
 incumbrance upon it. — 
 
 English Integrity 
 
 Mostyn travelled to Russia & has been at Petersburgh & at Moscow. 
 — The English people are much respected in that country for their in- 
 tegrity. It was frequently said to Him " I must believe you, for you are 
 an Englishman." — Many persons in Russia speak English, but among 
 the higher order French is spoken so generally as to seem among them a 
 native language. — At Petersburgh the higher orders are all Courtiers^ — 
 at Moscow their manners are more simple and natural. — Hospitality 
 abounds among them, so far as feeding those who go to their Houses ; 
 but it is not attended with much social pleasure. — At Moscow the dinner 
 may be at one, two, or three oClock, when large parties assemble, but the 
 conversation does not extend beyond those who sit on the right & left 
 of each of the party. — At Moscow, & in other parts of Russia, the opinion 
 of the English is that they are all powerful by Sea, but nothing on land : 
 — but their notions are all general : they have no knowledge of circum- 
 stances. — I asked Mostyn whether He kept a Diary when he travelled. 
 He said, " No, only made memorandums, which no other person wd. 
 understand." — 
 
 Wilkie and Sir Joshua 
 
 June 7. — The Academy I went to at 2 oClock & met Lady Thomond, 
 Mr. & Miss Metcalfe, & Mr. Henry Hope, who had a private view of the 
 Exhibition through my means. — Wilkie's picture engaged their particular 
 
150 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 attention. " What would my Uncle, Sir Joshua, have said Had he seen 
 this picture," said Lady Thomond to me, — adding " It is worth as much 
 money as a picture can be worth." Only one head in the picture appeared 
 to her to be deficient, that of the Blind Fidler's wife. — 
 
 [The following paragraph appeared in the Morning Herald of July 
 8th : " A correspondent expresses much astonishment at reading in the 
 newspapers that a monument is proposed to be erected to the memory 
 of the late Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Subscription. The proposer of such 
 a Plan must surely have forgotten that the neice of that celebrated Artist 
 inherited nearly ^100,000 from Him, which created Her Marchioness of 
 Thomond, and that a Monument by subscription must therefore prove 
 to that Lady of exalted rank a monument of disgrace." — From small 
 note-book.] 
 
 Sale of Opie's pictures — It produced ;i^i386. — Clothing the Naked 
 by Opie Sold for ^136.10. — Laughing Girl by Sir Joshua a f — for 1}S^- 
 1 0.0. — bought by Lord Lowther. 
 
 A Rembrandt Masterpiece 
 
 June 10. — West had been today at Christies Auction room to look 
 again at the picture of " The Woman taken in Adultery " which is to 
 be put up to sale on Saturday next with other pictures belonging to the 
 Frenchman who has brought them over. — He then expressed Himself 
 in the strongest manner of the merit of the picture & declared it to be 
 in its way the finest piece of Art in the world. — He said He had examined 
 it carefully & saw that it was painted upon a ground originally white, 
 & that passed over with a wash of Burnt Umber to which was added some 
 yellow colour to make it more luminous. Upon this rich toned ground 
 the whole subject was washed in with Black only, the ground giving 
 warmth sufficient to that cool colour. The next proceeding was to wash 
 in with thin colours the colour of each object and gradually to encrease 
 the colour of the light parts till the whole effect was produced. — I recom- 
 mended to Him to f)aint a subject in the same manner while these observa- 
 tions were fresh in His mind. He said He intended to do so, & had 
 fixed upon His sketch of the Institution of the Order of the Garter, which 
 would afford Him an opportunity to introduce much in imitation of the 
 Altar in Rembrant's picture. — 
 
 He then spoke in his peculiar way of the extraordinary effect the 
 picture by Rembrant had on the spectators. They were struck with 
 reverence of it, & all who approached it pulled off their Hats. — He 
 said the first time He saw such an effect produced by a picture was when 
 His picture of the death of Lord Nelson was exhibited in His room. By 
 an instinctive motion the hand accompanied the mind, & when the picture 
 was approached the Hat was taken off.-— He then shewed me an etching 
 by Heath from His picture of the death of Lord Nelson which He had this 
 day reed, and tomorrow was to pay the first -£200. — 
 
1807] Imagination and Fact 151 
 
 He said He had seen the picture of the death of Lord Nelson by 
 Devisy which had much merit, but it had more convinced Him that there 
 was no other way of representing the death of a Hero but by an Epic 
 representation of it. — It must exhibit the event in a way to excite awe, 
 & veneration & that which may be required to give superior interest to 
 the representation must be introduced, all that can shew the importance 
 of the Hero. — Wolfe must not die like a common Soldier under a Bush ; 
 neither should Nelson be represented dying in the gloomy hold of a Ship, 
 like a sick man in a Prison Hole. — To move the mind there should be a 
 spectacle presented to raise & warm the mind, & all shd. be proportioned 
 to the highest idea conceived of the Hero. No Boy, sd. West, wd. be 
 animated by a representation of Nelson dying like an ordinary man, His 
 feelings must be roused & His mind inflamed by a scene great & extra- 
 ordinary. A mere matter of fact will never produce this effect. 
 
 West expressed a strong wish that Wilkie shd. see the picture by 
 Rembrant, as it wd. at once shew Him what He wanted & He wd. feel 
 it. If to the truth of expression, & nice imitation of objects He could 
 add the transparency oj Rembrant His pictures wd. be such works as were 
 never yet seen. — Four thousand pounds has been offered for the Rem- 
 brant. 
 
CHAPTER XLIV 
 
 1807 
 
 Rembrandt 
 
 June 12. — After breakfast went with [Dr.] Hayes to Lawrence's & 
 shewed Him the portrait of Mr. Pitt. — Instantly on seeing it He said 
 " That's the Man " — He made only one remark, which was that the 
 chin was too round. — Christies I went to & found many persons assembled 
 to see the picture of the Woman taken in Adultery by Rembrant. — 
 Northcote told me He wd. much rather have the Susannah by Rem- 
 brant [now in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin] ; that this picture 
 was beautifully coloured & harmonised ; but there was in other respects 
 so much misery in the picture, the figures were so petite & mean that 
 He would not give twopence for it. — [Charles] Towne said He did not 
 believe the picture to have been painted by Rembrant, but by another 
 artist whose name he did not remember. He thought it a fine picture. 
 
 Dance I drank tea with. — He thought the picture at Christie's by 
 Rembrant enchanting in the colouring, but so defficient in other respects 
 that it was out of all bounds to ask 4 or ^^5000 for it. — Sir N. Holland did 
 not think it was painted by Rembrant, it was too smooth, too polished ; 
 but, added Dance, He knows the quality of a picture better than who 
 painted it. — Sir Francis Baring said " That He should prove those to be 
 mistaken who imagined that He should give for it such a Sum as had 
 been asked." 
 
 Perfection 
 
 June 13. — After breakfast called on Lawrence & went with Him to 
 Christies & again saw the picture by Rembrant. — We called on Hearne 
 who concurred with us in thinking it the finest picture of that master 
 that had ever been brought into this country. — He said that a man of 
 large fortune ought not to regard giving ^1000 more than He might 
 first intend for a work of such perfection. — He said notwithstanding 
 the acknowledged excellence of the picture there were persons who had 
 pretended to doubt its originality. Landseer had expressed a doubt, 
 but on finding Himself likely to suflPer from appearing to entertain 
 such an opinion, said Cosway was the person who had declared against 
 
 152 
 
1807] 
 
 Perfection 153 
 
 the originality of it. — After we left Hearne Lawrence took a Chaise & 
 set off to Mr. Angerstein at Woodlands to induce Him to bid largely for 
 the picture. — 
 
 Bought in 
 
 Christies I went to at 2 oClock & found the room crowded. Andrew 
 Fountaine, — was there, — Lord Grosvenor, Lord Suffolk, — and many 
 other Amateurs & many picture dealers were there. — At 20 minutes before 
 3 the Rembrant was put up for sale, it being the last lot. It was knocked 
 down for 5000 guineas ; but it soon appeared to have been bought in. — 
 On leaving the room I met Lawrence in Pallmall, coming to Christies, 
 with an Authority, as He told me, from Mr. Angerstein to bid 4000 
 guineas for the Rembrant. — We went to Christie who told us that the 
 picture zvas bought in, & would not be sold for less than 5000 guineas. — 
 If that sum should not be obtained it would be taken abroad & offered 
 to the French Museum, or kept by the Proprietors as a Corner Stone 
 to support the credit of their future sales. 
 
 Turner I called on at His gallery, it being the last day of His Exhibi- 
 tion of His own works. — I also saw the first number of His publication 
 of prints etched & acqua-tinted, from His designs, which was published 
 on Thursday last. — * 
 
 Clergymen's Duty 
 
 June 14. — H. Hone [the artist] called. — He looked ill, & spoke 
 of having been unwell, & something that dropped from Him signified 
 that professional disappointment contributed to it. — He sd. that could 
 He again go over the last 20 years He wd. pursue a different course 
 from that He had done, & added that we make ourselves slaves to study 
 for Landlords & taxgatherers. — He mentioned an anecdote of the Revd. 
 Mr. Andrews, Minister of St. James's. — A poor woman some weeks since 
 applied at the Vestry of St. James's Church & requested that one of 
 the clergymen, there being two present, would go to Her Mother, who 
 was then dying, and earnestly wished to have a clergyman to attend 
 Her for a short time. — These Clergymen both declared that they were 
 so circumstanced they could not go at that Hour. The woman then 
 resolved to knock at the door of the Rector, Mr. Andrews, which she did, 
 
 * Mr. A. J. Finberg in his admirable " History of Turner's Liber Studiorum," recently 
 published by Messrs. Ernest Benn Limited (^^5 5s. net), writes : " As the first five plates 
 bear no date in the publication-line, it was long a matter of dispute as to when Part I. 
 was issued. Fortunately, the matter has now been cleared up by the publication in the 
 Morning Post on January 10, 1923, of the following entry in Farington's Diary : 
 
 '"June 13, 1807. Turner I called on at His gallery, it being the last day of His Exhi- 
 bition of His own works. I also saw the first number of His publication of prints etched 
 and acqua-tinted, from His designs, which was published on Thursday last.' 
 
 " In spite of the fact that Farington mistook the mezzotints for aquatints, and that he 
 was not sufficiently interested in the engravings to mention the name of the publication, 
 I think there can be no reasonable doubt that the first number of Turner's Liber Studiorum 
 is here referred to, and that the entry establishes the date of publication as June 11, 1807 — 
 the 13th having been a Saturday." 
 
1^* The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 and communicated Her wish to a Servant who told Her she must go to 
 the Vestry. — Mr. Andrews hearing a conversation, came forward & to 
 Him the Woman told what had passed.— Mr. Andrews then lifted up his 
 eyes and sd. " Vengeance may surely be expected to fall upon a Country 
 where the Clergymen will not do their duty." — He then went with the 
 woman to Her Mother & remained with Her more than an Hour, & in 
 Half an [hour] after He left Her the Mother died. 
 
 Angerstein 
 
 Lawrence called in the even'g. Mr, Angerstein was with Him this 
 morning, and went to De Cort's where He met De Lafontaine & purchased 
 the " Woman taken in Adultery " by Rembrant from Him. He told 
 Lawrence that De Lafontaine had desired Him not to mention the 
 price that He gave. — At noon the picture was carried to Mr. Angerstein's. 
 — Lawrence conjectured that Mr. A. gave 4000 pounds or guineas for it. 
 — -The Marquiss of Abercorn on Friday saw Lawrence's portrait of Mr. 
 Pitt & thought it very like and wished to have it, & on finding it was 
 painted for Mr. Angerstein, desired to have a Copy. He thought the 
 mouth too severe. — 
 
 June 16. — Daniell called after which I was alone, but dined at Mr. 
 Angerstein's at 5 oClock. — We looked at the picture of " The Woman 
 taken in Adultery " by Rembrant, and our admiration of it encreased. — 
 While at dinner a person called to whom Mr. Angerstein went out and 
 on returning said He had paid to that person the money for the Rem- 
 brant. — He afterwards had a letter dehvered to Him which having 
 read He gave it to Lawrence to read & afterwards to me. It was from 
 Walsh Porter congratulating Him upon the posession of the Rembrant, 
 and supposing He might not wish to retain His other picture, " The 
 Nativity " by Rembrant, offered to exchange for it the Sea piece by 
 Rembrant which He had bought of De Lafontaine, but found it too large 
 Jor the place intended. — Mr. Angerstein asked me Tes or No to the pro- 
 posal. I said No, and afterwards united with Lawrence in recommending 
 on no acct. to part with the Nativity as it wd. shew fine as it was, the vast 
 superiority of the other picture when compared with any of Rembrant's 
 other works. — * 
 
 Party Spirit 
 
 Mr. Boucheretf told me that whilst He was member of Great Grimsby 
 He did for a considerable time vote with Mr. Fox & His party against 
 
 * Sir Charles J. Holmes should be Interested in the various opinions expressed in the 
 Diary about Rembrandt's " Woman taken in Adultery," which is under his care at the 
 National Gallery. He will note that it was not bought by " Clifford " for Mr. Angerstein, 
 but " bought in " for Lafontaine, its owner. 
 
 Again, the Director of the National Gallery will be glad to know, for catalogue purposes, 
 that the Nation might have lost the " Nativity " (" The Adoration of the Shepherds ") 
 had it not been for Farington and Sir Thomas Lawrence. 
 
 t Ayscough Boucheret or Boucherette. See Indexj Vol. HL 
 
1807] Party Spirit 155 
 
 Mr. Pitt, but He became disgusted on observing how much they did 
 from a pure spirit of opposition & to raise a clamour against the Minister. 
 He related an instance, one of many, wherein Mr. Fox brought forward 
 a charge upon a vague report, without taking any trouble to enquire 
 into the truth of it. Mr. Pitt declared He never heard of the circum- 
 stance ; but Serjeant Adair, who was of Fox's party, arose and declared 
 that He had been applied to professionally, to prosecute the proprietors 
 of a newspaper for publishing what Mr. Fox had made a charge, as it 
 was an unfounded calumny. — It was stated to be a transaction which 
 happened in Ireland, — 
 
CHAPTER XLV 
 
 1807 
 
 Sir Joshua's Relatives 
 
 June 19. — I called on Saunders the Collector of the Income Tax. 
 He told me the profits arising to him by a percentage upon what He 
 receives in the district to which He is appointed including Charlotte 
 Street &c. do not amount to ^50 a year. He finds great backwardness 
 in many & in those who ought to make handsome returns. — He told me 
 that He was born at Great Torrington in Devonshire, & when a Boy 
 was playfellow with Lady Thomond and Her Brothers : also with the 
 present Countess Nelson who was Miss Young. The father of Lady Tho- 
 mond was Mr. Palmer an attorney at Great Torrington who had three 
 Sons and two daughters, by a Sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The 
 second Son had a Hair lip which when He was an infant was sewed 
 up by a travelling quack Doctor. Sir Joshua Reynolds obtained a 
 Deanry for Him in Ireland, but at the commencement of the late RebelHon 
 in that Country He brought His family to England & resides in Devon- 
 shire. He was a lad of dull parts. The second daughter married Mr. 
 Gwatkin* of Cornwall. 
 
 * Miss Theophlla Palmer, who was referred to in the Diary on January nth, 1923, was 
 a niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the "My dear Ofly" of his letter, dated January 30th, 1781, 
 in which he wished that she and Mr. Robert Lovell Gwatkin, of Kellrow, Truro, Cornwall, 
 her future husband, " may be as happy as both deserve . . . and you will be the happiest 
 couple in England. So God bless you ! " 
 
 Fanny Burney, in a description of a meeting at Sir Joshua Reynolds's house in Leicester 
 Square, refers to young Gwatkin, the Cornish squire, making sheep's eyes at Ofly, whose 
 uncle. Sir Joshua, was very fond of her. 
 
 " I never was," he wrote to Offy, " a great friend to the efficacy of precept, nor a great 
 professor of love and affection, and therefore I never told you how much I loved you for 
 fear you should grow saucy upon it." 
 
 Dr. Johnson did not congratulate Offy on her marriage, because, as she told B. R. 
 Haydon long afterwards, she had offended him when, at one of her uncle's parties, she 
 (then a girl) had changed her dress before Johnson, the last guest to go, had departed. He 
 was angry with her for shovnng less respect to him than to the people who had already left. 
 
 Mr. Gwatkin, her husband, was chief mourner at Sir Joshua's funeral. It may be added 
 that Offy was the original of the charming " Strawberry Girl," which is one of the most 
 popular pictures by Reynolds in the Wallace Collection. 
 
 156 
 
1807] 
 
 Sir Joshua's Relatives 157 
 
 Mr. Johnson who married another Sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds 
 was a Woolen Draper at Great Torrington. His conduct in many 
 respects was very improper and ultimately caused Mrs, Johnson to live 
 separate from Him. Sir Joshua Reynolds obtained an appointment in 
 India for Mr, Johnson's eldest Son, & Richard, the second son, also went 
 to Bengal, The eldest died many years ago. — 
 
 A gentleman of the name of Toung was at that time Minister of Great 
 Torrington. He had several Children, One of them, a Son, is Mr. 
 Young, Archdeacon of Norfolk. He married one of Mr. Johnson's 
 daughters, a very beautiful woman. They now reside at Swaffham in 
 Norfolk. — One of Mr. Young's daughters being with Her Brother, the 
 Archdeacon, became acquainted with the Revd. James Nelson, Brother 
 
 A correspondent sends the following interesting notes about Sir Joshua Reynolds, Offy 
 Palmer (his niece), and her husband : 
 
 Robert Lovell Gwatkin, of Kellrow, Cornwall, was at St. John's College, Cambridge, 
 and thirteenth Wrangler, SherifT of Cornwall 1789, and married Theophila Palmer, the 
 *' Offie " of Reynolds and Johnson, daughter of John Palmer, of Torrington, Devon, who 
 married Sir Joshua's sister. " Offie's " elder sister, Mary, married the Marquess of Tho- 
 mond, and died without issue. She lived at one time at Taplow Court, about 18 10. Of 
 Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gwatkin's children the eldest son, Edward, Major-General H.E.I.C.S., 
 M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, married Hetty Elizabeth, daughter of Major Peter 
 Gascoigne, and spent all his life in India, dying on his way home in April, 1855, and buried 
 at sea. He was Superintendent of the Government Stud for providing remounts for the 
 Indian Cavalry. His eldest son, John Reynolds Gwatkin, of Nonsuch, Wilts, married 
 Emma Amelia, daughter of Lieutenant-General William Broome Salmon, H.E.I.C.S., 
 Bengal Native Infantry. Of his children, the eldest surviving son, Joshua Reynolds 
 Gascoigne Gwatkin, of the Manor House, Potterne, Devizes, is the only representative of 
 this branch, in whose possession are the original portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Mr. 
 and Mrs. R. L. Gwatkin, Lady Thomond, and two portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds of 
 himself as a young and as an old man. The well-known picture of " Simplicity " by 
 Reynolds was taken from Theophila Gwatkin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gwatkin, 
 known affectionately as " The " to distinguish her from her mother ; she afterwards 
 became Mrs. Lowther. This picture is no longer in the possession of the family. 
 
 " Offie " Palmer was Sir Joshua's favourite niece, who lived with him and saw to his 
 comforts until her marriage. Her name Theophila was divided into the pet name of 
 " The " and " Offie." Sir Joshua's playful verse on her names, it can be imagined, was 
 used when she was superintending his breakfast table. 
 
 When I'm drinking my tea I am thinking of " Th(5," 
 When I'm drinking my coffee I am thinking of " Offie," 
 So whether I'ln drinking my tea or my coffee, 
 I always am thinking of thee, my " The-Offie." 
 
 Other interesting articles which belonged to Sir Joshua in possession of the present Mr. 
 Gwatkin Include a veUum sketch book containing crayon drawings, some of which were 
 ideas for his pictures and some studies made by him in Italy, a notable example being the 
 rough sketch for the celebrated portrait of Mrs. SIddons as " The Tragic Muse," In which 
 she Is represented seated and clad in a flowing robe with an ornamental border. In the 
 same ownership are Sir Joshua Reynolds's paint-box, colours, palette and brushes, and an 
 early Sheraton looking-glass on feet, which he used to place at such an angle as to reflect 
 the portrait he was painting and so keep his sitter amused and interested. The paint-box 
 also contains original letters from Reynolds and Burke congratulating " Offie " on her 
 engagement, and also letters from Fanny Burney, David Garrlck, Johnson, and Oliver 
 Goldsmith. 
 
158 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 to Lord Nelson. — Thus two peeresses come from two private families, 
 both of whom owe their advancement to the extraordinary abilities 
 & merit of two distinguished men. Lady Thomond inherited from 
 Her Uncle [Sir Joshua Reynolds] the bulk of his fortune, & having by 
 Him been introduced into the best Society after His death married the 
 Earl of Inchiquin, now Marquiss of Thomond. — Miss Young participates 
 in the Honour bestowed as a reward for the great services of Her Husbands 
 Brother Lord Nelson & is now a Countess. — Saunders said that Lady 
 Thomond must be 57 or 8 years of age. 
 
 Young the Actor 
 
 June 20. — Westall called to desire me to go to the Haymarket 
 Theatre on Monday next to see Mr. Young,* Son of a Surgeon in the City, 
 make His first appearance on a London Stage in the Character of Hamlet, 
 He is abt. 27 years old, & has been Manager of the Theatre at Manchester 
 by which concern He lost money. — His Father intended Him to be a 
 Merchant & gave Him a suitable education. He speaks German fluently 
 but His inclination to the Stage could not be surmounted. — 
 
 June 21. — Campion [the wine merchant] told me that Coll. Sergisson, 
 the late Candidate for Sussex, has abt. 3^4000 a year in that County. His 
 Father died while the Coll. was young, & His Mother managed His 
 estate very improvidently & the Coll. has also accumulated debts. He 
 was Lieutenant Colonel of the Blues, which rank was given to Him by 
 the King expressly against the wish of the Duke of York. — He is con- 
 sidered a man of but moderate abilities. — It is supposed the contest for 
 Sussex has cost Him & Fuller His opponent 10 or ;/^i2000 each. — Fuller 
 was chiefly supported by the lower order of Freeholders who were jealous 
 of an Aristocratick monopoly being intended, — to which, Lord Sheffield, 
 by an imprudent expression, implying that the great men of the County 
 had determined who should be members, gave rise. — Lord Sheffield has 
 abt. ;£4000 a year in Sussex which He purchased from the Delawar 
 Jamily. — It is not known that Coll. Sergisson would oppose the present 
 administration, but the contrary is rather expected. 
 
 Mrs. Campion had seen a person from Yorkshire who had supported 
 Mr. Wilberforce. He said that Mr. Wilberforce was becoming daily 
 more unpopular, & that had the election been continued 3 or 4 days 
 longer he would have lost it. He is spoken of as an Hypocrite in his 
 profession of Religion, for whilst He calls himself a member of the Church 
 of England, He is building or encourages the building of Chapels & 
 Conventicles for Sectaries. She added that it was said that He will 
 never again be returned for Yorkshire — such are the floating opinions. 
 
 Origins 
 
 Lord Sheffield is a Yorkshire man.f His original name was Bakery 
 to which He added that of Holroyd. From His own connexions of some 
 
 * Charles Mayne Young. f See Index, Vols. I. and II. 
 
1807] Origins 159 
 
 kind He inherited a considerable fortune, for though He has been married 
 two or three times He did not obtain much with either of His wives. 
 It is said He was originally a Clothier, but that must have been in early 
 youth. The present Lady Sheffield was a daughter of the late Lord 
 North (Guilford) the Prime Minister. 
 
 Campion spoke of the great change in Mr. Angerstein's circumstances. 
 At one period He was a Bankrupt ; and the late Mr. Offley partner in 
 Underwriting with Campion, when He wrote policies to Mr. Angerstein 
 who acted as a Broker, whenever there was a balance due to Him at a 
 settlement took the money, being unwilling to risk it by allowing it to 
 stand against risks not determined. 
 
 An Ignorant Alderman 
 
 June 22. — Westall's I dined at. — Dr. Smith is eminent for his know- 
 ledge of Botany. — He resides at Norwich, but annually reads Lectures 
 on Botany at the Royal Institution. — He told me that He is habitually 
 temperate scarcely drinking any wine, as a few glasses have an in- 
 flammatory effect upon His constitution, in which the Lungs are easily 
 effected. — He finds great refreshment from drinking green tea, at any 
 hour, but Bohea tea has a contrary effect, making him heavy. — He 
 spoke of Alderman Herring of Norwich, who has by perseverance obtained 
 a Bill for paving & lighting that City, but is in respect of education a 
 remarkably ignorant man, — Being deputed to wait upon the King 
 with an Address, His Majesty observed to Him that " Norwich is an ancient 
 City " — to which the Alderman replied " Please your Majesty It Has 
 been a very ancient City." — He reed, a letter signed anonymous, and 
 on being told by a person that He heard He had reed, an anonymous 
 letter. He replied " Yes, very anonymous." 
 
CHAPTER XL VI 
 
 1807 
 
 Dramatic Criticism 
 
 June 22. — The Haymarket Theatre I went to to see Mr. Young 
 in Hamlet it being His first appearance upon a London Stage. — Lawrence 
 was there & with Him I came away. I was much pleased with Young's 
 performance & Lawrence said He was the best Actor next to Kemble, 
 being superior to Pope or EUiston, but He did not think He would ever 
 be a great actor : His voice superior to all others. — 
 
 [" The Tragedy of Hamlet was revived, at this theatre, last night, 
 for the purpose of introducing Mr. Young, a gentleman of considerable 
 provincial celebrity, in the arduous part of Hamlet, to a London audience. 
 He was greeted, on his entre, with repeated plaudits. Mr. Young is 
 middle-sized, and about thirty years of age, his figure is good, his action 
 easy and graceful, his features are flexible and expressive, his voice is 
 powerful and clear, and his under tones modulated to the expression of 
 the most fascinating tenderness. He was completely master of his 
 business, and displayed the judgment of a veteran in the execution. 
 In the first and second act, there was much to applaud ; but the scene 
 with Ophelia, in the third act, and every subsequent scene, displayed 
 such energy, and elicted such beauties, as called forth the most un- 
 bounded admiration of the audience. In the closet scene he was ad- 
 mirably supported by Mrs. Lichfield* — his attitude, the expression of 
 his countenance, when he says " Is it the King ? " the conflict between 
 tenderness for his mother, and indignation for his father's wrongs, dis- 
 played extraordinary powers of discrimination, and excited a tumult 
 of applause. The audience, indeed, were not prepared for such excel- 
 lence. They were taken by surprise, and an enthusiasm seemed to 
 pervade the whole house, of which there are few instances. When the 
 tragedy was announced for repetition, the house rang with acclamations. 
 — It was crowded with a brilliant audience." — From small note-book.] 
 
 June 23. — After breakfast I called on Mrs. Wheatley at Her Lodgings 
 Nor. 8 Duke St. Portland Place. — She told me she was to be married 
 
 * Harriet Hay. She was married in 1794 to John Litchfield, of the Privy Council Office. 
 
 160 
 
1807] 
 
 Dramatic Criticism 
 
 161 
 
 on Thursday next June 25th. and to set off that day with Mr. Pope 
 [the actor], Her Husband for Ireland. — She told me she had paid all Her 
 Bills and did not owe Sixpence. When I left Her she expressed much 
 gratitude for my kindness to Her. — 
 
 Kemble and Young 
 
 Lawrence I dined with & He having the freedom of both play Houses, 
 procured an order for me from Kemble & we went to see Kemble in 
 Hamlet. 
 
 Hamlet Kemble. 
 
 Polonius Munden. 
 
 Ghost Pope. 
 
 King Creswell. 
 
 Laertes Brunton. 
 
 Horatio Murray. 
 
 Queen Mrs. St. Leger. 
 
 Ophelia Miss Belton. 
 
 Having seen Young last night in the Character of Hamlet, Lawrence 
 was desirous that I should see Kemble in it. — The impression it made 
 upon me was, that Kemble had more deeply studied the various dis- 
 criminations and I thought He performed with more ease & less manner 
 than formerly ; but it forcibly struck me that He wanted constitutional 
 power to go through the part with the vigour that Young last night 
 posessed, & He looked Old, in the Character. — Lawrence told me that 
 Kemble has left off drinking wine by advice of His Medical friends & 
 has more strength & better spirits since He left off that habit. — He 
 however takes medicine. 
 
 Mother Goose was the entertainment this even'g, in which Grimaldi 
 Junr. was very entertaining. — It was now performed the 92nd. time 
 this Season : — but we were kept till a late hour. I did not get home 
 till near one oClock. — 
 
 I saw Sir N. Holland there with a Young Lady who resides with Lady 
 Holland. — Grattan of Ireland sat near me. Lawrence often meets Him 
 & His family at Mrs. Crewe's & has remarked the affectionate & amiable 
 intercourse they have with each other. — Grattan laughs at the rout 
 Lord Howick is making against the present administration.* 
 
 Politicians and Great Men 
 
 June 26. — Hoppner I called on in consequence of His having called 
 on me, but the Duchess of Athol was sitting to Him.f The Duke & 2 
 of His daughts. came into the Show room, where were several copies of 
 Mr. Pitts portrait. — Lord Thomond I called upon but He was out. The 
 
 * See Index of previous volumes for names In the last paragraph. 
 
 t In the catalogue of Hoppner's wrorks, Mr. W. Roberts records portraits of the Duke 
 and Duchess of Atholl and their son, Lord Charles Murray, but does not give the dates 
 of the pictures. 
 
 VOL. IV. II 
 
162 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Butler told me that His Lordship did not mean to attend parliament 
 this session but had taken His Seat \3 given His Proxy. 
 
 Smirke's I dined at. Marchant* told us that He had lately much 
 conversation with Mr. Coke of Norfolk upon political matters. Mr. Coke 
 said it wd. have been well for this Country ij Mr. Pitt had never been 
 horn. — Marchant talked with Mr. Dudley Northf about the late change 
 of Administration. Mr. North said that had Mr. Fox lived things wd. 
 not have gone as they had done ; that the late Ministry being possessed 
 of power used it with too much confidence. — Lord Downef told Marchant 
 that the loss of great men was now felt. The Political Men all want to 
 be Masters. — 
 
 Robert Smirke told me that Lord Oxford had informed Him that 
 He last night signified to the GrenvilW s & Howicks, that He should no 
 longer act with them. — He told Robert that they had no feeling but for 
 power & influence & He saw no reason why He shd. forsake the Portland 
 connexion which to him was a near relationship, for such purposes. — 
 Lady Oxford strongly supports Him in this, & both dwell upon the im- 
 proper conduct in their private lives of Lords Lauderdale, Howick 
 &c.— 
 
 [Died June 6th. Dr. John Wasdale in New St. Spring gardens, aged 
 j6, formerly of Carlisle ; private Secretary to the Duke of Norfolk. At 
 the Coronation of his present Majesty He went from Carlisle to London 
 on Horseback in 28 Hours, & returned in 30 Hours, after an absence of 
 five nights three of which He slept in London. 
 
 On the 24th inst. Lady Abercorn gave a grand Masquerade. Lawrence 
 was there in the Character of Anhalt ; and Hoppner in a Domino. From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 To Marry an Heiress 
 
 June 27. — The young Duke of Newcastle is sitting to Lawrence. 
 He is soon to be married to Miss Munday an Heiress with i^JOQO a year,§ 
 which He stands in need of not having, it is said more than 3 or 4000 
 pounds a year. His grandfather, the late Duke, had a strong prejudice 
 
 * Nathaniel Marchant, R.A. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 f Dudley Long North (1748- 1829) was second son of Charles Long, who married Mary, 
 second daughter and co-heiress of Dudley North, of Little Glemham, Suffolk, and grand- 
 daughter of Sir Dudley North, financier and economist (1651-1691), whose views anticipated 
 those of Adam Smith and Locke. 
 
 In 1789 Dudley Long assumed the name of North, in compliance with his aunt Anne's 
 will. He was one of Fox's most intimate friends, and the Whig party owed much to his 
 famous dinners. North was a manager in the Warren Hastings Trial, closely associated 
 with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Gibbon, Dr. Johnson, and Mrs. Thrale, and was 
 a generous supporter of Crabbe, the poet. He sat in Parliament for many years. 
 
 X Fifth Viscount, was created Baron Dawnay of Cowick, co. York. See Index of 
 previous volumes for other names in this entry. 
 
 § The fourth Duke of Newcastle was married on July 18, 1807, to Georglana Eliza- 
 beth, daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, of Shipley, Derbyshire. The Duke died in 1851, 
 the Duchess in 1822. 
 
1807] To Marry an Heiress 163 
 
 against the present Duke's Father & Mother who was of the Harrington 
 family, & left away from the present Duke all that He could, even to 
 the old plate. 
 
 After tea we walked & were joined by [Dr.] Carlisle, who said much 
 against the use of wine, & that flesh meat should be eaten abstemiously : 
 but vegetables He strongly recommended. He thought half a pint of 
 wine a day too much. — Sir Joseph Bankes never eats flesh meat or drinks 
 wine or spirits. He lives upon Pudding & Vegetables only,— and his 
 fits of the gout have since been more moderate. — 
 
 VOL. IV. II' 
 
CHAPTER XLVII 
 
 1807 
 
 Jerningham and Fox 
 
 June 28. — Lawrence dined with me to-day. — Lord Aberdeen went 
 with him today to see the Rembrant at Mr. Angerstein's, with which He 
 was highly dehghted, & said it appeared to Him hke a real scene looked 
 at through the small end of a Telescope. — His Lordship ordered a copy 
 of the Portrait of Mr. Pitt painted by Lawrence. — Lady Chatham was 
 again with Lawrence today & said finally " That His portrait of Mr. Pitt 
 was beyond comparison the most like of anything that had been done." 
 
 Lawrence dined at Lord Hampdens lately. Mr. Edwd. Jerningham* 
 was there & told several anecdotes of Charles Fox. One was, That Charles 
 & His Brother Stephen having one day pressed their Father Lord Holland 
 to give them money, at last, His lordship sd. " Let me have no more appli- 
 cations There is a draft for ;£5oo for you." With this they retired, but 
 instead of obtaining the money & dividing it, they sat down to gaming 
 for the whole of it. 
 
 June 29. — Lord Gardner told me He was in the House of Lords on 
 Friday night till the Divission at 3 in the morning & that His legs were 
 then much swelled with sitting so long. — He told me again that He had 
 spoken to Lord Mulgrave to make William [Farington's nephew] a 
 Commander, and that His Lordship had put His name down, but at 
 present was afraid to open the door to promotion. — But said His Lordship 
 when He is made a Captain, He will not be able to get a Ship, so many 
 are the applications. I replied that we were thankful for all that through 
 His Lordships kindness had been done for Him, and should patiently 
 wait for what might in time be obtained. 
 
 A Scandal Monger 
 
 Daniell's I dined at. Richd. Smirke told me that lately at the 
 
 * Edward Jerningham (1727-1 8 12), poet and dramatist, a friend of Lords Chesterfield 
 and Carlisle, and Horace Walpole, who referred to him as " The charming man." See 
 Vols. L, II. and III. 
 
 164 
 
1807] A Scandal Monger 165 
 
 Literary Club at the Chapter Coffee House* He was present when luffin 
 was there an invited guest, and occupied the attention of the meeting 
 
 a long time by recapitulating the evidence produced against the P s 
 
 before the Commissioners, and Her reply to the several charges. The 
 Commissioners acquitted Her of the criminal fart oj the charges, hut 
 declared Her conduct to have been very reprehensible. — Tuffin seemed to 
 think that enough was given in evidence to give full reason to believe Her 
 unfaithful. — The names mentioned by Tuffin of persons who had been in 
 situations to be suspected with Her were, — Sir Sydney Smith ; — Captn. 
 Hood ; — Captn. Manby & Lawrence. One evidence stated that the 
 
 P s had been seen dressing in Sir Sydney Smith's Clothes, while He 
 
 had only a Chemise and Bedgown on & that they were dancing together. 
 — It was also attempted to be proved that she had been delivered of a 
 Child, a Boy, which was brought up in the House. — Many other circum- 
 stances He related. — He had read a stolen Copy of the report. — 
 
 I told Richd. Smirke that whatever might be the impression on Mr, 
 Tuffins mind the evidence did not produce such on the minds of Lord 
 Eldon & Mr. Perceval as with their concurrence, I had been informed, 
 she intended to publish it in Her own vindication, but forbore from doing 
 it it being the wish of K. that she should not. — 
 
 Richd. Smirke sd. He noticed the characteristic remarks made [by] 
 several who were present while Tuffin related what He had read. — At 
 the conclusion of it Home Jooke said, upon that part of the defense of 
 P. which stated that the male child which was in the House under Her 
 protection had been taken from people in a low situation from a chari- 
 table motive, " Aye, the Old story oj Moses in the Bullrushes being Jound 
 by Pharaohs Daughter,''^ — Trend, said " Well who cares whether she is 
 guilty or notP Person (the Greek scholar) began to compare these pro- 
 ceedings with what had taken place in the Courts of Charles 2nd. & James 
 2nd. & became absorbed in recollecting many curious particulars which 
 He had met with in manuscripts. He thought the present better times 
 than those in respect of morality. — 
 
 William Etty 
 
 July 2. — Lawrence called. His new pupil, the nephew of Mr. Etty,t 
 Banker, is come to Him this morning, & is to pay loo guineas for instruc- 
 tion for one year. — 
 
 I talked with Lawrence this morn'g abt. raising His prices. — I told 
 Him it appeared to me decidedly that Hoppner's mode of painting is so 
 much more slight than His, that Hoppner could paint at least 3 pictures 
 in the time that He could paint two. He admitted it. 
 
 * This coffee-house stood at the corner of Chapterhouse Court, on the south side of 
 Paternoster Row, and was a resort of literary men. It was closed as a coffee-house in 1854 
 and altered to a tavern. 
 
 t William Etty, afterwards a Royal Academician. 
 
166 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 [On July 1 6th it was announced that Lawrence had raised His prices 
 for pictures as follows : 
 
 Gs. Gs, 
 
 A Three quarter from ^ 40 to 50. 
 
 A Kit Kat from 50 „ 70. 
 
 A Half length from 80 „ 100. 
 
 A Bishops Half-length from 100 „ 120. 
 
 A Whole length from 160 ,, 200. 
 
 — From small note-book,] 
 
 Eminent Statesmen 
 
 The Honble. Wm. Lambe,* who is in parliament & with [the] Opposi- 
 tion, called upon Him this morn'g. — Lawrence asked Him who is the best 
 speaker in the House of Commons, After a pause, He said. Canning is 
 the best speaker ; He has more genius, more wit, & more eloquence than 
 any other. — Perceval at business is a very clever fellow. They beat us, 
 said He, in the House of Commons. — 
 
 July 3. — Lawrence came to tea. — Lord Kenyonf is a sensible young 
 man. He made yesterday some remarks on Lord Grenvilles speaking 
 in the House of Lords, — said He spoke with great ability & dextrously, 
 having the art to slur over or to avoid such matters as He cannot well 
 answer. — This when discovered, is, however, as His Lordship observed, 
 a disadvantage to Him, as He weakens the confidence of those who are 
 inclined to trust in what He says. — Lord Kenyon now supports the 
 Government against Lord Grenville. — 
 
 Lord Mintol is a very sensible man — in conversation calm & eloquent. 
 He spoke of the abilities of Fox, and said He was great in discussion 
 in the House of Commons, but His Lordship thought little of Him beyond 
 that. — He spoke of Pitt, Burke & Fox. — After allowing everything 
 of genius, imagination, and talent to Burke & speaking of the nature 
 of such qualities, He finally said. That Judgment is the first quality of the 
 human mind, being that, which, seeing the whole, appreciates and decides 
 upon it, and in justly so doing bears more affinity to omnipotence than 
 is expressed by any other effort of the mind. 
 
 Willm. Lambe said Lord Castlereagh in debate expresses His thoughts 
 in ordinary language, but there is generally a great [deal] of substantial 
 matter in what He says, In this opinion Mr. Lambe agreed with Sir 
 Francis Baring. 
 
 * William Lamb (1779- 1848), who became second Viscount Melbourne, entered Parlia- 
 ment in 1803 as a supporter of Fox. Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1827, he, on succeeding 
 to the peerage, was made Home Secretary under Earl Grey from 1830 to 1834, and was 
 twice Prime Minister. 
 
 t George, second Lord Kenyon. See Index, Vol. III. ' 
 
 I See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER XLVIII 
 
 1807 
 
 A Famous Architect 
 
 July 4. — Robert Smirke called & shewed me a letter which He had 
 this day received from Lord Lonsdale. It was reed, by His Lordship 
 from Lord Bathurst promising to His Lordship the appointment of 
 Architect oj the Mint to Robert Smirke.* 
 
 [July 5. — Died, recently, at Ford in Northumberland, aged 85, 
 Mr. Robert Saunderson, who served as Ordinary Surgeon to General 
 Wolfe, at the Memorable attack on Quebec, and was the person repre- 
 sented as supporting the British General after He had got his fatal wound. 
 He often boasted that He was the person who shot General Montcalm, 
 the French Commander at that place. — From small note-book.] 
 
 Constable Declines 
 
 July 6. — Constable I met & He mentioned that Stothard had spoke 
 to Him abt. putting down His name to be an Associate & He wished 
 to have my opinion. I gave Him to understand that it was not probable 
 that He wd. be elected, but He might put down His name to make it 
 familiar to the members if He thought proper ; at the same time it was 
 to be recollected that the true impression was to be made by works 
 of merit to be distinguished. — He sd. He should decline for the present. — 
 
 [In the Sheriffs Court Mr. Thomas Sheridanf had a verdict against 
 him — Damages ^^1500 for Crim. Con : with Mrs. Campbell wife of Mr. 
 Campbell the Son of a gentleman of large property in the West Indies. — 
 Mr. Campbell is abt. 39 years of age & Mrs. Campbell abt. 33 years old. 
 The Crime proved took place above 3 years ago, February 1804 at Edin- 
 burgh. — No defense was made. — From small note-book.] 
 
 * Smirke (1780-1867), who received the appointment, was the eldest son of Robert 
 Smirke, the painter, and architect of the British Museum, the General Post OfRce, the 
 College of PhysicianS; and other public buildings. Elected A.R.A. in 1808, he became 
 R.A. in i8ii and was knighted in 1832. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t Tom Sheridan, elder son of R. B. Sheridan, and father of three daughters famous 
 for their beauty and talent. The eldest became Countess of Gifford, the second Lady 
 StirUng-Maxwell of Keir, and the youngest Duchess of Somerset. 
 
 167 
 
168 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Ignorance and Acid 
 
 July 7. — Rogers* at Sir F. Baring's to-day proved His ignorance of 
 pictures & art. He took a picture by W ouvermans to have been painted 
 by Wilson^ the most opposite practise that can be. — 
 
 At Willm. Spencersf afterwards Sir Henry Englefield said that 
 [Payne] Knight has declared that the picture by Rembrant of the Woman 
 taken in Adultery is a damaged picture ; that the head of our Saviour 
 has been rubbed almost to extinction. — This caused a cry against Knights 
 judgment, & Rogers sd. plain speaking was best, that Knight knew 
 nothing of pictures, & was becoming an Old Woman. — The approbation 
 He gave to Westalls Flora was considered an additional proof of his 
 bad taste. 
 
 Opie was spoken off, & His penurious disposition was remarked upon. 
 It was mentioned that a person happened by mistake to take Opie's 
 great-coat & found in one of the pockets pieces of crust of bread, & 
 meat &c. — such as might have been expected in that of a Beggar. 
 Sydney Smith who was present said " The very scrapings of penury." 
 — Smith observed " That Opie sometimes said hard things," — meaning 
 of strong sense & observation. — 
 
 In the course of conversation acrimony of disposition was noticed 
 as prevailing in certain persons, on which Smith said, " Oh for the true 
 Acid, give me the pure vinegar of Hoppner." 
 
 Sheridan and Athol Brose 
 
 C. Offley's I dined at, SandemanJ told us that when Sheridan 
 was in Scotland two or three years ago. He drank very hard. He was 
 hospitably entertained by the Duke of Athol, which made a strong 
 impression on him, & caused Him to support the Duke's claim to further 
 remuneration for what He had sold to government in the Isle oj Man. 
 — Sheridan was particularly fond of a liquor prepared for Him by order 
 of the Duke called " Athol Brogue " [Brose] a mixture of Whiskey y 
 Honey, which He drank in larger quantities. § Afterwards in London 
 
 * Samuel Rogers. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t William Robert Spencer (1769-1834), a well-known poet and wit. See Vol. I., page 
 292. 
 
 X Mr. Sandeman, wine merchant, 20, St. Swithin's Lane, Lombard Street. 
 § Dr. Charles Mackay says that Athol brose was composed of Whisky and Honey 
 [some authorities add oatmeal] taken as a morning drop ; a powerful and indigestive mix- 
 ture, that no one but a Highlander out in the open air and in active exercise during the 
 whole day can safely indulge in. Why it is named from the district of Athol in preference 
 to any other part of the Highlands is neither known nor perhaps discoverable. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott, in the " Heart of Midlothian " speaks of a " morning draught of Athole 
 brose." And Neil Gow sang — 
 
 " An' aye since he wore Tartan trews, 
 He dearly lo'ed the Athole brose, 
 And wae was he. you may suppose, 
 To play farewell to whisky." 
 
1807] Sheridan and Athol Brose 169 
 
 while He was supporting the Duke in His claim, He was frequently 
 with the Duke's agent Mr. Frazer of Lincolns Inn. — One morning He told 
 Frazer He was dry & asked him what He could give him. Frazer took 
 him to a House in Serle St. belonging to Frazer & there began to prepare 
 for him some whiskey & Honey, but while He was so employed, Sheridan 
 on looking round had found a Bottle oj Shrub, & before Frazer had made 
 the Athol Brogue [Brose] Sheridan had drank all the Shrub.* 
 
 Sandeman sd. He had a few days ago dined with Mr. Maltby who rents 
 a House belonging to the late Mr. Thelusson who made the extraordinary 
 Will. He said He had seen an acct. of the profits of the year 1795 gained 
 by Thelusson amounting to ^83,000. — He left ^700,000 to accumulate 
 till His Great, Great Grandson should be of age. — To His widow He left 
 j^200o a year & the House in which Maltby resides. — It is doubted 
 whether Lord Rendlesham His Son has a large fortune : He has no con- 
 cern in business. — f 
 
 Mrs. Offley told me that the Revd. Mr. SimeonJ had mentioned to 
 Her that in composing, writing & preaching the matter of 5 volumes of 
 subjects for and Skeletons of Sermons He had employed 7000 Hours. 
 He appears to live by rule, noting the manner in which He passes His 
 time. — 
 
 * Shrub was a drink made with the juice of orange or lemon (or other acid fruit) 
 sugar, rum, or other spirit. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 X The Rev. Charles Simeon. See Index, Vol. III. 
 
CHAPTER XLIX 
 
 1807 
 
 A Romantic Story 
 
 July 8. — Mr. West called on me in the evening, & informed me 
 that Mr. Desenfans* died this afternoon, of which He had been informed 
 by a note from Mr. Morris, nephew of Mrs. Desenfans [after a long illness 
 occasioned by bursting a blood vessel. — aged 61,] — West remarked that 
 no man could appear to suffer greater anxiety & distress of mind than 
 Desenfans did when He saw & from what He heard of him, proceeding 
 from reflecting upon His own conduct. — West then told me that when 
 the Cardinal of Poland brother to the late King of Poland was in England 
 Desenfans paid very great attention to him & Bourgeois was always 
 at his service. The Cardinal went away impressed with their kindness 
 & caused the King of Poland to appoint Desenfans Consul General 
 for that Country, & to give the Order of Knighthood to Bourgeois,! 
 which was confirmed to Him here by His Majesty acknowledging his 
 title when Bourgeois was introduced to him by the late Duke of Leeds, 
 then Secretary of State, who had been induced by Desenfans so to do. 
 
 The Cardinal's Casket 
 
 When the troubles in Poland rose to such a heigth as to break up 
 the government of that country, the Cardinal sent a casket to Desenfans, 
 in which he inclosed jewels & property belonging to Himself & the King 
 his brother, to be taken care of by Desenfans. This Desenfans told 
 to West, but said the Casket had been robbed of the treasure it contained 
 before it came to his hands. It was not long after when both the Cardinal 
 and the King died. West said that before this period Desenfans was 
 rather a needy man, but then set up a carriage & lived rather expen- 
 sively, & had since undoubtedly a command of money which some of 
 our nobility had proved by obtaining assistance from Him. West 
 
 * Noel Joseph Desenfans, a Frenchman, was born at Douai in 1745. The Desenfans 
 pictures and other possessions left to Bourgeois were bequeathed by him to found the 
 Dulwich Art Gallery. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t Sir Francis Bourgeois. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 170 
 
1807] The Cardinal's Casket 171 
 
 said Desenfans certainly never made the money which enabled Him to 
 proceed as He had done but by other means than picture dealing only. — 
 Some years ago, He requested West to be a Trustee for His affairs, He 
 being at that time apprehensive that He should die ; and this He alluded 
 to when West went to him to be reconciled to Him & signified " That 
 West wd. find He had not J or got that kindness." — In this last illness He 
 had declared that West had been his best friend by countenancing & 
 recommending Him in His dealings in pictures, & by bringing the King 
 to see His collection exhibited in Pallmall, which raised His name in 
 that capacity. — West said that Desenfans had expressed His opinion 
 of Bourgeois " That He had a good disposition, but a weak head." — 
 
 Boaden* told Fuseli that Bourgeois has reported that Desenfans had 
 £8000 a yr. in the Funds, besides a collection of pictures worth 
 ^40,000.— 
 
 C. Whitefordef told me that Desenfans' death was caused by a total 
 breaking up of his Constitution, and that the effusion of blood at one 
 time, was an effect of it. — He left Bourgeois all His pictures ; & His 
 two Houses ; and one half of His other property, amounting, it is 
 understood to ,^20,000. He left one legacy viz : to Kemble ;^loo. — The 
 Will was made about four years ago. — Mrs. Desenfans is to have the other 
 half of the property not devised to Bourgeois. 
 
 Napoleon Defeats the Russians 
 
 West then spoke of the affairs of the Continent, and of the defeat 
 of the Russians at Frederickstadt on the 24th of June, manifestly owing 
 to their having been out-gener ailed. He said the schemes of Buonaparte 
 are vast & prospective. He sd. the Persian Ambassador had been 
 with Him in His Camp, & had returned to Persia attended by 25 or 30 
 French Officers, for the purpose of [instructing] them in the European 
 art of War; evidently with a view of attacking the English power in 
 India. — 
 
 July 9. — Marchant [R.A.] spoke of Beechey'sl behaviour at Mr. 
 Penns having dined with him there three times. Each time He slept 
 after dinner ; and shewed His vulgarity & improper familiarity, by 
 addressing Mr. Penn with " my good Fellow." — 
 
 He spoke with great contempt of the publication called the Artist 
 & sd. He had never heard it mentioned by any one. Prince Hoare 
 the Editor, is water gruel witht. Salt. He has the power of meeting 
 the Types ; His work is still born. — Northcote wrote in it & makes 
 an Artist first a Puppy, — next an Ass, — and then a Horse. — He read 
 only 3 or 4 of the numbers & has thrown the others aside. — 
 
 Mr. Angerstein called on Fuseli the day after He had purchased the 
 
 * James Boaden, editor of the Oracle. See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 X sir William Beechey, R.A. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
172 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 picture by Rembrant, & smiling said He (Lawrence) will ruin me. — 
 Fuseli dined with him that day : & now said of the picture that the 
 Background is the finest part of it, — and the whole very fine ; but the 
 figure of our Saviour is diffident in Expression, the arm ought to be 
 extended to accompany the words " Let Him that is witht. Sin, throw 
 the first stone." Rembrant has in general in this picture, unlike Him- 
 self, failed in expression. — 
 
 Professional Wits 
 
 July 1 1 . — Lawrence I dined with. He dined with Rogers on Thurs- 
 day last where He met Lady & Miss Crew, — the Hon : Mr. Lyttleton* 
 & the Hon : Wm. Spencer, and Mr. [Francis] Hornerj &c. — He remarked 
 on the laborious task which a professed wit has to perform, as He has 
 always to keep up a Character for saying brilliant things, & to Whip 
 & spur His jaded Hack, however otherwise disposed. It was evinced 
 on that occasion by Wm. Spencer in a contest with Lyttleton for 
 superiority, which was unsuccessfully carried on between them & often 
 coarseness for wit, till Spencer was wearied. — The subject was " Jonah 
 in the Whale's belly." — Lady Crew sd. when they had finished, " She 
 hoped they had had enough on that subject." — Sydney Smith, Lawrence 
 thinks, has an advantage over all these wits. It flows from Him more 
 easily & naturally than from any of them. He noticed this to Rogers, 
 who admitted that He had great readiness & of thought, but a bad 
 manner, that is, not an elegant deportment. 
 
 • Probably William Henry Lyttleton, afterwards third Lord Lyttleton (1828). In 
 1 8 13 he married Lady Sarah Spencer, eldest daughter of the second Earl Spencer. Of 
 him Creevy said in 1833, " Lyttleton having married, and being very poor, could not 
 afford to continue in Parliament, and tho' he wanted little to enable him to do so, the mean- 
 ness of Lord Spencer would not supply him with it, and he has been an exile almost ever 
 since. Tho' grown very grey for his age (he was born in 1782), he is as lively and charming 
 a companion as the town can produce, and they are said to be the happiest couple in the 
 world." 
 
 ■(■ Francis Horner (1778-18 17), born in Edinburgh, was a politician, and joined the 
 leading Whigs in founding the Edinburgh Review. A portrait of him by Raeburn hangs 
 in the National Portrait Gallery. 
 
CHAPTER L 
 
 1807 
 
 Style, Profligacy and Speaking 
 
 July 11. — Yesterday Lawrence dined with Sir H. Englefield where 
 he met Mrs. Wm. Spencer, Sotheby, — Rogers — and [Francis] Horner — 
 Style of writing in the Enghsh language was conversed upon, — and after 
 much had been said, it was allowed by all present that Sir Joshua Rey- 
 nolds, in His Lectures, wrote with more purity & simplicity than any 
 other modern writer, & might for the excellence of His style in that re- 
 spect be compared with Addison ; — having clearness, ease, and no 
 affectation. 
 
 Horner resides in the Temple, & writes in the Edinburgh Review, 
 Lawrence thinks Him a man of very good understanding & principles 
 with much information. 
 
 Sheridan was spoken of and many instances related of His profligacy 
 with respect to women were mentioned ; and his having seduced several 
 who were in degrees related to Him & attempted others. — At one period 
 it was dangerous for a woman of character to be left in a room alone with 
 Him as He often succeeded by their terror of being discovered when He 
 made a sudden & desperate attack upon them.* 
 
 * Mr. A. Brinsley Sheridan, Frampton Court, Dorchester, Dorset, writing on Jan. 
 23, 1923, says : Having read in the Morning Post of January 17th an attack on my illus- 
 trious ancestor, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Farington in his Diary, I feel that I must 
 be allowed to say a few words in his defence. 
 
 It seems to me to be a great pity that, after all these years, his memory should be thus 
 maligned, and that he should not be allowed to rest in peace. Anyone who has read 
 Vachell's life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan would know what a very gallant gentleman he 
 was, and how courteous to the fair sex, and any statement to the contrary is false and a 
 calumny. In those days pohtical jealousy knew no bounds, and it is to this that I attribute 
 Farington's attack. 
 
 Supposing Sheridan to be all that the virtuous Farington makes him out to be, is it 
 possible that he should have been a personal friend of the King's, and would it be likely 
 that his second wife should have been a daughter of the Dean of Westminster ? 
 
 AlsOj would such a roue as he is described have been buried in Westminster Abbey or 
 
 '^7Z 
 
174 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Lawrence noticed a day or two since to the Hon : Wm. Lamb, 
 How much it is the object of many, at present to obtain reputation for 
 fine speaking in private Society ; in so much, that it has almost become 
 a theatrical passion. Oh ! sd. Lambe, you mean Sharpe, — Really 
 added Lawrence these fine talkers now speak of the manner in which 
 another has acquitted Himself in conversation as if they were speaking 
 of a public performance. — When a new man comes among them & 
 expresses Himself with good effect, Sharpe afterwards noticing it has 
 said, " Very well, we must hear him again " — meaning a further trial. — 
 
 Athletics 
 
 [This morning, at 3 oClock, Mr. Pearson started from Pimlico to go on 
 foot to Datchet Bridge near Windsor for a wager of 100 guineas, & to 
 return to Pimlico, the distance which He had to perform was upwards 
 of 37 miles. Mr. P. started on a shuffling walk, and arrived at Hounslow 
 (ten miles) at a quarter past 4 oClock, where He took some light refresh- 
 ment, and halted again at Colnbrooke (17 miles) at 25 minutes past 
 
 5 oClock, the half of the distance having been performed in 2 Hours 
 
 6 40 minutes. Half the time had expired within a few minutes and bets 
 ran two to one and three to one against the performance. The Pedes- 
 trian quickened his pace back, and arrived at Hounslow at 5 minutes 
 past 7 oClock, a good deal fatigued. He had an hour and 25 minutes 
 to perform the last 10 miles, and by great exertion He did this in three 
 minutes less than the given time. He was a good deal fatigued, and 
 the performance was considered wonderful at this season of the year. — 
 From small note-book.] 
 
 R.A. Domestic Troubles 
 
 July 13. — West I called on. He spoke of Mrs. Hardy, the House 
 Keeper at the Royal Academy having resigned that situation. He 
 said the Academy was all in disorder. — Fuseli attended to the students 
 better than any former Keeper had done, but totally disregarded every- 
 
 have had such touching lines written on his death by Moore — " Mourn, England, mourn," 
 &c. i 
 
 It is hardly possible also that he would have been chosen by the men of Stafford to 
 represent them in the House of Commons if all Farington says of him had been true. 
 
 If Sheridan were alive to-day he certainly would have changed the name of Sir Ben- 
 jamin Backbite in his " School for Scandal " to Sir Farington Backbite. 
 
 Let Honour live where Honour is due. 
 
 [We gladly pubUsh Mr. Brinsley Sheridan's letter. In justice to Farington, however, 
 it should be said that he was merely recording what Sir Thomas Lawrence told him of a 
 conversation which took place at a dinner given by Sir Henry Englefield to some friends, 
 including Mrs. William Spencer, wife of the poet and wit, William Sotheby, a well-known 
 author, Samuel Rogers, the poet, and Francis Horner, one of the founders of the Edinburgh 
 Review. — Ed.] 
 
1807] R.A. Domestic Troubles 175 
 
 thing else. Richards [the secretary] & He, though under the same roof 
 had not seen each other since Opie's funeral. — Mrs. Fuseli is said to be of 
 a fierce temper. — He sd. no person will suit the place of Housekeeper 
 there but one of the degree of a menial servant. 
 
 Remarkable Prediction 
 
 July 14. — [From Vienna accts. were reed, that on the 24th of May, 
 at Constantinople, The Mufti, at the Head of the Malcontents, repaired 
 with 300 Janissaries to the Seraglio, and read to the unhappy Sultan 
 a list of his pretended Offences, recited passages from the Koran, which 
 declared Him on acct. of those offences, unworthy of the Throne and 
 ordered Him to sign a renunciation of it. SeHm did, & begged His 
 life. The mufti promised to intercede for Him. His person was then 
 secured, & 14 of His Ministers were put to death. Couriers were sent 
 to the Camp & the Dardanelles to arrest and strangle the Grand Vizier 
 & the Captain Pasha. On the 25th. of May, a Proclamation was published 
 in Constantinople, to announce to the people that the Sultan had been 
 dethroned, and to make known His offences, & the passages of the Koran 
 which condemned these offences. On the 26th. Mustapha, the Son 
 of Achmet, was proclaimed Grand Signior. On the 27th. He sent an 
 Order to Selim to take poison. Selim obeyed, and died in a short time. 
 During the whole of this revolution but few disorders were committed. 
 The Mass of the people took no part at all ; so that this Catastrophe is 
 attributed to some chiefs of parties yet unknown to the Janissaries. All 
 foreigners were ordered to be respected. It is assured, that the Grand 
 Vizier made no resistance to the order sent Him & was strangled. Of 
 the Captain Pasha nothing is known. The Grand Vizier had gained some 
 successes before He died : He passed the Danube at Ismael, & forced 
 General Michaelson to retire from Wallachia to Focsany & Reinnick. 
 The new Administration is entirely composed of persons devoted to the 
 Janissaries. 
 
 The discontent, occasioned among the people by the scarcity of 
 provisions, and among the Janissaries by the European exercise and 
 discipline, furnished the enemies of government with an occasion to 
 excite an insurrection which cost the unhappy Sultan his Throne & His 
 life. — From small note-book.] 
 
 [Dr. Carlisle] mentioned a remarkable prediction in Moores Almanack 
 published in Deer, last for the year 1807. — In the predictions for the month 
 of April it is stated, — 
 
 " Near this time the Turkish Emperor dies, or it may be He hides His 
 Head, His People are tumultuous j if He can save His life, let Him, 1 
 give Him fair warning of it." 
 
 Now it has happened that on the 24th. of May, which may be called 
 near the time viz : the end oj April, Selim, the Turkish Emperor was 
 dethroned and imprisoned. 
 
176 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 July 15. — We talked of filling the 2 vacancies of Academicians, We 
 agreed that Howard ought to be one ; and that Calcott wd. be a more 
 agreeable member than PhiHps if the Academy shd. be disposed to it. — 
 I noticed Westmacotts defficiency of execution which He assented to. — 
 He [Thomson] admitted that [James] Ward had a claim to be an Asso- 
 ciate ; but that He is a vulgar man of abrupt manners ; but there is no 
 objection to Him on any moral principle. 
 
CHAPTER LI 
 
 1807 
 
 A Successful Portrait Painter 
 
 July 15. — The Lease of Opies House in Berners Street was sold to 
 Lonsdale, a Portrait Painter, for ^1250, there being abt. 55 years un- 
 expired.* At the sale of Opie's effects everything went for High prices. — 
 
 Pordenf said a Picture cleaning tribe of dealers in old pictures have 
 at present prejudiced Lord Grosvenor's mind so far against the merit 
 of modern art as to interrupt His design of making a Collection of modern 
 pictures ; but in time this prejudice will be done away. 
 
 A Clever Family 
 
 Clarke, who is now writing the History of Lord Nelson in conjunction 
 with Mc Arthur, X is a native of Suffolk, and Son of a Clergyman, — His 
 elder Brother is Dr. Clarke, who reads Lectures at Cambridge ; He is 
 abt. 38 years of age, is of a very vivacious disposition ; in company 
 a great talker ; Has travelled far to the North ; & is now married to a 
 young Woman, daugr. of Sir Willm. Rush, & had 3^10,000 with Her. — 
 The youngest of these Brothers was Captain Clarke of the Navy, who 
 unhappily, abt. two years ago was drowned in the River Thames while 
 on a pleasure party, — while attempting to save a friend, the Son of a 
 Banker. 
 
 July 16. — Lysons called being returned from Gloucestershire. He 
 found much antiquity in Devonshire while on his late tour. The 
 country is all Hills cultivated and Enclosed to the top ; not picturesque ; 
 but the Rivers and mouths of Rivers very fine. Dartmouth the finest, 
 most picturesque [in] appearance He ever saw. — He went down the 
 
 • James Lonsdale, born in Lancashire in 1777, studied under Romney and at the Royal 
 Academy. He was one of the Founders of the (now Royal) Society of British Artists, and 
 an exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He died at the Berners Street house in 1839. By 
 him in the National Portrait Gallery are portraits of Sir Philip Francis (Junius), Lord 
 Brougham, NoUekens, Queen Caroline, and others. 
 
 t William Porden, architect. See Vols. L, H. and HL 
 
 X John McArthur, LL.D. 
 
 VOL. IV. 177 12 
 
178 The Farington Diary [i807 
 
 River Dart from Totness to Dartmouth, a distance of 13 miles, & returned 
 with the ensuing tide : left Totness at 9 in the morning & returned 
 abt. 8 oClock at night. The Revd. Mr. Froude, Rector of Dartington, 
 2 miles from Totness accompanied them. He married Miss Peggy 
 Spedding.* 
 
 Life in Old Quebec 
 
 Mrs. Brooke called accompanied by Her eldest daugr. — She brought 
 me a sketch of Rome made by Wilson, which I lent Her Husband, & 
 now gave to Her as she has Wilson's picture of this view, — She told me 
 Her friend the Bishop of Quebecf has not settled the business of His 
 Church establishment with government and must remain Here another 
 season. He likes the Climate & Country of Canada ; the air is pure, & 
 everything is upon a great scale. Though born in Norfolk, & a strong 
 man ; and though He did not leave England till He was towards forty 
 years of age. He now finds the air of his native Country does not agree 
 with Him. Since He came from Canada, He has constantly had an irrita- 
 tion from the Uvula down to His breast, with something of soreness & 
 a slight cough. — Mrs. Mountain, His wife, an Englishwoman, does not 
 perceive any difference in Herself ; but she complains of suffering more 
 from Cold here than when at Quebec owing to the defense against cold 
 not being here so general & well contrived. At Quebec they have flues 
 in the walls of their Houses, which give an equal warmth to the whole 
 House. — What they chiefly complain of in Canada is, the great length 
 of their Winter, 8 months, with Snow upon the ground during at least 
 5 months of that period. — After the Ice breaks in the Spring the arrival 
 of the first Ship from England causes much agitation among them ; a 
 mixture of desire of information & apprehension of what it may be. — 
 Sometimes an overland dispatch from New York arrives in the Winter 
 at Quebec, but it is attended with great expence : a letter may cost 
 2 or 3 guineas. 
 
 The Bishop lives upon very friendly terms with the principal Roman 
 Catholic Families established at Quebec : but feels that the Protestant 
 Religion is not properly supported there. The Roman Catholics have 
 
 * Robert Hurrell Froude (1771-1859) was the father of James Anthony Froude (1818- 
 1894), the eminent historian and man of letters. The elder Froude graduated B.A. from 
 Oriel College, Oxford, in 1792, and M.A. in 1795. He was rector of Denbury from 1798 
 and of Dartington from 1799, and Archdeacon of Totnes from 1820 until his death. He 
 married Margaret Spedding, of Mirehouse, Cumberland, and she died on February 16, 
 1 82 1, aged forty-six years. Their daughter Margaret, who married William Mallock, 
 became the mother of Mr. W. H. Mallock, author of the much-discussed work, " The 
 New Republic." J. A. Froude said of his father that he " had a moderate fortune of his 
 own, consisting chiefly in land, and he belonged, therefore, to the ' landed interest.' . . . 
 His children knew him as a continually busy, useful man of the world, a learned and cul- 
 tivated antiquarian, and an accomplished artist. Some of his pencil drawings were highly 
 praised by Ruskin. . . . About doctrine, evangelical or catholic, I do not think in my 
 early boyhood I ever heard a single word, in church or out of it." 
 
 f The Rev. Jacob Mountain. See Index, Vol. IH. 
 
1807] Life in Old Quebec 179 
 
 their processions &c. & much to impose upon the minds of the people 
 & to draw them into that persuasion. — His object, in England is to 
 induce our government to make the Episcopal establishment at Quebec 
 compleat, which, in his opinion, wd. have a sensible effect in favour of 
 our Religion. 
 
 Landseer's Father 
 
 I dined & was the evening alone, — except John Byrne calling to inform 
 me of his change of residence from 79 Tichfield St. to 54 John St. — He 
 has a Lease for 21 years, at a rent of ^47. — His eldest Sister paints 
 Flowers ; — Letitia, his second Sister at home, is employed in etching 
 views for a Mr. Amsinch, of Tunbridge ; and His youngest Sister, etches 
 & engraves. — They keep only one Servant. John Byrne is employed 
 in engraving views for Cadell & Davis to accompany Lysons's work ; 
 but has now no share in it. — Mrs. Byrne lodges in Cleveland Street. — 
 He spoke of the passion which Landseer* always had for writing. 
 While pupil to J. Byrne's father, when any difference arose between them 
 He would not, though they worked together in the same room, express 
 by words anything He might have to say, but would write a letter, and 
 lay [it] upon His masters table, who was impatient at His losing so much 
 time for such a purpose. — 
 
 [The Committee of the House of Commons on the Petition of the 
 British Museum, have reported that ^4,925, is a reasonable price for the 
 Lansdowne Manuscripts, which it is intended to purchase & deposit 
 in the British Museum. — From small note-book.] 
 
 * John Landseer, A.R.A., engraver, father of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. See Vols. 
 IL and IIL 
 
 VOL. IV. 12^ 
 
CHAPTER LII 
 
 1807 
 
 Angerstein and a Rembrandt 
 
 July 20. — Marchi called. — Had been 3 weeks at Taplow, — Lord 
 Thomond out of spirits respecting Continental affairs. — On hearing 
 of Mr. Angerstein's purchase of the Rembrant, as said, for 5000 guineas, 
 " Two Hundred & fifty pounds a year to look at a picture daily." — He 
 added " the French will come & take it back." 
 
 Dance called to settle abt. dining today with Marchant. — Palmer's 
 Post office case is expected to come on today in the House of Commons.* 
 The report of the Committee is very favourable for Him. Mr. Leth- 
 bridge, Sir John Newport &c. are warm for Him. — Mr. Long, on His 
 examination before the Committee was gentlemanlike & not Hostile to 
 Palmer. — Rose & Wm. Dundass are decidedly against Him. — He hoped 
 to obtain arrears to the amount of j[6o,ooo, & to have ^10,000 a year 
 for his life. — Mrs. Palmer, His late wife, had something of insanity abt. 
 Her. — One of His Sons, intended for the Church, was very extravagant, 
 & Shot himself. — 
 
 Fuseli and Pitt 
 
 Fuseli while looking at Mr. Pitts Bust said " It wd. have been well 
 for this Country if He had not been born in it. He brought us into the 
 state we are now in. Had He left the French to themselves, in all the 
 matter of their Revolution, England wd. now have given Law to the 
 World. — He shd. have done as other powers did during our Civil Wars, 
 who when they saw a King beheaded & Cromwell rise still did not inter- 
 
 * John Palmer (1742-1818) was a successful brewer and tallow-chandler and a member 
 of an old Bath family. He succeeded his father also as a theatrical proprietor in Bath, and 
 there introduced Henderson, King, Elliston, Mrs. Siddons, and others. Palmer's business 
 led him far afield, and in his journeying he noted the slow service of the State Post. In 
 1782 he projected a scheme for conveying the mails by stage coaches, and after much opposi- 
 tion it was tried in 1784 and finally became successful. Two years later he was appointed 
 Comptroller-General of the Post OfHce. Subsequently Palmer was dismissed, and Pitt in 
 1793 granted him a pension of ^3,000. He, however, claimed remuneration for his services 
 beyond his pension, but it was not until 18 13 that Parliament paid him ^50,000 without 
 affecting his pension. Palmer's struggle with the various Governments cost him ;£i3,ooo. 
 He died at Brighton on August 16, 18 18. 
 
 180 
 
1807] Fuseli and Pitt 181 
 
 fere." — I asked Him, as He is a great advocate for Physiognomy, what 
 He thought of Mr. Pitt's Bust [by Nollekens], He said there was great 
 power expressed in it abt. the Jorehead ; and Haughtiness in the mouth ; 
 that -perseverance & obstinacy^ were strongly manifested, — 
 
 Grattan and Perceval 
 
 July 21. — ^Lawrence I dined with. — He was at Lady Crew's* party 
 at Paddington on Friday last. — Grattan, Sharpe, Rogers, Horner &c. 
 &c. were there. — He noticed Sharpe's vanity, who had come from 
 the House of Commons & sd. He had " vexed, the Treasury Bench cursedly " 
 by ironically noticing the Sincerity of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
 (Perceval) & the Veracity of the Secretary oj the Treasury, (Stourges 
 Bourne). t — Lawrence saw that Grattan did not approve this, & a little 
 while after Grattan spoke of Perceval & said, " He is a Bigot in ReHgion, 
 which is to be disapproved, but there is Sincerity in what He does, 
 and upon such a subject, when that is the case, allowance is to be made." 
 — He also spoke of His talents in such a way, as made it manifest that 
 He thought well of Him, & was in contradiction of Sharpe, — who made 
 use of another vulgar expression, saying " The Ministry must be licked 
 up.^' Grattan did not support Him in this manner of talking. He did 
 not know that much good wd. be done by " licking a ministry up," and as 
 to sincerity allowance must be made for all Men in office. He could 
 say of Himself that when He was in a situation to have interest. He had 
 been applied to [by] one whom He had known, who wished for an appoint- 
 ment & to save trouble named one of ^2000 a year. To this impudent 
 proposal I ought in sincerity to have told Him that He was foolish & 
 unreasonable ; but I was not sincere with Him, and replied that I was 
 sorry I could not comply with His request. 
 
 Grattan sd. He condemned another kind of Bigotry more than that 
 of Perceval. — Forster,t the Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer, He sd. 
 was a Bigot in Politics which is a very bad quahty. 
 
 Poet and Actor 
 
 Kemble returning home one evening having drunk much was in a 
 carriage with Sharpe, Rogers, & Lawrence. He spoke of Rogers poem 
 " The pleasures of Memory," & told Rogers that It was faint, & a little 
 womanish ; but there were many very good lines in it : but added, after 
 having written that How could you think of publishing yr. " Epistle to 
 ajriend " (Sharpe) one of the most wretched things that ever was written. 
 
 * Frances, daughter of Fulke Greville, wife of the first Baron Crewe of Crewe. See 
 Vol. II., page 96. 
 
 t WiUiam Sturges-Bourne (1769-1845), politician, was the only son of the Rev. John 
 Sturges, Chancellor of the diocese of Winchester. On the death of his uncle, Francis 
 Bourne (who took the name of Page), the bulk of his fortune came to Sturges, who assumed 
 the name of Bourne. 
 
 t John Foster, Baron Oriel. See Vol. I., page 250. 
 
182 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 — The next morning Kemble recollected what He had sd. — and has 
 never since been invited by Rogers to His House. — 
 
 [The Sums expended from the ist. of June, 1803, to the ist. of January 
 1805, for the Volunteer Service, amounts to the Sum of " One million 
 eight hundred and thirty four thousand, three hundred and eighteen 
 pounds Sixteen Shillings," The total [number] of Recruits enlisted in 
 England & Ireland in 1806 was 10,783 ; in the present year 9,194, have 
 been enhsted in England alone. — From small note-book.] 
 
 Greeks Ignorant of Anatomy 
 
 July 22. — [Dr.] CarHsle called, and talked of a Plan of making 
 the public exercises of the Pugilists, — a school of study for artists who 
 study the Human figure. — He repeated what He had asserted in His 
 Essay published in the Artist, that the Greeks had little or no knowledge 
 of anatomy ; so little had they discriminated the parts which compose 
 the human body, that they had but one word, to express muscle, fibre. 
 Nerve, ^c. — He referred His opinion to Payne Knight who has studied 
 the Greek authors deeply, & He agreed with him, That the Greeks had 
 little or UQ knowledge oj Anatomy. It was from constantly contemplating 
 the form & action of the finest human figures in their public exercises 
 that the Greek Artists conceived that abstract idea of sublime & pure 
 form which we see in their statues. — He said that the study of anatomy 
 in the manner in which many modern artists have done it has frequently 
 produced an affected & false display of their knowledge of it, so as almost 
 to skin their figures most unnaturally. — Le Fage, who had been bred a 
 Surgeon was a strong instance of this false representation of the human 
 figure. — He said Barry had studied Anatomy with great attention, more 
 than many Surgeons do ; yet it did little for Him as an Artist, — He 
 drew but indifferently, & His figures were ill put together. — He suggested 
 one mode of studying the Human figure ; to draw a line marking the 
 forms of the principal muscles on a figure standing witht. motion ; & 
 then observing the shifting of these muscles in any action into which 
 the figure might be thrown. — In a school for study such as He wd. 
 propose, the figures shd. of course exercise naked, ; and to Pugilists, 
 He wd. add Tumblers &c. to obtain as great a variety as possible. — 
 
 W. Wells I dined with. — We dined a little after 6. — Mrs. Wells, 
 Senr. told me she was acquainted with the first Mrs. Angerstein, whose 
 first Husband, Mr. Crokatt shot Himself, but the Ball lodged under His 
 ear, & did not kill him, but He died of a Locked Jaw. Mrs. Crokatt had 
 a fortune of ^^20,000, which was settled upon Her & went to Her Children. 
 
CHAPTER LIII 
 
 1807 
 Ague and Arsenic 
 
 July 23. — Thomson & Owen dined with me. — Thomson while He 
 was in Italy was much afflicted with fever. He also had the Ague, 
 at Naples, for which He took Bark witht. it having the least effect, which 
 cavised a Neapolitan Physician to give Him two Pills which He took upon 
 the symptoms of the ague fit commencing ; and in a very short time He 
 felt a warmth throughout, and the fit repelled & from that period He has 
 never had a return of it. — The Physician afterwards told Him it was 
 Arsenick which He had given Him. — This remedy is known to our Phy- 
 sicians, but must be used with very great caution ; & like other violent 
 stimulants, may eventually bring on Paralysis. 
 
 Cosway's extravagance in conversation was mentioned. Owen sd. 
 that at the Council, on Monday night, it being noticed to Cosway that 
 He was not at the Academy dinner on the Kings Birthday, He sd. " I 
 zvas there y witnessed all that passed,^^ meaning to have it understood 
 that He was there but invisible, being then in a spiritual capacity. — 
 He rejoiced extremely at the Victories of Buonaparte. — 
 
 [The effective force of the Volunteers, in Great Britain, by the last 
 returns amounted to Three Hundred and Twenty nine Thousand Three 
 Hundred and forty-six men. — From small note-book,] 
 
 Peace with America 
 
 July 24. — Caleb Whiteforde told me that He had lived in habits 
 of intimacy with Dr. Franklin Twenty-five years, during which period 
 they lived next door neighbours in Craven Street, Strand. It was on 
 acct. of this known intimacy between them, that He was selected by our 
 Government to go to Paris to obtain confidential answers from Dr. Frank- 
 lin, to prepare the way for terms of peace being concluded upon with 
 America. — Whiteforde obtained from Franklin all the information 
 required, & by so doing prevented another year of War, which would 
 have otherwise been so much longer continued. — He said, it was not the 
 wish of many of the American Leaders to separate from this country, 
 but after national animosity had arisen to a high pitch, they were obliged 
 
 183 
 
184 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 to go with the stream. — The Federalists in America, are the people of 
 respectability & Property, and are well disposed towards Great Britain 
 & inclined to draw the Union of the two countries as close as they can. 
 With these was Washington ; so is Adams ; but Jefferson, the present 
 President of the United States, is wholly inclined to France, in which 
 country He had long resided, — & He is supported by the Democrats & 
 Jacobins. — 
 
 [July 25. — Shipping. — The number of British Ships employed in 
 the trade of Great Britain in the last year, was — 
 
 Ships. Tons. Men. 
 
 Inwards 12,448 1,482,664 88,988 
 
 Outwards 12,251 1,486,302 94,337 
 
 Foreign. 
 
 Ships. Tons. Men. 
 
 Inwards 3793 642,994 31,554 
 
 Outwards 3459 568,170 29,632 
 
 — From small note-book.] 
 
 A River Party 
 
 July 27. — At I past 3 today I went with Lawrence & General Camp- 
 bell to Mr. J. Wolff's at Sherwood* near Battersea we proceeded by 
 water, where we arrived a little before 5 oClock, & found a Tent made of 
 Colours, placed upon a carpet spread upon the Lawn before the River. 
 In this a little before 6 we dined. — We had Turtle, — with 2 courses, — 
 Champaigne, — Claret, — Madeira, — Port, — & Punch for the Turtle. — 
 A Desert of Fruit with Ices, — everything very handsome. — Abt. 7 
 oClock the Annual Sailing Boat race for a Silver Cup given by Mr. Barrett 
 of Vauxhall, passed in our view, & was saluted with Cannon by Mr. Wolff. 
 In a pleasure Boat was Mr. Barrett with several Ladies, also Palmer of 
 the Post Office, — and Topham.f — About 9 oClock we went into the Salon 
 to tea & about 10 oClock the party broke up & I was taken in Mr. Gold- 
 smids Coach to Vauxhall Gardens gate, & there parting with them pro- 
 ceeded home, where I found Lawrence waiting for me. — Mr. GoldsmidI 
 I found a very civil man, not having the least appearance of being a 
 Jew, but Mrs. Goldsmid and Six Children of theirs, had all of them the 
 look of their people. — 
 
 Freedom of the Seas 
 
 [The Journal in Paris announces that at the dinner at Tilsit, at which 
 the Emperor of Russia & Buonaparte were present, the following Toast 
 
 * Jens Wolff, Danish Consul in London. See Vol. III., page 97. 
 
 t John Topham. See Vol. III., page 50. 
 
 X Abraham Goldsmid, of Morden House, was a stockbroker, who was joint contractor, 
 with the house of Sir Francis Baring, for a loan of fourteen millions. Owing to financial 
 difficulties he committed suicide on September 28, 18 10. See Annual Register for that 
 year. 
 
1807] 
 
 Freedom of the Seas 185 
 
 was given " The Freedom oj the Seas.'' Also that Guillet, the person 
 who went to Mr. Fox to propose to Him to assassinate Buonaparte, and 
 who was taken up on his arrival on the Continent, died a few days ago 
 (dated July 9th) at the Bicetre, where He was confined. 
 
 On Friday night last, or Saturday morning Lady Frederick Campbell 
 was burnt to death in Her Bed at Coombank, owing to the Curtains of 
 Her Bed having taken fire, caused by Her falling asleep while reading 
 in bed. She was abt, 70 years of age, & was the daugr. of Amos Mere- 
 dith Esqr. and Sister of Sir Wm. Meredith Bart. In 1752 she was married 
 to Earl Ferrers, the unfortunate Nobleman who was executed at Tyburn, 
 in 1760, for the wilful murder of Mr. Johnson, his Steward ; she was 
 divorced* from Him by act of parHament & after His death, in 1769, 
 married Lord Frederick Campbell brother to the Duke of Argyll. 
 
 In the debate in the House of Commons yesterday upon the Dejense 
 Bill, Mr. Canning said, That the Conscription estabhshed by the Rulers 
 of France was not an absolute -personal Conscription. Substitutes were 
 allowed to be provided, although certainly they were not to be pro- 
 vided at so cheap a rate as in this Country, for He happened to have the 
 opportunity of knowing, that about two months ago, the price of a 
 Substitute in France was 200 guineas, 
 
 July 29. — This day (Wednesday 29th) Mr. Perceval, Chancellor of 
 the Exchequer moved that ^10,000 be granted to His Majesty to remun- 
 erate Dr. Edward Jenner, as a further reward for promulgating His dis- 
 covery of Vaccine Innoculation : to be pd. witht. any deduction. — Mr. 
 Morris moved an Amendment, That ^20,000 be inserted instead of 
 ;^I 0,000, — Seconded by Sir John Sebright. 
 
 For Mr. Morris' amendment 60 
 Against it 47 
 
 13 
 Mr. Perceval persisted in his proposal to give only ^10,000. — From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 * Constance Lady Russell writes: Mr. Farington Is quoted as writing that Lady 
 Frederick Campbell " was divorced," which was not the case. On the contrary, this lady 
 obtained on June 20, 1758, an Act of Parliament for separation (not divorce) from her first 
 husband, Lord Ferrers, " for the cruelty of the said Earl." In February, 1758, Horace 
 Walpole writes to Sir Horace Mann as follows : " A frantic Earl of Ferrers has for this 
 twelve month supplied conversation, by attempting to murder his wife, a pretty, harmless 
 young woman — having broken the peace to which the House of Lords tied him last year, 
 the cause was tried again there on Friday last." 
 
CHAPTER LIV 
 
 1807 
 Lord Thurlow 
 
 August 5. — Lawrence I dined with. — He mentioned the opinion given 
 of the late Lord Thurlow by Mr. Smith, Judge Advocate in India, who 
 knew Him well & said That Lord Thurlow's was anything but a straight- 
 forward " Judicial Understanding ", — that He doubted, & cavilled at 
 everything & decided nothing. 
 
 August 6. — W. Wells* I dined with. — Mr. Hallet spoke of several 
 persons who from a low beginning had made great fortunes. He men- 
 tioned a Leather Breeches maker, of the name of White, who formerly 
 resided at Tarperley in Cheshire & made Leather Breeches for the gentle- 
 men of that Hunt. Being recommended by them He came to London 
 & settled in St. Albans St. & now resides in Bond Street, & is said to be 
 worth 5^150,000. — 
 
 Lawrence called on me in the even'g. The wife of a Colonel now at 
 Stralsund with Lord Cathcart, has reed, a letter from the Colonel in which 
 He gave a very unfavourable acct. of the King of Sweden. — That He is 
 a kind of Madman but witht. the strong determination of one upon the 
 point which posesses the mind ; on the contrary He is irresolute & chang- 
 ing incessantly ; has shown great anxiety for His own personal safety ; 
 and in all that respects Himself is very fastidious, requiring all possible 
 parade in approaching His person. — Lord Cathcart & the Officers are 
 disgusted & disappointed, & wish themselves elsewhere. — 
 
 Sheridan Spoke Well 
 
 August 8. — Lawrence came to breakfast. — He was last night at the 
 House of Commons, and remarked on the great inferiority of the speaking 
 compared with what He had formerly heard. — Canning was the best. — 
 Sheridan was drunk, but spoke well — Wilberforce spoke well. — Windham 
 with little effect. His action & His voice (changing His tones) all are 
 expressive of His vanity. — Perceval indifferent, & Lord Castlereagh 
 
 * Of Redleaf, collector of pictures. 
 186 
 
1*07] Sheridan Spoke Well 187 
 
 worse. — I went with Him to Brown's, the Colourman, with whom He 
 opened an account. — 
 
 August 9. — [This day [the 9th] a Proclamation, by Thomas Jefferson, 
 President of the United States, appeared, dated Washington, July ist, 
 1807. — "Requiring all armed Vessells bearing Commissions under the 
 government of Great Britain, immediately & witht. delay to depart from 
 the harbours and waters of the United States ; and that should any of 
 them fail to do so, or shd. hereafter enter, all supplies & intercourse 
 is prohibited with them, — Unless Vessells forced in by distress — by the 
 dangers of the Sea, — or by the pursuit of an enemy, — or with dispatches 
 from their government, in which cases suppHes shall be had." — From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 August 11. — Daniell [R.A.] called. — His tour to Wales with Davis 
 & Wm. Daniell, cost them abt. 45 pounds each. They were out a month, 
 took a Chaise from London, & had Post Horses. — Their rule was to have 
 a Bottle of wine at dinner, & they dined late having no Supper. — 
 
 Women 
 
 August 12. — Lawrence I dined with. He mentioned a marriage 
 which had produced little happiness to the female. She a woman of 
 elegant mind, taste, & much sensibility : the Husband a man of narrow 
 understanding, without pursuit or employ ; neither seeking for know- 
 ledge or rational amusement : lolling on a Sofa till 2 oClock ; then riding 
 a while before dressing for dinner. 
 
 In addition to this he was jealous of other friends being desired by 
 His wife ; and not polite in obliging Her. — Of another Lady he sd. that 
 Her Father in Law, said of Her " That she was a single f age " — What she 
 is you see at once ; & nothing is produced by more acquaintance with 
 Her mind. — 
 
 Lawrence sd. He had occasionally been much struck by the force of 
 certain expressions. — He never has forgot what a woman once said when 
 He was present, " Everything must have its results." — 
 
 [On the 4th Inst, a poor woman residing at Lahinch near Enniskillen, 
 in the County of Clare, was safely delivered of 5 children, 3 sons and 2 
 daugrs. who with the mother are in a thriving way. — 
 
 Note : Mr. Hayes* told me that several instances have been known 
 of 5 children being produced at one labour, but never more, and in all 
 the instances of 5 Children being thus born, none have lived beyond a 
 short time. — From small note-book.] 
 
 * Sir John Macnamara Hayes, M.D. See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER LV 
 
 1807 
 
 A Reynolds Sale 
 
 August 14. — Lady Thomond I called upon at Eleven previous to 
 the Sale of the pictures left at Sir Joshua's late House in Leicester fields 
 to be disposed of. — At 2 oClock I went to the Sale & found in the room 
 few but Picture dealers & Brokers. — Lord Mulgrave just looked in, and 
 S. Rogers came, & bought 2 landscapes by Bolognese* much touched upon 
 by Sir Joshua & on this acct. Rogers valued them highly. — Snell was the 
 Auctioneer. — 
 
 The Pictures bought in were knocked down at £426 6 o 
 
 The Pictures sold were knocked down at 297 3 6 
 
 723 9 6 
 
 Sampson & Dalilah, a Copy from Vandyke, but bought by Sir 
 Joshua, unseen, at the recommendation of Caleb Whiteforde 
 for 300 guineas sold for ^^68 5 o 
 
 Theory, the original design & picture from which the picture 
 by Him, in the Cieling of the Library in Somerset Place, 
 Royal Academy was painted 63 o o 
 
 A very bad imitation of Rubens, viz : Diana and Her Nymphs, 
 
 for which Lord Thomond at a Sale gave 22 guineas, sold for. 48 6 o 
 
 S. Rogers bought the 2 landscapes touched upon by Sir 
 Joshua for 21 10 6 
 
 Constable 
 
 August 15. — Constable called. He told me that Young Reinaglef 
 lost a great deal of money by His Panorama Speculation in the Strand 
 
 • Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606- 1680). 
 
 t Ramsay Richard Reinagle, son of Philip Reinagle, R.A. Ramsay, also an Acade- 
 mician, had to resign his diploma owing to having exhibited as his own work a picture, 
 by J. W. Yarnold, which he bought at a broker's shop and slightly altered before sending 
 it to the Academy. See Vol. III., page 255, and the D.N.B. 
 
 188 
 
1807] Constable 189 
 
 in which He engaged with One of the Son's of Barker, proprietor of the 
 Leicester Square Panorama. — Reinagle now teaches drawing & in conse- 
 quence of the great success of Glover in selHng His drawings of views of 
 the Lakes is gone to that Country accompanied by Havil to store them- 
 selves with subjects for drawings. — Two or three of Old Reinagles 
 daughters are now copying parts oj pictures (the whole of any picture is 
 not allowed to be copied but by express permission) by old Masters lent 
 for this season to the British Institution ; They told Constable that in 
 painting these copies they begin with water colours only upon a raw 
 canvass, over which they pass lightly some oil to fix the colours & make 
 them bear out, & then touch upon such parts as may require it with oil 
 colours. This, they said, their Father declared to be the only way of 
 copying the pictures of Old Masters successfully. — They work very 
 quick, & said, " Picture painted one day, — sold the next, — money spent 
 the third."* 
 
 The Best Man in the World 
 
 Lady Thomond I drank tea with, & found Her tolerably well satisfied 
 with the result of the Sale. — She told me that Fulk, the owner of their 
 late House (Sir Joshua's) in Leicester Square [now Puttick and Simpson's 
 auction rooms], asks 3^300 a year rent for it, also that the property tax 
 upon that shall be paid by the tenant ; also that 3^500 shall be laid out 
 in repairing the House at present ; and that it shall be painted through- 
 out once in every 2 years or 2 years and a half. — 
 
 She spoke of Lord Thomond, who is at Taplow, in the highest terms. 
 She said, There is not such another man in the world : He is the best 
 man in it. In trifles He is irritable in the extreme ; but in everything 
 of moment calm & firm ; bearing whatever may happen with fortitude. 
 — She spoke of His strong & just sense of Religion ; of His generosity ; 
 & His universal kindness, — & while she did it, it was with tears. — She 
 spoke of His fine constitution, saying, " it Had the purity of that of a 
 Child." His wounds heal without care. — The fever which had nearly 
 carried Him off in August 1804 was owing to His riding to Taplow on 
 an excessively hot day. It was a Coup (TSoleil. — His servant was affected 
 by it. — When He got to Taplow, He did not take care of Himself, but 
 immediately rode abt. His grounds ; but on returning home & dismount- 
 ing from His Horse, he fell back against some paling quite overcome. 
 Dr. Ferris of [B ] happening to come there, & was much alarmed, 
 
 & urged His Lordship to take a Chaise & return to London, not trusting 
 to have His Lordship^s case in His hands. — The next day His Lordship 
 did so, & came to Lady Thomond in Leicester Square very ill. The fever 
 continued upon Him 27 days, & He was often delirious. — 
 
 His life was saved by Sir Francis Milman. His Pulse was 120, and 
 Sir George Baker, the other Physician, pleaded for the old practise^ 
 that of lowering Him. Sir Francis, on the contrary urged that the 
 
 • See previous volumes for Old (Philip) Reinagle, John Glover and William Havell. 
 
190 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Constitution shd. be supported & insisted upon three large glasses oj 
 Madeira being given to His Lordship every day ; saying, if we once 
 lower Him, we shall never be able to raise Him again, & He will sink & 
 die : but we can at any time lower Him if circumstances shd. require it. 
 His Lordship had great repugnance to taking the wine, it felt to Him, 
 like oil on fire : & He had some how understood that Sir G, Baker 
 disapproved it. The wine, however, He was induced to take & He 
 recovered. 
 
 A Saintly Bishop 
 
 Lady Thomond spoke of Dr. Moss, the present Bishop of Oxford. — 
 A friend of His died & left Him 3^10,000. — Dr. Moss having learnt that 
 He had two Maiden Sisters not very well provided for, gave up to them 
 the whole of what had been bequeathed to Him. — He also gave up 
 a living of ^£800 a yr. to a friend in the Church who was unprovided for. — 
 
 Mr. Metcalfe is at Brighton much recovered ; but has lost the sight 
 of one of His eyes. His acquaintance there attend at His good dinners, 
 & He has not been induced by the coldness of the Prince [of Wales] 
 to quit that place.* 
 
 Sir William Scott, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty is very rich. 
 — He gave in His Income sometime since at ^^i 7,000 a year.— He has 
 one Son & one daughter : the latter is told by Her parents that she 
 is not to expect to have a large fortune : all their minds is upon their 
 Son in this respect. — They are remarkable Oeconomists. 
 
 * Philip Metcalfe, F.R.S., F.S.A., who was a friend and one of the executors of Sir 
 Joshua Reynolds, had offended the Prince. Metcalfe, who was very wealthy, gave ;£5oo 
 to his niece Frederlca, " to buy her cloaths," on the morning of her marriage in 1790 — 
 she was born in 1763 — to James Muir or Mure (as the family spell the name), second son 
 of Baron Mure of Caldwell, in Ayrshire, a well-known Scots family dating from 1329. 
 Frederica's granddaughter, Mrs. Charles King, owns a copy of a miniature of her grand- 
 mother by John Downman. See Vol. I., pages 95 and 273, and Index of Vols. II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER LVI 
 
 1807 
 
 Gossip at Lady Thomond's 
 
 August 18. — Lady Thomond I drank tea with. She had been to 
 visit Her aunt, Mrs. Reynolds, who is ill of a fever. — She told me that 
 
 Mrs. Fitzherbert has lost Her influence over the P. . — He is now 
 
 devoted to the M ss of H d ; to whom while they were in London, 
 
 He constantly went every day & staid from three oClock till 5. — He now 
 complains that Brighton is too cold for Him, & is going to Cheltenham, 
 which is only 15 miles from Ragley in Warwickshire, the seat of the 
 
 M s. — I remarked that the M ss is not young ; she replied that 
 
 notwithstanding she is an extraordinary fine woman, a Juno. — It is 
 
 supposed the P got the Garter for the M s, and is to make Him a 
 
 Duke.— 
 
 The P is inveterate against the P s & she is so much upon 
 
 His mind, that He lately introduced the subject unexpectedly to a Gentle- 
 man who mentioned it to Lord T [homond]. The P sd. He had formed 
 
 an unchangeable resolution never to set His foot in a House in which 
 she dwells. — He believes everything to be true that has been alledged 
 or insinuated against Her. — 
 
 Of the Sons of the Royal Family, Lady T[homond] believes the Duke 
 of Cumberland to be the best. He now goes to Church regularly, & has 
 left off swearing. The Duke of Cambridge is thought to be the next 
 best. — The daughters of the Royal Family are the comfort of the King, 
 and His Majesty is very fond of them. 
 
 Lord Thomond is now out of favour with the Prince of Wales, which 
 may be owing to His Lordship holding intercourse with, & inviting to 
 dinner, the Duke of Cumberland. The Prince does not now notice His 
 Lordship when He meets Him in Company. — The Prince expresses His 
 dislike of the Duke of Cumberland in an extraordinary manner : having 
 forbid the young Princess, His daugr. to speak to the Duke, when she 
 sees Him. — The Prince appears to be recovering His Health. — 
 
 A Great Project 
 
 August 19. — Dance told me that Rennie* the Engineer, has been 
 consulted by government abt. insulating a projecting point of land a little 
 
 * John Rennie, of Waterloo Bridge fame. 
 191 
 
192 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 above Gravesend, by cutting a channel across the land where it projects, 
 & on this Island, when made such, to form a Depot, as a substitute Jor 
 Woolwich, which by being accessible by Ships, & not easily attacked 
 by land wd. be a more secure Depot. — The calculation of expences to do 
 this seemed to be immense. Ten millions was the estimate reported. 
 
 [The value of property insured in the different Fire Offices in Great 
 Britain, in 1806, was about ^200,000,000, and in the United Kingdom 
 about ^270,000,000. 
 
 Yesterday the price of Bread was lid. | the quartern Loaf Wheaten, 
 and lod. Household. 
 
 Advertisement in a newspaper. " The Proprietor of the two wonderful 
 Siboya Serpents, now exhibiting at the large rooms No. 22 Piccadilly, 
 begs leave to inform the Nobility & Gentry, and others, that from the 
 numerous applications he has received of Noblemen & gentlemen to 
 see those extraordinary Reptiles devour their Prey, they will have a 
 public dinner on live Rabbits this day, at 3 oClock, which is expected 
 to be attended with a numerous assemblage of Ladies & Gentlemen. 
 Admittance each person 2 shillings." — From small note-book.] 
 
 He Knew Piranesi 
 
 August 20. — Lewis* told me that He went to Italy in 1770, and re- 
 turned in Deer. 1772. — At the time He left England He was 19 years 
 old. — He knew Piranesif well and sd. He was extremely vain of His works 
 and was sensible in the extreme to flattery. — 
 
 Lewis kept a Diary or Journal while He was abroad, but lately de- 
 stroyed it. — He wrote it in Italian, and being conscious it was written 
 very incorrectly, as He wrote in that langage as an exercise in it, He 
 became unwilling that it should fall into the hands of those who might 
 remark upon it. — Had he had a Son, brought up to His own profession 
 He wd. have preserved them. — He spoke of Sir Robert Taylor,! the 
 Architect, & sd. He was a very early riser, & did His business in the 
 fore part of the day, & in the evening reed, in His night gown & slippers 
 those who called upon Him. — 
 
 Lewis sd. that Soane had pulled down parts of the Bank, particularly 
 the Rotunda, which was designed by Sir Robt. Taylor, & has built in 
 the room of it one in a much worse taste. — Cockerell remarked upon it. 
 That Soane in this had displayed some understanding, as by pulling 
 down that which Sir Robert had built, it could no longer be a reproach 
 to Him by its contrast to all the bad taste which He, Soane, had manifested 
 in every other part. 
 
 August 23. — Lysons called, — dined with Sir J. Banks§ yesterday 
 
 * James Lewis was an architect. 
 t Famous architectural draughtsman. 
 X See Index, Vols. I. and II. 
 § See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
1807] Mr. Angerstein's Habits 193 
 
 at Spring-grove, near Hounslow. — Champaigne & Burgundy on the table 
 with other wines. — Sir Joseph never takes either flesh meat or wine. — 
 Lysons reckoned that He has an income of ^14,000. His Lincolnshire 
 estate ^8000. — His Derbyshire estate ;(3000 ; and Lady Bank's estate 
 in Kent ;£30°0- — She was Miss Higginson, coheiress with one of the 
 wives of Sir Edward Knatchbull.* — In the evening the company went 
 to inspect a quantity of bones found at a depth of twelve feet at or near 
 Hounslow — Mammoth Elephant — no human. 
 
 August 24. — Lawrence & Lysons called & with them & Fuseli I went 
 to Mr. Angerstein's at Woodlands [Blackheath] to dinner. — We dined 
 at 6 oClock. — We remained at Woodlands till near 11 oClock. — Six 
 Pines upon the table, — 2 Cut. Other fruit. — Claret, Madeira, Port, — 
 Hock, — White Port. — We saw Lawrences picture of 4 Children of Mr. & 
 Mrs. J. Angerstein which He began the week before last at Woodlands. — 
 Mr. Angerstein told me that the estate He has bought in Norfolk or Suffolk, 
 formerly belonging to Lord Mountrath,t contains 6000 acres of land, 
 — poor land which He is endeavouring to cultivate, but wd. not live there 
 if it were given to Him upon that condition, — He told me his habit 
 now is to ride every morning before breakfast from \ past 7 for an Hour 
 and a half to two hours, — breakfast at 10, — go to London to City 
 business abt. II and return a little after 5. — In October He annually 
 goes for 2 months or so, to Mr. Boucheresl^ in Lincolnshire, abt. 160 
 miles from London, & there He hunts almost daily, beginning with 2 or 
 3 hours, & increasing to 4 or 5 hours : but His Hunting is for air & 
 exercise & not to perform feats. — 
 
 [Effective strength of the British Army on the ist of June last, — 
 
 Cavalry, British 23,295. Foreign, 3020 — Total 26,315. 
 
 Infantry, British 129,263. Foreign 27298. — Total 156,561. 
 
 Mihtia, British 53,810. Foreign 24180. — Total 77j990- 
 
 Grand Total : 260,866. 
 
 * See Index, Vol. II. 
 
 t Charles Henry Coote, seventh Earl of Mountrath, died at Strawberry Hill, 
 Devonshire, on March 2, 1802, and the Earldom became extinct. Lferd Mountrath' s 
 dread of small-pox w^as so great that he had relays at five houses between his seat in 
 Norfolk and his home in Devon, in order to prevent the possibiHty of infection. He 
 would not sleep at an inn, and ordinarily led the life of a recluse. Rarely seeing 
 anyone, except on business, he was found to be on these occasions always most friendly, 
 polite in manner, and refined. 
 
 All his estates, real and personal, with trifling reservations In England, were be- 
 queathed in fee to Lord Bradford, his maternal relation. He left ;£6,ooo for charitable 
 purposes. 
 
 X See «o;e,|Vol. III., page 258. 
 
 VOL. IV. 13 
 
194 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 The public Revenue of England was, in 
 
 1 100. — ^100,000. 1500. — ^400,000. 
 
 1200. — 100,000. 1600. — 500,000. 
 
 1300. — 100,000. 1700. — 4,000,000. 
 
 1400. — 100,000. 1800. — 30,000,000. 
 
 — From small note-book.] 
 
CHAPTER LVII 
 
 1807 
 
 A Famous Banker and Actress 
 
 August 27.— Called on Fuseli. We talked of raising his Salary to 
 3^150 a year. — He dines at Mr, Coutts the Banker, every Sunday when 
 Mr. Coutts is in town. The party consists of Mr. & Mrs. Coutts, Lady 
 Guilford & Lady Burdett. Mr. Coutts keeps a very handsome table ; 
 & Champaigne, & Burgundy, are -put on the table with other wines to be 
 drank at pleasure. — Mr. Coutts is 74 years old. He has Shakespere by 
 heart ; & can repeat the following line to almost any that can be quoted. 
 
 Sir Francis Burdett dines with Home Tooke* every Sunday & some- 
 times sleeps there on that night for a month together. Excepting his 
 intercourse with Tooke He is almost always at Home, being very domestic. 
 — Bosvillef is one of the party at Tooke's. — 
 
 Mr. Coutts assured Fuseli He had nothing to do with Sir Francis 
 Burdetts last Election, having told Him that in other things He might 
 command Him, but in that matter He should take no part whatever. — 
 
 The paragraphs in Newspapers, insinuating that Mr. Coutts has an 
 Amour with Miss Mellon, the actress, are most unfounded. He being 
 a most domestic man & attached to His old wife.t: — Fuseli thinks His 
 spirits lately have not been so good as usual, which possibly may be 
 owing to these squibs in the papers. — 
 
 Great Banking Firm 
 
 Coutts Trotter§ I went to & waited some time. The Old Porter told 
 
 • See Index, Vols. I. and II. 
 
 t William Bosville (1745-1813), celebrated bon vivant. See the D.N.B. 
 
 X Thomas Coutts, banker, said to be " the richest man in London." His long intimacy 
 with Harriot Mellon was consummated, after his first wife's death, by his marriage to the 
 famous actress in 18 15, he then being eighty years old. Coutts died in 1822, and she was 
 married on June 16, 1827, to the ninth Duke of St. Albans. Scott, whom she visited at 
 Abbotsford, thought her a kind woman, " without either affectation or insolence in the 
 display of her wealth." She was handsome, generous, and vivacious to quick temper. 
 Born in London about 1777, the Duchess died in 1837. 
 
 § Coutts Trotter, of Berners Street, was married at Hendon on June 12, 1802, to 
 Margaret Gordon, youngest daughter of Lord Rockville, brother of the third Earl of 
 Aberdeen. He was created a Baronet in September, 1821, and died in 1837. 
 
 VOL. IV. 195 13* 
 
196 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 me that Mr. Coutts has now 26 Clerks ; including 3 Cashiers, — & 4 Clerks 
 who go out daily, — one to Somerset House, — 2 to the City, & one to the 
 West end of the town. — Formerly there was only one Cashier. — 
 
 Mr. Coutts has now 3 partners ; viz : Mr. Antrobus,* who is a native 
 of Congleton in Cheshire & was formerly a Stock Broker, & resided in 
 Bank Buildings. He has been with Mr. Coutts 27 years. — Coutts Trotter, 
 on His coming from Scotland, was first a Clerk in the Navy Pay Office, 
 under His Brother Alexander Trotter, Deputy Paymaster under Lord 
 Melville. — Coutts Trotter has been a partner with Mr. Coutts about 10 
 years. — The third partner is Mr. Majoribanks, brother to Captn. Majori- 
 banks the India Director. He has been with Mr. Coutts abt. a year 
 & a half & is abt. 28 or 30 years old. — 
 
 Fuseli remarked to day that Mr. & Mrs. Coutts visit the Marquiss 
 of Bute, their Son in Law, both at Petersham & Luton, but said FuseH, 
 " The Marquiss is a Satrap ; He never visits them.'' 
 
 Lord Rivers had two Sisters ; one of them married to Peter Beckford, 
 whose son, Horace Beckford, the nephew of His Lordship, will be His 
 Heir. Horace lost ^30,000 in gaming. Mr. Coutts, & Messrs. Farrer 
 & Co. Solicitors, advised His Lordship not to pay the debt, but an arrange- 
 ment has been made for that purpose. 
 
 Fuseli and the Princess 
 
 Lord Rivers has brought the Princess of Wales, twice or three times 
 to see Fuseli, and she has expressed an intention to purchase pictures 
 from Him when she has money. — He said Her manner is so familiar, too 
 familiar for Her station, that it is difficult not to be led by it into some 
 degree of forgetfulness of what is due to Her high rank & station. — 
 
 Daniell I dined with. Smirke told us that Opie's first wife, the 
 daugr. of Mr. Bunn, a Pawnbroker in the City, had 2 natural Children, 
 a Son & a daughter, before she was married to Opie. The Son was 
 apprenticed to a watch-maker, but being imprudent got into difficulties, 
 & being in a state of necessity stole a watch, which being proved against 
 Him He was sentenced to death and was seen in Newgate in that state 
 lately. He related to an acquaintance of Smirke His progress in life, 
 & said that from Newgate He had written to His Mother, having through 
 His Sister discovered who she was, and reed, an answer from Her ex- 
 pressing surprise at the discovery but conjuring Him never to apply to 
 Her again unless He meant to be the cause of Her death. — He did not 
 apply to Her again. The theft being lilis first known ofifence it is supposed 
 He will only be transported, — 
 
 * Edmund Antrobus, who was created a baronet on May 22, 18 15, and died unmarried 
 In 1826. Sir Cosmo Gordon Antrobus, fifth baronet, Is the present representative of the 
 family. 
 
1807] 
 
 Unrecorded Sale 197 
 
 Fonthill Sale, which concluded on Monday last the 24th inst.* 
 being the 7th day of Sale. — The amount of the Sale must exceed ^20,000. 
 
 Turner's 5th plague of Egypt, I55 gs- 
 
 Two pictures by Vernet, bought Elwin 55° gs- 
 
 The Poussins by Mr. Jeffries 370 „ 
 
 The Raphaels — Welsh Porter 100 gs. 
 
 The Gipsy, by Romney — Mr. Kemneys 200 „ 
 
 The Loggia of the Vatican, Mr. Paul 661 „ 
 
 The Cabinets with Hamilton's paintings purchased 
 
 by Mr. Oakley. 
 
 The China produced enormous prices. 
 
 The mirrors produced near £5000. Three of them sold for 400 gs. 
 each. — The modern pictures sold high. 
 
 De Cort's view of Salisbury Cathedral 80 gs. 
 
 „ view of Exeter Cathedral to Je^ery .... 20 „ 
 
 Cannaletto, view of Venice — to Soane, 150 gs. 
 
 August 29. — Lysons I dined with. — Ralph Pricef sd. that all the 
 wool grown in Spain does not exceed annually 50,000 Bags, while that 
 in England amounts to 600,000 Bags. — The Spanish wool makes cloth of 
 a very fine quality, — but the English is the best for Cloth which is close 
 & warm, — not porous, — but fitted for the Northern Countries. — 
 
 September 3. — Caleb Whiteforde was at the Gallery. He was at 
 Fonthill with Nollekens during two days of the Sale. — By taking down 
 the House & selling the furniture Mr. Beckford will be relieved from an 
 annual expense of ^^3000 to keep it up & probably receive ^25,000 for 
 what is sold. — 
 
 * The above sale is not recorded in Redford, Graves, or any such compilation known 
 to us. The following account is taken from a newspaper of the period : 
 
 " This attractive auction closed with the pictures and porcelain, after lasting seven 
 days, attended throughout by all the rank and opulence of the adjacent counties. The sale 
 was conducted in the Grand Hall, and displayed every day an assemblage of the most 
 beautiful females, each seeming to vie with the other in the display of their taste in dress. 
 The crowd was great, and such was the scarcity of beds that cottagers let their hovels for 
 one and two guineas a night. The Park and Lake offorded every day an enchanting scene. 
 The company in groupes bestrewed themselves over the verdant hills of the former, to 
 enjoy their cold collations, and the barges crowded to the shady retreats of the banks of 
 the lake, the quarry and the woods. The auction was conducted in a very excellent and 
 quiet manner. Competition was general, and much spirit and pleasing opposition occurred 
 to excite the risible faculties, which the auctioneer did not lose the opportunity to improve. 
 
 " This distinguished edifice is now dismantled of all its interior elegance, and is to 
 experience demolition next month, being advertised for sale in detail, and is supposed not 
 likely to produce more than ^20,000, though erected by the late Alderman Beckford at 
 an expense exceeding ^130,000." 
 
 t Son of Sir Charles Price, a former Lord Mayor. 
 
CHAPTER LVIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Protection in Heaven 
 
 September 5. — Called on C. Offley. — He told me Mr. Simeon had 
 expressed His reliance not on the strength of our Fleets or our Armies, 
 but that the people of this country, in these revolutionary times, would 
 find their protection in the favor of Heaven from their posessing more 
 religious & moral worth than in this sinful age is to be found elsewhere. — 
 
 September 7. — [Wedderburne Webster, a young Officer, for a wager 
 of 1000 guineas, this morning rode His Horse Buzzard from Ipswich to 
 London, 70 miles in four hours & 50 minutes. He was to perform it in 
 5 Hours. — Small note-book.] 
 
 Pitt 
 
 September 8. — Lawrence I dined with. He mentioned more par- 
 ticulars given of Mr. Pitt by Lord Mulgrave. — Mr, Pitt had the greatest 
 veneration for His father, & seemed to have adopted many of his opinions. 
 — He thought, with Lord Chatham, very highly of Lord Bolingbroke 
 as a writer & as an Orator. — Mr, Pitt thought Lord Bolingbroke superior 
 to Burke — that He had a more pure taste. — Mr, Pitt sometimes repeated 
 a Parody of Dryden's Alexander's Jeast, written by Lord Chatham the 
 subject of it George 2nd. ridiculed, — but He wd. not give a copy of them. 
 — Mr. Pitt was a warm admirer of Milton, in this difering jrom Mr. Fox 
 who Lawrence has heard give a preference to Tasso & Ariosto, — & to 
 Spencer our Poet. — The subject of Milton's poem relating to religion might 
 cause Fox to feel prejudiced against it. — 
 
 September 15. — I sat to Lawrence the whole day, He having drawn 
 the outline began to paint & laid the picture in. I dined with him. — 
 
 Teeth and Eyes 
 
 September 17. — Went to Elms [the dentist in Leicester Square] who 
 set in a new front tooth. — I paid Him two guineas & J for what He 
 had done to my teeth & for powder & liquid. 
 
 September 19. — At |- past one called upon Mr. Watkin Phipps, 
 Oculist, in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, who examined my eyes, & 
 
 198 
 
1807] Teeth and Eyes 199 
 
 told me that my complaint was seated in the Eye lids, which from having 
 been over exerted had lost their tone, & did not properly supply moisture 
 for their functions. He recommended to me to apply a large Sponge, 
 steeped in Water as Hot as I could hear it to my Eye lids for the space 
 of 6 or 7 minutes 4 or 5 times a day, & to call upon Him again on Monday 
 next, when He shd. better be able to determine what to do. — I dined 
 alone. — His hours for receiving patients from half past one till 4 every 
 day except Sundays. — I gave Him one guinea. — 
 
 September 21. — Passed the day with Lawrence sitting for my picture 
 6 Hours. — 2nd sitting iox 'painting. — Watkin Phipps I went to who applied 
 a sharp stimulus to my eyes. — Directed an ointment to be touched to 
 the edges & corners of my eyes for a minute the last thing at night, — 
 and then to be wiped off with a soft Handkerchief. — The bathing the 
 eyes to be continued as often as I please. — He sd. He shd. soon put my 
 eyes to right. — 
 
 September 22 . — Sat to Lawrence to-day & he finished my portrait 
 & the picture of a Three quarter size. — I have sat once for the outline & 
 Three days for the painting, — abt. 6 Hours each day. — Lawrence decided 
 it to be His best picture — & that it shamed his other pictures. 
 
 Taylor and Lawrence dined with me. — Taylor mentioned that Pope 
 [the Actor], who has married Mrs. Wheatley, yesterday expressed himself 
 warmly of my kindness to Mrs. Wheatley under Her difficulties. 
 
 Not Calm. Enough 
 
 September 24. — Lawrence came in the even'g. — He sd. He should 
 paint over my portrait again, it wanted 2i finer pulp oj colour, — a mellower 
 Hue, — & the expression is not what it shd. be, not calm enough. — 
 
 September 25. — Watkin Phipps I went to. — He gave me a caustic 
 waxy preparation inserted in a quill & shewed me how it was to be applied. 
 The size of a pin's Head to be taken on the point of a small camel Hair 
 pencil, & dissolved by passing it through the flame of a candle or holding 
 it to the heat of a Candle or a fire, & then drawing the point of the pencil 
 upon the lid of the eye, between the eye lash y the eye, of the upper & lower 
 lid of each eye. — The eye not to be touched, though no injury wd. ensue 
 jrom it. — He directed me to continue the use of the warm water Bath, & 
 the eye water, but recommended the Caustic application to be applied 
 every morning rather than at night, as it would be better seen how to do it. 
 
 Attack upon Denmark 
 
 [This day a Declaration was published by Ministers justifying the 
 attack upon Denmark. — The following passage appears in it — " His 
 Majesty has reed, the most positive information of the determination of 
 the present Ruler of France to occupy, with a military Force, the territory 
 of Holstein, for the purpose of excluding Great Britain from all Her 
 accustomed Channels of communication with the Continent ; of inducing 
 
200 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 or compelling the Court of Denmark to close the passage of the Sound, 
 against the British commerce & navigation and of availing himself of the 
 aid of the Danish Marine for the invasion of Great Britain and of Ireland." 
 
 Organ Playing Condemned 
 
 September 27 — In Bells Messenger it was stated, — " That a Grand 
 Organ, lately erected in St. Andrews Church, Glasgow, was opened on 
 Sunday the 6th inst. and accompanied the Psalmody during Divine 
 Service, with the unanimous consent of the whole congregation. This 
 is the first instance of instrumental music being admitted in the worship 
 of God in any Presbyterian Church in Scotland." 
 
 On October 14th the Presbytery of Glasgow, who have had meetings 
 on the subject of introducing an Organ into one of the Churches of Glasgow 
 came to the following resolution, viz. : " That the Presbytery are of 
 opinion that the use of Organs in the public worship of God is contrary 
 to the Law of the Land, and to the Law and Constitution of the Established 
 Church, & therefore prohibit it in all the Churches & Chapels within 
 their bounds ; and with respect to the Conduct of the Clergyman in this 
 matter, they are satisfied with his judicial declaration, that He would 
 not again use the organ in the public worship of God, without the 
 authority of the Church." — From small note-book.] 
 
CHAPTER LIX 
 
 1807 
 
 Public Institutions 
 
 [September 28. — Public Institutions. — In the Bills of Mortality there 
 are 502 places of public worship. Three thousand and fifty seminaries 
 for education including 237 parish Charity Schools, Eight Societies for 
 the express purpose of promoting good morals. — Ten Societies for pro- 
 moting the learned, the useful, and the polite arts. One hundred & 
 twenty-two asylums and Almshouses for the helpless & indigent, in- 
 cluding the Philanthropic Society. — Thirty Hospitals & Dispensatories 
 for Sick & Lame, and for delivering poor pregnant women. Seven 
 hundred & four friendly or benefit Societies, and institutions for charitable 
 & humane purposes — which several institutions are supported at the 
 almost incredible Sum of ,^750,000 per annum. — From small note-book.] 
 
 England Invincible by Sea 
 
 October 2. — Landseer called, — on the subject of obtaining the rank 
 of Academicians for 3 or 4 Engravers & also to have a Professorship 
 established in the Royal Academy for Lectures on the subject of En- 
 graving. — Paul Sandby is friendly to the proposal. — Cosway also seems 
 to be so & had spoken to Wyatt upon the subject, who said the proposal 
 should first be made known to the King. — Landseer had delivered to me 
 a printed address and letter, and intended to send one to each Acade- 
 mician for His consideration. — 
 
 Lawrence came in the even'g, having dined at KembWs who told Him 
 that the late Lord Nelson had said to Him, " that in the present circum- 
 stances of the world. Great Britain would never have a secure & honorable 
 peace till she had been at War with all the powers under Buonaparte's 
 controul, and made Him ^ them j eel the invincible power oj this country 
 by Sear 
 
 A Good Landlord 
 
 October 5. — Revd. Mr. Martin Junr. called [at the Rev. H. 
 
 Hamond's,* Weasenham, in Norfolk]. — He informed me that the decline 
 
 • See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 201 
 
202 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 of the late Marquiss Townshend was very gradual ; — that on the day 
 [September 14] before He died He was at Fakenham, 3 miles from 
 Rainham, in His carriage. — His death was not expected when it 
 happened. — He was urged to take a glass of wine which he rather 
 declined, but on being told that the Gentlemen who were below stairs 
 at dinner were drinking the King's Health, He took the glass, & said 
 " Here's the King's Health, God bless Him, it is the last time I shall drink 
 it^^ and soon after, in the course of that evening He expired without it 
 being observed till He was perceived to be dead. — He was a good Land- 
 lord to His tenants, and good to the poor ; as was also the Marchioness. 
 — Mr. Blake, a Solicitor from London, came down on business for the 
 present Marquiss, & observed that He never before saw so many melan- 
 choly faces, — as in that House & neighbourod. — The present Marquis 
 since the death of His Father has jranked His Letters Leicester, & 
 Townshend. He is believed to Have a great objection to the title of 
 Townshend, being very proud of His Barony of De Ferrars & His Earldom 
 oj Leicester. He has had all His daughters christened with the addition of 
 Ferrars to that of Anne or Mary or whatever they might be first named. 
 [Curley, the Brighton Shepherd, run i mile in a few seconds less than 
 4 minutes. He was to perform the mile at 4 starts in the space of three 
 hours. — He went the first quarter in a minute, and after taking some 
 rest. He performed alternately the other quarters in less than 3 minutes. 
 He reserved a few seconds for the last quarter of a mile, having done the 
 third with astonishing speed. It took place this day on Clapham Com- 
 mon for a wager of 20 guineas. — From small note-book.] 
 
 A Norfolk Family 
 
 October 10. — ^At 2 oClock I called on the Hon : & Revd. Wm. 
 Wodehouse at Little Massingham with H. Hamond & saw Him & Mrs. 
 Wodehouse & Miss Hussey. — Mr. Wodehouse sd. it is reported that the 
 measure of seizing the Danish Ships was suggested by the Marquiss of 
 Wellesley. — Mr. Wodehouse is between 25 or 6 years old, Mrs. Wode- 
 house 29. — They were married in February last. She had ^10,000 made 
 up by a legacy from the late Lady Walpole, Her grandmother, & from 
 others. — He has 2 small livings, & their income is made up [to] ;^9oo a 
 year. — They have a carriage, but do not heep Horses. — Lord Wodehouse 
 has 3 other Sons, — viz : — Hon : Coll. Wodehouse of West Norfolk 
 Militia, — Hon : Captn. Wodehouse of the Navy, — Hon : The Revd. 
 Armine Wodehouse, Rector of Litcham, ;^6oo a year. — We returned home 
 & dined witht. company. — 
 
 Barclay of Urie 
 
 October 12. — [A Pedestrian race took place this day at Newmarket, 
 for 600 guineas. Wood, a Lancashire man, against Captain Barclay of 
 Urie. The wager was which should go farthest in 24 Hours, Wood giving 
 Captn. Barclay 20 miles. They started at 8 oClock in the morning. 
 
1807] Barclay of Urie 203 
 
 Wood having gone 40 miles in 6 Hours and 20 minutes resigned the Con- 
 test. — The following is an accurate acct. of the progress made by each. — 
 
 Wood. 
 Hours. Miles. 
 
 Barclay. 
 Hours. Miles. 
 
 I. 8. 
 
 I. 6. 
 
 2. 7. 
 
 2. 6. 
 
 3. 7. 
 
 4. 61 
 
 5. 6. 
 
 6. 5i 
 
 3. 6. 
 
 4. 6. 
 
 5. 6. 
 
 6. 6. 
 
 Captn. Barclay stopped, & took some warm fowl after having gone 18 
 miles, & He stopped again after having gone the other 18 miles, & it was 
 then while He was taking other refreshments that Wood resigned the 
 contest. — The Captn., however, run four miles to decide some bets, and 
 He did 40 miles in 6 Hours & 20 minutes.* — From small note-book.] 
 
 October 13. — This morning I began to draw for the first time that 
 I have attempted it since my eyes were affected, — & was able to apply 
 near 2 Hours. — 
 
 How to Live Long 
 
 October 15. — The Revd. Mr. Spurgeon came after dinner. He told 
 me His father, Mr. Spurgeon of Yarmouth [an attorney], is still living 
 and in His 90th. year, but within the last year has nearly totally lost His 
 mental faculties, having no consciousness of any person or thing but for 
 a very short time together. Knows His Son for a few moments & then 
 wanders off to something that happened 30 years ago. — He is confined 
 to His room & cannot walk witht. placing his hand on a table or Chair, 
 His appetite continues. Such is the decay of old age. — His wife is also 
 living in the 83rd. year of Her age. — Mr. Spurgeon's mode of life has been 
 as follows, but not according to any rule laid down by Himself. — 
 
 the year round. 
 His Hour of rising has been | past 8. 
 
 9- 
 3 
 6 
 
 9 
 II 
 
 From breakfast till dinner time He has been occupied professionally. 
 
 * Robert Barclay Allardice^, commonly known as Captain Barclay, the pedestrian. His 
 most extraordinary feat was walking at Newmarket one mile in each of 1,000 successive 
 hours, which performance lasted from June i to July 12, 1809. Yet he was so little ex- 
 hausted that he joined the Walcheren Expedition on July 17 as aide-de-camp to the Mar 
 quess of Huntly. 
 
 Three days before his death from paralysis on May 8, 1854, he was injured by a kick 
 from a horse. 
 
 Breakfast 
 
 at 
 
 Dinner 
 
 at 
 
 Tea 
 
 at 
 
 light supper. 
 To bed. 
 
 at 
 at 
 
204 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 — From tea till Supper time He always reserved to Himself & passed that 
 time in his Study in reading & chiefly History ; and if not incommoded 
 wd. again have His Book after Supper. — Till He was 60 years of age He 
 only drank fVhite Wine as He found that Port Wine prevented digestion. 
 At 60 He was advised to drink Port wine, but He did not long continue 
 to do so. — His usual quantity was 2 glasses of White wine, which by 
 filling only Half glasses He made into 4. — He was always indifferent as 
 to what food was provided, and did not eat much. — His Health continues, 
 but His mental faculties are gone within a year or two. — His memory 
 had been remarkably good. — He was of the Tory interest in Norfolk. — 
 
 Mr. Spurgeon occasionally visits Lord Cholmondely at Houghton. 
 His Lordship neither Hunts, Shoots, or rides. His outdoor amusement 
 is to walk out with His Steward & mark a tree to be cut down, & He 
 also attends to the planting of young trees. — He seems to be very fond of 
 the conversation oj joreigners. — The Duke of Clarence is at Houghton, 
 at present & stays till Sunday next. He went with Lord Cholmondely 
 to Lynn on Tuesday last ; and was reed, at the Mayor's, Mr. Scarlet 
 Everard's, & afterwards, at the Town Hall, was complimented with the 
 Freedom of Lynn. — H. Hamond was told by the Post Master at Rougham, 
 that the Duke writes to Mrs. "Jordan every day. 
 
 Roughed into Manhood 
 
 Lord Malpas, son of Lord Cholmondely,* a boy of 15, seems to be a 
 lad of little promise, & to be bred up in a trifling way, Spurgeon sd. at 
 His Mother's apron string. — He goes to Eaton School, but there has a 
 private Tutor, and is not likely to be roughed into manhood by intercourse 
 with other Boys. 
 
 Lord Cholmondely was desirous to sell Houghton Hall and the estate 
 but Lord Chancellor Eldon set His face against any attempt to annul 
 the entail. — The House is in a dirty state, — no part being properly 
 clean except the Kitchen. — 
 
 • George Horatio Cholmondeley was born in Paris on January 16, 1792, and was styled 
 Lord Malpas. In 18 17-21 he sat as Tory M.P. for Castle Rising under the name of Earl 
 of Rocksavage, and on January 5, 1822, he was called to the House of Lords in his father's 
 Barony as Lord Newburgh. He was Joint Great Chamberlain of England, and from 1858 
 Constable of Castle Rising until his death on May 8, 1870. He succeeded his father in 
 1827 as second Marquess of Cholmondeley. 
 
 The first Lord Tollemache said : " If all EngUshmen were like Lord Cholmondeley 
 {i.e.., the Lord Malpas referred to above) they would be religious and delightful men, but 
 the French would soon come and take London." 
 
CHAPTER LX 
 
 1807 
 
 The Duke of Clarence 
 
 October 18. — H. Hamond returned from Lynn to breakfast. — The 
 Duke of Clarence reed, the freedom of that town on Tuesday last & took 
 the usual oaths. — He afterwards partook of a Collation at Mr. Scarlet 
 Everard's, the Mayor, where a Chair was placed for Him at the Head 
 of the table, according to Etiquette, but on his sitting down He sd. 
 He would not part man & wife & He desired Mr. & Mrs. Everard to sit 
 near Him. 
 
 October 19. — Tom Bagge* told me He dined with the gentlemen 
 from Lynn at Lord Cholmondely's at Houghton on Friday last. Abt. 
 40 sat down to dinner in the Hall, abt. 6 oClock. The Duke of Clarence 
 sat at the middle of the table with His back to the Fire and took the 
 lead in everything. He proposed Six bumper toasts & prefaced each by 
 a speech. He said the Whigs had brought His family to the Throne 
 of this Country & He would always give His support to them. He 
 spoke of Sir Robt. Walpole as being instrumental in effecting that object. 
 — He drank, Mr. Bagge supposed, 2 Bottles of wine, — & kept the Company 
 at the table till 9 oClock, a thing very unusual at Houghton as Lord 
 Cholmondely generally goes to the Ladies in half an Hour after they 
 retire. He attended to the glasses of several to see that they filled 
 bumpers. — He drank Lord Spencers Health & prefaced it by recapitulating 
 the names of the great Naval Officers employed by Him while first Lord 
 of the Admiralty, viz. : — Lord St. Vincent, — Lord Nelson &c. — Lord 
 Spencer sat next to the Duke. — Mr. Coke was there. 
 
 * Thomas Philip Bagge (1771-1827), of Stradsett Hall and Islington Hall, Norfolk, 
 J.P., D.L., was married on April 28, 1808, to Grace, youngest daughter of Richard Salus- 
 bury, of Castle Park, Lancaster. He was succeeded by his second son, William (the eldest 
 died in 1816), M.P. for West Norfolk, who was created a Baronet on April 13, 1867. Tom 
 Bagge's father lost his second wife on August 15, 1807, and the shock affected him so much 
 that he died four days after her. 
 
 The present Baronet is Sir Alfred WilHam Francis Bagge, B.A., LL.B., barrister, and 
 captain of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. The family dates back to the fifteenth 
 century, 
 
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206 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 October 24. — In the evening of this day I saw the Comet with its 
 tail, at 9 oClock very distinctly with the naked eye. 
 
 October 30. — ^At noon I left Massingham & H. Hamond drove me 
 to Wesenham where I waited with Him till | past 2 for the Fakenham 
 Coach which had been delayed an Hour & | waiting for game from Mr. 
 Coke's at Holkham, the consequence was we did not get to Cambridge 
 till I past 2 the next morning. — I slept at the Bull Inn. 
 
 Jackson the Bruiser 
 
 October 31 . — At 8 oClock left Cambridge in the Telegraph Coach 
 & got to Fetter Lane \ before 4 oClock. — Jackson the bruiser, was an 
 outside Passenger. He had been to Cambridge to instruct the Marquiss 
 of Tavistock & other young men of rank, who take Him much into 
 their association. He has a room in the Albany building, Piccadilly 
 where He gives lessons in Pugilism, & is supposed to make 4 or ^^500 a 
 year. 
 
 A Glutton 
 
 November 1 . — Oliver called to speak abt. the Election of Associates. 
 — He has been much employed by the Duke of Norfolk, & much with 
 Him at Arundel Castle. — When the Duke has only a few friends who are 
 domesticated with Him, He does not drink more, rather less than a pint 
 of wine a day : but perhaps once in a week or so. He had a party to dinner 
 & will then drink 2 or 3 bottles. He has an uncommonly great appetite, 
 but makes it a rule never to eat anything between breakfast & dinner. 
 He says no man ought to be called a Glutton but He who eats more than 
 He can digest. — He is fond of Discussion over His wine as subjects may 
 arise. — 
 
 November 2. — Thomson's I dined at, Owen there who has lately 
 been at Sir Willm. Heathcote's in Hampshire, 3 miles from Sir N. 
 Holland's* House, — Sir Nathl. is said to posess ,^24,000 a year, but does 
 not expend more than £5000 a year. He lives very handsomely however, 
 both in His House & equipage ; Has a man Cook, & when He gives dinners 
 they are sumptuous. — He is extremely fond of a young girl, the daughter 
 of His Butler, and just emerging from Childhood. She sits at His table 
 while Her father waits at it. . . . and is taken by them [Sir Nathaniel 
 & Lady Holland] when they pay visits, which causes some difficulty in 
 others to know how to receive her. He makes sketches & occasionally 
 paints, but complained of His eyes when speaking to Owen. — Though 
 He is considered a singular man in His manner, He is on the whole very 
 well liked by the neighbouring gentry. — 
 
 The Navy 
 [On Saturday Oct. 31, the Gazette contained Admiral Gamblers acct. 
 of the evacuation of Copenhagen & the Island of Zealand also Lord 
 Cathcarts acct. 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I. and II. 
 
1807] The Navy 207 
 
 Present state of the British Navy — 
 
 100 Ships of the Hne at Sea. 
 
 II from 50 to 44. 
 
 14 frigates. 
 175 Sloops &c. 
 175 Gun brigs & smaller vessels. 
 
 Adding to which those in Commission & under repair, including the 
 guard ships give 146 of the line, — 21 from 50 to 44 ; 180 frigates ; — 219 
 Sloops &c ; — 220 gun brigs &c,, making a total of 790 Ships of war. 
 
 44 Sail of the line are building. 
 
 45 in ordinary — making together 235 sail of the line, independent of 
 
 the Danish fleet. — From small note-book.] 
 
CHAPTER LXI 
 
 1807 
 
 Louis XVIII. in England 
 
 [November 2. — Louis i8th. under the title of Compte de Lille, ac- 
 companied by the Duke De Berri, and suite landed at Yarmouth on 
 Monday 2nd. inst., & [after breakfast with Admiral Douglas] set out 
 for Gosfield Park, Essex. He was attended by Monsieurs, the Prince 
 of Conde, Due de Bourbon, — Due d'Angouleme, Due de Grammont & 
 suite. On their arrival [on the 3rd] at the 3 Cups, Colchester, a great con- 
 course of people had assembled at the Inn to see the illustrious strangers. 
 The people were of all ranks. The elegant large new room being thrown 
 open for the reception of the Royal Guests, it was permitted that 
 their wishes might be fully gratified, & they were admitted into the 
 room without the least restraint. The Royal Stranger expressed much 
 satisfaction at the good wishes evidently expressed in the countenances 
 of those whom curiosity had excited to appear in his presence. — From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 Sir Joshua's Sister 
 
 November 4. — Marchi called to inform me of the death of Mrs- 
 Reynolds, sister to Sir Joshua Reynolds, on Sunday last, aged 73. — 
 She came to London to reside with Her Brother in 1753.* 
 
 * Frances Reynolds, Sir Joshua's elder sister, kept house for him when he, on Lord 
 Edgcumbe's advice, took rooms in St. Martin's Lane, then a neighbourhood much fre- 
 quented by artists. But she was not a success in that capacity. Frances was evidently of 
 a highly nervous disposition, little things worried her, and her brother's orderliness and 
 exactitude were, doubtless, the cause of great trouble between the two. Unrequited love 
 is said to have added to her torments, as certainly did her failure as a painter of miniatures 
 and copies of Sir Joshua's pictures, which made him cry and other people laugh. In the 
 end the ill-matched pair separated, she going back, with a pension, to Devonshire, where 
 she passed most of her time in painting. She was in Paris in 1768, and later lodged with 
 Dr. Hoole, translator of Ariosto. Tom Taylor's Life of Reynolds gives sadly interesting 
 extracts from her own notes and drafts of letters never posted, and in Farington's Diary 
 (Vol. L, page 262) we read : 
 
 " Miss Reynolds, speaking of Him [Sir Joshua] since His death, said she saw nothing 
 in him as a man but a gloomy tyrant.- — So far resentment in all probability from not having 
 been more particularly noticed in his will (He left Her only ;^ioo a year) influenced Her 
 mind. — Malone joined me in saying that during the time Miss R. lived vdth Sir Joshua, 
 she rendered him uncomfortable by Her capricious temper, which obliged him to cause 
 Her to fax on another residence." 
 
 208 
 
1807] Lawrence's Palette 209 
 
 [His Majesty has recently bestowed a Pension of ^2000 a year upon 
 the Comptesse of Albany, widow of Charles Stuart, commonly called 
 the Pretender. She is a Princess [Louise] of the House of Stolberg 
 & lived at Brussells when she was married. — From small note-book.] 
 
 November 5. — Lawrence called, preparing to go to day to Sir Francis 
 Baring's at Stratton in Hants to paint portraits in one picture, of Mr. 
 Baring, & Mrs. Wall, eldest Son & daugr. of Sir Francis & a Son of each 
 of them ; — also of the late Lady Baring from a miniature. — 
 
 Lawrence told me that to make His colours dry, He has a little of 
 the Essence of Asphaltum mixed with the following colours when His 
 pallet is set, viz : Black, — yellow Lake, Lake, Brown Pink, and [ ] 
 
 to which He also adds a little Sacrum Saturnae to avoid using too much 
 of the asphaltum. — When thus prepared He uses no other vehicle but 
 Linseed Oil. — He never uses drying oil or Macgilp which latter He thinks 
 changes & makes colours horny. Lawrence buys [the Esssence of 
 Asphaltum] from the Shop where Gainsborough purchased it, — Strahan 
 & Strong — Long-acre. 
 
 [On Tuesday Oct. 27, at a meeting of the Governors of the Hospital 
 at Exeter, the Revd. Jonas Dennis stated to the honor of the County, 
 that the first discovery of vaccination was made abt. 40 years ago, by a 
 Mr. Bragge of Axminster, who ascertained that the Cow Pox was not 
 only a preventative of the Small Pox but also that it might be communi- 
 cated by means of innoculation. Dr. Jenner* however had the merit 
 & been the means of the happy instrument of extending its practise, 
 but it proved that vaccination was not so novel as some had imagined, — 
 From small note-book.] 
 
 Claude and Dutch Painters 
 
 November 6. — I had company to dinner. — A contest of opinion 
 took place on the powers of Claude Lorrain compared with the Dutch 
 Masters. — Dance said the works of Claude had such perfection as was 
 seen in the Greek Sculpture, & that the Dutch Masters in attempting 
 to represent the hues & effects seen in nature were inferior to Him a 
 thousand degrees. — Daniell supported by Smirke contended that Claude 
 cd. not draw, could not make such forms of Clouds, as are seen in the 
 best Dutch masters, & that Claude was limited to one kind of Sky, and 
 could not have done what the Dutch masters executed. He instanced 
 a picture of De Vleiger which He had lately seen. — 
 
 [Mr. Watson, a manufacturer at Preston in Lancashire, failed lately 
 for between 4 and ^^500,000. — His own acct. stated defficiencies to up- 
 wards of ^300,000. — Two Mr. Barton's of Manchester, married His 
 daughters, & by false representations He has taken them in for near 
 ,^50,000. For this Sum they have in part security, but their loss will 
 be heavy. — Thornton's (Russia House) ^50,000. Lord Derby 6 or 
 ^7000 advanced to pay Election Bills. — ^^300,000 in Bills are running 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., 11. and III. 
 VOL. IV. 14 
 
210 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 & will produce much private distress & public inconvenience. — From 
 small note-book.] 
 
 Lord Winchelsea 
 
 November 7. — Woodforde called. — He was in September last 3 weeks 
 at Burleigh on the Hill in Rutlandshire, Lord Winchelsea's* seat, where 
 He began to paint a portrait of His Lordship a whole length. It is a 
 very large & noble House & was built abt. 100 years ago. Lord Win- 
 chelsea does not reside there much as it wd. be too expensive for His 
 circumstances, but lives in a high state when He is there. — He is a 
 Bachelor, abt. 56 years of age, is 6 feet i Inch high, & very agreeable 
 in His manners. Many people of distinction, gentlemen & Ladies came, 
 & the Hon. Miss Finch, His Lordships sister, was there. — Dinner was 
 usually served at 7 oClock, & took up abt. 2 hours before the gentlemen 
 went to Coffee with the Ladies. His Lordship drank His wine chiefly 
 during dinner, taking a glass with most or all of the gentlemen, & then 
 also with the Ladies. — After the Ladies retired the gentlemen soon 
 adjourned to them. — His Lordship visits a Lady, Mrs. Thomson, who 
 resides at Brompton at a beautiful Villa built by the late Earl of Bute, 
 & designed by Adam, but always returns at night to his House in South 
 St. He has a Son, 13 years of age, who is called Finch, or Thomson, 
 & was with Him at Burleigh. — Lord Winchelsea is at present Groom of 
 the State, 4000 a yr. — 
 
 * The ninth Earl and fourth Earl of Nottingham. He was unmarried (1752-1826). 
 
CHAPTER LXII 
 
 1807 
 
 War against Denmark 
 
 November 7. — [The Gazette contained a Declaration of War against 
 Denmark, in consequence of the King of Denmark having declared 
 War against England. 
 
 The Gazette contained an order for general reprisals against the Ships, 
 goods & inhabitants of the territories & ports of Tuscany, the Kingdom 
 of Naples, the port & territory of Ragusa, and the Islands lately composing 
 the Republic of the Swiss Islands, in Consequence of their antient govern- 
 ments having been subverted by France, & new governments under Her 
 influence are aiding in her hostile designs against the property, commerce 
 & navigation of his Majestys subjects, 
 
 Portuguese Proclamation, dated Oct. 20, 1807 — published in the 
 papers to-day, — Extract : — " It being impossible to preserve any longer 
 neutrality during the present war, I have judged it proper to accede to 
 the Cause of the Continent by uniting myself to His Majesty the Emperor 
 of the French & King of Italy, and to his Catholic Majesty, in order to 
 contribute as far as may be in my power, to the acceleration of a mari- 
 time peace ; wherefore I am pleased to order, that the Ports of this 
 Kingdom shall be immediately shut against the entry of Ships of War and 
 Merchant vessels belonging to Great Britain."— by order of the Prince 
 Regent. Lisbon Octr. 22, 1807. — From small note-book.] 
 
 Beauties of Bath 
 
 November 10. — Mr. West having returned from Bath with Mrs. 
 West on Saturday last called on me this afternoon. He sd. Mrs. West 
 suffered from bathing, but was benefitted by drinking the Bath waters, 
 & on the whole was better, & he thought wd. weather the winter. — I 
 was struck with the strong marks of age in his countenance, but He ap- 
 peared to be well. — He spoke of Bath & its vicinity with rapture as 
 abounding with picturesque Scenery. — Take Bath & 20 miles round 
 it He sd. & there is not in the world anything superior to it. Rocks 
 of the finest forms for a painter that He had ever seen, — large, square 
 forms. — Quarry'' s worked out, now most picturesque & romantic. — Wyck, 
 VOL. IV. 211 14* 
 
212 The Farington Diary [i807 
 
 & Hampton rocks, Chedder Cliffs,— most picturesque,— distances the 
 most beautiful,— roads with occasional pools & streams of water falling 
 from the Hills & Cattle & figures such as Berghem never saw. — Take 
 7tvoli away & Rome & its vicinity of 20 miles not to be compared with 
 Bath & its neighboroud. — 
 
 Artists at Bath 
 
 Artists much encouraged at Bath. The two Barkers* very ingenious, 
 the eldest indeed lives upon the reputation of His Woodman but His 
 portfolio is stored with subjects of Peasantry &c, landscape admirably 
 drawn with Chalk on stained paper, for truth of expression excellent, 
 unrivalled.— -West told Him if He wd. put them on Canvass they wd. 
 be captivating, Benjamin, the younger Brother, is the better Landscape 
 painter. — Shaw, a landscape painter,! told West that He had Com- 
 missions which wd. occupy Him more than a year and a half. — has 40 
 guineas for a picture abt. Kitcat size — takes in orders for pictures & 
 finishes His Commissions in rotation. Employed by gentlemen of the 
 West of England to decorate their Houses viz : for Chimney pieces, — 
 over doors &c. If time to spare His pictures wd. be taken by 2 picture 
 dealers at Bristol to sell again. — 
 
 Exhibition to be opened at Bath the next Spring, — upon a plan for 
 a Society which West recommended shd. be formed as much as cd. 
 be on that of the Royal Academy. — Drawing masters at Bath make 
 fortunes. — 
 
 West had the carriage at Bath in which He & Mrs. West & Mrs. 
 Banks went from London, & He used it in all His excursions, hiring 2 or 4 
 Horses as the distance might require. — He employed His mornings in 
 making sketches, & made a design of " the discovery of the good qualities 
 of the Bath waters." — Drawings do not sell at Bath, as He was told by 
 the Artists ; oil paintings are the works in request. — 
 
 * Richard Barker, of Bath, and his younger brother, Benjamin. 
 
 t Joshua Shaw was a native of Bellingborough, in Lincolnshire, in 1776. Left an 
 orphan at an early age, he was apprenticed to a provincial sign painter, and after his time 
 expired he became a painter of landscapes and flower pieces. He was also employed, both 
 in England and America, to make copies of pictures by men such as Berchem and Gains- 
 borough, which were sold as originals. According to Bryan the date of his death is unknown. 
 He contributed irregularly to the Royal Academy from 1802 until 18 14, and lived in Wells 
 Road, Bath, up to 18 10. 
 
 [Mr. Basil S. Long, The Nook, North Road, Berkhamsted, writes : You refer in a 
 footnote to Farington's Diary to Joshua Shaw, the artist. The follovnng facts, com- 
 municated a few years ago by the late Mr. Charles Henry Hart, of Philadelphia, are not 
 generally known in this country. Shaw went to America in 18 17 on the same ship that 
 carried West's picture of " Christ Healing the Sick." He first exhibited at the Pennsyl- 
 vania Academy of the Fine Arts in 18 19. He taught drawing for many years and published 
 "A New and Original Drawing Book," oblong folio, at Philadelphia in 1819. He sub- 
 sequently became an inventor, and his improvements in fire-arms were adopted by the 
 United States and by Russia. He died at Burlington, New Jersey, 8th September, i860, 
 in his eighty-third year.] 
 
1807] Not Art 213 
 
 November 15. — W. Wells called on me, — & shewed me a letter 
 from Wilkie, who is so full of commissions that it may be long before 
 He can paint a picture for Wells, but will put Him down in His list, & 
 approves His subject viz : " A Blacksmith listening to a Taylor's news, " 
 — vide Shakesperes Play, King John — Wells sd. that in some of the 
 pictures by Claude Lorrain & in some by Wilson, there has appeared to 
 Him something of an artificial light upon parts of them, a sort of Candle 
 light, an artificial warmth. — 
 
 I dined with Baker, & walked there with Edridge who noticed the 
 free manner in which Hoppner speaks of Artists & their works. — He had 
 always lived well with Hoppner, but lately when Edridge's works were 
 spoken of favorably, Hoppner said, " Aye, very well, but we do not call 
 that Art." Edridge sd. He had always given to Hoppner the Palm, as 
 being the painter who comes nearest to His great Prototype Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, but He added that there were others who certainly had more 
 originality. — 
 
CHAPTER LXIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Hanbury of Kelmarsh 
 
 November 15. — Duppa told me that Mr. Hanbury of Northampton- 
 shire is now at His seat at Shobdon Court in Herefordshire, & in a dying 
 state. Mr. Stone, a medical man who attends Him daily from Leominster 
 told Duppa that he was a week ago supported only by raw meat given 
 Him in the shape of pills. — Mr. Stone attended Him every night. — The 
 estate attached to Shobdon Court is estimated at ;^8ooo a year. — Lord 
 Bateman left it to Mr. Hanbury who was related to Him by a female 
 line in preference to a male relationship.* 
 
 Gerard spoke of the death of the Revd. Mr. Booth. He was abt. 42 
 years of age, & died of a Palsy, which was attributed to the effect which 
 the coming into posession of His Fathers large property had upon his 
 mind. — While His Fatherf lived He had been kept in very limited circum- 
 stances. — His Father left ^^30,000 as appeared by His accounts besides 
 very considerable estates near Ludlow, & it has lately been found that 
 He had a considerable Sum in Long annuities. — 
 
 Constable and Mulready Students 
 
 November 16. — Constable called. — He attends the Life Academy 
 every evening, and has for 3 months past been employed by Lord Dysart 
 in copying pictures & painting original portraits. The Dowager Lady 
 Dysart spoke to Him of the fine Head Lawrence is painting oj me. — 
 Rigaud is the present Visitor at the Life Academy & is one of the best 
 Visitors that the Academy affords & sets very good figures. — Tresham 
 who was the last Visitor, said that He never saw so many good drawings 
 
 * For William Hanbury and Lord Bateman see Vol. II., page i66, and Index, Vol. III. 
 
 t Benjamin Booth, a director of the East India Company, was a friend of Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, who painted an excellent portrait of him. He was also a patron of Richard 
 Wilson, the great landscape painter, and formed the splendid collection of his pictures 
 and drawings which was exhibited by Captain R. Ford, his great-great-grandson, at the 
 Brighton Art Gallery in 1920. See Vol. I., page 174, of the Diary, and entry under 
 January 3, 1808. 
 
 214 
 
1807] Constable and Mulready Students 215 
 
 in the Academy at one time before. — Mulready* a young man Twenty 
 one or two years of age is reckoned to draw the best, but sets Himself 
 high upon it as if He had done His business. — He was a pupil of Varleyt 
 & married His Sister.— Hilton,| another student draws very well. — He 
 is abt. 25 or 6 years old. — 
 
 Hoppner Snubs a Lady 
 
 Constable gave a trait of Hoppner, which He had from a Frame 
 Maker. This man happened to be in Hoppner's showroom when a Lady 
 of Fashion came in, & looking at the pictures desired to speak with 
 Hoppner. The Servant sd. He was then engaged^ but she bid Him tell 
 Her name, & accordingly Hoppner came to Her, and she began to make 
 remarks upon the Copies she saw of Mr. Pitts portrait, observing that the 
 nose was too long. — Hoppner impatient at the interruption He had 
 suffered asked Her whether she desired to have a Copy, she replied un- 
 determined, but said she possibly might. " Well then, sd. Hoppner, 
 when you order a copy you shall have either a long nose or a short one 
 as you may choose " & left Her. Constable observed that Hoppner 
 abuses the people of Fashion, & they Him, but they go to Him. — Con- 
 stable sd. He had now the comfort of feeling Himself completely settled 
 in His profession, and to know that His Father, finding that He is getting 
 on and employed is reconciled to it. — 
 
 We talked of the late election of Associates. He sd. He thought 
 the Academy had done very well in electing respectable men, whose 
 manners wd. not disgrace the Academy. — He sd. Drummond§ is the 
 King of a Pot-House, and has such low habits & notions, that He seemed 
 unfit to be associated with men of rank at the Academy dinner. — 
 
 Lord Egremont 
 
 Phihpsll called upon me to speak abt. the ensuing election of two 
 Academicians. I told Him that it was a subject not yet taken up, but 
 that as far as my opinion cd. go it was that He might feel comfortable 
 in the fair prospect of success as it appeared to me. — I sd. that His moral 
 character had never been objected to, & He knew how He stood as to His 
 professional abilities. — He was well satisfied with what I said. — 
 
 He told me He was going for a month to Petworth, Lord Egremont's.H 
 — He said Company from lo to 20 or 30 sat down to dinner there every 
 day. His Lordship Hving magnificently. Dinner at 6 oClock, but He 
 added, that He was always glad to return to town to His own private 
 
 * William Mulready, afterwards R.A. 
 
 t John Varley. See Index, Vol. II. 
 
 X William Hilton, afterwards R.A. 
 
 § Samuel Drummond was elected A.R.A. in 1808. See Vol. II., page 248. 
 
 II Thomas Phillips, A.R.A., afterwards R.A. 
 
 ^ See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
216 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 repast, being soon tired of living in so much company. — Lord Egremont 
 does not what is called quiz : any of His guests, but He is fond of seeing 
 others carry on that sort of Humour. — Humphry was sadly quizzed in 
 consequence of His boasting of His ancestry. — He was laughed at, & 
 told He was descended from a Jew Pedlar. Philips sd. Lord Egremont 
 has behaved very kindly to Humphry, having taken a portrait from Him 
 said to be painted by Raphael for which He has settled upon Him an 
 annuity of ;£ioo,* — His Lordship having understood from Humphry 
 that His circumstances were very limited. — 
 
 Lady Louisa Manners 
 
 Lord Dysart is abt. 68 years of age. He is a very shy man, & comes 
 into a room sideways or almost backwards. He is a very good man & 
 kind to all who are dependent upon Him. He has more than ^30,000 
 a year, and being a widower witht. children will leave ^30,000 a year 
 to Sir Wm. Manners, Son of the late Jack Manners, the Usurer, who 
 has already ^30,000 a yr. — He being Lord Dysart's nephew. Lady 
 Louisa Mannersf the Mother of Sir Wm. is His Lordship's Sister. — 
 The title will be extinct. — The present Lord Dysart & His Brother, the 
 late Lord, married two Sisters of a Mr. Lewis of Warwickshire. — Lord 
 Dysart amuses Himself with painting & applies more or less most days. 
 He was much acquainted with Sir Joshua Reynolds. — 
 
 French Ports Blockaded 
 
 [A Proclamation was issued by the King in Council, directing a strict 
 Blockade of all the French Sea Ports, and of all Sea Ports belonging to 
 Countries under the Dominion & influence of France, and that all trade 
 in the produce of such countries & Colonies, shall be deemed unlawful, 
 
 • In his " Life of Ozias Humphry, R.A.," Dr. G. C. Williamson says : " Humphry 
 persuaded the Earl of Egremont to buy a copy of a portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere 
 which he had made in Italy. He asked 600 guineas for it ; Lord Egremont said it was 
 'overvalued,' and eventually in Midsummer, 1805, he agreed to give Humphry forit 
 ;^ioo a year for his life. The artist therefore received £4-^0 for the painting, as he died 
 four and a half years after the arrangement had been made." See Index, Vols. I., II. and 
 HI. 
 
 t The Earl of Dysart died in 182 1 and was succeeded by his sister, Lady Louisa Manners, 
 as Countess of Dysart. She, however, with her sons John and Charles, and her daughter 
 Laura, took only the surname and arms of Tollemache. Hoppner painted Lady Louisa's 
 portrait, and in 1901, at Robinson and Fisher's, it was sold for 14,050 guineas, at that 
 time the highest price ever paid for a portrait in England. 
 
 In March, 1807, Lady Louisa's own copy of C. Turner's mezzotint after Hoppner's 
 early masterpiece was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, London. On the margin of 
 the print was attached an envelope addressed to " Lady Louisa Manners, Pall Mall," as 
 well as a verse written to her by Tom Moore, which runs : 
 
 " Thou art still so lovely to me, 
 
 I would sooner, thou beautiful mother, 
 Repose in the sunset of thee 
 Than bask in the morn of another." 
 
The Ft. Hon. Lady Louisa Manners 
 Fro)v a Print in the British Museum 
 
 [To lace p. 216 
 
1807] French Ports Blockaded 217 
 
 and every vessel trading to the said countries laden with, such produce 
 or manufactures shall be lawful prize. — Neutrals, however, will still be 
 allowed to furnish themselves with enemy's Colonial produce, for their 
 own consumption ; and for this purpose such trade may be carried on 
 directly with the ports of his majesty's dominions, or his allies under 
 certain restrictions. — America, for instance, may import the produce 
 of the West India Islands, direct into an American port, for her own 
 use, but she cannot export it again to a French port, & thus the order 
 entirely cuts off the neutral carrying trade between the enemy's colonies 
 & the Mother country. — The Second order permits universally the im- 
 portation into Great Britain of the growth & manufacture of countries 
 at war with his Majesty, in the vessels of any country in friendship or 
 alliance with England, upon the same terms as they may have been 
 hitherto imported into Great Britain, in British Vessels ; and with regard 
 to such articles, as are prohibited by law, they are to be reported for 
 exportation to any country in alliance or amity with His Majesty. 
 
 Warning to Neutrals 
 
 The articles so imported into any port of the United Kingdom or of 
 Malta & Gibraltar, except Sugar, Coffee, wine, brandy. Snuff and tobacco 
 may be exported to any country whatever ; and with respect to these 
 articles, they also may be exported under certain conditions ; By the 
 operation of this regulation, no neutral power can supply France with any 
 article whatever, nor the growth & manufacture of such neutral Country, 
 unless through the medium of some Port belonging to Great Britain, 
 — so that France cannot obtain a single ounce of sugar, coffee &c. which 
 are the peculiar growth of the French West India Colonies unless in- 
 directly through a British Port & upon such terms as His Majesty may 
 think fit. — The third order recites that a great part of the Shipping of 
 France, & Her Allies has been protected from capture by transfers, or 
 pretended transfers, to neutrals, & directs that in future the sale to a 
 neutral of any vessel belonging to His Majesty's enemies shall not be 
 deemed to be legal, & all such vessels shall be captured, & adjudged 
 lawful prize to the Captors. — From small note-book.] 
 
CHAPTER LXIV 
 
 1807 
 
 Calumnies 
 
 November 18. — Devis* called being very desirous to bring Mr.Graham, 
 the Magistrate, to me to confute the calumnies uttered against His 
 character. He spoke much of what Beecheyf had sd. of the prejudice 
 against Him among the Academicians. — He sd. Beechey asked Him, 
 " Whether He was married to the person who passed for His wife, & 
 who died sometime ago ? " — He rephed that He was married to Her, 
 that she was a French woman, — and that He was married to Her by 
 a Roman CathoHc Priest according to their form. — That He had after- 
 wards asked a Doctor of Civil Law & others whether the marriage was 
 vahd, & was assured by them that it was so. He sd. she died in France. 
 — He added that He thought it very odd that Beechey shd. put such 
 a question ; He who had lived with the present Lady Beechey whilst 
 His first wife was living & introduced Her into company at that time 
 as His wife. — I repeated what I had before sd. to Him that His conduct 
 had been reported to be irregular, which had operated against His being 
 elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, I declined receiving Mr. 
 Graham, telling Him that my conversation with Him rendered that 
 unnecessary. 
 
 Catalani's Salary 
 
 [Madame Catalani's engagement for the ensuing season, at the 
 King's Theatre, says the Morning Herald, was finally settled on Satur- 
 day last. She is to have 7500 guineas, & two clear benefits, and is 
 to suffer no deduction of salary in consequence of any indisposition. 
 Madame Catalani, — the celebrated Singer published a letter in the 
 Morning Herald [on November 28] stating that she had cancelled an 
 engagement with Mr. Taylor of the Opera House. She was to have 
 had 5000 guineas for the season, but on condition that she shd. perform 
 alternately in the first serious & first comic characters, thus binding 
 Herself to exert Herself " twice the number of nights that dhe did the 
 
 * Arthur William Devis. See Vol. III., pages 128 and 138K. 
 t Sir William Beechey, R.A. See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 218 
 
1807] Catalani's Salary 219 
 
 last Season." Her only motive for wishing to renounce the engage- 
 ment was the great fatigue it would have imposed upon her. — 
 
 A Curious Case 
 
 On Monday last, Novr. i6, Sir Wm. Scott gave judgment at Doctor's 
 Commons in the Case of Wakefield versus Mackay, ahas Wakefield. 
 It appeared that Mr. Wakefield, a Student of one of the Inns, had 
 married Mrs. Wakefield by banns, published under the name of Isabella 
 Jackson, and that she was the illegitimate daughr. of John & Ann 
 Mackay ; that in the year 1800, she went by the name of Lascelles, and 
 afterwards by the name of Sharpe. It further appeared that the Lady 
 in question had been baptised by the name of Isabella Jackson, which 
 ceremony was performed by a Catholic Priest, her parents being Roman 
 Catholics. It was contended by Mr. Wakefield's Council that the 
 marriage was null & void inasmuch as the banns were published in a 
 wrong name ;* and further it was contended that Mrs. Wakefield having 
 proved to be an illegitimate child, was not entitled to any name, except 
 that she acquired by reputation. On the part of Mrs. Wakefield, it was 
 contended, that she was, from the evidence produced in the cause, 
 clearly entitled to the name of Jackson, and that the banns were properly 
 published. The Court, after minutely stating the evidence on both 
 sides and making several judicious observations concluded by confirming 
 the validity of the marriage. — From small note-book.] 
 
 White Wine and Red 
 November 19. — J. OfHey told me He had been this day to consult 
 Dr. Reynoldst who recommended to Him to Go to a surgeon, Mr. Fordt 
 of Golden Square, who ascertained the cause of disagreeable symptoms. 
 — Dr. Reynolds lately told Him, that He, the Doctor, had for sometime 
 been troubled with Cramps in His legs, and could not acct. for the 
 cause, — but finding that for some days He had been free from this 
 complaint, He reflected that He had during that period drank only 
 White Wine, owing to the Key of His Cellar having been mislaid. To 
 be certain of this being the cause of the relief He had felt, He again 
 drank Port Wine & the Cramp returned. — He again desisted & those 
 pains left Him. He repeated this experiment again with the same 
 efifect & then remained convinced that there is a quahty in Port Wine 
 which so operated upon His constitution. — 
 
 • This case was, of course, before the statute of George IV. making null and void a 
 marriage in names known by both parties to be false. A case of this kind came before 
 Sir Henry Duke, President of the Divorce Court, on the 1 8th January, 1923. 
 
 The parties concerned were married at St. Alban's Church, Great Ilford, Essex. Their 
 names were given as John Harry Small and Mary Taylor, whereas his real name was John 
 Henry Smallwood, and the Judge pronounced for the dissolution of the marriage on the 
 ground that the ceremony was rendered void by the banns having been put up in the 
 petitioner's false names. 
 
 t Henry Revell Reynolds, eminent doctor. See Vols. II. and III. 
 
 X See footnote, Vol. I., page 174. 
 
220 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 November 20.— At 12 I called on Wm. Wells at the East India 
 Dock Office, Lime St. Square, & went with Him to Mr. Brickwood's* 
 Lime St. Square & saw two large Landscapes by Wilsonf which were 
 painted by Him for Sir Patrick Blake, whose son has sold them to Mr. 
 Brickwood for ;^400. — Sir Patrick paid Wilson 160 guineas for them. 
 — They were painted in 1765 & in His best manner. — I told Mr. Brick- 
 wood they would make His House famous. — These pictures I saw 
 [at an earlier date] with Henry Bunbury at Mr. Manning's in the City. — 
 After we left Mr. Brickwoods, W. Wells told me He would give me one 
 of His pictures by Brooking.X 
 
 A Successor to Burke 
 
 November 21.— [Dr.] Hayes called— Mr. John Adolphus§ of War- 
 ren St. was yesterday admitted a Barrister of the Inner Temple. He 
 was immediately employed, reed. His first Jee 5 guineas from Cooper 
 the Attorney, — & got 40 guineas in the first week. — He is 41 years old, 
 is married, & has two children, one of them & Son aged 12 has made 
 an extraordinary proficiency in learning languages. — reads French & 
 Latin & Greek & is learning Hebrew. — Mr. Adolphus is the writer of the 
 political article in the Annual Register which was formerly written by 
 Mr. Burke & afterwards by Dr. Lawrence.\\ Adolphus says what Dr. 
 Lawrence wrote upon the French Revolution was very ably done. — 
 Adolphus also wrote Memoirs of the French Revolutionists, in 2 vols. — 
 He is of German extraction but was born in London. — He has Chambers 
 in Pump court, Temple, & much is expected from his talents, & eloquence. 
 He has fixed to go to the Home Circuit, & to practise at the Old Bailey. 
 — He is a strong Government Man, opposing the conduct of the Whigs 
 as they call themselves. 
 
 A Cambridge Librarian 
 
 November 23. — I was at Home all day, — the weather dull & wet. — 
 Lysons^ dined with me. — He returned from Cambridge today where 
 
 * Wine merchant. 
 
 t Richard Wilson, R.A. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 X Charles Brooking. See Vol. III., page 206. 
 
 § According to the D.N.B., John Adolphus was born in 1768, of German parentage, 
 his grandfather having been domestic physician to Frederick the Great, and author of a 
 romance, " Histoire des Diables Modernes," wrongly ascribed in Watts's " Bibliotheca " 
 to John Leycester Adolphus, his son, who was a barrister and author of " Letters to Richard 
 Heber, Esq.," in which he sought to prove that Scott was the author of " Waverley." 
 In 1793 John Adolphus married Miss Leycester, a lady " of good family and little fortune." 
 He wrote several Histories, including " Bibliographical Memoirs of the French Revolu- 
 tion " (1799) and the " Political State of the British Empire " (1824). His first notable 
 success on the home circuit was his defence in 1820 of the Cato Street conspirators. Adol- 
 phus died on July 16, 1845. 
 
 II Dr. French Lawrence, writer for the " Rolliad." See Index, Vols. I. and III. 
 
 H Samuel Lysons, historian. See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
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 Two drawings by Faringion from pictures by his master, Richard Wilson 
 
 [To face p. 220 
 
1807] A Cambridge Librarian 221 
 
 He collected what remained to be acquired respecting that County for 
 the Magna Brittannia. — He was with Kerrick* who is Librarian at 
 Cambridge & resides entirely there & is a great admirer of the Works 
 of Rubens. — Lysons speaking to Him of introducing Mr. Pitts name into 
 the Magna Brittannia asked what epithet shd. be given Him ? — Kerrick 
 replied in the negative, adding " Would you place an epithet before the 
 name of Rubens ? " — 
 
 • Thomas Kerrich (1748-1828) was an accomplished painter, draughtsman and 
 etcher. The Academy of Painting at Antwerp awarded him with a silver medal for the 
 best drawing. To the British Museum he left a valuable collection of manuscripts and 
 drawings of ancient costumes, and his son bequeathed seven pictures, a number of books 
 and many portfolios of early prints. 
 
CHAPTER LXV 
 
 1807 
 
 A Total Abstainer 
 
 November 23. — Sir Joseph Banks was at the Royal Society Club 
 on Thursday last. He continues to abstain wholly from Fish or Flesh 
 meat, & has done so for 4 years, and also from wine & spirits. — He finds 
 Himself much better for it. He eats only vegetable diet, including 
 puddings. — and drinks milk or water only. — Whether He is in or out 
 of town there is every morning throughout the year a breakfast prepared 
 in His Library for His friends at 10 oClock. — Sir Joseph Lady & Miss 
 Banks are of the party when in town. — 
 
 A Gloomy Room 
 
 The Prince of Wales on his late visit to Lord Berkley* at Berkley 
 Castle made those who received Him glad when it was over. — Previous 
 to His coming one of His pages arrived to prepare everything for Him. 
 On being shewn the room in which the Prince was to sleep He exclaimed 
 " This the room, a gloomy room hke this, it will not do." — The Chief 
 Servant of Lord Berkley observed, that Berkley is an ancient not a 
 modern building & the room they were in had been considered the best 
 in it. The Page however demanded to see another and was shewn 
 into an adjoining apartment, which had been intended for Him. — 
 " This sd. He, shall be the room for the Prince & I will sleep in the 
 other," which accordingly was settled. 
 
 One day the Prince having dined there at six oClock Lady Berkley 
 did not ask Him to fix an Hour the following day but ordered the dinner 
 to be ready at Six, & at that Hour the Prince was informed that dinner 
 was ready. He sent word that He could not then dine, and the dinner 
 was taken oif the table, & they waited till eight oClock before He made 
 His appearance, — He was there on a Sunday & Lady Berkley asked 
 Him whether He proposed to go to Church ? To which he answered 
 " That if she desired it, or it wd. oblige Her He would go." — To this 
 
 * Frederick Augustus, fifth Earl of Berkeley. See Vol. I., page 272 and note. 
 
 222 
 
1807] Maintain our Resolution 223 
 
 she made no reply & He did not go. — At Bristol, at Gloucester, & wherever 
 He went the people were disatisfied with His behaviour. — 
 
 [Died on Saturday morning last, the 21st. inst. Abraham Newland 
 Esqr. late Chief Cashier at the Bank of England, aged 'j']. He was 
 elected a Clerk in the Bank in the year 1747, appointed Chief Cashier 
 on the 8th of Jany. 1778. On resigning that situation a short time 
 since He refused an annuity of ,^500. — ^A piece of plate of the value of 
 3^4000 was voted Him. He declined gradually & died witht. pain, leaving 
 -^7000 a year to distant relatives. 
 
 November 24. — Dr. Jenner has lately had a remittance of ^£4000 
 from India a gift for His invaluable discovery. — From small note- 
 book.] 
 
 November 25. — Lysons I dined with. — He had seen Davis* who 
 was much pleased with what He communicated respecting my supply- 
 ing drawings for the Magna Brittannia. — Ralph Price came to tea. — 
 He told us that money was abundant in the City, — & no despondency 
 in consequence of our Proclamation of Blockade of French &c. Ports. — 
 He only feared that Ministers wd. give way & not adhere to their resolu- 
 tion. — English goods cannot be kept out of France. — He is now shipping 
 70 tons of oil for France, which are to be sent in Casks made in imitation 
 of French Casks. — Should America be induced to go to War with us, 
 a Civil war wd. take place in that country. — In short we are upon high 
 ground, though the times are critical, but all we require is to maintain 
 our resolution. — 
 
 He Wore Pink Ribbons 
 
 Lysons told me that a dispute subsists between Lord Chartley Son 
 of the Marquiss Townshend (Earl of Leicester) & His Father. — Lord 
 Chartley insists upon being called Earl of Leicester as being now the 
 second title of the Family, which His Father objects to as being a title 
 granted to Himself. — It was referred by Lord Chartley to [ ] 
 
 of the Heralds College who decided that Lord Chartley had a right to 
 the title of Leicester, — but Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King at arms, & 
 Townshend the Herald, have since decided against the claim of Lord 
 Chartley ; which has caused a reference to the Duke of Norfolk, Earl 
 Marshal, who has given it in favor of Lord Chartley's claim, saying 
 that a similar instance happened in His own family where the claim 
 was allowed. — While this question is depending both Lord Chartley 
 & His Father refuse to sign an instrument of importance to both. — 
 Lord Chartley is a very effeminate young man, — sometime He wore 
 pink ribbons to His Shoes, — & having married a young Lady only a 
 few months ago, He is said to be upon the point of separation from Her. 
 — In Italy, while on His travels, some circumstances were observed 
 in Him that gave an unfavourable opinion of Him. — 
 
 * Of Cadell and Davis, publishers. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
224 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 November 27. — J. Byrne called to settle with me for my share of 
 money reed, from Mr. Crossthwaite of Keswick for prints of views of 
 the Lakes. — He told me His Father provided drawings for prints to 
 be made of views in Counties to accompany Lysons's work, charging 
 to the work only 3 guineas for each drawing, by which He was a great 
 loser. — He paid Alexander 8 guineas each for 7 drawings, — & to Nash an 
 architectural draughtsman, 25 guineas for a drawing of Kings College 
 Chapel, Cambridge. For engraving the plates He had 25 guineas for 
 each plate. — 
 
 Ward is Grateful 
 
 November 28. — Ward came to tea ; and spoke to me abt. inviting 
 to dinner those Academicians who had supported His election, and shewed 
 me a list of the Members of the Academy, & marked the names of those 
 who I thought might, if He shd. make two dinners, be invited so as to 
 make each party agreeable to each other. — He told me the Students 
 who attended the British Institution last Season gave a dinner on 
 Monday last at the Thatched House Tavern, to Valentine Green* the 
 Keeper, and Mr. West was invited, & was the only Member of the Academy 
 present. — The Tickets one guinea each, and abt. 50 attended. — We agreed 
 upon the impropriety of the students giving such an entertainment 
 & of Mr. West attending it. — 
 
 Valentine Green has now a Salary of 3^150 a year from the British 
 Institution [as its Keeper], but complains of want of remuneration 
 for His trouble. — A few weeks ago He signified to Ward that as the 
 Direction of the British Institution will have nothing to do with the 
 payment of any pictures sold there, whatever money He receives & 
 pays to the Artist is an act of His own for which He is wholly responsible. 
 For this He signified that He ought to be remunerated by the Artists 
 by a percentage upon pictures sold. — He observed that were He not 
 to receive the Deposit money for the Artists not half the pictures wd. 
 have been sold that have been disposed of. — Were gentlemen to be 
 referred to the Artist, the trouble of going to Him & other circumstances, 
 wd. cause many to give up their intention. — Ward expressed willing- 
 ness to remunerate Mr. Green but not by a percentage or in any way 
 that shd. be made a standing rule, but wd. join with others in subscribing 
 a Sum to make up a purse for Mr. Green. — 
 
 Denmark and Britain 
 
 [Denmark has issued an uncommonly vigorous Proclamation de- 
 nouncing Death against any of Her subjects who carry on an intercourse 
 with Great Britain, together with the confiscation of the goods which 
 may be the object of such intercourse, if they can be found ; and if not, 
 the full value of them is to be advanced from the effects of the criminals. 
 — From small note-book.] 
 
 * Valentine Green, A.R.A. See Index, Vols. I. and IIL 
 
CHAPTER LXVI 
 
 1807 
 
 Dissipated Young Men. 
 
 November 29. — Wm. [Offley, wine merchant] spoke of the prevail- 
 ing dissipation among young men, — & mentioned that Mr. Best who 
 shot Lord Camelford* is now in the Kings bench. — Mr. Ford,t the 
 surgeon, who lives in Golden Square, shewed Him a House opposite 
 in which Madame Parissot the Opera Dancer lives with a gentleman 
 she was lately married to. — She had loose connexions before that period. 
 — She has saved abt. ^12,000 obtained by Her stage exhibitions. — 
 
 J. Offley expressed great satisfaction on having read Paley's treatise 
 on natural Theology, — and on His proofs of the truth [of] Christianity 
 which He thought conclusive. — Cobbet having written strongly against 
 the predominating influence of Commerce J. Offley agreed with Him in 
 thinking it had obtained too much sway in this Country, as is manifested 
 by the great number of commercial men who have at present seats in 
 the House of Commons. — 
 
 The Grosvenor Family 
 
 November 30. — Lysons sd. He had been informed by a gentleman 
 from Chester that Lord Grosvenor, who is at present Mayor oj Chester^ 
 at an entertainment which He gave in that City, made a very intemperate 
 speech, expressing His intention to support two members for that City 
 & how little He regarded the expence which He might incur. — 
 
 The Grosvenor family is very ancient. A Cause in Chancery was 
 
 carried on by a Sir Grosvenor against a Sir Scroope in the time 
 
 of Richd. 2nd. each maintaining a claim to certain Arms which was 
 decided in favor of Scroope. The writings on both sides are in the Tower 
 Record Office, & wd. cost ^^loo. to have them copied, consisting of 40 Sheets 
 of parchment on the side of Scroope & upwards of 30 on that of Grosvenor. 
 
 • See Vol. II., page 199 and note. 
 t See Vol. I., page \l\n 
 
 VOL. IV. 225 15 
 
226 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 — It was shewn that Grosvenor had borne certain arms from the Con- 
 quest.'*' 
 
 Constable's Uncle 
 
 December 1 .—Constable called & brought a Card from Mr. David 
 Pike Watts requesting me to dine with Him on Saturday the I2th. inst. 
 at No. 33 Portland Place. — Constable sd. His Uncle, Mr. Watts, who 
 posesses the great fortune of the late Ben Kenton,t Wine merchant, has 
 mentioned to him that Mr. Kenton who sprung from a low origin, had 
 observed that He could not extend His intercourse in proportion to the 
 fortune He had made, being unprepared by education to join with the 
 
 * Richard le Scrope (1327 ?-i403) was first Baron Scrope of Bolton, Chancellor of 
 England. While Scrope was active in the Scottish expedition of 1385, he challenged the 
 right of Sir Robert Grosvenor to bear the arms,^ — azure, bend or — which were the same as 
 his own. At an earlier date (1347) Scrope was also successful in maintaining his right to 
 the crest of a crab issuing from a coronet, the crab device passing to the Masham branch 
 of the family when Scrope's son, the Earl of Wiltshire, adopted a plume of feathers azure 
 as a crest. 
 
 Constance Lady Russell, writing from Swallowfield, says : In the memorable suit 
 which lasted five years between Richard Lord Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, Kt.^, 
 touching the bearing of azure bend or, the evidence of the poet Chaucer is interesting and 
 bears upon the antiquity of the rival claims. The following is his deposition : 
 
 " Geoffrey Chaucer, Esquire, of the age of forty or upwards, armed for twenty-seven 
 years, produced on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope — asked how long a time the ancestors of 
 the said Richard had used the same arms, said he had heard say that it passed the memory 
 of man. Asked whether he had ever heard of any interruption or challenge made by Sir 
 Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors, he said No, but that he was once in Friday Street and 
 saw hanging a new sign made of the said arms, and he asked what Inn that was that hung 
 out the arms of Scrope, and one answered, ' No, sir, they are not hung out for the arms of 
 Scrope, but they are painted and put there for a knight of the county of Chester whom 
 men call Sir Robert Grosvenor,' and that was the first time he ever heard speak of Sir Robert 
 Grosvenor or of his ancestors or of any bearing the name of Grosvenor." 
 
 Mr. Arthur Oldham also writes on the same subject : Farington's reference to the 
 Grosvenor-Scrope case and your interesting elucidatory note thereon are perhaps worth 
 supplementing. No less famous a personage than Geoffrey Chaucer was a vyitness in the 
 case on behalf of Scrope, and testified that he had seen the " arms azure, with a bend, or" 
 borne by two members of the family. Sir Richard and Sir Henry, in France. 
 
 Mr. Oldham then repeats In almost similar terms the story sent by Lady RusseU. 
 
 t Ben Kenton, one of the richest men In the London of his day, was brought up in a 
 charity school. His mother was a greengrocer in a small way in Whitechapel, and Ben 
 served an apprenticeship to the landlord of the " Angel," in Goulston Street, White- 
 chapel, afterwards going as barman and waiter to the " Crown and Magpie," In High 
 Street, Aldgate. Ben's shrewdness, unfailing humour, and courtesy made him very popu- 
 lar, and when the landlord died the regular customers enabled him to become landlord of 
 the tavern, thus laying the foundation of his vast fortune. In 1765 he gave up the public- 
 house and started business in the Minories as a vwne merchant, in addition to that of an 
 exporter of ale and stout. By and by Kenton joined Alderman Harley, the eminent banker, 
 in successful speculations, and when the erstwhile barman died, on May 25, 1800, he left 
 legacies to twenty-four London charities and about ^^200,000 to Constable's uncle, David 
 Pike Watts, who had been his clerk and daughter's lover. Ben, however, did not favour 
 the match, the girl died of a decHne, and her father, apparently feeling thathe was in some 
 measure responsible for her death, softened towards Watts, and made him heir to the 
 fortune referred to above. 
 
1807] Constable's Uncle 
 
 227 
 
 higher ranks and more liberal part of Society.— Mr. Watts added that 
 His own education though not the best, was better than that of Mr. 
 Kenton, & He felt a desire to associate with men of talents. — He there- 
 fore sent this invitation to me & proposed also to invite Messrs. West, 
 Northcote,— Daniell, Stothard,— Dr. Crotch, the musician, & CarHsle 
 the Surgeon. 
 
 Constable told me He was at the dinner given on Monday Novr. 23rd. 
 at the Thatched House Tavern, by the Students of the British Institu- 
 tion ; — that Pocock was in the Chair & [Conversation] Sharpe vice Presi- 
 dent.— He sd. Douglas Guest disgusted the company by long speeches 
 in which He exhibited His vanity, & was well answered on one occasion 
 by Sharpe, & at last was coughed, & cried down when making another 
 speech. — ^This mortified him greatly, & it appeared that on reflection 
 He perceived that He had exposed Himself, & on the following even'g 
 at the Academy, He endeavoured to shew to Constable that He was 
 drunk meaning it to be an apology, but Constable told Him He appeared 
 to be sober at | past 12 oClock. — He then sd. He had drank bejore dinner. 
 — These are feeble traits of a character Hkely to be troublesome in the 
 profession.* 
 
 West Weeps 
 
 West was the only Member of the Academy present, & was flattered 
 by [Valentine] Green in a speech, on which West commented & sd. it 
 had brought tears into His eyes ; — He went on & assumed to Himself 
 the credit of having occasioned the establishment of the British Institu- 
 tion ; said that while He was in France He saw such advances in art 
 made there that unless something should be done in this country we shd. 
 be behind them, and this had caused Him to propose this institution. — 
 I told Constable that / might with as good a right claim the merit of 
 being the author of it, for I was present, with Mr. West when Mr. Bernard 
 the real author of it, read His Proposal for forming it. — To such lengths 
 does West's self-love carry Him, — to expose Himself to be confuted by 
 many. — 
 
 Constable remarked on the impropriety of Mr. Bernard having said 
 to DaWjt a young artist who obtained the gold medal of the Royal 
 Academy for the best Historical picture, & has been employed by Thomas 
 HopeJ to draw designs for furniture, — " That as Douglas Guest intended 
 
 * Douglas Guest, then a Royal Academy student. 
 
 t George Dawe. He was born in London in 1781, entered R.A. schools in 1794, and 
 nine years later won the medal referred to. Made an Associate in 1809, he became a 
 full Academician in 18 14. Dawe twice won the 200 guinea premium at the British In- 
 stitution. He spent nine years (i8i9-i828)in Russia, painting portraits of eminent officers. 
 Similar commissions came to him, and he amassed a great fortune, which, however, was 
 largely lost owing to unwise speculations. Dawe, who wrote a " Life " of his friend 
 George Morland, died on October 15, 1829. 
 
 X See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 VOL. IV. 15* 
 
228 The Farington Diary [I807 
 
 to paint for the first prize of the British Institution it wd. be in vain for 
 any other to hope to obtain it." 
 
 R.A. Affairs 
 
 At noon I went to the Royal Academy General Meeting to decide 
 the Premiums to be given this year. — [See December loth.] Hoppner 
 was much interested abt. His Son's picture painted for the Gold medal, 
 ' — & desired me to consider it. After much communication with many 
 members I found the prevailing disposition in favor of Lascelles Hopp- 
 ner's* picture. — Dance, Westall & Bourgeois were for it, — & I per- 
 ceived that Shee, — Tresham, — Beechey, Turner &c. were of a similar 
 opinion. — West said there was more mind in Hoppner'' s picture than in 
 Hilton's, but the latter's was more of a picture as a piece of painting. 
 — I asked to which Nicolo Poussin wd. in his opinion, have given the 
 preference ? He said He thought to Hoppners as it had more of that 
 which He excelled in. Northcote, on the contrary, objected to it only 
 on acct. of it having something Poussinish in it, — adding that He loathed 
 that sort of painting, — so formal, — so insipid, — so cold &c. — Dance, 
 — Westall &c. were present and laughed at so singular an opinion. — 
 
 * See entry under December lo. 
 
CHAPTER LXVII 
 
 1807 
 
 Sir Francis Baring's House 
 
 December 2 . — I was informed from good authority, that on so great 
 a scale has been Sir Francis Baring's* house that for two years the House 
 had to make weekly payments of ,^80,000. — amounting annually to 
 Four milions, one hundred & Sixty thousand pounds. 
 
 Russia and England 
 
 [Mr. Canning, Secretary for foreign affairs, wrote to the Lord Mayor 
 this day as follows, viz : — 
 
 Stanhope St., Deer. 2. 
 Eleven oClock. 
 " My Lord, 
 
 I have the honor to acquaint your Lordship that dispatches have been 
 reed, from His Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Petersburgh, by 
 which it appears that the Emperor of Russia, having published a Declara- 
 tion, in which His Imperial Majesty announces his determination to 
 break of all communication with England, to recal His Minister from this 
 Court, and not to permit the continuance of a British Mission at the Court 
 of St. Petersburgh : His Majesty's Ambassador has demanded His Pass- 
 ports, & is now on his return. 
 
 I have lost no time in communicating this intelligence to your Lord- 
 ship, in order that it may be made as public as possible. 
 
 I have &c. 
 
 G. Canning. — " 
 
 Government has determined to prevent the further entrance of all 
 Foreigners into the Ports of the United Kingdom. Orders to this effect 
 have been issued to the Commanding Officers at all the Ports. No 
 person of any description under any pretext, except He can produce 
 an authenticated Passport, is in future to be allowed to land in England. — 
 From small note-book.] 
 
 • See Vols. II. and III. 
 229 
 
230 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Art Gossip 
 
 December 4. — Sir George Beaumont's I dined at. — Sir George 
 shewed us the Jirst No. of Forster's publication of Prints* from celebrated 
 pictures, & thought it the best work of the kind that had been published ; 
 but sd. He shd, tell Forster that unless the succeeding numbers were 
 equally well engraved He should withdraw His subscription. — 
 
 Sir George talked abt. Wilkie having an Exhibition of His own pic- 
 tures the next Spring, to which Wilkie seemed to listen with approbation. 
 — I gave my opinion that He shd. either do it at the time mentioned 
 or it wd. be much less certain that it wd. succeed, which I felt assured it 
 wd. do if not delayed. — Sir George had been to-day at Mr. Angerstein's 
 & expressed the warmest admiration of the Rembrant " The Woman 
 taken in Adultery," — as being the finest of all Rembrant's productions. 
 Cosway's objection to it as not being by Rembrant was derided, & His 
 ridiculous assertions & fancies laughed at. Sir George spoke in the highest 
 manner of the excellent Landscape sketches made by West while at 
 Bath, saying they were of as high a character as the designs of Nicolo 
 Poussin, " the true Heroic Landscape." Also of His very able design of 
 " King Bladud discovering the virtues of the Bath waters." — Then 
 touching upon West's extravagant acct. of His reception at Bath, — His 
 vanity, — & ungrammatical expression, — He quoted the line from Pope, 
 ending with, " A man so very high, so very low." 
 
 Buonaparte 
 
 We dined before 6 & did not go to tea till past 9. — We talked of 
 Politics & agreed that the Country must either be what it now is or 
 nothing. — Buonaparte has no half measures in His mind with us.' — 
 Sir George only feared a Peace. — Mr. Phipps spoke of Lord Hawkes- 
 berryt as being a very able man. — I told them that in Norfolk 
 [he] was considered a sort of half madman. — Sir George said, C. 
 Long [afterwards Lord Farnborough] had when Windham quitted Mr. 
 Pitt wished, in his mind, the opposition joy over him. He sd. such was 
 the nature of Windhams mind that while acting with Mr. Pitt & when 
 He had proposed or supported a measure upon grounds which were ad- 
 mitted to be just & agreed to He would then begin to oppose His own 
 reasoning & endeavour to shew that what He had before maintained 
 was not fully established. — Thus wavering & indecissive there was no 
 end to His doubts. — 
 
 Newspapers and the Public 
 
 December 5. — Lysons I dined with. — Smirke & myself met Davis, 
 partner of Cadell, to speak of pubHcations. Smirke's the intended publi- 
 
 * British Gallery of Engravings (1807-18 13), by the Rev. Edward Forster, F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. He was born in 1769 and died in Paris in 1828. See Vol. III., page 54. 
 t See Index, Vols. I., 11. and III. 
 
1807] Newspapers and the Public 23 1 
 
 cation of Don Quixotte ; — I upon the subject of views to accompany 
 Lysons's Brittannia. — It was settled that Davis should call upon me in 
 Charlotte St. to go further into the business. — He was not satisfied with 
 what J. Byrne has lately done, & noticed His being disposed to think His 
 plates finished before they properly were so. — He complained of the 
 indisposition of the public to purchase literary works such as 30 years 
 ago wd. have had a great sale — & instanced Roscoe's* last work, & a work 
 published since by Dr. Gillies.f 
 
 He said nothing wd. insure a great sale but a name of the first repu- 
 tation ; respectable names wd, not have the effect. — He said that even 
 Political Pamphlets do not sell now as formerly ; the newspapers satisfy 
 the people in this respect. — In other respects light superficial works are 
 most read. — Booksellers who formerly, wd. have taken 30 copies of a 
 work published with a respectable name, now take 5 or 6 copies. — He 
 expressed much disatisfaction at several of Smith's! views in Cornwall ; 
 particularly that of a mine, — which appeared like a Sand-pit, whereas 
 He sd. a mine with the machinery, might be made a very grand subject. — 
 
 American Censure 
 
 December 7. — [This day appeared in the papers the message of Mr. 
 Jefferson, President of the United States, to Congress delivered the 
 27th. of Oct. — It evinces more partiality to France than any document 
 which the American government has for a long time published. While 
 Mr. Jefferson declaims with great warmth against what He calls the 
 depredations of this country on American commerce, the numerous 
 aggressions of France are passed over without observation. Our Order of 
 Council of the 7th of Jany. is strongly reprobated, but no censure is 
 passed on the famous decree of Buonaparte which rendered the restric- 
 tions, prohibiting the trade from port to port of the enemy, necessary on 
 our part. Of the Treaty concluded during the late Administration He 
 says — " Some of the articles might have been admitted on a principle 
 of compromise, but others were too highly disadvantageous " : but He 
 does not point out the particular stipulations to which either of these 
 observations apply. — The affair of the Chesapeke is mentioned with much 
 irritation. The finances of the United States are stated to be very 
 flourishing. — From small note-book.] 
 
 * See Index, Vol. I. 
 t See Index, Vol. I. 
 
 X John Smith, known as "Warwick" Smith (1749-1831), water-colour painter. See 
 Index, Vols. I. and III. 
 
CHAPTER LXVIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Miss Walpole the Actress 
 
 December 8. — [Yesterday in the Court of Kings Bench, Thomas 
 Graham Esqr. Sohcitor of Lincolns-Innfields was prosecuted by Mrs, 
 Atkyns of Norfolk, cidevant Miss Walpole,* the actress, charging Him 
 with perjury in certain answers returned to a Bill in equity, filed in 
 the Court of Chancery in His Capacity of Trustee, of certain estates 
 belonging to Mr. Atkyns, deceased, husband to the Prosecutrix. — 
 He was most honorably acquitted, & the conduct of Mr, Plowden, the 
 Barrister, Her adviser, severely condemned, by the Attorney General, 
 Sir V. Gibbs,t — and by Lord Elenborough.J — After the Attorney General 
 had replied to the accusation Mr. Garrow would proceed no further 
 in the case. It appeared that Mr. Graham had been a great friend of the 
 family, and prevented it from ruin. 
 
 Miss Brunton,§ the actress, a few days since sent in Her resignation 
 to the Managers of Covent Garden Theatre, preparatory to Her nuptials 
 with the Earl of Craven, who by the marriage articles has settled ;^5000 
 a year upon Her [see December 11]. — From small note-book,] 
 
 Coleridge and Kindness 
 
 December 9. — [Humphry] Davy|| of the Royal Institution is in a 
 dangerous state — a low fever, pulse 120 — drinks a bottle of wine a 
 
 ' * Charlotte Walpole, the actress, was a friend of Marie Antoinette and wife of Edward 
 A. Atkyns, of Ketteringham Hall, Norfolk. There is a stipple engraving of her in the 
 British Museum after a portrait by H. W. Bunbury, showing her when Miss Walpole in 
 the character of Nancy in Tickell's The Camp. She died in 1836. 
 
 t See Index, Vols. II. and III. 
 
 X See Index, Vols. I., 11. and III. 
 
 § Miss Louise Brunton (1785 ?-i86o) was a daughter of John Brunton, the actor, and 
 made her first appearance at Covent Garden in 1803. Her principal parts included Lady 
 Towtiley in The Provoked Husband, Cecilia in As Tou like It, Anne Bullen in Henry VIII. 
 and Lady Anne in Richard III. 
 
 II See Vol. III., page 165. 
 
 232 
 
1807] Coleridge and Kindness 233 
 
 day. — Has lately discovered in Chymistery what oversets Lavoisian 
 system.— Hoppner dined at Richd. Sharpe's, Fenchurch St. on Saturday 
 night. Coleridge was of the party. Hoppner did not like Him. At 
 
 Malta Coleridge reed, kindness from Stodart, who was settled there 
 
 in a civil capacity. Stodart who is now in England has complained of 
 Coleridge not having called upon Him. — This Smirke has been told 
 & that kindness makes little of lasting impression upon Him. — 
 
 December 10. — Academy Annual General Meeting I went to. The 
 Premiums were given, the meeting being in the Council Room. — 
 
 For Historial painting, the subject, " The Wisdom of 
 
 Solomon " — 
 
 Lascelles Hoppner* 14 votes appd. 
 
 Hilton I do. 
 
 Turner Professor of Perspective 
 
 After delivering the Medals Mr. West, the President assigned us a 
 reason for not giving a discourse that there was much business appointed 
 for that even'g. He therefore read an exhortation to the Students recom- 
 mending to them the Study of Character in figures, — also a close & con- 
 tinued study of the Antique in order to acquire a pure taste & knowledge 
 of perfect form, & not to be eager to go from the Model Academy where 
 they had the benefit of Mr. Fuseli's advice, to the Life Academy before 
 they were properly prepared. — He sd. the Greeks in Architecture as well 
 as in Sculpture, had left models of pure taste, & lamented that in England 
 we see too many examples not of imitations or founded upon the Greek 
 taste, but of the bad taste which has prevailed in Italy. — He read His 
 exhortation very ill & mispronounced words. He said " -perspective " 
 for '■'' perspicuous!''' — On delivering the gold medal to Lascelles Hoppner 
 
 * William LasceUes Hoppner, second son of John Hoppner, according to the Acade- 
 mician's granddaughter, had as sponsors " the Hon. Edwin Lascelles " and Colonel Wilson 
 Braddyll. This statement apparently is not quite correct. Edwin Lascelles was never 
 " the Honourable." He was Mr. Edwin LasceUes until created Baron of Harewood in 
 1790, and the barony became extinct at his death on January 25th, 1795. He was succeeded 
 in his estates by his cousin Edward Lascelles, who was created Baron Harewood of Hare- 
 wood on June i8th, 1795, and Viscount Lascelles and Earl of Harewood on September 7th, 
 1812. 
 
 This was the Mr. Lascelles referred to by Farington, on page 108 of the first volume of 
 the Diary, as having been Hoppner's host at Harewood in 1795, and the " young Mr. 
 LasceUes, who has a taste for the arts and has practised a little," was Edward, his eldest 
 son, afterwards Viscount Lascelles. It was he who was godfather to Hoppner's second son. 
 While Edward Viscount LasceUes was at Harewood Turner met Mr. Fawkes of Farnley 
 there, at which time (1798) Turner made and signed two water-colour drawings of Hare- 
 wood House for the Viscount, and Girtin, Varley, and Hoppner also painted views of the 
 mansion for him. There are at Harewood two portraits of his Lordship by Hoppner, 
 which are not recorded in the " Life of Hoppner " by Messrs. Mackay and Roberts, but 
 the latter catalogues a portrait of him as belonging to the Earl of Morton, and another of 
 " Mrs. LasceUes," wife of Henry, second Earl of Harewood. 
 
 The present Viscount LasceUes is himself a coUector of very considerable taste and 
 judgment. 
 
234 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 He made no observation ; but on giving the Medal to Busby He compli- 
 mented him [upon] the ability He had displayed. — Hoppner afterwards 
 took notice of this to me & was much mortified at it. — 
 
 The Students having withdrawn, the Members proceeded to ballot 
 for a Professor of Perspective. Turner being the only Candidate the ballot 
 was taken by each Member writing Aye, or No. Turner won by 25 votes 
 to one and Tresham was elected Professor of Painting. Northcote 
 had three votes. 
 
 Northcote 's Declarations 
 
 All the Students who reed, premiums except Busby took them bowing 
 without speaking, but He bowed & then in a short speech returned His 
 thanks. — Northcote* expected to lose the election, & I told Him I had 
 found many members who were well disposed to Him in general objected 
 to the declarations He had made respecting the works of Nicolo Poussin 
 & other acknowledged great masters, saying How cd. they vote for a 
 member to be a Professor of Painting whose sentiments were at such 
 variance with their own and those of bygone ages. — He sd. Opie had 
 made similar declarations. — I said " not in so public a manner." — 
 He then sd. He found He was to suffer from the indiscretions of His 
 speeches, as He had done for what He had sd. of Mr. Pitt for which He 
 supposed Mr. Phipps &c. wd. never be upon terms with Him. — He then 
 expressed a wish to be a Visitor, which I told Him there wd. be no doubt 
 of. — I shook hands with Sandby & had lively conversation with Him 
 for the first time in many years. — 
 
 * See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
CHAPTER LXIX 
 
 1807 
 
 Embargo on Russian Vessels 
 
 December 11. — [An Order of Council for an Embargo to be laid on 
 all Russian vessels, & to prevent any vessels from being permitted 
 to enter & clear out for Russia was issued by the King in Council on the 
 9th. inst. — and further for the seizing & detaining all Russian vessels 
 whensoever met but that the utmost care be taken for the preservation 
 of all & every part of the cargoes on board of any of the sd. ships or 
 vessels. — 
 
 Sir Stephen Shairpe, the British Consul in Russia, in a letter to the 
 Governor & Company of Russia merchants dated St. Petersburgh, 
 Novr. II informs them, — "That the Seals of Government have been 
 put upon all the warehouses of British merchants, & of British subjects, 
 who are foreign guests " ; and that an embargo had been laid on all 
 British Ships at Cronstadt &c. 
 
 This afternoon Earl Craven aged 36, was married to Miss Brunton 
 aged 24 the Actress of Covent Garden, at His Lordships House, Hill St. 
 Berkeley Square, in the presence of Genl. & Mrs. St. John, the Hon : 
 Berkely Craven, & the nearest relatives of the Lady. Mr. Brunton, her 
 Father, gave Her away. — From small note-book.] 
 
 Sheridan's Impecuniosity 
 
 December 12. — Heath [the engraver] called to desire me to again 
 to take the care of the Landscape by Gainsborough belonging to Mr. 
 Sheridan,* upon which & two others by the same, he advanced to Sheridan 
 ^500, which sum Miss Linwoodf paid Heath to have the opportunity of 
 copying them in Needlework & as a security for the money. — Heath 
 told me that when Sheridan gave a great entertainment to the Prince 
 of Wales, He desired the pictures might be placed in His House that He 
 might seem to have His property abt. Him, but Heath had a hint to 
 
 * R. B. Sheridan. See Vols. I., II. and III. 
 t See Vol. III., page 53. 
 
236 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 take the pictures away in abt. 2 months or they might be seized. — 
 Heath keeps them for Miss Linwood, 
 
 He sd. it was thought by some that Lascelles Hoppner though He had 
 obtained the gold medal had not painted the best picture. I told Him 
 eminent Members of the Academy who did not associate with Hoppner, 
 were of opinion that the picture by Lascelles Hoppner had more promise 
 in it than the other. — He sd. He cd. not suppose that Turner can be 
 sufficiently informed of the Science of Perspective to quahfy Him to 
 give Lectures in it. — Tresham, He sd. has got the Professorship of Paint- 
 ing, which He has been long looking to & may give Poetry with His 
 Lectures. — He mentioned the insanity of Sheldon Professor of Anatomy 
 in the Academy, & sd. Mr. Wilson who had the care of Dr. Wm. Hunters 
 museum wd. wiUingly act as a Substitute for Him witht. reward. — 
 He told me He reckoned that He shd. be able to finish the Plate of the 
 death oj Lord Nelson from West's picture in abt. 2 years more. He sd. 
 for the sake of introducing many portraits. West has put in so many Heads 
 that something of a spotty effect is produced by it which will be difficult 
 to regulate. — 
 
 The Foundling Hospital 
 
 Mr. David Pike Watts's* I dined at. — Mr. Watts told me that Mr. 
 Bernard quitted his residence at the Foundling Hospital in consequence 
 of having had continual disputes abt. the management of the concerns 
 of the Hospital, with a party of which Mr. Everitt of Bedford Square 
 was the Head & His principal opponent. — Mr. Watts sd. Mr. Bernard 
 & Mr. Everitt were the Pitt 13 Fox of the Foundling Hospital. — He spoke 
 highly of the good disposition of Mrs. Bernard who witht. assuming 
 anything is highly accomplished, speaking several languages &c. Mr. 
 Bernard has much knowledge of building, & speculates in that way 
 by buying or erecting Houses under His own superintendence. — 
 
 Crotch and Catalan! 
 
 Dr. Crotchf spoke of Catalani the Singer. He said she is modest 
 
 * Constable's uncle. See Vol. III., page 181. 
 
 ^ On October 18, 1779, it was announced in an advertisement that " Mrs. Crotch is 
 arrived in town, with her son, the Musical Child [not yet five years old], who will perform 
 on the organ every day as usual, from one o'clock to three, at Mrs. Hart's, Milliner's, Picca- 
 dilly." Such was the introduction to London of William Crotch (1775-1847), who was 
 born in Green's Lane, Norwich, to Michael Crotch and his wife Isabella. He first began 
 to play on an organ built by his father, performed at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, at the age 
 of fifteen. Soon thereafter he became organist of St. John's College, Oxford, Professor of 
 Music at the University in 1797, and on the establishment of the Royal Academy of Music 
 in 1822 he was appointed first Principal. His musical compositions include the juvenile 
 " The Captivity of Judah," written in 1789 (a work wholly distinct from the oratorio of 
 the same name in 1834), and " Palestine," his most important work, which was produced 
 on April 29^ 18 12, at the Hanover Square Rooms. It is not definitely known when he 
 settled in London, but Farington proves that he was here in December, 1807. 
 
 Crotch's last public appearance was at Westminster Abbey on June 28, 1834, when he 
 played the organ at a Handel Festival. 
 
1807] Crotch and Catalan! 237 
 
 in her deportment & a good Mother to Her Children. — Of Her powers as 
 a Singer He said she has an admirable delivery of Her voice, so that the 
 words she expresses may be heard when she is a hundred feet from those 
 who listen to Her. She has the true Itahan deHvery, which is distinct 
 & flowing, & so generally does this power belong to the Italians that 
 even indifferent singers of that Country posess it. — She has also taste 
 & sings with so much feehng that He had not heard her 5 minutes before 
 his eyes watered. — Her defects are that she frequently sings out of tune 
 & overloads Her songs with flourishes, such as Operate on the Gallery 
 of the Opera, but destroy the simplicity which shd. prevail, in her singing. 
 — He said there is in many a strong prejudice against Her. — 
 
 Overcharged with Wind 
 
 Of Madame Mara* He spoke very highly. He thought she sung 
 with more jeeling than anyone, but Her delivery was in the German stile. 
 Porta mento is the word used by Dr. Burney for delivery. He explained 
 what He meant by German delivery by comparing it with the pipe of 
 an instrument so overcharged with wind, as to prevent the sounds from 
 flowing smoothly & easily. — 
 
 Of Mrs. Billingtonf He sd. that she never afforded Him the least 
 pleasure. She had as much execution as Madame Mara, & a very fine 
 voice, but not the least feeling. — 
 
 Madame Grassinit had a very fine figure & fine action, but Her voice 
 & powers were inferior to Catalani — Mara, & Billington, — yet such is the 
 modesty of Catalani, that speaking to Mrs. Forster, (Miss Bankes) she sd. 
 " Grassini cd. have sung this better than I can do." 
 
 The Noblest Music 
 
 After tea Dr. Crotch played a considerable time on a Piano Forte. 
 West asked Him which is the noblest of all musical compositions. Crotch 
 answered, " The last Chorus of the Messiah," adding, " it comprehends all 
 the excellencies of musical composition." 
 
 West said He last night reed, a letter from Fulton at New York, 
 who informed Him that He has invented & established a Passage Boat 
 to be navigated by Steam only. — It goes to Albany twice a week & carries 
 70 Passengers, &in less time by 15 Hours than the Boat which carries the 
 mail. — 
 
 * See Vol. I., page 60. 
 
 t See Vol. I., page 21. 
 
 X Josephina Grassini was born in Lombardy in 1773, and was engaged to succeed 
 BantI (see Vol. I., pages 60 and 307) to sing from March to July at a salary of ;£3,ooo. 
 Grassini left London in 1806 and died at Milan in 1850. Vigee's portrait of her as Zaire 
 in Winter's opera was engraved by S. W. Reynolds. 
 
238 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Wordsworth and Wilkie 
 
 Constable spoke of a picture of Card flayers now painting by Wilkie 
 as being most admirably executed as far as is done. He was with Wilkie 
 yesterday who told Him that when he has made a Sketch for a picture 
 & settled His design, He then walks about looking for a person proper 
 to be a model for completing each character in his picture, & He paints 
 everything from the life. — He sd. He sometimes walks abt. for a week 
 before He can meet with the character of head &c. that will suit Him. — 
 
 Constable says. He has great resolution of mind & is not likely to be 
 affected by the ill-judged suggestions of those who obtrude them upon 
 Him. — He sd. the Card Players He shall finish not declaring it to be for 
 any particular person but when finished will see who is disposed to offer 
 most for it. — He was offended with Wordsworth who offered to propose 
 subjects to Him to paint, & gave Him to understand that when He could 
 not think of subjects as well as paint them He wd. come to Him. — 
 
¥^. 
 
 
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 ;'''"v) 
 
 William Wordsworth 
 From a Print in the British Museuin 
 
 [To Uice p. 23 
 
CHAPTER LXX 
 
 1807 
 
 Wordsworth's High Opinion of Himself 
 
 December 12. — Constable told me that Wilkie has complained to 
 Him of the loss of time & interruption He suffers from going down to the 
 Admiralty to paint the Mother of Lord Mulgrave with all Her Parapher- 
 nalia. He sd. that when He has proceeded on his work at Home one day 
 & feels eager to go on with it the next He is obhged to leave it for the 
 above purpose. 
 
 Constable remarked upon the high opinion Wordsworth entertains 
 of Himself. He told Constable that while He was a Boy going to Hawks- 
 head School, His mind was often so posessed with images so lost in 
 extraordinary conceptions, that He has held by a wall not knowing but 
 He was part of it. — He also desired a Lady, Mrs. Loyd, near Windermere 
 when Constable was present to notice the singular formation of His 
 Skull. — Coleridge remarked that this was the effect of intense thinking. 
 — I observed to Constable if so, He must have thought in His Mother's 
 womb. 
 
 At Carlisles, Sotheby sd. that Wordsworths poetry not only surpassed 
 any that had ever been written but wd. probably never be equalled. 
 Thus do these persons bepraise each other. — 
 
 Money and Mentality 
 
 Mr. Watts said He had observed that men who deal in money & 
 have much to do in accounts of money suffer from it in their mental 'powers^ 
 which by such kind of exertion are weakened. He had known Bankers 
 who had proved the truth of it. West upon this sd. that exertion in his 
 art did not produce the same effect & that study to Him is necessary 
 & grateful. — Carlisle then took up the subject to shew that the business 
 of calculating sums is a great strain upon the mind, being forced & dry 
 unaccompanied by any amusement. — 
 
 Mr. Watts said a gentleman at Putney having provided an entertain- 
 ment for a Company invited a singing man to add to the amusement who 
 was to be paid for it. When the Desert was set on a Pine apple was 
 placed upon the table, which the singing man caught at without ceremony 
 
 239 
 
240 The tarington Diary [1807 
 
 and cut deep into It helping himself to a large part of it. The gentleman 
 seeing this went out of the room & soon after the singing man was called 
 out, and the gentleman addressing gave Him the money He was to receive 
 & dismissed Him by telling Him His company was no longer desired. — 
 We were much pleased with the kind attention of Mr. Watts who was 
 solicitous to oblige us. — He expressed to me His knowledge of the notice 
 I had taken of His nephew, Mr. Constable & how sensible Constable 
 was of my goodness. — 
 
 The King and Smirke 
 
 December 14. — Mr. West I called upon before 12 oClock & remained 
 with Him till past 4, the whole time passed in conversation. — We first 
 talked of the business of Thursday next at the Academy General Meeting, 
 and He expressed a desire that it should be confined to settling a question 
 to be decided by the King respecting the rotation oj Council, — which 
 as it now stands would be alternately 4 one year & 3 the next ; owing to 
 5 new Council having been admitted this year. — He wished the business 
 of raising the Salaries of the Officers of the Academy to be postponed 
 to enable Him in a private interview with His Majesty to prepare Him 
 for it. — This I approved & sd. I wd. act accordingly. — He thought the 
 Salaries of the Keeper, & of the Secretary might be increased to ^50 
 a yr. & that of the Treasurer to ^^loo. — I asked Him what He thought 
 occasioned the King to strike Smirke' s* name out when offered to Him 
 for Keeper of the Royal Academy. — He said He could inform me of it. 
 It originated with Richards, who induced Beechey to go to the King (He 
 being then in favor with His Majesty) with such a representation of 
 Smirke as to establish a prejudice against Him in His Majesty's mind. 
 
 That Damned Academy Business 
 
 Lord Somerville who was then much with the King, said to a person 
 who communicated it to West " That Beechey had been with the King 
 about that damned Academy business." — West had a full proof of the 
 interest Richards took in the rejection of Smirke when His name was 
 carried up as being elected Keeper. — The King on seeing the name on the 
 paper said " I thought I should not have seen this name " or words to 
 that effect, & then proceeded to draw a line through it & to write a note 
 of rejection. — After the King had done this, Richards advanced to His 
 Majesty, y thanked Him Jor what He had done. — West was the only 
 person then present. — I asked West what could cause Richards to act 
 so malignant a part ? He said it was owing to Smirke having made 
 an attack upon Him in the Academy, at the great dinner, for having 
 allowed His name to be printed in the Catalogue of the Exhibition 
 against a picture painted by His Son Richd. Smirke. This made Richards, 
 who never forgives anything, his implacable enemy. 
 
 * Robert Smirke. See Vols. I., 11. and III. 
 
1807] R.A.'s as Democrats 241 
 
 I said that those who attended the King during His last illness, 
 medical men, had mentioned that the King at times raved upon Smirke's 
 name as a Democrat, and of course it must be concluded that such an 
 accusation had been made against him. — West replied That Wyatt was 
 the person who had first prejudiced the King's mind against the Academi- 
 cians as Democrats & prepared Him to receive such a representation as 
 Beechey might give. — He then said He, Wyatt, had ruined the King, 
 as He had done Mr. Beckjord oj Fonthill. The Kings private purse had 
 been exhausted by Him in building at Kezv 8c in other places, & now 
 everything is at a stand, & many persons left in a situation subjected 
 to great losses. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 i6 
 
CHAPTER LXXI 
 
 1807 
 
 Beckford and his Fortune 
 
 December 14. — He [West] told me that the latter end of October, 
 while He was at Bath, Mr. Beckford, requested him to come to Fonthill, 
 which He did & staid there three days. Mr. Beckford represented to Him 
 the state of His affairs, exhibiting a very great change indeed from 
 His former situation. Four years ago the building of the Abbey at 
 Fonthill had cost -^242,000. He showed that Wyatt by His negligence 
 & inattention, had caused Him an unnecessary expense of ^^30,000. — 
 He said that at present, such is the state of Commerce, that His Jamaica 
 estates are rather an expense to Him than a source of Income ; — That He 
 had to answer claims upon Him been obliged to sell his estate in Bed- 
 Jordshire which brought ^62,000 & His estate in the neighboroud of 
 St. Pancrass for j^i2,ooo. — Nothing now remains to Him but His un- 
 productive Jamaica estates, & the Fonthill estate, which is reckoned at 
 ^loooo a year ; more might be made of it were the extensive park & 
 grounds turned to greater advantage. Upon this income He knows it 
 is impossible to keep up His former establishment, & He has accordingly 
 reduced it to a very limited scale compared with what it had been. — His 
 carriages & Horses have been sent away for sale & Coachman, grooms 
 & attendants, discharged. — He also desired West to assist Him in disposing 
 of His valuable collection of pictures and drawings, saying at the same 
 time, He should feel much at parting with them as they never could 
 be recovered by Him. — 
 
 Beckford and Persecution 
 
 I asked West how He was in spirits ? He said, He appeared to bear 
 it in a manly manner, saying. He had been accustomed to persecution 
 8c mortification, observing that the change from what He had experienced 
 in early life had been great indeed. Then incense was offered to Him & 
 flowers strewed in his way wherever He went. — He seemed to think His 
 education had not been conducted judiciously, and that being brought 
 up in private. He had not experienced those checks which are useful. 
 That at a pubhc school He should have been exposed to make His way 
 among others, taking the consequences of things as they might happen. 
 
 242 
 
William Beckford (Vathek) 
 
 Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds 
 
 From a Print in the British Museum, engraved by T. A. Dean 
 
 [To face p. 242 
 
1807] Beckford and Persecution 243 
 
 He has at times spoken of the charge which has caused Society to with- 
 draw from Him, which He always represents to be persecution founded 
 in injustice & falsehood. He says He can never forgive Himself for two 
 things : One the breaking His promise to His Mother who urged Him 
 not to go to Powderham Castle (Lord Courtneys)* at the time He did, 
 when the affair took place which has so much injured His reputation ; — 
 and the other His yielding to the entreaties of His wife. Lady Margaret 
 Beckford to quit England, & go for a time to Swiss erland, — while this 
 matter was agitating the public mind. — Dr. Lettice, His ci-devant 
 Tutor, & Lord Thurlow, both seconded Lady Margaret in Her endeavour 
 to effect this point. — 
 
 In Love with Beckford 
 
 West said, that Mr. Beckford's mother never believed Her Son to 
 have been criminal. She wished Him, she told West, not to visit at Pow- 
 derham Castle as she was convinced there were persons who wished 
 to injure His reputation & lower His importance. She said the fact was, 
 that Lady Loughborough, aunt to Lord Courtney, was in love with 
 Beckford, and had a correspondence with Him by letter, while on this 
 visit at Powderham Castle, & Lord Courtney then a Boy, carried the 
 letters, one of which He so mismanaged that it fell into wrong hands, 
 which Beckford discovering & being very passionate, He went to Lord 
 Courtney's room, while He was in bed, it being morning, & locking the 
 door, He horsewhipped Him, which causing the Boy to scream out, His 
 Tutor came to the door & found it locked. This gave cause for the 
 suspicion & the reports which were soon after circulated. — 
 
 I listened to this relation which with many other circumstances was 
 given to Him by Mr. Beckford's [mother] when at Her desire He visited 
 Her alone at Her House at Hampstead ; but I could not but feel the 
 improbability of much of the story, it not at all agreeing with many 
 other well authenticated circumstances, & being in itself difficult to give 
 credit to ; and from all I have heard the stories told to clear Mr. Beck- 
 ford have not been well considered ; though on the other hand, it does 
 not appear that there is any proof actually to support the charge against 
 Him.— 
 
 West told me that Lord Aboyne, brother to the late Lady Margaret 
 Beckford, who went down to Fonthill to effect a separation between Her 
 & Mr. Beckford after the report was circulated, and quitted them in the 
 most hostile manner, has of late written to & had intercourse with Mr, 
 Beckford. — Lady Margaret was pregnant at the time & continued at- 
 tached to Mr. Beckford till Her death which happened two or three years 
 afterwards while they were abroad. 
 
 * William Viscount Courtenay (1768-1835), declared Earl of Devon on May 14, 
 1831, by the House of Lords. Dying unmarried, the Viscountcy became extinct, and the 
 Earldom of Devon devolved on another branch of the Courtenay family, as heirs male of 
 the guarantee of 1553. 
 
 VOL. IV. 16* 
 
244 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 Lawrence's Bravura 
 
 I asked West how He liked the portrait of Mr. Pitt painted by Law- 
 rence. He said it was a remarkably strong likeness, & had so much of 
 what may be called individuality in it, touches abt. the eyes, & nostrils, 
 which are only seen when a picture is attentively painted from the life, 
 that it surprised Him how such circumstances cd. be retained in the 
 memory. — He then expressed an apprehension, & intended to mention 
 it to Lawrence, that He is now endeavouring to give to His pictures that 
 sort of pencilling & execution as will show them to have been painted 
 with facility that kind of Bravura that carries a great charm with it ; 
 but that it is done at the expence of truth 8c want of correct drawings 
 both being sometimes sacrificed by Him to it. — He said " take off Mr. 
 Pitt's coat, & no body would be found under it," — the points of Shoulder, 
 the elbow, & the wrist, are not measured & indicated. — He said if Law- 
 rence was to proceed in this way He would gradually become incorrect 
 & a mannerist. — He then spoke of Him as an artist in high terms, & laughed 
 at the idea of comparing any other artist with Him. — 
 
CHAPTER LXXII 
 
 1807 
 
 America Desires to Remain Neutral 
 
 December 14. — I asked West what He thought of our situation 
 with America. He said, that Jefferson in his message to the Senate 
 had seemed rather Hostile to this country, which was to humour the 
 people who still remain irritated about the Chesapeake business, — 
 that the great object of America is to preserve their neutrality, but if 
 they should be forced by Buonaparte to declare themselves it will be 
 for this Country. — 
 
 Art in France 
 
 He spoke of the vast encouragement given to Artists in France at 
 this period. He dined in company with a young American of extra- 
 ordinary talents a few days ago, who was just arrived from France, & 
 stated, that David has now a Commission from the Government (Buona- 
 parte) to paint 6 pictures each 40 feet wide, the subjects the great actions 
 of the French under Buonaparte &c. — Vincent & other artists are also 
 thus employed. — 
 
 He Meant Farington 
 
 We talked of filling the Office of Secretary to the Academy in case 
 of the death or inability of Richards. I told Him that when in the last 
 Summer He said to me " That there was one person who above all others 
 was most jit jor that office,^'' that I could not but know from his previous 
 opinions & His manner, that He meant myself. He sd. He certainly did. 
 — I added that Smirke had much urged me to take the office & that 
 Daniell joined Him in it. — He then said that of the Academy excepting a 
 few members, I should be certain, it remained only to be assured that 
 I should not meet the fate of Smirke with the King. To prevent this, He 
 would endeavour to find out how the King's mind stands at present, 
 by bringing forward my name as a person likely to be thought of by the 
 Academy in case of a vacancy. — He wd. also do what wd. be equally 
 necessary viz : endeavour to dispose the minds of those who are about 
 the King favorably to me. — 
 
 245 
 
246 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 West and His Taxes 
 
 He told me He had lately been called upon by the Commissioners 
 appointed for the Property Tax at the instance of their Surveyor who 
 had not been satisfied with His return, & had accordingly rated Him to 
 pay Sixty-three founds a quarter. He attended a Board at which Mr. 
 Colhns of Berners-street presided & it was so ordered that few were 
 present. He showed that the Income which He receives from the King 
 & upon which He lives is the payment oj a debt, not a gift ; & that it is 
 for work done long since. That as Surveyor of pictures, that part of 
 His Income has lo per cent deducted before it is paid to Him. Mr. 
 Collins then asked Him what He wd. propose to pay [on what he] supposed 
 to be the average annual gains from his profession, & He named a Sum 
 with which Mr. Collins expressed Himself satisfied. — 
 
 Bubb Doddington 
 
 Speaking of how much He knew of the secret movements of the 
 Court of this country and how much a few individuals had contributed 
 to produce great much to be regretted effects, He said, that Had He like 
 Bubb Doddington, kept a diary* it would have been a most curious & 
 interesting record, & would have explained much that is accounted for 
 in other ways. 
 
 December 15. — Constable called & told me that Miss Watts had 
 yesterday expressed to Him that Her Father had great pleasure in the 
 party which assembled at His House on Saturday last. Mr. Watts 
 afterwards confirmed it, & hoped that He might have many such meet- 
 ings. — Constable then told me that the rough manners of the late Mr. 
 Ben Kentonf who left Mr. Watts His great fortune, rather caused Him 
 to go to the opposite side in manners than to imitate Him, & in conse- 
 quence He was called, Constables mother, Mr. Watts's sister, said a 
 milk sop, and attended & acted in the management of Balls & 
 Assemblies. — 
 
 We talked of Dr. Crotch who married the daughter of a Bookseller, 
 an old attachment, & has children. He said Crotch is a very natural 
 character, not assuming anything, & on that acct. profits less by His 
 profession than many do who assume a great deal. — He said that Bartle- 
 man,X the Singer, has 3 guineas a night, when He goes to assist at musical 
 
 * George Bubb Dodington (1691-1762), politician, wit, and verse writer, belonged to 
 an old Somerset family, and was in April, 1761, created Baron Melcombe of Melcombe 
 Regis, in Dorsetshire. Cumberland's " Memoirs " give an excellent description of Doding- 
 ton, and a life of him was published recently. His Diary appeared in 1784. 
 
 t See entry December i. 
 
 t James Bartleman (1769-1821) was educated under Dr. Cooke at the Choristers' 
 School, Westminster Abbey, and became famous as a bass singer. He was buried in the 
 cloisters of Westminster Abbey, and his valuable musical library was sold by White, the 
 auctioneer, of Storey's Gate. 
 
1807] Story of a Portrait 247 
 
 parties, & that now Dr. Crotch has the same. — He had been for several 
 times at musical parties at Charles Greville's* at Paddington, & Greville 
 on His coming away wd. say to Him " Really unless you will fix terms 
 on which you will allow us to have your assistance I cannot request 
 it." Accordingly Crotch informed Him that His terms were 3 guineas 
 a night, since which time Greville has never requested His attendance. 
 Constable related another anecdote of Greville. — A beautiful young 
 woman called Emily, who lived for a time with Greville & afterwards 
 went to Bengal with Pott, son to the Surgeon, sat to Sir Joshua Reynolds 
 for a picture in which she was represented as Thais. f This picture 
 when finished Greville could not pay for, but proposed to the present 
 Lord Dysart to take it, & He was to have it for the sum paid if He should 
 claim it. But Greville not being influenced by any strong desire for it, 
 allowed near 30 years to pass witht. applying for [it], but lately on the 
 reputation of Sir Joshua rising, & this picture being spoken of He put 
 in his claim for it & took away paying the 100 guineas which Lord Dysart 
 had paid for it. — The transaction, however, has not been agreeable to 
 the Dysart family though His Lordship who prefers peace to everything 
 else has submitted to it. — 
 
 * The Hon. Charles Greville, second son of the eighth Baron Brooke and first Earl of 
 Warwick. He was an early friend of Emma Hart (Nelson's Emma), and his portrait is 
 included by Reynolds in one of the latter's Dilettanti pictures. Romney also painted his 
 portrait (178 1), and it was engraved by Meyer and reproduced in Bourke's " History of 
 White's Club." 
 
 On August 8th, 1788, Greville wrote to Romney : " Sir WilHam [Hamilton] made me 
 a present of his portrait, and I gave him mine, which is now at Naples. . . . You will there- 
 fore include in Sir William's note his portrait and all the pictures sent to Naples, except my 
 portrait, which, with the Straw Hat, you vnll charge to me." 
 
 t Mr. R. W. Egerton, of Stansty Lodge, Wrexham, writes : The " Emily " of the 
 Farington Diary, pubhshed in the Morning Post of I2th February, 1923, is referred to 
 in the second volume of the " Memoirs of William Hickey, 1775-1782." In Ch. XIX. 
 entitled " Mrs. Pott," Emily Warren is frequently mentioned. 
 
 " Sir Joshua Reynolds . . . had painted Emily's portrait many times, and in different 
 characters. He often declared every limb of hers perfect in symmetry, and altogether he 
 had never seen so faultless and finely formed a human figure." 
 
 "In Ch. XXIV. of the same book, page 322, is an account of Emily Warren's 
 departure for India with Mr. Robert Pott." 
 
 [Emily Warren (alias Bertie, alias Bet. Coventry) sat to Sir Joshua Reynolds for the pic- 
 ture of " Thais." Moreover, it was Charles Greville who paid for the full-length portrait, 
 as recorded in the Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds by Graves and Cronin. — Ed.] 
 
CHAPTER LXXIII 
 
 1807 
 
 Extravagance 
 
 December 17. — Mrs. Hankin (late Mrs. D. Springhall) stated that 
 Her nephew Danl. Wakefield had lived 5 years with the young woman, 
 who by the decission of Sir Wm. Scott, has been declared to be 
 His wife. While the validity of the marriage was contesting He was 
 ordered by the Court to allow Her a certain Sum weekly for Her support. 
 For this He was obliged to apply to His Mother, who by work & by writing 
 for reviews, & for other pubhcations, was enabled to supply Him though 
 with much difficulty & self denial even to wanting suitable Cloaths for 
 Herself, — which caused her Sister to prefer Cloaths to Her. — Edward 
 Wakefield quitted His farm boasting of having ^20,000 but upon examina- 
 tion it has been found that He is not worth anything. — He does not 
 reside with His wife, and their children, 5 or 6 are with Mrs. Wakefield & 
 other friends. — Danl. Wakefield* by the extravagance of the Woman He 
 has married is also greatly in debt. — 
 
 Application 
 
 General Meeting at the Academy I went to. — 
 
 I walked home with West. He told me that for 6 weeks at this dark 
 Season of the year. He seldom does anything in Painting, but employs 
 His time in writing and regulating various concerns. He said that He 
 is slow in bringing His mind to bear upon a subject but when once His 
 mind is occupied by one He is a Child to everything else, till He has com- 
 pleted what He has undertaken j — He then can go to another with equal 
 
 • Daniel Wakefield (1776- 1846), barrister and writer on political economy, was the 
 second son of Edward Wakefield, a London merchant, and his wife Priscilla, daughter of 
 Bell (1751-1833). She, as a philanthropist, estabhshed several savings banks, called " fru- 
 gaUty banks." She was, however, most widely known as a Viriter of children's books, her 
 most popular works including " The Juvenile Travellers." 
 
 Priscilla was his second wife, he having been married first to a Miss Elizabeth Jackson 
 (see under November 18, 1807). 
 
 The Edward Wakefield (1774- 18 54) referred to was Daniel's brother, who was a farmer 
 near Romford, in Essex, an authority on agriculture, philanthropist, and statistician — he 
 was the author of " Ireland, Statistical and Politiclal," published in 18 12. 
 
 248 
 
1807] Application 249 
 
 attention to it. He said, " That a Painter who does not posess His mind 
 fully with His subject and proceed unremittingly upon it till it is finished, 
 but on the contrary runs from one subject to another will do little." — 
 He told me His usual time of rising in a morning at this Season is a 
 quarter before 9 oClock or at 9, and to breakfast a little before 10. — He is 
 generally in bed about 12 oClock. — When the days become longer & 
 the weather warmer, He rises sometimes at 6 oClock. 
 
 December 18. — Lawrence [said] Sir Francis Baring usually rises at 
 half-past 9 in the morning, — breakfast | past 10 ; dines I past 6, — eats 
 gruel at Eleven, — and goes to bed, the last of His company, at half-past 
 Eleven or towards twelve oClock. — He is an Advocate for long rest. — Sir 
 Francis is an Advocate for His friend, the Late Marquiss of Lansdowne, 
 who. He acknowledges, was suspected of duplicity & insincerity, but His 
 manner which was courteous and His being solicitous to please arose. 
 Sir Francis says, from the gratification He had in seeing others happy.— 
 
 A Nation of Traders 
 
 Lord Reddesdale* has lately sat to Lawrence. His Lordship is so 
 perpetual a talker that Lawrence has felt Himself wearied by it, — He 
 has spoken of the declaration published by Spence & Cobbet, " That 
 Commerce is not necessary to the prosperity of this Country." — He 
 allows that the Commercial influence has been carried too far, & subjected 
 us to be called a Nation of traders, but that Commerce has undoubtedly 
 contributed to raise this country to its present importance. Lawrence 
 thinks the Ministry are inclined rather to favor this new opinion so far 
 as to reconcile them to such privations & difficulties as must attend the 
 present state of things. — 
 
 Led Astray 
 
 Lawrence read a letter reed, from a Lady a friend of Lady Crewe, 
 giving a dreadful acct. of the profligate conduct of Mr. Crewe, only 
 Son of Lord Crewe. It is stated that Lord Crewe can never see 
 Him again. His vices & His expences have been unbounded. On his 
 late marriage thousands were advanced to discharge His debts, but the 
 money was applied by a Major James, an evil adviser & pander, to relieve 
 Lord Moira from some of His distresses. James has acted a similar 
 part to each, promoting their profligate expences. Young Mrs. Crewe 
 says Her Husband has hitherto behaved well to Her, and she believes 
 He has rather been led into vice & expence than gone to it from dis- 
 position.t Lord Moira's estate in Ireland is no longer His own, but 
 
 * See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 t John Crewe (who became the second Baron Crewe in 1829), baptised 1772, at St. 
 George's, Hanover Square, was a Major-General in the Army in 1808, Lieutenant-General 
 in 18 13, and General in 1830. He married on May 5, 1807, Henrietta Maria Anne, daugh- 
 ter of George Walker-Hungerford, of Calne, Wilts, and died on December 4, 1835, at his 
 chateau near Liege. To the present Marquess of Crewe belongs the well-known portrait 
 of John Crewe as a child in fancy dress, a Henry VIII. , by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
250 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 this at present is endeavoured to be kept a secret from His wife, Lady 
 Loudon. — 
 
 December 19. — Wm. Wells [shipbuilder and picture collector] 
 said that He saw at Cronstadt Russians working upon the Fortifications 
 there. He saw a Groupe of them at dinner which consisted of bread & 
 onions ; after which each of them drank a glass of train oil, which they 
 did with much apparent relish, — 
 
 The Royal Family Leave 
 
 December 20. — The newspapers of this day give the Gazette of last 
 night containing information from Sir Sidney Smith dated Deer. 6th. 
 stating " That the Prince Regent of Portugal, with the whole of the 
 Royal Family, consisting of 15 persons, had embarked for the Brazils, 
 with 7 sail of the Line. Five Frigates, Three armed Brigs, & upwards 
 of 30 Brazil Merchant Vessels. — That, the Portuguese fleet is attended 
 by His Majesty's Ships Marlborough, London, Monarch, & Bedford, 
 under the command of Captn. Moore. One Line of Battleship is on its 
 way to Plymouth. Only one serviceable Portuguese Line of Battle 
 Ship and 3 Hulks had been left in the Tagus. Eight Russian Line of 
 Battle Ships remained in the Tagus, only 3 of which were in a condition 
 for Sea." — " Rear Admiral Sir Sidney Smith has resumed the blockade 
 of the Port of Lisbon with 5 sail of the Line, & will probably by this 
 time have been joined by an additional squadron of line of battle-Ships." 
 
 J. Offley's I dined at. — Much satisfaction expressed at the news from 
 Portugal. The Lisbon and Oporto Club of Merchants trading to those 
 places gave an entertainment on Friday last to the Portuguese Am- 
 bassador and His Secretary at the London Tavern where the Club is held. 
 J. & C. Offley, members of the Club, were there. The dinner was at 7 
 oClock, abt. 18 sat down, & remained till past Eleven, when they removed 
 to another room to Coffee &c. The dinner was sumptuous. In the 
 Desert were Pines &c. Champaigne, Burgundy, Hock, Tokay &c. &c. 
 were the wines. — This Club is limited to 30 in number, & the meetings are 
 held the first Thursday in every month for 8 months, including the 
 Winter Season. — Each member subscribes 5 guineas annually, & pays 5 
 shillings each time of his dining at the Club. 
 
 Death of Angelica Kauffman 
 
 December 23. — [At the General Assembly of the Royal Academy 
 West] read the letter which was a translation of a letter reed, by Bonomi 
 from Rome informing Him of the death of Angelica Kauffman* at 
 Rome, on the 5th of Novr. last, & mentioning many particulars of Her 
 piety & resignation. It was resolved that a copy of the letter should 
 be entered upon the records of the Society. — Hoppner then observed that 
 the death of Academicians had not hitherto been noticed with proper 
 
 * See Index, Vol. I., and entry under January 6, 1808. 
 
1807] Death of Angelica Kaufifman 251 
 
 respect. He therefore moved & it was agreed to unanimously, that 
 upon the death of an Academician, a General Assembly should be convened 
 to receive a report of it. — 
 
 Tresham then began to speak, Whether the vacancy made by the 
 death of Angelica shd. be filled in Fehry. next. — I replied that upon the 
 death of Wm. Hamilton the Academy going only by the 'printed, book, 
 acted upon the original law & filled the vacancy made by His death ; 
 but the printed book is a Jalse representation ; the original Law made in 
 1769 was repealed on the I2th of Novr. 1770 and no further entry re- 
 specting it appears upon the records. — It stands then that 3 months 
 notice shall be given to the Academicians of a vacancy of an Academician 
 before it is filled up, — I then referred to the books, showed them the law 
 & the repeal of it, & they became convinced that it ought not to be 
 otherways than that 3 months notice should be given & consequently 
 that Angelica Kauflman's seat cannot be filled before Febry. 1809. — 
 Soane agreed with me strongly. Tresham was the only one that hesitated, 
 but He agreed to it, & it was resolved unanimously to act agreeably to 
 the Law of 1770. — 
 
 Hoppner expressed to the President His concern that He shd. have 
 listened to Richards so far as to have agreed to postpone appointing 
 a Secretary in His room : sd. He had not been fit for the Office in the 
 last ID years ; and perhaps never was. — 
 
 It was a very amicable meeting. Copley found me in the room alone, 
 & accosted me civilly, the first time in several years. — He appeared to 
 me to have suffered much in His faculties : His mind seemed to be 
 incapable of comprehending what was going forward. — 
 
CHAPTER LXXIV 
 
 I 807- I 808 
 
 Pitt's Coat 
 
 December 24. — Lawrence I dined with. — He told me Hughes was 
 so much pleased with His portrait of Mr. Pitt that He brought the 
 Bishop of Lincoln to see it, who squinting at it said it was very like, but 
 it wanted a Blue Coat [Lawrence had made it red] the only dress, which 
 Mr. Pitt had worn from the time He was Eleven years old, except in Court 
 dress. — We considered this a trait of the narrow feelings of this mathe- 
 matician in matters of art. — 
 
 Lawrence saw the premium pictures at the British Institution to-day. 
 — He thought Pocock's,* which got the 100 guineas a very indifferent 
 picture, a bad Westall. — 
 
 Lawrence dined at Kemble's on Sunday last. Sir Gilbert Heathcotef 
 & His Brother, Mr. Robert Heathcote & His wife (late Miss Searle the 
 Columbine) were there. — R. Heathcote is what is called a ruined man, 
 but has £3000 a year still remaining. — He has been at Lisbon since His 
 
 * Isaac Pocock (1782-1835), born In Bristol, was the eldest son of Nicholas Pocock, 
 marine painter, and brother of William Innes Pocock, also a marine painter. Isaac studied 
 under Romney and Beechey, and Hayley in a sonnet referred to him as the " Ingenious son 
 of an ingenious sire." He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1800, and became a 
 member of the Liverpool Academy in 1812. 
 
 On inheriting some property from his uncle, Sir Isaac Pocock, he devoted himself mainly 
 to the drama. His first piece was a musical farce, Tes or No, which was produced at 
 the Haymarket on August 31, 1808, and other works by him include Hit or Miss (18 10), his 
 most successful piece ; the Miller and his Men, with music by Bishop ; For England Ho ! 
 and he also dramatised several of Sir Walter Scott's novels. Harriet Mellon, Madame 
 Vestris, Macready, Liston, Charles Kemble, Farren, and Wallack all appeared in his dramas. 
 
 t Sir Gilbert Heathcote, fourth baronet (1773- 18 54), M.P. for Lincolnshire, 1796- 
 1806, and for Rutland, 1812-1841. He married, first, on August 16, 1793, Katherine 
 Sophia, eldest daughter of John Manners, of Grantham Grange, Lincolnshire ; second, 
 on August 10, 1825, Mrs. Eldon, of Park Crescent, Marylebone. His eldest son (Gilbert 
 John, fifth baronet), by the first marriage, who was created Lord Aveland, in 1856, married, 
 in 1827, Clementina Elizabeth Drummond, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, and their 
 eldest son, Gilbert Henry, twenty-fourth Baron Willoughby de Eresby, was created Earl 
 of Ancaster in 1 892. The present Earl is the second of his hne. 
 
 252 
 
1807J '*The Sea-Sick Minstrel" 253 
 
 marriage & saw Bartolozzi there employed in engraving plates from 
 the pictures of Pellegrini who resides near Him, — & this at 8i or 2 years 
 of age. — 
 
 ^ December 25. — Marchant sd. He never stood before Soane witht. 
 thinking He had a deceitful man to look at. — As to Tresham, He said 
 that from knowing Him in Rome, He had, on coming to England, 
 expressed His opinion of Him to many of His friends. He sd. while 
 Tresham was aiming to be an Academician He had lost 2 years in 
 running abt. & soHciting members for their votes, & that when He 
 had an object in view He never ceased His attempts till He obtained. — 
 While Tresham was writing His Poem of " The Sea-Sick Minstrel " in 
 which He endeavoured to compliment all the Academicians,* — He said, 
 " I am praising many who never were praised before & never will be 
 praised again." — So much for His sincerity. — 
 
 He Related a Joke 
 
 December 26. — Dr. Reynolds said He had often heard, but did 
 not know it from experience, that a tub filled with water placed in a room 
 newly painted, wd. in a short time draw out the turpentine & take off the 
 smell, but it wd. have the effect of making the paint of a less pure colour 
 than it wd. otherways. 
 
 He related a joke passed upon the Royal Society by Charles 2nd. 
 soon after it was founded. — He desired they wd. account to Him " Why 
 a vessel filled to the brim with water should, upon having two fishes 
 put into it, instead of the water, running over the brim subside & become 
 less in quantity ? " — The Philosophers were puzzled at the question, 
 when Mr. Boylef came amongst them, and desired, that before they 
 attempted to account for it, they wd. ascertain thejact. — They proceeded 
 to do so, & having filled a vessel with water introduced two fishes into it, 
 & the water flowed over into their Shoes. — 
 
 Great Collectors 
 
 December 27. — Baker called to invite me to meet Edridge at dinner 
 on Sunday next. He proposed also to invite Marchi, which He wishes 
 
 * Henry Tresham (1749 ?-i8i4), R.A., wrote five volumes of verse, including "The 
 Sea-Sick Minstrel" none of which is mentioned by Lowndes. It was said of Tresham, by 
 the authors of " The Royal Academy and its Members," that " He also wrote poetry, but 
 we do not know that his poetry has lived more than his painting." 
 
 ■]" The Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-1691), the eminent natural philosopher and chemist, 
 fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, the " Great " Earl of Cork. The " Philosophical " or 
 " Invisible College," as Boyle called it, was incorporated after the Restoration as the Royal 
 Society. One of its most active founders, he was elected the Society's president on Novem- 
 ber 30, 1680, but " declined to act from a scruple about the oaths, and was replaced by 
 Wren." Boyle was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 
 
254 The Farington Diary [1807 
 
 to do annually at least. He expects some Christmas^fare from a Sister 
 in the Country.— He told me that Mr. Heber* laid out near ^700 at Isaac 
 Reid'sf sale ; and that Mr. Malone expended abt. 3^180.— For himself 
 He had laid out too much, but thought it was property of such a kind 
 as Citizens do not much value, yet it Had its value, & amused Him. — 
 
 Lord Melville's Nephew 
 
 December 29.— [Lestock] Wilson's I dined at. Philip Dundass, 
 late Governor of Prince of Wales's Island died at Sea having left the 
 Island with a hope of benefit from Sea air. His Uncle, Lord Melville, 
 had caused Him to be appointed Master attendant at Bombay, where 
 He had ^^i 0,000 a year & accumulated 70 or ^80,000, — with which He 
 returned to England, & married a daughr. of Sir John Wedderburn, 
 by whom He had 2 Children. — He accepted the offer of Governor of 
 Prince of Wales's Island, telhng Wilson, that at His age, abt. 43 or 4 
 He was too young to become idle. Accordingly He went to that Island 
 carrying with Him his wife & Her Sister. The CHmate disagreed with 
 them. Mrs. Dundass was sent down to Bengal attended by Mr. Dick, 
 Surgeon, & they both died. — Philip Dundass disagreed with other 
 Members of the Council of the Island. — Wilson concludes that anxiety 
 & bad air, brought on bilious complaints & caused His death. 
 
 Captn. Grey, late of the Duke of Montrose, Indiaman, was through 
 the interest of Dundass appointed a Member of the Council of the Island 
 & went with him but they disagreed & Grey left the Island in the Blen- 
 heim Man of war & was lost in Her. — Wilson sd. Grey was a hot, fooHsh 
 fellow, unfit for any trust or confidence, adding that a fool may be 
 managed while He is a dependant, but give Him power and He will 
 become intractable. — I remarked upon Dundass after having acquired 
 a fortune far beyond his original hopes, exposing Himself to the hazards 
 
 * Richard Heber (1773-1833), " Heber the Magnificent, whose library and cellar," 
 said Sir Walter Scott, " are so superior to all others in the world," was the eldest son of 
 Reginald Heber (Lord of the Manor of Manton, in Yorkshire, and Hodnet, in Shropshire), 
 and half-brother to Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, author of the hymn, " From Green- 
 land's Icy Mountains." Heber, who graduated B.A. in 1796 and took his M.A. in 1797 
 at Oxford, was one of the founders of the Athenaeum Club, and sat in Parliament for Oxford 
 University from 1821 to 1826. He was passionately fond of books from infancy. At the 
 age of eight he compiled a catalogue of his collection, and two years later asked his father 
 to buy books at a sale, where " there would be the best editions of the Classics." Heber 
 went far afield in search of treasures to add to the collections he formed in London, Oxford, 
 Paris, Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp, and other places abroad, and it is computed that the 
 libraries which he possessed in England and on the Continent contained some 150,000 
 volumes, believed to have cost him about ^100,000. When they were sold in the Thirties 
 the collections realised about ;^57}Soo. The Rev. Mr. Dyce wrote of Heber : " Poor 
 man, he expired at Pimlico, in the midst of his rare property, without a friend to close his 
 eyesy and from all I have heard I am led to believe he died broken-hearted." 
 
 f Isaac Reed (1742-1807), well known as an editor of Shakespeare, was a conveyancer, 
 and for upwards of forty years a collector of books relating mainly to English poetry and 
 drama. The sale, conducted by King and Loch^e, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, 
 occupied the auctioneers for thirty-nine days, and the 8,957 lots brought ;^4)386 19s. 6d. 
 
1807-1808] Lord Melville's Nephew 255 
 
 of such a situation. Wilson defended it saying, " That He was right 
 to look to a larger fortune as in these times a man with a family could 
 not go on witht. it." He said, He (Wilson) expends Iss^o a year in- 
 dependent of what His House rent may be reckoned at. — 
 
 1808. 
 
 Pictures by Richard Wilson 
 
 January 1. — Hearne entertained us with an account of His dining 
 at Lord Essex's at Cashiobury, where the Servants brought Him Ak 
 for Beer, & from a side table a piece of Knuckle of Venison instead of a 
 prime part. — 
 
 January 3. — Mr. Booth of the Adelphi, who had 47 pictures sd. 
 to be by Wilson, for a considerable time before His death, was accustomed 
 to come to His rooms in the Adelphi once a week to dinner, & on those 
 days His Son who died in Sept. last was accustomed to dine with him ; 
 the other days in the week it has now been shown He [resided] near 
 London with a French woman who many years ago He brought from 
 France. He has left Her a small income. — Mr. Booth, the Son, lodged 
 at a House in Marybone where He found something agreeable to His 
 disposition of mind, which was timid, in the daughter of the people 
 who owned the House, & He resolved to marry Her, but His death pre- 
 vented it, & He did not leave a Will. His Sisters, Heirs to His estate, 
 Lady Ford & Misses Booth, have settled ^4,000, 3 pr. cents upon Her 
 for her life viz : an annuity of j^i20. — Lady Ford has got all the pictures 
 by Wilson & says she will not sell any of them, nor will she suffer 
 Her House to be dirtied by permitting people to see them. — 
 
 Great Style in Painting 
 
 Colnaghi, the Printseller, is lately returned from the Continent, & 
 told Mr. Baker that the Painters in Paris are now all mad for the great 
 stile in Painting. — Nothing will do but what is upon the Model of Michael 
 Angelo. — Raphael &c. — No prints sought for but those of Marc-antonio 
 &c. — Colnaghi came to England by way of Holland & with great difficulty 
 He got on board a vessel disguised in a Sailor's dress, & while a search 
 was going forward hid himself among the Coals of the Ship, & was so 
 blackened that He was not afterwards recognised by those who knew 
 him. — 
 
CHAPTER LXXV 
 
 An Artist's Income 
 
 January 4. — Collins Junr, [who became a Royal Academician] 
 called to desire me to call on Him to see His pictures painted for the 
 British Institution. — Wm. Daniell [R.A.] called. He sd. that from the 
 time He married He has never got less than Twelve hundred pounds 
 a year, — & sometimes ;£i400. — That His expenses have been between 
 7 & ;^8oo a yr. — that he has a Bond for upwards of ;£5oo from Westall, 
 who is also indebted to Him for upwards of ;^200 for the outfit of WilHam 
 Westall when He went His first voyage. — That He has saved, were 
 all due to Him to be paid, towards ,^2000. — He shewed me Cadel & 
 Davis's acct. for the work of animals, & they make the total expenses 
 of the publication to amount to ^1800. — & calculating upon the sale 
 of all the impressions the clear profit to Wm. Daniell for His trouble 
 in engraving the plates wd. amount to abt. £6^0. He said, He was 
 employed upon it between 5 & 6 months. — Wood, for collecting & 
 arranging the letter press will have the same proportion of profit. Davis 
 & Cadel also, besides all that they will gain upon the paper, printing, 
 & selling at retail prices what they allow to the work at Wholesale prices 
 only, — so that probably they may get near 50 per cent upon the under- 
 taking. — 
 
 Passing Rich 
 
 Mrs. Edwards called & brought me more papers belonging to Her 
 Deceased Brother.* — She said she now found she could live with comfort 
 upon Forty pounds a year. — Her calculation [is] as follows, — 
 
 Lodging, per annum ,^6 6 o 
 
 Weekly Expence of eating, drinking, fire candle &c. &c. 
 
 Eleven shiUings 28 I2 o 
 
 34 18 o 
 Cloaths &c. &c 5 2 o 
 
 £40 o o 
 
 * E. Edwardes, A.R.A. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 256 
 
1808] Manner not Mind 257 
 
 I then reckoned to obtain for her from the Royal Academy — 
 
 per annum ^25 o o 
 
 She has ^^200 in Exchequer bills 10 o o 
 
 also 1^0, 3 pr. cts 2 o o 
 
 £37 o o 
 And by sinking ;^ioo for an annuity for Her life she would obtain A. 
 more interest making Her income ^42. o. o, annually. — 
 
 January 6. — Dance I dined with. Dance sd. He thought the 
 House at Cole-Orton which Sir G. Beaumont is finishing will cost Him 
 with furniture, not less than ^15,000. Sir George will not pay the least 
 attention to the Jurnishing the House but leaves all to Lady Beaumont, 
 who has shown a very bad taste in Her selection — While Dance was 
 at Cole-Orton in October last, they generally rose between 7 & 8 oClock 
 and breakfasted before 9, — and dined rather before four oClock. — In 
 the mornings Sir George painted or rode out with His Sketch book, & 
 in the evenings He put on His Spectacles and again went on with His 
 Sketching. I asked Dance what He thought of sketches of that kind, — 
 He said They were very well to amuse an amateur, — and exhibited con- 
 siderable dexterity in practice, but it was that sort of thing that Ten 
 thousand persons might do if disposed to adopt the practise ; that it 
 was something like what is called striking in penmanship, a matter of 
 execution more than of the mind. — That in such sketches there is no 
 attention to nature or to the peculiar character of the object, but all is 
 made subservient to a particular practice. — He then dwelt upon the 
 excellencies of Claude where the appearances of nature are so deeply 
 studied & so faithfully given. — 
 
 The Lovers of Angelica Kauffman 
 
 Dance went to Italy by Sea, — He sailed from Gravesend in December 
 1758, & did not arrive at Rome till the end of May following, — having 
 had a tedious passage, & stopping at Florence where His Brother N. 
 Dance, met Him. — N. Dance (now Sir N. Holland) went to Italy in 1755, 
 having before that period been abt. 2 years with Hayman* as a pupil, 
 where He became acquainted with Gainsborough.f — At Rome He became 
 acquainted with Angelica Kaufman, and became so enamoured of Her, 
 she encouraging His passion, that when He came to England, whither 
 she also came, it was settled between them that they shd. marry. — 
 But in England she became acquainted with Sir Joshua Reynolds, who 
 showed Her much attention, & it is supposed she looked to Him, expect- 
 ing that He wd. offer Himself to Her. Her reception of Dance having 
 now become more cold, & Her intercourse with Sir Joshua being noticed 
 by Him, He remonstrated with Her in such a manner that she com- 
 plained of His temper & assigned that as a reason for now refusing to 
 
 * Francis Hayman, R.A. 
 
 I See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 VOL. IV. 17 
 
258 The Farington Diary [I8O8 
 
 marry Him. — His passion for Her was extreme & He engaged His 
 Father to write to Her, but all wd. not do, Her resolution remained 
 unaltered. — Dance sd. she never was beautiful, but there was something 
 amiable & feminine in Her appearance that engaged people to Her. — 
 
 Buonaparte in Germany 
 
 January 7. — General Moore* called upon Lawrence today. — He 
 left Sicily with a considerable force to act in conjimction with Sir Sidney 
 Smith against Portugal, if necessary, but the last resolution of the 
 Prince of Brazil to go to Brazil, & to carry ojff the shipping, rendered it 
 unnecessary. — Lord Pembroke who has lately returned from His embassy 
 to Vienna, reports that the popularity of Buonaparte in Germany 
 amounts to enthusiasm. — 
 
 * General Sir John Moore. See Index, Vols. I., II. and III. 
 
 END OF VOL. IV. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Abbot, Charles (Speaker of the House of 
 Commons, afterwards Lord Col- 
 chester), 6 1 
 
 Abbotsford, Kj^n 
 
 Abercorn, Anne Jane, Marchioness of, 162 
 
 , John James, ist Marquess of, 86, 154 
 
 Aberdeen, George, 3rd Earl of, 195^ 
 
 , George, 4th Earl of, zGn., 164 
 
 , i8« 
 
 Aboyne, George, 5th Earl of (afterwards 
 9th Marquess of Himtly), 243 
 
 Abyssinia, 37-8 
 
 Academy Royal, in., 8w., i8«., 32, 45, 
 46K., 58-60, 63-4, 71, 74, 77, 82, 87, 
 90-1, loo-i, 108 and «., 190K., iii, 
 , 1 13 and «., 1 14 and 7z., 1 15-6, 1 19, 121, 
 124, 13 1-2, 134, 140, i43«., i45«., 
 149, 176-7, 183, i88«., 201, 212 and 
 w., 214-5, 2^^' ^^+5 ^^7 ^^^ '*•) 23^5 
 
 240, 245, 248, 250-1, 252«., 253, 
 
 257 ; Presidency of, 32, 40 and n., 
 43, 48-51, 54, 57, 59, 82-3, i32«., 
 133 ; professorship of painting, 45, 
 91, 234, 236; George III. and, 54, 
 59, 82, 240-1, 245 ; election of the 
 first Chaplain to, 82-3 ; generosity 
 of, 100; and Opie's funeral, 123; 
 Annual Dinner (1807), 130, 134 ; and 
 pension to J. Nixon, A.R.A., 135 ; 
 and Rembrandt's " Susannah," 135 
 and n. ; domestic affairs of, 174 ; 
 Reynolds' picture for Library ceiling, 
 188 ; general meeting to decide 
 \ premiums (1807), 228 ; premiums 
 
 ' awarded, 233-4 ; professorship of 
 perspective, 234, 236 ; salaries at, 
 240 ] Smirke's candidature for Keeper- 
 ship of, 240, 245 ; law of filling 
 vacancies, 250 ; " And its Members," 
 by J. E. Hodgson and F. A. Eaton, 
 253K 
 
 Schools, Royal, 77W., 214, 233 ; B. 
 
 West lectures on Art to students of, 
 
 233-4. 
 of Painting, Antwerp, 22 1« 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke, ym 
 
 — — , Lady. See Fortescue, Lady 
 
 Adair, Serjeant, 154 
 
 Adam, Robert, 210 
 
 Adams, John, President of United States, 
 
 (1797-1801), 184 
 
 , William Dacre, 139 and n 
 
 Addington, Miss Anne, See Goodenough, 
 
 Mrs. W. 
 — ■ — , Anthony, 72^ 
 , Henry (afterwards Viscount Sld- 
 
 mouth), 48«., 55, 72«., 73 
 Addison, Joseph, 173 
 Adelphi, London, 34, 255 
 Admiralty, Court of, 190 
 Adolphus, M. (grandfather of John 
 
 Adolphus), 22on 
 , John, 220 ; histories written by, 
 
 220 and «., notice of, ib. n 
 
 , Mrs. 220 and n 
 
 , John Leycester, 220 
 
 " Letters to Richard Heber," by, 
 
 ib. n 
 Africane, a frigate, 84 
 Ahmad (or Achmet) IV., 175 
 Ainsley, John (Lord Mayor of London 
 
 1807-8), 229 
 Albany, Countess of. See Louisa Maxi- 
 
 mlliana. Princess 
 
 , The, Piccadilly, 206 
 
 , New York, 237 
 
 Alderson, James, M.D., 117-121 
 Aldgate Ward, City of London, 55 
 Alexander I., Tsar of Russia, 106 ; and 
 
 Oubril's Treaty with France, 60 ; 
 
 dines with Napoleon, 184-5 i breaks 
 
 off communications with England, 229 
 
 , William, 224 
 
 " Alexander's Feast," by John Dryden, 198 
 
 Alexandria, 37« 
 
 Allan, Sir William, 45^ 
 
 Allardlce, Captain Barclay, his race with 
 
 Wood at Newmarket, 202-3 ; notice 
 
 of, 203 n 
 Allen, H. Warner. Letter from, 148// 
 
 259 17* 
 
260 The Farington Diary 
 
 Alnwick, 23 
 
 Ariosto, Lodovico, 198, 208 
 
 Alvanley, Anne Dorothea, Lady, 80 
 
 Armstrong, Sir Walter, his " Life of 
 
 , Richard Pepper, ist Lord, 56, 80 ; 
 
 Lawrence," i« 
 
 notice of, 56^ 
 
 Army Medical Service, i8m 
 
 , Richare Pepper, 3rd Lord, 56« 
 
 Athenseum Club, The, 254« 
 
 , WilHam, 2nd Lord, 56^ 
 
 Artist, The, 85, 107, iii, i37«., 149, 171, 
 
 Alworthy, Miss. See Holworthy, Miss 
 
 182 
 
 America, South, 25, 30, 90. For general 
 
 " Art Sales," by A. Graves, 197K. ; by G. 
 
 mention of America see United States 
 
 Redford, 197/2 
 
 Amiens, Peace of. See France 
 
 Arundel Castle, 206 
 
 Amsinch, Mr. (of Tunbridge), 179 
 
 Ash, Dr. (son of John Ash, M.D.), 118 
 
 Amsterdam, 14 
 
 • John, M.D., 118 
 
 "Analytical Inquiry into the Principle of 
 
 Ashburnham, Hon. George (afterwards 
 
 Taste," by R. Payne Knight, 31, 85, 
 
 Viscount St. Asaph), 7 
 
 137" 
 
 Assignation, play by Miss Sophia Lee, 
 
 Ancaster, Gilbert, 2nd Earl of, 252?! 
 
 81 
 
 , Gilbert Henry, ist Earl of, 252/? 
 
 Aston, Sir Willoughby, 18 
 
 " Ancient History of North and South 
 
 As Tou Like It, by Shakespeare, 23 2« 
 
 Wiltshire," by Sir Richard Colt 
 
 Athens, 145 
 
 Hoare, 71 and n 
 
 , School of, 134 
 
 Andrews, Rev. Mr. (of St. James's Church), 
 
 Atholl, John, 4th Duke of, 161, 168-9 
 
 153-4 
 
 , Marjory, Duchess of, 161 
 
 " Anecdotes of Painters," by E. Edwards, 
 
 Brose, 168 and K., 169 
 
 A.R.A., 43, 58 and n 
 
 Atkins, Mrs. 144 
 
 "Anecdotes of Painting in England," by 
 
 Atkyns, Edward A. 232 and n 
 
 Horace Walpole, 64 
 
 , Mrs. 232 and n. ; H. W. Buubury's 
 
 "Angel, The," Goulston Street, White- 
 
 portrait of, 23 2« 
 
 chapel, 226« 
 
 Auerstadt, Prussians defeated at, 36-7 
 
 Angelo, Michael, 70, 255 
 
 Austria, Archduke of (brother to Francis 
 
 Angerstein, John Julius, 3, 30, 96, 106, 126, 
 
 n.), 121 
 
 130J 133. 1435 .153-4, 159, 164, 171-2, 
 
 declares war against France, 79 
 
 193, 230 ; his purchase of Rem- 
 
 Aveland, Gilbert John, ist Lord, 252^ 
 
 brandt's " Woman taken in Adultery," 
 
 — — , Lady, See Willoughby de Eresby, 
 
 154 and «., 180 
 
 Baroness 
 
 — , Mrs. J. J. (first wife of J. J. Anger- 
 
 Axminster, 209 
 
 stein), 182 
 
 Axum, 38 
 
 , Mrs. J. J. i^ee Paine, second wife 
 
 Aylesford, Heneage, 4th Earl of, 143 
 
 of J. J. Angerstein), 193 
 
 Azores, 35/2 
 
 Children, Lawrence's portrait of, 193 
 
 
 Angouleme, Louis Antoine de Bourbon, 
 
 ^ '52 
 
 Due de, 208 
 
 " Bacchanalian, A.," by Nicholas Poussin, 
 
 Annual Register, The, 220 
 
 io7«., II 5K 
 
 " Another Word or Two," a poem by 
 
 "Bacchus and Ariadne," by Titian, 115 
 
 Peter Coxe, 13 2« 
 
 and n., 116, 129 
 
 Ansford, Somerset, 70 
 
 Bacon, John, his statue to ist Marquess 
 
 Anson, a frigate, 89 
 
 Cornwallis, 90, 91 and n 
 
 Antelope, The, 109M 
 
 Bagge, Thomas, 205^ 
 
 Antiquary Society. See Society of 
 
 , Mrs. (second wife of Thomas Bagge), 
 
 Antiquaries. 
 
 205W 
 
 Antrobus, Sir Cosmo Gordon, 196K 
 
 , Thomas Philip, J.P., D.L., 205 ; 
 
 , Edmund (afterwards Sir), 94 and «., 
 
 notice of, ib. n 
 
 125, 196 and n 
 
 , Mrs., 20 5« 
 
 Antwerp, i43«., 22 1«., 254W 
 
 ) Sir William, 20 5 « 
 
 Appleby, 144 
 
 Baillie, Matthew, M.D., 5, 117-8 
 
 Arden, Richard Pepper. See Alvanley, 
 
 Baird, Sir David, General, 25, 27« 
 
 Richard Pepper, ist Lord 
 
 Baker, Sir George, 189, 190 
 
 Arethusa, a frigate, 89 
 
 , George, 58, 60 and n., 84 and «., 
 
 ArgylljiJohn, 5th Duke of, 185 
 
 213,253-5 
 
Index 261 
 
 Bankes, Mr. (eldest son of Henry Bankes), 
 
 Bath, Thomas, 2nd Marquess of, 33 
 
 1 1 1-2 
 
 , 71 and «,, no, 114, 133, 180M., 212, 
 
 , George, 1 1 1 and n. ; works by, 1 1 m 
 
 230, 242 ; B. West and scenery of. 
 
 , Henry, 91, 11 1-2 5 notice of, iiiw. ; 
 
 21 1-2; Artist's encouraged in, 212 
 
 " Civil and Constitutional History of 
 
 Bathurst, Henry, 3rd Earl, 167 
 
 Rome," by, ib 
 
 Battersbie, Mr. (Banker), 69 
 
 , Mrs., 112 
 
 , Miss, 69 
 
 — — , Sir John, iii« 
 
 Beaumont, Mrs. (mother of Sir George 
 
 , Sir Joseph, 163, 222 
 
 Beaumont), 47, 105 
 
 r, Lady, 222 
 
 , Sir George, 40-2, 44, 46-8, 101, 
 
 , Miss, 222 
 
 104-5, 116, 122-4, i29> 133-7) 23O) 
 
 , William John, 1 1 1 and « 
 
 257 
 
 Banks, Mrs., 212 
 
 , Lady, 41-2, ni, 129, 257 
 
 , Sir Joseph, 192-3 ; his income, 193 
 
 Beauvais, Mrs. (Dressmaker), 15 
 
 , Lady, 193 
 
 Beckenham, Kent, 71 
 
 Banti, Brigitta Giorgi, 23 7» 
 
 Beckford, Horace William (afterwards 3rd 
 
 Barclay, Captain (the Pedestrian). See 
 
 Lord Rivers), 196 
 
 Allardice, Captain Barclay 
 
 , Lady Margaret (wife of William 
 
 , George, M.P., 98-9 
 
 Beckford), 243 
 
 " Bard, The," by Richard Corbould, 108 
 
 , Peter, M.P., 196 
 
 Baring, Charles, Lawrence's portrait of. 
 
 , Mrs., 196 
 
 39^40, 53) 108, no, 114, 130, 132, 134, 
 
 , WiUiam, Alderman (father of William 
 
 136 
 
 Beckford), 197K 
 
 , Sir Francis, 19, 30, 40, 46, 53, 89, 
 
 , Mrs. (mother of William Beckford), 
 
 108, 152, 166, 168, i84«., 209, 229, 
 
 243 
 
 249 ; Lawrence's portrait of, 39-40, 
 
 , William (Author of _ " Vathek"), 
 
 53, 108, no, 114, 130, 132, 134, 
 
 32 and «., 197, 241 ; his singularity, 
 
 136 
 
 33 ; his fortune, 242 ; and persecu- 
 
 , Lady Francis, Lawrence's portrait 
 
 tion, 242-3 ; Lady Loughborough and. 
 
 of, 209 
 
 243 
 
 , George, 19 
 
 , The Misses, 33 
 
 , Mrs., 18-9 
 
 Bedford, John, 6th Duke of, 28, 61, 68 
 
 , Thomas, Lawrence's portrait of, 209 
 
 Bedford, H.M.S., 250 
 
 Barker, Mr. (a Government Courier), 83 
 
 Bedfordshire, 242 
 
 , Benjamin (Artist), 212 
 
 Beechey, Sir William, R.A., 50, 57, 78, 
 
 , Mr. (son of Robert Barker), 189 
 
 134, 171, 218, 228, 240, 252M. ; his 
 
 , Richard, 212; "The Woodman," 
 
 portrait of Lord Buckinghamshire, 
 
 by, ib 
 
 133-4 
 
 , Robert, 189 
 
 , Lady, 218 
 
 Barnard, Thomas, Bishop of Limerick, 
 
 Belasyse, Lady Anne, 62 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 appointed Chaplain to R.A., 82-3 
 
 , Lady Elizabeth. See Lucan, Eliza- 
 
 Barnes, 5« 
 
 beth, Countess of 
 
 Barrett, Mr. (of Vauxhall), 184 
 
 Bell, Miss (sister to Mrs. Priscilla Wake- 
 
 , George, R.A., 143 
 
 field), 248 
 
 Barrington, Hon. Shute (Bishop of Dur- 
 
 , Daniel! (father of Mrs. Priscilla 
 
 ham), 6zn 
 
 Wakefield), 248/1 
 
 Barry, James, R.A., 33«., 91, 182; " Birth 
 
 Belle Isle, i8b 
 
 of Pandora," by, 33-4, 128 ; cause of 
 
 Bellingborough, Lincolnshire, 2i2« 
 
 his death, 34 ; his character, 34 ; 
 
 Bellingham, John, 48M 
 
 his art, 128-9; "Jupiter," by, 128-9; 
 
 , Lady (wife of Sir William Belling- 
 
 " Venus Rising from the Sea," by. 
 
 ham), 24-5 
 
 129 
 
 BelVs Weekly Messenger, 42, 49, 52, 57, 
 
 Bartleman, James, 246-7 ; notice of, 246K 
 
 59, 200 
 
 Bartolozzi, Francesco, 253 
 
 Belton, Miss (Actress), 161 
 
 Barton, Messrs. (of Manchester), 209 
 
 Belvidere, Robert Rochfort, ist Earl of, 
 
 Basinghall Street, London, 83 
 
 ^3« 
 
 Bateman, John, 2nd Viscount, 125, 214 
 
 Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, 41 
 
 , William, ist Lord, 4i» 
 
 Bengal, i^n., 19, 157, 247, 254 
 
262 The Farington Diary 
 
 Bengal Native Infantry, I57« 
 
 Bologna Academy, ii4« 
 
 Benn, Messrs. Ernest, Limited, i53« 
 
 Bolognese, 11. See Grimaldi, Giovanni 
 
 Bennigsen, Comte Levin Auguste Theo- 
 
 Francesco 
 
 phile de, Russian General, 83, 95, 106 
 
 Bolt Court, London, 10 
 
 Berchem, Nicolaas, 212 
 
 Bolton, Arthur T., F.S.A., Letter from, 
 
 Beresford, James ; " Miseries of Human 
 
 46« 
 
 Life," by, 84 and n. •, notice of, 84^ 
 
 Bombay, 36M., 91 and «., 114, 254 
 
 , Richard, 84^ 
 
 Bombay City Gazetteer, The, 91M 
 
 Berghem, Nicholas, 41 
 
 City PoHce, gm 
 
 Berkeley, Frederick Augustus, 5 th Earl of, 
 
 Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon 1. 
 
 222 
 
 Bond Street, 63, 98-9, 107, 114, 186 
 
 , Mary, Countess of, 222 
 
 Bonomi, Joseph, A.R.A., 250 
 
 Castle, 222 
 
 " Book of Job," Blake's drawings for, 
 
 Berlin, 37 
 
 45« 
 
 Bermondsey, 28 
 
 Booth, Mr. (Bookseller), 96 
 
 Bernard, Sir Thomas, 73 and n., 74, 130, 
 
 , Mr. (son of Benjamin Booth), 255 
 
 227^ 236 
 
 , The Misses, 255 
 
 , Lady, 236 
 
 — — , Rev. Mr., 214 
 
 Berners Street, London, 177 and «., 195^ 
 
 — — , Benjamin, 214; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Berney, Mrs., 144 
 
 — , Benjamin (of the Adelphi), 255 
 
 Berry, Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Due 
 
 Boscawen, Mrs., 18-19 
 
 de, 208 
 
 Boston, Frederick, 2nd Lord, 6«, 29 and n 
 
 — — - Brothers, Messrs. (Wine merchants), 
 
 Bosville, William, 195 and n 
 
 98« 
 
 Boswell, James, the younger, 146-7 
 
 Bessborough, Edward, 8 th Earl of, 68m 
 
 Boucheret, Ayscough, I54and«., 155, 193 
 
 , Henrietta Frances, Countess of, 145 
 
 Bourbon, Louis Henri IL, Due de, 208 
 
 Best, Captain, 225 
 
 Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis, R.A., 50-1, 
 
 Betty (Farington's servant), 58 
 
 170 and n., 171, 228 
 
 " Bibliographer's Manual," by W. T. 
 
 Bourne, Francis, 18 1« 
 
 Lovv^ndes, 2537? 
 
 , William Sturges-. See Sturges 
 
 " Bibliographical Decameron," by Charles 
 
 Bow Street, 8o« 
 
 Dibden, 53« 
 
 Bowles, Charles Oldfield, 129, 133, 137 
 
 " Bibliographical Memoirs of the French 
 
 Boydell, John, Alderman, 73« 
 
 Revolution," by John Adolphus, 22o« 
 
 —, Joslah, 54-5, 73«., 78, 79 and «., 
 
 " Bibliotheca Brltannica," by Robert Watt, 
 
 80 and n 
 
 220?I 
 
 -, Mrs., 80 
 
 Billington, Mrs. Elizabeth, 86, 237 
 
 — ■ — , Messrs., Edition of Shakespere, 45 
 
 Birch, Samuel, 55 
 
 Boyle, Hon. Robert, 253 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Birmingham, 6 
 
 Braddyll, Colonel Wilson, 233« 
 
 " Birth of Pandora," by James Barry, 
 
 Bradford, Orlando, 2nd Lord (afterwards 
 
 R.A., 33-4, 128 
 
 1st Earl of), 193^ 
 
 Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley (Musical com- 
 
 Bragge, Mr. (of Axminster), and discovery 
 
 poser), 252« 
 
 of Vaccination, 209 
 
 Bissett, George M., 6^n 
 
 Brand, Rev. John, 87 ; death of, 29-30 
 
 Blackwall, 98, 137 
 
 Branscomb's Lottery Office, 78 
 
 Blake, Mr. (a Solicitor), 202 
 
 " Brave Dame Mary," by George Bankes, 
 
 , Sir Patrick, 220 
 
 iiin 
 
 — — , William, Works by, 45« 
 
 Brazil, Don John of. See John VL, King 
 
 Blanche, The, in 
 
 of Portugal 
 
 Blenheim, H.M.S., 254 
 
 — — , 258 ; Portuguese Royal Family leave 
 
 "Blind Fiddler, The," by Sir David 
 
 for, 250 
 
 Wilkie, R.A., 41-2, 44, 47-8, 10 1, 
 
 Brickwood, Mr. (Wine merchant of Lime 
 
 116, 122, 124, 133-4, 140, 149-50 
 
 Street Square), 220 
 
 BHzzard, Sir William, 58, 63 
 
 Bridport, 98-9 
 
 Boaden, James, 36 and «., 90, 132, 171 
 
 Brighton, 5, 180K., 190-1 
 
 " Boats," by Rembrandt, 143 and n 
 
 Art Gallery, 2i4« 
 
 Bokhara, Ameer of, I28« 
 
 Brisbane, Captain, R.N., 89 
 
 Bolingbroke, Henry, ist Viscount, 198 
 
 Bristol, 212, 222, 252« 
 
Index 263 
 
 " British Gallery of Engravings," 107 and 
 
 Burdett, Lady, 195 
 
 M., 230 and n 
 
 Bui-ges, Sir John Bland, 126 and n 
 
 " British Gallery of Pictures," loyn 
 
 Burke, Edmund, 13 5«., I57»., i6lu., 166, 
 
 Institution, The, 44, 64, 74M., 87, 
 
 198 ; " Reflections on the French 
 
 ii4n., 130, 189, 224, 227 and n., 228, 
 
 Revolution," by, 22 ; Sir J. Reynolds 
 
 252, 256 
 
 and, no 
 
 Museum, 37M., iii«., iSyn., 179, 
 
 Burke's Extinct Peerage, 6<)n 
 
 22 IK., 23 2M 
 
 Burleigh-on-the-Hill, Rutlandshire, 210 
 
 Broadstairs, 84 
 
 Burlington, New Jersey, 2i2w 
 
 Brome, Charles, Viscount (afterward* 2nd 
 
 Burney, Charles, Mus.D., 237 
 
 Marquess Cornwallis), 2 ; notice of, 
 
 , Miss Fanny (Mme. D'Arblay), 
 
 ib. n 
 
 iS6n., 157W 
 
 , Louisa, Viscountess (afterwards 
 
 Burnham Wood, 7 
 
 Marchioness CornwaUis), 2w 
 
 Burns, Robert, 42 
 
 Bromley, William (Engraver), 55 
 
 Burroughs, Rev. Mr., 94 
 
 Brompton Park, Middlesex, 65 
 
 , William, 61 
 
 Bronte, Duke of. See Nelson, Rev. 
 
 Bury, Lady Charlotte, " Court of England 
 
 William, ist Earl 
 
 under George IV.," by, 141M 
 
 Brooke, Mr., 178 
 
 Busby, Charles A., 234 
 
 , Mrs., 178 
 
 Bute, John, ist Marquess of, 196 
 
 , Miss, 178 
 
 , John, 3rd Earl of, 210 
 
 — - — , Lord Henry Richard (afterwards 3rd 
 
 " Buzzard," a horse, 198 
 
 Earl of Warwick), 69 
 
 Byng, Major George, M.P., 45 and n 
 
 Brooking, Charles, 220 
 
 , John, Admiral, 94 
 
 Brougham, Henry, ist Lord, i77« 
 
 Byrne, Mr. (father of John Byrne), 179, 224 
 
 Brown, Mr. (Colourman), 187 
 
 , Miss (eldest sister of John Byrne), 179 
 
 Browne, Miss Anne. See Trelawny, Lady 
 
 , Miss (youngest sister of John Byrne), 
 
 Anne 
 
 179 
 
 , Rev. James, 28 « 
 
 , John, 140, 179, 224,231 
 
 Bruce, Crauford, 11 and w., 12, 21, 23, 25 
 
 , Mrs., 179 _ 
 
 , Mrs., 25 
 
 , Miss Letitia, 179 
 
 , James, 37-8 
 
 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 6i« 
 
 Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, 
 
 
 Duke of, 36-7 ; death of, 52 
 
 Cadell, Thomas, 230 
 
 Brunton, John (Actor), 161, 232K., 235 
 
 and Davis, Messrs., 140, 179, 223/2., 
 
 , Miss Louisa. See Craven, Louisa, 
 
 256 
 
 Countess of 
 
 Cadiz, 30« 
 
 Brussels, 254^ 
 
 Calcutta, 13 and n., 19, 33, 38 
 
 Bryan, Michael, " Dictionary of Painters," 
 
 Calcutta (H.E.I. Co.), 75« 
 
 by, 113W., 2I2K 
 
 Caldwell, Mr. (Land steward to Earl of 
 
 Bryanston, Dorset, iizn 
 
 Leicester), 138-9 
 
 Square, London, iizn 
 
 Callcott, Sir Augustus Wall, R.A., 36, loi, 
 
 Bubb, J. G., his monument to Pitt, i and 
 
 107-8, 132, 176 ; " Evening," by, 
 
 n., 55 ; notice of, in 
 
 "3-4 
 
 Buchanan, W. (Picture dealer), 107??., 
 
 Calonne Collection, The, 123^ 
 
 115 and n 
 
 Cambridge, Adolphus Frederick, ist Duke 
 
 Buckingham Street, York Buildings, 36 
 
 of, 107, 191 
 
 Buckinghamshire, Robert, 4th Earl of, 
 
 , 206, 220-1 ; Statue of Pitt at, 56 
 
 Beechey's portrait of, 133-4 
 
 Cambridge (H.E.I. Co.), 75« 
 
 Buenos Ayres, 24, 89, 90 ; effect of 
 
 University, 177 ; Trinity College, 
 
 capture of, 25-6, 27/j 
 
 6«. ; King's College, iik. ; Chapel 
 
 Bunbury, Henry William, 220; his portrait 
 
 of, 224; St. John's College, 157^ 
 
 of Mrs. Atkyns (Miss Walpole) as 
 
 Cambridgeshire, 51 
 
 Nancy in The Cantp^ 23 2« 
 
 Camden, John Jeffreys, 2nd Earl of (after* 
 
 Bunn, Benjamin, 196 
 
 wards ist Marquess), 85 
 
 Burch, Mr. (Picture cleaner), 116 
 
 Camelford, Thomas, 2nd Lord, 225 
 
 Burdett, Sir Francis, 45, 140, 195 ; and an 
 
 Camp, The, a play by R. Tickell, 232« 
 
 Agrarian Law, 139 
 
 Campbell, General, 184 
 
264 The Farington Diary 
 
 Campbell, Mr., 167 
 
 " Catalogue of Dutch Painters," by 
 
 , Mrs., 167 
 
 Hofstede de Groot, i43« 
 
 , Constance, Lady. Letter from, i85« 
 
 Cathcart, William Schaw, loth Lord 
 
 , Lord Frederick, 185 
 
 (afterwards ist Earl), 186, 206 
 
 , Lady, burnt to death, 185 ; and Earl 
 
 Catholic Emancipation, 102-3, 106, 108 
 
 Ferrers, 185 and « 
 
 Cato Street Conspirators, 22o« 
 
 Campion, Mr. (Wine merchant), 158-9 
 
 Cavendish Square, 40, 4i« 
 
 , Mrs., 158 
 
 Cawthorne, Mr. (Printer and Bookseller), 96 
 
 Canada, 178 
 
 Cervantes, Miguel de, Smirke's illustrations 
 
 Canaletto, Antonio, 48 5 his " View of 
 
 to his " Don Quixote," 230-1 
 
 Venice," 197 
 
 Chamberlaine, Miss Frances, " Miss Sydney 
 
 Canning, George (Statesman), 21, 53, 60, 
 
 Bidulph," a novel by, 90 and n 
 
 103, 108, 166, 186, 229 ; and Con- 
 
 Champagne, 148«. ; red wine of, 148 and n 
 
 scription in France, 185 
 
 Chancery, Court of, 56-7, 139, 225, 232 
 
 Campus^ H.M.S., 125 and « 
 
 Chapter Coffee House, Chapterhouse 
 
 Canova, Antonio, 56 
 
 Court, 165 and n 
 
 Canterbury Cathedral, 52 
 
 Charing Cross, London, 142 
 
 Cape of Good Hope, 26, 55«. ; Sir Home 
 
 Charles I., King of England, 23, iiik., 180 
 
 Popham and Sir David Baird's services 
 
 II., King of England, 165, 253 
 
 at, 25-6, 27 and «., 97 
 
 III., King of Spain, 83 
 
 " Captivity of Judah," musical composi- 
 
 Edward, Prince (the Young Pre- 
 
 tion by Dr. Crotch, 236M 
 
 tender), 209 
 
 Caracci, Annibale, "Christ Appearing to 
 
 Charlotte Augusta, Princess (daughter of 
 
 Peter," by, iie^n 
 
 Prince of Wales), 139, 191 ; education 
 
 " Card Players," by Sir David Wilkie, 238 
 
 of, 141 and «., 142 
 
 Carlisle, Sir Anthony (Surgeon), 33-5, 61, 
 
 Sophia, Queen of George III., 21, 
 
 875 93-4, "o, 1 18-120, 163, 175, 182, 
 
 59, 141 ; and B. West, 54 
 
 227, 239 
 
 Street, Fitzroy Square, 156, 231 
 
 , Lady, 94 
 
 Charterhouse School, 84K., I32n 
 
 , Frederick, 5th Earl of, 32, 102, i64« 
 
 Chartley, George Ferrers, Lord (afterwards 
 
 , Nicholas, 61, 87; "Topographical 
 
 3rd Marquess of Townshend), a 
 
 Dictionary," by, 61 
 
 dispute with his father, 223 
 
 , 162 
 
 , Lady, 223 
 
 Carlton House, 73 
 
 Chatham, Mary EUzabeth, Countess of, 164 
 
 Carmarthenshire, 36 
 
 , William, ist Earl of, 198 
 
 Carohne, Queen of Great Britain, Consort 
 
 Chaucer, Geoffrey, and the Scrope v. 
 
 of George IV., Lonsdale's portrait of. 
 
 Grosvenor Case, 226K 
 
 177M. See also Wales, Caroline 
 
 Cheddar CHffs, near Bath, 212 
 
 Amelia Elizabeth, Princess of 
 
 Cheltenham, 191 
 
 Carr, Miss. See Hodges, Mrs. (third wife 
 
 Chesapeake Bay, 231, 245 
 
 of R.A.) 
 
 Cheshire, 50-1, 56W., 73 
 
 , John, 8 
 
 Chester, 225, 226« 
 
 — — , Sir John, 61, 68 ; " Stranger in 
 
 Chesterfield, Philip, 5 th Earl of, 164M 
 
 Ireland," by, 61, 685 "Stranger in 
 
 Cholmondeley, George James, 4th Earl 
 
 Holland," by, 140 
 
 (afterwards ist Marquess of), 24, 204 
 
 [probably Rev. William Holwell], 129 
 
 and K., 205 
 
 Cassiobury, Watford, Herts, 255 
 
 , Georgiana Charlotte, Countess (after- 
 
 Castle Carey, Wiltshire, 70 
 
 wards Marchioness of), 204 
 
 Cary, Somerset, jon 
 
 , Miss Mary Henrietta, 21 ; death of. 
 
 Howard, 102 
 
 24-5 
 
 Castlereagh, Robert, Viscount, 46, 53, 60, 
 
 , Hon. and Rev. Robert, 24 
 
 166, 186 
 
 , Mrs., 21, 24 
 
 Castle Rising, 204W 
 
 Child & Co. (Bankers), 13 
 
 Street, Long Acre, 55M 
 
 " Christ Appearing to Peter," by A. 
 
 Catalani, Madame AngeHca, 62, 86 and «., 
 
 Caracci, ii5« 
 
 218-9, 236-7; notice of, 62K. ; her 
 
 " Christ Healing the Sick," by B. We8t,ai2« 
 
 salary, 218 ; her powers as a singer, 
 
 Christian VII., King of Denmark, 211 
 
 237 
 
 Christie, James, 153 
 
Index 265 
 
 Christie, Messrs. (Auctioneers), i43«., 150, 
 
 Congleton, Cheshire, 196 
 
 .^.52"3 
 
 Connoisseur., The., 64re 
 
 " Civil and Constitutional History of 
 
 ConoUy, Arthur, 128K 
 
 Rome," by Henry Bankes, 11 ire 
 
 Constable, Golding, 215 
 
 Clap ham Common, 202 
 
 , Mrs., 246 
 
 Clare Market, Drury Lane, 8« 
 
 , John, R.A., 108, 167, 188-9, 214-5, 
 
 Clarence, William Henry, Duke of (after- 
 
 226 and n. ; 227, 238-40, 246-7 
 
 wards William IV.), 131, 204; and 
 
 Constantine Paulovich, Grand Duke of 
 
 Mrs. Jordan, ib. ; receives freedom of 
 
 Russia, 106 
 
 King's Lynn, 204-6 
 
 Constantinople, 175 
 
 Clarke, Captain, R.N., 177 
 
 Cook, Captain, 8» 
 
 — — , Edward Daniel, LL.D., 177 
 
 Cooke, Benjamin, Mus.D., 246^ 
 
 — , Mrs., 177 
 
 Coopersale Grove, Epping, 75?? 
 
 , Rev. James Stainer, his " Life of 
 
 Copenhagen, 206 
 
 Lord Nelson," 100 and «., 177 
 
 Copley, John S., R.A., 251 
 
 , John Calvert, 76 
 
 Corbould, Richard, 108 and n. ; " The 
 
 Claude, 55, 116, 213, 257; "Embarkation 
 
 Bard," by, 108 
 
 of Queen of Sheba," and " Marriage of 
 
 -, George, io8n 
 
 Isaac and Rebecca," by, ii3«. ; 
 
 , Henry, io8« 
 
 " Landscape and Seascape," by, 143 
 
 Corfe Castle, i lire. ; " Story of," by George 
 
 and n. ; his art as compared with the 
 
 Bankes, ib. n 
 
 Dutch Masters, 209 
 
 Cork, Richard, ist Earl of, 253« 
 
 Cleveland Street, London, 179 
 
 Street, Burlington Gardens, 198-9 
 
 Cliefdon House, 21 
 
 Cornwall, Mrs., 136 
 
 " Clothing of the Naked," by J. Opie, 150 
 
 , 23, 114, 125, 126 and «., 157M. ; 
 
 Cobbett, William, 139, 225, 249 ; Opie's 
 
 Methodists in, 29 ; John Smith's 
 
 portrait of, 139 
 
 Views in, 23 1 
 
 Cocker ell, Samuel Pepys, 36, 192 
 
 Cornwallis, Charles, ist Marquess, 2k. ; 
 
 Codrington, Christopher, 325 notice of, 
 
 Bacon's statue of, 90, 91 and n 
 
 ib. n 
 
 — — , Mrs. C, zn 
 
 , Sir Gerald William Henry, 32« 
 
 Correggio, " Virgin and Child," by, 143 
 
 , Sir William (2nd Baronet), 32^ 
 
 and re 
 
 , Sir William (3rd Baronet), 32W 
 
 Cossacks, The, 106 
 
 Coke, Thomas William (afterwards Earl of 
 
 Cosway, Richard, R.A., 50, 152, 183, 201, 
 
 Leicester), 138-140, 144-5, ^^^j 205-6 ; 
 
 230 
 
 Lawrence's portrait of, 136-7, 139 : 
 
 , Mrs., 123 
 
 Opie's portrait of, 137 ; as his own 
 
 Cotes, William, i3re., 19 
 
 Land Steward, 138-9 ; and the 
 
 , Mrs. See D'Oyley, Lady 
 
 Norfolk Election, 138, 144 
 
 Couchet, J. Louis, 65« 
 
 Colchester, 208 
 
 , Lady. See Worsley, Lady 
 
 Coleorton, 42, 257 
 
 " Court of England under George IV.," 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 129, 233, 239 
 
 by Lady Charlotte Bury, 141^ 
 
 Cohseum, " View of," by W. Smith, 134 
 
 Courtenay, William, Viscount (afterwards 
 
 College of Physicians, 16 jn 
 
 Earl of Devon), 243 and re 
 
 CoUins, Mr. (of Berners Street), 246 
 
 Family, 243re 
 
 , William, R.A., 256 
 
 Coutts, Thomas, 195-6 ; and Lawrence's 
 
 Colnaghi, Paul (Printseller), 255 
 
 Financial Affairs, 88, 125 5 and 
 
 Colnbrooke, 174 
 
 Reynolds, 88 5 and Miss Mellon, the 
 
 Combe Delafield Brewery, 55M 
 
 actress, 195 and « 
 
 — ■ — , Harvey Christian, 55, 1 17 ; notice of. 
 
 , Mrs., 195-6 
 
 55«. 
 
 Covent Garden Theatre. See Opera House 
 
 , William (author of "Dr. Syntax"), 
 
 Cox, Rev. Thomas, 87 
 
 44« 
 
 Coxe, Edward, 123 
 
 Committee of Taste, The, 91, 97, 100 
 
 — ■ — , Peter (Auctioneer), 123 re., 132; 
 
 Comrie, Mr. (an Attorney), 86, 95 
 
 notice of, ib. re 
 
 Conde, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of. 
 
 , Peter, M.D., i32« 
 
 208 
 
 , Venerable William (Archdeacon of 
 
 Conduit Street, London, 14 
 
 Wiltshire), 13 2« 
 
266 The Farington Diary 
 
 Crabbe, George, iSzn 
 
 Daniell, William, R.A., 140, 187, 256 ; his 
 
 Craven, Hon. Henry Augustus, 235 
 
 income, ib. ; his plates for Wood's 
 
 , Louisa, Countess of, 232, 234 ; 
 
 " Zoography," ib 
 
 notice of, 23 2M 
 
 , Mrs., 256 
 
 , William, ist Earl of, 232, 234 
 
 Danube, 175 
 
 Street, Strand, 183 
 
 Dardanelles, 175 ; British Fleet in, 125 
 
 Creevy, T., lyzn 
 
 and n 
 
 Creswell, Mr. (Actor), 161 
 
 Dart, The River, 178 
 
 Crewe, Mrs., 161 
 
 Dartington, Devon, 178 and n 
 
 , Hon. Miss Emma, 51, 172 
 
 Dartmouth, George, 3rd Earl of, 91 
 
 , John, ist Lord, 51, 18 1»., 249 
 
 , 8 and w., 9, 177-8 
 
 , Lady, 172, 181 and n., 249 
 
 Datchet Bridge, near Windsor, 174 
 
 , Hon. John, General (afterwards 2nd 
 
 David, Jacques Louis, 245 
 
 Lord), 249 ; notice of, ib. n. ; Rey- 
 
 Davies, Randall, " Thomas Girtin's Water 
 
 nolds' portrait of, ib 
 
 Colours " by, io3« 
 
 , Mrs. (afterwards Henrietta Maria 
 
 Davis, Mr. (of Cadell & Davis), 223, 230-1 
 
 Anne, Lady Crewe), 249 and n 
 
 , Richard Barrett, 187 
 
 , Robert Offley Ashburton, ist Mar- 
 
 Davison, Alexander, 80 and n 
 
 quess of, 249« 
 
 Davy, Sir Humphry, 44, 232-3 ; notice 
 
 Hall, 51 
 
 of, 44« 
 
 Crokatt [Crokett], Charles, 182 
 
 Dawe, George, R.A., 227 ; notice of, ib. n. ; 
 
 , Mrs. See Angerstein. 
 
 his " Life of Morland," ih 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 180 
 
 De Clifford, Lady (Governess to Princess 
 
 Cronstadt, 257; British ships at, 235 
 
 Charlotte of Wales), 141 ; notice of. 
 
 Crossthwaite, Mr. (of Keswick), 224 
 
 ib. n 
 
 Crotch, Michael, 23 6« 
 
 De Cort, Hendrick, 143, 154; notice of. 
 
 — — , Mrs., 23 6« 
 
 143^. ; Views of Salisbury and Exeter 
 
 , William, Mus.D., 227, 246-7 ; on 
 
 Cathedrals, by, 197 
 
 famous singers, 236-7 ; notice of, 23 6« 
 
 Dee, Mrs. (from Lisbon), 4 
 
 , Mrs., 246 
 
 Defence Bill, The (1807), 185 
 
 " Crown and Magpie," High Street, Aid- 
 
 De La Warr Family, The, 158 
 
 gate, 226n 
 
 Denbury, i78« 
 
 Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, ist Duke of. 
 
 Dene, Kent, 72K 
 
 191. 
 
 Denmark, 224 ; attacked by England, 199, 
 
 , Richard, 85, 126-7, 149 ; notice of, 
 
 200, 202, 206 ; England declares war 
 
 iz6n. ; " Memoirs," by, 246^ 
 
 on, 211 
 
 , William Augustus, Duke of, 22 
 
 Dennis, Rev. Jonas, 209 
 
 Curacoa, English capture of, 89 
 
 Derby, Edward, 12th Earl of, 209 
 
 Curley, Mr. (a Brighton Shepherd), 202 
 
 Derbyshire, 193 
 
 Cust, Lionel, jjn 
 
 Desenfans, Noel Joseph, 170^. ; death of, 
 
 Cuthbert, Mr., 144 
 
 1 70- 1 ; King of Poland and, 170 ; his 
 
 
 fortune, 171 
 
 Damer, Mrs. A. S., 70 and n 
 
 ■ , Mrs., 1 70- 1 
 
 Dance, Charles, 46 
 
 Des Hayes, Madame, 62 
 
 ■ , George (father of the two R.A.s), 258 
 
 " Designs for Cottages, &c." by J. M. 
 
 , George, R.A., 46 and «., 47, 50, 59, 
 
 Gandy, A.R.A., 77^ 
 
 86, 130, 146, 148-9, 152, 180, 191, 
 
 De Villet (a French Priest), 22-3 
 
 209, 228, 257 ; his relations with Sir 
 
 Devis, Arthur William, 109, 218 ; " Death 
 
 John Soane, 46 and n. ; his portrait 
 
 of Nelson," by, 55, i09«., 151 ; notice 
 
 of Farington, 70 
 
 of, io9« 
 
 , Nathaniel, R.A. See Holland, Sir 
 
 , Mrs., 218 
 
 Nathaniel Dance- 
 
 , Miss. See Marris, Mrs 
 
 , Sir Nathaniel (Commodore of East 
 
 De Visme, Colonel, 38 
 
 India Company's Fleet), 46 and « 
 
 , Mrs., 38 
 
 Daniel, George, 4on 
 
 De Vlieger, Simon, 209 
 
 Daniell, Thomas, R.A., 37, 63, 87, iii, 134, 
 
 Devon, Earldom of, 243M 
 
 and «., 135, IS43 164, 187, 196, 209, 
 
 Devonshire, Georglana, Duchess of, NoUe- 
 
 227, 245 
 
 kens' death mask of, 145 
 
Index 267 
 
 Devonshire, 156, 177, i93«., 2o8«., 209 
 
 Dublin Castle, 61 
 
 " Diana and Her Nymphs," by Rubens, 188 
 
 Duckworth, Sir J. T., Admiral, 125M 
 
 Dibdin, Charles, 53 and n 
 
 Dudley, Sir Henry Bate, 55 and n 
 
 , Rev. Thomas Frognal, 53 and »., 
 
 Duke, Sir Henry (President of the Divorce 
 
 64, 87,iiiM 
 
 Court), 2i9« 
 
 Dick, Dr., 254 
 
 Duke of Montrose, H. E. I. C. ship, 254 
 
 Dictionary of National Biography, 46«., 
 
 Street, Portland Place, 160 
 
 77n., i88«., i95n., 22o« 
 
 Dulwich Art Gallery, i70« 
 
 " Dictionary of Painters," by M. Bryan, 
 
 Dumb Bell Inn, The, 24 
 
 113M., 2I2« 
 
 Dumouriez, Charles Francois, French 
 
 " Dido Building Carthage," by J. M. W. 
 
 General, 30« 
 
 Turner, ii3« 
 
 Dumuriez, General. See Dumouriez, C.F. 
 
 Director, The, 73-4, iii 
 
 Dundas, Philip (Governor of Prince of 
 
 " Discourses delivered at the R.A.," by 
 
 Wales' Island), 254-5 ; dies at sea, ib 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds, 60, 173 
 
 , Mrs., 254 
 
 " Disobedient Prophet," by John Graham, 
 
 , Hon. Robert, 103 
 
 45« 
 
 , William, 180 
 
 " Divina Commedia," Blake's drawings 
 
 Dunmow, 47 
 
 for, 45 n 
 
 Dunnier, Mr., 83 
 
 Dixwell-Oxenden, Sir Percy Dixwell 
 
 Duppa, Richard, yy and «., 85, 214; his 
 
 Nowell. See Oxenden 
 
 book on Papal Power, 84 and » 
 
 Doctors' Commons, 219 
 
 D'Urfey, Thomas, 36 
 
 Dodington, George Bubb (Baron Mel- 
 
 Dyce, Rev. Alexander, 254« 
 
 combe), 246 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Dynes Hall, Essex, 2o« 
 
 " Don Quixote," by Cervantes, 63 ; R. 
 
 Dysart, Anna Maria, Countess of, 216 
 
 Smirke's illustrations to, 230-1 
 
 , Lionel, 5 th Earl of, 216 
 
 Dorset, George John Frederick, 4th Duke 
 
 , Louisa, Countess of, 216 and n. ; 
 
 of, 61 and n 
 
 Hoppner's Portrait of, ib. n. ; Tom 
 
 , III and n., iizn 
 
 Moore's verse to, ib 
 
 Douai, ijon 
 
 , Magdalene, Dowager Countess of 
 
 Douglas, Admiral, 208 
 
 214, 216 ; Lawrence's portrait of, ib. n 
 
 , Alexander, Marquess of (afterwards 
 
 , Wilbraham, 6th Earl of, 214, 216 and 
 
 loth Duke of Hamilton), 126, 229 
 
 «., 247 
 
 , Lady (wife of Major-General Sir 
 
 , Family, The, 247 
 
 John Douglas), 96 
 
 
 Dover, Military Defences at, 81 
 
 Ealing, 35??., 72 
 
 Downe, John Christopher Burton, Viscount, 
 
 East Court, Finchampstead, 26 
 
 162 and n 
 
 — ■ — ■ India Company, 46n., 61, 214 
 
 Downman, John, A.R.A., 145 ; his minia- 
 
 India Dock Office, Lime Street 
 
 ture of Miss F. Metcalfe, igon 
 
 Square, 220 
 
 , Mrs., 145 and n 
 
 Indies, 26, 36, 104 
 
 D'Oyly, Sir Charles, 13K 
 
 Eaton, Fred A. See Hodgson, J. E, 
 
 , Sir John Hadley, 13, 15-6, 20, 22; 
 
 Edgcumbe, Lord. See Mount-Edgcumbe 
 
 notice of, I3«. ; his unhappy state, 18-9 
 
 Edinburgh, i8«., 33^., 114, 121, lyzn.; 
 
 , Lady, 13 and n., 15, 19-20 ; her 
 
 Trustees' Academy in, 44, 45 and n 
 
 jealousy, 19 
 
 Edinburgh Reviezv, ijzn., 173, i74« 
 
 , Miss Harriet Rochfort. See 
 
 Edmonds, Mr. (an Undertaker), 58 
 
 Baring, Mrs 
 
 Edridge, Henry, R.A., 63, 70, 213, 253 ; 
 
 , Miss Maynard Eliza. See Farquhar, 
 
 his portrait of Farington, 60, 70 ; 
 
 Mrs 
 
 his portrait of Nollekens, 73 
 
 Park, Hampshire, i3«., 19 
 
 Edward III., King of England, 72 
 
 Drogheda, Henry, 3rd Earl of, i3« 
 
 Edwardes, S. M., Letter from, 9i« 
 
 Dropmore, 7 
 
 Edwards, Miss, 58, 63-4, 256-7 
 
 Drummond, Samuel, A.R.A., 215 and n 
 
 , Edward, A.R.A., 43, 58 and n., 63-4, 
 
 Drury Lane Theatre, 81, 218 
 
 256 ; " Anecdotes of Painters," by, 
 
 Dryden, John, 86, 127; "Alexander's 
 
 43, 58 and n. ; death of, 58 ; funeral 
 
 Feast," by, 198 
 
 of, 63 ; " Practical Treatise of Per- 
 
 Dublin, 15, ii4« 
 
 spective," by, 64 
 
268 
 
 The Farington Diary 
 
 Egerton, R. W., Letter from, 247« 
 Egmont, John, 2nd Earl of, 48M 
 Egremont, George, 3rd Earl of, 215 ; and 
 
 Ozias Humphry, 216 and n 
 Egypt, 37K., i2c,n 
 Eldon, Mrs. (of Park Crescent, Maryle- 
 
 bone). See Lady Heathcote 
 — — , John, ist Earl of, 48, 165, 204 
 Elgin, Thomas, 7th Earl of, 56 ; his 
 
 Grecian Antiquities, 145 
 Eliot, Edward Eliot Craggs, Lord (of 
 
 St. Germans), 23 and n 
 
 , Colonel, 23 
 
 Elizabeth, Princess (daughter of George 
 
 III-X 54, 59, 141 
 
 Elizabeth, H.M.S., 137 
 
 Ellenborough, Edward, ist Lord, 232 
 
 Ellis, Sir Henry, iz%n 
 
 Elliston, Mr. (Actor), 160, 180 
 
 Elms, Mr. (Dentist in Leicester Square), 
 198 
 
 Elphinstone Circle Garden, Bombay, giw 
 
 Elsworthy, ijn., 18 
 
 Elwin, W., 197 
 
 " Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba," 
 by Claude, 113M 
 
 England, 3, 13-16, 18-19, 27, 3°, 35«-, 37? 
 56, 62«., 64, 71, 78, 113, 140, 145, 
 156, 158, 170, 178-9, 192, 193K., 
 204«., 212 and k., 2i6m., 224, 226M., 
 233,. 243, 253, 254 and «., 255, 257; 
 pubhc schools of, 6 ; war with France, 
 14, 22, 24-6, 52, 57, _6p, 77, 87, 180, 
 199, 200, 211; political affairs of 
 (1806), 24-6 ; (1807), 102-3, 108 ; 
 war with Spain, 25-6, 27 and «., 89, 
 90 ; Naval returns of (1806), 39 ; 
 (1807), 207 ; Table of Wars of (1688- 
 1805), 66-7 ; comparative wealth of, 
 between 1664 and 1800, 66-8 ; judi- 
 cial procedure in, 80 ; Government of 
 Russia and, 108 ; war with Turkey, 
 125 and n. ; and loan to Russia, 126 ; 
 state of the Arts in, 134, 233 5 Russians 
 respect people of, 149 ; cost of Vol- 
 unteer Service, 182 ; strength of 
 Volunteers, 183 ; and peace with 
 America, 183-4, 245 ; ships employed 
 in trade of, 184 ; American ports 
 closed to, 187 ; value of property 
 insured in Fire offices in, 192 ; effec- 
 tive strength of Army (1807), 193 ; 
 revenue for years, 1 100-1800, 194; 
 amount of wool produced in, 197 5 
 attack on Denmark, 199, 200 ; public 
 institutions in, 201 ; Nelson and her 
 power at sea, ib. ; declares war against 
 Denmark, 211; Portuguese port* 
 
 England — continued. 
 
 closed against, 211; blockades all 
 French ports, 216-7, 223 ; Russia 
 breaks off communications with, 229 ; 
 foreigners without passports not al- 
 lowed to land, ib. ; relations with 
 America, 231, 245 ; embargo placed 
 on all Russian vessels, 235 ; commer- 
 cial influence in, 249 ; blockades port 
 of Lisbon, 250 
 
 Englefield, Sir Henry, 168, 173, i74« 
 
 English frigates. Equipment of, 26 
 
 " Epistle to a Friend," by S. Rogers, 181 
 
 Erfurt, 37 
 
 Erskine, Thomas, ist Lord, 76, 79 
 
 — — , Lady Frances. See Holland, Lady 
 Frances 
 
 "Essays on Art," by Hoppner, iiiw 
 
 Essex, George, 5th Earl of, 255 
 
 , 20 
 
 Eton College, 2k., 6, 11 and «., 204 ; 
 Register, iin 
 
 Etty, William, R.A., 165 and n 
 
 Europe, 69«. 5 State of affairs, in, 43, 48- 
 
 9, 52 
 Evans, Mr. (of Norwich), 136 
 " Evening," by Sir A. W. Callcott, 113-4 
 Everard, Scarlet (Mayor of King's Lynn), 
 
 204-5 
 
 , Mrs., 205 
 
 Evereaux, Normandy, 22 
 
 Everitt, Mr. (of Bedford Square), 236 
 
 " Evidences of Christianity," by William 
 
 Paley, DD., 225 
 Exeter, Bishop of. See Fisher, John 
 — , 125, 145, 209 
 Exeter (H.E.I. Co.), je^n 
 Cathedral, De Cort's " View of," 
 
 197 
 " Exodiad," by Richard Cumberland, 126K 
 Eye, Suffolk, 2« 
 Eylau, Battle of (1807), 95, 106 
 
 Fakenham, near Raynham, 202, 206 
 
 " Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen," by 
 
 J. M. W. Turner, R.A., loi 
 " Fancy Group, A," by Sir T. Lawrence, 
 
 .114-5 
 Farington, Joseph, R.A., i, 6-7, 11, 17-18, 
 22, 25, 28, 30-2, 34-6, 37 and M., 
 40-1, 43-7, 495 52-3, 55, 5^, 61, 62 
 and K., 63-5, 68-73, 75-6, 79-Si, 84, 
 86-7, 89-91, 94-5, 98, loi, 104-6, 108, 
 no and k., hi, 114-5, 117, 120, 
 122-5, 129, 13 1-4, 136-7, 139-143, 
 145 and «,, 148 and k., 149, 152, 153 
 and «., 154 and «., 156, 159-162, 
 164-5, 167-8, 172, i73«., 174 and »., 
 
Index 269 
 
 Farington, Joseph — continued. 
 
 Finch, Hon. Miss, 210 
 
 178-9, 181-2, 184, i85«., 186-9, i93j 
 
 Finchampstead, 26M 
 
 195, 197-8, 202, 206, 2o8«., 209, 2I2«., 
 
 Fisguard, a frigate, 89 
 
 213, 218, 220, 223-4, 227, 229-31, 
 
 Fish, Charles. See Palmer, Charles Fysshe 
 
 233«-5 235, 236 and «., 250, 252, 254, 
 
 — — , Henry (of Ickwell, Beds), 26« 
 
 257; and Lord Thomond, 2-3, 13, 23- 
 
 Fisher, John, Bishop of Exeter (afterwards 
 
 4, 26, 29 ; his picture of Taplow Woods, 
 
 Bishop of Salisbury), 83 ; and Princess 
 
 3_; on political matters, 24, 102-3 ; 
 
 Charlotte's education, 14 1-2 
 
 his caution, 26, 29 ; on Barry's " Birth 
 
 Fitzherbert, Mrs., 5, 98, igi 
 
 of Pandora," 33-4 ; and R.A. affairs, 
 
 Fitzroy, Lady Anne. See Smith, Lady 
 
 40, 43. 48-9, 5 1: 54, 57-60, 63-4, 
 
 Anne Culling 
 
 82-3, 87, 100, 130, 133, 176, 215, 228, 
 
 , Miss Anne Caroline, 4« 
 
 233-4, 240-1,. 245, 248, 250-1, 257; 
 
 , Miss Georgiana Frederica. See 
 
 on Sir D. Wilkie's Art, 42 ; and Hopp- 
 
 Worcester, Georgiana Frederica, Mar- 
 
 ner, 43, 50, 57 ; and B. West, 49, 50, 54, 
 
 chioness of 
 
 59-60,82-3, 100, 133, 150,211,240,242- 
 
 , Hon. Henry, 4« 
 
 5, 248-9 ; and Miss Edwards, 58, 63-4, 
 
 Fitzwilliam, William, 4th Earl, 32, 41, 
 
 256-7 5 Edridge's portrait of, 60, 70 ; 
 
 138, 144 
 
 " Ouse Bridge," by,70 ; and Lawrence's 
 
 Flanders, 30^ 
 
 financial affairs, 84, 86, 88, 94-5, 125, 
 
 Flaxman, John, R.A., 56, 91 and w., 97, 100, 
 
 130; Lawrence's portrait of, 135, 
 
 135 ; and the statue to Reynolds, 90 
 
 198-9 ; his opinion of Young, the 
 
 Fleet Street, 85 
 
 actor, 160; and Kemble's acting, 161 ; 
 
 Fleming, Sir John (of Brompton Park), 65« 
 
 has eye trouble, 198-9, 203 ; and 
 
 , Miss Seymour Dorothy. See Wors- 
 
 British Institution, 227 
 
 ley. Lady 
 
 — — , William (nephew of Diarist), 136, 164 
 
 " Flora," by R. Westall, 134, 140, 168 
 
 Farnley Hall, 41K., io8« 
 
 Florence, 145, 257 
 
 Farquhar, Rev. Robert, i8w 
 
 Fludyer, Miss Caroline, i and n 
 
 , Sir Walter, 18-19, 45 '■> notice of, 
 
 , Miss Maria, i and n 
 
 i8«., Raeburn's portrait of, ih 
 
 — — , Sir Samuel (ist Baronet), i« 
 
 , Walter, 19 
 
 , Sir Samuel, 3rd Baronet), m 
 
 , Mrs., 19 
 
 , Sir Samuel Brudenall, in 
 
 Farren, William, 25 2« 
 
 , Lady, Lawrence's portrait of her 
 
 " Farrier's Shop, A," by J. M. W. Turner, 
 
 children, i and«.; notice of, m 
 
 "3, 133, 140 
 
 Street, Westminster, m 
 
 Fauconberg, Henry, 2nd Earl of, 62«., 
 
 " Fly Flap," by C. F. G., 1 1 1 and n 
 
 73« 
 
 Focsani, 175 
 
 — ■ — , Charlotte, Countess of, 62« 
 
 Folkes, Sir Martin, 90 
 
 Fawkes, Walter Ramsden, 41 and «., 108 
 
 Fonthill, 33, 197K. ; an unrecorded picture 
 
 and «., 233« 
 
 sale at, 197 and n 
 
 Felton Bequest, 45^ 
 
 Abbey, 33 ; cost of, 242 
 
 Fenchurch Street, 233 
 
 Estate, 242 
 
 Fenice Theatre, Venice, 62« 
 
 Ford, Dr., 219, 225 
 
 Fenton, 23 
 
 , Lady (wife of Sir Richard Ford), 255 
 
 Ferdinand IV., King of Naples, 83 
 
 — — , Miss Elizabeth. See Goodenough, 
 
 Ferrers, Lawrence, 4th Earl, 185 and n 
 
 Mrs. S. 
 
 , Countess. See Campbell, Lady 
 
 , Sir Richard, 72^ 
 
 Frederick 
 
 , R., jzn 
 
 Ferris, Dr., 189 
 
 , Captain R., 214;? 
 
 Fetter Lane, London, 206 
 
 , Northumberland, 167 
 
 Fielding, Sir John, 8on 
 
 Foreign Office, London, in 
 
 , Henry, 5M., 8o» 
 
 For England Ho ! play by I. Pocock, 25 2k 
 
 ■ — ■ — , William, 80 ; notice of, 8o« 
 
 Forrester (or Forster), Edward, 49 and k., 
 
 Fifeshire, 44 
 
 52- 
 
 " Fifth Plague in Egypt," by J. M. W. 
 
 Forster, Mrs. {nee Banks), 237 
 
 Turner, 197 
 
 Fortescue, Lady Henrietta Anne, 71 and n 
 
 Finberg, A. J., " History of Turner's Liber 
 
 , Hon. Matthew, Captain, R.N., 71 
 
 Studiorum," by, 153K 
 
 and « 
 
270 
 
 The Farington Diary 
 
 " Fortunate Chance," by Hogarth, ^zn 
 
 Foster, Rev. Edward, 230?? ; " British 
 Gallery of Engravings," by, 107 and 
 «., 230 and n 
 
 , John. See Oriel, Lord 
 
 Foundling Hospital, 92n., 236 
 
 Fountaine, Andrew, 153 
 
 Fox, Charles James, 22, 24, 28, 55«., 60, 
 94, 98, 108, 154-5, 162 and «., 164, 
 166 and «., 185, 198, 236 ; funeral 
 of, 31-2; his command of vfords, 
 56-7 ; Nollekens' death mask and 
 busts of, 145-6 
 
 , Stephen, 164 
 
 France, 24, 30K., 55, 78, 184, 226«., 227, 
 255 ; Peace of Amiens, 14-15 ; the 
 Revolution, 22-3, 114, 180, 220; 
 war with England, 14, 22, 24-6, 52, 
 57, 60, 77, 87, 180, 199, 200 ; cam- 
 paign in Prussia, 36-7, 52, 60 ; war 
 with Russia, 49, 52, 60, 79, 81, 83, 95, 
 106, 108, 171 ; campaign in Germany, 
 22, 52, 54 ; Austrians declare war 
 against, 79 ; Treaty of Tilsit with 
 Russia, 184-5 J conscription in, 185 ; 
 Great Britain orders blockade of all 
 sea ports of, 216-7, ^^3 5 America 
 shows partiality towards, 231 ; Art in, 
 245 
 
 Francis II., Emperor of Germany (after- 
 wards Francis I. of Austria), 121 
 
 , Sir Philip (Junius), 177W 
 
 Francois I., King of France, 107M.; portrait 
 of, ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, tb 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin, and C. Whitefoord, 183 
 
 Frazer, Mr. (of Lincoln's Inn), 169 
 
 Frederick II. (the Great), King of Prussia, 
 91, 92«., 220« 
 
 William III., King of Prussia, 14, 
 
 36-7 
 
 Place, Old Jewry, 75« 
 
 Freemantle, Mr. (Lord of the Treasury), 79 
 Freemasons' Tavern, 94 
 French Cavalry at Laffeldt, 22 
 
 frigates, equipment of, 25-6 
 
 Friday Street, 226k 
 
 Friedrickstadt, French defeat Russians at, 
 
 171 
 Frogmore, 59 
 " From Greenland's Icy Mountains," by 
 
 Reginald Heber, 254« 
 Froude, James Anthony, I78« 
 , Rev. Robert Hurrell, 178 ; notice of, 
 
 tb. n 
 
 , Mrs., 178 and n 
 
 -^ Miss Margaret. See Mallock, Mrs 
 
 Fryer, Edward, M.D., 33 ; notice of, ib. n 
 Fulk, Mr., 189 
 
 Fuller, Mr., 158 
 
 Fulton, Robert, 132 ; his steamboat, 237 
 
 Fuseli, Henry, R.A., 57-8, 74, 90-1, 171-2, 
 174-5, 180-1, 193, 195-6, 233 ; on 
 modern artists, 123 ; and Princess of 
 Wales, 196 
 
 , Mrs., 173 
 
 G., C. F. See Greville, Hon. Charles Francis 
 
 Gainsborough, Thomas, R.A., 45M., 209, 
 2i2«., 235, 257; his letters to W. 
 Jackson, 145 and n 
 
 " Galatea," by B. Manfredi, ii-^n 
 
 Gambler, James, ist Lord, Admiral, 206 
 
 Gandy, Joseph Michael, A.R.A., jj, 87 ; 
 notice of, 77^ 
 
 , Thomas, jjn 
 
 Gardner, Alan, ist Lord, Admiral, i7«., 
 136-7, 164 
 
 , Mr. (son of Daniel Gardner), 63 
 
 , Daniel, 63 
 
 , Valentine, 17 and n 
 
 , Mrs., 17 and n 
 
 Garioch, Scotland, i8« 
 
 Garrick, David, i57« 
 
 Garrow, Sir William, 80, 232 
 
 Gascoigne, Major Peter, 157M 
 
 General Post Office, London, i67« 
 
 Gentleman's Magazine^ 6^n 
 
 George II., King of Great Britain, 92;/., 
 106, i32«., 198 
 
 III., King of Great Britain, in., 6«., 
 
 H, 21, 50, 55, 59, 80, 83, 97, 107, 125, 
 i35-7> 141-2, 158-9, 162, 171, i73«., 
 185, 191, 199, 201, 209, 216-7, 235, 
 245 ; and the Marquess of Thomond, 
 3 ; against Lord St. Vincent suc- 
 ceeding Lord Howick at the Admiralty, 
 25 ; his timidity, 48 ; and the R.A., 
 54, 59, 82, 240-1, 245 ; and B. West, 
 48-9, 54, 59) 82, 211, 240, 246; and 
 the Princess of Wales, 96 ; and the 
 Catholic Emancipation, 102-3, 108 : 
 Northcote's portrait of, 140 ; and 
 Smirke's candidature for R.A. Keeper- 
 ship, 240-1, 245 
 
 IV., King of Great Britain, marriage 
 
 statute of, 219K. See also Wales, 
 George Augustus Frederick, Prince of 
 
 Gerard, Mr., 214 
 
 Germany, 14, 41, 71, 77, 258 ; French 
 campaign in, 22, 52, 54 
 
 Ghent, 254« 
 
 Gibbon, Edward (Historian), 162^1 
 
 Gibbs, Hon. Vicary, zn 
 
 , Sir Vicary, 232 
 
 Gibraltar, 37, 217 
 
 Gifford, Helen Selina, Countess of, i67« 
 
Index 
 
 271 
 
 Gillies, . John, LL.D. " History of the 
 World," by, 231 
 
 Gilpin, Sawrey, R.A., 88 
 
 Giorgione, 116 
 
 " Gipsy, The," by Romney, 197 
 
 Girtin. Thomas, 103-4, 233«. ; his " Water- 
 colours," by Randall Davies, 103M 
 
 Glanville Street, London, 108 
 
 Glasgow, 18 ; Presbytery of, and church 
 organ playing, 200 
 
 Gloucester, Maria, Duchess of, 107 
 
 , William Frederick, 2nd Duke of, 
 
 and the R.A. Presidency, 50-1 ; 
 Opie's portrait of, 119 
 
 , Bishop of. See Huntlngford, Dr. 
 
 George Isaac 
 
 , 53> 222 
 
 Gloucestershire, 177 
 
 Glover, John, 37K., 189 
 
 Golden Square, 225 
 
 Goldsmid, Abraham (of Morden House), 
 184 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 , Mrs., 184 
 
 Goldsmith, Oliver, 157W 
 
 Goodall, Dr. (Master of Eton), 6 
 
 Goodenough, Mr. (nephew of Dr. Good- 
 enough), 73 
 
 , Dr. Samuel (afterwards Bishop of 
 
 Carhsle), 72-3 ; notice of, 72« 
 
 , Mrs., 72« 
 
 , William, M.D., 72M 
 
 , Mrs., 72n 
 
 Gordon, Alexander, 4th Duke of, 2« 
 
 , Jane, Duchess of, 2«., 26 and n 
 
 , Sir John Watson, 45^ 
 
 , Miss Margaret. See Trotter, Mrs. 
 
 Coutts 
 
 Gosfield Park, Essex, 208 
 
 Gould, Mr., 86 
 
 Gouvion, Saint Cyr, Laurent, French 
 Marshal, and English Artists in 
 Rome, 77 
 
 Gower, Lord Granville Leveson- (after- 
 wards ist Earl Granville), 126 
 
 Grafton Street, Bond Street, 99 
 
 Street, Fitzroy Square, 30 
 
 Graham, Mr. (a Magistrate), 218 
 
 , John, 44-5, 121 ; notice of, 45M. ; 
 
 " The Disobedient Prophet," by, ib 
 
 , Thomas (a Solicitor), 232 
 
 Gramont, A. A. Alfred, Due de, 208 
 
 Granger, Mr., 15 
 
 Grassini, Mme. Josephina, 237 ; notice of, 
 ib. n. ; Mme. Vigee Le Brun's 
 portrait of, ib 
 
 Grassmere, 42 
 
 Grattan, Henry, 68, 161, 181 
 
 Graves, Algernon, " Art Sales," by, 197K 
 
 Graves and Cronin, " Life of Sir J. Rey- 
 nolds," by, 247 
 
 Gravesend, 192, 257 
 
 Gray, Thomas, 108 
 
 Great Britain. See England for affairs 
 in common 
 
 Grimsby, 154 
 
 Torrington, Devonshire, 156-7 
 
 Greece, 56 ; Art of, 233 
 
 Greek Street, 89 
 
 Green, Valentine, A.R.A., 224, 227 ; his 
 salary as keeper of the British Institu- 
 tion, 224 
 
 Green's Lane, Norwich, 23 6« 
 
 Greenwich, 95 
 
 Hospital, 109M 
 
 Grenfell, Miss (eldest daughter of Pascoe 
 Grenfell), 18 
 
 , Pascoe, M.P., 12, 17, 23-4, 26-9 
 
 , Mrs. (first wife of Pascoe Grenfell), 17 
 
 — -^, Hon. Mrs. (second wife of Pascoe 
 Grenfell), 18 
 
 Grenville, WilHam Wyndham, ist Lord, 
 25-6, 32, 60-1, 83, 162, 166 ; and Lord 
 Howick's successor at the Admiralty, 
 25 ; and the Catholic Emancipation, 
 102-4 
 
 Gretton, Mr. (brother to Dr. Gretton), 8-9 
 
 , Rev. Mr. (eldest son of Dr. Gretton), 
 
 7 
 , Master (youngest son of Dr. Gretton), 
 
 7 
 
 , Rev. George, D.D., 6-j, 9-1 1 ; notice 
 
 of, 6«. ; finances of, 8 and «., 9 
 
 , Mrs., 6 and k., 7 
 
 Greville, Hon. Charles Francis, iiik., 247 ; 
 "Fly Flap," by, iii and ??., and a 
 portrait of Emily Warren, 247 and 
 n. ; notice of, 247K. ; portraits of, by 
 Reynolds and Romney, ib 
 
 — — , Fulke, 18 1 « 
 
 " Greville Memoirs," 4« 
 
 Grey, Captain, 254 
 
 , Hon. Charles (afterwards 2nd Earl 
 
 Grey and Viscount Howick), 32, 79 
 and «., 102-4, 108, 1 1 in., 140, 144-6, 
 16 1-2, i66m. ; and his successor at 
 the Admiralty, 25, 27 
 
 Griesley, Mr., 10 
 
 Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco (called II 
 Bolognese), 188 
 
 , Joseph, 161 
 
 Groot, Dr. Hofstede de, 13 5K. ; " Cata- 
 logue of Dutch Painters," by, i43» 
 
 Grosvenor, Robert, 2nd Earl of (afterwards 
 1st Marquess of Westminster), 153, 
 177, 225 
 
 Family, The, 225, 226 and n 
 
272 The Farington Diary 
 
 Grosvenor, Sir Robert (c.1341-1396), the 
 
 Hardwieke, Philip, 3rd Earl of, 51 
 
 case with Lord Richard Scrope re- 
 
 Hardy, Mrs. (R.A. Housekeeper), 174 
 
 called, 225-6 and n 
 
 Harewood, Edward, Lord (afterwards ist 
 
 Square, London, 129 
 
 Earl of), 138, 233« 
 
 Groves, Mr., 149 
 
 , Edwin, Lord, 233« 
 
 " Growth of the Poet's Mind," by William 
 
 , Henrietta, Countess of, Hoppner's 
 
 Wordsworth, 42 
 
 portrait of, 23 3 « 
 
 Guards, The, 22, 95 
 
 , Henry, 2nd Earl of, 23 3 b 
 
 Guatemala, 30^ 
 
 — — House, 233«. ; Turner''s drawings of, 
 
 Gubbio, 6zn 
 
 ib 
 
 Guest, Douglas, 227 and n 
 
 Harker, Mr. (a Barber), 30 
 
 Guildford, Susan, Countess of, 195 
 
 Harley, Thomas, Alderman, 226n 
 
 Guildhall, London, i 
 
 Harrington, Jane, Countess of, 65 
 
 Guillet, M., 185 
 
 Family, The, 163 
 
 Gustavus IV. Adolphus, King of Sweden, 
 
 Harrow School, 6, 61 and n 
 
 186 
 
 Hart, Mrs. (Milliner of Piccadilly), 236K 
 
 Gwatkin, Edward, Major-General, 157^ 
 
 , Charles Henry (of Philadelphia), 
 
 , Mrs., 157M 
 
 2I2K 
 
 , John Reynolds, 157^ 
 
 Hartwell, Sir Francis, 24-6, 28, 95 
 
 ■ , Mrs., 157K 
 
 Haslemere, 60 
 
 , Joshua Reynolds Gascoigne, his 
 
 Hastings, Warren, 13«, i62« 
 
 pictures by Reynolds, 157K 
 
 Haute Mere Dieu Hotel, Chalons-sur- 
 
 , Robert Lovell, 156 ; notice of, I56«., 
 
 Marne, 148^ 
 
 I57«. ; Reynolds' portrait of, ib 
 
 Havell, William, 106, 189 
 
 , Mrs. (Reynolds' " Ofly "), 156; 
 
 Hawkesbury, Robert, 2nd Lord (afterwards 
 
 notice of, 156/2., 157M. ; Reynolds' 
 
 2nd Earl of Liverpool), 230 
 
 portrait of, ib 
 
 Hawkshead School, 239 
 
 , Miss Theophlla, 157^ 
 
 Hay, Miss Harriet. See Litchfield, Mrs 
 
 
 Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 45, 48, loi, 
 
 H., loi 
 
 156W 
 
 Hall, Dr., 38 
 
 Hayes, Judge, 2 
 
 , Mrs. See De Visme, Mrs 
 
 , Mr. (son of Judge Hayes), 2 and n 
 
 Hallet, Mr., 186 
 
 — — , Sir John Macnamara, M.D., 31-2, 48, 
 
 Hamburg, 36-7, 52 ; taken by the French, 
 
 56, 152, 187, 220 
 
 52, 54 ; British merchants at, 57 
 
 Hay ley, William, 25 2« 
 
 Hamilton, Lady Emma {nee Hart), 247K 
 
 Hayman, Francis, R.A., 257 
 
 , Sir William, 123K., 247^. ; Rom- 
 
 Haymarket Theatre, London, 25 2m. ; C. M. 
 
 ney's portrait of, ib 
 
 Young as " Hamlet " at, 158, 160 
 
 — ■ — , William, R.A., 197, 251 
 
 Head, Guy, jj and n 
 
 " Hamlet," Charles Mayne Young as. 
 
 Heard, Sir Isaac (Garter King at Arms), 
 
 158, 160 
 
 223 
 
 , J. P. Kemble as, 161 
 
 Hearne, Thomas, 47-8, 63, 123, 152-3, 255 
 
 Hamond, Rev. Horace, 201-2, 204-6 
 
 " Heart of Midlothian," by Sir Walter 
 
 Hampden, John, 3rd Viscount, 164 
 
 Scott, i68?? 
 
 Hampshire, 30, 39, 206 
 
 Heath, James, A.E., 235-6 ; his engraving 
 
 Militia, 65W 
 
 of West's " Death of Nelson," 236 
 
 Hampstead, 43, 243 
 
 Heathcote, Sir Gilbert, M.P., 79, 252 ; 
 
 Hampton Court Palace, 14 
 
 notice of, ib. n 
 
 . Rocks, near Bath, 212 
 
 , Lady {nee Manners, first wife of Sir 
 
 Hanbury, William, 214 
 
 Gilbert), 252« 
 
 • , Mrs. William (mother of ist Lord 
 
 , Lady (late Mrs. Eldon, second wife 
 
 Bateman), 4i« 
 
 of Sir Gilbert), 252?? 
 
 Handel, " Messiah," oratorio, by, 237 
 
 — — , Richard, 252-3 
 
 Hankin, Mrs., 248 
 
 , Sir William, 206 
 
 Hanover, 106 
 
 Heber, Reginald (father of Richard Heber), 
 
 Square Rooms, 236W 
 
 254« 
 
 Hans Towns, The, 5i« 
 
 , Regmald, (Bishop of Calcutta), 254K 
 
 Harcourt, George Seniou, 2nd Earl, 81 
 
 , Richard, 254 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
Index 273 
 
 Hedsor Parish Church, 6« 
 
 Hodges, William, R.A., Dr. Gretton's story 
 
 Henderson, John (Actor), i8o« 
 
 of, 8-1 1 ; notice of, 8« 
 
 Hendon, 195^ 
 
 , Mrs. {nee Carr, third wife of R.A.), 
 
 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 34 
 
 8k., 9, II 
 
 Henry IV., King of France, 2 
 
 , Mrs. Lydia (second wife of R.A.), 
 
 Vin. King of England, 148^ 
 
 8k., 10, II 
 
 " Henry VIII." by Shakespeare, 23 2« 
 
 , Mrs. Martha (first wife of R.A.), 8k 
 
 Heralds' College, 223 
 
 Hogdson, J. E., and Eaton, F.A., "R.A. 
 
 Herat, Siege of, I28« 
 
 and Its Members," by, 253K 
 
 Hereford, 6» 
 
 Hogarth, William, his art, 44 ; " Works of," 
 
 Herring, Alderman (of Norwich), 159 
 
 79 and K., 80 ; his " March to Finch- 
 
 Hertford, Francis, 2nd Marquess of, 32, 
 
 ley," 91, 92 and n. ; " Fortunate 
 
 69 and «., 191 
 
 Chance," by, 92K 
 
 , Francis Charles, 3rd Marquess of, 69K 
 
 , Mrs., 79 and n 
 
 • -, Francis George Hugh, 4th Marquess 
 
 Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Frederick Louis, 
 
 of, 69« 
 
 Prince of, 37 
 
 , Isabella Anne, Marchioness of, 69 
 
 Holkham, 59, 138, 206 
 
 and «., 191 
 
 Holland, Rev. Dr. (Precentor and Pre- 
 
 House, 69K 
 
 bendary of Chichester), 76 
 
 Heyman, Henry, 51K 
 
 , Lady Frances, 76 
 
 Hibernia, H.M.S., 136 
 
 , Henry, Lord, 164 
 
 Hickey, William, " Memoirs of," edited 
 
 , Henry Richard Vassal, 3rd Lord, 32 
 
 by Alfred Spencer, 247^ 
 
 , Elizabeth, Lady, 76 
 
 Higginson, Miss. See Banks, Lady 
 
 , Sir Nathaniel Dance-, 46M., 128-9, 
 
 Higham Ferrers, 144 
 
 130, i46,_ 148-9, 152, 161, 206, 257 ; 
 
 " High Cliff," near Ramsgate, 84 
 
 his acquaintance with AngeHca Kauff- 
 
 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, 235 
 
 man, 257-8 
 
 Hilton, William, R.A., 215 and «., 228, 
 
 , Lady, 146, 161, 206 
 
 233 
 
 ) 1 5) -^55 ) Duke of York's expedition 
 
 " Histoire des Diables Modernes," by 
 
 to, 14 
 
 M. Adolphus, 22o« 
 
 House, 44, 76 
 
 " History of the World," by Dr. John 
 
 Holmes, Sir Charles J., 154K 
 
 GiUies, 23 1 
 
 Holstein, 199 
 
 Hit or Miss, play by I. Pocock, 252K 
 
 Holt, Rev. Mr., 59 
 
 Hitcham, Bucks, 6« 
 
 , Mr. (Art Critic of Bell's Weekly 
 
 House, near Taplow, 6 
 
 Messenger), 42, 60-1 ; " State of the 
 
 Hoare, Miss Henrietta Ann. See Fortes- 
 
 Negotiation of Lord Lauderdale," 
 
 cue, Lady 
 
 by, 60 
 
 , Henry (of Stourhead), 70-1 
 
 Holworthy, Miss. See Gardner, Mrs 
 
 , Henry (son of Sir Richard Hoare, 
 
 , Samuel, i7n 
 
 Kt.), 71 and n 
 
 Hompesch, Baron, Charles, story of his 
 
 ■ — — , Mrs., 71 and n 
 
 duel with Mr. Richardson, 93 and n., 
 
 , Henry (son of Sir Richard Colt 
 
 94 
 
 Hoare, Bt.), 71 
 
 Hone, H., 153 
 
 — — , Miss Mary. See Hoare, Mrs. Henry 
 
 Hood, Captain, 164 
 
 , Prince (Secretary of Foreign Corre- 
 
 , Samuel, ist Viscount, Admiral, 24, 49 
 
 spondence of the R.A.), 73-4, 85, 89, 
 
 Hoole, John, 2o8k 
 
 107, 117, 124, 126-7, 149; 171 
 
 Hope, Henry, 40 and n., 149 
 
 , Sir Richard, Kt., 71^ 
 
 , Thomas, 146, 227 
 
 , Sir Richard, ist Baronet, 71 
 
 Hoppner, John, R.A., 37K., 45, 48-50, 57, 
 
 , Sir Richard Colt, 2nd Baronet, 33 
 
 70, 75, 78, 82, 85, 107, III and n., 
 
 and K., 71 ; his work on Antiquities 
 
 133-4, 136, 137 and K., 142, 149, 
 
 of England, 71 and n 
 
 161M., 162, 168, 213, 215, 228, 233 
 
 , William, R.A., 71 and n 
 
 and n., 234, 236, 250 ; his portrait of 
 
 Hoare's Bank, 71 
 
 Lady Anne Culling Smith and family, 
 
 Hobbema, M., " Wooded Landscape," by. 
 
 4K. ; his quarrel with Shee, 40 and 
 
 123 and n. ; his art, 123-4 
 
 «., 41K., 82 ; " Oriental Tales," by. 
 
 Hodges, Mr. (father of R.A.), 8» 
 
 40K., 70 ; and Farington, 43, 50, 57 ; 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 18 
 
274 
 
 The Farington Diary 
 
 Hoppner, John — continued, 
 
 his portraits of Pitt, 75, 139, 142, 146, 
 161, 215 ; " Essays on Art," by, iiiw. ; 
 his portraits of Prince of Wales, 131 ; 
 of the Duchess of Atholl, 161 ; his 
 art, 165, 213 ; his portraits of Louisa, 
 Countess of Dysart, 2i6». ; of Edward, 
 Lord Harewood, 233M. ; of Henrietta, 
 Countess of Harewood, ib. ; Mackay 
 and Roberts' " Life of," ib 
 
 , William Lascelles, 236 ; his " Wisdom 
 
 of Solomon," 228, 233, 236 ; awarded 
 R.A. gold medal, 233-4 ; notice of, 
 
 Horner, Francis, 172 and «., 173, i74«., 
 181 ; Raeburn's portrait of, i72« 
 
 Horse Guards, The, 28 
 
 Horsham, 4 
 
 Horsley, Rev. Heneage, 76 
 
 , Samuel, Bishop of St. Asaph, 75 and 
 
 «., 76 
 
 Houghton, 72 
 
 Hall, 204-5 
 
 Hounslow, 174, 193 
 
 House of Commons, 45-6, 48, 55-6, 61, 
 79, 102-3, 107, 140, 144, 146-7, 166, 
 181, 186-7; commercial men in, 
 90, 225 ; and Lansdowne Manu- 
 scripts, 179 ; and John Palmer's mail 
 scheme, 180 and n. ; Defence Bill 
 (1807) in, 185 ; and a grant to Dr. E. 
 Jenner, 185. See also Parliament 
 
 of Lords, 56M., 72«., 107, 164, 166, 
 
 204«., 243«. See also Parliament 
 
 Howard, Bernard Edward. See Duke of 
 Norfolk 
 
 , Henry, R.A., 176 
 
 Howe, Richard, istEarl, Admiral, i8« 
 
 Howick, Charles, Viscount. See Grey, 
 Hon. Charles 
 
 Hudson, Thomas, 88, 130 
 
 Hughes, Mr. (of Golden Square), Szn 
 
 , Mrs. See Parisot, Mile 
 
 , Thomas, D.D., 61 and n., 141, 252 
 
 " Huguenot Family of Minet," by William 
 Minet, 35n 
 
 Hull, 32 
 
 Hume, Sir Abraham, 136, 139 
 
 Hummel, Mr., 65 and n 
 
 Humphry, Ozias, R.A., 63, 134, 216 ; Earl 
 of Egremont and, 216 and «. ; 
 Raphael's " Francesco Maria della 
 Rovere," copied by, ib. ; Dr. G. C. 
 Williamson's " Life of," 2i6« 
 
 Hungerford, George Walker- (of Calne, 
 Wilts), 2_49M 
 
 Hunter, William (Anatomist), his museum, 
 236 
 
 Huntingford, Dr. George Isaac, Bishop of 
 Gloucester, Lawrence's portrait of, 78 
 
 Huntly, George, 9th Marquess of, 203M 
 
 Hussey, Miss, 202 
 
 Hutchinson, John, Lord (afterwards 2nd 
 Earl of Donoughmore), 79 and « 
 
 IcKWELL, Bedfordshire, z6n 
 Inchiquin, William, 4th Earl of, 3 
 Income Tax, Commissioners of, 121 
 India, lo-ii, 13, 15, 16, 18-9, 36 and m., 
 
 49,90, 103, 140, 1 57 and K., 223, 247«. 
 
 William Hodges' " Travels in," 8rc. 
 
 Lord Valentia's tour of, 37 and «., 38 
 
 Napoleon and English power in, 171 
 Indian Antiquary ., The, 91 
 
 Cavalry, i57« 
 
 Irmer Temple, The, 220 
 
 Institute of Civil Engineers, i28« 
 
 " Institution of the Order of the Garter," 
 
 a sketch by B. West, 150 
 Ipswich, I3«., 15, 198 
 Ireland, 3, 15-6, 55, 66«., 68, 86, 136, 
 
 155-6, 161, 182, 200, 249 
 " Ireland, Statistical and Political," by 
 
 Edward Wakefield, 248n 
 Irish Society, The, 117 
 Irvine, Charles, 9th Viscount, 69^ 
 Isle of Man, 168 
 Ismail, 175 
 Italy, 22, 64, 71, 77-8, 114, 129, i35«., 
 
 i57n., 183, 192, 2i6«., 223, 257 
 , King of (1807). See Napoleon I. 
 
 Jackson, Miss Elizabeth. See Wakefield, 
 Mrs. (first wife of Edward Wakefield) 
 
 , Miss Isabella. See Wakefield, Mrs 
 
 , John, R.A., 41-2, loi, 103 ; his art, 
 
 102 
 
 , John (the pugilist, known as " Gentle- 
 man Jackson "), 206 
 
 , Thomas, 145 and n 
 
 , William, 145; Gainsborough's letters 
 
 to, ib. and n. ; his adaptation of " Ly- 
 cidas," ib. n 
 
 Jamaica, 242 
 
 James, Major, 249 
 
 I., King of England, and VI. of 
 
 Scotland, " Death of," picture by 
 J. Opie, 124 
 
 II., King of England, and VII. of 
 
 Scotland (as Duke of York), 2, 165 
 
 Francis Edward Stewart, Prince of 
 
 Wales (the Old Pretender), 2 
 
 Janissaries, Revolt of the, 175 
 Jefferson, Thomas, President of the United 
 States (1801-1809), 184, 187, 231, 245 
 Jeffery, Mr., 197 
 
Index 
 
 275 
 
 Jeffries, Mr., 197 
 
 Jekyll, Joseph, 56 
 
 Jenner, Dr. Edward, 209 ; House of Com- 
 mons and a grant to Dr. E. Jenner, 
 185 ; receives ;^4j000 from India, 223 
 
 Jennings, Mr., 97 
 
 Jermyn Street, London, 21 
 
 Jerningham, Edward, 164 and n 
 
 John, Prince Regent of Portugal (afterwards 
 John VI., King of), 211, 250, 258 
 
 Street, London, 179 
 
 Johnson, Mr. (of Calcutta), 19 
 
 , Miss, 19 
 
 — — , Mr. (Woollen draper), 157 
 
 — ■ — , Mr. (eldest son of the Draper), 157 
 
 , Mrs. (sister to Sir Joshua Reynolds), 
 
 157 
 — — , Mr. (Steward to Earl Ferrers), 185 
 
 , Richard, 157 
 
 , Dr. Samuel, i35«., i57«-, 162K. ; his 
 
 " Lives of the Poets," 85 ; and Mrs. R. 
 
 L. Gwatkin, ii,6n 
 Jordan, Mrs., and Duke of Clarence, 204 
 Journal^ Le, Paris, 184-5 
 Judd, Miss (Maid to Mrs. Penton), 14, 22 
 "Jupiter," by James Barry, R.A. 128-9 
 " Juvenile Travellers, The," by Mrs. 
 
 Priscilla Wakefield, 248M 
 
 K.,_4, i65_ 
 
 Ivaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 13 5"., 
 
 152 
 Kauffman, Angelica, 70 and n. ; death of, 
 
 250-1 ; her acquaintance with Sir N. 
 
 Dance-Holland, 257-8 5 and Sir J. 
 
 Reynolds, ib 
 Kemble, Charles, 25 2« 
 , John Philip, 43, 137, 160, 171, 181-2, 
 
 201, 250; as " Hamlet," 161 
 Kemneys, Mr., 197 
 Kensington, 53 
 
 Gardens, 4 
 
 Gravel Pits, 36 
 
 Volunteers, 36 
 
 Kent, Edward, Duke of, 130 
 
 — > 72, 935 193 
 
 Kenton, Mrs. (mother of Ben Kenton), 226« 
 
 , Ben (Wine merchant), 226-7, 246 ; 
 
 notice of, 226K 
 
 , Miss, 226k 
 
 Kenyon, George, 2nd Lord, 166 and n 
 Kerrich, Thomas, 221 ; notice of, ib. n 
 Ketteringham Hall, Norfolk, 232 and n 
 Kew, 241 
 
 Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, 84K 
 Killaloe, Bishop of. See Barnard, Thomas, 
 
 Bishop of Limerick 
 Kimbolton Park, 28 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 King, Mr. (Actor), i8on 
 
 , Mrs. Charles, igon 
 
 " King Bladud discovering the Virtues of 
 
 the Bath Waters," by B. West, 212, 230 
 King John^ by Shakespeare, 213^ 
 " King Lear," a picture by B. West, P.R.A., 
 
 132 
 and Lochee, Messrs. (Auctioneers 
 
 of King Street, Covent Garden), 84, 
 
 254/! 
 King's Bench, Court of, 56-7, 232 
 
 Bench Prison, 44K., 225 
 
 College, Cambridge. See Cambridge 
 
 University 
 
 College, London, i8« 
 
 Lynn, 205 ; Duke of Clarence receives 
 
 freedom of, 204-5 
 Kingston, Somerset, 28k 
 Kinnaird, Charles, 8th Lord, 107K., 115 
 
 and «., 129 
 
 , George, 7th Lord, 116 
 
 Kirtley, Ralph (Servant to Sir Joshua 
 
 Reynolds), 1 10 
 KnatchbuU, Sir Edward, M.P., 193 
 Knight, R. Payne, 31, 91, 97, 100, in, 123, 
 
 134, 168, 182 ; " Analytical Inquiry 
 
 into the Principle of Taste," by, 31, 
 
 85, i37« 
 Konigsberg, 95 
 Koran, The, 175 
 
 Laborde Collection, The, 123K 
 
 Lacey, Miss, 20 
 
 " Lady and Her Family, A," portrait group, 
 
 by B. Manfredi, 113 and «., 114 
 Laffeldt, Battle of, 22 
 Lafontaine, M., 154 and «. ; sale of his 
 
 collection of pictures, 143 and k., 
 
 150, 152-3 
 Lahinch, near Enniskillen, 187 
 Lamb, Hon. William (afterwards 2nd 
 
 Viscount Melbourne), 166, 174; notice 
 
 of, i66« 
 Lambeth, ii« 
 Lancashire, 25 
 " Landscape and Seascape," by Claude, 
 
 143 and n 
 Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A., 73«., 179M 
 — -, John, A.R.A., 73-4, 152, 179 and k., 
 
 201 ; his " Lectures on Art of En- 
 graving," 73 and n 
 Lane, Samuel, 75, 142 
 Langford, Edward (of St. Albans), iim 
 
 , Mrs., ii« 
 
 , William, D.D., 11 ; notice of, iik 
 
 Lansdowne, William, ist Marquess, 89, 249 
 Manuscripts, The, intended purchase 
 
 for nation, 1 79 
 
 18* 
 
276 The Farin 
 
 gton Diary 
 
 " Laocoon, The " (a piece of sculpture), 
 
 Leicester, George, Earl of (afterwards 2nd 
 
 123 
 
 Marquess of Townshend), 87 
 
 Lascelles, Edward, 108, 140, 146-7 
 
 , Sir John Fleming (afterwards Lord 
 
 , Edwin, See Harewood, Lord 
 
 de Tabley), 50, loi, 107, ii3n., 133, 
 
 , Mrs. Henry. See Harewood, 
 
 136 
 
 Henrietta, Countess of 
 
 , Thomas, Earl of, 138-9 
 
 , Henry George Charles, Viscount, 
 
 ,41 
 
 233 « 
 
 , Fields, 143, 188 
 
 La Semiramide, opera by Portogallo, 62 
 
 Galleries, 2i6« 
 
 Latona, a frigate, 89 
 
 Square, 189 ; Panorama in, ib 
 
 Lauderdale, James, 8th Earl, 24, 60, 162 
 
 Leicestershire, 41 and n 
 
 " Laughing Girl," by Reynolds, 150 
 
 Leigh, Mrs. (mother of Mrs. Wheatley), 107 
 
 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 233 
 
 LennoXj General. See Richmond, 
 
 Lawrence, Miss (sister to Sir Thomas 
 
 Charles, 4th Duke of 
 
 Lawrence, R.A.), 89 
 
 Leominster, 214 
 
 , Dr. French, 29, 220 and n 
 
 Lethbridge, Mr., 180 
 
 , Sir Thomas, R.A., 30, 40 and «., 41, 
 
 " Letters of Horace Walpole," 65^ 
 
 43, 45-6, 49, 5°, 53, 57, 75, 86, 89, 97-8, 
 
 " Letters to Richard Heber," by J. L. 
 
 104, 108, no, 126, 135-140, 143-5, 
 
 Adolphus, 220M 
 
 152-3, 154 and K., 160-2, 164-6, 172-3, 
 
 Lettice, Rev. Dr. John, 243 
 
 174 and «., 181, 184, 186-7, 193, 198, 
 
 Leveson-Gower, Lord. See Gower 
 
 249, 258 ; his portrait of Lady 
 
 Lewis, David (of Malvern Hall, War- 
 
 Fludyer's children, i and n. ; Arm- 
 
 wickshire), 216 
 
 strong's " Life of," in. ; his art, i, 34, 
 
 , James, 192 
 
 40, 108, 132-3, 136, 244; his portraits 
 
 , Mrs. Mary, 79 and « 
 
 of Mrs. Lysons and Mrs. Price, 30 ; 
 
 Leycester, Miss. See Adolphus, Mrs 
 
 his portrait group of Sir F. Baring, his 
 
 Leyden University, 33^ 
 
 brother Charles, and his son-in-law. 
 
 " Liber Studiorum," by Turner, 153 ; A. 
 
 Charles Wall, 39, 40, 53, 108, no, 114, 
 
 J. Finberg's " History of," ib. n 
 
 130, 132, 134, 136 ; and the Princess 
 
 Lichfield, 37«., 38 
 
 of Wales, 48, 165 ; portrait of Bishop 
 
 Liege, _249K 
 
 of Gloucester, 78 ; his financial 
 
 Limerick, I28« 
 
 difficulties, 84, 86, 88, 94-5, 125, 130 ; 
 
 Lincoln, Bishop of. See Tomline, Right 
 
 " A Fancy Group," by, 1 14-5 ; his 
 
 Rev. Sir George Pretyman 
 
 portraits of Lord Thurlow, 133 ; of 
 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 232 
 
 Pitt, 133, 135, 139, 152, 154, 164, 244, 
 
 Lincolnshire, 41, 109, 193, 252M 
 
 252 ; of the Duke of Leeds, 133 ; of 
 
 Linnell, Mr. (father of the Artist), 45 
 
 Farington, 135, 198-9; of T. W. 
 
 , John (Artist), 45 ; notice of, 45«. ; 
 
 Coke, 136-7, 139 ; raises his prices, 
 
 his art, 48 
 
 165-6 ; his portraits of the Angerstein 
 
 Linois, Comte Charles Alexandre Leon 
 
 children, 193 ; of Lady Baring, 
 
 Durand de, French Rear-Admiral, 26 
 
 Thomas Baring and Mrs. Charles 
 
 Linwood, Miss Mary, 235-6 
 
 Wall, 209 ; of the Dowager Lady 
 
 Lisbon, 4, 35«., 62, 211, 252; British 
 
 Dysart, 214 
 
 blockade port of, 250 
 
 Leatherhead, 24 
 
 and Oporto Club, London Tavern, 
 
 Le Brun, Mme. Vigee, 70 and n. ; por- 
 
 250 
 
 trait of Mme. Grassini, by, 237/2 
 
 Liston, John, 25 2« 
 
 Lechmere, Sir E., 13 5« 
 
 Litchfield, John, 160 
 
 " Lectures on Art of Engraving delivered 
 
 — — ■, Mrs. (Actress), 160 
 
 at the Royal Institution," by John 
 
 Literary Club, The, 165 and n 
 
 Landseer, A.R.A., 73 and n 
 
 Little Massingham, 202, 206 
 
 Lee, Miss Harriet, 1 10 
 
 Liverpool, 48^ 
 
 , Miss, Spohia, no and n. ; " Assigna- 
 
 Academy, The, 252K 
 
 \ tion," by 81 
 
 " Lives of the Painters," by George Vasari, 
 
 Leeds, Francis Godolphin, 5th Duke of, 170 
 
 60 
 
 , George William Frederick, 6th Duke 
 
 " Lives of the Poets," by Dr. S. Johnson, 
 
 of, Lawrence's portrait of, 133 
 
 85 
 
 Le Fage, M., 182 
 
 Lloyd, Dr. See Langford, William, D.D. 
 
Index 
 
 277 
 
 see Ainsley, 
 see Silvester, 
 
 95, 206, 211, 
 
 Lloyd, Mrs. (of Windermere), 239 
 
 Lloyd's (Underwriters), 79 
 
 Locke, John, i62« 
 
 , William, 24, 58, 88 
 
 , Mrs. {nSe Jennings), 97 
 
 Lodoiska, an opera hj Mayr, Szn 
 
 Lombardy, 237M 
 
 London, m., 2, 6, 8-10, 18, 23-4, 26, 32 
 and «., 36, 37«., 38, 40, 45 and k., 54, 
 62K., 71, 73«., 76, 79-80, 88, 93, 102-3, 
 114, 126, i43«., 145, 158, 160, 162, 
 169, 186-7, 189. 19I) 193. i9S«-5 196, 
 
 202, 204«., 208, 212, 220, 223, 226m., 
 
 227«., 236«., 237K., 254«., 255 ; 
 
 Common Council of City of, and 
 
 monument to Pitt, i, 55 ; Lord 
 
 Mayor of (1807-8) 
 
 John ; Recorder of, 
 
 John 
 London, H.M.S., 250 
 
 Bridge, 98 
 
 London Gazette, 26-7, 76, 
 
 250 
 " London Tavern," 250 
 , Tower of, 127 ; guns at, 26, 89 ; 
 
 Record Office at, 255 
 Long, Basil S., Letter from, 2i2« 
 , Charles (afterwards Lord Farn- 
 
 borough), 61, 85, 91, 97, 139, i62«., 
 
 180, 230 
 
 , Mrs., 113 
 
 Longman & Rees, Messrs. (Publishers), 73, 
 
 107 
 Lonsdale, James, 177 ; notice of, ib. n. ; 
 
 portraits by, ib 
 
 , William, ist Earl, 167 
 
 Loudoun, Flora, Countess of, 250 
 Loughborough, Charlotte, Lady, and 
 
 William Beckford, 243 
 Louis XVL, King of France, 2 
 XVIL, King of France, 146 
 
 XVIIL, King of France, lands at 
 
 Yarmouth, 208 
 
 Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, killed 
 
 at Saalfeld, 37 
 
 , Sir Thomas, Rear-Admiral, forces 
 
 passage of Dardanelles, 125 ; notice 
 
 of, ib. n 
 Louisa Maximiliana of Stolberg-Gedern, 
 
 Princess, granted a pension by 
 
 George IIL, 209 
 Loutherburgh, P. J., R.A., 50, 57 
 Lowndes, William Thomas, " BibHo- 
 
 grapher's Manual," by, 253?? 
 Lowther, Mrs. See Gwatkin, Miss 
 
 Theophila 
 , William, 2nd Viscount (afterwards 
 
 ist Earl of Lonsdale), 47, 60, 150 
 
 Lowther Hall, Westmorland, 47 
 Lubeck captured by the French, 52 
 Lucan, Elizabeth, Countess of, 73 and n 
 
 , Richard, 2nd Earl of, 73 
 
 Luckley Park, Berkshire, 26« 
 
 Ludlow, 214 
 
 Luton, 196 
 
 " Lycidas," W. Jackson's adaptation of, 
 
 i45« 
 Lysons, Rev. Daniel, 51, 61; "Magna 
 
 Britannia," by, 140, 179, 221, 223-4, 
 
 231 
 , Mrs. D. L., Lawrence's portrait of, 
 
 30 
 , Samuel, 5M., 40, 43, 44 and «., 45, 51, 
 
 53, 61, 87, 95, 177-8, 192-3, 197, 
 
 220-1, 223, 225, 231 ; his salary as 
 
 Keeper of Tower Records, 127 ; 
 
 " Magna Britannia," by, 140, 179, 
 
 221, 223-4 
 Lyttleton, Lady Sarah, ij2n 
 , Hon. William Henry (afterwards 
 
 3rd Lord Lyttleton), 172 ; notice of, 
 
 ib. n 
 
 Macao, logw 
 
 McArthur, John, LL.D., 177 
 Machell, Mr., sen., 108 
 Mackay, Dr. Charles, i68k 
 
 , John, 219 
 
 , Mrs., 219 
 
 Mackintosh, Sir James, 91K., 114 and «., 
 
 115 
 McNeil, Sir John, 128K 
 Macready, William Charles, 25 2m 
 Madden, Captain, R.N., 97 
 Madrid, 62 
 
 Mady, Rev. Mr., 76 and n 
 Magdeburg, 36 
 " Magna Britannia," by Rev. D. and S. 
 
 Lysons, 140, 179, 221, 223-4, 231 
 Makins, Miss. See Welsh, Mrs 
 Maldonado, 27K 
 Mallock, William, I78« 
 
 , Mrs., i78« 
 
 , W. H., " The New Republic," by, 
 
 178M 
 Malone, Edmund, 90, 130, 2o8«., 254 
 Malpas, George Horatio, Lord (afterwards 
 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley), 204 5 
 notice of, ib. n 
 Malta, 217, 233 
 Maltby, Mrs., 169 
 
 Manby, Thomas, Captain (afterwards 
 Rear-Admiral), 84«., 165 ; and Princess 
 of Wales, 48, 84 
 Manchester, William, 5th Duke of, 28 
 , 26, 158 
 
278 The Farington Diary 
 
 Manfredi, B., " A Lady and her Family," 
 
 Melbourne, Peniston, ist Viscount, 62 and x 
 
 by, 113 and n., 114; his "Galatea," 
 
 Melcombe, Baron. See Dodington, George 
 
 ii3« 
 
 Bubb 
 
 Mann, Sir Horace, 185M 
 
 Regis, Dorsetshire, 246« 
 
 Manners, Lord Charles Henry S., 41 
 
 Mellish, Mr. (M.P. for. Middlesex), 45 
 
 — ■ — ', Hon. Charles (afterwards Hon. C. 
 
 Mellon, Miss Harriot (afterwards Duchess 
 
 Tollemache), zi6n 
 
 of St. Albans), i^zn. ; and Thomas 
 
 , John, M.P., 216 
 
 Coutts, 195 and n 
 
 , John (of Grantham Grange, Lincoln- 
 
 Melville, Henry, ist Viscount, 103, 196, 254 
 
 shire), 25 2« 
 
 " Memoirs," by Richard Cumberland, 246« 
 
 — ■ — , Hon. John (afterwards Hon. J. 
 
 " Memoirs of Painting," by W. Buchanan, 
 
 Tollemache), 2i6n 
 
 ii5» 
 
 , Hon. Laura (afterwards Lady Laura 
 
 Mercury^ Bubb's statue of, im 
 
 Tollemache), 2i6k 
 
 Meredith, Amos, 185 
 
 , Lady Louisa. See Dysart, Louisa, 
 
 , Sir William, 185 
 
 Countess of 
 
 Merton, Horatio, Viscount, of Trafalgar, 83 
 
 J Sir William (afterwards Lord Hun- 
 
 College, Oxford. See Oxford Uni- 
 
 tingtower), 216 
 
 versity 
 
 Maiming, Mr., 220 
 
 " Messiah," oratorio by Handel, 237 
 
 Mansfield, Mr. (a Leicester Banker), 41 
 
 Metcalfe, Philip, 90, 149 ; Prince of 
 
 Mara, Mme. Gertrude E., 237 
 
 Wales and, 5, 190 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Marc-Antonio. See Raimondi 
 
 — -, Miss Frederica, 149, i9o«. ; Down- 
 
 Marcellus, Mr. (a Tailor), 9 
 
 man's miniature of, ib 
 
 "March to Finchley," by Hogarth, 91, 
 
 Meyer, Henry, 247^ 
 
 92 and n 
 
 Michaelson, General, 175 
 
 Marchant, Nathaniel, R.A., iii, 162, 171, 
 
 Middlesex Election, 45 
 
 180, 253 
 
 Milan, 23 7« 
 
 Marchi, G. F. L., 140, 180, 208, 253 
 
 Milbourne, Mr., jun., 58 
 
 Margate, 55« 
 
 Miles, Mrs., 139 
 
 Marie Antoinette (of Austria), Queen of 
 
 Miller, Mr. (Bond Street Bookseller), 107 
 
 France, Consort of Louis XVL, 232^ 
 
 Miller and His Men, play by I. Pocock, 252K 
 
 Marienburg, 79 
 
 Milman, Sir Francis, 189, 190 
 
 Marjoribanks, Captain, 196 
 
 Milner, Sir William, 115 
 
 , Mr. (Partner in Coutt's Bank), 196 
 
 Milton, Charles William, Viscount, 13.8, 
 
 Markham, William (Archbishop of York), 
 
 140, 145 
 
 133 
 
 , John, 36, 127, 198 
 
 Marlborough Street, London, 23 
 
 Minet, Isaac, 35M 
 
 Marlborough, H.M.S., 250 
 
 , James, 35« 
 
 Marlow, 2 
 
 -, Mrs. {nee Dupont), 35M 
 
 " Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca," by 
 
 — , Joseph, 35, 98-9 ; notice of, 35M 
 
 Claude, 113K 
 
 , Mrs., 35« 
 
 Marris, R., 108 and «., 109 
 
 , Thomas, 35« 
 
 , Mrs., 109 
 
 , , WiUiam (of Fountain Court), 
 
 Martin, Rev. Mr., jun., 201 
 
 " Huguenot Family," by, 35« 
 
 Mary, Princess (daughter of George HL), 
 
 Minories, The, 226« 
 
 14 
 
 Mint, The, 167 
 
 (of Modena), Queen of England 
 
 Minto, Gilbert, ist Lord (afterwards Earl), 
 
 (Consort of James IL), 2 
 
 166 
 
 Marylebone, ii2«., 255 
 
 Miranda, Francesco (a Spanish-American 
 
 Masquerier, John James, 64«. ; his portraits 
 
 General), 30 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 of Napoleon and of Lady Worsley, 64-5 
 
 " Miseries of Human Life," by Sir James 
 
 Mauritius, 26 
 
 Beresford, 84 and « 
 
 Maxwell, Lady Stirling- (of Keir), iGjn 
 
 " Miss Sydney Bidulph," a novel by Miss 
 
 Mayr, Johann Simon, his opera Lodoiska, 
 
 Frances Chamberlaine, ^0 and n 
 
 Sin 
 
 Moet and Chandon, Messrs., 148^ 
 
 Meadows, Robert Mitchell (Engraver), 133 
 
 Moira, Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of, 68 
 
 Medici, Lorenzo di, Roscoe's " Life of," 23 1 
 
 — — , Francis, 2nd Earl of (afterwards ist 
 
 Melbourne, Elizabethj Viscountess, 62 
 
 Marquess of Hastings), 68, 249-50 
 
Index 270 
 
 Moira, Countess of. See Loudoun, Flora, 
 
 Mulgrave, Lepell, Lady (who died in 1780), 
 
 Countess of 
 
 239 
 
 Monarch, H.M.S., 2t;o 
 
 Castle, 101-3 
 
 Monro, Dr. Thomas, 74 and n 
 
 Mulready, William, R.A., 45«., 215 and «. 
 
 , Henry, 74 and n 
 
 , Mrs., 215 
 
 Montcalm, Gozon de Saint-Veran, Louis 
 
 Munden, Joseph (Actor), 161 
 
 Joseph, Marquis de, French General, 
 
 Mundy, Edward Miller, 162M 
 
 167 _ 
 
 , Miss Georgiana E. See Newcastle, 
 
 Monte Video, zyn 
 
 Duchess of 
 
 Montrose, James, 3rd Duke of, 6 
 
 Mure, Lord (of Caldwell), i^on 
 
 Moore, Captain, R.N., 250 
 
 , James, 190^ 
 
 , Lady Elizabeth. See Rochfort, 
 
 , Mrs. See Metcalfe, Miss Frederica 
 
 Lady Elizabeth 
 
 Murray, Mr. (Bookseller in Fleet Street), 85 
 
 J Thomas, 174M 
 
 , Lord Charles, 16 iw 
 
 , Sir John, General, 258 
 
 , Charles (Actor), 16 1 
 
 , Tom, his verse to Louisa, Countess of 
 
 Murshidabad, India, 19 
 
 Dysart, 2i6n 
 
 Mustapha IV., Ottoman Sultan, 175 
 
 " Moore's Almanack," 175 
 
 
 Moorson, Sir Robert, Admiral, 104 
 
 Naples, 62, 183, 211, 247n 
 
 Morgan, Sir Charles, 95 
 
 Napoleon I., Emperor of the French, 24, 30, 
 
 Morland, George, Dawe's " Life of," 227M 
 
 36, 48-9, 52, 60, 79, 83, 95, 106, 108, 
 
 Morning Chronicle, The, 55, 104 
 
 145,171, 183, 185, 211, 230-1, 245; 
 
 Morning Herald, The, 55^, 61, 79, 150, 219 
 
 Coalition against, 17 ; his overwhelming 
 
 Morning Post, The, i, 55«., i53«., ij^n., 
 
 power, 36-7, 43 ; issues a proclama- 
 
 247« 
 
 tion to his troops, 52 ; blockades 
 
 Mornington, Garrell, ist Earl of, 4K 
 
 British Isles, 57, 60 ; Masquerier's 
 
 Morpeth, Lord (afterwards 6th Earl of 
 
 portrait of, 64 ; and English power in 
 
 Carlisle), 36 
 
 India, 171 ; dines with Alexander I. 
 
 Morrice, Humphrey, iion 
 
 of Russia, 184-5 J ^^^ popularity in 
 
 Morris, Mr. (nephew of Mrs. Desenfans), 
 
 Germany, 258 
 
 170 
 
 Narew, 83 
 
 , J. P., M.P., 185 
 
 Nash, Frederick, 224 
 
 Mortier, Edouard A. C. J., Due de Trevlse, 
 
 National Gallery, London, ii3«., I15K., 
 
 Marshal of France, takes Hamburg, 
 
 143K., i54« 
 
 52 
 
 Gallery, Melbourne, 45« 
 
 Morton, Sholto George, 19th Earl of, 23 3 « 
 
 Portrait Gallery, London, I72«., 183 
 
 Moscow, 149 
 
 "Nativity, The," by Rembrandt, 154 
 
 Moss, Dr. Charles (afterwards Bishop of 
 
 and n 
 
 Oxford), 62 and n, 190 
 
 " Natural Theology," by William Paley, 
 
 , Charles (Bishop of Bath and Wells), 
 
 D.D., 225 
 
 62 
 
 Naval Courts-martial, procedure at, 104 
 
 , The Misses, 190 
 
 Navenbergh, 37 
 
 Mostyn, Mr., 145 and «., 148-9 
 
 Neer, Arnold Vander, 104 
 
 , Mrs. {nee Thrale), I45« 
 
 Nelson, Rev. James, 157 
 
 Mountain, Rev. Jacob (Bishop of Quebec), 
 
 , Horatio, Viscount, 83, 106, 151, 158, 
 
 178 
 
 205, 247M. ; cost of his funeral, i ; 
 
 , Mrs., 178 
 
 Devis's picture " The Death of," 55, 
 
 Mountcashell, Earl of, 78 
 
 10971., 151; monument to, 100; 
 
 Mount-Edgcumbe, Richard, 2nd Lord, 208 
 
 Clarke's "Life of," 100, 177; "Death 
 
 Mountrath, Charles Henry, 7th Earl of. 
 
 of," picture by B. West, 1 50, 236 ; and 
 
 193 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 England's power at sea, 201 
 
 Moysey, Rev. C. A., 104 
 
 , Rev. WiUiam, ist Earl, 83, 158 
 
 Mufti, The, and the Janissaries, 175 
 
 , Countess, 156-8 
 
 Mulgrave, Henry, 3rd Lord (afterwards 
 
 Neptune, H.M.S., 37 
 
 ist Earl of), 41-2, 48, ioi-4,_ 122, 136-7, 
 
 Nesbit, Miss Martha. See Hodges, Mrs. 
 
 164, 188, 198, 239 ; appointed First 
 
 Martha (first wife of R.A.) 
 
 Lord of the Admiralty 104 
 
 " New and Original Drawing Book," by 
 
 J Lady, 104 
 
 Joshua Shaw, 2i2« 
 
280 The Farington Diary 
 
 Newburgh, George Horatio, Lord. See 
 
 Oakley, Mr., 197 
 
 Malpas, Lord 
 
 Gates, Mark, Captain, 124 
 
 Newcastle, Anna Maria, Duchess of, 163 
 
 O'Brien, Nelly, Reynolds's portrait of, 69K 
 
 , Henry, 2nd Duke of, 162-3 
 
 O'Bryen, Dennis, 55 and n 
 
 , Henry Pelham, 4th Duke of, 162 and 
 
 O'Connor, Arthur, 31 and n 
 
 w. ; Lawrence's portrait of, 162 
 
 , Roger, 115 
 
 , Thomas, 3rd Duke of, 163 
 
 O'Donohue, F. M., ^6n 
 
 Newfoundland Bills, 9 
 
 Offley, Mr., 159 
 
 Newgate Prison, 196 
 
 , Charles, 49, 52, 61, 70, 108, 168, 198, 
 
 Newland, Abraham (Chief Cashier of Bank 
 
 250 
 
 of England), death of, 223 
 
 , Mrs. Charles, 52, 169 
 
 Newman Street, London, 33 
 
 , John, 35-6, 52, 69, 70, 79, 81, 125, 
 
 Newmarket, 202, 203K 
 
 219, 225, 250 
 
 Newport, Sir John, 180 [lyin 
 
 , William, 98, 225 
 
 " New Republic,_ The," by W. H. Mallock, 
 
 , Messrs. (Wine merchants), 49« 
 
 Street, Spring Gardens, 162 
 
 Ogle, Newton (Dean of Winchester), I73« 
 
 York, 178, 237 
 
 Old Bailey, 80, 220 
 
 Ney, Michel) Due d'Elchingen, Prince de 
 
 Coffee Mill, St. James's Street, 98K 
 
 la Moskowa, Marshal of France, 37 
 
 Cotton Green, Bombay, gin 
 
 Nicholas I., Tsar of Russia, 69K 
 
 Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's 
 
 Nichols, Dr. (Schoolmaster at Ealing), 72 
 
 Lane, 36 
 
 Nile, The, 83 
 
 " Old Testament, The," 80 
 
 " Niobe," by R. Wilson, 123 
 
 Oldham, Arthur, Letter from, 226m 
 
 Nixon, James, A.R.A., 100 ; R.A. and his 
 
 Oliphant, Mrs. (sister to Mrs. P. Dundas), 
 
 pension, 135 
 
 254 
 
 Noble, Mr., 79 
 
 Oliver, Archer James, A.R.A., 121, 206 
 
 Nollekens, Joseph, R.A., 97, 197 ; " And 
 
 Opera House, Covent Garden, 58, 62 and 
 
 His Times," by J. T. Smith, 5 ; 
 
 «., 86, loi, i45«., 232 and «., 234, 237 
 
 Edridge's portrait of, 73 ; his bust of 
 
 " Ophelia," a picture by B. West, P.R.A., 
 
 Prince of Wales, ib. ; his bust of 
 
 132 
 
 Pitt, 133, 146, 180-1 ; his death masks 
 
 Opie, Mr. (father of R.A.), 124-5 
 
 of famous people, 145 ; his bust of 
 
 , Mrs. (mother of R.A.), 125 
 
 Fox, 146; Lonsdale's portrait of, 1 77« 
 
 ■ , Miss (sister to R.A.), 124-5 
 
 Norbury Park, 24 
 
 , Mrs. Amelia, 117-8, 120-1 ; vanity 
 
 Norfolk, Bernard Edward, 12th Duke of. 
 
 of, 123 
 
 73 and n 
 
 , John, R.A.,_ 45, 74, 123, 175, 177, 
 
 , Charles, nth Duke of, 32, 41, 162, 
 
 196, 234 ; his lectures at the R.A., 
 
 206, 223 
 
 90-1; his health, no, 114, 117; 
 
 , 59, 178, 193 and «., 204, 230; 
 
 death of, 117-9; his portrait of 2nd 
 
 election, 138, 144 
 
 Duke of Gloucester, 119; his mode 
 
 Regiment, 4th Battalion of, 205K 
 
 of living, 1 19-120; cause of his death. 
 
 North, Sir Dudley, 162W 
 
 120 ; his fortune, 120 ; his art, 121 ; 
 
 , Dudley, i62« 
 
 his early life, 124-5 ; his " Death of 
 
 , Dudley I^ong, 162 ; notice of, 162M 
 
 James L," 124 ; his portrait of T. W. 
 
 , Mrs., 162K 
 
 Coke, 137 ; his portrait of Cobbett, 
 
 , Frederick, 8th Lord (and 2nd Earl of 
 
 139; sale of his pictures, 150 ; " Cloth- 
 
 Guildford), 159 
 
 ing the Naked," by, 150; his penurious 
 
 Northamptonshire, 214 
 
 disposition, 168 
 
 Northcote, James, R.A., 90, in, 123-5, 
 
 , Mrs. Mary (Opie's first wife), 196 
 
 1495 152, 17I) "7-8, 234; his portrait 
 
 Oracle, The, 36, 17 in 
 
 of George HL, 140 
 
 Orange, Wilhelmina (of Prussia), Princess 
 
 Northern Circuit, 80 
 
 of. Consort of William V., 14-15 
 
 Northumberland, Hugh, 2nd Duke of, 29 
 
 , William (the Silent), Prince of, 15 
 
 5 23, 146 
 
 , William H., Prince of, 15 
 
 Norwich, 117-8, 138, 144, 159 
 
 , William V., Prince of, his stay in 
 
 " Notes on a Cellar Book," by Professor 
 
 England, 14-15; and the Duke of 
 
 Saintsbury, i48« 
 
 York's expedition to Holland, 14 
 
 Nottinghamshire, 7, n 
 
 Orchard Portman, Dorset, iizn 
 
Index 281 
 
 Orchard Street, Marylebone, iizn 
 
 Palmer, Joseph (Dean of Cashel), 156 
 
 Oriel, John, Lord, i8i 
 
 , Lady Madelina Fysshe, 26 ; notice 
 
 College, Oxford. See Oxford Uni- 
 
 of, z6n 
 
 versity 
 
 , Samuel (Artist), 45« 
 
 " Oriental Tales," by, John Hoppner, 
 
 , Mrs., 45« 
 
 R.A., 40W., 70 
 
 , Miss Theophila. See Gwatkin, 
 
 Orkney, George, ist Earl of, 3 
 
 Mrs. R. L. 
 
 , Anne, Countess of, 3 
 
 PaoU, Pasquale de', Corsican General, 147 
 
 , Mary, Countess of (first wife of ist 
 
 Papal Power, R. Duppa's book on, 84 and n 
 
 Marquess of Thomond), 3 
 
 " Paradise Regained," Blake's drawings for. 
 
 Orleans, Collection, The, 123M 
 
 .45« 
 
 Ostade, Adrian Van, loi, 136 
 
 Paris, 2, 24, 31M., 60, 62 and «., 68, 103-4, 
 
 Osterniske [Ostrolenka], defeat of French 
 
 i43«., 204«., 208, 230K., 254K., 255 
 
 at, 79 
 
 Parisot, Mile, (afterwards Mrs. Hughes), 
 
 Ottley, William Young, 107 
 
 62 and «., 225 
 
 Oubril, Count (Russian Minister), his treaty 
 
 Parker, Mr., 79 
 
 with France, 60 
 
 Parliament, 25-6, 59, 60, 104, 144, 161, 
 
 " Ouse Bridge," picture by J. Farington, 70 
 
 i62«., 166 and w., 180M., i85«., 254. 
 
 Owen, William, R.A., 57, 116, 121-3, 
 
 See also House of Commons and 
 
 1305 132. 134, i83> 206 
 
 House of Lords 
 
 Oxenden, Sir Henry, yzn 
 
 Street, London, 94 
 
 , Lady, 72 and n 
 
 Parr, Dr. Samuel, 115 
 
 — , Sir Percy Dixwell Nowell Dixwell-, 
 
 Partington, Mr. (Dentist), 5M., 13, 23 
 
 72« 
 
 , Mrs., 5 and «., 6, 13, 15-20, 22-3 
 
 Oxendon Street, London, 115 
 
 Patent Office, The, 55K 
 
 Oxford, Edward, 5th Earl of, 31, iii, 162 
 
 Paternoster Row, 73, 84, 107, \6i,n 
 
 , Jane Elizabeth, Countess of, 31 and 
 
 Paul, Mr. (Tailor), 49 
 
 «., 162 
 
 , Mr. (Candidate at Westminster 
 
 ■ — -, 254« 
 
 Election), 49, 197 
 
 University, 71, 236«., 254«. ; St. 
 
 Paxton, Mr. (Wine merchant), 36 
 
 John's College, 53, 236^. ; Merton 
 
 — — , John (Portrait painter), 36 and n 
 
 College, 84K. 5 Oriel College, ijSn 
 
 , Sir William, 36 
 
 
 Payne, Major-General, 128 
 
 Packe, Charles James, 41 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Peacock, James, 46^ 
 
 , Mr. (son of C. J. Packe), 41K 
 
 Pearson, Mr., his walk from Plmlico to 
 
 Paddington, 181, 247 
 
 Datchet and back, 174 
 
 Padstow, 124 
 
 Pelew Islands, The, I09n 
 
 Paillard, M. (of Bouzy), I48« 
 
 Pellegrini, Antonio, 253 
 
 " Palestine," musical composition by Dr. 
 
 Pembroke, George Augustus, nth Earl of. 
 
 Crotch, 23 6n 
 
 32, 258 
 
 Paley, William, D.D., "Evidences of Chris- 
 
 Penn, John, 171 
 
 tianity " and " Natural Theology," by. 
 
 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 
 
 225 
 
 2I2n 
 
 Pall Mall, 31, 36, 107K., 130, 153, 171 
 
 Penton, Henry, 13-4, 22 5 notice of, iT^n 
 
 Palmer, Mr. (Theatrical proprietor of 
 
 , Mrs., 14, 22 
 
 Bath), 180K 
 
 Street, London, i3« 
 
 , A. H., 45« 
 
 Pentonville, 13M 
 
 , Charles, 26k 
 
 Penwarne, Mr., 124-5 
 
 , Charles Fysshe, 26, 28-9 ; notice of, 
 
 Penzance, 44M 
 
 26« 
 
 Perceval, Hon. Spencer, 48, 96, 103, 108, 
 
 , John (of Bath), 184 ; and his mail 
 
 165-6, 181, 185-6; notice of, 48« 
 
 carrying scheme, 180 and n. ; notice 
 
 Perry, James, 55, 104 
 
 of, ib. n 
 
 Perry and Wells, Messrs. (Ship builders), 137 
 
 , Mrs., 180 
 
 Persia, i28«., 171 
 
 , Mr. (son of John Palmer), 180 
 
 Perth, 49 
 
 , John (father of Lady Thomond), 
 
 Peterborough, Earl of, 65/2 
 
 156, i57« 
 
 Petersham, Charles, Viscount, 5 
 
 , Mrs., 156 
 
 , 196 
 
282 The Farington Diary 
 
 Petrograd, 49, 51, 83, 106, 126, 149, 229, 
 
 Popham, Sir Home Riggs, Admiral, 88 ; 
 
 235 
 
 his services In Cape Colony and 
 
 Petty, Lord Henry, 59 
 
 Buenos Ayrcs, 25-6, 27 and «. ; court- 
 
 , Sir William, 66 and « 
 
 martial of, 27«., 90, 97 
 
 Petworth, 215 
 
 Porden, William, 177 
 
 Phidias, 145 
 
 Person, Richard, 57, 165 
 
 Philadelphia, 2i2« 
 
 Porter, Walsh, 154, 197 
 
 Phillips, Mr. (Auctioneer), 107 
 
 Portishead, 28» 
 
 , Sir R., 140 
 
 Portland, William Henry Cavendish, 3rd 
 
 , Thomas, R.A., 176, 215 and n., 
 
 Duke of, 48M., 73, 11 in 
 
 216; his portrait of Lord Thurlow, 
 
 Place, London, 15, 226 
 
 "3 
 
 Portman, Edward Berkeley, 112; notice 
 
 Phipps, Hon. Augustus, 79 and «., loi, 104, 
 
 of, ib. n 
 
 230, 234 
 
 , Edward Berkeley, jun. (afterwards 
 
 , Mrs., 136 
 
 ist Viscount Portman), ii2« 
 
 , Hon. Edmund, General, 102 
 
 Square, London, ii2« 
 
 — , Watkin (Oculist), 198 
 
 Portogallo, La Semiramtde, by, 62 
 
 Piccadilly, 146, 192 
 
 Portsmouth, 37, 95 
 
 Piercefield House, 1 10 and « 
 
 Portugal, 35, 250, 258 ; affinity of the 
 
 Pimlico, London, 174, 254K 
 
 language of Spain and of, 35 ; ports 
 
 Pindar, Peter. See Wolcot, John, M.D. 
 
 of, closed against England, 211 ; 
 
 Piozzi, Mrs. See Thrale, Mrs. Henry 
 
 Royal Family leave for Brazil, 250 
 
 Piranesi, John Baptist, 192 
 
 , Prince Regent of. See John, Prince 
 
 Pitcairne, David, M.D., 117-8 
 
 Potsdam, 52, 68 
 
 Pitt, William, 26, 29, 30, 42, 48M., 56M., 60, 
 
 — — , Palace at, 19 
 
 70, 89, 108, 147, 155, 162, 166, i8o«., 
 
 Pott, Percivall (Surgeon), 247 
 
 198, 221, 230, 234, 236 ; Bubb's 
 
 , Robert, 247 and n 
 
 monument to, i and «., 55 ; cost of 
 
 Poussin, Nicolas, 149, 197, 228, 230, 234 ; 
 
 his funeral, i ; particulars regarding 
 
 "A Bacchanalian," hy, loyn., ii^n 
 
 his death, 18 5 monument to, 97, loi ; 
 
 Powderham Castle, 243 
 
 statue of, at Cambridge, 56 ; his 
 
 " Practical Treatise on Perspective," by 
 
 command of words, 56-7, 94 ; Hopp- 
 
 E. Edwards, A.R.A., 64 
 
 ner's portraits of, 75, 139, 142, 146, 
 
 Price, Sir Charles Rugge-, 5i« 
 
 161, 215 ; borrows money, 85 ; 
 
 , Sir Charles, 43n., 5i«., 197K 
 
 Lawrence's portrait of, 133, 135, 139, 
 
 , Mrs. Charles S., Lawrence's portrait 
 
 152, 154, 164, 244, 252; NoUekens' 
 
 of, 30 
 
 bust of, 133, 146, 180-1 ; Nollekens' 
 
 , Ralph, 43, 197 and n., 223 
 
 death mask of, 145 
 
 • , Richard, 5 1 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Plate, River. See Rio de la Plata 
 
 , Mrs., 5 1 and n 
 
 " Pleasures of Memory," by S. Rogers, 
 
 181 
 Plowden, Francis Peter, 232 
 
 , Miss (daughter of Richard Price), 
 
 51 
 , Sir Uvedale, 31, 47 
 
 Plumer, Sir Thomas, 48 and « 
 
 , Miss (daughter of Sir Uvedale Price), 
 
 Plymouth, 250 
 
 31 
 
 Pocock, Isaac, 227, 252 ; notice of, 252K. ; 
 
 Prince of Wales Island, 254 
 
 plays by, ib 
 
 Printing House Square, 44« 
 
 , Sir Isaac, 252K 
 
 Provoked Husband, The, a play, 232 
 
 , Nicholas, 252« 
 
 Prussia, King of. See Frederlck-WlUIam 
 
 , William Innes, 252« 
 
 III. 
 
 Poland, 170 
 
 , 43, 68 ; blockade of ports of, removed, 
 
 , Cardinal of, 170 
 
 17 ; French campaign in, 36-7, 52, 60 
 
 " Political State of the British Empire," 
 
 Pugh, Mr. (a London Attorney), 8 
 
 by John Adolphus, 22o« 
 
 Pultusk, Poland, 83 
 
 Pom-pee, H.M.S., 125 
 
 Pump Court, Temple, 220 
 
 Ponsonbys, The, 68 
 
 Putney, 239 
 
 Pope, Alexander (the Poet), 127, 230 
 
 Puttick and Simpson, Messrs. (Auctioneers), 
 
 ^-, Alexander (Actor), 160-1 ; marries 
 
 189 
 
 Mrs. Wheatley, 199 
 
 " Pylades and Orestes," by B. West, 42 
 
Index 
 
 288 
 
 Quebec, 167, 178-9 
 
 , Bishop of. See Mountain, Rev. J. 
 
 Queen Street, Mayfair, 10 
 Queen's Regiment, The, 72 
 Quigley, Mr. (an Associate of Roger 
 O'Connor), 115 
 
 R., Mr., 61 
 
 Raeburn, Sir Henry, R.A., portrait of 
 Sir Walter Farquhar by, i8k. ; his 
 portrait of Francis Horner, 172K 
 
 Ragley, near Stratford-on-Avon, 69, 191 
 
 Ragusa, 211 
 
 Raimondi, Marc Antonio, 255 
 
 Randal, Miss Katherine. See Stoddart, 
 Miss 
 
 Rankin, Captain, iii 
 
 Ransom and Morland, Messrs., 69 
 
 Raphael, 70, 123, 134, 197, 255 ; O. 
 Humphry copies his " Francesco Maria 
 della Rovere," 216 and n 
 
 Ray, Mr. (of the Temple), 87 
 
 Redesdale, John, ist Lord, 249 ; Lawrence's 
 portrait of, 249 
 
 Redford, George, " Art Sales," by, 197^ 
 
 Red Sea, The, 38 
 
 Reed, Isaac, sale of his library, 254 and n. ; 
 notice of, ib. n 
 
 " Reflections on the French Revolution," 
 by Edmund Burke, 22 
 
 Regency Bill, The, 48K 
 
 Reinagle, Ramsay Richard, R.A., 78, 188-9 ; 
 notice of, i88k 
 
 , Philip, R.A., I 88k., 189 
 
 Rembrandt, 136 ; " Susannah," by, 133, 
 135 and «., 152; "Boats," by, 143 
 and «. ; " Woman taken in Adultery," 
 by, 143 and «., 150, 152-3, 154 and w., 
 164, 168, 172, 180,230; his art, 150-2, 
 172; "The Nativity," by, 154 and n 
 
 Rendlesham, Peter Isaac, 169 
 
 " Rent Day, The," by Sir David Wilkie, 
 R.A., loi, 104-5, 122 
 
 Rennie, John, 19 1-2 
 
 Repulse, H.M.S., 125 
 
 Reynolds, Miss Frances, 191 ; death of, 
 208 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 , Henry Revell, M.D., 219, 253 ; and 
 
 effect of drinking port wine, 219-20 
 
 , Sir Joshua, 29, 34, 13 5K., 137, 140, 
 
 158, i62«., i90«., 208 and «., 2I3,2I4k., 
 216 ; his " Discourses," 60, 173 ; 
 his portrait of Nelly O'Brien, 69M. ; 
 and the Presidency of the R.A., 82-3 ; 
 his money matters, 88 ; monument to, 
 90, 150 ; and E. Burke, 1 10 ; " Laugh- 
 ing Girl," by, 150; his relatives, 156 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua — continued. 
 
 and K., 157 and «. ; "Strawberry 
 Girl," by, 156^. ; "Simplicity," by 
 I57«. 5 sketch for his portrait of Mrs. 
 Siddons, ib. ; his pictures in Mr. J. R. 
 G. Gwatkin's Collection, ib. ; por- 
 trait of Lady Thomond, by, ib. ; 
 sale of his pictures, 188-9 5 " Theory," 
 by, 188 ; Taylor's " Life of," 2o8n. ; 
 story of his portrait of Emily Warren 
 as " Thai's," 247 and n. ; Graves and 
 Cronin's " Life of," 247^. ; his 
 portrait of John Crewe (2nd Lord), 
 249«. ; and Angelica Kauffman, 
 257-8 
 
 , S. W., his engraving of Mme. Gras- 
 
 sini, 237M 
 
 Rhine, Confederation of the, 1 5 
 
 " Rhymes on Art," by Sir Martin Archer 
 Shee, P.R.A., 40M., 126-7 
 
 Richard III., by Shakespeare, 23 2« 
 
 Richards, John Inigo, R.A. (Secretary to 
 the Royal Academy), 54, 113-4, 133, 
 175, 240, 245, 251 ; his neglect of 
 R.A. affairs, 130 
 
 Richardson, Lieutenant, story of his duel 
 with Baron Hompesch, 93 and «., 94 
 
 - — — , Mr. (Publisher), 90« 
 
 Richmond, Charles, 4th Duke of, 128 
 
 , Charlotte, Duchess of, 128 
 
 Rigaud, John Francis, R.A., 133, 214 
 
 Rimnick, 175 
 
 Rinder, Frank, 45M 
 
 Rio de la Plata, 27^, 88-9, 97 
 
 Rivers, George, 2nd Lord, 196 
 
 Roberts, William, 16 1«., 233K. ; Letter 
 from, 4o«., 4i« 
 
 Robinson, Mr. (Bookseller in Paternoster 
 Row), 84 
 
 , Mrs. (" Perdita "), Romney's por- 
 trait of, 69 
 
 , Crabb, 44 
 
 and Fisher, Messrs. (Auctioneers) 
 
 2i6w 
 
 Rochdale, Lancashire, 25 
 
 Rochester, Kent, 73 
 
 Rochfort, Miss. See D'Oyly, Lady 
 
 , Lady Elizabeth, i'i,n 
 
 , George, i3« 
 
 , Gustavus, 15 
 
 , William (father of Lady D'Oyly), 
 
 I3« 
 
 , William (brother to Lady D'Oyly), 
 
 15, 20 
 
 , Mrs., 20 and n 
 
 Rocksavage, George Horatio, Earl of. 
 See Malpas, Lord 
 
 Rockvillcj Alexanderj Lord, I95« 
 
284 The Farington Diary 
 
 Rogers, Samuel, 129, 133, i35n., 172-3, 
 
 Russia — continued. 
 
 i74«., 181-2, 1885 his ignorance of 
 
 184-5 5 breaks off communications 
 
 art, 168 5 " Epistles to a Friend " 
 
 with England, 229 ; England places 
 
 and " Pleasures of Memory," by, 181 
 
 embargo on all vessels belonging to. 
 
 Rolliad, The, 22on 
 
 235 ; British Ambassador to, see 
 
 Rome, 22, 56, 71, yy and «., 78, 119, 178, 
 
 Douglas, Alexander, Marquess of 
 
 250-1, _ 253, 257 ; English Coffee 
 
 Rutland, John Henry, 5th Duke of, 41 
 
 House in, 77 
 
 , 252W 
 
 Romford, Essex, 248 
 
 Rutter, Frank, win 
 
 Romilly, Sir Samuel, 73 and « 
 
 
 Romney, George, 8m., i77«., 252K. ; his 
 
 Saalfeld, Prussians defeated at, 37 
 
 portrait of Lady Anne Belasyse, Szn. ; 
 
 Sadler's Wells Theatre, 65W 
 
 his portrait of Mrs. Robinson (" Per- 
 
 St. Agnes, near Truro, 114 and n., 124 
 
 dita "), 69«. 5 " The Gipsy," by. 
 
 Albans, William Aubrey de Vere, loth 
 
 197 ; his portraits of the Hon. C. 
 
 Duke of, i95« 
 
 Greville and Sir W. Hamilton, 247K 
 
 Alban's Church, Great Ilford, Essex, 
 
 Rosa, Salvator, 104 
 
 2I9« 
 
 Roscoe, William, 86-7 ; his " Life of 
 
 Albans Street, London, 186 
 
 Lorenzo di Medici," 231 
 
 Andrew, The Order of, 106 
 
 Rose, George, M.P., 18, iii and «., 180 
 
 Andrew's Church, Glasgow, 200 
 
 , Mrs., 18 
 
 Asaph, Charlotte, Viscountess (after- 
 
 Rossi, John C. F., R.A., i, 55, 91, 97 
 
 wards Countess of Ashburnham), 7 
 
 Rotterdam, 14 
 
 Asaph, George, Viscount (afterwards 
 
 Rougham, 204 
 
 3rd Earl of Ashburnham), 7, 11, 134 
 
 Rovere, Francesco Maria della, O. Hum- 
 
 Asaph, Bishopric of, value of, 76 
 
 phry's copy of Raphael's portrait of, 
 
 — — Aubyn, Sir John, 124 
 
 216 and « 
 
 Avan's, near Chepstow, no 
 
 Royal Academy. See Academy, Royal 
 
 — — ■ Catherine's Church, London, 35M 
 
 Academy of Music, 236K 
 
 Cyr, Laurent. See Gouvion 
 
 Exchange, 98 
 
 Domingo, 89 
 
 Royal George, H.M.S., 125 
 
 George's Chapel, Windsor, West's 
 
 Hibernian Society, 1 14^ 
 
 work in, 54 
 
 Institution, 44«., 73, 159, 232 
 
 George's, Hanover Square, 249K 
 
 Society, iiiw., 253 and n 
 
 Giles's Churchyard, Holborn, 109M 
 
 Society Club, 222 
 
 James's Chapel, Hampstead Road, 
 
 Society of Arts, 34 
 
 43 
 
 Society of British Artists, I77« 
 
 — ■ — James's Church, 153 
 
 United Service Institution, i28« 
 
 — ■ — James's Palace, 6 
 
 Royston, Philip, Viscount, 51 
 
 James's Park, guns in, 26, 89 
 
 Rubens, Peter Paul, 132, 221 ; " Diana 
 
 Joachim, Order of, 83 
 
 and her Nymphs," by, 188 
 
 — — John, Hon. Frederick, General, 
 
 Rugby School, 6 
 
 235 
 
 Rugge-Price, Sir Charles. See Price, Sir 
 
 John, Hon. Mrs., 235 
 
 Charles Rugge- 
 
 John's College, Cambridge. See 
 
 " Rural Architect, The," by J. M. Gandy, 
 
 Cambridge University 
 
 A.R.A., 77« 
 
 — — John's College, Oxford. See Oxford 
 
 Rush, Sir William Beaumaris, 177 
 
 University 
 
 Ruskin, John, 178M 
 
 Leger, Mrs. (Actress), 161 
 
 Russell, Constance, Lady, Letter from, 226« ; 
 
 Martln-In-the-FIelds, 253^ 
 
 her " Three Generations of Beautiful 
 
 Martin's Lane, London, 208 
 
 Women," 26« 
 
 Mary Hill, 30 
 
 , John, R. A., 32 
 
 — — Omer, 12 1 
 
 Russia, 106, 126, 2I2K., 227K. ; war with 
 
 Pancras, 242 
 
 France, 49, 52, 60, 79, 81, 83, 95, 106, 
 
 Paul's Cathedral, 61-2, 123 ; Income 
 
 loS, 171 ; and Government of Eng- 
 
 of Canon Residentiary, 141 
 
 land, 108 ; desires loan from England, 
 
 Paul's School, 6 
 
 126 ; English people respected in, 
 
 Petersburg, See Petrograd 
 
 I4.Q 1 Treaty of Tilsit with France, 
 
 Swithln's Lane, Lombard Street, i68k 
 
Index 285 
 
 St. Vincent, John, Earl of, 84 ; proposed 
 
 Sergisson, Mrs., 158 
 
 as successor to Lord Howick at the 
 
 Serle Street, London, 169 
 
 Admiralty, 25 ; and Sir H. R. 
 
 Shah, Mahomed, i28« 
 
 Popham, 25, 27 
 
 Shairpe, Sir Stephen (British Consul in 
 
 Salntsbury, Professor, " Notes on a Cellar 
 
 Russia), 235 
 
 Book," by, 148/2 
 
 Shakespeare, 195, 254«. ; Messrs. Boydell's 
 
 Salisbury, Bishopric of, value of, 142 
 
 edition of, 45 k. ; King John, by, 
 
 Cathedral, De Cort's " View of," 197 
 
 213W. ; As you Like It, Henry Vlll.y 
 
 Salmon, William Broome, Lieutenant- 
 
 and Richard III., by, 23 2w 
 
 General, 157M 
 
 Sharp, Richard (" Conversation Sharp "), 
 
 Salt, Dr. (father of Henry Salt), 37M., 38 
 
 13 5> 1375 i74j 181, 227, 233 ; notice of. 
 
 Dr. (brother to Henry Salt), 38 
 
 i35« 
 
 Henry, 38 ; his tour in India and 
 
 , W. (Engraver), i8k 
 
 Abyssinia, 37 and w., 38 ; notice of, 
 
 Sharpe, Sutton, death of, 37 
 
 37« 
 
 Shaw, Joshua, 212 ; notice of, ib. n. ; 
 
 Salusbury, Richard (of Castle Park, Lan- 
 
 " A New and Original Drawing 
 
 caster), 205« 
 
 Book," by, ib 
 
 , Sir Robert, 94 
 
 Shee, Sir Martin Archer, P.R.A., 121, 136, 
 
 " Samson and Delilah," by Vandyck, 188 
 
 228 ; his quarrel with Hoppner, 40 
 
 Sandby, Paul, R.A., 124, 201, 234 
 
 and «., 4in., 82 ; " Rhymes on Art," 
 
 — , Thomas, 106 
 
 by, 4o?z., 126-7 ; his ^''^^i ^49 
 
 Sandeman, Mr. (Wine merchant), 168 and 
 
 Sheffield, Anne, Countess of, 24, 159 
 
 n., 169 
 
 , John Baker, ist Earl of, 158-9 
 
 Santa Lucia, Convent of, at Gubbio, 62« 
 
 Sheldon, John, R.A., Professor of Anatomy, 
 
 Saunders, Mr. (Income Tax collector). 
 
 236 
 
 '56-7 
 
 Sheridan, A. Brinsley, Letter from, 173M., 
 
 — — , Joseph (Miniature painter), 45 
 
 174K 
 
 Saunderson, Robert, 167 
 
 , Richard Brinsley, 32, 43, 45, 89, 90, 
 
 Schiavonetti, Luigi (Engraver), 55 
 
 i67«., 168-9, 1735 186, 233 ; neglected 
 
 Schleiz, Prussian defeat at, 37 
 
 by the Fox Party, 45-6 ; elected for 
 
 Scotland, 6, i8w., 38, 44-5, 168, 196 
 
 Westminster, 49 ; his talents, 53 ; 
 
 Scots Greys at Laffeldt, 22 
 
 and women, 173 and n., i74n. ; 
 
 Scott, Rev. Dr. (Rector of Simonburn), 22 
 
 Vachell's " Life of," 173?? 
 
 , Mr. (son of Sir William Scott), 190 
 
 , Mrs. [nee Ogle), I73« 
 
 , Miss (daughter of Sir William Scott), 
 
 , Thomas, 90M., 167 and n 
 
 190 
 
 — — , Mrs. See Chamberlaine, Miss 
 
 , Sir Walter, 84M., I95«., 252«., 254K. ; 
 
 Frances 
 
 " Heart of Midlothian," by, i68k. 5 
 
 Sherwood, near Battersea, 184 
 
 " Waverley," by, 22on 
 
 Shipley's Drawing School, 8m 
 
 — , Sir William, 17, 29, 190, 219, 248 
 
 Shobdon Court, Herefordshire, 214 
 
 , Lady, 29 
 
 Sicily, 83, III, 258 
 
 Scottish Expedition, The (1385), 226« 
 
 SIddons, Mrs. Sarah, i8o«. ; Reynolds' 
 
 Scottowe, Captain (in East India Com- 
 
 sketch for her portrait as " The Tragic 
 
 pany's service), 61 
 
 Muse," 157K 
 
 Scrope, Sir Henry, 226« 
 
 SIdmouth, Henry, ist Viscount. See 
 
 , Richard, ist Lord (1327 i'-Hos)) the 
 
 Addington, Henry 
 
 case with Sir Robert Grosvenor 
 
 Sillwood Lodge, Brighton, 145^ 
 
 recalled, 225, 226 and n 
 
 Silvester, John (afterwards Sir John, 
 
 Seal, Mr., 9 
 
 Recorder of the City of London), 80 
 
 " Sea-Sick Minstrel, The," poem by 
 
 Simeon, Rev. Charles, 169, 198 
 
 Henry Tresham, R.A., 253 and n 
 
 " Simphcity," by Reynolds, 157^ 
 
 Sedelmeyer, Charles, I35« 
 
 Sinclair, Sir John Gordon, 26k 
 
 Seguier, David, 129, 142 and «., 143 
 
 , Lady Madelina. See Palmer, Lady 
 
 Selim III., Ottoman Sultan, deposed and 
 
 Madellna Fysshe 
 
 murdered by the Janisssaries, 175 
 
 , Sir Robert, 2611 
 
 Seraglio, Constantinople, 125, 175 
 
 Sinlgaglia, 62W 
 
 Sergisson, Colonel, 158 
 
 Sixth Dragoons, i28m 
 
 , Mr. (father of the Colonel), 158 
 
 Slade, Mr., 114 
 
286 The Farin 
 
 gton Diary 
 
 Slave Trade Act, Wilberforce's, 138 
 
 Spain, war with England, 25-6, 27 and «., 
 
 " Sleeping Nymph," by R. Westall, R.A., 
 
 89, 90 ; affinity of the language of 
 
 III 
 
 Portugal and of, 35 ; amount of wool 
 
 Smallwood, John Henry, 219^ 
 
 produced in, 197 
 
 Smart, Christopher, " Student " by, gzn 
 
 Spedding, Miss Margaret. Sec Froude, 
 
 Smirke, Richard, 164-5, ^4° 
 
 Mrs. R. H. 
 
 , Robert, R.A., 48-9, 59, 70, 78, 86, 
 
 Spence, Thomas, 249 
 
 162, 167M., 196, 209, 230, 233, 245 ; 
 
 Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl, 55, i72«.. 
 
 his illustrations to Don Quixote, 230-1 ; 
 
 205« 
 
 George III. and his candidature for 
 
 , Hon. William, 172 
 
 R.A. Keepership, 240-1, 245 
 
 , William Robert, 137, 168 and « 
 
 , Sir Robert, R.A., 31, 47, 162, 167 
 
 , Mrs., 173 
 
 and n. ; his design for Lowther Hall, 47 
 
 Spenser, Edmund, 198 
 
 Smith, Dr., 159 
 
 Spring Grove, Hounslow, 193 
 
 , Mr. (Judge Advocate in India), 186 
 
 Grove, Richmond, Surrey, 43 w 
 
 , Mr. (of Piercefield), i ion 
 
 Springhall, Mrs. D. See Hankin, Mrs 
 
 , Adam, i62« 
 
 Spurgeon, Mr. (a Yarmouth Attorney), 
 
 , Lady Anne Culling, 4 ; notice of, 4«. ; 
 
 203-4 
 
 Hoppner's portrait of, ib 
 
 , Rev. Mr., his mode of living, 203-4 
 
 , Charles Culling, 4W 
 
 , Mrs., 203 
 
 , John (known as " Warwick " Smith), 
 
 Spurling [Sperling f], Mr., 15-6 
 
 his views of the Coliseum, 134, and in 
 
 [Sperling }]. See Rochfort, Mrs. 
 
 Cornwall, 231 
 
 William 
 
 , Joseph, 85 
 
 Stafford, Granville, ist Marquess of, 91, 115 
 
 , J. T., " Nollekens and His Times," 
 
 , i74» 
 
 by, _5K 
 
 Election, 43 
 
 , Miss Polly. See Bruce, Mrs. Craw- 
 
 Standard H.M.S., 125 
 
 ford 
 
 Stanislaus (II.) Augustus Poncatowski, 
 
 , Sir Sydney, 165 
 
 King of Poland, 170 
 
 , Rev. Sydney, 44, 76 and n., 13 Sm., 
 
 Stanton, Admiral, ^n 
 
 168, 172 
 
 , Mrs., 5K 
 
 , Sir William Sidney, British Admiral, 
 
 " State of the Negotiation of Lord Lauder- 
 
 250, 258 ; blockades port of Lisbon, 
 
 dale," a pamphlet by Mr. Holt, 60 
 
 250 
 
 Steers, John W., 142 
 
 " Smith's Catalogue Raisonn^," i23n 
 
 Sterling [Stirling], Charles, Vice-Admiral,88 
 
 Snell, Mr. (Auctioneer), 188 
 
 Stewart, Charles Edward, the Young Pre- 
 
 Soane, Sir John, R.A., 77K., 192, 197, 250, 
 
 tender. See Charles Edward 
 
 253 ; his relations with G. Dance, 
 
 Stirling-Maxwell, Lady. See Maxwell 
 
 46 and n 
 
 Stoddart, Miss, 128 
 
 Museum, The, 46K., 77K 
 
 , Charles, 128 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 " Social Day, The," a poem by Peter 
 
 , John (afterwards Sir John), 233 
 
 Coxe, 1327? 
 
 , Stephen, Captain (afterwards Major), 
 
 Society of Antiquaries, 29, 53 and n., 61, 
 
 128 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 87, iiiK. ; N. Carlisle appointed 
 
 , Mrs., 128 and « 
 
 Secretary, 87 
 
 Stone, Mr. (of Leominster), 214 
 
 Soho Row, 41 
 
 Stothard, Thomas, R.A., 167, 227 
 
 Somerset, Jane Georgiana, Duchess of, i67« 
 
 Stourhead, 71 
 
 ■ — — , 246K 
 
 Strahan and Strong, Messrs. (Long Acre), 
 
 Somerville, John Southey, 15th Lord, 132, 
 
 209 
 
 240 
 
 Stralsund, 186 
 
 " Son of God creating the Universe," 
 
 Strand Panorama, The, 188 
 
 ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, 107 and n 
 
 " Stranger in Holland," by Sir John Carr, 
 
 Sophia Matilda, Princess (daughter of ist 
 
 140 
 
 Duke of Gloucester), 107 
 
 " Stranger in Ireland," by Sir John Carr, 
 
 Sotheby, William, 135 and «., 136-7, 239 
 
 61,68 
 
 Sotheby's, Messrs. (Auctioneers), 37;/ 
 
 Stratton Park, Hampshire, 30, 39, 209 
 
 South Audley Street, London, 141^ 
 
 " Strawberry Girl, The," hy Reynolds, i56« 
 
 Street, London, 210 
 
 Strawberry Hill, Devonshire, i93» 
 
Index 287 
 
 Stubbs, George, A.R.A., 34, 143, 146 
 
 Thomond, Murrough, ist Marquess of, 2, 3, 
 
 " Student," by Christopher Smart, gzw 
 
 5-6, i3-5j 175 21-6, 29, 95, 130, 133, 
 
 Sturges, Rev. John, 18 in 
 
 i57«., 158, 161-2, 180, 188-915 and 
 
 Sturges-Bourne, William, 181 ; notice of. 
 
 Farington, 2-3, 13, 23-4, 26, 29; 
 
 ib. n 
 
 and George HI., 3 ; at the Battle of 
 
 Suffolk, John, 15th Earl of, 153 
 
 Laffeldt, 22 ; has charge of Admiral 
 
 _, 2«., 177, 193 
 
 Byng, 95 ; and Prince of Wales, 191 
 
 Sullivan, Luke (Engraver), gaw 
 
 Thomson, Captain, 81 
 
 Sully, M. de B., Due de, 2 
 
 , Mr. (father of R.A.), 121 
 
 " Sun Rising Through Vapour," by J. M. W. 
 
 , Mrs. (of Brompton), 210 
 
 Turner, 113 and «., 114 
 
 , Henry, R.A., 40, 49, 57, 77-8, 107, 
 
 " Susannah," by Rembrandt, 133, 135 and 
 
 117, 120-1, 123-4, 132, 176, 183, 206; 
 
 K., 152 
 
 his account of Opie's death, 1 17-9 
 
 Sussex, Augustus Frederick, Duke of, 
 
 , Mrs., 52 
 
 33« 
 
 Thornhill, Sir James, 79/1 
 
 , 158 ; cost of election, 158 
 
 , Miss. See Hogarth, Mrs 
 
 Swale House, Northumberland, 23 
 
 Thornton, Mr., 209 
 
 Swiss Island, The, 2 1 1 
 
 , Mr. (British Minister at Hamburg), 
 
 Switzerland, 243 
 
 57 
 
 Sydenham, i m 
 
 Thrale, Mrs. Henry, 145K., i6zn 
 
 
 " Three Generations of Beautiful Women," 
 
 Table Bay, 27M 
 
 by Constance, Lady Russell, z6n 
 
 Tagus river, Russian battleships in, 250 
 
 Thunderer, H.M.S., 125 
 
 Taplow, 6, 17-8, 21, 180 
 
 Thurlow, Edward, ist Lord, 186, 243 ; 
 
 Court, 2, i57« 
 
 T. Phillips' portrait of, 113; Law- 
 
 Sprmg, 3, 6, 13 
 
 rence's portrait of, 133 
 
 Woods, 3 ; Farington's picture of, 3 
 
 Thurston (formerly Willis), Framington 
 
 Tarporley, Cheshire, 186 
 
 Lake, 17 and n 
 
 Tasso, Torquato, 198 
 
 , Mrs. See Gardner, Mrs 
 
 Tate Gallery, London, ii3« 
 
 Tickell, Richard, The Camp, a play by, 232^ 
 
 Tavistock, Francis, Marquess of (after- 
 
 Tierney, George, 144 
 
 wards 7th Duke of Bedford), 28, 206 
 
 Tijon, Mr. (Frame maker), 1 10 
 
 Taylor, Mr. (of the Opera House), 86, 199, 
 
 Times, The, 44 ; editorship of, 44 and n 
 
 218 
 
 Titchfield Street, London, 179 
 
 , Ernest, Letter from, 93 « 
 
 Titian, "Bacchus and Ariadne," by, 115 and 
 
 , Sir Herbert, 93/1 
 
 «., 116, 129; his art, 115-6, 129 
 
 , Miss Mary, 219M 
 
 Tivoli, The, Rome, 212 
 
 , Sir Robert, 192 
 
 Tollemache, John, ist Lord, 204 
 
 , Tom, " Life of Reynolds," by, 2o8« 
 
 Tomline, Right Rev. Sir George Prety- 
 
 " Taylor Papers, The," 93/? 
 
 man (Bishop of Lincoln), 18, 85, 252 
 
 Teignmouth, John, ist Lord, 91 
 
 -, Lady Pretyman, 18 
 
 Temple, The, 88, 173 
 
 Tooke, Home, 94, 165, 195 
 
 Templetown, Mary, Viscountess, 58 
 
 Top ham, John, 184 
 
 Teniers, David, 10 1, 136 
 
 " Topographical Dictionary of Great 
 
 " Thais," Reynolds' portrait of Emily 
 
 Britain and Ireland," by N. Carhsle, 
 
 Warren as, 247 and it 
 
 61 
 
 Thames, The, 132, 177 
 
 Tortola, 89 
 
 Thanet, Sackville, 9th Earl of, 144 
 
 Totnes, Devon, 178 and n 
 
 Thatched House Tavern, 224, 227 
 
 Townshend, Mr. (of the Heralds' Office), 
 
 Thelusson, Peter, 169 
 
 223 
 
 , Mrs., 169 
 
 , Anne, Marchioness, 96, 202 
 
 " Theory," design for painting on R.A. 
 
 , George, ist Marquess of, 202 
 
 Library ceiling, by Reynolds, 188 
 
 , George, 2nd Marquess of, and his 
 
 Thomond, Mary, Marchioness of, 3, 5-6, 
 
 Barony of Ferrers and Earldom of 
 
 15, 17-8, 21-5, 29, 149, 150, 156, 157M., 
 
 Leicester, 202 ; and dispute with his 
 
 158, 188-91 ; and monument to 
 
 son, 223 
 
 Reynolds, 90, 150; Reynolds' portrait 
 
 Tower of London, See London 
 
 of, i57« 
 
 Towne, Charles, 152 
 
288 
 
 The Farington Diary 
 
 See Merton, Horatio, 
 
 Trafalgar, Viscount. 
 Viscount 
 
 , Battle of, logn 
 
 " Travels in India," by William Hodges, 
 R.A., 8k 
 
 Trelawny, Lady Anne, zSn 
 
 , Rev. Sir Harry, 28 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 Tresham, Henry, R.A., 107, 133, 214, 228, 
 236,251 ; appointed Prof essor of Paint- 
 ing at R.A., 234 ; " Sea-Sick Minstrel," 
 by, 253 and n. ; notice of, 253^ 
 
 Trieste, 145 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. See Cam- 
 bridge University 
 
 Hall, Cambridge, 23 6« 
 
 Trotter, Alexander, 196 
 
 , Coutts (afterwards Sir), 94-5, 125, 
 
 195-6 ; notice of, 195W 
 
 , Mrs., i95« 
 
 Troward, Mr. (Picture dealer of Pall Mall), 
 sale of his pictures, 107 and «., 108 
 
 Truro, Cornwall, 28, 124, 156 and «., 157^ 
 
 Tuffin, Mr., 165 
 
 Turin, 145 
 
 Turkey, war with England, 125 and n 
 
 Turner, Charles, his engraving of Hopp- 
 ner's portrait of Louisa, Countess of 
 Dysart, 21 6k 
 
 , Sir John, 6, 17, 22 29 
 
 , Lady, 17, 22 
 
 , J. M. W., R.A., 41M., 74, 100, io8«., 
 
 136, 153, 228, 233«., 236; "Fall 
 of the Rhine at Schaffhausen," by, 
 10 1 ; "Sun Rising Through Vapour," 
 by, 1 13 and «., 114; " Dido Building 
 Carthage," by, i io,n. ; " A Farrier's 
 Shop," by, 113, 133, 140; his art, 
 132 ; first plates of his " Liber 
 Studlorum," 153 and n. ; A. J. Fin- 
 berg's " History of Liber Studlorum," 
 by, I53«. ; " Fifth Plague in Egypt," 
 197 ; his drawings of Harewood 
 House, 233K. 5 appointed Professor of 
 Perspective at R.A., 234 
 
 Tuscany, 2 1 1 
 
 " Twenty-four Views of St. Helena and 
 Egypt," by Henry Salt, 37^ 
 
 Twickenham, 5« 
 
 Twiss, William, General, 81 
 
 Tyburn, 185 
 
 United States of America, 2i2«., 217, 
 223, 231 ; and peace with England, 
 183-4, 245 ; ports closed against 
 British, 187 5 shows a partiaHty 
 towards France, 23 1 ; finances of, ib. ; 
 desires to remain neutral, 245. See 
 also America 
 
 Upham, Hampshire, 84K 
 Upper Charlotte Street, 33M 
 
 Valentia, Arthur, Viscount, 37-8 ; his 
 
 tour of India, 37 and «., 38 
 Vancouver, Mr. (agent to 2nd Earl of 
 
 Warwick), 69 
 Vandyck, Sir Anthony, 132 ; " Samson 
 
 and Delilah," by, 188 
 Varley, John, 215, 233 « 
 Vasari, George, " Lives of the Painters," 
 
 by, 60 
 Vatican, The, 134 
 Vaughan, Dr., 1 17-8 
 Vauxhall, 108 
 
 Gardens, 184 
 
 Venice, Cannaletto's " View of," 197 
 
 Venus de Medici (Statue), 129 
 
 " Venus Rising from the Sea," by James 
 
 Barry, R.A., 129 
 Vere, Lady Jane de, 3 1 
 Vernet, Claude Joseph, 197 
 Vestrlo, Madame (Actress), 25 2k 
 Vicars, Colonel (of the Horse Guards), 28-9 
 Victory^ H.M.S., 109^ 
 Vienna, 121, 175, 258 
 " Villa Madame," by R. Wilson, 133 
 " Village Politicians," by Sir D. Wilkle, 122 
 Ville de Paris, H.M.S., 136 
 Vincent, Francois Andre, 245 
 Vinci, Leonardo da, Mr. Troward's pic- 
 tures ascribed to, 107 
 " Virgin and Child," by Correggio, 143 
 
 and n 
 Volunteers, Leicestershire, 41 
 " Voyage in Abyssinia," by Henry Salt, T,jn 
 " Voyages and Travels in India," by Lord 
 
 Valentia, 37;? 
 
 Wakefield, Daniel, validity of his marriage, 
 
 219, 248 ; notice of, 248« 
 — , Mrs., 219, 248 
 , Edward (father of Daniel Wakefield), 
 
 23 6k 
 — — , Mrs. (first wife of Edward Wakefield), 
 
 23 6« 
 , Edward, the younger, 236 and n. ; 
 
 " Ireland, Satistlcal and Political," 
 
 by, ib 
 ■ , Mrs. Priscllla (mother of Daniel 
 
 Wakefield), 248 ; notice of, ib. n. ; 
 
 " Juvenile Travellers," by, ib 
 Walcheren Expedition, The, 203K 
 Waldeck, Prince of, 22 
 Waldron, Mr. (father of the Shoemaker), 
 
 83-4 
 — — , Mr. (Shoemaker), 83-4 
 , Mrs., 83-4 
 
Index 289 
 
 Wales, Augusta, Princess of, 21 
 
 Water Colour Society, The, 134 
 
 , Caroline Amelia Elizabetli,Princess of. 
 
 Waterloo Bridge^ 19 1« 
 
 24, 94, 107, 135, 141 and K., 191 ; 
 
 Watsoii, Mr. (a Preston Manufacturer), 
 
 her sensibility, 21 ; and Lawrence, 
 
 209-10 
 
 48 ; indiscretions of, 48, 84, 96, 10 1, 
 
 Watt, Robert, " BibUotheca Britannica," 
 
 165 ; George III. and, 96 ; and 
 
 by, 220K 
 
 Fuseli, 196 
 
 Watts, Miss, 246 
 
 , Frederick Lewis, Prince of (father of 
 
 , David Pike, 226 and n., 227, 236 and 
 
 George III.), 21 
 
 K., 239-40, 246 
 
 , George Augustus Frederick, Prince of 
 
 " Waverley," by Sir Walter Scott, 220a 
 
 (afterwards George IV.), i8k., 22-3, 
 
 Weasenham, Norfolk, 201, 206 
 
 51, 61-2, 84, 94, 96, 98, loi, 106-7, 
 
 Webster, Wedderburn, 198 
 
 141-2, 190 and n., 191, 235 ; his 
 
 Wedderburn, Miss Jean (sister to Mrs. 
 
 accomplishments, 2-4 ; and Philip 
 
 P. Dundas). See Oliphant, Mrs 
 
 Metcalfe, 4, 190 5 and Prince of 
 
 , Sir John ,254 
 
 Orange, 14 ; reported death of, 54 ; 
 
 Welch, Justice, 92« 
 
 Nollekens' bust of, 73 ; his weight, 
 
 Wellesley, Lady Anne. See Smith, Lady 
 
 98 and «. ; attends R.A. Annual 
 
 Anne Culling 
 
 Dinner (1807), 130 ; Hoppner's por- 
 
 ^ Richard, ist Marquess, 13, 33, 38, 103, 
 
 trait of, 131 5 and Lord Thomond, 
 
 202 
 
 191 ; his behaviour, 222. See also 
 
 Wells, Mr. (a West Indian Merchant), no 
 
 George IV 
 
 and n 
 
 Walker-Hungerford, George. See Hun- 
 
 — — , Mrs., 1 10 
 
 gerford 
 
 , Miss (daughter of Mr. Wells), 1 10 and n 
 
 Wall, Charles, 108 ; Lawrence's portrait of, 
 
 , Miss (sister to Mr.Wells), i ion 
 
 39, 40, 53, 108, no, 114, 130, 132, 134, 
 
 , Mrs., sen., 182 
 
 136 
 
 , William, 182, 186 and k., 213, 220,250 
 
 , Mrs., Lawrence's portrait of, 209 
 
 — - — Street, Bath, zizti 
 
 Wallace, Sir Rich-ard, 6()n 
 
 Welsh, Colonel, 104 
 
 Collection, The, 69K., 156M 
 
 , Mrs., 104 
 
 Wallachia, 175 
 
 West, Benjamin, P.R.A., 54-5, 57, 59-60, 
 
 Wallack, James William, 25 2« 
 
 63, 79, 82-3, 100, 108, 1 14-6, 123, 
 
 Wallis, John William, yy and n., 78 5 his 
 
 130-2, 134, 139, 1 50-1, 170-1, 212, 
 
 conduct in Rome, 77-8 
 
 224, 227-8, 230, 237, 239-40, 242, 
 
 , Mrs., 78 
 
 250-1; his art, 40, 42, 150; and 
 
 Walmer Castle, 128 
 
 Presidency of the R.A., 40, 43, S^-It 
 
 Walpole, Miss Charlotte (Actress). See 
 
 54, 57, 59, 82, i32n., 1335 "Pylades 
 
 Atkyns, Mrs 
 
 and Orestes," by, 42; indiscretions of, 
 
 , Horace, 164, i85«. ; " Anecdotes of 
 
 48-9-, his works in St. George's 
 
 Painting in England," by, 64 ; " Let- 
 
 Chapel, 54 ; and Farington, 49, 50, 54, 
 
 ters of," 65W 
 
 59-60, 82-3, 100, 133, 150, 211, 240, 
 
 , Rachel Lady, 202 
 
 242-5, 248-9 ; and George III., 
 
 , Sir Robert, 205 
 
 48-9, 54, 59, 82, 240, 2465 "King 
 
 Walsby, Rev. Dr., 52 
 
 Lear" and "Ophelia," by, 132-, his 
 
 Walter, John (of Bearwood), z6n 
 
 financial difficulties, 133 5 sketch of 
 
 , John, jun. (11.), and directorship of 
 
 " Institution of the Order of the 
 
 The Times^ 44 and « 
 
 Garter," by, 150 ; " Death of Nelson," 
 
 Ward, James, R.A., 132, 176, 224 
 
 by, 1 50, 236 ; and R.A. domestic 
 
 Warren, Miss Emily [alias Bertie, alias Bet 
 
 affairs, 174 ; his visit to Bath, 21 1-2 ; 
 
 Coventry), story of her portrait as 
 
 " King Bladud Discovering the Virtue* 
 
 " Thais" by Reynolds, 247 and n 
 
 of the Bath Waters," by, 212, 230; 
 
 Warsaw, 79 
 
 " Christ Healing the Sick," by 2i2«. ; 
 
 Warwick, Francis, ist Earl of, iiik., 247K 
 
 and British Institution, 227 ; his art 
 
 , George, 2nd Earl of, 69, yy 
 
 lecture to R.A. students, 233-4 ; visits 
 
 Castle, 69 
 
 William Beckford, 242-3 ; on art ia 
 
 Was dale. Dr. John, 162 
 
 France, 245 ; his taxes, 246 
 
 Washington, George, 184 
 
 , Mrs., 100, 114, 133, 211-2 
 
 , 187 
 
 , Ralph, 60 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 19 
 
290 
 
 The Farington Diary 
 
 Westall, Richard, R.A., 68, 97, 100, 113-4, 
 124, 134-5) 158-9) 228, 252, 256 ; 
 " Sleeping Nymph," by,iii ; " Flora," 
 
 by, 134, 140, 168 
 
 , William, A.R.A., 256 
 
 West Indies, 89, 167, 217 
 
 Westmacott, Sir Richard, R.A., 91, 97, 
 
 100, 176 
 Westminster, 45, 49, ion., 140 ; result of 
 
 election, 49 
 Abbey, 53, 149, 1737/., 246?^. ; Handel 
 
 Festival at, 23 6k. ; Choristers' School 
 
 at, 246;? 
 
 Hall, 149 
 
 Hospital, 53 
 
 School, 6, 59 
 
 West Norfolk, 205^ 
 
 Norfolk MiUtia, 202 
 
 Weston, Mr. (Bond Street Tailor), 98 
 
 , Miss Maria. See Fludyer, Lady 
 
 Weymouth, 88 
 
 Whalley, Rev. T., 41 and n 
 
 Wheatley, Mrs. Francis, 107, 160 ; marries 
 
 Pope the Actor, 199 
 Whig Club, The, 3 1 
 Whitbread, Samuel, M.P., 32, 87, 90 ; 
 
 insists on a seat in the Cabinet, 25 
 Whitby, I02 
 White, Mr. (Auctioneer, Storey's Gate), 
 
 246?? 
 
 , Mr. (Leather breeches maker), 186 
 
 White's Club, Bourke's " History of," 247^ 
 
 Whitechapel, 226k 
 
 Whitefoord, Caleb, 171, 188, 197; and 
 
 Benjamin Franklin, 183 
 White Hart, St. Albans, iim 
 Whitehurst, Mr. (of Bolt Court), 10 
 Whitworth, Charles, Earl, 126 
 Wilberforce, William, 108, 140, 146, 158, 
 
 186 ; his Slave Trade Act, 138 ; 
 
 becomes unpopular, 158 
 Wilkie, Sir David, R.A., 42, 44, 45 and n., 
 
 48, 91, 104, 151, 213, 230, 239; 
 
 " The Blind Fiddler," by, 41-2, 44, 
 
 47-8, loi, 116, 122, 124, 133-4, 140, 
 
 149-50; his art, 41-2, 44, 48, loi, 
 
 116, 136, 238 ; " The Rent Day," by 
 
 loi, 104-5, 122 ; " Village Politicians," 
 
 by, 122 ; " Card Players," by, 238 
 William HL, King of England, Scotland 
 
 and Ireland, and Prince of Orange, 
 
 character and abilities of, 15 
 Williams, Solomon, 114; notice of, ib. n 
 
 , Thomas, 12 
 
 Williamson, Dr. G. C, " Life of Ozias 
 
 Humphry, R.A.," by, 2i6w 
 Willis, Francis, M.D., 36, 53, 87 
 — , Mrs., 36 
 
 WiUis, Rev. Mr., 36 
 
 Willoughby de Eresby, Clementina Eliza- 
 beth Drummond, Baroness, 252M 
 
 Wilson, Captain (of H.E.I. Co.), 109 
 
 , ]VIr.(Keeper of the Hunter Museum), 
 
 236 
 
 , Lestock P., 75-6, 139, 254-5 ; notice 
 
 of, 75« 
 
 , Richard, R.A., 8k., 72^., 129, 143, 
 
 168, 213, 214K., 220, 255 ; " Niobe," 
 by, 123 ; " Villa Madame," by, 133 ; 
 a sketch of Rome, by, 178 
 
 Wiltshire, Earl of (son of Lord Scrope), 
 
 226« 
 
 -^) 33 
 
 Winchester, 13M., 14, 18 ik 
 
 Winchilsea, George, 9th Earl of, 210; 
 C. Woodforde's portrait of, ib 
 
 Windham, William, 25, 29, 59-60, 130, 
 186, 230 ; and Norfolk election, 
 138, 144 
 
 Windsor, 1172., 73, 174 
 
 Castle, 25, 54, 82, 96, 141, 149 ; 
 
 Wyatt's alterations to, 54 
 
 Windsor Castle, H.M.S., 125 
 
 Forest, 26 
 
 Winter, Peter Von, Zaire, opera by, 23 7« 
 
 " Wisdom of Solomoia, The," by W. L. 
 Hoppner, 228, 233, 236 
 
 Wodehouse, Colonel, 138, 144 
 
 , Hon. and Rev. Armine (Rector of 
 
 Litcham), 202 
 
 , John, 1st Lord, 202 
 
 , Hon. John (afterwards 2nd Lord), 202 
 
 , Hon. Philip, Captain R.N. (after- 
 wards Vice-Admiral of the White), 
 202 
 
 , Hon. and Rev. William, 202 
 
 , Mrs., 202 
 
 Wolcot, John, M.D., 94, 124 
 
 Wolfe, James, General, 151, 167 ; Woollett's 
 engraving of "The Death of," 55 
 
 Wolff, Jens (Danish Consul in London), 184 
 
 Wolverhampton, 6 
 
 " Woman taken in Adultery, The," by 
 Rembrandt, 143 and n., 152-3, 154 
 and «., 164, 168, 172, 180, 230 
 
 Wombwell, Sir George (2nd Baronet), 6zn 
 
 , Lady. See Belasyse, Lady Anne 
 
 Wood, Colonel, i io« 
 
 , Mr. (a Lancashire Pedestrian), his 
 
 race with Captain Barclay at New- 
 market, 202-3 
 
 , William, " Zoography," by, 256 
 
 " Wooded Landscape," by M. Hobbema, 
 123 and n 
 
 Woodforde, Rev. James, 70tt 
 
 , Dr. Robert E. H., 7o« 
 
t •■ 
 
 Index 291 
 
 Woodforde, Samue), R.A., 70 and «., 71, 
 
 Wyatt, Jeffrey, 32-3 
 
 82, 113, 210 5 his portrait of Lord 
 
 , Matthew, 33 
 
 Winchilsea, 210 
 
 Wyck Rock, Bath, 21 1-2 
 
 Woodlands, Blackheath, 153, 193 
 
 
 "Woodman, The," by R. Barker, 212 
 
 
 Woodthorpe, Mr. (Town Clerk of City of 
 
 Yarmouth, 208 
 
 London), 55 
 
 Yarnold, J. W., i88« 
 
 Woollett, William, " Death of General 
 
 Yart, Mr. (Drawing master), 72-3 
 
 Wolfe," engraving by, 55 
 
 , Miss, 72 
 
 Woolwich, 93, 192 
 
 , Joseph Farlngton, 72 
 
 Worcester, Frederica, Marchioness of, 4« 
 
 Tes or No, play by L Pocock, 252« 
 
 ' 53 . . 
 
 York, Frederica, Duchess of, 4 ; notice of, 
 
 Wordsworth, Miss (sister to the Poet), 132 
 
 ib. n 
 
 , William, 42, 135 and «,, 238; 
 
 , Frederick, Duke of, 4 and n., 158 ; 
 
 " Growth of the Poet's Mind," by. 
 
 Prince of Orange and his expedition 
 
 42 ; his poetry, 86, 239 ; as an art 
 
 to Holland, 14 
 
 critic, 129, 132 ; his high opinion of 
 
 , io8 ; election, 138-140, 145-6 
 
 himself, 239 
 
 Yorkshire, 41-2, 108, 144, 158 
 
 , Mrs., 132 
 
 Yonge, Sir George, 89 
 
 Worsley, Sir Richard (of Appuldercombe), 
 
 Young, Rev. Mr. (of Great Torrington), 
 
 65 ; notice of, ib. n 
 
 157 
 
 , Lady, 61; and n , 
 
 , Rev. Mr. (Archdeacon of Norfolk), 157 
 
 Wouvermann, P., 168 
 
 , Mrs. {nee Johnson), 157 
 
 Wren, Sir Christopher, 2£;3« 
 
 , Mr., 64 
 
 Wright, Mr. (a Banker), 34 
 
 , Mr. (father of the Actor), 158 
 
 , Miss Lydia. See Hodges, Mrs. 
 
 , Charles Mayne (Actor), 158; acts 
 
 Lydia (second wife of R.A.) 
 
 " Hamlet " at Haymarket Theatre, 
 
 Wrotham, 95 
 
 ib., 160 
 
 Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 33 
 
 , Sir William, 97 
 
 , James, 32-3, 53, 77«., 78, 201, 241, 
 
 Yverdun, zn 
 
 242 ; and Presidency of the R.A., 
 
 
 32, 40, 435 50) 54, 59 ; irregularity of 
 
 
 his habits, 32; his alterations to 
 
 Zeeland, Island of, 206 
 
 Windsor Castle, 54 
 
 " Zoography," by William Wood, 256 
 
 ERRATA 
 
 p. 140. Footnote. Delete "afterwards first Earl of Harewood.'' 
 
 P. 158. Footnote sbotild read " 
 
 See Index, Vols. I. and III." 
 
 P. 173. Footnote. For Dean 
 
 of Westminster, read Dean of 
 
 Winchester. 
 
 
 P. 220. Fourth Footnote. Full stop after Frederick the Great, 
 
 then read " John Adolphus was, author, etc." 
 
 P. 237. Last footnote. For Vigee's, read " Vigee Lebrun's." 
 
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