[433] Diary 4. 471 ff.; 4 June 1791.

[434] Diary, 19 November 1783.

[435] Life 3. 155.

[436] Forbes’s Life of Beattie 2. 175; 15 November 1785.

[437] Letters 8. 443; 17 April 1774.

[438] May 1786.

[439] Bozzy and Piozzi, or the British Biographers, A Town Eclogue, 1786.

[440] This caricature is too unseemly to admit of reproduction here.

[441] Letters 13. 379; 30 April 1786.

[442] Remarks on the Journal of a Tour ... in a Letter to James Boswell, Esq. By ‘Verax.’ 1785.

[443] Cf. Walpole’s remarks about the Life, Letters 14. 438; 26 May 1791.

[444] Diary 3. 219; 26 February 1787.

[445] Life of Beattie 2. 182; 9 January 1786.

[446] Roberts’s Memoirs of More 1. 403; 1785.

[447] Forbes’s Life of Beattie 2. 178.

[448] It has been reserved for Mr. Percy Fitzgerald to revive the old charges against Boswell and to discover new ones, which he has set forth with a virulence that would be inexcusable in any one who had not a preposterous theory to defend.

[449] A Later Pepys 2. 260; 24 October 1785.

[450] Journal, p. 307.

[451] Ib. p. 383.