_Croker's Boswell_ (Edit. 1847, p. 721.).--Mr. Croker cannot discover
when a good deal of intercourse could have taken place between Dr.
Johnson and the Earl of Shelburne, because "in 1765, when Johnson
engaged in politics with Hamilton, {374} Lord Shelburne was but twenty."
In 1765 Lord Shelburne was twenty-eight. He was born in 1737; was in
Parliament in 1761; and a Privy Councillor in 1763.