[Footnote 1: The year of Dr. Burney’s decease.]
[Footnote 2: Afterwards Mrs. Phillips.]
[Footnote 3: Afterwards Dame d’Atour to the celebrated sister of
Frederick the Great.]
[Footnote 4: Upon its revival; not upon its first coming-out.]
[Footnote 5: Even to Thomson, young Burney had appeared but as a
delegate from that nominal society.]
[Footnote 6: His late Majesty, George the Fourth, when Prince of Wales.]
[Footnote 7: Now the mansion of the Marquis of Londonderry.]
[Footnote 8: Troilus and Cressida.]
[Footnote 9: The bride’s sisters, the Misses Macartney, were privately
present at this clandestine ceremony.]
[Footnote 10: The rich citizens, at present, generally migrate
to the west; leaving their eastern dwelling, with its current
business-control, to their partners or dependents.]
[Footnote 11: This resistless filial tribute to such extraordinary
_independent_ and _individual_ merit, must now be offenceless; as the
family of its honoured object has for very many years, in its every
Male branch, been, in this world, utterly extinct.—And, for another
world,—of what avail were disguise?]
[Footnote 12: The word _almost_ must here stand to acknowledge the
several exceptions that may be offered to this paragraph; but which,
nevertheless, seem to make, not annul, a general rule.]
[Footnote 13: Miss Young’s were the kind arms that first welcomed to
this nether sphere the writer of these memoirs.]
[Footnote 14: The whole of this finest gallery of pictures that,
then, had been formed in England, was sold, during some pecuniary
difficulties, by its owner, George, Earl of Orford, for £40,000, to
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.]
[Footnote 15: This name alludes to that which young Burney had acquired
from imitating Garrick in Abel Drugger, during the theatricals at
Wilbury House.]
[Footnote 16: It is written with a flow of tender but harassed
sensations, so natural, so unstrained, that it seems to have been
penned merely because felt; though clearly to have been incited by
acute disappointment to heart-dear expectations.
I ask no kind return in love;
No melting power to please;
Far from the heart such gifts remove
That sighs for peace and ease!
Nor peace nor ease the heart can know
That, like the needle true,
Turns at the touch of joy and woe—
But, turning—trembles too!]
[Footnote 17: And subsequently, through this partial regard, the
writer of these memoirs had the honour of being a god-daughter of Mrs.
Greville.]
[Footnote 18: Afterwards Mrs. Charles Burney, of Bath.]
[Footnote 19: See correspondence.]
[Footnote 20: The letters of Dr. Johnson were made over to Mr. Boswell
by Dr. Burney, and have already been published; but the modesty which
withheld his own, will not, it is hoped, be thought here to be violated
by printing them in his memoirs; as they not only shew his early and
generous enthusiasm for genius, but carry with them a striking proof of
the genuine urbanity with which Dr. Johnson was open to every act of
kindness that was offered to him unaffectedly, even from persons the
most obscure and unknown.]
[Footnote 21: The eldest daughter.]
[Footnote 22: Charlotte.]
[Footnote 23: Afterwards Rear-Admiral James Burney.]
[Footnote 24: Afterwards the celebrated Greek scholar.]
[Footnote 25: In his letters.]
[Footnote 26: Dryden.]
[Footnote 27: See Correspondence.]
[Footnote 28: And such it appeared to this memorialist when it was
exhibited at the Louvre in 1812.]
[Footnote 29: The first Earl of Chatham.]
[Footnote 30: See correspondence.]
[Footnote 31: Edward, brother to his Majesty George III.]
[Footnote 32: Afterwards Mrs. Rishton.]
[Footnote 33: Now Rector of Lynn Regis.]
[Footnote 34: No truth can be more simply exact than that which is
conveyed in four lines of the stanzas which she addressed to him in the
secret dedication of her first work, Evelina, viz.
If in my heart the love of virtue glows
’Twas kindled there by an unerring rule;
From thy _example_ the pure flame arose,
Thy _life_ my precept; thy _good works_ my school.]
[Footnote 35: His son, George Colman the younger, still happily lives
and flourishes.]
[Footnote 36: See Correspondence.]
[Footnote 37: Forty-three years after the date of this publication,
the Countess Dowager of Pembroke acquainted this memorialist, that she
had never known by whom this Essay was dedicated, nor by whom it was
written.]
[Footnote 38: See Correspondence.]
[Footnote 39: This Editor.]
[Footnote 40: Daughter of Lord Mulgrave.]
[Footnote 41: More known by the title of the Hon. Polar Captain.
Afterwards Lord Mulgrave.]
[Footnote 42: Mr. Seward, author of Biographiana, was wont to say, that
those three initial letters stood for a Fellow Remarkably Stupid.]
[Footnote 43: There seems here to be some word, or words, omitted.—ED.]
[Footnote 44: Mrs. Doctor Burney accompanied the Doctor in this visit
to Mr. and Mrs. Bewley.]
[Footnote 45: Afterwards George IV.]
[Footnote 46: Now rector of Abinger, mentioned several times in
Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson.]
[Footnote 47: These little narrations, selected and transcribed from a
large packet of letters, written by the Editor, at a very early period
of life, to Mr. Crisp, were by him bequeathed to his sister, Mrs. Gast;
at whose death they became the property of Mrs. Frodsham, their nearest
of kin; who, unsolicited, most generously and delicately restored the
whole collection to its writer. She is gone hence before this little
tribute of gratitude could be offered to her; but she has left two
amiable daughters, who will not read it with indifference.]
[Footnote 48: This familiar, but affectionate, appellation, had been
given by Dr. Burney, during his own youth, to Mr. Crisp; and was now,
by prescription, adopted by the whole of the Doctor’s family.]
[Footnote 49: Dr. Russel, after this meeting, procured for Dr. Burney
some curious information from Aleppo, of the modern state of music in
Arabia.]
[Footnote 50: The eldest was afterwards Marchioness of Thomond; the
second is now Mrs. Gwatken.]
[Footnote 51: An afterpiece of Mrs. Brookes’s composition.]
[Footnote 52: Afterwards Sir William Weller Pepys.]
[Footnote 53: Afterwards Earl of Cardigan.]
[Footnote 54: Father of the second Mrs. Sheridan.]
[Footnote 55: See Correspondence.]
[Footnote 56: His brilliant successor in deserved renown, Sir Thomas
Lawrence, was then scarcely in being.]
[Footnote 57: To this Editor.]
[Footnote 58: Susanna.]
[Footnote 59: Charlotte.]
[Footnote 60: Frances.]
[Footnote 61: Where then stood the Bethlem Hospital.]
[Footnote 62:
“He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he would he could whistle them back.”]
[Footnote 63: This last circumstance was communicated to the Editor by
Sir Joshua himself.]