SUCH, as far as can be gathered, or recollected, was the list of the
general home circle of Dr. Burney, on his beginning residence in St.
Martin’s-Street; though many persons must be omitted, not to swell
voluminously a mere catalogue of names, where no comment, or memorandum
of incident, has been left of them by the Doctor.
But to enumerate the friends or acquaintances with whom he associated
in the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar,
the list of the Royal Society, of the Literary Club, of all assemblages
of eminent artists; and almost every other list that includes the
celebrated or active characters, then moving, like himself, in the
vortex of public existence.
Chiefly, however, after those already named, stood, in his estimation,
Mr. Chamier, Mr. Boone, Dr. Warton, and his brother, Dr. Thomas Warton,
Sir Richard Jebb, Mr. Matthias, Mr. Cox, Dr. Lind, and Mr. Planta, of
the Museum.