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Vesey's , where Lord Althorpe , who was one of a numerous company there, addressed Dr. Johnson on the subject of Mr. Beauclerk's death, saying, "Our CLUB has had a great loss since we met last." He replied, "A loss, that perhaps the whole nation could not repair!"
Johnson and another gentleman sat with him a long time after the rest of the company were gone; and he and I dined at Beauclerk's on the Saturday se'nnight following. After this tempest had subsided, I recollect the following particulars of his conversation: 'I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good.
Johnson testified to 'the correctness of Beauclerk's memory and the fidelity of his narrative. Ante, ii. 405. 'Mr. Maclean of Col, having a very numerous family, has for some time past resided at Aberdeen, that he may superintend their education, and leaves the young gentleman, our friend, to govern his dominions with the full power of a Highland chief. Johnson's Works, ix. 117.
'The melancholy information you have received concerning Mr. Beauclerk's death is true. Had his talents been directed in any sufficient degree as they ought, I have always been strongly of opinion that they were calculated to make an illustrious figure; and that opinion, as it had been in part formed upon Dr.
His Journal at that period contains two entries, however, which show that neither Lady Fitz Rewes nor Reckage were wrong in fearing he had received a mortal blow which no earthly influence could make endurable. Oct., 1869. I am once more at Almouth House. Beauclerk's consideration for me is almost more than I can bear. The rest is not borne.
If such a feeling existed, it passed away, at all events on Johnson's side, before Beauclerk's death. See post, iv. 10. Mr. Croker says that Mr. Fitzherbert is meant; but he hanged himself. Ante, ii. 228, note 3.
Thus it sometimes happens that men entangle themselves in their own schemes. 'To be contradicted, in order to force you to talk, is mighty unpleasing. You shine, indeed; but it is by being ground. On Saturday, April 24, I dined with him at Mr. Beauclerk's, with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Langton, Mr. Steevens, Mr. Paradise, and Dr. Higgins. I mentioned that Mr.
Wilkes said, he wondered to find in it such a numerous collection of sermons; seeming to think it strange that a gentleman of Mr. Beauclerk's character in the gay world should have chosen to have many compositions of that kind.
As a small proof of his kindliness and delicacy of feeling, the following circumstance may be mentioned: One evening when we were in the street together, and I told him I was going to sup at Mr. Beauclerk's, he said, 'I'll go with you. After having walked part of the way, seeming to recollect something, he suddenly stopped and said, 'I cannot go, but I do not love Beauclerk the less.
See ante, ii. 246, note 1. Mr. Beauclerk's library was sold by publick auction in April and May 1781, for £5011. MALONE. See post, May 8, 1781. By a fire in Northumberland-house, where he had an apartment, in which I have passed many an agreeable hour. See post, iv. 31.
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