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It is strange that Johnson should not have known that the Adventures of a Guinea was written by a namesake of his own, Charles Johnson. Being disqualified for the bar, which was his profession, by a supervening deafness, he went to India, and made some fortune, and died there about 1800. Salusbury, not Salisbury.
He is kneeling at his prayers . We rode to a summer-house of Mr. Cotton, which has a very extensive prospect; it is meanly built, and unskilfully disposed. We went to Dymerchion Church, where the old clerk acknowledged his Mistress. It is the parish church of Bâch y Graig. A mean fabrick: Mr. Salusbury was buried in it. Bâch y Graig has fourteen seats in it.
We are reminded of his half-serious complaints to Atticus of his importunate visitors at Formiae, the dinner-parties which he was, as we say now, "obliged to go to", and which he so evidently enjoyed. 'Sir', said Mr. Salusbury, 'Mr. Johnson would learn to talk of runts; meaning that I was a man who would make the most of my situation, whatever it was". Boswell's Life. Cicero was like Dr.
Leman of the Crescent. We did so, poor Bessy ran and fetched him. Mr. Piozzi received the blessed Sacrament at his hands; but recovered sufficiently to go home and die in his own house. I sent for Salusbury, but he came three hours too late, his master, Mr. Shephard, with him.
This, in a man who had risen as old Thrale did, was a very extraordinary instance of generosity. He used to say, "If this young dog does not find so much after I am gone as he expects, let him remember that he has had a great deal in my own time." Mr. Thrale had married Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, of good Welsh extraction, a lady of lively talents, improved by education.
Salusbury, who deems it of too private and delicate a character to be submitted to strangers, but has kindly supplied me with some curious passages from it. Hayward's Piozzi, i. 6. Ib. p. 51 . BOSWELL. Anec. p. 193 . BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 285, and iii. 440. Johnson's Works, i. 152, 3. In vol. ii. of the Piozzi Letters some of these letters are given. He gave Miss Thrale lessons in Latin. Mme.
Chapman had procured two Magistrates of the town of Lancaster, one of them of the name of Salusbury, who came down to the Gaol to take our recognizance, notwithstanding it was an excessively wet night, and which might have afforded them something like an excuse to have kept us in the Castle till Monday morning.
Thither I hasted, heard how the possessors of Brynbella, lived and thrived, but 'Who set the twigs will he remember Who is in haste to sell the timber? "Well, no matter! One day before I left it there was talk how Love had always Interest annexed to it. 'Nay, then, said I, 'what is my love for Salusbury? 'Oh! replied Shephard, 'there is Interest there. Mrs.
Hogarth had it for a year with an intention to engrave it, and even went so far as almost to finish the plate, which, as he told me himself, he broke into pieces upon finding that after many trials he could not bring the woman's head to answer his idea, or to resemble the picture. The lady, let us note, is a portrait of Miss Hester Lynch Salusbury, afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Madame Piozzi.
Piozzi cannot, could not, I am sure, exist without some one upon whom to energize her affections; his Uncle is gone, and she is much obliged to young Salusbury for being ready at her hand to pet and spoil; her children will not suffer her to love them, and' with a coarse laugh 'what will she do when this fellow throws her off, as he soon will? Shephard was right enough.
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