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G-HEAD; the ‘TRINITY in UNITY! – three persons and one GOD.’ The Church humbly adores the DIVINITY as exhibited in the holy Scriptures. The Unitarian sect vainly presumes to comprehend and define the ALMIGHTY. Mr. Palmer having heated his mind with political speculations, became so much dissatisfied with our excellent Constitution, as to compose, publish, and circulate writings, which were found to be so seditious and dangerous, that upon being found guilty by a Jury, the Court of Justiciary in Scotland sentenced him to transportation for fourteen years.1056 A loud clamour against this sentence was made by some Members of both Houses of Parliament; but both Houses approved of it by a great majority; and he was conveyed to the settlement for convicts in New South Wales.

b Taken from Herodotus.

a Mr. Robertson altered this word to jocandi, he having found in Blackstone that to irritate is actionable.

a The will of King Alfred, alluded to in this letter, from the original Saxon, in the library of Mr. Astle, has been printed at the expence of the University of Oxford.

a Pr. and Med. p. 201.

a The truth of this has been proved by sad experience. [Mrs. Boswell died June 4, 1789.]

a See an account of him in the Gent. Mag. Feb. 1785.

b In both editions of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Dr. Johnson, ‘letter’d ignorance” is printed.

c Johnson repeated this line to me thus: –

‘And Labour steals an hour to die.’

But he afterwards altered it to the present reading.

a Pr. and Med. p.

a [This Note was in answer to one which accompanied one of the earliest pamphlets on the subject of Chatterton’s forgery, entitled Cursory Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley, &c. Mr. Thomas Warton’s very able Inquiry appeared about three months afterwards; and Mr. Tyrwhitt’s admirable Vindication of his Appendix in the summer of the same year, left the believers in this daring imposture nothing but ‘the resolution to say again what had been said before.’]

a Pr. and Med. p. 207.

a Mr. Holder, in the Strand, Dr. Johnson’s apothecary.

b Soon after the above letter, Dr. Lawrence left London, but not before the palsy had made so great a progress as to render him unable to write for himself. The following are extracts from letters addressed by Dr. Johnson to one of his daughters: –

‘You will easily believe with what gladness I read that you had heard once again that voice to which we have all so often delighted to attend. May you often hear it. If we had his mind, and his tongue, we could spare the rest.

‘I am not vigorous, but much better than when dear Dr. Lawrence held my pulse the last time. Be so kind as to let me know, from one little interval to another, the state of his body. I am pleased that he remembers me, and hope that it never can be possible for me to forget him. July 22, 1782.’

‘I am much delighted even with the small advances which dear Dr. Lawrence makes towards recovery. If we could have again but his mind, and his tongue in his mind, and his right hand, we should not much lament the rest. I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity, if it were frequently and diligently supplied.

‘Let me know from time to time whatever happens; and I hope I need not tell you, how much I am interested in every change. Aug. 26, 1782.’

‘Though the account with which you favoured me in your last letter could not give me the pleasure that I wished, yet I was glad to receive it; for my affection to my dear friend makes me desirous of knowing his state, whatever it be. I beg, therefore, that you continue to let me know, from time to time, all that you observe.

‘Many fits of severe illness have, for about three months past, forced my kind physician often upon my mind. I am now better; and hope gratitude, as well as distress, can be a motive to remembrance. Bolt-court, Fleet-street, Feb. 4, 1783.’

c Mr. Langton being at this time on duty at Rochester, he is addressed by his military title.

a A part of this letter having been torn off, I have, from the evident meaning, supplied a few words and half-words at the