[624] See ib.  Oct. 21.

[625] She says that he was ’the genuine author of the first volume.  An ingenious physician,’ she continues, ’with the assistance of several others, continued the work until the eighth volume.’  Mrs. Manley’s History of her own Life and Times, p. 15—­a gross, worthless book.  Swift satirised her in Corinna, a Ballad.  Swift’s Works (1803), x. 94.

[626] The real authour was I. P. Marana, a Genoese, who died at Paris in 1693.  John Dunton in his Life says, that Mr. William Bradshaw received from Dr. Midgeley forty shillings a sheet for writing part of the Turkish Spy; but I do not find that he any where mentions Sault as engaged in that work.  MALONE.

[627] See ante, ii. 355, iii. 46, and iv. 139.

[628] This was in June, 1783, and I find in Mr. Windham’s private diary (which it seems this conversation induced him to keep) the following memoranda of Dr. Johnson’s advice:  ’I have no great timidity in my own disposition, and am no encourager of it in others.  Never be afraid to think yourself fit for any thing for which your friends think you fit. You will become an able negotiator—­a very pretty rascal.  No one in Ireland wears even the mask of incorruption; no one professes to do for sixpence what he can get a shilling for doing.  Set sail, and see where the winds and the waves will carry you.  Every day will improve another. Dies diem docet, by observing at night where you failed in the day, and by resolving to fail so no more.’  CROKER.  The Whigs thought he made ‘a very pretty rascal’ in a very different way.  On his opposition to Whitbread’s bill for establishing parochial schools, Romilly wrote (Life, ii. 2l6), ’that a man so enlightened as Windham should take the same side (which he has done most earnestly) would excite great astonishment, if one did not recollect his eager opposition a few months ago to the abolition of the slave trade.’  He was also ’most strenuous in opposition’ to Romilly’s bill for repealing the act which made it a capital offence to steal to the amount of forty shillings in a dwelling-house, Ib. p. 316.

[629] We accordingly carried our scheme into execution, in October, 1792; but whether from that uniformity which has in modern times, in a great degree, spread through every part of the Metropolis, or from our want of sufficient exertion, we were disappointed.  BOSWELL.

[630] Piozzi’s Anecdotes, p. 193.  See post, under June 30, 1784.

[631] Northcote (Life of Reynolds, ii. 139-143) says that the picture, which was execrable beyond belief, was exhibited in an empty room.  Lowe, in 1769 (not in 1771 as Northcote says), gained the gold medal of the Academy for the best historical picture. (Gent.  Mag. 1770, p. 587.) Northcote says that the award was not a fair one.  He adds that Lowe, being sent to Rome by the patronage of