[638] See ante, i. 318.

[639] ’Davies observes, in his account of Ireland, that no Irishman had ever planted an orchard.’  Johnson’s Works, ix.7.  ’At Fochabars [in the Highlands] there is an orchard, which in Scotland I had never seen before.’ Ib. p. 21.

[640] Miss Burney this year mentions meeting ’Mr. Walker, the lecturer.  Though modest in science, he is vulgar in conversation.’  Mme. D’Arblay’s Diary, ii. 237.  Johnson quotes him, Works, viii. 474.

[641] ‘Old Mr. Sheridan’ was twelve years younger than Johnson.  For his oratory, see ante, i. 453, and post, April 28 and May 17, 1783.

[642] See ante, i. 358, when Johnson said of Sheridan:—­’His voice when strained is unpleasing, and when low is not always heard.’

[643] See ante, iii. 139.

[644] ‘A more magnificent funeral was never seen in London,’ wrote Murphy (Life of Garrick, p. 349).  Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 169), wrote on the day of the funeral:—­’I do think the pomp of Garrick’s funeral perfectly ridiculous.  It is confounding the immense space between pleasing talents and national services.’  He added, ’at Lord Chatham’s interment there were not half the noble coaches that attended Garrick’s.’ Ib. p. 171.  In his Journal of the Reign of George III (ii. 333), he says:—­’The Court was delighted to see a more noble and splendid appearance at the interment of a comedian than had waited on the remains of the great Earl of Chatham.’  Bishop Horne (Essays and Thoughts, p. 283) has some lines on ’this grand parade of woe,’ which begin:—­

     ’Through weeping London’s crowded streets,
        As Garrick’s funeral passed,
      Contending wits and nobles strove,
        Who should forsake him last. 
      Not so the world behaved to him
        Who came that world to save,
      By solitary Joseph borne
        Unheeded to his grave.’

Johnson wrote on April 30, 1782:  ’Poor Garrick’s funeral expenses are yet unpaid, though the undertaker is broken.’ Piozzi Letters, ii. 239.  Garrick was buried on Feb. 1, 1779, and had left his widow a large fortune.  Chatham died in May, 1778.

[645] Boswell had heard Johnson maintain this; ante, ii. 101.

[646] See post, p. 238, note 2.

[647] This duel was fought on April 21, between Mr. Riddell of the Horse-Grenadiers, and Mr. Cunningham of the Scots Greys.  Riddell had the first fire, and shot Cunningham through the breast.  After a pause of two minutes Cunningham returned the fire, and gave Riddell a wound of which he died next day. Gent.  Mag. 1783, p. 362.  Boswell’s grandfather’s grandmother was a Miss Cunningham.  Rogers’s Boswelliana, p. 4.  I do not know that there was any nearer connection.  In Scotland, I suppose, so much kindred as this makes two men ‘near relations.’