[302] I am sure I have related this story exactly as Dr. Johnson told it to me; but a friend who has often heard him tell it, informs me that he usually introduced a circumstance which ought not to be omitted.  ’At last, Sir, Graham, having now got to about the pitch of looking at one man, and talking to another, said Doctor, &c.’  ’What effect (Dr. Johnson used to add) this had on Goldsmith, who was as irascible as a hornet, may be easily conceived.’  BOSWELL.

[303] Graham was of Eton College.

[304] It was to Johnson that the invitation was due.  ’What I was at the English Church at Aberdeen I happened to be espied by Lady Dr. Middleton, whom I had sometime seen in London; she told what she had seen to Mr. Boyd, Lord Errol’s brother, who wrote us an invitation to Lord Errol’s house.’ Piozzi Letters, i. 118.  Boswell, perhaps, was not unwilling that the reader should think that it was to him that the compliment was paid.

[305] ’In 1745 my friend, Tom Cumming the Quaker, said he would not fight, but he would drive an ammunition cart.’ Ante, April 28, 1783.  Smollett (History of England, iv. 293) describes how, in 1758, the conquest of Senegal was due to this ‘sensible Quaker,’ ’this honest Quaker,’ as he calls him, who not only conceived the project, but ’was concerned as a principal director and promoter of the expedition.  If it was the first military scheme of any Quaker, let it be remembered it was also the first successful expedition of this war, and one of the first that ever was carried on according to the pacifick system of the Quakers, without the loss of a drop of blood on either side.’  If there was no bloodshed, it was by good luck, for ’a regular engagement was warmly maintained on both sides.’  It was a Quaker, then, who led the van in the long line of conquests which have made Chatham’s name so famous.  Mrs. Piozzi (Anec. p. 185) says:—­’Dr. Johnson told me that Cummyns (sic) the famous Quaker, whose friendship he valued very highly, fell a sacrifice to the insults of the newspapers; having declared to him on his death-bed, that the pain of an anonymous letter, written in some of the common prints of the day, fastened on his heart, and threw him into the slow fever of which he died.’  Mr. Seward records (Anec. ii. 395):—­’Mr. Cummins, the celebrated American Quaker, said of Mr. Pitt (Lord Chatham):—­“The first time I come to Mr. Pitt upon any business I find him extremely ignorant; the second time I come to him, I find him completely informed upon it."’

[306] See ante, i. 232.

[307] See ante, i. 46.

[308] ’From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrifick grandeur of the tempestuous ocean.  I would not for any amusement wish for a storm; but as storms, whether wished or not, will sometimes happen, I may say, without violation of humanity, that I should willingly look out upon them from Slanes Castle.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 15.