His funeral was attended by a respectable number of his friends, particularly such of the members of the literary club as were then in town; and was also honoured with the presence of several of the Reverend Chapter of Westminster.  Mr. Burke, Sir Joseph Banks, Mr. Windham, Mr. Langton, Sir Charles Bunbury, and Mr. Colman, bore his pall.  His school-fellow, Dr. Taylor, performed the mournful office of reading the burial service.

I trust, I shall not be accused of affectation, when I declare, that I find myself unable to express all that I felt upon the loss of such a ‘Guide, Philosopher, and Friend.’  I shall, therefore, not say one word of my own, but adopt those of an eminent friend, which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions:—­’He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up.  Johnson is dead.  Let us go to the next best:—­there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.’