(39) The Duke of Cumberland.

(40) Garrick’s; marriage with Mademoiselle Eva Maria Violette took place four days after the date of this letter.-E.

(41) Sir Walter Scott suggests, that this blind man was probably Fielding’s brother.-E.

(42) “Allen, the friend of Pope,” says Sir Walter Scott, “was also one of his benefactors, but unnamed at his own desire; thus confirming the truth of the poet’s beautiful couplet,

’Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.’

It is said that this munificent and modest patron made Fielding a present of two hundred pounds at one time, and that even before he was personally acquainted with him."-E.

(43) “This,” observes Sir Walter Scott, in his biographical notice of Fielding, " is a humiliating anecdote, even after we have made allowance for the aristocratic exaggeration of Walpole; yet it is consoling to observe that Fielding’s principles remained unshaken, though the circumstances attending his official situation tended to increase the careless disrespectability of his private habits.  His own account of his conduct respecting the dues of the office on which he depended for subsistence, has never been denied or doubted:  ‘I confess,’ says he, ’that my private affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which they who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking:  on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about five hundred a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to a little more than three hundred; a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk."’-E.

(44) West’s mother was sister to Sir Richard Temple, afterwards Lord Cobham.  Of his translation of Pindar, Dr. Johnson states, that he found his expectations surpassed, both by its elegance and its exactness.  For his “Observations on the Resurrection,” the University of Oxford, in March 1748, created him a Doctor of Laws by diploma.  At his residence at Wickham, where he was often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, there is a walk designed by the latter; while the former received at this place that conviction which produced his “Dissertation on St. Paul."-E.

(45) Daughter of Sir Robert Furnese, and widow of Lewis, Earl of Rockingham.

30 Letter 6 To Sir Horace Mann.  Strawberry Hill, June 4, 1749.