Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay). Dobson Austin

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has nothing of this anecdote; which was not printed until long after his death.

17

The fate of Cowper’s “gentle savage” was pathetic. Painted by Reynolds and patronised by Lord Sandwich, – lionised by Lady Townshend and the Duchess of Devonshire, – he was suffered to go back once more to his own people, among whom he had neither status nor importance. He died soon after, having shown himself (says Vancouver) both “vain and silly.” And no wonder!

18

Agujari, according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music, was the highest and most extended soprano on record. Her voice reached “from the middle of the harpsichord to two notes above it,” says Miss Burney.

19

He is generally called “Count.” But in her letters, diary, and Memoirs, Fanny styles him “Prince.”

20

Early Diary, 1889, ii. 121.

21

Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, 1826, ii. 125.

22

Dr. Burney evidently had mild qualms about these Sunday concerts. When after the first occasion here referred to, Dr. King and Dr. Ogle supped at St. Martin’s Street, he said that he hoped for absolution from them if there was any crime in having music on a Sunday. To which Dr. Ogle replied discreetly that music was an excellent thing any and every day; and Dr. King evasively – “Have we not music at church?”

23

The second volume appeared in 1782, and the third and fourth volumes, completing the work, in 1789.

24

In September, 1785, Miss Sally Payne married Captain James Burney, Fanny’s brother.

25

Early Diary, 1889, ii. 153; Birkbeck Hill’s Johnson’s Letters, 1892, ii. 5, and note.