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Il||Il|Li|Igi|L| il||il|li|igi|l| §Eili£*i|SiS^-^i m. THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE -i*m '•'^oa; ^ 2, SO RECOLLECTIONS. BY SAMUEL ROGERS. RECOLLECTIONS. UY SAMUEL KOGERS. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS. 1859. NOTICE BY THE EDITOK. ^HE Recollections which form the contents of the present volume were left by Mr. Rogers in manuscript, but in a state which showed they were intended for publication. It appears that from his first entering into Society he noted down the conversation or remarks of those among his intimate friends in whose company he took the greatest plea- sure; and subsequently, as these notes in- creased, and he felt they might become gene- rally interesting, he proceeded, from time to time, to extract and collect those parts which he thought most worthy of perusal by others. In some cases the selection of the mate- rials, though begun by him, was left incom- lo VI plete at his death. He had, however, pointed out by memoranda the names of the Indivi- duals whose conversation he intended should form the collection, and the order in which they should stard. There is an entry in his Note Book, in his own handwritino;, in the follow ins; words : " Fox, Burke, Grattan, Porson, Tooke, " Talleyrand, Erskine, Walter Scott, Lord " Grenville, Duke of Wellington." By this and numerous other indications he has suffi- ciently shown the course he wished should be followed ; and a short preface, written by him as an introduction to the Recollections, makes clear his Intention that they should not always remain unpublished. Of the persons abovenamed, Mr. Burke was the only one with whom Mr. Rogers was not intimately acquainted, and whose conversation was not taken down by him from personal communication. He only knew VII Mr. Burke as a public man, and was indebted to friends for the Recollections of liim in- cluded in this work. With a view of rendering these Memorials as valuable as circumstances will allow, as well as of carrying out Mr. Rogers's appa- rent design, the Editor has, in addition to the extracts which he found already made from the Diaries, selected some further pas- sages in connection with the persons named which appear of sufficient interest to be pre- served, and which had probably been omitted owing to the extracts not having been com- pleted. In doing this it is possible he has introduced some parts which Mr. Rogers might not have thought important enough to be put in print. It is hoped, however, that the Reader will not complain of the introduction of a few sentences which the Author may have left out, through accident or extreme caution ; but to which the lapse VIII of time has now given a value. The most extensive of the additions so made are the anecdotes of Burke by Dr. Lawrence, and a few of the miscellaneous remarks by the Duke of Wellington at p. 216 and the follow- ing pages. Mr. Eogers, at times, no doubt intended that the Recollections should be published in his lifetime, and perhaps at a period when some of the persons described were living. Accidental circumstances, or further conside- ration, however, prevented the fulfilment of this intention; and caused him to leave to his Executors the agreeable task of laying these pages before the Public : a pleasure which has been kindly yielded to the Editor by his Brother and Co-executor. The Edi- tor therefore feels that by the course he is now taking, he is only discharging a duty which he owes to the deceased ; and he be- lieves that the death of all the parties whose conversation is recorded, and the distance, IX in time, of the events described, will justify the introduction of more than could have been so well admitted at an earlier period. Although it may be thought that the fol- lowing Memorials want the point and interest that so often enliven contemporary memoirs, yet it is hoped they Avill be valued on other grounds. It will be obvious to all who knew Mr. Rogers well that they are in strict ac- cordance with the best parts of his mind and character. Nothing has been allowed by him to stand that has any approach to per- sonal scandal or to matters of merely tem- porary interest ; except in a few instances there is but little reference to the politics of the day in which they were written ; many passages, open to objection on some of these grounds, that had found their way into the original notes, were omitted from the cor- rected copy ; and the Writer, who had the amplest choice of subjects, has shown by the Recollections he has preserved that the con- versation he thought most worthy of being put on record was that connected chiefly with literary subjects, or with incidents and remarks having for other reasons a perma- nent vaUxe. The Editor trusts they will be thought to afford agreeable and faithful pic- tures of many Individuals with whom the Reader will be glad to be more intimately acquainted. Mr. E,oo;ers so often referred in conversa- tion to these remembrances of the anecdotes and opinions of his early friends, that many of them have been repeated by others either verbally or in print, and may at first glance appear familiar to the reader. But they have been so frequently, and so much, altered in repetition, that it seems not improper to give them entire, in the very words in which they were left, with that truth of expression and in that concise and colloquial style in which Mr. Rogers delighted to write his journals. — XI It may add to the interest and value of the Recollections, if, before their perusal, attention is shortly called to some of the principal events and dates in the private life of the writer of them. Samuel Rogers was born in the month of August 1763, the third son of a London Banker, whose immediate ancestors were of a Worcestershire family, and members of the Church of England; while through his Mother he was descended from one of the Ejected Ministers of the reign of Charles the 2nd. It is, no doubt, to his maternal descent that he alludes in the following lines, introduced into the notes on the poem of Italy : " What though his Ancestors, early or late, " Were not ennobled by the breath of kings ; " Yet in his veins was runnins; at his birth " The blood of those most eminent of old XII " For wisdom, virtue—those who would renounce " The things of this world for their conscience' sake." From his Mother, who was taken from him in his early youth, and of whom he always spoke in terms of the greatest admi- ration and affection, he imbibed a love of the intrinsically good which guided him on many an after occasion. And in one of his elder Brothers, whom he lost soon after he attained to manhood, and to whose memory he ad- dressed those beautiful lines in the first part of the Pleasures of Memory beginning, " Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share, " From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care," he had an example of virtue and good sense which strengthened his character and by which he profited through life. XIII His Father and Mother were Dissenters, and he was brought up in their persuasion ; and always through life, Avhen occasion re- quired an expression on the subject, he described himself as a Presbyterian ; though he never obtrusively put forward his opinions on religion, and often expressed himself as desirous of forgetting any little differences of creed, and of uniting with the virtuous of all sects and parties in one religion of Clu-istian Love. It is well known that Mr. Kogers was in politics a Whig ; but in choice of friends he did not confine himself to any party ; and from the time when he first became known as a writer, and entered much into society, associated most intimately with persons of all parties. Although introduced when very young into his Father's business, his love of poetry was shown early. Long before he was XIV twenty he had put upon paper many lines which afforded promise of his subsequent performances. His first published poem, the " Ode to Superstition," was begun before he was of Age; ai:d the " Pleasures of Memory" appeared while he was still a working partner in the Bank. Having lost his Father in 1793, whose death-bed he has touchingly alluded to in his " Lines written in a Sick Chamber," and, having united with him In business his younger Brother Henry, he soon afterwards retired from all active management of the affairs of the Banking House, and never re- sumed it. He quitted his paternal residence at Newington Green, where he was born, and had spent the whole of his early life, and, after living a short time in chambers in the Temple, he removed, about 1803, to a house in St. James's Place, looking into the Green Park. This house he had altered and nearly ; XV rebuilt according to his own taste ; and in it he resided until liis death, on the 18th of December, 1855. He has been heard to describe how, on some occasion after the death of his Father, he detected himself makins; a calculation as to the amount he might expect to accumulate if he continued to devote his whole time to the pursuit of wealth ; and he was so shocked by the idea of being influenced by such mo- tives, that he determined to desist from active business, and to attend to it henceforth only occasionally, or when matters of importance made the assistance of his judgment desirable in the affairs of the Bank : a resolution to which he subsequently adhered.
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