142 To DALRYMPLE 11 DECEMBER 1780 had, or shall have of the kind. It was imperfect, too, as some painters of name have died since it was printed, which was nine years ago. They will be added with your kind notices, should I live, which is not prob­ able, to see a new edition wanted.2 Sixty-three years, and a great deal of illness, are too speaking mementoes not to be attended to: and when the public has been more indulgent than one had any right to expect, it is not decent to load it with one's dotage. I believe, Sir, that I may have been over-candid to Hogarth,3 and that his spirit and youth and talent may have hurried him into more real caricaturas than I specified—yet he certainly restrained his bent that way pretty early. Charteris4 I have seen, but though some years older than you, Sir, I cannot say I have at all a perfect idea of him; nor did I ever hear the curious anecdote you tell me of the banker and my father. I was much better acquainted with Archbishop Blackbourne.3 He lived within two doors of my father in Downing Street,6 and took much notice of me when I was near man. It is not to be ungrateful and asperse him, but to amuse you if I give you some account of him from what I remember. He was perfectly a finegentlema n to the last, to 84: his favourite author was Waller, whom he frequently quoted. In point

2. HW added a few painters to the 1782 from persevering in an error, and do allow edition, but he made no mention of Dal­ that my position was too positive. Still some rymple. See below, n. 15. of the instances adduced were by no means 3. William Hogarth (1697-1764). HW caricaturas. Sir John Gonson and Dr said of him in Anecdotes iv, 'It is to Ho­ Misaubin in 'The Harlot's Progress' were garth's honour, that, in so many scenes of rather examples identified than satires. satire or ridicule, it is obvious that ill- Others, as Mr Pine's, were mere portraits, nature did not guide his pencil. His end is introduced by their own desire; or with always reformation, and his reproofs gen­ their consent' (Anecdotes, Works iii. 455). eral. Except in the print of 'The Times,' 4. Col. Francis Charteris (1675-1732), and the two portraits of Mr Wilkes and Mr notorious gambler and debauchee. He ap­ Churchill that followed, no man, amidst pears in the first plate of Hogarth's such a profusion of characteristic faces, 'Harlot's Progress' (1734) as an old rou£ ever pretended to discover or charge him leaning on a cane in the doorway of the with the caricatura of a real person; except Bell Tavern (BM, Satiric Prints iii. pt i. of such notorious characters as Chartres 25-6). Among Dalrymple's MSS at New­ and Mother Needham, and a very few hailes are 'full notices of Col. Charteris' more, who are acting officially and suitably (Hist. MSS Comm. IV, App. p. 532). to their professions' (Anecdotes, Works iii. 5. Lancelot Blackburne (1658-1743), Bp 454-5). This statement was questioned by of Exeter, 1717; Abp of York, 1724. Among John Nichols in Biographical Anecdotes of the anecdotes circulated concerning him William Hogarth, 1781, pp. 13-4 (see HW's was one that he had, at one time, been a answer to Nichols 31 Oct. 1781). In his re­ buccaneer (DU DEFFAND V. 368-9). vision (1782) of Anecdotes iv, HW added 6. Where Sir Robert Walpole lived, at the following note: T have been reproved what was to be No. 10, from 1735 to 1742. for this assertion, and instances have been See GRAY i. 11 and n. 74. pointed out that contradict me. I am far