his honour, brudenel,[53] loved and sought dr. burney with the most faithful admiration from a very early period; and, to the latest in his power, he manifested the same partiality. though by no means a man of talents, he made his way to the grateful and lasting regard of dr. burney, by constancy of personal attachment, and a fervour of devotion to the art through which the distinction of the doctor had had its origin.

dr. ogle, dean of winchester,[54] a man of facetious pleasantry, yet of real sagacity; though mingled with eccentricities, perversities, and decidedly republican

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principles, became a warm admirer of the character and conversation of the doctor; while the exemplary mrs. ogle and her sprightly daughters united to enliven his reception, in berkeley-square, as an honoured instructor, and a cordial friend.

but with far more political congeniality the president of the royal society, sir joseph banks, was included in this new amical committee.

in a loose manuscript of recurrence to the year 1776, stand these words upon the first dr. warren.

“in january of this year, an acquaintance which i had already begun with that most agreeable of men, dr. warren, grew into intimacy. his conversation was the most pleasant, and, nearly, the most enlightened, without pedantry or dogmatism, that i had ever known.”

amongst the distinguished persons appertaining to this numerous list of connexions upon the opening of the st. martin’s-street residence during the last century, one, at least, still remains to ornament, both by his writings and his conversation, the present, dr. gillies; whose urbanity of mind and manners, joined to his literary merits, made him, at his own pleasure, one of the most estimable and honourable contributors to the doctor’s social circle.