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MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY.
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY,
ARRANGED
FROM HIS OWN MANUSCRIPTS, FROM FAMILY PAPERS, AND
FROM PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS.
BY
HIS DAUGHTER, MADAME d’ARBLAY.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
EDWARD MOXON, 64, NEW BOND STREET.
1832.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS,
BOUVERIE STREET.
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MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY.
Such, as far as can be gathered, or recollected, was the list of thegeneral home circle of Dr. Burney, on his beginning residence in St.Martin’s-Street; though many persons must be omitted, not to swellvoluminously a mere catalogue of names, where no comment, or memorandumof incident, has been left of them by the Doctor.
But to enumerate the friends or acquaintances with whom he associatedin the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar,the list of the Royal Society, of the Literary Club, of all assemblagesof eminent artists; and almost every other list that includes thecelebrated or active characters, then moving, like himself, in thevortex of public existence.
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Chiefly, however, after those already named, stood, in his estimation,Mr. Chamier, Mr. Boone, Dr. Warton, and his brother, Dr. Thomas Warton,Sir Richard Jebb, Mr. Matthias, Mr. Cox, Dr. Lind, and Mr. Planta, ofthe Museum.
OMIAH.
At the end of the year 1775, the Doctor’s eldest son, Captain JamesBurney, who, on board the Cerberus, had convoyed General Burgoyne toAmerica, obtained permission from the Admiralty to return home, inorder to again accompany Captain Cooke in a voyage round the world; thesecond circumnavigation of the young Captain; the third, and unhappilythe last, of the great Captain Cooke.
Omiah, whom they were to restore to his country and friends, came nowupon a leave-taking visit to the family of his favourite Captain Burney.
Omiah, by this time, had made s