Notes to the Introduction
Whenever the noble lord found himself closely pressed in argument, or fact, it was his known practice to get rid of the question by a joke. His manner was no less curious than his matter; when he was half asleep, or seemingly quite asleep, he collected a store of wit and humour, from Æsop, Phædrus, or Joe Miller, or some other book equally distinguished for such species of drollery; and, instead of reasoning, was sure to treat the House with a laugh (The Parliamentary History of England... to the Year 1803 [compiled by William Cobbett], 1806-20, XIX, 1388).
ANTICIPATION:
Containing the Substance of
HIS M⸻Y’s
Most Gracious Speech
TO BOTH
H⸻S of P—L—T,
ON THE
Opening of the approaching Session,
TOGETHER
With a full and authentic Account of the Debate
which will take Place in the H—e of C⸻s,
on the Motion for the Address, and the Amendment.
With NOTES.
“So shall my Anticipation
Prevent your Discovery.”
Hamlet.
LONDON:
Printed for T. Becket, the Corner of the Adelphi,
in the Strand. 1778.
Notes
1 A certain A. Buzaglo, who had a shop in the Strand, opposite Somerset House, frequently advertised in the newspapers in 1778. His warming-pans, for curing the gout, were highly recommended to the nobility.
2 Letter to Mason, 18 April 1778 (The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, Oxford, 1903-05, X, 222).
3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill and L. F. Powell, Oxford, 1934—, III, 318.
4 XLV, 1778, 310.
5 See Ruth A. Hesselgrave, Lady Miller and the Batheaston Literary Circle, New Haven, 1927.
6 LIX, 1778, 145. Garrick acknowledged his authorship of this review in a letter to Hannah More, misdated 1777, in William Roberts, Memoirs of... Mrs. Hannah More, 3rd ed., 1835, I, 116.
7 The Farington Diary, ed. James Greig, New York, 1923-28, I, 186; Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers [ed. Alexander Dyce], New York, 1856, pp. 71-72.
8 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, new ser., II, 1877, 473; Sir [John] Bernard Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, 9th ed., 1898, II, “Ireland,” p. 441; Richard Eustace Tickell, Thomas Tickell and the Eighteenth Century Poets, 1931, p. 173 and “Tickell Pedigree.”
9 A long letter from John Tickell to the Duke of Newcastle, 26 August 1767, alludes to these circumstances and appeals to Newcastle’s generosity (Newcastle Papers, British Museum Add. MSS. 32,984, f. 350).
10 G. F. R. Barker and A. H. Stenning (compilers), The Record of Old Westminsters, 1928, II, 919; R. A. Austen-Leigh (ed.), The Eton College Register, 1753-1790, Eton, 1921, p. 517; John Hutchinson, A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars, 1902, p. 242.
11 David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, and Stephen Jones (compilers), Biographia Dramatica, 1812, I, 713.
12 Tickell to Garrick, 11 May 1778 (Private Correspondence of David Garrick [ed. James Boaden], 1831-32, II, 304).
13 Unpublished letter in the Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library.
14 I, 713-714.
15 Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 317.
16 Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. R. E. Prothero, 1896, I, 348.
17 Last Journals during the Reign of George III, ed. A. Francis Steuart, 1910, II, 206n.
18 The American Journal of Ambrose Serle... 1776-1778, ed. Edward H. Tatum, Jr., San Marino, California, 1940, p. 296.
19 Walpole, Last Journals, II, 117; Fox, Speeches, 1815, I, 116-118.
20 Letters, ed. Toynbee, X, 195.
21 Private Letters, I, 338.
22 Last Journals, II, 115n. In a debate on the navy estimates, 2 December 1778, Temple Luttrell said of North:
23 John Taylor, Records of My Life, 1832, I, 144.
24 Last Journals, II, 206.
25 Altercation; Being the Substance of a Debate... on a Motion to Censure the Pamphlet of Anticipation [1778], p. 10; The Pamphleteer, XIX, 1822, 310.
26 MS. note in Horace Walpole’s copy of Anticipation.
27 Thomas Moore, Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence, ed. Lord John Russell, 1853-56, IV, 34.
28 “Reminiscences.—No. IV. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, &c.,” Blackwood’s Magazine, XX, 209.
29 The Royal Gazette, 17 March 1779.
30 Though Johnson had disapproved of The Project, he thought Anticipation “a mighty fine thing.” So Boswell told Tickell at a dinner-party in April 1779 (Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, ed. Geoffrey Scott and F. A. Pottle, Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1928-34, XIII, 232).
31 XLVII, 1778, 566.
32 Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 322-323.
33 Biographia Dramatica, I, 714.
34 Hobby-Horses. Read at Batheaston, 1780, pp. 13-14.
35 Ernest Law, The History of Hampton Court Palace, 1890-91, III, 318, 464.
36 W. Fraser Rae, Sheridan, New York, 1896, I, 357.
37 Walter Sichel, Sheridan, 1909, I, 442n.
38 Clementina Black, The Linleys of Bath, 1911, p. 162.
39 Thomas Moore, Memoirs of... Sheridan, 2nd ed., 1825, II, 62.
40 See Romney’s diary, as given in Humphry Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, 1904, II, 157-158. Romney painted three portraits of the second Mrs. Tickell, the best-known of which is reproduced in Sichel’s Sheridan, II, facing p. 264.
41 British Museum Add. MSS. 29,194, f. 152; 29,173, f. 44.
42 I, 13. There is a circumstantial account of Tickell’s death and the conduct of his widow in [William Smyth] Memoir of Mr. Sheridan, Leeds, 1840, pp. 53-55.
43 The London Magazine, XLVII, 1778, 566.
44 The Croker Papers, ed. L. J. Jennings, 1884, I, 245-246.