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106 with him to the king's concert at night, he having permission to go when he chooses, his five nephews making a principal part of the band. 'And,' says he, 'I know you will be welcome.'"

An intimacy was gradually established between and Dr. . They saw each other often at the meetings of the Royal Society, and  frequently stayed at the doctor's house. "On the first evening spent at Chelsea, when I called for my  lamp,, who had not seen one of those lamps, was surprised at the great effusion of light, and immediately calculated the difference between that and a single candle, and found it sixteen to one."

In 1793 we find as a witness for his friend, in the celebrated case of  vs. , which was tried in the Court of Common Pleas. And from Life of, it appears that  visited  at Heathfield in 1810.