[94] These raptures were expensive. The lavish profusion which our people of rank then displayed in their presents to this band of quavering exotics is scarcely credible. The Daily Advertiser gives a list of some of the contributors, and states Farinelli's share at more than £2000 a year; to which if we add his salary £1500 and casual presents, his annual income must have been more than four thousand pounds!
[95] See Shakspeare's Julius Cæsar and Antony and Cleopatra.
[96] Of this gentleman there is a tolerably good mezzotinto print, engraved by Kirkall from a picture by Goupy, with the following curious inscription from the Italian:—
"Renown'd Sienna gave him birth and name,
Kind Heaven his voice, and harmony his fame.
While here the great and fair their tribute bring,
The deaf may wonder whence his merits spring,
But all think Fortune just that hear him sing."
There is a portrait of Carlo Broschi Detto Farinelli, Amiconi pinxit. C. Grignion sculp. small circle.
[97] Art of Spelling, The Complete Justice, etc. This austere magistrate has been said to be intended for Sir Thomas De Veil, who raised himself from the rank of a common soldier to a station in which he made a considerable figure; but De Veil wrote French and English, and was both intelligent and active.