[240] Ibid. x. 186.

[241] Works, v. 370.

[242] Souvenirs sur Mirabeau (preface).

[243] Works, x. 185.

[244] Works, x. 185. Colls (p. 41) tells the same story.

[245] Works ('Fragment, etc.'), i. 245, and Ibid. ii. 463 n.

[246] Ibid. i. 246, 250, 251.

[247] Ibid. i. 252.

[248] Ibid. x. 185.

[249] Bentham says (Works, i. 240) that he was a member of a club of which Johnson was the despot. The only club possible seems to be the Essex Street Club, of which Daines Barrington was a member. If so, it was in 1783, though Bentham seems to imply an earlier date.