Then, with chaos and blunders encircling my head,
Let me ponder, and tell what I think of the dead.
[4]. The master of the St. James's Coffee-house, where the poet, and the friends he has characterised in this poem, occasionally dined.
[5]. Dr. Barnard, Dean of Derry in Ireland.
[6]. The Right Hon. Edmund Burke.
[7]. Mr. William Burke, late secretary to General Conway, member for Bedwin, and afterwards holding office in India.
[8]. Mr. Richard Burke, collector of Granada; afterwards Recorder of Bristol.
[9]. Richard Cumberland, Esq., author of the "West-Indian," "Fashionable Lover," "The Brothers," "Calvary," &c., &c.
[10]. Dr. Douglas, Canon of Windsor (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury), an ingenious Scotch gentleman, who has no less distinguished himself as a citizen of the world, than a sound critic, in detecting several literary mistakes (or rather forgeries) of his countrymen; particularly Lauder on Milton, and Bower's "History of the Popes."
[11]. David Garrick, Esq.