when, in truth, as I myself pointed out to him, before he wrote that poet’s life, the papers were “committed to the sole care and judgement of Lord Bolingbroke, unless he (Lord Bolingbroke) shall not survive me”; so that Lord Marchmont had no concern whatever with them. After the first edition of the Lives, Mr. Malone, whose love of justice is equal to his accuracy, made, in my hearing, the same remark to Johnson; yet he omitted to correct the erroneous statement.1 These particulars I mention, in