[355] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, Sept. 11, 1773.
[356] It is no doubt, on account of its brevity that Boswell in speaking
of it writes:--'What is called _The Life_.'
[357] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, Oct, 29, 1773.
[358] See _ante_, under Feb. 7, 1775.
[359] See post, p. 139.
[360] See _ante_, i. 494.
[361] From Prior's imitation of _Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos_; the
poem mentioned by Boswell in his _Hebrides_, Aug. 18, 1773.
[362] _Copy_ is _manuscript for printing_.
[363] Hawkins (_Life_, p. 521) says that the jury did not at the trial
recommend Dodd to mercy. To one of the petitions 'Mrs. Dodd first got
the hands of the jury that found the bill against her husband, and after
that, as it is supposed, of the jury that tried him.' Ib. p. 527. He
says that the public were at first very little interested in his fate,
'but by various artifices, and particularly the insertion of his name in
public papers, with such palliatives as he and his friends could invent,
never with the epithet of _unfortunate_, they were betrayed into such an
enthusiastic commiseration of his case as would have led a stranger to
believe that himself had been no accessory to his distresses, but that
they were the inflictions of Providence.
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