s authority?

"Lord B. has no personal animosity to Colonel Greville. A public
institution, to which he himself was a subscriber, he considered
himself to have a right to notice _publicly_. Of that institution
Colonel Greville was the avowed director;--it is too late to enter
into the discussion of its merits or demerits.

"Lord B. must leave the discussion of the reparation, for the real
or supposed injury, to Colonel G.'s friend, and Mr. Moore, the
friend of Lord B.--begging them to recollect that, while they
consider Colonel G.'s honour, Lord B. must also maintain his own.
If the business can be settled amicably, Lord B. will do as much as
can and ought to be done by a man of honour towards
conciliation;--if not, he must satisfy Colonel G. in the manner
most conducive to his further wishes."

[Footnote 44: To his sister, Mrs. Leigh, one of the first presentation
copies was sent, with the following inscription in it:--

"To Augusta, my dearest sister, and my best friend, who has ever
loved me much better than I deserved, this volume is presented by
her father's son, and most affectionate brother,

"B."
]

[Footnote 45:

"Little knew she, that seeming marble heart,
Now mask'd in silence, or withheld by pride,
Was not unskilful in the spoiler's art,
And spread its snares licentious far and wide."
_CHILDE HAROLD, CANTO II._

We have here another instance of his propensity to
self-misrepresentation. However great might have been the irregularities
of his college life, such phrases as the "art of the spoiler" and
"spreading snares" were in nowise applicable to them.]

[Footnote 46: "After speaking to him of the sale, and settling the new
edition, I said, 'How can I possibly think of this rapid sale, and the
profits likely to ensue, without recollecting--'--'What?'--'Think what
sum your work may produce.'--'I shall be rejoiced, and wish it doubled
and trebled; but do not talk to me of money. I never will receive money
for my writings.'"--DALLAS'S _Recollections_.]

[Footnote 47: In a letter to Pulteney, 12th May, 1735, Swift says, "I
never got a farthing for any thing I writ, except once."]

* * * * *

In the morning I received the letter, in its new form, from Mr. Leckie,
with the annexed note.

"My dear Sir,

"I found my friend very ill in bed; he has,