ber. The evening was
finished very cheerfully; and we went to our bowers not much out of
humor with each other or the world. . . . After dinner we all agreed
to go to the terrace [at Windsor]--Mr., Mrs., and Miss H., with
their nice little boy, and three young ladies. Here I met with
almost everybody I wished and expected to see previous to the
king's arrival.

* * * * *

"But now here comes Will, and I must get up, and make myself up to
go down to the perusal of my last book, entitled _Herschel_. So
good-morrow."

"CHELSEA, _Tuesday._

"Not a moment could I get to write till now. . . . I must tell you
that HERSCHEL proposed to me to go with him to the king's concert at
night, he having permission to go when he chooses, his five nephews
(GRIESBACHS) making a principal part of the band. 'And,' says he,
'I know you will be welcome.'"

An intimacy was gradually established between HERSCHEL and Dr. BURNEY.
They saw each other often at the meetings of the Royal Society, and
HERSCHEL frequently stayed at the doctor's house. "On the first evening
HERSCHEL spent at Chelsea, when I called for my ARGAND lamp, HERSCHEL,
who had not seen one of those lamps, was surprised at the great effusion
of light, and immediately calculated the difference between that and a
single candle, and found it sixteen to one."[25]

In 1793 we find HERSCHEL as a witness for his friend JAMES WATT, in the
celebrated case of WATT _vs._ BULL, which was tried in the Court of
Common Pleas. And from MUIRHEAD'S Life of WATT, it appears that HERSCHEL
visited WATT at Heathfield in 1810.

A delightful picture of the old age of HERSCHEL is given by the poet
CAMPBELL,[26] whose nature was fitted to perceive the beauties of a
grand and simple character like HERSCHEL'S:

"[BRIGHTON], _September 15, 1813_.

. . . "I wish you had been with me the day before yesterday, when you
would have joined me, I am sure, deeply in admiring a great, simple,
good old man--Dr. HERSCHEL. Do not think me vain, or at least put up
with my vanity, in saying that I almost flatter myself I have made
him my friend. I have got an invitation, and a pressing one, to go
to his house; and the lady who introduced me to him, says he spoke
of me as if he would really be happy to see me. .