y their morality.

"After dinner, we adjourned into the garden, where I observed Mr.
S---- give a short separate audience to every individual in a small
remote filbert-walk, from whence most of them dropped off one after
another, without further ceremony."

Smollett's house was in Lawrence Lane, Chelsea, and is now
destroyed. See _Handbook of London_, p. 115.

"The person of Smollett was eminently handsome, his features
prepossessing, and, by the joint testimony of all his surviving
friends, his conversation, in the highest degree, instructive and
amusing. Of his disposition, those who have read his works (and who
has not?) may form a very accurate estimate; for in each of them he
has presented, and sometimes, under various points of view, the
leading features of his own character without disguising the most
unfavourable of them.... When unseduced by his satirical
propensities, he was kind, generous, and humane to others; bold,
upright, and independent in his own character; stooped to no patron,
sued for no favour, but honestly and honourably maintained himself
on his literary labours.... He was a doating father, and an
affectionate husband; and the warm zeal with which his memory was
cherished by his surviving friends, showed clearly the reliance
which they placed upon his regard."--SIR WALTER SCOTT.

148 Smollett of Bonhill, in Dumbartonshire. _Arms_, az. "a bend, or,
between a lion rampant, ppr., holding in his paw a banner, arg. and
a bugle-horn, also ppr. _Crest_, an oak-tree, ppr. _Motto,
Viresco._"

Smollett's father, Archibald, was the fourth son of Sir James
Smollett of Bonhill, a Scotch judge and Member of Parliament, and
one of the commissioners for framing the Union with England.
Archibald married, without the old gentleman's consent, and died
early, leaving his children dependent on their grandfather. Tobias,
the second son, was born in 1721, in the old house of Dalquharn in
the valley of Leven; and all his life loved and admired that valley
and Loch Lomond beyond all the valleys and lakes in Europe. He
learned the "rudiments" at Dumbarton Grammar-school, and studied at
Glasgow.

But when he was only eighteen, his grandfather died, and left him
without provision (figuring as the old judg