Note 19 — CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS:
Reading edition
Chatterton had written a political essay for “The North Briton,” which opened with the preluding flourish of “A spirited people freeing themselves from insupportable slavery:” it was, however, though accepted, not printed, on account of the Lord Mayor’s death. The patriot thus calculated the death of his great patron!
£s.d.
Lost by his death in this Essay1116
Gained in Elegies£22
—— in Essays33
550
Am glad he is dead by£3136