Note 681 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 4)
Reading edition
In the winter of 1788-9 Boswell began a canvass of his own county, He also courted Lord Lonsdale, in the hope of getting one of the seats in his gift, who first fooled him and then treated him with great brutality, Letters of Boswell, pp. 270, 294, 324.