Mrs. Horneck was the wife of General Horneck. Her two daughters, Mrs. Bunbury and Miss Horneck (afterwards Mrs. Gwynn), were celebrated beauties, and their portraits rank among the best productions of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s pencil. Mary Horneck was Goldsmith’s Jessamy Bride, and became the wife of one of George III.’s equerries; her sister married Harry Bunbury, ‘the graceful and humorous amateur artist,’ as Thackeray calls him, ‘of those days, when Gilray had but just begun to try his powers.’ Footnote 41: Henry Temple, second Viscount Palmerston, father of the Prime Minister. Footnote 42: Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Greville; afterwards Lady Crewe. Footnote 43: Well known as the founder of the _bas bleu_ meetings, and the author of the name. Mr. Edward Stillingfleet, a writer on natural history, who was one of her favourite guests, always wore blue stockings, and a phrase used by her, ‘Come in your blue stockings,’ or ‘We can do nothing without the blue stockings,’ caused the _bas bleu_ to be adopted as the symbol of her literary parties. ----- CHAPTER IV. Return to Streatham—Murphy the Dramatist—A Proposed Comedy—‘The Witlings’—Adverse Judgment of Mr. Crisp and Dr. Burney—Fanny to Mr. Crisp—Dr. Johnson on Miss Burney—A Visit to Brighton—Cumberland—An Eccentric Character—Sir Joshua’s Prices—Tragedies—Actors and Singers— Regrets for the Comedy—Crisp’s Reply—The Lawrence Family at Devizes— Lady Miller’s Vase—The Gordon Riots—Precipitate Retreat—Grub Street— Sudden Death of Mr. Thrale—Idleness and Work—A Sister of the Craft—The Mausoleum of Julia—Progress of ‘Cecilia’ through the Press—Crisp’s Judgment on ‘Cecilia’—Johnson and ‘Cecilia’—Publication of ‘Cecilia’— Burke—His Letter to Miss Burney—Assembly at Miss Monckton’s—New Acquaintances—Soame Jenyns—Illness and Death of Crisp—Mrs. Thrale’s Struggles—Ill-health of Johnson—Mr. Burney Organist of Chelsea Hospital—Mrs. Thrale marries Piozzi—Last Interview with Johnson—His Death.