After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand; 'had I seen Dr Johnson's _Lives of the Poets_?' During the progress of the _Life_ he turned aside to his last literary vagary--_No Abolition of Slavery; or the Universal Empire of Love_, 1791. This long-lost brochure has this year been rediscovered, but it will add little interest to his life, as its main tenets had long been known. A writer in the _Athenaeum_ for May 9th describes it as quarto in form, and dedicated to Miss B----, whom he identifies with Miss Bagnal to be shortly mentioned. On the three topics of slavery, the Middlesex election, and America, Bozzy differed respectfully but firmly from the doctor, who drank at Oxford to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies. Accordingly he stands stoutly by the planters and the feudal scheme of subordination, whose annihilation he maintains would 'shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' For his apparent inconsistency Burke is attacked:-- 'Burke, art thou here, too? thou whose pen Can blast the fancied rights of men. Pray by what logic are those rights Allow'd to Blacks,--denied to Whites?' Others may fail their king and country, but he as a throne and altar Tory calls all to know that 'An ancient baron of the land I by my king shall ever stand.' He was now at last near the haven. The mass of his papers and materials had been arranged, after a labour which, as he tells Reynolds, was really enormous. The capacity for sustained effort, when set to it, of which he had boasted over his condensation of the evidence in the great Douglas case, stood him now in good service amid all his vexations, dissipations and follies.