1758 _February._ Publishes _The Memoirs of a Protestant, condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion_. Gives up literature and returns to Peckham. _August._ Leaves Peckham. Letters to Edward Mills, Bryanton, Mrs. Jane Lawder. Appointed surgeon and physician to a factory on the Coast of Coromandel. _November (?)._ Letter to Hodson. Moves into 12 Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey. Coromandel appointment comes to nothing. _December 21._ Rejected at Surgeons’ Hall as ‘not qualified’ for a hospital mate. 1759 _February (?)._ Letter to Henry Goldsmith. _March._ Visited by Percy at 12 Green Arbour Court. _April 2._ _Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe_ published. ‘Prologue of Laberius’ (_Enquiry_). _October 6._ _The Bee_ commenced. ‘On a Beautiful Youth struck blind with Lightning’ (_Bee_). _October 13._ ‘The Gift’ (_Bee_). _October 18._ ‘The Logicians Refuted’ (_Busy Body_). _October 20._ ‘A Sonnet’ (_Bee_). _October 22._ ‘Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec’ (_Busy Body_). _October 27._ ‘Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize’ (_Bee_). _November 24._ _The Bee_ closed. 1760 _January 1._ _The British Magazine_ commenced. _January 12._ _The Public Ledger_ commenced. _January 24._ First Chinese Letter published (_Citizen of the World_). _May 2._ ‘Description of an Author’s Bedchamber’ (‘Chinese Letter’ in _Public Ledger_). _October 21._ ‘On seeing Mrs. . . . perform,’ etc. (‘Chinese Letter’ in _Public Ledger_). Editing _Lady’s Magazine_. Compiling Prefaces. Moves into 6 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street. 1761 _March 4._ ‘On the Death of the Right Hon. . . . (‘Chinese Letter’ in _Public Ledger_). _April 4–14._ ‘An Epigram’; to G. C. and R. L. (‘Chinese Letter in _Public Ledger_). _May 13._ ‘Translation of a South American Ode.’ (‘Chinese Letter’ in _Public Ledger_) _August 14._ Last Chinese Letter published (_Citizen of the World_). _Memoirs of M. de Voltaire_ published in _Lady’s Magazine_. 1762 _February 23._ Pamphlet on Cock Lane Ghost published. _February 26._ _History of Mecklenburgh_ published. _May 1._ _Citizen of the World_ published. _May 1 to Nov. 1._ _Plutarch’s Lives_, vol. i to vii, published. At Bath and Tunbridge. _October 14._ _Life of Richard Nash_ published. _October 28._ Sells third share of _Vicar of Wakefield_ to B. Collins, printer, Salisbury. At Mrs. Fleming’s at Islington.