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History of the Society of Dilettanti 67
seem worth noticing as among the obiter dicta and
facta of the Society. At a committee meeting
(where the company seems to have been invariably
very lively) on February 7, 174^, it is recorded:
'The Committee met. Resolved That it is the opinion of
this Committee that Mr. Brand will be Damned.
' Resolved That it is the opinion of this Committee That all
Publick pious Charities are private Impious abuses/
'March, 1747. Resolved that the Honble. Richard Edgecumbe
be Bard to the Society/
This was the Dick Edgcumbe already mentioned,
the friend of George Selwyn and Gilly Williams and
Horace Walpole, one of the choicest wits of his day.
'April 5, 17yj. Whereas a very extraordinary message was
sent up to the Society, by a Divine of the Church of England for
ought it knows, with a couple of Books fairly bound, which the
Society never can or will read, It was thought absolutely necessary
to prevent any further interruption to send him one Guinea of
publick money for the Society's private convenience.'
'March 2, 1760. John Russell a Boy between 14 or 15: years
of age produced to the Society several drawings which were judged
to be very deserving and therefore for his encouragement It was
agreed to make him a present of £<; 5. o.'
This entry appears to note the first appearance in
public of John Russell, the well-known painter of
portraits in pastels and afterwards a Royal Acade-
mician. Russell seems to have enjoyed the special
favour of the Society, for he was their guest at
dinner on at least two occasions in 1774 and 1778.
On March j, 1786, it is recorded that
'Mr. Johnnes having offered to the Society certain Poems
of the Late Sir Ch. Hanbury Williams that have not yet been
Published on condition that they publish them, ordered that the
consideration thereofF be referred to the Committee which meet on
Sunday March 151.'
The publication of these poems seems to have
engaged the attention of this committee, but no
resolution was ever arrived at upon the question.
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seem worth noticing as among the obiter dicta and
facta of the Society. At a committee meeting
(where the company seems to have been invariably
very lively) on February 7, 174^, it is recorded:
'The Committee met. Resolved That it is the opinion of
this Committee that Mr. Brand will be Damned.
' Resolved That it is the opinion of this Committee That all
Publick pious Charities are private Impious abuses/
'March, 1747. Resolved that the Honble. Richard Edgecumbe
be Bard to the Society/
This was the Dick Edgcumbe already mentioned,
the friend of George Selwyn and Gilly Williams and
Horace Walpole, one of the choicest wits of his day.
'April 5, 17yj. Whereas a very extraordinary message was
sent up to the Society, by a Divine of the Church of England for
ought it knows, with a couple of Books fairly bound, which the
Society never can or will read, It was thought absolutely necessary
to prevent any further interruption to send him one Guinea of
publick money for the Society's private convenience.'
'March 2, 1760. John Russell a Boy between 14 or 15: years
of age produced to the Society several drawings which were judged
to be very deserving and therefore for his encouragement It was
agreed to make him a present of £<; 5. o.'
This entry appears to note the first appearance in
public of John Russell, the well-known painter of
portraits in pastels and afterwards a Royal Acade-
mician. Russell seems to have enjoyed the special
favour of the Society, for he was their guest at
dinner on at least two occasions in 1774 and 1778.
On March j, 1786, it is recorded that
'Mr. Johnnes having offered to the Society certain Poems
of the Late Sir Ch. Hanbury Williams that have not yet been
Published on condition that they publish them, ordered that the
consideration thereofF be referred to the Committee which meet on
Sunday March 151.'
The publication of these poems seems to have
engaged the attention of this committee, but no
resolution was ever arrived at upon the question.
F 2