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During that viiit to Dr. Darwin, in 

 which Mrs. Pole had brought her fick 

 children to be healed by his {kill, {he had 

 taken a diflike to. Lichfield, and decidedly 

 faid, nothing could induce her to live 

 there, His addreffes did not fubdue that 

 refolve. 



After fo long and profperous a refidence, 

 to quit that city, central in the Mercian 

 diftrict, from whence his fame had dif- 

 fufed itfelf through the circling counties, 

 feemed a great facrifice ; but the phi- 

 lofbpher w r as too much in love to hefi- 

 tate one moment. He married Mrs. Pole 

 in 1781, and removed dire<5lly to Derby. 

 His reputation and the unlimited con- 

 fidence of the public followed him thither, 

 and would have followed him to the me- 

 tropolis, or to any provincial town, to which 

 he might have chofen to remove. 



Why he conftantiy, from time to time, 

 withftood felicitations from countlefs fami- 

 lies of rank and opulence, to remove to 

 L 4 London, 



