ACCOUNT of Mr. CHARLES WESLEY. 



CH A R L E S a was bora at Briftol, Dec. i r , 175^. He was 

 two years and three quarters old when I fitft obferved his 

 ftrong inclination to mufic. He then furprized me by playing a 

 tune on the harpfichord, readily and in juft time. Soon after he 

 played feveral, whatever his mother fung, or whatever he heard 

 in the ftreets. 



From his birth (he ufed to quiet and amufe him with the harp- 

 fichord ; but he would not fuffer her to play with one hand only, 

 taking the other, and putting it on the keys, before he could 

 fpeak. When he played himfelf me ufed to tie him up by his 

 backfiring to the chair, for fear of his falling. Whatever tune it 

 was he always put a true bafs to it. From the beginning he played 

 without ftudy or hesitation ; and, as the matters told me, perfectly 

 well. 



Mr. Broadrip b heard him in petticoats, and foretold he would 

 one day make a great player. 



Whenever he was called to play to a ftranger, he would afk, in 

 a word of his own, " Is he a muficker ?" and if anfwered, "Yes/' 

 he played with the greateft readinefs. , 



He always played con fpirito. There was fomething in his 

 manner above a child, which ftruck the hearers, learned or un- 

 learned. 



a I was favoured with this account of his eldeft fon by the Rev. Mr. 

 Charles Wefley. 



b Organift at Briftol. 



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