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P R E 
The fecond was the good Sit Hans 
Sloane, Bart, who employed me, for a 
great number of years, in drawing minia- 
ture figures of animals, &c, after nature, 
in water-colours, to encreafe his very 
great cohesion of fine drawings by other 
hands $ which drawings are now all fixed 
in the Britifh Mufeum, for the help and 
information of thofe in future generations, 
that may be curious or ftudious in Na- 
tural Hiftory, Sir Hans, in the decline 
of his life, left London, and retired to 
his manor-houfe at Chelfea, where he re- 
fided about fourteen years, before he died. 
Atter his retirement to Chelfea, he re- 
quefted it as a favour to him, (though 
I embraced his requeft as an honour done 
to myfelf) that I would vifit him every 
week, in order to divert him, for an hour 
or two, with the common news of the 
town, and with any thing particular that 
fhould happen amongft his acquaintance 
of the Royal Society, and other ingenious 
Gentlemen, many of whom I was weekly 
converfant with ; and I feldom miffed 
drinking coffee with him on a Saturday, 
during the whole time of his retirement 
at Chelfea. He was fo infirm as to be 
wholly confined to his houfe, except fome- 
times, though rarely, taking a little air 
in his garden in a wheeled chair: and this 
confinement made him very defirous to 
fee any of his old acquaintance to amufe 
him. He was always ftri&ly careful, 
that I fhoul'd be at no expence in- my 
journeys from London to Chelfea to W'ait 
on him, knowing that I did not fuper- 
abound in the gifts of fortune : he would 
calculate what the expence of coach- 
hire, waterage, or any other little charge 
that might attend on my journeys back- 
ward and forward, would amount to, and 
would oblige me annually to accept of it, 
though I would willingly have declined 
FACE. 
Le fecond etoit V excellent Chevalier Ham 
Slocme i qui m a employe , durant un grand 
nombre (Tannces , a dejjmer et d peindre d 
I'eau des animaux en mignature x d'apres let 
fujets memeSy pour augmenter fa fuperbe col- 
leBion de defjeins exquh fails par d'autrcs 
mains y qui font tons depofes d prefent dans 
le Mufeum Britannique y pour V aide et !in- 
ftruBion de ceux des generations futures , qui 
feront curieux de PHijloire Naturelle , et 
qui voudront Tetudiei\ Le Chevalier Ham 
Sloane quitta Londres fur la fin de fes jours , 
et fe retira d Chelfey d fa maifon feigneu- 
riale, oil il a demeure environ quatorze am, 
jufqud fa inert . Apres quit fe fut retire 
d Che l fey, il me pria comme par grace , ( quoi- 
que fa demande fut reellement un honneur 
pour moi) de venir lui faire vifite toutes la 
femaineSy pour le divertir pendant une heure 
ou deiiXy foit en I' informant des notive lies pub- 
liqueSy ou en lui rapportant ce qui fe pajjbit 
de particular parmi fes amis de la Societd 
Roy ale , et d' autre s perfonnes de genie , plu- 
Jieurs def quels je voyois toutes les femaines j 
de forte qiiil niarrivoit rarement de manquer 
d aller boire du caffe avec lui tons les Same- 
disy durant tout le temps de fa retraite d 
Chelfey. Il etoit devenu ft infirmey qui l etoit 
entierement relegue d la maifon x excepte 
quit ne prit quelquefois lair dans fa jar- 
din par le moyen d’une chaife roulante . 
Cette retraite lui fa foit fort fouhaiter de 
voir quelques uns de fes anciens amisy pour 
samujer . 11 avoit toujour s grand fmn r que 
les voyages y que je faifois de Londres d 
Chelfey d fon occafon y ne me coutajj'ent point 
de fraisy fachant bien que je nabondois pas 
en dons de la fortune : il calcukit done d 
combien pouvoit fe monter la depenfe que 
je JaiJois en caroJJeSy en bateaux y ou en 
quelqii autre chofey que mes voyages d' aller 
et devenir pouvoient occafionnery et il mobli- 
geoit d’en accepter la petite jbinme tons les 
uns, quoique jeuffe aatant aimi nen rien 
