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nagement of the theatre devolved on Garrick. His 
health was at this time beginning to give way, and his 
periodof life was ill adapted to additional labours. He 
continued, however, fome time longer to fulfil the du¬ 
ties of his office; and he rendered an effiential fervice to 
the profeffion which he had dignified, by perfedling the 
plan of an inftitution for the relief of decayed a( 5 lors,and 
bountifully contributing to its fund. At length he de¬ 
termined upon his final retreat, and in January, 1776, he 
parted with his moiety of the Drury-lane patent for the 
fum of35,oool. to fuch a value had it rifen in his hands ! 
In order to prove that his admirable powers were fiill 
unimpaired, he performed, at fitort intervals, many of 
his moft trying and brilliant parts, juft before he took 
leave of the ftage. The laft chara6ter in which he ap¬ 
peared was Don Felix in the Wonder, for the benefit of 
the theatrical fund. At the conclufion of the play he 
made a brief farewel addrefs to the audience, which the 
genuine feelings of regret on both fides rendered truly 
pathetic; and few perfons ever quitted a public ftation 
with more deferved plaudits. He did not long enjoy 
his opulent and well-earned repofe. In the Chriftmas 
of 1778, being upon a vifit at the feat of lord Spencer, 
he was feized with fome alarming fymptoms, which haf- 
tened him to London. A fuppreffion of urine fucceeded, 
under the effefts of which he funk into a ftate of ftupor, 
and died on January 20, 1779. His remains were interred 
with great pomp in Weltminller abbey, attended by many 
perfons of the firft diftindlion in rank and talents. His 
large fortune, after an ample provifion for his widow, 
was ffiared among his relations. 
David Garrick was in charadler a man of the w’orld, 
whofe vivacity and apparent volatility did not interfere 
with the fteady purfuit of fame and fortune. In this he 
was guided by great good fenfe and difcretion, and a 
fpirit of order and economy. The latter quality fub- 
jeCled him to the imputation of avarice : but though he 
was fond of money, and did not lavifh it in the carelefs 
manner of fome of his detraftors, yet he was fully capa¬ 
ble of ufing it with liberality. His mode of living was 
holpitable and generous, and his bounty often flowed in 
a large ftream of munificence. Inftead of quoting par¬ 
ticular inftances upon record, it will be fufficient to re- 
peatwhat Dr. Johnfon (who knew him well) faid of him, 
that “ he believed David Garrick gave away more mo¬ 
ney than any man in London.” His principal foible was 
vanity, which made him as inordinately fond of adula¬ 
tion, as he was impatient of cenfure or ridicule. This 
propenfity alfo rendered him culpably jealous of rivals, 
and he is charged with endeavouring to keep down thofe 
rifing talents from which he feared competition. In his 
commerce with the great he was attentive and refpeflful, 
yet with freedom enough to make him a delightful com¬ 
panion; and he obferved decorum fo well, that perfons 
of the graveft and moft dignified characters courted his 
fociety. 
As an aftor, it feems to be allowed that none ever 
furpalTed him in the truth and nature with which he 
identified himfelf with the fictitious objeCt of his repre- 
fentation, fo that he feemed, as it were, to have darted 
his foul fuc ceffively into all the forms which he alTumed. 
This faculty he difplayed equally in the moft comic and 
the moft tragic parts, nor was it ever agreed in which of 
the two his chief excellence lay. Reynolds happily ex- 
prelfed this doubt by his charming picture of Garrick, 
between the comic and tragic mufe, each of whom is 
contending to poflefs him. His voice and his eye were 
calculated for every poffible exprelfion of mental feeling. 
Expreffion, indeed, was his great ftrength, and the parts 
in which he belt lucceeded were thofe in which paffion 
moft predominated. In the enunciation of calm fenti- 
ment, decorated by poetical language, he has had fcve- 
ral fuperiors. 
His literary talents were refpeCtable, but not of the 
higher kind. He compofed fome fmart epigrams, many 
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pleafant and well-adapted prologues, entertaining, but 
rather larcical, dramatic pieces, and lively poems of the 
humorous and familiar clafs. To fublimity he was in¬ 
adequate, and his imagination w’as capable of no lofty 
flight. Befides thofe of his works which have been 
mentioned in his life, there are a few dramatic inter¬ 
ludes, and many alterations of old plays, in which he 
generally difplayed a good judgment, and thorough 
knowledge of ftage effeCl. 
GAR'RIEL (Peter), a French ecclefiaftic in the fe- 
venteenth century, and author of feveral works, intend¬ 
ed to illuftrate the civil and ecclefiaftical antiquities of 
his country, was a native of Montpellier ; but we have 
no information refpeCting either the time of his birth, or 
of his death. He became a canon of the cathedral church 
in that city, and was admitted to the degrees of doctor 
in civil and canon law. He was the author of the Ori¬ 
gin, Alterations,' and prefent State, of the Cathedral 
Church of St. Peter, at Montp,ellier, 1631, lamo. and 
1634, 8vo. A Chronological View of the Governors of 
the Province of Languedoc, from tlie Time of the Ro¬ 
mans to the prefent Day, 1645; and Series Prafuium 
Megalonenjium & Montifpelienjium ab Anno 451 ad Annum. 
1652, folio; afterwards reprinted in 1665, with en¬ 
largements, and a continuation of the hiftory to that 
date. By fome writers, this work is faid to be more the 
produftion of father Bonnefoy, a Jefuit, than of Garriel, 
and it is claimed for that father in the Bibliotheque of the 
writers of the Society of Jefus. Garriel was allo-the 
author of a fmall volume, in folio, entitled Idee de la. 
Ville de Montpellier, rechercliee & prejtntee aiix honnetes Gens, 
1665, which is rendered unpleafant to the reader by the 
author’s tumid ftyle, and his frequent digreffions. It is 
a work, however, in efteem with antiquaries and collec¬ 
tors. Among the manuferipts of Coillin, in the library 
of the abbey of St. Germain des Pres, there was pre-- 
ferved A Difeourfe on the War. againft the Calvinifts of 
the Province of Languedoc, from the Year 1619 to the 
Peace of Montpellier, in 1622, of which father- ailfet 
has made iil'e in the fifth volume of his Hi.ftory of Lan¬ 
guedoc. As it is aferibed to a Peter Gariel, or Garriel, 
who was alfo a canon of Montpellier, moft probably it 
was the production of this author. 
GAR'RINISH POINT, a cape on the weft coaft of 
the county of Cork, in Ireland, twenty-feven miles weft 
of Bantry, and one and a quarter north of Codd’s Head.. 
GAR'RIS, a town of France, in the department of. 
the Lower Pyrenees, half a league fouth of Palais, and. 
fix and a half fouth-eaft of Bayonne. 
GAR'RISON, yi \_garnifon, Fr.] Soldiers placed ina ' 
fortified tov/n or caftle to defend it: 
How oft he faid to me, 
Thou art no foldier fit for .Cupid’s garrifon, Sidney, 
Fortified place ftored with foldiers : 
Whom the old Roman wall fo ill confin’d. 
With a new chain oi garrifons you. h'md. Waller, 
The ftate of being placed in a fortification for its defence. 
—Some of them that are laid in garrifon will do no great, 
hurt to the enemies. Spenfer cn Ireland. 
To GAR'RISON, v. a. To lecure hy fortreftes ; 
Others thofe forces join, 
Which garrifon the conquefts near the Rhine. Dryden. 
GAR'ROWS, a hill-country of Alia, fituated to the>' 
eaft of Bengal, weft of Alfam, and fouth of Burhampoo-- 
ter river, and near the Ganges.— See-the article Hin-- 
DOOSTAN. 
GARRU'LITY, f, \_garruliias, Lat.J Loquacity 3 
incontinence of tongue ; inability to keep a fecret t 
Let me here 
Expatiate, if poflible, my crime, 
Shameful Milton’s Agon fes.- 
The quality of talking too much; tal.kativenefs.—Some.- 
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