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Edward Howard, Eighth Earl of Suffolk.

1731.

THIS nobleman, who had, according to Horace Walpole, some derangement of intellect, published Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by a Person of Quality, 1725, 8vo. ; the greater part of which he reprinted under the title of Musarum Delicia in 1728. This volume contains some Sapphick verses, which the bookseller acquaints us were so called "not because they are written in the numbers which Sappho made use of, but merely upon account of the fineness and delicacy of the subjects."

Horace Walpole has preserved a curious anecdote of this man (vol. 4, Parke's edition, p. 133, note).

An advertisement prefixed to his last publication announces that speedily will be published Alcander, or the Prince of Arcadia, by the same author.1

The Musarum Delicia is a scarce book, many of the copies having been burnt by his lordship's executors.

Park, vol. 4, p. 136, gives an extract, Upon a Beau-but it cannot be a characteristic one. From the volume of a mad man something that marks him may surely be selected.

John Lord Cutts.-1706.

Son of Richard Cutts, Esq. of Matching in Essex, and made Baron of Gowran in Ire

land, one of the lords justices general, general of the forces in that kingdom, and governor of the isle of Wight.

Marlborough called him a Salamander, from his having escaped in a most tremendous action with part of the French army. A good specimen in Park's Royal and Noble Authors, vol. 5, p. 222.

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Abel Evans.

ONE of the Oxford wits enumerated in the well known distich:

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"Alma novem genuit celebres Rhedycina poetas,

Bubb, Stubb, Cobb, Crabb, Trap, Young,
Carey, Tickell, Evans."

He wrote a volume of Pastorals, six of which, or rather twelve, were preserved by Isaac Reed, and by him communicated to Mr. Nichols's Collection. They have more merit than is usually to be found in such poems; but are by no means equal to Gay's, who succeeded better in sport than his serious predecessors Phillips and Dr. Evans.

Gloster Ridley.-1702-1774.

THIS worthy man, who was descended from Ridley the Martyr, was born at sea on board the Gloucester East Indiaman. He published the Life of his ancestor, and a Review of Philips's Life of Cardinal Pole, one of those insidious works of the Roman Catholics which it is necessary to watch and to confute. His eldest son was the author of the Tales of the Genii, a book which it is to be hoped will always continue to be printed.

Joseph Trapp, Cherington, Gloucestershire, 1669-17**.

DR. TRAPP was the first professor of poetry at Oxford, and like many other professors in other things, professed what he cerlectures under the title of Prælectiones Potainly did not practise. He published his eticæ; four volumes of Sermons; Abramule, a tragedy; some controversial treatises against the Papists and Methodists, which are said to have much merit; and sundry miscellaneous productions both in and prose verse. But his best or worst known works are a Latin version of the Paradise Lost, and a blank verse translation of Virgil.

See this Virgil, for surely it must have been

2 GLOUCESTER RIDLEY'S Sermons On the Divinity and Operations of the Holy Ghost, the very best on the subject.-J. W. W.

Quære? Was not this the name of Pope's preached at Lady Moyes's lecture, are some of epic? - R. S.

and in travesting the first book of Pope's Iliad with Ducket, under the title of Ho

over-abused. So bad as Pope's Homer it cannot by any possibility have been, i. e. it cannot so misrepresent and debase the ori-merides, by Sir Iliad Doggrel: for which ginal. Pope put him in the Dunciad.

John Howe.

MR. NICHOLS has transcribed an account of this gentleman, which deserves retranscription. (Nichols' Collection, vol. 1, p. 209.)

Thomas Lord Lyttleton.—1744-1779. POEMS by a young Nobleman of distinguished abilities, lately deceased, 4to. 1780. These, according to Mr. Park, are admitted to be his. The Letters published as his are said to have been written by Mr. Combe. The remarkable story of his death is certainly believed in the family.

Mr. Park has published his portrait. I never saw a countenance so thoroughly expressive of a debauched heart.

Sneyd Davies.-1769.

FELLOW of King's College, Cambridge, rector of Kingsland in Herefordshire, prebendary of Litchfield, archdeacon of Derby, and D. D.

Sir Thomas Burnet.-1753. YOUNGEST Son of the bishop, consul at Lisbon, and afterwards king's serjeant, and judge of the Common Pleas. A volume of his Poems was printed in 1777.

It is recorded of him in the days of his levity, that his father one day seeing him uncommonly grave, asked what he was meditating? "A greater work," replied the son, "than your lordship's History of the Reformation." "What is that, Tom ?" "My own Reformation, my lord." "I shall be heartily glad to see it," said the bishop, "but almost despair of it." It was however accomplished.

He edited his father's History of his own Times, and was concerned in the Grumbler,

Benjamin Stilling fleet.—169*1-1771.

"I HAVE lately," says GRAY, "made an acquaintance with this philosopher, who lives in a garret in the winter, that he may support some near relations who depend upon him. He is always employed, consequently (according to my old maxim) always happy, always cheerful, and seems to me a worthy, honest man. His present scheme is to send some persons properly qualified to reside a year or two in Attica, to make themselves acquainted with the climate, productions, and natural history of the country, that we may understand Aristotle, Theophrastus, &c. who have been Heathen Greek to us for so many ages; and this he has got proposed to Lord Bute, no unlikely person to put it in execution, as he is himself a botanist."

See Gentleman's Magazine, 1776, p. 162. 496, and for 1777, p. 440. See also what Pennant says of him, prefixed to his British Zoology, vol. 4.

Walter Pope.- Fawsley, Northamptonshire, 1714.

WALTER POPE was elected from Westminster to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1645, but removed to Oxford, where he was successively scholar, fellow, and dean of Wadham. In 1658, when he was junior proctor, an attempt was made to abrogate the statute for wearing caps and hoods; he frustrated it, and this he called the most glorious action of his life.2

WATT, in the Bibliotheca Britannica, says he was born about 1702. He was grandson to the Bishop.-J. W. W.

2" Believe me," says CUMBERLAND, “there is much good sense in old distinctions. When the law lays down its full-bottomed periwig, you will find less wisdom in bald pates than you are

He was half brother to Bishop Wilkins, and one of the first fellows of the Royal Society. His publications were numerous and unimportant; but his Old Man's Wish is one of those ballads which are never likely to lose their estimation and popularity.

One of his works deserves mention, his Moral and Political Fables, ancient and modern; done into measured Prose, intermixed with Rhyme. 1698. By measured prose, blank verse is meant, in which a couplet is occasionally introduced. Daniel had done this before him, and done it far

better.

I have seen also the same thing in Spanish.

Nichols, vol. 1, p. 173. The Old Man's Wish.

But see, if possible, for the enlarged edition, in twenty stanzas, published in folio, 1693, under the title of the Wish.

William Duncombe.-1689-1769.

HE published, 1. a translation of Racine's Athaliah. 1722. 2. Lucius Junius Brutus, a Tragedy. 1735. 3. The Works of Horace, in English Verse, by several Hands. 1757, 2 vols. 8vo. A second edition in four volumes appeared in 1762. He edited the Works of Mr. Needler in 1724. 2. The

Poems of Hughes, his brother-in-law, 1735. 3. The Miscellanies of Jabez Hughes. 4. The Works of Samuel Say, 1745; and, 5. Seven Sermons, by Archbishop Herring.

Thomas Edwards.-1699-1758. AUTHOR of the Canons of Criticism. In the dark age of English poetry, Edwards

aware of."-Choleric Man. This passage is else. where referred to by Southey. I may add from the Gull's Horn-Book, "Come, come; it would be but a bald world, but that it wears a periwig." p. 48. Reprint by J. N. 1812. J. W. W.

had feeling enough to admire and study the great masters of the art. Though one of nine children, he had the misfortune to be the last of his family.

The metre of the ode in these selections is singular.

Knightley Chetwood.-Coventry, 1720.

DR. CHETWOOD was chaplain to James II. who nominated him Bishop of Bristol, but abdicated the kingdom before his election passed the seals. He was made Dean of Gloucester, and went abroad with Marlborough as chaplain to the English forces. The Dissertation prefixed to Dryden's Virgil in 1697, is his.

Charles Dryden.—1704.

DRYDEN'S eldest son. He was usher of the palace to Pope Clement XI. and was drowned in the Thames, near Windsor.

Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget.-1742.

He died before his father, the first Earl of Uxbridge. He published an Essay on Human Life, which was printed in a supplement to Pope's Works, 1757; and is said by Mr. Park to be perhaps the closest imitation of that poet's ethical essays. And a volume of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1741.

Joseph Spence.-1768.

A VERY amiable man, who was drowned in his own fish pond. In the Tales of the Genii his character is drawn under the

clumsy name of Phesoi Ecneps, i. e. Joseph Spence read backwards.

CHARACTERISTIC ENGLISH ANECDOTES, AND

FRAGMENTS FOR ESPRIELLA.

Letters from England by a Spaniard. FAR better mode of exposing folly than by novels.

The journals of my own tours shall be given with characteristic minuteness, in a lively stile and full of all the anecdotes that I have collected. They will derive a Spanish cast, from drawing general conclusions from single circumstances, and from the writer's wish to find the English as much upon a level with his own countrymen as he can.

Thus the theatre affords him an opportunity of retaliating the contempt exprest by Englishmen of the Spanish stage. A strolling play may equal my Coruña exhibition.

The Catholic may in his turn deride reformed worship, the vital Christianity cant. The Quaker silence may be described as striking him with awe-till a speaker rose. Astonishment at the taxes. Stopt win

dows. Heretical intolerance. Elizabeth's persecution of the Puritans. Birmingham riots. Apostle Spoons.

Horses' tails and ears.

Wall bills in London. Persons lost. Rewards for apprehending murderers. Quack bills. Debating societies, &c. &c.

Fashions. The pudding cravatts invented to hide a poultice. Two watches. Many under-waistcoats and the coat at the same time dragged back over the shoulders. Hands in the coat-pockets. Bandalores. Padded coats to look broad-breasted.

Door brass for the servant's fingers, the clean custom of a dirty people.

Novel prospects. Hedges. Hay-making. Country houses.

The Spanish sheep produce good wool: the English good mutton.

I have heard two instances of the mischief done by wasps; the one in Herefordshire,--a gentleman and his wife in a onehorse chair were attacked in a bye-road by a nest of these insects. They were overturned, and escaped with little injury. The horse died in consequence of the stings. Mr. Rowe knows a lady who with her child was attacked in the same way; her bosom was full of them, but she recovered. Myself once suffered five stings at once. An odd circumstance happened at Mr. Lamb's1 -a wasp's nest was taken by the usual method of suffocation, and brought into the parlour to show the family. They went out to walk, and left it there. By the time they returned, the wasps were recovered, and they found them all flying about the

room.

Dr. Hunter's Museum. I can borrow Carlisle's book.

Crimping. Pressing.

State of the poor. Laws of settlement. Universities. The seminaries of our cler

gymen.

Excellent roads in England; their disadvantages not obvious. The servants who go to summerize in the country with their

This was his early friend, T. P. Lamb, Esq. of Mountsfield Lodge, near Rye.--J. W. W.

sown and planted by the Romans for chirurgical uses.-R. B. Adm. Curios.

masters, corrupt the women. An emulation | fully there, and are very effectual, being of folly and extravagance is excited. The provisions are carried to the great towns, and thus rendered scarce and dear on the spot.

The Catholics' defence of relics, of ceremonious worship, of regulated convents, of purgatory, of a cheerful Sunday. Prayers for the dead, do they not produce a good effect upon the living?

Protestant absolution.

The English have no business to abuse Spanish oppressions and cruelty. The East Indies. The West. The scalping in America. Ireland. Never let them abuse Alva. Besides, English atrocities have been always perpetrated by petty rascals; there has been nothing to counterbalance it in

their character, as in Cortes-even in Pizarro. Wyoming. Glencoe.

The remarkable instance of honour in the Spanish prisoner, in Richard II.'s reign. Fox-hunting.

Stone the plumbs. If this were a dead language, said a Frenchman to me,-what would an antiquarian make of that phrase?

"WHAT is thy disease-a consumption? indeed a certain messenger of death; but know, that of all the bayliffs sent to arrest us for the debt of nature, none useth his prisoners with more civility and courtesie." -FULLER. Sermon-Life out of Death.

MEMORANDUM.-Dr. Fothergill intended to leave "a pretty large collection of Quaker Tracts to the Meeting to which he then belonged, in Peter's Court, Westminster."NICHOLS'S Anecdotes.

ESPRIELLA.1

SOME empiric chirurgians in Scotland take a journey to the Picts Wall the beginning of every summer; to gather vulnerary plants, which they say grow plenti

It is not necessary to note what is worked up in the Letters referred to.-J. W. W.

GONDOMAR bade a Spanish post who was returning to his own country remember him to the sun, for it was a long time since he had seen him here, and he would be sure to find him in Spain.-R. B.

FANATICS at Newbury.-Adm. Curios., p. 12.

GARSTANG.-Cyclopædia.

"REGNUM Diabolorum," was a phrase applied to England, and common in unconsidering foreigners' mouths. - Preface to MOLESWORTH's Account of Denmark.

LONDON Consumes butcher's-meat to the amount of seven millions sterling annually.

A CALF fed for the London market is said to consume as much milk as would make a hundred weight of cheese.

THERE is a Committee of Art or of Taste who decide upon the designs sent in for public monuments. The best artists will not enter into such a competition, very properly not chusing to trust their reputation to the opinion of men whom they may not deem competent judges. An inferior one will send in several designs, speculating upon the doctrine of chances, and the speculation answers. There is a monument to Captain

in St. Paul's, of which the history is this. Ross sent in several designs. The Committee pitched upon one, which was not the best; fixed upon one figure, also not the best of the design which they had chosen; and then desired him to put just such another figure on the other side, so then they are like an admiral's two supporters!

MRS. WILSON2 remembers the time when

2 The kind friend of the children before mentioned.-J. W. W.

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