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Frederick Calvert, Lord Baltimore.

1731-1771.

THIS odd man, whose character may well be suffered to sleep with him in the grave, published,

1. A Tour to the East, in 1763-4, with Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks. Also Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry, and Wisdom, by the Lord Baltimore. London, 1767, 8vo.

2. Gaudia Poetica, Latinâ, Anglicâ et Gallicâ Linguâ composita. A°. 1769. Augustæ Litteris Spathianis, 1770, surmounted by a baron's coronet, with the initials F. B. This is dedicated in Latin to Linnæus, who repaid the compliment with the grossest flattery.

3. Cœlestes et Inferi. Venetiis. Typis C. Palese, 1771, 4to.

Copies of these last works, which are exceedingly rare, were in the collection of Isaac Reed.

John Glanvill.-Broad Hinton, Wilts,

1664.

He published, 1. Some Odes of Horace imitated with relation to his Majesty and the Times, 1690. 2. Poems dedicated to the Memory and lamenting the Death of her late sacred Majesty of the Small Pox, 1695. 3. A Plurality of Worlds, translated from the French, 1688.

Sir Thomas Higgons.-Shropshire,

1624-1691.

ONE of the few Cavaliers whose services were rewarded after the Restoration. Charles II. knighted him, and gave him a pension of £500 a year, and gifts to the amount of £4000. In 1669 he was sent envoy extraordinary to invest the Duke of Saxony with the Order of the Garter, and about four years afterwards went envoy to Vienna.

He married the famous widow of Robert Earl of Essex, and delivered an oration at

her funeral, September 16, 1656. Oratione funebri, à marito ipso, more prisco laudata fuit, is part of her epitaph. The copies of this pamphlet were industriously collected and destroyed. But Mr. Granger, who had seen one, was fully persuaded by it of her innocence.

He published, besides this funeral oration, 1656, 2. A Panegyric to the King, 1660. 3. The History of Isoof Bassa, 1684, and translated The Venetian Triumph.

On his return home from one of his embassies, he took the road along the coast of France, and in his audience of the King told him that the French were hard at work in raising a naval force, and pointed out the danger to England. Instead of attending to the intelligence, Charles severely reprimanded him for talking of things which it was not his business to meddle with.

Bevil Higgons.-1670-1735.

YOUNGER Son of Sir Thomas Higgons by Bridget his second wife; true to the Stuart family, he accompanied James into France. He published a volume of Historical and Critical Remarks on Burnet's History; and, 2. A short View of the English History, with Reflections Political, Historical, Civil, Physical, and Moral, on the Reigns of the Kings, their Characters and Manners, their Successions to the Throne, and all other remarkable Incidents to the Revolution 1688. Drawn from authentic Memoirs and MSS. 1727.

John Evelyn.-Sayes Court, near Deptford, 1654-1698.

SON of the Sylvan Evelyn. He wrote the Greek Poem which is prefixed to the second volume of his father's work, and translated Rapin's Gardens, Plutarch's Life of Alexander, and the History of the Grand Viziers Mahomet and Achmet Coprogli, and of the three last Grand Seigniors, their Sultanas and chief Favourites, with the most secret Intrigues of the Seraglio. 1677. 8vo.

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.

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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.

Abel Evans.

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

"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 pomany other profesetry at Oxford, and like sors in other things, professed what he cerlectures under the title of Prælectiones Potainly did not practise. He published his etica; 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 prose and 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.

over-abused. So bad as Pope's Homer it cannot by any possibility have been, i. e. it cannot so misrepresent and debase the original.

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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,

and in travesting the first book of Pope's Iliad with Ducket, under the title of Homerides, by Sir Iliad Doggrel: for which Pope put him in the Dunciad.

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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. Pennant says of him, prefixed to his British 496, and for 1777, p. 440. See also what Zoology, vol. 4.

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1 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 will find less wisdom in bald pates than you are the law lays down its full-bottomed periwig, you

He was half brother to Bishop Wilkins, | had feeling enough to admire and study the and one of the first fellows of the Royal So- great masters of the art. Though one of ciety. His publications were numerous and nine children, he had the misfortune to be unimportant; but his Old Man's Wish is the last of his family. one of those ballads which are never likely to lose their estimation and popularity.

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The metre of the ode in these selections is singular.

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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 Marl

borough 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.

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