214 SOUTH-HULL-CRADOCK. Secretary to pay you two hundred crowns, which I desire you will accept of, not as a reward of your merit, but as a mark of my benevolence. "FREDERICK." lately, that there is a Hat given annually at Cheltenham for the use of the best foreign preacher, of which the disposal is assigned to Mrs. C., to her and her heirs for ever. I remember (though I knew nothing of this whilst I was upon the place) I used to be a little misdeemful It is a neat poem, as the following passage that all who preached there had some such premay show. mium in their eyes. The Hat, 'tis true, is not quite so valuable as that of a Cardinal; but while it is made a retribution for excellence in so (if properly considered) sublime a function, it is an object for a preacher in any degree. I am sorry at the same time to say, that as a common hat, merely for its uses, it would be an object to too many country curates, whose situations and slender incomes too often excite our blushes, as well as compassion."-HULL's Select Letters, vol. 2, p. 66. [An Indictment Quashed.] "LORD CHIEF JUSTICE WILMOT gave to a party of us one evening a curious account of an inn-keeper at Warwick, whom he had tried for having poisoned some of his customers with his Port wine: and that the indictment was quashed by the impudence of the fellow, who absolutely proved that there had never been a drop of real Port wine in the hogshead.”—CRADOCK's Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 93. [A Character of Fuller.] In an oration ascribed to South in the charac "QUAM absurdum est Influentias quibus regimur negare, dubiamque facere operantem Solis virtutem, ipso Sole non minus manifestam! Unde pestes, bella et strages, nisi ex stellarum prædominio? Quæ velut tot basilisci, homines maligno solum aspectu interficiunt. Luna nonnunquam invidiâ pallida morbos spargit et tabes, adeo ut non melius possis futuras hominum ægritudines, quam ex languido pallore Lunæ cognoscere. Vult igitur scire medicus an venturus sit morbus? non ipsius hominis, sed Lunæ faciem aspiciat, ex cujus arbitrio, pariter et exemplo, humanum genus nunc crescere videmus, nunc decrescere. Infestus aliquis Planeta antequam circa terram annuum peregit cursum, quot lan-ter of Terræ-filius, 1657, the privileged buffoon, guentes, quot morientes relinquit; et quasi cru- after much ribaldry against Cambridge, attacks delis judex quam multos in Circuitu suo occidit! Fuller by name. Sic ut unica Stella nobis inferre potest mortem perpetuam. Si è contra spectantur beneficia quæ totis imbribus in nos effundit, sane Astres, non parentibus debes, quod ingeniosus sis; maternus venter nunquam fuit ingenii largitor. Cœlo debetur si quis procreatur fortis, adeoque in Achillis clypeo Luna et Stellæ depictæ Trojam superârunt. Immo siquis nascatur timidus, hunc non tam pericula sua quam ipsæ Stellæ trepidare docuerunt. Nec pulchritudo mortalibus contingit, nisi ex Cœlis rerum omnium pulcherrimis nec quisquam sine favore Lunæ nascitur Endymion. Denique Siderum efficaciâ humanos videmus animos ad virtutem impelli et ad vitium; adeoque id ab ipsis Cœlis produci quod à cœlo homines excludat."-SOUTH as Terræ Filius,-Opera Posthuma, p. 25, 6. : vestrum Fullerum,-Historicum illum Ecclesiasticum, cujus joci jam servantur Cantabrigiæ in registro et archivis, ubi inter reliqua Antiquitatis monumenta jocos suos ostendunt, tanquam res antiquissimas: tres tantum accipite. "Imprimus cum in Doctorum concilio graviter consultum esset, an ad gradum saltantes Equos admitterent, respondit ille, hanc esse rem aquisimam. "Secundus, cum accusatus Tonsor, quod nimium ex Doctores barbâ eraseret, respondit ille, hunc tonsorem fecisse barbarè. 66 Tertius, cum sermo esset de quodam ingenioso, sed tamen de pediculis suspecto (nam pediculus est ibi crimen capitale) respondit author noster, scholarem illum pediculosum habere ingenium valde nitidum. O rem divinæ inventionis! cur non aliquis illum pro hoc joco scalpebat? Nam certe fuit pediculosus; solemus [Annual Prize Hat to the best Preacher at enim scalpere ubi sunt pediculi. Cheltenham.] SHENSTONE to Mrs. A., about 1762. "I AM but just arrived at home, though I left Cheltenham the day after you. I stayed indeed to hear Mr. B. preach a morning sermon; for which I find Mrs. C. has allotted him the Hat, preferably to Mr. C. Perhaps you may not remember, nor did I hear till very "Ego hos tantum recito, nam strenuè deri dere est repetere; denique tres solum nominavi, quia Cantabrigiæ non licet ultra tres jocos procedere. "Cæterum ob tres jocos Cantabrigienses (ut audio) erecturi sunt illi statuam, eamque puto ex ligno aut lapide, ut sit ei similior; Statuta vero hos titulos inscribunt : ROBERT SOUTH. Doctissimus Thomas, Natione trato penè toto Orbe, obscure jam habitat in rum confusio in istius ædibus, sed inæquali [Praise of Westminster School.] "ENCOMIUM SCHOLE REGIE WESTMONASTERI ENSIS. "Reginæ fundata manu Regina Scholarum, "Quare post erectam illi statuam, mihi opus unicam uxoris Anglicanam, bellum frustra gerAd morem insuper Babelis ædificat filios solum erat illum depingere: vivit Londini; et unt. quid agite semper scribit et tanquam arbor et filias in infinitum; quos cum generavit, credomni anno nova producit folia. Prodiit tandem ibile est illum de camelis Asiaticis cogitasse, Historia Ecclesiastica, in quâ occurrunt centum omnes enim liberi habent colla longissima."sexaginta sex ad Viros nobiles et divites mendi- Terræ Filii Oratio,-Opera Posthuma ROBERTI cantes epistolæ tanta scilicet ingenii inopia! SOUTH, p. 128. Hic ab illustrissimo suo Domino Barone de Kingston rogat decem Minas. Hic ab insigHic a nissimâ Dominâ Isabellâ decem Minas. quodam juvene, inter nobilissimos doctissimo, et doctissimos nobilissimo, decem Minas, ut nomen ejus suis scriptis imponeret: sed quod majus, ab altero non rogavit, sed accepit bis decem Minas, ut libris suis ejus nomen non imponeret. Londini ubique currit in plateis cum pallio suo ecclesiastico, et Historiâ Ecclesiasticâ sub pallio: sub hoc brachio portat ingentem illum librum, sub altero parvam uxorem; et sic instructus, apud patronos venari solet convivia et prandia, ubi illis negotium datur jocari in fercula. nunquam credo jocos suos esse sales, quamvis solet illos cibis inspergere, hoc unum in se habent salis, quod solent ad omnium mensas venire. Sed multum profitetur Artem Memoriæ, quam sane hic præcipue exercet; nam invitatus ad prandium, nunquam obliviscitur cultrum. 66 Sed Quod habitum corporis, aiunt similem esse Lanio, et hinc ingenium ejus adeo pinquescit. Unum hoc superest notatu dignum, quod nuper vacante Inferioris Bibliothecarii loco, Academiæ nostræ supplicavit per literas, ut sibi illum conferret: sed negavit Academia, nec illum admisit Bibliothecarium, ob hanc rationem, ne Bibliothecæ scripta sua ingereret."-Opera Posthuma Latini ROBERTI SOUTH, pp. 36-8,-Impensis E. Curll, 1717. Jasper Main-[his Character as a Preacher.] - ILLE histrio qui tantum temporis scribendis dramatibus impendit, ut tandem ipsa religio videatur ei Comedia; cujus conciones non sunt tam conciones Christianæ quam Christianissimi libelli, quippe qui tam lascive concionatur, ac si unicus illi esset textus, omnes sensus Ita ut illi comparatus ipse Terræesse tactus. Et proFilius videri possit gravis theologus. fecto, cum decreto Convocationis è templo B. Mariæ exulent Terræ-Filii, æquum foret ut è templo Ædis Christi exulet hic Doctor; nos ludimus cum Theologiæ Doctoribus, ille vero cum ipsâ Theologia; hoc est, nos cum profanis, ille cum sacris."-Opera Posthuma ROBERTI SOUTH, p. 141,-Impensis E. Curll, 1717. Pocock-[a humorous Character of him.] Quam Virgo extruxit, Musaque Virgo colit : Et tot laudari digna, quot ipsa doces. Tam numerosa simul, tam quoque docta co- Sic numero bonitas: numerus bonitate relucet, Florescitque suis sæpe rigatus aquis. Optime Apollineus comprobat ille tripos. Dispositæ septum quæ velut astra nitent. Hæc Schola ad implendas sufficit una duas. Parnassi geminus sic quoque surgit apex. Huic collata igitur quantum ipsa Academia præstat Dic, precor? hæc doctos accipit, illa facit.” SOUTH. 216 CHEVALIER DU SOLEIL-CRADOCK-AVODA SARA. [Character and Value of a Good Servant.] eût baillé en pur don un fort et puissant roy. aume."-Chevalier du Soleil, tom. 2, p. 591. [Lord Mansfield as a Story-teller.] "ON doit faire beaucoup d'estime des bons et loyaux serviteurs, quand leur fidelité est accompagnée de prudence et de jugement, parce qu'outre le service qu'ils rendent à leurs Mais- "Ir was asserted by some of Lord Manstres, avec beaucoup de soin et de prévoyance, field's intimate friends, that though he was ils évitent plusieurs deffauts, où les hommes famous for bon-mots, yet he never got clearly tombent bien souvent par negligence et par through a plain facetious story of any length; sottise. L'avertissement d'un bon serviteur for he was always so desirous of expressing n'est pas moins estimable que celuy d'un amy himself elegantly, that the essence of a common loyal et fidelle. Je m'esloigne maintenant icy joke was sure to evaporate. 'Yes,' replied de l'avis et du conseil de quelques sages mon- another of the party: 'and it is to his knowdains, qui disent, que l'on doit avoir peu de ser- ing that such a remark has been made, and viteurs, et encore de la plus basse et vile con- that you are all upon the watch, that his lorddition qu'on pourra les recouvrer, afin qu'on ship may truly attribute this embarrassment." puisse vivre avec eux, et les traitter plus indig--CRADOCK'S Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 96. nement. Mais il me semble qu'ils parleroient mieux s'ils disorent, plus vicieusement; d'autant Rabbi Eleazar.] - EXTAT traditio, quâ memoratur de R. Eleazaro filio Durdejæ, quod non reliquerit ullam meretricem in universo mundo, cum quâ non fuerit congressus. Aliquando autem audivit, meretricem aliquam agere in urbibus maritimis, quæ acciperet plenum loculum denario que la brutalité et la bassesse du service est [Tradition concerning the Life and Death of agreeable au Maistre qui veut vivre avec toute sorte de licence et à l'abandon de tout vice. Quant à ce qui concerne celuy qui desire de bien et vertueusement vivre, qui dira que la honte qu'il a d'un serviteur sage discret et de bon jugement, ne luy serve de bon advis, afin qu'il ne se laisse emporter à quelque action digne de honte et de vergogne. J'en appelle rum pro mercede. Unde sumpto secum loculo en tesmoignage plusieurs, et ils ne me peuvent nier en conscience, que bien souvent la honte qu'ils ont eue d'un sage et prudent serviteur, n'aye mis à leurs desirs desordonnez, le frain de la raison, ou plustost la crainte de Dieu n'avoit pû leur imposer. Si donc cecy profite au salut de l'ame, et a l'honneur de l'homme, pour quoy ne refuterons nous pas le contraire ? Et pour monstrer qu'on a tort de conseiller autrement, outre le profit et l'utilité que nous avons main-intercessionem: sed illi responderunt se potius tenant alleguée, la prudence et la discretion d'un serviteur sert de beaucoup à la politesse et à la maniere de vivre de son maistre. Elle luy profite en ses actions et en ses rentes; conserve leur honneur et son corps, et bien souvent luy sauve la vie."—L'Histoire du Chevalier du Soleil tom. 1, chap. 71, p. 633. [Magical Arms.] pleno denariorum, perrexit ad illam, trajectis ejus gratiâ septem fluviis. Cum vero concumberet cum illâ, emisit illa flatum dixitque. Eleazarum filium Durdejæ nunquam iri Deo per pœnitentiam reconciliatum, quemadmodum emissus a se crepitus ventris nunquam esset in locum suum rediturus, unde exierat. Quapropter Eleazarus abiit tristis, et consedit inter duos montes et colles, petiitque ab illis apud Deum pro seipsis quam pro Eleazaro veniam rogaturos, eo quod scriptum de se exstat Isai. liv. 10. Montes recedent, et colles dimovebuntur. Tum conversus ad cœlum et terram, petiit ab ipsis intercessionem; sed simile ab iis responsum obtinuit, se potius pro seipsis veniam rogatura eo quod dicatur Isai. li. 6. Cali sicut fumus evanescent et terra sicut vestis veterascet. Solis deinde et Lunæ intercessionem petiit; sed in eundem modum ab illis fuit responsum, se potius "C'EST en ces affaires que l'on connoist com- pro seipsis misericordiam rogaturos, quia dicabien les armes sont necessaires pour les bons tur Isai. xxiv. 33, Luna erubescat et Sol pudeChevaliers; mais principalement quand elles fiet. Tandem Stellas et Zodiaci Signa compelsont fabriquées par de bons maistres en l'art lavit pro intercessione; sed responsum itidem magique; car si elles n'estoient telles le meilleur Chevalier n'eust pas esté exempt d'estre fendis jusques à la ceinture, par les horribles coups que ceux-cy se bailloient, aussi bien que le plus flasque et sans forces qui se pourroit trouver. D'autant que bien souvent ou les armes sont couppées, il ne se peut faire qu'aucune fois la main où le bras ne le soient aussi. D'ailleurs on ne trouve pas à tous propos des Chirurgiens pour les penser. Pour cette raison-Avoda Sara, p. 134–5. les vaillans Chevaliers de ce temps là qui esperoient de se voir en de grands dangers, ils faisoient plus d'estime d'avoir des armes faictes par l'art magique de quelque sage, que si on leur fuit, se potius pro seipsis gratiam rogaturos, eo quod dicatur Esai. xxi. 4. Et contabescet omnis exercitus cœlorum. Ab his omnibus autem repulsam passus, dixit, a me solo dependet, ut misericordiam consequar; positoque inter ganua capite mugivit cum ingenti fletu, donec animam efflaret. Quo facto, audita fuit filia vocis quæ proclamavit R. Eleazarum filium Durdejæ esse destinatum vitæ seculi venturi." [Martyrdom of Rabbi Chanina.] THE Romans having found Rabbi Chanina neither in the miracles that Astolfo by the power of St. John is feigned to do, since the Church holdeth that Prophets, both alive and dead, have done mighty great miracles.”—P. 140. NORRIS-SIR JOHN HARRINGTON-MONTHLY REVIEW. .217 reading the book of the Law to a congregation, | chantments exceedeth credit, (for who knows carried him before the Tribunal, when he was not how strong the illusions of the Devil are?) condemned to the flames. Accordingly they bound palm branches round him and the book, but put wet sponges, or woollen cloths about his body, that he might be the longer in dying. When his daughter saw him in this lamentable condition, she said to him, O Father, how can I bear to see you thus? Rabbi Chanina replied, If I were to be burnt alone, my condition might seem to me a hard one, but now, when I am to endure the flames and the Book of the Law with me, certain I am that He who will most certainly take vengeance for the injury offered to the Book, will also take vengeance for me.' When he was about to die, his disciples asked him if he saw any thing miraculous. He made answer, that he saw the skin indeed on which the Law was written shrivel and consume, but the letters fled upward. Then they advised him to open his mouth, that the flames might go in, and he might die the sooner: but he made answer that he who infused the soul into man, would separate it; it was not lawful for man to expedite his own death. But when the executioner demanded of him whether he would introduce him into the kingdom of heaven, if he increased the flames, and took away the wet cloth from his heart, Rabbi Chanina promised that he would; and confirmed the promise, at his desire, by an oath. The executioner then immediately increased the fire, and removed the wet woollen cloth, and incontinently Rabbi Chanina gave up the ghost. And then the executioner threw himself into the flames and immediately a voice was heard saying that Rabbi Chanina the son of Tardejon, and his executioner, were both reserved for the life of the world to come."-Avoda Sara, p. 143-4. [Religious Levities, Romish and Sectarian.] AFTER producing extracts from Charles Wesley's Hymns, to justify the censure, the Monthly Reviewer concludes thus, "Seriously (for though it is sometimes difficult to refrain from laughing at the absurdities of fanaticism, it is really shocking to see religious subjects thus exposed to ridicule,) may we not ask these rhyming enthusiasts how they dare to take such liberties, and use such indecent freedom with . the holy WORD OF GOD! nay, with the GREAT CREATOR HIMSELF! Are they not apprehensive of the fate of Uzzah, who was so exemplarily punished for rashly presuming to touch the Ark of the Covenant with unhallowed hands? [Norris against the Rage for Learning.] "NORRIS, in his "Reflections upon the conduct of human Life with reference to the Study of Learning and Knowledge," deduces two corollaries, "first, that the bookish humour which (he says) everywhere so prevails, is one of the Spiritual Dyscrasies, or Moral Diseases of Mankind; one of the most malignant reliques of Original depravation; it carrying with it the very stamp and signature of Adam's transgression, which owed its birth to curiosity and inordinate desire of knowledge. Secondly, that those who have eyes may in a great measure spare them; and that those who have not, should not, upon the account of learning, much lament the want of them,-which is therefore addressed to the private consideration of all those that labour under that sad misfortune."P. 176-7. Indeed the irreverent treatment which the Bible constantly meets with in this Protestant country, from the swarm of hackney commentators, expositors, and enthusiastic hymn makers, would almost provoke the rational Christian to applaud the Church of Rome for the care she has taken to secure it from vulgar profanation. And much perhaps might it conduce to the honour and credit of our religion, could any method be thought of towards attaining so valuable, so important an end, without infringing the common right of the Christian world.”Vol. 38, p. 55. The author of this review did not know that the particular abuse which called forth his remarks has been carried farther in the Romish Church than even by the early Methodists and Moravians. [Boarding-School Reading.] TOUCHING upon female education in the year 1774, a reviewer says, "Although boardingschools are conducted much as they have ever been, yet a preposterous species of literature has been introduced into some of them, by the humble imitators of a wretched orator. It is called English reading. These oratorical masters, ignorant for the most part as their scholars, teach them to stamp and tear and mouth out of Shakespeare and Milton. The poor girls are thus rendered worse than ignorant; conceited without knowledge, and supercilious without taste."-Monthly Review, vol. 51, p. 389. [Pot-pourri of Satirical Verse.] LADY LUXBOROUGH says in a letter to Shenstone, "It is the fashion for every body to write a couplet to the same tune (viz. an old country dance) upon whatever subject occurs to them, I 218 MONTHLY REVIEW-CRADOCK. should say upon whatever person, with their | borderers on her own dominions. To which is names to it. Lords, gentlemen, ladies, flirts, added, a Sketch of an Universal Liturgy, for scholars, soldiers, divines, masters, and misses the use of the foreign students, in English, Latin, are all authors upon this occasion, and also the and French." objects of each other's satire. It makes an offensive medley, and might be called a potpourri, which is a pot-full of all kinds of flowers that are severally perfumes, and commonly when mixed and rotten smell very ill. This coarse simile is yet too good for about twenty or thirty couplets I have seen, and they are all personal and foolish satires even severally, so I will not send them."-Monthly Review, vol. 54, p. 62. [Revolutionary Confiscations.] A PASSAGE more applicable to the present times can hardly be found, than what a Monthly Reviewer, in January, 1776, quoted from Dean Tucker's Humble Address and Earnest Appeal, -wherein he proposed a separation from the then revolted Colonies. "The Dean," says the hostile Reviewer, "to promote the success of his proposal, endeavours not only to influence the understandings of those to whom his address is offered, but also to excite jealousies and fears of a seditious nature; and for this purpose he again sounds an alarm of danger to the Church, from what he styles the republican party,' to whom he says, 'the estates of the Church will fall the first sacrifice;' and lest a regard for our ecclesiastical establishment should not produce the desired alarms and combinations, he adds, 'But, nevertheless, if any of you, my Lords and Gentlemen, should be so weak as to imagine that matters will stop there; and that your own large possessions, your splendid titles, your hereditary honours, and ample privileges will escape unhurt, amidst that general wreck of private property, and crush of subordination which will necessarily ensue, you will be woefully mistaken; and I must beg leave to say, that you will have profited but very little, by what has been so well written in the annals of this very country, for your instruction and admonition. For, depend upon it, the use of Committee men, and the business of Sequestration, are not yet forgot. Depend upon it, I say, that ways and means are still to be found out, for the lowest of the people to get at the possession of the greatest of your estates, as well in these as in former times. Their appetites are equally keen; and if these hungry patriots should succeed, after such an example is set before your eyes, who are you to blame but yourselves?'"' "Dr. Free having learnt that her Majesty of Russia hath several times sent some of her sub jects for education to the University of Oxford, where they can never be admitted as regular scholars,-proposes that the said Empress shall, with the assistance of him, the said Dr. Free, found a free University at Newington Butts, which he thinks the most proper situation, and gives his reasons for so thinking; and certainly no place can be more convenient for the Doctor, because he is already settled there; and the Dover coach passes through the village, and sets down passengers at the sign of the Elephant and Castle. The plan of the proposed seminary is here particularly set down; and then comes the proposed liturgy in three languages, for the use of this royal college; in which all Jews, Turks, Heretics, and Infidels may join without the least scruple of conscience, as there is not a word of Christianity in it. We heartily wish the learned and ingenious Doctor all the success which is due to the extraordinary merit of so extraordinary a project."-Monthly Review, vol. 35, p. 472. [The Rector, his Parishioners, and the Weather.] "I RECOLLECT," says MR. CRADOCK in his Memoirs (vol. 1, p. 138), "a very worthy rector, possessed of a great living in one of the midland counties, who informed me that on his induction to it, he had met with a particular difficulty; for an enclosure had just taken place, and half of his parish petitioned that he would pray for rain, that their quicksets might grow: and the other half that he would intercede for fair weather, as they were in the midst of their hay harvest." [Hurd's Sermon from Bourdaloue.] WHEN Hurd was Rector of Thurcaston, in Leicestershire, Mr. Cradock accompanied him one Sunday to Church, and after the sermon was asked by him what was his opinion of the discourse, saying, "you are to speak freely." "I told him," says Cradock, "that I thought it was good, but I did not consider it as his own; for it rather appeared to me that it was given from a printed book.” "You are right,” replied he; "it was one of Bourdaloue's, and I had only the French volume before me, with many marks and alterations. This is a good practice to obtain the language, and I conceived this sermon, on the prospect of Death, as particularly suited to such an audience; and let me recomDR. FREE published, in 1766, "A Plan for mend to you to make such experiments; for in founding in England, at the expense of a great a retired place it will become your duty to read Empress, a Free University, for the reception instruction, perhaps, on a Sunday evening not only of her proper subjects, but also people to your own family."-CRADOCK's Memoirs, vol. of all Nations and Religions; particularly the 1, p. 177. [Original Scheme for a University and a Universal Liturgy.] some |