Our Cumberland's' sweetbread its place shall obtain;

And Douglas is pudding, substantial and plain;

Our Garrick's' a salad- for in him we see

Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree;

To make out the dinner, full certain I am,
That Ridge1 is anchovy, and Reynolds" is lamb:

Richard Cumberland-the essayist, dramatist, versifier, novelist, etc. He was a native of Cambridge, and educated at Trinity College; B.A. 1750-M.A. 1754. He successively held various offices in Ireland and England, and in 1780 was employed on a mission to Madrid. He died in London in 1811.

John Douglas was born at Pittenweem, N.B., in 1721. He studied at Oxford, where he proceeded м.A. in 1743. In 1748 he was appointed traveling tutor to Lord Pulteney. He afterward obtained various church preferments; and, in 1787, was advanced to the bishopric of Carlisle. In 1791 he was translated to Salisbury. He died at Windsor

in 1807.

David Garrick - the incomparable actor. He was born at Hereford in 1716; made his first appearance in 1741; became joint-patentee of Drury-lane theater in 1747; projected the Shakspeare jubilee, held in 1769; retired from the stage in 1776; and died in 1779.

10 John Ridge-a member of the Irish bar. Burke, in 1771, described him as "one of the honestest and best-natured men living, and inferior to none of his profession in ability." His epitaph was not finished.

11 Sir Joshua Reynolds-the eminent painter, and writer on art. He was born in 1723, and in 1740 placed as a pupil with Hudson. In 1749 he went to Rome, where he studied about three years. In 1761 he was elected F.R.S. In 1768 he was nominated president of the royal academy, and soon afterward knighted. At the academy alone, he exhibited two hundred and twenty-eight pictures. He died in

1792.

That Hickey's" a capon; and, by the same rule,
Magnanimous Goldsmith" a gooseberry fool.

At a dinner so various, at such a repast,

Who'd not be a glutton, and stick to the last?
Here, waiter! more wine, let me sit while I'm able,
Till all my companions sink under the table;
Then, with chaos and blunders encircling my head,
Let me ponder-and tell what I think of the dead.
Here lies the good dean," reunited to earth,

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt-

At least, in six weeks, I could not find them out;

12 Thomas Hickey, an Irishman, was an attorney of eminence. He died in London, at a very advanced age, in 1794.

13 Malone states, and I believe correctly, that our poet "intended to have concluded with his own character." It would have saved his biographers no small embarrassment.

14 The dean was a scholar and a wit; but, as it seems, careless of the praise of posterity. His epitaph on Goldsmith was very sarcastic. He wrote, however, a metrical apology—which was read at the club in the absence of Garrick. The verses are in print. He thus calls on the poet to spare a hapless stranger, and to set his wil at Davy:

"On him let all thy vengeance fall;

On me you but misplace it:
Remember how he call'd thee poll-
But, ah! he dares not face it."

Yet some have declar'd, and it can't be denied them,
That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide them.

Here lies our good Edmund," whose genius was such.
We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,

And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat
To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote;
Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,
And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining.
Though equal to all things, for all things unfit:
Too nice for a statesman; too proud for a wit;
For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient;
And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
In short 't was his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir-
To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.

15 The epitaph on Edmund Burke, whatever tact it may display, is not a very friendly effusion; and, as I conceive, must have occasioned the statesman some mortifying reflections. His success in life, even at a later period, was inadequate to his claims; but it is hard to twit a man with his misfortunes. - Tommy Townshend the member for Whitchurch-of whom Junius gives a portrait as still life. He was afterward created Lord Sydney. Ob. 1803.

Here lies honest William," whose heart was a mint,

While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't:

The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him along,

His conduct still right, with his argument wrong;

Still aiming at honor, yet fearing to roam

The coachman was tipsy, the chariot drove home;
Would you ask for his merits? alas! he had none;
What was good was spontaneous, his faults were his own.
Here lies honest Richard," whose fate I must sigh at;
Alas! that such frolic should now be so quiet.
What spirits were his! what wit and what whim!

Now breaking a jest—and now breaking a limb;
Now wrangling and grumbling to keep up the ball;
Now teasing and vexing—yet laughing at all!

16 Edmund Burke is emphatic in praise of honest William, who lived much in his society. His "friendship for me," exclaims the orator, "has no example in these times, and would have dignified the best periods of history." The conclusion of the brilliant eulogy is: "He has nothing like a fault about him, that does not arise from the luxuriance of some generous quality."

17 Barry, the painter, observes of Richard Burke: "no one is better stocked with good-humor;" and his published letters show uncommon exuberance of spirits. He fractured one of his legs in 1767-to which accident the poet alludes.

In short, so provoking a devil was Dick,

That we wished him full ten times a-day at Old Nick ;

But, missing his mirth and agreeable vein,

As often we wish'd to have Dick back again.

18

Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts,

The Terence of England, the mender of hearts;
A flattering painter, who made it his care

To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
His gallants are all faultless, his women divine,
And comedy wonders at being so fine!

Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out—
Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.

His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd
Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud;
And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone,
Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own.

18 Cumberland, at this period, was chiefly noted as a dramatist—a dramatist of the sentimental class. Here was scope for retaliation. He had, however, written his epitaph on Goldsmith in a complimentary style; and, as open sarcasm would have been an ungracious return, the poet adroitly avails himself of persiflage. He calls his rival-if I read correctly—a coxcomb; and for this, as if to justify the name, Cumberland afterward expressed his gratitude!