AND al of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc. !ius Journal is suppued Weekly, or Monthly, by the principal Booksellers and Newsmen throughout the Kingdom: but to those who may desire No. 155. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1820. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. to view the performance in any other light, than as an acceptable addition to Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Crom- our stock of literature, both as a speciwell, and of his Sons Richard and Hen-men of eminent biography and of British History. ry. Illustrated by Original Letters and other Family Papers. By Oliver Cromwell Esq. a Descendant of the Family. With portraits from original pictures. London, 1820. 4to, pp. 733. PRICE 8d. and maternally to good and ancient families, the following is the author's testimony on this head. The same writer (Mr. Noble), from the writers of those times, describes CromIt is a rather curious circumstance, to well's father as (having a small fortune) notice the difference between the usur- carrying on a large brewing business, the acper Cromwell and the usurper Buona- counts whereof, he says, were wholly attendparte: both men wonderfully exalted, ed to by his wife; who, after his decease, both lauded to the skies, and both paint-enabled to give her daughters sufficient forcontinued to carry it on; whereby she was The season for active publication having ed as fiends. But Cromwell died in tunes to marry them into genteel families. now arrived, new works pour in upon the full possession of the authority Dr. Harris gives the same account from us in such abundance, as to afford but which he attained; and in this displayed Dugdale and other authorities, and very short time for critical deliberation. It greater genius than his follower, who justly adds, that, if true, it could not be is therefore well for our rapidly revolv-arrived at much wider power only to deemed discreditable to the family, the younging periodical, especially at this pro- afford an instance of that madness which est brothers of the best families in this ductive period, that it professes gene- success creates to wreck its minion. country engaging in trade, and thereby raising themselves to fortune and independency. rally, in the language of Bayle, " to be In the latter case a new philosophy per- It has been also said that Cromwell himself a reporter, and not a judge.' We can formed the service which in the former was engaged in the same business for his state facts, where it would be hazardous was done by a renovated religion: infi- support. All this has been said by Cromto deliver opinions; and it requires delity did the work of fanaticism. When well's enemies, for the purpose of degrading much less time to be enabled to describe we spoke of the difference between these him; but no evidence to be relied on is what a book is, than to tell what we personages, however, we rather con- produced in support of these assertions. The truth is, nothing certain is likely to be think of it. templated what was connected with This volume is of massive size, and literature than with politics. More circumstances of his parents. But it should known of his early life, or the pecuniary has some fine plates: so much for ex- than a century and a half has elapsed be observed, that Cromwell, in his speech ternals. It is sensibly written, displays since the death of the famous Oliver, to his parliament, of 12th September 1654, ample research, and furnishes some ori- and it is only now that a historiau of his says, "I was by birth a gentleman, neither ginal documents, from family papers, race comes forward to vindicate his cha-living in any considerable height, nor yet touching the private life of the extraor-racter. Not so with Napoleon; he, in in obscurity;"-and that he had been called dinary man whose biography, insepara- his solitary banishment, is his own annal- to several employments in the nation, and bly linked as it is with one of the most ist, his own vindicator, his own eulo- himself, publicly given in the face of the to serve in parliaments. This account of eventful epochs of English history, it gist. And then, the multitude of his nation, open therefore to contradiction if places in the full light of record. It also other panegyrists, French, Polish, Fle-not true, is surely a sufficient confutation of contains interesting particulars relative mish, Italian, and even English!... Surely all the stories of his and his family's narrow to his children: so much for internals; this affords a very singular and striking circumstances, and their engagements in trade at least, en masse. proof of the strength and liberty ac-in consequence. Lord Clarendon, in his The work may, perhaps more cor-quired by the press, and of the immense anxious desire to lower Cromwell's conserectly than in the title page, be desig-effects upon the condition of society himself of these circumstances, had he crequence, would not have omitted to avail nated a Historical Essay on the era which must be operated by that prodi-dited them. In Peck's Memoirs of the Life between the accession of Charles I and and Actions of Cromwell, are three panethe death of Cromwell, and a Defence But we will not detain our readers gyrics of Cromwell, supposed by Peck to of the latter against all the imputations longer from such examples from this have been written by Milton, upon different which have been thrown upon his me- voluiné as our limits perrait us to make; occasions; in the third of which he describes mory. In this respect it proves, or only premising, that from its nature it him as grown rich at home. [Does not this look like trade? A man with a large attempts to prove, as far as our hasty is little susceptible of that species of family and small estate was not likely to bejudgment goes, far too much; and, elucidation, and that there is not a sin- come so, without some such means.] The certainly, nothing can be more loose than gle aspersion upon Cromwell which it time of his birth is ascertained to have been many of the arguments, nor more incon- does not endeavour to refute, from that upon the 25th April, 1599, and it appears clusive than many of the inferences of having a chief concern in the king's to have been at Huntingdon. That his drawn from them. But in other cases, murder to that of being unamiable in father, during his life, and his mother, after the Lord Protector seems to be satisfac-private life. his father's death, were careful of his educatorily exculpated from charges brought Nothing has appeared to be more the tuition of one person and then of another; tion, is probable; but his being first under against him after the restoration, and as firmly established, than that Cromwell his proficiency or non-proficieney in learncurrently credited as repeated, down to was originally a brewer; after show-ng; his aspiring, stubborn, obstinate temthe present day. It is thus impossible ing that he belonged both paternally per, incurring severe correction; and the VÒL IV. gious engine. This is a fair specimen of the writer's mode of reasoning and it will, we presume, confirm the idea we have thrown out respecting it. We quote a few other passages on the same subject. Doisterous courses,-the tay now been made, and his name is not found accounts of the boisterousness of his dispo- not say when Cromwell was in this low sition rendering him a terror to the neigh-splenetic state.. Had Cromwell had such a bourhood; and, above all, the incredible story dream, the doctor must have heard it in his of his disagreement with and giving the attendance upon him in the state of mind he King's son, the then Duke of York, after- describes him, most likely to produce unwards King Charles, a blow, when at play at pleasant or extraordinary dreams; and, in Hinchinbrooke; also his supposed dream of his relation of his complaints, he could not his future greatness, and his acting in the com- have forgotten one so extraordinary. There edy of Lingua;-these must be the fabrications can be no doubt that this dream was a fabriof the different writers after the Restoration, cation after the event, and probably after who chose to suppose there must be some- the Restoration, when every idle story to his thing marvellous and criminal in the very prejudice met with a welcoine reception. earliest moments of this extraordinary man's life. Indeed, it is quite improbable that all, or any of the trifling incidents of his childhood and youth, should have been noticed, and then preserved during a period of between fifty and sixty years; nor was it very likely that the witnesses to these things should have been then living, and in posAt the time of the King's forementioned session of memory and mental powers suffi- first visiting Hinchinbrooke, in his way from cient to have accurately remembered and Scotland, which was in 1603, Cromwell was related them. [They night however have not more than four years old; and in 1616 been handed down from sire to son, and and 1617, when the King is said again to have it is very likely that many true as well as visited Hinchinbrooke, he must have been false anecdotes of a person who had risen so between seventeen and eighteen years of age, high would be thus preserved.] Lord Cla- and the prince one year older than him; and rendon mentions Cromwell's supposed dream, the two latter times, Cromwell must have and relates, that during his deliberation re- known better than thus to conduct himself, specting the proposed taking upon himself supposing nothing to have prevented him. the office of King, he revolved in his mind At college, he is described by different histhis dream or apparition, that had at first torians,-one, to save the trouble of examiinformed and promised him the high fortune nation, following another, as living a dissoto which he was then already arrived; which, lute and disorderly course of life, being more he says, had been generally spoken of even famous whilst there for foot-ball, cricket, from the beginning of the troubles, and that cudgelling, and wrestling, than for study, and he remembered that it had only declared as being of a rough and blustering disposi that he should be the greatest man in Eng- tion, acquiring the name of Royster. Some land, and should be near to be King, which writers say, he continued at college one year, seemed to imply, that he should be only near, others two: upon the strictest search and and never actually attain the crown. How enquiry at the college, no trace is to be his Lordship should thus acquire the know-found there of the time of his quitting, and ledge of Cromwell's inmost thoughts is not it is not likely that there should be any other conceivable had he for a moment indulged authentic source of information, after the in his own mind a thought upon so silly a lapse of forty years to the Restoration. [Is subject, he would probably have been asham-not this an unsupported assumption?] No ed to communicate it to his nearest friend. ground, therefore, of belief is left that he Sir Phillip Warwick mentions this dream. quitted the college before the usual time of He relates that, after the rendition of Oxford, quitting, or that he misbehaved himself whilst (which was in June 1646), he was frequent- there. The discipline may be presumed to ly with his wife's sister, near Huntingdon, have been very strict, and consequently the where he had occasion to converse with youth kept very orderly, to afford Archbishop Cromwell's physician, Dr. Simcott, who as-Land, then bishop of London, cause to comsured him, that for many years, he (Crom-plain (as he does in his considerations, prewell, his patient) was a most splenetic man,sented by him to the King in the year 1628, and had fancies about the cross in that town; for better settling the church-government) and that he had been called up to him at of this college and of Emanuel being the midnight, and such unseasonable hours, very nurseries of puritanism. Al', therefore, that many times, upon a strong fancy, which is related of Cromwell's dissipated life at made him believe he was then dying. Sir college, and his short continuance there, Phillip then adds, "And there went a story of must be wholly invention, for the purpose of him," that, in the day-time, lying melancho- vilifying him, and rendering him odious and In Thurloe's State Papers is a letter from ly upon his bed, he believed that a spirit contemptible from the very outset of his Beverning, the Dutch deputy in England, to appeared to him, and told him that he should life. In the pursuit of this object, he is Jongestall, at the Hague, dated August 12be the greatest man (not mentioning the supposed to be sent by his mother to Lin-22, 1653, wherein he says, "Last Saturday word King) in this kingdom; which his coln's-inn, soon after his return from Cam-I had a discourse with His Excellency Cromunele, Sir Thomas Steward, told him was bridge, where his mind is said to have been well above two hours, being without any traitorous to relate. This must be the same ingrossed by the juice of the grape and the body present with us. His Excellency spoke story that Lord Clarendon relates; but, it charms of the fair, with a habit of gaining, his own language so distinctly, that I could is very evident, from Sir Phillip's change of instead of attending to his law studies. For understand him. I answered again in expression, that this story of the dream inade the purpose of carrying on the story, he is Latin." Mr. Noble says he (Cromwell) anno part of the doctor's relation, and that it then described as returning to Huntington a swered, which is a mistake. Beverning was mere common report. Sir Phillip does finished rake, where he followed his vicious writes to the same effect to Nieuport, on the : This is rather better logic than what precedes it; but it is worthy of remark, that the author, while he refuse, any credit to assertions made after the Restoration, calls upon us to believe those written during the Protectorate. We attach equal value to the flatteries of power, and the calumnies on fallen greatness. We extract another illustrative passage: 19 is observable, confined to the years preceding which will afford very accurate grounds in the British Museum, from Cromwell to The following is a copy of an original letter, his daughter Ireton, given by Dr. Harris: it is dated, London, 25th October, 1646, and is addressed to her at Combury, the general's head quarters. "Deere Daughter," same 22d of August. Although Cromwell did not here speak Latin, yet he must have well understood the language, as he could not then have had an interpreter with him, nobody being present at the meeting besides Cromwell and the writer; who, though he appears to have understood the English language when clearly and distinctly spoken to him, did not sufficiently understand it to converse in it; he therefore preferred carrying on the conversation in Latin, in which Cromwell must have been well versed to be able to continue it for more than two nature, of his endeavouring to mend his supThen comes a charge of a very serious hours. Hence, it also appears that Crom-posed broken fortune, by annexing the estate well spoke his own language well and cor- of his maternal uncle, Sir Thomas Steward, avoyd trouble; for one line of mine. begitts "I write not to thy husband, partly to rectly, and expressed himself clearly and in- to his own, by representing him as a person many of his, wch I doubt makes him sitt up telligibly, and not in the confused manner unfit to govern it, and petitioning to His too late; partly because I am myself indisgenerally attributed to him. Whitelock, in his account of Cromwell's the King refused. But, most extraordinary siderations. Your friends at Ely are well; Majesty for a commission of lunacy, which posed att this tyme, havinge some other conreception of the Swedish ambassador in 1655, to relate, this same uncle, for the purpose of your sister Clapole is (I trust in mercye) exwhen Protector, says, the ambassador spoke reconciling this story with his uncle's will inercised with some perplexed thoughts: in the Swedish language, and that after he his favour, is supposed to have been prevailed she sees her own vanitye and carnal minde, had done, being but short, his secretary did upon to forgive him, and to leave him his bewailinge itt; she seekes after (as I hope interpret it in Latin; and that after the in- estate. This supposed attempt to deprive alsoe) that wch will satisfie; and thus to terpreter had done, the Protector stood still his uncle of his estate, would have been so a pretty while, and putting off his hat to the atrocious and unpardonable, that the reasonambassador, with a carriage full of gravity able conclusion inust be, that this disposition and state, he answered him in English. That in favour of Cromwell proves the falsehood this speech was not interpreted, because the of the story. Mr. Noble, in his third edition, ambassador understood English; and that gives a copy of this will, which is dated Ja after it was done, the ambassador gave co-nuary 29, 1635, by which he gives all his pies of his speech in Swedish and in Latin landed property to his nephew, Oliver Crom-in desier and lesse then pressinge after full to the Protector. This is surely a further well. He desires to be buried in the cathe-enjoyment. Deere hart, presse on; lett not proof of Cromwell's familiar acquaintance dral church of Ely, in the tomb of his grand-husband, let not any thinge cool thy affecwith the Latin tongue, in which he would father. probably have answered the ambassador, had he not understood English. The same worthy of love in thy husband is, that of the tions after Christ. I hope hee will be an occasion to inflame them. That wch is best writer, in his journal of his Swedish embassy image of Christ he beares; look on that, in the year 1653 and 1654, also says, that and love it best, and all the rest for that. at a dinner at Grocer's Hall, in the city of My service and deere affections to the geneLondon, Cromwell discoursed in Latin with I pray for thee and him: doe soe for me. the Swedish ambassador. to thee; it adds to all other obligations. My rall and generalesse; I heere she is very kind love to all. I am thy deere father. tations, Cromwell is now, upon his marriage, In continuance of these farcical represento become too good: the strictness of his manners, it is said, had recommended him to the notice of the austere non-conformists, who weaned him from the established church, Enough, it is conceived, has been said in them. This is not likely to be true; all his and he became sometimes a preacher amongst disproof of the common assertion of Crom-children appear, by the foregoing registers, well's deficiency in the knowledge of the to have been baptized according to the rites Latin language, and of his own tongue, and of the established church; nor are the above of his supposed early loss of time in idleness grants to him of the leases by the dean and and dissipation. chapter of Ely, an inconsiderable proof that which was at that time a hated character. he had not yet become a non-conformist, Nor does he appear to have been considered by the then government as its inveterate enemy, although he had opposed some of its measures in the parliament of 1627; for, in the sixth year of the reign of the King (1631), it appears, in the records of Hunting finder; and such a one shall every faythfull be a seeker, is to bee of the best sect next a humble seeker bee att the end. Happie seeker, happie finder. Whoever tasted that the Lord is gracious, without some sence of self-vanitye and badnesse? Who ever tasted that graciousnesse of his and could goe lesse OLIVER CROMWELL." ter in the possession of the Cromwell family. The following is a copy of an original letit is dated 13th Aug. 1649, and is addressed, well (Richard Cromwell's wife) at Hurslye, For my beloved daughter Dorothye Crom theise. I 66 Many may consider it no very important matter now, whether Cromwell understood latin well or ill; but to those who attach any interest to the like to see any thinge from your hand, bepoint, it will be evident that the forecause indeed I stick not to say I doe entireMy deere Daughter; "Your letter was very welcome to mee, going goes much farther to prove that lye love you, and therefore I hope a word of he was an indifferent than a tolerable \ don; that by the charter then granted to that advise will not be unwelcom nor unacceptable classic. His not speaking latin in an-town, Thomas Beard, D. D., Robert Bar- to thee; I desire you both to make itt above tor from his residence at Huntingdon to wise thereunto. As for the pleasures of this I have much satisfaction in hope your spirit and Saviour Jesus Christ, and that I may I would not have him alter his affaires be- 66 rest thy loveinge father, "O. CROMWELL." "I heere thou didst lately miscarrie; prithee take heede of a coach by all meanes; borrowe thy father's nagg when thou intendest to goe abroad." The following is also a copy of an original letter in the possession of the Cromwell family. It is date Carricke, 2d April 1560; and is addressed "For my beloved Sonne Richard Cromwell, Esq., at Hurstly, in Hampshire." Dick Cromwell; "I take your letters kindlye: I like expressions when they come plainlye from the heart, and are not strayned nor affected. I am perswaded it's the Lord's mercye to place you where you are; I wish you may owne itt and be thankefull, fulfillinge all relations to the glory of God. Seeke the Lord and his face continually, lett this bee the businesse of your life and strength. And lett all thinges bee subservient and in order to this. You cannott finde, nor behold the Face of God but in Christe, therefore labor to knowe God in Christ, wch the Scriptures makes to bee the sum of all, even life eternall. Because the true knowledge is not Your lovinge Father, "O. CROMWELL." Altogether, this is more a useful, than a literary work, and its defect is, that of being too much studied for the Cromwell family. Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters " age of taste and correctness, and to develope the arts of composition; he had to teach us to learn to think; he had to escape from our native but undisciplined invention, and to restrain our prurient imagination in conception and expression; and to polish a diction colloquially feeble or unskilfully perplexed. Literature assumed a new form; the triumphs and the factions of literature arose with the interests they excited in the public feelings, but the progress of his own works was an object, not only of his egotism, but of the curiosity of other men, and the delight of the retentive fondness of Spence. Some indulgence may however be claimed for one portion of Spence's anecdotes; in the literary class, the reader will find many with which he is not unacquainted; but if they appear to him as twice-told, he must recollect that Spence was the first teller. The first period in this extract is a very bold, inconsiderate, and unfounded assertion; taste and literature were both of earlier birth than last century. This work, as originally announced, was to consist of two volumes; but it now appears, and very carelessly done Arranged" it can too, in one only. hardly be called; and whoever has had To teach us to learn to think," is the task of editing what Malone threw another strange passage, which, if it is together from Spence, has bestowed not nonsense, is a fallacy; and as for very little pains upon the subject. It the concluding sentence, some regard seems as if many parts of Spence's to weeding out the most trite and well common-place book had been tran-known anecdotes, would have been a scribed without order or reference; and wiser course than such an apology for the only thing like classification into the reiterating them. three heads, of "Popiana," "English Poets and Prose Writers (and a few Foreign Writers,)" and "Miscellaneous,' is disregarded in every division. Irre We select, without further preface or remark, the most striking and novel extracts. In the Moral Poem I had written an ad literall or speculative, but inward, transform-gularity and confusion are the conse-dress to our Saviour, imitated from Lucrequences; and not only are the same tius's compliment to Epicurus; but omitted anecdotes, &c. repeated in substance, it by the advice of Dean Berkley. One of but frequently in words. Of this, pa- our priests, who are more narrow than ges 144 and 148, 153 and 155, where yours, made a less sensible objection to the we find the identical notices (one of Epistle on Happiness: he was very angry them even reprinted verbatim the third that there was nothing said in it of our eternal happiness hereafter; though my subject time,) which we have perused in the was expressly to treat only of the state of preceding Popiana. man here.-Mr. Pope. inge the minde to itt, its unitinge to, and participatinge of the Divine nature. (2 Pet. i. 4. Its such a knowledge as Paul speakes off. Phillip. the 3d. 8, 9, 10. How little of this knowledge of Christ is there amongst us! My weake prayers shal be for you, take heede of an unactive vaine spirit. Recreate yourselfe w' Sir Walter Raughleye's Historie; its a bodye of historie, and will add much more to your understandinge then fragments of storie. Intend to understand the estate I have settled: its your concernment to knowe itt all, and how itt stands; I have heeretofore suffered much by too much trustinge others; I know my brother Maior wil be helpfull to you in all this: you will thinke (perhaps) I need not advise you to love your wife. The Lord teach you to how to doe itt, or else itt wil be done ilfavouredly. Though marriage bee noe instituted sacrament, yett where the undefiled bed is, and love, this union aptly resembles Christ, and his church. If you can truely love your wife what doeth Christ beare to his church and every poore soule therein, whoe gave himselfe for itt and to itt. Commend mee to your wife; tell her I entyerly love her and rejoyce in the goodnesse of the Lord to her. I wish her every way fruitfull. I thanke her for her lovinge letter. I have presented my love to my sister and cozen Ann, etc. in my letter to my brother Maior. Notwithstanding this very reprehensible inattention, there are a good many amusing and curious matters in this publication; and though the far greater proportion of its contents wants the recommendation of novelty, it will pass muster as a pleasing parlour companion. Spence (says the advertisement) lived in an age when taste first appeared among us, and literature first began to diffuse itself among the nation. By his habits a man of letters; by his skill a classical and elegant critic; and by the sweetness of his manners and perpetual curiosity, Spence was well adapted to promote, as well as to record the many conversations he has preserved for posterity. Pope was "the god of his idolatry," for Pope was the creafor of an epoch in our literature. This period was a transition from one age to another. The immortal writer had to open an When I was looking over some things I had brought from Italy, to pick out what might be of use to his grotto, and came among the rest to some beads and medals that had been blest at Loretto, he laid them gently aside, and said “ these would be good presents for a papist."-The same. I endeavoured (says he smiling) in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece: there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; herc Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian." It was an imitative poem then, as your other exercises were imitations of this or that story?" "Just that."-The same. On Lord Hyde's return from his travels, his brother-in-law, the Lord Essex, told him, with a great deal of pleasure, that he had got a pension for him. It was a very handsome one, and quite equal to his rank. All Lord Hyde's answer was, "How could you tell, my lord, that I was to be sold; or, at least, how could you know my price so exactly?"-The same. Mr. Pope never flattered any body for money in the whole course of his writings. Alderman Barber had a great inclination to have a stroke in his commendation inserted in some part of Mr. Pope's works. He did not want money, and he wanted fame. He would probably have given four or five thousand pounds to have been gratified in this desire; and gave Mr. Pope to understand as much. Mr. Pope would not comply with such a baseness; and when the alderman died he left him only a legacy of & hundred pounds, which might have been some thousands,if he had obliged him only with a couplet.—Mr. W.† [who had it from Mr. Pope, and I have been assured of it by others who knew both Mr. Pope and the Alderman very well.] The list for prose authors, from whose works such a dictionary should be collected, was talked over several times. There were eighteent of them named by Mr. Pope, but four § of that number were only named as authorities for familiar dialogues and writings of that kind. The same. Should I not write down Hooke and Middleton? Ay; and I think there's scarce any more of the living that you need name.-The same. The list of writers that might serve as authorities for poetical language was begun upon twice, but left very imperfect. There were but nine mentioned, and two¶ of those only for the burlesque style.-The same. Here am I, like Socrates, distributing my morality among my friends, just as I am dying.-Mr. Pope (on sending about some of his ethic epistles as presents, about three weeks before we lost him.] There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much uneasiness in going out of it, that-it is hardly worth while to be here at all! Lord Bolingbroke. [His lordship's melancholy attitude that morning (the 21st), leaning against Mr. Pope's chair, and crying over him for a considerable time with more concern than can be expressed.] Ah! great God, what is man?-The sume. [Looking on Mr. Pope, and repeating it several times, interrupted with sobs.] When I was telling his lordship that Mr. Pope, on every catching and recovering of his mind, was always saying something kindIt was on this account that Mr. Pope compliments him with that passage 66 ly either of his present or absent friends, and a friend of the duke's, who was surprised I have known him these thirty years, and I am so certain of the soul's being im- In the morning, after the priest had given Mr. Pope died the 30th of May, 1744, in the evening; but they did not know the exact time, for his departure was so easy, that it was imperceptible even to the standers-by. Lord Dorset used to say of a very goodnatured dull fellow, it is a thousand pities that man is not ill-natured, that we might kick him out of company.-The same. Wycherly was a very handsome man. His acquaintance with the famous duchess of Cleaveland commenced oddly enough. One day as he passed that duchess's coach in the Ring, she leaned out of the window, and cried out, loud enough to be heard distinctly by him, "Sir, you're a rascal; you're a villain." Wycherly from that instant entertained hopes. He did not fail waiting on her next morning; and with a melancholy tone begged to know how it was possible for him to have so much disobliged her grace? They were very good friends from that time; yet, after all, what did he get by her? He was to have travelled with the young duke of Richmond. King Charles now and then gave him a hundred pounds not often; and he was an equerry".-Mr. Pope. Rowe was first bred at Westminster, and then at the Temple. He had about 3007. a year and his chambers there. His father was a serjeant at law. He was of a pretty personage, and a very pretty sort of man.— Mr. Lewis. When the Doctor was very deeply engaged in writing one of his tragedies, that nobleman made him a very different present. He procured a human skull, and fixed a candle in it, and gave it to the Doctor, as the most proper lamp for him to write tragedy by.-The same. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, "I don't know what I may seem to the world; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great a man, might have had a hankering after the French prophets. There was a time, I can assure you, when he was possessed with the old fooleries of astrology; and another when he was so far gone in chemistry as to be upon the hunt after the philosopher's stone.-Lockier. When the Bishop of Rochester was in the tower, upon its being said in the drawing-room, "What shall we do with the man?"-Lord Cadogan answered, "Fling him to the lions." The Bishop was told of this, and soon after in a letter to Mr. Pope, said that he had fallen upon some verses by chance in his room, which he must copy out for him to read. These were four extreme severe lines against Lord Cadogan. By fear unmoved, by shame unaw'd, Anon. The Jews offered my Lord Godolphin to pay five hundred thousand pounds, (and they would have made it a million) if the government would allow them to purchase the town of Brentford, with leave of settling there entirely, with full privileges of trade, &c. The agents from the Jews said, that the affair was already concerted with the chief of their brethren abroad; that it would bring the richest of their merchants hither, and of course an addition of above twenty millions of money to circulate in posal was made; and as soon as the agent the nation. Lord Molesworth was in the room with Lord Godolphin, when this prowas an epigram made by Mr. Rowe on Lord Godolphin was not of his opinion. was gone, pressed him to close with it. Phil. Frowd's uncle, when that gentleman He foresaw that it would provoke two of the was writing a tragedy of that name.— most powerful bodies in the nation, the Pope. clergy and the merchants; he gave other reasons too against it; and, in fine, it was dropped.-Lockier. disdain what Cornbury disdains." +Mr.W. here quoted as an authority about Al-Frowd for his precious soul cares not a pin-a, derman Barber, was probably Warburton.—M. Lord Bacon, Hooker, Hobbes, Ben Jonson, For he can now do nothing else but Cinn-a. Lord Clarendon, Barrow, Tillotson, Dryden, Sir Wm. Temple, L'Estrange, Locke, Spratt, Atterbury, Congreve, Addison, Vanburgh, Swift, Lord Bolingbroke. Ben Johnson, Congreve, L'Estrange, Vanburgh Spenser, Shakspeare, Fletcher, Waller, Butler, Milton, Dryden, Prior, Swift. Butler and Swift. Fletcher was mentioned aly as an authority for familiar dialogue and the slighter kinds of writing. -Mr. A little after Dr. Young had published Buckingham, as Master of the Horse to the When Henry the Fourth of France was expected that he should give some remarkreconciled to the church of Rome, it was able testimonial of his sincerity in return |