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The question of wearing wigs, with the form of an ecclefiaftical tonfure, became a matter of cager controverfy; and the first petit maitre of a clergyman, who was bold enough to appear in a wig, was called le patriarche des ecclefiafliques imperruques. At this time was publified the famous book in favour of wigs, under the title of Abfolom, whole melancholy fate was occafioned by his hair. An aufwer, however, foon appeared, with a frontifpiece of a man faved from being drowned by the fortunate feizure of his hair, which ferved to fave him from finking.

filling up a fecond hiatus in Mr. Headley's biographical sketches.

William Hunnis, of whofe poetical talent Mr. H. hath inferted an alliterative fpecimen in his "Select Beauties," was a gentleman of the chapel-royal, and mufic-mafter to the children of the fame, in the reigns of Edward VI, and Elizabeth. Bithop Tanner difcovered from a MS. in Ahm. Muf. that letters patent, dated 1568, admitted him to bear arma gentilitia*. Wood mentions him as a crony of Thomas Newton, the Latin poett: and g of his perfonal hiftory appears not to have been recorded. Thefe fubjects have not only en From the title, to his verfion of ployed the pen of the fatirifiut rayne) Pfalmes," in 1550, we' the anathema of the divine; dather that he had been a dependant Tertullian expreffes hitelf, in very in the family of Sir Wm. Harberd, firong terms, against the fashion of knt. s nautical paraphrafe of the wearing falfe hair, and dying it of varen penitential Pfalms," which rious colours, which prevailed in his day; and reproached thofe who practifed it, with endeavouring to prove the declaration of the Gospel uitrue, that we cannot make an hair white or black, or cause the leaft addition to our ftature.

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For my own part, I am an advocate for hair; and when I fee bifhops or judges in wigs I lament the distigurement. Let any one go into Guildhall, and look at the two pictures of Sir Matthew Hale, and Lord Camden, which are aloft oppofite cach other, and they will inftantly perceive how infinitely more venerable is the grey hairs of the former, than the fuperabundant flow of periwig that diftinguithes the latter. A NATURALIST.

Mr. URBAN,
Dec. 13.
N vol. LXVIII. p. 934, you

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of Robert Southwell. I now enclofe fimilar notices of another antiquated poet, for the purpose of *Bibliotheca Brit. H b p. 422.

parfed through feveral editions, was

fet forth under the honourable defence" of Frances, Countefs of Suífext: and his "Hive full of Honey” was dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester; whofe bounty towards him was more than he could confefs. Prefixed to the latter work is a copy of verfes by Newton, "in commendation of his frendes travayle;" which thus curiously traces our verfifier, and his various productions:

"IN PRYME OF YOUTH, thy pleafaunt Depainted Sonets (weete, [penne

Delightfull to the greedy care,

Iventh fail humour meete
Thy Enterludes, thy gallaunt Layes,
The Ron lletts, and thy Songes,
Thy Ngay, and thy Widowes Mite,
With that& thereto belonges;
With other fancies of thy forge, &c.

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Defcendinge then, IN RIPER YEARES,
To tutte of further reache;

Thy fchooled quill, by deeper ikill,
Did graver matters teache.
And now to knit a perfect knot,
IN WINTER OF THINE AGE,
+ Athen. Oxon. 1. 152.

Mr. Warton, in Hift. E. P. III. 180. fays, that Honnis "much extols this lady for her attachment to the Gospel." Mr. W. is not accurate. Her virtue, and her courtesy, are extolled: bet, "godlie feare, firme faith, and allured hope in the Almightie," are enumerated only among the dedicator's wishes to his patronefs.

§ 4. 6. "Comfortible Dialogs, Humble Sutes, A Lamentation," &c. &c.

Such

Such argument thou chosen haft

For this thy style full fage,
As farre furmounts the refidue,
Though all in pith excell,

And makes thy frendes to joye thereat,
But foes with fpite to fwell.
This worke, I meane, of facred lore,
This hault philofophye,

Which, through thy paine and stayed braine,
We here beholde, and fee,
In curraunt meeter, roundlie coucht,
And foundly taught withall;
As they which text with verfe conferre,
Full foone acknowledge fhal."
The following publications of
Hunnis are mentioned either by
Tanner, Warton, or Herbert:

"The pfalms of David, translated into English metre, by Tho. Sturnhold, Sir Tho. Wyat, and William Hunnis, &c. dedicated to King Edward VI. 4to."

"Certayne Pfalmes, chofen out of the Pfalter of David, and drawen "forth into English meter, by William Hunnis, fervant to the Right Hon. Syr Wm. Harberd, knt. newly corrected and imprinted". 1550.

"An abridgement,-A brief meditation on certaine of the Pfalmes, in English meter, by William Hunnis." 8vo.

Twelve poems by Hunnis were inferted in the "Paradife of dainty devifes." Edition, 1576; and fix others in the edition of 1577. 4to. 1576-7.

"A Hyve full of Hunnye: contayning the first booke of Mofes, called Genefis. Turned into English metre, by William Hunnis." 4to. 1578.

"Seven fobs of a forrow full foule for finne: comprehending those seven pfalmes of the princelte prophet David, commonlie called penitentiall; reduced into meter by

William Hunnis: Whereunto are alfo annexed, his Handfull of Honifuckles, the Poor Widow's mite*, a Dialog between Chrift and a Sinner, divers jollie and pithie dities; with a Chriftian confeffion of, and to, the Trinitie," 12mo. 1582, 1585, 1589,

1591, 1597, 1610, 1629.

"Recreations: containing Adam's banifhment, Chrift his cribbe, the Loft Sheepe, and the Complaint of Old Age; by William Hunnis." 12mo. 1583. Yours, &c.

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Jan. 4. 1800. N a book intituled, Walpoliana," containing bon-mots, &c.

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* Dedicated to "the Queenes Maicities + See her XXXIXth Letter.

afcribed to the late lord Orford, originally retailed in the "Monthly Magazine," but now prefaced with a fketch, in which, under the name of friendship, the character of that ingenious nobleman is most infidioufly and unmercifully traduced; there is an anecdote, containing fuch a grofs anachronifm, as thew's how little credit can be given to any part of the work. Lord O. is made to fav. "that lady Mary Wortley Montague was his playfellow, and that they were children together." Now, lady Mary's daughter, lady Bute, was born as early as March, 1718 t, the year after lord O.; and her fon E. W. Montague was ftill older ‡.

It is fingular, that in the articles of lady Mary, and her eccentric fon, in the New Gen. Biog. Dict. vol. XI. PP. 35, 36. there is not a fingle date.

Lady Mary died 21 Aug. 1762. She was daughter of Evelyn Pierrepoint, duke of Kingfton; and was, probably, not more than ten years younger than her husband, who died 22 Jan. 1761, aged 80; and muft, therefore, have been born as early as 1681.

E. W. Montague, the fon, died in 1776, on his return from Venice to England. The late Mr. Seward has, in the fourth volume of his " Anecdotes," printed three or four letters to fir William Watfon, dated 1775, the year before his death.

That lord O. could not have made fuch a miftake, is furely unqueftionble. But how any one acquainted with modern literature could be guilty of fuch a lapfe, is perfectly aftonifhing! Lady Mary Wortley, whofe travels into the Eaft, as early as 1716, are in every body's hands! Lady Mary Wortley, the companion and the fcourge of the parties of Pope § and lord treafurer Oxford, who died in 1724, to be the Highness-"

Lidy Mary, in a letter dated, Vienna, Sept 8, 1716, fpeaks of her child; and in another, dated Adranople, April 1, 1717, giving an account of incculation, she adds, "There is no example of any one that has died in it; and, you may believe, I am well fatisfied of the fafety of this experiment, fince I intend to try it on my dear little fon." Letter XXXI. § See Johnson's Life of Pope, p. 146, &c.

play fellow

playfellow of Horace Walpole!!! Where could be the memory of Mr. P***, (for the fentiments, both political and religious; and a letter, alluding to a firange book, published in 1785, can leave no room to doubt of the editor,) when fuch an anecdote was fuffered to país a fecond time through the prefs? I own, I am not forry for it; becaufe I fhould be very unwilling to think as ill of lord O. as, had I truited to the fidelity of this book, I muit have been compelled to think!

Still, fome letters in this publication, of which the authenticity cannot be doubted, diminith my opinion of the noble author's tafte, or his honefty!

Dr. Jofeph Warton, in his late excellent edition of Pope's Works, vol. II. p. 326, in a note to the eclogue of the Ballet Table," fpeaks highly of lady M. W. Montague. "There were," fays he, "fix TownEclogues; two written by Mr. Pope, and the reft by lady W. Montague, whofe fine genius and abilities are well known, and from whofe hand I am glad to prefent the reader with the following fonnet, preferved by Algarotti, in the feventh volume of his works:

"Thou filver deity of fecret night,
Direct my footsteps through the woodland
fhade;

Thou confcious witnefs of unknown delight,
The lover's guardian, and the mufes aid.
By thy pale beams I folitary rove ;

To thee my tender grief confide;
Serenely fweet you guide the filent grove,
My friend, my goddefs, and my guide.
E'en thee, fair queen, from thy amazing
height,

The sharms of young Endimion drew, Veil'd in the mantle of concealing night, With all thy greatnefs, and thy coldness toa!"

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

G.

Jan. 10. Y queries regarding Harte have been the occafion of

MY

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fome very curious notices; for
which, not only myself, but I dare
fay, all lovers of literary biography,
feel obliged to R. H. A. g. b. in
your vol. LXIX. p. 1019.
that at least I may congratulate
myself on having been, as Falftaff
fays, "the occafion of wit in other
men."-The anecdote of Johnfon
is more curious than any to be found
in his Biographers regarding his
earlier life.-I here take the opportu-
nity of throwing together a few
more notices regading Harte.-

Harte, having faid, in his "Hiftory of Guftavus Adolphus, that all good campaigns, if rightly and thoroughly confidered, are nothing lefs than one continued fries of judicious caufes, and fortunate effects," adds the following curious

note:

"I remember, in my youth, to have heard the great Earl of Peterborow make a very lively comparison upon the occation;

fitting at table) always fixes firit on the latt rhyme of his couplet, and the general cft of the fecond line: and thus, (continued he) a good commander, at the very dawning of a campaign, thould prefigure to himself, by what action he propotes to conclude it; for the laft ftroke always reckons for fomething in the year ensuing*."

Pope,' faid he, (for Mr. Pope was then

Harte's name occurs continually in Dr. Jofeph Warton's late truly excellent edition + of Pope's Works. He feems, therefore, to have been a great favourite of that learned critic.

Dr. Warton fays, "there are many admirable paffages in Harte's Effay on Human Reafon; which was much praifed on its firft publication, and is faid to have been corrected by Pope ‡."

Harte concludes his "Guftavus Adolphus" with the following words:

"And thus, with more labour than one can expect thanks, I have at length fuifhed the life of Guttavus: a prince, perhaps, with whom few heroes may be compared, in the feveral diftinguishing characters of foldler, ftatefman, the father

* Gustavus Adolphus, Second Edition, 8vo. 1757, Vol. I. p. 304.

It is to be regretted, that there is no proper index to this edition.-But Harte's name oceus (inter alios) in the following places :-Vol. I. p. xi. lv. 39, 143, 240, 193. Vol. 111. p. 19. 11. Vol. IV. p. 43.

Pope's Works, Vol. IV. p. 43.

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of his people, and a fincere Chriftian. And had it pleafed God, to have made a lefs in firm state of health my portion, I might have been tempted, in a fecond work, (making ufe of a manner lefs circumftantial and diffufed, than matters of biography ufually require) to have carried on the History of Germany down to the conclufion of the Peace of Munfter; the most imas well as most decifive, æra, that

porta be found in the annals of Europe!

is But, the greatnefs of the undertaking, partly difmayed me; not to mention the expence and difficulty of confulting in perfon the archives and libraries of various countries ! * Yet, numbers, it is certain, are to be found amongst my countrymen, who in every relpect, are infinitely better qualified for fuch an undertaking, than I can pretend to: and, indeed, it would be no inconfiderable fatisfaction to me, to fee our nation derive its knowledge of affairs on the continent from any hiftorians, except the French; whofe method, it must be acknowledged, is well conceived; and their ftile ufually fuch as hardly allows the reader to be inattentive; but the writers themselves are negligent and romantic, infincere and partial."

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Dr. Ferriar, of Manchetter, to prove the plagiarifm of Sterne, I am ftill inclined to view him as an original writer. And when I confider the unrivalled vein of humour, and the dazzling blaze of genius, fo confpicuous in all his works, I muft confider his fate as an author to be very hard. Is it not a reproach to this nation, that no monument has been erected to him in Westminster Abbey? The man whofe writings have been fojuftly and univerfally admired was indebted to two obfcure individuals, for a common tomb to cover his remains. Add to this inftance of national gratitude, the avidity with which the feeble attempt of the above-mentioned medical gentle

How is the objection of Mr. man, to tear the hurch, from the

Beltham to the corruption of human nature, that our Saviour being born of a woman, and taking upon him our nature, must have been involved in it! Does he forget the exprefs affertion of Scripture, that God made him fin for us, who knew no fin, that we might be the righteoufnefs of God in him," 2 Cor. xv. 21. "He was tempted like as we are, yet without fin," Heb. iv. 15. He did no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth," I Pet. ii. 22. So that he was the only human being, or being that affumed human na

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brow of this celebrated writer, was read by the publick. How precarious literary fame! And how painful the confideration to the man of genius, that, after his remains lie mouldering in the duft, fome fuch daftardly attempt may be made to blaft his reputation; and, if pofible, confign his name to oblivion!

It is probable that, in the nineteenth century, Sterne will receive that tribute of refpect to his memory, which has hitherto been denied him in the eighteenth. CRITO.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 9

tare without affuming its taint. B Sterne, to fucccifully de Y the glaring plagiaritims of

How this was brought about is equally impenetrable with his af

teéted by Dr. Ferriar, of Manchef

He adds in a note, "The author hath by him, already finished, the Hiftory of the Thirty Years War, from the breaking out of the troubles in Bohemia, in 1618, tili the death of Gußavus, 1632; fo that only fixteen years remain to be compleated."--What is become of this? Who had Harte's papers?

This is adopted by the Church in the Communion fervice; the preface for Chrift mas-day ftating, that Chrift "was made very man after the fubftance of the Virgin Mary his mother, and that without pot of fin, to make us clean from all fin."

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ter, from Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," I have been inclined to the re-perufal of an old author, from whom I receive increased amufement at every repetition.

There appears to me aftriking analogy, in fome paffages of Dr. Johnfon's works, to fome I have obferved in "The Anatomy of Melancholy." I do not mean to charge our great moralift with plagiarifm; it will frequently happen, that two authors will have the fame thought when writing upon the fame fubject; but I only with to aik, Mr. Urban, if you think the following extracts might not have been originally fuggefted by "Burton's Anatomy?" From the praife Dr, Johnson has bestowed upon Burton, it is evident he was no ftranger to "The Anatomy of Melancholy." "If we confider the prefent ftate of the world, it will be found, that all confidence is loft among mankind. It is impoffible to fee the long ferolls in which every contract is included, with all their appendages of feals and atteftations, without wondering at the depravity of those beings, who must be restrained from violation of promife by fuch formal and public evidences, and precluded from equivocation by fuch punctilious minuteness." Rambler, No. 131.. "Our firefathers had wont, Pauculis cruculis aureis, to make all affurances, conveyances; and, fuch was the candour and inregrity of fucceeding ages, that a deed to convey a whole manor was contained in fometwenty lines, or thereabouts. But now

to many ikins of parchment will fearce ferve turn, there be fo many words, fach tautological repetitions of all particulars."

Democritus to the Reader, p. 59. In his beautiful paper on the inadequacy of crimes to punishments, though attributed to Sir Thomas More, Dr. Johnfor fpeaks the opinion of Burton, in « His own Utopia."

"This terror (death) fhould be reserved as the laft effort of authority. If only Murder were punished with death, very few rubbers would ftain their hands in binod. To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder to robbery." No. 114.

Adultery (fays Burton, wifely,) thall be punished with death; but not theft, ex• cept it be fome more grievous offence, or notorious offenders." Burton, p. 60.

*Burton's Anatomy, ed. 1621. GENT. MAS, January, 1800,

"Once more, Democritus, arife on earth, With chearful wildom and instructive mirth And feed with varied fools th' eternal jeft. See motley life in modern trappings dreft, How would't thou fhake at Britain's mo difh tribe, &c."

Johnfon's Vanity of Human Wifhes? "If Democritus were alive now, he would fee frange alterations; a new company of counterfeit vifards, affes, butterflies, monfters, giddy-heads, &c. Were Pluto to come fee fafhions, and visit our he now to travel, or could get leave of cities; fure, I think, he would fplit the rim of his belly with laughing."

Democritus to Reader,, p. 27 In these paffages, both Johnfon and Burton are imitators of Juvenal.

men who contribute to your celes Among the number of learned brated Magazine, there may be fome who poffefs the first edition of Burton, printed, according to they will have the goodness to comDr. Ferriar, in the year 1617*: if municate it through the medium of your publication, he will very much oblige, Yours, &c. O. G.

THE PURSUITS OF ARCHITECTU
The ANTIENT PALACE of the KINGS
RAL INNOVATION. No. XIX.
OF ENGLAND at WESTMINSTER..

T will firft be neceflary to con

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ftate of this Palace in the fixteenth fult a few prints that fhew the oldeft of thefe is a plan of London and feventeenth centuries. The in Elizabeth's reign; where, examining that part laid down for Weftminfler, we find the mafs of buildings conftituting the Palace much as they have appeared in our times. In the open space before the hall, now called New Palaceyard, was a conduit; before it to the North a large tower, and at the the right and left, were gateways. Western extremity of the yard, to On the river fide are to be made out thofe erections which occupy the Eaft fide of the yard; the cloi St. Stephen's chapel, the buildings fters and buildings belonging to now called the Court of Requests,

We fhould alfo thank O. G. for a fight of the edition of 1611. EDIT,

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