SUPPLEMENTAL ANECDOTES,

FROM MR. SPENCE'S PAPERS.

IR Isaac Newton, though he scarce ever spoke ill of any man, could hardly avoid showing his contempt for your virtuoso collectors and antiquarians. Speaking of Lord Pembroke once, he said, "let him have but a stone doll and he is satisfied. I can't imagine the utility of such studies: all their pursuits are below nature."-Fr. Chute.

I have heard Sir Richard Steele say, that though he had a greater share in the Tatlers, than in the Spectators; he thought the news article, in the first of these, was what contributed much to their success.-He confessed that he was much hurt, that Addison should direct his papers in the Spectator, to be printed off again in his works. It looked as if he was too much concerned for his own fame, to think of the injury he should do the pecuniary interests of an indigent friend: particularly as in the Spectator itself, they were sufficiently ascertained to be his by the mark CLIO. He confirmed, in some degree, the character Pope gives of Addison: from what Sir Richard dropt, in various

conversations, it seems to have been but too true.-Fr. Chute.

The Duchess of Portsmouth said to the King (William), "Le Prétendant est en Ecosse."-To which he replied: "Eh bien, il ne trouvera pas le Roi Jacques ici.”—Another lady, that stood by, wishing he was hanged.-" Pourquoi ? (said the king,) vous a-t-il fait du mal? pour moi, je le plains."-Fr. Chute.

Lord Cowper once declared to me, that he owed all the reasoning he was master of, to reading Chillingworth.Fr. Chute.

Fenton has another play on the stocks.—He was angry before Broome. They two had resolved on translating the Odyssey; Mr. Pope hearing of it, immediately said that he would make a third. At last he came to be principal in the work. Fenton had two hundred and forty pounds of him, and Broome six hundred.—Broome asked five, and upon Mr. Pope saying that was too little, and Broome naming seven; "Well then, (says Pope,) let's split the difference, there's six hundred for you." Broome and Fenton intend a joint work (something serious), and to advertise at the end of it, or to specify in the preface, exactly what share they had in the translation. They had neither of them any hand in the little pamphlets, &c. of the last year or two: but Mr. Blount used to send Broome all the little things as they came out.—Mr. Blount of Twickenham, and of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Mr. Pope is a whig, and would be a Protestant, if his mother were dead.-Mr. Blount.

A serene melancholy, the most noble and most agreeable situation of the mind.-Revenge is only continued anger.

-Thomson. [He laughed very heartily when we read the passage relating to Caroline: and that other of the glory of our nation. His fine love piece before, not a marriage piece.-Spence.]

Thomson and Mallet were both educated at the university at Edinburgh. Thomson came up to town without any certain view: Mallet got him into a nobleman's family as tutor; he did not like that affair; left it in about three quarters of a year, and came down to Mallet at Twiford. There he wrote single winter pieces; they at last thought it might make a poem. It was at first refused by the printer; but received by another. Mallet wrote the Dedication to the Speaker.-Dodington sent his services to Thomson by Dr. Young; and desired to see him; that was thought hint enough for another dedication to him and this was his first introduction to that acquaintance. They make him promises, but he has nothing substantial as yet. -Thomson's father was a presbyterian parson.-Mallet.

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The Duke of Montague has an hospital for old cows and horses; none of his tenants near Boughton dare kill a broken-winded horse: they must bring them all to the reservoir.-The Duke keeps a lap-dog, the ugliest creature he could meet with: he is always fond of the most hideous, and says he was at first kind to them, because nobody else would be.-Dr. Clarke.

A great man (Dean Lockier) would not for several years keep any animal about him: He was afraid it would take up too much of his love. He had formerly kept a dog fourteen years, and was ashamed to say how much he was grieved for the loss of it.-Dr. C.

Each step higher in the world, brings more dependance

and more trouble upon a man. I have heard the Bishop of Winchester often say the same.-Dr. N——, Dean of Winton. [Both the dean and the bishop, however, still endeavour to rise as much as any men.-Spence.]

"How could the Duke of York make my mother a papist?" said the Princess Mary to Dr. Burnet." The Duke caught a man a-bed with her, (said the Doctor,) and then had power to make her do anything."-The Prince, who sat by the fire, said, “ Pray, madam, ask the Doctor a few more questions."-Dean of Winton.

Bishop Ken went to Rome with Dr. Walton: part of his design was to inquire into the Romish religion, and if he found it sound, to profess it and continue at Rome. He returned about 1675, after six years stay abroad. In King James's reign, upon his complimenting him on some passages in his writings for their nearness of opinions, he told the King, what little reason he had to do so that he had been once inclined to his religion, but that the New Testament, and his journey to Rome, had quite cured him.The Bishop's persuading Zulestien, the morning they were going for the hunting in Westphalia, to marry the maid of honour he had debauched, was the cause of his disgrace with the Prince of Orange.-Mr. Cheyne.

Upon some lady complaining of the sufferings of women; Dr. Arbuthnot said, "Yes, the ladies suffer greatly in some particulars, but there is not one of you that undergo the torture of being shaved three times a week."-Mallet.

Monsieur de Montesquieu, the author of the Persian Letters, is now with Lord Waldegrave, and is to come to England with him: He says there are no men of true sense born anywhere but in England.—Mr. Brandreth.