FOR A TABLET, IN HONOUR TO CAPTAIN HARDINGE, AT BOMBAY, In youth mature, in valour tried, With rallied arm and strength renew'd, TO A BOUGH IN A TEMPEST, AT MY WINDOW, SOON AFTER THE Poor trembling bough! the Winter's come; Thy leaf is of the sun bereft, And thee its frail support has left. But Spring and Summer wait for thee; Nor Zephyr's gale shall prompt its breath: ON MY BIRTH-DAY, JUNE 22, 1809. Was answer'd by a Nation's voice; * Alluding to the superior force of La Piedmontaise, the captured frigate. + The animated and affecting Letter of Sir James Mackintosh gave birth to the subscription for the monument. This alludes to my much lamented Nephew, who fell March 8, 1808. Love upon Glory could refine; "Twas Heaven to whisper-" He is mine!" In his accumulated wreath : Time heard the visionary hope, The heart replied, "He LIVES no more!" My looks are bent upon the earth; And my New-year UN-BLEST is come. P. 161. Another copy of the lines to Bp. Watson ends thus: "Wreaths to worth and genius due, Ever brilliant, ever new, Cherish'd in the hearts of men By a Locke's immortal pen. Fame, who loves the Patriot's tomb, For another Locke has room; By the same attention nurs'd, Heir and rival of the first." ANOTHER POEM. TO THE BISHOP OF LANDAFF. When other Prelates bow the knee To Mammon for the vacant See, Whose Champion is the Monarch's hand, Till blinded idiots feel the rays. * His names were George Hardinge. He was my god-zon. The The field of Science he explores, And opens all her hidden stores; Truth, in his words that share her light, Glows in the heart, and cheers the sight. TO DR. WATSON, BISHOP OF LANDAFF, A CELEBRATED ALCHEMIST. Change into Virtue's gold a Courtier's heart? Or melt the Pedant into common sense? TO GILBERT Wakefield, ON HIS REPLY TO BP. WATSON. Friend Gilbert! thou canst write and speak In English, Latin, or in Greek; Familiar thus in either text, Let your Greek Pamphlet be your next. TO THE CIRCLE at CalGARTH PARK, WITH A NOVEL IN FRENCH, CALLED 'TABLEAUX DE FAMILLE,' Here are talents and spirit, that ask not a Court, THE SUPPERS AT CALGARTH PARK, WRITTEN THERE. Never talk of the Attic Symposium again, Or of banquets that Plato could well entertain: To be named with provisions of supper and bowl* ; A CI-DEVANT M. P. TO HIS DEPARTED BOROUGH. Tell me, gentle Sarum, tell Why your Voters thus rebel! Tell me, dear Constituents, where You have hid your one-horse-chair † ? What offence of act or voice Lost me Sarum's envied choice? We had always a bowl of punch. G. H. + It has been said the Electors for Old Sarum all come to poll at once, and were so conveyed. I was Innocence itself, Sympathy esteem ensures ; Mine's a RUIN―so is yours. INSCRIPTION AT MY COTTAGE AT RAGMAN'S CASTLE. In Twickenham's* cot I lay my tortur'd head, THE TEARS OF RAGMAN'S CASTLE. That circles my domain, The Castle, of her genius proud, Euphrosyne I next have claim'd; With envy at her comic tale, The cheeks of Clive § herself grew pale ||, Around him sprung the new-born flowers ¶¶, I lov'd him well -- and, loving, swore To others, joy and gifts he dealt ; Reflected happiness he felt But sported with his own. * It was called for some time Twickenham Castle. G. H. Mrs. Pritchard, the celebrated Actress, was my predecessor as an occupier of the Castle. G. H. Lady Bridget Tollemache. G. H. Mrs. Clive, the Comic Actress, and Mr Cambridge, an accomplished Wit, lived in the neighbourhood. G. H. In general they could look the Red Lion of Brentford in the face. G. H. ¶ The writer pays himself these compliments to ensure them. G. H. P. 290. P. 290. Mr. KYNNESMAN to Dr. ZACHARY GREY. "DEAR SIR, Bury St. Edmund's, Aug. 19, 1749. "As the persons concerned in the disposal of Mr. Tisser's books live nearly twenty miles from me, I have not an opportunity of hearing from them above once a week. What they will say to your last letter I shall not know before Wednesday next. In the mean time, they seem so eager for having the Catalogue returned, that I must desire, for their satisfaction, you will send it by the bearer. Your most humble servant, ART. KYNNESMAN.” Sir WILLIAM MUSGRAVE to Mr. NICHOLS. "Park-place, St. James's, Aug. 6, 1796. "Sir William Musgrave presents his compliments to Mr. Nichols, thinking it probable, that among the very ample Collections which Mr. Nichols has made for his History of Leices→ tershire, he may have taken lists of the Pictures to be seen in the Nobleman's and other great houses in that County, Sir William will take it a particular favour if he may be permitted to copy from them the painted Portraits. He does not want to know their attitudes and dress, but only the names of the persons represented, with the date, if any, and the name of the painter where it is known. If Mr. Nichols should not have any such lists, Sir William will be obliged if he can procure them for him, or suggest how he can obtain them, particularly from the late Lord Huntingdon's, where, if Sir William's memory does not fail him, there are some very curious pictures of persons illustrious in the English History. Should Mr. Nichols be so kind as to give Sir William his assistance in procuring these lists, he requests to have a specification of the painted Portraits only, and will readily pay any expense, with many thanks.” "Aug. 15. Sir William Musgrave has been favoured with Mr. Nichols's letter, dated the 11th instant, enclosing a printed list of the Pictures in Belvoir Castle, which has been of the greatest use to him. It would have been returned herein,—but is delayed, that Sir William may receive Mr. Nichols's directions when he next writes, informing Sir William whether he may be allowed to retain it, in case Mr. Nichols can spare it, in order to be resorted to for solving any questions that may, and probably will, arise in the arrangement of Sir William's Collection of Prints. "Sir William is very glad to hear that Mr. Nichols has some other notices of the Pictures in the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's houses in Leicestershire. They will be very thankfully received, though they should not contain complete lists of all the Pictures in each house. They will still communicate considerable information as far as they extend. Should Mr. Nichols recollect any of the modern County Histories, or any other books which give lists of Pictures, Sir William will be much obliged by the mention of their titles.” END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Printers, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-street. NA |