LETTERS, continued-

PAGE

504

1717

505

Addison to the Commissioners of the Treasury, Grant to
Trinity College, Dublin Whitehall, Nov. 29, 1717

Address of the Irish House of Commons

Duke of Bolton to Addison Dublin Castle, Sept. 23, 1717

Addison to the Earl of Stair Whitehall, Dec. 5, 1717

Circular Letter on Royal Quarrel

Dec. 14, 1717

Stanyan to Josiah Burchett Whitehall, Dec. 21, 1717

Stanyan to the Postmaster-General

Addison to the Attorney-General Whitehall, Feb. 24, 1718

Tickell to Mr. Cracherode

* Addison to the King, on Resigning the Seals

506

ib.

507

508

509

Whitehall, March 4, 1718

ib.

March 14, 1718

ib.

Bristol, Oct. 1, 1718

511

Stanyan to Mr. Worsley

Addison's French Circular on the Royal Quarrel

Whitehall, Dec. 3, 1717

Whitehall, Dec. 10, 1717

513

ib.

Londres, Dec. 14, 1717 514

Official Report to the King of the Prince's Conduct

The Prince of Wales' first Letter to the King Dec. 11, 1717

The Prince of Wales' second Letter

The Prince of Wales' third Letter

Translation of the Prince's first Letter

of the Prince's second Letter.

of the Prince's third Letter

Craggs to Mr. Wortley Whitehall, March 18, 1718
* Addison to the Rt. Hon. James Craggs June 4, 1719

DEATH OF ADDISON

Extract from the Chronological Diary of the Historical

Register for the year 1719

A true copy of the Last Will and Testament of Joseph

Addison

Analyses of various Official Letters (between April, 1717
and Jan. 1718) not of sufficient importance to give in full
Supplementary to same (between 1714 and 1717)

SECOND APPENDIX,

Containing Miscellanies and Gleanings.

Addison's Playhouse, a poem

Epilogue written for Steele's Entertainment

Prologue to Smith's Phædra and Hippolytus

525

527

527*

529

532

533

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Addison's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day performed at Oxford, 1699 534

-

The Vestal, translated from Ovid

Translation of Cowley's Epitaph

Addison's Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax (original draft)

Tickell's Translation of Homer

Addison's Inauguratio Regis Gulielmi, a Latin Poem, which

occasioned Addison's election to Magdalen, July, 1689.

On the Return of King William from Ireland, a Latin Poem,

written at Oxford, 1690

536

ib.

537

542

546

547

TRANSLATIONS OF ADDISON'S LATIN POEMS.

The Peace of Ryswick, translated by the Rev. Thos. New-
combe

549

The Barometer, translated by Mr. Geo. Sewell

555

The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes, translated by the

Rev. Thos. Newcombe

558

The same, translated by Dr. Warburton

563

The same, translated by Dr. Jas. Beattie

568

The Resurrection, translated by Mr. Nicholas Amhurst

The Bowling Green, translated by Mr. Nicholas Amhurst

Ode to Dr. Hannes, translated by Rev. Thos. Newcombe

The Puppet Show, translated by Mr. Geo. Sewell

Ode to Dr. Burnett, translated by Rev. Thos. Newcombe

Skating. A Poem, by some attributed to Addison

ADDISON'S LATIN PROSE.

Dissertatio de Insignioribus Romanorum Poetis (with trans-

lation by Mr. Christopher Hayes)

Oratio. Nova Philosophia Veteri præferenda est (with trans-

lation by Dr. Richard Rawlinson)

607

Addison's Latin Letter (from the Gent's Mag.)

612

ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE ALTERATION OF TRIENNIAL ELEC-

TION OF PARLIAMENTS

614

Addison and Steele's Assignment of a half-share in first seven

Volumes of Spectator

Buckley's Re-assignment of same to Tonson

Addison's Assignment to Tonson of the eighth Volume of the

Spectator

631

ib.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

Addison's Memorial to Queen Anne, for Augmentation of

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Salary

Jan. 9, 1709 632

Addison to Lord Townshend, with Memorial May 31, 1715 633

Addison's Memorial to George I.

June or July, 1715 634

Minute of K. William's Grant to Addison of £200

June 1, 1699 636

Addison's Memorial, in respect to the Office of Keeper of the

Irish Records

Oct. 4, 1715 637

Royal Warrants for the Salaries of Sunderland and Addison

April 26, 1717

Royal Warrant for £3000, Secret Service Money

639

April 13, 1717 640

Royal Warrant for £100 per annum to Addison for Patent

Fee

Retiring Pension of Addison of £1600 per annum

April 29, 1718

ib.

March 19, 1718

641

May 8, 1718

642

Royal Grant to Addison of 1013 oz. of Silver Plate

643

Official Entries of Payment of Addison's Salaries

Lord Londonderry's Application for the Representation of

Malmesbury, vacated by Death of Addison June 18, 1719 644

Earl of Sunderland's Application to succeed Addison in the

Exchequer

June 19, 1719

ADDISON'S REPORTS OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, to the Earl of

Sunderland's Private Secretary (De la Faye)

ib.

and Addison).

Extensive Sale of the Spectator

Dryden

Addison's Preface to Dryden's Virgil

Addison and Steele's first Meeting with Swift

Early Memorial of Swift and Addison's Friendship

Origin of the Pseudonyme "Bickerstaff"

The first Tatler

The Tatler in the Inquisition

Curious Notice of Errata in Tatler, No. 101, (written by Steele

The last Tatler

Spring-Garden, afterwards Vauxhall

688

ib.

ib.

689

Grinning-Match

690

Mohocks, Nickers, Hawkabites, &c.

ib.

Metamorphosis of Charles the Second's Statue

692

Sir Roger de Coverley

ib.

Charles Lillie

Addison, Pope

Continuation of the Spectator

Curious Advertisements in the Spectator

Translations of the Spectator, Tatler, &c.

Dedication to the Guardian

Addison's Conversational Powers

Addison's Intimacy with the Tories

Blank Verse versus Rhyme

Namby Pamby

Pope and Pastoral Philips

Addison's Opinion of Pope's "Rape of the Lock"

Pope's Satire on Addison

693

ib.

ib.

694

ib.

695

ib.

ib.

ib.

696

697

698

699

700

701

ib.

The Rival Translations of Homer, continued

Pope's Villa at Twickenham

Pope's Critics

703

ib.

704

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ADDISONIANA.

Sir Richard Steele's full-bottomed Wig

Steele. Rump Wit

Steele's Duel. The twenty-fifth Tatler

Steele's first Dramatic Production

Steele's Comedy of the “ Tender Husband ”

Anecdote of Sir Richard Steele

Addison's Loan to Steele

Steele's Improvidence

The Friendship of Steele and Addison

Steele's Election Stratagems

Steele's Trial

Queen Anne's Praise of Cato

Cato Burlesqued

A Parody on Cato's Soliloquy, written in a Country Assem-

bly-room while waiting for the Fiddlers

Dr. Young's Criticism on Cato

Voltaire's Opinion of Addison's Cato.

722

Voltaire

Steele's Judgment of the Love-Plot in Cato

John Dennis's Review of Cato

Addison's "Drummer 99

Addison's Diffidence in Parliament

Addison's Diffidence exemplified

Minutes of Addison's Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland

Fastidiousness of Addison

Further Testimony to Addison's Conversational Powers

Steele's Portrait of Addison

Addison's Mode of Composition

Addison's Humorous Acquiescence

Addison's Knowledge of the Human Character

Addison's Definition of Conversation.

ib.

ib.

Comparison of Addison, Bolingbroke, and Swift .

Fastidiousness of Addison, Negligence of Steele .

Lord Bolingbroke's Principles

ib.

731

ıb.