Let de same papers were transferet The same festu sr R.cnari Steeie, who, in some d etencies, dat hem a pawn. They then remand voy the god fitness, who, in her will, assigned the Cover and Mulet, with a reward of a thousand and a prooibinon to usert any verses. Glover rejecte suppose, with fistan, the legacy, and devolved the work upon Millet: who had from the late duke of M. boronga a pension to promote his industry, and whet of the discoveries which he had made; but left not, wi he died, any historical labours behind him. While he was in the prince's service he publi Mustapha, with a prologue by Thomson, not mean far inferiour to that which he had received from Mallet. Agamemnon. The epilogue, said to be written by a fre was composed in haste by Mallet, in the place of one mised, which was never given. This tragedy was de cated to the prince his master. It was acted at Dru lane, in 1739, and was well received, but was never vived. In 1740, he produced, as has been already mentioned the Mask of Alfred, in conjunction with Thomson. For some time afterwards he lay at rest. After a interval, his next work was Amyntor and Theodora, lif a long story in blank verse; in which it cannot be denie that there is copiousness and elegance of language, vige of sentiment, and imagery well adapted to take possessi of the fancy. But it is blank verse. This he sold to Va lant for one hundred and twenty pounds. The first ser was not great, and it is now lost in forgetfulness. Mallet, by address or accident, perhaps by his depend ance on the prince, found his way to Bolingbroke: a ma whose pride and petulance made his kindness difficult gain, or keep, and whom Mallet was content to court by t, which, I hope, was unwillingly performed. When is found that Pope had clandestinely printed an unorised number of the pamphlet called the Patriot 5, Bolingbroke, in a fit of useless fury, resolved to blast memory, and employed Mallet, 1749, as the execuer of his vengeance. Mallet had not virtue, or had not it, to refuse the office; and was rewarded, not long r, with the legacy of lord Bolingbroke's works. Many of the political pieces had been written during opposition to Walpole, and given to Franklin, as he ›posed, in perpetuity. These, among the rest, were imed by the will. The question was referred to arbitors; but when they decided against Mallet, he refused yield to the award; and, by the help of Millar the bookller, published all that he could find, but with success ery much below his expectation. In 1755, his Mask of Britannia was acted at Druryme; and his tragedy of Elvira in 1763; in which year e was appointed keeper of the book of entries for ships. In the port of London. In the beginning of the last war, when the nation was exasperated by ill success, he was employed to turn the publick vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accusation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was, with great industry, circulated and dispersed; and he, for his seasonable intervention, had a considerable pension bestowed upon him, which he retained to his death. Towards the end of his life he went with his wife to France; but after awhile, finding his health declining, he returned alone to England, and died in April, 1765. He was twice married, and by his first wife had several children. One daughter, who married an Italian of rank, named Cilesia, wrote a tragedy called Almida, which was acted at Drury-lane. His second wife was the daughter of a nobleman's steward, who had a considerable fortune, which she took care to retain in her own hands. His stature was diminutive, but he was regularly formed; h2 His Life of Bacon's £147, 25 is met. volumes, but s no inzer nesciones Es val sich is a writer, busting a panies, and emering decasat notice, might keep aive by us per uch, consemne ice ademce pleasure, must soon he was, is de succèssit produces new Dpicks of conversane mi 100 DIG amusement. AKENSIDE. AKBNSIDE was born on the 9th of November, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His father, Mark, was a er, of the presbyterian sect; his mother's name was Lumsden. He received the first part of his edun at the grammar-school of Newcastle; and was wards instructed by Mr. Wilson, who kept a private emy. t the age of eighteen he was sent to Edinburgh, that might qualify himself for the office of a dissenting mier, and received some assistance from the fund which dissenters employ in educating young men of scanty tune. But a wider view of the world opened other ›nes, and prompted other hopes; he determined to study ysick, and repaid that contribution, which, being reived for a different purpose, he justly thought it dis›nourable to retain. He Whether, when he resolved not to be a dissenting miister, he ceased to be a dissenter, I know not. ertainly retained an unnecessary and outrageous zeal for vhat he called, and thought, liberty; a zeal which someimes disguises from the world, and not rarely from the mind which it possesses, an envious desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and anarchy, an impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound, with very little care what shall be established. Akenside was one of those poets who have felt very early the motions of genius, and one of those students who have very early stored their memories with sentiments and images. Many of his performances were produced in his youth; and his greatest work, the Pleasures of Imagination, appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodsley, by whom it was published, relate, that when the copy was offered |