Of the Hon. Mr. F-x.

IN fpite of the wealth they have got in the Stocks,

We pity the Parents of this Mr. F—x.*

Of the Rev. Dr. M-r-d-e.

THIS Demè Englishman, had the honour

to be Language Master to a great Perfonage, and that employment was the roadto his prefent preferment. Some time fince the Doctor was employed by the Rev. Mr. D-ns (a whole Frenchman) to fhew a certain great Lady, a curious miniature family Picture. And he was empowered to offer it as a prefent to the great Lady, in the name of the owner, if it proved an object worthy her attention: It did prove fo; but for particular reasons, it was rejected as a prefent, but requested to be fold; and a price named by the owner. The owner declined naming a price, and the picture it feems, was not to be accepted. The owner therefore repeatedly applied to the Dr.

* See a copy of verfes handed about in M.S.

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to return him the Picture. The Doctor faid he had it not, but believed it might be in the pof+ feffion of two German Ladies! The owner was alarmed, left he had loft his Picture; he went to Court; and made his cafe known tô a certain Dfs, * remarkable for her good nature. Her G-e affured him, he should foon have the VERY BEST INFORMATION, even from the FOUNTAIN HEAD. This was, that the Picture had been returned to the Doctor above a month; by the great Lady, and in a few days after this enquiry, the Doctor restored it to the right owner. Whether it was really in the poffeffion of the great Lady all this while, the two foreign Ladies, or the Doctor his own felf, we will not fay, but we may leave eur readers to guefs, as we do.

Of the Rev. Mr. D-ns.

TH

HIS gentleman is a native of France, but a Proteflant Divine his Father, Mother, Brothers, Sifters, &c. however; who are now living in France, are all good Catho F 4

*D-s of Ndo

bics.

Lies, and he is a good Son, and keeps up an affectionate correspondence with them! Lord B-e is his Patron, and Mr. M'Ke left him Charges des Affaires in his abfence abroad! for which he had a Salary of eight hundred pounds a year. He is now travelling Tutor. to the D-e of N-d's youngest Son, and I doubt not, to fee this unnaturalized French Proteftant Divine, a natural B-p of fome SEE in England; we think no grievance yet complained of, more alarming than this; nor more fuitable to be made an Article of It. It was through this french Gentleman's hands, the Picture mentioned above; went to the hands of the language Mafter, whose name he always concealed, from the owner of the Picture; and it was with much difficulty, he traced out the Rev. Doctor, to be the Man. Mr. Din has fince, complained, how hardly his friend the Doctor, was used by the owner of the picture; and yet if the above account, is not a just, and a faithful sketch of that transaction; one, or both of them, are hereby requir ed and called upon, to publish a better. It may

not

not be amifs here to fay, that the owner of the picture, unwilling to deprive a FAMILY of an original family picture,* whom he had been bred up to revere, and whom he had ferved the greatest part of his life; gave it to the E-1 of R-d, and told him the particular fate which had attended it: The E-1 prefented it to the great Lady, who fo much wished for it; but tho' he honoured the giver with his countenance and favour, before that transaction; he has never known him, fince he has been S-y of S-e! fufpecting we suppose, that fome employment or favour would be afked; but the giver knows as well as his L-p, that he has not, nor ever will have, the intereft, to make even an Exciseman.

power or

*The picture, was of the prefent King's Father when a child, and three of the Princeffes his Aunts, reprefented in the Stage Box at the Opera, it is the fize of a fmall Bracelet, inimitably painted, and the likeneffes fo ftrong, that they are known at firft fight, it was painted for King George the Firft, and given by his Majefty, to the Dutchefs of Kendal.

Of

Of D-d Ga-rr-ck Efq;

THE prefent generation have the fatisfaction to know, that they are co-temporary, with the only man, who is thoroughly capable of feeling himfelf, and making them feel; all the beauties of the greatest dramatic genius, that ever the world produced: but at the fame time we must lament, that Shakefpear himself, could not have fhared that inconceivable delight with us; in feeing his own foul, as it were, animating two beings, at the fame inЯant.

Of Mr. Rouffeau.

ROUSSEAU is a wandering Citizen of the world; and though he has been perfecuted in many corners of it, he has felt it leaft, where Philofophy and Reafon prevails moft. We cannot but efteem him to be the most remarkable MAN that ever appeared in the world. His fentiments are not (as at first they were thought to be) founded upon ca

price,