write as pretty things, but to bring them in properly and judiciously— bic labor, hoc opus. Facilis defcen us your down-bill work is easy, bur your hills are choak-jades, And 'tis with whip and spur the race is won. Let it be added, that Lillo's Arden of Feversham was revised and much improved by Dr. John Hoadly; and that The Sufpicious Husband is fuppofed to have been much indebted to the fame hand. When the Bishop mentioned this performance, he always called it his fon's thing, or the thing which his fon wrote. A. B. Recent Account of the Perfon filed, in England, The Pretender and, in Rome, Il Re, or The King. From Letters from Italy, by a Lady (Mrs. Miller), lately published. 7th of Jan. at night. -I Told you in this letter that we paffed part of (yesterday} evening at the Duchefs of Bracciano's; as we were there early, before much company was arrived, fhe was fo obliging as to enter into a particular converfation with me. We were feated on a fofa, when one of the gentlemen in waiting entered and announced "Il Re." As there were many rooms to pass Th' affrighted traveller, with wild furprife, } "Smit with the love of rhyme," the great Addison, we fee, could not refift the temptation of tagging his acts; an abfurdity now exploded. Philips has been betrayed into the fame. before before this perfonage could appear, fhe feized that opportunity to defire me upon no account to fpeak to or take the leaft notice of him, as it was not only what the infifted upon in her house, but that it was the Pope's defire that no ftranger, particularly English, fhould hold any converfation with him. I affured her my principles were diametrically oppofite to thofe of the Stuart family and their party; adding more of the like fort; but I concluded with faying, that, if he fpoke to me, I could not, as a gentlewoman, refrain from anfwering him, confidering him only in the light of a gentleman, and fhould treat him as I would do any other foreigner or native, with that general civility requifite on fuch occafions; fhe ftill infifted upon my not anfwering, fhould he fpeak to me, with which I refufed to comply: I think I was right: my reafons were thefe: I knew before, that no gentlemen of the British empire make themfelves known to him, but on the contrary avoid it, except fuch as de. clare themselves difaffected to the prefent royal family; at leaft, fo it is understood at Rome. I had alfo heard, that he politely avoided embarrafing them by throwing hitelf in their way: but, as I am not a man, it ftruck me as very ridiculous for me, a woman, not to reply to the Pretender, if he fpoke to me, as fuch a caution would bear the appearance of pafing myfelf for being of political confequence; added to thefe confiderations, I had great curiofity to fee him, and hear him fpeak.-But to return: he entered, and bowing very politely to the company, advanced to the individual fopha on which I was placed with the Duchefs of Bracciano, and feated himself by me, having previously made me a particular bow, which I returned with a low curtley; he endeavoured to enter into converfation with me, which he effected by addreffing himself equally to the Duchefs, another lady, and myself; at laft he addreffed me in particular, and asked me how many days fince my arrival at Rome, how long I fhould ftay, and feveral fuch questions. This converfation paffed in French -what diftreffed me was how to ftyle him-I had but a moment for reflection, it ftruck me that Mon Prince (though the common ap-` pellation (as in France) to every ftranger whofe rank as a prince is the moft dubious) would not come well from me, as it might admit of a double fenfe in an uncandid mind-Highness was equally improper; fo I hit upon what I thought a middle courfe, and called him Mon Seigneur. I wished to fhorten the converfation, for all on a fudden he faid,." Speak English, Madam." Before I could reply, the Duchefs of Monte Libretti came up, and pulled me by the fleeve: I went with her to a cardtable, at which he was going to play: I declined playing, not being perfect in the games; befides, you know I hate cards. At my departure, I took leave of the Duchefs of Bracciano (agreeable to the custom) and the Chevalier, who played at her table, officiously. civil, rofe up, and withed me a good night. He is naturally above the middle fize, but ftoops exceffively; he appears bloated and red in the face, his countenance heavy and fleepy, which is attributed to his having given into excefs of drinking i 1 drinking; but, when a young but avoided cultivating convería tion as much as poffible, left he fhould give our converfation a political turn. What paffed afterwards was relative to fome of the English manners and amusements; fuch as, whether whift was in fafhion at London, the affemblies numerous, &c. I was heartily glad when my vifit was finished. A brief Account of that excellent Critic, the late Mr. Jerry Markland. By an anonymous Hand; with an Addition by ACADEMI CUS. Two gen- M R. Jeremiah Markland, whe died July 7, 1776, at Milton, near Dorking, in Surry, was one of the most learned fcholars, and penetrating critics of the age. He became first publicly known by his "Epiftola Critica," addreffed man, he must have been efteemed celebrated celebrated Greek Profeffor, and the late Dr. Jurin, equally eminent for his fkill in phyfic, and the fublimer parts of mathematics.-Mr. Markland was born in August 1692. He was one of the twelve children of the Rev. Ralph Markland, and has left four furviving fifters, the youngest of whom is 70, and another of them is mother to the prefent Sir Robert Foley, Bart. For more than 20 years paft he lived aimoft fequeftered from the world in the little village of Milton, near Dorking, where the aged and the needy have loft a most generous benefactor. His remains were depofited in Dorking church, whither, by his own defire, he was carried by fix of his poor neighbours. The foregoing brief account of Mr. Jeremiah Markland, might be fowewhat enlarged by a reprefentation of his incomparable Annotatrons upon Maximus Tyrius, which were printed in Dr. Davis's fecond edition of that author in 1740, 4to. under the care of the very learned profeffor Ward. Mr. Markland has, in his addrefs to the reader prefixed to them, demonstrated the truth of his difcovery, that Maximus had himself published two editions of this work: a difcovery fufficient to immortalize the name of this eminent critic, had he done nothing else in the republic of ietters. To him we alfo owe "the many additions " to Arnald's Commentary upon the Book of Wifdom," noticed at the end of the Author's preface, in the 2d edition, 1760. ACADEMICUS. Stifling fleet. By a Gentleme who fubfcribes himself J, C.; with an Addition by ACADEMICUS. SIR, cerned that none of the friends Have often been much con of the late Mr. Benjamin Stilling. fleet have favoured the public with any particulars of his life, to per petuate the memory of that amiable and fenfible gentleman. I have therefore thrown together the following notices, in hopes of induc ing fome better qualified person to do him more ample justice. He was grandson of the wellknown Bishop, of Worcester. His father Edward was Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge, F. R.S. M. D. and Grelham Profeffor of Phyfic: but marrying in 1692, he loft his lucrative offices, and his father's favour: a misfor tune that affected both himself and his pofterity. However, going into orders, he obtained, by his father's means, the living of Newington Butts, which he immediately ex changed for thofe of Wood-Nor ton and Swanton in Norfolk. He died in 1708. Benjamin, his only fon, was educated at Norwich fchool, which he left in 1720, with the character of an excellent, fcholar. He then went to Trinity College in Cam bridge, at the request of Dr. Bent ley, the mafter, who had been pri vate tutor to his domeftic father, chaplain to his grandfather, and much indebted to the family. Here he was a candidate for a fellowship; but was rejected by the mafter's influence. This was a fevere and unexpected difappointment; and but little alleviated afterwards by the doctor's apology, that it was pity that a gentleman of Mr. Stil lingfleet's lingfleet's parts should be buried within the walls of a college. Perhaps, however, this ingratitude of Dr. Bentley was not of any real differvice to Mr. Stillingfleet. By being thrown into the world, he formed many honourable and valuable connexions. He dedi cated fome tranfactions of Linnæus to the late Lord Lyttelton, partly, he fays, from motives of private refped and honour. The prefent Lord Barrington gave him, in a very polite manner, the place of the mafter of the barracks at Kenfington; a favour to which Mr. Stilling fleet, in the dedication of his Calendar of Flora to that nobleman, alludes with equal politenefs, as well as with the warmest gratitude. His Calendar of Flora was formed at Stratton in Norfolk, in the year 1755, at the hofpitable feat of his very worthy and ingenious friend Mr. Martham, who had made feveral obfervations of that kind, and had communicated to the public his curious obfervations on the growth of Trees. But it was to Mr. Wyndham, of Felbrig in Norfolk, that he appears to have had the greatest obligations: he travelled abroad with him; fpent much of his time at his houfe; and was appointed one of his executors (Mr. Garrick, I think, was another), with a confiderable addition to an annuity which that gentleman had fettled upon him in his life-time. Mr. Stilling fleet's genius feems, if we may judge from his works, to have led him principally to the Atudy of natural history, which he profecuted as an ingenious philofopher, an ufeful citizen, and a good man. In this walk of learning he mentions, as his friends, Dr. Wat fon, Mr. (now Dr.) Solander, Mr. Hudfon, Mr. Price of Foxley, and fome others: and I have heard, the ingenious Mr. Pennant acknowledge many obligations to him. Nor can I omit the flattering mention which the late Mr. Gray makes of him in one of his letters, dated from London in 1761. “Í have lately made an acquaintance with this philofopher, who lives in a garret here in the winter, that he may support some near relations who depend upon him. He is always employed, confequently (according to my old maxim) always happy, always cheerful, and feems to me a very worthy honeft man. His prefent fcheme is to fend fome perfons, properly qualified, to refide a year or two in Attica, to make themselves acquainted with the climate, productions, jand natural history of the country, that we may understand Ariftotle, Theophraftus, &c. who have been Heathen Greek to us for fo many ages; and this he has got propofed to Lord Bute, no unlikely perfon to put it in execution, as he is himself a botanift." I know not whether Mr. Stillingfleet has published any thing in this way, except a volume of mifcellaneous tracts, which is in much efteem, and does great honour to his head and heart. They are chiefly tranflations of fome effays in the Amoenitates Academica, published by Linnæus, interfperfed with fome obfervations and additions of his own. In this volume he fhews alfo a tafte for claffical learning, and entertains us with fome elegant poetical effufions of his own. But his Efay on Converfation, published in the first volume of Dodley's Collection of Poems, entitles him to |