though the couplets of Budgell are undoubtedly much inferior in point of simplicity and taste.

43. HENRY BLAND, D.D. first headmaster of Eton school, then provost of the College, and afterwards dean of Durham, was the author of a most faithful and elegant Latin translation of Cato's soliloquy, inserted in N° 628 of the Spectator. It had usually been attributed to Bishop Atterbury, until Mr. Walpole assured Mr. Nichols "that it was the work of Bland, and that he had more than once heard his father, Sir Robert Walpole, say, that it was he himself who gave that translation to Mr. Addison, who was extremely surprised at the fidelity and beauty of it."*

44. CHARLES DARTIQUENAVE, or, as his name is commonly spelled, Dartineuf, the convivial friend of Swift, Steele, and Addison, was celebrated as an epicure and a punster. "He was," say the annotators, undoubtedly a writer in the Tatler, though his papers cannot at present be ascertained." Dartiquenave was paymaster

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• Spectator, vol. viii. p. 351, note by Mr. Nichols, 8vo. edit. of 1797. I find that I have not been correct in ascribing a translation of this soliloquy, in vol. i. p. 362, to Atterbury as well as to Bland; a mistake into which I was probably led by a too hasty compari of the Biographia Britannica with the Variorum edition of the Specraig. *

of the works; and his connoisseurship in the culinary art, and his labours at the table, have been recorded by Lord Lyttleton, one of whose "Dialogues of the Dead" is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure. Of this luxurious mortal the following notice has escaped Swift in his Journal to Stella: "Darteneuf invited me to dinner to-day. Do not you know Darteneuf? That is the man that knows every thing, and that every body knows; and that knows where a knot of rabble are going on a holiday, and when they were there last."* is not probable that many of my readers will be anxious to ascertain the compositions of a man who appears to have been so completely a slave to the grossest of appetites.

It

45. RICHARD INCE was educated at Westminster; on leaving which school he became a student of Christ's church, Oxford. That he was a contributor to the Spectator we have the testimony of Steele himself, who, at the conclusion of N° 555, has added the following postscript: "It had not come to my knowledge, when I left off the Spectator, that I owe several excellent sentiments and agreeable pieces in this work to Mr. Ince, of Gray's-inn." It is to be regretted, that no en

* Swift's Works, vol. xiv. p. 384.

quiry has yet been able to discover the papers of Mr. Ince, who was an amiable and accomplished man, and, it is said, particularly conversant in Greek literature.

In 1740, Mr. Ince, through the interest of Lord Granville, who had been his associate at Westminster school, obtained the office of secretary to the comptrollers of army accounts; a place, the duties of which he performed for twelve years with so much courtesy as well as regularity, that he was rewarded not only with the approbation of the public, but with the warmest affection of those whom he immediately employed, On the decease of his brother, Mr. Ince came into the possession of an affluent fortune, which he spent with liberality and elegance, and died on the 13th of October, 1758.

46. CAREY, MR. of New College in Oxford, was, according to the acknowledgment of Steele, an assistant in the Spectator. His pieces, however, are unknown; and probably, from the length of time which has now elapsed, no enquiry will in future be competent to their detection.

Spectator, No. 555.

We have now reached the close of that enumeration, which we professed to give, of those who are known to have contributed, in any degree, to the composition of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. The essays including this series have extended, notwithstanding the adoption of a plan of great brevity, much beyond the limits to which they had originally been circumscribed, owing to the discovery, as the work proceeded, of no less than twelve names, in addition to the number which had been stated in the preface.

The execution of so many miniature sketches must necessarily be attended with considerable difficulty. To compress a volume into a few pages with little injury to the interest and effect, will be pronounced an enterprize of no easy achievement; and where, on the other hand, the materials are trifling or defective, it is an attempt of still greater labour to give them a structure and arrangement which shall gratify the reader. It has been my aim, however, notwithstanding the frequent recurrence of these obstacles, to render the biography of these three essays not only accurate but entertaining; and I have therefore availed myself of every resource, that, consistently with the space to which I have confined myself, seemed likely to impart the stamp of novelty, instruction, or amusement.

As the succession of names has been regulated by the number and importance of the communications, and not by the title of the Paper to which they are attached; it will, in my opinion, prove an useful and satisfactory appendix, to throw into tabular forms, under the appellations of Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, the respective contributors to these papers, and the comparative quantity of their assistance. Thus the reader will, at one view, perceive by whose labours, and in what proportion, each work was constructed.