"I confess it was rather stupid in me not to write to your Lordship for further directions, when my search for Mr. C. Goldsmith had been unsuccessful, but what pre. vented me was that my remaining in London was uncertain, and therefore could hardly expect an answer to a letter.

"I think you will agree with me that Mr. Dallaway, the editor of Lady Wortley Montague's Letters, is but a dry, dull editor; he is very sparing of his notes, and without them private letters want half their value. There must have been a great many suppressed; not a word appears about the attempt in the year 1715, nor of Lord Mar; and that part of the correspondence between the two sisters would have been very interesting.

"Dean Allot is in town; he is on his way to London, being summoned to the Lords on account of Judge Fox.* I am apt to think the Judge will be found in the right, and not the Fox-hunters. ANDREW CALDWELL."

"Mr. Luckombet died last September twelvemonth; and, notwithstanding his long connections with numerous printers and booksellers, his death was never inserted in any newspaper or magazine."

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"MY LORD,

Dublin, Monday, 12th Jan. 1805. "I inclose the copy of verses ascribed to Lady Hertford and Lady Mary Wortley Montague, with an extract from a letter relating to them; she concludes that letter with saying, she is sick with vexation.' I did not imagine Lady Hertford was a lady of such vivacity. If these letters could have been published several years ago, and the direction left to a person I could name, and who I hope honours me with some degree of friendship, what a superior work it would have been, and how much more to the advantage of the public! Mr. J. Dallaway, as he subscribes himself not with two names, is the most stupid and costive of editors, with an ample, fine subject in his hands. Any other editor would have told who Lady Hertford was, given an account of her and her character; Lord William Hamilton also. A vast deal of interesting domestic history might have been introduced; but not one word comes from Mr. Dallaway, yet every page might deserve notes.

* The Marquess of Abercorn brought the conduct of Mr. Justice Fox before the House of Lords, May 31, 1804. See Journals of the House of Lords, 1804 and 1805. † See p. 27.

"I am come to town but a few days from spending the Christmas with General Cockburn; we had an agreeable party and not too numerous. The house at last is nearly finished, very warm and pleasant, irregular, and upstairs and downstairs enough to satisfy Lord St. Helen's, who used to declare he was quite sick and tired at the exact square rooms and houses, the neat paper and girandoles of this country, and longed to see one of the old rambling mansions in England.

"I found on coming to town we had lost our Rector; young Mr. Rush, a good sprightly boy, has now the care of our best concerns. It is hard on poor Beresford; only hope he may not be much the worse of the change.

"Wishing your Lordship and Mrs. Percy the usual compliments, I am, with great respect, your most humble ANDREW CALDWELL."

servant,

"Extract of letter from Lady M. W. Montague to the Countess of Bute. Vol. V. p. 7.

"Venice, Nov. 8, 1756. "Some few months before Lord William Hamilton married, there appeared a foolish song, said to be wrote by a poetical great lady, who I really think was the character of Lady Arabella, in the Female Quixote (without the beauty): you may imagine such a conduct, at court, made him superlatively ridiculous. Lady Delawarr, a woman of great merit, with whom I lived in much intimacy, showed this fine performance to me; we were very merry in supposing what answer Lord William would make to these passionate addresses; she bid me to say something for a poor man, who had nothing to say for himself. I wrote, extempore, on the back of the song, some stanzas that went perfectly well to the tune. She promised they should never appear as mine, and faithfully kept her word. By what accident they have fallen into the hands of that thing Dodsley,* I know not, but he has printed them as addressed, by me, to the last man I should have addressed them to, and my own words as his answer. I do not believe either Job or Socrates ever had such a provocation."

The verses here alluded to are printed in Dodsley's Collection, vol. VI. pp. 246, 247. They are headed "Lady Mary Wortley Montague to Sir William Yonge," and "Sir William Yonge's Answer."

Bishop PERCY to ANDREW CALDWELL, Esq.

"DEAR SIR, Dromore House, May 28, 1805. "When I reflect what a length of time has elapsed since I was favoured with your last obliging letter, I scarce know how to offer an apology; but the failure of my sight makes me proceed so slowly in all necessary business, and I have much both official and financial, that I am obliged to trespass upon the indulgence of my friends beyond all bounds.

"On considering your remarks on the narrative of the Athenian Stuart's* escape, I perfectly coincided with you in opinion on Mr. Malone's corrections, and should have preferred what you had suggested to his alterations. I only regret that the subject was not mentioned to me, that I might have made the corrections myself. However, the Narrative' may pass if it be understood that I did not write it, but that you kindly committed to paper what you heard me relate, from recollection; and then a candid reader will pardon your omission of the circumstance of Stuart's Greek servant, who he told me was so weary and careless that, when they laid themselves down to sleep in the corner of the caravansary, he could not be prevailed upon to keep himself awake a moment, and he left him behind when he made his escape. Such was his relation, and it will be hardly credited that Stuart would travel through that country without an attendant of his own; and, as the bashaw wanted to have him thrown by a vicious horse, the testimony of a servant might be adduced that he was not assassinated, &c. All this will deserve consideration if the 'Narrative,' should ever be reprinted.

"I had, not long since, a letter from Mr. Charles Goldsmith, who for near a year past has been in such a declining state of health as sufficiently accounts for my never hearing from him; but he still refers all letters and inquiries to his friend in Fenchurch-street, whom you could not find. I directed my answer to him thither, but

James Stuart, Esq. died Feb. 2, 1788, in his 76th year. See Memoir of him in Literary Anecdotes, vol. IX. pp. 143-147. In Mr. Da Costa's memoranda, he says the day of Stuart's death was Friday, February 1. (See Gent. Mag. LXXXII. i. 517.)

have not heard from him since; so perhaps my letter has failed as much as your inquiries.

"I have now a particular request to make you. That you will have the goodness to search in Warton's edition of Pope's Works for a note concerning Dean Swift, in which he says a letter of Swift to Lord Wharton, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in a very submissive style of low supplication (I quote from memory), had been seen by the very respectable Dr. Salter,* &c. Pray copy out the note for me. I knew Salter personally; a very shallow coxcomb, to whom I am sorry to see Dr. Warton thus endeavour to give unmerited consequence, in order to support this posthumous attack on Swift's character, which I think was also noticed and refuted many years ago in the Gentleman's Magazine.t

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Pray see also if there be not another note reflecting on Queen Caroline, who was the medium of the correspondence between Dr. Clarke and Liebnitz, and fond of literary pursuits; as if this made her slovenly in her person and careless in her dress, the very contrary of which was the truth. Pray transcribe the note for me if you find it.

"When you see Mr. Colvill present my respects to him, and ask him if he has heard for some time past anything of Mr. Robert White, if he be still living, &c. That gentleman came over to Ireland many years ago to conduct some business for Mr.Alexander. Ask him if this was a brother, or other near relation of the late Lord Caledon. "THOMAS DROMORE."

ANDREW CALDWELL, Esq. to Bishop PERCY.

"MY LORD,

Dublin, July 16, 1805. received from the last Such a length of time you, I began to feel

"I cannot express the pleasure I letter with which you favoured me. had passed without hearing from some alarms about the state of your health, and also to have fears lest I had incurred your displeasure by printing Stuart's Narrative; those, however, you have had the goodness to dispel.

* Of Dr. Samuel Salter see Memoir in Literary Anecdotes, vol. III. pp. 221-225; and vol. VII. p. 367.

In Gent. Mag. March 1790, p. 189. See hereafter in this volume, p. 83.
Not so generally believed.-J. M.

"That matter was done hastily, and things done hastily are generally wrong. I was just setting out for England, and so importuned by some friends, particularly General Cockburn, who was most vehement, that I consented with some reluctance. Of those I first printed I gave Mr. Malone one. He liked the anecdote much; but, observing some faults in the style, he undertook to correct it, and print one hundred copies, and the former ones were cancelled. I ought first to have consulted your Lordship, and I blame myself much for not doing so; however, the note at the end makes it clear that it was not written by your Lordship, but by me from recollection of what you had related. The circumstance of the Greek servant it would have been better to have inserted, but you might easily overlook it when you considered the paper as a mere memorandum, and not intended to go further.

"I inclose your Lordship an exact copy of Warton's Note relative to Swift, and also a few lines from the third volume of Stuart's Athens. It was not published when the 'Narrative' was committed to writing. The two latter volumes did not come out till long after Stuart's death, and were only made up of notes and scraps that the author left unfinished and not digested. One circumstance strongly confirms your Lordship's account, but varies a little with regard to the ministry of the Grand Signior, and is not material. It is probable Stuart would have mentioned the exact particulars had he lived to complete his work.

"After a considerable search through Warton's edition of Pope, I can find no passage reflecting on Queen Caroline; yet some where or other I have seen a malignant allusion to her. On the Verses on Artemisia, Warton's only remark is, that they were an imitation of Lord Dorset, and there is a note about him. A scrap of paper of my writing says they were supposed to be against Queen Caroline, but does not mention where I picked that up, nor can I possibly recollect. Pope in the last volume gives a pretty account of her Majesty's death in a letter to Mr. Allen. Warton observes his encomium of her was inconsistent with what he said of her in several passages of his works. Where these passages are I have not yet * Gen. Sir George Cockburn, G. C. H., died Aug. 18, 1847, aged 84. See Memoir of him in Gent. Mag. vol. XXVIII. p. 539.