3. "Chatsworth, or the Genius of England's Prophecy;" Chesterfield, 1783, 4to. Anonymous.-4. "The Russian Prophecy; occasioned by a remarkable Phenomenon in the Heavens, observed in Russia, 19 Feb. 1785" Sheffield, 1787, 4to. Anonymous.(5. A Poem to the memory of R. R. Esq. mentioned in the "Peak Scenery.")-6. " An Ode on the Revolution, 1688;" set to music and sung at the Centenary Celebration at Whittington, in 1788, printed in the "Peak Scenery."-7. ".A Sermon, preached at Sheffield, for the benefit of the Charity School there;" Sheffield, 1784, 8vo.-8. "A Sermon, preached at Eyam on the Thanksgiving for his Majesty's Recovery" (at the end of which are two Odes on his Majesty's Restoration); Sheffield, 1789, 4to. -Gent. Mag. June 1831.

P. 47, note +, after (p. 52) add, " and in 1787."

P. 48, 1. 7, dele" there."

P. 68. Mr. William Newton died Nov. 3, 1830, in his 80th year, having been born near to Abney, 28 Nov. 1750. A tribute to his memory, by Mrs. Mary Sterndale, of Sheffield, appeared in the "Iris," a newspaper of that town, on the 9th Nov. following. Many of his compositions were originally published in the Iris. Mrs. Sterndale has herself published as follows: "The Panorama of Youth;""The Life of a Boy ;" and " Vignettes of Derbyshire," 8vo. 1824, all works of very considerable merit. In the last are a few anecdotes of Cunningham and Newton.-Gent. Mag. June 1831.

P. 67, 1. 12, for "noble," r. " titled." L. 16, for "married into the Rivers family," r. "formed an advantageous alliance with the heiress of Savage, Earl Rivers."

P. 77, 1. penult. r. " school-boys."

P. 141, 1. 5. The Rev. W. Easton (of whom see Gent. Mag. for 1832, part I.) was son of the Rev. Richard Easton.

P. 152, 1. 2, r. "Macaulay."

Ibid. 1. 6 from bottom; and in p. 153, 1. 18, from bottom, after› "friend," add "Mr. Lettice."

P. 250. Davies Gilbert, esq. Vice-President of the Royal Society, and President from 1828 to 1831, President of the Geological Society of Cornwall, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the Linnæan and Geological Societies, an Hon. Member of the Royal Society of Literature, an Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, and for many years M.P. for Bodmin, died on the 24th Dec. 1840, in his 73d year; and an ample memoir of him appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for February 1841.

P. 259, 1. 13, for " He," r. "Dr. Andrewes."

P. 262. Joseph Cradock, esq. M.A., F.S. A. was born at Leicester,, Jan. 9, 1741-2, the son of Joseph Cradock, esq. by Mary Annice his wife. He received his early education in the free-school of his native town, under the Rev. Gerrard Andrewes, father to the future Dean of Canterbury, who was his schoolfellow; assisted with instruction from the Rev. J. Jackson, author of "Chronological Antiquities." He was prepared for the university by the Rev.

Mr. Pickering, of Markworth, co. Derby. He was entered a member of Emanuel College, Cambridge, but the bent of his mind led him to classical studies, and not to mathematics, and he left college without a degree. However, in 1765, a royal degree of M.A. was conferred upon him by the hands of the Duke of Grafton, as Chancellor of Cambridge. He always retained an affection for Emanuel College, as well as for the master, Dr. Farmer, who had been his schoolfellow, and for his tutor Mr. Hubbard; and he left a memorial to the college in his will.

In 1765 he married a very amiable lady, Anne-Frances, third daughter of Francis Stratford, esq. of Merevale Hall, co. Warwick. She died Dec. 25, 1816. They had no issue.

In 1766 Mr. Cradock served the office of High Sheriff for Leicestershire, and in the same year Dr. Farmer addressed to him his important Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare. In 1768 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he lived to be the senior member.

Mr. Cradock now fixed himself in what was then a fashionable part of London, Dean-street, Soho, and spent much of his time in theatrical and musical company. He was intimate with Garrick, Foote, Dr. Arne, Dr. Boyce, Joah Bates, Mrs. Yates, &c. At the same time he was admitted to the intimacy of such a constellation of literary genius as will not soon again shine togetherthe Duke of Grafton, Lord Thurlow and his brother the Bishop, Lord Sandwich, Bishops Hinchliffe, Hurd, Percy, the great and good Dr. Johnson, Burke, the amiable Dr. Goldsmith, Dr. Askew, Dr. Parr, George Steevens, Cumberland, Murphy, &c.

In 1769 he assisted his friend Mr. Garrick in the arrangements for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee.

In 1771, on the opening of the Leicester Infirmary, Mr. Cradock wrote an Ode," Here shall soft Charity repair," which was set to music by Dr. Boyce, and was well received. It is still performed on charitable occasions.

In 1773 was brought forward at Covent Garden, "Zobeide, a Tragedy," by Mr. Cradock; taken from an unfinished tragedy, "Les Scythes," by Voltaire; who, on receiving a copy, returned a gratifying letter in English, beginning with

Thanks to your Muse, a foreign copper shines,

Turn'd into gold, and coin'd in sterling lines.

This play was well received. Goldsmith wrote the Prologue, and Murphy the Epilogue. Cradock returned the compliment by writing the Epilogue to Goldsmith's comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer."

In 1773 Mr. Cradock printed a jeu d'esprit, in a John Wilkes, after the manner of Plutarch."

"Life of

In 1774 he printed a little work, "Village Memoirs, in a Series of Letters between a Clergyman and his Family in the Country and his Son in Town;" and in 1777, "An Account of Part of North Wales."

In 1783 Mr. and Mrs. Cradock set out for a long tour on the Continent, first stopping at Paris, where they were favourably received at the Court of Louis XVI. They afterwards went to the South of France, Flanders, and Holland. The narrative of

this Tour forms the second volume of Mr. Cradock's "Memoirs." Mr. and Mrs. Cradock returned to England in 1786, when he settled at his seat at Gumley, where from much ill health he retired in a great measure from society, and spent his time in a well-stored library and in embellishing his grounds, and latterly in the enlargement of a piece of water which he termed his

Lake.

In 1815 he again appeared as an author, publishing "Four Dissertations, Moral and Religious." (See Gent. Mag. 1816, i. 43); and in 1821" Fidelia," a little novel to expose the vice of gaming.

In 1823, finding his affairs embarrassed, he passed his estate at Gumley into the hands of Sir Edward Cradock Hartopp, Bart. who was his heir, and retired to London on a moderate annuity. He chose a residence in town to be near his friend and printer Mr. Nichols; and then applied seriously to the finishing of the Memoirs of his Life.

The first publication on his coming to town was a tragedy he had written half a century before, entitled, "The Czar."

In 1826 he published the first volume of his "Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs," dedicated by permission to King George IV.; and a second volume, containing his Tour, at the latter part of the same year, a short time before his death.

And here it may be allowed to allude to the sincere attachment between Mr. Cradock and Mr. Nichols: the constant intercourse which took place between them contributed to cheer the latter days of these two literary veterans. Mr. Nichols was the first to depart, dying on the 26th of November, 1826; and Mr. Cradock followed within three weeks, on the 15th of December, and was buried on the 23d at St. Mary-le-Strand. His remains were attended by several of his friends, the service being performed by the Rev. G. T. Andrewes, son of his old friend the Dean of Canterbury.

After Mr. Cradock's decease two more volumes of his "Memoirs" were published in 1828 by his executor, Mr. J. B. Nichols, from his papers and correspondence. This work is accompanied by two portraits, the one in early life, from a miniature by Hone, taken in 1764; and the other in advanced years, a silhouette, by Miers and Field.

The preceding notices of Mr. Cradock shall be concluded by an extract from a letter received by Mr. J. B. Nichols from the late Francis Stratford, esq. Master in Chancery, which exhibits Mr. Cradock in a favourable yet strictly just light.

*

"I do not think I should in any manner so well describe Mr.

* Mr. Stratford, the senior Master in Chancery, died Dec. 1, 1841. See memoir in Gent. Mag. 1842, i. 219.

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Cradock's character, as by referring to the Memoirs' which he has published of himself. These Memoirs, in my view of them, are an exact counterpart of his manners and conversations,-of his excellences and his foibles. He was all anecdote, without affecting to know more, either of men or books, than the common run of people, though better acquainted with both than the generality of the best informed. In the earlier part of his life he recommended himself by his pleasantry and talents,—his love of letters, his antiquarian researches, his taste for music, painting, and poetry, and all the fine arts,-to several of the most learned and accomplished scholars of the day,-as Bishops Warburton and Hurd, Doctors Johnson and Goldsmith, and others; among whom must not be forgotten that prodigy of wit and humour and theatrical talents, David Garrick; for he and Garrick were a sort of twin brothers, in personal likeness and mental power. Both of them were rather under size; but they were both well formed, and had so much expression in their countenances, and so much grace in their actions, that nobody in looking at them regarded their size or stature;-in looking at each, it was the quality-not the quantity of the man that was considered. And upon the stage, Cradock (for he had a private theatre in his house), as I have been informed by those who have seen him act, in some characters at least, was second only to Garrick. There was, however, this difference between them- Garrick played for profit-Cradock played for the amusement of his friends, though to the great detriment of his own fortune. And perhaps his talent in the representing of character upon the stage, first gave him the habit of enlivening and embellishing every thing which he said, with a certain lightning of eye, and honeyed tone of voice, and happy turns of countenance,-which may be better imagined than described; and also furnished him with many allusions which he had the happy art of introducing into his conversations with vast advantage. Mr. Cradock was a classical scholar of a high degree; and he had a very considerable library, containing books of the best sorts, and of the best editions; and some very rare ones. The sale of these, upon which his affections were placed, together with his mansion and estate at Gumley, upon his coming to live in London, was a sacrifice he made (and a sore sacrifice it was) with a view to the final arrangement and liquidation of his worldly affairs before his death, and proved not only his integrity, but that sort of pride which dwells only in honourable minds, and will give a sanctity to his memory. Mr. Cradock was a good neighbour,— a kind friend,-a highly-finished gentleman,-and sufficiently learned to be the fit associate with those who were most learned; and he had this advantage over the most learned, that he was altogether free from pedantry, and all inclination to be overbearing in his conversation with others avowedly less learned than himself. With these good qualities, and his great acquirements, he could not fail of causing the opportunities which he gave his friends of visiting him, to be eagerly seized, and from season to season (for