JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ SEN (Post Master General) From a Picture by Zincke, in the Marquis of Buckingham's Collection at Slowe. Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors May 1.1807. If weak the pleasure that from these can spring, The fear to want them is as weak a thing: Whether we dread, or whether we defire, Whether we joy or grieve, the fame the curfe, Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray 20 Th' unbalanc'd Mind, and snatch the Man away; 25 'Go then, and if you can, admire the state If not fo pleas'd, at Council-board rejoice, 30 35 To fee their Judgments hang upon thy Voice; 41 Sigh, while his Chloe blind to Wit and Worth VOL. IV. L Grac'd Defodiet, condetque nitentia. 'cum bene notum u Ire tamen reftat, Numa " quo devenit et Ancus. W Si latus aut renes morbo tentantur acuto, Quære fugam morbi. * vis recte vivere? quis non? NOTES. Si VER. 45. CRAGGS] In the Political State of Great Britain, publifhed 1721, is the following curious account of the fenior Craggs. "He was born in the Bishoprick of Durham, of people "of the meaneft rank; but being a hopeful youth, his relations "were refolved to do fomething extraordinary for him; when "his apprenticeship was expired, he took a short walk of about 66 200 miles up to London." &c. VER. 48. Grac'd as thou art, with all the Pow'r of Words,] It is faid that Pope was Murray's inftructor in elocution. VER. 49. Houfe of Lords:] In 1738, Murray was successful as counfel in appeals before the Houfe, for no lefs than eleven caufes. Life of Lord Mansfield. VER. 52. Where MURRAY, &c.] The concurring teftimony of friends and enemies confirms the high panegyric here expreffed on Lord Mansfield, yet the intended parallel fails in its most material part. The Roman Conful has left unequivocal proofs of the fertile and comprehenfive genius attributed to him by his contemporaries; the British Chancellor will be known to posterity in the character of a wife and virtuous Hiftorian. This cannot be faid of the late Lord Chief Juftice, eminent, learned, and poffeffed of the higheft endowments, as he certainly was. VER 52. TULLY, HYDE !] Equal to either, in the miniftry of his profeffion; and, where the parallel fails, as it docs in the reft of the character, fuperior to both. TULLY's brightest talents were frequently tarnifhed by Vanity and Fear; and HYDE's moft virtuous purpofes perverted and defeated by fuperftitious notions concerning the divine origin of Government, and the unlimited. obedience of the People. WARBURTON. VER. 53. than HYDE!] Much beyond the Original; parti cularly on account of the very happy and artful use Pope has made of the neighbourhood of the Houfe of Parliament to Weft minfter t Grac'd as thou art, with all the Pow'r of Words, So known, fo honour'd, at the House of Lords: Confpicuous Scene! another yet is nigh, 50 (More filent far,) where Kings and Poets lie; Where MURRAY (long enough his Country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE! W Rack'd with Sciatics, martyr'd with the Stone, Will any Mortal let himself alone? See Ward by batter'd Beaus invited over, There all Men may be cur'd, wheneʼer they please. Would ye be bleft? defpife low Joys, low Gains; Difdain whatever CORNBURY difdains; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. NOTES. 61 55 But minfter Abbey; and of the well-turned and unexpected compliment he has paid to his illuftrions friend. The character of Lord Chancellor Clarendon feems to grow every day brighter, the more it is fcrutinized, and his integrity and abilitics are more afcertained and acknowledged, even from the publication of private papers, never intended to fee the light. When Clarendon was going from Court, just after his profligate and ungrateful mafter had obliged him to refign the great feal, the Duchefs of Cleveland meanly and wantonly infulted him from a window in the palace. He looked up at her, and only faid, with a calm and contemptuous dignity, "Madam, if you live, you will grow WARTON. old." VER. 57. And defp'rate Mifery lays hold on Dover.] Warburton fays, "There is a prettiness in this expreffion, which depends on its contraft to that flippery medicine, by which this Quack rendered himself famous, namely Quickfilver !” VER. 60. Would ye be bleft?] This amiable young nobleman wrote from Paris, 1752, a very preffing remonftrance to Mr. L 2 Mallet, |