She fays alfo, fhe lived with him many years before the unhappy event, and was nearly prefent at the fatal catastrophe. To this ftatement we fhall only add, that the Author of MACKLINIANA received his information from a very inti

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mate and refpected friend of Mr. Chetwynd's, still living, who gave the storyas it was current at the time amongit his friends, and who, if mistaken, could have no motive for impofing on him by false intelligence,

FAR be it from your occafional hafty Correfpondent to afpire to the title of Critic: yet ftill he ventures to indulge a hope, that he will be pardoned by your intelligent readers for prefuming to fubmit the following ideas to their calm confideration. He does not claim any higher merit than that of "Black George," in Fielding's novel, who knocked down hares, or caught them in gins, when other truer sportsmen would have made it their bounden duty to have inftituted a formal chace. In plainer language, he takes the liberty of commenting, briefly and irregularly, upon a crabbed paffage in Shakipeare's MACBETH, which he is not a little furprised to obferve has, as yet, been neglected by the élite of annotators, Steevens, Farmer, Johnson, Malone to wit. Obferve :

Macbeth, At 3. Scene 4. Lady Macbeth. "My royal Lord, You do not give the cheer the fealt is fold,

That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making,

'Tis giv'n with welcome: To feed, were beft at home; From thence the fauce to meat is ceremony,

Meeting were bare without it."

-the feaft is fold, &c.] Pope reads : -the feaft is cold, and not without plaufibility. Such another expreflion occurs in The Elder Brother" of Beaumont and Fletcher;

"You must be welcome too: the feaft

is flat elfe."

Steevens remarks a fimilar expreffion

in the "Romaunt of the Rofe
"Good dede done through praiere,
Is fold, and bought to dere."

Johnfon fays the meaning is,-"That which is not given chearfully, cannot be called a gift, it is fomething that must be paid for."

And this, Mr. Editor, is all the elucidation of the paffage they give us!

"My royal Lord,

You do not give the cheer. The feast is fold,

That is not often vouch'd: while 'tis a making,

'Tis given with welcome. To feed, were beft at home;

From thence, the fauce to meat is ceremony;

Meeting were bare without it."

The literal interpretation I would give as follows:

"My royal Lord, you do not give the cheer-Your Majefty does not cheerfully welcome the guests to partake of the entertainment before them.. The feaft is fold, that is not often vouch'd: while 'tis a making, 'tis given with welcome :-Unless the mafter of the feaft frequently offers to help his friends to the feveral dishes, and expreffes the pleasure he derives from their company, it is like dining in common at an ordinary, where each perfon pays his fhare of the reckoning: when people treat their friends, they receive them joyously.- To feed were beft at home From thence the fauce to meat is ceremony Meeting were bare without it.-Were the intention of the company merely to eat a meal, they could feed with more perfonal eafe at their own houfes abroad, the very fauce or feasoning of the entertainment, is the manner in which it is given; the meeting together of a numerous party woold be dull and comfortless, but for the elegance and dignified courtesy of their recep

tion."

parts, was rash, enterprising, full of art, and by no means fteady to the principles of honour, nor firm to thofe of religion. Both diftinguished themselves by perfonal bravery; but Bristol's reftlefs ambition and fubtlety only fullied his reputation. Bedford's integrity and temper carried him to the grave with honour at the great age of eightyfeven.

13. RACHEL DE ROUVIGNY, a French Lady, wife of the virtuous, Lord Treasurer Southampton, and mother of that exalted heroine Rachel Lady Ruffel, who will be mentioned in the following pages.

15. LADY GERTRUDE LEVISON, daughter of John first Earl of Gower, and widow of John fourth Duke of Bedford, prefenting their only daugh. ter, Lady Caroline Ruffel (afterwards Duchefs of Marlborough), to Minerva for her education.

19. FRANCIS MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK, only fon of John and Gertrude, Duke and Duchefs of Bedford. He died in confequence of a fall from his horfe as he was hunting, but not before fuch genuine honour, generofity, and every amiable virtue had fhone through the veil of natural modefty, that no young man of quality, fince the Earl of Offory, fon of the Duke of Ormond, had in fpired fonder hopes, attracted higher efteem, or died fo univerfally lamented. 20. LADY ELIZABETH KEPPEL, youngest daughter of William Anne, fecond Earl of Albemarle, and wife of the preceding. Her beauty and merit had deferved fuch a Lord; and the thort time the furvived him proved the felicity and mifery that had fallen to her

lot.

21. LADY COOK, wife of Sir Anthony Cook, of Guidea Hall, in Effex, tutor to King Edward the Sixth, and mother of the four learned daughters, Lady Burleigh, Lady Bacon, Lady Ruffel, and Mrs. Killegrew. Lady Ruffel was married to Sir Thomas Hobby, and afterwards to John, second fon of Francis Ruffel, fecond Earl of Bedford. This Lady erected the claffic tomb in Westminster Abbey to her fifter-in-law Elizabeth Ruffel, but with the chriftian addition of a death's head; her pointing to which gave rife to the vulgar notion of her having bled to death by pricking her finger.

22. FRANCIS, fourth EARL OF BEDFORD. (Ifuppofe when young.) The fame perfon as No. 8.

23. ELIZABETH, daughter of Henry Long, of Shengay, wife of Sir William Ruffel, Baron Ruffel of Thornhaugh, and mother of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford.

24. LADY ANNE RUSSEL, eldest daughter of Francis, fecond Earl of Bedford, and wife of Ambrofe Dudley, Earl of Warwick. She was much in the favour of Queen Elizabeth.

25. EDWARD CLINTON, Earl of Lincoln, a brave, and probably a very prudent man; for befides being Lord High Admiral for thirty years, in four most difficult reigns, he was intrufted with various martial and ceremonious commiffions, for most of which he was amply rewarded, without having performed any action of confpicuous eclat. He feems to have laid himfelf open neither to enemies nor reproach, and to have been content with fecuring fortune by his fervices, without risking it by over-rating his abilities. Such difcreet courtiers are ufeful to their Prince and to their own families, preferve dignity in their own time, but leave little to be recorded but by their genealo gifts. The peremptory and determined tempers of the Tudors neceffarily formed many fuch proficients, of whom the firft Marquis of Winchester was the moft dexterous: the quinteffence of his wifdom, which preferved him Lord Treafurer to the age of ninety-seven, was couched in his maxim of being an ofier rather than an oak.

26. FRANCES HOWARD, daughter of the Lord Treasurer Suffolk, married first to Robert, Earl of Effex, and then to Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, favourite of James the First, by a fentence of nullity, that fell bitterly on the under agents, difgraced the Prelates who pronounced it, and caufed the ruin and difcontent of the parties concerned, who, tradition fays, grew to live under the fame roof with the utmoft hatred and eftrangement. The Earl of Ellex feems to have brooded over his refentment to the Monarch (who firft protected Somerset, then deferted him with treacherous alacrity, and then pardoned him), till he was revenged on his Majesty's fon, by accepting the command of the parliamentary army against him. He did not fucceed fo well in confuting the injuftice of the fentence of nullity by taking a fecond wife; and his having owned an indifpofition quood the first, was more believed than it had been

originally,

28. HENRY DANVERS, EARL OF DANDY. He deserved, by his bravery and fervices in the wars in Flanders and France, the notice of Prince Maurice and of Henry IV. and was therefore worthy of the honours and knighthood of the garter beftowed by James I.; and he closed his fair career by founding the phyfic garden at Oxford. In the collection at Houghton, and now at Petersburg, was another noble whole length portrait by Vandyck of this good Lord in the robes of the garter, his amiable countenance being dignified, not contraited by a scar from a wound on his temple.

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29. As there is no date in the catalogue to this article, I cannot tell which of the Henry, Earls of Northumber. land, it represents.

30. FRANCIS, fecond fon of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford. He died in France unmarried a month before his father.

31. JOHN, third fon of the fame Earl. He ferved in the civil war on the King's fide, and after the Restoration was made Colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards. See more of him in "Les Memoires de Grammont."

32.

LADY CATHERINE RUSSEL, eldest daughter of ditto, and wife of Robert, Lord Brook.

33. EDWARD MONTAGU, Earl of Manchester, better known by his ear. lier title of Lord Kimbolton, one of the five Members demanded by King Charles the First. After the Restoration, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain by King Charles the Second. He married Lady Margaret Ruffel, daughter of Francis, Earl of Bedford.

34. HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON. I cannot tell whether this is the fecond or third Earl, but I fuppofe the latter, who was the dear friend of Robert, Earl of Effex, with whom he was condemned, but fpared by Elizabeth, and reftored by James I. He was father of the Lord Treasurer Southampton, and confequently grandfather of Rachel, Lady

Ruffel.

35. JOHN RUSSEL, fourth DUKE OF BEDFORD.

36. I cannot tell which of the EARLS OF HADDINGTON this is.

37. LADY DIANA RUSSELL, fourth and youngest daughter of Francis,

Francis, Lord Newport.

38. DOROTHY, daughter of T. Savage, Earl Rivers, and wife of Charles Howard, Earl of Berkshire.

39. MARY, LADY HERBERT, wife of the famous Lord Herbert, of Cherbury. See his Life.

40. CHRISTIAN, COUNTESS OF DEVONSHIRE; a Lady of much note in her time. She was daughter of the Lord Bruce, of Kinlos, one of the favourites of James the First, who, to facilitate her match into fo great a family, gave her, befides his recommendation, ten thousand pounds. Sir Edward Bruce, killed in the remarkable duel with the Earl of Dorfet, was one of her brothers. In her youth, the was the Platonic miftrefs of William, Earl of Pembroke, who, according to the ro mantic gallantry of that age, wrote a volume of poems in her praife, which were published and dedicated to her by Dr. Donne. In every period the feems to have held one of thofe female tribunals of literature firft inftituted by the Marquis de Rambouillet, at Paris, and of late years very numerous there. The Lord Lifle, in a letter to Sir William Temple, tells him, that the old Countefs of Devonshire's houfe was Mr. Waller's chief theatre. (See Fenton's Notes on Waller.) One of her dependants has recorded her life in a fmall tract written in the more spiritual tone of thofe times. Upon the whole, her Ladyfhip feems to have been a fair model of our ancient Nobility, a compound of piety, regularity, dignity, and human wisdom, fo difcreetly claffed, as to fuffer none of them to trespass on the interefts of its affociates. Thus, while her devotion was univerfally admired, her prudence entrusted the education of her eldest fon to Mr. Hobbes; and though the lived up to the fplendor of her rank, having a jointure of 5000l. a-year, fo judicious was her œconomy, that the nearly doubled it; and having procured the wardship of her fon, fhe managed his affairs fo fkilfully, as to extricate his ellate from a vaft debt and

thirty law-fuits, having, by her affability and fweet addrefs (fays her biographer), fo ingratiated herself with the fages of the law, that King Charles told her, " Madam, you have all my Judges at your difpofal." Nor were politics neglected by a Lady fo exquifitely tinctured with a knowledge of the world. C 2

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On the contrary, Lady Devonshire was not only bufy, but reckoned instrumental in the conduct of the reftoration, being trufted by that pearl of fecrecy, General Moncke. In a word, if this Countefs in the flower of her age was, like the Queen of Bohemia, the theme of the wits and poets of the Court, in her riper years the feems to have imbibed the profitable wifdom of her Lord's grandmother, the famous Countess of Shrewsbury, and to have made it her study to preserve and aug ment that wealth and importance to the house of Cavendish, of which the grandam had laid fuch ample foundations.

41. ANNE CARR, daughter of Robert, Earl of Somerfet, wife of William, Earl, and afterwards Duke of Bedford, and mother of Lord Ruffell; a Lady whofe misfortunes began with the difgrace of her parents, and were wound up by the tragic death of her excellent fon, whom the furvived but a year.

42. THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer. It is

remarkable, that puritannic virulence never afperfed Lord Southampton, either when he oppofed their power or rofe on their ruin; that his virtues efcaped both contagion and ridicule in a most profligate and fatiric Court; and that fincere patriots believe, that the gates were fhut against the inroad of prerogative at the restoration of the man who was placed by the King at the head of the Treasury.

43. Lucy, daughter of John, Lord Harrington, and wife of Edward, Earl of Bedford. This Lady was the lavish patronefs of the lefs opulent wits of that age; and as her munificence was directed to more vifionary views than that of the Countess of Devonshire, the estate of her Lord, who was a weak man, was confiderably impaired by her oftentation. One of her Ladyship's portraits here is drawn in a fantastic habit dancing. Sir William Temple has recorded the taste of her garden at Moor Park— but newer principles of taste have pre-' vailed fince he wrote.

(To be concluded in our next.)

MANY OF HIS

ESTABLISHED as the Managers of Crow Street thought Macklin was in their Theatre, with fuch a weekly receipt, and fo great a favourite of the town-his old and never-ceafing itch of change and variety led him to turn his thoughts to Smock Alley Theatre, then under the management of the late Henry Moflop an Actor now little known but by his misfortunes and his follies, but who, in particular lines, divided the laurels with those of the ableft and moft celebrated in his profeffion.

Henry Moffop was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, where he had a confiderable "eputation for talents and learning. The dramatic mania which raged from Garrick's first trip to Ireland, and which was much increafed by the additional abilities of

Barry and Sheridan, had caught young Moffop; who, though originally defigned for the church (where he had fome profpects from familyconnexions), made his election for the stage; and notwithstanding all the entreaties of his friends to the contrary, made his first appearance in Zanga at Smock Alley Theatre, in the winter of 1749.

Though Moffop, in his figure, did not owe many obligations to nature, his perfon was well enough adapted to the general line of parts which he chose. He poffeffed, befide, a strong, full, harmonious voice, which, tutored by a found judgment, and feconded by great affiduities in his profeffion, foon raised him to the first clafs. From a long and previous study of the character of Zanga, which feemed moft happily