dent curiosity of his researches probably absorbed every other sensation; if however he was deficient in tenderness and humanity, it may in a great measure have originated from the iron texture of his nerves, which were not susceptible of light and delicate impressions.

This mode of accounting for an obdurate disposition, is collaterally corroborated by the uncommon strength of his eyesight, which could clearly distinguish, and without glasses, distant objects, for viewing which, most men are under the necessity of using telescopes and magnifiers.

The optic nerves and visual organs of Lieberkuhn are said to have been so strong and clear, that he was able to see the satellites of the planet Jupiter, with his naked eye unassisted.

Astronomers and opticians are best able to decide if what I relate is possible.

which he was pillored and lost both his ears; although the passage in which the writer was supposed to have censured the queen's acting, was written several months before Henrietta appeared on her private theatre.

Lilbourne having imbibed the principles, and imitated the audacity of his master, was committed to the Fleet prison, and whipped at the cart's tail from that place of confinement Westminster hall, loudly railing as he passed along, at various, real, or pretended grievances in church and state.

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After the king's death, and when the government put on a republican form, 'till it verged under Cromwell to an absolute monarchy, Lilbourne did not abate in activity or virulence.

He was a copious writer, and with all his faults appears to have been an honest republican, but like other persons of that description, forgot that however excellent in many respects that form of Government may be, man as he is does not furnish materials sufficiently pure to ensure its continuance, or conduct it with integrity.

He found when the constitution was overthrown, that law and liberty perished with it, that the lords and commons as then constituted, were little bet

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ter than instruments of tyranny in the hands of THE PROTECTOR, a canting impostor, who turned the fanatic zeal of the sectaries, and the well meant opposition of the patriots, into a political engine for destroying their sovereign and succeeding to his

throne.

The unaccommodating honesty of Lilbourne, excited envy and indignation in the knaves and hypocrites by whom he was surrounded; he suffered various and long imprisonments, and at the restoration of King Charles the second, being dissatisfied that some provision was not made for clearly and accurately defining the boundaries of privilege and prerogative, he incurred further penalties.

As old age came on, finding or feeling the vanity of expecting perfection in any system,

formed or administered by man, the ardor of his temperament was somewhat cooled, and falling into acquaintance with certain quakers, he frequented their meetings, but on one occasion gave offence, by cautioning them against mistaking the flights of fancy, and the swellings of passion and pride for divine inspi

ration.

This unlucky effort of reason and common sense, created a short embarrassment, but it was pardoned on consideration of the

sufferings and former exertions of the convert.

He passed the remainder of his days and died in this religious persuasion; but his funeral was similar to the contentious manner in which he had passed the former part of his life; for the corpse being conveyed to a Quakers' meeting house in Aldersgate-street, a long and serious controversy took place.

The subject of dispute was, whether the coffin should be covered or not; on this important point, "harangues, preachments, and holdings forth as the spirit directed," continued for four hours, when it was decided by a strange medley there assembled, that a hearse-cloth should not be thrown over the coffin.

LOVER, a despairing one, thus described in a song, by

Mr. Horace Walpole.

It is presented to my readers, not from there being any thing remarkably excellent or original either in texture or thought, but because it is evidently the source from which a bon vivant of the present day, drew materials for one of the best songs.

As a clear silent stream crept pensive along,

And the winds murmur'd solemn the willows among,

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On the green turf complaining a swain lay reclin'd, And wept to the river, and sigh'd

to the wind.

In vain, cried he, nature has

waken'd the spring,

In vain bloom the vi'lets, and

nightingales sing;

To a heart full of sorrow no

beauties appear, Each zephyr's a sigh, and each dew-drop a tear.

In vain my Zelinda has beauties to move

The fairest to envy, the wisest to love

Her presence no longer gives

joy to my eye,

And without her to live, is more pain than to die.

Oh that slumber its pinions

would over me spread, And paint but her image in dreams, in her stead: The beautiful vision would soften my pain,

ing or hearing recited this species of composition, may also be of opinion that the same writer has borrowed a thought or two from the following old song, originally addressed to a woman of distinction:

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Oh, how could I venture love one like thee, And thou not despise a poor conquest like me:

On lordly admirers you look'd with disdain,

And tho' I was humble you pitied my pain;

Others flatter and vow and my silence despise,

But while they are talking you

read love in my eyes. By your converse how much do I hourly improve, You enliven by wit, and enrapture by love;

And when the sweet transports

of joy find an end, What I lose as a lover, I gain as a friend.

inclin'd to adore;

The angel transform'd seems

a woman no more.

But when tasting those lips, on

that bosom reclin'd,

Then more than an angel, A WOMAN I find:

With such a companion, I'l never despair, Your eyes and your smiles shall banish all care;

Good

Good sense shall preserve when passion's decay'd,

literary adventurer in modern times, for a work which he

abuse, levelled against an eminent political character, a favorite, with all his numerous errors, a favorite with the editor of this collection; but the blunderbuss, loaded with misrepresentation, recoiled on the arm which discharged it; imbelle telum sine ictu, a harmless arrow from an unskilful hand.

the author was a young student at Christchurch College, Oxford, under the assumed name of Domingo Gonzales; opposite the title page is a plate representing a man drawn up from the summit of a mountain with an engine, set in motion by birds; it excited wonder and censure, and is supposed to have supplied hints to Dr. Wilkins, bishop of Chester, in compiling his work, called, "A Discovery of a New World in the Moon."

Dr. Godwin is familiar to most clerical readers as author of the "Præsules Anglicani," a useful referential work; and his "Nuncius Tiranima," is Isaid to have contained the seeds of that modern discovery, a telegraph.

The title prefixed to the present article, was also chosen by

VOL. IV.

HAM, a native of Oxfordshire, the son of a provincial toast, whose charms, or whose ale, inflamed the imaginations and irritated the passions of the frequenters of her father's house, the George Inn, at Burford, in that county.

The candidates for the lady's favor were numerous, but the happy man, I mean in a legitimate, honorable way, was father of the subject of this article, formerly of St. John's college, descended from a good family in Derbyshire, but at the time he married Miss Collier, page, as was the custom of those days, to Lady Elizabeth Walter, sister to Lord Lucas, and wife of Sir William Walter, of Sarsden, in the neighbourhood of Burford.

The possession of beauty, and the pleasure, no small one, of

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