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Conscience d'un Roi" first appeared attached to the Edition of Telemachus, in 4to. Amst. 1784,* and Large Paper, in Folio, edited by the Marquis de Fenelon, who in addition to these Directions prefixed a Life of his Uncle, both of which were suppressed en vertu d'ordre superieur." An edition of these suppressed Directions was printed at the Hague in 1747, but were not permitted in France till 1774, when Louis XVI. ascended the throne, at which period the Editor took especial care to inform the public that he had the express permission of the king for their publication.

Joe Miller's Jests, 1745.

Joe Miller, of mirth-exciting memory, was a lively comic actor, a great favorite of the town, and a very facetious companion; I am therefore sorry to strip him of his laurels, but as legitimacy is the order of the day, I must needs place the crown which Joe Miller has usurped so long and successfully, upon the head of him who has the most just claim to it.

These Jests then, which are as well known, and almost as often quoted as Shakspeare, are the production of Mr. John Mottley, who died October 30, 1750, Author of several Dramatic Pieces; is also said to have had a hand in the composition of that many-fathered piece, "The Devil to Pay," and who was the Author of "The Life of the Czar, Peter the Great." It has also been surmised, and

A Copy of this Edition, Large Paper, in Folio, sold at Colonel Stanley's Sale for £24 6s, Od.

with some appearance of reason, (See Reed's Biographia Dramatica,) that Mr. Mottley was the Compiler of the Lives of the Dramatic Writers, published at the end of Whincop's Scanderbeg. It is certain that the Life of Mr. Mottley in that work is rendered one of the most important in it, and is particularized by such a number of various incidents, as it seems improbable should have been known to any but himself, or some one nearly related to him. Among others, he relates the following anecdote, which contains some point:

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"When Colonel Mottley, (our author's father) who was a great favorite with King James II. came over on a secret expedition from the abdicated Monarch, the government, who had by some means intelligence of it, were very diligent in their endeavours to have him seized. The Colonel, however, was happy enough to elude their search, but several other persons were at different times seized through mistake for him. Among the rest, it being well known that he frequently supped at the Blue Posts Tavern, in the Haymarket, with one Mr. Tredenham, a Cornish gentleman, particular directions were given for searching that house. Colonel Mottley, however, happening not to be there, the messengers found Mr. Tredenham alone, and with a heap of papers before him; these and himself they seized and carried before the Earl of Nottingham, then Secretary of State.

His Lordship, however, who could not fail but know him, as he was a member of the House of Commons, and nephew to the famous Sir Edward Seymour, asked him what all those papers contained: Mr. Tredenham made: answer, that they were only the several scenes of a play,

which he had been scribbling for the amusement of a few leisure hours, upon which Lord Nottingham requested just to look over them, which having done, he returned them again to the author, assuring him that he was perfectly satisfied; for, Upon my word,' said he, I can find no plot in them.""

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King's (Dr. Wm.) Works, viz. The Toast, An Heroic Satirical Poem, Templum Libertatis, Epistolæ objurgatoria.—Apology, &c. 4to. Large Paper. Oxford, 1736.

This volume was never published, and, on the death of the author, all, except sixty copies, were destroyed. See Bibliotheca Reediana, No. 2204, where a copy, with MS. key annexed, sold for 10l. 10s.

King's (Dr. W.) Toast, a Poem. 4to. Privately Printed. 1747.

Gulston, 1783, 17. 1s.

BOZE, Monnoies des Prelats et Barons de France, (rassemblées par M. Claude de Boze,) Keeper of the French King's Coins and Medals, in 1752.

45 Plates, royal 4to.

Of this collection of French Coins, M. de Boze made presents to various persons of several detached plates. But had only three complete copies taken off: one for him

self, one he presented to the late Dr. Mead, which at his Sale was purchased by Dr. Andrew Gifford F. S. A. and the third he gave to Dr. Andrew Coltee Ducarel, of Doctor's Commons; which latter copy, with two original Letters of De Boze to Ducarel, was sold at Gough's Sale, April 1810, for 81. and passed into the library of Mr. Beckford.

SHEBBEARE'S (Dr. J.) Seven Letters to the People of England, and a Second Seventh Letter to Ditto. 8vo. 1755, 67.

Dr. Shebbeare was pilloried in 1759 for this Work. Smollett, in his continnation of Hume, says, the severity of the Government was about this period (1758) exercised on Dr. Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the Ministry, in the most acrimonious terms; stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure; and even assaulted the Throne itself with oblique insinuation, and ironical satire. The Ministry, incensed at the boldness, and still more enraged at the success, of this author, whose writings were bought with avidity by the public, determined to punish him severely for his arrogance and abuse, and he was apprehended by a warrant from the Secretary's Office. His Sixth Letter to the People of England was pitched upon as the foundation of a prosecution. After a short Trial in the Court of

King's-Bench, he was found guilty of having written the Sixth Letter, adjudged a libellous pamphlet, sentenced to stand in the Pillory, to pay a small fine, to be imprisoned three years, and give security for his future good behaviour: so that, in effect, this good man suffered more for having given vent to the unguarded effusions of mistaken zeal, couched in the language of passion and scurrility, than was inflicted upon Hemsey, a convicted Traitor, who had acted as a Spy for France, and betrayed his own Country for hire!

"N. B. The prosecution of Dr. Shebbeare was on account of the Sixth Letter; the imperfect Seventh Letter, which follows it, may be considered as a curiosity, as it never was compleated or published, and is the same Copy which was seized by the messenger Carrington, whose signature it has, and I suspect it to be the only Copy which exists, for every inquiry I have made has not been sufficient to point out any other." MS. Note of the late Isaac

Reed, Esq.

On the Accession of George III. Dr. Shebbeare obtained a pension from Lord Bute, and defended the conduct of Government in several Pamphlets. He died in 1788, at the advanced age of 79.

The following MS. Epitaph, found among the papers of a gentleman recently deceased, has been presented me by his Executor, as an original Production of Dr. Shebbeare's: it certainly has caustic enough in it for the severest satirist; but whether it is an original or not, I, who have little acquaintance with Dr. Shebbeare's Productions, am not competent to determine.-W. D.

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