Here

Rests at last,

From all his sanguinary desires
Sir Dy Rr, K―t,
Whose love of Money

Was only exceeded

By his Lust of Punishment.

Form'd by Nature for all the Chicanery
Of the Law,
Improved by the double

And deceitful Education

Of A

Presbyterian;

By unvaried Application

To his own Interest;
By prostituting his Conscience,

And

A true time-serving Spirit;

In spite of Genius

From the Basest Original,

He acquired the Immense Sum Of Three Hundred Thousand Pounds; And Wriggled himself into Post Of Attorney General.

In the Execution of this Office His Heart constantly felt Affliction, His Eye ever flow'd with SorrowWhen the Innocent escaped Unpunished. Hence by slavish Obedience

To Ministerial Mandates,

In wresting Laws to Arbitrary Purposes;

He ascended the seat
Of

Lord Chief Justice.

The same Thirst of Vengeance
Still waited on his Footsteps;
Those whom he long'd to Punish
As Attorney,

He now condem'd

With Delight

As Judge:

Truth found no Justice,

Virtue no Favour,

When in opposition to Court Measures:
Zealous to establish Tyranny

In the Crown Law,
Against all but * Robbers
Of the Publick Money,
To whom from Sympathy,
He was merciful beyond measure.
Enemy to Liberty,

Steady in his Country's Ruin,

Encouraged and adapted

By all the Qualities of Head and Heart
Which disgrace Human Nature,

To request Nobility,

He Ask'd

And it was granted.

* Vide L-p's Trial, where, after being found guilty of illegally possessing Twenty Thousand Pounds, he was only fined the Interest of the money he had in his hands, still preserving all his places but one.

Heaven and Monarchs

Behold with different Eyes:

Him whom his Sovereign Summoned
To a Peerage,

God snatch'd to answer for his Crimes,

For know the Almighty will not
Always Unresenting,

Permit the Ambitious to receive,
Nor Kings to bestow, those Honours
On the Nefarious,

Which are only the Just Reward

Of
Virtue.

Bacon's (Francis) Viscount St. Alban's, Works. 5 vols. 4to. Lond. 1765.

This is esteemed as the best edition of Lord Bacon's Works; it was corrected throughout, according to Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer, 4to. p. 364, by the learned and industrious Mr. Gambold, and the Latin volumes were accurately revised by Mr. Bowyer.

Its nominal value is from nine to thirteen guineas; the intrinsic value may be more justly ascertained from Bishop Watson, who has said, "That nature has been very sparing in the production of such men as Bacon; they are a kind of superior beings; and the rest of mankind are usefully employed for whole centuries in picking up what he poured forth at once. Make Bacon, then, and Locke, (continues the learned Bishop of Llandaff) and why should I not add, that sweet child of nature Shakespeare, your

chief companions through life; let them be ever upon your table; and when you have an hour to spare from business or pleasure, spend it with them, and I will answer for their giving you entertainment and instruction as long as you live."

The compilers of the General Biographical Dictionary, give it as the opinion of the judicious Brucker, I suppose from his Historia Critica Philosophia, "That an attentive and accurate reader already not unacquainted with Philosophical subjects, will meet with no insuperable difficulties in studying the works of Bacon; and, if he be not a wonderful proficient in science, will reap much benefit, as well as pleasure, from the perusal. In fine," adds this judicious writer, "Lord Bacon, by the universal consent of the learned world, is to be ranked in the first class of modern philosophers. He unquestionably belonged to that superior order of men, who, by enlarging the boundaries of human knowledge, have been benefactors to mankind; and he may not improperly be styled, on account of the new track of science which he employed, the COLUMBUS of the Philosophical World."

It is rather a remarkable circumstance that Congreve, who highly eulogized the reputed authoress of what has long been considered a very rare book; that the Editor of the same work; that later writers who have referred to it; and that even Mr. Noble, who was favoured with the assistance of Mr. Bindley in compiling the continuation to Granger's Biographical History of England, should not have discovered that the sentiments in Relique Gethiniana, or Remains of Lady Grace Gethin, 4to. 1699, are almost literal transcripts from the works of Lord Bacon!!! Well

might this young lady, only twenty-one years of age, be trumpeted forth as a Prodigy, and have her portrait in mezzotinto prefixed, for the admiration of physiognomists, and I question whether it would not have puzzled even Spurzheim himself to have discovered in the Cranium of this young lady, any organ of similitude so strong as to have exonerated her from the charge which Mr. D'Israeli in his Curiosities of Literature, maintains against the Editor of her Remains; for it does not appear that she was any party to the cheat, having had the good sense to select passages from Bacon for her common-place book, which her friends appear to have been wise enough to suppose the effusions of her own brain.

Lord Baltimore's Gaudia Poetica, or Pleasures of Poetry, Lat. Eng. and French. Large Quarto, with a variety of beautiful Copper-Plates. Aug. 1770.

Of this rare and uncommon Book, privately printed, only Ten Copies were struck off, and those given by his Lordship to his particular friends.

In Reed's Sale, 6682, a copy sold for 67. 10s. with MS. Note, referring to Este's Travels, p. 351; in Randolph's Sale, 1814, for 5l. 15s. 6d. and Mr. Strettell's Copy sold at Evans's in 1820, to a Mr. Miller for 31. 3s.Mr. Burnham, of Northampton, in his Catalogue for 1796, said that he had inquired of several curious gentlemen, as well as of those in the trade, but could not meet with any one who had either seen or ever heard there was such a book.