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"that place, who by these late distractions & "difcontinuance of the Affizes is threatened by "the Attorneys & fome other Officers now in 66 place in those Countyes to be putt off from "the employment & receivinge of the pro"fitts of that Office, the rest accountable unto "the pfent Eftate, for the rent reserved upon "the Patent, & (at this inftant) cal'd upon for "the arrears of 4 years rents, wherein, for want of Circuits and peaceable times, there " hath been little profit, & yeat forced to give "fatisfaction to the Committee for the Revenue, " & all this under a ptext that this shold be a "grievance in those two Countyes wch both you (and myself too upon fome remembrance "of the course heretofore) doe know to be no grievance but a conftant & fettled Revenue to "the Crowne in all England, in the Dutchye "of Lancaster & the feveral Countyes of North "Wales & South Wales.

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"My humble fuyte therefore to you on the "behalfe of my Landlord Sir Rd Wynne & his

Affignee is this, that he maye, by your fa66 voure, proceede peaceably in the execution of "his Office (wch he hath under both the "Greate Seale of England & the Seale of the "Chamberlayne of that Countye Palatyne) until "fuch time as by any complaynt before the most

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honorable Houfe or the Committee of the "Revenue this fhal be proved to be any fuch "pretended grievance either in point of right or "of execution. And for this juft favoure not "onelye Sir Richd Wynne, the Patentee, &

his Brother the Affignee, fhal be readie in all "thankfull acknowledgement to take notice "thereof, but myfelfe, though a stranger & of "late acquaintance yeat much your Servant, for ' your great care of the Justice & quietnes of "these partes, in order to theyr obedience to "the pfent Government, shall be obliged to re"mayne to the utmost of my poore Abilitie

Bradfhaw died before the Restoration, and fome of his defcendants in the female line were a few years ago in poffeffion of an estate at

Chapel in the Frith near Buxton, which had belonged to him.

JOHN MILTON.

DR. JOHNSON divined with his usual acumen when he fuppofed that Milton had undergone fome bodily discipline while he was at College. Mr. Aubrey was told by Chriftopher Milton, that his brother John was whipped for fome " unkindneffe" by his firft Tutor in the Univerfity of Cambridge, Mr. Chapel; and that he was afterwards (though it feemed against the rules of the College) transferred to the tuition of one Mr. Tovell, who died Parfon of Lutterworth.

"Ut pictura poefis erit," has been often said, and pictor ut poeta perhaps occafionally thought. Mr. Garrick ufed to call Salvator Rofa the Shakespeare of Painting, and might not the name of the MILTON of Painting be transferred to our Mr. FUSELI, a man whofe ardent imagination, like that of Milton, unites the terribiles visu forma, as well as the molle atque facetum? Mr. Fufeli has nearly finished a series of pictures from the principal fcenes of the Paradife Loft and of the Paradise Regained of that divine Poet, which he intends to exhibit in a gallery to be called "the Gallery of Milton." Who appears so fit to transmit and convey the ideas of Milton, as the Painter that feems poffeffed with the fame fublimity and force of imagination which inspired

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the Poet? Who but Michael Angelo could have pourtrayed the gigantic ideas of Dante?

The following lines were addreffed to Mr. Fufeli on the subject of his "Gallery of Milton." They were sent to him soon after he had finished his celebrated picture of " the Confpiracy of "Catiline," and were printed in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE for JANUARY 1795.

TO HENRY FUSELI, ESQ. R. A. QUEEN-ANN
STREET EAST.

ARTIST fublime! with every talent bleft,
That Buonarota's ardent mind confest;
Whofe magic colours, and whofe varying line,
Embody things or human or divine;
See the vast effort of thy maftering hand,
See impious Cat'line's parricidal band,
By the lamp's tremulous fepulchral light,
Profane the facred filence of the night;
To Hell's ftern king their curs'd libations pour,
While the chas'd goblet foams with human gore:
See how, in fell and terrible array,

Their fhining poignards they at once display;
Direly refolving, at their Chief's beheft,
To sheath them only in their Country's breast.
Too well pourtray'd, the scene affects our fight
With indignation, horror, and affright.

Then quit these orgies, and with ardent view
Fam'd Angelo's advent'rous track purfue;

Like him extend thy* terrible career

Beyond the visible diurnal sphere:

*La Terrilil Via, applied by Agoftino Caracci to

Michael Angelo.

Burft

Burft Earth's strong barrier, seek th' abyfs of Hell,
Where fad defpair and anguish ever dwell;
In glowing colours to our eyes disclose

The Monster Sin, the cause of all our woes;
To our appall'd and tortur'd fenfes bring
Death's horrid image, Terror's baneful King;
And at the last, the folemn, dreadful hour,
We all may bless thy pencil's faving power;
Our danger from thy pious colours fee,
And owe eternity of blifs to thee.

Then to the Heav'n of Heav'ns afcend; pourtray
The wonders of th' effulgent realms of day;
Around thy pallet glorious tints diffuse,
Mix'd from th' eternal Arch's vivid hues;
With every grace of beauty and of form
Inspire thy mind, and thy rich fancy warm,
Cherub and Seraph, now, in "burning row,"
Before the Throne of Heaven's high Monarch bow;
And tun'd to golden wires their voices raise,
In everlasting strains of rapt'rous praise.
Bleft Commentator of our Nation's bard,
Admir'd with every reverence of regard,
Whose matchlefs Mufe dares fing in strains fublime,
"Things unattempted yet in profe or rhyme !"
The Critic's painful efforts, cold and dead,
By flow degrees inform the cautious head;
Whilft thy effufions, like Heaven's rapid fire,
Dart thro' the heart, and kindred flames infpire,
And at one flash, to our aftonish'd

eyes

Objects of horror or delight arise.
Proceed, my friend, a Nation fafely truft,
To merit fplendidly and quickly just;
She the due tribute to thy toils fhall pay,
And lavishly her gratitude display.

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