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Printed in folio, and enriched with a fine fet of copper-plates, representing the various awful tranfactions in the life of Our Bleffed Redeemer, from his nativity to his afcenfion into heaven, This work may be had by one or more numbers at a time, price 6d. each, or the whole complete thirty-fax numbers, elegantly bound in calf, price 11. 4. Sketch of the Life and Writings of the late Mr. MICKLE, the celebrated Tranflator of the LUSIAD. "Oh, who fhall fail the pilot of the flood? While nobleft veffels, founder'd, ftrew the coaft." MICKLE. HE havock which death has, ΤΗ within these few years, made among the children of Genius, leaves a very dreary retrofpect for the infpection of those who are left behind. Hogarth, Mortimer, Garrick, Johnson, Gainsborough, are. gone; and who is there left that can fill up their departments with equal ability? to this melancholy lift we must now add Mr. Mickle, whofe talents as a poet were not more eminent than was his fimplicity of manners as a man. His father was a minister of the church of Scotland, and a domeftic chaplain in the family of the duke of Buccleugh. He was a man of learning, and concerned in feveral tranflations, particularly in that of Bayle's Dictionary, for the bookfellers. He lived to an advanced age, and was remarkable for an uniform ferenity and chearfulness of temper. His benevolence of difpofition was unbounded. He lived on the banks of the Tweed, not very diftant from Kelfo, but on the Cumberland fide of the river, where Mr. Mickle was born, about the year 1734. He was bred so no profeffion; but, on the death of his father, refided fome time with an uncle in Edinburgh, who was an eminent brewer; and, on finishing his fchool education, had a share in the house; but, not being well-adapted for bufinefs, having been very early feduced by the fafcinating allurements of the Mules, he foon failed, and fupported himself a few years by being correster to Mr. Jackson's prefs at Oxford.-Several of his effufions at a very early period evince a mind endowed with great poetical powers, and regulated by much fimplicity and correctness of taste. In Mr. Pearch's Collection are feveral little poems of his writing; one on Mary Queen of Scots was much admired by Dr. Johnson, to whom Mickle was introduced, and by whom he was advised to undertake a translation of the only epic poem in the Portuguese language, "The Lufiad of Camoens." have but one objection to it," re plied Mickle, which is, that I do not understand a fingle word of Portuguese. However, fuch is the refpect with which I confider your advice, that I will give my whole attention to the attainment of that language, and then-I will tranflate the Lufiad." This promise he performed, and in a manner that would not be deemed unworthy of his great predeceffors in this line of poetry, Dryden and Pope. His fuccefs in this work procured him the greatest refpect from the prefent queen, the firft nobility, and all the literati, of Portugal. The Defcription of a Night-fcene at Sea, by Moonlight, has been thought not inferior to Pope's celebrated lines, beginning with "As when the moon, refulgent lamp," &c. The reader may judge by comparing them: "The moon, full orb'd, forfakes her watery cave, And lifts her lovely head above the 62 Memoirs of the late Mr. Mickle. The fnowy fplendours of her modeft ray, Stream o'er the liquid wave, and glittering play. The mafts tall fhadows tremble in the deep; The peaceful winds an holy filence The watchman's carol echoed from To the first edition of "The Luliad" was fubjoined a defence of commerce and civilization, intended as a reply to the mifreprefentations of Rouffeau, and fome other vifionary philofophers, who confider a favage ftate, or what they call a state of nature, the happicft ftate forman. This differtation may perhaps be confidered as the completeft refutation of those philofophic vifions, and was a peculiarly proper introduction to the only commercial epic poem that ever was written. To the fecond edition was added, a differtation on the eligion of the antient Bramins, the principal intention of which feems to be the detection of fome errors in Mr. Dow's "Hiftory of Flindoftan." To this edition was alfo added a frontilpiece, defigned and etched by the late Mr. Mortimer, the hiftorical painter. By the first and fetond editions of "The Lufiad" Mr. Mickle acquired very Dear 1000l.-In 1767 he publifhed "The Concubine," a poem written in the measure, and in imitation of Spenfer. This pafled through feveral editions; but as the title conveyed a very improper idea both of the fubject and fpirit of the whole, it was re-published in 1777, with fome trifling alterations, under the title of "Sir Martyn."In 1781 he publifhed "Almada Hill, an Epifle from Lifbon." This poem, which was written in Fortugal, has for its fubje& a cir cumftance that happened in the fapplement to "The Lufiad," was avourite Camoens, to which place he failed on board the Romney. As the Governor's agent, and on his own account, he became engaged in fome law business relative to the Dutch prizes which were taken in that expedition, and which, from the failure and death of an eminent banker, who was concerned in these transactions, gave him a great deal of employment very unpropitious to his poetical purfuits, and he a fhort time fince offered to give up very material claims, to put an end to fome tedious and troublesome law-fuits, which are still pending-About the year 1783 he married a lady with whom he became acquainted at Foreft-hill (the village in which the first wife of Milton was born), in the neighbourhood of Oxford, and foon afterwards went to refide at Wheatley, five miles on this fide Oxford, where he died on the 25th of October laft. He has left one fon-For feveral years before his death he had it in contemplation to collect and republish all his poems, with fo many additional as to make one quarto volume at a guinea; and, from the fpecimens which the writer of this little memoir has feen, he ventures to say they wold give additional honour to Mr. Mickle's name.-His manners were not of that obtrufive kind by which many men of the fecond or third order force themfelves into notice. A very close obferver might have paffed many hours in Mr. Mickle's company without fufpecting that he had ever written a line of poetry. A common phyfiognomift would have faid that he had an unmasked face. Lavater would have faid otherwise; but neither his countenance nor manners were fuch as attract the multitude. When his name was announced, he has been more than once asked if the tranflator of Camoens was any relation to him. To this he ufually answered, with a good-natured fmile, that they were of the fame family. Simplicity, unaffected fimplicity, was the leading feature in his character. The philofophy of Voltaire and David Hume was his detestation. He could not hear their names with temper. For the Bible he had the highest reverence, and never fat filent when the doctrines or precepts of the Gofpel were either ridiculed or fpoken of with contempt. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE of EUROPE. HE Journal de Paris has defcribed fimple and eafy remedies for preventing or curing accidents, occasioned by the fudden combuftion of fubftances eafily inflammable, fuch as lard, oils, the vitriolic acid, and phofphorus. Such accidents are fo frequent, and their confequences fo fhocking to humanity, that a brief abstract of the preventions and remedies feems worthy of the public attention. The kitchen, the laboratory, and many arts, require the use of fat, oily, refinous, and spiritous fubftances; all which are easily in flamed, when they have acquired a certain degree of heat. Take the most obvious and familiar example-the culinary ope ration of frying. It frequently hap pens, that the frying-pan catches fire, and that the frightened operator ufes improper means to extinguifh it. guifh it. A fingle fpoonful of cold water thrown on burning oil will produce more dreadful effe than gunpowder. 64 Actual Exiflence of the Salamander. If the fat or oil is let alone, it will burn gently away, the flame never rifing above the height of two or three inches. In the mean while, if it is taken off the fire, and fet in a cold place, the flame will foon go out. Even though, by the fhifting of the pan, the oil fhould have been poured in the fire, the worst that can happen is, that the chimney, if it is foul, will take fire. or four handfuls of fulphur thrown on the stove of a burning chimney will extinguish it in an inftant. Three In the making of varnish, ointment, or any greafy plafter, the fame means may be ufed. If however, the pan is too large to be lifted from the furnace, let some fticks be laid across its mouth, and the whole covered with a wet cloth well wrung, and the air being excluded, the flame will go out. In fuch preparations, however, it is the height of imprudence, to ufe brittle veffels, fuch as of glafs or earthen-ware, which by fplitting may in a moment overflow the whole furnace. If fuch prudent precautions have been neglected, and any part of the body is fcalded or burnt, the firft and only remedy that ought to be applied, is the coldest water, fnow, or ice. The chief object at firft, is to allay the exceffive pain of the burning, and cold water will produce that effect. If the injured part cannot be immerfed, the best way is, to apply wet rags, or lave water upon it. The excruciating tortures of burning may thus be removed in five or fix hours. The water, befides removing pain, prevents in flammation, as a tonic: and if the burning has been fuch as to make a wound, the cold water reduces it to the state of a fimple wound. NATURAL HISTORY. Actual Exiftence of the SALAMANDER. On this very curious fubject, the following letter, by M. de Pothonier, is addreffed to the Journalists of Paris. GENTLEMEN, IF it is true, that, with too much facility, we fometimes adopt the marvellous, it is alfo true, that we fometimes reject it at first fight, without due regard to the credi bility of the teftimony. Such a reproach might be made with juftice by the antient naturalifts, could they raise their heads, to those of the prefent age. Our cautious enquirers have agreed to declare fabulous and abfurd the vulgar opinion concerning the falamander. That opinion may have been embellished by the fictions of poetry; nevertheless, I cannot entertain a doubt, that there exifts a fpecies of fmall lizard, which can live fometime even in the hotteft fire. Here is the proof. Being in the island of Rhodes, bufy writing in my clofet, I heard fuddenly an uncommon noife in the kitchen, I ran, and found the cook in a terrible fright. As foon as he saw me, he cried, "the devil is in the fire!" I examined the grate, and faw diftin&tly, in the middle of a very hot fire, a little animal, with its mouth open, and its breaft palpitating. After attentive obfervation, and being affured there was no deception, I took pincers to catch it. On the firft attempt I made, the animal, which had remained ftationary till then, that is, during an interval of two or three minutes, fled into a corner of the grate. I fnipt off the point of its tail, and it hid itself among the red hot afhes. Having discovered it again, I feized it by the middle of the body, and drew it out. It was a fmall lizard. I preferved it in fpirits of wine. |