pernatural, fight.* It is very feldom indeed, if at all, that he makes an accidental (and which therefore might be a pardonable) flip into the name which they wrote,-professing to copy it.

In page 324, vol. 1, pt. 1, having quoted Pope (whom he defcribes in general to have written a word [" Shakspeare,"] which he never has written, but which Edmond thinks he should have written) he has caught the real word

Shakespeare;" but he repents in time;—for it is in the very fame page, that he again loses, out of his hand, (or prefs) the derelict e, which he had himself appropriated as reprefenting Pope.

Mafter of the Revels.

[Edmond loquitur.

Sir Henry Herbert, who bore that office, and was, in other words, the Inspector of Plays, upon the face of a receipt, (a legal and most happy expreffion!) which is published by Edmond, and bears date 1627, writes him down-a "Shakespeare."

* This finele of Edmond has been extended, by him, to his engraved portrait of Lord Southampton, in whose library a volume of" Shakspeare" is produced,-and with Malonian orthography!!

Antiquarians.

[1.] Pag. 172, and pag. 269, vol. 1, pt. 2. Aubrey the antiquarian, is quoted by Edmond as writing the name "Shakespeare."

[2.] Camden, 1614, wrote the fame word. Dugdale followed him.

[3.] Birch in our time,

[4.] And Warton, the refearcher, who difcovered "THAT MILTON HAD A VERY BAD * EAR," are planet ftruck by the fame error.

Apropos, the Sergeant (who is never more eloquent than in goffip of the Bar) tells an excellent ftory of an ingenious and promifing advocate, the Marcellus of his day, who diftinguished himself as counfel for the liberty of the subject au noir,—was painted in his caufidical robes, with his brief" ex parte Somerfet," by way of truncheon for his hand,-and when he wrote a letter to thofe who were unapprized of his laurels, made it a rule to add, "the gen

I had mifquoted Warton. He does not say that Milton had “ NO EAR, but that he had "A VERY BAD EAR!!" Hume had the fame opinion as to Shakspeare, but the deity who had the care of that historian's ear

"exceffit adytis"

when he made the remark.

"tleman

"tleman who diftinguished himself so much in the "Negro-Cause,"-by way of parenthefis, or epifode. I would propofe to diftinguish Tom from Joe, by adding, "the Poet laureat who difcovered "THAT MILTON HAD A VERY BAD EAR. !!”

Poets,

And Writers in Profe

of all Descriptions and of all Periods, ever fince the Birth of Shakespeare.

Garrick.

As true to his own catalogue of Shakespeare, as to the genius of the Bard, (whofe immortality he shared with his own,) died an infidel as to Edmond's reform.

In Stratford upon Avon, the feat of Tombftones and of Registers which exclude the first e, I can certify that I heard Mr. Garrick recite the word "Shakespeare."

Mrs. Baddeley (a popular historian, as well as Edmond) fung no other name at the Jubilee. Mrs. Montagu has left "Shakspeare" un-" vindicated." Mrs. Charlotte Lennox has left him

un-" illuftrated."

Their hero was another man, who was called and written "Shakespear" by them—I say by them, and beg that an accent may dwell upon the word " them;"

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"them;" for I add, "not by Edmond as reporting "them." Note the diverfity! fays my learned friend.

Steevens and Johnson republished no other dramatist; they unite (as I hope they did upon all other topics of morality) in abjuring the ufurper" Shakspeare."

Johnson's prologue in 1747, was equally uninitiated in the Malonian fignature.

Thofe manly, and fpirited lines, which nothing of their kind (except Malone's account of DRYDEN'S Northamptonshire eftate) [in Greek, μɛT' αμυμονα Πηλείωνα.] has ever equalled,were thrown away, if Edmond is correct, upon fome other dramatist.

In the voluminous Dictionary of that English Juvenal, the references are to " Shakespeare.”* In the Rambler his Critique is upon" Shakespeare."

Dryden.

Edmond, page 126, vol. 1, pt. 2, refers to the verses of Dryden, which are in vol. 2, pag.

* Bofwell wrote "Johnson's life," in fome degree, under the aufpices of Edmond; and upon Bofwell's death a new edition, which I have feen, was Malonianized, by which process the word" Shakspeare," is not only given to Bofwell, but, through him, to Johnson.

231, ed. 1743, of Dryden's works, and writes the line thus, with a Malonian quill:

Shakspeare, thy gift!"

If the name is not "Shakespeare" in the original, I'll eat the name.

By the way, pag. 196, we are told by Edmond, that as Dryden was intimate with Davenant, who knew Shakspeare, he must have known through him, at least many, if not all, of the interefting particulars connected with his life. But ftill, (which is very curious) he was ignorant of his name His eye, his ear, and his memory, were too "glancing" to catch it.

It may be faid, "that Edmond is no profeffor of autographs, or of rigid and punctual reference to the word that he found."

I answer in the Sergeant's name, (with his compliments, and with many apologies,)" that Edmond cannot so escape, inafmuch as he writes the name in fome, though few, of the inftances, with punctilious accuracy, though militating against his creed."