The following, as far as we have been able to collect, is a chronological lift of Dr Hiffernan's works :

The Ticklers; a Set of Periodical Papers, published in Dublin about 1750.

The Tuner; a Set of Periodical Papers, published in 1753. Mifcellanies in Profe and Verfe, Lond. 1754.

The Ladies Choice, a Dramatic Petit Piece, 1759.

ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS.

miflion from this extraordinary man, This excellent officer was fo anxi

he used to drive himself about the country in a one-horse chaise, without a fervant. At each town to which he came, the people gathered round about his carriage, and received him with the loudest acclamations. Lord Chatham, different from the great men of our times, thought very highly of the effects of drefs and of dignity of manner upon mankind. He was never seen on business without a full dress coat and a tye wig, and he never permitted his Under Secretaries to fit down before him. A General Officer was once asked by Mr Pitt, How many men he should require for a certain expedition?" Ten thousand," was the answer. You shall have twelve thousand," faid Mr Pitt," then if you do not fucceed, you are refponfible for the event." Of a late Premier eight thousand men were asked for a certain fervice" Cannot you do with fix thousand?" was the reply. Quelle difference!

Lord Chatham told the learned Phyfician who attended him, as he was speaking in the Houfe of Lords, when he was feized with that illness which broughthim in a few days after wards to the grave, that, when falling, he was about to recommend to that Affembly to addrefs the King, that Prince Ferdinand might be placed at the head of the troops that were fent from this Country to Ame rica.

ADMIRAL BOSCAWÉN.

ous for the honour of the fea-fervice' and for that of himself, that when Lord Anson, then First Lord of the Admiralty, refused to confirm his promotion of two Naval Officers to the rank of Post-Captains, in confequence of their having diftinguished themselves at the fiege of Louisburgh, he threatened to give up his feat at the Board of Admiralty. Lord Anfon, however, not to be deprived of the counfels and fkill of this great feaman, thought fit to retract his oppofition. In fome French memoirs (written, as the modern ones of that country in general are, without fufficient knowledge and information of the fubject of which they treat,) Mr Bofcawen is reprefented as having, at the fiege of Louisburgh, wholly given himself up to the directions of a particular Captain in that arduous and enterprizing bufiness. This is by no means true.

Whoever knew Mr Bofcawen au fond, whoever was acquainted with his knowledge in his profeffion, with his power of refource upon every occafion, with his intre pidity of mind, and manliness and independence of conduct and of character, can never in the least degree give credit to this foolish and hazarded affertion. The Admiral, however, upon other occafions, and in other circumstances, deferred to the opini on of those with whom he was profeffionally connected. He was once fent with a command to intercept the &tDomingo fleet of merchantmen, and was waiting near the track that it was fuppofed they would take: One of his feamen came to him to tell him that the fleet was now in fight. The Admiral took his glafs, and from his fuperior power of eye, or perhaps from previous information, faid, the failor was mistaken, and that what he faw was the grand French fleet. The feaman, however, perfifted. The Admiral defired fome others of his crew to look through the glafs; they Nn 2.

When, early in his naval career, this great feaman was appointed to the command of a guard-fhip that was ftationed at the Nore, he fent away feveral of the newly-preffed men that were brought to him, in company with fome experienced feamen, in frigates and fmall veffels, to the mouths of many of the creeks and rivers on the coafts of Kent and of Suffex, to guard these counties from an invation that was then projecting by the French.

all,

all, with their brains heated with the profpect of a prize, declared, that what they faw was the St Domingo flect. The Admiral faid, "Gentiemen, you fhall never fay that I have tood in the way of your enriching yourselves: I fubmit to you; but remember, when you find your mistake you must stand by me." The mistake was foon difcovered, and the Admiral, by fuch an exertion of manoeuvres as the fervice has perhaps never feen fince, faved his fhip.

He was fo little infected with the fpirit of party that has of late years prevailed in our Navy, to the ruin of the country and to the disgrace of the profeffion, that when, on his return from fome expedition, he found his friends out of place, and another Administration appointed, and was asked whether he would continue as a Lord of the Admiralty with them, he replied very nobly, " The country has a right to the fervices of its profeffional men: fhould I be fent again upon any expedition, my fituation at the Admiralty will facilitate the equipment of the fleet I am to command."

greatnefs;
HISTORY,

A favourite Captain of his afed to declare, that, previous to fome engage. In more expreffive and more indelible

ment, whilst he was centemplating with tranfport the excellence of his fhips, and the courage and kill of their Commanders, he faid to him, "Admiral, do you think that all your Captains will do their duty in the engagement?" "I truft they will," added he; "but, Lieutenant B. if they do not, the first perfon that I fhall obferve to fail, I fhall fend you to his ship to fuperfede him." Had our Naval Commanders thought with this great feaman, and with Admiral Blake," It is not for us to mind State Affairs; we are to keep foreigners from fooling us," what mifchiefs might have been prevented, and what ferious good effected in our late unfortunate war.

No greater teftimony of the merit

characters,

Will inform latest pofterity
With what ardent zeal,
With what fuccessful valour,
He ferved his country;
And taught her enemies
To dread her naval power.
In command

He was equal to ev'ry emergency,
Superior to ev'ry difficulty;
In his high departments, mafterly and
upright;

His example formed, while
His patronage rewarded
MERIT.
With the highest exertions of military
greatness,

He united the gentleft offices of huma
nity;

His concern for the interefts, and
Unwearied attention to the health
Of all under his command,
Softened the neceffary exactions of duty,
And the rigours of discipline,

By

By the care of a guardian, and the ten- necure place, nor one penny of

dernefs of a father.

Thus belov'd and rever'd, Amiable in private life, as illuftrious in

public,

This gallant and profitable fervant of his

country,

When he was beginning to reap the harveft
Of his toils and dangers,
In the full meridian of years and glory,
After having been providentially prefer-

ved

Through every peril incident to his pro

feffion,

Died of a fever

On the 10th January, in the year 1761, the 50th of his age,

At Hatchlands Park, in Surry, A feat he had juft finifhed, at the

expence

Of the enemies of his country;
And (amidst the groans and tears
Of his beloved Cornishmen) was
Here depofited.

His once happy wife inferibes this marble,
An equal teftimony of his worth,
And of her affection.

JOHN EARL OF SANDWICH.

Soon after the breaking out of the unfuccefsful and fatal American war, this acute nobleman, in company with a relation of his, made the tour of the different fea-ports of this kingdom. In the courfe of a converfation that they had during this journey, he told his companion, that if he were confulted refpecting the manner of carrying on the war against the Americans, he should advise that it should be carried on by our navy only; that fhips should be ftationed in certain fituations to annoy their commerce, block up their harbours, and deftroy their fea ports. "I would not," faid he, land a fingle foldier upon the continent of that country." Lord Sandwich's character has been much mifreprefented, from his not having paid that refpect to appearances, which good-fenfe and virtue itself feem to require. It fhould, however, be remembered, that in spite of the various high offices of ftate through which Lord S. paffed, he never poffeffed himself of a fingle fi

pen

fion; that he was very active and regular in bufinefs; that whoever addreffed him by letter, was sure of reafter it had been received; and that ceiving an antwer by the poft the day his refufals, both by letter and by fpeech, were ever couched in terms of the greatest good humour and politenefs, to foften as much as poffible being denied. In this refpect he the "turpem repulfam," the mifery of was like our great prelate Archbishop Warham, of whom Erafmus fays, "Quòd verè regium fuit, neminem a fe triftem dimifit."-What was a moft princely behaviour, he never fent any one away from his prefence without being pleafed with the courteous reception he had met with.-Lord Sandwich travelled into the Eaft in company with the late excellent Earl of Belborough. Lord Sandwich printed a few copies of their travels, to give away to their common friends. It is to be hoped that the family will reprint them, for the information of the public at large, as they are written with great taste and great acutenefs of obfervation. The Ex-Minifter of France the Duc d'Aiguillon, when he was banished to his chateau in Guienne, ufed every week to give a dinner to the English that were refident in his neighbourhood. In the courfe of converfation one day with one of them, the Rev. Archdeacon, he paffed over in review the characters of the Prime Ministers of England of whom he had known any thing, and appeared to wonder much that the Earl of Sandwich had never been in that fituation, to which, he faid, his talents had fo eminently entitled him, and that indeed, he appeared to him to be the ablest man then in the country. The Archdeacon told the Duke, that " in England there was still some regard paid to certam appearances, of which the Noble Lord he mentioned had been negligent."

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