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Hudibras in 12mo. dated 1732, printed in London 

 for "B. Moote*, at the Middle Temple Gate in 

 Fleet Street." On the title-page is read, "Adorn'd 

 with a new Set of Cuts, Design'd and Engrav'd by 

 Mr. Hogarth." The frontispiece is a well-engraved 

 ])ortraIt of " Mr. Samuel Butler." " J. V'''^ Gucht 

 Scul." The plates are nine in number : the first, 

 for p. 15., is subscribed "W" Hogarth, Inv* et 

 Scult." as are two or three others. Some are 

 numbered, others have merely a reference to the 

 pagef : the last, the Procession, is referred to 

 p. 182., but is misplaced. None occur in the 

 latter part of the volume, which extends continu- 

 ously to 400 pages. The Index at the end is not 

 paged. A. B. 



Canterbury. 



I have in my possession a copy of a 12mo edi- 

 tion of Hudibrns, the title of which is the same as 

 that mentioned by your correspondent Deva. It 

 has Hogarth's illustrations, numbered, and a short 

 life of the author. It differs, however, from your 

 correspondent's copy in being " printed for D. 

 Midwinter" and seventeen others. The date is 

 1732. It is very much at the service of any one 

 who will send me one guinea towards the restora- 

 tion of St. John's church in this town. 



T. Mathbw. 



Glastonbury. 



GENERAL BXJKGOYSE AND ABTHXJR MURPHY. 



(2"'i S. iv. 288.) 

 Your correspondent K. of Arbroath is quite 

 correct in assigning the authorship of the Heiress 

 to General Burgoyne. Tliis comedy, only inferior 

 to the School for Scandal of all the comedies pro- 

 duced in the last century, was first represented at 

 Drury Lane in January, 1786, six years previous 

 to the General's death. It was admirably cast, 

 had an extraordinary run, and was frequently 

 played at the Haymarket and Covent Garden in 

 subsequent seasons. Miss Farren was the original 

 Lady Emily Gayville, which was one of her fa- 

 vourite characters ; in which she was not equalled 

 by either Mrs. Pope or Miss Duncan, who suc- 

 ceeded her in that popular part. The General's 

 other dramatic pieces were, first, that capital opera 

 the Lord of the Manor, produced at Drury Lane 

 in December, 1780 (with Suett as Moll Flagon) ; 

 his Maid of the Oaks was brought out at the same 

 theatre, 1774, the year before he went to America 

 to tarnish the laurels which he had gloriously won 



* Apparently a misprint for " Motte," as the title-page 

 to Part III. lias the name " Motte," and the date 1732, as 

 if it had been a separate publication ; yet the paging is 

 continuous throughout. 



t I obsers'e this peculiarity — those alone are numbered 

 which bear the name " Hogarth." 



at Valentia di Alcantara and Villa Velha. It was 

 in the last-named opera that Mrs. Abington set 

 the town in ecstacies by her performance of Lady 

 Bab Lardoon. Towards the close of the year in 

 which the General brought out his Heiress, he 

 also produced at Drury Lane his adaptation of 

 Sedaine's Richard Ccevr de Lion, retaining only 

 portions of Gretfy's charming music. John 

 Kemble was the Richard, and he actually sang a 

 song, to the great astonishment of the public. 

 These were all the dramatic productions of the 

 natural son of Lord Bingley, who when a very 

 young oflScer, and without any fortune but his 

 sword, ran off with Lady Charlotte Stanley. Her 

 father, the Earl of Derby, was highly disgusted ; 

 but he subsequently settled 300/. a-year on the 

 lady, and at his death left her 25,000/. 



Burgoyne's dramatic career was briefer, but 

 more splendid than his military life ; though the 

 earlier portion of the latter was highly creditable 

 to him. Even his disastrous campaigns in America 

 mingled laurels with their cypress, and Ticon- 

 deroga and Mount Independence should not be 

 forgotten when his capitulation at Saratoga is 

 spoken of with censure. The censure should be 

 directed against the ministers of the day, who op- 

 posed his demand for inquiry into his conduct, 

 apparently lest their own short-comings should be 

 exposed. Burgoyne was not a Eegulus with 

 respect to his word pledged to an enemy ; who sa- 

 tirised his turgid proclamations by naming him 

 " Chrononhotonthologus ; " nor was he, morally, 

 of very elevated character, adding, as he is said to 

 have done, to a sufficient income the splendid 

 proceeds of his continually successful gambling 

 with young players. 



Murphy, as a dramatist, can well afford to dis- 

 pense with the reputation of being the author of 

 the Heiress. In the year in which Burgoyne's 

 comedy was produced. Murphy, the Roscommon 

 boy, who had passed through the different phases 

 of a student at St. Omer's, a merchant's clerk, a 

 periodical writer, an actor, and a barrister, pub- 

 lished his collected dramatic pieces. They had 

 all been written between 1754 and 1783, com- 

 mencing when he was about three-and-twenty- 

 years of age. His first piece was the Apprentice, 

 acted in 1756. This was succeeded by the Up- 

 holsterer in 1758, and the Orphan of China in 

 1759. In the following year he produced two 

 pieces, the Way to Keep Him, and the Desert 

 Island; and in the succeeding year three, the 

 Citizen, All in the Wrong, and the Old Maid. In 

 1764 were played his No One's Enemy but his 

 Own, Three Weeks after Marriage, and Choice. 

 The School for Guardians was played in 1767, and 

 Zenobia in 1768. In 1772 appeared his Grecian 

 Daughter, and his Alzuma in the following year. 

 News from Parnassus was first acted in 1776, and 

 Know your own Mind in 1777. Finally, his Eival 



