42 Stephensiana, No. X. 
LIBERALITY. 
Cicero, after cnumerating and dis- 
cussing some mistaken notions on the 
subject, subjoins, that Ziberality consists 
in giving with judgment. 
MR. SECRETARY CRAGGS. 
John duke of Marlborough raised 
Mr. Crages, father of the Secretary of 
State, from the obscure station of a 
barber to be his house-agent, and 
afterwards Postmaster-general. Mr. 
See. Craggs was $0 much ashamed of 
the meanness of his birth, that the 
mere reflection tormented him through 
life. His friend Addison, who dedi- 
cated his works to him a few days 
previous te his death, very properly 
styled this a ‘‘ vicious modesty.” 
THE DUKE OF HAMILTON TO THE EARL 
OF ARUNDELL, EARL MARSHAL OF 
ENGLAND. 
My Nositt Lorp,—Your lordship 
will be plesed to cause send this in- 
closed packet to Sir Antony Vandyck, 
and a gaine, I crave your lordship’s 
pardone for my not sending of it 
sonner. 
As for the bootes your lordship 
mentions, if you have anie use of them, 
the must be spooke to, for 
thoes that I caused make oares, mastes, 
and sales; but there ar divers other 
bootes of the same bignes, thatt lyeth 
att Detford, redy fitted with all thing 
nesessaire: yet, if your lordship think 
fitte to use anie of thoes I bespook as 
they ar, your lordship may be pleased 
to comand’ one Michell, who meade 
them to bring them whidder you shall 
a poynt, for he Knoeth wher they ar. 
So, wishing your lordship health and 
hapines, I rest, 
Your lordship’s most 
humbell servant, 
Yorke, the 13 Sept. HAMILTON. 
1640. 
DUELLISTS. 
The Earl of Shrewsbury fell in a 
duel with the Duke of Buckingham, 
memorable on many accounts. It 
was fought at Barnes Elms, then a fine 
green meadow, half encircled by the 
Thames, and shaded by rows of very 
lofty elms, under which the duellists, 
each accompanied by two seconds, 
met; and all fought, to the number of 
six, (as the practice then was,) with 
swords; when the Earl of Shrewsbury 
and one of the seconds lost their lives. 
DR. WOLCOT. 
I used to meet Peter Pindar in din- 
ner-parties at Sir Richard Phillips’s. 
He was one of the strongest-headed 
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and shrewdest men I ever knew. He 
had a certain round of stories, but 
they were excellent, and would bear 
repetition. He acted as well as spoke, 
and imitated the tones of his speakers 
with great felicity. Many of his stories 
were farces, in which he represented 
all the dramatis persone. 
He wrote against the court, but was 
neither ‘a patriot nor politician. His 
court scandal was derived from Welt- 
jie, the Prince’s cook, and his poems 
‘were well received at Carlton-House. 
He hated democracy, and always fa- 
voured aristocratic opinions and prac- 
tices. The sale of his early pieces 
was prodigious,—10, 20, and even 
30,000 copies went off in a month or 
two. This rendered him a desirable 
object of bookselling speculation ; and 
about the year 1795, Robinson, Gold- 
ing, and Walker, entered into a treaty 
to grant him an annuity for his pub- 
lished works ; and, on certain condi- 
tions, for his unpublished ones. While 
this was pending, Peter had an attack 
of asthma, which he did not conceal 
or palliate; but, at meetings of the 
parties, his asthma always interrupted 
the business. 
course anticipated, and, instead of a 
sum of money, an annuity of 250/. per 
annum was preferred. Soon after the 
bond was signed, Peter called on 
Walker, the manager for the parties, 
who, surveying him with a scrutinizing 
eye, asked him how he did? ‘Much 
better, thank you (said.Peter): I have 
taken measure of my asthma; the fel- 
low is troublesome, but I know his 
strength, and am his master.”—“Oh !” 
said Walker, gravely, and turned into 
an adjoining room, where Mrs. W.a 
prudent woman, had been listening to 
ihe conversation. Peter, aware of the 
feeling, paid a keen attention to the 
husband and wife, and heard the lat- 
ter exclaiin, “There now, did'nt I 
teli you he woud’nt die,—fool that 
you’ve been,—I knew he woud’nt 
die.” Peter enjoyed the joke, and 
outlived all the parties,—receiving the 
annuity for twenty-four years, during 
which yarious efforts were used to 
frustrate his claims; for his works, 
after that period, never netted 1001, 
per annum; and such is the fluctua- 
tion of public favour, that his latter 
pieces seldom paid for the expenses of 
printing. 
CULTURE OF INDIGO. 
It has been long doubted whether 
indigo would grow in Tuscany. lam 
glad 
A fatal result was of 
