1823.3 
_ Capel Lofft, of Trostes, to -whom he gave 
him a letter ofintroduction, On his depar- 
ture, the gentleman presentwarmly compli- 
mented the editor on the sound: advice 
which he ‘had given “the poor fellow ;” 
and, it was mutually conceived, that an in- 
dustrious man was thereby likely to be 
saved from a ruinous infatuation. | Bloom- 
field, however, visited Mr. Lofft, and that 
kind-hearted and erudite man, entering 
sanguinely into his views, edited the work 
through al Ws wrote a preface, and the 
poem apnéared as a literary meteor. its 
success was prodigious. ‘The author was 
to divide the profits with the bookseller, and 
they soon shared above. 10001. a-piece. 
The reputation ‘of the poem at length 
seemed so thoroughly established, that: the 
bookseller offered to give Bloomfield-an 
annuity of 200]. per annum for his half ; 
but.this he refused, in. the confidence that 
it would produce him double. At length, 
however, 1lew objects caught the public at- 
tention ; the sale died away ; and, im three 
or four years, a small edition per annum 
only was required. All this was iu the 
usual course; but Bloomfield, whose ex- 
péctations had been unduly raised, keenly 
felt the reverse; be was obliged to seck 
other employment, and his health and spi- 
ritssntlered in consequence. Other attempts 
produced but moderate recompense, ang, 
becoming peevish, he entered into a paper- 
war with his patron Mr. Lofft, and lost the 
sympathy of many of his first friends. He 
was aeverthcless a man of real genius; and, 
though the bloated popularity of © his 
Farmer’s Boy led to no permanent advan- 
tage, yet it had, and still bas, admirers, 
some of whom never ceased to be kind to 
the author. His ambition, however, was 
disappointed; and, for some years, he was 
im astate of mental depression, which, it is 
stated, rendered his death consolatory to 
his connections. Under tliese cireum- 
stances, and they are such as constantly 
attend genius without pecuniary inde- 
pendence, the editor of this Mavazine is 
notashamed of the advice which she gave 
Bloomfield at his outset, The world 
would have lost nothing by the non-appear- 
ance of the Fariner’s Boy, as it then ex- 
isted in Bloomfield’s original manuscript, 
and the poet would have enjoyed the com- 
forts of an industrious life, enhaneed by his 
love of the Muses. Bloomfield; owever, 
never forgave the adviser, and the plirase 
with which the conversation ended. “f 
earnestly advise you ty stick to your last,” 
which was used without ayy suspicion that 
such was his real employment, he often 
quoted with indignation in the hey-day of 
his subsequent popularity. , 
In Wimpole-street, Major-General Sir 
Denis Puck,k.c., ¢.7.s, and other Orders, 
Colonel of the 84th Foot, and Lieutenant. 
Governor of Plymouth. 
. Deaths in and:near London, 
perannum, | 
» #35 
At Richmond, the! Hon,.Myy:Aghdsneto 
eldest son of Lord Sante eens 
insane for many years, yet, to the day of 
his death, held a sinecure- worth 3,000/. 
At. Dacre-lodge,. Lord, Napier, Lord 
Lieutenant of ‘the County of Selkirk, and 
one of the sixteen Representative Peers 
of Scotland; —_ : rics 
At Barrogill Castle, near Fhurso, 56, 
the Earl of Cattlngss, Lord Lieutenant of 
that county, and Postmaster-General -of 
Scotland." * 5 AAS iy 
In London, 63; John- James, Euyl of 
Hainham, Viscount Maxwell, and Baron 
of Farnham, Goyernor of Cayaushire, 
and one of the representative Peers for 
Ireland. 
At Winchester, 37, Charles: Frederich 
Powleté Townshend, Lord Bayning, He 
is succeeded by his only brottier, Henry. 
In Old Burlington-street, 48, Charles, 
Marquis Cormeallis, Eark Cornwallis, 
Viscount Brome, Baron Cornwallis, ‘of 
Eye, and a Baronet, Master of the Star 
Hounds, Colonel of the East Suflatk 
Militia, and Recorder of. the Borongh of 
Eye, Dying without male heirs, | the 
Marquisate is extinct. The Bishop ef 
Litchfield and . Coventry, his uncle, 
succeeds to the Earldom only, by descent 
from his father the first Earl : 
{In noticing the late Sampson Perry in 
our precedmg number, we described hin 
as the preparer of Perry’s Essence ; butwat 
ought to have been.of Adams’s Solvent for 
the Stone and Gravel ; and, we learn, that 
his widow continues the preparation from 
the original receipt.} ahh 
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. 
Rey. Augustus Cooper, B A. to the rec- 
tory of Billingford, alias Pryleston, witle 
Thorpe Parva, Norfolk, : 
Rey. IT. Gisborne, m.a, has been col- 
lated to the fifth prebendal stall in the @a- 
thedral Church of Durham, , 
- Yhe Rey. Dr. Macfariane, of Drymen, 
to be principal of the University of Glas- 
gow, and to the church and parish of St, 
Mungo. , : . 
The Rev. Alexander Lochore to the 
church and parish of Drymen, in the county 
of Stirling. 
Rev. W. Cecil, M.A, to the rectory of 
Stanton St. Michael’s, Cambridgeshire, 
‘Phe Rev. J. Paul, to the parish of May- 
hole, Ayrshire. 
' The Rev. Dunean M‘Cairy, to the 
church and parish of Uig, in the county of 
Ross; ' 
Rev. Charles Atlay, M.A, to the rectory 
of St, George with St. Paul, in Stamford, 
The Rev, George Hmne, to be domestic: 
Hhaplain tv the Marquis of Ailesbury, 
' The 
