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Cumber- 

 land. 



den and short illness, at the house of Mr Henry Fry, 

 in Bedford Place, Russel Square, on the 7th of May 

 1811, in the 80th year of his age. A funeral proces- 

 sion took place, and his body was deposited in a spot 

 nearly at an equal distance from the remains of Dryden 

 and Addison. 



The preceding account of Mr Cumberland has been 

 drawn up from his own Memoirs, from the biographi- 

 cal sketches of him published after his decease, and 

 from incidental notices which have occurred to us in 

 the course of our reading. Our limits do not permit 

 us to give a particular character of all the productions 

 of his pen, but the following is a tolerably accurate list 

 of them, so far as they have come to our knowledge. 



I. Theology. 1. Sermons. 2. A Few Plain Rea- 

 sons for believing in the Evidences of the Christian 

 Revelation. 3. Fifty of the Psalms of David rendered 

 into English metre. 



II. Heroic Poetry. 1. Calvary, or the Death of 

 Christ, in blank verse. 2. The Exodiad. 



III. Dramatic Works published during his life. 1. 

 The Banishment of Cicero, in 5 acts. 2. Caractacus. 

 3. The Summer's Tale, originally an opera, and then 

 cut down into an after-piece of 2 acts. 4. The Bro- 

 thers, a comedy. 5. The Fashionable Lover, a come- 

 dy. 6". Th'e West Indian, a comedy. 7- The Choleric 

 Man, a comedy. 8. Timon of Athens, altered from 

 Shakespeare. 9. Note of Hand, or a Trip to Newmar- 

 ket. 10. Mysterious Husband. 11. The Battle of 

 Hastings, a tragedy. 12. Box Lobby Challenge, a co- 

 medy. 13. Calypso, an opera. 14. The Impostor, a 

 comedy. 15. The Widow of Delphi, or Descent of the 

 Deities, a comic opera. 16. False Impressions, a come- 

 dy. 17. The Carmelite, a tragedy. 18. The Natural 

 Son, a comedy. 19. The Dependant. 20. Days 

 of Yore. 21. Word for Nature. 22. First Love, a co- 

 medy. 23. The Jew, a comedy. 24. Country Attor- 

 ney, a comedy. 25. The Arab, a tragedy. 26'. Wat 

 Tyler, a comic opera, objected to by the Lord Cham- 

 berlain, and new modelled and produced under the 

 title of the Armourer. 27. The Clouds, translated from 

 the Greek of Aristophanes, and incorporated into the 

 6 vol. edition of the Observer. 28. The Sailor's Daugh- 

 ter. 29. Wheel of Fortune, a comedy. 



IV. Posthumous Dramatic Works in two volumes 

 8vo. Vol. I. contains the Sibyl, or the Elder Brutus, 

 a tragedy. 2. The Walloons, a comedy. 3. The Con- 

 fession. 4. The Passive Husband, a comedy. 5. Tor- 

 rendal, a tragedy. 6. Lover's Resolutions. Vol. II. 

 contains, 1 . Alcanor, a tragedy. 2. The Eccentric Lo- 

 ver, a comedy. 3. Tiberius in Capreae. 4. The Last 

 of the Family, a comedy. 5. Don Pedro. 6. The 

 P'alse Demetrius, (unfinished). 



V. Fugitive Pieces. 1. Verses on the King's Ac- 

 cession. 2. A Poem after the manner of Goldsmith's 

 " Retaliation." 3. Verses on the bust of the present 

 Prince of Wales. 4. An irregular Ode addressed to 

 the Sun. 5. Ode to Dr Robert James. 6. Lines to 

 the Earl of Mansfield. 7- St Mark's Eve, an elegy. — 

 With a great number of small pieces which it is not 

 worth while to detail. 



VI. Novels. 1. Arundel, 2 vols. 2. John de Lan- 

 caster. 3. Henry, 4 vols. 



VII. Controversial. 1. A Letter to the Bishop of 

 Oxford, (in vindication of Dr Bentley. ) 2. A Pamphlet 

 on the Bishop of LlandafPs proposal for equalising the 

 Revenues of the English Hierarchy. 



VIII. Miscellaneous. 1 . Curtius rescued from the 

 VOL. VII. tart 11. 



Cupar. 



Gulph. 2. A Sketch of Lord Sackville's character. 3. Cuminum 

 The Observer, 5 vols. 4. Anecdotes of eminent Pain- 

 ters in Spain, with a Catalogue of the Paintings in the 

 King's Palace at Madrid. 5. Memoirs of Himself, 4to. 

 and with a Supplement in 2 vols. 8vo. 6. Preface and 

 Articles in Tipper's Review, (t) 



CUMINUM, a genus of plants of the class Pen- 

 tandria, and order Digynia. See Botany, p. 165. 



CUNILA, a genus of plants of the class Diandria, 

 and order Monogynia. See Botany, p. 90. 



CUNNINGHAMIA, a genus of plants of the class 

 Tetrandria, and order Monogynia. See Botany, p. 

 120. 



CUNONIA, a gpnus of plants of the class Decan- 

 dria, and order Digynia. See Botany, p. 215. 



CUPANIA, a genus of plants of the class Octan- 

 dria, and order Monogynia. See Botany, p. ]t)o. 



CUPAR, a town of Scotland, in Fifeshire, is situ- 

 ated in the middle of the county, on the banks of the 

 river Eden, at its junction Avith the Mary-burn. The 

 ground in the immediate neighbourhood is alluvial, 

 and elevated above the level of the sea about forty feel; 

 but on the north and south it rises to a considerable 

 height, and greatly circumscribes the view from the 

 town. The fields along the banks of the Eden are of- 

 ten enveloped with mist, whose influence is pernicious 

 to the potatoes in autumn, and to cabbages and other 

 vegetables in winter. The town is but poorly sup- 

 plied with water. There are few springs, and the wells 

 dug in the argillaceous strata form hard water, highly 

 impregnated with earthy salts. 



The town consists of three streets, besides a number 

 of lanes and detached buildings. The Crossgate, or 

 principal street, runs from north to south, is broad, 

 well-aired, and contains many substantial well-finished 

 houses. Here the weekly markets are held, and here 

 also are the best frequented inns. The Bonygate joins 

 the north end of the Crossgate, and stretches to the 

 west. It is a little narrower than the former street. 

 The New-street, or St Catherine's, is nearly on a line 

 with the Bonygate, joining its east end. It has been 

 built according to a regular plan, and the houses are 

 elegant and commodious. 



The town of Cupar can boast of few interesting ob- 

 jects of antiquity. Its castle, of which no vestige re- 

 mains, was once a place of considerable strength. In 

 its neighbourhood, there was a convent of Dominican 

 or Black Friars. On the high ground to the east of 

 the town stood the church of St Michael. The steeple 

 connected with the present church, is a very handsome 

 building, and is a great ornament to the town. It was 

 built, in part, by the prior of St Andrew's in 1415, 

 and finished by Mr William Scot, who was for many 

 years minister of Cupar, and who died in l6'42. 



The parish church is a very plain building, possessing 

 no external decorations, unless we consider the porch as 

 such, which was lately added. It is not sufficient for 

 the accommodation of the inhabitants of the parish. 

 The town-house contains chambers suited to the pur- 

 pose of public meetings, but has a very mean exterior. 

 The county-rooms, which were added to the town- 

 house nearly thirty years ago, are now forsaken, more 

 elegant accommodation being provided in the buildings 

 in the New-street, for the noblemen and gentlemen of 

 the shire to hold their public meetings, balls, &c. The 

 plan for the new county-rooms was drawn by Mr Gilles- 

 pie, and executed by subscription under the manage- 

 ment of a truly patriotic magistrate, John Ferguson, 

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