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A L^ilXA^^I>ER CRUDElSr. 
and took for the motto, “ Ut pictura poesis.” Mr. Hogarth’s revenge 
against the poet terminated in vamping up an old print of a Pug- 
dog and a Bear, which he published under the title of “ The Bruiser 
C. Churchill, in the character of a Russian Hercules,’' &c. 
At the time when these hostilities were carrying on in a manner so 
virulent and disgraceful fo all the parties, Hogarth was visibly de- 
clining in his health. In 1762 he complained of an inward pain, 
which continuing, brought on a general decay that proved incurable. 
This last year of his life he employed in retouching his plates, with the 
assistance of several engravers, whom he took with him to Chiswick. Oct. 
25, 1764, he was conveyed from thence to Leicester-fields in a very 
weak condition, yet remarkably cheerful ; and receiving an agreeable 
letter from the American Dr. Franklin, he drew up a rough draught 
of an answer to it; but going to bed, he was seized with a vomiting, 
upon which he rang the bell with such violence that he broke it, and 
expired about two hours afterwards. His disorder was an aneurism ; 
and his^remains were interred in the church-yard of Chiswick, where 
a monument is erected to his memory, with an inscription by his friend 
Mr. Garrick* 
It may be truly observed of Hogarth, that all his powers of delighting 
were restrained to his pencil. Having rarely been permitted into 
polite circles, none of his sharp corners had been rubbed off, so that 
he continued to the last a gross uncultivated man. The slightest 
contradiction transported him into rage. To some confidence in him- 
self he was certainly entitled, for as a comic painter, he could have 
claimed no honour that w'ould not most readily have been allowed him ; 
but he was at once unprincipled and variable in his political conduct 
and attachments. He is also said to have beheld the rising eminence 
and popularity of Sir Joshua Reynolds with a degree of envy ; and if 
we are not misinformed, frequently spoke with asperity both of him 
and his performances. Justice, however, obliges us to add, that our 
artist was liberal, hospitable, and the most punctual of paymasters ; 
so that in spite of the emoluments his works had procured to him, he 
left but an inconsiderable fortune to his widow. 
Alexander Cruder. 
This gentleman was an author, whose literary labours will ever 
entitle him to the gratitude of all who wish to study the scriptures. 
He was the son of Mr. William Cruden, a merchant of Aberdeen. He 
was born in 1701, and educated in the grammar-school of that city ; 
along with George Keith, earl marischal, and the celebrated field* 
marischal James Keith. He studied divinity at the marischal college, 
and intended to follow that profession, had he not been prevented 
by a misfortune, to which kings and beggars have been equally sub- 
jected, and to which men of uncommon genius are peculiarly liable, 
if we may credit the poet, that 
** Great wit to madness oft is near allied. 
And thin partitions do the bounds divide.” 
The cause of his insanity has been variously accounted for, but the 
most probable reason assigned, appears to have been disappointment 
