Walpoliana, No. V.- 
When this is the cafe, by’ 
the natural progrefs of knowledge, writers 
good ftyle. 
are apt to think they mutt diftinguith 
themfelves by an uncommon ftyle—hence 
elaborate ftiffmefs, and quaint brilliance. 
Had the authors of the filver age of Rome 
written juft as they converled, their works 
would have vied with thofe of the golden 
age. What a prodigious labour an au- 
thor often takes to deftroy his own repu- 
tation! As in old prints with curious. 
flowered borders, uncommon induftry is 
exerted—anly to ruin the effect, 
LXXXI. FAME, 
Much of reputation. depends on the 
period in which it arijes. The Italians 
proverbially obferye that one aif of fame 
depends on that caufe. In dark periods, 
when talents appear, they fhine like the 
fun through a fmall hole in the window- 
fhutter. The ttrong beam dazzles amid 
the furrounding gloom. Open the fthut- 
ters, and the general diffulion of light 
‘attracts no notice, ra 
LXXXII. TRIFLES. 
& Literature has many revolutions, If 
an author could arife from the dead, after 
a hundred years, what would be his fur- 
prize at tlie adventures of his own works ! 
{ often fay, ‘ perhaps my books may be 
publithed in Paternotter-Row.” 
The name of Horatio I diflike. It is 
theatrical; and not Englith. I have, 
eyer fince I was a youth, written and 
fubferibed Horace, an Englith name for 
an Englifhman. In all my books, (and 
perhaps you will think of the UUMET Ofits 
Horatius,) I fo f{pell my name. 
I always retain the Zo on my letters, 
and I think the omiffion an impropriety. 
The mere name is too naked, while the 
old addrefles were too prolix. We do not 
now addrefs an Earlas “ Right Honour- 
sble:’’ the bare title is ‘thought more 
than “ right’’ honourable. 
LXXXIII, BISHOP HOADLEY. 
Bithop Hoadley was a true whig. He 
once preached a fermon on the anniverfary 
of the Reftoration, and printed it with 
this witty title, ‘* Tite Reftoration no 
blefling without the Revolution.” He 
uled to exprefs great contempt for the 
univerfities; and ob{eryed, as an inftance 
of their great progrefs in learning, that 
the one had publifhed Shakefpear, and the 
other Hudibras,* 
LXXXIV. SECRET SERVICES. 
I obferve that Sir John Sinclair, in his 
book on the revenue, builds much on 
* Hanmer’s and Dr. Grey’$, 
37 
Bolingbroke’s affertions, which as proofs 
amount to. nothing, * 
Some have confidently aflerted that Sir - 
Robert Walpole’s large fecret fervice 
money went to newfpapers, while in fa@ 
it was neceffary in order to fix this family 
on the throne. Lord Orrery, fecretary 
to the pretender, had a penfion frony Sir 
Robert Walpole of two thoufand pounds 
a year. The lord, his fucceffor, wha 
wrote the life of Swift, took Lord Orford 
afite in the Houfe of Peers, and told him 
he had made ftrange difcoveries in his 
father’s papers. ““* Aye! {aid Lord Or: 
ford, but the lefs you fpeak’ of that, the 
better. You are an honett man, and that 
is enough.” 
LXXXV. FACTION CONFUTED BY 
PACTS. 
It was not lord Bath, but lord Eg- 
mont, who wrote the ramous pamphlet, 
‘* Faction confuted by Fatts.”” 
LXXXVI. PRINCESS DOWAGER OF 
WALES. , a 
The king had quarrelled with Bute 
before he came to the throne: it was hig 
mother, the princefs dowdger, who forced 
herfon to employ that nobleman. I am 
as much convinced of an amorous con- 
nection between B. and the P. D, as if 
had feen them together. | 
_ The P. D. was a woman of ftrone 
mind. When the was very ill, fhe would 
order her carriage, and drive about the 
fireets, to fhewthat the was alive. The 
K. and Q. ufed to go and fee her every 
evening at eight o’clock; but when the 
got worie they went at feven, pretending 
they miftook the hour. The night be- 
fore her death they were with her from 
feven tonine. She keeped up the con+ 
verfation as ufual, went to bed, and was 
found dead in the morning. She died of 
the evil, which quite confumed her. 
LXXXVIi. MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUI- 
THES. 
Here is a lift of curious articles, which 
I intended for other Numbers of my Mif- 
cellaneous Antiquities, if that publica- 
tion had been encouraged, 
1. Original Remonftrance from General 
Monk to King Charles II. concerning the 
plan of government he was to follow, 1660. 
2.Co. Letter from Mr, William Neve te 
Sir Thomas Holland, touching the death and 
funeral of James I, 
3. Co. Singular Letter from Sir John 
Stanhope, 17 April, 1597: a fpecimen of 
the Court bribery of the times. 
4. Co. Letter from the Duchefs of Cleve- 
land to King Charles II. from the original im 
Lord Berkthire’s hands, Paris 1678. 
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