fown. Sir William was afterwards ad- 
vanced to fome of the higneft honours of 
the. ftete, till at f4ft he rofe to that of 
Chief Baron of the Exchequer. His fon 
Michael, was, after his deceafe, raifed to 
be Lord Chancellor, and created Earl of 
Suffolk, by Richard II. His grandfon, 
William, Earl of Suffolk, was, in 1444, 
created a Marquis, and a Duke in 3448, 
who had iffue, John Dela Pole, Duke of 
Suffolk, who married Elizabeth, fifter of 
Edward IV. The iffue of this marnage 
was John De la Pole, Ear! of Lincoln, of 
the blood-royal of the Houle of York, and 
the acknowledged heir to the crown of 
Richard fi, in cafe he fhould die without 
children. The fudden death of Richard, 
and fuccefion of Henry VII. blatted his 
every hope, if any he had ever entertained, 
of fucceeding to the crown: he then took 
part againft Henry, and fled into Flan- 
ders. Shortly afterwards he brought forces 
ito England, and encountered the King’s 
army near Nottingham, where they were 
routed, and he fell in the ficld, with many 
others, in 1437. 
Hull was anciently confidered as a place 
of great military importance, and prodi- 
gious fums of money it has coft to render 
tt afituation of ftrength. Henry VIII. 
expended twenty three thoufand pounds 
on its defenfive works. In 1681, Charles 
II. ereéted a citadel, and improved the 
fortifications, at the enormous coft of 
above one hundred thoufand pounds. Its 
walls, gates, and lofty towers, have, how- 
ever, long been demolifhed. Ali that re- 
mains now of its ancient fortifications is 
the citadel or garrifon. 
In the time of Henry VIII. Hull was 
the fee of a fufragan bifhop, an epifcopal 
gignitary of fecondary rank. The pre- 
late’s palace is faid to have been a ftately 
edifice, built moftly of freeftone. and 
adorned with large Gothic windows, gates, 
and towers. 
The diftri€ that is now diftinguifhed 
by the common name of Hull includes, be- 
_ fides what is properly called the town, that 
alfo of the county of Hull. 
The government of Hull, as it exifts at 
prefent, is complete within itfelf, and pof- 
fefles a jurifdiction of confiderable extent 
over the feveral places within what is de- 
nominated the county of Hull, compre- 
hending a fpace of .more than eighteen 
miles in circumference, in weft and north- 
weft direétion. 
The entire civil authority of the town 
and county of Hull is vefted in the cor- 
poration, by royal charters or grants, ob- 
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2%; 
tained at different eras fince its firft foun- 
dation. O—a. 
(To be continued in our next.) 
oe 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiB, 
ERY honourable mention is made 
of Cartwright in the Cantabrigians 
(vol. xiv. p. 493) of your ingenious and 
ufeful Mifcellany, ‘a man of great learn- 
ing, a much admired ‘preacher, and a 
fhrewd difputant.”” In addition to thete, 
he was no mean poet.. [ was-mach {truck 
at reading lately a paflage in one of his 
plays, ** The Siege.’ It inftantly re- 
minded me of a paflage in Milton’s Para- 
dife Loft; refpeéting which the late 
Gilbert Wakefield remarked, that ** for 
the grandeur of the perfonification, and a 
happy union of fublimity and {weetnels, 
it has perhaps no equal, and cannot be 
excelled.” 
“6 Gentle Gales, 
Fanning their odoriferous wings, difpenfe 
Native perfumes, and whifper whence they 
{tole 
Thofe balmy. fweets.”” 
There is the fame “ prand perfonifica- 
tion” in Cartwright. 
‘© GEentTLe Winds, 
That wait upon your flow’rs, purge and rts 
fine em; . 
win once conveigh PERFUMES to them, and ber~ 
row ; 
Atinflure from thence, which theyhad not before, 
Which makes them flie more gratefull.”” 
Act il, Scene 2. 
The verfification in the above is very 
harfh and inharmonious, but the image 
is truly poetical.—The late ingenious 
commentator on Shakefpeare, Mr. Stee- 
vens, remarked, that the paflage in Mil- 
ton was borrowed from the following in 
the Twelfth Night: (41. Scene 1.) 
‘°O it came o’er my ear like the {weet South, 
That breathes. upoa a bank of violets, 
Stealing and giving odour.” 
Here are, evidently, ftrong marks of 
imitation; and it is difficult to fay, to 
which of the two poets, Shake(peare or 
Milton, to give the preference.—After ali, © 
however, E believe Milton was indebted, 
in: the paflages before us, to Peele’s David 
and Bethfabe, a play, founded on {crip- 
tural hiftory, and which abounds in beau- 
ties. The following weil-vowelled lines 
will be read with pleafure : 
“6 Come, gentle Zephyr, trick'd with thofe 
perfumes 
That erft in Eden fweeten’d Adam’s love, 
And ftroke my befom with thy filken fan: 
Thiz 
