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courfe either to theirriches or their politics. 
In Portugai they oppofed a- tyrannical and 
odicus minifter ; in France they were, in 
turn, oppofed by a combination of Deifts, 
Hugonots, and Janfenifts, with Madame 
Pompadour at their head ; and in Spaina 
deluge of jouis-d’ors among the miniftry 
was the beft reafon in the world why, to 
ufe the words of the royal manifefto, his 
moft catholic majefty fhould conceal the 
caufe of their expuliion in his royal breaft, 
HENRY THE FOURTH OF FRANCE. 
Henry the Fourth uled to fay *‘* que la 
Jesiflation des Jeiuites eft le chef d’ceuvre 
de la politique Chrétienne.”” ‘Ii dit a 
un Jefuite, qui alloit 4 Rome: Mon pére, 
affurez votre general, que je fuis Jeluite 
€n mon ame, encore que ma robe sit bien 
courte : & mettant Ja main fur fon epée il 
ajouta: dites lui, qui je veux etre fon vi- 
caire general en ce que touche votre com- 
pagnie en mon rojaume, la prenant en ma 
protection & fauvegarde, & fouhaitant 
Ja conferver en lintegrité de fon inititut.”’ 
OLD IRISH HUNTER. 
Among the figures enoraved in Abra- 
ham Bruyns * Diverfarum gentium Ar- 
matura Equeftris,’ 1575, is a fingular 
portrait of a wild Ivith bunter “ Ezjn wilde 
Lhrlanfchs rbey ter,” who fits on a horfe 
without any fort of caparifon goingful! 
fpeed, his right hand has hold cf the horfe’s 
left ear, and in his left a fmall bow like 
that in ufe among the Parthians. He has 
a clofe jacket, and over it a large cloak 
faftened at the breaft; a fword fufpended 
at his left fide, and apparently a belt hung 
from the left fhoulcer, as for a quiver; 
with a high cap that fits the upper part cf | 
the head, and the fhamrock in front: all 
forming an entertaining pi€ture of Irifh 
manners about the middle of the fixteenth 
century. 
MRS. CRESSWELL. 
Mr. Granger, in his Biographical Dic- 
tionary, relates that the celebrated Mother 
Cr<ffwell, who died about the clofe of the 
laf century, Icfta legacy of ten pounds for 
forme clergyman to preach her funeral fer- 
mon, provided he faid nothing of her but 
what was well. A clergyman it feems 
was found to perform the cffice, who, 
having delivered to his congregation a gaod 
crdinary difcourfe, clofed it with relating 
tie with of the deceafed ; obferving, incom- 
pliance with it, that none could fay but that 
fhe was born well, lived well, and died well, 
for ber name was Creflwell; fhe lived in. 
Clerkerweil and died in Bridewell. This 
flory, hicwcever it may tell by way of joke, 
was undoubtedly, likemany others, foifed 
From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
[July 1, 
on Mr. Granger’s credulity 3 and appears 
to have been gathered from an obfolete play 
of the time of James the Firft. Marlton, 
in the ** Dutch Courtezan,”” 1605, act i. 
{cene 2, in relation to people of a fimilar 
defeription, obferves—<‘* To conclude, 
*tis moft certaine they muft needes both 
live well, and dye well, fince moft com- 
monly they live in Clerkenwell, and dye 
in Bridewell.” 
DAURAT. “, 
Jean Daurat was born in the year 1517. 
He was a Limofin, and defcended from an 
ancient family. Daurat was not the name 
of his father, and it would almof appear 
that he adopted it to afford a fubje& to the 
co-temperary wits, who amufed them- 
felves by punning on the Latin word Az- 
ratus, by which he expreffed it. Hoto- 
manus concluded fome verfes againft him 
with the following diftich: 
Ex folido effe prius vulgus quem credidit auro, 
Extrorfum uratus, plumbeus intus erat. 
Daurat became one of the profefforsin the 
univerfity of Paris, and numbered Ron- 
fard, whorn he furvived, among his {cho- 
Jars. He was aman of a lively temper; 
and his merit, together with his jefts, re- 
commended him to the favor of Charles IX. 
who appointed him his poet, ( Poetam re- 
gium.) The love of company was fatal 
to Daurat. He exhaufted his fortune in 
f{plendid entertainments, and died in the 
year 1588, opprefied with want and debts. 
It ought to be mentioned that the time of 
his birth is difputed among his biogra- 
phers ; fome of whom contend that he was” 
born ia the year 1508. This point is dif- 
cuffed by them the more ferioufly, as it 
is agreed that he married a young woman 
a fhort time before his death, and had a 
fon by her: thofe who are anxious for the 
honour of him and his wife, are more 
willing that he fhould have been born in 
1517 than in 1508. ‘He himfelf declares, 
that he married with poetecal licence ; but 
either cafe feems to juftify this expreffion. 
Daurat was diftinguifhed as a Greek, a 
Latin; and a French, poet. His Greek 
and Latin‘verfes are very numerous. Du 
Verdier eftimates them at 50,000. It is 
upon thefé that his reputation is tounded. 
The authenticity of moft of the French 
pieces, which go under his name, is dif- 
puted, owing to the bockfellers having 
after bis death, publifhed a Collec- 
tion of bis Works, in which were many 
things undoubtedly fpuricus. His works 
are generally on occafional fubjeéts. The 
marriages and deaths of the great were 
celebrated by tie epithalamiums and ele- 
gies 
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