eur defigns; upon which, I would lofe 
no time in having it reprefented to the 
King of the Romans, and to that end 
have writ what youwill find here enclofed, 
both to the Counte Sinzendorff, and Counte 
Wratiflaw ;/ I mutt likewile defire you 
will take all opportunities of reprefenting 
what the confequences of thefe neglects 
mutt be, if fome fpeedy remedy be not 
applied on Vienna, and pray let me know 
what notion the King and the Court have 
of thofe matters, and of their army which 
is to ferve under the Prince Louis. 
IT am now on the water between Leyden 
and Utrecht, making what haft I can to 
Mafricht: I fhall be going from thence 
- for Coblens the 14th, and then fhail make 
a yvifit to Prince Louis, fo that it will be 
the 23d or 24th, ‘before I fhall be abie to 
reach Treves ; the. troops will be there 
within three or four days after me. I 
am, with truth, Sir, 
Your moft faithful and humble fervant, 
(Mr. Stepney.) MakLBoRouGu. 
GRIGINAL LETTER OF THE EARL 
PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY, 
AFTER my harty commenda- 
tons. Whiereasithath plealed the King’s 
Moft Excellent Majefty, to refolve upon 
a royall journey to Yorke, and there to 
bee attended upon by all his {worn fer- 
vants, of which number yourfelf beeing 
ene I am therefore to fignifye unto you 
his Majefty’s royall pleafure, that al! oc- 
calions fett apart, in »perfon you bee in 
readinefs by the firlt day of Aprill next, 
at the citty of Yorke, with a horfe and 
ruffett arms, with guilded nayles, or 
fiudds, after the fafhion of a Curaffier, 
for yourlelf, and white armes as a Harq-- 
ebufner for your fervant or fervants that 
you fhall bring along with you, in be- 
fitting equipage, there to a&t and doe fuch 
dutyes and fervices as may bee expected 
from, ot fhall bee required cf you. Which, 
not doubting but you will moft carefully 
obferve, as alfo give mee a {peedy accompt 
ef the doeings hereof, I reit 
Your very loveing friend and coufen, 
FEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY. 
Whitehall, 3d of Feb. 1638. 
To my loveing Cofen, Sir Henry 
Herb:rt, Knt. one of the Gentle- 
men of bis Ma’s moft hon’ble 
Privy Chamber in Ordigary. 
ELOCUTION, 
ViRGIL pronounced his own verfes with 
fuch an enticing {weetnefs and enchanting 
gtace, that Julius Montanus, a poet, who 
had often heard him, ufed to fay, that 
«“he could fieal Virgil’s Verfes, if he 
could fteal his voice, expreffion, and gels 
Montuaty Mac, No, 74, 
— from the Pogt-Loioof a Man of Letters, — 
ay, 
ture; for the fame verfes that founded fo 
rapturoufly when he read them, were not 
always excellent in the mouth of another.” 
Hooke read fome fpeeches of his Ro- 
man Hiftory to Onflow, the Speaker 
(who piqued himfelf too upon reading), 
and begged him to give his opinion of the 
work. The Speaker anfwered, as if in a 
pafiion, ‘* he could not tell: what to think 
of it; it might be nonfenfe for ought he 
knew ;. for that his manner of reading had 
bewitched him.”? This muft have been 
the ‘cafe with the celebrated finger, Se- 
nefino ; for thofe who had no knowledge 
of the Italian language, nor the leaft re- 
lifh for mufic, were fafcinated with his re- 
citations, his modulated tones, and his 
exprefiive geftures. Le 
Mrs. OtprFiztp ufed to fay, ‘the 
beft {chool fhe had ever known, was only 
hearing Rowe read her part in his tra- 
gedies..” The late Isaac HAWKINS 
Browne had never felt the charms. of 
Milton, till he heard Sheridan pronounce 
his exordium. rai 
- Bootu, the a&tor, told a friend that 
he had agted the Ghoft when Betrer- 
TON played Hamlet ; and that the fir 
time he attempted it, Betterton’s look at 
him ftrack him with a dread and horror 
which totally difconcerted him from a&ting 
the part. 
BotsroBERT, famous in his day as 2 
ftory-teller, and who had fo happy a ta- 
lent this way, as to become the favourite 
of Cardinal Richelieu, when his friends 
adviled him to publifh, afflured them 
that they would find nothing. of that*en- 
gaging agreeablenefs on paper, that he 
had the happy {kill to fpread over his 
living chat; and that it was a mere cheat 
put upon their ears. 
En recitant, de vrai je fais merveilles ; 
Je fuis, mon amis, un grand dupeur 
d’oreilles, a | 
Such a Siren is pronunciation! united 
with the tone, the expreffion, and the gef- 
ture. Pliny, the younger, writing to a 
friend, who entreated him carefully to exa- 
mine his poem, if it was worthy to be 
publifhed, fays, before he opens it, that he 
can decide already that it is beautiful, 
and ought not to be {uppreffed, by what ae 
he had heard him read, ‘¢ if your pronun- 
ciation hath not impofed upon me ; for 
you do, indeed, read with exquifite fweet- 
nefs and art; yet I truft Iam not fo far 
led afide by my ears, that the charming 
cadence has entirely blunted the edge of 
my judgment.” j 
GOLD. MIP 
The earlieft account we have of geld 
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