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SELECTIONS fiom the CORRESPONDENCE. 
of MR. COLE and his FRIENDS. 
SOAME JENYNS. t 
«© Have you feen Mr. Soame Jenyns’s 
Book on the internal Evidence of Chrif- 
tianity ; it is much read and admired.— 
He told me that the King talked much to 
him about it iaft Sunday, and feemed 
mafter of every argument init. At the 
Feaft of the Sons of the Clergy laft week, 
Sir S. Stafford Smyth, who jate on the 
right hand of the Lord Mayor Sawbridge, 
afked him if he had read‘it? He replied, 
with a laugh, * What! Soame Jenyns 
write in behalf of Chriftianity.” * Yes, 
(replies Smyth,) and he tells you in his 
book that he believed once as little as you 
can do.”’ 
Dr. Lort to Mr. Cole. May 15,1776. 
MR. WILKES. 
«¢ Mr. Wilkes’s fpeech pleafed me much : 
if the fcoundrel really meant all he faid, 
he would nearly have cancelled all his 
rogueries, in my opinion; but his defign 
is to diftrefs, by propofing great. matters 
at an improper time ; and his compliment 
‘to Bifhop Lowth is only to deal the hea- 
vier blow on Bifhop Terrick, who, I dare 
fay, had none of thote abfurd prejudices 
he lays to his charge: all he meant was 
not to awaken the abfurd prejudices of 
Wrilkes’s Prefbyterian friends and allies.” 
Mr. Cole to Dr. Lort. May 16,1777. 
CHATTERTON. 
** T doubt you are again in error, my 
good Sir, about the letter in the Gentle- 
man’s Magazine, againit the Rowleians, 
unlefs Mr. Malone tent it to you ; for he 
is the author, and not Mr. Steevens, from 
whom I imagine you received it. There 
is areport, that proof of fome part of 
Chatterton’s forgery is to be produced 
from an accomplice. But this I do not 
anfwer for, nor know the circumftances. 
I have fearce feen a perfon who is not 
perfuaded that the fa/bion of the poems 
was Chatterton’s own ; though he might 
have found fome old ftuff to work upon, 
which very likely was the cafe : but now 
that the poems have been fo much exa- 
mined, nobody (that has an ear) can get 
ever the modernity of the modulation, and 
the recent caft of the ideas and phrafeo- 
logy, corroborated by fuch palpable pil- 
lage of Pope and Dryden. Still the boy 
remains a prodigy, by whatever means he 
procured or produced the edifice he ere&- 
ed: and ftill it will be inexplicabie how 
he found time or materials for operating 
fuch miracles. Yours ever. H.W.” 
Mr. Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole. 
Feb. 22, 1782. 
MonTHLy Mac, No, £12. 
Coliana—Mr. Twifs’s Letter. 
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OLIVER CROMWELL. 
‘6 Whenever can get the Chartulary 
conveyed to you by a friend, for it mutt 
not be hazarded ina ftage, you fhall cer- 
tainly have it. I will fend you in my 
next copies of the feals I took. ‘Tie feal 
of Colne Priory, I fear, does not now ex-" 
it. Mrs, Holgate burnt a great box full 
of deeds and feals, many of them in tip 
cales. Into the fame fire went a lock of 
Oliver Cromwell’s hair, and a Diary of his 
Life, in bis own hand-weiting, in the true 
canting ftrain. She has a fine ebony ca- 
binet of his, filled with his table linen : 
fhe gave me a napkin, which has on it 
the arms he affumed as Lord Protector, 
with the coronet over them.”’ 
Mr. Tyfon to Mr. Cole. Nov+ 22, 17796 
Firff PINE-APPLE raifed in ENGLAND. 
“ Mr. Pennicott has fhewn me a moft 
curious and delightful pigture. It is 
Rofe, the royal gardener, prefenting the - 
firft pine-apple raifed in England to 
Charles the Second. ‘They are in a gar. 
den, with a view of a good private houfe, 
fuch as there are feveral at Sunbury, and 
about London. It is by far the bett like- 
nefs of the King I ever faw : the counte~ 
nance chearfal and good-humoured, and 
very fenible. He is in brown, lined with 
orange, and many black ribands ; a large 
flapped hat, dark wig not tied up, nor yet 
bufhy ; a point cravat, no waiftcoat, and 
ataffeled handkerchief hanging from a low 
pocket. The whole is: of the fmaller 
landicape-fize and extremely well colour- 
ed, with perfect harmony. It was a lega- 
cy from London, grandfon of him who 
was partner with Wife,”’ 
Mr. H. Walpole to Mr. Cole. 
March 6, 1780. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
O jong a time has elapfed fince I firft 
iffued my propolals for publifhing a 
<¢ Verbal. Index to the Plays of Shak- 
fpeare,”” that I felt it incumbent on me to 
convey to my fubferibers fome informa- 
tion to account for the delay, and for this 
purpofe requeft your infertion of the fol- 
lowing netice in the Monthly Magazines 
Tt. will be recolle€ted that I orginally 
ftated my derermination not to print the 
index, till I thould be affured that my ex~ 
pences fhould be covered, and, therefore, 
adopted the only mod’, by which I could 
aicertain, how far fuch a work was defired 
by the public. It is now time to inform 
my fubfcribers, that the depofits in the 
hands of my bookfellers are by no means 
equal to defraying the expences of publi- 
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