1806, ] 
An accident of another kind, and 
which at fir affumed’ a mo inau- 
f{picious appearance, made her known 
to Richardfon, then in the meridian 
of his reputation; and as their ori- 
ginal corre(pondence is now before the 
author of this article, he can of courfe 
give fome account of what teok place on 
this oceafion, 
On the 13th of December, 1747, 
Mils C. addreffed a letter from Canter- 
bury to the author of ‘ Ciarifla,” com- 
plaining ‘that he had thought proper to 
print an Ode*, which the apprehended no 
one had a right to publifh if the did not 
chufe to do it herfelf,’’ and to this fhe 
added, “that fuch a proceeding was un- 
generous, and unworthy a man of repu- 
tation,” 
Five days after, Richardfon explained 
the tranfaétion, by obferving that he 
had a worthy kinfwoman, Mils Elizabeth 
Long by name,” who had obtained the 
promife of a copy for him while in Wilt. 
thire, and delivered it without impofing 
any reltriétion whatfoever. He at the 
fame time prefented her with ‘the two 
little volumes, (in half-binding, as an un- 
finithed work) not by way of {atisfattion 
or atonement, but to fee how the Ode is 
introduced,” 
In confequence of this incident, mu- 
tual civilities having taken place, a rezu- 
lar correfpondence was carried on for 
fome time with a confiderable degree of 
Spirit on both fides, during 1747, 174%, 
aod 1753:inclufive. Under the date of 
the lait of thele years, after mentioning 
 ® Ode to wifdom. 
firtt ftanzas : 
$* The folitary bird of night 
Thro’ the pale thades now wings his flight, 
And quits the time-fhook tow’r: 
Where fhelter’d from the blaze of day, 
Tn philofophic gloom he lay, 
Beneath his ivy bow’r. 
Here follow the three 
With joy I hear the folemn found 
Which midnight echoes waft around, 
And Gighing gales repeat: 
Fav’rite of Pa//as! I attend, 
And faithful to thy fummons bend, 
At Wifdom’s awful fear. , 
She loves the cool, the filen: eve, 
Where no faife thows of life deceive, 
Beneath the lunar ray : 
Here folly droops each vain difguife, 
Wor {port her gayly-coloured dyes, 
As in the glare of day. 
O Pallcs, curen of ev'ry art?” dee 
Account of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. 
Mifs Chapone, Mifs C. atks for an ex- 
planation of certain “dark infinuations 
of treachery, and bookfellers, and Irifl- 
men,” relative to the publication of Sir 
Charles Grandifon. The Jews’ Bill, and 
its effects on the multitude, are alfo men- 
tioned: Mr. Richardfon infinuates that 
he had been formerly defirous of obtaining 
* Angelica’s invifible ring in Ariofo’s 
Orlando,”” while the lady fairly owns, 
‘*that the deleétable hiftory Fortu- 
natus had often fet her a longing for his 
cap,’ which, adds the, *‘ had the fage 
convenient quality for fheepifh people; 
but as no fuch cap to my forrow I ever 
could get, my only expedient was always 
retiring to a window, and rolling myfelf 
up*in a curtain, where I have often fat 
many an hour after I have been heartily 
tired of the company, (and the company 
perhaps has forgot me) rather than deve~ 
lope my figure, and walk out of the rocra 
before it grew dark.” 
In a letter without a date, addreffed to 
-Mifs H—(ighmore), Milfs C. expreffes 
herfelf thus, in refpe&t to a work which 
has Jong fince cbtained its deferved fhare 
of celebrity. ** I extremely honour the 
juft indignation you exprefs at the cold 
reception which has been given by a ftu- 
pid, trifling, ungrateful world, to the 
Rambler. You may conclude, by my 
calling names in this outrageous manner,” 
adds fhe, **that I am as zealous in the 
caufe of this excellent paper as yourfelf. 
But we may both comfort ourfelves that 
an author who has employed the noble 
powers of genius and learmng, the trong 
eft force of underftanding, and the moft 
beautiful ornaments in the fervice of 
virtue and religion, can never fink into 
oblivion, however he may at prefent be 
little regarded. There feems to be in 
the rotation of human affairs certain pe- 
risdica) returns of popular good fenfe, 
and tree tafle; and when the laugh of 
foliy is out of breath, and the mad tu= 
mult of gicdy pleafure fubfides, our fa- 
vourite Rambler will meet with the ap- 
plaufe and veneration he fo juftly merits.” 
The predictions of this lady have been 
fully verified ; and in the mean time fhe 
con'ributed two papers to the work in 
guction. The firtt, Nomber XLIV. con- 
tains the account of an extraordinary 
dream, durieg which a figure drefled in 
black, wih ner fkin contra&ed into a 
thoufand wrinkles, her eyes deep funk 
in her head, and ber complexios pale and 
livid, as the countenance of death, con-- 
duéts the narrator through rugged parhs, 
belet 
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