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Anecdotes of eminent Men continued.

ameth it? Rex dat et aufert bonorem ;
and he that grants honour must inter-
pret honour.-Will you then leave God
and the King, the King and the state,
the law and the counsel, and get ho-
nour in an alehouse from a fwordfman
that hath scarce à rag at his back! a
Barmoutho man! one that dares not
go out of Milford-lane for debt! If
this be honour, it is a ragged honour,
a bafe popular honour; and, to say
truly, popular honour is but a trea-
fonable honour in a monarchy. If you
will have fuch honour, go to the Low
Countries for it; here you may not
have it. And this I fay and pronounce
declaratively, and in general, not now
in point of judgment, that he fhall ne-
ver be honoured in mine eyes that
makes a duel, but infamous to me,
and I hope in God to my pofterity,
and fhall be fure to want honour, if I
or my law can make him want it.
Neither is it natural for any of my fub-
jects to do as fome have done, that is,
to go abroad and feek honour in foreign
parts. My fubjects ought to feek ho-
nour of me, that am their fovereign,
and the difpenfer of it.

"Yea, but although honour be derived from the King, how fhould I do, you will fay, for my reputation in the world? What remedy fhall we have? We get wrong, because men are grown infolent; What reniedy remains unto' us but self-revenge? Shall we be beaten like dogs? What fhall we do? I anfwer, refer to the laws; and, if there thould be a cafe moie rare and eminent, come to the King hims.lf. Account it not, therefore, matter of difgrace to complain out of obedience to the King. If one fhould ftrike you here in this place, you would not strike again, but would referve your revenge to another place, because of my prefence; fo, if you fhill be ftricken in any other place, refrain your rage, becaufe the King hath forbidden it, and made his pleasure known. And I fay unto you, upon the word of a King, wherein I would, with God's leave, be right loth to fail, he shall be honoured that complains, and the other feverely punished that gives the cause of offence."

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ed many years fince; the other in oné
more respectable, but which did not
more engage the public attention. I
with more circumftances relating to fa-
mous men were occafionally copied in-
to your Magazine from the like
fources, as the pamphlet form of their
publication renders them very liable to
be loft to the world. Your inferting
thefe will oblige
J. B.

MATTHEW PRIOR.

N the year 1712 my old friend Mat

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thew Prior, who was then Fellow
of St. John's, and who not long before
had been employed by the Queen as
her Plenipotentiary at the court of
France, came to Cambridge; and the
next morning paid a vilit to the Master
of his own college. The Mafter (whe
ther Dr. Gower or Dr. Jenkins I can-,
not now recollect) loved Mr. Prior's
principles, had a great opinion of his
abilities, and a respect for his charac-
ter in the world; but then he had
much greater respect for himself. Ho
knew his own dignity too well to fuffer
a Fellow of his college to fit down in
his prefence. He kept his feat himself,
and let the Queen's ambassador stand.
Such was the temper, not of a Vice-
chancellor, but of a fimple Mafter of a
college. I remember, by the way, an
extempore epigram of Matt's on the
reception he had there met with. We did
not reckon in those days, that he had a
very happy turn for an epigram: but
the occafion was tempting; and he
ftruck it off, as he was walking from
St. John's college to the Rofe, where
we dined together. It was addreffed
to the Mafter.

I food, Sir, patient at your feet,
Before your elbow chair;
But make a bishop's throne your feat
I'll kneel before you there.
One only thing can keep you down,

For your great foul too mean;
You'd not,to mount a bishop's throne,

Pay homage to the Queen. From" The friendly and honeft Advice of an old Tory to the Vice-chancel Jor of Cambridge. Printed for S. John◄ fon, Charing Crofs, 1751," p. 23.

JOHN Duke of MARLBOROUGH. THIS great man, who, by the pen

of an enemy, has been acknowledged as the greatest general, and as the greatest minifter, that our country, of perhaps any other, has produced; and

whom

# Bolingbroke's Letters on the Ufe and Study of Hitory, 1752, p. 300.

Epitome of Lieut. Cook's whom another eminent writer thus portrays, "Cet homme, qui n'a jamais "affiege de ville qu'il n'ait prise, ni "donne de bataille qu'il n'ait gagnée, "etoit a Saint James un adroit courti"fan, dans le parlement un chef de "parti, dans le piis etrangers le plus "habile negociateur de fon fiecle;" and who "avoit fait autant de mal a la France par fon efprit que par les arines §§; appears to have been very ill read in the hiftory of his native country, which is the more remarkable, as his father Sir Winston Churchill was the author of a History of England, intitled, "Divi Britannici, "being a remark upon the lives of all "the kings of this ifle, from the year "of the World 2855, unto the year of "Grace 1660, fo. 1675." Of the Duke the following anecdote is told by Dr. Warner, in his "Remarks on the Hiftory of Fingal, printed for Payne and Cropley, 1762, p. 26. on the authority of Judge Burnet:" "The "duke of Marlborough talking over "fome point of English history once "with bishop Burnet, and advancing "fome anachronisms and ftrange mat"ters of fact, his Lordship, in a great

aftonishment at this new hiftory, en"quired of his Grace where he had "met with it. The Duke, equally "furprized on his fide, to be asked "that question by fo knowing a man "in hiftory as the Bishop, replied, "Why don't you remember? It is in "the only English hiftory of those "times that I ever read, in Shake"fpear's plays."

The life of the Duke of Marlborough was, by the late Duchefs, defigned to have been written by Mr. Mailet and Mr. Glover, to each of whom the left the fum of 500l. and from the dedication of the former gentleman to a volume of poems, published in 1762, we learn, that it was then near finished. If any of your correfpondents are acquainted with the reafons why it has never made its appearance, I think the public have a right to be informed.

An Epitome of the VOYAGE round the WORLD by Lieutenant Cook, accompanied by Mr. Banks, and Dr. Solander. Continued from vol. xlii. p. 652. HAving left Otaheite on the 13th of

June, they pursued their voyage under an ealy fail, til! on the 16th they 93 Oeuvres de M. de Voltaire, Dresden 1752, tom. 6, p. 138.

GENT. MAG. Jan. 1774

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Voyage round the World. arrived at a neighbouring if ind, Tupia called by the name of HUAHEINE. Here fome canoes caine off to visit them, and among them one, on board of which was the king of the ifland, accompanied by his queen. It was with fome difficulty that Tupia prevailed upon them to venture on board; and it is queftioned whether their aftonishment was greater on viewing the hip, or at seeing Tupia as one of her company. They gazed at every thing they faw with that kind of wonder and delight, with which ordinary fpectators behold works of art; being afraid to ask queftions for fear of betraying their ignorance of the principles on which they are conftructed.

On going afhore on this ifland, Tupia uncloathed himself to the waist, and prevailed on an English officer to do the fame; then fat down, in the midst of a great concourfe of inhabitants, and made an oration, in the intervals of which fall prefents paffed, which, if we may judge from the like practice of the North-American Indians, were fo many pledges of peace, but, according to our voyagers, were prefents to their country gods, which by the king of the country was repaid with hogs and fowls, as offerings to Tupia's gods, of which, however, the crew on board stood most in need, and accordingly applied them without fcruple to their own ufe. After a day or two's stay at this island, where only eleven hogs could be purchafed, they purfued their voyage, Capt. Cook having previously prefented the king with a pewter plate, on which was engraven, His Britannic Majefly's fhip ENDEAVOUR, Lieut. Cook, Commander, 16th July, 1769, as a memorial that this ifland was fit vifited by that fhip.

This ifland is about 90 miles N. 58 W. from Otaheite, and is about feven leagues in circumference. The men of this ifland were large, and the women handsome. Mr. Banks measured one who was fix feet three inches and a half high, but fo lazy that he would not afcend the mountains, tho' invited by Mr. Banks to accompany him on promife of an ample reward.

On leaving this island they failed to ULIETEA, an ifland at about feven or eight leagues diftance from the former, where they found a "tree of the fig "kind, the trunk of which (or rather a congeries of roots, as the writer "expreffes it) was 42 pacts in circumference,"

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Epitome of Lieut. Cook's Voyage round the World.

Nothing more remarkable was feen here; and Tupia having reprefented Bolabola, a neighbouring ifland, as inhabited by a defperate banditti, who were the terror of the nations round them, they determined to pay thofe hoftile people a vifit; but were prevented by contrary winds, and more proffing business

On the 2d of Auguft they caft anchor in a convenient harbour on the S. E. end of Ulietea, over- against Bolabola, determining to take in water for a longer voyage, and to top a leak In the powder room before they depart ed. On going afhore they were agreeably furpiifd by the civil manner in which they were received; every one vying with the other in fhewing them the greatest respect. Mr. Banks, and thole who accompanied him, while the Captain was bufy in giving directions about the repairs of the ship, were entertained in a manner entirely new. In the houfs they entered, they met with ladies moft elegantly dreffed, and children the neatest and prettiest they had ever beheld, who received the prefents offered them with a politenets and grace that would have done honour to the b.ft-bred people in Europe. In this ifland they purchafed provifions at a more moderate rate than they bad lately paid, and were entertained with a fpecies of grotesque dancing, very laughable, and not ungraceful. They faw, befiles, interludes and dramatic entertainments that varied in dialogue and reprefentation. The head-dreffes of the ladies here were truly elegant, and the inhabitants in general were distinguished from any they had yet feen, both by the beauty of their perfons, and the courtesy of their manners. On this island, and near the spot where the Ship lay, Tupia had formerly an inhe ritance, of which he was deprived by the invaders from Bolabola. He was very defirous of fhewing his refentment to the spoilers, and infifted on firing a gun against the ifland, which was com plied with, tho' at 7 miles distance. To the cluster of ifl nds (fix in number) that lie here at a fmall diftance from each other, they gave the name of SOCIETY ISLANDS; from whence they took their departure on the 9th of Auguft, and on the 13th arrived at an ifland, which Tupia called Obeteroa. Here Mr. Banks, Dr. Solander, Mr. Gore, and Tupla endeavoured to land; but found a reception different from any they had yet met with; a canoe

from the fhore endeavoured to board their boat, and it was with difficulty the favages were beaten off, and that not without having recourfe to firearms, which, however, was attended with no farther mitchief than flightly wounding one of the affailents in the fice. The people of this in and were brawny and well made, were armed with lances and clubs, and appeared by their behaviour along the coat to be nimble, active, and bold, The island lies in lat. 22° 27' S. and in long.. 150° 47 W. from Greenwich. It was taken notice of by the voyagers, that the cloth with which thefe iflanders were cloathed, was of a fuperior kind; that it was richer dyed, better painted, and more regularly and beautifully varied, than that of the other iftands; and that their clubs and lances were more highly polished.

On the 15th of Auguft, they took their departure from this ifland, and fteered to the fouthward with a view to the difcovery of a fouthern continent. On the 30th they faw a comet, which at one in the morning appeared just above the horizon to the eastward; at half after four it paffed the meri ''n in lat. 58° 20' S. and long. 147° 6' W. Tupia, on feing it, cried out that the people of Bolabola would now kill the people of Ulete, or that thofe of the latter ifland muit fly to the mountains. They purfued their courfe till Sept. 1. when being in lat. 40° 22' S. and in long. 174° 29′ W. and no figns of a continent appealing, they changed their direction, and fteered to the northward. On Sunday the 3d, they plied to the weftward.

On the 19th they were in lat. 29°
S. and in long. 159° 29′ W.
On the 24th in lat. 33° 18' S. long.
162° 51' W.

On the 27th in lat. 28° 59' S. long. 169° 5' W. faw bunches of fea-weed, a bird like a fnipe, and a feal afleep upon the water.

On the 28th and 29th, more fea weed.

Oct. 1. faw birds innumerable, and feals ont of foundings; faw rockweed, an infallible fign of land not far diftant.

On the ad in lat. 37° 10' S. long. 172° 54' W.

On the 3d in lat. 36° 56' S. long. 173° 27' W. More fea-weed, and fome wood covered with barnacles.

On the 4th more feals, and a brown bird, with white feathers under the

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she Head of a new Zealand Chief curiously sataowed.

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