I thank you much for your last publication, which I am reading, as fast as I can snatch opportunity, to Mrs. Unwin. We have found it, as far as we have gone, both interesting and amusing; and I never cease to wonder at the fertility of your invention, that, shut up as you were in your vessel, and disunited from the rest of mankind, could yet furnish you with such variety, and with the means, likewise, of saying the same thing in so many different ways.*

Sincerely yours,

W. C.

*The publication alluded to is entitled, "Letters to a Wife; written during three voyages to Africa, from 1750 to 1754. By the Author of Cardiphonia."

TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ.

Dec. 10, 1793.

You mentioned, my dear friend, in your last letter, an unfavourable sprain that you had received, which you apprehended might be very inconvenient to you for some time to come; and having learned also from Lady Hesketh the same unwelcome intelligence, in terms still more alarming than those in which you related the accident yourself, I cannot but be anxious, as well as my cousin, to know the present state of it; and shall truly rejoice to hear that it is in a state of recovery. Give us a line of information on this subject, as soon as you can conveniently, and you will much oblige us.

I write by morning candle-light; my literary business obliging me me to be an early riser. Homer demands me: finished, indeed, but the

alterations not transcribed; a work to which I am now hastening as fast as possible. The transcript ended, which is likely to amount to a good sizeable volume, I must write a new preface; and then farewell to Homer for ever! And if the remainder of my days be a little gilded with the profits of this long and laborious work, I shall not regret the time that I have bestowed on it.

I remain, my dear friend,

Affectionately yours,

W. C.

Can you give us any news of Lord Howe's Armada; concerning which we may enquire, forefathers did of the Spanish,--

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"An in cœlum sublata sit, an in Tartarum depressa ?"

INDEX.

A.

ABBOT, Mr. portrait of Cowper by, vol. ii. p. 293.
Absurdity of human wishes, i. 123.

Ætna, the poem of, unphilosophical error in, i. 191.
African colonization, ii. 252.

American War, opinion of, i. 52.-Disasters in, 175, 197.
-Progress of, 182.-Poetical anticipations of the re-
sult, 182, 184.-Change in the management of, 196.—
Separation of America, a scourge to England, 200.-
The King's duty respecting the colonies, 204.
America, conferences on the peace, i. 236.-Guilt of the
Colonies, 238.--Reflections on the peace, 241, 244, 250,
253.

Evangelical light in, i. 252.

Animal Magnetism, doubts respecting, ii. 227.

Antediluvians, their supposed occupations, i. 287.-Com-
plained of the shortness of life, 288.

Apostate from Christianity loses the best part of his
natural character, i. 337.

Apparition, account of an, i. 167.

Ashburner, Mr. sudden death of, i. 363.

Austen, Lady, visit from, i. 112.-Her settlement at
Olney, 130.-Character of, 148.

Authorship incompatible with much correspondence and
company, ii. 315.

B.

Bacon, Mr. (the sculptor), opinion of his monument to
Lord Chatham, i. 272.-Poetical notice of, 370.

Bagot, Mr. ii. 49.

Balloons, dream of an aërial excursion, i. 282.-Specula-
tions on, 292.-If perfected, a judgment, 294.-
Thoughts on, 385.

Barham, Mr. i. 71.—His happy disappointment, 188.
Bean, Mr. arrival of, at Olney, ii. 116.-Character of,
136. Differences with his parishioners, 145, 156.
Beattie, opinion of, i. 320.

Benamer, Dr. ii. 225.

Benefactor, unknown, i. 311, 356.

Bensley, Mr. i. 4.

Berkhampstead, Great, changes there, ii. 172.

Berridge, Mr. ii. 262.

Bigotry, anxiety to avoid the imputation of, i. 177.
Book, the consequences of writing one unknown till the
day of judgment, ii. 198.

Booksellers, their contentions anticipated, ii. 229.

Botany Bay, mismanagement at, ii. 281.

Bull, the Rev. William, his advice to a clergyman to avoid

familiarity with his parishioners, i. 166.

Lines on Tobacco, addressed to, i. 214.