JOHN,

LORD HERVEY,

WROTE many pieces of various kinds. His pamphlets are equal to any that ever were written. Published by himself were

"Answer to the Occasional Writer," 1727. "The Occasional Writer, No. IV. To his Imperial Majesty."

"Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman." [1730.]

"Sequel of the Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman." 1730.

"Sedition and Defamation displayed; with a Dedication to the Patrons of the Craftsman." [1731.]

"A summary Account of the State of Dunkirk, and the Negotiations relating thereto; in a Letter from a Member of Parliament to the Mayor of the Borough for which he serves." 1733.

[Mr. Pulteney wrote an answer to this tract, under the title of "A proper Reply." Lord Hervey then challenged his opponent, and they met in the Green Park, when his lordship received two wounds, and very narrowly escaped being run through the body, by the interference of the seconds. See Review of the Reign of Geo. II. p. 30.]

"A Letter to the Craftsman on the Game of Chess." 1733.

"The Conduct of the Opposition and Tendency of modern Patriotism." 1734.

"Speech on the Bill to prevent the settling more Lands in Mortmain."

A

Speech for the Army." 1737.

"A Protest against protesting, with Reasons." entitled

paper

"The Lords' Protest."

"Letter to a Country Gentleman on the Revival of the Salt Duty."

"Account of Queen Anne's Bounty." "Letter to the Bishop of Bangor on his late Sermon upon Horses and Asses."

"On the Pyramids. To Mrs. ***." "The Quaker's Reply to a Country Parson's Plea against the Quaker's Bill for Tythes."

"Letter to the Author of Common Sense, or the Englishman's Journal of Saturday, April 16, 1737."

"Ancient and modern Liberty stated and compared." [1734.]

"A Letter from a Country Gentleman to his Friend in London, concerning two Collections of Letters and Messages lately published between the K. Q. Pr. and Prss."

"An Examination of the Facts and Reason

ings contained in a Pamphlet entitled,' A Letter from a Member of Parliament to his Friend in the Country, upon the Motion to address his Majesty to settle £100,000 per Annum on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." 1739. "Some Remarks on the Minute Philosopher."

Epitaph on Queen Caroline, in Latin and English."

"Miscellaneous Thoughts on the present Posture of Affairs." 1742.

"Three Speeches on the Gin Act."

"The Question stated in regard to the Army in Flanders." [1743.]

"A Letter to Mr. Cibber on his Letter to Mr. Pope." [1742.]

IN VERSE.

"An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity 3" (Dr. Sherwin). 1737.

To the Imitator of the Satire of the second Book of Horace 4."

[Pope penned a most tart reply to this epistle in prose, for which he says, "I may plead two good reasons-the one, that I want the talent of spinning a thousand lines in a day, which I think is as much time as this subject deserves; and the other, that I take your lordship's verse to be as much prose as this letter."]

* [This was not formally answered by Pope; but he thus

Bolingbroke's Address to Ambition, in Imitation of the first Ode of the fourth Book of Horace." 1737.

"The Difference between verbal and practical Virtue; with a prefatory Epistle from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope." 1742.

Since his lordship's decease, there have been printed in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, the following by lord Hervey :

"To Mr. Stephen Fox (afterwards Earl of Ilchester), written at Florence, in Imitation of Horace, Ode IV. Book 25."

"To the same, from Hampton Court." 1731°. "Answer to Mr. Hammond's Elegy to Miss Dashwood "."

"Four Epistles in the Manner of Ovid 8." That from Roxana to Philocles is a mistake,

indignantly assigned a cause: "Give me the liberty, my lord, to tell you why I never replied to those 'verses on the imita⚫tion of Horace:' they regarded nothing but my figure, which I set no value upon; and my morals, which I knew needed no defence. Any honest man has the pleasure to be conscious, that it is out of the power of the wittiest, nay, the greatest person in the kingdom, to lessen him that way, but at the expense of his own truth, honour, or justice.” Letter to a noble Lord, &c.]

and should be Roxana to Usbeck.

That from

Monimia to Philocles is the best of his lordship's poems. It was designed for Miss Sophia Howe (maid of honour) to the honourable Anthony Lowther.

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Epilogue designed for Sophonisba 9."

"An Imitation of Horace, addressed to Lord Ilchester 2.'

"A Love Letter 3."

"A Satire in the Manner of Persius 4.

Lord Hervey left several other works in prose and verse in manuscript, particularly,

Agrippina, a Tragedy in Rhyme.'

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"Letters to Dr. Middleton 5, on the Method

of filling up the Roman Senate."

• Vol. iv. p. 107.

• Ib. p. 109.

3 Ib. p. 110.

4 Vol. v. p. 147.

5 [Dr. Middleton published a laboured panegyric on lord Hervey, in his dedication to the Life of Cicero, for which both were introduced into the Dunciad:

"Narcissus, prais'd with all a parson's pow'r,

Look'd a white lily sunk beneath a show'r." Book iv. Pope's bitter libel on lord Hervey, under the name of Sporus, is sufficiently known. Pope and his lordship were once friends; but they quarrelled, and persecuted each other with virulent satire. Pope, knowing the abstemious regimen which lord Hervey was compelled to observe to prevent the effects of an epilepsy, was so ungenerous as to call him “ a mere cheese-curd of asses' milk." Lord Hervey used paint to