hopes; and the delusive South Sea scheme brought his fortune to the brink of ruin. The loss of his offices affected his judgment; and one disaster succeeded another so closely, that his mind never recovered its former tone. At length he formed the desperate resolution of putting an end to his life. Having filled his pockets with stones on the 4th of May, 1737, he took a boat at London-bridge, and threw himself into the river. He had appeared quite disordered for some days before; and the coroner's inquest brought him in lunatic.

Mr. Budgell possessed great accomplishments. He had a quick apprehension, a fine imagination, and a tenacious memory; a genteel address, a ready wit, and a graceful elocution. So attentive was he to his duty, that during the four years in which he held the offices of under-secretary to the Lord Lieutenant and secretary to the Lords Justices, he had never been absent four days from his employment, nor above ten miles distant from Dublin..

In the Spectator Mr. Budgell preserved a respectable character. He wrote all the papers in the first seven volumes which in the common editions are marked with the letter X, amounting to twenty-eight in number; and the eighth volume was written chiefly by Budgell and Addison. He wrote many excellent papers in the Guardian, which are marked with an asterisk; besides several papers in the Tatler, which are not distinguished. His style is elegant, and worthy of the intimate friend of Addison. His brother Gilbert Budgell wrote a pretty copy of verses in No. 591 in the eighth volume.

JOHN HUGHES.

JOHN HUGHES is said to have written the two letters in No. 33 and 53. signed R. B. and both the letters in No. 66. No. 91. the letters in No. 104, 141, and in 210. the second letter in No. 220. and No. 230. all except the last letter. Besides these, he composed the letter in No. 231. where the younger sister mentioned in Almahide was Mrs. Barbur, and No. 237. He also wrote the last letter in No. 252, 302, 306. and the letter in No. 311, Nos. 375, 525, 537, 541 and 554.

Mr. Hughes was the son of a citizen of London, and born at Marlborough in Wiltshire, in 1677. In the earlier part of his life he cultivated poetry, drawing, and music; in each of which he made, great proficiency. He only followed them, however, as agreeable amusements, when confined by bad health, to which he was often subject. At the age of 20 he published a poem on the peace of Ryswick, which was received with much applause. This was soon succeeded by others; which possessed such merit as to introduce him not only to the friendship of Addison, Pope, Congreve, Rowe, and other polite writers, but also to the patronage of the greatest men in the kingdom. He was made secretary to the commissioners of the peace in 1717, by means of Lord Chancellor Cowper, and continued in the same office till his death. This event took place in the forty-second year of his age, a few hours after his tragedy entitled "The Siege of Damascus" had been acted at Drury-Lane with universal applause. He published two volumes of Poems, and some translations from the French; besides the periodical papers which he contributed to the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian.

THOMAS TICKELL.

THOMAS TICKELL, though his papers have never been accurately discriminated, was certainly a large contributor to the Spectator, and as such is entitled to notice in this place. He was the son of the Reverend Richard Tickell, and born in 1686 at Bridekirk in Cumberland. At what school he received the rudiments of education is not known; but in April 1701 he became a member of Queen's College, Oxford, was admitted to the degree of A. M. in 1708, and two years afterwards was chosen fellow of his college. He entered early into the world, where he gained the friendship of Addison by some of the finest encomiastic verses on Rosamond that ever were written on such an occasion. When the ministers of Queen Anne were negotiating with France, Tickell published The Prospect of Peace; a poem of which the tendency was, to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the pleasures of tranquillity; and of which the merit was such as to command the praises as well of those who condemned as of those who approved the treaty of Utrecht. At the arrival of King George I. he wrote The Royal Progress, which is inserted in the Spectator No. 620, and therefore universally known.

The poetical incident of most importance in the life of Tickell was his publication of the First Book of the Iliad, translated in apparent opposition to Pope's Homer. Pope was led by various circumstances to suppose Addison, between whom and himself there was then a great coldness, the author of that translation; but the arguments on which his suspicion was founded, though admitted, by Johnson and others, have been lately

shown by Bishop Hurd, in his life of Warburton, to be far from conclusive. His Lordship has indeed left little room to suppose that Tickell was not the author of the translation which he avowed; and it is of such undoubted merit as shows that the author was not altogether unequal to the task which Pope so successfully performed.

When Addison went into Ireland as secretary to the Lord Sunderland, he carried Tickell with him, and employed him in public business; and when afterwards he rose to be secretary of state, he made his friend under-secretary. The friendship of these two illustrious men continued, indeed, without abatement; for when Addison died, he left Tickell the charge of publishing his works, and solemnly recommended him to the patronage of Craggs, then secretary of state. About the year 1725, Tickell was made secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, a place of great honour; in which he continued till 1740, when he died on the 23d of April at Bath, leaving behind him the character of a man of gay conversation, at least a temperate lover of wine and company, and in his domestic relations without censure.

HENRY GROVE.

HENRY GROVE, the author of four papers in the eighth volume, Nos. 588, 601, 626, and 635, was born at Taunton in Somersetshire, in 1683. Being bred among the dissenters, he did not attend either of the universities, but went through a course of philosophy and divinity, under one of the most eminent scholars among the Presbyterians. He

became a preacher at 22 years of age, and at 23 .succeeded Mr. Warren in the academy of Taunton in giving lectures on ethics and pneumatology. Upon the death of Mr. James, his partner.in the academy, in 1725, he took the students of divinity under his care. He published several treatises, all of which display a sound and rational understanding. He wrote some Letters to Dr. Clarke on the publication of his celebrated Discourse on the Being and Attributes of God, which were treated with much respect by that illustrious divine. His paper, No. 635. in the Spectator, was re-published by Dr. Gibson, Bishop of London. Mr. Grove died in 1737-8.

JOHN HENLEY.

JOHN HENLEY, better known by the appellation or Orator Henley, was the author of two letters, the one signed Peter de Quir, and the other Tom Tweer-See No. 396. He was a son of a clergyman, and born in 1682. He possessed some abilities, but was a kind of ecclesiastical quack. He obtained a benefice in the country, but being eager to display his oratorical talents in a more conspicuous place, he settled in London, where he preached on theological subjects on Sundays and declaimed upon the sciences on Wednesdays: each auditor paid one shilling. He used to publish in a newspaper every Saturday an advertisement containing an account of the subjects on which he meant to harangue, on the Sunday following, at his oratory near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.