following fport on three of the Greek letters to- Eta Beta Pi.' The rest of the infcription is not very accurately fpelt. A quibble by Hogarth is furely as refpectable as a conundrum by Swift. 66 In one of the very early exhibitions at Spring Gardens, a very pleafing fmall picture by Hogarth inade its first appearance. It was painted for the Earl of Charlemont, in whofe collection it remains. It was intituled, Picquet, or Virtue in Danger,' and fhews us a young lady, who during a tête-àtête, had just loft all her money to a handfome officer of her own age. He is reprefented in the act of returning her a handful of bank-bills, with the hope of exchanging them for a fofter acquifition, and more delicate plunder. On the chimney piece are a watch cafe and a figure of Time over it, with this mottoNUNC. Hogarth has caught his heroine during this moment of hefitation, this ftruggle with herfelf, and has marked her feelings with uncommon fuccefs. "In the Mifer's Feast,' Mr. Hogarth thought proper to pillory Sir Ifaac Shard, a gentleman proverbially avaricious. Hearing this, the fon of Sir Ifaac, the late Ifaac Pacatus Shard, Efq. a young man of fpirit, juft returned from his travels, called at the painter's to fee the picture, and among the reft, afking the Cicerone whether that odd figure was intended for any particular perfon, on his replying that it was thought to be very like one Sir Ifaac Shard, he immediately drew his fword, and flathed the canvas. Hogarth appeared inftantly in great wrath; to whom Mr. Shard calmly juftified what he had done, faying that this was a very unwarrantable licence: that he was the injured party's fon, and that he was ready to defend any fuit at law;' which, however, was never inftituted. ' "The last memorable event in our artift's life, as Mr. Walpole obferves, was his quarrel with Mr. Wilkes', in which, if Mr. Hogarth did not commence direct hoftilities on the latter, he at leaft obliquely gave the first offence, by an attack on the friends and party of th gentleman. This conduct was the more furprizing, as he had all his life avoided dipping his pencil in political contefts, and had early refused a very lucrative offer that was made to engage him in a fet of prints against the head of a court-party. Without entering into the merits of the caufe, I fhall only ftate the fact. In September 1762, Mr. Hogarth published his print of The Times.' It was anfwered by Mr. Wilkes in a fevere North Briton. On this the painter exhibited the caricatura of the writer. Mr. Churchill, the poet, then engaged in the war, and wrote his epistle to Hogarth, not the brightest of his works, and in which the fevereft ftrokes fell on a defect that the painter had neither caufed nor could amend his age; and which, however, was neither remarkable nor decrepid; much less had it impaired his talents, as appeared by his having compofed but fix months before one of his moft capital works, the fatire on the Methodifts. In revenge for this epiftle, Hogarth caricatured Churchill, under the form of a canonical bear, with a club and a pot of porter-et vitula tu dignus & bicnever did two angry men of their abilities throw mud with lefs dexterity. "At the time thefe hoftilities were carrying on in a manner fo virulent and difgraceful to all the C4 parties, [From Dr. HIRD's affectionate Tribute to the Memory of the late "THE places his obligations to him, in a "A friend of his, a man of a worthy character, who has at this time an income of about one hun dred dred pounds a year, church preferment, was, in the earlier part of his life, feated in London upon a curacy of fifty pounds per annum, with a wife and a numerous family. An epidemical difeafe, which was at that time prevalent, feized upon his wife, and five of his children: in this fcene of diftrefs he looked up to the doctor for his affiftance, but dared not apply to him, from a confeioufnefs of his being unable to reward him for his attendance. A friend, who knew his fituation, kindly offered to accompany him to the doctor's, and give him his fee; they took the advantage of his hour of audience, and after a de fcription of the feveral cafes, the fee was offered, and rejected; but a note was taken of his place of refidence. The doctor called affiduoufly the next, and every fucceeding day, till his attendance was no longer neceffary. The curate, anxious to return fome grateful mark of the fenfe he entertained of his fervices, ftrained every nerve to accomplish it; but his aftonishment was not to be defcribed, when, inftead of receiving the money he offered, with apologies for his fitua tion, the doctor put ten guineas into his hand, defiring him to apply to him without diffidence in future. difficulties." ACCOUNT of Dr. FOTHERGILL's Inftitution at ACKWORTH. [From the fame Work.] 26 T is now proper that I should has lately been established at Ackworth, a fmall village in the county of York, in a fine healthy fituation, a plentiful country, and furrounded by all the conveniencies and comforts of life. Of this inftitution Dr. Fothergill was the original projector; and although it is confined to the fociety of the people called Quakers, the great ends which it is intended to promote are worthy of the doctor, redound to the honour of humanity, and of that expanded philanthropy, which can ftretch its profpects towards the fubftantial welfare, not only of the prefent, but of future generations. In the fhort defcription I fhall attempt to give of the motives from which it originated, and its prefent ftate, I will endeayour to be as explicit as poffible, "As the character of the future man is marked effentially by the impreffions he receives during his state of childhood, when the mind is of a more plaftic and yielding texture, and takes its modes of thinking and acting from thofe precepts and examples which are prefented moft ftrikingly before the eye; and further, as the whole treasure of our future happiness moft materially depends upon an early fubjection of our wills to habits of a virtuous selfdenial, humanity moft certainly be comes feriously interested in promoting, with ardour, every rational means by which the mind may be formed for the general good, rather than for the bane and mischief of fociety. "It is this fpecies of an attentive and guarded education, which, I have authority to fay, was an ob ject, ject, wherein the doctor was deeply intercited for many years. He faw, with concern, thofe depredations which vice and folly were daily making in fociety, and was painful ly anxious to prevent them as much as poffible, by ftriking at the very root of the evil. The humanity of his mind would have fpread its influences over the community at large; but, confcious that the attempt would be fruitless, he confined his hopes within the bounds of his own perfuafion, where his influences were powerful, and where the wifeft and belt of his members, nay, I may fay, the general bulk of them, were very ready to unite in his views. "There are many little eftablishments amongst that fociety, in various parts of the kingdom, for the education of youth, and the direction of their minds in the best things; but on investigating the defign and extent of each, he found none fully competent to his intentions. It was to the children of the poor, and of thofe in that ftate of mediocrity, which either renders them inatten tive to the education of their offfpring, or difqualifies them for affording them fuch an one as they wifh, that Dr. Fothergill principally directed his views; as thefe form the great bulk of the community, and confequently muft fpread the good or evil of their examples fartheft. Yet, notwithstanding this great idea had long prevailed in the Doctor's mind, nothing was effectually done, until, by one of thofe fortunate, or rather providential events, on which hangs the fate of many great undertakings, the whole of his defign became eafy and praeticable. On his return from Chefire, through Yorkshire, in the year 1778, he did me the favour of being my guest a few days, during which time he was vifited by many of his friends in thofe parts. In one of thefe interviews the converfation turned on an inftitution at Gilderfome, a fmall establishment for the education of poor children amongst the fociety; the Doctor was inquiring into its ftate and management, and how far it might ferve as a model for a larger undertaking. a just defcription being given of it, with the following remark, that not only this, but all others, however laudable the motives from which they took their rife, muft fail of fuccefs, without a conftant fuperintending care and unremitting attention to the first great object of the institution. This idea was exemplified by the then prefent ftate of the Foundling Hofpital at Ackworth, which, although originating from the most humane principle, and erected at a vaft expence, was, from repeated inattentions to the first defign, in dan ger of dilapidation, and ready for public fale. This relation truck the Doctor forcibly; Why may not this,' faid he, ferve the very purpofe I am in purfuit of ?' To be fhort, the building, and an eftate of 80 acres of land, were purchafed, improved, and furnished by subscription. The Doctor fet a generous example by his own contribution, and an endowment by his will in perpetuity. There are now above three hundred children of both fexes under the roof, furnished with all the neceffary conveniences and comforts of life, properly clothed, and educated in every branch of knowledge fuitable for the ftation in which it is prefumed they may be placed. And to the fatisfaction of every benevolent heart, it may be truly faid, that the inftitution is at prefent in a most flourishing flourishing ftate, fully anfwering the defigns of its founders; being conducted under the care of a number of chofen guardians of ability, and of an exemplary conduct, with an exactness of order, decency, and propriety, extremely ftriking, and perfectly pleafing to all who have vifited it, though not of the fame fociety--The children are taught habits of regularity, of decency, of refpectful fubordination to their fuperiors; of forbearance, affection, and kindness towards each other; and of religious reverence towards their Maker; and, I may further add, thofe habits of filence and recollection, taught and practifed in the ancient fchools of philofophy, inculcated in the fcriptures, and moft emphatically called the true door of entrance into the school of wifdom.' A life of Dr. Fothergill hath been prefixed, by Dr. Elliot, to his collection of the Doctor's medical and philofophical works; but as a more full account of him is expected from Dr. Letfome, we fhall wait for the appearance of the last gentleman's publication. The completion of Dr. JOHNSON's incomparable Lives of the English Poets, hath eminently added to the biographical materials of the present year. But as this work must already have been feen by, perhaps, the greater number of our readers, we fhall not be fo large in our extracts from it, as we fhould otherwife have wifhed. Were we, however, not to give fome fpecimens of fo valuable and interesting a performance, we fhould not do justice either to the NEW ANNUAL REGISTER, or to the PUBLIC. CHARACTER OF MR. ADDISON. "OF [From Dr. JOHNSON's Lives of the English Poets.] F his virtue it is a fufficient teftimony, that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime. He was not one of those who are praised only after death: for his merit was fo generally acknowledged, that Swift, having obferved that his election paffed without a conteft, adds, that if he had propofed himfelf for king, he would hardly have been refufed. "His zeal for his party did not extinguish his kindnefs for the merit of his opponents: when he was fecretary in Ireland, he refufed to intermit his acquaintance with Swift. Of his habits, or external man ners, nothing is fo often mentioned as that timorous or fullen taciturnity, which his friends called modefty by too mild a name. Steele mentions with great tenderness, that remarkable baflifulnefs which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit;' and tells us, that his abilities were covered only by modefty, which doubles the beauties which are feen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed.' Chesterfield affirms, that Addison was the most timorous and aukward man that he ever faw.' And Addison, speaking of his own deficience in converfation, ufed to |