TYTLER,

one of the most perfect specimens MOTTEUX wrote,

of the art of translation.' besides, various prologues and epilogues, and several of his translated plays were acted with no small popularity. He married a beautiful and amiable woman, by whom he had a large family, and lived in the world respectable and respected: but on his fifty-eighth birthday a licentious habit, which he had hitherto successfully concealed, suddenly cost him his character and his life. He was found dead in a brothel near Temple-bar, on the 19th of February, 1718, under circumstances which induce a strong suspicion that he was murdered but a reward of fifty pounds, which was offered in the next gazette, did not lead to any discovery.

For a letter signed Parthenia, in No. 140, and another subscribed Leonora, in No. 163, we are indebted to Miss SHEPHEARD; and to her sister, Mrs. PERRY, for the short letter in No. 92, on the subject of a select library for ladies. Of these fair correspondents, we merely know that they descended collaterally from Sir FLEETWOOD SHEP

HEARD.

Mr. ROBERT HARPER, an eminent conveyancer of Lincoln's Inn, is the reputed author of a letter signed M. D. in No. 480: but, short as it is, it is said to have been almost entirely remodelled by STEELE.

No. 572, a keen satire on quacks and quackery, and No. 633, on the advantages to be derived to elocution from Christianity, are the productions of Dr. ZACHARY PEARCE, late bishop of Rochester. He was the son of a rich distiller

in Holborn, and was born in 1690. While he was studying at Cambridge, he dedicated an edition of Cicero de Oratore' to the Lord Chief Justice PARKER, afterwards Earl of MACCLESFIELD, to whom he was a perfect stranger; and as dedicatory compliment was more valuable then than it has become since, it obtained for PEARCE the lasting protection, patronage, and friendship of the Judge. Under such auspices, having embraced holy orders in 1717, he passed rapidly through the different outposts of ecclesiastical preferment, and in six years beheld himself a wealthy pluralist,-rector of Stapleford Abbotts, in Essex,-rector of St. Bartholomew, behind the Royal Exchange,-and rector of St. Martin's in the Fields. Nevertheless, he completed his fifty-eighth year before he became a bishop. He was made dean of Winchester in 1739, bishop of Bangor in 1748, and translated to the see of Rochester in 1756, changing at the same time from the deanery of Winchester, to that of Westminster. He died at Little Ealing on the 29th of June, 1774, leaving behind him a reputation of singular purity, innocence, and virtue. Eleven years previous to his death, when the infirmities of age first began to interfere with his duties, he petitioned the king to allow him to resign both his see and deanery; alleging, that he could not bear to make a sinecure of his preferments. His majesty would not suffer him to vacate the see, but five years afterwards acquiesced in the lesser resignation.

No. 250, a paper of exquisite sweetness and sensibility, was written by Mr. FRANCHAM of

Norwich, on the death of his own wife. It is replete with the most touching tenderness, and cannot be read without regret that it is an only specimen.

The Dream, in No. 524, is the joint production of Mr. DUNLOP, Greek Professor at the University of Glasgow, and Mr. MONTGOMERY, a merchant. It is related of the latter, that he fell in love with Queen CHRISTINA, and was compelled to quit Sweden very abruptly. The Dream had been erroneously ascribed to Professor SIMPSON of Glasgow, but the name of SIMPSON is not among our contributors.

A letter complimenting the editor on the characteristic morality of his paper, and a metrical version of the 114th Psalm, will be found in No. 461. They are by the celebrated Dr. ISAAC WATTS, not better known as a divine, than as a philosopher and a poet. He was born at Southampton on the 17th of July, 1674, and brought up at the Free-School of that town under the tuition of the Rev. Dr. PINHORN. He manifested an early partiality for the Hebrew, which, as well as the classics, he rapidly acquired; but joining at sixteen the ranks of the Dissenters, he finished his education under the care of the Rev. THOMAS ROWE, of London, a minister of the sect called Independents. He died a painless death under the roof of Lady ABNEY, on the 25th of November, 1748, aged seventy-four. His long life was entirely spent in learning, philosophy, and religious teaching. In 1728, the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, voluntarily and without his knowledge, conferred upon him the

degree of Doctor in Divinity, as a tribute to his exalted personal character and great acquirements. His Logic is a standard book at the Universities, and his Improvement of the Mind has received the highest eulogia from the pen of JOHNSON. As a writer of Hymns and Sacred Poetry, he has left behind him no competitor.

Mr. RICHARD INCE of Gray's Inn, is mentioned, with a handsome compliment, by STEELE, in No. 555, as having enriched the SPECTATOR with several excellent sentiments and agreeable pieces;' but no inquiry has enabled us to identify his communications. Mr. WESTERN, also, of Rivenhall in Essex, and the Rev. JOHN LLOYD, M. A. who wrote a poem entitled God,' have been named among the unknown contributors. But the names of many correspondents, who furnished the work with detached hints, and even entire single papers, are now irretrievably lost. No less than fifty-three Numbers of the SPECTATOR are in this predicament, as the annexed table will shew.

The papers by ADDISON in the SPECTATOR are distinguished by some one of the letters, in the word CLIO, of which various interpretations have been given, but all more ingenious than verisimilar. There is no referential meaning in the name of the muse, which has no doubt been since accidentally anagrammatized. STEELE's designatory letters, used to all appearance capriciously, are T. and R.; but a late conjecture, that T. implies the Number to have been merely transcribed, savours of great probability. This will, also, best explain the unscrupulousness with

which STEELE availed himself of all occasional contribution. We have noticed, in our account of STEELE, the unprecedented sale of the SPECTATOR. Dr. JOHNSON, estimating by its weekly returns at the Stamp-office, averages it so low, as at sixteen hundred and eighty daily. Dr. FLEETWOOD, in his letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, at fourteen thousand*. The immense difference can only be accounted for by some gross miscalculation on the part of JOHNSON; while,

* WILLIAM FLEETWOOD, who was born in the year 1656, was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He graduated at King's College, and took orders about the period of the Revolution. He afterward became a Fellow of Eton, and rector of St. Austin's, in London. Here he acquired great popularity as a preacher, and was soon after chosen lecturer of St. Dunstan's, in Fleet-street. Just before the decease of King WILLIAM he was nominated to a canonry at Windsor. In 1705, resigning his living and his lectureship, he retired to a small preferment which he possessed in the vicinage of Eton, and would have abandoned the world for a life of literary leisure but he was raised unexpectedly by Queen ANNE, to fill the vacant see of St. Asaph. His known zeal for liberty and the Protestant succession was yet farther rewarded, on the arrival of GEORGE I., with the valuable bishopric of Ely; and on this he died incumbent in 1723, at Tottenham in Middlesex, aged sixty-seven.

His literary labours, though he never intermitted in his ecclesiastical duties, were prodigious. Forty-two of his publications,' says DRAKE, are noticed in the Biographia Britannica, all subservient to the best and most useful of purposes.' In politics he was an uncompromising Whig, and his powerful advocacy of civil and religious freedom, rendered him particularly obnoxious to the Tories. Bishop FLEETWOOD did not think a blind Faith necessary to Salvation, and he had the manliness to avow it. His celebrated preface to the Four Funeral Sermons' is inserted in No. 384 of the SPECTATOR. The intemperate party in power, who were exasperated with the Bishop for his politics, not his creed, moved in the House of Commons, and carried the motion, that it should be burnt at Smithfield by the hands of the common hangman! It is introduced with some excellent observations by SEELE.