eatly expressed, that it is worth a long poem. Thrice has Shenstone
mentioned it in his Letters, in such a manner as to show how much it had
pleased him. The Goldfinches is only less excellent. He has spoiled the
Swallows by the seriousness of the moral.

Nunc non erat his locus.

The first half of Peytoe's Ghost has enough in it to raise a curiosity,
which is disappointed by the remainder.

FOOTNOTES
[1] No. LV.
[2] Edge-Hill, Book I.
[3] The author has here fallen into an error in confounding Beaudesert,
near Henley in Arden, with a place of the same name, near Cannock
Chase. The mistake was pointed out to him a few days after its
publication, by his valued friend and relative, the Rev. Thomas
Price, Rector of Enville, Staffordshire. Mr. Price's letter will
furnish the best explanation. He writes:--

"MY DEAR CARY,

"In your life of Jago, I am afraid you have fallen into a mistake, by
confounding the two Beaudeserts. That one of which Jago's father was
Rector, and near which Somerville resided, is, as you have stated in
the beginning of the life, near Henley, and to that the words, "Old
Montfort's seat" must refer, because Dugdale, treating of Beldesert,
near Henley, says, 'on the east side of the last mentioned brook
runneth a hilly tract, bordered with deep vallies on each part; the
point whereof maketh a kind of promontory, whose ascent being
somewhat steep, gave occasion of the fortifying thereat first,
considering its situation in these woodland parts, where, through the
opportunity of so much shelter, advantage was most like to be taken
by the disherited English and their offspring, to make head for their
redemption from the Norman yoke. Tis not unlike, but this
_mountainous_ ground, &c. Thurslem de Montfort, near kinsman of the
first Norman Earl of Warwick, erected that strong castle, whereunto,
by reason of its pleasant situation, the French name Beldesert, was
given, and which continued the chief seat of his descendants for
divers ages.'"--ED.

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RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE.

Richard Cambridge, the son of a Turkey merchant, descended from a family
long settled in Gloucestershire, was born in London, on the fourteenth
of February, 1717. His father dying soon after his birth, the care of
his education devolved on his mother and his maternal uncle, Thomas
Owen, Esq. a lawyer who had