f Great Britain, &c., by _J. Adamson_. Printed for J.
Millar, near the Horse Guards, 1732, and sold by the Booksellers
of London and Westminster, price One Shilling."

The above is the title-page of a little work of eighty-six pages in my
possession, which I am inclined to think is scarce. It appears to be a
defence of the Walpole administration from the attacks of the
_Craftsman_, a periodical of the time, conducted by Amhurst, who was
supported by Bolinbroke and Pulteney, the leaders of the opposition. Is
anything known of _J. Adamson_, the author?

H.A.E.

_Sir Thomas Moore._--Can any of your readers give any account of Sir
Thomas Moore, beyond what Victor tells of him in his _History_ of the
Theatre, ii. p. 144., "that he was the author of an absurd tragedy
called _Mangora_ (played in 1717), and was knighted by George I."

In Pope's "Epistle to Arbuthnot," he writes--

"Arthur, whose giddy son leglects the laws."

on which Warburton notes--

"_Arthur Moore, Esq._"

Who was _Arthur Moore, Esq._? and who was the "giddy son?" Was the
latter _James Moore Smith_ a gentleman whose family name was, I think,
_Moore_, and who assumed (perhaps for a fortune) the additional name of
_Smith_? This gentleman Pope seems to call indiscriminately _Moore_,
_Moor_, and _More_: and when he says that his good nature towards the
dunces was so great that he had even "rhymed for Moor" (Ib. v. 373.), I
cannot but suspect that the Moor _for_ whom he had _rhymed_, was the
_giddy son_ whom _Arthur_ accused him of seducing from the law to the
Muses. There are many allusions to this Mr. James Moore Smith throughout
Pope's satirical works, but all very obscure; and Warburton, though he
appears to have known him, affords no explanation as to who or what he
was. He was the author of a comedy called _The Rival Modes_.

C.

_Dr. E. Cleaver, Bishop of Cork._--I shall feel much obliged to any of
your correspondents who will furnish me with the particulars of the
consecration of Dr. Euseby Cleaver to the sees of Cork and Ross, in
March, April, or May, 1789. Finding no record of the transaction in the
Diocesan Registry of Cork, and not being able to trace it in any other
part of _Ireland_, I am induced to believe that this consecration may
have taken place in _England_; and shall be very glad to be correctly
informed upon the point.

H. COTTON.

Thurles, Ireland.

_Gwynn's London and Westminster._--Mr. Thomas Frederick