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26TH JANUARY, 1803
THE GENERAL COURT having resolved, if
an! surplus Balance should arise, to appropr:ate birch
part of the same as may appear prudent, for the c-stab!khmeitr of
*Fund for gratluady tliii llospital, the Governors
take this mode of stating, that the necessity thereof has arisen
from the vely heavy auntie! charge of keel ir.g in teprir,an an,
tient Erection, which ha: been loot's-Won:illy declared ineapah!e,
in many pines, of being long upheld, and front its having them-
face been Resolved,
" That it i a far mote the intetest of the !Inspirit to expend
" any Sums titat may hereafter be voted upon a plan for the
" gradual and uthform Rebui!thug of the Hospital, than to
"" eller tifte a forth, r Repair of thy present Buikliugs."
The first obieet in view by the GoYettton, is as much as pos.
elbie to prevent a deareve in the number of Children annually
adinittedoeThe ,tieuring this object has hitherto prevent am
appropriation to the Budding Fund ; and it is not probable
ghat the Varietal evenette will ever permit any eetisideraLle
portion of the Inenme of thislloino to be so applied: a former
Aes.tteral Court titeteforu

Reirolewl unanimously,
" That a Subscription be immediately opened, to rend-,r
"effectual aid to the /*rind which may arise futin the Arm-
• pfilijk ql the surplus Reeratue towards tbejnidual
/*spit& on its present seize, a that which
•0 the Governors are enabled to purchase under the autlin-
• rity of Per!iament, fume improvement at4l enlargement
0' therea: in London."
Rorolution has already received the countenance of
Marty Governors, whose Lana, and the sum; thev have sabi-
',Abed, appear hoteunder, and to whom the General Court
situ. :wake their pierlic arknowiedginentt.
Two Other ltri rdl Ilospital., those of Saint Bsrtholornew arra
Tliemas,were Rebuilt or public Subscri,:tron; and after the
rherat sepoort this Charity has experiencre! ror two centuries
and an half, the Governor,: entertain Biz! c-noid ant e.meetation,
that a Royal Seminary, rend: red important to the Kingd4in at
Marie by its magnitude, and by the liberal }A :Cation and Main-
tenance it 'Noels will &so recerve favourable attention from
The Generous andOpulenr upon so interestin; an ocensicrii: and
airs Glneral Court embrace the opportunity so early &Smiled,
eif voting
Their unanimous Thanks to the Corporation of the city of
Lonrho, for their ultaininitus Remlution " to sub•coire the
maim nf On, Tho wend Pound, towards tire g.-aduAl Rebuild-
,* in: of Christ's IT:a-spiral mein its present .cite:"--
t wheel, a further proof of the accustomed protection m] at-
temion of that rerpectablc Body to the Orphans of this City and
others, Is eminently conArritoas; and au example held forth
worthy of imitation.
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" The Works of the English Poets, with Prefacer
Biographital and Critical, by Seiteet. jotiesoe,
LL.D. re-edited with new Biographical and Critie
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the public ; and of the number of which the Whole
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Johnson, or by the Booksellers, .has been varied lir
the present FAitor; and it is with much *44=4
that we find Spenser, who had most injudiciottilt
been excluded from the first edition, restored to his
just honours in this. We know nothing further re.
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is piurally to be preserved, together with " the
whole of Dr. Johnson's Biographical and Critical
matter, without the least change or diminution."
The new Editor, however, has occesionally " sub.
joined remarks of his own ;" and to the works of
Spenser and of Cowley, which occupy the volumes
now in our hands, he has prefixed some original
composition ;—tee the 'former, a biographical and
critical Preface • and to the latter, a few sheet ob-
servations on the elaborate and able criticism of his
predecessor.
Of the life of the author of the " Faery Queerly."'
we shall make a short abstract for our readers ; and
we shall then conclude our article with a specimen
of the present Editor's melees and style.
Edmund Spenser was born in London, -Cif parents
immediately obscure, though connected, as it is sup-
posed, by a common ancestry with the Spensers of
Althorpe, in Northamptonshire. The precise date
of hit birth is not ascerteinede but be was entered,
as a tiler, at Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge, in the
year 1569. After taking his Bachelor's and his
Master's degree, he left the University, and resided
for some time in the North, where the passion of
love first elicited the spark from his poetic fancy,
and produced the " Shepherd's Calendar." This
youngest offspring of his muse was published in
1.579, with a dedication to Sir Philip Sidney, to
whose acquaintance he had been previously intro-
duced, andhy Whose subsequent friendship he'was
brought to Court and admitted to the notices of the
Earl of Leicester, the celebrated favourite .of Eli-
zabeth. The fortunes of our poet, which were first
planted and fostered by the munificent favour of
Sidney, were reared to their maturity by that of
Leicester. By the interest of this potent Nobleman,
Spenser was sent on some public business so
France ; and was subsequently appointed, in 1580,
Secretary to the Lord Grey de Wilton, the Lord
Deputy of Ireland. Concluding himself in these
employmentswith ability, and discovering talents for
business, not less than for poetry, the public services
of the author of the Faery Queen were compensated
by the Government with a grant of 9028 acres
from-the forfeited property of the Earl of Desmond,
in the county of Cork. On this estate Spenser re-
sided for some time, in the Castle of Kilcolman, one
of the chief mansions of the Earl, "under the foot
Of the Mole, and near the banks of the Mulla ;"
and here he was first visited by the illustrious Ra-
leigh, with Whom he subsequently maintained an
uniform intercourse of friendship. .In his for-
tieth year, he felt, 'for the Second time, the power of
love; and abandoning himself, without the affected
resistance of Horace*, at a similar age, to its plats-
• Interinisia, Venus, din,
RtINUS belts moves. Prrce, pnleor, precorl
Non sum quails evam, &c. Hoy. Lib. iv. Ode I.
ing influence, he married a country girl, whoie
charms atoned for her want of birth and fortune,
and extorted from his muse a rapturous epithala-
mium. He published the first three books of " the
Faery Queene," with a dedication to his Sovereign.
Elizabeth, in 1590, and the subsequent three in
596. His attendance on the Court does not seem to
have been a source of satisfaction to him ; and the
feeling which gave birth to the following lines in
" Mother Hubbard's Tale," was certainly acute:
" Full little knowest thou, that host not tried,
What htt it it in suing lung to bide:
To lose g tat days, which might be better spent;
Tu waste -long isighte in pensive diset:nt.int :
To speed the day, to be put back to-morrow ;
feed an hope, to pine with fear and sorrow—.
To bait: thy !trince's grace, yet want her peerif;
To have thy alzing, yet writ many years;
To tie thy 0111 with CTOiVS, and witn cdties, •
To eat thy heart with confortlett:deipa trs
To fawn, to :.vouch, to wait, to ride, to run
To spend, to give, to watt, 4e be undone."
The parsimonious bounty of the Queen to hitnt
was always checked, and sometimes intercepted by
the enmity of the Lord Treasurer, Burleigh bat
our poet obtained at one time, from his frugal
ni;e ress, a donation of a hundred pounds, and, at
last, a pension of fifty pounds a year. This was
.now become necessary for his subsistence; for he
was expelled from his Irish estate by the rebellion of
. Tyrone, and driven to England without a wreck of
his plundered property. Soon after this event, an
acute sense of hit broken fortunes, as it is imagined,
brought him to his grave in 1598, when he had not
probably exceeded the forty-fifth year of his age.
Hit remains were d• p isited in Westminster Abbey,
near those of his poetic ancestor, Chaucer, by the
lieerality of the munificent Essen ; over Whose fates
though rigid prudence may shake the head, sens;.
bility and the tinge will not cease to dl-op the wane
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