The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-07-26
From an English paper,
pHhENOLO6IC Al.
EramnQaen IF Pohr's Sf-ali.

Erammatiea IF Poh'r's StaH
A cast from the skull of the Bard es
Twickenham IS now selling in Lond"a, taken
il is sad fror the real skull recently dug
up in rsickenham church, Ihr account
in circulation Is. thut the Vicar hdvinE per-
mitted the corpse of 50 ne person to- he hu-
rsd in the church thopgh already toll, iar
grave-diggerS, d few weeks sJncr, hrnsr Il )
the spot where the remains ot Papc " rc
living, when Il very deep coffin MAS iond,
and the skull of he oct was taken uut u Il
by whose perasslon or order, We do NJ.
hear, but, as the story goes. the skull WA
removed and is now in the possession ot th
Vicar; this aledged fact is, however, daA ~
ed by some Of tnr good people OF Twi1keH-
ham, who will mt hcievc that the / y.
Gentleman would 80 Tie sacriiGious eX IN
pie of Robin the church, even ii he retaia-
ed no respect f0r the w"li known wishes 81
the Bard, that IL might be saved from
bad company, and allowed to reposc unmo.
lested:
''Iieroes II Kings, yonr listlnce keep,
In peace 4c, one poor Poet Sleep
There arc not wnHfsae persons who cry
out "saamc" On III, Snua tr,nsaGtion; a',d
nne gent, nsp declared tA,t such sean lal
would nrttr haze occurred, if The gentle
man (ncaniNg tue ip,hJrth brd) h.d left
ans relatives in tnr }aM,h." l his sort OF in
dignati)N viii art, Yelhlns, Sc felt by all,
ana indeed it is . question, whether Pope
himself, Tho us"I his mead with such adj
vantage whi|r is,og wpu.l have felt any
partcnl ,r giiet bad ne been aware that his
skull would hsyc hrcn "tnrncl to good az
count ,yhtn he wRa Aead. Whatever The
possessnr e the relic may DO. the Phrcnol-
ugNt alii "aAke Hlnch of IT."
In oAseq Icnra of the report Of this dis
covrr,, Fl ht celebrated phrenologists start
"a oF III ti9At different post ch,scs from
London. where thcy arrived precisely at
the sam moment, when the jos'lng amonr
then as 70 which shouI1 lay hand, On tx
skull first, was, our reporter SAYS, truly
ridiculous. The following, As nelrl, As Nc
can give 1t, WAS the account e the eNAmua-
tiDn, whica in few days will be published
in psnphlet form by Mr.. Murray -
On an accurate inspection Of tho crariun
(Which, Ike thar of professor frasDn's was
unusually thick we discn> cred, iast beside
the temples, the organ OF music strnngly dc.
veiopcd We iumcdiat"iy referred t0 tht
poets works whlch We had brought wit
I us, NuNN NC IIlNtItkl, 'tN u w IINltl Alln. VI
that splendid passage in his "OA" on st
! teciia's Day" ht snni e with " hv music
minds and equal temper Know which VA
evilrntly written in consequence Of the ful
development Of this organ.
On the summit oi the Uranium, and ias
under the top Of the wig, we discovered III
hump of veneration: An organ miracu!ausl,
developed 10 the Birds noble hymn
"Father Of all, in every age,
la every clunr ador'd"
We then passed our bands on towards th
occiput, when we foInd then rub volei.u
against the organ ofthrtt This puzzled II
at first Pope, We heard having bccu NO fn0t
pa4, until onr friend DIR. -, luckily dis
covered that he had been much addicted t
literary larcenics, had dr'4g largely, an
witnnut acknowledgement, on the classics
Irerce and Rome. On continuing our re
searches towards the uecL, we found til
skull unusually thickener, a fact percertibt
only in gentlemen who have been hanged
this also pu24,ed us not a little; resoivei
. however, not to despair, We adopted Il ne
! theory of DR. Calls, namely, that hsre is
strong organ, called the hubp of tipplins
perceptjpie in adults. and increasing in si7
and substance tOwards age, which h;
hitherto been enormously called philopr'
/, gentiyeness. Tins organ on reference to II
Poets works, we found happily exemplihr
y in that celebrated exnortation of g Drit
! deep" Slc.-Nide his essay on Criticism,) J.
d The organ Of com5ativeness, was prodlgiou
Z " fuii, so tuil indeed, that under other ci
u cumstances its proprietor could easily ha
y knocked down an OK; whereas his combativ
- ness, taking literary turn, led only to t
% perpetratiou of the "DuHclad" After a
y there is nothing like phrennlogy!n In pu
suing our researches still further, we d
IS covered the organ of amatveness in hi
m state OF ofdevelopement; "a fact which we fou
e fully borne out, when referring to "
Oh Bowles' edition we saw, that the "I wicks
v ham Bard" had been notorious for his DC
E. chant for lady NJ. Montague, and the M
Blounts; in consequence of which afores;
tn amativeness he had indited 'carcnte caioa,
II, the far-famed Eioisu TO .d5elard, as well
te the translation of Ovid's glowing Sahhho
he Phaon After all, we again repeat our
ed surance that as far as truth, downright
u controvertible truth is concerned, "there
r- nothing like parenology."