288 Portrait of Turgott.—Antiquarian Spectacles, &c.—Bp. Warburton.

THE fame portraits having at different periods been employed to exhibit different personages*, the following wooden cut of the Monk Turgott is here advertised to be let or sold. The tonsure being purposely omitted, this head may be used, mutato nomine, for Offian, Rowley, Methuselah, or old Parr. It may serve as the effigies of a hoary antiquarian, or the physiognomy of a veteran catcher. It may be prefixed to the republication of an ancient Sermon, or adorn the title-page to a collection of our early Ballads. In short, wherever respectability of aspect is wanted, the quondam Prior of Durham cannot fail to recommend himself.

Others with Homer would be-fot us,
I, for my part, admire Turgottus.

## Turgottus Dunelmentus.

By way of douceur to the buyer, the Vignette annexed shall be thrown into the bargain; unlefs any of the Morgans of Briftol, or the Milles's of Exeter, should choose to bid for it as the faithful representation of a family wig, and then it will be dispoſed of separately. It might alſo prove both delectable and uſeful to some member of the Antiquarian Society, who may hereafter compoſe a learned treatife De Caliendris Veterum, yprovynge tharyin ye merwaillouſe antyquyte of Wyggen, Caxounys, &c.

For further particulars, enquire of the keeper of the muniment-room at Briftol. GOD SAVE THE KING!

MR. URBAN,

June 5.

YOUR mention of the author of "The Canons of Criticifm" induces me to send you an anecdote relative to the origin of that production, which I received from the author himſelf, and which may be new to moſt of your readers.

Mr. Edwards, who was educated at Eton, and became a fellow of King's College Cambridge, was an excellent Greek scholar; but, being rather ſtraitened in his circumstances, declined the study of law, phyſick, or divinity, and went into the army, which was not inconſiſent with the retaining of his fellowship, as hath been properly pointed out, in the cafes of Sir William Draper and Mr. Hare, in Gent. Mag. 1779, p. 641.

Having been some time in the army, it ſo happened that being at Bath, after Mr. Warburton's marriage to Mr. Allen's niece, he was introduced at Prior Park en famille. The conversation not unfrequently turning on literary ſubjects, Mr. Warburton generally took the opportunity of ſhewing his ſuperiority in Greek, not having the leaſt idea that an officer in the army underſtaſd any thing of that language, or that Mr. Edwards had been bred at Eton; till one day, being accidentally in the library, Mr. Edwards took down a Greek author, and explained a paſſage in it in a manner that Mr. W. did not approve. This occasioned no ſmall contrefft; and Mr. E. (who had now difcovered to W. how he came by his knowledge) endeavoured to convince him that he did not underſtand the original language, but that his knowledge aroſe from French tranflations. Mr. W. was highly irritated; an incurable breach took place; and this trifling altercation (after Mr. E. had quitted the army, and was entered of Lincoln's Inn) produced "The Canons of Criticifm."

An original picture of Mr. Edwards, in a black wig, is ſtill exifting; and, when engraved, will no doubt be an acceptable preſent to the collectors of portraits.

It may not be foreign to the purpofe to obſerve, that Mr. Warburton was for some little time a wine-mer-

* Thus Andrew Borde was changed into Skelton, Sir Endymion Porter converted into the Earl of Efſex, James I. exalted into Shakespeare, &c. &c. &c.

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