tot and Curll* are entered as Rival Candidates: "But lofty Lintot in the circle rose:

'This prize is mine; who 'tempt it are my foes; With me began this genius, and shall end.' He spoke: and who with Lintot shall contend? Fear held them mute. Alone, untaught to fear, Stood dauntless Curll; 'Behold that Rival here! The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won; So take the hindmost, Hell!' (he said,) and run. Swift as a Bard the Bailiff leaves behind, He left huge Lintot, and out-strip'd the wind. As when a dab-chick waddles thro' the copse On feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops; So lab'ring on, with shoulders, hands, and head, Wide as a windmill all his figure spread, With arms expanded Bernard rows his state, And left-legg'd Jacob seems to emulate." The remaining part of the description (in which Curll, after escaping from a dirty accident, outstripped his competitor) I forbear to copy-sanctioned by the authority of Dr. Warton, who pronounces it to be "as nauseous as it is stupid, though Warburton defends it by a note if possible still more nauseous."

Bernard Lintot appears to have soon after relinquished his business to his son Henry; and to have

* Curll is again honoured in the Dunciad, as contending with Osborne. See vol. III. p. 649.

† Jacob Tonson; of whom see vol. I.

p. 296.

In the "Gulliveriana, a Fourth Volume of Miscellanies, being a Sequel to the Three Volumes published by Pope and Swift; to which is added Alexandriana, or a Comparison between the Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope, and many things in Verse and Prose relating to the latter, 1728," appeared the following lines, under

the title of "Lintot's Lamentation :"

.

"Well then! all human things, henceforth, avast!
Sawney the great is quite cut down at last.
But I must say, this Judgment was due to him,
For basely murthering Homer's sacred Poem;
Due too, for dropping me, and running mad,
To fall so foul on every friend he had.

So Fate and Jove require§;' and so, dear Pope,
Either thy Razor set, or buy a Rope."

retired to Horsham in Sussex; for which county he was nominated High Sheriff in November 1735; an honour which he did not live to enjoy; as his death happened Feb. 3, 1735-6, at the age of 61. In the Newspapers of the day he was styled "Bernard Lintot, esq. of the Middle Temple, late an eminent Bookseller in Fleet-street."

Henry Lintot, his only son, was born about August 1709; was admitted to the freedom of the Company of Stationers, by patrimony, Sept. 1, 1730; obtained the Livery the same day *; and from that time their business was carried on in the joint names of Bernard and Henry; but the Father passed the principal part of his time in Sussex.-Two days after the death of Bernard, Henry was appointed High Sheriff for that county, where his residence was at Southwater, in the Rape of Bramber, about two miles from Horsham*.-He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Aubrey, Bart. of Llantrythed in Glamorganshire, (whose mother was Margaret, daughter of Sir John Lowther, Bart.); by whom he had an only daughter and heiress, Catharine, who was married, Oct. 20, 1768, (with a fortune of 45,000l.) to Captain Henry Fletcher, at that time a Director of the East India Company.-Mr. Lintot married, secondly, Philadelphia --, by whom he had no issue He died in 1758; and his widow Jan. 31, 1763.

* He obtained the patent of Law Printer about 1748; and in 1754 was elected into the Court of Assistants of his Company. + This gentleman was brought up in the service of the East India Company, and commanded two of their ships, the Stormont in 1759, and the Earl of Middlesex in 1763. He quitted that service in 1766; and was chosen into the Direction of the Company, where he continued till 1784. In 1769, on a memorable contest with Sir James Lowther, he was elected M. P. for the county of Cumberland, which he continued to represent nearly 40 years. He was created a Baronet, May 20, 1782, on the conclusion of the American War, which he had uniformly opposed, and died at his seat, Ashley Park, Surrey, in his 79th year March 30, 1807, leaving one daughter, Catharine, born 1770, and one son now Sir Henry Fletcher, bart. of Clea Hall, Cumberland, and of Ashley Park, Surrey; who was born in 1772; appointed High Sheriff for Cumberland in 1810; and is married.

No II. GILES HUSSEY* (see vol. VI. p. 90.)

Mr. GILES HUSSEY, (whose oil-paintings and pencil-drawings, chiefly portraits, are so deservedly esteemed,) whether considered as a man or an artist, will ever be remembered by those who knew him with no less admiration than respect and esteem. He was entitled to the former by his extraordinary genius, skill, and elegance, in his art: to the latter, by those virtues, and amiable dispositions of mind, which conciliate affection, and secure regard. He was descended from a very antient family; and born at Marnhull, in Dorsetshire, on the 10th of February, 1710. At seven years of age, he was sent by his father to Doway for his education; where he continued two years. He then was removed to St. Omer's, where he pursued his studies for three years more. His father, though willing to afford him some education, yet designed him for trade; to which, perhaps, he was the more inclined,

* For this excellent Memoir, extracted from the "History of Dorsetshire," Vol. IV.pp. 154-160, I am indebted to Francis Webb, esq.

↑ "Mr. Giles Hussey was the sixth, but only surviving son and heir of John Hussey, of Marnhull, Esq. by Mary his wife, daughter of Thomas Burdet, esq.; and grandson of George Hussey, of Marnhull, esq. by his second wife, Grace, the daughter of Sir Lewis Dyve, of Brumham, com. Bedford, and of Combhay, com. Somerset, knt. This George Hussey was eldest son and heir of James Hussey, of Blandford, esq. son of sir James Hussey, knt. LL.D. of New College, Oxon. Principal of Magdalen Hall, and Chancellor to the Bishop of Salisbury. The family of Hussey, distinguished by many equestrian and noble alliances, derived its origin, as appears by the registry of the Pedigree in the Heralds' Visitation of the county of Dorset, anno 1623, as well as by a MS. in antient French, said to have been found in the abbey of Glastonbury at its dissolution, from Hubert Hussey, a Norman nobleman; who, having intermarried with the countess Helen, daughter of Richard the fifth duke of Normandy, grandfather of king William the Conqueror, accompanied the latter into England; who conferred upon him the office of High Constable, and granted to him considerable possessions."- See the Pedigree of Hussey, in Hutchins's Dorsetshire, Vol. IV. p. 160.

VOL. VIII.