and, used substantively, it is rendered 'an evil, calamity, punishment inflicted by God.' It is a derivative of raâ, ‘to break, bruise,' the root of which is rouah, 'to be wicked, to do evil.' Choli and râ with their ramifications are often used variously conjoined.

"EXAMPLES. Deut. 28, 59. 'Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, etc. and sore sickness,' (magnas plagas, Vulg. cholaim raim, plural of choli-râ,) and of long continuance.' 7,15. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness,' (languorem, choli,) and will put none of the evil' (raim) diseases of Egypt upon thee.' 2 Chron. 21, 15. 'And thou shalt have great sickness,' (tu ægrotabis pessimo languore, cholaim,) 'by disease,' (choli,) of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out, by reason of the sickness,' (choli.) 1 Kings 17, 17. 'The son of the woman - fell sick, and his sickness,' (languor fortissimus, choli,) was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.'

"The plague, which smote all the first-born of the Egyptians, is attributed by some sacred writers to evil angels, and is rendered by raim; but in Ps. 78, 51, the same is called a pestilence.

"Ps. 29, 3. The following passages are all translated from different derivatives of choul the root of choli. The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness, yea, the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades.' 'The voice of the Lord maketh the birds to bring forth young, ou les fait trembler comme si elles allai

ent avoiter.

"Our author concludes by saying, 'L'epithéte râ est appliquée à tout ce qui est mauvais au superlatif.'

"As the first syllable cho ought always to be pronounced as if spelt ko, it has been proposed that the spasmodic cholera should be named kolirah, whilst the bilious epidemic, which is so distinct a disease, might retain its present name of 'cholera.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WESTON Goss, Surg. Dawlish, Devon, Febr. 25, 1833." The Lancet, March 23, 1833.

LI. Fragment of a letter - Boswell's Johnson.

* In order to shew to you the necessity of caution and research in editing the Memoirs, and how unsafe it is to proceed without having all the editions before you, and how little dependence can be placed on the accuracy and fullness of CROKER's edition, I will cite two articles.

I. "The EPITAPH of PHILIPS is in the porch of WOLVERHAMPTON CHURCH. MR GARRICK appears not to have recited the verses correctly; and one of the various readings is remarkable, as it is the germ of JOHNSON'S concluding line,

And meet thy Saviour's CONSORT in the skies."

CROKER'S BOSWELL, 1, 120.

The note stands thus in PICKERING's edition of 1826, the only other edition which I have at hand :

“The EPITAPH of PHILIPS is in the porch of WOLVERHAMPTON-CHURCH.. The prose part of it is curious:

Near this Place Lies

CHARLES CLAUDIUS PHILIPS,
Whose Absolute Contempt of Riches,
And inimitable Performances on the Violin,
Made him the Admiration of all that Knew him :
He was Born in WALES,

Made the Tour of EUROPE,

And after the Experience of both Kinds of Fortune,

Died in 1732.

MR GARRICK appears not to have cited the verses correctly, the original being as follows. One of the various readings is remarkable, as it is the germ of JOHNSON'S concluding line :—

Exalted soul, THY VARIOUS SOUNDS could please

The love-sick virgin, and the gouty ease;

Could jarring CROWDS, like OLD AMPHION, move
To beauteous order, and harmonious love;

Rest here in peace, till Angels bid thee rise,

And meet thy SAVIOUR'S CONSORT † in the skies.

*The first leaf of this letter is unfortunately lost.

DR WILKES, the author of these lines, was a Fellow of TRINITYCOLLEGE, in OXFORD, and Rector of PITCHFORD in SHROPSHIRE; he collected materials for a history of that County, and is spoken of by BROWN WILLIS, in his HISTORY Of Mitred Abbies, 2, 189. But he was a native of STAFFORDSHIRE, and to the antiquities of that County was his attention chiefly confined. MR SHAW has had the use of his papers." BLAKENAY.

Here, then, CROKER attributes to BOSWELL a Note, which was written by BLAKENAY, and he has given only a fragment of the Note!

II. MR COURTENAY, in his Poetical Review of Johnson's
Moral and Literary Character, has the following lines;

Soft-eyed compassion with a look benign,
His fervent vows he offer'd at thy shrine;
To guilt, to woe the sacred debt was paid,
And helpless females bless'd his pious aid:
Snatch'd from disease, and want's abandon'd crew,
Despair and anguish from their victims flew :
Hope's soothing balm into their bosom stole,
And tears of penitence restored the soul.

MR COURTENAY gives the following Note:

"The dignified and affecting Letter written by him to the King in the name of DR DODD, after his condemnation, is justly, and I believe, universally admired. His benevolence indeed was uniform and unbounded. I have been assured that he has often been so much affected by the sight of several unfortunate women, whom he has seen almost perishing in the streets, that he has taken them to his own house,— had them attended with care and tenderness, — and on their recovery clothed and placed them in a way of life to earn their bread by honest industry."

CROKER adds:

"See ANTE, 5, 219. Such a circumstance may have happened once, but it is absurd to represent it as HABITUAL, as MR COURTENAY has done. DR JOHNSON'S house never was without the superintendence of a respectable lady, who, of course, would "not have tolerated any frequent practice of such irregular charity." CROKER. VOL. 5. p. 456.

The passage, to which he refers, 5, 219, is by BoswELL himself, and is as follows: —

"His generous humanity to the miserable was almost beyond exam

ple: The following instance is well attested. Coming home late one night, he found a poor woman lying in the street, so much exhausted that she could not walk; he took her upon his back, and carried her to his house, where he discovered that she was one of those wretched females, who had fallen into the lowest state of vice, poverty, and disease. Instead of harshly upbraiding her, he had her taken care of with all tenderness for a long time, at a considerable expense, till she was restored to health, and endeavoured to put her into a virtuous way of living."

He adds in a note:

"The circumstance, therefore, alluded to in MR COURTENAY'S POETICAL CHARACTER of him, is strictly true; my informer was MRS DESMOULINS, who lived many years in DR JOHNSON'S house."

Now the real story, to which BOSWELL and COURTENAY alluded, and which was unknown to CROKER, is the following:

"The above is a fact well known; the other is an instance which I believe to be equally true, as I had it from very respectable authority:

Some years since the DOCTOR, coming up FLEET STREET, at about...

that shape, and it will be well worth buying.

32. By the plan laid down the work can proceed regularly, -the compositor will be full-handed.

33. You must return these papers to me, as I have no copy, and they will be guides. It has taken me two days to make out this Statement for you, but it is in fact good matter for a Prospectus of a striking kind.

34. If the plan laid down be nevertheless too extensive for you, then the only articles, which I should suggest to you to leave out, would be

Art. 12. SIR JOHN HAWKINS's Life of JOHNSON. 18. DR ROB. ANDERSON'S Life.

*The next leaf is lost.

and in that case I must make what use I can of these Articles 12 and 18 in the way of Extracts.

35. By my taking so large a view of the subject, and setting it before you at once, you will see your way right well, and you will see too what a mess you might have fallen into, if you had not consulted some person as conversant with the different editions and the main points as I am.

E. H. BARKER, THETFORD, Oct. 12, 1834.

P. S. There is a Literary Life of DR JOHNSON by DR DRAKE, which must be sought up and examined.

P. S. I insist on it that the plan of the work, as sketched by me, is far preferable to that pursued by CROKER - Does it not strike you as a very strange proceeding that CROKER should incorporate into BOSWELL'S Memoirs a whole volume of his Tour to the Hebrides, the latter published seven years previously to the Memoirs? Is it not still more strange that he should give in Boswell's text, (not in Notes,) large masses of matter from Mss. by Windham, Miss Reynolds, etc. etc. with interlocutory matter of his own, making a complete patch-work of Boswell's own style?

His plan has the advantage of placing all the matter in continuity, but the impropriety of the proceeding and the offensive nature of it outweigh that advantage.

London, July 12, 1835. I accompanied DR HENRY LEE to WALTHAMSTOw. He observed that PARR considered LORD TEIGNMOUTH'S Life of SIR WM JONES to be full of lies; that at the time when he wrote the Prayer, Parr knew him to be a sceptic, and that he had intended to write a pamphlet about the religious opinions of Jones and Romilly. Dr Lee considers that they would have been stated to be like what he has attributed to Fox in his book. The book of Jones, for the publication of which the Dean of St. Asaph was tried, was a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a Farmer.