of years served the College in quality of Bedmaker and Sweeper: Having no child, his wife inherits his whole estate, which he bequeathed to her by his last will and testament, as follows, viz.: To my dear wife My joy and life, I freely now do give her, Being just about to leave her. My tub of soap, A threshing flail, An iron wedge and beetle. Two painted chairs, A large old dripping platter, An old saucepan for butter. A little mug, A musket true, A pound of shot and wallet, My calabash, My powder horn and bullet. An old sword blade, A hoe, a rake, a ladder, A clyster-pipe and bladder. A greasy hat, A yard and half of linen, In order for your spinning. A small tooth comb, A candlestick and hatchet, Strip'd down with red, A bag of rags to patch it. A ragged mat, A tub of fat, A book put out by Bunyan, By Robin Cook, A skein or two of spunyarn. An old black muff, A quantity of borage, To season well your porridge. A chafing dish, If I am not mistaken, In equal store, I've one thing more No teeth, 'tis true I love those mouths A leaky eye, These woful times is fitting. Adds solemn grace [A furrowed brow, JOHN BEVERIDGE. JOHN BEVERIDGE, the author of a volume of Latin verses, was a native of Scotland, where he commenced his career as a schoolmaster in Edinburgh. One of his pupils was the blind poet Blacklock, to whom he afterwards addressed some English lines, in which he gives the motives which induced him to attempt poetry, with a Latin translation of his friend's version of the 104th Psalm. In 1752 he removed to New England, where he remained five years, and became intimate with Dr. Mayhew and other leading men of that city. In 1758 he was appointed Professor of Languages in the college and academy of Philadelphia. Alexander Graydon,* who was one of his pupils, says "he retained the smack of his vernacular tongue in its primitive purity," and has preserved the memory, in his Memoirs, of some schoolboy anecdotes which show that he was a poor disciplinarian. One of the larger boys once pulled off his wig under pretence of brushing off a fly from it, and a still greater liberty was indulged in one afternoon, by suddenly closing the door and windows and pelting the master with dictionaries. "This most intolerable outrage," says Graydon, "had a run of several days, and was only put a stop to by the vigorous interference of the faculty." Beveridge, "diminutive in his stature, and neither young nor vigorous," being unable to administer corporal punishment efficiently, "after exhausting himself in the vain attempt to denude the delinquent, was generally glad to compound for a few strokes over his clothes, on any part that was accessible." Beveridge published, in 1765, a collection of Latin poems, Epistola Familiares et alia quædam miscellanea. The book is dedicated in Latin to the provincial dignitaries, Penn, Allan, Hamilton, Smith, and Alison. Next follow lines by A. Alexander, "On Mr. Beveridge's Poetical Performances"-a few of which we quote. *Graydon's Memoirs, 35. Graydon also went to school to another writer of some note in his day, David James Dove. Dove sadly belied his name, his chief reputation being that of a savage satirist. He was born in England, and it is said figures in a book mentioned in Boswell's Johnson, "The Life and Adventures of the Chevalier Taylor." Dove was English teacher in the Philadelphia Academy, but, quarrelling with the trustees, took charge of the Germantown Academy on its organization in 1762. He soon got into a quarrel here also, and started an opposition school in a house which he built on an adjoining lot. The enterprise shortly fell through. Dove applied his humor to the management of his school as well as to the composition of his satires. "His birch," says Graydon, "was rarely used in canonical method, but was generally stuck into the back part of the collar of the unfortunate culprit, who, with this badge of disgrace towering from his nape like a broom at the mast-head of a vessel for sale, was compelled to take his stand upon the top of the form, for such a period of time as his offence was thought to deserve." Boys who were late in appearing in the morning were waited upon by a deputation of scholars and escorted with bell and lighted lantern through the streets to school. He was once late himself, and submitted with a good grace to the same attentions, which his pupils did not lose an opportunity of bestowing. Dove's satires have passed away with the incidents and personages which gave them birth. They appeared in the periodicals of the day. + Epistolæ Familiares et Alia quædam miscellanea. Familiar Epistles, and other Miscellaneous Pieces-wrote originally in Latin verse. By John Beveridge, A.M., Professor of Languages in the Academy of Philadelphia. To which are added several translations into English verse, by different Hands, &c. Philadelphia, printed for the Author by William Bradford, 1765, 88 8vo. pages, 16 of which are closely printed. Alexander, a fine classical scholar, was appointed a tutor in the college after he was graduated, but, becoming involved in pecuniary embarrassments, quitted the city soon after entering upon his duties.-Fisher's Early Poets of Pa. If music sweet delight your ravish'd ear, Here you may view a bard of modern time, The epistles are forty-six in number, two of which are in English. The forty-third is addressed, "Ad præcellentiss. Tho. Penn. Pennsylvaniæ Proprietarium, seu (Latine) Dominum." Of the two in English the second is addressed to Thomas Blacklock, "the celebrated blind poet, who was taught his Latin by the author," as he inforins us in a note. The first is so pleasantly written that it will bear quotation in part. Dear Sir, methinks I see you smile, And in a dress unusual; Know then she's fond, in her new cloth, In the enjoyment of your wife, And then a generation Of boys and girls; a hopeful race, May never want your steps pursue, With health and skill to use it. Improve the days that are serene; Make hay while yet the sun doth shine, "Twill not avail you to repine; Take care lest here you blunder. You can't recall the by-past hours, And storms will happen; when 'tis so, VOL. I.-9 I mean to save it for yourself, Perchance may sometimes wander. If you your empire would maintain, Success will never fail you. At ev'ry trifle scorn offence, Shun av'rice, vanity, and pride; Tho' glitt'ring in the fashions. "Tis not on madam's heavenly face, Only consult your glasses: For beauty, like the new blown flow'r, Lives but the glory of an hour, And then forever passes. The graces of your mind display, Than empty phantoms fleeter⚫ With milder rays and sweeter. The translations are thus apologetically introduced: "The Editor begs a little indulgence for them, as they are all (except Dr. Mayhew's and Mr. Morton's,) done by students under age; and if the Critic will only bear with them, till their understandings are mature, I apprehend they are in a fair way of doing better." Several are by Thomas Coombe, A. Alexander, A. B., and TH-, student in philosophy. WJ, N. Evans, A. M., and Stephen Watts,* contribute one or two each. Mayhew furnishes two, the first of which trips off pleasantly: Dear Thomas, of congenial soul, Of major, minor, figure, mood. *Watts published, at an early age, an "Essay on the Advantages of a Perpetual Union between Great Britain and her Colonies," which was received with great favor. He afterwards removed to Louisiana, where he married a daughter of the Spanish Governor.-Fisher's Early Poets of Pa. THOMAS COOMBE. THOMAS COOMBE, who first appears in our literature as a translator of some of his teacher Beveridge's Latin poems, was a native of Philadelphia, and after concluding his course at the College, studied theology, and visiting England to take orders, was on his return appointed an assistant minister of Christ Church. He sided with the liberal party at the outbreak of the Revolution, but disapproving of the separation from England, joined after that event the tory party. He was, in 1777, banished with others, by the legislature, to Staunton, Virginia, but was allowed on the score of sickness to remain. He soon after went to England. The Earl of Carlisle made him his chaplain, and he finally became a Prebendary of Canterbury, and one of the royal chaplains.* In 1775, he published in London a short narrative poem, The Peasant of Auburn, or the Emigrant,† accompanied by a few smaller pieces. The tract is dedicated to Goldsmith, and seems designed as a continuation of the Deserted Village. It presents a lugubrious picture of the fortunes of an emigrant. We quote a few of its closing pages. Edwin, a wanderer on the banks of the Ohio, relates his mournful experiences. * Much had I heard from men unus'd to feign, Is this, O dire reverse, is this the land, Ye glittering towns that crown th' Atlantic deep, gore. Far, far away the wretched owners roam, The prowling Indian snuffs his wonted prey, Ah my poor Lucy! in whose face, whose breast, O haste and waft him to those radiant plains, Where fiends torment no more, and love eternal reigns THOMAS HUTCHINSON. THOMAS HUTCHINSON, the celebrated Governor of Massachusetts at the outset of the revolution, was a descendant of Ann Hutchinson, and a son of Colonel Thomas Hutchinson, a leading merchant and member of the council of the colony. He was born in 1711, and was graduated at Harvard in 1727. He commenced his career as a merchant, but failing in that pursuit studied law. "The Artchmon Time was, blest time, to weeping thousands dear, And gore the nurturing breast they had ador'd. *Fisher's Early Poets of Pa. 98. The Peasant of Auburn, or the Emigrant. A Poem. By T. Coombe, D.D. "The short and simple annals of the Poor," Gray. Phil. Enoch Story, Jun. (no date.) Coombe was evidently, from some lines in his poem, a reader of Collins's Eclogues as well as of Goldsmith. He was chosen a selectman of Boston in 1788, and appointed the agent of the town to visit London in the discharge of important business, a duty which he performed with great success. After his return, he was for ten years a member, and for three the speaker of the colonial House of Representatives, where he obtained a great reputation as a debater and efficient presiding officer. He was a member of the council from 1749 to 1766, and lieutenant-governor from 1758 to 1771. He was also appointed a judge of probate in 1752, and chief-justice in 1760. During the agitation which followed the passage of the Stamp-Act, in consequence of a report that he had expressed an opinion in favor of that unpopular measure, his house was twice attacked by a mob. On the first occasion the windows were broken, and a few evenings after, on the 26th of August, the doors forced open, the furniture and woodwork destroyed, and the house remained in possession of the rioters until morning. A great number of public and private documents were also destroyed. The town passed resolutions condemnatory of the act, and some six or eight persons were imprisoned, who were speedily set at liberty by a company, who, by threatening the jailor, obtained the keys. Hutchinson was indemnified for his losses by a public grant. A new subject of controversy arose in 1767 in consequence of his taking a seat in the council in virtue of his office as lieutenant-governor. He abandoned his claim to a seat, and was a few days after appointed one of the commissioners for settling the boundary line with New York, a duty which he discharged greatly to the advantage of the colony. On the departure of Governor Bernard, in 1769, the whole duties of the office fell upon his lieutenant. Fresh difficulties arose, and he had forwarded a request to England to be discharged from office, when he received the announcement of his appointment as governor. He accepted the office. He continued to increase in unpopularity with the council and people in consequence of the publication of the letters written by him to England, which were discovered and sent back by Franklin. The council and house voted an address for his removal, but his conduct was approved by the king. He was, however, removed after the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor, and General Gage appointed in his place. Although notified by Gage on his arrival, May 13, that the king intended to reinstate him as soon as Gage's military duties called him elsewhere, he sailed for England on the first of June following. He received a pension from the English government, which was inadequate to the liberal support of his family, and after, according to the account of John Adams, "being laughed at by the courtiers for his manners at the levee, searching his pockets for letters to read to the king, and the king's turning away from him with his nose up," lived in retirement at Brompton, where he died, June 3, 1780. Hutchinson was the author of a History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from its First Settlement in 1628 to the year 1750, in two volumes, the first of which was published in 1760, and the second in 1767. A third, bringing the narrative down to 1774, was published from a manuscript left behind him after his decease, by his grandson the Rev. John Hutchinson, of Trentham, England, in 1828. He also published various pamphlets, and a volume of documents relative to the history of the colony in 1769. and the natural excellencies therof; namely, the Healthfulness of the Air, Pleasantness of the Place, Advantages and Usefulness of those rich Commodities there plentifully abounding, which much encrease and flourish by the industry of the planters that daily enlarge that colony. It forms twenty-six octavo pages in the reprint in Carroll's Collections.* With John Archdale, late Governor of the province, printed at London in 1707, A new description of that fertile and pleasant Province of Carolina; with a brief account of its discovery and settling, and the government thereof to this time. several remarkable passages of Divine Providence during my time. It forms thirty-six pages of Carroll's Collection, and is chiefly occupied with the discussions arising under his administration.t In 1708, John Stevens published in his new collection of voyages and travels, a New Voyage to Carolina, with a journal of a Thousand Miles Travelled through several nations of Indians, by John Lawson, Surveyor General of North Carolina. It was published in a separate form in 1709.‡ Lawson was captured while exploring lands in North Carolina, and sacrificed by the Indians in the war of 1712.8 The earliest literature in South Carolina was scientific, medical, and theological, and came from intelligent foreigners who took up their residence in the country. The education of the sons of the wealthy classes was carried on in Europe, and continued to be through the Colonial era. Dr. John Lining, a native of Scotland, in 1753, published at Charleston a history of the Yellow Fever, the first which had appeared on this continent. He was a correspondent of Franklin, and pursued scientific studies. He died in 1760, in his fifty-second year, having practised medicine in Charleston for nearly thirty years. Dr. Lionel Chalmers, also a Scotchman, was long established in the state, and published an Essay on Fevers at Charleston in 1767. He was the author, too, of a work on the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina, which was issued in London in 1776, the year before his death. Dr. Alexander Garden was born in Scotland about the year 1728, and was the son of the Rev. Alex. Garden, of the parish of Birse, who, during the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746, was distinguished by his exertions in favor of the family of Hanover, and by his interposition in behalf of the followers of the house of Stuart after their defeat at Culloden. Dr. Garden studied philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, and received his first medical education under the celebrated Dr. John Gregory. He arrived in South Carolina about the middle of the eighteenth century, and commenced the practice of physic in Prince William's parish, in connexion with Dr. Rose. Here he began his botanic studies, but was obliged to take a voyage northward for his health. In 1754 he went to New York, where a professorship in the college, recently formed in that |