T HIGHAM HILLS, ESSEX. (WITH A VIEW.) HIS beautiful place, the feat of John Harman, Efq. Mr. Lyfons gives the following account of: "The manor of Hecham, fince called Higham Benfted, or Higham Hills, was, in the reign of Edward the Contellor, the property of Haldan, a freeman: when the furvey of Doomidy was taken, it belonged to Peter de Valoines, whofe grand-daughter Lora brought it in marriage to Alexander de Baliol; of whom it was purchafed by John de Bented, a Justice of the Common Pleas, and a Baron in the reign of Edward II. It continued in the fame family till 3494, when it was fold by Helen Benfted to John Rythe and others. Sir Thomas Lovell held a court for it that year. Being foon afterwards vefted in the crown, it was leafed to Sir John Heron, who died in 1521. His fun, Sir Giles, being attainted of high treafon, the leafe reverted to the crown. In 1555, the manor, which, on Giles Heron's attainder, had been leafed to Cuthbert Hutton, was granted, in fee, to Thomas Heron (grandion of Sir John), who, in 1566, aliened it to Thomas Rowe, Efq. After continuing in the family of Rowe for feven defcents, it was fold, in 1758, by William Rowe, Gent. to Richard Newman, Efq. who, in 1764, aliened it to Anthony Bacon, Efq. There having been various money tranfactions between Mr. Bacon, and Mr. John Biggin, the manor, at length, became veited in Mrs. Eleanor Biggin, widow, and was, by her, put up to auction in the month of December 1785. The purchafer was William Hornby, Eig. Governor of Bombay; who, in December 1790, fold it to the prefent proprietor, John Harman, Efq.” The manfion-houfe, which forms the principal part of our view, was rebuilt by Mr. Bacon. It stands at the northern extremity of the parifh, near Woodford Wells, and commands a very fine profpect of the River Thames, and of the country towards Kent. The premifes have been much improved, both by Governor Hornby and by the prefent proprietor, PETER PINDAR AND THE AUTHOR OF THE BAVIAD. THE HE rencontre which has lately taken place between thefe Gentlemen being liable to mifreprefentation, we think it the duty of a literary journal to infert only fuch accounts of it as appear with the marks of authority, without any comment whatever. The Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, the 19th of Auguft, ftates the affair in the following manner : “A rencontre took place yesterday in the fhop of Mr. Wright, the bookfeller, between the celebrated Peter Pindar and Mr. Giffard, author of the Bavind. We need not inform our literary readers, that in reply to the many farcating thrown out by Peter Pindar against the author of the Baviad and other poems, Mr. Giffard lately published a fevere and keen fatire againit Peter. In a fecond edition, an allufion is made of a kind too grofs for decency to record. This literary combat yetterday produced blows. Dr. Wolcot went into the fhop of Mr. Wright, where Mr. Giffard was feated reading a newspaper; he asked him if his name was not Giffard? He replied in the affirmative. Upon which the Doctor aimed a blow at his brother poet with a cane, which Mr. Giffard dexterously warded off, wreited the cane from Peter, and in an instant broke the head of his afilmt with his own stick. M. Peltier and another gentleman, who were prefent, interfered, and Peter, with a bloody fconce, was thruft into the treet, where a mob collected, to whom he made his appeal. He had loft his hat in the affray, which was thrown out to him; but the poet of the Baviad kept poffeflion of the cane, as a trophy of his triumph. Peter having thus failed wreaking wreaking his vengeance by blows,means to attack his enemy with the weapon at which he is more dexterous. He has announced what he calls A Cut at the Cobler." In the fame paper of Saturday, the 23d of Auguft, is inferted the following detail by Mr. Wolcot: "Determined to punih a R, that dared propagate a report the molt atrocious, the molt unnatural, and the most unfounded, I repaired to Wright's fhop in Piccadilly to catch him, as I understood that he paid frequent vifits to his worthy friend and publifher. On opening the hop door, I faw feveral people, and among the reft, as I thought, Giffard. I immediately asked him if his name was Giffard? Upon his reply in the affirmative, without any further ceremony, I began to cane him. Wright and his customers, and his fhopmen, immediately furrounded me,and wrefted the cane from my hand; I then had recourfe to the fift-and really was doing ample and eafy jultice to my cause -when I found my hands ail on a fùdden confined behind me, particularly by a tall Frenchman. Upon this, Giffard had time to turn round, and, with his own ftick-a large one too-struck me feveral blows on the head. I was then hustled out of the fhop, and the door was locked against me. I entreated them to let me in, but in vain. Upon the tall Frenchman's coming out of the thop, I told him, that he was one of the fellows that held my hands-I have 'been fince informed that his name was 'Peltier. Before I quitted the door, I contrived to get admiflion for the following letter, written before the action, directed to Mr. Giffard : "I then retired to the houfe of a fiend for about an hour, and returned to Wright's hop to finish the affair; but the door was ftill locked, and Giffard, I believe, in the house. Some of the hopmen came forward and told me that I fhould not enter; upon which I defired them to inform Gifard, that wherever I met him, he might depend on every caftigation due to his calumny-that fociety ought to be purged of fucha dangerous pet, which, af poffible, in fpite of his fapporters, I would try to accomplish. "Giffard has given out, as a matter of triumph, that he poffeifes my cane, and that he means to preferve it as a feription for it- The Cane of Juftrophy. Let me recommend an intice, with which I, William Giffard, late Cobler of Alhburton, have been foundly drubbed for my infamy.” In anfwer to this narrative, THE TRUE BRITON of Monday, August 25, has the following reply : "MR. WRIGHT to the TRUE BRITON Whoever is acquainted with the mifcreant, calling himself PETER PINDAR, needs not be informed, that his difregard and hatred to truth are habitual. He will not, therefore, be furprifed to learn, that the account this PETER has published in a Morning Paper called The Oracie, of the attac of the 18th inftant, is a fhamelels tifluc of falfehoods from beginning to end. "I was not in the fhop, nor indeed in London, when it happened; but I am authorised by the only two Gentlemen who were witnefles of it, to lay before the public the following statement, of which every part can be attelted on oath : "Mr. Giffard was fitting by the window with a newlpaper in his hand, when Peter Pindar came into the fhop, and faying, "Is not your name Gif. fard " without waiting for an anfwer, raifed a ftick he had brought for the purpofe, and levelled a blow at his head with all his force. Mr. Giffard fortunately caught the flick in his left hand, and, quitting his chair, wreited it inftantly from the cowardly affaifin, and gave him two fevere blows with it one of which made a dreadful impreffion on Peter's fcull. Mr. Giffard had t; raifed the stick to ftrike him a third time; but feeing one of the Gentlemen prefent about to collar the wretch, he defifted, and coolly faid, "Turn him out of the shop." "This was literally and truly ALL that paffed; and this, as the Morning Chronicle (which has given a very fair and candid account of the tranfaction) obferves," was the work of an inftant." "Such is the narrative delivered to me verbatim, by the only witneffes of what paffed. After this, let the reader perufe the clumfy jumble of impudence and falfehood, figned with the baffled mifcreant's name, in the paper abovementioned, and form his own conclufions. This will fhew the papers (among which I am forry to rank the Morning Chronicle), that their wit on the battle, as they are pleased to term it, is mifplaced. Mr. Giffard fought no battle he merely defended his life against a bafe and cowardly affailant. After Peter was turned into the ftreet, the fpectacle of his bleeding head attracted a mob of hackney. coachmen, watermen, paviours, &c. to whom he told his lamentable cafe ; and then, with a troop of boys at his heels, proceeded to a Surgeon's in St. James's Street, to have his wound examined; after which he flunk home "With his crack'd pate be-plafter'd and be-patch'd, "Like an old paper lantern." "I may add-that Peter came forth with an intent, I will not fay to murder, but to maim and difable, Mr. Giffard. Piccadilly, Aug. 22, 1800. J. WRIGHT. ST. JAMES'S EPISTLES. C. 1. V. 17. Πᾶσα δόσις ἀγαθὴ, καὶ πᾶν δώρημα τέλειον ἄνωθέν ἐστιο DR. DODDRIDGE has a note on this paffage, which begins thus: "It is obfervable, that the Apoftle makes ufe of two different words to exprefs 'gift." The learned and ingenious commentator feems to have repofed too great a confidence in our English tranflation. Alois and dena are verbal nouns, derived, the one from Sip, the other from dwfw; both which words fignify to give. But it is well known, that verbal nouns vary in their fenfe, according to the different parts of the verb whence they are derived. Ara, formed from the first perfon perf. paff. of defiw, to give, fignifies properly a gift. Aici, formed from the fecond perfon perf. paff. of de, to give, fignifies properly a giving Certain it is, that the nicer fhades of difference betwixt words of kindred fignification are not always obferved. But, when two words, bearing fome refemblance to cach other in fenfe, appear in the fame fentence, their juxtapolition indicates a defign in the writer, to difcriminate nicely betwixt them, and to affign' to each word its primary and appropriate meaning. Thats and defnda, placed as they here are, fhould equally exprefs a gift, feems as improbable, as that ins and oiue fhould equally fignify a poem. The literal verfion feems to be this: Every good giving, and every perfect gift, is from above. Not only every perfect gift is from above, but every good giving, i. e. every right difpofal, every proper diftribution of gifts, is, no lefs than the gifts themfelves, derived from above. E. ORIGINAL |