gave a signal proof of it in the famous case of Mr. Wilkes, member for Middlesex. Although a personal friend of that gentleman, and still more licentious in his morals, he openly joined the Earl of Sandwich, another notorious debauchee, in denouncing the profane and ungodly conduct of Wilkes; and to the great edification of the Bench of Bishops, also denounced his celebrated "Essay on Women!!" Still further to demonstrate his new-born zeal in the cause of morality, he enlisted a clerical dependent of his own in the court war against Wilkes; but here his zeal, if zea. it could be called, outran his discretion; for, when the hireling priest entered the lists with the author of the North Briton, although burning with all the fervour of the odium theologicum, not a few of the fiery darts shot at his black gown from that journal, glanced against the ermined robes of his noble but too notorious patron. In this question which long agitated the nation, Wilkes being the popular idol, his Grace made himself equally odious and ridiculous.

The character of this high aristocrat does not require much illustration; it may be given in a single sentence. He was, one half of his life, a knowing and fortunate votary of the turf, and during the other, a devoted worshipper of Venus and the Graces. In the first pursuit, he acquired, not by the most honourable means, the greater portion of his enormous fortune; and by the last, he earned a most inglorious notoriety. His gallantries, indeed, were for years the general theme of raillery and sarcasm among every class of society. In person he was of the middle size, neat, slim, and, as already remarked, at an early period of life, graceful and elegant. In consequence of a speck in one of his eyes, which obstructed its vision, a belief was prevalent that he wore a glass one. Other peculiarities were also ascribed to him. He was supposed to apply veal cutlets every night to his face in order to preserve his complexion, and, besides, to make use of a milk bath daily for the purpose of softening and beautifying his skin. This last circumstance, although probably a fiction, made his neighbours very chary of purchasing milk at second hand. It might well be thought that a man of such immense wealth, who was not considered a miser, would have been a frequent contributor to charities, and likewise liberal in his benefactions; but there are only two or three acts of liberality during his long life upon record. He is said, it is true, to have bestowed pensions on opera singers, and to have given £100 towards the expense of a Westminster election-and, mirabile dictu, also £2000 to supply the wants of the widows and orphans connected with the British navy. These, however, were his only known acts of munificence. On the other hand, while in possession of millions of his own, this Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, and Knight of the Thistle, had the meanness to take a thousand a year, out of the public purse, during the greater part of the reign of George the Third, as a lord of the bed-chamber to that monarch!

HIS remarkable epitome of man's fair proportions, although perhaps the smallest human being of his time. was distinguished for manly and even heroic qualities, being at once a politician, a courtier, and a soldier. He was born at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, in 1619, and at seven years of age was taken into the service of the Duke of Buckingham, his stature being then eighteen inches. The Duke at that time lived at Burleigh-on-the-Hill, and having invited his sovereign, Charles I., and Queen Henrietta Maria, to an entertainment there, in order to divert their majesties and the court, he ordered little Hudson to be served up at table in a cold pie. Her majesty was so much amused with the scene, that she took the dwarf into her service, and he was afterwards frequently employed by her on confidential missions abroad. His size never exceeded three feet nine inches; but his spirit far surpassed his physical dimensions; for, upon the breaking out of the civil war, he became a captain of horse. When the Queen withdrew from England, he attended her into France, from whence, however, he was banished for killing M. Crofts, brother to the lord of that name. Afterwards going to sea, he was taken by a Turkish Corsair and sold for a slave, but was fortunately ransomed, and enabled to return to England. He was suspected of being connected with Titus Oates's plot, and remained some time in prison on that account. His death occurred in 1678.

AMES GRAHAM, M. D., a singular and most eccentric genius, was born at Edinburgh, in 1745. He was the son of Mr. W. Graham, saddler, in Edinburgh. After finishing his studies at that university, he went first to London, and afterwards to America; where he figured with considerable eclat, as a philanthropic physician, travelling for the benefit of mankind, to administer relief in the most desperate diseases, to patients whose cases had baffled the utmost

exertions of the ordinary practitioners. Having the advantages of a good person, pleasant countenance, polite address, agreeable conversation and engaging manners, he easily got acquainted with many of the principal people in the North American provinces, particularly in those of New England; where, by puffing away in the public papers in a new and uncommon manner, partly by celebrating his medicines and medical skill, and partly by dispersing the productions of his brain, in religious poems, medical anecdotes, and accounts of extraordinary cures, he certainly made a considerable deal of money. About this time, he married a lady of New England, by whom he had one daughter, and both of whom he brought over to England. Several years after this, he fell acquainted with the celebrated Mrs. Catherine Macaulay, authoress of the History of England, and of various tracts in favour of British and American liberty. Dr. Graham being also a great friend to freedom, soon became very intimate with the fair historian, and from congeniality of sentiment, quickly experienced the truth of the poet's remark, that

"Friendship with woman is akin to love."

In short he proposed marriage, and the bargain would actually have been

completed, if Mrs. Macaulay had not accidentally discovered that her lover was already married, and his wife still living. Upon this detection, which would have nonplussed a man of inferior talents, the doctor, with his usual assurance, told her, that the excess of his passion had made him forget that circumstance; but added, that he hoped he might still have the honour of a near alliance with her, as he had a younger brother, unmarried, who had a great resemblance to himself both in features and principles. Ladies, even of the most delicate and virtuous sentiments, are easily prevailed upon to pardon a fault committed in consequence of the powerful effects of their own charms. The doctor was excused, his brother introduced, the match soon after completed, and thus the fair historian became Mrs. Macaulay Graham.

Dr. Graham might doubtless have settled with the best advantage in Boston, if he could have settled anywhere; but whether he was influenced by the disturbances that broke out in New England, previous to the commencement of the American war, or by that natural restlessness of disposition, which seems never to have permitted him to settle long in any one place, certain it is, that, about 1774, or 1775, he returned to Britain, and after making an excursion through England, (where it appears, from his various publications, he made many wonderful cures,) he visited his native city once more, and was employed by many people of rank and quality, among whom he made some surprising cures, after they had consulted the regular practitioners in vain. His fame at this time was so great that he might have settled, contrary to the adage, with both profit and "honour in his own country." Instead of this, however, and in spite of the solicitations of several people of high rank, he returned to London, where he soon after set on foot the most superb institution that ever was planned or erected for the entertainment and gratification of the votaries of pleasure.

Under the titles of a Temple of Hymen and a Temple of Health, and under the pretence of instructing all persons of both sexes, who put themselves under his tuition, and were willing to sacrifice to Venus in these sacred domes, he engaged to teach "the art of preventing barrenness, and of propagating a much more strong, beautiful, active, healthy, wise, and virtuous race of human beings, than the present puny, insignificant, foolish, peevish, vicious, and nonsensical race of Christians, who quarrel, fight, bite, devour, and cut one another's throats, about they know not what!!!" Such were part of the ipsissima verba of one of his many eccentric advertisements in the London papers; and it must be allowed, that he had the merit, (if merit it may be styled) of erecting the most elegant and superb bagnio that ever was invented, since the abolition of the public worship of Venus in Paphos and Cythera. All the exertions of the painter and statuary—all the enchantments of vocal and instrumental music, all the powers of electricity and magnetism, were called in to aid, enliven, and heighten the voluptuous

scene. Every pleasure of sense was rendered assistant and subservient to the principal gratification; all the blandishments of Nature and ingenuities of art, that could delight the eye or ravish the ear-that could please the smell, give poignancy to the taste, or the most exquisite gratification to the touch of man and woman, were exhausted to complete the joys of this Mohammedan Paradise. Handsome females were exhibited naked before the audience. Lady Hamilton, the paramour of Nelson, is said to have made her first appearance here. And to crown all, the aid of oratory was called in, and the imagination was excited to its highest pitch, by the most luscious descriptions, (though in the most chaste language,) delivered by the doctor himself, in his Eccentric Lecture on Generation; which he read in a most elegant and graceful manner to very crowded audiences.

It cannot be doubted, that such an exhibition, puffed away in all the London papers in the most extravagant terms, must have drawn a great deal of money from the votaries of pleasure; yet, instead of making money by his temples and lectures, he only run himself in debt by the immense expense attending them. This appears the more surprising, as the doctor, so far from living luxuriously, not only abstained from wine, spirits, and all strong liquors, but even from animal food, eating nothing but vegetables, and drinking nothing but cold water. Consistently with this abstinence, he recommended the same regimen to others, in a sermon which he preached in the Tolbooth, or jail, of Edinburgh, in 1783, and afterwards printed and sold for the benefit of his sister, on the text, All flesh is grass, Isa. xl. 6. The occasion of his imprisonment was this:In the spring of 1784, while his Temple of Health was in its glory, he paid a second visit to his native city, and for the first time gave his fellow citizens a specimen of his rhetorical powers, by delivering his Eccentric Lecture on Generation, a subject which the magistrates of Edinburgh considered as so very improper for public discussion, that they exerted their authority to suppress it. Upon this our orator published a fresh advertisement, reflecting in the keenest terms upon the city magistrates, and containing such striking personal scurrility against a respectable member of council, that the magistrates incarcerated him in the tolbooth. Upon his applying, however, to the Lords of Session, by a bill of suspension, he got out of jail, and continued to deliver his eccentric lecture, as long as the public curiosity lasted. But though he, doubtless, collected money by this exhibition, he never afterwards recovered character in Scotland so as to be employed again in his medical capacity, by people of rank;-not even by those to whom he had formerly been of signal service.

During the winter session of 1784, he took it into his head to attend the lectures of all the medical professors in the University of Edinburgh; a well as those of the late Dr. John Brown, to whose erudition and abilities