I LETTER XXIV. Mr. HUGHES to Mr. ADDISON. DEAR SIR, Apr. 25, 1713. AM extremely obliged to you for your kind letter. The warm expreffions of friendfhip in it give me a much more fenfible pleasure than any I could receive from the approbation of my verfes. I confefs, when I wrote them, I had no thoughts of your printing them; and though nothing would flatter me so much in the making them public, as the fatisfaction of feeing my name with yours, yet I am one of those friends who think your prefent refolution perfectly right, and entirely acquiefce in your reafons. I cannot but applaud at the Thefe verfes, with feveral others, were however prefixed to all the fubfequent editions of "Cato," but none from "perfons of quality" appeared among them. fame fame time your chafte enjoyment of fame, which I think equally above envy and incapable of receiving any addition. I am, with all poffible esteem, Sir, your most affectionate and JOHN HUGHES. • Afterwards the juftly celebrated bishop of Cloyne. This letter, though without a date, muft have been written in the year 1713, when the author, by the means of Swift, first became acquainted with Mr. Berkeley, who was then in England, in his way to Italy, as chaplain to the earl of Peterborough, ambasfador to Sicily and the Italian ftates. His letters to Pope from Leghorn and Naples (fee that poet's £20, vol. 8, pp. 264, 277, and 289) make . I. P us me to engage you and myself to dine with him this day, but I was unluckily pre-en us regret that there are only three of them. During his abfence, Trinity-college, Dublin, of which he was then one of the fenior fellows, created him, in 1717, D. D. by diploma. Dr. Berkeley returned to Ireland in 1718, and in 1724 was advanced to the deanery of Derry, where he was no fooner fettled, than he formed a plan for the promotion of religion and learning in America, by establishing a college in the islands of Bermuda. With this benevolent and truly christian view, having obtained a royal charter, the dean fet fail for Rhode-island in September 1728. But not finding himself fupported, in this laudable defign, by those who alone could render it effectual, he returned to England in 1731, and in 1733 was promoted to the bishopric of Cloyne. His lordship died at Oxford, in the 73d year of his age, January 14, 1753, (having fettled there a few months before, to fuperintend the education of his fon) and was interred in Chrift-church cathedral, where an elegant monument is erected to his memory, with as elegant an epitaph by Dr. Markham, now bishop of Chester. To Cato Virgil paid one honeft line. Pope never wrote a truer than that which does justice to Berkeley. Atterbury, who, having heard much of Mr. Berkeley, wifhed to fee him. Accordingly he was one gaged. And (upon my telling him I should carry you out of town to-morrow, and hoped to keep you till the end of the week) he has defired that we will not fail to dine with him the next Sunday, when he will have no other company. I write you this, to intreat you will provide yourself of linen and other neceffaries fufficient for the week; for, as I take you to be almost the only friend I have, that is above the little vanities of the town, I expect you may be able to renounce it for one week, and to make trial how you like my Tufculum, because I affure you, it is one day introduced to the bishop by the earl of Berkeley. After fome time, Mr. B. quitted the room: on which lord B. faid to the bishop, "Does my coufin "answer your lordship's expectations?" The bishop, lifting up his hands in aftonishment, replied, " So "much understanding, fo much knowledge, fo much “innocence, and fuch humility, I did not think had "been the portion of any but angels, 'till I faw this " gentleman." no less yours, and hope you will use it as your own country villa, the enfuing season. I am, faithfully yours, A. POPE. LETTER XXVI. Mr. BAYNE to Mr. HUGHES. DEAR SIR, Wemy's, Sept. 4, 1713. T is no fmall pain to me to think that I am henceforth to be cut off from my dear Mr. Hughes's company. It is a reflection, I can affure you, that makes my heart ach, even now, while I have the greatest reason imaginable to enjoy a tranquillity of mind, by having laid the future happiness of my life here, upon very reasonable foundations; but it is still some comfort to me to hope, that, in place of your converfation, you will be fo kind to me as to let me have your correfpondence. I am now to tell that a young lady has got poffeffion of you, my heart, and |