in 1815. The remaining four books were never published. Townsend became a Canon of Durham in 1825, and held the stall till his death in 1857. Richard Cumberland, dramatist, novelist, and essayist (1732-1811), the "Sir Fretful Plagiary" of
The Critic
, announced the forthcoming poem in the
London Review
; but, as Townsend says, in the Preface to
Armageddon
, praised him "too abundantly and prematurely." "My talents," he adds, "were neither equal to my own ambition, nor his zeal to serve me." (See
Hints from Horace
, lines 191-212, and Byron's
note