"Now to himself, alas! does neither live,
But sees good suns, of which we are to give
A strict account, set and march thick away:
Knows a man how to live, and does he stay?"
Authors of the Anti-Jacobin Poetry ([Vol. iii., p. 348.]).—I knew all the writers, some of them intimately; and I have no doubt of the general accuracy of MR. HAWKIN'S communication. The items marked B are the least to be relied on. I do not think Mr. Hammond, then Canning's colleague as Under-Secretary of State, wrote a line, certainly not of verse, though he no doubt assisted his friend in compiling, and perhaps correcting; good offices, which obtained him an honourable niche in the counter-satire issued from Brooke's, and preserved from oblivion by having been reprinted in the Anti-Jacobin to give more poignancy to Canning's reply, "Bard of the borrowed lyre," &c.
The Latin verses "Ipsa mali Hortatrix" were the sole production of Lord Wellesley, and he reprinted them a year or two before his death; Mr. Frere had no share in them: but, on the other hand, Mr. Frere may have been, and I think was, the author of the translation, "Parent of countless crimes." Lord Wellesley certainly was not; for it was made after he had sailed for India.
With regard to Mr. Wright's appropriation of particular passages of the longer poems to different authors, it is obviously impossible that it should be more than a vague conjecture. I know that both Canning and Gifford professed not to be able to make any such distribution; but both left on my mind the impression that Canning's share of the "New Morality" was so very much the largest as to entitle him to be considered its author. Ought not Canning's verses to be collected?
C.
"Felix, quem faciunt," &c. ([Vol. iii., p. 373.]).—Though I cannot refer EFFIGIES to the original author of this passage, the following parallels may not be unacceptable to him:
"Felix, quem faciunt aliorum cornua cautum,