—Will some of your correspondents who are conversant with the history of engraved English heads, oblige me by naming the original of a copper-plate print in my possession, and also with the conclusion of the verses beneath, the lower part of the plate being mutilated. The verses, as far as I have them, run thus:
"Here you may see an honest face,
Arm'd against envy and disgrace;
Who lives respected still in spite
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The addition of the names of the painter and engraver will increase the obligation.
HENRY CAMPKIN.
331. Lines by Lord Chesterfield on Queen Caroline's supposed Refusal to forgive her Son when on her Death-bed.
—In Coxe's Life of Sir Robert Walpole (vol. i. p. 549.), we read, in the account of the death of Queen Caroline, as follows:
"The tongue of slander has even reproached her with maintaining her implacability to the hour of death, and refusing her pardon to the prince, who had humbly requested to receive her blessing. To this imputation Chesterfield alludes in a copy of verses circulated at the time: