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That gentleman is since deceased. Meantime his second son has given to the public prints repeated proofs of very fine poetic talents.

Every month teems with strictures on poetry, that display the kindred talents and kindred temper of many of our modern reviewers to those critics, who, in the days of Dryden and Pope, denied them genius, learning, every thing which distinguishes the poet from the mere versifier.

Dr. Green, and Dr. Newton, afterwards Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield. They passed many of their youthful years in Lichfield, of which Bishop Newton was a native, and in which Bishop Green was usber to the maternal grandfather of the author of these poems, the Rev. John Hunter; whose school was of high reputation, and from whom David Garrick, and Samuel Johnson, received their classic education. At that period Dr. Green, and Dr. Newton, were rivals in their attachment to the late Mrs Seward, the author's mother, and then Miss Hunter, whose beauty was the theme of their muse.

The late Rev. Arch-deacon Vyse, Canon of Lichfield. Epigrams, and gay ballads, of exquisite spirit, flowed extempore from his lips, but he declined publishing them.

Mr Shaw, the Historian of Staffordshire, inserted, with the author's consent, this poem in his work, p. 348. Beneath the lines on Dr Davies, he gives a note of reference to p. 290 of his history—but his information there, on the subject of that gentleman's poetic works, is not accurate. Thus—“He was the author of Verses on Camden's Picture, and of those to Bishop Cornwallis, in Dosdley's Miscellany. He was about to publish his poems, but was dissuaded from it.” In the fifth volume of Dodsley's miscellany, will be found, by Dr. Sneyd Davies, Canon of Lichfield, “Vacuna.” “On John Whalley Arranging Pamphlets.” A classic and exquisite little Poem, entitled, “Epithalamium on the Marriage of Mr Dodd and Miss St. Lege.” “Verses on Two Friends, Mr Dodd and Mr Horace Walpole born the same day.” Nothing can be happier than the thoughts in that panygeric, justly characterising two very eminent, and very opposite, yet united spirits. So far from being dissuaded from publishing his poetry, he did publish it, in a now rare, as valuable collection of poems, given to the public about the year 1744, by his friend the before-mentioned Mr Whalley, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and who was himself, as that volume evinces, an ingenious poet. It was dedicated to Horace Walpole. Its pages from 175 to 264, glow with the emanations of Dr Davies' genius. The verses on seeing Archbishop Williams' Monument in Caernarvonshire, are tender, solemn, impressive, and interesting. So is the poem to C. P. It contains the following lines, which speak for themselves.

The late Lord Chatham.

Rev. Thomas Seward, Canon of Lichfield. In conjunction with Mr Simpson, he published in 1751, an approved Edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays, with critical notes of much ingenuity. The excellent preface was intirely his. His Female Right to Literature, published in the 2d volume of the first edition of Dodsley's Miscellany, has been much and justly celebrated. That same volume, p. 302, contains Mr Seward's Verses on Shakespear's monument at Stratford-upon-Avon. They do not yield, either in spirit, or beauty, to any panygeric on that great poet, which has been given by our noblest Bards. In the subsequent editions of that Miscellany, there is an idiot alteration in that poem, made by some man, who thought a completer rhyme a good atonement for grossly injuring the sense—

The editor chose to print Swan Swain, at the expense of all consistency in the metaphor.

Mr Seward's life was preserved by the skill and attention of Dr. Jones, of Lichfield, more than three years after the composition of the above poem. Mr Seward resided in the Bishop's palace at Lichfield, the last 32 years of his life, as did his predecessor, Mr Walmsley, the learned, and liheral patron of David Garrick, and Samuel Johnson.

Thomas Day, Esq. since deceased, Author of the Dying Negro, which has, by misinformation, been given in one of the public prints of the year 1800, to his friend, Mr Bicknel, also deceased. It is a noble composition, and the first poem that called the attention of this nation to the miseries inflicted on that abused race. Mr Day's Sandford and Merton is a very popular work on education. The philosophic Mr Keir, published a Life of that Gentleman, ingeniously wtitten, but with too indiscriminate eulogy. Mr Day's mind was rather great than amiable; his virtues were of a stern complexion. He resided in Lichfield during the years 1771 and 1772, and was living when the above poem was written.

F. P. Elliot, Esq. then of Shenston-Moss, near Lichfield.

Brooke Boothby, Esq since Sir Brooke Boothby, and then of Lichfield.

Dr Darwin, Author of the Botanic Garden, Zoonomia, &c. He was an inhabitant of Lichfield, from the year 1757 to 1781.

William Grove, Esq. then living, but since, alas! deceased. The richness of his poetic vein may be observed in his Sonnet to the Author of these Volumes. It is amongst the complimentary poems addressed to her, and prefixed to her miscellany.