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Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Des Maizeaux are indeed strange, insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton s, or the other s life of Boileau ; where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quota.
He supplied their " nouvclles litteraires" from England ; but the work-sheet price was very mean in tho. I have seen annual accounts of Des Maizeaux settled to a line for four or five pounds ; and yet he sent the " Xovelties" as Iresh as the post could carry them! He held a confidential correspondence with these great Dutch booksellers, who consulted him in their distresses ; and he seems rather to have relieved them than himself.
I give one of these curious bibliopolical distresses. He confided this precious literary secret to Des Maizeaux.
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The author thinks himself a very able person ; but I must tell you Irankly, that he is a man without erudition, and without any critical discrimination ; he writes pretty well, and turns passably what he says ; but that is all! INIonsieur Van Elfen having failed in his promises to realise my hopes on this occasion, necessity compelled me to have recourse to him ; but for six months only, and Uix.
As you are among my friends, I will confide to 3 ou in secrecy the name of this author ; it is Mons. De Lvniers. In England, Des Maizeaux, as a literary man, made himself very useful to other men of letters, and particularly to persons of rank : and he found patronage and a pension,—like his talents, very moderate! I find a curious character of our Des Maizeaux in the handwriting of Edward, Earl of Oxford, to whose father Pope s Earl of Oxford and himself the nation owes the Harleian treasures.
His lordship is a critic with high Tory principles, and high-church notions. Anthony Collins, collects passages out of books for their writings.
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His Life of Chillingworth is wrote to please that set of men. Some curious booklovers will be interested in the personal history of an author they are well acquainted with, yet which has hitherto remained unknown. He did something more, but not better ; he attempted to imitate the " Spectator," jn Lis " Le Misanthrope," , which exhibits a picture of the uninteresting manners of a nation whom he could not make very lively.
De Limiers has had his name slipped into our biographical dictionaries. It is said, that if he had not been so hungry, he would have given proofs of possess". Dcs Maizeaiix, and Anthony Colluis s Manuscripts. He had published, as a specimen, the lives of Hales and Chlllingworth.
He complains that his circumstances have not allowed him to forward that work, nor digest the materials he had collected. In , 12, and 14, I was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Lottery by the interest of Lord Halifax. But so it is, tliat after having showed on all occasions my zeal for the royal family, and endeavoured to make myself serviceable to the public by several books published ; after forty years stay in England, and in an advanced age, I find myself and family destitute of a sufficient livelihood, and suffering from complaints in the head and impaired sight by constant application to my studies.
I am confident, my loi-d, he adds, that if the queen, to whom I was made known on occasion of Thuanus s French translation, were acquainted with my present distress, she would be pleased to afford me some relief. If a pension be granted for reward, it seems a mockery that the income should be so grievously reduced, which cruel custom slill prevails.
He was swirn in as gentleman of his majesty s privy chamber iu —Sloavc MSS. These, in the formation of an extensive hbrary, were in a state of perpetual activity, and Collins was such a true lover of his books, that he drew up the catalogue with his own pen. Whatever tendency to "liberalise" the mind from dogmas and creeds prevails in these works, the talents and learninsr of Collins were of the first class. His morals were immaculate, and his personal character independent ; but the odium tlieologicum of those days contrived every means to stab in the dark, till the taste became hereditary with some.
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Cumberland, in the romance entitled his " Life," gave this extraordinary fact that Dr. Bentley, who so ably replied by his " llemarks under the name of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis, to CoUins s "Discourse on Free-thinking," when, many years after, he discovered him fallen into great distress, conceiving that by having ruined Collins s character as a writer for ever, he had been the occasion of his personal misei y, he liberally contributed to his maintenance.
An extraordinary circumstance occurred on the death of Anthony Collins. He left behind him a considerable number of his own manuscripts, there was one collection formed into eight octavo vohunes ; and that they might bo secured from the common fate of manuscripts, he bequeathed them all, and conlided them to the care of our Des Maizeaux. The choice of Collins rcllects honour on the character of Des Maizeaux, yet he proved unworthy of it!
He suffered himself to betray his trust, practised on by the earnest desire of the widow, and ] erhaps by the arts of a Mr.
It was in a paroxysm of this nature that he addressed the following letter to a mutual friend of the late Anthony Collins and himself. Sir, January 6, I am very glad to hear yoti arc come to town, and as you aiu my best friend, now I have lost Mr. Colliiis, give me leave to open my heart to you, and to beg your assistance in an aftair which highly concerns both Mr. Collins s your friend and my own honour and reputation. The case, in few words, stands thus ; —Mr. Collins by his last will and testament left me his manuscripts.
Collins should be glad to have them, and I made them over to her ; whereupon she was pleased to present me with fifty guineas. I desired her at the same time to take care they should be kept safe and unhurt, which she promised to do. This was done the 25th of last month. Tomlinson, who managed all this aQair, was present. Now, having i lirtlier considered that matter, I fiud that I hare done a most wicked thing.
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I am persuaded that I have betrayed the trust of a person wlio, for twenty-six years, had given me continual instances of his friendship and confidence. I am convinced that I have acted contrary to the will and intention of my dear deceased friend ; showed a disregard to the particular mark of esteem he gave me on that occasion ; in short, that I have forfeited what is dearer to me than my own life —honour and reputation.
These melancholy thoughts have made so great an impression upon me, that I protest to you I can enjoy no rest ; they haunt me everywhere, day and night. I earnestly beseech you, sir, to represent my ujihappy case to Mrs. CoUins s hands as in mine ; that she was no less obliged to preserve them than myself ; and that, as the library was left to her, they might naturally go along with it.
Besides, I thought I could not too much comply with the desire of a lady to whom I have so many obligations. But I see now clearly that this is not fulfilling Mr. CoUins s will, and that the duties of our conscience are superior to all other regards. But it is in her power to forgive and mend what I have done imprudently, but with a good intention. Ilcr high sense of virtue and generosity will not, I am sure, let her take any advantage of my weakness ; and the tender regard she has for the memory of the be-st of men, and the tenderest of husbands, will not suffer that his intentions should be frustrated, and that.
All this I proposed to represent to her in the most respectful manner ; but you will do it infinitely better than I can in this present distraction of mind ; and I flatter myself that the mutual esteem and friendship whicli has continued so many years between Jlr. Collins and you, will make you readily embrace whatever tends to honour his memory. I send you the fifty guineas I received, which I do now look upon as the wages of iniquity ; and I desire you to return them to Mrs.
Collins, who, as I hope it of her justice, equity, and regard to Mr. CoUins s intentions, will be pleased to cancel my paper. Des MAizEAtx. The manuscripts wore never returned to Des iMaizeaux ; for seven years afterwards Mrs.
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Tliis occasioned an animated correspondence from both sides. Sin, March 10, I have thus long waited in expectation that you would ere this have called on Dean Sykes, as Sir B. Lucy said you intended, that I might have had soms satisfaction in relation to a very unjust reproach- viz. Cullins iuto the IJishop of London s hands. I cannot, therefore, since you have not been with the dean as was desired, bnt call on you in this manner, to know what authority you had for such a reflection ; or on what grounds you went for saying that these transcripts are in the Bishop of Loudon s hands.
I am determined to trace out the grjunds of such a report ; and you can be no friend of mine, no friend of Mr. Collins, no frieud to common justice, if you refuse to aciiuairit me, what foundation you had for such a charge. I desire a very speedy answer to this, who am, Sir, Your servant, Eliz. To Mr. TO MRS. March 14, I had the honour of your letter of the 10th iust.
Being lately with some honourable persons, I told them it had beeu reported that some of Mr. What occasioned this surmise, or what particular JISS. But as the original and the transcript are in your possession, if you please, madam, to compare them together, you may easily see whether they be both entire and perfect, or whether there be anything wanting in either of them. By this means you will assure yourself, and satisfy your friends, that several important pieces are safe in your hands, and that the report is false and groundless. All this I take the liberty to offer out of the singular respect I always professed for you, and for the memory of Mr.
Cullins, to whom I have endeavoured to do justice on all occasions, and particularly in the memoirs that have been made use of in the General Dicliunary; and I hupe my tender concern fur bis reputation will further appear when I publish his life. Jify ill state of health has hindered mc from acknowledging sooner the receipt of yours, from which I hoped for some satisfaction in relation to your charge, iu which I cannot but think myself very deeply concerned.
You tell me now, that you was left to your own conjectures what particular MSS. I must beg of you to satisfy me very explicitly who were the persons that reported this to you, and from whom did you receive this information? You know that Mr. Collins left several MSS. I bcj. I am so much concerned in this, that I must repeat it, if you have the singular respect for Mr. Collins -whith you profess, that you would help me to trace out this reproach, which is so abusive to, Sir, Your servant, Eliz.