Hanmer's 2d edit., act iv.

His next publication (in 1745) was a pamphlet, called "Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, with Remarks on Sir T.H. (Sir Thomas Hanmer's) Edition of Shakspeare," to which were subjoined, proposals for a new edition of his plays.

A strong blanket was ready, and Captains Carvil, Fitzherbert, Hanmer, and Rodney, led by Captain Ouseley and assisted by as many others as could find room, seizing the sides, in a very few moments Mr. Mayor was revolving and bumping, rising and falling, as though he were no weight at all.

As a prelude to that design, he published, in 1745, Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, with remarks on sir Thomas Hanmer's edition; to which were prefixed, Proposals for a new Edition of Shakespeare, with a specimen.

Again, it was observed by those conversant with the earlier editions, especially with the little read or valued Oxford edition, that a vast number of the passages given as emendations in Mr. Collier's folio were precisely the same in Hanmer's text.

If, indeed, these corrections now come to us with the authority of a critic but little removed from Shakspeare's own time, it is remarkable that Sir Thomas Hanmer's, or rather Mr. Theobald's, ingenuity should have forestalled the fiat of Mr. Collier's folio in so many instances.

On the other hand, it may have been judged by others besides a learned editor of Shakspeare from whom I once heard the remark, that the fact of the so-called new readings being many of them in Rowe and Hanmer, and therefore well known to the subsequent editors of Shakspeare, who nevertheless did not adopt them, proved that in their opinion they were of little value and less authority.

" In the copy of Hanmer in my possession the a is also inserted in the margin, upon the authority of one of the eminent actors above mentioned.

" Supposing the folio to be ingenious rather than authoritative, the passage, as it stands in Hanmer, is decidedly better, because clearer: "And thy father Was Duke of Milan,thou, his only heir A princessno worse issued.

Hanmer gives the passage exactly as the latter, and as Rowe does.

The corrected folio gives its authority to the lines of the song, "Foot it featly here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear," which stands so in Hanmer, and, indeed is the usually received arrangement of the song.

In 1838, Sir Henry Bunbury, in an appendix to the Memoir and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer (Speaker of the House of Commons, and Shakspearian editor), printed a collection of miscellaneous letters from distinguished men in the possession of the Bunbury family.

See Holland, Lord Frank Courtship, The Fund, The Literary G Gentleman Farmer, The Gentleman's Magazine George IV Glemham Glynn, Dr. Robert Goldsmith Gordon, Lord George Gore, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester) Grantham Gray H Hall of Justice, The Hampstead Hanmer, Sir Thomas Memoir and Correspondence of Hatchard, John (publisher) Haunted House, The (Hood)

* EPITAPH ON SIR THOMAS HANMER, BART.

Thou who survey'st these walls with curious eye, Pause at this tomb where Hanmer's ashes lie; His various worth through varied life attend, 3 And learn his virtues while thou mourn'st his end.

how bright thy glories shone, While Hanmer fill'd the chairand Anne the throne!

" Hanmer (mistaking the meaning) read do.

The poems of John Hopkins are dedicated to this Dowager-duchess, who, when they were published, had already for two years been the wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer.

HANDEL, musical meeting in his honour, iv. 283; his poet, v. 350, n. 1. HANMER, Sir Thomas, epitaphs on him, i. 177; ii. 25; Hervey's Letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer, ii. 32, n. 1, 33, n. 2; Shakespeare, edits, i. 175, 178; v. 244, n. 2. HANNIBAL, iii. 40.

HANDEL, musical meeting in his honour, iv. 283; his poet, v. 350, n. 1. HANMER, Sir Thomas, epitaphs on him, i. 177; ii. 25; Hervey's Letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer, ii. 32, n. 1, 33, n. 2; Shakespeare, edits, i. 175, 178; v. 244, n. 2. HANNIBAL, iii. 40.

MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH: WITH REMARKS ON SIR T. HANMER'S EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE.

After the foregoing pages were printed, the late edition of Shakespeare, ascribed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, fell into my hands; and it was, therefore, convenient for me to delay the publication of my remarks, till I had examined whether they were not anticipated by similar observations, or precluded by better.

Our author fell then into the hands of Sir Thomas Hanmer, the Oxford editor, a man, in my opinion, eminently qualified by nature for such studies.

Hanmer's care of the metre has been too violently censured.

Here are fine specimens of the African Ostrich, distinguished by their black plumage, and sent from Tripoli, by Hanmer Warrington, Esq., and a fine female bird from the collection of the late Marchioness of Londonderry.