Welsh Journals

the possession of Mr. P. L. Carver, who has given a short account of some of its more interesting features.* There are poems dedicated to Miss Barbara Button of Cottrell, to Dr. John Caple of Gloucester, to George Heathcote, formerly member for the City of London, a bitter opponent of Walpole, and the latter, as well as a long lament over the condition of the country in 1767, prove that the author was like his. brother, a Whig to excess." There is also a eulogium on Charles Pratt, the hero of the followers of Wilkes in 1763, afterwards Lord Camden, whose name was given to the new county Camden when the State of Georgia was reorganised by Button Gwinnett in 1777. It is more than probable that regular correspondence passed between the brothers and there was certainly a community of political views. Perhaps the most remarkable composition* in the manu- script is the inscription on the tomb of the author's father (Rev. Samuel Gwinnett, vicar of Down Hatherly), in which the mitred villain referred to is Bishop Warburton, whom he afterwards abuses in a satirical epitaph, while- wishing at the same time to vindicate myself from the most distant idea of satyrizing a fellow creature sunk so low under the humbling hand of God," savage indignation, Mr. Carver remarks, that can hardly be due to an ordinary dispute about parochial affairs. At the same time it gives some insight into the impetuous temperament that distinguished the family- Notes and Queries, Vol. 165, page 96.