I'd be grateful for any help in dealing with two queries, both to do with
material first published in the +Barbados Gazette+ in the 1730s (reprinted
in +Caribbeana+, 1741).
The first concerns a remark attributed to Steele. The Gazette's
correspondent writes: 'I apprehend it is now highly proper to cultivate a
good Understanding amongst one another, leaving Capital Offenders to be
prosecuted and punished according to Law, without either Favour or Malice,
both equally prejudicial to +Justice, which alone+, as Sir +Richard Steele+
rightly says, +can prevail for any Duration of Time+' (Caribbeana, I, 321).
Does anyone know the source of Steele's remark? The problem is, of course,
that it's of a rather general nature.
The second query concerns a poem included by Thomas Lediard in his Life of
Marlborough, 3 vols (1736), III, 297-8, then quoted in part and attributed
to Addison by Sir Winston Churchill in his biography of Marlborough. I am
interested in this poem because a writer in the +Barbados Gazette+ wrote a
panegyric to a poet (whom I assume was Addison) for his tribute to the
Duke. The poem is entitled 'To his Grace the Duke of Marlborough on his
going into GERMANY', and it begins with the lines 'Go, Mighty Prince, and
those great Nations see'. Lediard says that it 'was made upon his Grace's
Departure' - i.e. from England in 1712. I don't think the work referred by
the poet in the Gazette is +The Campaign+.
Any leads in dealing with these questions would be much appreciated.
Bill Overton
Department of English and Drama
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