Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper, Esq............. Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin................. On Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings.. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fer- nandez........ ....... On observing some Names of little Note recorded in the Report of an Adjudged Case, not to be found in any of MEMOIR OF COWPER. -Formed by Nature, as by Virtue form'd Unfelt before,—and in one hallow'd theme, TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF COWPER. WT ILLIAM COWPER was the eldest son of the Reverend John Cowper, Rector of Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, and was born at that place on the 15th of November, O. S. 1731. His family which was ancient and respectable, was settled in Sussex in the reign of Edward the Fourth; and in 1641 Sir William Cowper was created a baronet, which dignity descended to his grandson, who left issue two sons. Sir William Cowper, the eldest, became Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Anne, by whom he was raised to the peerage, and by George the First was created Earl Cowper. Spenser Cowper, the Earl's younger brother, was bred to the bar, and was made Justice of the Common Pleas in 1727. He had three sons, namely, Wil |