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JOURNALIST AND PRINTER. 215 On agth August, 1715, he says: I have sent my last ( Gazette,' where you will find I am honourably acquitted. Cross-Grove published a great deal of very in- ferior poetry in his paper, besides admitting corre- spondence on a variety of subjects. He made verses himself and professed an unbounded admira- tion for Pope, in whose honour he printed a number of elegies, written by himself and his subscribers, and even the full text of the poet's will. Two small volumes of poetry and correspondence, coupled with his own answers, were printed by him in 1708, entitled respectively, 'The Accurate Intelligencer' and ' Apollinaria.' In his later years he became town councillor for Mancroft Ward ; and, perhaps owing to this the following delightful elegy ' on the death of Alder- man Churchman ' (of the same ward) was the result : Descend Calliope, celestial Maid Assist my labour and my numbers aid Or rather, O ye Nine, my verse inspire And grant me all a Poet's sacred fire Say, what could cause this Rich Display of Woe ? What taught this Breast to heave, these Tears to flow ? Say, is there dead, whose Virtues all men knew Excell'd by None and Equall'd but by Few. Whose actions Noble, gen'rous, unconfin'd Bespoke the inward Candour of his Mind, &c. This might have been written by the young lady who ' did ' the poetry in the ' Eatanswill Gazette,' and appeared as a Sultana at Mrs. Leo