_Cuzzoni._ Thou little slave an emblem is of those Whose hearts are wholly att ye worlds dispose. Great _Barrenstadt_[1] encomiums great and true is very short of whats your right and due. The characters in the print under consideration, might have been new-christen'd by the copier of it. Either the dignity of _Senesino_ must have been wonderful, or the following passage in Dr. _Warburton's_ "Enquiry into the Cause of Prodigies and Miracles," (printed in 1727) affords a most notorious example of the Bathos. "Observe," says he, p. 60. "Sir _Walter Raleigh's_ great manner of ending the _first part of the History of the World_. 'By this which we have already set down is seen the beginning and end of the Three first Monarchies of the World; whereof the founders and erectors thought that they could never have ended: that of _Rome_, which made the fourth, was also at this time almost at the highest. We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field; have rooted up, or cut down, all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world; but after some continuance, it shall begin to lose the beauty it had; the storms of ambition shall beat her great boughs and branches one against another; her leaves shall fall off; her limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down.' What strength of colouring! What grace, what nobleness of expression! With what a majesty does he close his immortal labour! It puts one in mind of the so much admired exit of the late famed ITALIAN SINGER." [1] _Berenstadt_; a castrato engaged by _Handel_ in the operas.