Mr. Miller was author of many occasional pieces in poetry, of which his Harlequin Horace is the most considerable.  This Satire is dedicated to Mr. Rich, the present manager of Covent-Garden Theatre, in which with an ironical severity he lashes that gentleman, in consequence of some offence Mr. Rich had given him.

Mr. Miller likewise published a volume of Sermons, all written with a distinguished air of piety, and a becoming zeal for the interest of true religion; and was principally concerned in the translation of Moliere’s comedies, published by Watts.

Our author left behind him a son, whose profession is that of a sea surgeon.  Proposals for publishing his Poems have been inserted in the Gentleman’s Magazine, with a specimen, which does him honour.  The profits of this subscription, are to be appropriated to his mother, whom he chiefly supported, an amiable instance of filial piety.

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] The account of this gentleman is taken from the information of his
    widow.

[2] These two pieces were brought on the stage, without the author’s
    name being known; which, probably, not a little contributed to their
    success; the care of the rehearsals being left to Mr. Theo.  Cibber,
    who played the characters of the Man of Taste, and Squire
    Headpiece.

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Mr. NICHOLAS AMHURST.

This gentleman, well known to the world, by the share he had in the celebrated anti-court paper called The Craftsman, was born in Marden in Kent, but in what year we cannot be certain.  Mr. Amhurst’s grandfather was a clergyman, under whose protection and care he received his education at Merchant-Taylors school.  Having received there the rudiments of learning, he was removed to St. John’s College, Oxford, from which, on account of the libertinism of his principles, and some offence he gave to the head of that college, it appears, he was ejected.  We can give no other account of this affair, than what is drawn from Mr. Amhurst’s dedication of his poems to Dr. Delaune, President of St. John’s College in Oxford.  This dedication abounds with mirth and pleasantry, in which he rallies the Dr. with very pungent irony, and hints at the causes of his disgrace in that famous college.  In page 10, of his dedication, he says,

’You’ll pardon me, good sir, if I think it necessary for your honour to mention the many heinous crimes for which I was brought to shame.  None were indeed publicly alledged against me at that time, because it might as well be done afterwards; sure old Englishmen can never forget that there is such a thing as hanging a man for it, and trying him afterwards:  so fared it with me; my prosecutors first proved me, by an undeniable argument, to be no fellow of St. John’s College, and then to be—­the Lord knows what.

’My indictment may be collected out of the faithful annals of common fame, which run thus,