PHILIP, an English poet, was the son of a gentleman who had been postmaster in the reign of Queen Anne. He was sent to the university of Oxford, where he had the honour of being distinguished by Addison, who took him under his protection. While he remained there, he became the author of several pieces of poetry, some of which in Latin were pure and elegant enough to entitle them to a place in the Muse Anglicanae. He likewise wrote two tragedies: The Fall of Saguntum, dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole; and Philotas, addressed to the earl of Chesterfield. He died at his lodgings at Cecil Street in the Strand, in 1738; and in the London Daily Post had the following character given him: "Though the elegance of Mr Frowde's writings has recommended him to the general public esteem, the politeness of his genius is the least amiable part of his character; for he esteemed the talents of wit and learning only as they were conducive to the excitement and practice of honour and humanity. Therefore, with a soul cheerful, benevolent, and virtuous, he was in conversation gently delightful, in friendship punctually sincere, in death Christianly resigned. No man could live more beloved, no private man..." FRUITS

A fine eloge! and we have no reason to doubt the truth of it.