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THE 


GENTLEMAN'S   MAGAZINE 


AND 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


From  JANUARY  to  JUNE,  1827. 


VOLUME  XCVII. 


(BEING  THE  TWENTIETH  OF  A  NEW  SERIES.) 


PART  THE  FIRST. 


PRODESSE   &    DELECTARE.   ^aHJOPaPpgr       E     PLURIBl'S    UNUM. 


By   SYLVANUS  URBAN,   Gent. 


lonbon : 

PRINTED     BT    J.     B.     MICHOLS,     25,     PARLIAMENT     STREET; 

WntRt  LlTTBItf  ARl  rAlTICULARLY  RKQUUTED  TO   BE   SEXT,   POST-PAID  ; 

ANB  BOLD  BT  JOHN  HARRIS, 

AT  THf  COmim  Of  ST.  PAUL*!  aiUKCR  YARD,  LUDGATE  STREFT  ; 

AVD  BY  PIRTIIES  AMD  BUSER,   HAMBURGH. 

1827. 


THE  INFLUENCE  OF  RELIGION. 

(Stanxtu  to  a  Lady.J 

By  H.  Brandrith,  JMrt.  Author  of  *«  Pietd  Flowers,*'  '^S^yUa,**  ifc. 

'T^S  not  that  1  love  thee  because  thou  art  fair* 

Since  thousands  the  firail  gift  of  Reautv  may  share; 
No — 'tb  for  a  gift  that  has  neer  been  subdued 
By  time  or  by  trouble  ;«• 'tia  that  thou  art  good. 

For  thou  hast  a  goodness  of  fiBelins,  of  heart. 
Time  serves  but  to  haUow,  (hat  neer  may  depart; 
'Neath  the  blue  sky  of  joy,  'mid  the  tempest  of  woe^ 
It  sparkles  around  thee  and  gladdens  thy  brow. 

And  whence  does  that  goodness  of  feeling  arise. 
The  friend's  admiration^  Um  stranger's  surprise  ? 
It  is  that  Relieion,  all  goodness  enshrined— 
As  she  watched  o'er  thy  cradle — herself  in  thy  mind. 

She  grew  with  thy  growth,  she  increased  with  thy  years. 
Thy  smUes  were  all  hers,  as  all  hers  were  thy  tears; 
Each  virtue  she  strengthen'd  with  power  from  above, 
Nor  was  there  a  &iliog  she  did  not  reprove. 

But,  oh !  'twas  a  feeling  I  never  had  knoWD, 
Till  writ,  by  thv  hand,  on  my  heart,  at  on  itone; 
And  now  'tia  a  feeling,  a  knowledge,  no  strife 
Can  banishy  can  lessen^  in  death  or  in  life. 

And  well  I  remember  when,  led  by  thy  hand, 
I  marked  the  first  dawn  of  her  beauties  expand; 
I  bowed  down  to  earth,  it  so  dazzled  my-sightt 
For  it  came  like  the  form  of  tome  spirit  of  night. 

The  dark  mists  of  Error  are  passing  away. 
Already  are  past— >]o  !   it  bursts  into  day ; 
Unclouded,  unbounded,  one  glorious  whole. 
The  Sun  of  Religion  beams  nill  on  the  soul ! 

Well,  too,  I  remember  me,-^can  I  forget? 
When  o'er  me  the  w»t«b  of  Adversity  met, 
Whose  hand  and  whose  presence,  a«  madly  still  raved 
Around  me  the  tempest,  supported  and  saved. 

I  prayed  in  my  anguish,  looked  up,  and  an  Ark 
With  a  Noah  rode  high  o'er  the  billows  all  dark. 
And  he  smiled  as  he  gaied  on  the  bright  token  bow— 
That  Ark  was  Religion^  ita  Noah  wert  thou! 

And  what  is  Religion  ?  go>  speed  thee  and  ask 
The  captbe  that  labours  in  chains  at  his  task; 
Go,  ask  of  the  orplum,  the  widow,— of  all 
On  whom  the  dark  storms  of  Adversity  fiJl. 

Theyni  tell  thee  Religion  ia  that  which  alone 

Beams  the  bright  ray  of  Hope  when  all  other  has  flown ; 

That  bids  us  no  more  for  Mortality  live. 

Bat  die,  and  ita  fi^blet  finget  and  forgive. 

Tit  the  Olive  of  Peace  'mid  the  wide  waate  of  War, 
The  ahfine  tliat  the  pilgrim  has  sought  from  afivi 
The  fair  land  of  promise  that  gladdena  the  eyty 
The  fbont  in  the  daaert  that  never  u  dry. 

Tit  that  wliioh  njdioUa  na,  'tit  that  whleh  can  toothy 
In  torrowy  }n  tidmett,  oar  pillow  can  asMwUi  s 
That  one  mighty  power  which  comet  only  to  aave— 
**  When,  Death,  it  thy  atiiig  ?  wbeia  tby  victory.  Grave  ?" 

June,  18t7. 


PREFACE. 


Biography  has  always  formed  a  distinguishing  feature  of  the  Gentle^ 
man's  Magazine ;  and  in  this  First  Part  of  our  Ninety-seventh  Volume 
we  have  devoted  a  considerable  portion  of  oup  pages  to  the  Obituary. 
The  most  prominent  character  is  the  late  iUustrious  and  lamented  Duke 
of  York — the  zealous  and  noble-minded  defender  of  the  Protestant 
Church,  and  the  uncompromising  opponent  of  Popery.  His  loss  will 
long  be  lamented  by  every  friend  of  the  Establishment,  and  his  memory 
will  remain  embalmed  in  the  grateful  recollections  of  an  admiring  peo- 
ple.— ^Literature  has  to  lament  the  loss  of  a  Mitford,  a  Kitchiner,  an 
Evans,  a  Jones^  a  Benger,  &c. ;  and  Science  will  long  deplore  the  ab- 
sence of  a  Brun,  a  Bode,  a  La  Place,  a  Robertson,  a  Beethoven,  and  a 
JFlaxman,  whose  talents  and  services  to  the  community,  individually, 
our  Biographer  has  faithfully  recorded.  The  memoir  of  Joseph  Cra- 
dock^  esq.  (the  associate  of  Johnson,  Garrick,  Goldsmith,  and  other 
dislinguidied  members  of  the  celebrated  Literary  Club,)  occupies  an 
ample  space  in  our  pages,  and  will  be  perused  with  feelings  of  interest 
by  all  the  admirers  of  that  particular  sera  in  which  he  flourished. 
Amongst  the  gallant  sons  of  departed  worth  are  the  names  of  Hastings, 
Stewart,  Twiss,  and  Markham, — the  relation  of  whose  manly  virtues  and 
heroic  deeds  will  be  read  with  the  most  lively  emotions  by  the  latest 
posterity. — Many  individuals,  distinguished  for  talent  and  private  worth, 
connected  with  the  Church,  the  Law,  or  other  respectable  situations 
in  life,  have  likewise  received  that  tribute  from  our  Biographer's  pen 
which  their  respective  merits  demanded.— As  the  Gentleman*s  Ma- 
gazine has  always  msuntained  an  acknowledged  superiority  over  all 
cotemporary  Publications  in  biographical  literature,  it  has  been,  and 
always  will  be,  our  principal  aim  not  only  to  preserve  but  to  increase 
its  reputation  in  this  important  department.  For  this  purpose  we  shall 
always  tliankfully  receive,  from  our  numerous  friends  and  correspond- 
ents, eveiy  species  of  information  relative  to  distinguished  deceased 
individuals. 

The  successful  progress  which  the  Commissioners  for  the  Building 
of  New  Churches  have  made  in  that  grand  national  undertaking, — so 
important  to  the  interests  of  the  Establishment  and  the  people  at  large, 
— has  induced  us  to  devote  some  portion  of  our  pages  to  the  subject. 
Li  addition  to  the  New  Churches  which  were  described  and  graphically 
illustrated  in  our  preceding  Volumes,  we  have,  in  the  present  Part, 
given  Views  of  St.  George's,  Camberwell ;  St.  Mark's,  Kennington ;  St. 
Jdm*s,  Hoxton ;  St.  Bamabas's  Chapel,  Old  Street ;  St.  JoViu*B|  Vf  a- 

.W64A 


terloo  Road ;  and  St  Luke's,  Norwood.  The  drawii^  were  taken 
and  the  engravings  executed  by  artists  of  talent,  and  the  accompany- 
ing descriptions  were  written  by  a  gentleman  of  considerable  scientific 
and  architectural  knowledge. 

The  Catholic  Question,  in  the  early  part  of  the  Parliamentary  Ses- 
sion, considerably  agitated  the  public  mind ;  but,  as  we  anticipated,  the 
I^apistical  faction  was  thwarted  in  its  objects,  and  the  cause  lost,  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  by  a  majority  of  four;  though,  in  1825,  the  ques- 
tion was  carried  in  their  favour  by  a  majority  of  twenty-ieren  !  "The 
outrageous  conduct  of  the  Jesuits,  Apostolica,  and  other  Papistical  Ac- 
tions (observes  our  Reviewer  in  p.  283),  has  happily  exposed  the 
falsehood  and  prevarication  whidi  the  Catholic  Association  and  their 
Reverend  Expounders  attempted  lo  impose  upon  the  unsuspecting  por- 
tion of  the  community ;  and  it  affords  us  some  degree  of  satisfaction  to 
reflect  that  we  were  amongst  the  first  to  call  the  atlendon  of  the  Public 
and  other  contemporary  Journalists  to  the  insidious  maDceuvring,  pre- 
vious to  the  late  Parliamentary  Election,  of  the  Popish  Prelacy  and 
their  devoted  minions.  The  fate  of  the  Catholic  Question  has  proved 
that  those  Papistical  manifestoes  were  disbelieved ;  and  that  such  at- 
tempts at  imposition  were  only  calculated  to  injure  the  cause  they  were 
intended  to  promote." 

The  late  changes  in  the  Administration,  and  the  Bill  for  the  admis- 
sion of  Foreign  Griun,.  have  chiefly  occupied  the  attention  of  the  two 
Houses  of  Parliament,  elaoBt  to  the  excluuon  of  many  other  presdng, 
affairs.  We  regret  that  the  Com  Bill  introduced  by  Ministers  should 
have  been  so  pertinaciously  opposed  by  the  House  of  Lords  as  to  cause 
its  ultimate  defeat;  the  temporary  measure  for  the  release  of  Bonded 
Cora,  however,  will  prevent  any  serious  consequences  which  the  rejec-  * 
tion  of  the  original  Bill  might  have  produced;  and  we  sincerely  hope, 
that  in  the  enstiing  Session  the  question  will  be  settled  on  a  permanent 
ba»s,  agreeably  to  the  vrishes  of  both  the  manufacturing  and  agricul. 
tund  interests. 

June  30,  1827. 


JENTLEMANS  MAGAZINE. 


JANUARY, 


[PUBLISHED  FEB.  1.] 


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MINOR    CORRESPONDENCE. 


We  hart  referred  the  article  in  the  Chris-  bet  only  the  title  of  *  Honourable  ?'— The  . 

tian  Review,  No.  I.  p.  70,  to  the  Reverend  aniwer  in  both  canes  is  plain  and  simple. 

Qeotleman   who  wrote  the  Critique  incul-  The  tide  of  *  Honourable    being  kereditoay 

Dated.     His  answer  is  :    *'  You  know  that  in  the  sun  of  a  Peer,  it  takes  precedence  of 

Ian  the  author  of  a  work   of  Divinity,  <  Right   Reverend/  subsequetttly  engrafted 

which  shows  tliAt  I  must  have  studied  the  thereon,  but  not,  like  ihe  former,  a  natural 

subject  very  minutely-*^[t  is  impossible  to  and  unalienable  right.    Tlie  same  argument 

^  notice  the  angry  writer's  remarks  at  suffi-  will  apply  to  the  term  *  Right  Honourable,' 

cient  length,  except  in  the  form  of  a  Re-  as  given  to  a  Prii^  Councillor." 
view  of  this  new  Journal,  which  from  page         A  Jubilkan  says,  **  if  your  intelligent 

85,    I    fimi,    attacks   also    the    Quarterly  Corespondent  Capt*  Saunders,  has  not  ap- 

Theological  Reviewers.     I  shall  no  further  prised  you  of  the  intended  dramatic  proces' 

anticipate  the  intended  article,  than  by  one  sion  to  be  given  at  Stratford  on  Avon  on  tb« 

remark,  viz.  that  the  sentiments  and  words  next  Anniversary  Birth-day  of  their  immor- 

of  Bishop  Tomline  are  called,  in  p.  74,  blot-  tal  Bard,  I  beg  leave  to  inform  you  that 

phemies.  — ^The  errors  ofCalvinism,  to  which  grand  preparations  are  now  making  by  the 

we  object,  are  pointed  out  in  our  Review  of  Shakspearian  Sookty  of  that  place  towards 

Dean  Graves  on  Predestination,  in  our  pre-  a  splendid  celebration  of  the  day ;  and  a  very 

sent  Number,  p«  38.  handsome  subseripCion  has  already  been  en- 

J.  N.  Brbwea  wlictts  "  information  re-  tered  into,  to  defray  incidental  expenses, 

lative  to  the  biomphy  of  tlia  laM  Cftartea  Many  spirited  raemben  of  the  Society  have 

Smilhf  Af.  D,    fh.  Smith  was  author  of  engaged  to  lake  eheawtteri  in  the  scenic  pro' 

the  Histories  of  Cork,  Waterford,  and  Kerry,  cession,  and  several  gentlemen  in  the  imme« 

published  about  the  middle  of  the  last  cen-  diate  neighbourhood  have  kindly  promised 

tury,  under  the  sanction  of  the  Physico-  to  patronise  the  dramatic  exhibition.  I  un- 
Historical  Society  of  Dublin.     His   works      derstand  that  a  programme  will  speedily  be 

are  unquestionably  the  h^st  efiForts  made  in  puhlished  by  the  managing  Committee,  and 
the  Irish  t<'pognphical  literature  of  his  age;  circular  letten  will  be  sent  to  the  principal 
and  his  name  and  merits  deserve  respectful  Actors  in  the  kingdom,  soliciting  the  favour 
attention  from  every  succeeding  writer  on  of  their  presence  and  assistance  on  the  oc- 
tke  antiquities  and  topography  of  the  inte-  casion.  The  Stratfordonians  are  all  on  the 
resting  country  which  he  employed  his  lei-  alert,  and  I  am  happy  to  find  that  the  nobi- 
aare  in  describing.'* — The  same  Correspon-  hty  and  gentry  of  the  county  are  expected  to 
dent  observes,  **  I  trust  that  the  days  in  honour  the  Jubilee  with  tlieir  patronaee, 
which  the  rich  6elds  of  Irish  topography  whilst  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  the  Bo- 
experience  neglect,  are  quickly  passing  away,     rough,  8ic.  have  kindly  offered  to  take  the 

■  As  regards  my  own  humble  endeavoure  to     lead  in  the  proposed  pageant,  which  I  am 

■  make  Ireland  l>etter  and  more  jiutly  known     told  will  be  very  splendid  and  eccentric." 
to  the  English  public,  permit  me  to  ob-         I.  A.  R.    points    out    a   plagiarism    ia 
terve,  that  in  addition  to  the  two  volumes     Moore's  Fables  for  the  Female  Sex  (IX)  : 
already  published,  I  have  nearly  ready  for     « Survey  the  gardens,  fields,  and  bowew, 
the  press  the  third  volume  of  the  work  fai     iht  buds,  the  blossoms,  and  the  flowera.' 
whick  I  am  engaged,  termed  the  "B^^         In  Randolph's   Poems    (1669)   are  to  bo 
of  Ireland,     bemg  descriptive,  antiqnanaiiy     #- ..^  .    ^„1  o- .  ^        ' 

|ndtopog;aphical  notices  of  each  county.''      ^T'^VJ^. 

We  shall  be  hsppy  to  publish  the  remarks     *  View  all  the  fields,  survey  the  bowen, 

on    Anglo-Saxon  Coins,   offered  by   Mr.  The  buds,  the  blossoms,  and  the  flowere.' 
Lindsey  of  Cork,  relying  on  his  having  con-         Scxageh arius  "  believes  the  first  lines 

suited  former  writere  on  the  subject,  and  ^f  t^.  p^^^  ^f  Cowper,  which,  as  they 

particularly  the  series  of  articles  by  Mr.  ^^^^  j^  yo^,  y^^  volume,  p.  837,  were  re- 

Woolstone  in  the  fint  Part  of  our  last  year  s  ^^^^^  „  j^j^g  unintelligible,  should  be  x 

*E!T.*^PiLomiM  observes,  "Your Correspon-  '  Mortals,  around  your  destin'd  heads 

dent,  '  A  Constant  Reader,'  asks  why  •  a  ^^^  ^7  *»^«  •^^  of  death.' 

Bishop,  who  w  the  son  of  a  Peer,  is  styled  Which  would  render  them  English,  if  not 

<  the  Honourable  and  Right  Reverend,  in-  poetical.    Some  would  perhaps  have  sub- 

atead  of  the  Right  Reverend  and  Honour-  stituted  above  for  around,  as  a  contrast  to 

able?' — and  why  'a  Privy  Councillor  should  beneath,  in  the  fourth  line.     But  this  is  all 

be  stvled  *  Right  Honourable,'  whilst  the  poetical  fancy,  and  hypercriticism,  which 

son  ot  a  Peer,  who  takes  precedence  of  him,  jooay  perhaps  be  disdained." 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S     MAGAZINE. 


JANUARY,   1827. 


THB    DUKE    OF    YORK. 

[an  ample  memoir  of  his  royal   highness  appears  in  pp.  69-85.] 


EQVE8TRIAK  STATUS  TO  THE  DUKB 
OF  YORK. 

Mr.  Urbav,  Richmond,  Jan,  12. 
f^ATJDET  animus,  maximorum  f^ 
^^  rorum  memoriam  percurrens.  The 
late  DuKB  or  York,  in  his  capacity  of 
Coramaodec^in-chieft  did  so  much  for 
the  armj,  and  through  that  for  the 
nation  at  laraey  that,  independently  of 
disiinsuisbcfl  notice  in  historic  records, 
something  striking  to  the  public  eye, 
sanctioned  by  his  bzckllbntMajbsty 
TUB  King,  should,  at  least,  mark  the 
gratitude  of  the  Army,  for  the  mul- 
tiplied signal  benefits  derived  to  them 
from  bis  zealous  and  useful  adminis- 
tration. 

By  sobscriptioQ  from  all  branches  of 
the  Army,  an  Equestrian  Statue,  of 
finished  execotion,  ought  to  be  erected 
to  his  memory ;  and  the  expense  indi- 
▼idnallv,  and  by  corps,  would  amount 
to  little,  while  every  military  man 
would  thus  have  the  gratifying  salisfac* 
tion  of  aiding  to  effect  so  very  desirable 
an  object. 

On  the  pedestal  it  mij^ht  be  quite 
sufficient  to  engrave  "  This  Statue  was 
erected  to  the  memory  of  His  Royal 
Highness  the  Duke  of  York,  the  late 
illustrious  Commanderwin-chief,  in 
token  of  the  gratitude  of  the  Brilhh 
Army" 

I  have  frequently  had  occasion  to 
appear  before  the  Duke  of  York,  with 
various  Military  Publications  $  and, 
with  all  others,  experienced  a  conde- 
scendina  kindness  of  reception,  equally 
I  dignified  and  affable. 

7his  well-merited  and  (it  ought  to 
be)  magnificent  equestrian  statue, 
worthy  of  an  Army  of  the  highest  re- 
pute, coold  not  be  more  appropriately 
situated  than  in  St.  James's  Park,  on 
the  middle  of  the  line  at  right  angles 
with  the-eentre  of  the  Horse  Gnaids, 
where  His  Royal  H  ighness  did  so  much 
good.         Yoan,  JoHv  MacdokaijD, 


AN  ELEGY 

On  the  Death  op  his  Royal  Highness 
THE  Duke  op  York  and  Albany. 

By  the  Rev.  John  Graha»%  M.  A. 

^'piS  done, — the  dreaded  hour  is  pMt, 

The  fatal  struggle  o*er ; 
The  hand  of  Death  prevails  at  last, 
And  Royal  York  s  no  more  ! 

Wept  by  an  Empire,  and  a  host 

Of  warriors  wise  and  brave. 
His  Sov'reign's  pride,  his  Country's  boast. 

He  sinks  into  the  grave. 

In  Tain  did  fiends  in  £rin*s  isle. 
That  Island's  curse  and  shame, 

Tlie  dving  Prince's  worth  revile. 
And  rail  against  his  name. 

Tliat  name  will  shine  on  Britain's  roll. 

In  characters  of  gold, 
Long  after  theirs,  malignant  souls. 

In  infiimy  grow  old. 

In  hatred  of  the  wholesome  laws, 

The  Royal  Duke  maintain'd. 
In  envj  of  the  sacred  cause 

His  princely  Speech  siutain'd. 

They'd   wound    tlie    wounded,   grieve  the 
Poison  the  parting  breath,  [griev'dt 

And  find  their  frenzy  scarce  reliev'd 
By  adding  pangs  to  death : 

But  far  beyond  the  traitor's  power, 

Humble,  resign'd,  serene, 
Our  Prince  has  met  his  awful  hour. 

And  left  this  mortal  scene. 

And  tho'  he's  gone  where  grief  and  pain 

And  sorrow  are  unknown, 
We  recollect  those  who  remain 

To  fill  his  Fatlier's  throne. 

Long  may  our  Monarch  George  the  Great 

His  throne  adorn  and  grace, 
And  until  time's  remotest  date, 

God  save  the  Brunswick  race. 

May  He,  the  Kinc  of  kinprs,  whose  hand 
uuards  those  who  love  His  name* 

Clarence  protect,  and  Cums»klaiiu, 
In  honour,  health,  and  (ame. 

God  save  the  Kivo. 
MagiUigan,  Jan.  17. 


Eleglet  on  th§  Duke  of  York.-^LHter  of  Oliver  CromwelL     [Jkn. 


UNES 

On  thi  Death  op  his  Royal  HioHMitt 
THi  Duxx  OP  York. 

Bj  Mr.  Stockdalx  Hardy. 

ALAS,  BriuoDU!   one   more  wreath  U 
•^        lost, 

Which  once  indos'd  thv  tilken  hmir. 
The  chtplet  fled — its  mightT  cott 

Thy  tcatterM  locks  too  plain  decUre ! 

Yes,  nurs*d  in  Freedom's  purest  soil, 

A  foe  to  Superstition's  reign, 
Attach'd  to  England's  laws  and  isle, 
\  Thj  Frederick  did  his  rank  maintain. 

thrice  Rojal  name !  to  memory  dear  ! 

While  passing  to  the  silent  tomb, 
A  Nation  s  grief  adorns  thy  bier. 

As  incense  wafts  a  sweet  perfume. 

And  as  Britannia  mourns  thy  fate. 
And  veils  herself  in  deepest  woe. 

Her  banners  hang  disconsolate 

0*er  ONE  who  once  ador'd  them  so  ! 

Bright  Star  of  Brunswick's  Royal  line, 
tirm  Champion  of  a  People's  rights  ! 

Long  shall  thy  proud  exemplar  shine. 
From  Scotia's  ules  to  Dover's  heights  ! 

Illustrious  Prince !  enjoy  repose  ! 

Thy  mantle  is  o'er  Albion  spread, 
For  as  thy  lofty  spirit  rose. 

And  left  the  chambers  of  the  dead — 

Down  on  the  land  it  lov'd  so  true, 
A  glance  of  fervent  hope  it  shot, 

A  dance  which  Roval  Frederick  knew 
Would  never,  never  be  forgot ! 

A  LAMENT 

For  the  Death  op  his  Royal  Hiohness 
THE  Duke  op  York. 

By  John  Mayne,  Author  of  the  «  Poems 
of  Glasgow,"  the  **  Siller  Gun,"  &c.  &c. 

^rOLL  ev'ry  bell  till  midnight  late. 

While  sadly  roll  the  muffled  drums-; 
For,  lo !  with  trumpets,  and  with  state, 
The  Royal  Frederick's  Funeral  comes  ! 

Yes,  toll  fbr  him  '. — by  all  belov'd. 

In  camps  or  courts,  where'er  he  shone : 

A  Prince  by  all  the  brave  approv'd. 
And  dear  to  him  upon  the  throne  ! 

Who  was  it  hied  from  Windsor's  tow'rs. 
As  if  with  healing  on  his  wing  ? 

Who  sooth'd  a  dying  Brother's  hours  ? 
'Twas  George  we  good,  our  gracious 
King! 

Behold  him  now,  in  sorrow  drown'd. 
Lamenting  o'er  that  Brother's  bier, 

The  Princes,  and  the  People  round, 
Bcdew'd  with  many  a  silent  tear  ! 

The  hardy  troops,  ,that  line  the  way, 
Throogh  which  the  fnneral  Uain  moves  on. 

Hang  down  their  heads ;  for,  well-a-day  ! 
Their  FriemU  their  k»g-lov'd  Chkt,  is 
gone! 


Nor  b  this  sorrow  only  here : 

All  ranks,  the  humble,  and  the  grand. 
Devote  this  day  to  grief  sincere — ■ 

A  day  of  woe  throughout  the  laad ! 

The  flags  are  drooping  half-mast  high, 
A  mournful  signal  o'er  the  nuun. 

Seen  only  when  tli'  illustrious  die. 
Or  are  in  glorious  battle  slain  ! 

Mourn  then  for  him,  th'  illustrioiu  great. 
And  sadly  roll  the  muffled  drums ; 

For,  lo  !  in  re^  pomp  and  state. 

The  Royal  Frederick's  Funeral  comes ! 

But  though  his  mortal  course  is  run. 
Immortal  shall  his  mem'ry  be — 

The  fiutest  Friend,  the  kindest  Son, 
The  noblest,  best  of  men  was  he ! 

Ask  of  our  hosts  and  armed  bands. 

O'er  whom  the  princely  York  bore  sway ! 

To  them,  his  wishes  were  commands — 
With  them,  'twas  glory  to  obey  ! 

When  War  had  render'd  fiitherless 
The  helpless  children  of  the  brave. 

He  sought  them  out  in  their  distress, 
And  stretch'd  his  friendly  arm  to  save ! 

With  ev'ry  social  virtue  fraught, 
Eudu'd  with  ev'ry  mental  grace, 

He  practis'd  what  his  Saviour  taught — 
Akin  to  all  the  human  race ! 

Lament  for  him,  supremely  great. 
And  slowly  roll  the  mum^  drums  ; 

For,  lo !  to  Windsor's  Castle-gate, 
llie  Royal  Frederick's  Funeral  comes  ! 

January  SO. 

Letter  of  Oliver  Cromwell. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  I. 

Isend  you  a  verbatim  copy  of  a  cu- 
rious letter  written  by  Oliver  Crom- 
well to  the  Rev.  Henry  Hich.  The 
Assembly  of  Divines,  spoken  of  iii 
it.  were  particularly  repugnant  to  the 
King  and  his  loyal  adherents. 

**  Mr.  Hich,  Least  the  souldiers  should 
in  any  tumultuarie  or  disorderly  way  attempt 
the  reformation  of  your  Cathedral  church,  I 
requier  you  to  forbeare  altogether  your  quier 
service  soe  nnedifyinge  and  offensive,  and 
this  as  you  will  answer  it  if  any  disorder 
bhould  arise  thereupon. 

I  advise  you  to  cattechise,  and  reade,  and 
expound  the  Scriptures  to  the  people,  not 
doubtinge  but  the  Pari"*  w^  the  advise  of 
the  Assemblie  of  Divines,  will  in  due  tyme 
direct  you  fiuther.  I  desire  the  sermons  may 
be  where  usually  they  have  been,  but  more 
frequent.  Your  lovinge  friend, 

Jan.  10.  48.  Oliver  Cromwell." 

The  date  of  the  above  letter  would, 
in  some  minds,  create  doubt  as  to  its 
auihentictiy,  from  the  circumstance 
of  its  being  written  five  years  be- 
fore the  martyrdom  of  King  Charles; 
but  they  may  be  easily  removed  y  lor 


IBTTJ]     '    Olkm  Cr^OKw^lLF'^Origin  of  LeUh  a$  a  local  nami. 


although  it  appears,  on  consalting 
Hume  and  others,  that  Cromwell  at 
that  time  was  only  Lieutenant-General 
of  the  cavalry,  yet  it  seems  he  had  so 
much  influence  with  the  troops  which 
he  was  at  that  jieriod  organizing  in  the 
G)uniy  of  Cambridge,  that  he  wrote 
the  above  to  Mr.  Hicn  (or  Hitch),  who 
officiated  in  the  Cathedral  of  Ely,  and 
was  commissary  to  Bishop  Wren,  in 
order  to  induce  him  to  discontinue  the 
choir  service. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  year 
1643,  Cromwell  mustered  his  forces 
from  the  counties  of  Cambridge,  Lin- 
coin,  Huntingdon,  and  Nottingham, 
in  order  to  take  possession  of  several 
places  which  were  occupied  by  the 
royalists,  and  I  believe  afterwards  en- 
gaged them  at  Newark. 

Walker,  in  his  History  of  the  Suffer- 
ings of  the  Clergy  of  the  Church  of 
England,  quotes  part  of  the  above  let- 
ter, and  further  observes,  that 

**  Notwithstanding  thb  letter,  Mr.  Hitch 
eontinned  to  officiate  as  before,  upon  which 
Cromwell,  wich  a  party  of  toltliers,  attended 
by  the  rabble,  came  into  the  church  in  the 
tipse  of  Divine  Service,  with  hit  bat  on,  and 
directing  himself  to  Mr.  Hitch,  said,  *  I  am 
a  man  under  autbority,  and  am  commanded 
to  dismiss  this  assembly  ;  *  upou  which,  Mr. 
Hitch  made  a  pause,  but  Cromwell  and  the 
rabble  passing  up  to  the  Communion  Table, 
Mr.  Hitch  proceeded  with  the  service,  at 
which  Cromwell  returned,  and  laying  his 
hand  upon  bis  sword  in  a  passion,  bid  Mr. 
Hitch  *  leave  off  bis  fooling,  and  come  down,* 
and  so  drove  out  the  whole  congregation." 

Of  the  identity  of  this  letter 
there  can  be  no  doubt,  for  not  only 
does  Walker  in  a  note  observe  that 
the  original  bears  date  lOlh  of  Janu- 
ary, 1643,  but  that  it  is  falsely  spelt  in 
three  or  four  places ;  besides  which, 
it  can  be  traced  to  the  descendants  of 
the  Rev.  Hcnrv  Hrch,  by  the  gentle- 
man to  whom  ii  now  belongs,  Peter 
Congreave,esa.  of  Surrey- street,  Slra  lid, 
who  has  kindly  allowed  me  to  publish 
it.*     Yours,    John  Frost,  F.S.  A. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  4. 

THE  following  passage  in  Strabo, 
lib.  iii.  Hisp.  **  *Ev  aXXoA  wora- 
fMOif  xai  fAtra  t«it«(  o  th;  A«i9vif,  olnfti 
Ai/Mma»,  oi  ^1  BOaona  xaXucri,  aat  ouro; 
^  fx  KfXT^ffuptff  no*  Ouaiixatwv  ptt,*' 
conveys  information  which  affords  ef- 

*  Wa  aodaistaBd-  that  a  he  simile  of  the 
fltigaua  will  be  shMtly  poblisbad.— Korr. 


fectual  correction  of  the  error  respect* 
ing  the  name  of  the  river*  on  which 
the  Greeks  constructed  one  of  their 
wildest  and  most  CRtravagaot  fictions. 
The  word  BiXiwva,  or  rather  BiX-I«9» 
(Helio-Arkite  terms),  as  it  should  have 
been  written,  which  is  here  preserved, 
calls    our   attention,    when  correctly 
understood,  to  the  accustomed  nuxle  of 
th^  Hellenistic  apostates  of  bestowing 
as  names  an  assemblage  of  divine  qua* 
lities  and  titles.    This  name  was  pro- 
bably bestowed  suhserjoently  to  the  for- 
mer,and  when  theHelio>  Arkite  wanhip 
became  fully  established  there ;  but  as 
the  older  name,  which  pointed  to  the 
worship  of  fire  more  particularly,  and 
therefore  has  the  claim  to  priority,  was 
not  to  be  easily  dropped,  we  find   it 
still  continued.    The  preference  given 
to  it  afterwards,  almost  to  the  total 
exclusion  of  the  latter,  is  to  be  chiefly 
attributed  to  the  general  prepossession 
in   favour   of   classical   allusions  and 
early  studies.      Accordingly   We  find 
that  the  learned  Casaubon,  in  his  com- 
ments on  this  passage,  ingeniously  but 
idly  laboured  to  get  rid  altogether  of 
the  latter  name  as  entirely  destructive 
of  the  long  cherished  prejudice  of  lite- 
rary men.     It  may,  however,  be s«id» 
in  exteiiuation  of  the  Critic,  that  in  his 
time  the  troth  of  the  former  had  never 
been  questioned,  nor  excited  cootro* 
versial  criticism. 

If  we  extend  our  obsenrations  to 
what  took  place  in  other  countries 
where  this  then  almost  all-prevailing 
religion  penetrated,  as  into  these  is- 
lands, we  shall  find  the  name  is  also 
connected  frequently  with  religious 
affairs.  In  Scotland  the  river  or  water 
of  Leith  is  found  to  have  derived  its 
name  from  a  religious  establishment 
situated  on  its  banks.  The  village 
which  is  now  called  Currie  was  an- 
ciently called  Kil  or  Cille  Leith,  from 
a  temple  or  sepulchre  of  that  name, 
dedicated  to  the  rites  of  the  solar  wor- 
ship, and  is  recorded  to  have  existed 
there  for  ages ;  and  it  is  also  stated 
that  the  town  and  fort  on  the  Frith  of 
Forth  was  at  first  called  Invcrleith  or 
mouth  of  the  water  of  Leith. 

In  Dumbartonshire  the  same  name, 
connected  with  the  ruins  of  an  ancient 
religious  institution,  is  uerpetuated  by 
a  superb  edifice,  built  oy  the  ancient 

*  The  word  Leith  has  already  been  a  to- 
pic of  dSscBssioa  m  vol.  xcvi.  ii.  pp,  S8t, 
820. 


6        Druidieal  TempU  ai  fbuaway,  co^  Perth.^^AsetHium  Day.      [Janl 


famihr.of  Lennox^  which  is  called 
Dar-lciih  House.  The  pre6x  I3ar 
signifies  an  oaic ;  tliat  tree  having  been 
in  a  peculiar  manner  sacred  to  this 
wonhipy  which'was  as  much  attached, 
in  this  country  at  least,  to  groves  of 
oak  as  to  e!e\ated  places,  fountains, 
rivers,  &c. 

in  the  parish  of  Fossaway  in  Perth* 
shire,  there  is  said  to  be  a  rising 
ground,  on  which  is  an  ancient  circuf* 
lar  building  about  twenty-four  feet 
diameter,  called  Car-leith,  concerning 
the  origin  of  which  no  conjecture  has 
yet  been  made  ^see  Carlisle's  Topog. 
bict  article  Aldic).  From  the  name, 
which  will  bear  the  literal  interpreta- 
tion of  TtmpU  of  the  fire  God,  it  is 
reasonable  to  imagine  that  it  is  a  very 
ancient  Druidieal  edifice,  and  it  is  ear-* 
nesily  to  be  deaited  that  some  one  near 
the  spot,  or  inquisitive  visitant,  will  be 
induced  to  make  drawings  and  accu- 
rate plans  and  measurements  of  a 
piece  of  antiquity  so  interesting;  and 
to  collect  the  various  traditions  and 
opinions  upon  it  which  may  be  exist- 
ing in  its  neighbourhood. 

1  had  written  thus  far  when  the 
following  account  of  this  place,  by  Sir 
John  Sinclair  (Stat.  18.  46S),  was 
shown  to  me: 

**Nec  loag  ago  the  proprietor  ordered 
ihh  ground  to  be  pkoted,  and  the  stones 
were  dug  up  to  make  the  lenee.  When  the 
work.ptoplt  were  going  on,  chej  foand  two 
stone  oomns  near  the  centre.  They  were 
four  feet  loag»  and  three  broad,  and  oon-» 
tainedf  to  all  appearance,  human  bones  and 
teeth,  and  sooMthiog  resembling  tallow, 
which  went  to  decay  as  soon  as  exposed  to 
the  air.  One  of  toe  coffins  was  destroyed 
before  the  workmen  attended  to  it ;  the 
other  was  preserved  entire,  and  consists  of 
five  stones  pretty  exactly  Joined  together, 
and  a  very  large  one  for  the  cover.  Cu- 
rioiu  conjectures  are  formed  coneemii^ 
these  ruins ;  some  imacine  that  it  Itas  been 
a  place  of  worship ;  otpers  that  it  was  a 
burving-plaoe,  and  thai  some  persons  of 
distinction  have  been  buried  there.  Al« 
thoueh  a  satisfactory  account  of  it  cannot 
be  givea,  it  is  aecoonted  one  of  the  anti« 
quities  of  the  parish." 

I  trust  that  the  account  here  given 
will  rather  increase  than  dimintsn  the 
desire  of  Antionaries  to  rescue  all  that 
still  remains  or  this  ruin  worth  record- 
ing firom  the  destructive  ravages  of 
time.  If  it  is  true  that  the  method  of 
iatermenty  fay  gatherinc  the  legs  up 
towards  the  ncad«  preceded  that  of  ex* 
tending  Ihe  hodf  at  fuU  length,  aod  if 


supposed  to  be  coeval  with  or  even 
prior  to  cremation,  this  place  must  be 
one  of  the  most  ancient  relics  of  anti^ 
quity  in  this  country,  and  well  deserv-* 
ing  of  accurate  investigation.  It  may 
be  necessary  to  observe,  that  the  lower 
parts  of  temples  were  in  the  most  an^ 
cient  times  employed  for  sepulchral 
purposes.  G.  I. 


Mr.  Urban, 


Jan.  3. 


I  SELDOM   review  the  discipline 
and  ordinance  of  the  Church  of 
England  without  satisfaction,  and  as 
seldom  remark  the  neglect  of  any  of 
them    without   sincere  regret     The 
mode  of  ensuring  to  the  devout  dis* 
ciple  a  gradual  course  of  reading  the 
Scriptures  during  the  year,  and  also  of 
bringing  him  to  the  serious  and  grate- 
ful recollection  of  the  events  which 
have  passed  in  the  history  of  mankind^ 
and  in  the  establishment  of  the  Chris* 
tian  dispensation,  are  likewise  to   be 
revered  as  evidence  of  the  judicious 
and  exemplary  piety  of  our  venerable 
ancestors,  who  were,  in  the  Reformat 
tion,  earnestly  desirous  of  handing  to 
posterity  a  well-arranged  method,  by 
which   every  one   should    be  readilj 
brought  to  study  the  great  work  of  hit 
salvation,  and  to  commemorate  its  oc- 
currences by  suitable  services.  If,  there- 
fore, our  own  Church  has  provided  for 
us  a  plan  which  may  fairly  be  deemed 
superior  in  motive  as  well  as  practice, 
it    becomes  much    more    incumbent 
upon  the  members  of  our  Church  to 
meet  the  wishes  and  exhortations  of 
our  venerable  Reformers,     in  this  re- 
spect it  must  be  acknowledged,  with 
respectful  approbation,  that  very  few 
disciples,  with  the  exceptions  of  sick- 
ness or  some  necessity,  are  absent  from 
this  duty  on  the  days  of  the  Nativity, 
and  of  the  Crucifixion  of  our  Lord, 
and  of  his  Resurrection :  but  then  it  is 
just  to  require  some  reason  why  he 
should    so   ungraciously   stop  at   this 
point  and   not  proceed  one  step  fur- 
ther, and  with  the  same  heartfelt  re- 
gard commemorate  his  Lord's  glorious 
and  miraculous  Ascension  ?    The  fact 
itself  has  the  testimony  of  500   wit- 
nesses; the   place  at    the   Mount  of 
Olives  was  not  more-  than  a  mile*i 
distance  from  Jerusalem,   in   which 
neighbourhood  our  Divine  Master  had 
conrinued  during    40  xiays  after  his 
equally  miraculous  Resurrectionf  ex- 
plaining, verifying,  and  giving  aasur- 


18«70 


OmJkt  0h9erttmu  of  A$eeniUm  Ddy. 


ances  of  hit  doctrine*  of  hit  owo  iden- 
tity»  and  of  bit  fiitufe  oomiog  again  in 
gloi^  and  poweri— and  where  near  the 
very  place  of  hit  entire  retignation  to 
the  tyranojr  of  hit  opprettort,  he  now 
finished  hit  firtt  Advent  by  the  glo- 
rious triumph  over  every  enemy  and 
even  over  cleath  ittelf,— where  he  led 
taptivity  captive,— -where  he  was  rait- 
ed 10  the  dignity  of  hit  kingdom  at  the 
right  hand  of  the  Majesty  on  high ! 

Surely,  when  we  are  so  attentive  to 
commemorate  hit  passion,  this  glonoot 
exalution  to  enable  him  to  be  our  M&- 
diator  and  Intercesior,  at  he   had  by 
his  death  t)een  our  Redeemer,  where 
he  rote  to  be  our  High  Priest,  pre- 
senting himself  once  for  all  the  holy 
sacrifice  of  his  own   blood,   without 
which  there  could  have  been  no  remis- 
sion for  us  ^surely  I  may  say  this  glo- 
rious   Ascention    demands    that    the 
congregations  of  Christians  should  not 
any  longer  continue  to  disre^rd,   as 
a  mere  holiday,  the  day  on  which  it  re- 
turns.   The  Apostles,  who  were  wit- 
Dcsset  of  the  fact,  ettablished  a  pious 
observance  of  it  durina  their  time,  on 
Thursday  at  noon ;  andthis solemnity, 
says  Calmet,  is  so  ancient,  that  its  be- 
ginning is   not  known ;    which    has 
been  thought  tome  reason  to  believe 
that  it  came  traditionally  from  them ; 
and    if  their  conatitutions  were  ad- 
mitted at  anthority,  we  find  express 
directions  gjiven  for  it  (b.  5,  s.  19) ;  and 
St.  Austin  IS  said  to  have  believed  that 
noon-day  was  sanctified  by  this  Ascen- 
sion.   Jn  our  Church  a  very  appro- 
priate selection  of  Pteilms,  of  Collects, 
Epistles  and  Gospels,   it    introduced 
into  the  Morning  and  Evening  Ser- 
vice;  to  that  it  has  been  evidently 
intended  that  this  event  should  always 
be  devoutly  observed :  and  where  the 
Minister  of  any  parish  or  district  is 
disposed  to  the  fulfilment  of  this  duty, 
he  will  add  a  suitable  discourse  to  se- 
cure the  attention  of  his  flock,  and  to 
give  them  strength  in  this  portion  of 
their  faith.    The  mere  notice  on  the 
previous  Sunday  of  this  day  being  ap- 
pointed to  ht  kept  holy,  does  not  seem 
to  attach  the  mmdt  of  the  congrega- 
tion more  than  that  for  any  saint's 
day ;  but  if  the  Minister  would  also 
more  particularly  allude  to  it  in   his 
discourse  on  the  previous  Sunday,  and 
impress  upon  hit  hearert  the  import- 
ance of  their  taking  to  heart  this  event, 
and  that  he  would  do  bij  part  on  the 
occasJojQv  he  wpald  Mwukea  them  from 


their  coldness  ilod  inattentioni  This 
I  can  myteif  testify  to  have  been  donoi 
in  the  instance  of  the  late  venerable 
Dean  of  Canterbury  at  his  parish 
church  of  St^  James,  Westminster^ 
than  whom  no  minister  was  ever  mora 
sealoDs  in  his  duty.  If  the  Bishops 
and  beneficed  Clergy,  and  the  Secro* 
tary  for  the  Home  Department,  would 
in  concert  unite  their  eflbrtt  by  in^ 
fliienciiig  the  Magistrates  to  assist 
them  in  causing  the  day  to  be  observed 
with  its  proper  solemnities,  it  would 
become  a  general  day  of  religious 
triumph,  and  the  minds  of  the  people 
woula  not  remain,  as  too  many  now 
are,  ignorant  of  the  sanctity,  the  ^lory, 
the  accomplishment,  and  the  design  of 
the  covenant  of  mercy,  in  which  they 
are  all  so  deeply  concerned. 

The  modern  practice  of  perambu* 
lating  the  parocnial  boundaries  may 
be  easily  removed  from  that  day  to 
Easter-monday ;  for  both  these  cere^* 
monies  can  never  be  the  companions 
of  the  same  day ;  and  as  Easter-tues^ 
day  is  the  day  fixed  for  election  of  pa- 
rochial officers,  any  remarks  that  the 
inspections  on  the  previous  day  might 
suf^est,  would  most  readily  lie  re- 
ceived and  considered,  when  the  pa^ 
rishionert  were  temporally  assembled. 

I  cannot  claim  excuse  for  thus  put- 
ting my  fellow  Christians  in  mind  of 
a  neglected  but  important  duty ;  and 
to  those  who  expect  the  second  Ad-* 
vent  of  our  Lord,  of  the  day  and  hour 
of  which  no  one  knoweth,  1  will  add 
one  word  more,—"  Lay  up  these  my 
words  in  your  hearts  !**  (Deut.  xi,  IS.) 
Yours,  &c.  A.  H.    - 

Mr.  Urbav,         Coventry f  Jan,  5. 

HAVING  oficred  some  critical  re- 
marks in  your  last  volume  rela- 
tive to  the  Chronolosnr  of  the  Median 
Kings,  in  futther  illustration  of  the 
subject,  I  send  you  the  following,i 
which  is  presumed  to  be  a  nearer  ap« 
proximation  to  the  truth.  Or  more  sus^ 
ceptible  of  demonstration,  than  the  ■ 
statements  A.  Z.  has  made.  An  ana- 
lysis of  the  epochs  given,  and  their 
comparison  with  the  text  of  Herodo- 
tus, will  still  further  exhibit  his  in- 
accuracy. 

The  principal  error,  however,   ap- 
pears to  exist  in  the  assigning  68  years 
u>  the  duration  of  Cyaxares  Te\%t\  \  \xs\ 
by  ibe  text  of  Herodotus  \V   a\i^^t% 
thsLi  (he  duration  of  Cyaxaxeis*  m^n 


S  Uironologp  of  the  Median  Kingt.  ^Jmtu 

was  but  40  years  ^  and  that  in  this  40    the  epoch  bgs  B.C.;  this,  therefore^ 
jean  are  included  the  in?asion  of  the    must  be  the  true  epoch  of  tfie  death  of 
Scythians,  and  their  domination  dur-    Cyaxares,  and  the  accession  of  As- 
ihg  S8  years.    From  this  it  appears    tiages  to  the  throne ;  which  A.  Z.  hat 
clear,  that  A.  Z.  has  confounded,  in    erroneously  set  down  at  630  B.  C.  the 
direct  opposition  to  the  testimony  of    difference  being  exactly  35  years.    Se- 
Herodotus,  the  40  years  of  Cyazares*    condly,  the  40  years  assigned  to  the 
reign,  with  the  28^earB  of  the  eovern-  duration  of  Cyaxares'  reign,  will,  add- 
ment  of  the  Scythians  included  in  it ;  ed  to  the  above  epoch  5Q5  R.  C.  give 
and  thus    makes  Cyaxares   to    have     635  B.C.  for  the  epoch  of  Cyaxares*. 
reigned  68  years ;     which,  however,  ascending  the  throne,  and  the  cleath  of 
as  1  have  already  shown,  is  at  va-  Phraort^s,  which,  however,  is  within 
nance  with  the  epochs  he  has  given.  3  or  4  years  of  the  time  assigned  by 
Assuming  then  the  epoch  assigned  by  A.  Z.  viz.  639  B.  C.     By  adding  29 
A.  Z.  to  the  time  of  Cyaxares*  ascend-  years,   the  duration   of  the  reign  of 
ing  the  throne,  viz.  639  B.  C.  it  fol-  Phraort^,  according  to  Herodotus,  to 
lows,  that  the  68  years  given  to  his  595  B.  C.  the  result  is  657  B.  C.  for 
roign  roust  be  distributed  between  ihe  the  epoch  of  Phraort^  ascending  the 
reign    of  Cyaxares  and   that  of  As-  throne ;  and  53  years  bcine  assigned 
tiages  his  son ;  and  therefore  Cyaxares  to  the  reign  of  Oeiok^  by  Herodotus, 
having,  according  to  Herodotus,  reign-  gives  710  B.C.  within  one  year  of  the* 
ed  but  40  years,  the  remaining  28  be-  time  stated  hy  A.  Z.   It  appears,  how- 
long  to  the  reign  of  Astiages.    These  ever,  from  Herodotus,  that  an  anarchy 
68  years  being  deducted  from  639  B.C.  of  about  6  years  preceded  the  time  of 
give  the  epoch   571  B.C.  at  which  D^liok^s'  ascending  the  throne,  or  of 
lime,  according  to  A.  Z.  •*  Ajaxares,**  his  being  elected  King;  and  this  Con- 
or the  Astiages  of  Herodotus,  ascended  seouentiy  gives  7*6  B.C.  for  the  re* 
the  throne,  which  is  thus  clearly  de-  volt  or  independence  of  the  Medes,  to 
monstrated  to  be  an  error.    The  dura-  which  A.Z.  has  given  the  epoch  711* 
tion  of  the  reign  of  Astiages  is,  accord-  B.  C. 

ing  to  Herodotus,  35  years,  which,  de-        The  above  epochs,  therefore,  beinir 

ducted  from  599  B.  C.  the  expiration  cleared  ahd  arranged,  will  be  as  follow! 
of  the  40  years  of  Cyaxares    reign,  ^ 

gives  564  B.  C.  for  the  termination  of  i?;}^' rr.i_  1       •   j         , 

?he  reign  of  Astiages,  by  the  accession  7 10.  The  revolt  or  independence  of  the 
of  CyrSs ;  which  makes  a  difference  of        ^^«^"'  »°^  »»  ^^^''^hy  of  about  6 

S8  years  between  the  above  epoch  564  «.?[*^Iiv  •  v     1        .  »>-. 

B.  C.  and  536  B.  C.  asserted  by  A.  Z.  710.  D^iokb  elected  King,  reigns  53 

to  have  been  the  eiM)ch  of  the  termi-     /;, ^^J?;         ,  e   r^,   ,s 

'  nation  of  the  reign  of  Astiages,  and     ^^7.  Phraort^,  son  of   Delok^,   as- 

consequently  the  epoch  of  Cvrus's  as-  «^f  "21        ^I'Tn   1  • 

cending  the  throner              '  ^^J- ,  P»;[ao'»6»  k tiled  in  an  unsuccess- 

It  is  clear,  therefore,  that  A.  Z.  has  ("!  *"^^*^  against  the  Assyrians  of 

been  misled  by  the  28  years  of  the  go-  Nineveh.     Kpxar^,  his  son,  suc- 

▼ernment  of  the  Scythians,  included    /^ofu^^il    "*"       r  .u        r        r        1 . 
in  the  reign  of  Cyaiares,  which  has  ^^0.  The  war  of  the  eclipse,  foretold 

thus  deranged    the  epochs  given   by  H?     u^^'  ^^'""^  jr^""^  confirms 

him.    The  epoch  obtained  above,  for  ./»^V^'%"       T^r^'ix^^^r^'- 

the  termination  of  the   reign  of  As-  ^^^'  Z^"^      u^T  ^^^hal^s ;  first  siege 

tiages,  viz.  664  B.  C  appears  from  the  "J  Nineveh  by  Kyaxar6 ;  invasion 

testimony  of  Herodotui   to  be  within  °.^  '»^5  Scythians,  and  their  douiina- 

4  yeani  of  the  true  e|>och  ;  since  it  is     Jj'"'!,    'T?  *®  ^r^^^'o     w 

clearly  deducible  from  Herodotus  that     ^9^*  K'^P^jsion  of  the  Scythians ;  and 

Cyrus  ascended  the  throne  by  dethron-        •^T^"^  ^'^^f  ^^  ^^l^'^Jl'  ^^^S*^  '» 

ing  Astiages.  in  56O  B.  C.   This  epoch  ,  i**'? ?  *"/*  destroyed  bv  Kyaxares 

566  B.C.  affording  a  determinate  point  ^9^  1^^*^^  ""[  Kyaxar&j    succeeded 
to  set  out  from,  with  respect  to  preced-         ^7  *>»  «>"  Astiages,  who  reigns  35 

ing  events,  and  assigning  to  the  reif^ns  ,Jf^^?',  ,    .  ,    ,       ^ 

of  the    Median   K?ngs    the  duration  ^60.  Astiages    dethroned    by    Kyrus, 

given  them  by  Herodotus,  there  will        '«'^«  ""^^^  ^^^  i*^'®"*- 

occur  first  for  the  35  years  of  Astiages,  Yours,  &c.  Qu  arsns. 


iwo 


Nbw  Cburcbbs.—* Si.  George,  CamhenoelL 


xNEW  CHURCHES.— No.  X. 
St.  George's,  Camberwell. 

ArckiUci,  is  Be^ord. 

THIS  Church  stands  on  the  south 
bank  of  the  Surrey  Canal,  about 
a  furlong  and  a  half  from  the  hizh 
road.  In  plan  it  is  an  entire  parallelo- 
gram. The  body  is  comoosed  of  four 
plain  unbroken  walls  ot  stone,  with 
commoti  dwelling>house  rectangular 
i^indows  and  doorways,  as  devoid  of 
mouldingn  and  architectural  ornaments 
IS  the  building  isof  ^race  and  elegance. 
The  windows  are  in  two  series;  the 
n|>per  long,  the  lower  shallow.  The 
doorways  are  in  nun^ber  five,  and  are 
all  in  the  western  wail.  In  describ* 
in^  the  walls  as  unbroken,  I  have, 
ho«ve\'er,  forgotten  to  notice  several 
pikisters  of  pasteboard  ])rojeciion,  one 
of  Kthich  has  a  station  between  the 
two  windows  nearest  the  west,  in  each 
of  the  side  walls ;  why  they  are  placed 
there,  the  architect,  who  probably  had 
tome  reason  for  so  doin<;,  can  best  an- 
swer :  two  others  divide  the  east  front 
into  three  portions.  In  the  central 
division  is  a  witidow.  This  elevation, 
like  the  %vestcrn,  is  finished  with  a 
pediment  and  acroteria.  To  the  west- 
em  front  of  the  building  is  attached  a 
portico  consisting  of  six  fluted  columns 
of  the  Grecian  Doric  order,  sustaining 
an  architrave,  frieze,  and  cornice  of  a 
doubtful  order  and  insignificant  pro- 
portions, which  are  continued  round 
the  whole  'building,  and,  together 
with  the  rest  of  the  edifice,  have  no 
other  connexion  with  the  columns, 
than  the  cramps  and  cement  that  hold 
them  together.  When  I  add,  that  the 
trij^lyphs  and  muiules  are  entirely 
omitted,  and  that  the  whole  entabla- 
ture wants  breadth,  it  will  be  seen 
how  barbaroubly  the  order  has  been 
innovated  upon.  There  is,  however, 
an  attempt  at  ornament  in  the  frieze  of 
the  west  front,  where  the  places  of 
the  tri^!yphs  are  supplied  by  chaplets 
of  mynle,  a  style  of  ornament  peculiar 
to  shop  fronts,  and  which  may  be 
seen  in  all  its  grandeur,  holding  up 
lo  the  eyes  of  Christmas  epicures 
many  a  noble  sirloin,  in  the  front  of  an 
eminent  batcher's  shop  at  Camber- 
well.  Excepting  the  porticoes,  Mr. 
Bedforxl's  Church  designs  are  very 
convenient ;  their  dubious  style  of  ar- 
chitecture equally  iuits  the  1/oric  and 
the  Corinthian,  as  i  have  already  had 
occasion  to  remark  in  my  notice  of 
Gent.  Mao.  January,  IBS?, 


Trinity  Church.     (Sec   vol.  xcr.  ii. 
p.  393.) 

The  steeple,  between  a  tower  and  a 
spire,  possesses  some  merit  for  its  ori- 
ginality. In  common  with  the  body  of 
the  Church,  it  stands  high  in  its  de- 
signer's favour,  having  been  set  up 
with  hut  little  variation  on  two  other 
churches. 

The  plan  is  square,  and  the  elevatiou 
is  made  into  two  principal  diminishing 
stories,  the  whole  supporting  a  square 
pedestal,  with  honeysuckle  mouldings 
on  each  face,  and  finished  with  a  stone 
ball  and  cross.  The  first  story  rests  on 
a  rusticated  basement,  and  in  each  face 
ore  iwv)  Doric  columns  with  antae  at 
the  angles.  On  the  frieze  two  chap- 
lets,  as  the  west  front.  This  will  be 
seen,  by  comparison  of  the  two  engrav- 
ings, to  be  exactly  similar  to  Trinity 
Church.  TIte  second  story  is  uniform  ; 
\he  order  Ionic.  Both  stories  are  open, 
and  the  angles  with  Grecian  tiles.  In 
many  points  of  view  this  tower  is  not 
an  inelegant  object. 

The  Interior. 

A  portion  of  the  design  being  occu- 
pied by  the  stairs  to  the  galleries  and 
the  tower,  the  audience  part  is  reduced 
almost  to  a  square ;  it  is  naked  and 
enjpty,  wiih  the  air  of  a  conventicle, 
ill  suited  to  the  dignity  of  the  Establish- 
ed Church,  and,  except  in  size,  closely 
corresponds  with  Trinity  Church  ;  al- 
though tiie  order  is  in  that  building 
Corinthian,— of  equal  merit,  however, 
with  the  imitative  Doric  of  the  present. 
The  first  objects  which  meet  the  eye 
on  entering  are  two  pulpits,  square  un- 
ornamenteil  boxes  perched  upon  tall 
stone  pedestals,  formed  of  the  upper  part 
of  a  Doric  column  :  and  on  looking  for 
the  altar,  in  its  place  is  only  to  be  seen 
a  large  imsightlyslabof  veined  marble, 
more  6t  for  a  hearth-slone,  let  into  the 
eastern  wall,  having  the  Decalogue,  &c. 
inscribed  upon  it,  which,  like  a  Dutch 
painting,  may  with  difiiculiv  be  made 
out  in  a  particular  light.  Beneath  is 
the  Communion-table,  and  above,  a 
frieze  of  gilt  honeysuckles.  1  never 
saw  iti  any  building  the  altar  so  neg- 
lected as  It  is  here ;  such  a  style  may 
do  for  the  **  table  pew  '*  of  a  conven- 
ticle ;  but  from  the  Church  I  hojie  it 
only  requires  to  be  noticed  to  he  ba- 
nished for  ever.  The  usual  quota  df 
galleries,  with  their  delicately  tinted 
fronts,  supported  on  slender  Doric  co- 
lumns, all  white  or  ueai\y  to^  TtixAtiOL 


10 


Nbw  Churches. — St*  Mark*s,  Kennin^ion. 


[Jan. 


the  spectator  how  .far  iDferior  the  cold 
naked  appearance  which  modern  ar- 
chicccis  delight  in  giving  to  a  building, 
is  to  the  brown  wainscot  galleries  of  the 
old  churches.  Although  the  altar  is  to 
totally  neglected,  the  highly  enriched 
organ-case  displays  that  perversion  of 
ornament  which  so  fully  proves  a  bad 
taste.  Between  the  windows  are  placed 
Ionic  pilasters,  with  enriched  capitals, 
occupying  the  whole  height  from  the 
floor  of  the  church,  to  an  architrave 
and  a  rich  frieze  of  honeysuckle  work, 
on  which  rests  the  ceiling,  which  is  pan- 
Delled  into  large  squire  Couiparlinents, 
having  a  flower  in  the  centre  of  each. 

The  font  is  an  antique  vase,  enrich* 
ed  with  mouldings,  standing  on  a 
square  pedestal ;  it  is  cast,  I  appre- 
hend, in  the  same  mould  as  that  at 
Trinity  Church,  which  actually  cost 
the  parish  of  Newington  32/.  95. ; 
though  from  appearance,  any  one  un- 
acquainted with  the  actual  value  of 
the  article,  would  imagine  it  might  be 
purchased  of  the  itinerant  Italians  for 
as  many  shilling. 

In  the  tower  is  a  musical  peal  of  six 
bells,  much  admired  in  the  neighbour- 
hood for  their  meIo<ly,  which  is  no 
doubt  improved  by  the  adjacent  canal. 

The  first  stone  was  laid  on  the  7th 
of  March,  18S2,  by  the  Bishop  of 
Winchester,  and  the  edifice  was  con- 
secrated on  the  26th  of  March,  1824. 

St.  Mark's  Church,  Kenningtoit. 
Architect,  D,  Roper, 

The  second  Church  commenced  in 
the  parish  of  Lambeth,  of  four  dedi- 
cated to  the  Evangelists.  It  stands  on 
the  upper  part  of  a  small  triangular 
piece  of  land,  separated  from  the  re- 
mainder of  Kennington  Common  by 
the  Brixton  Road,  and  on  the  actual 
spot  which  once  served  for  the  com- 
mon place  of  execation  for  the  county, 
distin;fui»hed  by  the  martyrdom  in  the 
last  century  of  several  unfortunate  gen- 
tlemen, who  here  suflered  an  ignomi- 
nious and  cruel  death  for  their  devo- 
tion to  the  cause  of  the  banished 
Stuarts  In  Mr.  AIIen*s  recently  pub- 
lished History  of  the  parish,  is  a  wood- 
cut of  an  iron  swivel,  found  in  digging 
the  foundations  of  the  building,  which 
doubtless  belonged  to  a  gallows  for- 
merly erected  here. 

This  Church  differs  exceedingly  in 
|>1an  from  the  generality  of  ecclesias- 
tical biuldiiigs^  and  consists  of  two 


distinct  portions.  The  body  is  a  long 
octagon  (a  parallelogram,  with  the  cor- 
ners cut  ofi").  Tlie  eastern  end  is 
brought  out,  to  nMtke  a  recess  for  the 
altar,  and  to  the  western  end  is  at- 
tached the  tower,  sided  by  lobbies, 
containing  staircases  to  the  galleries, 
and  the  whole  fronted  by  a  portico 
formed  of  four  columns,  and  two  insu- 
lated antae  at  the  angles,  supporting  au 
entablature  of  the  Greek  Doric  order^ 
and  finished  with  a  pediment.  This 
portico  and  the  rest  of  the  appendages 
which  form  the  second  portion  of  th^ 
building,  are  very  faulty ;  the  triglyphs 
and  mutules  are  only  applied  to  the 
west  front;  and  the  antae,  which  form, 
the  exterior  supporters  of  the  portico, 
give  it  in  a  side  view  the  appearance  of 
a  wall.  All  the  portion  just  described 
is  stone.  The  body  of  the  Church  is 
constructed  with  brick,  and  has  stone 
pilasters  attached  to  the  piers  between 
the  windows,  ranging  from  a  conti- 
nued plinth  to  the  entablature  which- 
finishes  the  elevation.  The  windows' 
themselves  are  in  the  meanest  dwelling 
house  style,  in  fact  mere  openings  in 
the  wall,  and  the  whole  of  this  part  of 
.the  building  is  sadly  at  variance  with 
the  Grecian  portico. 

The  tower  is  square  and  massy.  Each 
angle  is  strengthened  with  a  square 
pilaster  buttress,  on  the  capital  of 
which  is  placed  a  knot  of  honey- 
suckles. The  elevation  then  takes 
an  octangular  form,  with  bulls'  eyes 
on  four  of  the  faces  to  receive  the 
dials.  This  story  supports  a  circular 
temple,  composed  ot  fluted  columns 
of  the  Ionic  order,  finished  with  a 
plain  spherical  cupola,  on  the  apex 
of  which  is  a  stone  cross  of  an  elegant 
design.  Between  each  of  these  co- 
lumns is  a  pedestal,  supporting  a  tri- 
pod. Some  originality  is  displayed 
m  this  tower;  but  its  cupola,  like  the 
other  parts  of  the  Church,  is  at  va- 
riance with  every  Grecian  example. 

Thr  Interior 

is  pleasing,  and  more  church-like  than 
any  of  such  buildin»  which  consist  of 
one  entire  room.  The  altar  is  very 
properly  rendered  the  most  striking 
object.  The  Communion-table  with 
its  crimson  furniture  is  raised  on 
steps.  The  decalogue,  creed,  &c.  on 
slabs  of  white  marble,  are  attached 
to  the  wall  immediately  over  it.  The 
recess  above  contains  two  pair  of  Athe- 
nian Ionic  columns,  situated  on  eacU  . 


1827} 


lUeojicilitdUm  of  Ckinen  and  European  Dates. 


II 


tide  of  the  east  window,  which  is  en- 
riched with  a  border  of  stained  glass, 
and  contains  a  dove  and  glorv.  The 
ceiling  of  the  Church  is  coved  ellipii- 
cally,  and  its  only  ornaments  are  groups 


both  occasions  being  perrormed  by  bis 
Grace  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 

E.I.C. 


Mr.  Urban, 


Dec.  13. 


of  foliage  at  intervals;  it  is  far  more     /^^^^  of  ibe  most  important  fea- 

than  the  flat  ceil-     V^    lures  in  the   history  of  all  na- 


pleasing  to  the  eye 
logs  which  are  so  fashionable;  it  gives 
an  appearance  of  lightness  to  the 
Church,  and  adds  greatly  to  the  gran- 
deur of  the  design.  The  pulpit  is  su|)- 
ported  on  a  screen  of  Doric  architecture, 
and  is  very  tastefully  embellished.  The 
readini^-desk  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
Church  corresponds  with  it,  and,  un- 
like the  modern  Church  arrangements, 
is  lower  than  the  pulpit.  The  galle- 
ries rest  on  Doric  columns,  and  the 
piers  between  the  windows  are  fur- 
nished with  pilasters. 

Throughout  the  interior,  the  archi- 
tect has  displayed  great  taste  in  the 
judicioos  embellishments  he  has  in- 
troduced. His  attention  to  the  ap- 
propriate ornamenting  of  the  altar  is 
Dot  lost,  and  had  he  assimilated  the 
styles  of  the  building  more  closel)r,  it 
would  have  presented  to  the  critical 
eps  that  additional  claim  to  admira- 
tion which  results  from  propriety. 

The  lighting  of  the  Church  oy  an- 
tique bronze  lamps  is  very  tastefully 
efiected. 


tions,  and  which  constitutes  the  ground 
of  a  just  demand  upon  posterity  for 
credibility,  is  chronological  accuracy. 
As  mankind  in  all  aj^es  have  formed 
one  great  family,  their  original  must 
have  begun  at  one  period  ;  for  at 
whatever  aera  of  lime  any  one  of  them 
may  have  begun  to  take  *'  a  local  ha- 
bitalion  and  a  name,**  their  progress 
must  have  been  traceable  to  one  source  : 
the  difficulty  of  discovering  their  pedi- 
gree, especially  when  involved  by:hem- 
selves  in  obscure  traditions,  bus  given 
rise  to  one  of  the  most  valuable  arts 
which  the  improvements  of  laborious 
research  has  ever  ushered  into  the 
world, — the  an  of  verifying  dates. 

There  is  a  vanity  prevalent  in  na- 
tions as  in  some  individuals,  respect- 
ing the  antiquity  of  their  race.  The 
nobility  and  gentry  of  these  kingdoms 
are  not  more  zealous  that  their  ban- 
ners and  heraldic  crests  should  be 
known  to  have  shone  in  the  Crusades, 
and  at  Poictiers  and  Cressy,  than  the 
leaders   of  the  nations  of  China  and 


The  church-yard   is  inclosed  by  a    Tartary  should  be  able  to  trace  their 


handsome  railing  on  a  eranite  plinth, 
and  set  off  by  piers  of  tne  same  mate- 
rial. Some  advocate  for  innovation 
hss  deviated  from  the  universal  custom 
of  burying  the  corpse  with  the  ftet  to 
the  east,  several  of  the  graves  having 
been  constructed  exactly  at  angles 
with  the  usual  mode.  I  have  some- 
where seen  the  prevalence  of  the  cus- 
tom in  all  ages  adduced  as  an  evidence 
of  the  reliance  of  the  Church  on  the 
general  resurrection :  receiving  the 
custom  in  this  light,  it  ought  not  to 
be   departed    from   in   these    ages   of 


foundation  to  the  skies,  and  to  have 
looked  down  upon  the  origin  of  the 
present  world.  The  zeal  or  the  artifice 
by  which  they  have  been  able  either 
to  deceive  or  to  silence  the  rest  of 
mankind  into  the  acquiescence  of 
this  national  vanity,  has  involved  the 
great  question  to  discover  where  lies 
the  correct  truth;  and  of  this,  as  there 
can  be  no  direct  evidence,  the  fact 
must  be  ascertained  from  those  aeras 
when  tradition  ceased,  and  positive 
testimony  and  record  commenced. 

In  order  to  reconcile  this  great  dif- 
ference between  ihe  Chinese  and  Eu- 


schism,  at  the  mere  ca})rice  of  a  grave- 
digger.  When  an  old  custom  like  ropean  nations,  the  case  would  soon 
this  is,  to  say  the  least  of  it,  harmless,  be  decided,  if  it  were  to  be  determined 
and  clearly  not  unmeaning,  though  it  by  a  majority  in  numbers:  but  as  this 
may  be  founded  in  a  superstitious  rea-  would  iki  more  attain  the  truth  than  a 
son,  until  a  better  cause  can  be  as-  battle  ascertains  more  than  strength,  a 
signed  for  giving  it  up  than  for  retain-  still  more  powerful  efibrt  must  be 
ing  it,  I  see  no  reason  for  its  discon-  sought  for. 

linaance.     #  One  principal  ground  of  difference 

The  estimated  expeiice  of  the  pre-  in  their  and  our  computations  is  pro- 

aent  Church    is    16,248/.     The  6rst  bably  to  be  found  in  their  methods  of 

itone  was  laid   on  the   1st  of  July,  division  of  time,  and  of  counting  pe- 

1828,  and  it  was  copsecrated  on   the  riods  and  days;  and  these  have  not 

30ihdf  June,  1824;  the  ceremony  on  been    clearly  explaiived.    We  \liiovi 


It 


Beamciliation  of  CAixeM  and  European  Datetm 


[Jan. 


oaraeWes  that  in  prophetical  and  me- 
taphorical language,  years  and  days 
have  not  unfrequently  been  involved 
together,  **  times  and  half  times,**  and 
]  S60  days  have  been  after  deep  inves- 
tigation discovered  to  mean  years ;  and 
this  interpretation  has  shown  tu  the 
modern  natioixsofChristendomthat  the 
period  to  which  they  allude  will  termi- 
nate in  A.  D.  ISCq !  Now  the  Chi- 
nese may  likewise,  in  their  prophetical 
books,  have  metaphorical  terms  of  a 
similar  kind,  and  thus,  computing  by 
the  smallest  numbers,  have  founded 
their  origin  before  tlie  beginning  of 
time.  This  point  is  of  great  import- 
ance, when  it  is  recollected  that  they 
do  not  car^y  their  name  earlier  than  to 
Fo-hi,  which  is  their  Noah,  who  be- 
came their  founder  immediately  after 
the  dispersion  of  the  race  of  mankind 
from  the  plains  of  Sennaar.  Chin- 
nong  is  synonimous,  and  is  constantly 
used  as  well  as  Fo-hi,  and  seems  to 
correspond  better  with  the  name  of 
Noah,  or  King  Noog. 

All  the  traditions  of  every  nation 
have  been  satisfied  to  go  up  to  that 
sera,  and  if  all  would  be  content  to 
remain  there,  we  should  all  be  satis- 
fied of  the  troth  of  our  own,  and  of 
profane  and  of  sacred  history,  which 
18  my  principal  object  of  inquiry. 
-  The  French  editors  of  the  laborious 
Dominican  work  "L'art  de  Verifier 
les  Dates,'*  of  which  a  volume  was 
subjoined  in  1830,  for  events  "avant 
l*^re  Chr^tienne,*'  have  placed  Fo-hi 
as  founder  of  the  nation  of  China  at 
2838  before  our  era,  which  was  A.  M. 
1160.  Calmet  places  his  birth  at  A.M. 
1*056,  Julian  period,  to  which  if  150 
years  be  added  for  the  subsequent  De- 
luge, and  the  descent  of  the  family  to 
the  plains  of  Sennaar,  it  will  agree 
with  them  in  the  year  1 166.  But  fip. 
Usher's  Bible  Chronology  dates  the 
Deluse at 2349 ante  Christ,' 1 655  A.M. 
and  tfiis  dispersion  at  2247  A.  C.  and 
1757  A.M. 

The  children  of  Shem,  say  these 
French  editors,  who  do  not  enter  upon 
the  discussion  of  the  date,  lef\  the  plain 
of  Sennaar  to  seek  an  establishment  at 
the  extremity  of  the  East ;  they  rested 
hi  the  parts  since  called  China,  and 
•ubsisted  on  the  fruits  of  the  earth. 
Convinced  of  the  necessity  of  having 

,  a  chief  Governor,  they  fixed  on  Fo-hi, 
who  bad  given  some  proofs  of  valour 
mmI  jJcill;  and  the  first  use  he  made^f 

Ah  power  wa»  to  proride  security  for 


marriage,  and  to  divide  all  his  com- 
pany into  100  families,  to  each  of 
which  he  assigned  a  particular  name. 
This  law  still  subsists,  as  there  are  now 
only  100  names  to  distinguish  all  the 
families  of  that  vast  empire.  Fo-hi  de- 
voted indefatizahle  pains  in  human- 
ising and  polishing  his  people,  and 
died  in  the  1 16th  year  of  his  reign  at 
Tchin-tong;  where  he  had  constantly 
held  his  court,  and  was  buried  at  some 
distance  from  that  city,  which  still 
subsists  under  the  nameof  Tchin-tche. 
This  115  would  bring  down  the  pe- 
riod of  his  death  to  2723  A.C.  which 
Calmet  fixes  as  to  Noah  at  I9g4  A.  C. 
at  the  age  of  950  years.  Ching-nong 
succeeded  to  Fo-hi,  th'ongh  at  an  early 
age,  according  to  them,  2723  A.C. 
which  seems  to  be  the  dale  of  the 
Chinese  empire  in  its  improved  state. 

This  fact  of  the  Deluge  and  the  dis- 
persion agrees  with  the  history  and 
subsequent  discoveries  of  all  nations, 
and  particularly  of  America  in  modern 
times,  whatever  date  they  assume. 
From  that  event  of  the  Deluge,  all 
the  early  families  of  mankind  lived  to- 
gether in  the  plains  between  the  Ti- 
pris  and  Euphrates  and  the  neighbour- 
ing regions.  They  spoke  only  one 
language,  trusted  themselves  \n  very 
short  excursions,  and  erected  the  tower 
of  Babel,  as  a  land  mark  by  which 
they  should  always  know  which  way 
to  return  home.  This  motive  for  the 
bu:iding  is  far  more  innocent  than 
that  ascribed  to  it  by  Moses,  Gen. 
11,  4. 

'  Pagan  Antiq.  has  confused  the  |)a- 
triarch  Nonh  with  Deucalion,  Saturn 
with  Xisuthrus,  and  mingled  their 
history  with  that  of  Fluto,  that  of  Ja- 
phet  with  Neptune,  &c.  Acconling 
to  Seth  Calvisius,  the  date  of  the  De- 
luge was  A.Mk  1656,  and  £292  A.  C. 

But  I  know  that  I  must  not  prolong 
these  remarks;  let  them,  whether  er-- 
roneous  or  correct,  and  the  former  ii 
the  far  greater  probability,  attract  some 
critical  notice  of  your  Correspondents. 
I  could  on  such  a  subject  in  days  past 
have  appealed  for  candour  and  liberal 
correction  and  reference  to  our  venera- 
ble friend  the  late,  though  not  I  hope 
the  last  of  the  race  of.  Urban;  on 
whose  departed  merit,  veracity,  learn- 
ing, and  fidelity,  aided  by  an  exhaust- 
less  store  of  unshaken  memory,  I  can- 
not restrain  a  sigh  of  ftlial  respect,  as 
I  pasa  the  relics  of  remote  antiquity  1 
Yours,  8cc.  ^.  K. 


1837.2 


On  ihe  Origin  of  GoUL 


Otk  the  Origin  of  Gold. 

NATURE,  in  every  part  of  the 
globe,  is  constantly  at  work, 
whether  in  the  mighty  waters  of  the 
derp, — on  the  surface  of  our  planet,— 
or  in  the  bowels  of  the  earth,  her  in- 
fluence  is  alike  felt.  This  being  grant- 
ed, it  will  follow  that  in  some  way  or 
<nhtrr  gold  is  produced,  since  no  natu- 
ralist ever  imagined  that  it  was  of 
primary  formation  ♦.  Of  the  four  ele- 
ments, earth,  air,  fire,  and  water,  it 
must  be  self-evident  that  the  two  first 
cannot  of  themselves  originate  gold. 
One  sort  of  earth  being,  by  any  con- 
vulsion, thrown  into  contact  witn  ano- 
ther sort,  never  did  create  gold  ;  and  if 
it  had,  ii  is  scarcely  possible  to  ima- 
gine but  what  some  portions  of  the 
twb  earths  would  have  been  discover- 
ed in  an  imperfect  metallic  state ;  at 
least  sutiicientiy  so  to  show  the  nature 
of  their  component  parts;  whereas 
gold,  when  discovered,  has  been  found 
to  exist  in  one  sort  of  eanh  alone,  or 
indifferently  disseminated  in  several 
kinds,  thus  proving  that  no  two  parti- 
cular de<icriptions  of  earth  had  alone 
given  rise  to  the  precious  mineral. 
Air  too  appears  to  be  equally  foreign 
to  its  formation,  since,  although  gold 
is  sometimes  found  near  the  surface  of 
the  earth,  it  is  at  other  times  discover- 
ed very  deeply  embedded  in  the  earth 
where  air  cannot  penetrate,  or  where, 
if  it  did  penetrate,  it  would  become  a 
very  different  air  from  that  imme- 
diately extending  its  influence  over  the 
surface  of  the  globe.  It  cannot,  there- 
fore, be  air  singly  which  generates  gold. 
There  only  remain  then  to  be  con- 
sidered the  two  elements  of  fire  and 
water.  Most  naturalists  are  agreed 
that  it  is  from  heat  acting  on  certain 
matter,  in  a  way  hidden  from  the  hu- 
man eve,  that  gold  is  made;  whilst 
other  theorists  have  conceived  that  it 
is  from  the  action  of  water  operatiiig 
in  an  unknown  way  upon  certain  mat- 
ter, that  the  precious  metal  is  formed. 
I  shall  not  attempt  to  decide  with 
which  of  these  philosophers  the  truth 
rests,  but  I  feel  disposed  to  ask  whe- 
ther it  may  not  remain  with,  both  of 
them,  and  that  in  point  of  fact,  gold 

*  That  gold  is  not  of  primary  formation, 
voiutd  seem  from  the  circumttance  of  its 
bmng  beea  found  in  mines  which  had  long 
iffea  abaiidooed  In  eoaseqoence  of  their  faar- 


may  be  the  production  of  fire  as  weH 
as  water?  The  result,  in  short,  of  two 
elemenu  widely  different,  and  yet  pro- 
ducing ultimately  the  same  effect.  The 
advocates  for  fire  assert  that  gold  is  in- 
variably  found  in  mountains,  and  that 
where  there  are  mountains,  there  is 
always  hidden  or  revealed  fire.  Thus 
the  Andes  contain  immense  stores  of 
metals,  whilst  volcanoes,  either  in  ac- 
tion or  the  remains  of  ihem,  are  in 
many  parts  apparent.* 

The  advocates  for  water  assert,  that 
where  there  are  mountains  there  too 
is  water;  and  instance  Minas  Geratt 
in  Brazil,  which  Iq  intersected  by  in* 
numerable  streams,  and  in  which  pro- 
vince nearly  all  the  gold  hitherto  found 
has  been  collected  from  the  rivers  f. 
Both  suppositions  may,  I  suspect,  be 
just.  If  there  be  fires  in  the  earth, 
there  must  be  vapours  ;  and  these  va- 
pours, by  impregnating  certain  mat- 
ter, may  produce  gold.  Again,  cer- 
tain waters,  under  certain  circum- 
stances, may  transform  many  sub- 
stances into  stone,  into  crystal^,  and 
by  analogy  into  minerals;  therefore 
gold  may  follow  from  this  operation 
of  nature.  Like  results  brought  about 
by  opposite  e;^tremes  can  perhaps  be 
best  shown  by  an  example:  Pass  a 
heated  bar  of  steel  over  a  fleshy  sub- 
stance, the  consequence  will  be  a 
wound ;  let  a  bar  of  steel  be  cooled 
upon  ice,  and  applied  to  any  part  of 
the  human  body,  the  same  conse- 
quence will  follow,  a  wound.  Then 
if  fire  and  water  shall  have  similar  ef- 
fects upon  animal  matter,  is  it  not 
possible,  nay  likely,  that  they  may 
operate  precisely  the  same,  when 
brought  under  certain  circumstances, 
to  act  upon  certain  substances  which 
the  globe  contains,  and  thus  present 
us  in  the  result  with  that  metal  whose 
possession  man  so  ardently  covets. 

B.  M. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  7. 

THE  origin  of  the  Feudal  System  is 
to  be  traced  to  the  migration  of 
the  Northern  hordes  of  people,  who, 
excited   by  the  luxuries  which   they 

*  See  Travels  into  Chile  in  1890   and 
1831,  by  Peter  Schmidtmeyer. 

•f  See    Mounteney**  Selections  relative 
to  Brazil. 

t  See  Notes  on  Rio  de  JinaiiO)  V{  i^^ 
Lufcock. 


14.  A  Account  of  some  curiouM  andeni  Tenures  in  England.      [Jan. 


had  seen  displayed  in  the  camps  of. 
the  Roman  legions,  rjuitted  their  own 
dreary  wastes  to  seek  in  the  land  which 
produced  them  a  more  hospitable  and 
delightful  home.  Although  these  ir- 
ruptions, most  correctly  so  called  from 
the  nature  of  the  descent,  took  place 
during  some  periods  of  the  Roman  re- 
public, it  was  not  until  the  time  of  the 
Emperors,  who,  forgetting  the  ancient 
honour  of  their  country,  obtained  a 
temporary  but  ultimately  fatal  relief  by 
payment  of  large  sums  of  money  to 
bodies  of  the  barbarians,  that,  encou- 
raged by  the  fear  they  had  excited, 
and  animated  by  the  spoils  they  had 
so  easily  acquired,  these  descents  be- 
came frequent  and  systematical. 

A  few  of  the  Emperors  occasionally 
revived  the  glory  of  the  Roman  name 
by  stemming  the  6erce  current,  and 
tiimed  its  impetuous  course  to  its  own 
destruction ;  but  among  the  later  Em- 
perors there  were  but  few  .of  this  cha- 
racter ;  and  at  last  the  empire  of  the 
West,  weakened  by  intestine  tumults 
and  the  repeated  invasions  of  the  bar- 
barians, fell  tottering  at  the  feet  of 
those  very  people,  who  a  few  hundred 
years  before  had  been  considered  as 
scarcely  removed  above  the  brute  crea- 
tion. 

The  lands  thus  conquered,  the  in- 
vaders allotted  to  their  leaders,  on  con- 
dition of  a  stipulated  aid  in  case  of 
danger  to  the  body  at  large,  and  were 
subsequently  subdivided  by  them  a- 
mong  their  own  immediate  followers, 
who  neld  their  |)ortions  sometimes  un- 
der similar  terms,  and  sometimes  un- 
der new  conditions,  according  to  par- 
ticular circumstances. 

This  system  of  apportioning  and 
holding  lands  became  universal 
throughout  Europe.  It  does  not  ap- 
pear, however,  that  the  Feudal  Law 
(as  it  was  designated)  was  generally 
received  in  England  until  the  time  of 
William  the  Conqueror,  who  esta- 
blished feudal  tenures,  which  had 
been  brought  to  the  highest  pitch  of 
military  regulation  in  the  countries  he 
had  left.  jBut  it  must  be  observed, 
that  a  somewhat  similar  system  may 
be  traced  among  the  institutions  of 
our  Saxon  ancestors. 

At  first  the  tennre,  under  which 
lands  were  held,  was  strictly  military, 
obliging  the  grantees  to  assist  the 
King,  or  their  feudal  lord^  with  men 
and  arms,  and  persoiuil  anittance  in 
inina  ofwer  or  (Umget. 


But  the  strength  and  power  ac- 
quired by  the  Barons,  by  reason  of  the 
large  military  retinues  they  were  that 
enabled  to  keep,  hud  in  niuny  instancei 
been  found  by  the  King  to  be  of  fatal 
consequence  to  his  auiliority  and  in- 
fluence, compelling  him  by  force  to 
accede  to  their  iitipeiuous  wishes.  And 
in  consequence,  every  opportunity  was 
taken  by  the  Crown  to  lessen  this  for- 
midable evil.  But  we,  of  this  time, 
cannot  but  regard  with  veneration  a 
system,  however  faulty,  to  which  We 
owe  our  dearest  and  most  valuable 
rights. 

Such  estates  which  fell  into  the 
hands  of  the  King  by  forfeiture,  or 
which  they  acquired  by  family  aU 
liance,  were  at  tunes  granted  to  their 
favourites  or  followers,  under  a  more 
nominal  service,  or,  at  most,  subject  to 
duties  which  were  considered  hoooiir- 
able  to  the  performer. 

It  appears  also  that  the  Sovereign's 
liberality  was  often  e&cited  in  the 
midst  of  pleasure  and  amusement,  and 
induced  him  in  the  same  vein  of  feel- 
ing he  was  in  at  the  time,  to  atuch  to 
the  grant  a  condition  of  trifling  and 
sometimes  ludicrous  observance. 

The  tenures  of  England  were  di- 
vided into  Grand  and  Petit  Serjeantrv. 
The  former  comprised  services  of  mili- 
tary duties,  offices  to  be  performed  at 
coronations  and  other  State  occasions 
by  great  officers  and  others,  in  respect 
of  the  offices  themselves  or  of  particu- 
lar baronies  and  lands.  Petit  Ser- 
jeantry  consisted  of  inferior  services. 

But  it  is  not  the  intention  here  to 
enter  into  a  learned  or  antiquarian  re- 
search into  such  tenures,  but  merely 
to  give  the  terms  of  a  few,  which  have 
been  selected  on  accountof  their  amus- 
ing and  almost  ridiculous  conditions, 
and  which  may  rather  tend  **relQxare 
Jibulatn"  than  to  raise  in  the  forehead 
the  wrinkles  of  profound  cogitation. 

Some  lands  at  Addin^ton  in  Surrey 
were  held  by  the  service  of  making 
one  mess  in  an  earthen  pot  in  the 
King*s  kitchen  on  the  day  of  his  coro- 
nation, called  diligrout,  and  if  there 
were  lard  in  it,  the  mess  was  called 
manpignum.  This  tenure  was  as  old 
as  Henry  II.  At  the  Coronation  of 
Charles  II.  the  person  iii  whose  pos- 
session the  lands  then  were,  brought 
up  to  the  table  the  dish  of  dilligrout ; 
but  it  is  recorded  that  the  King  was 
not  pleased  to  eat  of  the  potage. 

John  Caropes  held  the  mauor  of 


10S7.]      An  Aee^mU  of  iom§  eurioui  ancient  Tenureg  in  England.        15 

Fiochingfieldy  Essex,  of  Edward  the  matrimonial  felicity,  or  that  the  sofom- 

Third  by  the  service  of  taming  the  nity  required  to  be  eone  through  on 

spit  at  the  King's  coronation.  the  occasion^  deterred  many  appearing. 

Lands  at  Addin^ton  in  Kent  were  Yet  several  names  were  recistered  of 
held  on  the  service  of  holding  the  successful  claimants,  and  of  the  cere- 
head  of  the  King  as  often  as  he  should  mooy  performed  upon  the  occasion, 
DMs  the  seas  between  Dover  and  which  is  described  as  follows.  The 
nhitsond,  and  found  such  senice  pilgrim  for  the  bacon  was  to  take 
needful ;  and  it  is  on  record  that  this  the  oath  required  before  the  prior 
service  had  been  duly  performed.  and   convent  and    the    whole  town, 

Rowland    de   Sarcere   held  certain  humbly  kneeling  before  them  in  the 

lands    in    Hennington,    Suffolk,    for  church-yard  upon  hard  pointed  stones, 

which,  on  Christmas  Day  in  evenr  The  oath  was  administered  with  a  long 

year,  he  should  perform  in  the  King^i  process  and  solemn  singing.  After  this 

presence,  **  simol  et  semel  unum  sal-  he  was  taken  on  men's  shoulders,  and 

turn,  unutn  sufflum,  et  unum  bumbu-  first  carried  about  the  priory  church- 

lum.**  This  was  afterwards  considered  yard,  and    then   through    tne  whole 

an  indecent  service,  and  was  rented  at  town,   all   the  friars    and    townsfolk, 

sixteen  shillings  and  eight  pence  the  young  and  old,  following   him  with 

year.     One    &Idwin,   who  formerly  loud  acclamations,  with  the  bacon  ele- 

Deld  those  lands,  was  known  by  the  vated  before  him,  and   he  was  then 

name  of  Baldwin  le  Pettour.  sent  home  with  his  prize. 

Many  lands  were  held  by  the  ser-        The  oath  was  in  verse,  and  as  fol- 

▼ice  of  providing  a  certain  number  of  lows  : 

damsels  when  the  King  should  travel  u  yon  .hall  swear  by  custom  of  coDfetiion, 

mio  those  parts.     This  was  very  cor-  If  ever  you  made  naptial  tnoMgnUwn. 

rectly  called  pimp  tenure.  Be  you  either  married  man  or  wife. 

Lands  at  Seaton  in  Kent  were  held  If  you  have  brawls  or  coatentious  strife; 

by  two  Knights,  on  the  condition  of  Or  otherwise  at  bed  or  at  board, 

attending  the  King  when  hunting  in  Offended  eaeh  other  hi  deed  or  woid  i 

Gascony*;;  where  they  were  to  remain  ^  •^^  *>>«  P*ri*h  clerk  said  Amen, 

until  they  had  worn  out  a  pair  of  shoes  X^  ''»»*^<1  yo»>««lvM  unmarried  •^n^ 

each,  of  the  value  of  four  pence.  2'  ""  ^^e'^^"*^?'***  "^  •  ^^ 

The  holder  of  lands  at^umbcs  in  S'P*°'*f-  ""V?     ^'Ik' '"i^.'^V^   • 

c  ui* I  «^  .1  11  .u  £ut  continued  true  in  thought  and  desire, 

Surrcywas  obliged  to  gather  all  the  a.  when  you  joined  hand,  fn  the  quire, 

wool  off  the  white  thorns  on  the  es-  if  to  the.e  condition.,  without  all  feare, 

Ute  for  the  Quip's  use.  Of  your  own  aecord  you  will  freely  .weare, 

Sitiebroe  m  Kent  was  held  by  the  a  whole  gammon  of  bacon  you  shall  re- 
service  of  finding  coals  for  making  the  ceive. 

King's  crown  and  his  re^al  ornaments.  And  bear  it  hence  with  love  and  good  leaver 

The  ancient  Earls  ot  Chester  were  For  this  is  our  cniitom  at  Donmow  well 
obliged  to  be  the  foremost  to  march  knowne, 

into  the  enemy's  country,  and  the  last  Though  the  pleasure  be  our.,  the  bacon's 
in  coming  back.  7®"'  ^^^" 

The  right  of  persons  to  claim  a  flitch  There  was  also  a  similar  custom  in 
of  bacon,  if  they  had  been  married  a  the  manor  of  Whichnor  in  Stafford- 
year  and  a  day,  and  had  lived  happily  shire,  where  the  holder  of  the  manor 
during  that  period,  is  not  yet  ^uite  for-  was  obliged  to  keep  a  flitch  of  bacon 
gotten,  and  perhaps  a  description  of  hanging  in  his  hall  for  any  one  to 
the  ceremony  observed  on  the  occa- .  claim,  who  could  prove  a  like  qualifi- 
sion  would  be  amusing.    The  custom  cation. 

was  instituted  by  Robert  Fitzwalter  A  farm  in  Penniston  in  Yorkshire 
in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Third,  who  was  held  on  the  condition  of  paying 
bequeathed  a  sum  of  money  to  the  yearly  a  snow*ball  at  Midsummer, 
priory  of  Donmow  in  Essex  on  the  and  a  red  rose  at  Christmas, 
terms,  that,  "if  any  man  repented  him  It  is  to  be  obs/rved  that  the  first 
not  of  his  marriage,  either  sleeping  or  condition  is  not  so  impossible  as  it 
waking,  in  a  year  and  a  day,  he  might  would  at  first  appear,  as  the  snow  is 
lawfully  go  there  and  fetch  a  gammon  seen  in  the  caverns  or  hollows  upon 
of  bacon.*'  It  does  not  appear  that  a  the  high  moOntains  in  the  neighbour- 
claim  was  frequently  made,  whether  hood  in  the  tnonlh  of  3uue. 
from  the  raniy  of  such  an  instance  of       These  few   exVTaelft  w\\\  ^\n^  ^\vfc 


National  M<mument  at  Runnymede  HtggeiUd. 


1^ 

reader  some  idea  of  the  facetiousness 
of  oar  ancestors,  but  there  are  many 
other  tenures  of  equally  trifling  terms, 
and  those  who  would  wish  to  dip 
more  deeply  into  the  subject  may  be 
referred  tp  Littleton,  Coke,  and  more 
especially  Blount,  who  seems  to  have 
taken  particular  pleasure  in  preser\'ing 
these  "fragmenU  antiquiiatis'*  as  he 
call  them,  **  for  the  diversion  of  some 
and  for  the  instruction  of  others.*' 

W.  L.  D. 

Mr.  Urbaw,  Bath,  Jan,  5. 

IT  has  l)een  for  some  lime  in  my 
mind  to  recommend  to  public  cog- 
nizance a  Plan,  which  would  tend 
Sreatly  to  national  honour  and  to  the 
iffuston  of  a  patriotic  spirit.  '  The 
only  cause  of  its  delay  in  transmission 
has  arisen  from  the  doubt  which  I 
entertained,  as  to  the  most  eligible 
method  of  giving  it  notoriety.  But  on 
reflection,  1  yield  a  willing  preference 
to  your  agreeable  Miscellany,  as  much 
from  partiality,  as  from  its  being  an 
appropriate  channel  for  developement. 
From  the  *«  Essay  on  Local  Poetry," 
which  is  prefixed  to  the  new  edition  of 
*'  Bidcombe  Hill,'*  are  extracted  the 
following  observations : 

"  However  extraneous  to  the  general 
purport  of  this  essay,  yet  not  wholly  un- 
connected with  thb  particular  portion  of 
it>  is  the  expression  of  regret  At  our  desti- 
tution of  national  monuments  to  memorize 
important  events,  to  illustrate  loyal  attach- 
ment, and  to  kindle  patriotic  enthusiasm. 
However  Great  Britain  may  rival  more 
ancient  nations  in  literature  and  arms,  yet 
it  she  exceeded  by  the  Promethean  fire  of 
their  sculptute,  and  the  iropoting  magnifi- 
cience  of  their  public  edifices.  The  Par- 
thenon at  Athens,  and  the  G)liseum  at 
Rome,  will  leave  no  parallels  in  the  posthu- 
mous History  of  England.  Lei  our  mo- 
narch, nobles,  and  commoners,  aggrandize 
their  country  by  promoting  the  liberal  arts. 
Let  them  emulate  their  fame,  by  acting  in 
the  spirit  of  Augustus,  who  found  Rome  of 
brick  and  left  it  of  marble.  But  to  return 
to  my  subject.  Why  does  not  some  ponde- 
rous column  pierce  the  clouds  from  Kunny- 
uede,  inscribed  un  one  side  with  the  decla- 
ration of  the  Barous,  '*  nolumus  leges 
AngliflD  mutari ;  "  and  on  the  reverse,  with 
those  matchless .  lines  of  our  Bard,  where 
loyalty,  patriotism,  and  poetry,  strive  for 
pre-eminence  ? 
**  Here  was  that  cliarter  signed,  wherein  the 

crown 
All  marks  of  arbitrary  power  laid  down ; 
Tyrant  and  slave^  those  names  of  hate  and 

fear. 
The  happier  style  of  King  and  subject  bear. 


[Jan. 


Happy  when    both   to   the  samt   oaotn 

move, 
When  Kings  give  liberty,  and  subjects  love." 

Pp.17,  18. 

If  the  reigning  monarch  has  endear- 
ed himself  from  any  especial  circum- 
stances to  popular  feelings,  it  has  been 
from  his  royal  munificence  to  the  un- 
employed manufacturers,  and  to  the 
furnisning  artisans  with  labour  in  his 
roagnificient  improvements.  Would 
it  then,  Mr.  Urnan,  be  too  much  to 
hope,  that  ihe  plan  suggested  in  the 
above  extract  may  be  honoured  with 
the  same  exalted  patronage ;  and  can 
our  fellow-countrymen  be  insensible 
under  the  declaration,  that  the  charter 
of  royal,  and  aristocratical  and  popular 
rights,  which  is  the  heritage  of  Britons, 
was  signed,  sealed,  and  delivered  on 
the  plam  of  Runnymede,  and  neither 
obelisk,  cross,  column,  nor  temple^ 
attest  the  spot  of  its  concession  and 
ratification. 

It  will  be  recollected  by  many  of 
your  readers,  (for  your  publication,  not- 
withstanding its  numerous  rivals,  is  a 
favourite  with  our  citizens,)  that  to  the 
Rev.  Author  of  the  cited  extract,  our 
City  is  primarily  indebted  for  one  of  its 
most  splendid  improvements.  The 
removal  of  the  houses  which  shut  out 
the  view  of  our  venerable  Abbey,  was 
recommended  by  Mr.  Skurray,  in  an 
inaugural  sermon  before  the  mayor  and 
corporation,  and  has  since  been  acted 
upon  as  the  leases  fall  in.  The  pas- 
sages relative  to  this  event  are  very 
properly  inserted  in  Mr.  Britton*8 
recent  history  of  our  cathedral,  and 
may  be  found  at  pages  18()-7-8,  of  a 
volume  of  "Sermons  on  Public  Sub- 
jects and  Occasions." 

It  would  be  a  gratifying  circumstance, 
and  would  illustrate  our  national  cha- 
racter and  liberties,  if  the  same  voice 
which  animated  our  local  authorities 
to  an  act  of  high  honour  and  disinter- 
estedness, should  prove  the  instigator 
to  a  national  monument  at  Runny- 
mede. Its  erection  would  draw  down 
blessings  from  the  hearts  and  lips  of 
thousands  who  in  the  different  depart- 
ments necessary  for  its  construction, 
would  find  employment  ;  it  would 
stimulate  a  spirit  of  loyalty  when  *'  the 
love  of  many  waxes  cold,*'  and  no 
spectator  in  generations  unborn,  would 
survey  this  durable  monument  of  pa- 
triotism, without  fearing  God  and 
honouring  the  King. 

Yours^  &c.  Sbnbx. 


Etf-  M.A. 

SemorIi&m^'t/i€  Society  of  AnhifuarUr: 

B«T7il741-2 Diat  ]S2g. 


T.I  fM.'uiM^  J'JLKd^.&'A 


iwo  I  ir  ] 

MEMOIR  OP  JOSEPH  CRADOCK,  ESQ.  M.A.  P.S.A. 

mtk  a  Perlrait. 

Drc.  15,  1896.     At  his  iirartmeiiU  law   Mr.   Cradock   ever  retained    ihe 

in  tbc  StriDd,  io  hit  SAth  year,  aCler  foaileit  recdieciioni.  Shedledin  1774, 

gndiully   declining  for  about  iliiee  aged  56  ;  end  wai  buried  at  Wijiord, 

week),  Joaeph    Cradock,   Esq.  M.A.  in  Notiinghamihire. 
•eaior  Fellow  ot  the  Socieij  of  Anti-         Wbcu  about  nine  year*  old,  young 

qoario-  Cradock  wai  placed  at  the  giammar- 

Mr.  Cradock  wai  the  anlfviTvivin^  tchool  of   LeiccaMr,    then  und>;r  tlie 

"  '        '    Cradock,  Eaq.,  or  LeT-  c.nre  of  the  Re*.  Gcrrard   Andrewet, 

miejr,  hj  Mary  Annice,  where    be   had    for   fellow    acholari, 

hiifirM  wife.     He  waa  born  atLeicea-  ^aitQcr^afieiwardiMiisterorEinanuel, 

ter,  gihof  Januaty,  1741-S;  aud  bu-  ■  W^jaraafopie  yean  hiiaeoior, and  tlie 

liied  at  St.  Martin'* church  thrre,  UtUt  Ma  of  bii  adiool mailer,  Geirard  An- 

DeccmbcT  foUowins.  .     .  ^Ircwea,  thakic  Dean  of  Canterbury, 

At  X  late   period  of  hh   hk,  Mr,  ivl>°  ^ai  hit  Junior.     For  botl)  thcte 

Cradock  haduken  gresL  pi'\n?  loeliic!-:'  eminent  men  Mr.  Cradock  retained  a 

date  ihc  origin  of  hi>   own   r^aiily  }  ttrong affection   till  ilitir  dealha  )  and 

and  the  reiuTt  oT  hii   resc.irclioa  vraa,  here   it  may   be   rrtiijrkcd,    that  iha 

that  he  conceived   hiniicir  in   b«  .de^  grandinn  of  hia  old  niailer,  the  preient 

ccnded  from  Cirldoc,  hy  ilti-  Itoniani  Her,  Geriard  Thoniat  Andrewet,  oer- 

'  leroied  Caractacui.  The  tiiul  defeat  of  ioiuied  the  labl  sultma  ritei  at  Mr. 

this  patriot  and  defender  uf  hiicoiinvry,  Cradock*  funeral, 
wat  at  a  DtountaiD  nenr  Slir>'iv:,|jiiry.         Whilst  ;reudent  at  Leicealer,  |oung 

named   after  him  Caer  C;iriiili>c  ;  mi  Crndock  was  auiited  in  hi*  (ludiei  by 

fail  fljin?    deieendants    teirhU   ^fter-  a  man  of  jjowerful  geniua,  and  ■  cel»- 

Ward*  in  Leiceitenhire,  Si..fibtcl shire;  btated  Greek  scholar,  the  Rei-.  John 

Rich-  jscbson.  Matter  o(  Wigalon'i  Ho)pi> 

elfrnj  Ul,  author  of  "  Chronological  AnUqui> 

throngh  Biitanny,  Mr.  Crvilock  jref og^  ties,''  und  a  staunch  oppouent  ofWar. 

oiaed  the  cretl  of   hii   family,  al  a  burtoti.t     At  b  reward  for  an  ezerciac 

village  called  Caradoc.  not  far   friim  that  nleasrd  him,  Jackiion  presented  hia 

Rennet,  and  the  laiiguWe  of  (hat  pro-  pupil  with  an  Elxevir  edition  of  Bu- 

Tince  still  bean  great  affinity  to  that  of  chanan'i  Poems,  wliich  Mr.  Cradock 

Wales,  ever  retained  with  great  veneration. 

Mr.  Cradock't  family  long  tMidcd  at         In  patting  ihrougn  London  to  Bath, 

Leiceiter.     His  great-grandTather,  Eit  with  hia  father,  Mr.  Cradock   for  the 

mand  Cradock,  was   mayor  in   I&15,  lirtt  time  witnessed  a  theatrical  exhibi- 

asd  again   in    1657;   and  his   grand-  tion;  it  seemi  to  have   made  a  very 

father,  Edmund,  lened  that  office  in  tirong  impression  on  him,  ashe  to  iha 

l7tlSi  from  thisgenlleinaa  is  descended  last  remembered  with  delight  the  plea- 

ihepretentrepresentatiTeofthe  family,  sure   he  then   enjoyed.     It  wa*  Miu 

SirEdmundCradock  Hattopp,  bart.  Ma  ck]in'a  benefit,  and  the  play  "A* 

Mr.  Cradock's  father  was  a  younger  you   like   h  ;''  in   which  Woodward 

brother.  He  acijuired  a  large  property,  and  Mn.  Cibber  both  performed. 
and    purchased    many  estatei   in   the         It  was  Mi.  Ciadock's  miifortune  to 

Boroogh  of  Leicester,  and   at  Knigh-  loie  his  father,   when  he   was  about 

ton  and  Gumley,  in  that  county.    Mr.  aeventeeo  veaia  of   age,   he  dying  in 

Cradock's  mother,  Mary  Annice,  died  17^9,   aged  70-     After   a   short  time, 

in  1749,  azed46;  and  his  father  mar*  Mr.  Crgdock    obtained    his    trustee** 

ried.secondly,  Anne  daughter  of  Rich-  consent  to  spend  the  seaton  at  Scar 

ui  Ladlin,  M.B.,  and  sister  of  two  boroui^h,  where,  at   the  table  of  Or 

distiDSdlthed    clergymen   and   maihe-  (afterwardiSlr  Noah)  Thomas,  hcwaa 

BNiitnaos,  the  Rev,  William  and  Tho-  admitted  to   company,   which  if  not 

mas  Ludlam.*      For   hia   mother-in-  very   sui^ble   lo   his   age  or  station, 
•  SMSeeooiiCi  of  tbcKcmimnt  brothers  t  Sm  an  ample  memoir  of  Mr.  JkIboO, 

b  Kcbok's  HiMoiy  of  UicMtenUra,  vol.  >o  the  Hiitorj  of  Leioeitenbuc,  <«A.  V.  -g- 

LfLalS.udMS.  49( — SOO. 
Act.  Mia.  Jmmtry,  1117. 


18 


Memoir  of  Joteph  CradQck%  Esq.  M,  A,  F,  S,  if. 


[Jan< 


must  have  been  very  inviting  to  a- 
young  man  ;  the  Duke  of  York,  Mar- 
quess of  Gran  by,  Mr.  Sterne,  Mrs. Gib- 
ber, and  Gol.  Sloper,  were  frequent 
visitors  at  the  Doctor's  ubie.  After 
figuring  for  about  six  weeks,  dancing 
at  every  ball,  and  paruking  of  every 
diversion,  he  was  hastily  recalled,  and 
most  stroncly  reproved  for  his  levity 
and  imprudence. 

The  lime  had  now  arrived  when  he 
ought  to  have  been  sent  to  college;  but 
at  the  suggestion  of  his  friend  Dr.  Hurd, 
his  trustees  first  placed  him  for  a  year 
with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pickering,  of  Mack- 
worth,  Derbyshire,  who  had  no  other 
pupil  except  Mr.  Burdett,  father  of  the 
present  Baronet.  Here  he  was  happily 
secluded  under  a  regular  course  of 
study,  which  soon  fitted  him  for 
Emanuel  Gol  lege,  Gambridge. 

But  first  he  was  permitted  to  visit  Lon« 
don,  and  be  present  at  the  gaieties  con- 
te(|uent  on  the  coronation  of  Geom 
the  Third.  This  was  the  first  time  Mr. 
Gradock  made  any  considerable  suy 
in  London.  He  soon  acquired  a  last- 
ing relish  for  the  intellectual  pleasures 
only  to  be  enjoyed  in  perfection  at  the 
Metropolis.  Theatrical  amosemeuts 
engrossed  much  of  his  attention.  Gar- 
rick  was  then  in  the  zenith  of  hit 
fame,  and  Mr.  Gradock  was  introduced 
to  him  behind  the  scenes,  when  dressed 
as  Oakley,  in  the  "Jealous  Wife.*' 
This  introduction  afterwards  ripened 
into  a  lasting  friendship ;  for  they  were 
congenial  spirits: 

Mr.  Gradock  then  retired  to  his  stu- 
dies at  Emanuel  GoUege,  where  he 
profited  by  the  able  lectures  of  his 
quondam  schoolfellow  Farmer,  in  Aris- 
tophanes ;  he  had  a  private  tutor  in 
the  Greek  classics  in  general ;  and 
ever  looked  back  with  great  satisfac- 
tion to  the  lectures  on  the  Greek  Tes- 
tament by  the  principal  tutor  of  his 
College,  tne  celebratea  Mr.  Hubbard. 

Having  no  house  of  his  own,  Mr. 
Gradock  passed  the  vacations  of  Gol- 
lege  with  various  friends,  particularly 
with  the  family  of  Sir  John  Gust, 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Gommons ; 
Peter  Wyche,  esq.  of  Great  Ormond 
Street;  Mr.  Banks,  Ghancellor  of 
York,  the  intimate  friend  of  Lord 
Mansfield ;  I^dy  Wilmot,  of  Ghaddes- 
den,  Derbyshire ;  &c.  &c.  Such  com- 
pany was  more  inviting  to  a  gay  and 
wealthy  young  man,  than  dry  study  at 
Colkg^.  The  consequence  was  that, 
rrbeo  ibe  time  arrived^  Mr.  Gradock. 


dreaded  his  examination  in  mathe- 
matics, (in  which  science  alone  ho- 
nours could  be  obtained)  and,  though 
he  had  devoted  himself  closely  to  clas- 
sical studies,  never  offered  himself  for 
his  degree.  But  declamation  was  his 
forte ;  and  he  entertained  a  hope  that 
the  young  King  would  have  visited 
Gambridge,  when  he  was  to  have  been 
recommended  to  speak  before  his  Ma- 
jesty, which  might  have  entitled  him 
to  an  honorary  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts.  Of  tliis  he  was  disappointed ; 
and  he  finally  left  Gambridge  without 
graduating. 

In  town  he  had  been  introduced  to 
the  amiable  young  lady  whom  in  1765 
he  married.  She  was  Anna  Francisca, 
third  daughter  of  the  late  Francis  Strat- 
ford, of  Merevale  Hall,  Warwickshire, 
esq.  and  was  then  residing  with  her 
srand mother  in  Great  Ormond-street. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gradock  settled  in  what 
was  then  a  fashionable  part  of  the  town, 
in  a  house  in  Dean-street,  Soho.  But 
shortly  after  his  marriage,  he  spent 
some  time  in  visiting  his  wife*s  rela- 
tions. Her  eldest  sister  was  married  to 
Richard  Geast,  of  Klythe  Hall,  War- 
wickshire, esq.  a  descendant  of  Sir  W. 
Du^ale,  ana  '  father  of  the  present 
Knight  of  the  Shire  for  Warwick  ;  her 
•econd  sister  was  Mrs.  Ghetwynd,  late 
of  Bath,  who  died  in  1811  ;  and  her 
youngest  sister.  Miss  Maria  Stratford, 
latterTy  resided  at  Mortimer,  near  Read- 
ing, at  a  house  she  purchased  of  the 
present  Viscount  Sidmouth,  where  she 
died  in  1797.  At  Merevale,  the  seat  of 
his  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  Stratford,  he 
passed  his  time  very  delightfully,  in  the 
enjoyment  of  a  good  library,  and 
amusing  himself  in  landscape  garden- 
ing, a  science  in  which  (as  we  shall 
hereafter  have  to  notice  more  fully,)  he 
excelled. 

Dnring  the  honey-moon,  he  was 
unexpectedly  gratified  by  the  presently 
tion,  from  the  hands  of  the  Ghancellor 
of  Gambridge,  the  Duke  of  Newcastle, 
of  a  Royal  Degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 
As  this  was  the  first  of  the  kind  that 
had  been  conferred  on  a  student  of 
Emannel,  the  Gol  lege  was  pleased  to 
give  a  handsome  entertainment  on 
the  occasion.  Mr.  Gradock  ever  re- 
tained a  pleasing  recollection  of  his 
residence  at  Emanuel ;  and  in  his  will 
bequeathed  to  the  Gol  lege  a  fine  an- 
tique Roman  urn,  which  had  been  sent 
to  him  from  Italy,  by  his  relation  Sir 
£.  G.  Hartopp,  bart.  whibt  on  bis 


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triTels,  in  gratitude  for  Mr.  Cradock's 
serxices  as  his  representative  in  the 
office  of  High -sheriff  for  Leicester- 
shire. This  vase  is  engraved  in  the 
**  History  of  Leicestershire/'  vol.  ii. 
p.  590. 

IVir.  Cradock  was  now  thoroughly 
initiated  into  all  the  gaieties  and  amuse- 
ments of  a  town  life,  and  seems  to 
have  spent  much  of  his  time  in  thea- 
trical and  musical  company.  The  bent 
of  his  mind  lay  that  way.  "  I  was  born 
a  player,  a  fisher,  and  a  gardener/*  said 
htr  to  a  friend,  shortly  before  his  death. 
•*  If/*  as  Horace  observes,  "  you  chase 
away  nature  with  ever  so  great  in- 
dignity, she  will  always  return  upon 
you."  There  is  we  think  no  doubt, 
that  Mr.  Cradock  would  have  adopted 
the  stage  for  a  profession,  had  he  not 
been  born  to  an  ample  patrimony.  He 
was  now  the  intimate  associate  of  Gar- 
rick  (whom  he  much  resembled  in 
figure  and  style  of  actinz) ;  the  witty, 
though  profligate  Foote,lJr.  Arne,Cum- 
berland,  Mrs.  Yates,  &c.  Many  in* 
teresting  anecdotes  of  these  celebrated 
characters  enliven  his  ''Memoirs.*'  But 
Mr.  Cradock  was  at  the  same  time  ad- 
mitted to  the  first  literary  circles  of 
that  dav,  and  such  a  constellation  of  ge- 
nius will  not  soon  again  shine  together. 
With  the  Duke  of  Grafton,  LordThur- 
low,  and  his  brother  the  Bishop,  Lord 
Sandwich,  Bishop  Hinchliflfe,  Bishop 
Hurd,  Bishop  Percy,  the  giant  in  litera- 
ture Johnson,  Burke,  the  amiable  Gold- 
smith, Dr.  Askew,  Dr.  Farmer,  Dr. 
Parr,  Geors^e  Sieevens,  &c.  &c.  he  was 
in  habits  of  intimacy.  "Of  Dr.  John- 
son's manner/'  says  Mr.  Cradock, 
"  Garrick  was  a  great  mimick,  and  by 
his  imitations  at  times  rendered  John- 
son abundantly  ridiculous.  Tom  Da- 
vies  monopolized  his  laugh,  and  his 
laugh  was  that  of  a  rhinoceros ;  but 
in  a  plain,  dictatorial  style,  Mr. 
Nichols,  from  a  long  acquaintance, 
could  generally  speak  most*like  the 
venerable  Luminary.** 

In  1766,  his  friend  Dr.  Farmer  ad- 
dressed to  Mr.  Cradock,  his  celebrated 
Essay,  whioh  determined  the  question 
as  to  the  '*  Learning  of  Shakspeare ;"  a 
'  more  satisfactory  pamphlet  has  scarcely 
ever  appeared.  Farmer  was  about  that 
time  a  frequent  visitor  of  Mr.  Cra- 
dock, then  in  Dean-street,  Soho ;  from 
whence  Dr.  Farmer's  sister  was  mar- 
ried to  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Mr.  Byron, 
•  Prebendaff  of  DarhMm,    In  the  same 

r,  Mr.  Cradock  gere  a  terrice  of 


{>]ate  to  the  parish  church  of  Gum- 
ey,  and  about  that  time  took  up 
his  residence  at  his  mansion  in  that 
village,  which  he  had  then  recently 
built.  It  was  rather  calculated  from 
its  size  and  splendour,  for  a  nobleman 
of  immense  fortune,  than  for  his  more 
liiiiited  means.  But  there  is  some  ex- 
case  for  Mr.  Cradock.  He  was  encou- 
raged to  pursue  his  plan  of  building  by  a 
relative,  who  proaiised  to  leave  him  nis 
property  and  estate,  which  ultimately 
went  to  another  branch  of  his  family. 
A  similar  disappointment  from  another 
quarter,  occurred  some  years  after- 
wards. Indeed  we  doubt  not,  that 
the  building  of  this  mansion  laid  the 
first  seedsofthose  embarrassments  that 
ever  afterwards  embittered  his  life. 
The  fact  was,  that  Mr.  Cradock  had 
never  been  initiated  into  the  value  of 
money.      He    came    into  life   under 

?;reat  disadvantages,  without  a  parent's 
riendly  care,  and  no  doubt  was  fre- 
quently Xhe  prey  of  designing  men. 

At  Gumley,  however,  he  settled, 
and  his  embarrassments  were  scarcely 
known  to  any  but  himself  and  his  amia- 
ble Lady.  He  was  on  all  occasions 
the  person  to  come  forward  in  the  most 
prompt  and  spirited  manner  with  his 
purse  or  advice,  whenever  either  would 
contribute  to  public  good  or  public 
amusement.  Whether  as  steward  of 
a  race  course,  conductor  of  a  public 
musical  festival,  or  chairman  of  a . 
canal  or  other  public  meeting,  he  was 
ever  ready,  and  always  discharged 
those  various  duties  to  the  satisfaction 
of  all  parties  concerned. 

In  1767>  not  having  any  shelter  from 
a  profession,  he  was  early  in  life  called 
on  to  fill  the  office  of  High  Sheriff  for 
Leicestershire;  and  in  17S1,  acted  as 
representative  in  that  office  for  his  rela- 
tive. Sir  E.  C.  Hartopp,  bart. 

In  1768,  he  was  elected  a  Fellow  of 
the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  at  the  re- 
commendation of  his  friend  Dr.  As- 
kew ;  and  at  his  death  was  the  senior 
Fellow  of  that  learned  body. 

Mr.  Cradock's    love    for    dramatic 
amusements  has  been  before  alluded  to. 
He  now  fitted  up  a  ,small  theatre  in 
his  hall  at  Gumley;  and  the  private 
theatricals  there  were  Ions   the   talk 
of  the  country  round.     Mr.  Cradock 
and  his  accomplished  lady  were  per- 
formers, and  were  supported  bv  tLiaai* 
(eur  friends  of  distincuon.     QaiT\c>L 
was  sometifnea  his  j^uesl;    aud  Mt. 
Cradock*8  powers  of  acun^  UiV]  V»^ 


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judged  of,  by  the  anecdote,  that  Garriek 
proposed  to  play  the  Ghost  to  Mr. 
Cradock's  Hamlet;  and  that  Garriek 
ip?as  to  act  Lord  Ogilby,  whilst  Mr. 
Cradock  was  to  fill  two  characters  in 
the  same  comedy.  Sir  John  Melville 
and  Brush. 

Mr.  Cradock  wrote  only  one  pro- 
logue for  his  friend  Garriek,  who  was 
himself  distinguished  for  this  species 
of  composition.  It  was  the  prologue 
to  the  revived  tragedy  of  Timoleon, 
and  is  printed  in  Mr.Cradock*t  "  Me- 
moirs, *  vol.  I.  p.  210. 

At  the  time  or  the  Stratford  Jubilee, 
in  1769,  Mr.  Cradock  was  so  happy  as 
to  be  enabled  to  assist  his  friend  Gar- 
riek in  several  minor  arrangements, 
which  drew  from  the  great  actor  his 
especial  acknowledgements. 

Mr.  Cradock  also  collected  at  Gum- 
ley  a  verv  splendid  library  \  among 
other  valuable  books,  several  first 
editions  of  the  classics.  A  Euripides, 
with  Milton's  MS.  notes,  mentioned 
by  Dr.  Johnson,  and  more  fully  by 
Mr.  Joddrell,  in  his  "  Illustrations  of 
Euripides;"  this  curious  volume  Mr. 
Craoock  presented  to  his  friend  Sir 
Henry  Haiford,  a  short  time  before  his 
death.  A"Manilius,"  with  Dr.  Bent- 
ley's  MS.  notes,  &c. 

Mr.  Cradock's  taste  for  landscape 
gardening  was  first  made  known  to 
the  public  by  an  Essay  on  that  subject, 
which  he  inserted  in  a  little  volume^ 
printed  in  1774,  entitled,  '*  Village 
Memoirs ;  in  a  series  of  Letters,  be- 
tween a  Clergyman  and  his  Family  in 
the  Country,  and  his  Son  in  Town." 
This  little  novel  was  a  vehicle  for  ob- 
servations on  religion,  poetry,  criti- 
.cism,  theatrical  amusements,  and 
other  subjects  (as  well  as  landscape 
gardening),  and  was  favourably  no- 
ticed by  the  Critical  and  Monthly  Re- 
views. Mr.  Cradock  seems  to  hare 
contemplated  a  more  enlarged  publi- 
cation on  this  subject,  but  conceived 
it  to  be  supersedea  by  a  work  by  the 
Rev.  George  Mason,  1795,  which 
most  ably  and  kindly  noticed  Mr. 
Cradock's  Essay.  He,  however,  re- 
printed the  substance  of  his  Essay  in 
4iis  "  Literary  Memoirs,"  vol.  i.  pp'.  47 
—61. 

For  very  many  years  Mr.  Cradock 
exercised  his  taste  for  landscape,  gar- 
dening in  his  own  .beautiful  oomaia. 
Nature  had  been  bountiful  in  the 
formation  of  the  place 4  and  taste  waa 
crery  where  coaspicuous.    A  part  (tf 


the  plantation  was  originally  made  by 
the  late  reverend  and  benevolent  Mr. 
Hanbury,  rector  of  Church  Langton, 
CO.  Leicester,  with  a  view  to  succea^r 
sive  sales  of  timber,  for  the  benefit  of 
an  extensive  charity.  He  had  a  lease 
for  39  years;  but  the  unexpired  part 
of  the  term  was  afterwards  purchased 
by  Mr.  Cradock.  The  walks  through 
the  plantations  for  several  vears  being 
generously  open  to  the  public,  it  wat 
a  fashionable  resort,  in  summer,  for 
company  from  Leicester  and  the  neigh- 
bourhood. The  views  hence  are  pic- 
turesque and  striking ;  and  from  a  hill 
near  the  mansion,  is  a  most  extensive 
prospect,  from  beyond  Atherstone  on 
one  side,  to  the  extremity  of  the  vale 
beyond  Rockingham  Castle  on  tlie 
other.  Gumley,  from  time  immemo- 
rial, has  been  famous  for  iu  fox-earths. 

Mr.  Cradock's  taste  and  skill  in  mu^ 
sic  led  him  also  to  the  intimacy  of  the 
Earl  of  Sandwich,  Mr.  Joah  Bates, 
&c.  At  Hinchinbrook,  the  seat  of 
Lord  Sandwich,  Mr.  Cradock  was 
frequently  domesticated.  During  the 
Christmas  week  oratorios  were  there 
performed  by  the  first  musical  pro- 
fessors of  the  day.  Mr.  Bates,  Sigoor 
Giardini,  Norris,  Champness,  and 
Greatorex,  resularly  attended.  The 
unfortunate  Miss  Ray,  then  under  the 
protection  of  Lord  Sandwich,  possess- 
ed great  powers  of  song,  and  Lord 
Sandwich  was  himself  a  performer. 

In  1771  >  on  the  opening  of  the  Lei- 
cester Infirmary,  Sept.  11th,  a  grand 
overture,  and  select  pieces  of  musick 
from  the  Messiah,  were  performed  at 
St.  Martin's  Church,  commencing 
with  the  Coronation  Anthem.  Dr. 
Green,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  preached 
on  the  occasion.  In  the  evening  there 
was  a  grand  concert  at  the  Assembly 
Room.  The  whole  was  conducted 
by  Mr.  Cradock  and  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Jenner.  Mr.  Garriek  engaged  the 
principal  performers,  and  made  an 
offer  of  the  music-books  from  Drury- 
lane  Tlieatre.  Dr.  Fisher,  from  Co- 
vent- garden  Theatre,  led.  Vernon, 
Champness,  and  Mr.  Barthelemon,  saug 
both  at  the  church  and  in  the  even- 
ing ;  and  Fischer,  the  celebrated  haut- 
boy player,  waa  engaged.  From:  this 
originated  one  of  the  best- attended 
musick  meetings  that  had  been  seen 
at  that  time  in  England,  as  the  Go- 
vernors of  the  Leicester  Infirmary  con- 
tii^ufed  the  anniveraartet  of  its  opening, 
for  the  benefit  of  the  institution  |  parti- 


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caMf  io  i774»  wben  a  new  omn,  bv 
Sneuler»  wm  opeted.  Mr.  CradocK 
00  that  occaaioD  published  a  pathetic 
add  rem  which  it  printed  in  tne  Hit* 
tpcy  oC  Leiceitennirey  yoI.  i.  p.  533. 
Jephtha  wat  the  oratorio  telected  by 
Lord  Sandwich,  at  it  had  been  weA 
practited  at  Hiochinbrook,  and  hit 
Lordthip  and  all  his  band  attended. 
Giaidini  led;  Mr.  Bates  opened  the 
omxk\  Norris,  Chaoipness,  Miss  Ce- 
cilia Davit,  Ingletina  (prima  donna  at 
the  Opera  Houte^,  Mrs.  Scott,  Miss 
Harrop  (afterwards  Mrs.  Bates),  &c. 
conuj  bated  to  the  success  of  the  day. 
An  ode  was  written  for  the  occasion 
by  Mr.  Ccadock,  and  set  to  music  by 
Dr.  Boyce.  The  duet,  '<  Here  shall 
soft  Charity  lepair,"  has  ever  since 
been  much  admired.  This  ode  wat 
performed  at  Hinchinbrook  under  the 
direction  of  the  celebrated  Joah  Bates; 
after wardf  at  Coven t  Garden,  under 
ihe  direction  of  the  late  Mr.  Linleyi 
since  that  time,  again  at  Leicebter» 
when  Madame  Mara  tang  the  princi- 
pal air;  and  different  parts  of  it  are 
occasionally  introduced  into  our  cathe- 
dials,  and  on  charitable  occasions. 

The  band  of  musick  on  this  day 
was  uncommonly  effective;  and  the 
performers  were  hoiunired  with  the 
assistance  of  the  £arl  of  Sandwich  on 
the  kettle-drums. 

Besides  moat  of  the  nobility  and 
gentry  of  these  parts,  who  were  of  the 
auditory,  was  Omai,  the  famed  native 
of  Oubeite,  of  whom  Mr.  Cradock 
gives  many  interesting  anecdotes  in 
bis  "  Memoirs.'* 

Much  commendation  wat  due  to 
Mr.  Cradock  on  thit  occation,  who 
exerted  hit  powerful  interett,  particu- 
larly 10  having  the  organ  properly  10- 
tpected  by  competent  persont  whiltt 
building.  Thete  tervicet  were  re- 
warded by  the  following  public  vote 
of  thanks : 

''To  Joseph  Cradock,  esq.  of  Gumley. 
«  Sir,— When  to  manj  pertoM  of  the 
fiftt  rank,  as  well  as  the  most  emioeot  mu- 
siciaiis,  assembled  at  our  late  Oratorio,  have 
csprtssed  their  eatiie  approbation  of  the 
aev  eigan  bails  inid«r  your  diraetioos  \  is 
-wwdU  ba  vary  ongiateral,  either  ao  the  par 
riahiaaars  ec  subscribars,  not  to  aduow- 
kdga  thak  oblkatipa  «o  you.  Thaj  ara 
aa^sibU  tliis.  iwbH  lastnamant  owas  moeh 
of  its  paiiectioo  to  joar  •uparinundeocy,  aa 
nil  as  tha  skill  of  Mr.  Snaisler.  Your 
.4ll^ipgiuabad  Itftji  for  ^ou&e,  gottij,  and 


poliM  leamiagt  have  tuUt  yon  Jastly  ad* 
miradi  bat  it  is  the  application  of  ibtat 
talents  to  tha  glorj  of  God  and  tha  good  of 
mankind  [pH  both  which  'jtn,  have  lately 
given  a  noUa  example],  that  aMkea  joit 
univarsallj  esteemed.  Wa  ara  direetady 
both  bj  the  subscribers  snd  parishionert  • 
in  vestry  aisemblad,  to  return  jon  their 
sfaicere  thanks,  for  thus  enabling  them  to 
have  the  service  of  the  Church  performed 
in  a  manner  worthy  of  the  occasion.  Wa 
beg  leave  to  subscribe  ourselves,  with  the 
greatest  respect,  your  most  bumble  ser- 
vantt,  William  Carte,  Edward  Price,  Wil- 
liam  Watts,  Churchwardens  of  St.  Martin's^ 
Leicester." 

On  thit  occasion  also,  the  old  hun« 
dredth  Psalm  was  first  introduced,  with 
full  accompaniments,  and  was  greatly 
admired.  On  Lord  Sandwich't  return 
to  town,  thit  musical  meeting  became 
the  tubject  of  conversation  between 
hit  Majetty  and  hit  Lordthip,  and  waa 
the  occasion  of  the  tubteouent  grand 
commemorative  Mutical  Festival  in 
Westminster  Abbey. 

In  1773,  was  brought  forward  at 
Covent-garden  Theatre,  a  tragedy  by. 
Mr.  Cradock,  entitled  "  Zobeide.^'  It 
was  in  part  taken  from  an  nnfinisbed 
trazedy,  entitled  "  Les  Scythes,"  by 
VcStaire ;  who,  on  the  author  sending 
him  a  copy,  returned  the  following 
answer : 

«•  Sir,  9  Sfc^e,  1778,  h  Ftrney, 

Thanks  to  your  Muse,  a  foreign   copper 

shines,  [lines. 

Tum'd  into  gold,  and  eoin'd  In  sterling 

You  have  done  too  much  honour  to  an 
old  sick  man  of  eighty. 

I  am  with  tlie  most  smcere  esteem  and 
gratitude.        Sir,  your  obedient  servant,   . 

VoLTAiat.** 

This  play  was  well  received.  Mr. 
CradockS  friend  Dr.  Goldsmith  wrote 
the  Prologue,  and  Murphy  the  Epi- 
logue. Tne  plav  was  published.  In 
the  same  year,  Mr.  Cradock  returned 
the  compliment  to  Goldsmith,  by 
writing  tne  Epilogue  to  his  comedy, 
**  She  Stoops  to  Conquer." 

Mr.  Craidock  was  much  connected 
with  the  Duke  of  Grafton,  during  hit 
stormy  administration,  and  more  than 
once  declined  the  honour  of  a  teat  io 
Parliament  He  wat  thought  of  a» 
tub-preceptor  of  the  Prince  of  Walea, 
when  Dr.  Hinchcliffe  wat  intended 
for  preceptor.  But  the  Duke  of  Graf- 
ton retiring  from  adfiiinittration,  and 
I.ofd  North  acccd'io^  vo  ix,  v^^^^^^ 


S9 


Mmovr jtf  Joseph  Crddock,  Eiq.  M.  A.  F.  S.J. 


[Ji 


those  appointments,  ipvhich  were  filled 
up  by  the  late  Abp.  Markham  and 
Dean  Jackson.  With  Bp.  Hinch- 
cliflfe  Mr.  Cradock  passed  many  de- 
lighiful  days  at  Trinity  College,  Cam- 
bridge, in  the  society  of  the  poet  Gray 
and  other  eminent  men. 

Mr.  Cradock  never  engaged  in  ei- 
ther politics  or  controvervies  of  any 
kind,  but  once  oflered  to  the  pub- 
lic an  ironical  pamphlet,  entitled, 
"The  Life  of  John  Wilkes,  esq.  in 
the  manner  of  Plutarch.  Being  a 
Specimen  of  a  larger  Work.  The  se- 
cond Edition,  revised  and  corrected. 
London,  J.  Wilkie,  1773,"  8vo;  with 
Portraits  of  "  Worthies,"  viz.  Wat 
Tyler,  Alderman  Beck  ford,  John  Cade, 
esq.  John  Wilkes,  esq.  "These  are 
thy  gods,  O  Britain !"  This  is  now  a 
scarce  pamphlet,  and  was  written 
whilst  its  auiltor  was  smartino;  from 
the  effects  of  the  violence  of  Wilkes's 
mob,  which  destroyed  the  windows  of 
his  house  in  Dean-street,  Soho.  Our 
venerable  author  had  forgotten  this 
jeu  (Tetprii,  till  he  was  reminded  of  it 
by  a  well-known  and  highly  respected 
Biographer,  who  happened  to  |iOssess 
a  copy. 

In  1777  Mr.  Cradock  published 
"  An  Account  of  some  of  the  most 
romantic  parts  of  North  Wales,'*  i2«. 
His  name  is  appended  to  the  "  Dedi- 
cation to  Sir  Waikin  Williams  Wynne. 
This  "Account*'  was  the  result  of  a 
Tour  he  took  in  the  Autumn  of  177(>* 

In  1783,  soon  after  the  Peace  was 
signed,  and  in  consequence  of  Mrs. 
Cradock  having  suffered  from  a  para- 
lytic seizure,  by  the  advice  of  Dr.  He- 
berden,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cradock  pro- 
ceeded to  Paris;  and  in  June  17S4, 
went  on  a  long  and  interesting  tour  to 
the  South  of  France,  Flanders,  and 
Holland.  This  tour  forms  the  sub- 
ject of  Mr.  Cradock's  second  volume 
of  the  "  Literary  Memoirs,*'  recently 
published.  (See  our  last  vol.  p.  43S.) 

Mr.  Cradock  was  fortunate  enough 
to  have  entertained  at  his  seat  at 
Gumley,  the  Duke  de  Lauzun;  which 
accidental  civility  afterwards  led  to 
the  admission  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cra- 
dock into  the  first  circles  of  the  king* 
dom  of  France.  They  remained  on 
the  Continent  till  June  12,  1786, 
when  they  landed  at  Dover. 

For  many  years  after  his  return  to 

this  country,  ill  health  compelled  Mr. 

Cradock  to  withdraw  in  a  gr^t  meB* 

sure  from  9odetfi  bat  be  cootiooed  lo 


amuse  himself  in  the  embeHisbmeiit  of 
his  grounds,  and  the  enlargement  of 
a  piece  of  water  at  the  back  of  hb 
house,  which  latterly  he  termed  the 
Lake.  The  foilowins  was  jone  of  the 
last  effusions  of  his  Muse  s 

'*  Jnseription  for  a  Buildmg  on  the  Bankt  ^ 
a  Lake  in  one  of  the  Midland  Omniie$.* 

Hail,  shadowy  Lake!   whote  glkiing  wava 

sereue 
Reflects  the  beftuties  of  the  vtryiog  soena ! 
Here  lei  the  Muse  her  humble  vigils  keep* 
And  quaff  the  gales  from  yoa  impenoiag 

steep ; 
Here  let  the  year  her  early  fragrance  flingt 
And  glittering  plumage  dip  the  hasty  wing ; 
Here  on  the  briuk  Pomona's  blossoms  gUnr, 
And  finby  myriads  sparkle  from  below ) 
Here  let  the  mind  at  peaceful  anchor  rett. 
And  Heaven's  own  sunshine  cheer  the  guUfe- 

less  breast." 

In  1815,  however,  his  desire  to  ap- 
pear before  the  public  as  an  author 
again  revived ;  but  he  proceeded  very 
cautiously.  In  that  year  he  published 
anonymously,  **  Four  Dissertations, 
Moral  and  Religious,  addressed  to  the 
rising  Generation.  1.  On  Covetous- 
ness.  11.  On  Hypocrisy.  III.  On  the 
prosperous  Conduion  of  Men  in  this 
World.  IV.  On  Continuance  in  well- 
doing.'* 8vo,  1816.  (See  vol.  Lxxxvi. 
i.  p.  43.)  These  Four  Essays  were 
drawn  up  as  sermons  for  particular 
friends ;  and  the  last  was  preached  at 
Chester;  but  whether  it  was  ever  pub- 
lished in  that  form,  is  not  known* 
as  the  author  was  then  absent  in  the 
South  of  France. 

On  Christmas  Day,  18 16,  Mr.  Cra- 
dock lost  his  amiable  lady.  She  was 
proceeding  down  stairs,  to  go  to 
church,  when  she  fell  in  a  fit,  and 
instantly  expired.    They  had  no  issue. 

In  1821  he  published  a  little  novel 
to  expose  the  horrid  vice  of  gaming, 
entitled  "  Fidelia ;  or.  The  Prevalence 
of  Fashion,*'  12mo.  The  story  is  af- 
fecting, and  gives  a  striking  lesson  on 
the  danger  of  hesitation  and  delay  in 
breaking  off  bad  acquaintance.  The 
language  is  much  more  simple  than  is 
usually  found  in  works  of  fiction ',  and 
this  gives  it  the  air  of  a  true  story* 
which,  it  is  to  be  feared,  has  too  often 
occurred.  The  manners  and  conver- 
sation are  those  of  the  times  whea 
Mr.  Cradock  was  fiiit  introduced  into 
polite  society. 

•  Sea  a  Sonnet  on  thb  sabjact  by  Mr. 
Nicholsi  in  vol.  Lut^iti.  i,  p,  65. 


imr.]  Mtmmr  of  JotepkCradock,  Etq.M.  jL  P.S.J.  S5 

In  18S3»  t  Tery  important  step  wai  afiorded  the  public  no  small  gratiii- 

rctolTed  open  by  Mr.  Cnidock,  which,  cation. 

considering  that  he  was  then  82  years  lu  Jan.  18S6,  he  published  the  first 
of  age,  shows  the  firmness  of  his  mind,  volume  of  his  "  Liierary  and  MisceU 
and  his  honoorable  principles.  Find-  laneous  Memoirs,**  dedicated  £y  per- 
king his  estate  embarrassed  by  mort-  mission  to  the  King,  an  honour  of 
gages  and  other  incumbrances,  he  which  Mr.  Cradock  was  justly  proud, 
made  a  noble  sacrifice,  by  passing  it  (See  our  vol.  xcvi.  i.  pp.  62,  836.) 
into  the  hands  of  the  gentleman,  who.  In  the  latter  part  of  the  same  year 
had  it  been  unincumbered  would  pro-  (only  a  feiv  weeks  before  his  death), 
bably  have  been  his  heir,  on  conditions  he  published  a  second  volume,  con- 
agreeable  to  all  parties ;  and  retired  to  tainmg  his  Tour  to  Paris  and  the 
town  with  a  very  moderate  annuity.  South  of  France  in  the  years  1783  to 
He  also  at  the  same  time  parted  with  1786.  (See  our  vol.  xcvi.  ii.  p.  433.) 
hb  splendid  hbrary.  But  Literature,  Here  we  feel  induced  to  make  use  of 
and  occasional  intercourse  with  a  few  a  letter  leceived  from  a  highly  distin- 
choice  friends,  seemed  more  than  to  guished  friend  of  Mr.  Cradock,  ad- 
compensate  for  the  advantages  he  had  dressed  to  ourselves,  which  exhibits 
voluntarily  suneiidered.  He  then  an-  Mr.  Cradock's  character  in  a  favour- 
plied  seriously  to  what  he  originally  able,  yet  strictly  just  light: 
mtended  should  have  been  done  by  *<  I  do  not  think  1  should  in  any 
bis  executors.  manner  so    well    describe    Mr.  Cra- 

And  here,  perhaps,  it  may  be  allow-  dock's  character,  as  by  referring  to 
able  to  allude  to  the  sincere  attach-  the  '  Memoirs*  which  he  has  pub- 
ment  k>etween  Mr.  Cradock  and  his  lished  of  hiinself.  ThcK  Memoirs,  in 
old  friend  Mr.  Nichols.  For  very  my  view  of  them,  are  an  exact  couu- 
many  years  Mr.  Nichols  had  been  ac-  terprt  of  his  manners  and  conversa- 
costomed  to  pay  Mr.  Cradock  an  an-  tions, — of  his  excellencies  and  his  foi- 
noal  visit  at  Gumley  Hall ;  but  on  Mr.  hies.  He  was  all  anecdote,  without 
Cradock*s  settling  in  London,  the  in-  affecting  to  know  more,  either  of  men 
tercourse  became  incessant,  and  we  or  books,  than  the  common  run  of 
doubt  not  that  the  daily  correspon-  people,  thoush  better  acquainted  with 
dence  which  took  place  between  them  both  than  the  generality  of  the  best 
contributed  to  cheer  the  latter  days  informed.  In  the  earlier  part  of  his 
of  these  two  veterans  in  Literature,  life  he  recommended  himself  by  his 
They  had  both  of  them  in  early  life  pleasantry  and  talents, — his  love  of 
enjoyed  the  flattering  distinction  of  an  letters, — his  antiquarian  researches,— 
iottmacy  with  the  same  eminent  cha-  his  taste  for  mufcic,  painting,  and 
racters;  and  to  hear  the  different  ancc-  poetry,  and  all  the  fine  arts, — to  seve- 
dotes  elicited  in  their  animated  con-  ral  of  the  most  learned  and  acconi- 
versationi'  respecting  Johnson  and  plished  scholars  of  the  day, —  as  Bi- 
others,  was  indeed  an  intellectual  treat  8ho|)s  Warburion  and  Hurd,  Doc- 
of  no  ordinary  description.  Mr.  Cra-  tors  Johnson  and  Goldsmith,  and 
dock  and  Mr.  Nichols  possessed  a  si  mi-  others;  among  whom  must  not  be 
larity  in  taste  and  judgment.  They  forgotten  that  prodigy  of  wit  and  hu- 
were  both  endowed  with  peculiar  mour  and  theatrical  talents,  David 
quickness  of  compreheusion,  and  with  Garrick ;  for  he  and  Garrick  were  a 
powers  and  accuracy  of  memory  rarely  sort  of  twin  brothers,  in  personal  like- 
equalled,  ness  and  mental  |X)wer.    Both  of  them 

Mr.  Cradock *s  first  publication  on  were  rather  under  size;  but  they  were 

his  conijng  to  town  was  his  tragedy  of  both  well  formed,  and  had  so  much 

"The  Czar."    This  play  was  brought  expression  in  their  countenances,  and 

to  the  morning  of  rehearsal  fifty  years  so  much  grace  in  their  actions,  that 

before,  but  owing  to  a  disappointment  nobody  in  looking  at  them  re^rded 

on  the  part  of  one  of  the  chief  ac-  their  size  or  stature;— in  looking  at 

tresses,  was    withdrawn,   and    never  each,  it  was  the  quality — not  the  quan- 

acted;  nor  published  till  1824.    (See  tity  of  the  man  that  was  considered, 

vol.  xciv.  ii.  p.  60.)  And  upon  the  stage,  Cradock  (for  he 

The    favourable    reception    which  had  a  private  theatre  in  his  house), 

the     publication    of    "The    Czar*'  as  I  have  been  informed  by  vhone  viVvo 

met  with,  induced  Mr.  Cradock  to  had  seen  him  act,  in  Mine  cV\aTacVct% 

select  from  his  MSS.  what  certaialy  at  least,  was  second  on\^  to  GmucV, 


u 


Memoir  ofJoiepk  Cradotk,  Eiq,  M.  A.  F.  8.  A, 


CJaD. 


There  was,  however,  this  diflference 
between  them; — Garrick  played  for 
profit — Cradock  played  for  the  amose- 
ment  of  his  friendt,  thoagh  to  the 
great  detriment  of  hit  own  fortnne. 
And  perhaps  his  talent  in  the  repre- 
senting of  character  npoh  the  sti^y 
first  gave  him  the  habit  of  enliveninff 
and  embellishing  ever^  thing  whicn 
he  said,  with  a  certain  lightning  of 
eye,  and  honeyed  tone  of  voice,  and 
happy  turns  of  countenance, — which 
may  be  better  imagined  than  de- 
scribed ;  and  also  furnished  him  with 
many  allusions  which  he  had  the 
happy  art  of  introducing  into  his  con- 
versations with  vast  advantage. 

**  Mr.  Cradock  was  a  classical  scho- 
lar of  very  high  degree ;  and  he  had  a 
very  considerable  library,  containing 
books  of  the  best  sorts,  and  of  the  best 
editions;  and  some  very  rare  ones. 
The  sale  of  these,  upon  which  his  af- 
fections were  placed,  together  with 
his  mansion  and  estate  at  Gumley, 
upon  his  coming  to  live  in  London, 
was  a  sacrifice  he  made  (and  a  sore  sa- 
crifice it  was)  with  a  view  to  the  final 
arrangement  and  liquidation  of  his 
worldly  affairs  before  his  death,  and 
proved  not  only  his  inteerity,  but  that 
tort  of  pride  which  dwells  only  in  ho- 
nourable minds,  and  will  give  a  sanc- 
tity to  his  memory. 

"  Mr.  CradocK  was,  moreover,  a 
ffood  neighbour,— a  kind  friend,— a 
Sighly-finished  gentleman, — and  more 
than  sufficiently  learned  to  be  the  fit 
associate  with  those  who  were  most 
learned;  and  he  had  this  advantage 
over  the  most  learned,  that  he  was 
altogether  free  from  pedantry,  and  all 
inclmation  to  be  overbearing  in  his 
conversation  with  others  avowedly  less 
learned  than  himself.  With  these 
^;ood  qualities,  and  his  ^reat  acquire- 
ments, he  could  not  fail  of  causing 
the  opportunities  which  he  gave  his 
friends  of  visiting  him,  to  be  eagerly 
aeised ;  and  from  season  to  season  (for 
he  gave  a  sort  of  annual  dejeun^  at 
Gumley)  anxiously  exiiected.  But 
his  death,  which  u  sadly  lamented, 
has  closed  all." 

Another  friend  thtss  speaks  of  him : 
-  "Mr.  Cradock  was  a  remarkable 
person.  He  had  lived  for  more  than 
lialf  a  century  pretty  much  among  to- 
rtet,  without  imbibing  (if  we  may 
lodge  from  the  last  year  or  two  of  hif 
life  ptiied  in  London,)  the  least  bigotiy 
or  mtohnace,  Hi§  opinioni  were  li- 
Ar/ai  M  fediDg$  all  geoeroas.     He 


was  properly  a  whig  in  his  own  iebti- 

ments  ;  though  strictly  and  profenedly 
he  seems  to  have  been,  in  specotative 
matters,  a  man  of  no  party.  Doriog 
the  lame  course  of  years  he  had  lived 
tn  the  fashionable  world,  and  in  the 
circles  of  the  great ;  but,  as  it  shoald 
seem,  without  having  indulged  in  their 
luxuries,  or  having  contracted  their 
vices.  Indeed,  not  only  did  his  in- 
clination lead  him,  but  his  constitution 
compelled  him,  to  a  most  rigid  tem- 
perance. Though  remarkable  for  hb 
hospitality  and  social  manners,  he 
had  for  twenty  years  scarcely  drank  a 
glass  of  wine ;  and  he  lived  principally 
on  turnips,  roasted  apples,  and  coffee,  ^ 
and  those  taken  in  very  small  quanti- 
ties. He  had  a  great  (leculiarity  of 
constitution,  whicn  obliged  him  to 
undergo  a  constant  cupping;  and  he 
has  been  known  to  be  cupped  some- 
times twice  a  day.  Yet  under  all  hit 
own  infirmities  and  sufferings,  he  had 
the  most  tender  sympathy  with  even 
the  appearance  of  distress  in  others, 
and  when  free  from  pain,  nobody  was 
more  cheerful  and  communicative; 
indeed  it  may  be  said,  he  overflowed, 
having  a  great  fund  of  anecdote,  with 
much  of  the  garrulity  of  old  ugc. 
During  the  last  fortnight  nothinc 
passed  his  lips  but  water.  He  will 
oe  long  remembered  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Gumley,  where  he  was 
respected  by  people  of  all  parties  for  hb 
worth,  and  idolized  by  the  poor  for  hit 
benevolence." 

On  Saturday,  Dec.  23,  at  the  fune- 
ral of  this  venerable  gentleman,  a  nu- 
merous assemblage  of  his  friends  at* 
tended  to  pny  the  last  token  of  respect 
to  his  memory.  The  service  was 
performed  by  his  friend  the  Rev. 
G.T.  Andrewes.  The  Hon.  Washing- 
ton Shirley,  F.  P.  Stratford,  esq.  Mas- 
ter in  Chancery,  L.  C.  Humfrev,  esq. 
Barrister,  A.  Chalmers,  esq.F.  S.  A. 
N.  Carlisle,  esq.  F.S. A.  and  T.  J.  Pet- 
tigrew,  esq.  r.  S.  A.  were  the  pall- 
bearers on  the  occasion.  The  body 
was  followed  bv  his  executors,  John 
Bowyer  Nichols,  esq.  F.  S.  A.  John 
Pearson,  esq.  and  William  Tooke,  esq. 
F.R.S.;  alsoby  Georee  Dyer,  esq.  John 
Britton,  esq.  F.S. A.  John  Taylor,  eso. 
John  Mayne,  esq.  Tliomas  Cadeli, 
esq.  Dr.  Nuttall,  and  many  other  gen- 
tlemen. Sir  Henry  Halford  was  pre- 
vented attending  by  a  professional  en- 
gagement.  ^  Mr.  Cradock  was  buried^ 
y  hb  particular  desire,  in  the  parish 
where  ne  ditd|Si.  Marj-\t-%\xasv^. 


1^870                           In/ami  Sdio9U  r§cammMted.  fii 

Mr.  Urbav,    Mahchetter,  Jan.  10.  wise  be  formed,  and  present  an  Infla* 

IN  the  progress  of  a  nalion  from  the  ence  of  a  better  kind.  Early  impress 
rudeness  of  barlfarism  to  laxurions  sions  are  never  obliterated ;  as  is  the 
effeminacy,  there  are  many  stages,  bringing  up,  so  is  the  man.  Here  then 
which  are  retarded  or  quickened  by  a  noble  field  presents  itself.  The  pa- 
circumstances.  England  has  arrived  at  rents  will  gladly  surrender  their  cnil- 
a  point  in  this  progression,  which  it  is  dren  to  your  care,  and  you  are  certain 
most  important  to  contemplate.  In  of  the  result;  for  "Train  up  a  child 
this  district  especially,  excessive  labour,  in  the  way  he  should  go,  and  when  he 
remonerated  by  excessive  wages,  has  isnid,  he  will  not  depart  from  it.*' 
influenced  the  character  of  the  people.  The  plan  which  ap))ears  most  eligi- 
Daring  twenty  years  and  upwards,  old  ble  is,  tor  the  Committee  of  a  Sunday 
and  yoang,  male  and  female,  have.  School  to  hire  the  ground-floor  of  a 
with  few  exceptions,  risen  at  Bve,  and  cottage  t  and  here  the  expence  ceases  : 
have  not  returned  to  their  families  for  a  female  will  be  able  to  manage 
.  until  eisht  or  nine  at  night;  unless  seventy  children,  the  parents  of  whom 
the  day  has  been  spent  in  dissipation,  would  cheerfully  pay  two-pence  a 
For  such  labour,  the  wsges  of  each  week  with  each,  whicn  will  remnne- 
fiimily  have  not  averaged  less  than  one  rate  the  governess.  When  the  chiU 
hutidred  pounds  a  year.    The  consc*  dren  are  dismissed  from  this  school, 

3uence  oi  excessive  labour  is  insubor-  they  may  be  collected  on  the  Sunday 

ination  s  and  insubordination  leads  to  morning  and  afternoon,  and  taken  to 

depravity.    Our  immense  jail  is  full :  church  ;  and   in  the  evening,  or  at  a 

and  yearly  more  than   five  thousand  time  more  convenient,  they  may  be 

persons  are  brought  before  the  magis-  heard  to  read  a  chapter,  and  be  ques- 

trates  of  the  town.     As  a  further  proof  tioned  on  the  Infant  School  plan,  so  as 

of  depravity,  more  than  half  a  million  to  make  them    acquainted   with  the 

sterling  is  spent  at  our  public  houses ;  doctrines  and  precepts  of  scripture, 

and  more  than  half  the  population  of  Thus  the  proper  object  or  Sunday 

the  pbce,  whose  wages  have  been  so  Schools  will  oe  accomplished.  Besides 

ample,  ask  charity  at  our  public  insti*  this,  other  important  results  attend  this 

tntions,  and  are  relieved.  plan.     It  is  not  a  charity.     It  does 

But  the  period  of  excessive  labour  not  lead  to,  but  away  from  pauperism* 

and  excessive  wages  being,  it  is  prob«  It  admits  of  national  sentiments,  and 

able,  nearly  at  an  end,  it  is  important  national  airs  being  taught ;  for  though 

to  inquire  by  what  means  the  people  the  direct  object  of  an  Infant  School 

can  be  rescued  from  the  state  of  degra-  be  to  forni  the  disposition,  and  to  give 

dation  and  misery  into  which  they  are  a  moral  bias  to  the  mind,  national  feeU 

sank.     Is  it  by  alms-giving?    By  the  ings  need  not  be  excluded*         M.  D. 

endowing    of   Hospitals?      Certainly  ^ 

not.    Public  charity  always  corrupts.  Mr.  Urbait.                       Jan.  14. 

The  remedy  depends  on  the  restoration  A     custom    regarding    ''Titles    by 

of  the  moral  and  national  character.  XX  Courtesy  **  has  been  introduced 

Sunday  schools  were  established  in  within  these  few  years   which,    not 

anticipation  of,  at  least,  staying  the  only  puzzles  those  persons  who  are 

progress  of  vice ;  bdt  the  event  has  conversant  in  matters  of  precedence, 

disappointed  the  anticipation.  Charac-  '  but  which,   if  allowed    to   continue 

ter  IS  not  formed  by  the  elements  of  without  any  positive  rule  being  laid 

knowledge.     Individuals  have  indeed  down,  bids  fair  to  lead  to  a  degree  of 

'  rewarded  the  indefatigable  and  praise-  confusion  of  a  singular  kind.    Perhaps 

worthy  exertions  of  the  teachers  ;  but  some  of  your  readers  mav  be  able  to 

such  mfluence  has  not  been  general,  answer  my  inquiries;  and,  should  they 

The  depravity  which  is  present  to  the  be  found  to  be  unanswerable,  then^ 

children  all  the  week,  has  a  stronger  perhaps,  may  the  attention  of  '*  Those 

influence  than  can  be  counteracted  by  who  nave  to  regulate  such  matters*' 

ordinaryexertions:  and  happily  ii\fant  bedrawn  to  the  subiect. 

schools  offer   a  roost    powerful   aid.  Custom  has  for  a  long  period  of  time 

without  an  increase  of  expence.  allowed  the  title  of  Lord  to  all  the  sons 

Infant  Schools  tal(e   the    children  of  Dukes  and  Marquisses,  and  to  the 

away  from  the  debasing  influence  un-  eldest  sons  of  Earls ;  and  cniUmi  «Xm 

der  which  their  characters  must  other'  has  givtn  to  all  of  them  precedciice 

Gkmt.  Miff'  .^wfc  iS87.  orer  Barons.    Whether  oi  no  vl^  pwc 

4 


On  rukibp  Cowrttig. 


IJaiU 


eedenco  gained  them  the  litles,  or  that 
the  tides  sare  them  thie  precedence,  is 
nnmaterial.  There  ja,  however,  a  de- 
gree of  consistency  in  the  custom ;  in- 
asmuch as  we  find  those  only  to  be 
styled  Lord  by  courtesy  who  ranic 
among  the  Peers.  Hence  a  reason 
why  an  EarPs  younger  son,  and  a 
Viscount's  eldest  son  are  not  Lords, 
because   they  rank   with  commoners 

enly. 

But  within  the  last  few  years  there 
have  sprouted  forth  a  number  of  young 
Lords  never  heard  of  before,  and  who 
hare  no  places  assigned  to  them  in  the 
authorized  Table  of  Precedence ;  hence 
they  must  eitlier  arrogate  to  themselves 
a  precedence  to  which  they  have  no 
right,  or  else  be  placed  among  com* 
mooeri,  and  thereby  overturn  the  "  de- 
gree of  consistency'*  above-mentioned 
as  respecting  titles  by  courtesy.  I 
dlude  to  the  custom  of  ekeing-out  a 
Duke's  and  Marquis's  inferior  titles 
upon  their  descendants,  as  far  as  they 
wiU  hold  out  bjT  there  remaining  any 
such  titles  to  distribute.  Thus :  while 
the  late  Duke  of  Grafton  was  alive, 
his  grandson  assumed  the  Viscounty  of 
Ipswich,  not  because  his  father  was 
Earl  of  Huston  by  courtesy,  but  be- 
cause bis  ^randrather  had  the  Vis- 
county in  him.  And  so  at  this  mo- 
inent,  the  son  of  the  Duke  of  Man- 
chester is  only  Viseount  Mandeville ; 
yet  of  his  two  sons,  one  is  called  Lord 
Kioibolton,  and  the  other.  Lord  John 
Montagu. 

.  Now,  Mr.  Urban,  I  wish  to  know, 
first,  if  this  be  right,  and  founded  on 
authority;  and  secondly,  where  the 
Viscount  rpswich,  the  Baron  Kimbol- 
ton,  and  the  Lord  John  Montagu  are 
to-be  ranked.  The  Table  of  Prece- 
dence in  Blackstone,  is  wholly  silent 
about  Peers'  grandsons.  But  the  ano- 
maly does  not  end  here.  The  Duke 
6f  bomenet  has  no  other  inferior  title 
hut  ibe  Barony  of  Seymour.  Hence 
his  grandson  can  be  only  plain  Mr. 
Seymour,  the  family  name ;  yet,  as  the 
grandson  of  an  older  Duke,  Mr.  Sey- 
fnour  might  claim  precedence  over  the 
Viscount,  the  Baron,  and  the  Lord 
'John. 

His  late  Majestj^  certainly  introduced 
«n  anomaly  in  this  respect,  by  styline 
Jlesaieurs  John  and  William  Russell 
liOrd  John  and  Lord  William,  as 
•their  father  had  been  only  Marquis  of 
Tavistock  by  courtesy.  Perhaps  that 
'^nafr  hare  led  to  the  practice  now  io 
use  of  eking  out  iaferior  titles  as  far  as 


the^  will  go  \  but  when  his  lateMiji 
ty  introduced  this  lower  degree  of  uU< 
by  courtesy,  it  would  have-  becB  as 
!ivell  if  he  had  laid  down  si)ecific  rolet 
for  their  precedence.  On  the  bther 
hand,  if  the  King  intended  the  distino* 
tion  to  the  sons  of  the  deceased  Mar- 

Jjuis  of  Tavistock  as  a  mark  of  especial 
avour  to  them  alone,  it  ought  to  have 
been  so  stated  in  the  Gatette  of  the 
day,  as  is  always  done  when  a  lady  it 
raised  to  the  rank  of  an  Earl's  daugh- 
ter, or  a  gentleman  to  that  of  a  Duke's 
jTOun^er  som  The  deceased  wife  of 
oir  Abraham  Hume  was  an  instance  of 
the  former,  and  the  brother  of  the 
present  Duke  of  Norfolk  an  instaoce 
of  the  latter. 

If  the  above-mentioned  custom  of 
giving  the  title  of  Lord  to  the  grand- 
sons of  Peers,  be  received  as  correct  in 
these  our  own  days,  it  will  become 
necessary  for  a  rule  to  be  made  respects 
Ing  the  limits  to  which  the  custom  is 
to  extend  ;  because,  if  an  Earl  has  in 
himself  both  a  Viscounty  and  a  Barony, 
why  may  not  his  grandson  assume  the 
title  of  the  Barony  ?  Again,  suppose 
a  Marquis  or  an  Earl  to  have  only  two 
inferior  titles  of  the  same  degree,  ai 
two  Viscounties,  or  two  Baronies, 
what  would  be  done  in  such  a  case^ 
would  the  son  take  one  Viscounty  and 
the  grandson  the  other  ?  If  so^  here 
would  be  a  new  anomaly  of  a  different 
kind  to  any  already  noticed,  as  in  those 
which  1  nave  mentioned  each  de- 
scending generation  assumes  a  lower 
title  thnn  that  taken  by  his  parent; 
whereas  in  the  case  just  noticed,  a  son 
would  be  called  by  a  title  of  the  same 
decree  as  that  ^ivcn  to  his  father,  both 
being  styled  Viscount. 

Should  the  above  inquiries  puzzle 
our  modern  Heralds,  that  will  be  a 
sufficient  reason  for  an  examination  of 
them.       Yours,  Lector  RusTicus. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  IS. 

THE  laurels  of  a  late  distinguished 
Poet  have  been  so  torn  and  wither- 
ed, as  scarcely  to  afford  a  shelter  to  his 
Aintimely  grave :  withered  bv  his  own 
misapplication  of  exalted  talents,  and 
torn  by  the  unsparinzzeal  of  the  advo- 
cates of  virtue.  My  veneration  for 
genius,  and  pity  for  the  man,  make  me 
resret  the  undistinguishing  censures 
•which  assail  him ;  they  reach,  when 
directed  thus  by  common  hands,  not 
only  the  vices  which  too  often  accomr 
pany  the  poetip  temperament,  but  to 
the  heavenly  \ns^\TaX\oiv  oC  ^oeU^  itself. 


1^1] 


JLinei  wriifm  in  a  €op^  of  BfrarCi  Foem$, 


«r 


H<fnct  those  finer  feelings;  which  wean 
us  ftocn  the  groveling  attachments  of  a 
world  like  thisy  are  brought  intocon- 
tempt;  tliAt  principle  of  heroic  virtue 
is  destroyed  which  ennobles  the  indi- 
▼idual,  and  exalts  a  nation  ;  and  under 
the  ioflaence  of  which,  in  the  opinion 
of  a  great  and  good  man,  vice  itself 
loses  naif  its  evil,  by  losing  all  its  gross- 
ness.*    The  sons  of  genius,  Sir,  are 
surrounded  with  dangers  from  which 
die  cold,  the  tasteless,  and  insensible 
are  ingloriously  secure.    1  would  have 
them,    therefore,  tried  only   bv  their 
peers,  not  by  men  encrossed  solely  by 
the  calculations  of  diurnal   life,  and 
who,  if  they  pomess  a  becoming  fear  of 
oblioquy,  are  utterly  insensible  to  the 
blandishments  ofiame*  1  was  led  into 
these  reflections  by  some  lines,  which 
were  written  on  a  blank  leaf  of  Lord 
Byron's  peems,  which  I  met  with  on 
th6 continent.  These  I  have  transcribed 
foryoo ;  for,*  though  not  |>erhans  much 
finished,  they  bear  marks  oi  having 
eome  from  the  heart. 

«  Bnom,  fpll  naoj  a  jeu  hath  fled, 
Since  vene  ef  thine  —  once-lored — hath 

shed 
On  me  it»  meltacbolv  tone ; 
I  deem'd  tttf  Qinatraf-fecling  gone  ; 
Bm  chance  bath  brovgbt  tbee  to  my  hand. 
Or  almost  chaace,  and  in  thy  lays 
1  hsnr  tbe?oio»  of  Qther  days, , 
I  lee  the  forms  of  pther  land ; 
Thty  SsU  of  thoughts  and,  hopes  whicb  then 
Lit  my  yoaog  heart,^but  they  were  vain. 
Ditnm  crowding  dre«m  copimingling  springs^ 
And  o*cr  that  heart  remepabrance  flings 
A  gleam  not  easy  tq  define, 
A  momenS-glunpse  of  *'  Auld  Lang  Syne." 
But  oh  hov  changed  thy  Lyre  !  no  more 
Breathes  its  deep  £eeliog  as  before, 
Bdl  cold  Revenge,  and  Folly  bare, 
And  Biaapfaemy  are  jarring  there  ; 
Who  lov*d  thee  weep  thy.vaoish'd  fame. 
Who  hate  thee  brand  thy. blighted  name ; 
Mate  is  the  praise,  and  sear  the  bough, 
That  sooth'd  thine  ear,  or  bound  thy  brow ; 
And  censure  flings  reproach  on  thoaei 
Half  justly,  who  are  not  thy  foes. 
Soch  am  not  I  ;  but  mourn  thy  fate. 
The  wreck  of  all  that's  really  great ; 
Mind,  geidas^ character:  ah  I  what 
Might  these  have  been  ? — 'tis  now  forgot. 
Goine,  gone  without  a  ^igh  to  save 
Tbe  hope  hefiNre,  beyond  the  grave ! 
And  shall  thy  fellow  sinners  dare 
To  spam  the  mint  withering  there? 
They  whose  proud  virtue  might  have  bow'd 
To  trials  thine  hath  UQt  withstood ; 
CM,  base,  presumptuous ! 
— ^i^i— i— 1^^— ^—  ■   '■■  ■  ■' 

*  Barie, 


For  thee;      '  ^ 
Pass'd  to  the  grave  of  hiAuny, 
Know,  if  thun  may'st,  there  siill  Is  one, 
Fairn  as  thou  art,  and  seora'd^  and  lone, 
Will  bend  o'er  thv  disbonour'4  bier. 
And  breathe  a  sigh,  and  drop  a  tear." 

To  you.  Sir,  the  long-iried  friend  tif : 
virtue  and  piet^,   these  remarks  maf 
be  addressed,  with  the  appearance  of  «. 
wish  to  vindicate  or  qualify  those  vioe». 
which  threw  so  dark  a  cloud  .over  tb«' 
life  of  Byron  ;  but   he   is  no  longer ^ 
within     the  reach  of  censure;    and? 
siuely  it  is  neither  unbecoming,  nor^ 
unchristian  to  exhibit  some  commise- 
ration for  his  memory  j  to  respect  its. 
attainments,    without    violating    th^ 
sanctuary  that  should  now  protect  his 
errors. 

"  Leave  them,  leave  them  to  repose." 

C. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  15. 

ANY  article  which  tends  to  illus- 
trate ihe  manners  and  expences 
of  former  limes,  is,  I  am  sure,  accept- 
able to  your  valuable  Miscdiany  $  and 
I  therefore  send  you  an  inventory  of 
the  household  goods  and  chattels  of 
an  ancestor  of  mine  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  the  First,  which  I  copied  from 
the  original,  attached  to  his  will,  in  the 
archdeaconry  court  of  Oornwall. 

Mr.  Busvargus  was  a  gentleman  who 
resided  at  Busvargus,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Just,  in  Cornwall,  a  few  miles  from 
the  Land's  End;  but  no  incident  of 
his  life  is  of  sufficient  importance  to 
confer  interest  upon  the  accompany- 
ing account  of  his  eflfects.  He  en- 
tered his  pedigree  at  the  Heralds*  Visi- 
tation in  1620,  and  signed  his  nanieas 
''John  Busvargus;*'  but  it  appears 
from  the  title  deeds  of  his  property,  that 
the  original  name  of  his  family  was 
*•  Lethon,**  and  that,  agreeably  to  the 
general  custom  in  Cornwall  at  the 
period,  his  grandfather  assumed  the 
designation  of  Busvargus  upon  pur- 
chasmg  the  estate  so  called,  about  tbe 
commencement  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth.  This  John  Busvargiis,  apd 
his  father  and  grandfather,  are  usually 
described  in  deeds  as  *'  John  Lethon, 
alias  Busvargus."  He  was  born  in 
1596,  and  married  Agnes,  the  eldest 
dauj^hter  of  John  Hilfof  Trenethlcke; 
of  Wendron,  in  Cornwall,  Gent,  thede- 
scendant  of  a  very  anclenl  famWj  in  vVi^X 
county,  and  was  buried  at  ^en^itiu, 
on  the  3d  December,  l637 .    Th^  Wu- 


S8]  /mMfiiorsr  0/  ihi  Goodt  of  J.  Buivargut,  1636.  -  [Jan. 

ess  of  tht .  Busrargus  family  married  remark,  that  all  Cornish  meu  are 
the  Rev.  Jonathan  Toup  before  1713.  cousins  ;— that  for  seven  generations 
and  was  the  mother  of  that  profound  every  member  of  the  Busvargus  family 
critic  and  scholar  the  Editor  of  Longi-  married  into  houses  situated  within 
nus.  Her  second  husband  was  tne  thirty  miles  of  their  own  seat^  and 
Rev.  John  Keigwin,  and  the  estates  of  generally  within  ten  miles. 
the  family  are  now  enjoyed  by  Mrs.  As  shewing  the  furniture  of  a  gcQ- 
Ann  Nicholas,  widow,  one  of  the  tleman's  house  in  the  extremity  of  £ng- 
representatives  of  that  marriage.  Be-  land  in  the  early  part  of  the  seven- 
fore  concluding  this  letter,  I  may  be  teenth  century,  as  well  as  the  value  of 
permitted  to  state  a  fact  singularly  illus-  the  diiferent  articles,  this  commuoica- 
trative  of  the  manner  in  which  Corn-  tion  will,  1  hope,  be  thought  worthy 
ish  families  intermarried  with  each  of  a  place  in  your  pages.  Cliohas. 
other,  and  which  explains  the  common 

An  Inventory  of  the  eoods  and  chattels  of  John  Busvargus,  of  St.  Jutt, 
within  the  countie  of  Cornwall,  gent.,  decS  taken  and  praysed  by  Martiu 
Wearneand  John  Chenhalls,  the  1 1th  day  of  April,  Anno  Domini,  l638. 

£'  9»  d. 

Jmprimu,    Hifapp«rell        .         .                 .         .        ,         •        •         .    6  18  4 

Item,  Hit  bible  mkI  other  books 0     6  8 

Item,  The  table  boord,  jojut  stoolet,  cbajres,  carpettt  and  cotheos  in  the 

hall 9     8  4 

Item,  His  rings  and  titteras 0  15  0 

Item,  The  uUe-boards  and  bed-stead  In  the  parlonr         .                  .        .16  8 
Item,  The  table-board,  cooberts,  and  two  chests  over  the  dajrie,  with  two 

little  trunks  and  two  small  chayres                4     6  8 

Item,  The  bed-stead  and  furniture 4     0  0 

Item,  The  woolen  clothes  and  wool .800 

Item,  The  bed- stead  with  the  furniture  in  the  inner-chamber,  with  coo- 
berts and  trunks 500 

Item,  Aobest  with  the  linen,  bed,  sheets,  table-dotbes,  napkins,  and  other 

linen •        .     6  IS  4 

Item,  The  stead-bed,  with  the  truckle-bed,  and  their  furniture  over  the  hall    8     0  0 
Item,  1  doieo  and  a  half  of  pewter,  and  three  candle-sticks,  and  two  small 

flagroos SOO 

ItemT^or  batter,  cheese,  and  other  household  provision  of  meat  kind       .10  0 

Item,  The  bedding  with  the  furniture,  over  the  parlour          .         •         .     1   10  0 

Item,  The  Mill  implements 0     5  0 

Item,  9  Stremors  furnished  * •         .         .900 

Item,  A  fowling  piece 0  13  4 

Item*  The  voulterj 080 

Item,  Bottles,  jugs,  dishes,  and  other  clomb  t 0  10  0 

Item,  I  pan,  I  kettle,  1  brass  crock,  and  one  iron  crocke  and  skillett       .     «     6  8 

Item,  An  old  brewbg  keeve,  4  godysetts,  other  old  tubs  and  pieces  «f  wood     16  8 

Item,  The  studiers,!  shovels,  and  other  iron  work           .        .         .         •     0  10  O 

Item,  The  com  in  the  mow- bay  and  hayrick         .         .        •        •         .  16     0  0 

Item,  19  Kine              96     0  0 

Item,  6  Steers '   .        .  10     0  0 

Item,  I  Heifer  and  8  yearlings 8     0  0 

Item,  His  bounds^  and  tin  stuff 6     0  0 

Item,  1  Chattle  lease 94     0  o 

Item,  1  Little  bull  and  a  sow 1   10  0 

Item,  1  Fair  of  paniers  and  ropes 0    5  0 

Item,  9  Sheep  and  9  lambe 0  10  0 

Item,  Other  things  forgotten  and  not  yet  come  to  memory      .        .        .    0  10  0 

Sum  total    .        •  ^141     9     8 

By  me,  John  Cuinhall, — ^MAariN  Wbarni. 

*  Stremors  were  articles  used  in  streaming  tin,  a  process  well  known  in  mining  diatricta. 
t  Earthenware^  a  provincialism  still  used  in  Devonshire  and  Cornwall. 
X  Query.  §  Tin  booiids. 


law.] 


Fly  Uave».^B4xal€el  iiorrU. 


FLY  LEAVES.  No.  XXXIV. 
Bezaleel  Morris, 

THE  only  notes  hitherto  appended 
to  ihe  various  editions  of  the 
DuDciad,  ^  by  Alexander  Pope,  are 
those  flomring  from  the  humour  of  Scri- 
blcms,  and  the  persuicuous  gathering 
and  labour  of  the  Rev.  W.  Warbur- 
toD.  Some  future  editor  may  forego 
the  taciturn  system  of  some  ot  his  pre- 
decessors^ and  not  uniformly  pass  the 
way-faring  stranger,  damned  Into  fame 
for  the  purpose  of  crowding  the  temple 
of  Oalness,  by  candidly  identifying  the 
real,  from  the  proclaimed  shadows 
made  important  liy  the  satire  of  the 
poeL  Or  Bezaleef  Morris,  it  is  first 
stated,  he  was  **  author  of  some  satires 
on  the  translation  of  Homer,  with 
many  other  things  printed  in  news- 
papers,"* while  >M:riblerus  makes  his 
existence  doubtful,  by  declaring  Beza- 
leel  "  carries  forgery  in  the  very  name," 
and  then  thrusts  him  into  a  plurality 
of  CurlPs  "  phantoms." 

The  name  of  Bezaleel  Morris,  as  a 
poet,  may  be  traced  for  thirty  years, 
without  any  apparent  conjunction  with 
Curll,t  and  tncrefore,  possibly,  a  hu- 
man form  bearing  baptismal  honours, 
and  certainly  not  ^a  phantom.  He 
wrote. 

Miscellanies,  or  Amusements  in 
rerse  and  prose  :  advertised  by  D. 
Browne,  Temple  Bar,  1712. 

Voyage  from  Bengale  in  the  East 
Indies,  printed  for  Thomas  Bickerton, 
Paternoster- row,  about  I7SO. 

An  Essay  on  the  Poets,  Bickerton, 

1721. 

An  Epistle  to  Mr.  Welsted,  and  a 
Satyr  on  the  English  translation  of 
Homer,  Bickerton,  1721. 

An  Epistle  to  the  falsely  celebrated 
British  Homer.  Advertised  as  **  sold 
bv  the  booksellers  of  London  and 
Westminster,"  April,  1742. 

*  Of  these '  wai£i  and  strays,'  **  some  con- 
gmulatory  verses  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of 
Dorset,  on  his  return  to  England,"  firsS 
prroted  at  Dublin,  oceur  in  the  Gazetteer^ 
11th  October,  1735. 

f  Curll  published  the  minor  poems  of 
Pope,  on  single  folio  leaves,  which  are  now 
of  very  rare  occurrence.  In  that  manner 
appeared,  17 19»  the  lines  **  to  the  ingenious 
Mr.  Moore,  author  of  the  celebrated  worm- 
powder,'*  with  astansa>  which  it  maj  be 
fitly  hoped  was  never  afterwards  printed. 
Splendid  Ulents  will  catch  at  doobtful  wit, 
notmlthttMiulaiif  the  prnrbutmtioa — 

''  Wsat  of  decea^  u  want  of  sease, " 


20 

The  "  Satyr  on  the  English  Transla- 
tions," from  which  the  following  ex- 
tract may  serve,  was  enough  to  provoke 
the  ire  of  Pope. 

Three  daring  poets,  lo  !  at  different  times. 
On   this  account  unsbeath  their  dreadful 

rhymes ; 
Fiercely  advance,  and  at  a  furious  rate. 
This  |;lorious  Hard  with   cruelty  translate. 
Bold  Chapman  do*s  th'  advent'rous  modi 

commence. 
And  to  a  most  prodigious  length  he  stretches 

out  his  sense ; 
Presents  him  rack'd  and  tortur'd  to  our  eyes» 
And  in  so  mean  and  such  a  coarse  disguise. 
He  never  sure  from  fortune  sufferM  more, ' 
E'en  though  he  sought  his  bread  from  door 

to  door. 
Then  OgUlm,  in  terms  more  dull  and  low. 
Whether  he  should  debase  him,  yea !  or  no ! 
Debates, and  then  (as  'twas  by  fiite  de- 
creed,) 
He  fiwbly  does  attempt  to  do  the  deed. 
From  Hobbs  he  finds  a  sure  destructive 

fiite. 
Philosopher  too  soon !  and  Bard  too  late  1 
By  him  he's  more  than  argument  abus'd. 
And  more  perversely  than  religion  us'd. 
Smart  Pope   comes   now — yet  not  so 

Sterne  as  these ; 
He  proves   more  kind,    treats  him  with 

erace  and  ease> 
And  makes  him   spnice,  the  beaus  and 

belles  to  please : 
So  gentle  female  habits,  heretofore, 
Renown*d  Achilles  and  Alcides  wore. 

£u.  Hood. 


Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  SI. 

IN  the  Numbers  for  October  and 
November  last,  your  Correspond- 
enu  "  Clericus,"  and  "  X.  Y.  Z.'* 
have  sent  forth  opinions  to  the  world 
on  the  subject  ot  the  Apocrypha,  di- 
rectly opposed  to  those  in  the  Sixth 
Article  of  our  Church.  The  decision 
therein  pronounced,  like  all  the  other 
points  decided  in  the  39  Articles,  rests 
on  grounds  not  to  he  shaken  by  the 
puny  theologians  of  the  present  day; 
•  and  had  your  Correspondents  read 
Gray's  Key  to  the  Old  Testament, 
Bishop  Tomline's  Elements,  or  the 
Prefaces  in  D'Oyley  and  Mant's  Bi- 
ble Tnot  to  mention  the  larger  works 
on  the  Canon,  the  very  sight  of  which 
is  sufficient  to  throw  us  of  these  de- 
generate days  into  hysterics),  I  am  in- 
clined to  tnink  they  would  not  have 
hazarded  such  opinions.  But  as  vt  \%, 
I  trust  the  well-known  otvVioAotl^  ol 
your  principles  wiW  leadW^  n\ocu\^>>at 
admission  inlo  your  pa^cs  01  \)fciv&  Vva\&r> 


<90  Thi  opiniofu  qf  oikr  Churth  on  tht  Apocrypha  defended,        [Jaibi 

ble  efibit  in  defence  of  the  apostolical  so  quoted,  or  than  tlie  mention  of  the 

doctrines  of  our  Church.  names  of  Jannes  and  Jambres  (2  Tim. 

Your  alx)ve-mentioned  Correspond^  iii«  8)  by  the  same  Apostle,  and  tb% 

ents  seem  to  have  fallen  into  two  er*  prophecy  of  Enoch  (mentioned  bj  St. 

tori.    The  first  of  these  is,  consider-  Juae  (xiv.)  stamp  the  authority  of  iu-> 

ing  the  Apocrypha  as  a  whole.    They  spiration  on  the  several  books  in  which 

Bpeak  of  It  as  if  all  its  parts  were  of  such  parts  are  mentioned.     Nay,  our 

equal  authority,  or  either  as  if  it  were  Lord  himself,  in  his  divine  form   of 

■but  one  book,  and  not  a  mere  arbitrary  prayer,  is  generally  admitted  to  have,  in 

collection  into  one  volume,  of  writings  some    respects,   only    condensed    the 

possessing  very  different  degrees  of  ere-  matter  of  the  Jewish  liturgy ;  yet  the 

nit  and  authority.    Now  here  it  most  prayers  of  the  synagogue  never  claimed 

be  recollected  that  such  an  assumption  on  that  account  to  be  received  as  in- 

Is  perfectly  untrue,  nay,  that  the  A\yo~  spired.     It  is  not  the  hare  quoting  of 

crypha,  as  it  is  introduced  in  the  larger  these  several   books,  but  their  hAng 

Anions  of  the  English  Bible,  is  not  quoted  as  of  divine  authority,  whicn 

complete;  for  in  the  Svriac,  and  in  the  can  authorize  them  to  be  considered 

most  ancient  MSS.  of  the  Septuagint,  as  revelations  from  God.     And  ihis  is 

particularly  in  the  Alexandrian   and  the  very  mistake  into  which  Ctericus 

Vatican,  there  is  ^  third  hook  of  Mac*  has  fallen;  for  without  adverting  to 

caheeSf^nd  a  fourth  hook  of  macca-  this  necessary  condition  of  quotation,^ 

hees  is  added  in  a  few  other  MSS.  he  has  paraded  a  correspondence  be- 

The  different  writings  composing  the  iween  a  saying  of  our  Lord,  and  the 

Apocrypha  were  written  in  diflerent  30th  verse«of  the  first  chapter  of  the 

languages,  and  at  different  times  ;  and  2d  Book  of  Esdras,  as  a  proof  not  only 

some  are  mere  translations  and  abridg-  of  the  divine  authority  of  that  Book,' 

ments,  the  originals  being  lost     Ac-  but  of  the  whole  Apocrypha:  and  all 

cordingly,  in  the  Calendar  of  Lessons,  this  is  done  as  a  discovery,  which  is 

our  Church  makes  a  distinction  be«  slily  intended  to  correct  the  mistaken 

tween  the  different  books,  not  allow-  Authors  of  the  39  Articles!     Why,  if 

ing  either  Book  of  Esdras,  or  of  Mac-  necessary,  scores  of  passages  might  be 

^bees,  the  Addition  to  the  Book  of  produced  from  the  Apocrypha,  corre^ 

Esther,  the  Song  of  the  Three  Chil-  shonding  more  or  less  with  passages  iii 

dren,  or  the  Prayer  of  Manasseh,  to  the  New  Testament.    But  the  ec/a/ of 

form  a  part  of  the  public  instruction  of  the  whole  proceeding  consists  in  se- 

the  Church  Service.    The  Church  of  lecting  the  quotation,  which  is  to  do 

Rome  itself  never  lost  sight  of  this  such  wonders,  from  this  said  Sd  Book 

distinction  in  the  several  books;  for,  of  Esdras;  this  book   being  shrewdly 

^en  in  the  arrogance  of  her  infalli-  suspected  by  critics  to  have  been  pub- 

bility,  she  never  dared  to  admit  into  lished  after  the  promulgation  of  the 

the  Canon  of  Scripture  the  Prater  of  Gospel,  by  some  one  who  wished  by 

Manasseh,  or  the  Third  and  Fourth  this  means  to  aid  the  Christian  cause, 
books  of  Esdras.    If,  therefore,  such  a        On  the  general  question  of  the  Apo- 

distinction  is  well  founded,  the  recog-  crypha,  1  would  entreat  your  two  Cor- 

xiition  of  one  of  the  Books  could  not  respondents  to  examine  the  five  foU 

(as  Clericus  supposes)  confer  authority  lowing  points,  with  respect  to  the  seve* 

cmthewholeCoilection,  of  which  sucfi  ral  Books  of  this  Collection,  viz.  their 

Book  was  a  part,  that  Collection  being  genuineness,  authenticity,  incorrupt- 

in  itself  purely  arbitrary.    This  leads  ness,  integrity,  and   credibility.    On 

me  to  the  second  error  of  your  Corre-  comparing   this    evidence    with   that 

spondents,  viz.  that  a  bare  quoting  or  which  can  be  produced  on  these  same 

alltiding  to  another  book  in  Scripture  questions  for  the  authority  of  the  seve- 

•tamps  Divine  Authority  on  such  Book,  ral  Books  of  the  Old  Testament,  they 

But  such  a  circumstance  would  add  no  woutd  see  that  there  was  no  ground,  as 

more  authority  to  that  particular  Book  tespects  the  Apocrypha,  on  which  to 

^nd  much  less  to  the  whole  Collection  found  the  sixth  and  last  great  <)Qestion 

loto  which  it  was  arbitrarily  inoorpo-  of  inspiration,  or  divine  authority.  Fof 

ttied)  than  St.  Paul's  quoutions  from  that  of  the  Old  Testament,  however, 

the  heathen  poets,  Aratus  (Acts  xviiv  we  have  sufficient  proofs,  first,  in  thd 

88),  Menander  (Corinth,  xv.  33),  and  authority  of  the  Jewish  Canon  \  and, 

Epimcnides  (Titus  i.  IS),  stamp  a  di^  secondly,  in  its  Recognition  by  Christ 

nae  authority  va  tbeir  several  wofk^  and  bis  Apostles     and  of  both  these 


ia«7.] 


AftMpiM  leAy  Proie$UmU  will  n^  credU  PcpkU. 


3t 


erideoccs  of  divine  authority  the  Apo* 
crypha  is  entirely  destitute. 

In  conclusion,  1  must  express  roy 
fegret  that  some  of  your  Correspond- 
ents do  not  seem  to  think  that  the 
Church  of  England  is  placed  at  the 
exact  point  of  propriety  between 
Popefy  and  Dissent.  Hence  proceed 
the  opposite  wishes  of  uniting  with 
Methodism  on  one  hand ;  and  on  the 
other,  in  conformity,  I  suppose,  with 
OUT  good  friends  the  Papists,  of  admit- 
tinff  the  Apocrypha  with  its  beauties 
and  defects;  its  truth,  its  fiction,  and 
its  nonsense,  all  together,  into  the  di- 
vine Canon  of  Scripture.  Surely  if  at 
any  time,  the  present  is  a  time,  when 
such  attempts  ought  to  be  forborne; 
when  we  ought  especially  to  guard 
against  any  hazard  of  marring  the 
apostolical  "  beauty  of  holiness,'*  and 
Scriptural  simplicity,  which  belong  to 
our  own  venerable  faith,  by  any  adop- 
tion of  the  unfounded  principles  of  its 

enemies. 

Presbyter  Orthodoxus. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan,  22. 

THE  sentleman  who,  at  the   last 
meeting  of  the  Catholics,  express- 
ed such  indignation  that  ProtestanU 
would  not  adopt  those  views  of  Popery 
irhich  iudisci{Jes  wished  to  propagate 
concerning  it,  may  probably  feel  a  cu- 
riosity to  know  the  ireasons  why  one 
person  at  least  feels  disposed  to  doubt 
them.    They  are  these.     I.  That  the 
British  Catholics  are  not  authorised  to 
expound  their  faith ;  Popes  and  Coun- 
cils alone  being  competent  to  it.    2. 
Because  their  own  champion  Mr.  But* 
Icr  has  felt  himself  obliged  to  omit  a 
passage  in    the   Creed    of  Pius  IV. 
(when  giving  that  creed  as  the  autho- 
rised belief  of  a  Papist),  which  is  of 
vital    importance,    as    binding   every 
member -of  that  faith  "  to  procure  that 
all  under  him  shall  hold,  teach,  and 
preach,"  the  faith  of  Popery,  "  qnan- 
ium  tJi.me  eriit*'  that  is,  to  the  utmost 
of  his  power,    3.  Because   from   the 
mutilations  and  alterations  of  ancient 
authors,  and   the  forgeries  of  docu- 
ments, unless  they^read  the  works  of 
Protestants,   where    these  things   are 
expcoed,  no  Catholic,  even  the  most 
learned,  has  any  chance  of  arriving  at 
a  thorough  knowledge  of  his  own  reli- 
gion.    4.  Because  those  declarations 
are    contradictory   to    the    authorised 
creeds,  as  Mr.  Butler  or  tJie  author 


from  whom  ha  quoted,  felt,  when  ho. 
suppressed  the  above  passage.  5.  Be* 
eause  they  are  contradictory  to  the 
practice  of  that  Church,  which  tsXm^ 
blished  the  Inquisition  in  1814,  and 
only  10  years  ago  some  of  the  higher 
ranks  of  British  Catholics  expresse(| 
themselves  favourable  to  the  Inquisi- 
tion, as  Llorente,  its  late  secretary,  de- 
clares (Sonthey's  Vindiciae,  421.)  6« 
Because  the  case  of  the  priest  Gan« 
dolphy  (see  Mr.  Croly*s  publication, 
•'  ropery  and  the  Popish  Question  *') 
shows  that  every  artifice  is  practised 
to  give  false  representations  of  Popery. 

A  Shropshire  Curate. 

Mr.  Urbak,    Manchester f  Jan,  91. 

IN  the  choir  of  the  Collegiate  Church 
of  Manchester  is  a  flat  grave-stone 
divided  into  two  compartments,  the 
upper  portion  surmounted  with  the 
arms  ot  Fitz  Roy  in  a  lozenge,  sur- 
rounded by  those  usual  emblems  of 
morulity,  a  skull,  cross  bones,  and 
candle  nearly  extinguished,  winged 
hour-glass,  and  scythe;  and  beneath 
this  inscription : 

*'  Lady  Barbara  Fitzroy,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  the  most  noble  Charles  Duke  oi 
Cleveland  and  Southampton,  died  Jan.  4| 
1734." 

The  lower  compartment  containa 
the  arms  of  Dawson,  with  the  foU 
lowing: 

"  Here  are  deposited  the  remains  of  Wil^ 
liara  Dawson,  esq.  who  died  on  the  I7ih 
day  of  August,  1780,  and  in  the  60th  jretr 
of  his  age.  He  desired  to  be  buried  with 
the  above-named  lady,  not  on\j  to  testify 
his  gratitude  to  the  memory  of  a  kind  be* 
pe&ctress,  although  he  never  reaped  any  of 
those  advantages  from  her  bounty  to  his 
family  which  sne  intended,  but  because  his 
fate  was  similar  to  hers,  for  she  was  dis^ 
owned  by  her  mother,  and  he  was  disinhe^ 

rited  by  his  father.'* 

■  • 

In  Mr.  Barretts  papers,  now  depOf 
sited  in  the  library  of  Cheethain's  Hos* 
pital,  the  following  notice  of  Mr, 
Dawson  occurs : 

"Tliis  gentleman  was  buried  agreeaUy 
to  his  request  in  the  following  dress,  niiBe4 
shirt,  and  cravat,  night-cap  of  brown  fur, 
momiog-gown  striped  orange  and  white,  de^ 
crimson-coloured  waistcoat  and  breecheSf 
white  silk  stockings,  and  red  morocco  slipr 
pcrs.  In  his  bosom  was  put  a  folded  nieof 
of  white  paper,  which  inclosed  two  locks  ^ 
hair  cut  from  the  heads  oi  \,wo  Yw^s  ^»X 


Sd 


Mr,,  Damifm*-''''^Poem$  bif  'Mn.  M.  Keigpin, 


[Jan* 


di«d,  for  whom  Mr.  Dawson  had  a  great  re- 
gard t  they  heing  the  childreo  of  Mr. 
Cooper  hit  ttewaid,  with  whom  Mr.  Daw- 
ton  lived,  and  likewite  became  hit  heir  at 
hU  death." 

From  the  Manchester  family  of 
Dawson  proceeded  the  hero  of  Shen- 
8tone*s  ballad,  and  in  the  notices  of 
those  executed  during  1746,  the  rela- 
tions of  the  unfortunate  ''Jemmy 
Dawson  **  are  uniformly  stated  to 
have  been  respectable  and  wealthy. 
fiut  by  what  means  the  fortunes  of 
the  Dawsons  became  connected  with 
those  of  Lady  Barbara  Fitzroy,  that  we 
should  thus  find  her  sharing  the  grave 
of  so  eccentric  a  personage,  I  am  un- 
able to  discover.  The  Peerage  merely 
states  that  l^^y  Barbara  was  the 
daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Cleveland  b^ 
his  second  wife  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Pulteney,  and  that  she  was 
born  Feb.  7,  1695-6.  X.  L.  D. 

Mr.  Urban,  Jan.  20. 

THE  followins  pieces  were  the  pro- 
ductions of  Margaret,  the  wife  of 
John  Keigwin  of  Mousehole  in  Corn- 
wall, esq.  and  daughter  of  John  Gif- 
fard  of  Brightley  in  Devon,  esq.  some 
account  of  whom  will  be  found  m  your 
Magazine,  vol.  xciii.  ii.  p.  36,  and 
were  written  before  her  marriage  in 
1666,  at  which  time  she  was  about 
eighteen  years  old.  The  first  is  ad- 
dressed to  the  memory  of  her  grand- 
mother Joan,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Portman  of  Orchard,- co.  Somerset, 
and  wife  of  Sir  John  Wyndham  of 
Orchard  Wyndham  in  that  county, 
knt.  the  ancestor  of  the  Right  Hon. 
the  'Editi  of  Egremont.  By  Sir  John 
Wyndham  she  had  a  numerous  family, 
of  whom  Sir  Hugh  and  Sir  Wadham 
Wyndham  attained  the  dignity  of  the 
Bench.  Of  the  six  daughters  men- 
tioned by  her,  Joan  the  eldest,  mar- 
ried John  Giffard,  and  was  the  mother 
of  the  writer  of  these  pieces ;  Marearet 
was  the  wife  of  John  Courtenay  of  Mol- 
land;  Florence,  of  John  Harris  of 
Hayne,'  co.  Devon ;  Rachel,  of  Tho- 
mas Moore  of  Halisbury,  co.  Wilts; 
atid  Margery,  of  Thomas  Carew  of 
Crocomb.  The  allusion  to  the  Orchard* 
applied  to  the  name  of  the  seat  of  the 
Wyndham  and  Portman  families ;  and, 
excepting  the  strained  metaphor  of  the 
''dew  distill'd,"  which  occurs  twice, 
thevenes  dosomecredit  to  the  taste  and 
feelinjg  of  so  young  a  female  at  the  pe- 
riod  m  ffbich  she  lived.    Her  sister 


Elizabeth  probably  died  yoang,  for  no 
notice  occurs  of  her  in  the  pedigree  of 
that  family.  Mrs.  Keigwin  married, 
secondly,  Robert  Yonge,  gent,  and 
died,  aged  92,  in  1740.        Clionas. 

*'  On  the  Memory  of  the  most  vertuou*  and 
honorable  Lady  the  Lady  Joane  ff'indhamm 

To  Orchardt  had  a  tewerall  right  to  thee, . 
A  Portnian't  grafe,  a  Windham's  frutfoU 

tree; 
The  ODe  gave  her  life  and  beioge,  but  th« 

other 
Made  her  a  frutfull  wife  and  happy  mother } 
She  on  her  orchard  like  a  due  aistird, 
And  all  her  house  with  a  rich  plenty  filKd, 
Wisdom  the  made  her  guide,  and  providence 
The  roeature  of  her  (ayre  and  large  expenee^ 
So  that  the  founten  never  was  drawn  dry 
Of  her  most  conttaot  hospitallity. 
She,  tkilfully  puttinge  the  same  in  cure. 
As  hence  the  made  her  knight't  deare  heart 

tecure ; 
The  greater  it  his  lotte,  hut  that  hee  knew , 
The  tonn  at  length  exhdet  the  frutfull  dew  | 
But  noe  lesse  happy  in  her  motherhood. 
She  mayd  a  numorous  issue  and  a  good. 
For  nyne  brave  sonns  she  educated  taw. 
In  arts,  in  arroes,  in  courtthype,  and  in  law. 
Which  they  assumed,  not  as  is  now   the 

fSuhion, 
Only  for  refuge,  hut  for  recreation  ; 
They  needed  not  those  helpes  for  to  inereate 
Their  privat  portiont,  but  their  contriea 

peace. 
Betidet  tix  daughters  whome  her  prudent 

care 
And  pattern  framed  at  vertuout  as  fiure. 
And  all  in  frethett  flowre  of  their  age. 
She  taw  with  comfort  joy  nd  in  marriage; 
By  whom  to  make  her  happvnet  the  more» 
She  taw  her  children't   children*t  happj 

ttore. 
Faythfull  and  haupy,  fniitfnll,  fiill  of  dayt, ' 
God  tooke  her  nence  with  her  immortal 

prayte. 
For  'twat  not  fitt  an  orchard  here  below 
Should  keepe  the  tree  y*  should  in  Eden 

growe.  MAEGRKiT  GlPFARD.** 

On  my  sister  Elizabeth, 

Prepared  by  God*t  spiritt 

In  life  for  death, 

Heare  sleene  hit  sweetest  saint» 

Elizabeth. 
So  like  unto  her  Saivour 

Wast  hitt  childy 
Pure,  holy,  chatt, 

Wiie  hertted,  humble,  milde  ; 
On  her  incircled. 

With  eight  titters  more> 
At  in  a  flowrey  chaplett 

Chritt  did  powre 
Such  plenty  of  his  graeaty 

She  did  thine. 

MAaoaaaT  GiPf lao.**  ' 


iw.]  t   «    ] 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


1.   SaUptmd  Metapa  discovered  amonjgti  the  Temple  of  Diana  at  Syracuse,  and 

iht  RiUnt  ^/*  the  Temples  rf  the  ancient  the  GrecK  Temple  at  Pompeii.    The 

diy  of  Selinot  ia  Sicily.    By  William  distinction  of  these  capitals  is  the  echi- 

Htfris  and  SmbqcI  Angell,  in  the  Year  nus  of  a  considerable  curve,  and  great 

1883.    D^cribed  by  Samuel  Angell  imd  projection,    wilh   a   concavity   imme- 

^T  f.T'  -£f*''f^^-   i^"**-/*^'  diately  below  the  annulets  (pp.  30. 32). 

;^.56.    PUUes,    Pnestley  onrf  Weale.  j.^^  J^„^^^,  ^ea^ple  is  heiSstyk  pe- 

AMONG  the  earliest  establishments  ripteral.      Our    authors     found    four 

of  the  Greeks  in  Sicily,  was  a  courses  of  masonry  under  the  pavement, 

colony  from  Megara  in   Auica,  who  and  immediaiely  underihe  lowai  course 

settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Mount  Etna,  was  a  layer  of  sand,  about  four  inches 

and  founded  a  ciiv  called  Hybia  Me-  deep,  placed  u|jon  the  solid  rock  (p. 

aira.    In  the  32d  Olympiad  (630  B.C.)  31).    What  could  the  reason  be  of  this 

descendants  of  these   Greco-Sicilians  intervening  layer  of  sand?    to  absorb 

built  Selinus,  on  the  South-we?»t  coast  moisture? — The  third  Temple  is  hexi- 

of  the  island.     During  250  years  this  style  |)eripteral. 

new  city   continued   to  flourish,  and         ,.  ^.^  ,j.^^  ,^  ^  ^^^^  ^  ^^  ^ 

•turned  to  considerable  splendour.  But  ^j^,  ^f  ^j,^    J^^^  ^  potticum  seolp- 

beconimg    involved    m    the    wars    of  ^^^^  ^^1,^  ^tow  of  the  peristyle  were  aU 

Greece,  and  local  discords,  it  was  dis-  plain,  a  peculiaiity  of  which  U  u  believ«4 

mantled  by  Hannibal,  the  son  of  Gi»-  UiUTempleaffordi  the  only  example."  P.St, 
con,   in  the  Q2d  Olyutpiad :  and  was         „  u  n    1  u  .   u    c  i* 

afurward,  enpaged  fn  «tlv  rebellion.        "^"=  ^J.*  *^f  °»'«"';'  '^''-  '•>«  Seli- 

aeainst  iheCarllTaginiaiir  They,  u,«n  nu"«'ncTt...pl«  do  not  appear  to  have 

the  5,.rce»»  of  the  Roman*,  detcfinined  ^f"  «''"  '"  «  ""'»''«''  »'^«V-  "•"''  ^ 

to  ...ake  a  last  .land  at  Lilybitu.n.  »•"»  <=""»«•  "".\  «°  ""X  Pe5»''»"'y  "^ 

_      .  *.  1.     .        1  design,  we  attribute  the  plain  metopes. 

•'  }^  the  execauoD  of  tbu  plan,  the  ex-         q^  ^j^^   ^^^^^.^^    ^iWU    our   authort 

tinction  of  Sellout   was  decreed;  tlie  city  <;«.,    j-  ^«..^^«.i    .u-.  *^^««:^.  ^r  tU.^^ 

.       ftj       ju'ui-*.        '  "P*t  discovered  the  remains  ot   three 

was  demuluhed,  and  the  inhabitants  were  rp         •       .u-.  •    .      ,u    .  ..^.^^j^j 

n..ved  to  Lilyb^in,.    ThU  ctMtroph.  rumple.,  that  i.  to  say,  ihry  succeHed 

wufioal.  «h1  Stlbo*  i>ev.r  aftenmrd. fbuod  "»  n.aking  oat  the  plans  and  "rchuec- 

•  pkM  iD  the  pue  of  aocient  bUtory."  tural  <letails  of  three  more  Temples, 

P  94  which  have  never  heretorore  been  pub- 

TTiat  interesting  and  tasteful  traveller  "*Jj!r'     .     .     ,—,       ,      , 
Denon  (whom  oi.r  authors  appear  not      .  T***  J'""".^       ""*   '        f".    i  ""* 

to  havedonsulted).  speaking  of  .he  three  f '«■"  f  '*»«  ''',7«'  "  »»PPO^  «»  •'•'« 

known  temple,.  «y..  that  at  the  largest  ''*'"J^«  .""'.""i"'*^  '°^y  H"«'•»°^ 

we  seen,  to  behol.f  the  work  of  Giant,,  f  ««««'«;»»«'  W  J-P'"'  Agoreus.     It  I* 

Erery  column  is  a  tower;  every  capital  '•^-•'y'*    P«"P«m»I.    *■«>>    »«rfn/e« 

a  wl'ole  rock.    (••  Sicily  "  p.  177-)  colunuis  on  the  sides.-a  proportion,  it 

Tlie  ruins  ;)cc«py  tfie  summit,  of  '»  '»  *»«  Mt,t.tA,  not  to  be  found  m 

two  opposite  hills      On  the  eastern  ""V  »'»'"  »"<='«"'  ««««?•«• 

•re  three  Temples  (ihow  visited  by  trii-  _  "  •*  '•  "o"''/  »'  "»»*.  tUt  lo  Mt 

Tellers  and  described  by  Denon,  &c.)  Tsmple  th«  columot  of  the  ftonu  are  rf  • 

of  massy  iDMnificence  and  very  grand  6~««'  '«'•'"«'•'  th«n  *««  of  the  «de., 

^  rT»u       I      »    -./    .u  — .  •nd  the   mtercolumniatione  are  wider  t   • 

appearance.      The    largest    of    these  ^pje  adopted  for  the  purpoe.  of  «on«,tiof. 

Temples  »  infiniiely  su|>enor  in  plan,  .^  ^^^  ^.^^^ ^^  ^atiSsproportion,  k 

execution,    and   materials   to   that  of  „fcrence  to  other  Temples,  of  sik  columns 

AgTigentuin.     It   is  ociostyle  pseudo-  ^n  the  fronu  to  seventeen  on  the  flanki. 

dipteral.     It  is  ei«:ht  feet  fonger  than  The  columns  are  of  heavv  proportion,  with 

the  latter,  and  thirteen  feet  narrower,  a  decided  entasis,  and  have  only  sixteea 

The  shafts  of  the  columns  are  formed  ilutings ;  the  entablature  is  heavy,  and  has 

by  single  blocks.     The  cella  is  divided  a  very  remarkable  peculiarity,  the  mutules 

ID   its  width    by  two  rows  of  Doric  over  the  metopes  being  only  half  the  width 

columns,    like   the  great  Temple  at  of  those  over  the  triglyphs,  aad  eoutttnb^ 

Ptotqm.    The  capitals  of  ceruin  of  only  half  the  number  of  gattta.  •    V-W, 
the  colomnf  jire  to  be  §een  at  Pkstuw,       The  second  temple  \%  hexa^V^Ve  ^^ 

^wm  Ma^  Jamury,  t9f7,  ripteral,  with  ffctrtecn  ocAucMA  Otl  >fci» 


34 


Rb¥ibw.*>— <S«{ijiifiittnf  Sculptures. 


[Jan< 


sides.  This  Temple  has  the  some  va- 
riety in  the  size  of  the  mutules,  as  was 
described  in  the  last.  The  third  and 
smallest  is  hexastyle  |)cripteral,  with 
fourteen  columns  on  the  flanks. 

«<  The  pIsD  and  details  of  this  Temple 
are  very  similar  to  those  of  the  southern 
Temple  on  the  eastern  hill.  The  capitals 
of  both  are  without  the  concavity  under  the 
annulets,  common  to  the  four  other  Temples, 
and  the  architecture  generally  approaches 
nearer  to  the  examples  found  in  Greece. 
From  these  circumstances,  it  is  conjectured 
that  these  two  Temples  are  of  a  later  date 
than  the  other  four.       P  35. 

All  these  six  Temples  were  of  the 
Doric  order — the  stone  thinly  coaled 
with  fine  |>lasler,  and  several  mem- 
bers of  the  entablature  painted  red  and 
blue,  being  the  remaining  colours. 
P.  35. 

Whatever  praise  is  in  other  respects 
diie  to  Greek  architecture,  we  doubt 
not  but  the  execrable  tasje  of  paint- 
ing these  members  "  blue  and  red." 
&c.  will  be  justly  condemned  by  all 
persons. 

The  subjecU  of  the  Metopes  we 
shall  give  numerically  from  the  Plates 
of  them,  which  commence  with  No.l  1 1. 

No.  III.  represents  a  combat  be- 
tween a  warrior  and  a  female,  whether 
an  amazon  or  divinity  our  authors 
doubt ;  but  they  are  inclined  from 
finding  a  figure  of  Minerva  very  much 
resembling  this  in  the  Sicilis  Veteris 
Kummi  (tab.  Ixxxiii.),  to  think  it  ap- 
pertains to  that  Goddess. — We  refer 
them  to  a  statue  marked  AOHNA  in 
fioissard,  for  a  fiji^ure  in  very  similar 
costume.  The.  warrior  subdued  does 
not  seem  to  relate  to  Enceladus  or  any 
other  of  the  giants  whom  she  killed, 
nor  do  we  know  of  any  fable  to  which 
it  can  refer ;  for  the  Minerva  who 
killed  Pallas  is  distinguished  by  wings 
on  her  feet.  We  therefore  think,  that 
the  subject  must  be  one  of  purely  local 
mythology. 

No.  IV.  consists  of  the  body  and 
head  of  a  dying  warrior,  and  part  of  a 
.  female  figure.  The  latter  may  be  as- 
cribed to  an  Amazon  or  Bacchant,  from 
the  naked  thigh  and  knee,  but  it  it 
only  a  very  imperfect  fragment,  and 
inore^probably  is  a  continuation  of  the 
last  table.  Battles  between  Greeks 
and  Amazons  are  however  common 
subjects.  Our  authors  say  of  the  head 
x>f  the  warrior : 

<*  This  exaiB|de  of  early  Greek  sculpture 
Ifmiw  m  9»ij  nmtM  ntembhact  to  $oaat  of 


the  heads  in  the  3Sgina  marbles,  withperhape 
rather  more  expression;  the  sculptor  has 
evidently  intended  to  mark  the  figonies  of 
death  by  the  doted  eyes,  the  mouth  slightly 
opened,  and  the  tongue  appearing  between 
the  teeth ;  the  hair  and  beard  are  most 
carefully  and  symmetrically  arranged.*'  P.  40. 

The  helmet  is  like  that  which  ap- 
pears on  the  bust  of  Pericles,  in  the 
Townley  Collection,  t*.  e,  could  be 
wholly  pulled,  down  so  as  to  cover  the 
face  entirely.  From  this  we  infer, 
that  the  dying  figure  was  intended  for 
a  Greek  ;  because  these  helmets,  called 
Tfpocf^aXaia,  did  belong  to  the  early 
Greeks  (Meyrick,  xxiv.),  and  the  Phry- 
gian bon  net  was  among  the  G  reek  artists 
a  distinctive  attribute  of  Barbariaits. 
(Fosbroke's  Encyl.  of  Antrq.  7()5.) 

These  metopes,  say  our  authors, 

<*  Like  those  of  the  Parthenon  and  the 
Theseium,  are  in  very  high  relief,  some 
parts  being  quite  detached;  thev  bear  a 
great  resemblance  to  some  of  the  figures  on 
the  early  Greek  and  Sicilian  fictile  vases; 
and  the  sculpture,  though  not  quite  equal, 
is  very  similar,  both  in  style  and  execution, 
to  the  sculpture  of  the  Panhellenium  of 
iEgina."     P.  41. 

Another  metope  (not  engraved)  re- 
presented a  male  and  a  female  figure 
com  La  ting.  The  female  bears  a  shield 
on  the  left  arm,  and  the  warrior  has 
the  chlamys  falling  over  the  right 
shoulder  (p.  42).  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  the  authors  have  not  specified  the 
form  of  the  shield,  but  presume  that, 
had  it  been  an  Amazonian  Pelia,  they 
would  have  discriminaicd  it.  A  round 
Greek  shield  is  a  very  common  accom- 
paniment of  figures  of  Minerva.  This 
metope  appears  to  be  of  later  date  and 
suoerior  taste  to  the  others. 

No.  VI.  represents  a  quadriga  and 
three  figures,  presumed  to  allude  to  the 
celebrated  race  between  Pelops  and 
Oenomaus,  and  to  have  been  copied 
from  the  Temple  of  Jupiter  at  Olyuif^a, 
where  this  story  was  sculptured. 

No.  Vll.  exnibiu  the  death  of  the 
Gorgon  Medusa.  The  head  of  the 
Gorgon  is  monstrous.  We  refer  our 
readers  to  D*Uancarville,  vol.  iv.  pi. 
26,  for  the  same  subject ;  and  observe, 
that  though  the  Gorgons  are  there  very 
ugly,  and  their  large  teeth  denote  the 
boar*t  tusks,  with  which  the  Poets 
have  armed  their  mouths,  yet  that 
artists  have  rarely  given  to  Medusa  the 
hideous  features  of  the  Gorgons,.  to 
commoQ  upon  the  Etruscan  vases. 
The  spectmea  before  us  gives  an  excel* 


i«ro 


RftTiBw.^^-ChrisUe  on  the  Painitd  Gtetk  Foies. 


3& 


lent  representation  of  the  tusk-shaped 
teeth,  and  senres  to  explain  a  passage 
of  iEschylus  (in  Promethen)  where  he 
calls  the  Gorgons  **  /4o»o^orr«^/'  mean- 
ing, of  coarse,  that  they  had  all  teeth  of 
a  similar  form  (not  one  common  tooth 
among  them  all,  "  communis  idem  est 
omnibus  dens,**)  as  the  Latin  version  of 
the  Greek  seems  to  imply,  though  it  is 
a  physical  impossibility.  Perseus  in 
this  marble  has  talaria,  which  resemble 
Jtmfuiii  or  ocrcce,  and  turn  down  at 
top,  in  scroll  or  cartouche  fashion. 

Plate  VI II.  represents  Hercules  Me- 
]ampyce5,  seizing  Passalus  and  Achae- 
mon,  the  Cercopes.  This  plate  is  ex- 
cellently illustrated ;  but  we  shall  cor- 
rect a  small  misnomer: — the  orna- 
ment on  the  fascia  is  not  the  mceander, 
but  the  labyrtnthfret. 

We  most  not  omit  Plate  II.,  a  resto- 
ration of  the  central  Temple,  eastern 
hill.  It  exhibits  the  most  tasteful 
onion  of  simplicity  and  ornament, 
which  we  have  ever  seen  in  Greek 
architecture,  and  is  an  exquisite  stjeci- 
men  of  the  perfection  ot  the  Doric 
style,  strength  without  heaviness. 

'We  cannot  praise  the  authors  too 
much,  for  the  excellent  manner  in 
which,  both  as  to  Plates  and  Letter- 
press, they  have  edited  this  work.  It 
will  form  a  most  valuable  addition  to 
the  library  of  the  Dilettanti  Antiquary. 


t.  Disquisitions  upon  the  Painted  Greek 
Vaaes,  and  their  JarobtUfle  Conneciion  tvith 
the  Shows  of  the  Eleiisioian  and  other  Mys- 
teries, By  Jaraes  Christie,  a  Member  qf 
the  Society  o/'Dilettaoti.    4to.  pp,  146, 

TO  illostrate  ancient  paintings  cor- 
rectly, it  is,  in  our  opinion,  absolutely 
necessary  to  know  the  customary  sub- 
jects. Pliny  (L.  35.  c.  4  io  12),  fur- 
nishes a  long  list  of  these.  They  ap- 
pear to  be  battle-pieces  (some  of  them 
with  portraits  of  the  generals),  figures 
of  deities,  historical  pictures— portraits 
and  family  groups — Bacchants — Satyrs 
—  numerous  mythological  stories  — 
ships — bigae,  quadrig£,  &c.  &c.  — in 
short,  numerous  pictures  composed  of 
figures,  but  very  few  where  there  are 
buildings  or  landscapes,  subjects  mostly 
limited  io  wall  paintings. 

The  question  is,  however,  this ;  Are 
all  these  subjects  explicable?  To  this 
we  answer  no ;  ana  affirm,  let  others 
think  as  they  will,  that  D*Hancar- 
Tille*s  IllnstratJODs  of  the  Hamilton 
Vmet  MFC,  SB  the  mMia,  matters  of  to- 


Diance ;  for  thit  obvious  reason,  that* 
certain  points  excepted  which  we  shall 
soon  discuss,  eluciaation  is  impossible. 
This  impossibility  is  occasioned  by  the 
ancient  painters  (1)  intermixing  with 
their  portraits  Bgures  and  actions, either 
arbitrarily  for  the  sake  of  effect,  or  in 
allusion  to  circumstances  utterly  un- 
known ;  or  (2)  by  the  pictures  them- 
selves having  no  other  original  mean- 
ing, than  the  exhibition  of  a  fa\'ourite 
design  ;  or  (3)  by  the  character  of  the 
figures  being  in  local,  not  general  My- 
thology. 

Of  the  first  kind  we  shall  give  two 
instances.  Pliny  mentions  a  Semira- 
mis  rising  ex  anciild  to  a  throne,  ac- 
companied by  an  old  woman  carrying 
a  lamp.  fL,  35.  c.  10  )  Now  accord- 
ing to  Diodorus  and  Ctesias,  she  did 
not  rise  to  the  throne  of  Ninus  ex 
ancillA,  but  was  the  wife  of  Nenoo. 
Prefect  of  Svria,  when  the  Kine  car- 
ried her  off.«D'Hancarville  would  give 
in  a  moment  a  presumed  meaning  of 
the  old  woman  with  her  lamp ;  out 
no  Antiquary  who  knows  any  thing 
of  the  subject  would  accredit  him,  un- 
less he  produced  a  description  from  an 
ancient  author  confirming  his  hy|)0- 
thesis. 

Athenseus  informs  us,  that  Alcibiades 
exhibited  two  pictures  which  he  had 
brought  from  Agloophon ;  in  one  Py- 
thias and  Olympias  were  crowning 
him  (Alcibiades);  in  another  he  is 
placed  upon  the  knees  of  Nemea  sit- 
ting. By  what  possible  means  could 
a  modern  know  tnat  this  small  figure 
was  Alcibiades? 

We  could  mention  numerous  other 
instances,  but  it  is  utterly  unnecessary, 
because  no  fact  is  better  established, 
than  that  authors  and  marbles  often 
differ.  Why  do  they  differ?  Plainly 
because  artists  indulged  in  distinctions, 
known  perhaps  to  themselves,  and  often 
perhaps  fo  contemporaries,  but  not  to 
authors. 

Several  pictures  have  undoubtedly 
no  other  meaning  than  the  exhibition 
of  a  pleasing  design.  Thus  Pliny  men- 
tions a  boy  blowing  a  fire,  and  Leon- 
tium.  Mistress  of  Epicurus,  thinking 
of  that  voluptuary  ?  D'Hancarville 
would  allegorize  the  former,  and  of 
the  latter  he  would  make  some  per- 
son,—certainly  notLeontium. 

Cicero  (de  Nat,  Deor,)  mentions  a 
Juno  Sospita  et  LanaTium  diSL\)e^  \ti  ^ 
goat's  skin,  with  a  spe&r,  %Vi\fA^,  ^c. 
and  similar  insUnccB  occui  \ti  Y^>3l- 


36  RAViftW.^-^ChlMie  Mi  iht  PaMtd  Gre^k  Vaiet.  [Jan; 

MDiai  of   diflferent  representationt  of  Bacchants,  the  bcantv    and    hatr  ot 

one  and   the  same  deity  in  ▼arious  Bacchus  and  Apollo^  kc.  &c.  &c. 
coantries.  Subjects,  then,  purely  mythological 

Allegorical  persona^  were  some-  may  be  clearly  and  certainly  decioher- 

times   mixed  with   historical   figures,  ed.   For  instance,  the  nuptials  of  Nep- 

Thus  Pliny  mentions  a  group  of  Priam,  tone  and  Amphitrite  are  depicted  upon 

Helen,  CreduUty,  Ulysses,  Deiphobus,  a  vase  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Hope, 

and  Dolon.  (e,  xi.)    Could  any  mo-  in  a  manner  which  cannot  be  mis- 

dem  guess  that  Credulity  was  one  of  taken,  because  every  circumstance  re- 

these  ngures  ?  presented  is  to  be  found  in  the  de- 

But  Petronius  will  further  show  ns,  scriptions  of  Virgil  and  Ovid.    There 

that  Gods,  Goddesses,  &c.  (why.  Mil-  can,  too,  be  no  doubt,  that  the  painting 

lin  will  soon  show)  were  intermingled  of  a  vase,  which  Millin  caused  to  be 

with  the  private  history  of  individuals,  engra\'ed   by  Willemin,  denoted   the 

in  il  manner  which  no  person  what-  combat  of  the  Athenians  and  Ama- 

evcr,  hot  those  very  individuals  them-  zons  in  the  Paix,  under  the  protecting  ' 

selves,  could  possibly  understand  :  care  of  the  tutelar  deities  of  Attica.. 

'  "Ert  «>tem  T«»tiUum  titulU  pictum,  This  appearance  of  go,ls  awl  goddesac. 


dicisMt,  dein  ditpensator  Imctut  etMt,  on-  passage  is  very  apropos,  we  shall  give 

nia  diTigeoter  cuiioiui  pictor  cum  intcrip-  it  in  his  own  words: 

tiooe  rsddidermt.     In  defic'ieote  vero  jam  «  Cette  intarvention  ^it  dne  a  ce  qoe  1» 

portica,  levstum  mento  in  tribunal  excel-  ^u^jt  de«  pheoom^nes  de  la  nature  ^tant 

tarn  Mercurins  rapiebas.     ?xm%to  erat  For-  ^„„  inexplicaWei,  on  en  attribuaU  U  eaaia 

tnna  comu  abuudante  oopiosa,  et  tret  Pkrooe  ^  rinfluence  imm^iate  de  qoelque  «tre  au- 

aurea  penM  torquentea.       Ed,  Burman.  i.  p^ricur;  U  ^toit  tout  simple  de  croire  autai 

^**'^**^*  Que  let  grands  ^v^nement  ^Coient  une  suite 

Now  these  matters  merely  refer  to  Jf  ^««'  volenti.    Comma  on  donnoit  aux 

the    private  history  of  Triuialchion,  V**""*  ""•  ^""^r  »»  ''^''I^IV  ^?  ""^^ 

which  was  like  that  of  "  the  flaxen-  {»**"'  *'  **!?  P"*»°"'  •emblab  e.  i  ceux  des 

headed  cow-boy"  in  the  popular  ballnd.  )^T^L^\  ^T  ^'^tUlf  J*     V        ? 

xMTt             I J     i:                *    "^i      .      I    .^  venir  parmi  eux.    Cette  interveution  est  une 

Who  could,    however,  understand   it  ^  prlncipales  sources  des  beauts,  du  poein^ 

withool  the  knowledge  of  his  biogra-  ^piq^e,  et  det  monumens  des  arts.    Souvent 

P"^  ^  aussi  elle  n*est  pas  directe,  et  n'est  qu'une 

But  there  are  subjects  on  ancient  mani^  allegorique  de  s'exprlmer  ainsi  lors- 

Paintings  which  are  as  clear  as  day-  que  Minerve  paroit  dans   I'assembl^  des 

light ;  and  of  such  of  these  as  are  my-  principaux  cheu,  Cll.  i,  805.)  cela  veut  dire 

thological,  Ovid  is  the  best  illustrator,  qu'elle  lenr  inspire  de  sages  conseils  (Vasei 

because  that  poet  in  particular  seems  peintst  t,  t.  p,  its)  et  que  la  prudence  foi^ 

to  have  taken  his  description  from  the  Achille  I  dompter  sa  coUre.   1*  conseilqo* 

marbles  or  paintings  themselves.     No-  {f*  ^»«"»  tiennent  pour  di^cider  du  sort  d* 

thing  can  be  more  minute  and  exact.  ^""*  P^'  ^^'-^  ^*'  '"'''  *1"*"°«  ■**'»*'"  ^ 

We  fiave  no  room  for  long  quotations,  T^  T^'^'i*'  ne  pouvo.t  dependre  qua 

«n#l  hi.  t^Arlr.  n«<.  ^»»«»»      c«  i:«.i-  °**  aTf^U  dcs  Dicux.  Les  Artistes  les  ont  re- 

anci  nis  works  are  common,    bo  Jiitle,    „,a.««.^  .*^«...  -«♦ — •  j   j^'l  ^  j 

li«»^-    K««.  .K^-.  «.^.t.  1 •  pr^nUs  s  occuiwnt  aussi  de  d^iberer  dans 


the  following  lines,   has  been  utterly  ^oit  question  d'un  conseil    tenu  par  les 

disregarded :  Dieux :  c'est  que  semble  prouver  notre  vase. 

«« Est  via  dedivis.yiine,/d  nubila  toro,  ^'  Tishbiik  \\,  v.  «.  a  grav^  deux  h^ 

DucU  ad  injemas  per  muu  silentia  ^;  "^^  T*"'  ^  '^  "^^^"^  PO>>*«^.<*'«^ 

Stjx  nebulas  exbSikt  iners,  umbra^  rt-  ?'*^'  "^  ""  voit  aus«  de.  gnerners  H 

cenUt  «n,«c  ,•-  des  Amasonesirombatans,  etao'^lesana  det- 

dW.."-lMrrAM.  ^^^         ^^  .^r^'^r^*  \P«"«? »  5?  q«  Prouva  que  lea 

'  idees  vanoient  sur  les  divinilH^  auxquelles  oq 

Thua  it  appears,  that  tlie  presumed  auribuolt  d*avoir  alors  savv^  la  Urke  de 

passa^  to  Hades  was  |intd  with  yew  Pinvasion  dts  Anaxones,  c'est  I  dirt  des 

trees.    We  pass  by  the  excellent  de-  l»rf»««  ▼•«>»»  da  nord." 

scripitoa  of  Neptane,  ilic   Tritons,'       From  this  passage,  united  with  thM 


HsTif  w^-^Jhmtie  on  ib§  Pau^Ud  Gntk  Fam, 


37 


of  Frtfonmp  it  appears  that  when  tha 
aocieots  withed  to  allegorixe  history, 
they  ofteo  did  it  by  iatroducing  Crodf 


they 
aod< 


Th«  ancients  had  also  paintingp^ 
which  wcfc  called  nOucou.  In  these 
Aristides  the  Thcban  excelled.  They 
were  like  those  of  Hogarth.  The  cha- 
racter was  eaprcssed  by  the  counte- 
nance or  jgestures.  Such  was  a  Pene- 
lope (Phn,  xxav.  c.  ix).  There  was 
also  a  painting  of  Latcivia,  in  which 
the /Aree  Silent  were  feasting,  intended 
to  represent  'A^tXyiiA  (Latcivia,  &c.) 
Aoyvoa  (Saiacitas)  and  Km/ao;  (Cornet^ 
mHo,)  In  the  jnciura  peiuians  many 
excelled,  as  Ctesilocbus,  a  disciple  of 
Apellcs,  who  painted  Jupiter  in  labour 
with  Bacchus,  and  groaning  like  a 
woman,  the  goddesses  assisting  as  mid- 
wiTca.— AiiotherGreek  painter,  we  are 
told,  "Pinait  roinoribus  tabellis  iibi' 
ditutf  eo  genere  peluianiis  joci  se  refi- 
cjeoa.  (Plm,  c.  10).  From  these  in- 
sunces  we  may  infer,  that  the  vices 
were  represented  by  the  piciura  peiU" 
lans,  wnicli  does  not  only  imply  cari- 
cature, but  fantastic  additions,  such  as 
were  uils  in  fauns,  goau'  feet  in  Sa- 
tyrs, &c. 

In  allegorical  tales  we  find  that  ha- 
bits and  qualities  were  personified. 
Thus  in  that  exouisite*  Milesian  tale, 
Cupid  and  Pivciie,  We  find  **  una  de 
famulatione  Veneris  nomine  Consue^ 
iudo  (ApuL  p.  1SS.  Ed.  Bisi.)  and 
S^UicUudo  et  Trittities,  her  ancillae." 
(p.  1S4).  Such,  however,  is  the  vari- 
ation of  artists,  that,  in  the  nnmerous 
marbles  and  gems  on  this  subject  (the 
collection  oi  Baron  Stosch  has  many), 
we  do  not  recollect  any  personifica- 
tion of  Cm$iom,  Caret  or  Sorrow,  Upon 
the  Roman  coins,  we  have  unceasing 
figures  of  good  qoalities;  and  Apelles 
oenainlT  recorded  the  misrepresenta- 
tioa  of  himself  to  Ptolemy,  by  a  paint- 
tog  in  which  were  depicted  Calumny, 
igmoramce,  Miickirf,  invy,  &c.  (See 
Locian.) 

U|)oii  some  vases  allusions  to  private 
history  and  character  were  certainly 
subjects  of  the  design.  It  was  ous- 
lomary  to  ensculp  or  paint  upon  them 
Victories  and  Quadrigtt.  This  image 
was  so  general,  that  Auacreon  directs 
the  goldsroiths,  whom  he  had  ordered 
to  make  one,  not  to  put  upon  it  a  car, 

^  Wt  mutt  except  from  this  eulogy  the 

somuKNu  of  the    Uods  to  the  Oiympwa 

FtffiuDCD^  uffder  ajlne  of  1 0,000/,  for  non- 
—*—-«——     id,  133, 


but  on  tba  contrary  to  represent  Bao-  ^ 
chns.  Love,  and  his  dear  Bathyllus. 
If  this  vase   was  now  discovered,  it^ 
would  of  course  be  presumed  to  deli- 
neate some  mythological  adventure  of 
Bacchus. 

We  have  no  limits  for  extracts  from 
JFtttfkelman  on  Votes  (annexed  to  the 
Gems  of  Stosch),  Patteri  PicL  Eirusc, 
in    Fatculit,    Count   Caylus,    Millin 
(whom  we  prefer  to  all),  &c.  &c.  but. 
shall  give  a  passage  from  Evelyn  on. 
the  subject,  because  it  is  inters]>crsed 
in  a  mass  of  other  matter.     He  names 
Mentor,  of  whom  Martial  speaks  as  a 
famous  engraver  of  Vases  |  nex  t  to  him . 
Acragas,  fioethus,   and   Mys,  wliosa 
masterpiece  was  engraved  at  Rhodes, 
*' especially  those  glorious  vases  and 
goblets  of  the  Bacchanalia  f,  engraven 
by  the  forementioned  Acragus,  and  of 
boscage,  chases,  and  bunting.  Famous 
also    were  Calamis,    Antipater,    and 
Stratonicus,  who  engraved  the  Satyr 
sleeping,   a  stupendous  piece  of  aru 
Then   there    flourished    Tauriscus  of 
Cvzicum,  Alistus  and  Eunicus,  both, 
ot  them   Mytileoians;    likewise  He* 
cates   and    the  renowned   Praxiteles^ 
about  the  time  of  Pompey  j  Posidoniua 
of  Ephesus,  and   Ledus,  famous  for 
representing  of  battles,   &c.    To  be 
brief  (for  their  works  are  endless),  Zo* 
pyrus,  who  engraved  the  Court  of  the 
Areopagi  in  a  cup,  and  the  trial  of 
Orestes.    After  hiui  lived  Pytheus  and 
several  others  too  long  here  to  recite.*' 
Evelyn* t  MitcelL  272. 

Vvinckeliiian  makes  the  following 
distinction  between  vases,  properly 
speaking,  t.  e.  according  to  him,  £;trus« 
can,  and  others.  The  Tuscans  invenUs 
ed  Gladiaiorism,  and  combats  at  Fu« 
nerals;  these  last  are  commonly  tba 
representations  u[)on  their  sepulchral 
urns.  There  is  nothing  of  this  kind 
in  Greek  ones ;  the  Roman  works  by 
Greek  artists  are  commonly  charged 
with  allegories  alluding  to  human  lifej 
representations  of  death;  Endymion 
sleeping ;  Naiads  carrying  away  HyU 
lus ;  dances  of  Bacchants,  and  tha 
nuptials  of  Thetis  and  Peleus  (Hiti,  di 
VArL  i.  142,  143).  According  to  thesa 
discriminations,  the  subjects  would 
show  the  respective  nations  to  whom 
the  vases  appertained;  but  Montfau- 
con,  who,  it  ne  had  not  Winckelman's 
skill  had  at  least  experience,  says  that 

f  We  need  Doi  remiad  onst  ftidan  tH 
tlis  iaiinhabla  Wsrwiok  vasa^  «&<[i;i«*i%dL  Va 
our  vol.  Lzx«  p.  1995. 


38 


Rbtibw.— Dr.  GiBTes  on  Calmmttic  Predatination.         |  Jao.' 


sports  were  common  subjects  of  Etrus- 
can monuments ;  and  that  on  the 
Tases  in  particular  were  g;cnerally  re- 
presented hunting,  single  combats 
with  clubs,  bows,  or  sword,  games  at 
ball  (invented  by  the  Lydians,  of 
whom  the  Etruscans  were  a  colony), 
and  the  like.  SuppL  v.  III.  b.  3.  c.  4. 

We  could  mention  other  general 
accounts  of  the  subjects,  but  presume 
that  we  have  said  enough  to  show, 
that,  unless  the  subject  of  a  vase-paint- 
ing is  clearly-  authenticated  by  cor- 
responding descriptions  in  ancient  au- 
thors, it  may  be  utterly  impossible  to 
decipher  it.  D*HancanMlle*s  Explana- 
tions of  the  Hamilton  Vases  may  be 
often  ingenious  and  always  learned, 
but  duty  impels  us  to  distrust  them ; 
for,  says  Horace  Walpole,  **  The  pas- 
sion for  systems  did  not  introduce  more 
errors  into  the  old  Philosophy,  than 
hypothesis  has  crowded  into  History 
and  Antiquities."  (Anecdotes  of  Paint- 
ins,  i.  52.  ed.  Dallaway.) 

In  affirming,  however,  that  no  ex- 
clusive system  dictated  the  subjects  of 
the  paintings  upon  vases,  we  Iw  no 
means  say,  tnat  reference  to  the  Eleu- 
sinian  mysteries  did  not  form'  the 
basis  of  some  of  them.  We  know 
that  vases  were  used  in  the  ritual  of 
the  Eleusinian  mysteries  ;  and  we  also 
know  that  the  bas-reliefs  upon  the 
marble  sarcophagus  of  Epaphroditus, 
are  proved  by  Le  Boze  to  refer  to  these 
mysteries.  It  is  not  likely  to  suppose, 
that  when  ceremonials  were  professedly 
secret,  the  initiated  would  explain  them 
in  writing,  no  more  than  modern  free- 
masons would  develope  the  meaning 
of  the  sun,  moon,  stars,  compasses, 
squares,  &c.  which  constitute  their 
professional  emblems,  though  they  are 
.daily  made  subjects  of  exhibition  in 
seals,  prints,  &c.  It  was  a  rule  with 
the  Greeks,  from  commercial  and  lu- 
crative views,  to  invite  as  many  strangers 
as  possible  to  visit  their  Temples, 
which  object  was  also  consulted  in  the 
Middle  Ages,  with  regard  to  Thomas  a 
Becket*s  shrine.  Our  Lady  of  Walsing- 
ham,  &c.  Thus  toys,  indicative  of  the 
visits  of  pilgrims,  like  the  French  **  Pe- 
titt  bons  dieuxt**  were  sold  on  the  spot. 
Mr.  Dodwell,  speaking  of  these  very 
EleUsinian  mysteries,  says: 

*'  It  It  certain  that  the  tuperstition  of 
Greece  constituted  one  of  the  princip^ 
sonrots  of  its  wealth,  its  ctvilizt^on,  its 
Ibreign  eoininerce>  and  its  superiority  in  the 


^: 


fine  arti.  The  Oraclef  of  Apollo,  and  the 
Mysteries  rf  Eleusis,  attracted  the  wealtliy 
and  devout,  and  the  inquisitive  of  all  oatioBS. ' 
Sovereigns  and  states  of  the  most  dtstani 
regions  vied  with  each  other  in  the  perfec- 
tion and  magnificence  of  their  offeringik 
This  continual  intercourse  with  foreign  coun-. 
tries  opened  the  eyes  of  the  Grreeks  to  the 
advantage  of  foreign  connections,  and  pro- 
bably first  directed  their  attention  to  the 

licy   of   colonizing    distant   territories.'* 

ol.  i.  p.  584. 

We  know  that  the  Vermcle^  ike 
Palms,  Cockle-shells,  Canterbury  Bells^ 
8cc.  were  symbols  of  pilgrimage  to 
Rome,  Jerusalem,  Compostella,  Can- 
terbury, &c.  in  the  Middle  Age ;  and  it 
is  no  more  improbable,  thai  the  Mys- 
teries of  Eleusis  were  subjects  of  some 
vases,  than  crossed  legs  on  table  tombs 
are  of  a  vowee  to  make  a  crusade.  The 
only  question  is,  whether  the  represen- 
tations on  certain  vases  will  vindicate 
the  hypothesis;  for  it  is  justiBed  a />nonf 
but  this  must  be  the  subject  of  another 
article,  in  which  we  hope  to  do  justice 
to  the  ingenuity,  sagacity,  and  taste  of 
Mr.  Christie. 

8.  Calvinistie  Predestination  repugnant  to 
the  general  tenor  of  Scripture  ;  shewn  in  a 
series  of  Discourses  on  the  Moral  Attributes 
and  Government  of  God,  By  the  Fery 
Rev,  Richard  Graves,  D,D,  M.R^LA. 
King's  Prqfessor  of  Divinity  in  Trinity 
College,  Dublin,  Dean  o/'Ardagh,  8fc,  j«. 
Bvo,  pp,  454.     Append,  xcui, 

THIS  subject  is  so  perpetually  mis^ 
taken,  that  we  think  it  will  be  useful 
to  communicate  to  Laymen  and  gene- 
ral readers  a  clear  understanding  of  the 
Scriptural  meaning  of  Predestination 
and  Election,  as  in  our  judgment  it  is 
undeniably  substantiated  oy  Bishop 
Tomline  (Art.  xxxix.  300-320). 

The  Predestination  ofScripture  seems 
only  to  apply  to  those  nations  to  whom 
iGod  thought  proper  to  communicate 
the  know  ledge  of  Christianity:  ''Those 
whom  God  hath  chosen  in  Christ  out 
of  Mankind,'*  arc  that  part  of  mankind 
to  whom  God  decreed  to  make  known 
the  Gospel ;  and  it  is  to  be  obser\*ed, 
that  this  expression  does  not  distinguish 
one  set  of  Christians  from  another, 
but  Christians  in  general  from  the  rest 
of  mankind  ;  and  consequentlv  *'  to 
bring  them  by  Christ  to  everlasting 
salvation,"  does  not  mean  actually  sav- 
ing them,  but  grantiiiz  them  the  means 
of  salvation  through  Christ.  Pp.  3CX)« 
301. 


18S70       Rbvibw.— Dr.  GmTes  oil  Calvmitiie  Predettinatum.  3f 

The  words  Elect  and  Chosen  con*  tng^ted  bj  eitbtrt  in  boih,  Emm  and 

Hantlj  denote  collective  bodies  of  men  Jacob  ancoiuidered  menly at  repreunioHvet 

who   were   convened   to  the  Gospel,  <f  '*«  naiicns  who  wen  respecUtely  to  da- 

without  any  restriction   to  those  who  •^n<*  ^o™  ^«">»  **»•  Edomitet  from  £mu» 

will  obtain  eternal  salvation;  and  an  the  UrMlitas  from  Jacob  jwd  the  prophetUi 

iofaUible  certainty  of  eternal  happiness,  *»«J»«tio«»  m  the  hi.tory  denote.,  that  con- 

to  consequence  of  a  divine  decree,  is  ^"^J^  '^*  e^pectauon.  or-ing  from  primo- 

^ »      J  ,  .         f  r'u  •  f  enicure,  contrary  aUo  *  to  him  who  willeth/ 

iiot  attributed  to  any  number  of  Chris-  •,  ,1,^     ^^^^  inclination  of  I.aac,  who  de- 

tians.    or    to     aiiy    single    Christian,  ,|^  ^^^  y^^j      £„,  ^^^^  forgetting  or 

tbroughoot  the  New  Testament.     Sal-  diaregardine  the  prophecy  to  the  reterae, 

ration  \\  uniformly  mentioned  as  con-  pronounced  at  their  birth,  and  finally,  con- 

tingrnt  and  conditional.     P.  303.  trary  alio  <  to  him  who  runneth,'  to  the 

Respecting*  Calvinistic   Predestina-  efforu  of  EsaUf   who  ran  to  execute  his 

tion,  the  peculiar  subieci  of  the  elabo-  fiither't  commands  for  securing  the  bleesing 

r4te  work  before  us,  the  learned  Bishop  to  himself, — in  opposition  to  all  these,  the 

siieaks  thus :  Israelites  were  to  be  the  chosen  people  of 

.*  #^  I  •  •  -.         *i.^    J ^•^-  ^r.u.^1..*.^  God,  in  exclusion   of  the  Edomites,  who 

•<  Calvinists,  or  the  advocates  or  alMolute  »     1     .u  •    •  r   •         i.  -u  •    .  1 

«_  J      .      .     '     .  .      f  :    ^  .k —  ^ere  to  be  their  inferiors,  both  in  temporal 

Fredentnation.  rejoice  (since  they  can  re-  •      i-  •  m.«    o 

.r^.  V  .■'        J,^_    «««.:.»:„«  «f  and  religious  concerns.     This  Predestina^ 

VMee^   in  a  relurious  system,  conststme  ot  °  ^,  ^  ^     ^l     n*  . 

»««;  .u  •  .^.5  J        »         j«„.j|«..  TICK  OF   Nations  to  execute  the  Divine 

nman  creatures  without  liberty,  doctnnes  ,      „  ...  ^   . 

•  L    -^  J*  purposes  in  the  Present  World,  not  the 

without  sense,  nsith  without  reason,  and  a  ^    (^  ,  ' 

J  J     .  ,      v'         M    n  oart  Predestination  of  Individuals  to  itbrt 

G«d  without  mercy.      P.  320^  ^^^  Happiness  or  Misery  in  a  future 

From   this  unphilosophical  docirinc  . „^„,  w..  most  clearly  meant  Unh  In  the 
(onphilosophical  because  it  makes  God       ,    hecy  and  the  Apostle's  argument,  so 

the  author  of  sin),  our  readers  will  see  f„  „  ,gf^„  ^o  E^„  „a  Jacob.    For  when 

tberealcharacterofthcBugbear,  which  j^^re    the  children   were  bom,   Rebecca 

the   Dean    professes    to    expose.     Of  went  to  enquire  of  the  Lord— he  said  unto 

course  he  shows  its  utter  inconsistency,  her  *  Two  nations  are  in  thy  womb,  and  tW9 

not  only  with   the   divine  attributes,  maimer  of  people  shall  be  separated  from 

but  with  the  intention  of  Christianity,  thy  bowels;  and  the  one  people  shall  ba 

t.  e.  to  make  men  wiser,   better,  and  stronger  than  the  other  people  j  and  tha 

eternally  haupy.  •Wer  shall  serve  the  younger." 

Bat  people  do  not  stumble,  uiiless        The  reason  of  this  preference  was 

there  is  something  to  cause  stumbling;  «•  y^^  impossibility  for  God  to  choose 

and  as  we  have  not  room  to  do  justice  ^^y  people  out  of  an  idolatrous  world, 

to  the  work  before  us,  as  a  whole,  we  ^^q  should  preserve  amongst  men  h'w 

shall  exhibit  the  Dean's  elucidation  of  1^^,  his  worship,  and  his  word,  and 

certain  Texts,  which  have  occasioned  therefore  the  descendanu  of  Esao  were 

socb  stumbling.  of  course  rejected.'* 

The  first  is  ilic  metaphor  of  St.  Paul,        xhe  learned  Dean  then  proceeds  to 

about  ihe  Poller  having  power  over  Ihe  ^^e  case  of  Pharaoh  (Rom.  ix.  17),  and 

cloy,  &c.  (Rom.  iif.  80,  21,  22).    The  ,hows  in  like  manner  that  any  absolute 

Dean  shows,  that  it  is  a  quoution  from  gnj  unconditional  predestination  was 

Isaiah,  xlv.  9,  only  meant  to  illustrate  „©  ^^qj^  intended  in  his  insUnce  than 

••  the   irresistible   power   of   God   to  j^  ^jy  other. 

carry  into  effect  the  dictates  of  his  jus-        We  know  not,  in  short,  any  doctrine 

lice  and  mercy."    Pi  138.  more  pernicious  to  the  interests  of  so- 

Another  stumbling-block  is  the  pre-  ciely,  or  more  insulting  to  the  wisdom 

destination  of  Esau  and  Jacob,  taken  of  God,  than  this  irrational,  detestable, 

also  from   ix  Rom.  9  to   16.     Upon  and  even  silly  construction  of  Predesti- 

this  difficult  passage,   the  Dean   ob-  nation ;   viz.  thai .  God  has  arbilrarify 

serves,  ,  Jixed  (he  salvation  or  reprobation  ^f 

"  This  pas0ga  would  indeed  seem  very  ,,^^  wiihoul  any  regard  to  their  faith 

iaexpUcable,  if  Esau  and  Jacob  were  thua  ^  conduct,  so  that,  in  the  language  of 

represented,  as  individuals,  who  being  not  ^^^  ,„fan,ou8  Lambeth  Articles,  *•  His 

yet  bom,  neither  having  any  good  or  evil,  ^^^   -^  ^^^  ^.^^  ^    ^^  ^j  ^^^  ^ 

were  by  a  positive  and  unconditional  decree     ,    gnned  **  r  ^       ^ 

taf  uredestination«  one  elected  to  certain  and  ..t       '  .  .1    .        u      •    •        u.«^ 

eL?Stappi»e«.  and  the  other  doomed  to  ^  We  care  not  thatjuch  opinions  have 

eeitua  3  eterUl   mi«jry  in  the  future  been  given  (and  we  wil    not  qualify 
workL    Bat  it  U  most  clear,  boA  from  the     our  terms)  by  theo\o«c^\  o\A  viom^ 

tKima^^aXmj  vaA  the  nhrenee  hen  mBd»  and  preaching    QUaCKS,   becaw^   Ui^ 

'  to  tt,  tJmt  MO  sack  kka  wu  taeaa$  to  be  folly  is  most  miSCnievoo%>  ikH^  f^l^A^tftdi 


40  lUviftw,-^Dr.  Ungard's  FindUatwn  of  hii  History  of  England,  [Jan. 


terms  will  not  expresf  our  abhorrenet 
of  doctrineti  which  redtice  Christianity 
to  a  nallity.  The  Mbject  is  solemn  ; 
and  it  is  absolute,  undefecated,  essential 
Bbstirdity  to  suppose,  that  Christ  could 
possibly  come  to  save  sinners,  when 
.the  lot  of  all  men,  whether  thev  should 
be  saved  or  not,  was  previous ty  fixed, 
ah  cetemo.  Yet  the  advocates  of  such 
blasphemy,  (for  what  else  can  it  be  to 
make  the  Almighty  a  fool  ?)  are  called 
good  men,  pious  men,  &c.  We  have 
not  however  heard  them  called  sensible 
men  also,  because  perhaps  the  latter 
are  thought  to  know  a  manifest  truth, 
VIZ.  that  Revelation  cannot  be  adverse 
to  reason  (though  we  may  not  compre- 
hend it),  because  God  cannot  do  any 
thins;  which  u  contrary  to  reason. 

We  assure  our  readers,  that  we  have 
seldom  read  a  more  edifying  and  useful 
book  than  this  of  Dean  Graves. 

4*  A  Vindication  rf  certain  Passages  in  the 
History  o/Xn^laud.  By  J .  LiDgard,  D,  D, 
SvOfpp.  118. 

THE  certain  passages  arc:  1.  Dr. 
Lingard's  statement  oT  the  massacres 
of  the  Protestants  on  St.  Bartholomew's 
dHV  (which  he  contends  was  an  unau- 
thorized ebullition  of  popular  fury,  for 
injuries  of  an  iconoclastic  form,  sus- 
tamed  by  the  Catholics) ;  2.  other 
murders,  leagues,  &c. ;  3.  the  incon- 
sistency of  Cranmer ;  4.  the  amour 
between  Henry  Vlll.  and  Anne  Bo- 
leyn.  The  Quarterly  and  Edinburgh 
Reviewers  have  accused  Dr.  Lingard 
of  partiality  and  misstatement,  from  a 
bias  towards  the  Catholics  in  these 
particulars. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  Dr. 
Lingard  wrote  bis  History  of  England 


porize  from  the  character  of  the  Sore- 
reign,  and  every  Protestant  adrnkU^ 
that  the  difficult  curcumstances  in  which 
Cranmer  was  placed,  did  extort  frooi 
him  improper  concessions.  But  theie 
are  arguments  adhominem,  not  ad  rem. 
All  we  have  to  do  with  Cranmer  is 
doctrine,  and  if  tl>e  man  was  not  per* 
sonallya  Hero,  as  he  was  intellectually 
a  Sage,  it  is  a  mere  question  of  private 
character,  and  has  no  kind  of  bearing 
in  vindication  of  Popery,  or  deteriora- 
tion of  Protestantism. 

With  regard  to  the  last  question, 
the  marriage  of  Henry  VIII.  with 
Anne  Boleyn,  and  previous  .seduction 
of  her  sister,  what  is  that  to  the  purpose? 
Henry  VIII.  was  the  founder  of  the 
Reformation  ^  and  is  there  any  objec- 
tion to  Christianity,  because  Judas  was 
an  agent  of  the  sacrifice  of  Christ, 
upon  which  sacrifice  the  blessing  de- 
pends. But  to  return.  Suppose  Pro- 
testants were  to  make  it  a  i)oint  in  a 
Histor}' of  England,  that  Fishir,  Bishop 
of  Rochester,  who  lost  his  life  in  the 
Catholic  cause,  had  vet  maintained 
that  it  was  lawful  for  Henry  to  marry 
his  brother's  widow  (contrary  to  Levi- 
ticus, xviii.  If),  20,  21,  and  Alark,  vi. 
18).  This  wuuld  be  a  weak  argument 
in  favour  of  the  Reforfiiation. 

The  fact  is  this,  Philosophers  and 
Statesmen  know  that  doctrines  had 
little  to  do  with  the  decisions  of  Princes 
on  the  subject.  In  the  views  of  some 
it  was  deemed  eligible  to  recognize  thb 
disputed  authority  of  the  Pope,  in  that 
of  others  to  discard  it.  As  to  the  writ- 
ings of  the  time,  so  infuriate  were 
party  principles,  it  is  difficult  to  say 
what  was  true  and  what  was  false. 
Sanders   (De  Schism.  Angl.   p.  2\6, 


with  a  view,  so  far  as  he  was  able,  of    quoted  by  Fuller  Ch.  Hist.  B.  v.  p. 


Tindicating  the  Catholics ;  but  no 
mail  living  is  able  so  to  do,  because  no 
Protestants  ever  went  the  same  lengths 
of  murdering  people  by  wholesale. 
•  With  regard  to  the  first  passage.  Dr. 
Lingard  is  nnable  to  show,  that  the 
Court  of  France  was  ignorant  of  the 
projected  massacre,  and,  if  it  was  not 

?^noraht,  i.t  must  have  connived  at  it. 
t  is  mere  quibbling  to  say,  that  the 
massacre  was  not  authorized.  Of  course 
tt  was  not,  because  it  was  not  an  act 
which  could  emanate  from  authority. 
V^as  it  preveniedf  No.  Was  the  Go- 
vernment able  to  prevent  it?  Yes,  But 
of  this  again. 

The  questions  about  Cranmer  aie 
fienama/ksfi.    He  wa§  ohhg^  to  teod- 


255)  says,  that  "Queen  Mary  had  agreat 
minde  to  make  up  his  [Henry's]  tomb, 
but  durst  not  for  -tear  a  Catholic  should 
seem  to  countenance  the  memory  of 
one  dying  in  open  schism  with  the 
Church  of  Rome,"  Heyltn,  in  his  His- 
tory of  the  Reformation,  states,  on  the 
contrary,  **  that  Mary  admitted  of  a 
consultation  for  bnrnmg  the  body  of 
her  father,  and  cutting  on  the  head  of 
her  sister."  Facts  however  are  not  to 
be  disputed,  and  when  Dr.  Lingard 
professes  to  maintain,  that  the  mas- 
sacre of  St.  Bartholomew's  was  not 
sanctioned  by  the  Court  of  France,  we 
request  to  knowj  how  Coins  came  jto 
be  struck  on  the  occasion,  with  these 
insoriptioDs»  <*  Virtus  in  BmMii44B«/ 


189T*]             RzYiuw.—Walpole^i  Aneedoia,  by  DaUaway.  4 1 

and  '*  PiBTAs  BxciTAViT  JuSTi-  ofTence  in  their  children  Mid  faniifiet; 
TIAM."  He  will  see  the  fact  recorded  and  if  Shakspeare  and  Gibbon  have 
in  Camden  s  "  Elizabeth,"  anno  1572,  been  expurgated,  why  not  also  these 
p.  2«8,  edit.  lCl5.  All  wc  can  con-  instructive  Letters?  —  Now  VValpole 
cede  to  Dr.  Lingard  is,  that  the  Pro-  was  a  Chesterfield  in  the  Arts,  and  wc 
testants  had  insulted  and  provoked  the  think  that  with  regard  to  them  his 
Catholics,  and  that  had  the  Court  opinions  are  fully  as  valuable,  as  arc 
legally  punished  them  for  so  acting,  it  those  of  the  Rarl  with  regard  to  know- 
would  then  have  done  its  duly  in  an  ledge  of  the  world.  For  let  us  recol- 
incnlpable  form.  lect,  that  every  body  can  tell  us  things 

Dr.   Lingard  writes   with    temper,  as  they  ought  to  be,  and  teach  us  the 

and  his  quotations  show  him  to  be  a  innocence  of  the  dove;  but  we  must 

writer  of  extensive  and  recondite  eru-  know  things  as  they  are  before  we  can 

diiion.  acquire  the  wisdom   of  the  serpent; 

A  and  most  certainly  Chesterfield  teaches 

us  knowledge  of  the  world,  and  WaU 

5.    Wajpole's  Anecdotes  of  Painting,     By  pole  taste  in  the  Arts. 

DdUway.    rot.  11.    pp.4\4.  This  character  of  James,  and  the 

THIS   volume  opens  with  one  of  taste  of  his  day,  is  as  follows : 

Mr.    Walpole's    happiest    efforts,    the  a  u  was  well  for  the  Arts*  that  King 

character  of  James  the  First,  and  the  James  had  no  disposition  to  themj  he  les 

architecture  and  taste  of  theaera.    Mr.  them  take  their  own  eourse.     Had  he  felt 

Walpole    was   not   popular,    and    has  any  inclination  for  thcro,  he  would  probably 

been  called   frivolous.     That   he    was  have  introduced  as  bad  a  taste,  as  he  did 

not  a  patriot  or  philanthropist,  which  into  Literature.    A  Prince,   who  thought 

the  English  wisely  expect  their  Nobles  ?"»»  »nd  quibbles  the  perfection  of  elo- 

aod    Honourables   to   be,    we    admit;  q"cncc,  would  have  been  charmed  with  the 

and  censure  in  that  respect  would  be  [nonl"«    of  Hemskirk,    aud  the  drunken 

fiur,   but  the  distinguishing  vitupera-  ^^'^  f  ^*'^^-    ^7"  ^^     ^\\^^^  "^ 

tions  with  which  he  has  been  loa\led,  ^''  P!*""'"'  "f  '^f.**^  °TI"";-  "* 
.  1  I'l  .1.  •  %  *  cave  himself  up  to  huntinff,  and  huntini;  in 
have  been  like  those  showered  down  ^^^  ^^,^  cumbrous  aud  inconvenient  of  all 
upon  Lord  Chesterfield,  by  |)ersons  Sren^es,  a  ruff  and  trowser  breeches.  The 
Mteriy  ignorant  of  the  manners  and  nobility  kept  up  the  magnificence  they  foun* 
taste  of  high  life.  Had  either  of  esUblished  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  which 
these  titled  men  written  good  books  predominated  a  want  of  taste,  rather  than  a 
for  children,  they  would  have  been  bad  one.  In  more  ancient  tiroes  the  man- 
praised,  but  have  been  laughed  at  for  si'^ns  of  the  great  Lords  were  built  for  de- 
eccentricity.  It  is  true,  that  immora-  f«Dce  and  strength,  rather  than  convenience, 
lities  should  not  have  been  recom-  t^«  '»>"»  ^^^^^*  ^^  windows  pierced  wher- 
mended  in  Chesterfield  ;  but  the  pub-  «»«'  '\  «[«  »n°f  necessary  for  theni  to  look 
lication  was  posthumous,  and  the  fault  ^^''^'  '"»^!?,  of  being  contrived  for  sym- 

«^*K^:..^.>.>r..«.,^.u»„.:.k  .u^  ir^n.A.  metry  or  to  illumuiate  the  chambers,     lo 

of  their  appearance  lay  with  the  hditor.  ^^^^'J^^j^  ^^^^^^^^^  ^j,^  ^.,^1^^^^  ^ ^  j^,j 

In  our  younger  days  these  Letters  were  ^^  ^he 'Gothic.    As  thU  declined  before  tWe 

read  as  a  Hoyle,  giving   an  accurate  Grecian   taste  was  established,   space  aud 

knowledge  of  the  whisl  of  the  world,  yastness  seem   to  have  made  their  whole 

as  it  is  pbyed ;   and   inculcating  the  jjcas  of  grandeur.    The  palaces  erected  in 

best  possible  methods  of  acquiring  the  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  are  exactly  in  this 

[iTudencc  necessary  for  passing  through  style.  The  apartments  are  lofty  and  enormous, 

ifc  safely  and  successfully.     In  a  state  and  they  knew  not  how  to  furnish  them  ; 

of  high   civilization  (and   it   may  be  pictures,'  had  they  had  good  ones,  would 

added  of  reason  only),  it  is  necessary  have  been  lost  in  chambers  of  such  height. 


.      -,  .  -     ■     f,  luvuM  wi  »»«;  preceding  age, «.. 

rwuh  wheic  the  management  of  temper  jj^^^      Lnmense  lighu,  compose.l  of  bod 
and  manners  is  neglected.  I„,  j„  diamond  panes,  cast  an  air  of  po- 

Wise  men,  who  have  in  live  in  the  veny   on    their    most    costly    apartmenU. 

world,  know  the  value  of  Chesterfield,  That  nt  Hurdwickc,  !it\l\  ptescTveA  a.s  \x.  >n«a 

and  will  endeavour  to  prevent  vai^urity  /umished  for  the  reccpuon  ai\d  \\t\'^t\%oiv- 

aiid   Wi'temper,  and  habits  of  giving  ment  of  the  Uueen  ot  ScoU,  \h  %  cMT\a>a!i 

«Brr.  Jlfjio.  Jamutryt  4897.  picture  of  that  age  and  si^U.    ^««.VC\Tk^  em 


49     '  REYiiw.*-IFaIpo2«'f  Anecdotes,  by  Dallaway.  {Jan; 

exceed  tbe  expence  in  the  bed  of  state,  in     by  Gilpin,  extracted  by  Mr.  Dallaway, 
the  hangings  of  the  tame  chamber,  and  of     in  pp.  92,^93. 

the  coverings  for  the  tablet.    The  first  w         „  jf  Charles  had  acted    with  at   much 
clothofffold,  cloth  of  tUver,  velvets  of  dif-    j^jg^ent  as  he  read,  and  had  thewo  as. 
ferent  cofourt,  lace,  fringet,  and  embroidery,     ^^^y^  discernment  in  life  as  he  had  taste  in 

the 


>icturesque 

^  vswM.T,  ..w"w.^.,  .~ . , -jit  amiable 

velvet.  The  clotht  to  catt  over  the  ublct  ^^-^^^^  notwithstanding  his  political  weak- 
are  embroidered  and  embossed  with  gold  on  ^^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^^  y^^^  ^  p^j^gg  j^  England, 
velvets  and  damasks.  The  only  moveah  es  ^^^^^  j^^  ^^^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^^^  elevated 
of  any  taste  are  the  cabineU  and  Ubles  ^^j  ^^^^  jje  saw  the  Arts  in  a  very  en- 
themselves,  carved  m  oak.  The  chimnies  j^^^  .  j^^  ^f  ^j^^  jy^^  amusementt  of 
are  wide  enough  for  a  hall  or  kitchen,  and  j^j^  q^^^^  ^^^^  ^  ^^^^  „f  elegance  to  all 
over  the  arras  are  freezes  of  many  feet  deep,  Europe;  aud  his  cabinets  were  the  recep- 
with  mUerable  relievos  in  stucco,  represent-  ^^^^j^^  ^^j  ^f  ^,^^^  ^„  exquuite  in  Sculp- 
ing huniinc.  TUere,  and  in  all  the  great  ^^^^  ^^j  p^i^^i^^^  Now  men  of  the  first 
mansions  of  that  age.  It  a  gallery  remarkable  ^^^.^^  j^  ^j^^.,^  profession  found  encourage- 
ouly  for  its  extent.  Tliat  at  Hardwicke  is  ^^^^  f^^^  ^im ;  and  these  abundantly, 
of  sixty  yards."  joaes  was  his  Architect,  and  Vandyck  his 
The  magnificent  temper  or  taste,  of  ^^^i^ter.  Cluirles  was  a  scholar,  a  man  of 
the  DukeofBuckingharJi;  derived  from  ^^»  a  gentlernau,  «id  a  Christian.  He  was 
^u%i&^uik^x/t  ^  ,  t>  *  every  thine  but  a  Kinc.  The  an  of  reign- 
hi.  voyage  to  Spam,    ed  h.m  lo  collect  ^^  /^  ^^,   ^  J^^^^^  ^  ,„  i^„. 

pictures,  and  pointed  out  the  study  of    ^^  „  '  ^ 

them  to  Prince  Charles.     Rubens  and        ^^^  ^^^^^^.^  ^^  ^^^  professional  and 

"  the  rcspec- 
James  and 


our  limits. 

Haries'haTgreat  judgment  and  tasle  ^5  must  iherefore  confine  ourselves  to 

in  the  Arts,  and  Mr.  Wtlpole  observes,  P"'"";    1  hat  which  ive  »ha^l  besm 

'  "^  With  IS  Painiing  on  Glass.    The  first 

*<  Queen  Elixabeth  was  avaricious  with  interruption  given  lo  it,  says  Mr.  Wal- 

pomp;  James  I.  lavish  with  meanness.    A  pole,  was  by  the  Reformation,  which 

Prince   who  patronizes  the  Arts,  and  can  banished  the  art  out  of  Churches ;  bat 

d'istingnish  abilities,  enriches  his  country,  though   this   exclusion   was  not,   prc- 

and  is  at  once  generous  and  an  economut.  ^-^^^^y  speaking,  total,  there  certainly  is 

*•  ^**  a  new  character  in  the  stained  glass 

We  know  that  it  is  the  custom  id  which  followed  the  Reformation, 
philosophical  history  to  make  surgical        Rude  as  might  be  the  execution,  and 

subjects  of  the  characters  of  our  Kings,  stiff  as  might  be  the  designs  of  the  an*- 

and  preserre  them  so  operated  upon  in  cient  Glass-painters,  we  must  own  that, 

spfrit  glasses  ;  but  they  limit  themselves  for  Church-work  at  least,  we  greatly 

lo  their  political  capacity — they  look  prefer  it  to  the  modern.     We  request 

only  for  the  orsan  or  Government,  as  it  lo  be  granted,  as  a  postulate,  that 

if  tney  were  phrenologists,  investigat-  transparencies  can  never  have  the  ge* 

ing  only  a  collection  of  sculls.     But  nuine  lights  and  shades  of  Nature,  or 

we  are  disciples  of  Lavater,  and  have  good  canvas  paintings ;  that  they  look 

studiedinhisschoolthegeniusand  talent  like  things  on  fire,  animated  only  with 

pourtrayed  by  projecting  eyebrows,  the  flame.     We  admit  that  glass  is  the 

obstinacy  of  protuberant  lower  parts  most  pleasant  form  of  exhibiting  trans-, 

>  of  the  face,  and  the  shrewdness  of  parent  painting,  but  then  we  think  it 
sharp  noses  and  pump-handled  chins,  inevitably  subject  to  gaudiness,  to  the 
In  snort,  we  cannot  decide  character  flutnesso'f  a  daub,  to  the  predominance 
without  bustsat  least,  including  muscle  of  glare  and  colour.  Now,  in  the  an* 
as  well  as  bone.  And  though  we  phy-  cient  school,  we  think  that  we  see  an 
siognomists  may  be  as  great  (juacKs  eflbrt  to  keep  down  this  drunkard's 
as  the  phrenologists,  yet  a  craniologi-  visage,  as  the  general  character,  be- 
cal  eolgotha  is  not  so  pleasant  a  school  cause  there  is  a  greater  darkness  pro- 
of that  popular  thing  quackery,  as  a  duced  by  the  antique,  a  more  reveren- 
picture-gslfery.  Therefore  we  cannot  ttaldimness  than  by  modern  glass.  The 
forbear  |pWng  the  best  character  ever  Flemish  school  acts  upon  a  diflPerent 

dnwa  otCluukt  the  Flnt.    It  i$  one  plaa.    It  appUes  to  Vuuot\c^V  ^\iiUii% 


IS27.']              BMYiKW-^WalpoUs  Jntcdoim,  by  Dallawaj.                 43 

the  showiness  which  is  in  Nature  given  tangly  on  lozenges,  and  beastly  bir^,  nd 

onlv  to   hirds,    flowers,  and    insects,  flowers" — 

and  thus  deviates   from  the  standard,  in  short,  things  merely  fit  for  twelfth 

the  closest  possible  assimilation  of  can-  cakes  and  gingerbread, 

vas  painting.     Cocks  and  hens,   pea-  We  regret  that  we  are  obliged  to 

cocks,  pheasants,  butterflies,  flowers,  conclude  this  notice,   with  a  passage 

and  coats  of  arms,  all  things  of  colour  relating  to  a   most  beautiful  part  of 

and  blazonry,  are  far  better  exhibited  in  painting  now  popular,    but  recent  in 

glass  than  on  canvas,  for  they  depend  date,  for  well  we  recollect  that  draw- 

upon  colour  for  their  eflect ;  but  histo-  ing-books  in  the  Dutch  style,  of  trees 

rical  character,  denoted  by  the  eye,  the  like   brooms    and  gooseberry-  bushes, 

features,  and  the  expression,  is  unsus-  and  rocks,  like  unnnished  walls,  and 

ceptible  of  the  same  minute  precision  cottages  like  tiled  sheds,  were  sold  at 

on  glass  as  upon  canvas.  Stronger  atti-  studies   for   pupils,   and   Wilson   and 

tude  and  bolder  design  seem  therefore  Gainsborough   were    known   only   to 

necessary  in  glass     The  splendour  of  connoisseurs.    But  these  were  the  days 

the  colouring  is  the  danger.     In  an-  of  curls,  pigtails,  and  cocked-hats,  and 

cient  times  state  was  carried  lo excess ;  every   thmg  artificial;   now,   at   last, 

in    the    modern    it   is   too   neglected.  Nature    has    formed  our   taste.     Mr. 

Now,  a  painting  of  a  grout  man  in  a  Dallaway  adds, 

modern  sitting-room,  is  in  our  jud^r.  «  j^  NorgateU  MSS.  it   is  remarked, 

ment  much  the  same  thing  as  would  Uodscape  is  an  art  so  new  in  England,  and 

be  the  representation  of  Achilles  in  a  so  lately  come  ashore,  as  all  the  language 

modern  chariot ;  and  whoever  has  seen  within  our  four  seas  cannot  find  it  a  name, 

the  beautiful  print  of  Knighlley  Hall  but  a  borrowed  one,  and  that  from  a  people 

in     Baker's    Northamptonshire,    will  that  are  no  great  lenders  but  upon  good 

think  that  a   noble   Baronial  Hall  in  security-the  Dutch.    For  to  say  the  truthr 

the  Gothic  style,   made  a  sepulchral  *^\»^J  V^^i"'  ^S^^*  ^»*'  ^^av^T'a 

museum,  would  be  a  very  proper  ap-  T^V^""/ 1'  I'         "^'^  T^H^ll t^tK'i 

J        *    ..           ^      c       •      .  r      •!•  m  his  latter  time,  as  he  quitted  all  his  other 

pendage  to  the  seats  of  ancient  families,  j^,  .^    i^.,„„  ^  "J         thereby  b. 

-even  of  those  who,  for  the  sake  of  "L^  ,  ^^  ^^^  t\!,,ow)  crowo.)  to  studia 

comfort,  hve  in  modern  houses.    Now  fi,;,  >• 


rather  doe.  not  overpower  every  thing  j„  ^^j,  ^„|^^     ^  ;„  ,hat  pre«3ing. 

ehe ;  but  in  Churches,  we  thiuk  that  ^^^    .  ,„  ^^^  „„j  j,„l    ^f  ^^.^  ^,,011- 

ihe  colouring  should   be    more  kept  f^,  e!;ecution,  but  of  such  admirable 

down,  than  it  now  eenerally  is.    Re-  ei,^,^,^,  j„  the  disposition  of  light 

ttotion  of   the  mullions  in  the  old  ^^  ^^ade,  and  minuteness  of  finith. 

Churches,  contributed  much  to  atlem-  ^^  g,^^^  ,^  ^^         j^^  ye,  ih„  ,hey 


.  .            .  ,             ,  hieh  character  in  our  opii 

an  was  continued  in  esaulcheons  of  ,e*  pieces,  while  the  plates  themselve. 

arms,   in  hall  windows.    Mr.  Dalla-  ,^^  jT  accompaniments  to  a  standard 

way  supplies  his  author  s  deficiency,  ^^^^  .     ^  competent  Editor,  of  the 

and  sorry  we  are  that  he  was  ever  best  qualification  for  such  a  work,  taste 

enabled  m  to  do.    There  was  a  con-  ^^  j^e  first  order, 

sistency  in  every  thing  connected  with  a 

Gothic  architecture.    The  old  glaziers  ^  ^icvlo^s*  s  Progresses  of  Jama  the  FirU. 

and  paper-pattern  makers  (humble  as  Volume  11, 

they  were)  would   have  despised  the  ^cWi«i«/>m  FoL  xcvl  u.p.  615.) 

toy*  of  the  Flemish  school,  as  mcon-  '    ,  .     „                    t»  •        »»        » 

gnioos.    But  when  that  paltry  school  IN  the  Procession  to  Prince  Hcpiy  a 

obtruded  itself,  then,  says  Mr.  Dalla-  Funeralihe  newly  created  Order  of  Ba- 

way.  came  up                                  ,  J^on^ts  had  their  place,  bix  earned  the 

tVo^jr  I     •*!,  A'      '  .*^  .«j  k„ff-r-  canopy  of  black  velvet  over  the  Prince  s 

••  Sntidtals  with  flies,  insects,  and  butter-  re    "'     j  .         *u       i .,^  iU-.  \v«v«>e^ 

fiee^maU  partf«u,  oval  or  round,  Mnd  ^^g^  and  ten  Othen  bote  ^V\^^^^?^ 

•boot  fir*  or  MX  inches,  b/  serea  or  eight  in  Toh  around  It.     N  inely-UXtee  OjX^  tttA 

~    ma  Ugaret  of  uubuJb  phctd  thtn  bccn  created.— At  tVie  Vjut«ci% 


M 


RliYttw.-^Nichola*s  Progresses  of  King  James  L  [Jan. 

•vised.  But  that  was  noi  tlie  merit 
sought  in  these  compositions.  They 
were  evidently  to  be  odd,  and  the 
more  strange  they  were,  the  gneater 
was  deemed  the  merit  of  the  author. 
Wit,  humour,  or  taste,  u|>on  princi- 
ples of  judgment  or  effect,  were  out 
of  Question.  Such  was  the  rage  for 
riddle,  that  even  palpable  nonsense 
was  patiently  endured.  In  "Chap- 
man's Masque  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple and  Lincoln's  Inn,  l6l2-13,"  ia 
the  foreseat  of  a  chariot, 

*'  As  the  Chariotere,  wu  advanc't  a 
straDfre  person,  and  as  strangely  liabitad, 
half  French,  half  Swizz,  his  name  Capric- 
cio  ;  wearing  on  his  head  a  paire  of  golden 
bellowes,  a  guilt  spurre  in  one  hand,  and 
with  the  other  managing  the  reigncs  of  the 
fowre  horses  that  drew  it."     P.  56'9. 

This  extraordinary  costume  is  ex- 
plained in  the  following  manner: 

<*  These  toies,  Sir,  are  the  ensigns,  that 
discover  my  name  and  qualitie,  my  name 
being  Capriccio ;  and  I  wear  these  bellows 
on  my  head,  to  shew  I  can  puffe  up  with 
glory  all  those  that  affect  mee  ;  and  besides 
beare  this  spurre,  to  shew  I  can  spur-gall 
even  the  best  tliat  contemne  me."  P.  577. 

Yet  frigid  as  is  this  conception,  the 
auii.or  could  exhibit  talent.  Witness 
the  following  felicity: 

'*  Jests  and  merriments  are  but  wild 
weedes  in  a  rank  suite,  which,  being  well 
manured,  yield  the  wholsom  crop  of  wi^- 
dome  and  discretion  at  time  o'  th*  yeare.** 

\Vc  shall  add  another  passage,  which, 
as  it  was  written  in  l(JlS-(o,  shows 
plainly  that  the  grand  Rebellion  ag^iinst 
Charles  I.  was  a  thing  generally  under- 
siood  to  be  projected.  Pluius  replies 
to  Capriccio  thus : 

**  These  bellowes  you  weart  on  yonr 
head,  shew  with  what  matter  your  hrviae 
is  pufft  up,  Sir  ?  A  reiigion-forger  I  see  you 
arct  and  presume  of  inspWatinn  from  these 
heU'jwes ;  with  which  yee  study  to  blow  up 
the  setled  governments  of  Hngdomes** 

Whoever  compares  this  )>assage  with 
the  nieasurt-s  taken  to  distress  the  un- 
fortunate Kino:,  as  strongly  exhibited 
in  Bates's  "  Elenchus,"  will  see  that 
Charles  was  more  sinned  against  than 
sinning,  because  he  was  artfully  and 
unnecessarily  placed  in  difl^ulties,  till 
driren  to  madness  and  desperatiou. 

The  scenery  and  properties  of 
this  Masque  were  contrived  by  Inigo 
Jones;  its  directors  and  perTorm^rs 
were  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  and  pria* 
cipal  lawyers  of  the  kingdom ;  api4 
mea,  wtiom  no  pimp^  now  ik^i4 
with  a  piopensil^  to  uei\\«,  covic^vn^ 


:f«nertil  In  lOlQ  (\^1.  m.  |>.  639)  i*« 
same  offices  were  not  limited  to  the 
Order,  but  on  the  contrary  were  chiefly 
supplied  by  Knights  Bachelors, — pro- 
Jbably  those  who  had  held  places  in  the 

Sueen's  household;  nor  are  we  aware 
at  Baronets  as  a  body  have  shared  in 
any  other  public  procession  since  that 
first  mentioned,  which  occurred  so  soon 
after  their  first  institution. — It  may  also 
be  obsen'ed  that,  on  both  these  occa- 
sions, the  Nobility  had  their  place  in 
a  body,  as  at  the  Coronation ;  whilst, 
in  all  recent  Royal  Funerals  but  the 
late  King*s,  only  a  select  few,  except 
those  in  office,  obtain  a  place,  either 
as  pall-bearers,  assistants  to  the  chief 
mourner;  or  personal  friends  of  the 
deceased. 

The  List  of  Tracts  on  the  Death  of 
Prince  Henry,  in  pp.  504—512,  is  a 
h'ghly  curious  bibliographical  curiosity. 
No  less  than  ihirty-iwo,  chiefly  poeti- 
cal, are  enumerated  and  described,  and 
Mr.  Nichols  remurks  that 

**  T\\\%  list  might  have  been  extended  to 
a  still  greater  leneth  by  enumerating  die 
numberless  short  elegies  on  Prince  Henry 
to  be  found  in  the  collections  of  Poems  and 
other  works  of  the  period ;  as  is  done  to  a 
small  extent  in  Dr.  Birch's  Life  of  the 
Prince»  and  in  the  fourth  volume  of  Kesti- 
tuta.  But  the  preceding  list  of  distinct  pub- 
lications is  sufficient  to  show  the  general 
grief  on  ibis  lamentable  occasion, — only  ri- 
valled at  the  death  of  the  late  equally  hope- 
ful Princess  Charlotte." 

The  remainder  of  this  volume  is 
chiefly  occupied  by  the  entertainments 
and  festivities  which  celebrated  the 
three  marriages  of  the  Princess  Eliza- 
beth to  the  Palsgrave  of  the  Rhine;  of 
the  Favourite  Somerset  to  the  divorced 
Countess  of  Essex  ;  and  of  Lord  Rox- 
burgh to  Jane  Drummond,  the  Queen's 
favourite  Maid  of  Honour.  The 
Masques  are  the  strangest  incongru- 
ities ;  yet  were  composed  by  men  of 
eminent  talent.  The  reason  of  this  lies 
in  a  small  compass.  There  wa.s  no 
taste  for  nature  or  simplicity.  The 
only  objects  sought  were  show  and  in- 
vention, the  merit  of  which  last  was 
deemed  to  consist  in  the  Fantastic. 
The  Speeches  aiKl  Dialogues  were 
chiefly  tneant  to  illustrate  the  Dance 
and  Dumb  Show.  Now,  a  Dumb 
Show  vf^%  a  most  im|K)rtant  part  of 
ancient  theatrical  performances,  and 
has  been  admirably  used  by  Shaks- 
ptart,  pacticularly  lu  Banquo's  line  of 
Kiags.  Jadqed^n  is  often  of  fine  ef- 
yircr,  whea  iatelligible,  and  judiciously 


J8«r.] 


Rkfis w.p*-Nichol8*8  Progreu^  of  Kmg  Jameg  1. 


4ft 


it  a  part  of  their  duty  to  auume  tlie 
costumes  and  practise  the  bufibonery 
ol  sliow-men.  Ovid  does  not  record 
a  more  eziraordinary  metamorphosiSf 

•*  Dtnitque  BQte  ofa  Pjrreneos 

Venituf." 

and,  as  the  gentlemen  of  the  Inns  of 
Court  are  still  great  play-goers  and 
theatrical  critics,  modern  actors  may 
say 

— "Merit6que  probas  artesque  locumque 
£t  graum  sortero,  tuti  modo  simus,  habe- 


mus. 


We  shall  here  leave  the  "  Ration- 
als  and  Orationals'*  (see  p,  636)  of 
this  learned  profession,  with  o^strrving 
that  the  expcnccs  of  this  Masque  were 
uo  less  than  1,536/.  8i.  lie/,  (p.  566), 
and  that  on  the  occasion  of  this  wed. 
ding,  the  Lord  Montacule  bestowed 
15,00U/.  in  apparel  for  his  two  daughters. 

Hy  one  Ciironicler  the  jewels  worn 
by  ihe  King  were  valued  at  6*00,000/. 
and  those  worn  by  the  Queen  at 
400,000/. ;  but,  allowing  for  some  ex- 
aggeration here.  Sir  John  Fincit,  the 
Assistant  Master  of  the  Ceremonies, 
says: 

^'Tlie  King's,  Queeu's,  and  Prince's  Jew- 
ells onely  were  valued  that  day  by  his  Ma- 
jesty himselfe  (upon  occasion  of  discourse 
happening  to  the  braverie  there  appearing) 
It  nine  hundred  thousand  pounds  sterling." 
P.  646. 

Our  modern  Malcontentsspeak  much 
of  Court  and  Ministerial  piofusion. 
The  total  charge  of  the  dyets,  mar- 
riage, provisions,  and  transportations 
of  this  Princess  Elizabeth  was  no  less 
than  53^294/.  an  cxpence  which  for 
such  a  purpose  (the  portion  not  being 
included),  was  never,  we  believe,  in- 
curred by  the  moderns ;  but  "  cum- 
brous magnificence"  was  the  fashion  of 
the  age,  and  the  ladies  paid  f)OL  a  yard 
for  the  embroidery  of  their  gowns. 

We  shall  conclude  with  the  follow- 
ing extract  from  one  of  the  original* 
letters  of  Mr.  Chamberlain.  It  de- 
scribes the  magnificence  of  Sir  Fran- 
cis Bacon  when  mounting  on  the 
wheel  of  Fortune.  For  the  marriage 
of  the  Earl  of  Somerset^ 

*'  Sir  Francis  Bacon  prepares  a  Mask 
which  will  stand  him  in  above  9000/.  and 
tboogb  he  has  been  offered  soroe  help  by 
the  Ho«M«  [Gray's  Inn]*  and  especially  by 
Mr.  Solicitor,  Sir  Henry  Yelverton,  who 
would  have  sent  him  500/.  yet  be  would  not 
mtcepi  it,  but  oflen  them  the  whoJe  churgo 
vltk  Uw  hotumr.  Murj,  bia  ob/igmtioas 
tnmtk,'  m  wtU  to  bU  Majegtjns  to  %ho 


gnat  Lord«  and  the  whole  House  of  How 
arda,  aa  he  can  admit  no  partners.  In  the 
mean  time  his  House  at  Uorhambury  by  St. 
Alban's  is  gone,  some  say  to  the  £arl  of 
Somerset,  and  others  to  the  Earf  of  Suf- 
folk. But  his  bounty  is  no  whit  abatedt 
for  he  feasts  the  whole  University  of  Cam- 
bridge this  Christmas,  and  hath  warrants 
to  his  firiends  and  acquaintance  far  and  near 
to  furnish  him  with  venison  to  bestow  nn 
the  College.  He  carries  a  great  port  as  well 
in  his  Train,  as  in  bis  apparel  and  other- 
wise, and  lives  at  a  great  cWge ;  and  yet 
he  pretends  he  will  tMce  no  feea,  nor  inter- 
meddle in  mercenary  causes,  but  wholly  ap- 
ply himself  to  the  King's  affsiri." 

It  appears  from  other  passages  that 
Bacon  always  took  a  great  interest  in 
the  revels  of  his  Inn;  and  on  the  above 
Mr.  Nichols  has  the  following  note  : 

"These  particulars  of  the  sreat  Bacon's 
life  are  too  curious  to  pass  without  remark. 
The  report  that  he  had  parted  with  Gor- 
liambury  was  erroneous,  though  I  have  not 
the  means  of  determining  whether  well  or 
ill-founded.  As  to  his  love  of  stately  at- 
tendance, be  seems  in  this  to  have  some- 
what resemtiled  his  great  predecessor  in  the 
iwtbs  of  ambition,  the  haughty  Wolsey^ 
Even  after  his  full,  he  could  not  wholly  by 
it  aside,  if  we  credit  the  following  anecdote 
related  in  Aulicus  Coquinariie.  At  that 
period,  having  been  released  from  the 
Tower,  he  was  residing  in  retirement  at  Gor- 
hambury,  when  Prince  Charles  on  his  way 
to  London,  saw  at  a  distance  a  coach  fol- 
lowed by  a  considerable  number  of  people 
upon  horseback,  and  upon  enquiry  was  told 
that  it  WAS  the  Lord  St.  Alban's,  attended 
by  his  friends ;  on  which  his  Highneea  said 
with  a  smile,  <  Well,  do  what  you  can,  this 
man  scorns  to  go  out  like  a  snuff ' !"  P.  706. 

7.  A  Charge,  deliver td  to  the  Clergy  qf 
the  Archdeaconry  of  Derby,  at  tketisi' 
talimis  at  Derby  and  Chesterfield,  June 
23  and  25,  1825,  and  published  at  their 
request.  By  the  Rev,  S.  Butler,  D.D, 
F.R.S,  Sfc.  Archdeacon  qf  Derby,  and 
Head-master  nf  Shrewsbury  School.  4/o. 
pp,  \si  Charge,  15.  2(/,  \B» 

THE  first  Charge  of  the  Archdea- 
con is  a  statistical  result  of  a  Survey  of 
the  Archdeaconry.  From  the  Survey 
it  appears  that  the  nnmber  of  Churches 
(excluding  four  consolidated)  are  159, 
of  which  the  average  income  is  very 
near  245/.;  **a  sum  which  may  be 
considered  as  not  much  differing  from 
the  average  value  of  Churches  through- 
out the  Kingdom.*' 

These  I69  livings  axe  *eneA\>'j  \^b 
Ciergjmen,  either  as  lncum>a^TvVi  ot 
Conite».    Only  91  ba^e  Yioum»  %\.  ^oi 


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RzviKW.^^ Archdeacon  Butler*!  Charge. 


[Jan. 


the  residence  of  a  Clergyman,  and  these 
are  occupied  by  60  Incumbents,  and 
21  Curates..  The  remaining  10  are 
served  by  the  Incumbent,  resident 
either  in  the  parish  or  one  adjacent, 
or  those  which  have  no  houses  fit  for 
residence,  or  none  at  all^  the  duty  is 

g^rformed  by  neighbouring  Clergymen, 
p.  8,  9. 

There  were  29  parishes  without  any 
school  whatever. 

This  is  a  most  vexatious  circum- 
stance ;  but  we  are  sorry  in  our  lite- 
rary character  to  affirm,  ihat  we  do  not 
find  the  Clergy  in  general  philosophi- 
cal Statists.  The  tact  is  that,  where 
there  are  not  in  a  parish  a  body  of  gen- 
try, the  funds  for  supporiing  even  a 
Sundav-school  are  not  to  be  raised, 
even  by  an  exemplary  minister.  A 
gentleman  has  a  fear  01  meanness  ;  an 
opulent  manufacturer  or  tr;idesman 
has  thousands  and  hundreds  pass 
through  his  hands,  and  his  poor-rales 
are  trifling.  But  upon  the  farmer,  the 
burden  of  local  taxes  are  severe ;  and 
though  all  of  them  are  ultimately  le- 
vied upon  the  consumer,  yet,  when  a 
tradesman  of  500/.  per  ann,  net  profit 
pays  only  15  or  20/.  per  ann.  to  the 
poor,  and  the  farmer  with  the  same 
net  profit  pays  from  100  to  200/.,  the 

'  latter,  though  the  profits  of  both  are 
equal,  will  not  have  equal  feeling  for 
the  poor ;  especially  where  the  educa- 
tion of  the  two  parties  is  widely  dif- 
ferent. A  tradesman  knows  that,  iu 
order  to  live,  he  must  let  live,  that  he 
must  encourage  trade,  to  support  trade; 
but  a  farmer  has  no  such  ideas :    he 

'  well  knows  the  people  will  not  starve 
if  they  can  help  it,  and  partly  because 
he  is  always  m  very  active  exercise, 
which  stimulates  indulgence,  and  partly 
because  he  can  deal  more  advantage- 
ously when  the  heart  is  opened  by  li- 
quor, he  is  very  liberal  to  the  spirit 
merchant,  jierhaps  every  market-day 
drinks  from  ten  to  twenty  glasses  of 
spirits  and  water, — but  call  upon  that 
man  for  liberal  benefaction,  he  knows 
what  he  already  pays  to  the  poor,  and 
every  such  benefaction  is,  in  nis  mind, 
only  an  addition  to  the  sum  paid.  It 
matters  not  that  such  ideas  ought  not 
to  obtain  a  place ;  that  a  thousand  be- 
neficial contingent  consequences  would 
result  from  such  benefaction;  that  a 
young  person  of  moderate  education, 
and  through  that,  of  more  elevated 
sentiment,  abhors  the  infamy  of  a  pa- 

rlsh  pauper,  and  ihat  the  farmer  ii. 


therejbre,.  "penny  wise  and  poand 
foolish,** — still  facts  are  as  we  state 
them  ;  and  to  argue  that  things  ought 
not  to  be,  which  actually  are,  is  pre- 
cisely the  same  thing  as  to  say  that 
poisons  ought  not  to  kill,  that  bad 
causes  ou^ht  not  to  produce  bad  ef- 
fects, a  kind  of  logic  which  produces 
mischief  only,  for  it  invites  mankind 
to  expect  cures  of  diseases  by  such 
medicines,  as  do  not  apply  to  the  in- 
stigating causes. 

The  next  point  considered  by  the 
learned  Archdeacon  is  neglect  of  sea- 
sonable repair  of  Churches.  Now  this 
is  (we  speak  out  boldly)  abominable. 
Every  man  knows  that  the  repairs  of 
Churches  are  limited  to  roof,  walls, 
windows,  pulpit,  reading-desk,  com- 
munion table,  foot,  and  bells.  Of 
these,  only  the  two  first  require  an- 
nual attention,  and  if  any  care  be 
taken  to  prevent  injury  of  the  foun- 
dation by  graves  and  vaults,  the  as- 
sessment per  ann,  for  keeping  these 
in  repair  will  not  be  in  ninety-nine 
parishes  out  of  a  hundred  a  farthing 
per  head.  But  then  this  is  a  predial 
tax.  We  have  heard  a  farmer  say, 
that  even  the  hire  of  a  chaise  to  go 
to  a  Visitation,  added  to  his  share  of  a 
Church-rate,  four  shillings  extra;  and 
if  you  blame  him,  he  willreply  to  you,' 
that  every  man  shirks  all  the  taxes  in 
his  power.  In  short,  every  man  who 
is  a  farmer  becomes  penurious,  be- 
cause he  has  so  many  taxes  and  rates 
to  pay.  It  is  very  true  that  all  these 
matters  are  in  reality  only  deductions 
from  the  rent,  may  oe  and  indeed  are 
pro|)er  things,  yet  no  persuasion  that 
physic  is  a  very  necessary  thing,  will 
mduce  a  man  to  like  it,  or  not  to  avoid 
taking  it.  However,  to  keep  a  Church 
in  condition  by  annual  repairs  and  sur- 
veys (as  customary  in  many  counties) 
is  so  little  onerous,  that  neglect  is  abo- 
minable. The  easiest  remedy  is  yearly 
visits  of  Rural  Deans  to  redress  griev- 
ances. An  Archdeacon  cannot  be  ex- 
pected to  travel  about  1200  miles,  as 
Dr.  Butler  says  that  he  has  done  in 
two  summers  only. 

The  last  points  of  the  first  Charge 
are  dilapidations  of  Parsonage-houses 
and  Life-assurance.  If  it  be  a  part 
of  a  man's  income  to  have  a  house 
rent-free,  the  least  return  which  he 
can  make  is  to  keep  it  in  repair.  But 
there  are  cruel  circumstances  attached 
to  the  present  mode  of  levying  dilapi- . 
dattont  upon  the  tuivvNon  ot  the  In-  . 


18970 


RsTiBw.— Millhouse's  Poena, 


47 


cnuibenty  because  the  innocent  often 
\ay  for  the  guihy.  In  our  judgment, 
a  plan  or  survey  of  every  parsonage- 
house  should  be  made  at  tne  institu- 
tion of  evei^  Incumbent  by  a  profes- 
sional man,  api>ointcd  by  the  Bishop, 
at  the  ex  pence  of  such  new  Incum- 
bent i  and  such  Incumbent  be  called 
upon  to  make  a  return  in  particulars 
every  seven  years  of  the  good  condi- 
tion of  his  parsonage-house.  It  is 
true  that  a  similar  return  is  made  an- 
nually to  the  Privy-council,  but  it  is 
vague  and  general.  Roofs,  walls,  stair- 
cases, and  floors,  once  in  repair,  are 
easily  kept  so ;  and  if  so  kept,  sums 
for  dilapidations  in  other  respects  would 
be  trifling,  because  they  refer  only  to 
plastering,  papering,  and  glazing,  mat- 
ters of  small  ex  pence,  where  houses 
have  been  inhabited  by  gentlemen. 

Life-assurance  is  a  benefit,  which 
speaks  for  itself;  and  we  are  glad  to 
find  that  the  Archdeacon  brings  into 
notice  a  peculiar  institution,  confined 
to  the  Clergy  and  Academics. 

The  second  Charge  touches  upon  the 
Mechanics*  Institution,  and  the  sprend 
of  knowledge*  among  the  poor.  We 
are  obliged  to  differ  from  the  Arch- 
deacon. According  to  our  experience, 
the  larger  the  number  of  well-informed 
fiersons  there  have  been  in  a  parish, 
the  more  numerous  have  been  the 
friends  of  the  Church  of  England  and 
the  moral  characters.  No  man  will 
deny  the  superiority  of  the  parish  of 
St.  George's,  Hanover-square,  to  St. 
Giles's,  yet  the  quantum  of  uneducat- 
ed people  lies  in  the  latter.  Scotland 
and  Ireland  furnish  other  contrasts.  In 
fact,  men  cannot  be  better  for  being 
uneducated,  but  may  be  so  for  being  in- 
structed. Schoolmasters  have  been  long 
used  in  the  Navy ;  also,  we  believe,  in 
the  Army ;  and,  if  a  pour  man  takes  to 
a  study,  which  is  absurd  as  to  worldly 
objects,  all  study  makes  a  man  domes- 
tic ;  and  we  trust  and  hope,  that  ulti- 
mately greater  desertion  of  ale-houses 
may  be  the  final  result  of  such  pur- 
suits. No  human  good  is  unqualified, 
and  greater  may  be  the  number  of  cox- 
combs, but  we  shall  never  find  fault 
with  improved  seasons,  though  they 
may  be  attended  with  an  increase  of 
batterflies.  We  may  \>e  of  opinion, 
that  seditious,  immoral,  and  irreligi- 
ous writjngs  did  greatly  aid  the  French 
Revolution ;  but  to  say  that  such  coti' 
•eqnenccs  retuU  from  knowledge,  as 
knowledge,  is  utterly  absurd ;  because 


the  cause  was  the  dissemination  only 
of  bad  principles,  which  may  be  and 
have  been  successfully  circulated  in 
Ireland,  where  knowledge  has  never 
been  general.  Bad  men  will  write  bad 
books  to  rouse  bad  followers;  but  it 
so  happens,  that  for  one  man  educated 
in  France,  there  have  ever  been  three 
in  England.  In  short,  knowledge  must, 
in  se,   be  proved  to  diHseminate  bad 

Erinciples,  before  justifiable  alarm  can 
e  taken,  with  regard  to  that  being 
the  ao;ent  of  political  mischief;  but  it 
can  no  more  be  said  to  be  so,  than  that, 
because  fire  may  burn  down  a  house, 
it  is  not  a  blessiug  to  have  light  in 
darkness,  or  warmth  in  winter. 

Here  we  must  take  our  leave  of  this 
eminent  Classic  with  sentiments  of  sin- 
cere respect. 

8.  The  Song  of  the  Patriolf  Sonnets j  and 
Sojigs.  By  Robert  Millhouse.  London : 
prinledfor  the  Author,  Sold  by  R,  Hun- 
ter, St.  Paul's  Church  yard ;  cmd  by  J. 
Dunn,  Nottingham. 

WE  have  aforetime  noticed  the  per- 
formances of  this  singularly- pleasing 
Minstrel.  The  small  work  that  pre- 
ceded the  present  one,  was  entitled 
**  Blossoms  :'*  and  never  was  the  pro- 
mise, which  that  title  implied,  more 
amply  realised.  We  now  behold  fruits 
of  Genius,  with  which  our  readers, 
like  ourselves,  cannot  but  be  gratified. 
From  the  rich  profusion  before  us,  a 
mere  dessert  only  will  be  selected, 
without  any  particular  care  t  yet  such 
a  dessert  as  will  tempt  them,  if  we 
mistake  not,  to  possess  the  whole  store. 
What  taste  so  fastidious  as  not  to  re- 
lish such  productions  as  these? 

Ye  Britons  !  who  have  other  states  survey 'd. 
Intent  new  forms  of  government  to  try. 
Say,  have  you  found,  where'er  your  search 

was  made. 
That  dUtant  reidm  where  you  would  live 

and  die ! 
Nor  give  one  lingering  voluntary  sigh. 
To  tfee,  once  more,  the  land  where  you  were 

bom? 
Methinks  even  now,  beneath  another  sky. 
Wide  o'er  the  Atlantic,  many  a  breast  for- 
lorn 
Heaves    for    that   Peerless  Isle  they   late 
beheld  with  scorn. 

A  beacon,  lighted  on  a  giant  hill ; 
A  sea-girt  watch-tower  to  each  neighbour- 
ing state ; 
A  tNirrier,  to  controul  the  DespoW  w\\\\ 
An  instrument  of  all- directing  Yale 
Is  Britain ;  for  whata'er  m  man  \a  |^Tes&» 


^g  Rl^vxBW^—- MiUhouse*8  Poemi,  [Jaft^ 

Or  i»oe,  unawed,  the  fidd  of  myitery.  At  th*t  glad  seasoB,  whan  fretb  opening 
With  heaveo-rapt  Milton,  passing  Nature  by,  .v***",    .  i  •    »j  *k    k;^K  ^f 

On  swift  Imagination's  eagle  wings  And  hawthorn  buds  proclaim  d  the  birth  of 
View  the  extremest  boundaries  of  the  slty,  Spring. 

And  join  the  hosu  that  sing  the  King  of  Joyous  1  found  the  glossy  crocus,  blowing 

lings,  [springs.  Fair  in  its  bed  of  green ;  and  onward  stray'd 

Melting  in  lays  divine  from  pure   ethereal  To  sunnv  dells,   where  April's   hand   was 

■  turowing 

Foil  to  that  greatness  have  her  sons  attain'd ;  Violets  of  virgin  sweetness,  and  snnrey'd 

Dreadtul  in  War  to  hurl  the  Battle's  weight  $  The  pale-eyed  Primrose,   glinting  in   the 
Supreme  in  Arts,  in  Commerce  unrestrain'd  I  glade: 

Peerless  in  magic  Song,  to  hold  the  soul  Daisies,  vermilion- ting'd, were deem'd a prixe, 

eochain'd.  And  pluck'd  in  triumph  ;  while  the  sloe- 
In  wealth  and  power  stupendous  is  our  Isle !  bloom  made 

Obtaiu'd  by  Labour's  persevering  hand :  Garlands  for  mating  birds,  and  thence  would 
And  heaven-bom  Liberty  extends  her  smile  rise  [skies. 

To  the  remotest  corners  of  our  land :  Vouchiogs  of  purest  love  in  anthems  to  the 
Tlie  meanest  subject  feels  her  potent  wand :  ___ 

Peasant  and  Peer  are  by  wne  law  control'd  j  t\     i     1 1  i      .•     ii  1 1        j 

And  this  it  is,  that  keep,  us  great  and  grand ,  Dea^lj.  j  ^o.e  you !  native  fields,  and  groves. 

This  is  the  impuhe  mies  oSr  warriors  bold,  And  hills,  and  dales,  and  meads  of  fairest 

And  knits  more  close  the  bond  our  fathers  ^'*^"»,    .      .  •     .u  • 

I'd  of  old  Where  ^pnog  s  first  flowers  enjoy  their  nup* 

Plenty,  from  out  her  never-failing  bora,  ^'•J  *°u**V.    u  u       c  •  a 

Showers  down  profusion  on  our  hills  and  And  June  s  bright  children  Summer  wmds 

*1  I     •  perfume : 

Fair  climb^ur  uplands  to  salute  the  mom  ;  J^  »*»"*.%"/ ";;^?^  of  yours,  be  this  my  doonj. 

No  meads  like  ou'™,  when  fiinn'd  with  spring-  ^ hen  life  s  frail  energies  shall  make  a  stand, 

*: J        u- .  [sails  ;      *-^  °°"  *  ''"™'  solitary  tomb, 

Lovely  our^^ves',  where  the  fleet  stock-dovi  Where  waving  trees  their  branching  arms 
And  in  our  forests  grows  that  sacred  tree,  ^''P^n^.  [matchless  land. 

The  British  oak ;  a  charm,  lluit  never  fails.  To  screen  my  sunless  house,  and  deck  the 

Sprinp,  in  this  darling  njant,  ordain'd  to  be  

A  •afcffuard    to    our  shores    by    watchful  ^  ^y^^y  y^iw  ^j  dale,  where  childhood 

Deatby.  wanders, 

""■^  And  every  grove,  and  nook,  the  lover  knows. 

Philosophers,  immers'd  in  thought  sublime,  ^^j  ^y^^y  stream,  and  runlet  that  meanders. 

Reverting  back,  thy  Sages  shall  explore  ;  ^^j  ^y^^j  pi^^in  jh^  covers  freedom's  foes 

And  following  Bacon,  Locke  and  Newton,  j)^^  dwelling-place  of  Song,— ^md  where 


climb 


repose 


To  heighu,  the  human  mind  ne'er  tried  be-  j^^  g^^^j  immortal  worthies  of  our  Isle 

fore  :                                       S       f^  Be  hallow'd  ground— and  when  the  pilgrim 

The  youthful  Bard  shall   traverse  Fancy  s  ^^^ 

With  Spenser,  Minstrel  to  the  Fairy  throng,-  j^  i,^|  ^^e  sacred  dust,  and  muse  awhile, 

Pondering  his  wild  romantic  v.sions  o  er,  g^  j^^^d  the  free-born  strain    to  blanch 

Told  in  the  sweetest  harmony  of  song,  ^h^  tyrant's  smile. 

While  knighta^aod  gentle  virgms  sweep  in  ^^^^  ^^^^^^^^  ^^^  ^^^^  ..  ^^^  ^^^ 

Or  witlfth7si^«peare,  pride  of  human-  ©f  the   Patriot:"   a  |)erformancc  that 

^jj^^  I  evinces  Us  author  not  only  to  be  a  true 

Magidan-like,  with  talisman,  untie  Patriot    himself,    but   so    capable    of 

Thwe  secret  strings  the  hidden  heart  which  *'  waking  to  ecsiacy  the  living  lyre," 

bind,  as  to  merit  the  fostering  protection  of 

•  all  who  love  their  country.     From  the 

Land  of  my  Fathers  I  may  thy  rocky  coast  additional  Sonnets  we  must  be  sparing: 

Ixipg  be  the  bulwark  of  thy  free-born  race,  jn  our  selection, — not   from  want  oF 

Long  may  thy  pawiott  liave  just  cause  to  choice ;  but  for  want  of  room  in  our 

boast  ^,^,     .     ,  .              -  limited    parterre    fot    «uch     poetical 

TUt  Mighty  Albion  is  their  native  place ;  fl^^^„^     *|^he  first  will  plead,  -^ngel- 

IfJ^r^lTs^^X::,  ir^m"::  ^ongued.*'  for  iu  own  hlTmble  pare'ut: 

And  first  o'erweeniog  Conquerors  to  disgraces  <<To  Charity. 

Yet  happier  fiir,  when  Peace   in  all  her.  Thou  meek-eyed  matron!  that   dost  ne'er 

charms,                       [War's  alarms.  expose 

Drives  out  from  every  land   the    din    of  To  public  scoff  the  objects  of  thy  care, 

-— —  But  seem  keep'st  thy  bounty — Being. 

H^eii  J reaumber,  in  a/jroutbhil  hoursi  fiur  \ 

£njet  in  numbers  I  e$uy  'd  to  smg,  Where  art  thou  now  •aaua^m^WmaA  >«  o«i't 


KsfiBw. — ^Btillbouie't  Poemi. 


49 


UiHMteBtetioot  thou — ihy  deeds  «ra 

Emblem  right  fit  of  that  Gbeet  Gud  above  | 
Who,  frcun  astooithing  eieraitj. 

For  ever  was,  and  ever  will  be.  Love ! 
WLca  the  Redeemer,  fraught  with  heavenly 
fire. 
Knowing  maa'a  pride,  bade  hide  the  giv- 
hag  band,  [land. 

With  him  didat  thou  soiouru,  and  o*er  tlie 
Made  boasting  Pharisees  in  shsme  retire ; — 
And  taaght,  that  alms,  ike  most  in  secret 
giveih 
Are  deem'd  most  worthy  in  the  Eje  of  Hea- 
ven. 

The  vivid  personal  and  mental  por- 
trait ofa  beautiful  and  amiable  Fair  one, 
translated  to  a  purer  world,  in  p.  58, 
will  endure  when  marble  moulders. 
Her  cheek, — her  eye, — her  hreath,  as- 
similated with  imagery  of  the  most  ap- 
propriate kind,  are  delicately  repre- 
sented. But,  for  "  her  hair,  the  spa- 
cious earth  supplied  no  semblance — 

•«  Twas  the  golden  dye 

Of  evening  clouds,  when  sweetest  sunbeams 

lie 
On  their    hrieht  fleeces,— mingling   into 

gloom. ' 

With  the  following  devout  address 
"To  Omnipotence,*'  our  extracts  musl 
close: 

CNi !  Thou  Almighty  ever-giacioos  One ! 
And  can   the    grov'ling  Sceptic   surely 

doubt? 
And  search  in  vain  to  find  Thy  being  out? 
Lo !  in  the  midnight  sky  Thy  starry  throne ; 
And  in  Thy  sun,  exhaostless  orb  uf  light  \ 
Earth,  with  its  seas  and  forests,  hills  and 

dales, 
Rude  wintry  tempests,  and  mild  summer 
g»les, 
I  see  thy  love,  beneficence,  and  might. 
Tliesmallest  insect,  and  the  meanest  flower— 
The  very  moss  and  knot-grass,  and  the 

wing 
Of  the  poor  moth  that  glitters  b  the 
spring 
Declare  aloud  the  wonders  of  Thy  power.— 
Nor  would  I  have  the  Sceptic's  gloomy  mind 
For  all  the  wealth  and  sway  of  humankind. 

At  the  commencement  of  this  cri- 
tical notice,  we  d^nouiinated  Robert 
Iffillhoii&e  a  singularly- pleasing  Min- 
strel; and  singular  win  he  seem  to 
those  who  have  read  but  the  extracts 
here  given,  when  they  are  told  "  that 
the  greatest  portion  of  the  work  was 
'TOfDpoted  in  the  loom,  and  written  at 
such  brief  intervals  as  a  close  applica- 
tion to  his  employment  would  allow." 
With  the  present  depressed  state  of 
his  hntnch  of  trade,  the  public,  are  well 
Ommt»  Mao,  ^Atrnmy,  §887, 


acquainted ;  yet,  in  that  branch,  he  hu 
to  support  himself,  his  wife,  and  child- 
ren. ISy  encouraginff  his  poetical  plea- 
sures we  are  not  likely  to  abridge  the  ' 
labours  of  the  plain  weaver,  as  dili- 
gence in  his  calling  and  dictations  of 
his  Muse  can  go  on  together;  there- 
fore strongly  do  we  deprecate  that  cold- 
hearted  criticism  which  would  shed 
over  his  glowing  mind  the  deadly  mil- 
dews of  discouragement ;  as  it  did  o\'er 
that  of  his  amiable  townsman,  Kirke 
White;  which  well  nigh  wrousht  his 
ruin.  Fortunately,  however,  for  th^ 
depressed  candidate  for  fame,  and  for 
the  cause  of  literature,  the  wounds  oc- 
casioned by  the  clumsy  strictures  of 
critical  ignorance '  were  so  far  healed 
by  the  soothing  balm  of  wisdom,  as 
to  enable  the  sensitive  youth  to  resume 
those  pursuits  in  which  he  not  more 
pleased  himself  than  he  delighted 
others.  Though  not  boasting  White's 
acquirements.  Millhouse  is  perhaps 
equally  favoured  with  the  inspirations 
of  Nature.  ''The  Song  of  the  Pa- 
triot" will  confirm  every  real  patriot 
in  honest  English  principles,  and  tend 
to  correct  the  wrong  bias  of  radical- 
ism and  disaffection ;  while  the  Son- 
nets* (thirty-seven  in  number)  will 
hereafter  be  regarded  as  models  of  that  * 
species  of  composition.  A  few  poe- 
tic blemishes,  and  one  prosaic  word 
("actuates,"  p.  21)  were  marked /or 
observation ;  but 

**  Ubi  plura  nitent  in  oarminey  bob  ego 

paucis 
Offender  maculis."  Hoa. 


9.  Researches  into  FbstU  Osteokgy^  parth 
dbridged  and  re-arron^edjrtm  the  Frendi 
By  the  Baron  Cuvicr,  ilf . /.  F.  Pari  /• 
Whittaker. 

BARON  CUVIER  is  an  Antiquary 
of  a  new  kind,  a  decipherer  or  the 
monuments  of  the  past  revolutions  of 
the  globe.  He  collects  and  arranges, 
in  their  primitive  order,  their  compo- 
nent fragments ;  he  remoulds  the  an- 
cient anmials  to  which  those  frag- 
ments belonged,  and  he  compares 
them  with  the  animals  which  now 
exist.  Thus  he  unfolds  the  mecha- 
nism of  the  world  bj  facts,  which  lead 
to  decisive  conclusions.  By  rigorous 
methods  of  inquiry,  he  ha^  attained  to 
distinguish  a  ^nus  or  spec\e%  b^  ^  %\ii. 
file  fragment  of  bone.  Itv  ^acx,  t^^% 
ciflM^  order,  genus,  and  even  «^\^«^ 


7 


50 


RBViBW.-^^Cavter*])  Fonil  (Kieohgy. 


{JUm^ 


are  detennini^ci  by  the  mutual  relations 
of  forms,  a  principle  of  comparative 
anatomy  found  to  be  so  invariable^ 
ihat  any  part  of  an  animal,  taken  se- 
parately, mdicates  all  the  rest.  (pp.  51, 
2,  3.)  Cuvier  demonstrates  the  depo- 
sition of  fossil  shells  in  the  places 
where  they  are  at  present  found.  I1ie 
sea  rested  long  enough  in  those  nlaces 
to  form  these  de|)08itiuns,  whilst  its 
reservoir  underiVent  great  changes, 
both  in  extent  and  situation,  l^is 
ancient  sea,  on  its  successive  revolu- 
tions, de|K>sited  neither  stones  nor  ani- 
mal matter  of  a  similar  kind,  hut  strata 
more  uniform  and  extensive  in  the 
first  instance,  and  more  limited  and 
varied  in  the  more  recent. 

'<  There  has  been  io  aninuil  nature  a  sue- 
cetiion  of  changes,  occasioned  by  those  of 
the  fluid,  in  which  the  animal  lived,  or  at 
least  corresponding  with  them.  Tliese  va- 
riations have  conducted  by  degrees  the 
elasses  of  aquatic  auimals  to  their  present 
state.  Finally,  when  tbe  sea  quitted  our 
continent  for  the  last  time,  its  inhabiunts 
did  not  differ  materially  from  those  which 
aaist  in  it  at  the  present  day."     p.  viii. 

The  soil  which  man  now  inhabits, 
and  which  the  sea  left  in  its  lust  re- 
treat, was  then  the  seat  of  4uadru|)eds, 
and  birds,  and  plants.  The  successive 
catastrophes  have  always  been  sudden. 
Previously  rliniales  underwent  a  cou)- 
plete  revolution,  and  the  animals  were 
frozen  at  the  instant  of  their  destruc- 
tion. The  first  sea  was  an  unknown 
Hquidy  and  uninhabited. 

**  Tliere  appears  in  those  early  times  to 
have  been  a  struggle  between  life  and  inert 
ioaoimate  roatterfor  tbe  possession  of  that 
globe  In  which  the  latter  bad  previously 
reigned  without  control.'*    P.  xii. 

« It  is  impossible  to  deny  that  the  masses 
which  constitute  our  highest  mountains, 
have  been  originally  in  a  liquid  state ;  that 
for  a  long  time  they  were  covered  with  wa^ 
ters,  which  then  supported  no  living  be- 
ihgs.       r.  an. 

**  None  of  those  agents  which  now  ope- 
rate on  the  surface  of  the  earth,  are  ade- 
quate to  the  production  of  those  revolu- 
tions, the  traces  of  which  we  discover  oa 
its  eatemal  crust."     P.  xaiL 

Of  the  animals  found  amid  the 
wrecks  of  former  existence,  86  are 
unkoowu)  18  now  exist;  others  re« 
main  uodecided. 

^  Of  860  tpecM  about  a  fourth  are  ovi- 
/mnnt0-qu»drufed$p'  Mad  nil  otben  naoraii* 

AmUM."  Jwiu, 


**  Thus,  as  it  is  reasonable  to  bellava  that 
•hells  and  dshes  did  not  exist  at  the  forma- 
tion of  the  primary  strau»  we  must  also  be- 
lieve that  the  oviparous  quadrupeds  com- 
menced to  exist  along  with  tbe  fishes*  aud 
from  the  earliest  periods  of  tbe  formation 
of  secondary  strata.  But  tbe  land  quadru- 
peds did  not  appear,  at  least  in  any  consi- 
derable number,  for  a  long  time  after,  when 
the  coarse  limestone  was  deposited,  whtcb 
contains  most  of  onr  genera  of  shells,  tho* 
quite  of  a  different  species  from  any  now 
existiug.*'     Ix. 

It  is  in  the  latest  strata  only,  viz. 
the  alluvial,  but  never  in  rocky  strata, 
that  animals  at  present  know^n,  as  the 
elephant,  are  found  together  with  those 
that  are  extinct. 

<<  There  has  been  one  succession,  and 
very  probably  two  successions  in  the  class 
of  quadrupeds,  previous  to  that  which  exists 
at  the  present  day  on  the  surfitee  of  the 
earth."     liii. 

<<  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  a  new  crea- 
tion was  necestary  to  produce  the  specie* 
which  now  exist ;  I  only  say  that  they  did 
not  exist  in  the  places  where  we  see  then* 
at  present,  and  that  they  must  have  come 
from  some  other  quarter.  '     Ixix. 

*'The  overwhelming  inundation  of  anv 
country  could  destroy  the  species  of  all 
those  genera  peculiar  tf>  that  country,  be- 
cause none  of  them  exist  ebewkere,**    Ixix. 

With  respect  to  the  human  species: 

<<  Every  thing  then  leads  os  to  believe 
that  tbe  human  species  did  not  exist  in  the 
countries  where  tbe  fossil  bones  have  been 
discovered,  at  the  period  of  that  revolution 
which  overwiielmed  those  bones. 

<*  I  do  not  mean  to  conclude  that  man 
did  not  exist  at  the  period  I  sllude  to.  He 
might  have  inhabited  some  countries  of 
small  extent,  from  whence  he  re- peopled 
the  earth  after  these  terrible  events.  Per- 
haps, also,  the  places  which  he  then  inha- 
bited may  luive  been  covered  by  the  waters, 
and  his  bones  may  have  been  buried  under 
tbe  existing  seas,  with  the  exception  of  a 
small  number  of  individuals  who  have  oonti* 
nued  the  species.  Be  that,'  however,  as  it 
may,  the  establishment  of  mankind  in  those 
countries  where  the  fossil  remains  of  land 
animals  have  been  found,  that  is,  in  a  great 
part  of  Europe,  Asia,  and  America,  must  of 
necessity  be  posterior  not  only  to  the  revo- 
lutions which  overwhelmed  these  hones,  but 
also  to  those  by  which  the  strata  which  con- 
tained those  bones  were  laid  bare,  and  which 
are  the  last  which  this  globe  has  snlltrmL 
It  is  easy  to  see  that  thisbet  revolotioa,  aod  ' 
consequently  the  establishment  of  our  prcf 
sent  societiasy  cannot  be  very  ancient." 
P.Uxiv. 


1897-2  R|;viiw*^Wilbrab|uii'i  Chakirt  Oloaarp.  61 

rical  which  refer*  b^ck  the  origin  of  tiful  engravings  illustrate  the  wliolc. 
the  present  world  to  many  thousands  We  assure  the  publishers  that  they 
of  ages.  All  authentic  documents  may  avail  themselves  of  our  best  en- 
confirm  what  natural  monuments  had  deavours  to  display  the  successive  part^ 
previously  announced.  of  this  grand  work. 

Every  nation  commences  their  tra-  ^ 

ditions  with  an  account  of  a  particu-  " 

lar  deluge,  because  each  of  them  had  €.  An  Jttempt  at  a  Glossary  of  some  HWds 
preserved  some  remembrance  of  a  ge*  '**«' «»  Cheshire,  commnmeaUd  to  the  5b- 
neral  deluge,  (xciii.)  But  the  anthen,-  «''y  </  j4ntiqtuines,  by  Roger  Wjlhri^- 
iic  testimonies  of  all  countries  agree  to  ^'"'»  ^^'  ^-^S.  and  S.A,  From  the 
the  relation  of  the  one  great  Deluge,  Arehaotogia,  voi.  XIX.  \%mo,  pp,  117. 
and  its  occurrence  about  the  period  of        WE    have    often,   as    Antiquaries, 

NoahV      The    successive   e|)Ocha   of  smiled  at  the  arraignment  of  the  hum- 

the  prior  changes,  it  is  by  no  means  ble  classes  for  speaking  bad  Engiishi 

possible  to  discover.  whereas  they  are  the  only  persons  who 

We  have  placed  our  miscellaneous  speak  English  at  all.  /fj:,  thilk,  peasen, 

readers  in   possession   of  the  leading  housen,  [iosies  for  posts,  the  double  ne- 

points    of   Covier*s    discoveries    with  gaiive,  !kc.  &c.  are  pure  Anglo-Saxon 

extreme    gratification,   in    circulating  words  or   idioms,  while  the  language 

knowltnJge  of  such  transcendent  inte-  of  the  gentry  is  a  mongrel  collection 

rest,  and  with  sentiments  of  superior  from    the  vernacular    tongue,   Latin, 

pride,  that  one  exists  who  so  elevates  Greek,  French,  &c.  &c.     As  know- 

the  real  dignity  of  human  nature  by  ledge  is  amplified,  words  are  ampli- 

ihe   roagnincent  operations  of  his  in-  fied  also,  but  the  poor  are  retentive  qf 

tellect.     A  few  years  since,  "  the  cos-  archaism^,  because  their  habits  of  liv^ 

mogon^  of  the  world  "  would  have  set  ing  are  stationary,  their  reading,  if  any, 

us  talking  wiih  Ephraim  Jenkinscm  of  very  limited,  and  their  avocations  uni- 

the  "medley  of  opinions  broached  by  form.     It  is  much   more  difficult  lo 

philosophers  :*'  but  Cuvier,  l)y  study-  account  for  the  various  pronunciation^ 

mg  the  laws  and  operations  of  nature,  of  the  same  word,   e  g.  acorn  being 

instead  of  vainly  conjecturing  causes  articulated  aitckom.     If  we   presume 

and  systems,  has  raised  a  solid  struc-  that  the  cause  was  originally  owing  to 

tore,  where  stood  the  baseless  fabrics  the  adoption   of   the   word  by  a  fo- 

of     Leibnitz,     Burnet,     Woo<lward,  reigner,  who  misnomered  (if  we  ma? 

Whiston,    Descartes,  Dernaitlct,  &c.  so  say)  the  rijghi  sound,  and  propagated 

men  who  "  never  took  into  considera-  it  among  his  descendants,  we  migl4 

lion  all  the  conditions  of  the  problem.**  get  at  one  |>artial  cause;  for  it  is  cer- 

Those  who  will  not  think  for  them-  tain  that  a  colony  of  Germans  woulJ 

selves  are  apt  to  think  whatever  every  change  thirty  into  tUrly,  because  they 

crafty  and  sealous  pretender  impresses  cannot  articulate  iL 
upon  them.    Dr,  Gregory  ascribed  the         We  have  heard  that  the  delivery  of 

weakness  and  superstition  of  the  Engr  the  Royal  speeches  by  George  II.  was 

lish  to  their  being  governed  by  opt-  ridiculous.    The  late  Queen  Caroline 

nions  instead  of  observation.     Much  called  trouble  troble. 
depends  upon  people  and   books,  by         It  is  also  true  that  various  accents 

whom  ana  which  the  mind  is  biassed,  are  owing  to  the  organs  of  speech  be- 

TTie  sublime  views  which  we  acquire  in^  formed  by  habit  to  tones  appro- 

from  the  astronomy  of  Newton  and  nriate    to    particular    nations.      Th^ 

Herschel,   the    geological   science   of  Welch,   Irish,  Danes,  Scotch,  Noi;^ 

Cuvier,  the  chemistry  of  Black,  Lavoi-  mans,  &c.  have  introduced  a   variety 

sier,  Priestley,  and  Davy,. incline  the  of  words  into  the  old  Anglo-Saxon; 

mind  to  look  for  its  principles  of  judg-  but  as  to  the  pronunciation,  the  miesT 

mem,  on  abstract  points,  to  the  great  tion  is,  whether  there  did  not  obtain 

standards  of  intellect,  instead  of  the  among   them,   as  among  us,  provin- 

mean,    vague,  and   enthusiastic.     At  ciallsms  (as  we  now  call  them),  that 

least,  after  such  reading,  we  can  con-  is  to  say,  diflferent  articulation  of  the 

ceivea  man  of  ordinary  understanding  same  word  in  different  districts.     The 

mnch  less  likely  to  become  a  dupe.  custom,  as  society  advances  in  civiliza- 

The   translation    is  ably  executed,  tion,  and   ideas  flow  moTe  Ta\i\<\\^,  \\ 

and  the  language  suited  to  the  dignity  abbreviation  ;    whereas,  \i\  \qvi  V\^«; 
of  the  s^bjirci,/etc/eiar»  Sixteen  beau-    clongaiion  and  the  dtaw\  imm  \>ms\\ 


Ravibw.— li^bnham'i  Omhire  Olouarf. 


primary  hold.     An  iiutance  in  the 
work  before  as  will  show  thii. 

Anend,  to  set  upright,  is  a  common 
word  with  as ;  in  Cheshire  it  is  pro- 
nounced aneend,  a  manifest  result  of 
the  drawl,  common  in  rustic  enuncia- 
tion. But  there  is  also  infinite  licen- 
tiousness ensuing  from  ignorance  and 
the  non-obligation,  as  in  polished  life, 
to  observe  a  standard.  For  instance, 
tanirunts  is  a  common  coUoquv;  but 
in  this  Glossary  it  is  convened  into 
anirims  and  iantrelis,  which  conver- 
sions could  only  originate  in. ignorance 
of  the  right  original.  That  such  igno- 
rance gives  birth  to  endless  corrup* 
tions  is  evident,  from  the  daily  errors 
of  the  poor,  who,  as  Shakspeare  says, 
call  the  prodigal  soil  the  prodigious 
son.  We  know  an  instance  where  a 
female  servant  being  employed  to  read 
the  Litany  to  a  religious  mistress,  read 
**all  the  dissolute  and  oppressed"  for 
•*  all  the  desolate,*'  &c.  in  glossaries 
of  this  kind,  therefore,  a  distinction  is 
to  be  made  between  words  merely  cor- 
rupted, and  words  of  foreign  root,  ut- 
terly unknown  in  the  parent  laneuage. 
*With  regard  to  these,  vicinity  will  have 
finuch  concern.  Thus  the  Northern 
^unties  may  be  presumed  to  have 
inore  Scotch  terms,  and  the  Western 
ipore  Welch. 

It  is  useful,  however,  to  know  all 
Ibcte  variations,  because  intercourse  is 
Ifcessary,  and  if  so,  mutual  under- 
eianding,  as  the  sole  means  of  inter- 
course, is  necessary  also. 

The  striking  feature  of  this  (and 
probably  other  Provincial  Glossaries) 
IS  the  extreme  rarity  of  French  words. 
In  Tyrwhit's  Glossary  of  Chaucer, 
they  on  the  contrary  abound.  It  was 
an  ancient  proverb,  **  Jack  would  he  a 
gentleman  \f  he  would  speak  French  t 
but  the  necessity  of  speaking  in  a  lan- 
guage universally  understood,  baffled 
alltne  eflbru  to  make  French  the  ge- 
neral language  of  the  nation,  because 
it  necessarily  implied  first  teaching  it 
to  the  poor,  who  otherwise  could  know 
only  their  mother-tongue.  Hence  it 
follows,  as  a  corollary,  that  from  these 
Provincial  Glossaries  we  gain  much 
knovvledge  of  the  original  language  of 
the  nation. 

But  the  signification  of  words  may 
be  very  remarkably  extended,  by  ap- 
plying them  in  senses  which  the  ori- 
'    Rioal  word  would  by  no  means  bear. 
Oar  sue  of  the  word  get  is  a  remark^ 
mble  proof  of  this ;  the  A,  S.  JCeran 


[Jaii. 


^eatmn,  being  confined  to  oltinerep 
con/irmare,    Ste  Lye,  in  voce. 

In  the  work  before  us  is  a  similar 
instance.  In  an  octavo  Dictionary  in 
our  possession,  the  title  of  which  is 
lost,  but  apparently  of  the  end  of  the 
last  century,  is  the  following  word: 
*•  Agate.  Che[^hire],  Just  a  goinff^*' 
from  which  definition  it  might  be  in- 
ferred that  the  original  is  merely  a  cor- 
ruption of  pust^  at  [the]  gate,  but 
more  probably  it  is  taken  from  the 
A.  S.  ^ec  (get)  adhuc,  modo,  usque, 
with  the  frequent  initial  augment  of  a, 
as  in  a-going,  for  going,  and  so  forth. 
How  this  word  agate  has  been  ampli- 
fied, appears  by  the  article  in  the  work 
before  us. 

*<AoATi,  adverbial  expression,  means 
not  only  a  person  up  and  recovered  horn  a 
sick  beef,  but  alto  one  that  in  employed ;  he 
i«  agtte  marling  or  ploughing.  A  convales- 
cent is  said  to  be  on  his  legs  agjain  [qnery 
agate] .  Agate  is  also  used  in  the  tense  or, 
employed  with,  or  setting  about,  a  work.  I 
have  been  wate  a  woman  direeting  her  in 
the  road.  I  am  agate  a  new  oort,  I  am 
making  a  new  cart.       P.  14. 

Bight  or  Bought  is  used  for  any 
thing  folded  or  doubled,  (p.  15.) 
Boughts  are  circular  folds  or  windings 
in  Gloss.  Spenser. 

There  are  points  of  opinion  which 
we  should  conceive  to  lie  universal. 
Every  man  mi^ht  justly  think,  that  to 
be  lark-heeled  is  a  oeauty  in  the  leg  of 
a  female,  but  it  seems  that 

«  The  Cheshire  &rmer,  who  holds  that 
the  perfisct  form  of  female  beau^  consists 
more  in  strength  than  in  elegance  of  limbs, 
often  uses  this  contemptuous  appellation 
Baio-LEOOED,  i.  e.  hird-legged,  to  any 
female  whose  limbs  happen  to  be  somewhat 
slenderer  than  he  has  iu  his  own  mind  fixed 
upon  OS  the  criterion  of  symmetiy  and 
taste."    P.  93. 

Daddlb,  Mr.  Wilbraham  thinks 
only  the  diminutive  of  Dadb.  It 
means  to  walk  with  short  steps*  Mr. 
Wilbraham  seems  to  be  correct,  for 
Drayton  has 

**  No  sooner  taught  to  dade,  but  from  their 
mother  trip."~-Polyolb.  Song  i. 

EsBiN  or  AsBiN,  a  pail.  (p.  36.) 
This  is  also  a  Norfolk  word. 

Fabhons.  Unfortunate.  If  from 
the  French  ^iMcAfiu:,  the  only  French 
etymon  which  we  have  yet  seen. 

PoRTHonoHT.  The  A.  S.  jrop-^n 
can  is  perperam  cogitare  de,  dedignari, 
d{jfidere,    lii  3o\\nson  and  Sieevens 


18970  Rbyibw.— Sebright  (m  HdviHii^.  H 

fTb'i.  S17)»  '*ronh{nk  ti  to  repent**  and  grandedr.    That  it  fi^l!  into  disoM 

In  our  8to  Dictionary,  to  be  grieved  in  in  this  country,  probably  arose  fnim 

mind.     Mr.  W.  very  proper! v  notes  the  too  great  preralence  the  diveision 

(p.  41)  that  FSR-THouGHTand  Fore-  obtained  among  the  courtly  train  of 

THOUGHT  have  distinct  meanings.  the  gallant  Prince  Henry,  or  their  de- 

Gawm  is  to  comprehend.    Query?  pendants.    At  least  we  find  the  pursuit 

ir  the  slang  word,  *'  he  has  no  giun-  generally  lampooned  by  the  wits   of 

ium**  was  not  formed  from  gawm.  inat  age,  who  usually  give  a  waspish 

GuFFiT,  Shrove  tide,  supposed  bv  strength    to  satire   by  attacking   the 

Mr.  W.  a  corruption  of  "  Good  tide. '  amusements  or  folly  of  the  gay  and 

In    our    Dictionary    is     *' Gut-tide,  fashionable.    With  Charles  the  Second 

Skroveiide.     From  oeing  the  lust  day  it  formed  9n  occasional  diversion,  his 

before  the  Lent  fast,  we  eive  a  coarser  hawks  being  under  the  management 

meaning  to  the  first  syllable  gut,  than  of  the  immortalized  **  William  Chif- 

good.  finch,  Esq.  Master-falconer  to  his  Ma- 

OssB,   to    offer,  be^in,  &c.     Ash  jesty.'*    The  sport  from  that  time  gra- 

calls   it  local,    (page  63.)     Our  Die-  dually  decreased,  and  has  only  lately 

tionary   has— osse,  Che.   (audere)   to  found  a  partial  revival,  obtained  new 

offrr^  intend,  or  dare,  ^  ^  interest,  and   is  again,    to  a  limited 

Eappit  it  or  Rot  it.     A  trivial  circle,  refreshened  with  curiosity.  Ilow- 

exclamation,  expressive  of  dissatisfac-  ever  prevalent  in  olden  days,  nearly  a 

4ioo«  p.  67.     We  have  seen  an  etymon  century  and  an  half  have  gone  by  with 

of  it  irom  the  French  Dieu  le  rahat  1  only  one  treatise  published  upon  the 

God  prevent  it.  subject.  This  was  by  James  Cfampbell 

>    Rbgatt.    Here  is  another  French  the  falconer  to  the  Larl  of  Eglintown, 

word,  rigols,  p.  ()8.  who,  following  the  system  of  ancient 

An  obsolete  custom  is  alluded  to  in  treatises,    collected    much   indifferent 

the  following  item :  matter  and   elaborate  study   fit  to  be 

<^  Stockport  Coach  or  Chaiss  ;  ahorse  learnt  by  the -underling  attendant  on 

vith  two  women  ridiDg  sideways  on  it,  is  so  the  hawks,  with  scarcely  an  equal  pro- 

calkd ;  a  mode  of  travelling  more  common  portion  of  useful  or  amusing  materials 

iormcrlj  tluui  at  present."    p.  80.  foj  jhe  Gentleman  Falconer. 

Stele  for  the  handle  of  a  rake,  &c.        The  author  of  the  present  treatise, 

is  not  local,  as  Ash  makes  it.   (p.  80.)  who  has    been  distinguished    as   an 

it  is  common  in  the  West  of  England,  ardent    reviver    of   the    sport,    sives 

Tit  is  not  merely  an  inferior  horse  his  practical  knowledge  and  the  traits 

(as  p.  84);  it  means,  in  Lord  Herbert's  of  his  experience  in  a  simple  and  brief 

History  of  Henry  VIII.  as  we  think,  form,  no  further  loaded  oy  technica- 

ooe  of^the  poney  kind.  lities  than  is  incidentally  required,  and 

Unco.  Uockeram  has*' unknown.^  shows  a   perspicuity  of  sulnect   that 

(p.  87.)    We  think,  it  a  corruption  of  will  make  his  few  |)ases  valuable  to 

ine  French  **  fncog>i«,*' bv  which  Sher-  the  general  reader,  and  a  manual  of 

wood  renders  it.    Our  Dictionary  has  authority  to  the  sportsman. 
**  Uncuth,  s.  unknown,  also  the  guest        A  short  dedication  to  the  eminent 

of  one  mght,  for  whose  offence  the  naturalist,  John  Dawson  Downes,  esq. 

landlord  was  not  answerable. '  acknowledges  the  author's  obligations 

Here  we  must  uke  our  leave.  As  to  him  for  instructions  as  to  reclaiming 
education  spreads,  these  words  will  and  managing  Hawks ;  and  the  diver- 
disappear  ;  and  therefore  Glossaries  of  sions  of  Partridge,  Magpie,  and  Heron 
this  kind,  independent  of  other  consi-  Hawking,  &c.  are  very  clearly  and 
derations,  are  very  valuable.  succinctly  described.     Wc  shall  limit 

^  our  extracts  to  the  author's  account  of 

II.  OSservatims  upon  Hawking.    By  Sir  the  hired  falconer: 

John  Saunders  Sebricht,  Bart,  M.  P.        «  Hawkmg,  the  favourite  diversion  of  our 

Describing  the  mode  tf  breaJangand  ma-  ^^^^^^^n,  is  now  so  fallen  into  disose,  that 

naging  the  several  kinds  of  Hawks  used  m  ^^^  ^^  ^^  Falconry  is  in  danger  of  being 

Falconry.     Harding.     1896.  tntirelylost.    Conceiving:,  however, in  what-  , 

FALCONRY  was  once  considered  ^^^^  ettimation  we  may  hold  it  as  an  amnse- 
among  those  recreations  necessary  as    ment,  that  the  method  of  reclaiming  a  wild 

an  accomplishment  of  the  prince,  the  bird  mast  always  remain  an  ob^ecti  ot  c^tVr 

Dobleman,  or  the  gentleman,  forming  oslty,  I  have  been  induced  tA  cotuoCa  Xa 

th^etUDMiHntappaoagc  of  birth,  wealth,  papat   (ha  foltowing  obatxtikAoaa  «a  ^^ra 


M                      TiByimwr-^^Htoik*§  PkiuT€  of  London.  '['»!. 

fttljetfi.    TVjf  ar*  (he  retnlly  qoI  ooly  of    v»  ftlraady  miaed,  And  from  ih«  qiantitj  ci 

imj  own  0sp«ri«iioe»  but  of  wlwt  I  nvt9  Iron  iued»  wad  the  aubtUnikml  nanu^r  in 

tearnt  fram  the  best  fiUcoiMrt  of  ih«  old  which  the  flciora  and  walls  are  cotos€nicle<i9 

•ehooly  having  had  abundant  opportunities  we  may  infer,   that  stabi1itj»  and  aecnvilif 

of  acquiring  information  from  tliem.  uaintt  fire,  are  provided  lor  by  the  architect. 

«  The  village  of  Falconawaerd  near  Boii  Fronting  the  centre  of  the  palace,  but  ad- 
Je  Due  in  HolUnd,  has  for  many  years  fur*  vancii^  considerably  before  it,  %rill  be  a 
nished  falconers  to  the  rest  of  £urope.  I  splendid  TrwmpAa/^reA,  in  which  the  united 
have  known  many  fidooners  in  England,  and  talents  of  some  of  our  most  emineBt  sculp- 
in  the  service  of  diffitrent  Princes  on  the  tors  are  engaged  Xo  co-operate  with  tlia 
•Continent,  but  I  never  met  with  one  of  architect  in  producing  a  oompoaition  to  vie 
them  who  was  not  a  native  of  Falconawaerd.  with  the  famed  arches  of  Constantiae  and 
It  haa  been  the  practice  of  these  sober  and  Titus.  A  •nuble  portico  in  the  centre, 
industrious  men  to  stay  with  their  employers  with  colonnades  at  the  wings,  and  other 
durmg  the  season  fur  hawking,  and  to  pass  colonnades,  terraces,  &c.  on  the  jpudesr 
|he  remainder  of  the  year  with  their -fiunilies  front,  will  constitute  some  of  the  exterior 
«t  home.  features  pf  this  palace ;  whilst  the  vestlbiile, 

«  John  Pells,  now  in  the  service  of  my  hall,  stair-cases,  and  sute  rooms  will  be  re- 

fKend  John  Dawson  Downes,  esq.  of  Old  plete  with  marble  columns,  paintiqg,  gilding, 

'Ouuton  Hall,  Suffolk,  and  who  also  manages  and  other  splendid  embellismnents.  Accord- 

^Che  Heron  Hawki  kept  bv  subscription   in  ing  to  the  architect's  report  to  the  -Con^ 

Norfolk,  is  (I  believe)  tne  only  efficient  mitsioners,  the  siun  of  90,87  W.  was  expend- 

fiileoner  by  profession  now  remaining  |  all  ed   on  the  works  up  to  the  5th  of  April, 

the  others  whom   I   remember  are  cither  1896,  and  1(>S,S19/.  more  were  requifid  t* 

dead  or  worn  out,  and  there  has  been  no  ia<*  complete  the  building  and  improvements  im 

doeemeat  to  younger  men,  to  follow  the  the  gardens,  &c. 

•tmploymebt.of  their  fore&tliers."  **  A  new  Palace,  called  York  Houa*,  to 

.  .    I       A  the  west  of  St.  Jamea's  Palace,  is  nearly 

«.    Original  PiciMreqfLonAm  fir  <1997.  '?>«>F|ft^f°'  the  Duke  of  York,  «o«  de- 

^^Longman  Lf  ^.  •»«"•  ^^  Benjamm  Wyatt,  esq.     It ,.  a  large 

TTiwTr\i?T»  .u      ui       r.      u»       r-KM  square  mass,  wholly  cased  with  stone,  and 

UNDER  Ihc  able  cclitorship  of  Mr.  ornamented   with  Columns,  placed   in   the 

Bnlion,   this   useful    publication  pro-  centre  of  three  of  iu  sides,  and  a  oerl- 

■ceeds  to  new  ectiuons  with   increased  eochcre  on  the.other.    Adjoining . this  man- 

•uccess.     Tht  Introduction  to  this  vo-  sion,  another  new  one  Is  nearly  finished  for 

iunne  embraces  a  brief  review  of  the  the  Duke  of  CUrence. 

improvements  and  leading  characterise  ''In  Hyde  Park,  %  new  Bridge  of  five 

tics  of  the  Metropolis,  during  the  years  a»ehes,  very  flat,  and  with  small  pieiv,  from 

l««5— 2(5.      The    early   port   of    this  **>•  designs  of  John  Reunie,  esq.  has  been 

introduction   is  nearly  similar  to  the  ooM^'-cted  across  tlie  Serpentine  river,  at 

able  one  we  so  fully  noticed  in  our  last  Jhe  junction  of  that  park  with  Kensington 

volume,  i.  p.  3«6.     The  latter  part  of  <^»«»«°»-    An  iron  railing,  extending  from 

it  we  now  with  pleasure  lay  before  our  T  ^t     '.^Z'^'' "  «^<^«*  ^  •^V^ 

■               '^       ^      re       -^         I      •  the  hridge  into  two  unequal  parts,  one  of 

traders ;  as  it  exempl.hes  in  a  pleasma  ^^,y^  ^^^^^  ,,^  ped^stiSis  of^g^J^ 

manner,  the  s|nrit  of  the  times,  and  and  the  other  ferriages,  8cc.  in  tie  park. 

4he  enterprisnig  disposition  of  the  pre-  instead  of  iron  mils,  let  us  hope  thatTlU 

sent  inhabitants  of  this  grand  Metro-  Majesty  w.U  command  a  stone  ballnstrade  to 

{polls :— •  occupy  the  place  of  the  former,  aa  being  not 

**  Adverting  first  to  Royal  and  NdUmal  only  architectural,   but  suited  to  such  a 

(M^k$,  we  find  4hat  a  spadous,  expensive,  bri<jige,  and  to  such  a  royal  park  and  scene, 

.and,  aocoiding  to  reports,  spleadid  Palacb  At  the  south-east  angle  of  tne  park  b  now 

lie  buikUng  with  great  rapidity  op  the  site  emoting  a  ncur  Lodge,  with  double  gate- ways 

^Buckingham 'House,  in  St.  James's  Park,  apd  an  open  screen  of  columns.     Nearly 

Ratimatns  and  some  accounta  of  this  edifice  &cing  this,  at  the  north-weat  angle  of  the 

have  been  exhibited  to  the  public  through  Green   Park,  is  another  new  Lodge  of  en- 

'-tbe  medium  of  the  periodical  press ;  but  si-  trance .  to  St.  George's  Palace,  both  from 

ethough  the  former  come  from  authority,  designs  by  D.  Burton,  esq. 

and  are  thetefbre  materiab  for  history,  we  •'  The  Earl  qfGrosvenor  has  commenced 

JoMMTthat  the  latter  hare  been  coBJcotnmly  building  a  large  and  splendid  town  mansion, 

«ad  are,  therafwra,  not  adapted  fur  these  In  Upper  Brook-street,  A'om  the  designs  of 

i  fpage*.    Designed  and  directed  by  Mr.  Nash,  Mr.  Cuody  :  and  judging  from  the  style  and 

v»der  the  immediate  sanction  of  His  Mfr*  character  of  the  western  wmg,  we  may  ex- 

Jesty,  «•  oawBot  doubt  bat  It  will  present  pecttosee  an  edifice.worthy  of  the  ilfustri- 

mudi  deoorated  aad  highly  enriched  areha-*  ous  proprietor,  and  of  his  valuable  ooUeetimi 

tectiwe.    Many  eohunus  oX  cast  irou,  18  of  pictures. 

^^mhmjfhi^mki^f&fataaM*  wmg^mtki  ■    *' The.  spaoioiis  ud  haodsomi  £f icarr^ 


ynr.]  IUTfBW.-^Britton*s  Fkim4  of  iArtkdm,  SS 


flHjrmwf,  OM  of  tbe  titles  of  tlia  Have  beM  teveh  ecn— w<l ;  boC  we  will  ven- 

£«rl  «f  Grntvetior,  has  been  ftdvu>ee4  with  tnre  to  aitert  that»  lo  »U  these  ehsneterit- 

gmft  Tapiditgr  dtiring  the  kst  yt»ff  sod  whea  tics,    they  rasntfest    grsst  talents  in  tbe- 

ipleted  will  present  one  or  the  most  uni-  srehiteet.     Tney  will,  however,  be  sdlinired 


fnm  Slid  elcg»ot  series  of  msosions  in  the  bv  the    leemed    foreigner,    who  emnines 
Mctropolit.     Besides  four  symmetrical  rows  the  plan,  and  will  hereafter  be  duly  anpivci- 
of  bouses,  uf  the  largest  sizes,  at  the  skies,  ated  by  eiwerv  candid  connoisenr.     For  the 
there  will  be  funr  spacious  insnlated  villasy  present  noriDem  front  we  believe  the  arvhi- 
or  mansions,   at  the  angles  of  the  souare.  tect  is  not  answerable,  and  also  know  it  is- 
Oneof  these,  Ikr  advanced,  is  for  Mr.  Kempy  directly  opposed  to  his  plans  and  wishes, 
the  founder  and  proprietor  of  Kemp- town.  We  have  reason  to  believe  that  the  altera- 
Brightna.     Many  first-fate  booses  have  also  tion  of  this  front,  from  its  original  design, 
been  raised  in  the  adjoining  streets.     When  will  cost  the  nation  above  90,0<N>i. 
we  reflect  on  the  depressed  state  of  com-         **  Great  additions  and  improvements  have 
aserte,  tnde,  and  manofiMstures  for  the  last  been  recently  made  to  tbe  offices  connected 
year,  we  are  both  astonished  and  delighted  with  tlie  Houses  of  Lords  and  Commons  : 
to  witness  the  spirit  and  laudable  zeal  which  but  it  is  to  be  regretted,  that  the  national* 
actuate  the  gentlemen  and  tradesmen  con-  senate  is  n«)t  provided  with  a  comprehensive 
eemcd  in  these  extensive  works.     If  confi-  and  handsome  edifice.     At  the  junction  of 
dcnce  and  prosperity  again  visit  our  Metro-  Downing  and  Parliament  Streets,  a  range  oT 
poKa,  this  new   part  of   it  must  become  very  fine  huildii^  has  been  raised,  from  the 
Bshionable,  and  conseqiufutly  will  amply  re-  designs  of  Mr.  Soane,  and  appropriated  to' 
ward  the  speculatori.     Every  portion  seems  the  Council  Office,  Board  of  Trade,  &e. 
destiiied   lor  durability,  respectability,  and  Externally  it  is  adorned  with  columns  and 
lor  the  comforts  and  elegancies  of  polbhed  three-quarter  columns,  with  an  euriched  en* 
society.     A  large  and  handsome  square,  wide  tablature  and  parapet.    Tbe  whole  is  execot- 
and  well-paved  streets,  a  strict  ptilice,  with  ed  in  free-st4»ne,  and  finished  with  the  grcat- 
cantiguHy  to  tbe  Parks,  Palaces,  the  Houses  est  care  and  skill.     On  examining  the  pro- 
of FkrHainent,  and  to  public  roads,  this  dis-  grrss  of  these  works  in  different  stages,  we- 
trict  offers  very  peculiar  advantages.     From  nave   noticed  with  much  gratification   the- 
IPOO  to  1000  men  have  been  constantly  em-  very  sound  and  skilful  manner  in  which  every 
ployed  and  supported  on  these  works  for  the  part  has  been  constructed,  as  well   as  the* 
last  year.     It  is  calculated  that  Belgrave  superior  quality  of  the  materials  employed 
Square  alone,  will  cost  nearly  half  a  million  in  the  whole  edifice.     We  hope  to  see  thi» 
of  money.     It  measures  684  fret  by  617  pile  of  buildins  continued,  both  northward^ 
fret  I  and  the  adjoining  long  souare,  called  southward,  and  up  Downing-street. 
fielMi  Sipiare,  will  be  1637  feet  by  871  fret.         **  At  Charing  Crou  several  houses,  &c«: 

'<  A  new  and  spacious  Church,  from  the  have  been  taken  down,  preparatory  to  thr 
designs  of  Henry  Hakewill,  esq.  has  been  formation  of  a  large  squaie,  or  open  area,  o» 
mceotly  finished  at  tbe  eastern  end  of  Eaton  the  site  of  the  King's  Mews,  with  wide* 
Square.  Another  novel  feature  distinguishes  streets  branching  from  it  to  the  Strand,  U> 
llbis  part  of  London  ;  namely,  a  large  Dock  CoventrOarden,  and  to  the  British  Museum, 
er  basiOf  wliieli  has  been  formed  at  the  juno-  The  northern  end  of  the  square  is  to  be; 
tins  of  tbe  Vauxhall  and  Chelsea  roads,  occupied  by  a  large  and  grand  edifice,  for 
where  nsany  commodious  wharfs  and  ware-  Uie  National  Gallery,  ike,  whilst  the  Hoyai 
booses  have  been  laid  out  and  built.  Be-  Academy,  and  other  publie  buildings,  are  to- 
tween  this  and  the  Thames  is  a  large  uact  of  be  raised  on  the  east  side,  paralleled  with* 
ground,  lately  appropriated  to  gardens,  but  the  front  of  St.  Martin's  Chureh.  The  ar- 
ea whtdi  it  is  projected  to  raise  a  new  and  chitect's  design  of  placiog  the  Royal  Aca^ 
ealtiMive  town.  dbny  in  the  centre  of  the  open  area,  as  welV 

\m  WeikmvMUr  we  have  to  notice  many  as  in  giving  it  the  appearance  of  a  Greek 

allaMliMa  and  improvements,  both  in  pro-  peripteral  temple,  are,  we  apprehend,  inju- 

gieaa,  nod  recently  executed,  which  must  dicious.     It  is  boped  that  the  buildings  sur^ 

Mtwish  the  stranger,  and  will  also  gratify  rouuding  such  an  area  may  be  on  a  grand 

the  Mel  connoisseur.      An  extensive   and  scale,  and  richly  ornamented ;  but  that  the* 

handsome  suite  of  Lmuj  Courts,  with  several  area  itself  may  be  free,  open,  and  not  broken- 

attnched  offices,  have  been  fin'ished  from  the  In  upon  with  any  thing  larger  than  statues*- 

designs  of  Mr.  Sonne.     These  are  appropri-  The  fine  equestrian  gronp  of  King  Charles, 

ased    to  tbe  legal  business  of   Chancery,  and  others  of  his  late  aud  present  Msjesty,* 

Eacbeqner,  King*s  Bench,  Common  Pleas,  might  be  advantageously  pUuwd  in  such  a 

&c  and  are  connected  with   each  other  by  situation,  to  unite  with  aind  give  picturesque^ 

pasasges    and  galleries  skilfullv    arranged,  effect  to  the  scenery. 

which  also  communicate  with  Westminster         *'  Tbe  removal  of  Carlttm  Palace,  which 

Hall,  and  with  the  two  Houses  of  Parliament,  will  be  levelled  in  tbe  coutee  of  ^e  \ii««(!iX 

These  Courts,  both  in  exterior  and  Interior  winter,  and  the  liaodaome  a(\uaie,  VetT«c%v 

dcs%a,  anm^mcnt,  nod  MccoaunodUion,  ftmaiaioi   do.,   dMigMd  b^  Mt.  l^idd^Xo^ 


60*  HgviBW.-^Biitton's  Pieiurt  qf  Ltmdom  [Jaa. 

ooeupy  ih$  tiley  will  make  a  great  alteration  ti6o  manner  in  which  the  battiewwid  two 
and  improvement  to  the  acenery  pf  Pali  other  piers  are  builty  and  the  ackaowledgeil 
Mall  and  Regent  Street.  skill  of  the  engineers  and  artisans  engaged* 

<<  Passing  hence  to  the  northern  extremity  we  may  calculats  on  seeing  one  of  the  finest 
of  London*  we  shall  find  large  additions  and  best  bridges  of  modem,  or  of  ancient 
made  to  the  baildiogs  io  the  Regent* s  Park  times.  The  tuurth  coffer  dam  on  the  Lon- 
since  our  former  report.  The  Coiiseum  or  don  side  was  completed  and  emptied  on  the 
Panoramat  that  spacious  multangular  edifice,  20th  of  Nov.  1 89(>.  Two  arches  on  the 
with  a  grand  Doric  portico,  has  been  com-  Southwark  side  are  in  the  progress  of  build- 
pleted,  and  a  vast  panoramic  view  of  Loudon,  ing  >  and  one  of  the  piers  and  sterlings  of 
nrom  the  top  of  St.  Paul's  church,  within  its  the  old  bridge  have  been  removed, 
walls,  is  nearly  finished.     The  whole  will  be  "  The  excavations  for,  and  the  forroatkm 

ready  for  exhibition  in  the  ensuing. spring,  oiy  St.  Katharine* t  Dock ,  near  the  Tower, 
and  roust  excite  much  curiosity  from  its  are  prosecuting  with  rapidity  and  zeal :  and 
magnitude  and  novelty.  To  the  north  of  the  Tunnf/ im^  Me  TAomes  is  also  advancing 
this  have  l)een  erected  three  handsome  Cer-  in  a  scientific  and  successful  manner.  In 
races,  each  consisting  of  a  symmetrical  de-  Shorediteh,  a  new  Gothic  Church  is  nearly 
sign,  altogether  iiadudlng  nearly  100  first*  finished,  from  the  designs  of  Mr.  Naeh;  and 
rate  houses.  A  group  of  buildings,  for  St.  in  Bethnal  Green  anotner  new  one  is  &jr  ad- 
Katherine't  Hospital,  in  the  Gothic  style,  vanced,  from  the  designs  of  Mr.  Soane.  It 
forming  six  dwelling-houses,  with  an  insu-  is  to  be  of  the  Grecian  order,  with  a  tower : 
lated  chapel,  aud  a  commodious  house  for  was  commenced  in  July,  1895,  and  is  to  be 
the  Master,  Sir  Herbert  Taylor,  are  nearly  completed  in  April,  1 897* 
finished,  at  the  eastern  border  of  the  Re-  *'  The  new  Poit- Office,  in  St.  MartinVle- 
gent's  Park,  from  the  tasteful  designs  of  Grand,  is  fast  approaching  completion,  and 
Ambrose  Poynter,  esq.  At  the  north-west  will  constitute  one  of  the  most  imposing 
angle  of  the  same  Park,  anew  and  handsome  public  buildings  of  the  city.  Preparatory 
yiila  has  been  built  by  Mr.  D.  Burton,  ar-     to  the  re-erection  of  the  whole  of  the  Blue- 

chitect,  for  the  Marquess  qf  Hertford.    At  coat  School,  or  ChrisCt  Hospital,  in  New- 

the  north-east  angle   of  the  same  Park,  a  gate-street,  a  spacious  and  handsome  Hall 

large  piece  of  ground  is  laying  out  for  the  has  been  erected,  from  the  designs  of  Mr. 

purpose  of  forming  a  Minagerie,  an  Aviary,  Shaw. 

Fish  Ponds,  &c.,  under  the  sanction  of  the  "  A  new  Chapel,  of  novel  design,  being 
Zoological  Society.  Such  an  object  has  of  an  amphitheatrical  form,  has  Iimu  recent- 
long  been  a  desideratum  in  this  great  Metro-  ly  completed,  from  the  designs  of  W.  Brooks, 
polls  :  and  placed  in  such  a  situation,  under  architect.  It  is  seated  near  the  Catholic 
the  management  of  scientific,  learned,  and  Chapel,  in  Pinsbury  Circus,  J.  B." 
independent  gentlemeu,  must  be  both  useful  a 
and  amusing.     Madrid  and  Paris  have  long 

possessed  such  collections ;  but  these  are  the  ^S*   Skelton's  Engraved  Specimens  qf  Arms 
property  of  the  respective  monarclis ;  here      ond  Armour,  ifc.    Parts  L  II,  III,  and  IF", 
It  will  he  formed  by,  and  belong  to  private         WE  renew  with  great  delight  our 

I*^**      ^^      ^  .         .  t      .  observations  on  this  very  beautiful  and 

«A»i«i;CAiirc/i,opiM»si^tothenorthend  useful  publication.     One  sixth  part  of 

ofParUand-street,  m  the  P^dmgton  Road,  j^e  whole  is  now  before  us,  lhc7>late9 

and  paruh  of  St.  Mary-le-bourn,  is  nearly  o*»«»«>»:«-^i  :.,      u-  u  ui         .  i  «»«» 

execSed.  from  the  disigus  of  Mr.  Soane.  ^^'"P"^  '"  ^vh.ch  enable  us  to  form 

East  of  this,  and  at  the  north  end  of  Gower-  *  f^^^^  ^"."«"  '^^  °f  ^^'*^  ^^^  «^0 

street,  the  managers  of  the  London  University  volumes  w  1 11  consist  when  complcle. 
have  purchased  a  large  piece  of  ground,  and      .  ^^'  Meyrick  has  availed  himself  of 

have  commenced  operations  for  building  a  ^^^  opporiunity  of  introducing  curious 

spacious  and  noble  edifice,  from  the  designs  historic  facu  from  unpublished  original 

of  W.Wilkins  and  H.  P.  Gandy,  architects.  MSS.,  and  of  bringing   to  our  notice 

The  builder,  Mr.  Lee,  has  contracted  to  rare  and  early  printed  books.     He  has 

execute  the  whole,  from  the  plans  of  the  contrived,  while  imparting  jiisioric  iii- 

architecu,  for  107.000/.  The  xealand  inde-  formation,  to  give  a  sprightlyaod  inte- 

fatig^e  exertions  manifested  by  the  Council,  reating  character  to  a  kind  of  caulonue 

and  t^ liberality  in  which  some  of  them  raisoniiA;.     Nor  has  Mr.  Skellon  been 

can.e  forward  to  in*ke»P  the  "»  "^lu^ta  left  behind,  for  he  and  the  publick  ap- 

for  commencing  the  works,  merit  the  thanks  ,w^-  ,«  u'  ,.,«  .  ^^^     Z  •  .  ""^^'^  "p 

of  every  well-wisher  to  so  laudable  and  men-  Pf  5  ^^  have  run  a  race ;  he  has  made 

torious  a  plan.  **^h  successive  part  superior  to  its  pre- 

«  A  new  wing  to  the  British  Museum,  <'«f««>»',  and  they  have  as  unequivo- 

from  the  deigns  of  Mr.  Smirke,  u  neariy  F»"y  fncreascd  their  patronage.     This 

completed.  is  «s  it  ought  to  be,  alike  crediuble  to 

''7%wi»^Z«ift9bw^/i4^  Js  proceeding  hoth  parties.     He  has  managed  to  give 

ritbnpidhji  and  from  the  sound  aodscien-  such  clear  and  )Uidicvou«  Vvue»  vi'vih  Uls 


inrO  R>^i* V* — Skelton't  Engra^d  Spedmau, of  Jrms  and  Armour.   Wt 


But  oor  reader*  wiH  have  •  better 
id«a  of  the  lubjecu  represent«i  in  this 
work,  than  our  general  remarks  can 
impart,  bv  placing  before  them  a  lift 
of  Che  Plaica  that  hare  already  ap- 
peared. 

A.  D. 


PI.  n.  Hunting  Implement!. 

PI.  VI.  Armour  for  the  Toamament     1484 

PI.  IX.  Ditto 1585 

PI.  XV.  Armour  of »  Knight  .  .  144^6 
PI.  XVni.  Armour  ribbed  and  engratved  1500 
PI.  XIX.  Armour  puffed  and  engraved  1510 
~  """  585 

560 
645 


>,    thai   it  becomes  difficult  to 

the  most  pleasing  of  the  olalef. 

The  urget  of  the  Em|Ycr6r  Charles  tlie 
Fifth,  and  the  enlarged  specimen  of  its 
details,  are  elaborate  and  delicate  in 
the  extreme,  and  prove  that  Mr.  Skel- 
ton  is  ready  to  dispute  the  palm  of 
soperiority  with  the  celebrated  Moses. 
The  collection  from  which  this  work 
has  been  formed,  was  made,  as  is  ge- 
nerally known,  for  the  double  purpose 
•f  rendering  more  intelligible  our  an- 
cient Historians  and  Poets,  and  for     „  Vvit  "^""i  ' » " 

the  benefit  of  the  Arls.     It  was  felt     g*  <?vif  a         "^C"'"'!"  5™**"'    J 
that,  while  the  National  Gallery  of    J^-XXMArmourchaaedandeng^yedl 

\    ^       J'    1       J   au     I ..**^  ^r  .u^     ri.  aX*I.  Cuiraisier  •  armour .     .     .     1 

Sutoes  displayed  the  ^a  ities^  of  the     p,  ^lvIII.  Antient  DaniJi,  Anglo- 
human  form,  and  the  Brilish  Instilu-         gaxon,  and  German  Arms. 
tion  bid  open  the  secrets  of  the  art  of    Pi.  LIII.  Target  of  the  Emp,Charle«V.  1550 
colouring,  there  existed  no  means  of    Pi,  LV.  Deuils  of  ditto, 
asceruinmg  ancient  military  parapher-     P|.  LXX.  A  breast-plate  and  Morian    1595 

^  ...      me?_  -..II ^..:-  .™:«^  K..     PL LXXVIII.GauntletofHMiry Prince 

of  Wales    ........     1610 

PI.  XC.  Halbards. 

PI.  XCVII.  Sculpture  on  an  Uorj 
dross-bow 1450 

F1.  Clf.  Sword  engfived  by  Albert 
Doner 1495 

PI.  CIV.  Ditto,  of  the  time  of  Eliz.     1568 

PI.  CXni.  Miserecordef  and  Stilettos. 

PI.  CXIV.  Hand  Pire  Arms. 

PI.  CXy.  I?Hto. 

PI.  CXXII.  Dags  and  Pistols. 

PI.CXXlU.Poirder.flask  ofthe  French 
Infiintrj 1560 

PI.  CXXXIV.  TurkUh  Armour. 


nalia.  This  really  patriotic  service  has 
been  performed ;  for  not  only  have 
these  things  been  amassed  with  juda- 
neot  and  great  cost,  but  roost  liberalTv 
iciidercd  accessible  to  artists  of  aO 
owntrtef.  Mr.  Skdton'sefforu, which 
Iwve  httn  not  oolv  tastefully  but  faith- 
Ailly  exerted,  and  the  sctfles  that  he 
tm  inTiriably  given,  cannot  fail  to 
sngment  their  utility  by  cooTcying  the 
resemblance  to  those  who  from  dis^ 
tanoe  or  other  causes,  have  not  had 
the  good  fortune  to  contemplate  the 
rare  and  splendid  originals. 


LITERARY    AND    SCIENTIFIC    INTELLIGENCE. 


Cambmogi,  Jaiub. 
Tht  Holseaa  p|^  for  the  list  year  has 
iidljvdffed  lb  W.  M.  Maytrs,  of  Catha- 
iBaifiathm  **  (hilieai SxamuuUion qf 
IM  iliiiiMir'ir  Diteourtetf  wilh  rtgvrd  to  the 
BWirrf  ufkieh  (hty  tffard  if  hit  Diume 
Naimnr 

The  siAfcct  of  the  Holtsan  prize  essay 
Ibr  the  presaat  year  is,  **  The  Contention 
hlwtmFuul  a»iBamdbat" 


RBBdy  fir  Publication* 

VuH  I.  of  ihs  Hktory  of  the  Parish  of 
CMnBiPeU,to  be  etompleted  in  two  volumes, 
illwIiNiil  with  aboat  60  coppsr-plate  en« 
ciavings,  representing  iu  monastic  boild- 
S^'with  the  Buoslons  of  nobility  and 
isaSry  who  formerly  ooftupied  this  once 
ftshiftT^'*  part  of  the  Metropolis. 

Mmu  Aixsw's  Hialorj  of  Lambeth,  the 
liUor  part  of  which  is  printed,  forming  one 
vofino  of  nsar  five  hondred  pages,  eloselj 
priMed»  villi,  upwards  of  one  hundred, en- 

ChiiT.  Mao«  Jmmttry,  lif7. 

8 


kvinga  of  carkras  objects  connected  with 
the  Parish. 

The  Geologv  of  Central  France,  and  par- 
ticularly the  Volcanic  Formations  of  Au- 
veigne»  the  Velaj,  and  Vlvaray,  containiag 
nomerous  Coloured  Plates.  By  G,  PoyLBTT 
Scaops,  Esq.  F.R.  and  G.  S.  S. 

Anierican  Sketches,  by  a  Native  of  that 
Country)  consisting  of  brief  Notices  of 
National  Characteristics  of  Lifo,  literatuss, 
and  Maooeri, 

The  History  of  the  Church  of  England, 
from  the  Reformation  to  the  biwinniiur  of 
the  Nineteenth  Century.    By  J.  $•  Si.  Cab- 

WITHSK. 

The  History  ofthe  Glorious  Return  of 
thor  Vaudois  to  the^  Valleys  in  1089/  .St 
Hewry  Arnaudj  tnbir  Fastor  and  Colonel. 
Translated  from  the  original  of  H«  Ars^ud, 
by  Hugh  Pylta  Aoland,  eso.  Embellished 
with  Original  Sketches  of  that  singular 
country. 

A  History  of  the  Right  Hon.  William  Y\\»^ 
Earl  of  Chatham)  contsimng  Vv\s  ^^^ift% 


5S 


Literature  and  Scienee. 


[Jah. 


in  FarKimenky  and  a  portion  of  his  Corret- 
ice  never  before  nubtished.    By  the 


pooden< 
Rev.  F. 


.F.ThackssaY,  A.M. 

The  first  voL  (containing;  Cantoa  1  to  1 9) 
of  Orlando  If'nrioeOy  in  English  Prof  e,  from 
the  Italian  of  Lndovico  Ariotto,  with  Notes. 
By  Christopher  Johnson. 

Principles  of  Physical*  Intellectual,  Moral, 
and  Religious  Education.  Bj  W.  Nswn- 
HAM,  esq. 

A  Didtionarj  of  Anatomy  and  Physiology. 
By  Henry  William  Dewhurst,  Surgeon. 

BiGSTER*8  Comprehensi%'e  Bible»  con- 
taining* in  one  volume,  the  authorised  Ver- 
sion, with  copious  prefaces  and  iudexes,  and 
more  than  4*000  explanatory  notes,  and 
above  500,000  parallel  passages. 


Preparing  fir  PubHeatioru 

Shigurf  Namah-I-Vala£t,  or  excellent  In- 
telligence concerning  Europe:  being  the 
Travels  of  Shaikh  Itesa  Moodeen,  Moon- 
shee,  in  Great  Britain  and  France.  Trans- 
lated from  the  original  Persian  Manuscript 
into  Hindoostanee.  With  an  English  Ver- 
sion and  Notes.  By  James  Edward  Alex- 
ander, Esq.  H.  P.  Late  H.  M.  ISth  Light 
Dragoons,  and  Adj.  of  the  Body  Guard  of 
the  Governor  of  Fort  St.  George,  &c.-— 
Also  by  the  same  Author,  Travels  from 
India  to  England,  by  way  of  the  Burman 
Empire,  Persia,  Asia  Minor,  Turkey,  &c. 
in  tne  years  1895-96;  containing  a  Chro- 
nological Epitome  of  the  late  Military  Trans- 
actions in  Ava ;  an  Account  of  the  Proceed- 
ings of  the  present  Mission  from  the  Su- 
mreme  Government  of  India  to  the  Court  of 
Tehran ;  and  a  Summary  of  the  Causes  and 
Events  of  the  existing  War  between  Persia 
and  Russia.  With  Sketches  of  Natural  His- 
tory, Manners,  and  Customs,  and  illustrated 
with  Maps  and  Plates. 

The  Author  of  <*  London  in  the  Olden 
Time,'*  is  engaged  on  a  second  volume, 
comprising  Tales  illustrative  of  the  man- 
ners, habits,  and  superstitions  of  its  inha- 
bitants, from  the  19tD  to  the  16th  century, 
in  which  the  state  of  Minstrelsy,  the  form 
and  proceedings  of  taking  Sanctuary,  the 
ancient  institutions  for  Archery,  and  the 
gaperstitions  relatmg  to  Talismans  and  As- 
trology will  be  exhibited;  together  with 
some  notices  of  Sir  John  Froissart,,  Geof^ 
Chaucer,  the  Countess  of  Richmond,  Dame 
Juliana  Bernes,  William  Caxton,  and  others. 

A  Popular  Exposition  of  the  Epistle  to 
the  Romans.  By  Robert  Wilson,  A.  M. 
'Author  of  a  Treatise  on  the  Divine  So- 
vereignty, &c. 

A  Keply  to  the  Accusations  of  Piracy  and 
Plagiarism  exhibited  against  the  Author,  in 
the  January  Number  of  the  Christian  Re- 
membrancer, in  a  review  of  **  Home  and 
Carj^nier't  Intndnetian  to  the  Studff  qf  the 
SMySer^iures.**  By  William  Carpenter. 
M^etiooB  £rom  an  ItaSlaa  Oratorio, 


titled,  Jefte  in  Masia,  composed  in  I77<>, 
at  Florence,  by  the  late  ¥,  H.  Basthe- 
LEMON,  esq. 

National  Tales.  Br^  Thomas  Hood, 
Author  of  Whims  and  Oddities,  with  Illvs- 
trations  by  Thomas  Dighton. 

No.  I.  of  Deliciae  Sylvarum.  By  Mr. 
Strutt,  Author  of  the  Sylva  Britannica. 

A  Practical  Treatise  on  Naval  Book- 
Iceeping  in  all  its  branches.  With  an  Ap-. 
pendix,  containing  a  vsriety  of  forms,  orders, 
letters,  returns,  certificates,  and  other  do- 
cuments of  practical  utility  in  the  naval 
service.    By  Edward  Lawes,  R.  N. 

No.  I.  of  ft  Naval  and  Military  Magasine, 
to  be  published  Quarterly,  containing  Es- 
says, Proceedings  of  Courts-martial^  &e. 

A  Society  ''  For  the  Diffusion  of  Useful 
Knowledge,*'  is  about  to  be  establislied. 
The  object  is  to  impart  useful  information  to 
such  as  are  unable  to  avail  themselves  of 
experienced  teachers,  in  the  various  branches 
of  knowledge,  chiefly  as  regards  the  SciENCBf, 
and  the  Arts  connected  with  them,  by  the 
periodical  publication  of  Treatises,  under 
the  direction  and  with  the  sanction  of  a 
Committee.  Each  Scientific  Treatise  to 
contain  an  Exposition  of  the  Fundamental 
Principles  of  some  Branch  of  Science,— 
their  proofs  and  illustrations, — their  appli- 
cation to  practical  uses,  and  to  the  explana- 
tion of  facts  or  appearances.  The  great 
division  of  Natural  Knowledge,  commonly 
called  Natural  Philosophy,  will  be  subdi- 
vided into  different  Branches, — as>  Elemen- 
tary Astronomy—Mechanical  Powers — Ap- 
plication of  these  to  Machineiy — Hydro- 
statics — Hydraul  ics — Pneumatics — Optica 
—Electricity— Magnetism.  Separate  Pkiac- 
tioal  Treatises  will  be  given  on  Diallmg — 
Millwork — Optical  Instruments  ;  and  Trea- 
tises on  Geometry,  Algebra,'  and  Trigono- 
metry will  be  published  before  extending 
Natural  Philosophy  to  its  higher  branches, 
of  Dynamics,  Hydrodynamics,  and  Phynoal 
Astronomy.  To  each  Treatise  will  be  sub- 
joined a  reference  to  the  works  or  parte  of 
works  in  which  the  same  subject  isdiseuseed 
more  at  large^  with  suggestions  for  enaUing 
the  student,  who  may  feel  so  dinposed,  to 
prosecute  his  studies  further.  The  First 
Treatise,  being  one  on  Ele.mentary  Ai tro- 
MOMY,  will  be  published  soon,  and  on  the 
same  day  will  be  given  gratis,  an  Introdoo- 
tory  Discourse  on  the  Advantages  and  Plea- 
sures derived  from  the  pursuits  of  Science. 

The  Duke  of  York's  Library  is  to  be  sold 
by  Sotheby.  It  contains  above /orly^/foe 
thousand  volumes,  inclodlne,  besides  a* num- 
ber of  valuable  illustrated  books  of  ancient 
days,  nearly  every  publication  entered  nt 
Stationers'  Hall,  and  every  novel  and  pamph- 
let printed  in  the  united  kingdom  during  the 
last  forty  years.  In  the  libcary  is  a  valoable 
and  «EteniWa  ooUMkSfon  of  maps  and 


1887*]         LUeraturt  and  Sclenee.'^Duke  of  Suisai*s  Librarp. 


LtMLAKT  or  THB  DuKB  OF  SuftBZ. 

A  work  is  now  m  prepAntion- under  th« 
Mperintesdenoe  of  Mr.  reUigrew,  Libraritn 
of  tlw  Dnk*  of  SiuMx,  entitled,  «  A  CatiH 
kgiM  of  the  •uMnlartj  rare  aad  valuable 
CoUcctioB  of  MSS.  and  Books  contained  in 
the  Libnnr  of  the  Duke  of  Susses,  at  Kens- 
ii^toa  Pkiace." 

The  fine  part  of  the  fint  volumt  U  de- 
voted to  the  description  of  the  Theological 
MSS.  of  which  there  are  nearty  SOO,  and 
chie^  of  ihe  twelfth,  thirteenth,  fourteenth, 
and  fifteenth  centuries,  though  some  of 
them  are  as  early  as  the  tenth.  Those  ma- 
BuscripCs  are  in  various  laoffuages: — He* 
blew,  Greek,  Latin,  Freuch,  lulian,  Span- 
iah»  Crerman*  Dutch,  English,  Irish,  Arabic, 
Pirasian,  Armenian,  Pali,  Singhalese,  and 
Barman. 

.  The  £MTw3fa»]tJcrip/«  are  44  in  number, 
and  some  of  them  are  of  very  great  value. 
The  Pentateuchs  on  African  and  Basil  skins 
arc  considered  the  finest  in  the  country.— 
One  of  them  measures  144  het  in  length, 
99  iaclies  in  breadth,  consists  of  7i  skms, 
end  is  arranged  in  9^  columns,  each  of 
which  has  4i  lines.  The  History  of  the 
Hebrew  MSS.  b  a  curious  narrative  respect- 
rag  the  Hebrew  MSS.  of  the  Bible,  of  the 
manner  directed  to  he  written,  and  of  the 
ndes  laid  down  by  the  Jews  with  respect  to 
their  maanscripts,  by  which  the  integrity  of 
the  text  may  he  preserved.  The  character 
of  the  Hebrew  MSS.  is  arranged  under  the 
^visions  of  Spanish,  Italian,  and  German, 
the  fiMrmer  or  which  is  designated  as  the 
most  beautiful.  In  the  collection,  there  are 
two  complete  Hebrew  MSS.  of  the  Bible, 
one  of  tht  13th,  the  other  of  the  15th  cen- 
tuiy,  the  latter  with  illuminations.  There 
are  also  three  Pentateuchs,  various  com- 
meirfariet  and  Rabbinical  aud  Cabalistic 
works.  There  is  a  Pentateuch  of  the  ISih 
fmtmjf  in  Hebrew  and  Chaldee,  accom- 
panied by  illuminations  of  an  exceedingly 
cnrMMs  nature,  and  of  which  fine  fiic-similes 
(bj  G*  Cruikshank)  are  given.  All  the 
tenas  peculiar  to  MSS.  are  also  detailed  and 
czplaiaed. 

Among  the  Greek  ManuseripU,  there  is 
one  of  tte  New  Testament  of  the  ISth  cen- 
Curr,  which  contains  the  whole  of  the  books, 
wink  the  exception  of  the  Apocalypse. 
Some  of  the  readings  peculiar  to  this  MS. 
are  noticed,  and  a  £M»imile  is  given  of  the 
fint  page  of  the  Gospel  of  St.  Matthew, 
togetker  with  an  illumination,  ablv  executed 
by  Mr.  Harris  in  lithogrephy.  ?rhere  are 
abo  various  Greek  MSS.  of  the  Fathers  of 
the  Church,  and  among  the  Homiiies  of  St. 
Chrysoatom  b  that  which  was  personaHv 
directed  against  the  Empress  Eudoxb,  wife 
•of  Afcadius,  whom  he  depicts  as  Herodias, 
aad  fur  which  he  was  degraded  from  hb 
qiisoopal  dignity,  and  banbhed  firom  Con- 
stantinople. Biographical  Aetokee  of  the 
Fathors  Mceowaur  toe  notice  of  the  serend 
MSS, 


59 

The  Le£n  MamtecrifU  nt  both  aumer^ 
ous  and  of  great  rarity:  There  are  sfarteen 
MSS.  of  the  Vnlcate,  enriched  with  the 
most  splendid  illuminations.  There  are  two 
MSS.  of  the  Bible  allegorised  in  Latin 
verses,  some  of  which  are  in  rhyme.  The 
whole  b  included  under  the  title  of  **  Au- 
rora," which  title  Mr.  Pettigrew  conceives 
b  probably  intended  to  allude  to  the  light 
supposed  to  be  thrown  on  the  obscure  pas« 
sages  of  Scripture  by  the  allegorical  mode 
of  interpretation.  Specimens  of  such  work 
are  given  in  thb  CatsJogue.  It  is  attributed 
to  Petros  de  Riga,  a  Cuion  of  Rheims,  who 
flourbhed  under  the  Emperor  Frederick  !• 
There  are  various  MSS.  of  several  of  the 
Books  of  the  Old  and  New  Testamenta,  and 
some  very  fine  Psalters.  Illustrative  of  one 
of  the  tenth  century,  it  being  remarkably 
curious,  there  are  three  plates  of  ftkcsimilea. 
The  Commentarbs  by  the  Fathera  are  of 
early  date  and  numerous.  There  b  a  MS. 
Coramentarv  on  the  Gospel  of  St.  Luke  and 
the  Acta  of  the  Apostles,  by  the  venerable 
Bede,  which  was  made  about  the  year  1480, 
for  Ferdinand,  King  of  Castib.  Of  the 
MSS.  of  the  Latin  Tathera,  those  of  St. 
Austin,  St.  Athsnasius,  and  St.  Ambrose, 
are  the  most  numerous.  There  b  a  MS.  of 
the  celebrated  work  of  Servetus,  <'  Cbristia- 
nbmi  Restitutio,"  and  a  verv  interesting 
memoir  of  the  unfortunate  author. 

The  department  of  Miseals,  BretriarieSf 
Books  of  Offices  f  &c.  b  very  rich;  and  con- 
siderable senrice  b  rendered  by  the  Author 
pointing  out  the  contenta  of  these  varioua 
services  of  the  Roman  Church,  which  are  so 
frequently  confouuded  by  ca>llecton  of  rare 
and  curious  books. 

The  French  Maruueripts  are  especbDj 
dbdngublied  by  a  Commentary  on  the  Bible, 
intitled,  «  La  BiUe  Moralize,"  firom  the 
Townlev  collection.  The  illuminations  ia 
this  volume  are  in  chiaro  oscuro,  A  fine 
folio  MS.  of  «  The  Golden  Legend,"  b 
remarkable,  as  showing  the  various  stages  of 
the  illuminative  art.  In  the  Italian  Manu" 
seriptSf  there  is  a  very  curious  History  of 
the  Old  Testament,  enriched  with  619  paint- 
ings. It  fiirms  a  kind  of  Biblia  Pauperumf 
and  belongs  to  the  15th  century.  Thb 
article  b  accompanied  by  four  £M^si  miles  of 
xhe  costume  of  the  period.  The  Spaabh, 
German,  and  Dutch  MSS.  follow  nexli 

In  the  English  ManuseripU  there  b  a 
paraphrase  on  the  Book  of  Job,  by  George 
Sandys,  who  was  Geotbman  of  the  Chamber 
to  Charles  I.,  and  pronounced  by  Drydea 
to  have  been  the  first  versifier  uf  the  age. 
There  is  a  curious  Irish  Manuscripif  intitled 
"  The  Three  Shqfts  qf  Death"  by  Dr.  Geof- 
frey Keating,  the  author  of  a  *<  Hbtory  of 
Irebnd." 

The  Arabic  Manuscripts  relate  to  the 
Koran,  of  which  a  very  lutAteatvu^  accn^ooDL^ 
ia  given ;  and  a  splendid  one,  vrVucVv  ^tmiVj 
belonged   to  Tippoo  Saib,  \a  ^t^xosVmV) 
described.    There  la  a  Peisian  Mamucn^i 


60 


Utiraiure  and  Stance. 


[Jan. 


of  tiM  Oofpelfy  aod  ia  AnMAln  MS.  of 
ih^  Mmc»  with  tingularly  beantiftil  Mlvniiaar* 
lioos.  This  it  of  the  13ch  century,  upon 
niUitD,  and  it,  periwpt,  the  mott  v«liMbie 
ArflMniAn  MS.  lo  the  ooufitnr.  They  are 
•fexceediiignrity.  the  MSS.  in  the  Pbli, 
Slofftitlete,  eiid  BamiMi  laogueget,  coa- 
tiude  the  firtt  prtrt  of  the  firtt  volume.  The 
MS^.  hi  the  tqwre  PWli  chanM^r«  obcaiiied 
front  lUngooBy  are»  if  not  uni(|oey  the  fioett 
i^  this  oocmtrj.  They  trt  of  the  mott 
iplendid  deterU>tion>  and  one  of  them  it 
tpoB  plaits  of  t&ory .  The  letter*  ere  in 
Jepea,  end  richly  omtmented  with  gold. 
Mr.  Pettigrew  rWet  an  account  of  the  Pltli 
kngnage,  and  rally  describet  the  MSS. 

AiLEEN  Ahocv. 

.  The  origbi  of  this  beautiful  Irish  air» 
which  wat  first  introduced  to  the  British 
puUie  a  few  years  ago  (most  unfairly]  as  a 
Scotch  ijnelody,  by  the  name  of  <<  Robin 
Adair,"  is  thus  historicaDy  and  cMreetly 
tfittatA  in  a  new  publication. 
^  «  Carol  More  0*I>aly  (brother  to  Po- 
lish, a  turbulent  Connaught  ChiefUin,  in 
the  reign  of  Queen  C^lfabeth)  was  one  of 
the  most  accomplished  gentlemen  of  liis 
time,  and  particularly  excelled  in  poetry 
and  music.  He  pdd  his  addresses  to  Ellen, 
Ihe  dai^hter  of  a  chiefUin  named  Cavanagh, 
a  lovely  and  amiable  young  lady,  who  re* 
turned  his  affection,  but  her  friends  disap- 
proved of  the  connexion.  0*Daly  was 
obliged  to  leave  the  country  for  some  time, 
«nd  they  availed  themselves  of  the  oppor- 
fnoity  which  his  absence  afforded  them,  of 
Impressing  on  the  mind  of  Ellen  a  belief  of 
his  fitlsehood,  aod  of  his  having  gone  to  be 
fnarried  to  another;  afUr  some  time  they 
prevsiled  on  her  to  consent  to  marry  a  rivsJ 
of  0*Daly.  The  day  was  fixed  for  the  nup- 
tM*,  but  O'Daly  returned  the  evening  be- 
fore.* Under  the  first  impression  of  his 
fcelings,  he  sought  a  wild  and  seouestered 
spot  on  the  tea-snore,  and,  inspired  by  love, 
composed  the  song  of  Aileen  Aroon.  Dis* 
'  gulsed  at  a  harper,  he,  next  night,  gained 
access  among  the  crowd  that  thronged  to 
the  wedding.  It  happened  that  he  was 
called  on  by  Helen  herself  to  play.  It  was 
then,  touching  hfs  harp  with  all  the  pa- 
4hetic  sensibility  which  the  interesting  oc- 
casioi)  inspired,  he  infused  his  own  feelings 
into  the  song  he  had  composed,  aod  breathed 
into  his  softened  strain  the  very  loul  of 
pensive  melody.  It  began  "  dtiocfa  to  no 
a  bh^na  tu  Aileen  Aroon,"  «  Will  you 
itaj  or  come  with  me,  Ellen  my  dear.** 
|Ulen  soon  felt  its  force,  and  <<  contrived 
io  elope  with  hitan  that  very  night." 

Handel  declared  he  would  rather  have 
been  the  author  of  this  air  than  of  all  the 
music  he  had  ever  composed.  And  to 
enchanted  wat  Signor  Tenduoci,  a  dittin- 
jalshe^  Italian  tiiwer,  who  ittltted  at  the 
^tAaur  OjferMs  ia  Dublia,  with  it,  th»t  be 


retolved  upon  ttodyingthe  Irith  iangnage, 
■nd  boeome  a  perfect  matter  of  it.  . 

On  Plantiiio. 
-  The  following  paper,  written  by  Sir  Ri-' 
chard  Colt  Hoare,  Bart,  wat  read  at  the 
Iste  meeting  of  the  Bath  aod  West  of  Eng- 
land Society: 

In  the  year  1814,  I  submitted  to  yoox 
notice  the  profits  of  a  certain  pieeo  of  «nd, 
containing  three  qutrtert  of  an  acre,  whicli 
had  been  planted  with  Scotch  and  Spmeo 
Fir  Treet,  on  a  toil  to  thallow  that  tfalo 
roott  were  obliged  to  tpread  themtelvea 
along  the  surface  of  the  ground,  in  older  to 
obtain  nourishment  beneath.  But  to  show 
that  no  soil  is  too  poor  for  some  kind  of 
enltivation,  this  barren  spot,  when  the 
fir-trees  were  cut  down,  after  a  growth  of 
fif^-five  years,  averaged  from  the  ttoM  9II 
their  planting,  to  that  of  their  downfkll, 
the  sum  of  6/.  10s.  lOtf.  fer  dMwm  for  tho 
three  roods  1  and  would  have  produced  mocoy 
had  the  treet  been  property  trained  •and 
pruned  when  yonne. 

Since  that  peri<M,  having  a  large  mee  of 
'vacant  poor  land  on  my  ectate,  I  have 
allotted  it  to  planutioot  of  variont  kinda^ 
but  chiefly  to  coptet,  at  being  more  permn* 
nent  than  plaotationt  of  fii^treet,  which 
only  live  for  a  certam  number  of  veart.  In 
these  I  have  abandoned  the  tptit  tn  delo^ 
and  have  taken  for  its  substitute  an  inttru* 
ment  first  uted,  and  I  believe  invented  by 
Mr.  Monro,  who  formerly  Wat  employed  in 
Sweet*!  nurtery  grounds  at  ClUton. 

We  are  apt  to  be-  prejudiced  against  any 
new  inventions  of  the  preeent  day,  to  maa^ 
having  failed;  but  afier  the  experience  oif 
teven  years,  I  can  safbly  recommend  thia 
histrament,  as  fisr  preferable  in  every  point 
of  view 'to  the  spadcy  having  phmted  nslf  H 
million  of  various  kinds  of  treet  with  it*  sdl 
of  which  have  tucceeded  aud  flourithed  to 
ray  satis&ction.  Its  form  is  very  simplOf 
and  the  only  alteration  I  have  made  in 
Monro's  iustrument,  is  in  bendbff  the  iron 
shaf^  to  a  curve,  instead  of  leavings  it 
straight.  The  mode  <^  using  it  is  as  fol« 
lows:  one  man  employs  the  instruroanfei 
while  another  man  or  boy  holds  a  bundle  of 
plants.  The  man  first  inserts  tlie  instru- 
ment in  the  soil,  holding  it  no  for  the 
reception  of  the  plants,  which,  when  done, 
he  inserts  the  iron  three  times  round  the 
plant,  in  order  to  looseo  the  soil  about  tho 
roots,  then  treads  down  tho  turf,  and  tho 
plant  becomet  at  firm  set  in  the  grohnd  at 
If  it  had  been  long  pitnted.  Two  men  wiH 
plant  in  one  day  from  five  to  tin  hnndrtd# 
at  1r.  per  hundred;  whereat,,  bjr  dining 
holet,  tne  expence  wouki  be -81.  per  oun- 
dred,  and  the  planting  not  done  to  well. 
Thit  instrument  is  particukrly  suited  to 
•tony  or  rooeh  fnrxy  ground,  where  hole* 
digging  is  di&ult ;  but  ia  ground  that  hat 
been  cultivated,  it  will  not  tucceed  M>  woll> 
Ifae  toU  bniiig  too  loose. 


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61 


I  hsvt  ako  tried  MwilMr  jbocU  of  pUotai% 
eopseiy  2.  e.  Jby  the  plough*  .which  bu 
ufttwcKd  very  welly  and  is  a  cheap  method. 
The  plough  rakes  one  furrow,  a  man  fol- 
lows, placing  the  plants  along  it ;  on  re« 
tmmingy  the  plough  throws  another  furrow 
ov«r  the  plant,  which  ctivers  the  roots. 
The  next  process  is  to  tread  the  plants  down. 
I  liave  a  must  beautiful  copse  of  hazel  wood 
planted  in  this  wa/.  In  a  late  extensive 
plantation  of  70  acres,  I  hare  adopted  the 
plan  recommended  bj  Mr.  Pontey,  of  larch 
With  an  intermixture  of  oak,  which  seems  to 
answer  very  well ;  the  larch  protect  the  oak, 
and  when  cut  down,  the  intervals  may  l>e 
filled  op  with  copse  wood,  and  a  iiermaoeut 
wood  obtained. 

Royal  Vault  at  Windsor. 

Adjoining  to  the  east  end  of  St.  Georire's 
Chapel,  Windsor,  is  a  ftee-stone  edifice, 
bnik  by  Henry  VII.  as  a  buriaN  place  for 
hiouelf  and  his  successors ;  but  this  Prince 
afterwards  altering  his  purnose,  began  the 
more  noble  structure  at  Westminster,  and 
this  firixric  remained  neglected  until  Cardi- 
nal Wolsev  obtained  a  grant  of  it  firom 
Beaiy  VI 11.  Wolsevy  with  a  profusion  of 
rtpeiMe  nnlmown  to  former  ages,  designed 
and  bccvn  a  most  somptuous  monument  for 
hiflBsett,  from  whence  this  building  ob- 
tained the  aame  of  Wolsey's  Tomb-bouse* 
Thit  OMMnimeat  wae  so  nagnifioently  builu 
dM  Lfovd  fiMon  in  his  life  of  Henry  VIIL 
safe*  it  fitf  esMeeded  that  of  Henry  Vll.  u^ 
Wf  li  miniter  Abbqr ;  and  at  the  time  of  the 
Caniinai'fl  disgraty,  the  tomb  was  so  far 
flsecntcdy  that  Benedetto,  a  statuary  of 
Fleiencey  received  4,260  ducats  for  what  he 
had  already  done»  and  380^  13s.  sterUi^ 
had  been  paid  for  gilding  only  one  half  of 
thb  anmptooos  monument.  The  Cardinal 
dying  s6on  after  his  retirement  from  Courty 
was  privately  buried  in  one  of  the  abbey 
diapiels  at  Leicester,  and  the  monument  re* 
■aiacd  unfinished.  In  1646  it  became  the 
ploader  of  the  rebelsi  and  the  statues  and 
the  figures  of  gilt  copper,  of  exquisite  work* 
muuibipt  made  for  the  ornament  of  the 
the  tomb»  were  sold  to  carry  on  the  rebel- 
JioD.  King  James  II.  converted  this  build- 
ing Into  a  l^opish  chapel,  and  mass  was 
puUicly  performed  here.  The  ceiling  was 
esecnted  by  Verrio,  who  is  allowed  to  have 
Imn  excelled  his  other  performances.  The 
walla  wen  £nely  ornamented  and  painted ; 
jbat  it  rtmabed  entirely  neglected  ever 
aiaee  the  leigu  of  James  II.»  and  made  a 
moat  ruinous  appearance  till  the  summer  of 
die  year  1800,  when  his  late  Miyesty  or- 
dwcd  the  windows  and  other  external  parts 
to  be  repaired.  Whatever  micht  have  been 
hie  Mijeely's  intentions  at  that  time,  no- 
ihiaf  farther  was  carried  into  execution  till 
lilO,  when  it  was  determined  to  construct 
wiiliin  its  walls  a  Royal  dorm/torf.  The  work' 


men  emplpyed  ia  feaovlng  the  earth  for  this 
purpose,  disoovered  two  coffins  in  a  stone 
recess  about  three  fe^  below  the  sur&ce : 
one  ceotainmg  the  remains. of  Elizabeth 
Wydville,  Queen  of  Edward  iV.;  the  other 
thr>se  of  George,  the  third  son  of  the  said 
King  and  Queen.  From  hence  it  is  evi« 
dent,  that  the  former  conjectures  concern- 
ing the  remains  of  Elizabeth  Wydville  being 
deposited  in  the  tomb  of  Edward  IV.  are 
erroneous.  In  front  uf  the  east  end  of  the 
Royal  vault,  in  which  five  niches  are  situ- 
ated, and  euclosing  compartments  withm 
ooe  of  the  massive  Gothic  columns,  at  each 
side,  is  placed  a  railiug,  within  which  the  re- 
mains of  the  late  King's  own  fiunily  are  to 
be  deposited. 

In  the  niche  nearest  the  centre  his  late 
Majesty  lies ;  in  the  niche  immediately  ad- 
joining, ou  the  right  hand,  is  Queen  Char- 
lotte's coffin ;  on  the  left  of  the  late  King's 
is  the  Princess  Amelia's. 

Medico-Botanical  Society  or  London. 
^  At  the  first  Meeting  of  the  seventh  Ses- 
sion of  the  Socle^,  holden  on  the  IStli 
Oct.  1826,  Sir  James  M'Grigor,  M.  D. 
F.R.5.  K.C.T.S.  President)  in  the  Chair, 
the  Secretary  announced  that  his  RcTal 
Highness  the  Duke  of  Clarence  and  St.  An- 
drews, K.G.  K.T.  F.S.A.  and  Admiral  of  the 
Fleet,  had  honoured  the  Society  by  becom- 
ing one  of  the  patrons.  The  Director  (Mr. 
Frost)  delivered  an  oration,  in  which  he 
explained  the  benefits  derived  from  the  In- 
stitution, concluding  with  the  mention  of 
an  order  lately  issued  by  their  excellent 
President,  the  Director-General  of  the 
Army  Medical  Board,  by  which  all  Candi- 
dates for  situations  in  his  department  were 
enjoined  to  produce  certificates  of  their 
havbg  attended  lectures  on  botany  for  at 
least  six  months  previous  to  their  exami- 
nation. 

Letters  from  Barons  Humboldt,  F^russac> 
and  Jacquin,  and  Professora  Desfbntaines 
and  Wyttenbach,  returning  thanks  for  being 
elected  Corresponding  Members,  were  reaoT 

At  the  second  meeting  of  the  Sessiois, 
holden  on  the  lOth  of  November,  1826,*  a 
paper  by  John  Frost,  E«q.  P.S.A.  F.L.S. 
was  read,  in  which  the  author  demonstrated 
that  the  plant  yielding  the  Ipecacuana  of 
Commerce  was  a  species  of  Ionia  Pers.  ai^d 
not  of  Calicooca  or  Psycotria^  &c.  as  maQy 
botanists  had  maintained. 

A  paper  on  the  various  uses  of  Menyan- 
thes  Trifoliata,  b^  J.  P.  Yosy>  Esq.  was 
read  on  the  8th  of  December. 

The  Anniversary  Dinner  of  the  Society, 
which  was  to  have  been  celebrated  on  the 
16th  day  of  January,  has,  in  consequence  of 
the  lamented  death  of  the  first  Patron  of  the 
Society^  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of 
York,  been  postponed  to  S»IUudK)|  \]bi^\^xj^ 
day  of  February. 


6^                LUeratun  and  Scknc$,'^Anliquanan  Re$earchei.  [Jan. 

CoLtEOk  OF  PHTilCIAMi,  PHHWfOtOOY. 

It  it  eoufidently  reported,  that  a  general  Iq  the  **  Lancet,"  No.  176»  jott  pab- 
meetinff  of  the  Medical  Faculty  will  shortly  lUhed»  in  which  Mettrt.  Gallj  Spurzheim, 
Uke  pMce»  to  petition  Parliament  for  the  Fortter,  Abemethy,  and  the  Memben  of 
ettablithmentbfa  College  of  the  «  Faculty  the  Wernerian  Society  of  Edinburgh,  are 
of  Medicine"  on  a  new  and  more  enlarged  submitted  to  to  much  raillery  on  account  of 
•cale ;  to  rescind  the  old  and  obsolete  laws  phrenological  opinions,  it  is  omitted  to  be 
of  the  present  College  ;  and  to  Joid  the  stated,  and  ought  to  have  been  as  a  nuttter 
medical,  pharmaceutical,  and  surgical  pro-  bf  justice  to  tne  Craniologists,  that  those 
fessions  into  one  and  the  same  calling,  very  persons  who  had  been  almost  perse- 
so  that  there  should  be  no  distinction  be-  eutors  of  the  Anatomiste  of  the  Phrenologi- 
tween  physician  and  sun^eon  ;  just  as  it  cal  School  in  1816,  were  in  1896  the  warm- 
is  now  at  Paris  and  at  Edinburgh:  since  est  advocates  of  Phrenology;  and  that  at  Edin- 
it  is  the  general  opinion  of  all  that  the  sepa-  burgh  not  only  professors  of  anatnmy  at  |be 
ration  of  the  three  branches  is  Injurious  to  present  moment,  but  doctors  of  medicioa, 
all,  and  is  the  real  reason  why  it  has  become  lawyers,  and  even  shopkeepers,  carry  cranio- 
the  fashion  to  eniplov  the  Apothecary,  who  meters  about  in  their  pockeU  to  measure 
unites  all  three,  to  the  almost  toul  exclu-  heads  with,  the  new  science  being  quite  the 
sion  of  the  Physician ,  who  professes  but  one .  rage  of  the  Scotch  University. 

St.  David's  Colleob.  ANCiiirr  Tombs  or  Gbrmamy. 

This  College,  which  was  founded  in  1 829  A  work,  written  in  the  fourteenth  centurr 
by  the  present  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  at  Llam-  by  a  nun  of  the  convent  of  Gunsthersthal, 
jMter,  in  Cardiganshire,  for  the  benefit  of  fell  a  short  time  since  into  the  hands  of' Dr. 
the  clergy  in  South  Wales,  the  poverty  of  Schreiber,  a  German  Antiquary  of  much 
whose  preferment  precludes  them  from  the  celebrity.  In  this  book,  designed  only  as  a 
advantages  of  a  University  education,  is  to  complete  catalogue  of  the  revenues  of  the 
be  opened  by  the  Bishop  of  St.  David's  In  convent,  were  numerous  remsrks,  &c  of  the 
the  month  of  February,  when  it  will  be  in-  highest  importance  to  history  and  archseo* 
corporated  by  Royal  Charter.  It  is  calcu-  logy ;  with  one  branch  of  the  objects  thni 
lated  to  accommodate  about  seventy  stu-  pomted  out.  Dr.  S.  has  been  particularly 
dents,  and  the  Bishop  of  St.  David's  in-  occupied— it  concerns  the  Hunengro^er,  or 
tends  to  admit  persons  from  any  part  of  the  ancient  tombs.  Many  rents  were  specified 
kingdom,  provided  theybe  members  of  the  as  arismg  firom  lends  in  the  neighbourhood 
Church  of  England.  The  annual  expense  of  these  monuments.  Now  it  was  known 
will,  it  is  expected,  be  within  bbl.  A  valu-  that  there  were  many  uf  them  in  the  North 
able  collection  of  books  has  been  presented  of  Germany,  but  none  'has  yet  been  disco* 
to  it  by  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  to  which  vered  in  l^ribourg  nor  the  southern  pro- 
many  of  the  Colleges  and  members  of  the  vinces.  Mr.  Schreiber's  first  researches 
University  of  Oxford  have  liberally  contri-  were  fruitless :  what  in  the  fourteenth  oen- 
buted.  A  Grace  has  alio  passed  the  Senate  tury  was  a  common  direction,  could  no 
at  Cambridge  University  to  give  it  a  copy  of  longer  be  followed  ;  but  at  length,  at  Bl- 
all  books  that  have  been  printed  at  Its  ex-  ringen,  on  a  piece  of  crround  Iwlonging  to 

Gnse  or  are  now  in  the  press.    The  Rev.  an  ancient  family,  whicn  had  been  pointed 

ewellin  Leweliio,  M.  A.  of  Jesus  College,  out  as  appertaining  to  the  convent,  a  plonch 

Oxford,  has  been  appointed  Princijpal,  and  struck  upon  some  tombs,  the  objects  of  tae 

the  Rev.  Alfred  Ollivant,  M.A.  Fellow  of  Doctor's  inquiry.     They  occupy  a  space  of 

Trbity  College,  Vice  Principal  and  Senior  S69  paces  in  circumference,  and  there  are 

Tutor.  more  than  forty  rows  of  burying-phtcefl.    It 

Athbnian  Society.  "  •^'****°'  ^^'  formerly  there  rose  above 

the  ground  some  monuments  which  showed 

This  Society  resolved,  at  a  late  meeting  at  their  exact  situation.   The  number  of  tombe 

the  Crown  and  Anchor,  to  gire  agold  me-  examined  wu  106  (of  which  forty-five  were 

dal,  value  iOL  to  the  Schoolmaster  or  Go-  of  men,  forty-four  women,  and  seventeen 

veruess  in  any  part  of  the  United  Kingdom,  children),  and  it  i«  presumed  there  are  about 

who,  within  the  year  1 837,  educates  the  as  many  more.    They  contained  neither  m- 

rreatest  number  of  pupils  according  to  the  scriptions  nor  any  vestige  of  character* ;  bat 

Interrogative  System;  also  to  ^ve  a  purse  what  was  especially  worthy  of  remark,  char^ 

of  ten  guineas  for  the  best  written  Report  coal  was  spread  over  the  corpses,  as  If  its 

on  the  comparative  effects  of  this  system  of  antiseptic  properties  were  even  then  known, 

instruction,  on  not  less  than  twenty  pupils.  There  are  some  fragmento  of  pottery,  but 

the  same  to  be  printed  for  distribution  |  and  very  much  injured  ;  and  a  small  piece  of 

another  purse  of  ten  guineas  for  the  best  glass  was  found  ornamented  with  phues  of 

Essay  on  the  practical  modes  of  improving  silver,   but   there  were  neither  stone  nor 

the  tempen  and  moral  habits  of  children.  brazen  vases. 


1»S7.] 


I    «8    ] 


SELECT    POETRY. 


Luut  on  fuaritig  of  the  Death  qf 
John  Nichols,  Esq» 

>kND  ii  thy  tpirlt  fled?   thou  honoared 

wget 
WhoM  Ump  iUomcd  lo  long  the  pMsing  age. 
Blest  «rilh  •  temper  whose  unclouded  rmy 
**Coaid  make  to*moiTow  cheerful  ae  to- 

la  calm  enjoyment  of  domestic  peace, 
Thy  mental  energies  knew  no  decrease. 
Tko'  time  -  and  toil  bad  dimmed  the  visual 

Yet  FILIAL  love  did  half  the  loss  repay. 

Pkesenr'd,  like  Milton's  muse,  by  filial 
hands, 

Each  thought,  each  word,  each  valued  re- 
cord stands. 

Likn  the  great  Bard  was  he  with  daughters 
blest. 

Who  every  want  supplied  with  duteous  zest, 

And  who,  as  age  required  their  fostering  aid, 

A  Sfie's  cominands  with  purest  love  obeyed. 

Am  witli  mild  radiance  shone  his  setting 
sua. 
Who  eoold  suppose  his  race  so  nearly  run, 
Whik,  without  struggle,  from  its  mortal 

•  .eby 
Haa  spirit  soar'd  at  once  to  realms  of  day. 

R.E. 


A  Tribute  to  the  Memory  of  the  late 
William  Gifporo,  Esq, 

By  John  Taylor,  Esq, 

AT  rest  ia  Gifford  !'  from  a  lowly  state 
He  rose,  to  rank  among  toe  truly 

Givat. 
Hii  yoBth  in  penury  and  pain  was  past, 
And  Fate V  dark  clouds  seem'd  menacing  to 

'Inst; 
Bot  tko'  he  droop'd  beneath  a  load  of  care. 
He  sank  not  in  tne  depths  of  dire  despair : 
Sciil,  mid  coarse  drudgery,  and  tvrant  sway. 
His  mind  was  -cheer'd  by  Leirnmg's  dawn- 

•    ingray. 
Tno  wcmi  by  toil,  sound  knowledge  he  ac- 

<|air'd. 
Yet  only  to  an  humble  sphere  aspir'd. 
At  length,  while  bent  by  sorrow  and  dismay, 
A  friend  then  help'd  him  on  life's  dreary 

way. 
When  e'en  of  hope  bereft  appear'd  that 

friend,  [mend. 

Hia  spirits  rons'd,  and  bade  his  prospects 
Gain'd  him  full  liberty  at  will  to  roam, 
And  fia'dhim  soon  in  Oxford's  classic  dome. 
A  lucky  star  still  shed  its  fostering  rays. 
To  light  hb  onward  coarse  to  hairier  days. 


Chance — no,  benignant  Profidbnci  was 

there. 
And  led  him  to  a  noble  Patron's  care, 
Plac'd  him  at  ease,  and,  as  the  Sire  began, 
The  virtuous  Son  fuifill'd  the  geoeroturman  *. 
GiPPORD  with  grateful  zeal  beheld  the  Youth, 
And  train'd  him  soon  to  learning,  wisdom, 

tnith. 
While  sution'd  tlius,  with  every  want  sup- 

ply'd. 
No  change  of  fortune  rais'd  unseemly  pride. 
O'er  former  woes  he  cast  no  specious  veil. 
But  told  himself  the  sad  eventful  talcf, 
Remembering  still   his  youth's  oppressive 

load,  stow'd. 

And  all  the  kindness  Friendship  then  be- 
Alas !  what  ills  on  humao-kiod  await — 
While  happy  thus  amid  the  smiles  of  fate. 
For  Genius  and  for  Learning  wreath'd  by 

Fame, 
Disease,  with  undermining  venom,  came ; 
And  yet  its  course  his  patience  ne'er  subdued. 
But  all  was  borne  with  Christian  fortitude. 
Mild  was  bis  temper ; — if  severe  his  pen, 
'Twas  only  aim'd  at  vain  and  vicious  meii ; 
Firm  to  support  those  principles  alone. 
That  shield  the   People    and   uphold  the 

Throne. 
In  hiro  the  Critic,  Scholar,  Bard,  combin'd 
With  zeal  intrepid,  and  a  candid  mind. 
False  Taste  t   ne  ridicul'd  and  drove  her 

hence, 
A  triumph  well  achiev'd  by  manly  sense. 
At  last  exhausted,  Death  Itien  hov'ring  near. 
The  patient  suff'rer  saw  him  not  with  fear. 
Calmly  declar'd  his  readiness  to  die. 
And  \th  the  world  without  a  parting  sigh. 

A  Restimg-Plack. 

A  ND  is  there  not  a  resting-place  ? 
A  calm  for  those  who  mourn  ? 
Sweet  hours  that  In  my  memory  live ! 
O  will  ye  ne'er  return  ? 

There  it  a  calm  for  those  who  mourn. 

By  gloomy  cares  oppress'd : 
Beyond  the  confines  ot  the  grave 

There  is  a  place  of  rest. 

Aspire,  my  soul !  to  seek  the  prize 

To  man  by  mercy  giv'n  ; 
There  is  no  resting-place  on  earth— 

Tis  only  found  in  Heav'n. 

W.  Hbriii. 

*  The  late  and  present  Earl  Grbsvenor. 

i*  See  the  Memoirs  prefixed  to  his  Trans- 
lation of  Juvknal,  from  which  some  ex- 
tracts shall  be  given  in  our  next.    Edit. 

X  See  the  BAyiJiD  and  M&Tiko. 


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[Ju. 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


FOREIGN   NEWS. 


SPAIN  AND  PORTUGAL. 

The  accouuti  rtceived  from  the  Penin- 
Bula  are  of  au  unaatisfactonr  and  rather  con- 
tradictory description.  We  are  informed 
that  Ferdinand  has  not  yet  made  the  con- 
cessions required  by  England  and  France ; 
but  that  the  Spanish  Ministers)  unintimi- 
dated  by  the  remonstrances  and  decisive 
measures  of  our  Government,  are  actively 
organizing  their  means  uf  defence,  "  that 
if  the  British  Cabinet  should  proceed  to  acts 
of  aggression,  SiMtin  may  not  be  taken  un- 
provided.*' It  u  stated,  that  troops  to  the 
amount  of  8,000,  some  sar  30,000,  are 
ordered  to  the  frontiers  of  Portugal,  to 
form  an  army  of  observation ;  and  that  se- 
veral parks  of  artillery  were  proceeding  in 
the  same  direction. 

Nothing  has  yet  transpired  to  shew  what 
are  the  decided  intentions  of  Ferdinand; 
with  whom,  however,  the  French  Cabinet  is 
described  as  using  its  mfluence  to  lead  him 
to  the  adoption  of  a  mild  and  pacific  policy, 
while  the  urieats  and  ultras,  by  whom  he  is 
■urroundea,  urse  him  to  an  opposite  course. 
It  is  not  improbable  that  Ferdinand,  pressed 
on  the  one  band  by  the  representations  of 
England  and  France*  is  exposed  to  repre- 
sentations equally  strong,  and  danser,  per- 
liape  more  imminent^  in  another  direction. 
Toe  exasperation  and  the  violence  of  the 
Apostolic  party  in  Spain  would  make  a  re- 
cognition by  him  of  the  Portogueie  Consti- 
stitution,  perhaps,  not  a  very  safe  step.  As 
some  proof  of  this  opinion  we  notice  a  do- 
cument written  by  Don  Inguanzo,  Abp.  of 
Toledo,  and  Primate  of  Spain,  as  a  repre- 
sentation to  Ferdinand  on  the  present  state 
of  sifairs,  and  espedaUy  on  the  demands  of 
EngUod.  Its  substance  is  to  urge  Ferdi- 
nand to  a  strenuous  resistance  to  the  de- 
mands of  England,  which  t^»e  Prelate  con- 
ceives the'  British  Government  has  no 
means -of  enforcing.  The  Portuguese  char- 
ter is  represented  as  a  creation  of  Mr.  Can- 
ning, and  intendSfid  by  him  as  an  attack  on 
the  Catholic  religion,  of  the  success  of 
which  «  the  Lntnenms "  are  represented  to 
be  extremely  Jealous.  «  Th'is  (says  the 
Archbishop  of  Toledo)  is  the  cause  ctf  God. 
Your  M^esty  knows  it  well,  and  so  do  idl 
your  Catholic.su^jfct8»  If  any  one  doubts 
tUs  iBc6nt«stible  tnith,  believe  it,  Sir,  he 
4sHiot  animated  l^  thai  Christian  zeal  which 
tdoM  alaim  at  thai  least  suspicion  of  disre- 
spect sbofvn  to  thc:  august  reiigioB  we  pro- 
frss.  The  disciples  of  Lutberbave  beheU, 
with  freling»«f  wimtht  ^  glorioos  increwe 
which  the  triM  rdinon  itas  gpuniag  ia  the 
domJakmg  when  Uitj  are  esfer  esclusively 


to  establish  the  tenets  of  their  reprobate 
Master.  They  have  seen  Catholicism  so- 
lidly and  holiiy  take  root,  under  the  pro- 
tection of  the  BourboQs,  after  bravinff  all 
the  vile  attempts  of  Jacobinism ;  they  nave 
witnessed  the  strength  it  gained  in  Italy  and 
Ireland,  under  the  cars  of  our  Most  Holy 
Father,  Leo  XII. :  they  have  beheld  it  in* 
vade,  with  rapid  strides,  countries  where 
darkness  till  toen  reigned }  and,  in  short* 
they  have  long  been  sensible  that  the  time 
anndunced  was  at  hand,  when  all  nations  are 
to  live  uuder  the  same  belief.  Let  your 
Majesty  raise  your  voice,  and  it  ahall  in- 
stantly be  the  signal  for  war.  The  ittndard 
of  the  cross  being  once  raised,  ill  your 
Majesty's  subjects  will  flock  acoosd  it; 
the  Ministers  themselves  of  the  Sanctuary 
will  take  charge  of  the  sacrad  ensign,  And 
carry  it  triumphant  into  the  thickest  of  the 
enemy's  fanks.  There  the  smoke  of  incense 
shall  ascend  with  that  of  the  cannon :  the 
canticles  of  praise  to  the  God  of  Annies 
shall  be  blended  with  the  cries  of  the  com- 
batants, and  the  cause  of  the  Most  Higk  be 
made  triumphant!" 

Officiat  advices  from  Lisbon  men^on  a 
trifling  afiair  between  the  Constitutionalists 
and  the  rebels,  on  the  hanks  of  the  Mon- 
degoy  in  which  the  former  were  soeoessful ; 
and  one  of  the  Portuguese  Generalt>  in  a 
communication  dated  the  99th  Decembery 
announces  to  his  Government,  that  the 
Marquis  de  Chaves  was  retreatbg  in  the 
direction  of  Celerifto,  having  been  defiMted 
in  an  attempt  to  inclose  adivtsioB  of  Consti- 
tutionals between  his  4>wn.tr6cps  aad'fhase 
of  Magessi.  This  Geaenly  it  appeait, 
after  his  repulse  firom  AlenteiOf  it-enter^ 
Spain  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Ai— ida,  ti 
•  which  he  has  obtained  poastssiiDn. ' .  XUs 
fortress  is  one  of  the  strongest  in  Portugal, 
dose  to  th^  frdntier  of  Spain,  aid  was  sur- 
rendered to  the  rebels  by  the  JLiiAntanaal- 
Govemor  Aleaeras,  who  took  the  opportu- 
nity of  the  reported  sudden  illntae.  of  his 
superior,  General  Pegue,  to  capitulate  with- 
out firing  a  shot 

On  the  1st  of  January,  Gencial  Clinton, 
with  about  8,000  d  one  fotces,  landed  at 
Lisbon,  and  met  with  an  encouraging  rtr 
oeption. 

ITALY. . 

It  appears  that  the  Pope,  besidae  confinn- 
ing  the  privileges  of  Ihe  Inquililion .  at 
Rome,  and  ^-establishing  Hm  eedAbslidal 
asylums  fbr-eriounals  who  fly  iiriMn  jusiiee, 
haa-foUewed  up  thesh  Brrangements.  hy  fiur- 
ther  measures  of  severity  against  the  Jews. 
Sometime  ago  a  Papal  oidler  lequind  (his  per- 


1697.]  Foreign  Newi.  C$ 

ttorttd  peoplt to dntt  with  » ytllow  badgton     discmtloo  now  ptndlng  bttireen  Oratt  Bii* 
the  hats  of  the  bmb^  umI  nhbendt  of  •  si*     t«in  and  the  United  States,  respecting  the 


colonr  on  the  women.  His  Holiness  trade  of  the  Utter  with  our  West  India  Co- 
has  ncnr  ordered  all  the  Hebrews  to  dismiss  lonies.  It  appears  that  the  United  States, 
their  Christian  serrants,  and  has  forbidden  though  admitting  the  general  right  of  eveij 
all  Christian  servants  to  senre  in  the  house*  eountry  possessing  Colonies  to  regulate  the 
hold  of  Jews.  trade  uf  those  Colonies  in  such  manner  aa 
.  _-0,^.  she  may  think  fit,  assumes  in  the  discussion, 
AMERICA.  jIj^j  ^  ^^^  ^ij|j  ^y^  5,ijj,|j  ^fe^t  India 

The  Message  of  Mr.  Adams,  President  Colonies  is  as  open  to  the  United  Sutes  as 

of  the  United  States,  was  deliTsred  to  Con-  any  other  trade  in  the  world,  without  con- 

grcse  oo  the  5th  of  December.     He  says,  sickring  whether  some  compensation  might 

"  With  the  exceptions  incidenul   to  the  not  be  due  to  Great  Britain  for  the  conoee- 

BMMt  felicitous  condition  of  human  exist-  sion  of  a  privilege,  which  it  is  her  undouht- 

eoee,  we  continue  to  be  highly  favoured  in  ed  right  to  give  or  withhold.   Mr.  Canning, 

all  die  elemenu  which  contribute  to  indi-  in  his  Note,  refutes  this  assumption,  and 

vidua]  cooicyrt,  and  nuional  prosperity.    In  puts  the  whole  question  upon  plain  and  ia« 

the  survey  of  our  extensive  count^,  we  have  telligible  grounds. 

giDefally  to  observe  abodes  of  health  and  In  189S,  the  total  receipts  of  theTrea- 
regions  of  plenty.  In  our  civil  and  political  sury  of  the  United  States  were,  in  round 
lelations,  we  have  peace  without,  tranquillity  numbers,  28,800,000  dollars;  of  which, 
within,  onr  borders.  We  are,  as  a  people,  however,  there  had  remained  surplus  from 
iacnaaing  with  unabated  rapidity  in  ponula-  1894,  1,900,000,  and  was  raised  by  loan 
tioo,  wealth,  and  national  resources.*  In  5,000,000 ;  leaving  of  income  from  tax* 
alladmg  to  the  suspension  of  the  intercourse  ation  (chiefly  Customs)  within  the  year 
between  America  aud  the  colonial  posses-  21,100,000.  The  expenditure  for  that  year 
sioas  of  Great  Britain,  the  President  throws  was  about  23,600,000,  of  which  there  went 
the  blame  of  that  interruption  on  the  Bri-  towards  the  liquidation  of  the  public  debt, 
tish  Government;  and  in  adverting  to  the  the  large  sum  of  more  than  12,000,000 
finaiteial  concerns  of  the  United  Sutes,  he  dollars,  above  one-eighth  of  the  then  ex- 
says,  "The  severe  shock  so  extensively  sus-  isting  debt.  The  military  budget  fof  1 825, 
tained  by  the  commercisl  and  manufacturing  including  ordinance,  fortifications,  pensions, 
iaterests  in  Great  Briuin,  has  not  been  &c.  fell  short  of  5,700,000  dollars;  the 
Withoat  a  prroeptihle  recoil  upon  ourselves,  navy,  including  the  sums  appropriated  to 
A  redooed  importation  from  abroad  is  neces-  its  gradual  increase,  8,050,000 ;  and  there 
sarily  saeoeeded  by  a  reduced  retura  to  the  remained  in  the  Treasury,  at  the  close  of  tba 
Treaswj  at  home.  The  net  revenue  of  the  year,  a  sum  rather  greater  than  the  amonni 
present  year  will  not  equal  that  of  the  last,  of  the  loan  which  oas  been  raised  in  the 
aad  the  receipts  of  that  which  is  to  come  course  of  it,  viz,  5,200,000 ;  income  for 
will  611  short  of  those  in  the  current  year.  1 826,  derived  firom  taxes,  public  lands,  &c. 
The  diminution,  however,  is  in  part  attri-  within  the  year,  little  short  of  85,900,000 1 
bptable  to  the  flourishing  condition  of  some  making  the  whole  noeipts  of  the  Treasury, 
fifoor  domestic  manufactures,  and  so  far  is  at  the  end  of  1826,  of  which  the  last  quar* 
eompenssted  by  an  equivalent  more  profit-  ter  has  been  fixed  by  estimate  only,  some- 
able  to  the  nation."  Mr.  Aduros,  in  aidvert-  thing  more  than  31,000,000;  expences  of 
lag  to  the  foreign  relations  of  the  American  1826,  24,660,000 ;  of  which,  for  the  pay- 
Govemmient,  informed  Congress,  that  al-  ment  of  debt,  about  10,100,000;  army,  &e. 
though  they  still  enjoy  peace  and  general  6,400,000 ;  navy,  4,200,000 ;  exhibiting  a 
good  anderstandi  ng,  still  tnis  pacific  condition  tendency  in  the  naval  department  to  inereasa 
tt  "  qualified  in  several  important  instances  the  proportion  of  its  expenditure  to  that  of 
hy  collisions  of  interest,  and  by  unsatisfied  the  army,  as  compared  with  the  preceding 
ciumsofjastlce,  to  the  settlement  of  which,  year;  and  an  augmentation  in  the  charge 
the  eonstitotional  interposition  of  the  legis-  for  both  military  and  marine,  the  former  of 
ktive  authority  may  become  ultimately  in-  700,000  dollars,  the  Utter  of  1,150,000  "^ 
dispensable." — ^The  commercial  negociations  dollars.  The  balance  estimated  to  be  in  the 
and  arrangements  concluded  with  Frsnce  and  Treasury  at  the  end  of  1826  was  upwards  of 
Netherlands,  Denmark,  and  the  Federation  6,400,000  ;  of  which  1,400,000  was  an  ex- 
of  Central  America,  are  detailed  in  succes-  cess  above  the  loan  of  1825  ;  and,  with  the 
aion;  aad  lastly,  the  discussions  so  long  10,100,000  employed  as  a  sinking  fund, 
pen^M  with  this  conntr^r,  upon  the  subject  left  a  surplus  revenue  for  the  vear,  over  and 
of  tramng  with  our  Colonial  possessions.  A  above  the  current  expences  or  the  eovem- 
leeble  hope  b  expressed  that  every  matter  ia  ment,  amounting  to  1 1 ,500,000  doUars,  or 
dimta  may  he  satisfiictorily  adjusted.  one-half  the  public  revenna.  The  revenue 
-  The  New  York  Papers  to  the  17th  ol  from  taxes,  pnUic  knds,  &e.,  as  estimate 
I>ee.ait  filled  with  the  vc^ommous  official  ed  for  1827,  standi  at  tuhet  mma  tibaA 
doauiiiiiuU  presented  to  CoBgnu  hj  th«  85,000,000  dollan  \  .t\ia  ex:^ififtni%  %ll 
^thUkb^  npem  th9  importaai  $abfid$  of  fO,000|000  |  of  wWh»  lot  lAl^lBn^  %BbA« 


Itf 


Foreign  Nem.'^DomiiiU  Occurrences^ 


TJoti 


I  a,690,OGro  J — tfmy,  6,^5O>0oo  J  — vsff, 
3,^0,000;  AAdcWil  Fitt,  eofulderably  re«< 
(iutfed,  1 ,830,000  dollars.  The  ao auaI  grinf 
ippitopriated  for  the  gradual  iDCrease  of  the 

'  navy,  expiring  with  1896,  the  renewal  of  it 

II  ttrdngly,  though  indirectly,  recommended 
Co  the  consideration  of  Congress. 

The  Ohio  Sute,  which  b  a  province  of 
Ae  United  States  of  North  America,  affordf 
<tae  of  the  most  striking  Instances  of  increase 
id  population  and  weahh.  Only  thirty  years 
ago,  a  desert,  which  scarcely  knew  the  itep 
of  civilized  man.  It  has  already  risen  to  the 
third  rank  in  the  order  of  the  Union.  Five 
jfears  ago  this  State  counted  581,434  inha- 
ftilants,  and  at  the  present  time  850,000, 
ad  increase  which  surpasses  all  previous  ex- 
jierieAce.  Ohio  senda  sixteen  representa- 
tives and  senators  to  the  general  Congress 
sit  Washington :  and  seventy-two  represen- 
tkfives,  with  thirty-six  senators,  form  the 
ibtenial  state,  or  domestic  legislature.  Four 
lipper  and  nine  departmental  judges,  adml- 
nuter  the  law,  and  a  militia,  consisting  of 
<!avalry,  in&ntry,  yeomea,  &c»  can  station 
ISOjOOO  men  for  the  defence  of  the  country. 

ASIA. 
Vtom  tlie  fiaiUvian  papers  of  the  6th  o£ 
Sept.  ll  appears  thai  the  insurgents  have 


beeii  In  moet  i&itsBscef  iuetMtftil  igtitttt 
the  Dutch  troopt.  They  have  been  re« 
peatedly  beaten  by  the  rebel  ehlefii,  and 
great  apprehension  was  entertained  that  they 
would  make  ftirther  progress  before  the  re- 
lofolrcemente  expected  from  Nollaad  couM 
arrive.  In  the  paper  of  the  lOth  of  Ang^ 
there  is  an  account  of  »  considerable  ad- 
vantoge  gained  by  the  rebels  under  Depo 
Nfgoro,  near  the  Deisa  Kamtangt  tne 
Dutch  had  on  this  oceashm  to  cot  their 
Way  through  the  enemy,  af^r  havbg  bee» 
abandoned  by  their  alHes,  the  troops  of 
Mangko  Negoro.  The  General,  in  his  db** 
^atch,  says,  **  We  have  to  mourn,  on  thitf 
fatal  day,  the  loss  of  several  brave  officers 
and  men,  and  that  there  have  fallen  into  th« 
hands  of  the  enemy  two  mortars,  a  quantity 
of  ammunition,  nine  artillery  horsea,  all  the 
harness  for  the  fore  horses,  and  besides  tb« 
muskets  of  the  slain,  many  others;  fat 
several  of  Mangko  Ne^oro'i  troops  have 
returned  to  our  camp  naked  and  dtsarmed."* 
The  number  of  troops  bein^  much  redoced 
by  the  repeated  actions  with  the  rebeli» 
much  of  the  military  service  has  fallen  upon 
the  merchants  of  Batcvia,  who  are  anxionsl^f 
imploring  assistance  fhmi  the  mother  coon* 
try. 


DOMESTIC    OCCURRENCES. 


Den,  t8.  The  first  stone  on  the  city 
Mt  of  the  New  London  Bridge  was  hud  In 
tfte  coil>ffdam  of  the  third  pier  hy  Richard 
litttibeA  Janet,  esq.  the  Chairman,  astiated 
by  the  Committee  and  Mr.  Reunie.  The 
mistion  was  the  more  interestmg,  w  it  it 
tne  deepest  fovndatbn  that  hat  been  laid  l^ 
«>ftrdams  (being  thirty  het  deep  at  low 
water  of  apfing  tides,  and  forty-five  fieet  at 
Bljgfi  water).  Thu,  in  addition  to  the  ex- 
Irsordlniry  tepidity  of  the  current  through 
Hie  old  bridge,  rendered  it  a  work  of  some  dif- 
fieolty,  although  every  pert  has  been  carried 
on  and  completed  with  toe  greatest  success. 

The  Susperuion-brid^  thrown  over  the 
Thames  at  Hammersmith^  in  its  present 
etete,  forms  a  remarkable  object,  displayinc 
(he  great  superiority  acquired  by  British 
artisans  in  the  manufacture  of  ironrwork* 
The  piers  of  stone  rising  from  the  bed  of 
the  river,  are  finished,  and  the  buttressei  on 
the  banks  carried  up  almost  to  the  intended 
elevation.  Two  massy  iron  chains,  fixed 
upon  the  heads  of  tlie  piers,  and  attached 
te  the  buttresses,  £9rm  the  supporting 
thains.  From  these  the  platform  will  be 
fonpended  after  the  manner  of  the  Chain 
fhu  at  Brighton.  A  temporary  bridge  of 
wood  b  xww  fiutened  to.  the  ohains.  A 
peaiage  over  the  river  ia  made  for  the  work- 

Cawi  otbem  by  thb  ts^eetosy.  which» 
thb  extnordiaiury  if|pe«c*nce»  seldom 
^«epA  0ltbaat§arpn»  end  antonbhmeftt, 
^O0  adrmaugei  to  he  derived  from   thb 


Bridge  in  the  saving  of  dbtadM^  WiH  he  ■ 
direct  passage  from  HamaMrsmilb  toBamei « 
East  Sheen,  antf  other  parte  of  Surrey, 
without  gohig  ever  eillier  FVdlMtt  ot  Kew 
Bridges. 

THEATRICAL  REGISTER. 

COVENT  GaROIN. 

Jan.  9.  The  new  opera  of  the  WkUe 
Meid^  which  appeared  to  be  a  compound  of 
^e  novels  of  Guy  Mannerly  and  the  Mo* 
naetery,  was  well  received.  The  scenery  waa 
beautihil,  and  the  music  excellent.  It  waa. 
announc^  for  repetition  without  a  dbsen- 
tbat  voice« 

Jan,  9.  A  new  five-act  cooMdy  was  pro» 
dueed,  entlted  A  School  for  Groum  Children^ 
It  ia  the  acknowledged  production  of  Mr. 
Morton.  The  plot  chiefiy  rests  on  the  ef- 
forts of  aa  old  Nabob  to  recbim  an  extra- 
vagant son ;  and  the  plan  he  pussues  is  te 
exhibit  in  his  own  person  similar  vices  and 
exoesses,  in  order  to  disgust  the  young  man^ 
and  induce  him  to  abandon  hb  ruinous  courae 
of  life.  There  are  other  suboedioate  plota 
which  gave  an  interest  to  the  piece ;  aoid  on 
the  whole  it  met  with  a  tolerable  reo^»tion. 

Drury  Lams. 
.  Jen.  98.  A  new  piece  in  ene  aoi,  being 
a  tvansUtion  or  rather  adaptation  from  the 
Fwnch,  entited  ify  Beai  Fnend,  was  brought 
fcrwatd^^  It  waa  rej^te  wiUi  Koowu^  ani 
received  mucl^  tj^^^lkAiAe* 


i««7J  C   ^    ] 

PROMOTIONS    AND    PREFERMENTS. 

Gazbttv  Promotioni .  IftT,  9A  W.  I.  Reg.  to  be  M^or. — Brevet : 

irhiiehdl,  D#c.  96.    Major-geo.  Sir  A.  Maj<»'  He».  D«7«r,  to  be  Ue«(.-ool.  in  th* 

Campbell,  to  be  G.  C.  B.  Armj.    To  be  LicuU-oolooeU  m  the  CooCi- 

Mejor-gen    Thoi.   Reynell,   Major-cen.  »«>*  of  Europe  onlv :  Edw.  Gregory,  etq. 

Jasper  Nicolls,  Major-gen.  Sir  Sam.  Ford  ^*^^  foot ;  Chaa.  James  Barrow,  esq.  4Sd 

Wbittingbam,  knt.  to  be  K.  C  B.  ^^^ '»  Anth.  Stransham,  esq.  Royal  Marines ; 

Tbe  vndermentioned  Officers  to  be  K.  B.  J«*-  Ormsby,  9*q,  68d  Foot ;    Hon.  John 

— Cul.  Jubn  M'Combe,  14tb  Foot;   CoL  Browne,  isth  Light  Drag,  j  Wm.  Veroery 

WUIoMchby  Cotton,  47th  F«M>t ;  Lieut.-col.  «q-  12th  Foot;  John  Carriagton  fimitby 

Geo.  M'Giegor,  5<)th  Foot ;  Lieut.-col.  R.  «q-  !»»*»  ^^^ «  Tho«-  Supiien  Sorell,  ee^ 

George  Eir'iogton,  47th  Foot;  Lieut.-coL  Bradshaw's  Recruiting  Corps ;  D«ueMiMa»« 

John  W.  Mdlett,   86th  Foot;  I-ieut.-col.  phersoo,  esq.  7fth  Foot;  John  Rob.  Ud* 

Wm.  Saelt,  41st  Foot;  Lieut.-col.  Michael  ner,  esq.  Ist  Fo<it  Guards.    To  be  Lieut.- 

CbiUkrs,    nth    Drag.;   Lieut.-col.    John  colonel  in  the  East  Indiee  only ;  LieoC-ooL 

Wm.  01>onaghue,  47th  Foot ;  Lieut-col.  •'m-  Skmacr.    To  be  Majors  «n  th*  CnMi- 

Henry  Godwin,  4 1  st  Foot ;  Lieut.-col.  Hon.  nen*  ^  Europe  only :  Wm.  D.  Spooner,  eeq. 

John  Tinch,  half-pay  Unatuched ;  Lieut.-  «<*  Dragoons?  W«.  TbonMon,  esq.  Rojral 

col.  Robt.  H.  Sale,  IMh  Foot;  Capt.  Henry  Marines ;  Abr.  James,  esq.  67th  Footf  Jobn 

Ducie  Chads,  R.N. ;  Capt.  Fred.  Marryatt,  Gordon,  esq.  fid  Foot;  Thos,  Shaw,  esq. 

R.N. ;  Lieut.-col.  Wm.  Frith,  S8th  Foot ;  «**»  Garrwm  Batulion  ;  Wm.  W.  Swaine, 

L;ent.-col.FrancisFuller,69thFoot;  Lieut.-  e«q.«6th  Foot;  Francis  B.  Elliot,  esq. 64th 

eoL  Matthias  Everard,  14th  Foot ;  Ueut.-  Foot.— Unattached.     To  be  Lient^-cola.  of 

rd.  Cecn  Bidiopp,  1 4th  Foot ;  Major  Jas.  ^^- «  Major  Wm.  ChamberUyae.  fid  S>ng. 

L.  Baadtn,   89th   Foot ;   Major  Peter  L.  ©••'d*  ?  i-wut.  and  Capt.  H«iry  Salvey, 

Chambers,  41st  Foot ;  Major  Geo.  Thorn-  ^W«t.  Foot  Guards  j  Mejor  John  £«1  tf 

hUl,  18th  Foot;  Major  Wm.  H.  Dennie,  Wiluhire,  8th  Light  Drag.    To  bt  Muoif 

1  Stb  Ft ;  Commander  Geo.  F.  Ryres,  R.N,  rf  I«rf. :  Capt.  ttoth  Ludlow  Bevnish,  Hm 

The  undermentioned  Officers  in  the  E.I.C.  t^»  4th  Dragoon  Guards;  Ctft.  Aonist 

to  be  K.B.— Lieut.-col.  Stevenson ;  Lieut.-  Sirocoe  Henry  Mountain,  76th  Foo^i  Gipfe. 

ttA.  Wm.  Ridiards  s  Lieut.-col.  James  Bro-  0«>. Seymour  Crole,  41st  Foot;  CapL  Hi^ 

Ae;  Uent-col.  Thoa.  Whitehead ;  Lieut.-  Henry  Rose,   19th  Foot.     Bre««t  M4«r 

eol.  Ale«.  Fair ;  Lt.-col.  Clemento  Browne  j  Hardreas  Robt.  Sauodersoo,  Gren.  Gauda« 

Lleot.-coL    Edw.    W.  Snow;    Licut.-col.  tobe  Major  of  Uf.  on  hatf-nay. 
ChrUt.  S.  Fagan  ;  Lieut.-coI.  Alfred  Rich-        •^'w*-  «3.    Royal  Reg.  of  Horse  Gwids ; 

•Ids ;  Lieut.-eol.  Steph.  Nation ;  Ueut.-col.  ^  Duke  of  Coa|befkna  to  be  Cnkvel,  vicf 

Broo%  B.  Parlby  ;  Lieot.-col.  Chas.  Hop-  the  Duke  of  WeUington ;  IfithRflg.of  UgU 

kinson ;  LieuL-col.  Jolin  Delamain ;  Ueot.-  J>»f  •  W«jo'-g*n-  Sir  Rich.  Uussay  Yiilan, 

eoL  Tho.  WUson ;  Lieut.-col.  Geo.  PoUock ;  K.  C.  B.  to  be  Colonel,  friee  Sir  Colqnhow 

U«it.-eoL  Henry  S.  Pepper;   lJeut.-col.  ?»»<»   16th  DKto   (or  Kings  Huseiin). 

Wm,  C  Baddeley :  Ueut.-col.  Jas.  Wahab ,  Major-gen.  Sir  Colouhoun  Grant,  K.C. ». 

Ueut-col.  Jas.  Sk'mner;   Major  Cornelius  ^  beColonel,  wcr  theDnkcof  CumbwiMjl 

Bowynr  ;  Major  Richard  L.  Evans  j  Major         •^«'»-  «4-    '^.D!^!  ^^  w*^'**^  ^  ** 

Wm.  L.  Wauon  j  Major  Geo.  Hunter.  Commander-in-Chief  of  his  M^sty  a  Forpei, 

fnr'OJice^Jan, I . EarlHarcourt. GC.B.  •J^  ^';  of  the  1st  Gmn.  Gnacda,  vitf  ^ 

to  be  Go\-emor  of  Plymouth,  vice  the  Duke  Duke  of  York.  ,   ,^    „ 

of  WeUmgton,  K.G.  appointed  Consuble  of        ^^^  B.  M.  Festing,  of  the  Bram,  J© 

the  Tower.     Gen.  Sir  W.  Keppel,  G.C.B.  }«  Commander;   Lord  Wm.  Pa«»,  of  tht 

to  be  Governor  of  Portsmouth,  vice  Earl  Philomel,  to  be  Capi. ;   and  Lmm^  Vbe 

Haicourt.  Ingestre,  Co  be  Commander. 

foreign- Office f  Jan.  9.    Mr.  Santos  Mi-  ■■  -  -        .     ^    ,. 

chelenn,  to  &  Consul.-gen.  in  Great  Britain       Mtmben  relumed  f  terve  tn  ParbmmmL 

tor  Mexico.  Mr.  Thos.  Wilson,  to  be  Con-  Bandon  Bridge. — Lord  John  Rnssell,  mee 
ml  $1  Dublin  for  the  United  States  of  Ama-  Lord  Doneannon,  who  has  made  hb  elee- 
'rioa.  tion  for  Kilkenny. 

JtOL.  16.     Geo.  Cooke,  of  Bristol,  gent.  Cork. — J.   H.  Hutchinson,  esq.  viee  the 
to  be  a  Master  Extraord.  in  Chancery.  Hon.  C.  H.  Hutchinson,  dee. 

fTar-Offiee,  Jan.  18.  8th  Reg.  Light.  Downtan — Alexander  Powell,  esq.  viee  Dr. 
Jhaf.  Capt.  Rich.  Rich  Wllford  Brett,  to  Southey,  who  had  been  chosen  wtthwH 
'^  MaSor.     96th  Foot,  Major  W.  Leader         the  qualifiestion  of  estate. 

Mabem,  7fid  Foot,  to  be  Lieut.-oo).  /  97th  Orfird. — Qittntra  DicV,  ••i^. 

ditto,  iaA  Thoamt  LjmA,  to  he  MmJot.-^  Stafird.—T.  W.  BtWAkOBt,  tM^.  vuft^>Au 
HmfrnfAmeaM  CoL  Corpt,  VapL  Ahx.  find-         /roomoii^y  d»e. 


es 


Birthi.'^Marflages. 


[Jan 


EoCLSftUtTICAL  PrEFIUMEICTS. 

Rev.  A.  Russell,  Archd.  of  Clogher. 
Rev.  G.Vernon,  Preb.  of  Kilgognlin,  Ireland. 
Rev.  W.  Airey,  Hexham  P.  C.  Northumb. 
Rev.  J.  Coyte,  Faraham  P.C.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  T.  Cupplet,  Balyraahane  V.  Ireland. 
Rtv.  R.  Firmin,  Fiogringhoe  V.  Essex. 


Rev.  N.  W.  Hallwaid,  MUden  R.  Suffolk. 

Rev. Hnme,  Birr  V.  Ireland. 

Rev.  W.  Mill,  BallyweUan  V.  Ireland. 
Rev.  J.  Morewood,  Dunlace  R.  Ireland. 
Rev.  C.  Musgrave,  Halifax  V.  co.  York. 
Rev.  C.  Tetlierstun,  Nenagh  R.  Ireland. 
Rev.  C.  H.  WUliams>  Qoverly  R,  co.  Devon. 


BIRTHS. 


Dec,  95.  At  tbe  Military  Asylum,  South- 

nnpton,  the  wife  of  Lieut.-col.  £vatty  a  son. 

89w  In  Hereford-street,   the  wife  of 

Thoa.  Barrett  Lennard,  esq.  M.P.  a  son  and 

heif^        ao.  In  Calthorpe-streety  London, 

the  wife  of  Thos.  Chitty,  esq.  a  son. S 1 . 

In  Devonshlra-place,  the  wifs  of  R.  W. 
Hall  Dare,  esq.  a  dau. 

Jan.  1.  At  Erbistock  Hall,  co.  Flint,  the 

wife  of  Lieul.-col.  Fred.  Philips,  a  dau. 

t.  At  Critchill,  Dorset,  Lady  Charlotte 
Sliurt,  a  son.        8.  In  Dorset-st.  Salisbury- 


sq.  the  wife  of  Rich.  Bentley,  esq.  a  son.  ■ 
5.  At  Wortiog,  Hanu,  the  wife  of  the  Rev. 

F.C.  Blackstone,  a  son. 7,  The  wife  of 

Edw.  Wakefield,  esq.  of  Southeotc  Hoosoy 
near  Reading,  a  dau.^— 9.  The  Lady  of  tho 
Hon.  Geo.  Agar  Ellis,  M  JP.  Spring-gardena^ 

a  dau^-i 1 2.  In  Gloucester-place,  the  wife 

of  John  Vincent  Thompson,  esq.  a  dan. 
At  the  General  Post-office,  the  wife  of  G.  H. 
Freeling,  esq.  a  son.         18.  At  Knowltoa 
Court,  the  wife  of  Capt.  Hughes  D'Aeth, 
R.N.  a  son. 


MARRIAGES. 


Dec.  12.  At  Norton,  Staffordshire,  Wil- 
IWm  Woodward,  esq.  of  Pershore,  Worces- 
tershire, to  Mary- Anne,  fourth  dau.  of  John 

Hawkes,  esq.  of  Norton  Hall. 98.  W.  U. 

Webley  P^rry,  esq.  only  son  of  Capt.  Web- 
ley  Parry,  R.N.  CJB.  and  G.C^.  of  Noyadd, 
Tiefewr,  Cardigan,  to  Catherine  Anghared, 
joungest  dau.  of  I>avid  Daviea,  esq.  M.D.  of 
Pentre,  Pembroke.^-— ^0.  At  Worcester, 
John  Wing,  esq.  of  Wisbeach,  to  Sarah, 
third  dau.  of  the  late  John  Henry  Maw,  esq. 
of  Belle  Vue,  near  Doncaster. 
:  Latehf,  At  Shoreditch  Church,  the  Rev. 
D.  Williams,  to  Martha- Blyth,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  Rev.  T.  A.  Dale,  of  Lewes,  Sussex. 
Jan.  1.  At  Richmond,  Surrey,  Robert 
Walter  Carden,  esq.  to  PameU  Eliz.  Edith, 
•toeod  dau.  of  W.  S.  Andrews,  esq.  of  Rich- 
«ondd  At  St.  Mary's,  Lambeth,  John 
Merrifield,  esq.  Middle  Temple,  to  Mary- 
Philadelphia,  dau.  of  the  late  Chas.  Wat- 
Jrins,  esq.'  barrister-at-law.— »— The  Rev. 
'Fhmcis  Demainbray,  to  Maiy,  only  dau.  of 
the  late  Francis  Fmdon,  esq.  of  Shipston-on- 
fStour,  Worcestershire.— At  Bruton,  So- 
merset, the  Rev.  John  C.  J.  Hoskyns  Abra- 
liall.  Head  Master  of  Bruton  Free  Gram- 
mar-school, to  Jane,  third  dau.  of  Edward 

Dyne,  esq.  solicitor,  Bruton. S.  At  Pe- 

tofsham,  the  Rev.  W.  R.  Bewsher,  of  Rtch- 
•mond,  to  Margaret,  second  dau.  of  the  late 
JS.  Hawthorn,  esq.— — ^tHawleigh  Church, 
CO.  Suffolk,  Joshua  Grigby,  esq.  of  Drink- 
;^ne  Hall,  to  Mi«s  Anna  Crawford,  second 
dan.  of  Wm.  Crawford,  esq.  of  Hawleigh 
Ark. At  St.  Paul's,  Deptford,  Henry 

.^bank,  esq.  of  Forest-hill,  to  Lydia,  dau. 
of  Jonathan  Lucas,  esq.  of  Hatchsm-grove, 
Sorvey. At  St.  Andrew's,  Holbom,  Wal- 

.t^  Walmmaa,  tag.  of  PorshaU  Hall,  co. 

^€imaar,  to  &'tfJk^PbibMphm,  eldoit 
ofJmmeM  J^mote,  ma.  of  Badford'taw.  , 
At  Honum  Cbarob,  tU  Rar.  Edw. 


Osbom,  to  Mary,  second  dan.  of  the  latt 

Henry  Bolland,  esq. At  St.  Marylebono 

Church,  the  Rev.  Geo.  M.  Musffrave,  to 
Charlotte-Emilv,  youngest  dau.  of  Thomas 
Oakes,  esq.  of  Upper  l^yroour-street.  Port- 
man-square.— At  Kirby  Cane,  Norfolk, 
Henry  Amsinck,  esq.  R.  N.  to  Charlotte 
£lis.  only  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Geo.  Wilson,  of 
Kirby  Hall.— ^-6.  At  St.  George's,  Hanover- 
square,  Major  Arthur-Hill  Trevor,  to  Helen- 
Wyse,  dau.  of  the  late  Joseph  Jekyll,  esq. 
of  SiMttisbury  House,  co.  borset.^-— At 
St.  George's,  Bloomsbury,  Jackson-King 
Hunt,  esq.  of  Montague-street,  to  Sophia, 
eldest  dau.  of  Jukes  Coulson,  esq.  of  Mon- 
taffue-place,  Russell-square.— — 7«  At  St. 
Marv's,  Lambeth,  George  Machio,  esq.  of 
Leadenhall-street,  to  Miss  M.  A.  Temple, 

of  South  Lambeth. 8.  At  the  Britbh 

Ambassador's  Chaoel,  at  Paris,  Jas.  Dawea, 
esq.  Equerry  of  the  Duke  of  Bourbon,  to 
Mary-Harconrt,  eldest  dau.  of  Rear- Admiral 
Manbv.— — At  Brislington,  co.  Somerset, 
the  Rev.  Chas.  Rankin,  to  Isabella,  dau.  of 
Edw.  Long  Fox,  M.D.  of  Brislington  House. 
9.  AtHallfex,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Jaquea, 
of  Cawthome,  to  Ellen,  second  dau.  of  Mr. 
Carter,  of  Yew  Cottage,  near  Halifex.— « 
15.  At  BIctsoe,  Bedford,  the  Rev.  John 
Balfour  Mageois,  Vioar  of  Shambrook  and 
Harold,  son  of  Rich.  Jleyijs,  esq.  M.  P. 
and  nephew  to  the  Ean  ju  Ennukillen,  to 
Frances-MargaretU-Ede,  of  Merry  Oak, 
bonthampton,  second  dau.  of  the  Hon.  Mr. 
Justice  Moore,  of  Lamberton  Park,  Ireland. 
—-17.  At  Alvestou Church,  Warwickshire, 
Capt.  Geo.  Baker,  R.  N.  second  son  of  Sir 
Robert  Baker,  of  Berners-street,  to  Elis. 
.Octayia,  fourth  dau.  of  the  late  Wm.  Hard- 
ing, esq.  of  Baraset  House.— —18.  AtMfuj 
4i  Crypt,  Olonomttr,  Edwin  Maddy,  cm. 
tiinrbtcr-«t-UEW,  to- Mara  E)iix.%\to(^  «W* 


WAIdcfPMaiWood»l&.Y. 


69 


MBMOIR  OF  Hit  ROYAL  HIGHNESS  PRINCE  FREDERICK, 
DUKE  OF  YORK  and  ALBANY,  K.  G.  ftc.  ftc.  ftc. 


On  Friday,  Janoary  5,  at  20  minatet 
yait  9  p*  m.  at  the  hootc  of  his  Grace 
the  Duke  of  Rutland,  in  Arlington* 
street,  died,  in  his  64tb  year,  his  Ma* 
I  jeac^a  neat  brother,  hit  Royal  Hif  hneM 
Prince  Frederick,  Duke  of  York  and 
AllMUiy  in  Great  Britain,  and  Earl  of 
Ulster  in  Ireland,  Bithop  of  Osnaburf , 
Kniftht  of  the  Garter,  First  and  Princi- 

Ed  Knight  Grand  Cross  of  the  Bath, 
nt.  Grand  Croas  of  the  Guelphic  Order, 
Knigbt  of  St.  Esprit,  a  Field-Marshal, 
Commander  in  Chief  of  all  the  Kiiif's 
land  forces  in  the  United  Kingdom,  Co- 
lonel of  the  1st  regiment  of  foot  guards. 
Colonel  in  chief  ol  the  60th  or  Royal 
American  regiment  of  foot,  and  of  the 
Royal  Dublin  regiment  of  infantry.  Lord 
Warden  of  Windsor  Furcat  and  Great 
Park,  High  Steward  of  New  Windsor, 
Warden  and  Keeper  of  the  New  Forest, 
D.  C.  L.  and  F.  R.  S. 

Hia  Royal  Highness  was  bom  Aog.  16, 
17^,  the  second  son  and  child  of  their 
late  Migesties  King  George  the  Third 
and  5]ueen  Charlotte.  On  the  S7th  of 
the  following  February  be  was  elected 
Bishop  of  Oanaburg,  a  nominal  prelacy, 
to  which  the  Elector  of  Hanover  has  the 
powrer  of  inlhiencing  the  election  altei^ 
nately  with  another  European  poweft 
K  medal,  commemoratire  of  the  prefer- 
msnt,  which  was  issued  in  gold  and  silver 
on  his  first  birth-day,  is  described  in  vol* 
nuT.  p*  393.  Prince  Frederick  was 
Invested  with  the  ensigns  of  the  Bath, 
Owe  8Q,  I7€7,  and  installed  at  Henry 
Mhm  Seeeath's  Chapel  Jone  15,  1778  i 
he  way  elected  a  Companion  of  the  Most 
Mc»ble  order  of  the  Gancr  June  19, 
1771,  and  on  the  S5th  of  the  neat 
month  was  installed  at  Windsor,  in 
company  with  his  two  brothers,  the 
Prinee  of  Wales  and  Prince  Ernest  Au- 
gnscus  (now  Doke  of  Cumberland)^ 
The  education  of  his  Royal  Highness, 


onder  the  paternal  eye  of  George  the 
Third,  was  strictly  attended  to ;  and  the 
pictures  which  are  left  us  of  the  domee* 
tie  life  pursued  under  his  Majesty's 
sanction,  are  such  as  to  convince  us  of 
his  paramount  regard  for  the  blessings 
of  a  tranquil  life. 

From  his  eariiest  age  his  Royal  High- 
ness was  destined  to  the  military  pro* 
fession,  the  study  of  whieh  formed  an 
essential  part  of  bis  education.  In  pur- 
suance of  this  object,  and  the  acquire- 
ment of  the  French  and  German  Ian* 
guages,  he  was  sent  to  the  Continent  at 
the  end  of  1781,  and  continued  abroad 
till  1787,  his  established  residenee  dur- 
ing that  period  being  Hanover,  from 
whence  he  made  excursions  to  various 
parts  of  Germany,  visiting  Vienna,  Ber* 
lin,  and  other  capitals,  and  also  attend- 
ing the  reriews  of  the  immortal  Frede- 
rick, and  acquiring  a  knowledge  of  the 
theory  and  practice  of  Prussian  tactics^ 
then  considered  the  model  for  every 
military  commander.  (Several  refer- 
ences to  accounts  of  his  reception  at  the 
various  places  he  visited  will  be  found 
in  our  General  Index,  vol.  1.  p.  335,  r* 
Osnaburg.)  His  Royal  Higbneu's  first 
commission  in  the  Army  was  that  of 
Colonel,  which  was  dated  Nov.  1,  1780 1 
he  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the 
Sd  regiment  of  Horse  Grenadier  Guards 
March  S3,  1789;  Mitfor-general  SOth 
of  November  following;  and  Colonel  of 
the  Coldstream  Guards,  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant-general,  Oct.  97,  1784. 

On  the  87th  of  the  following  month. 
Prince  Frederick,  who  had  hitherto  been 
generally  known  by  the  title  of  the 
Bishop  of  Osnaburg,  was  created  Duke 
of  York  and  Albany  in  Great  BritaiUp 
and  Earl  of  Ulster  in  Ireland.  TbeM 
titles  had  then  been  extinct  for  seren- 
teen  years,  from  the  period  of  the  death 
of  his  uncle  Edward  in  1767.* 


*  Ic  is  a  singular  coincidence  in  the  history  of  the  two  last  Dukes  of  York,  that 
each  of  them  should  have  died  in  the  sevenik  year  after  the  accession  of  his  brother 
to  the  Crown.    The  resemblance  which  may  be  traced  in  the  personal  charaetsr 
and  disposition  of  these  two  Dukes  of  York  claims  likewise  some  attention.    The 
followiog  description  of  the  former  Duke,  from  the  Annual  Register  for  1767,  ap- 
plies eaaetly  to  the  personage  whose  death  the  country  is  now  deploring  i— <'  It  is 
needless  to  delineate  bis  character,  for  it  is  engraved  in  the  heart  of  eveiy  Englisb- 
Bsan.    His  affability,  good  nature,  humanity,  and  generosity,  endeared  him  to  all 
ranks  of  people.  He  was  fond  of  company  and  pleasures,  which  induced  him  to  visit 
■lost  plaees  of  public  resort ;  and  contributed  to  make  him  very  g^netaVV)  kxuvutk^ 
and  aiicb  beloved.    He  was  jNirticuJsriy  Jrind  and  tender  to  hit  domaaUea,  ^\io^ 
jreicardcd  him  mkh  tb€  mo§t  nud  Mffeetioa,  and  lament  hit  lost  with  iba  motx.  uns*^ 
Uigmudtonowr    TbU  Roy^l  penon  wmm  the  godfather  of  the  late  l>uke  nl  \oiJk*\ 
^SSSS!!ZZS'  ^rff^^^n^  ^^  «raf  not  present  at  the  hftpttom,  hut  x3hci¥4^A  fA\ 
^'^f^f^^^^^^^-^  foUiog  AUte  of  hia  fimtSril  i^Utdemiiik  wJhA-' 


70 


Obituary. — H,  IL  B.  the  Duke  of  York. 


[Jan. 


In  the  bei^inninp  of  Augoit  1787  the 
Duke  uf  York  returned  to  England  (see 
an  account  of  the  coMe^acnt  rpjoUingt 
ill  vul.  Lvii.  734).  On  the  87Cb  of  Nov, 
foDovvin^  be  was  introduced  to  the  House 
#f  Lordi;  but  the  first  iniUnce  of  his  juiiw 
inn;  in  the  Debates,  was  on  <be  15(h  of 
December  JTB 8,  when  the Settl«neut  of 
the  Regiency  vai  under  discusiiou.  On 
Yhis  oGcasiMl  (as*  we  have  good  reason 
to  hupe>  oo  the  more  recent  and  memo- 
rahle  one,]  be  acted  as  the  organ  of  bis 
elder  Brotherp  who,  having  engaged  bis 
aifeciions  in  early  youth,  (for  in  their 
dUildboud  they  were  remarkably  at- 
tached,) had  the  happiness  of  pre- 
strviug  that  friendship  unbroken  to 
the  last.  This  speecb,  which  was 
keard  with  the  greatest  attention,  and 
eacited  a  vast  degree  of  i  merest  at 
the  time,  may  be  seen  in  vol  u%.  p.  47» 
ns  in  the  same  volume,  p.  722,  will  be 
ionnd  the  feur  sentences  be  deliTered 
Jan.  31  following,  on  representing  the 
Prince  of  Wal«s*s  and  bis  own  desire  to 
have  their  names  omitted  in  the  Com* 
ButsSon  fur  holding  Parliaments,  —  an 
riample  immediately  followed  by  iba 
Dukes  of  Cumberland  and  Gloucester. 
•  In  May  of  the  same  year,  1789,  the 
name  of  his  Royal  Highness  was  brought 
prominently  before  the  public,  on  his 
hnving engaged  in js  duel  with  Lieut.-coL 
Lennox,  nephew  of  the  then  Duke  of 
Eichmondp  aCtsrvard  in  1806  the  sue* 
feasor  to  that  title,  and  the  father  of 
Us  present  Grace.  Tbis  dispute  oHgi- 
naied  in  an  obsenration  of  bit  Royal 
HighikCM,  ''  that  Lt.-col.  Lennox  had 
tiesrd  words  spoken  to  him  at  tbe  club 
mt  Daubigny's,  to  which  no  gentleman 
ought  to  have  submitted."  This  obser- 
vation being  reported  to  the  Lt.  col.,  be 
took  the  opportunity,  while  his  Royal 
Highness  was  on  the  Parade,  tu  address 
kiin,  "desiring  to  know,  what  were  the 
vords  wbieb  he  bad  submitted  to  hear, 
■sid  by  whom  they  were  spoken  ?"  To 
tibis  hit  Royal  Highness  gave  no  other 
answer  than  by  mdering  the  Lt.-col.  to 
his  post.  The  parade  being  over,  his 
Royal  Highness  went  into  the  orderly- 
room,  and  sending  for  tbe  Lt.-col.,  inti- 
snated  to  him,  in  the  prcdence  of  all  tbe 
c^ffleers,  that  he  desired  to  receive  no 
)>roteecion  from  his  rank  as  a  Prince, 
rnd  his  station  as  Commanding  Officer, 
hut  that,  when  not  on  duty,  he  wore  a 
brown  coat,  and  was  ready  as  a  private 
gentleman  to  give  the  Lt.-col.  satisfac- 
tion. After  this  declaration,  Lt.-eol. 
Lennox  wrote  a  circular  to  every  mem- 
ber of  the  dub  at  Daubigny*s,  request- 
ing to  know  whether  any  such  words 
b»d  been  ntcd  to  himi  and  appointing  a 


day  for  au  answer  from  each ;  their 
silence  to  be  considered  as  a  declaration 
that  HO  such  words  oould  be  recollected. 
On  the  expiration  of  tbe  term  limited 
for  an  answer  to  tbe  circular  letter,  tbe 
Lt«-col,  sent  a  written  message  to  bis 
Royal  Highness,  to  this  purport :  "  That, 
not  being  able  to  recolkct  any  occasion 
on  which  words  bad  been  spoken  to 
him,  at  Daubigny's,  to  which  a  gentle* 
man  ought  not  to  submit,  be  b^i  taken 
the  step  wbicb  appeared  to  him  most 
Ukely  to  gain  information  of  the  word* 
to  which  bis  Royal  Higbness  bad  aU 
luded,  and  of  tbe  persous  who  bsd  used 
them  ;  that  none  of  tbe  members  of  tbn 
Club  had  given  him  information  of  any- 
such  insult  being  in  their  knowledge,- 
and  therefore  be  expected,  in  justice  to: 
bis  character,  that  his  Ro>al  Highness 
sbould  contradict  the  report,  as  publicly 
as  be  bad  asserted  it."  This  letter  waf 
delivered  to  bis  Riiyal  Highness  by  tho 
Earl  of  VVinchelsea,  when  tbe  answer 
returned  not  proving  satisfactory,  a 
message  was  sent  to  bis  Royal  Highness, 
desiring  a  meeting  i  time  and  plaoa 
were  settled  that  evening.  Tbe  meet- 
ing aeoordingly  took  place  (  and  the 
seconds  published  tbe  following  statt* 
ment :  <*  In  consequence  of  a  dispute, 
of  which  much  has  been  said  in  tbe  pub«* 
lie  papers,  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duka 
of  York,  attended  by  Lord  Rawdon,  and 
Lt.rcol.  Lennox,  accompanied  by  tba 
Earl  of  Winchelsea,  met  at  Wimbledon 
Common.  The  ground  was  measured  at 
twelve  paces,  and  both  parties  were  to 
Are  at  a  signal  agreed  upon.  Tbe  signal 
being  given,  Lt.-ool.  Lennox  fired«  and 
the  ball  grazed  his  Royal  Higbness's 
curl.  The  Duke  of  York  did  not  fiiw. 
Li>rd  Rawdon  then  interfered,  and  said, 
*  That  be  thought  enough  bsd  b«fcft 
done.'  Lt.rcol.  Lennox  observed  *  That 
his  Royal  Highness  had  not  fired.'  Lord 
Rawdon  ssid  '  it  was  not  the  Duke's  in«> 
tention  to  fire :  his  Royal  Highness  bad 
oome  out  upon  Lt.-col.  Lennox's  desire 
to  give  him  satisfaction,  and  had  na 
animosity  against  him.'  Lt.-eol. Lennox 
pressed  that  tbe  Duke  of  York  sbould 
fire,  which  was  declined,  upon  a  repeti- 
tion of  tbe  reason.  Lord  Winchelsea 
than  went  op  to  tbe  Duke  of  York,  and 
expressed  bis  hope  *Tbat  bis  Royal  High- 
ness could  have  no  objection  to  say, 
that  he  considered  Lt.-col.  Lennox  as  a 
man  of  honour  and  courage.'  His  Royal 
Highness  replied,  *  That  he  should  say 
notbing;  he  had  come  out  to  give  Lt.- 
col.  Lennox  satisfaction,  and  did  not 
mean  to  lire  at  him ;  if  Lt.-col.  Lennox 
was  not  satisfied,  be  might  fire  again/ 
Ltrcoi.  Lennox  said  he  conid  not  pos- 


M870 


OniTVMMr^H.  IL  U.  Ihs  IMte  of  York. 


71 


tMy  fif«  ngtin  at  tbt  Dvisff,  as  hit  Rojal 
Higlinew  did  not  mean  to  fire  at  bioi/*-* 
Oil  tbii,  both  partiat  left  tbe  ground* 
Tbe  lecoiida  tbitib  it  proper  to  add,  tbat 
boCb  p»rtici  bebaved  with  the  mott  perw 
feet  cuoloest  and  intreiiidity.     (Si^rd) 

**  RaWDON.      WlNCHELSBA. 

•<  Tuesday  cveninf,  May  i6,  1789." 

A  tneetinf^  of  tbe  officen  of  the  Cold>« 
atream  Ragiment  took  place  un  the  S9tb 
of  MajTf  on  tbe  requisition  of  Lt.-col« 
Lctinozy  to  deliberata  on  a  queitiun 
ivbicb  be  bad  Mihnitted,  *  Whether  he 
bad  brbaved  in  tbe  late  ditpute  at  be* 
caae  a  gentleisau  and  an  ofiicer?'  and 
after  a  coiMiderable  ditcuetion,  adjourned 
l«  tbe  dOtb,  caoMS  to  the  following  reso- 
lution :— •  '  If  is  the  opinion  of  th«  Offi* 
cvrt  of  the  Coldstream  Regiment*  tbat 
subsequent  to  the  16tb  of  May,  tbe  day 
•f  tbe  neeting  at  the  Orderly-room,  Lt.- 
col.  Lennox  has  bebared  with  courage; 
but,  fram  the  peculiar  difficulty  of  bia 
aitaatioo,  not  with  judgment." 

It  bas  been  considered  strange  tbat 
Ijt.-col.  Lennox's  second  in  this  duel  waa 
one  of  tbe  Lerda  of  tbe  Bedchamber  to 
tbeKnig)  and  his  mother.  Lady  Win- 
cbelsfla,  was  employed  in  rearing  tha 
Duke  tif  York.  Tbe  I>uke  of  Rich. 
Mond  died  in  I8ld»  but  it  is  remarkable 
tbat  tba  other  three  personages  engaged 
ki  this  aflhir  bava  all  died  within  s'ni 
■N>nths,*-the  £arl  af  WincbeUea  the  3d 
of  test  Aagust  (see  our  Sept.  Mag.  p- 
9T0),  LonI  Rawdoa  (tbe  Marquess  of 
Hastingi)  Nor.  38,  and  Iba  IKika  of 
York  Jail.  5. 

Awld  tbe  politieal  agitaCiona  of  tba 
year  I79I9  tbe  marriage  of  bis  Royal 
Highness  to  the  Princess  Royal  of  Prussia 
tarred  to  cement  more  closely  tba  rela*> 
thms  which  the  Courts  of  St.  James'a 
tad  Berlin-  had  fbond  it  their  interesu 
to  contract,  wilb  tbe  view  of  counter* 
poising  tbe  inordinate  ambition  and 
Bigbty  projects  of  tbe  restless  Emprssa 
•I  Russia.  The  treaty  touching  this  ai- 
riawce  was  signed  at  Berlin  on  tbe  96tb 
•f  January »  and  its  leading  articles  arw 
recorded  Hi  Tol.LXii.  p.  179* 

On  tbe  Sdtfa  of  September  tbe  King 
af  Great  Britain  declared  in  Council  bis 
consent  to  the  contract }  and  it  was  on 
tbe  following  day  tbat  tbe  Duke  of  York 
was  married,  at  Berlin,  to  Frederici^ 
Cbxriotta-Ulrica-Catbarine,  onhr  child 
of  King  FredeHck'William,  by  bia  first 
eonsort  EHxabetb  *  Ulrica  -  Christiana, 
Princess  of  Brunswick  -  Wolfcnbuttel  $ 
jmd  batl-sister  of  tbe  present  King  of 
Fnisfia.  Their  Royal  Highnesset  left 
Berirn  Oct.  S7»  xnd  baring  spent  aome 
i»«ekf  in  Geiinnny,  wef«,  on  their  ar» 
flml  hi  Knglandy    re-iMfTied  at  tb» 


Qtseea's  Hoom  Not.3&  This  caramaii 
uials  of  both  marriages  are  preserved  liy 
Tol.  Lxr.  p.  1057.  ^  tbe  Duchess  hia 
Royal  Highness  bad  no  issiie.  Her  do« 
mes«ic  and  charitable  Tirtues  are  well 
known,  and  a  short  memoir  of  ber^ 
written  on  her  death  in  1820,  is  printed 
in  vol.sc.  ii.  181. 

On  the  occasion  of  bis  marriage,  tb# 
Duke  bad  voted  him  by  Parliament  tbw 
sum  of  18,000/.  per  annum^  and  tbtf 
King  settled  on  bim  7000/.  from  bia 
Irish  revenue,  which,  in  additiun  to  the 
1 3,000/. /rer  ann.  he  before  enjoyed,  con* 
stituted  a  yearly  Income  of  35,000/.  Tba 
sum  of  8,0(K)/./>er  tutn.  was  at  the  sama' 
time  voted  to  tbe  Duehess,  in  case  sb» 
should  survrve.  There  was,  boweveri 
some  opposition  to  these  grants.  8e» 
veral  Members  dermed  tbe  sevenae  pro* 
posed  hy  the  Minister  too  large,  as  ther 
Duke  received  a  very  considerable  one 
tn»m  tbe  Bishopric  of  Osimbirrg,  stated 
by  some  at  no  less  than  85,000/.  a  yean 
But  this  appearing  an  object  unfit  for 
parliamentary  diseuwion,  tbe  votes  pro^ 
posed  by  the  Ministiy  passed  in  bia 
favour. 

Ih  179a  tbe  Doke  waa  called  into 
active  military  service.  A  British  armjr 
was  ordered  for  Flanders,  to  form  part 
of  the  graiMl  army  under  tbe  Prince  of 
Saxe  Cobourg.  The  Duke  was  appointed 
to  the  command  of  tbat  army,  aided  by 
Sir  Ralph  Ahercro«ibie,8ir  Wm.  Erskhie, 
and  other  officers  of  distinction.  It  ie^ 
generally  allowed  that  tbe  ptan  of  the 
campaign  was  bad^  and  tba  failure  ean^ 
not  therefore  be  placed  to  tbe  condoet^ 
of  bis  Royal  Highness.  Tbe  royal  assent 
for  tbe  embarkation  of  tbe  brigade  of 
Foot-guards  was  obtained  Febniary  8^ 
and  it  landed  at  Helvoetsluys  March  4. 
Strong  reinforccDsenta  were  soon  after  or> 
dered,  with  Hanoverian  and  Hessian  con^ 
tingents.  Tbe  first  military  operaCioiif  ii» 
which  his  Royal  Highness  assisted,  00-^ 
curred  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Taumayy 
and  near  St.Amand  and  Vicogne,  in  tba* 
month  of  May,  in  tha  course  of  wbicli' 
be  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Generals 
In  the  subsequent  battle  of  Famars,  Off 
the  33d  May,  be  commanded  a  principal- 
oolamn  of  tbe  allied  army,  and  bore  a 
distinguished  share  in  tbe  success  of  that 
brilliant  day ;  the  result  of  which  wa0 
the  investment  and  siege  of  Valeiici^ 
ennes.  The  direction  of  this  operatkm 
was  entrusted  to  bii  Royal  Highness,  tcr 
whom  the  city  was  surrendered,  after  a 
considef  able  part  of  it  had  been  redueed 
to  ashes,  on  tbe  36th  of  July. 

Having  joined  the  main  army,  tlM 
Duke  af  York  co-«peratcd,  on  the  Ttb 
ami  Btb   Augtiit»  in   the   aMvemants* 


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OaxTUAftT.— H.  jR.  H.  ibs  Duk§  of  York. 


[Jan* 


afaioft  the  enem/f  poiitioQt  at  the 
Ciamp  de  Cesar,  Boit  de  Bourion,  Ate. 
upon  tbe  line  of  the  Scheldt »  frooi  all 
which  they  were  dispotteMed»  or  retired, 
altbuufh  without  material  losa,  owiii^ 
to  the  indecision  and  slow  nets  of  the 
allied  army,  against  which  his  Royal 
Hig;bness  had  in  rain  remonstrated  in 
frequent  eommmiications  to  Prince  Ho- 
benlohe,  their  Quarier-master-geiieral, 
who  bad  objected  to  an  earlier  and  more 
decided  movement  of  the  army  on  the 
8th,  by  which  tbe  enemy's  retreat  would 
have  been  intercepted. 

Tbe  Prince  of  Cobourf?,  after  these 
operations,  laid  iief^e  to  Quesnoy,  and 
aubsequently  invested  Maubcuge,  while 
the  Duke  of  York  continued  bis  march 
in  tbe  direction  of  Orcbies,  Tourcoinir, 
and  Meniu,  with  the  British,  Hano- 
verian, and  Hessian  troops,  to  which 
was  added  a  body  of  Austrians,  under 
the  orders  of  Lieut«-Geiieral  Alvintsy. 
The  object  of  this  separation  was  tbe 
aiege  of  Dunkirk,  which  bad  been  de- 
termined opou  by  the  British  Cabinet, 
«nd  which  was  viewed  with  regret,  not 
only  by  tbe  Austrian  Generals,  but  also 
by  bis  Rc^al  Hiirbiiess,  who  had  remon* 
atrated  against  it,  as  for  as  he  could  $  at 
the  same  time,  when  he  found  bis  repre- 
aentations  anavailing,  he  proceeded  with 
tbe  utmost  aeal  to  the  execution  of  a 
measure,  from  which  may  reasonably  be 
dated  the  subsequent  reverse  of  fortune 
on  the  French  frontier. 

After  a  succession  of  severe  and  san- 
guinary actions,  fought  by  tbe  besieging. 
and  covering  armies  with  success,  though 
without  any  positive  effect,  tbe  principal 
of  which  occurred  on  the  S4th  of  Au- 
gust (when  the  gallant  General  d*Alton 
fell),  and  on  the  6th  and  8th  of  Septem* 
ber,  the  Duke  of  York  found  himself 
under  the  necessity  of  raising  the  siege. 
His  Royal  Highness  had  contended  with 
perseverance  against  numerous  and  in- 
creasing difficulties,  arising  from  the, 
rapid  accumulation  of  the  enemy's 
means  of  resistance,  the  delay  on  the 
part  of  the  British  Government  in  for- 
warding tbe  necessary  ordnance  and 
stores,  and  the  neglect  in  providing  any 
means  of  naval  co-operation,  even  such 
as  might  secure  his  Royal  Highness's 
positions  from  molestation  by  the  ene- 
my's small  craft  on  the  -coast.  The  re- 
treat was  effected  in  good  order,  and 
without  any  other  loss  than  that  of  the 
heavy  Iron  ordnance,  which,  being  on 
ship  carriages,  could  not  he  removed; 
and  the  army  re-assembled  at  Furnet 
and  DUmude. 

Hia  Royal  Higbnasa's;  corps,  afttr 
tliis«  mu  tUtioMa  Ibr  aont  tint  on  tbf 


frontier  of  West  Flanders  (the  bead- 
quarters  being  at  Dixmude  and  Tho- 
raut),  occasionally  co-operating  with 
General  Beaulieu  in  impelling  the  ene- 
my's attacks  upon  Menin  and  other 
points.  Towards  tbe  middle  of  October 
his  Royal  Highness  m(»ved  with  6,000 
men,  chiefly  British,  to  tbe  support  of 
the  Prince  of  Cobourg,  then  before  Mau- 
beuge.  He  .made  a  rapid  march  to 
Englefontaine,  where  be  arrived  on  tbe 
16th,  the  day  on  which  was  fought  the 
battle  of  Wattignies  s  in  consequence  of 
which,  although  both  parties,  consider- 
ing tbe  advantsge  to  be  with  the  enemy, 
had  retired  from  tbe  field,  and  although 
tbe  Austrian  army  was  superior  in  num- 
bers and  quality  of  troops,  the  Prince  of 
Cobourg  thought  fit  to  abandon  the  ope- 
ration in  .which  he  was  engaged. 

The  Duke  of  York  returned  to  Tour- 
nay,  in  which  place,  and  the  neighbour- 
hood, he  continued  until  the  close  of  tbe 
campaign.  After  some  trifling  affairs 
tbe  army  went  into  winter  quarters,  the 
Duke  of  York's  head-quarters  being .  at 
Ghent,  whence,  attended  by  Gen.  Mack, 
be  proceeded  to  England,  to  concert 
with  tbe  British  Government  tbe  plan 
and  measures  for  the  ensuing  campaign. 

His  Royal  Highness  returned,  in  the 
month  of  February  1794,  from  England 
to  Courtrai,  to  which  place  tbe  British 
bead-quarters  had  been  removed,  upon 
a  forward  concentration  of  the  canton- 
ments. The  army  had  been  considera- 
bly reinforced  by  drafts  from  the  British 
regiments,  and  by  additional  corps  of 
Hanoverians,  Hessians,  and  Darmstadt 
troops,  taken  into  British  pay.  Tbe 
troops  under  bis  command  moved  suc- 
cessively to  Tournay,  St.  Amand,  and 
tbe  Plains  of  Cateau,  where  tbe  greater 
part  of  the  allied  army  was  united,  under 
tbe  command  of  tbe  Emperor,  on  the 
16th  of  April.  On  the  following  day  a 
general  and  successful  attack  was  made 
upon  the  enemy's  positions  at  Vaux, 
Fremont,  Marets,  Catillon,  ftc. ;  and 
Landrecies  was  immediately  invested. 
His  Royal  Highness  commanded  the  right 
wing  of  the  covering  army  during  tbe 
siege.  A  detachment  of  cavalry  from 
his  corps  gained  a  considerable  advan- 
titge,  on  the  84th  of  April,  near  Villers 
en  Caucbia,  towards  Cambrai  j  and  on 
tbe  86th  hia  Royal  Highness  completely 
defeated,  near  Troixville,  with  great 
slaughter,  and  the  loss  of  35  pieces  of 
eannon,  a  corps  of  30,000  men,  which, 
onder  tbe  orders  of  Gen.  Chapuy,  at- 
tacked his  position.  General  Cbapuy 
was  taken  prisoner,  with  a  considerable 
miniber  of  oflkera  and  men.  On  the 
90th  l^andiwdit  turrendaced }  and  hia 


)8870              QsiTUARYw^H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  0/  York.  79 

Wbpfwi  HigbacH't  ditpaUb,  aniioaiieins  J>akeorTork  wm  wellawtre  tt  CbtM 
ttu  event,  mmy  be  teen  in  voL  lxjv.  feelings,  and  had  himself  ample  reaaon 
p>  469-  to  be  hurt  and  mortified  by  the  inatten- 
On  the  lOtb  of  May  the  French,  to  the  tiou  shewn  to  bis  advice,  and  the  turn 
nnnaber  of  30,000,  under  Picbe^ru,  made  which  affairs  hnd  taken  i  but  his  endea* 
a    furioua   attack   on  the  Duke,  near  rourt   were  invariably  directed  to  the 
Toumay.    They  were  repulsed.     But  in  preservation  of  harmony*;  and  while  the 
a  aubscquent  engagement  at  the  same  Austrian  Generals  resisted  his  urgent  re* 
place,   tbey  defeated  the  Allies  on  the  pretentations,  they    acknowledged  the 
14tb.    On  the  18th  the  Duke  of  York's  spirit  of  conciliation  which  influeoced  hia 
division  was  attacked,  and  obliged  every  Royal  HighiM*is's  language,  and  theieal 
where  to  give  way,  and  the  Duke  him-  with   which  he   was  ever  ready  to  eo- 
lelf  waa  on  the  point  of  falling  into  the  operate  in  any  measure  tending  to  the 
enemy's  hands.    It  was  with  prodigious  support  of  the  general  cause. 
efforts  that  Generals  Fux  and  Abercrom-  The  rest  of  this  disastrous  campaign 
hie   found   means  to  restore   suiAcient  was  a  succession  of  disappointments,  in 
order  among  the  troops  to  save  them  which  the  brave  and  persevering  spirit 
from    total    destruction    and    effect    a  of  the  British  Commander  vainly  stnig* 
retreat.  gled  against  the  insincerity  of  allies,  and 
To  prove,  however,  that  no  blame  was  the  coidne^s  of  his  own   government, 
considered   to  attarb   to  the   Duke  of  after  retreating  without  dishonour  from 
York,  or  the  gallant  troops  under  bis  post  tu  post.    The  Allies  were  at  length 
orders  on  that  occasion,  it  is  only  ncces-  no   longer  able  to  oppose  the  enemy* 
aary  tu  quote  the  lullowing  cxtracc  of  a  A  reinforcement  of  10,000  British  troops, 
letter  from  the  Prince  of  Cuburgh,  ad-  under    Earl    Moira,    having   arrived  at 
dressed  to  his  Royal  Highness  soon  alter  Ostend,  and  marched  with  all  speed  to 
the  event  s —  the  relief  of  the  Duke,  on  the  8th  of 
*<  Sa  Majesty  m*enjoint  de  donner  a  July  effected  a  junction.  On  the  14th  Sep* 
V.  A.  R.  les  assurances  les  plus  positives  tember  Pichegru   attacked   the  several 
que  non  seulement  elle  est  parfaitement  posts  which  the  Duke  bad  taken  along 
aatisfaite  de  la  roaniere,  pleine  de  x^le,  the  river  Dommel,  and  compelled  him  to 
d*intelligence,et  de  valeur,  dont  V.A.R.,  retreat  across  the  Meuse.    The  French 
scs  braves  g^n^raiix,  et  ses  braves  troupes  crossed  the  Meuse  in  October,  and  on 
ont  fxtcut^  tuns  les  roouvemens  qui  on  the    I9tb    attacked  the  Duke's  army, 
eu  lieu  successivement  dans  les  journ^es  The  Duke,  after  suffering  severely,  with* 
du  17  et  du  18,  mats  qu'elle  lui  donne  drew  his  troops   across  the  Waal.    On 
par  cette  lettre  le  t^oignage  certain  et  the  27 th  of  October  the  French  again 
bien  d^id^roent  irr^usable  que  V.  A.  R.  compelled  the  Duke  to  move  further  off, 
n*a  fjiit  aucune  manoeuvre,  qui  n*ait  ^\6  for  security.    A  series  of  disasters  sue* 
une  suite  esseutieile   de  la  disposition  ceeded,  which  terminated  in  the  retreat 
g<n^rale,ou  qu'elle  n*ait  engag^  V.  A.R.  of  the   British  and  their  German  aua- 
k  faire  par  les  messages  surcessifs,  que  iliaries    through  Westphalia.      On  tho 
dans  le  courant  de  I'affaire  elle  a  recu  de  14tb   April   1795,  tbe  different  British 
ce  Munarque."  brigades  embarked   in    the  Weser    for 
Recent  measures   had  confirmed  the  England.     And   thus    terminated    the 
suspicion  fur  some  time  entertained  by  warfare,  under  tbe  Duke  of  York,  in 
the  Duke  of  York,  that  tbe  Austrian  the  years  1798,  1794,  and  1795. 
Cabinet  had  determined  on  the  aban-  In  February,   1795,  his  Majesty  was 
donment  of  the  Netlierlands,  and  cer*  graciously  pleased  to  nominate  the  Doko 
uinly  of  West  Flanders,— for  the  main*  of  York  to  tbe  situation  of  Commander- 
tenance  of  which  the  British  Cabinet,  in-chief,  an  office  not  less  important  tbaa 
on  the  other  hand,  was  most  solicitous,  at  that  time  it   had   become  arduous. 
His  Royal  Highness  had  in  vain  remon*  from  the  deplorable  effects  of  the  in-* 
strated  against  tbe  establishment  of  a  efficiency  and  abuse  which  prevailed  in 
system  of  warfare  so  injurious  to  Great  every  branch  and  department  of  the  mi- 
Britain  ;  and  had  equally  in  vain  urg«fd,  litary  service.     His  Royal  Highness  no* 
upon  every   occasion,  tbe  adoption  of  denook  tbe  duties  of  this  situation  with 
more  vigorous  attempts  towards  check-  a   firm   determination    to    correct   tha 
iiig  the  enemy,  by  a  concentration  off  errors  and  abuses  which  had  crept  into 
iseans  and  efforu.    This  jarring  of  in-  the   administration  of  the  army ;  and 
terests  between  tbe  two  countries  in-  tbe  zeal  and  indefatigable  attention  with 
creased  the  irritation  and  jealouay  which  which  be  persevered  in  this  arduous  task 
bad  resulted  from  tbe  failure  of  the  11th  were  equalled  only   by   the  judgment 
May,  upon  which  occasion  the  British  which  directed  bis  labours.    But  ol  this 
troops  accused  the  Austrians  (not  without  more  hereafter.              "                         * 
i^ason)  of  having  sacrificed  tbenu    The  In  1799>  the  Duke  again  appeared  iq 
Gbmt.  Mao.  January,  lbS7« 

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[Jan 


tiM  field.  On  the  86th  of  Auipitt,  the 
Teiteli,  coDveyinf^  a  larf^e  British  foroe, 
cane  to  anchor  near  the  shore  of  the 
Helders  and  on  the  97th  the  troopi 
bei^n  to  diiembark.  The  firtt  enter- 
prife  was  the  taking  of  the  Helder.  His 
Royal  Hif^hness  himself  landed  in  Hol- 
land on  the  13th  September,  and  the 
force  under  him,  including  1000  Rus- 
•ians,  amounted  to  nearly  35,000  men. 
An  engagement  with  the  French  took 
place  on  the  19th  September,  which, 
owing,  it  is  said,  to  the  misconduct  uf 
the  Russians,  was  unfavourable  to  the 
Duke.  On  the  8d  of  October  another 
fiction  took  place.  The  right  wing  of 
the  British  was  commanded  by  Sir  Ralph 
Abercrombie,  the  centre  division  by  Ge- 
neral Dunda*!,  and  the  left  wing  by 
Major-general  Bnmrd.  The  enemy  was 
entirely  defeated.  In  this  engagement 
the  loss  of  the  enemy  exceeded  4,000 
men  and  300  prisoners,  and  the  British 
lost  about  1,500  men.  In  another  en- 
l^agement,  which  followed  soon  after, 
the  British  were  again  masters  of  the 
field  of  battle,  though  the  loss  amounted 
to  ISOO  British  and  700  Russians.  The 
army  directed  its  march  towards  Haer- 
lem ;  but  intelligence  having  been  re- 
ceived that  the  French  had  succeeded  in 
throwing  up  strong  works  in  the  rear  uf 
our  army,  and  that  a  corps  would  be 
placed  in  pur  rear  as  we  advanced,  his 
Koyal  Highness  was  forced  to  pause. 
General  Daendels  having  attacked  the 
light  wiiig  of  tlie  British  on  the  10th  of 
October,  under  Prince  WilliAm  of  Glou- 
eester,  he  was  under  the  necessity  of 
falling  back.  On  the  I7tb  of  October  a 
suspension  of  arms  was  agreed  on  be* 
tween  Generals  Brun  and  Daendels  and 
the  English  and  Russian  commanders, 
and  it  was  agreed  on  that  the  English 
and  Russians  should  be  allowed  to  eva* 
cuate  Holland,  on  condition  that  8000 
teamen,  either  Batavian  or  French,  pri- 
•oners  in  England,  should  be  given  up 
to  the  French  govern ment. 

Upon  his  return  to  England,  the  Duke 
of  York  again  directed  his  time  and 
attention  to  the  amelioration  of  the  mi* 
litary  system;  each  successive  year  af- 
forded fresh  proofs  of  the  benefits  arising 
from  his  unabated  exertions,  and  it  must 
be  admitted,  that  owing  to  these,  and 
the  many  wise  regulations  established 
by  his  Royal  Highness,  the  British  army, 
at  this  moment,  offers  a  model  of  per- 
Isetion  to  every  military  nation. 

From  the  proud  feeling  inspired  by 
tbeie  reflections,  we  turn  with  regret  to 
notice  that,  in  the  midst  of  the  caret 
attendant  upon  his  oflldal  dutiety  and 
whUe  exerting  himself  to  increase  the 
flory  of  Great  Britaio>  by  the  inprove- 


ment  and  eontolidatlon  of  harvest  mi- 
litary resources,  a  foul  attempt  was  made 
to  deprive  his  country  of  the  services  of 
the  illustrious  Commander-in-chief.  On 
the  87  th  of  January,  1809,  Gwyllym 
Lloyd  Wardle,  esq.  commonly  called  Co- 
lonel Wardle,  brought  forward  a  motion 
in  the  House  of  Commons,  for  the  ap- 
pointment of  a  Committee  to  investigate 
the  conduct  of  his  Royal  Highness  the 
Duke  of  York,  the  Commander-in-chief, 
with  regard  to  promotions^  exchanges, 
and  appointments  to  commissions  in  the 
army,  and  in  raising  levies  for  the  army. 
We  will  not  review  the  progress  of  the 
investigation,  for  all  its  important  fea- 
tures were  duly  recorded  at  the  time  in 
our  pages,  and  have  recently  been  but 
too  often  repeated. 

On  this  painful  occasion  the  Duke  of 
York  behaved  with  the  greatest  magna- 
nimity, and,  though  acquitted  by  a  ma- 
jority of  878  to  196,  finding  that  tbt? 
efforts  of  some  individuals  had  succeeded 
in  raising  a  prejudice  against  biro  in  the 
public  mind,  his  Royal  Highness  waited 
upon  the  King,  and  tendered  his  resig- 
nation on  the  18th  of  March,  1809. 

In  the  discussions  on  the  appointment 
of  the  Regency  of  1810,  the  Duke  again 
joined  to  advance  the  interests  of  bis 
elder  Brother.  The  substance  of  bis 
speech  on  this  occasion,  Dec.  87,  Is 
recorded  in  vol.  Lxxx.  ii.  654. 

One  of  the  first  acts  of  his  present  Ma- 
jesty, after  his  being  vested  with  the  full 
powers  of  Regent,  in  1811,  was  to  rein- 
state his  Royal  Highness  in  his  former 
office.  Lord  Milton  brought  this  re-ap- 
pointment before  the  House  of  Com- 
monsy  and  concluded  with  moving, 
*'  That  it  has  been  highly  improper  and 
indecorous  in  the  advisers  of  the  Prince 
Regent  to  have  recommended  to  his 
Royal  Highness  the  re-appointment  of 
the  Duke  of  York  to  the  office  of  Com- 
mander-in-chief." The  more  violent 
members  of  the  opposition  remained  ob- 
stinate in  their  error;  but  a  new  light 
had  broken  in  on  the  House  in  general. 
When  a  division  took  place,  there  were 
only  47  for  the  motion,  and  99S  against 
it. 

Since  that  time  the  Duke  pursued  the 
even  tenor  of  his  way,  devoting  himself 
to  business  with  the  greatest  regularity. 
Every  arrangement,  the  most  minute, 
was  submitted  by  the  heads  of  depart- 
ments, for  his  sanction ;  the  memorial 
of  every  officer,  the  petition  of  every 
soldier,  engaged  his  personal  attention, 
nor  were  any  suffered  to  pass  uniiutieed. 

Toetdayt  and  Pridayt  during  the 
Session  of  Parliament,  and  at  other 
periodt  Tuesdays  only,  were  the  days  on 
which  bit  Royal  Higbnett  gave  audienoea 


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tm  ofiben  of  every  rank,  who  wished  to 
spproaeh  him  on  busineit.  Fnim  the 
frniiicncy  of  these  levees,  and  the  indis- 
crioiinate  adinissiuii,  there  were  few,  if 
any,  officert  of  the  army,  who  were  not 
personally  known  to  his  Royal  Highness  t 
and,  altbottgh  compliance  with  the  re- 
(|tieets  of  all  was  impossible,  the  refusal 
was  always  softened  by  the  kind  manner 
in  which  it  was  conveyed. 

lo  July,  1814,  and  again  at  the  same 
■eriod  ID  the  foiloMring  year,  both 
HoiHes  of  Parliament  passed  a  vote  of 
thanks  to  the  Duke  of  York,  for  the 
beneOts  he  had  bestowed  on  the  nation 
as  Commaoder-in-cbief  in  the  wars  then 
concluded  (see  voL  LXXZiv.  ii.  365; 
Lxxzv.  ii.  165). 

In  August,  1815,  his  Royal  Highness 
accidentally  broke  bis  left  arm  (vide  ibid. 
|i.  I76)«  and  in  April,  1819t  experienced 
a  similar  misfortune  with  bis  right  arm 
(see  vol.  Lxxzix.  i.  366]  ;  but  on  neither 
occasion  was  it  more  than  a  temporary 
Inconvenience. 

After  the  death  of  Queen  Charlotte  in 
1818,  the  Duke  of  York  was  appointed, 
with  a  Parliamentary  grant  of  lU.OOO/. 
per  annumt  Custus  of  the  person  uf  his 
afflicted  Father.  The  affectionate  assi- 
doity  with  which  he  performed  this  duty 
is  universally  acknowledged.  It  was  re- 
peatedly and  triumphantly  boasted  by 
the  Ministry,  that,  if  his  Majesty  could, 
by  the  favour  of  Providence,  have  been 
enabled  to  exercise  any  influence  in  tbe 
selection  of  a  person  to  watch  over  his 
declining  years,  on  none  would  his 
cbuice  have  fallen  more  promptly  than 
upon  the  Duke  of  York.  In  the 
arms  of  his  Royal  son  and  guardian  the 
Monarch  breathed  his  last. 

In  Feb.  1820,  the  Duke  accepted  the 
freedom  of  tbe  Drapers*  Company ;  and 
the  speech  addressed  to  bim  in  their 
name,  on  this  occasion,  is  printed  in 
vol.  xc.  i.  pp.  128—130. 

On  passing  through  Norwich,  Dec.  3 
that  year,  his  Royal  Highness,  together 
with  tbe  Duke  of  Wellington^  was  pre* 
sented  with  the  freedom  of  that  city. 

The  last  prominent  act  of  the  Duke 
of  York's  life,  and  that  which  bad  latr 
terly  much  promoted  his  popularity,  was 
his  manly  defence  of  the  Protestant  con- 
stitution of  the  country,  delivered  in  the 
Huuse  of  Lords,  April  !£5,  1825.  That 
noble  declaration  of  his  well- deliberated 
opinion  is  recorded  in  our  vol.  xcv.  i. 
453.  It  has  since  been  reprinted  with 
every  mode  of  embellish  men  r, — as  a  dis- 
play of  ornamental  penmanship,  and  in 
letters  of  gold. 

His  Royal  Highness  had  laboured  un- 
der a  dropsy  since  the  m(»nth  of  July 
lastf  lor  the  relief  of  which  his  Royal 


Highness  underwent  an  operatiun  on  tbe 
8d  of  September.  The  result  of  this 
operation,  aided  by  the  favourable  ef- 
fects of  medicine  afterwards,  was  the 
removal  of  the  constitutional  complaint) 
but  its  partial  influence  on  the  limbs» 
producing  a  mortification  of  a  consider- 
able portion  of  tbe  shin  of  both  legt» 
subsequently  brought  his  Royal  Higb- 
ness's  valuable  life  into  danger ;  and 
although  this  was  checked,  and  hung  in 
suspense  for  a  time,  the  powers  of  his 
frame  sunk  ultimately  in  the  struggle. 

His  Royal  Highness  was  informed 
early,  that  bit  situation  was  not  free 
from  peril;  yet  he  bore  his  protracted 
illness  with  a  stoutness  of  heart,  an 
evenness  of  temper,  anil  a  pious  resigna* 
tion,  which  were  very  remarkable;  and, 
as  bis  mind  was  not  affected  by  bis 
diiease,  he  lontinued  to  perform  all  the 
duties  of  his  high  office  of  Commander- 
in-chief  with  his  usual  punctuality  and 
quickness.  Indeed,  among  the  last  aets 
of  his  official  life  was  that  arrangement 
fur  the  benefit  of  the  old  Lieutenants 
who  cannot  afford  to  purchase,  which 
had  for  Koiue  time  engaged  his  attention^ 
and  which  was  laid  before  the  King,  by 
his  express  desire,  for  his  Majesty's  ap- 
probation, the  day  before  he  took  leave^ 
as  it  were,  of  worldly  affairs,  and  re- 
ceived the  Sacrament  from  the  Biihop 
of  London. 

The  same  unclouded  state  of  hit  in- 
tellects admitted  of  his  reading  the 
newspapers  constantly,  and  of  feeling 
interested  in  all  that  was  going  on  s  so 
that,  as  his  malady  advanced,  had  the 
fears  of  his  medical  attendants  been  ex- 
pressed in  daily  bulletins  of  his  health, 
as  in  truth  they  must  have  been,  this 
intelligence  would  have  recoiled  upon 
him  with  a  fatal  force,  by  destroying 
those  sanguine  hopes  of  recovery  which 
contributed  so  essentially  to  the  efforts 
of  art  to  do  him  good ;  and  would  have 
precipitated  tbe  sad  event  which  we  all 
now  deplore.  It  is  this  consideration 
alone  that  explains  and  justifies  the 
silence  of  the  physicians  to  the  subject 
of  the  Royal  Duke's  health ;  a  reguhir 
statement  of  which  would  have  been 
fairly  demanded,  under  other  circum- 
stances, by  the  zealous  and  affectionate 
attachment  of  a  loyal  people  to  tbe 
Presumptive  Heir  of  the  Throne. 

Throughout  his  long  illness,  notwith.- 
standing  ihe  f^riouR  nature  of  his  disease, 
the  severe  sufferings  he  underwent,  and 
the  rapid  wasting  away  of  his  person, 
he  did  not  appear  to  expect  that  bis 
illness  would  terminate  fatally,  untti 
the  morning  of  the  day  on  which  he 
died.  He  did  not  even  relinquish  his 
habits  of  business  until  a  very  few  days 


ja                    Omtuartw-*«R  B.  H^  ih€  i>ukkofY4irki  ^  ".  [Jaa; 

Mbra  hit  death,  bttt  eoniioaed  to  rt«  It  it  ttid,  at  hit  timilarif^  to  the  late 
•eive  the  official  report  of  hit  Secffe-  King  in  hit  !att  momentt.  It  wat  at 
tariett  at  punctually  at  when  he  at*  the  eamett  request  of  hit  medictl  ad- 
tended  at  hit  office  in  the  tlorse  Guards ;  vitert  that  hit  Majesty  ditcontinued  bit 
and  all  bis  remarks  showed  chat  he  fully  Tititt  to  Rutland  House,  which  had  pre- 
ezpected  to  recover.  But  early  on  the  viously  been  frequent.  From  that  time 
morning  of  that  day  whioh  was  to  ter-  messengers  were  twice  every  day  dis- 
minkte  hit  existence  in  this  world,  he  patched  to  Windsor,  to  acquaint  his  Ma- 
bocicbned  his  immediate  attendants  (Sir  jesty  of  the  state  of  the  Royal  sufferer. 
Havbert  Taylor  and  Col.  Stevenson,  we  His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Bus*' 
believe),  to  the  side  of  his  chair,  and  tea  arrived  at  Rutland  Hou«e  at  early  as 
fointly  taid,  '*  Now  I  know  that  I  am  nine  o'clock  on  the  fatal  morning,  and 
d^ng !"    These  were  his  last  words.  the  Duke  of  Clarence  at  twelve  o'clock. 

it  wat,  however,  very  evident  that  he  Tbev  were  with  the  deceated  till  within 

retained  bis  memory  many  hours  after-  an  hour  of  his  death.    The  Duke  of 

wards;  for  when  his  ro^al  brothers,  the  Clarence  then  withdrew  ;  the  Duke  of 

Duket  of  Clarence  and  Sussex,  entered  Sussex  remained  in  the  anti-room  till  bit 

bit  apartment,  he  showed  that  he  wat  Brother  was  no  more, 

•onscious  of  their  presence;  and  when  His  Royal   Highness,  who  had  only 

tbe  hour  arrived  at  which  he  had  been  been  able  occasionally  to  recognize  hit 

aecuttomed  to  receive    some    surgical  attendants,   became    totally  insentible 

attentlont»  he  pointed  to  the  clock,  to  about  one  o'clock.    In  the  courte  of  the 

pemiod  thote  about  him  that  it  wat  time  afternoon   he  once  or  twice  to  far  re^ 

that  duty  wat  performed  ;  it  was  per-  covered  as  to  appear  sensible  of  external 

formed  immediately  of  course ;  and  then  objects,  but  immediately  relapsed  into 

be  gradually  tank  into  a  state  of  total  bis  former  state  of  stupor.    His  Royal 

intelMibiiity,  and  to  continued  until  he  Highness  continued  in  the  same  state 

expired.  during  the  evening,  with  scarcely  any 

Hit  Royal  Highnets^s  very  active  ha«  change.  The  narcotics  administered  pro- 
bits,  hit  early  rising,  and  his  strict  at-  duced  occasional  repose,  but  toon  after 
tention  to  tbe  butinett  of  his  office,  have  uine  o'clock  the*  approach  of  death  wat 
loifg  been  generally  known;  but  when  manifest.  At  90  minutes  after^  his  res- 
tbe  pubKe,  judging  from  those  habits,  piration  having  scarcely  been  perceptible 
and  his  robust  appearance,  supposed  him  for  some  time,  he  breathed  his  last  with- 
to  be  in  the  enjoyment  of  perfect  health,  out  a  struggle.  The  room  in  Rutland- 
be  wat  toflfering  much  pain,  and  wat  house,  in  which  his  Royal  Highness  ex- 
•very  moment  in  danger  of  sudden  dis-  pired,  is  on  the  ground-floor,  looking 
tolution.  For  more  than  four  years  his  into  the  Green  Park.  He  had  not  been 
Royal' Highness  had  been  labouring  un-  out  of  that  room,  and  the  one  adjoining, 
der  a  spasmodic  affection  of  such  a  for  nearly  eight  months.  Tbe  Duke 
nature,  that  he  could  not  lie  down,  but  had  one  easy  chair  during  the  day,  and 
at  the  imminent  risk  of  his  life ;  and  another  for  the  night.  They  were  both 
ftrom  the  commencement  of  that  attack,  made  suitable  for  ease  in  any  position 
four  years  ago,  be  never  retired  to  rest  his  Royal  Highness  might  recline  in. 
without  a  tupply  of  anti-spasmodic  me*  He  expired  in  one  of  them, 
diciuet  by  his  bed-side,  so  placed  as  to  Immediately  after  the  death  of  his 
be  at  band  on  the  instant.  Latterly,  Royal  Highness,  Sir  Henry  Halford  and 
for  many  months  before  bit  last  con-  Sir  H.  Taylor  left  Arlington-street  for 
inement,  his  Royal  Highness  never  eu-  the  Royal  Lodge  at  Windsor,  where 
tered  a  bed,  but  slept  in  an  easy  chair.  they  communicated  tbe  melancholy  in- 

The  disease  which  proved  fatal  to  hit  telligence  to  his  Majesty,  who  was,  as 
Royal  Highness,  it  is  now  well   ascer-  usual,  (tince  the  precariout  state  of  his 
tainedy  wat  that  tpeciet  of  dropsy  which  Royal   brother,)  anxiously  waiting  the 
n  technically  called  ascites.  arrival  of  a  messenger,   who  in  general 
*  The  King's   latt  visit  to  his  dying  arrived  about  one  o'clock  every  morn- 
Brother  wat  on  Friday,  Dec  89.  just  a  ing.     His  Majesty,  notwithstanding  tbe 
week   before  his  death.     His  Mijesty  suffering  his  feelings   have  undergone, 
took  with  him  tome  particular  toup,  of  enjoyt  tolerably  goml  health, 
which  he  recollected  the  Duke  to  have  On  Saturday  morning  tbe  workmen 
formerly  partaken   with  pleatore ;  the  employed  on  the  King*t  new  Palace,  in 
King,  in  bit  anxiety,  pertonally  handed  St.  Jamet't  Park,  the  mansion  erecting 
•ome  of  it  to  hit  Royal  Brother,  who  ap-  for  the  late  lamented  Duke,  and  the  one 
peared  to  be  tensible  of  the  attention,  oppotite  for  tbe  Duke  and  Duchest  of 
and  tHgfatly  tasted  of  the  once  favourite  Clarence,  were  suspended,  and  all  the 
•oup.  Hit  Majetty  wat  teriously  affected  workt  ttopped.    At  an  early  hour  Mr. 
bgr  tbe  Duke't  altored  appearance^  and»  Math  left  tbe  Lord  Ghamberiain't  office^ 


w«a 


(XnTVAHTJ— R  Ji  ti.  ik^JbulM  df  Korlf; 


Tf 


to  Wiodior  to  ttke  bit' 
Majcsty't  comominlt  retpteting  the  fu* 
BcnL    On  Sunday  a  fon«ral  teraion  wat 
fmmjehed  at  the  Chapel  Royal. 

The  cuflitt  for  the  Royal  remains  waf 
carried  to  Rotland  House  late  on  Wed- 
Boday  evcnln^y  and  soon  after  twelve 
o*cloek  they  were  conreyed  in  a  hearse 
to  the  King's  Palace,  St.  James's,  fol- 
lowed by  a  mourning  coach,  in  which 
warn  Sir  Herbert  Tayk»r,  CoL  StcTenson, 
and  the  King's  Sergeant- surgeon.  The 
King's  guard,  under  the  command  of 
Col.  Macdonald,  were  drawn  out  to  re- 
celvo  the  tloyal  oorpse,  which  was  after- 
wards conveyed  into  the  state  room 
assigned  for  the  lying  in  stale.  This 
ftiok  place  an  the  two  neat  days.  On 
Thoniday  the  privilege  of  entrance 
through  the  Stable-yard,  by  tickets, 
hftcd  till  1 1,  when  the  public  admission 
tank  place  throogh  the  second  front 
Cate  of  the  Padaoe.  When  the  crowd 
had  passed  along  a  covered  way  across 
the  y«rdy  they  entered  through  the  new 
staircase,  which  leads  to  the  state  apart- 
■cnts.  This  was  hung  with  black  cloth, 
and  the  landing  places  were  railed  off, 
lo  as  to  break  the  force  of  the  crowd, 
and  prevent  any  unseemly  rush  in  the 
approach  to  the  grand  suite  of  rooms. 
At  eight  o'clock  a  Captain's  full-dress 
gnard  from  the  grenadier-guards,  with  a 
calowr,  mounted  as  a  guard  of  bonoirr. 
At  the  same  hour  a  Captain's  guard 
from  the  17th  Lancers  also  mounted. 
A  strong  detachment  of  police  had  al- 
ready been  in  attendance,  and  were  dis- 
tributed around  the  barriers,  and  in 
eonsiderable  force  at  the  first  entrance. 
The  |M>llce  were  assisted  by  a  large  re- 
inforcement of  constables,  under  Mr. 
Lee,  the  High-constable.  The  Lancers 
were  to  do  duty  outside,  and  the  Grena- 
dier Guards  marched  inside,  and  were 
disposed  al  various  entrances,  and  along 
the  internal  passages  about  the  Palace. 
The  Yeomen  of  tJie  Guard  had  also 
assembled  within  the  Palace,  and  about 
an  hour  before  the  time  of  public  ad- 
mission, took  their  stations  in  file*,  24  in 
the  new  gallery,  and  IS  in  the  armoury- 
room;  with  a  yeoman-usher  to  each 
party.  They  were  dressed  as  usual, 
with  the  addition  of  black  stockings, 
and  black  crape  round  their  hats  and 
partisans.  The  honourable  corps  of  Gen- 
tlemen at  Arms  (who  are,  in  fact,  his 
If  ajesty*s  body  guard,)  also  gave  tbeir 
attendance,  though  unusual,  except  at 
tbe  funeral  of  the  King  or  Qu^^n.  A 
gentleman  in  deep  mourning  was  sta- 
tioned in  each  room,  to  keep  the  public 
moving. 

The  itatt  room,  in  which  the  corpse 
«ni  pbded,  had  hi  black  ck>th  so  fitted 


up'  at  the  top  as  to  resemble  n  tient,  if» 
allusion  to  the  military  rharaeter  of  the 
departed  Duke.  The  sides  of  the  room 
were  covered  with  black  cloth  AutedT 
horizontally,  ornamented  with  hatch- 
ments and  silver  sconces. 

The  coffin  stood  on  a  platform  under 
a  state  canopy;  and  over  it  was  thrown 
a  pall  of  black  velvet,  with  three  escut-f 
cheons  on  each  side.-  At  tbe  head  of 
the  coflUn,  on  a  velvet  cushion,  wao 
placed  the  Coronet ;  below,  on  another 
cushion,  the  Duke's  Baton  as  Field- 
marshal.  Three  large  wax  candles  burned 
on  each  side.  On  tbe  coffin-plate  is  tho^ 
following  inscription,  issued  from  the 
Heralds'  College : 

Depositum 

IllustrisBimi  Principis 

FREDERICI, 

de  Brunswick  Lunenburg, 

Ducis  Eboraci  bt  Albania, 

Coroitis  UltonisB, 

Nobilissimi  Ordinis  Periscelidii, 

ct 

Honoratiss.  Ordin.  Militar.  de  Balneo 

Equitis, 
Fratris  augusti^simi  et  potentissimi 
Monarchs, 
•    GEORGU  QUARTI, 
Dei  GratiA  Britanniarim  Regis,       i 
Fidei  Defensoris, 
Regis  HanoversB,  &c. 
Obilt  quinto  die  Januarii, 
Anno  Domini  MDCCCXXVIL, 
statis  sum  LXIV. 
A  few  minutes  before  ten  o'clock,  GeA 
neral  Upton  took  bis  station  at  tbe  head 
of  tbe  coflin,  Colonel  Sir  Henry  Cook 
on  tbe  right  side,  and  Colonel  Armstrong 
on  the  left  side;  these  officers  were  at- 
tached to  his  late  Royal  Higbness's  staff, 
and  appeared  in  Court  mourning.    In- 
the  front  were  J.  Hawker,  esq.  Richmond 
Herald.and C.G.Young, esq. York  Herald. 
On  each  side  were  three  Gentlemen-at-. 
arms,  holding  banners,  viz.  of  Albany, 
White  Horse  of  Hanover,  Falcon  and 
Fetter-lock.  White  Rose,  tbe  Crest  of 
the  late  Duke  ;  and  one  of  tbe  Arms  of 
his  Royal  Highness.     There  were  also 
two   Gentlemen- ushers,   and  two  Gen- 
tietnen  of  tbe  Privy-chamber.    On  each, 
side  of  tbe  platform  were  six  grenadiers,^ 
with  their  muskets  reversed,  leaning  on 
the  butt  end.    Tbe  whole  produced  as' 
solemn  and  imposing  an  effect  as  can  be 
easily  imagined.     Mr.  Harding,  an  emi- 
nent artist  in  lithography,  was  employed 
bv  authority   in  making  a  drawing  o£ 
the  scene,  from  which  a  print  has  been 
published  by  Mr.  Ackermann. 

The  first  person  who  entered  with  h, 
ticket  was  the  venerable  Lord  SCoweh 
Those  who  passed  by  the  solemn  spec- 
tacle moved  as  In  a  proceuion.    The' 


78  Qbitu  art/-»H.  R.d.the  Duke  rf  York.  [Jan. 

•trSctett  lileiictt  prerailed   throughout,  very  great,  and  the   iiew^spapcn  have 

—At  twelve  o'clock,  those  in  attend*  been  filled  with  vague  reports  of  several 

ance  on  the  eorpte  were  relieved,  and  accidents  i  we  have  not,  however,  found 

this  was  repeated  every  two  hours.    It  that  any  lives  were  lost  The  second  day 

was  supposed,  from  a  general  calcula-  was  less  riotous  than  the  first, 

tion,  that  about  80,000  persons  had  en-  At  seven  o'clock  on    the   90th  Jan. 

tered  the  Palaee  in  the  course  of  the  day.  the  morning  of  the  funeral,  a  detach- 

Weahall  nut  stop  to  detail  the  ex-  ment  of  the  Sd  Life-guards  .entered  the 

treme  multitude  and  pressure  of   the  Court-yard  of  the  Palace  ;  and  at  eight* 

crowd  outside,  which  probably  equalled  precisely,   the  procession  moved  in  the 

or  exceeded  that  on  any  former  occa-  following  order,  agreeably  to  the  official 

aioo.    The  destruction  of  apparel  was  programme:— 

THE  PROCESSION. 
Trumpets  and  Kettle-drums  of  tbe  two  Regiments  of  Life-guards,  and  the  Druma 

and  Fifes  of  the  Foot-guards. 
Knigbt-marshal's-men  on  foot,  with  black  staves. 
Two  Mourning  Coaches,  drawn  by  four  horses,  conveying  the  Servants  and  Pages 

his  late  Royal  Highness. 
Five  Mourning  Coaches,  drawn  by  six  horses,  conveying :  the  medical  attendants 
and  Private  Chaplain  ;  the  Secretaries ;  the  Aides-de-camp  \  the  Equerries  of 
his  )ate  Roval  Highness,  and  the  Assistants  to  the  Adjutant  and  Quarter-master- 
generals;  'the  Adjutant-general,    the  Quartermaster-general,  and  their  two 

Deputies. 
The  State  Carriage  of  his  late  Royal  Highness,  drawn  by  six  horses,  conveying 
Norroy  King  at  Arms    (acting  for  Clarencieux),  with  the  Coronet  of  his  late 
Royal  Highness,  supported  by  two  Gentlemen-ushers  of  the  Privy- chamt>er* 

Escort  of  Life  guards. 
Ten  of  the  X-  THE  HEARSE,  v  Ten  of  the 

Yeomen  uf  I      adorned  on  each  side  with  a  long  escutcheon  of  hi  s      i  Yeomen  of 
the  Quard,  \  late  Royal  Highness's  Arms,  and  with  one  of         I  the  Guards 

with       2  the  Crest  at  the  end,  and  drawn  by  >       with 

partisans    i  of  his  Majesty's  black  Hanoverian  I    partisans 

reversed.   /  horses,  driven  by  his  Ma-  1   reversed.  . 

V  jesty's  Body-coachman.  '^ 

Escort  of  Life-guards. 
A  Mourning  Coach,  drawn  by  six  horses,  conveying  Garter  King  at  Arms,  and 

two  Gentlemen-assistants. 

Another,  with  tbe  two  Executors,  Sir  H.  Taylor  and  Col.  Stephenson. 

Carriage  of  his  Majesty,  drawn  by  six  horseb,  tbe  Coachman  and  Footmen  In  deep 

mourning,  with  scarfs  and  hatbands. 
Carriage  of  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Clarence. 
Carriages  of  the  Duke  of  Sussex,  Princess  Augusta,  Duchess  of  Kent,  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  Princess  Sophia,  and  Prince  Leopold,  each  drawn  by  six  horses.    . 

A  body  of  Life-guardp  flanked  the  Royal  Family,  in  deep  mourning,  who 
procession,  and  the  Lancers,  who  had  were  stationed  four  abreast,  the  twu  on 
previously  been  stationed  as  piquets,  the  sides  bearing  flambeaux  in  their 
attended  as  far  as  Kensington.  The  hands.  With  this  addition  in  front,  the 
military,  with  arms  reversed,  moved  procession  moved  on  slowly  into  Wind- 
along  three  abreast  at  a  walking  pare,  sor,  keeping  the  centre  between  two 
and  constables  kept  the  way  clear  on  line^  of  cavalry. 

each    side.      The    whole   scene,    when  On   Friday,   the   19th,   a   large   por- 

viewed  from  the  upper  end  of  St.  Jameses-  tion  of  tbe  troops  who  were  to  attend 

street,  served  to  present  to  the  mind  all  the  ceremony,  had  arrived  at  Windsor, 

that  is  associated  with  solemn  splendour.  Another  division  was  stationed  at  dif- 

At  Cranford  Bridge,   where  the  pro-  ferent  parts  of  the  road   by  which   the 

cession  was  appointed  to  rest,  it  arrived  funeral   was    to   approach.    The  whole 

between  one  and  two  o'clock.     It  left  consisted  of  SOO  men  of  the  first  batta- 

that  place  at  four,  and  at  five  o^clock  lion   of  the  Coldstream  regiment,  of  a 

torches  were  lighted.    At  eight  it  arrived  large  detachment  from  the  second  and 

at  Frogroore,  and  halted  for  ten  minutes,  third  battalions  of  the  Grenadier  Guards, 

to  receive  their  Royal  Highnesses  the  and  another  detachment  from  the  Third 

Dukes  of  Clarence,  Sussex,  and  Glou-  Guards.    The  greater  part  of  this  body 

cester,  and  about  eighty  of  the  servants  rame  to  Windsor,  and  joined  the  G7th 

and  grooms  of  iK is  Majesty  and  of  the  Foot,  which  was  already  in  the  barracks 


Obituakt.— H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  York. 


79 


tbcre.  The  infiantry,  therefore,  which 
WM  cordered  to  duty  on  ibis  occasion  at 
Windsor  and  its  Tidnity,  amounted  to 
Beariy  1,600  men.  These  troops  re- 
ceived the  assistance  of  a  detachment 
from  the  Royal  Horse-guards  (Blue), 
stationed  at  Windsor  and  Slough.  Two 
bripides  of  Artillery  were  stationed  in 
the  Long  Walk,  with  twelve  light  six- 
pounders  and  ammunition  cars.  Sir  H. 
Vivian  commanded  the  whole. 

On  the  day  of  the  funeral,  at  eleven 
o'clock,  the  Mayor  and  Corporation  pro- 
ceeded in  their  robes  to  the  parish 
church,  and  a  funeral  sermon  was 
preached  by  the  Rev.  Isaac  Gosbet, 
Vicar  of  Windsor,  and  Chaplain  to  the 
Corporation* 


At  half  after  six  visitors  were  admitted 
by  tickets  to  the  north  aisle  of  St.* 
George's  Chapel,  the  south  aisle  being 
exclusively  reserved  to  the  persons  im« 
mediately  engaged  in  the  ceremony. 
At  a  quarter  before  nine  the  head  of 
the  procession  arrived  at  the  barrier 
erected  before  the  gate  leading  into  the 
yard.  The  carriages  of  i  he  Chief  Mourner 
and  of  the  other  Royal  Dukes  only  were 
allowed  inside.  The  hearse  having 
reached  the  porch  and  halted,  the  coffin 
was  placed  in  the  car,  and  wheeled  by 
ten  Yeomen  of  the  Guard  into  the  Cha- 
pel. From  this  moment  half  minute 
guns  continued  to  be  fired  in  the  Long 
Walk. 

The  procession  then  moved  forward : 


Poor  Knights  of  Windsor. 
Eleven  Paget  of  their  Royal  Highnesses  Prince  Leopold,  the  Princess  Augusta, 

and   the  Duke  of  Sussex. 

Five  Pages  of  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Clarence, 

Sixteen  Pages  of  the  King,  the  Back-stairs,  the  Presence,  and  Bedchamber. 

Nine  Pages  of  the  deceased. 

Solicitor  to  his  late  Royal  Highness,  John  Parkinson,  Esq. 

Surgeons,  Messrs.  Simpson,  M'Grigor,  Sir  A.  Cooper. 

Physicians,  Doctors  Macmicbael,  Thomson,  Drever,  Sir  H.  Halfurd. 

The  Corporation  of  Windsor,  represented  by  a  Deputation,  consisting  uf  Mr.  J. 

Seeker,  Jun.  and  Mr.  C.  Layton,  Bailiffs  ;  Mr.  Seeker,  T(»wn-clerk  ;  Mr.  Egel- 

stone.  Chamberlain;  Mr.  J.  Clode,  Justice;  Mr.  J.  Voules,  Mayor;   and 

Sir  Gifliin  Wilson,  Recorder. 

Curate  of  Windsor,  Rev.  R.  P.  Mealy.  The  Vicar  of  Windsor,  Rev.  I.  Gossef. 

Chaplains  to  his  late  Royal  Highness,  Rev.  W.  L.  Cogblan.  T.  Naylcr,  S.  Barker, 

Dr.  Rudge,  T.  Hatch,  G.  G.  Stonestreet,  Thomas  Lane  Fox,  H.  H.  Dakins. 

Private  Chaplain,  Rev.  Wm.  W.  Dakins,  D.  D. 

Chaplain-gen.  to  the  Army,  the  Rev.  Robert  Hodson,  Dean  of  Carlisle. 

Secretaries  to  bis  late  Royal   Highness,    Major  T.  Maling,    P.  Digbton,  Esq. 

Lieut.-Co].  G.  Disbrowe. 
Equerries  to  Prince  Leopold,  Duke  of  Sussex,  Duchess  of  Kent,   and  Duke  of 

Clarence. 
Assistant  Quarter-master-general,  Assistants  Anjutant-general, 

Lieut.-Colosiel  J.  Freeth.  Lieut.-Cols.  Macgrigor  and  D'Aguilar. 

Aids-de-camp  to  his  Majesty,  Cols.  Trench  and  Thornton. 
Aid»-de-camp  to  his  late  Royal  HigbneM,  Lt.-Cols.  F.  Russell,   T.  Armstrong, 

Hon.  G.  Anson,  Col.  Sir  H.  F.  Cooke. 

Deputy  Quarter-master-general,  Deputy  Adjutant-general, 

Sir  R.  D.  Jackson.  Maj.-gen.  J.  Macdonald. 

Lieut.-Govemor  of  Chelsea  Hospital,        Governor  of  the  Royal  Military  College, 

Sir  A.  Hope.  Sir  E.  Paget. 

Quarter- master-gen.  Sir  J.  W.  Gordon-.  Adjutant*gen.  Sir  H.  Torrent. 

Equerries  to  the  King,  Miy.Gen.  Sir  G.  A.  Quentin,  Lt.-Geii.  Bayly. 

Clerk-marshal  and  First  Equerry  to  the  King,  Lt.-Gen.  Sir  F,  T.  Hammond. 

Equerries  to  his  late  Royal  Highness,  C.  C.  Smith,  Esq.  Maj.  Gen.  Hon.  A.  P.Upton. 

Master  of  the  Buck-hounds,  Lord  Maryborotigh, 
Grooms  of  the  Bedchamber  to  his  Majesty,  Col.  Whatley,   Hon.  Col.  King,   Hon. 
A.  C  Bradshaw,  Lt.-Gen.  Sir  W.  Huustoun,  Lt.-Gen.  Hon.  Sir  W.  Lumley,  Maj.» 
Gen.  Sir  A.  F.  Barnard,  Adm.  Sir  E  Nagle,  Gen.  Sir  W.  Keppel, 

Gen.  the  Hon.  E.  Finch. 

Master  of  the  Robes  to  his  Majesty,  Earl  of  Mountcbarles. 

Portuivants :  Rouge-croix,  R.  Lawrie,  Esq. ;  Blue-mantle,  W.  Woods,  Esq.  F.S.A* 

Ronge-dragon,  P.Townsend,  Esq.  F^.A. ;  Portcullis,  J.  Pulman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

King's  Sol.-i^en.  Sir  N.  C.  Tindal.  King's  Att.-gen.  Sir  C.  Weiherell. 

Cooiptroller  of  his  Majesty's  Houiehold,         Treasurer  of  his  Majesty's  Household^ 

by  the  Deputy,  T.  Brent,  Esq.  Ri«  Hon.  W.  H.  Fremantle. 


tPt  Q)iittJXRT.~J7.  KB.  ike  Duke  of  YatU:>  \l^xi. 

t  Herddi  of  .AMm. 

LMcwter,  G.  F.  BeJts^  et(|.     WindMr,  F.  Martin,  esq.     York.  C.  O.  Yoanf ,  esq. 

Judge-Martbal  of  hii  Majesty's  Poroety  Sir.  J,  Beckett. 

The  Lord  Chief  Baton,  Sir  W.  Alexander. 

The  Master  of  tbe  Rolls,  Sir  J.  S.  Copley. 

The  Paymiister-gencral  to  the  Forces,  Rt.  Hon.  W.  V.  Fitzfcerald. 

Lords  of  the  Bedchamber  to  his  Majesty,  Lords  Graves  and  Loraiiie, 

Vise.  Uke,  and  Earl  De  la  Warr. 

The  Secretary  at  War,  Viscount  PAltnerston. 

Bisbop  of  Llandaff,  Dr.  Sumner.  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  Hon.  G.  Pelbam. 

Chancellor  of  tbe  Order  of  the  Garter,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  Dr  Carey. 

.  Dr.  Burf^s,  Bp.  of  Salisbury.  Bishop  of  London,  Dr.  Howley. 

Heralds :  —Somerset,  J.  C.  Disney,  esq.    Richmond,  J.  Hawker,  esq. 

The  Minister  of  State  of  Hanover,  Count  Monster, 

His  Grace  the  Archbishop  of  York,  Dr.  H.  Vernon. 

Norroy  Kin^  of  Arms,  by  G.  M.  Leake,  Chester. 

Captain  of  the  Yeoman  Guard,  Earl  of  Macclesfield. 

Groom  of  the  Stole  to  bis. Majesty,  Marquis  of  Winchester. 

The  Lord  Steward  of  bis  Majesty's  Household,  the  Marquis  of  Conyngham. 

Choir  of  Windsor. 
Prebendaries  of  Windsor. 
The  Dean  of  Windsor,  ihe  Hon.  H.  L.  Hubart,  D.  D. 
Tbe  Baton  of  bis  Royal  Highness  as  Field-marshal,  and  the  Coronet,  tome  each 
on  black  velvet  cushions,  by  Field-marshal  Earl  Harcourt,  and  Norroy  Kin«f  at 
Arms,  E.  Lodge,  esq.  (acting  for  Clarencleux),  next  followed,  supported  by  Gen- 
tlemen-uffbers  to  the  King,  and  surrounded  by  the  six  banners,  of  Albany,   tbe 
White  Horse  of  Hanover,  tbe  Falcon  and  Fetterlock,  the  White  Rose,  the.  Crest, 
and  tbe  Arms,  each  carried  by  Cols.  W.  Elphinstone,  Sir  J.  Harvt-y,  J.  T.  Junes, 
Sir  A.  Dickson,  Sir  H.  Hardinge,  and  Lord  Downes. 
The  Eart  Marshal,  tbe  Duke  of  Norfolk. 
The  Lord-chamberlain  and  Vice-ebamh^rlain  of  bis  Majesty's  Household,  the 

Duke  of  Montrose  and  Marquis  Graham, 
escorted  by  Gentlemen-ushers  of  the  Privy-cbamber. 

THE  BODY, 
covered  with  a  black  velvet  pall,  adorned  with  eight  escutcheons  of  tbe  Arms  of 

his  late  Royal  Highness, 
carried  by  Ten  Yeomen  of  tbe  Guard,  under  a  Canopy  of  black  velvet. 
Tbe  Pail-bearers  were  six  Dukes,— .  Beaufort,  Rutland,  Dorset,  Newcastle,  North- 
umberland, and  Wellington  f  and  the  Supporters  of  tbe  Canopy  eight  GeneraU,-^ 
the  Marquis  of  Anglesea,  the  Earls  of  Cavan,  Ludlow,  Rosslyn,  and  Catbcart, 

Lords  Lynedoch,  Hill,  and  Howden. 
J.  Sharper,  esq.      Garter  King  of  Arms,  Sir  G.  Nayler,       Sir  H.  Halliday. 

THE  CHIEF  MOURNER, 

H.  R.  H.  tbe  Duke  of  Clarence,  in  a  long  black  cloak,  with  the  Star  of  tbe  Order 

«  of  tbe  Garter  embroidered  thereon,  wearing  the  collars  of  the  Garter,  Bath, 

Thistle,  and  Guelphic  orders  f  supported  by  the  Marq.  of  Hertford  and  Camden. 

Trainbearers,  Marq.  of  Salisbury  and  Londonderry. 

Assistants  to  tbe  Chief  Mourner,    Eight  Peers  :    Earls   of  Shaftesbury,  Jersey, 

•    Warwick,  Batbur^t,  Clarendon,  and  Verulam,  Vise  Melville  and  Sidinouth. 
Their  Roval  Highnesses  the  Dukes  of  Sussex  and  Gloucester,  in  long  black  cloaks, 
with  tbe  Star  of  the  Order  of  the  Garter  embroidered  thereon,  wearing  their 
collars,  their  trains  eafch  borne  by  two  of  their  Equerries. 

Tbe  Executors  to  his  late  Royal  Highness,  Sir  H.  'Taylor  and  Lt-Col.  Stephenson. 

His  Majesty's  Ministers:  Right.  Hon.  W.  Huskisson,  C.  W.  Wynn,  Geo.  Canning, 

R.  Peel ;  Lord  Privy-seal,  Lord  Westmoreland;  Lord  High  Chancellor, 

tbe  Right  Hon.  Lord  Eldon. 
Private  Friends  of  bis  late  Royal  Highness,  &c. 
Gent  lemen-  ushers. 
Gentlemen  Pensioners,  with  their  axes  reversed. 
Yeomen  of  the  Guard,  with  partisans  reversed. 
*  [There  were  also  present  tbe  Dukei  of  St.  Alban's,  Leeds,  Devonshire,  and 
Argyll,  the  Marquisser  of  Thomond,  Worcester,  and  Cbandos,  Earls  of  Ornnind, 
Belfast,  and  Brecknock,  Lords  Howard  of  Effingham,  Foley,  Alvanley,  Grantham,. 
Kamborpogbi  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Ciimmdns,  &r.  die.  Ac] 


I«f70 


Obituary.— H:  it  H.  the  Duke  of  Tqfk. 


SI 


.  Tbe  mo&t  solemn  silence  was  pre- 
served (luring  ihe  advance  of  the  pru- 
cessiun,  and  by  the  time  that  those  who 
composed  the  rear  had  rpache<l  the 
choir,  the  first  part  of  the  Burial  Ser- 
vice had  terminated.  The  coffin  was 
then  placed  n«>ar  the  entrance  to  the 
Royal  vault,  the  foot  bein^  direcied  to- 
ward<  I  he  altar.  The  Duke  of  Clarence 
sat  at  the  head  as  chief  mourner,  the 
Dukes  of  Sussex  and  Gloucester  being 
on  his  rif;ht  and  left. 

The  venerable  Earl  Harcourt,  who 
bore  (he  Baton  of  his  laie  Royal  Hif;h- 
uess,  stood  at  the  foot  of  the  coflin,  op- 
posite the  Chief  Mourner.  The  Lord 
Chftiuberlaiii  was  in  the  same  position. 
'J  he  Duke  ot  Wellington,  who  supported 
the  pall  first  on  the  lelt  hand,  retained 
bi«  place  with  tbe  other  five  Dukes  who 
were  pall-bearers,  on  the  sid*  s  of  the 
coffin.  The  six  banners,  which  were 
carried  by  Colonels  in  tbe  Army,  were 
arranged  between  the  coffin  and  the 
altar.  The  Bishops  took  their  seats  in 
the  stalls  nearest  the  east  end) — the 
Marquis  Conyngham,  Lord  Steward, 
<HM*upied  one  uf  the  lower  stalls  near  the 
pUce  of  interment ; -^  the  Canons  of 
Windsor  sat  in  the  stalls  near  the  organ, 
unilerthe  Knights'  stalls;  and  the  Dean 
stuo<l,  in  the  earlier  part  of  the  service, 
tsnder  the  Sovereign's  stsll.  The  Master 
of  the  RolU  and  the  Chief  Baron  sat  on 
Che  south  side  of  tbe  choir  ;  a»  did  also 
the  Earl  of  Westmoreland,  Mr. Canning, 
Mr.  Huskisson,  Mr.  Cruker,  &c. 

The  arran£;enients  having  bt-en  com- 
pleted, the  Lay  Clerk  and  Choristers 
vhaunted  the  proper  Psalm.  The  Lesson 
was  then  read  by  the  Hon.  and  Rev.the 
Dean ofWin(lsor;afterwhich  the  beautiful 
anthem  by  Kent,  from  the  55th  I'salm, 
was  6ung  in  the  most  impressive  manner. 

The  solemn  ceremony  of  interment 
was  then  performed.  The  lowering  of 
the  coffin  into  its  last  awful  receptacle 
was  a  crisis  which  bhook  the  firmness  of 
ikany. —  Part  of  Handel's  Anthem,  com- 
posed for  the  funeral  of  Queen  Caroline, 
wife  of  George  II.  was  then  sung  : 

QUARTETTO. 

When  the  ear  heard  him,  then  it 
blesied  him.  And  when  the  eye  saw 
him,  it  gave  wiin^ss  >  f  him. 

CIIORL'S. 

He  delivered  the  poor  that  cried,  the 
falherleKji,  Hitd  him  that  had  none  to  help 
him.  Kindness,  meekness,  and  cum* 
fort  Mere  in  his  tongue.  Ifiherewas 
any  virtue,  and  if  there  was  any  praise, 
he  thought  on  those  thini;s. 
gUARTETTO. 

His  body  is  buried  in  peace. 

CH0HU8. 

But  bis  name  liveth  evermore.  Ameo. 
Gent.  Mag.  January^  18€7. 

11 


— ^The  Dean  read  the  remainder  of  the 
Burial  Service,  which  being  coticluded, 
Sir  George  Nayler,'GarterKingor  Arm*, 
proclaimed  his  Royal  Uigbness't  style 
as  follows: 

**  Thus  it  has  pleased  Almighty  God 
to  take  out  of  this  transitory  life  unto 
his  Divine  Mercy,  the  late  most  high, 
most  mi|;hty,  and  illustrious  Prince, 
Frederick  Duke  of  York  and  Albany, 
Earl  of  Ulster,  Knight  of  the  Most  Noble 
Order  of  the  Garter,  First  and  Principal 
Knight-Grand-Cross  of  the  most  Ho* 
nourahle  Military  Order  of  the  Btth, 
Knight-GrAnd-Cross  of  the  Royal  Hano- 
verian Guclphic  Order,  and  next  brother 
of  the  most  high,  most  mighty,  and 
most  excellent  Majesty,  George  the 
Fourth,  by  ihe  grace  of  God,  of  the 
United  Kin*i:doni  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland  Kutg,  Defender  of  the  Faith, 
Kine:  of  Hanover,  aud  Duke  of  Bruns- 
wick and  Lunenhurgh ;  whom  God  bless 
and  prfservc  with  long  life^  health,  and 
honour,  and  all  worldly  happiiifss!" 

The  day  was  observed  throughout  the 
kingdom  as  one  of  mourning.  Business 
was  every  where  su«pended,  and  in  seve- 
ral places  funeral  sermons  were  delivered 
in  the  Churches.  There  was,  however, 
scarcely  a  sermon  delivered  on  the  fol- 
lowing Sabbath,  in  which  some  allusion 
was  not  made  to  this  grand  national 
mi«fwr(une. 

The  best  port  raits  of  the  Duke  of  York 
recently  puldished  are : 

Painted  by  Engraved  by 

I.  SirT.  Lawrence  Doo 

%  A.  Geddes  Hodgetts 

3.  J.  Jackson,  R.A.  Turner 

4.  Ditto  Reynolds 

5.  Wivell  Thompson 
0*.  Ditto  Luptoji. 

The  paper,  of  which  the  following  \%  a 
copy,  now  lies  on  the  table  of  tbe  Uni- 
ted Service  Club.  It  has  already  re- 
ceived several  hundred  names  of  the 
highest  rank,  and  there  is  no  doubt  of 
every  member  of  the  Club  uniting  hand 
and  heart  in  the  measure  : 

*'  London,  Jan.  6. 

'*  We,  the  undersigned  members  of 
the  United  Service  Club,  feeling  most 
deeply  the  loss  sustained  by  tbe  nation, 
and  by  us,  by  the  lamented  death  of  h\% 
Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  York,  and 
being  most  anxious  to  perpetuate  to 
posterity  the  profound  respect  and  es- 
teem in  which  we  hold  his  memory,  pro- 
pose a  voluntary  subscription  to  be  en- 
tered into,  to  defray  the  expence  of 
ercciin?  a  marble  statue  to  be  presented 
to  the  United  Service  Club,  aud  to  be 
placed  in  the  new  Club-house  ahout  to 
be  built,  as  a  mark  of  tbe  high  respect 


69 


Obituaet.— H.  R.  H.  theDukeo/Yifrk. 


[Jaii. 


wbtcb  we  entertain  of  the  late  illuitrioue  laigbt  in  tbe  eontM  of  a  moMh  be  a  field- 

mid  ID ucb-es teemed  ConmianderiitChief ;  o&er,  if  hU  frieodi  were  disposed  to  be 

jand  in  order  to  afford  erery  member  the  Itbersl  of  money    and    Influence.    Otherk 

gratification  of  sharing  in  this  mark  of  there  were,  against  whom  there  could  be  no 

respect,  it  is  requested  that  no  larger  complaint  for  want  of  length  of  service,  aK- 

•um  than  two  guineas    shall    be    sub-  though  it  might  lie  difficult  to  see  how  their 


scribed  by  any  one  member." 

It  is  hardly  necess^iry  to  add,  that  a 
thing  called  **  A  Posthumous  Letter  of 
bii  Royal  Highness  tbe  Duke  of  York," 
which  has  been  published  since  his  Royal 
Highness's  demise,  w.is  neither  written 
nor  dictated  by  his  Royal  Highness. 

Character  op  the  Duke  of  York, 

By  the  Author  of  IVacerley. 

In  the  person  of  his  Royal  Highness  the 
Duke  of  York,  we  may  justly  say,  in  the 
language  of  Scripture,  **  there  has  fallen 
this  d»y  in  our  Israel  a  Prince  and  a  Great 
^an.'*  He  has  from  an  early  |>eriod  of  his 
manhood)  performed  a  most  important  part 
in  public  life.  In  the  early  wars  of  the 
French  Rcfolution*  he  commanded  the  Bri- 
jtish  forces  on  the  Continent ;  and  although 
We  claim  not  for  his  memory  the  admiration 
due  to  the  rare  and  hiph  gifts  which  iri  our 
latter  times  must  combine  to  form  a  military 
genius  of  the  first  order,  yet  it  has  never 


I 


experience  was  improved  by  it.     It  was  no 
uncommon  thing  for  a  commission   to  be 
obtMned  for  a   child  in  the    cradle;    and 
wlien  he  came  from  college,  the  fortunate 
youth  was  at  least  a  lieutenant   of  some 
standing,   by   dint  of  fair  promotion.     To 
sura  up  this  catalogue   of  abuses,  commis- 
sions were  in  some  instances  bestowed  upon 
oung  ladies,  when    pensions  could   not  be 
laJ.     We   know  ourselves   one   fair   dame 
who  drew  the  j)ay  of  Captain  in   the         ■ 
dragoons,  and  was  probably  not  much  less 
fit  for  the  service  than  some  who  at  tbat 
period  actually  did  duty  ;  for,  as   we  have 
said,  no  knowledge  of  any  kind  was  demanded 
from  the  young  officers.     If  they  desired  to 
improve  tliemselves  in  the  elemental  parts  of 
their  profession,   there  was  no  means  open 
either  of  direction  or  of  instruction.     But 
as  a  zeal  for  knowledge  rarely  exists  where 
its  attainment  brings  no  credit  or  advantage, 
the  gHV  young  men  who  adopted  the  military 
profession  were  easily  led  into  the  &shion  of 
thinking  that  it  was  pedautry  to  be  master 


been  disputed,  that  in  the  field  his  Royal     even  of  the  routine  of  the  exercise  which 
Highness    displayed    intelligence,    military       *  i  ••   .  i  -  i»  a_    :_._ii: 

•kill,  and  his  family  attribute,  the  most  un- 
alterable courage.  He  had  also  the  uni- 
i^rsal  testimony  of  the  army  for  his  efforts 
to  lessen  the  distresses  of  the  privates,  du- 
ring the  horrors  of  an  unsuccessful  cam- 
paign, in  which  he  acquired,  and  kept  to  his 
death,  the  epithet  of  the  Soldier's  Friend. 

But  it  is  not  on  account  of  these  early 
services  that  we  now,  as  boldly  as  our  poor 
voice  may,  venture  to  bring  forward  the  late 
Duke  of  York's  claims  to  the  perpetual 
gratitude  of  bis  country,  it  is  as  the  re- 
^rmer  and  legencrator  of  the  British  army, 
.which  ho  brought  from  a  state  nearly  allied 
.to  general  contempt  to  such  a  pitch  of  ex- 
cellence, that  we  may  without  much  hesita- 
tion claim  fur  them  an  equality  with,  if  not 
fk  superiority  over,  any  troops  in  Europe. 


they  were  obliged  to  perform.     An   intelli- 
gent Serjeant  whispered  from  time  to  time 
the  word   of  command,    which  his  captain 
would  have   been  ashamed  to  have  known 
without  prompting;  and  thus  tlie  duty   of 
the  field-day  was  huddled  over  rather  than 
I'lerformed.     It  was  natural,  under  such  cir- 
cumstances, that  the  pleasures  of  the  mess, 
or  of  tbe  card  or  billiard  table,  should  oc- 
cupy too  much  of  the  leisure  of  those  who 
had  so  few  duties   to  perform, — and  that 
extravagance,  with  all  its  disreputable  con- 
sequences, should   be  the  characteristic  of 
many  ;   while  others,  despairing  of  promo- 
tion, which  could  only  be  acquired  by  m(iney 
or  influence,  sunk  into  mere  machines,  |>cr- 
fortuing  without  hope  or  heart  a  tastk  which 
they  had  learned  by  rote. 

To  this  state  of  things,  by  a  succession  of 


The  Duke  of  York  had  the  firmness  to  look     well-considered   and    effectual   rei^ulations. 


into  and  examine  the  causes,  which,  ever 
^ince  the  American  war,  though  arising  out 
of  circumstances  existing  long  before,  had 
gone  as  far  to  destroy  the  character  of  the 
British  army,  as  the  natural  good  materials 
of  which  it  is  composed  would  permit.  The 
heart  must  have  been  bold  that  did  not  de- 
spair at  the  sight  of  such  an  Augean  stable. 

In  the  first  place,  our  system  of  purchas- 
ing commissions,-— itself  an  evil  in  a  mili- 
.  tary  point  of  view,  and  yet  indispensable  to 
the  freedom  of  the  country, — had  been 
stretched  so  far  as  to  open  the  way  to  every 
sort  of  abme.  No  science  was  required,  no 
service,  no  pnvfon^  experience  whatever; 
t  be  boy,  l9%htn&frof0^  tcboolthe  last  week^ 


the  Duke  of  York  put  a  stop  with  a  firm  yet 
gentle  hand.  Terms  of  service  were  fixed 
fur  every  rank,  and  neither  influence  nor 
money  were  permitted  to  force  any  indivi- 
dual forward,  until  he  l\ad  served  the  neces- 
sary time  in  the  present  grade  which  he 
held.  No  rank  short  of  that  of  the  Duke 
of  York — no  courage  and  determination  in- 
ferior to  that  of  his  Royal  Highness— could 
have  accomplished  a  change  so  important  to 
the  service,  but  which  yet  was  so  imfavoura* 
ble  to  the  wealthy  and  to  the  powerful, 
whose  children  and  protog^  had  formerly 
found  a  brief  way  to  promotion.  'I'hus  a 
protection  was  afforded  to  those  officers 
who  coald  only  hrpe  to  rise  by  noerit  "aod 


M87.]                Obitvaet.— H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  York.                    SS 

kagth  of  tervict;  vhileafe  the  Mme  tinM  into  raotioy),  irut  aboUslied*   aiul  itriol 

iIm  jmiBg  ■spirant  was  compelled  to  die-  eleanlioett  was  substituted  for  a  Hottentot 

•fanvga  the  duties  of  a  subaltern  before  at-  head-dress  of  ulluw  and  flour.    The  pay  of 

f  *"'^g  the  higher  commusions.  the  soldier  was  augmentedi  while  care  was 

-    In  other  respects,  the  iDfluencc  of  the  at  the  same  time  taken  that  it  shouIJ,  as  £ur 

Commander-in-Chief  was  found  to  have  the  as  possible,  be  expended   in  bettering   hia 


M   gradual    and    meliuratiag    influence,  food    and    extending    hia    comforts.     The 

Tlie  vicissitudes   of  real  service,   and  the  slightest  complaint  on  the  part  of  a  privata 

•acrgencies  to  which  individuals   are  ex-  sentinel  wai  as  regularly  inquired  into,  as  if 

poaed,  began  to  render  ignorance  unfasbion-  it  had  been  preferred  by  a  general  officer* 


•bie, — as  it  was  speedily  found,  that  mere     Lastly,  the  use  of  the  cane  (a  bruul  prac- 
Taloar»  however  flery,  was  unable,  on  such     ticc  which  our  officers  borrowed  from  th* 


occasions,  for  the  extrication  of  those  en-  Germans)  was  entirely  prohibited ;  and 

gaged  in  them  i  and  that  they  who  koew  gular  corporal  pimislunents  by  the  sentenca 

their  duty  and  discharged  it,  were  not  only  of  a  cuurt-martial  ba«e  been  gradually  di- 

most  secure  of  victory  and  safety  in  action^  minishcd. 

but    most  distinguished  at  head-quarters.         If,  therefore,  we  find  in  the  modem  firi- 

•nd    most   certain  of  promotion.     Thus  a  tish  officer  more  information,  a  more  rcgu- 

for  studying  mathematics,  and  calcula-  lar  course  of  stu.ly,  a  dee{.er  acquointanca 


tioos  applicable  to  war,  was  gradually  intro-  with  the  prlnoij-K's  of  bis  profession,  and  a 

duced   into  the  army,  and  carried  by  some  greater  I uve  for  it;»  ex' riioiis— il'we  find  chf 

efficers  to  a  great  length;  while  a  perfect  private  sentiDel  discharge   bis  duty  Mlth  a 

acquaintance  with  the  routine  of  the  field-  mind  unembittcred  by   petty  vexations  and 

day  was  positively   demanded  from    every  regimental  exertiuus,  conscious  of  immunity 

officer  in  the   service  a«  an  indispensable  fiom  capricious  violence,  and  knowing  whert 

qiialificauou.  to  appeal  if  he  sustains  injury — if  we  find 

His  Royal  Highness  also  introduced   a  in  all  ranks  of  the  army  a  love  of  their  pro- 

fpecies  of  moral  discipline  among  the  officers  fession,  and  a  capacity  of  matching  them-* 

of  our  army,  which  had  the  highest  conse-  selves  with  the  finest  troops  which  Europa 

quences  on  their  character.     Persons  of  the  ever  produced, — to  the  memory  of  his  Royal 

eld  school  of  Captain  Plume  and  Captain  Highness  the  Duke  of  York  we  owe  thia 

Braxen,  men  who  swore  hard,  drank  deep,  change  from  the  state  of  the  furcea  thirty 

bilked  tradesmen,  aud  plucked  pigeons,  were  years  since. 

no  longer  allowed  to  arrogate  a  character         The  means  of  improving  the  tactics  of  the 

which  they  c<iuld  only  support  by  deep  oaths  British  army  did  not  escape  his  Royal  High- 

and  ready  swords.     If  a  tradesman,  whose  ness's  sedulous  care  aud  attention.  Formerly 

boll  was  unpaid  by  an  officer,  tliought  pro-  every   commanding  officer  manoeuvred  hia 

per  to  apply  to    the    Horse-Guards,    the  regiment  after  his  own  fashion  t    and  if  a 

debtor  received  a  letter  from  bead-quarters,  brigade  of  troops  were  brought  together,  ift 

requiring  to  know  if  there  existed  any  ob-  wasvery  doubtful  whether  they  could  execute 

jecttons  to  the  accompt,  and   failing  b'ls  any  one  combined  movement*  and  almoal 

rendering  a  satisfactory  answer,  he  was  put  certain   that  they  could  not  execute    the 

on  stoppages  nntil  the   creditor's  demand  various  parts  of  it  on  the  same  principle. 

was  satisfied.     Repeated  applications  of  this  This  was  remedied  by  the  system  of  regular* 

kind  might  endanger  the  officer's  commis-  tiona  compiled  by  the  late  Sir  David  Dun* 

sion,  which  was  then  sold  for  the  payment  of  das,  and  which  obtained  the  sanction  and 

his  creditors.     Other  delinquencies  were  at  countenance  of  his  Royal  Highness.    This 

the  same  time  adverted  to ;    and  witliont  one  circumstance,  of  giving  a  uniform  pria^ 

maintaining  an  inquisitorial  strictness  over  ciple  aud  mode  of  working  to  the  diffsrenl 

the  officers,  or  taking  too  close  inspection  bodies,  which  are  after  all  but  parts  of  the 

of  the  mere  gaities  and  follies  of  youth,  a  same  great  machine,  was  in  itself  one  of  the 

eomplaint  of  any  kind,  implying  a  departure  most  distinguished  services  which  could  be 

from  the  character  of  a  gentleman  and  a  rendered  to  a  national  army }  and  it  is  only 

man  of  honour,  was  instantly  inquired  into  surprising   that,  before  it  was  introduced, 

by  the  Commander-in-Chief,  and  the  delin-  the  British  army  was  able  to  execute  any 

quent  censured  or  punished,   as   the  case  coml)ined  movements  at  all. 
aeemed  to  require.  We  cau  but  notice  the  Duke  of  York's 

The  private  soldiers  equally  engaged  the  establisbmeu  tnear  Chelsea  ita  tlie  Orphans 

attention  of  his  Royal  Highness.     In  the  of  Soldiers,  the  cleanlineu  and  discipline  of 

course  of  his> superintendence  of  the  army,  a  which  are   a  model  for  such  institutions; 

military  dress,  the  most  absurd  in  Europe,  and  the  Royal  Military  School,  or  College, 

was  altered  for  one  easy  and  comfortable  for  at  Sandhurst,  where  every  species  of  scien* 

the  men,  and  suitable  to  the  hardships  they  tific  instruction  is  afforded  to  those  officers 

are  exposed  to  in  actual  service.    The  severe  whom  it  is    desirable    to  qualify  for    the 

and  rexatious  rules  exacted  about  the  tying  service  of  the  Staff.    The  excellent  oflieers 

of  baity  and  other  trifling  punctilios  (which  who  have  been  formed  at  this  Iustitutioo» 

bad  bMD  found  sometinei  to  goad  troops  fn  the  best  pledge  of  what  is  doe  to  its 


84 


OBitUAKY.— H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  York. 


(Jan. 


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ftnmder.  Again  wa  repeat  that,  if  the  Bri- 
tith  »oldier  meets  his  foreijpn  adversary,'  not 
ubIj  with  eqnal  courage*  but  with  equal 
'readiness  and  facility  of  manoeuvre— if  the 
British  officer  brings  against  his  scientific 
antagonist,  not  only  his  own  good  heart  and 
hand,  but  an  improved  and  enlightened 
Icnowled^e  of  his  prufession — to  the  memory 
of  the  Duke  of  York,  the  army  and  tlie 
country  owe  them. 

The  ctmractcr  of  his  Royal  Highness  was 
admirably  adspted  to  the  task  of  tills  ex* 
tended  reformation,  in  a  branch  of  the 
)uhlic  service  on  which  the  safety  of  Eng- 
and  absolutely  depended  for  the  time. 
Without  possessing  any  brilliancy,  his  jtidg- 
ment,  in  itself  clear  and  steady,  was  inflexi- 
bly guided  by  honour  and  principle.  No 
solicitations  could  make  him  promise  what 
it  would  have  been  inconsistent  with  these 
principles  to  grant ;  nor  could  any  circum- 
stances induce  him  to  break  or  elude  the 
promise  which  he  had  once  given.  At  the 
•arae  time,  his  feelings,  humane  and  kindly, 
were,  on  all  possible  occasions,  accessible 
to  the  claims  of  compassion ;  and  there 
occurred  but  rare  instances  of  a  wife  widow- 
ed, or  a  family  rendered  orphans,  by  the 
death  of  a  meritorious  officer,  without  some- 
thing being  done  to  render  their  calamities 
more  tolerable. 

As  a  atatesman,  the  Duke  of  York,  from 
his  earliest  appearance  in  public  life,  was 
Ifuided  by  the  opinions  of  Mr.  Pitt.  But 
two  circumstances  are  worthy  of  remark : 
First,  that  his  Royal  Highness  never  per- 
mitted the  consideration  of  politics  to  in- 
fluence him  in  his  department  ofCommandcr- 
in-Chief,  but  gave  alike  to  Whig  as  to  Tory, 
the  preferment  their  service  or  their  talents 
deserved ;  Secondly,  in  attaching  himself 
to  the  party  whose  object  is  supposed  to  be 
to  strengthen  the  Crown,  his  Koyal  High- 
ness would  have  been  the  last  man  to  invade, 
in  the  slightest  degree,  the  rights  of  the 
People.  The  following  anecdote  may  be 
relied  upon: — At  the  table  of  the  Com- 
mander-in-Chief, not  many  years  since,  a 
young  officer  entered  into  a  dispute  with 

L4eut.-Col. ,  upon  the  point  to  which 

military  obedience  ought  to  be  carried.  **  If 
the  Commander-in-Chief,"  said  the  young 
officer,  like  a  second  Seid,  **  should  com- 
mand me  to  do  a  thing  which  I  knew  to  be 
civilly  illegal,  I  should  not  scruple  to  obey 
him,  and  consider  mvself  as  relieved  from 
all  responsibility  by  the  commands  of  my 
military  superior."  *<  So  would  not  I, ' 
returned  the  gallant  and  intelligent  officer 
who  maintainefi  the  op})osite  side  of  the 
question.  **  1  should  cather  prefer  the  risk 
of  being  shot  for  disobedience  by  my  com- 
manding officer,  than  hanged  for  transgress- 
ing the  laws  and  violating  tlie  liberties  of 
the  country."  «  You  have  answered  like 
y^orself/' said  hit  Kojal  Highness,  whoee 
Mtention  had  batn  «(cr«cted  by  the  vivacity 


of  the  debate ;  and  the  officer*  woukt  de- 
serve both  to  bo  shot  and  hanged  that  should 
act  otherwise.  1  trust  all  British  officers 
would  be  as  unwilling  to  execute  an  illegal 
command,  as  I  trust  the  Commander-in- 
Chief  would  be  incapoble  of  issuing  one." 

The  reli;;ion  of  the  Duke  of  York  was 
sincere,  and  he  was  particularly  attached  to 
the  d<ictrines  and  constituti<m  of  the  Church 
of  England.  In  this  his  Royal  Highness 
strongly  resembled  his  father;  and,  like 
his  father,  he  entertained  a  conscientious 
sense  of  the  obligatioos  of  the  G>runation 
Oath,  which  prevented  him  from  acquiescing 
in  the  further  relaxation  of  the  laws  against 
Catholics. 

In  his  person  and  countenance  the  Duke 
of  York  was  large,  stout,  and  manly  ;  he 
spoke  rather  with  some  of  the  indistinctness 
of  utterance  peculiar  to  his  late  father,  thau 
with  the  precision  of  enunciati(m  which  dis- 
tinguishes the  King,  his  Royal  brother. — 
Indeed,  his  Royal  Highness  resembled  his 
late  Mujcsty  perhaps  the  most  of  any  of 
George  the  Third's  descendants. 

In  social  intercourse  the  Duke  of  York 
was  kind,  courteous,  and  condescending ; 
general  attributes,  we  believe,  of  the  blood 
roval  of  England,  and  well  befitting  the 
Princes  of  a  free  country.  It  jiMiy  be  re- 
membered that  when,  in  *'  day^  of  youthful 
pride,'*  his  Royal  Highness  had  wounded 
the  feelings  of  a  young  nobleman,  ho  never 
thought  of  sheltering  himself  behind  his 
rank,  but  manfully  gave  reparation  by  re- 
ceiving the  (well-nigh  fatal)  firie  of  the 
offended  party,  though  he  declined  to  re- 
turn it. 

We  would  here  glndly  conclude  die  sub- 
ject ;  but  to  complete  a  portrait,  the  shades 
as  well  the  lights  roust  be  inserted,  and  in 
their  foiblrs  as  well  as  their  good  qualities. 
Princes  are  the  property  of  history.  Occu- 
pied perpetually  with  official  duty,  which  to 
the  last  period  of  his  life,  he  discluirc^ed 
with  the  utmost  punctuality,  the  Duke  of 
York  was  peculiarly  negligent  of  his  own 
afiFairs,  and  the  emUirrassroebts  which 
arose  in  consequence,  were  considerably  in- 
creased by  an  imprudent  passion  for  the  turf 
and  for  deep  play.  Those  unhappy  propen- 
sities exhausted  the  fuuds  with  which  the 
nation  supplied  him  liberally,  and  some- 
times produced  extremities  which  must  have 
lieen  painful  to  a  man  of  temper  so  honour- 
able. The  exalted  bright  of  his  rank, 
which  renders  it  doubtless  mure  difficult  to 
look  into  and  regulate  domestic  expendi- 
ture, together  with  the  engrossing  duties  of 
his  Royal  Highness's  office,  may  be  ad- 
mitted as  alleviationa,  but  not  apologies,  for 
this  imprudence. 

A  criminal  passion  of  a  different  nature 
proved,  at  one  part  of  the  Duke's  life, 
naught  with  consequencta  likely  to  affect  hia 
character,  destroy  the  confidence  of  the 
eoimtry  in  his  efforts,  and  blight  the  fair 


i«r.] 


Obitoakt. —  Th€  Martjuett  of  Hoitingt. 


hmntmt  iti  SAtiaiMl  gntitnde,  for  which  ho 
hmd  toiM  so  hard.  It  wu  a  striking  illut- 
tnsion  of  the  ■cntiment  of  Shaktpeare  :— 

The  pods  are  just,  and  of  oor  pleasant  vices 
Make  whijM  to  scourge  us. 

The  Doke  of  York»  roarricd  to  Frederica, 
Prtnceas  Roj&i  of  Prussia,  Sept.  29,  1791, 
lived  with  her  on  terms  of  deceucy,  but  uot 
of  affection  ;  and  the.  Duke  haid  formed, 
wi^  a  female  called  Clarke,  a  connexion 
justifiable  certainly  neither  by  the  laws  of 
religion  nor  morality.  Imprudently  he  suf- 
fiered  this  woman  to  express  her  wishes  to 
him  for  the  promotion  of  two  or  three 
oAcersy  to  whose  preferment  there  could 
lie  other  objcctiuo  than  that  they  were  re- 
commended by  such  a  person.  It  might 
d<»ubtless  have  occurred  to  the  Duke,  that 
the  solicitations  of  a  woman  like  this  were 
not  likely  to  be  disinterested  ;  and,  in  fact, 
she  seems  to  have  favoured  one  or  two  per- 
aoDs  as  being  her  ])aramours, — several  for 
mere  prospect  of  gain,  which  she  had  su- 
bordinate a{;ents  to  hunt  out  for,— and  one 
or  two  from  a  real  sense  of  good  nature  and 
benevolence.  The  examiiiatiiNi  of  this  wo- 
man and  her  various  profligate  intimates, 
before  the  House  of  Commons,  occupied 
that  assembly  for  nearly  three  months,  and 
that  with  an  intenseuess  of  anxiety  seldom 
equalled.  The  Duke  of  York  was  acquitted 
from  the  motion  brought  against  him  hy  a 
majority  of  eighty ;  but  so  strung  was  the 
outcry  against  him  without  doors  —  so 
much  was  the  natiim  convinced  that  all 
Mrs.  Clarke  said  was  true,  and  so  little 
could  they  be  brought  to  doubt  that  the 
Duke  of  York  was  a  conscious  and  partici- 
pant actor  in  all  that  |)er5uu*s  schemes,  that 
his  Koyal  Highness,  seeing  his  utility  ob- 
structed by  pt>pular  prejudice,  tendered  to 
hb  Majesty  the  resignation  of  his  office, 
which  was  accepted  accordingly,  March  30, 
1809.  And  thus,  as  according  to  Solo- 
mon, a  dead  fly  can  p(»llute  the  most  pre- 
cious unguent,  was  the  honourable  fam<f, 
acquired  by  the  services  of  a  lifetime,  ob- 
scured by  the  consequences  of  what  the  gay 
world  would  hare  termed  a  venial  levty. 
The  warning  to  those  of  birth  and  eminence 
is  of  the  most  serious  nature.  This  step 
had  not  lieen  long  taken,  when  the  mist  in 
which  the  question  was  involved  began  to 
disperse.  The  public  accuser  in  the  House 
of  Commons,  Col.  Wardle,  was  detected  in 
some  suspicious  dealings  with  the  principal 
witness,  Mrs.  ("larke,  and  it  was  evidently 
expectation  of  gain  that  had  brought  this 
lady  to  the  bar  as  an  evidence.  Next  oc- 
curred, in  the  calm  moments  of  retrospect, 
the  great  improbability  that  his  Koyal 
Highness  ever  could  know  on  what  terms 
she  negodaud  with  those  in  whose  favour 
•be  solicited.  It  may  be  well  supposed  she 
coac— l<d  the  lootive  for  interesting  herself 
ia  racb  as  were  hit  own  fiirovTcd  r'mh,  and 


•5 

what  greater  probability  was  there,  that  she 
should  explain  to  him  her  mercenary  specu- 
lations, or  distinguish  them  from  the  inter- 
eessioos  which  she  made  upon  more  honour- 
able motives  ?  When  the  matter  of  the 
accusation  was  thus  reduced  to  his  Royal 
Highness*s  having  been,  in  two  or  three 
instances,  the  dupe  of  an  artful  woman, 
men  began  to  see  that,  when  ooce  the  guilt 
of  euteruining  a  mistress  was  acknowledged, 
the  disposition  to  gratify  such  a  person, 
who  must  'always  exercise  a  natural  influ-* 
ence  over  her  paramour,  follows  as  a  matter 
of  course.  It  was  then  that  the  public  com- 
))ared  the  extensive  and  lengthened  train  of 
public  services,  by  which  the  Duke  had  dls- 
tinguished  himself  in  the  management  of 
the  arm},  with  the  tiifling  foible  of  his 
having  granted  one  or  two  favours,  not  in 
themselves  improper,  at  the  request  of  a 
woman  who  had  such  opportunities  to  press 
her  suit ;  and,  doing  his  Royal  Highness 
the  justice  he  well  deserved,  welcomed  him 
back,  in  May  1811,  to  the  situation  from 
which  he  had  beeu  driven  by  calumny  and 
popular  prejudice. 

In  that  high  command  his  Royal  High- 
ness continued  to  manage  our  military  af- 
fairs. During  the  last  years  of  the  most 
momentous  war  that  ever  was  waged,  hb 
Royal  Highness  prepared  the.  most  splendid 
victories  our  annals  boast,  by  an  unceasing 
attention  to  the  character  and  talents  of  the 
officers,  and  the  comforts  and  health  of  the 
men.  Trained  under  a  system  so  admirable, 
our  army  seemed  to  increase  in  efficacy, 
power,  and  even  in  numbers,  in  proportion 
to  the  increasing  occasion  which  the  public 
had  for  their  services.  Nor  is  it  a  less 
praise,  that  when  men  so  disciplined  re- 
turned from  scenes  of  l>attle,  ravaged  count* 
tries,  and  stormed  cities,  they  re-assumed 
the  habi's  of  private  life  as  if  ihey  had  never 
left  them. 

Tliis  superintending  care,  if  no|  the  most 
gaudy,  is  amongst  the  most  enduring  flow- 
ers which  will  bloom  over  the  Duke  of 
York's  tomb.  It  gave  euergy  to  Britain  in 
war,  and  strength  to  her  in  peace.  It  com- 
bined tranquillity  with  triumph,  and  mo- 
rality with  the  habits  of  a  military  life.  If 
our  soldiers  have  been  found  invincible  in 
battle,  and  meritorious  in  peaceful  society 
when  restored  to  its  bosom,  let  no  Briton 
foi^et  that  this  is  owing  to  the  paternal  care 
of  him  to  whose  memory  wo  heie  offer  an 
imperfect  tribute. 


Tub  MAR(^VE8ft  or  Hastings,  K.C. 

A^ot;.  S8.  On  board  bis  Majesty'^ 
ship  the  Revftige,  th(*n  lying  in  Baia 
Bay,  near  Nai^les,  baring  nearly  com- 
pleted his  79d  year,  the  Most  Noble 
Francis  Rawdon  Hastinpy  Marquess  of 
HastiDp>  Earl    of  Rawdon,  Viieovnt 


M                    OMiTUAvr^-^Ths  Marqum  of  Hattmgf.  [Jaa 

l40iiiloun»  Baron  HMtingv,  Betreuz,  Mo«  •Qgiftd  «At  tbe  bloody  fif  bt  of  Bunktr's 

lines*  HuDcerfordf*  aiid  Rawdon,  and  a  Uill,  where  his  conduct  obtaiuod  the 

paroncit,  in  England ;  Earl  of  Moira,  particular  notice  of  General  Burgoyne, 

and  Baron  Rawdon  of  Moira,  co.  Down»  who  was  pleased  to  expresa  in  the  most 

in  Ireland;  Governor  and  ConmanilerT  flattering  terdis  to  the  British  Guvcru- 

In-Cbief  of  Malta  and  its  dependencies}  ment,   tiie  admiration  be   felt  of  our 

Cunitable  and  chief  Governor  of  the  young  ufBcer»  and,  in  a  letter  written  to 

Tower  of  London,  and  Lord*  Lieutenant  EngUnd,  to  make  use  of  this  remark« 

and  Gustos  Rotulorum   of  the  Tower  able  expression  :<r— *'  Lord  Rawdon  has 

division  ;  a  Pnvy*couuseUor,  and  one  of  this  dny  stamped  his  fame  for  life."    In 

the  Council  of  the  King  in  Scotland  and  1775. his  Lordship  was  appointed  to  a 

Cornwall  i  Colonelof  the  37 tb  regiment  company   in  the   63d,   and   aoon   after 

of  foot :    a  Governor  of  the   Charter*  Aid-de-camp     to    Sir    Henry   Clinton, 

house;  K.G.G.C.B.  G.C.H.  FJl.S.F.a.A.  He  was  at  the  bailies  of  Brookl>n  and 

And  M.R.l.A.  White  Plains,  attack  of  Furt  Wa^hing- 

Tbe  family  of  Rawdon,  from   which  ton,   Fort  Clinton,  and  other  affairs  in 

the  Marquess  was  paternally  descended,  177^  and  1777. 

is  of   high  antiquity  at  Rawdon   near  In  1778  Lord  Rawdon  was  nominated 

Leeds.    The  head  of  the  pedigree,  Pau-  Adjutant-General  to  the  British  army  in 

lyn  de  Rawdon,  U  stated  to  have  com*  America,  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 

manded  a  band  of  archers  in  the  servire  Colonel ;  bt*  was  actively  employed  bmh 

of  the  Conqueror ;  and  this  tradition  is  on   the   retreat   of    the    British    army 

alluded  to  in   the  family  arms,  a  fess  through  the  J*trseys  from  Philadelphia 

between  three  pheons  (or  arrow- heads),  to  New  York,  in  the  action  at  Mon- 

and  their  motto ''Nosquoquetelasparsi-  motith  which  fulluwt-d,  and  at  the  siege 

mus."  TheestateofRawdon,  of  which  the  of  ChArleftown. 

Marquess  died  possessed,  is  said  to  have  As  the  American  line  was  chiefly  fom- 
been  the  reward  of  this  faithful  archer^  posed  of  the  very  lowest  order  of  Irish- 
tbough  the  poetical  deed  of  gift  recorded  men,  his  Lordftlii|i  undertook  to  raise  a 
by  Weever,  in  bis  Funeral  Monuments,  corps  at  Philadelphia,  called  the  Vuluii- 
ia probably  fictitious.  George,eighteenth  teers  of  Ireland,  which  ^a%  soon  re* 
in  descent  from  Paulyn,  having  dist in-  cruited  from  the  enemy's  ranks,  and 
guished  himself  by  his  military  services  became  eminently  distinguished  for  its 
In  Ireland,  was  advanced  to  a  baronetcy,  services  in  the  field.  In  the  first  battle 
May  90, 1665,  and  added  to  the  order  in  of  Camden,  under  the  command  of  his 
England,  though  styled  of  Moira  in  the  Lordship,  exactly  one-balf  of  the  regi- 
County  of  Down.  His  great  grandson,  roent  was  killed  or  wounded,  and  in 
Sir  John,  the  fourth  baronet,  was  ad-  that  of  Hobkirk  Hill  a  still  greater  pro- 
vanced  in  17&0  to  an  Irish  Peerage,  by  portion.  The  officers,  who  were  selected 
fbetitleof  Baron  Rawdon  of  Moira;  and  nrom  the  regular  regiments,  could  not, 
having  married  in  1759,  as  his  third  however,  with  all  their  leal  and  abilities, 
wife,  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Hastings,  el-  extirpate  that  desire  of  change  which 
dest  daughter  to  Theophilus,  9th  Earl  impelled  the  men  to  desert,  until  his 
of  Huntingdon,  was  created  in  1761  Lordship  adopted  an  extraordinary  ex- 
Earl  of  Moira.  pedient.  A  man  caught  in  the  act  of 
The  deceased  Marquess,  bis  eldest  son  going  over  to  the  enemy  was  brought 
by  this  latter  union  (bis  two  former  on  the  parade  before  the  whole  regi- 
ladies  having  died  without  male  issue),  ment,  to  whom  he  was  delivered  up  by 
was  born  Dcc.7, 1754.  Having  completed  his  Lordship  in  a  most  impressive  way, 
tils  education  at  Oxford,  and  made  a  short  to  be  iudged,  punished  or  acquitted. 
tour  on  the  continent,  Lord  Rawdon  The  officers  were  ordered  to  withdraw, 
•embraced  the  military  profession,  for  and  leave  every  thing  to  the  private 
which  he  had  felt  an  early  prepossession,  goldiers,  who,  in  a  few  minutes,  hung 
and  entered  the  army  In  1771  as  Ensign  their  offending  comrade  on  the  next 
in  the  15th  foot.  He  obtained  a  Lieu-  tree;  and  the  example  was  most  effec- 
tenancy  in  the   5th  in  1773,  and  em-  tual. 

barked  for  America.    The  first   battle  His  Lordship  was  next  appointed  to 

of  any   importance  in    which   be   was  the  command  of  a  distinct  corps  of  the 

■  V^y  "*  South  Carolina,  which  province 

*  The  ancient  baronies  of  Newmarch,  was  invaded  by  the  Amei.ipan  General, 

Peverel  of  Nottingham,  Moel  of  Cad-  Gates,  and  his  Lordship  had  so  arranged 

burYt  and  De  Hornet,  have  been  added  his  plans,  as  with  a  very  inconsiderabla 

to  tne  above  titles  ;  but  are  not  attri*  &)rce  to  maintain  his  principal  positions, 

bnted  to  the  Marquesa  in  Niqolas'f  8y  Notwithstanding  the  superiority  which 

flopsit  of  the  Peerage-  Sea  sooif  queries  the  enemy  possessed  in  point  of  nuya* 

icspectin^  (hen  19  '^t  UUiiUi*  ii*  ^$S»  ^^  toiDa  favourable  opportunities  wf  re 


1897.] 


OttTVAiT.— 7%«  Mmrqmm  of  BatOitp. 


«t 


not  wftnHnf  t#  htve  indor^d  Him  td 
wnt\L  a  battle,  if  his  own  (rSory  had  been 
coiMoltrd  instead  of  the  public  ^ood  % 
hat  he  adhered  to  the  memuret  con* 
celled  with  Lord  Comwtilis,  who,  on 
reachini^  the  army,  fuond  all  the  forcei 
rollected  and  ctisimted  to  his  utmost 
satisfaction.  At  the  memorable  battle 
of  Camdfti,  which  succeeded  on  the 
16th  of  August,  1780,  Lord  Rawdon 
commanded  one  wine;  of  the  army. 
When  Lord  Cornw«|lii  pursued  soon 
afterwards  the  American  army  towards 
Vir|rini«,  Lord  Rawdon  with  a  very 
small  force,  was  left  to  defend  the  ex- 
terior frontiers  of  South  Carolina  against 
the  provincial  Generals,  Marion  and 
Cumpter ;  but  General  Green,  havinn^ 
contrived  after  the  battle  of  Guilford  to 
turn  Lord  Cornwallis*s  left,  fell  sud- 
denly on  Lord  Rawdon,  who  had  only  a 
few  redoubts  to  defend  his  sick  and 
macazinrs  at  Camden,  The  intention 
of  General  Green  was  evidently  to  carry 
these  by  assault  \  and,  as  this  was  likely 
to  be  attempted  during^  the  ni^^ht,  the 
troops  were  withdrawn  from  tliein  at 
dusk,  and  prepared  to  surprise  the 
eiiemy  on  the  o|>en  ground  at  the  mo- 
ment when  tbev  commenced  their  at* 
tack  on  the  works.  General  Green, 
however,  was  induced  to  act  more  cau- 
tiously, and  wait  fur  the  arrival  of  his 
artillery;  and  Lord  Rawdon,  who  saw 
all  the  difficulty  of  efffCtinjc  a  retreat, 
resolved  to  become  the  af^gresior.  Ac- 
curdinfrty,  on  the  95th  of  April,  1781, 
he  chose  the  hour  of  mid-day  to  make 
his  attempt,  nhen  it  was  least  ex- 
pect! d,  and  his  march  was  concealed  by 
a  circuitous  route  through  thick  woods* 
Having  by  this  sudden  and  rapid  ma- 
noeuvre reached  Hohkirk  Hill,  even 
before  the  American  General  Green  was 
aware  of  his  Lordship's  movements,  and 
who  not  only  supposed  himself  secure 
from  any  attack  on  account  of  the  vast 
superiority  of  his  force,  but  also  from  a 
very  estensive  swamp  which  protected 
him  on  the  weak,  and  perhaps  only 
assailable  point  of  the  hill.  Lord  Raw- 
don approached  with  a  narrow  line  of 
front,  and  the  enemy's  piquets  being 
driven  in,  an  alarm  was  immediately 
spread  through  the  American  camp. 
General  Green,  who  possessed  a  great- 
ness of  mind  far  superior  to  any  other 
of  the  American  generals,  perceived  the 
clanger  of  his  situation,  and  with  the 
utmost  promptitude  decided  upon  the 
nteans  most  likely  to  repel  the  British. 
Finding  that  Lord  Rawdon  adtanced  in 
a  narrow  front,  he  imtnediately  com- 
manded  a  heavy  fire  of  grape-shot  from 
bis  batteries,  and  imder  their  proteetloh 
charged   down   Ho»Mrk  WH.     Lorfl 


Rewden  discerning  Green's  design,  im^ 
nediacehf  extended  the  whole  of  bfi 
line,  and  thus  completely  disconcerted 
the  enemy's  plan.  This  foresight  of 
Lord  Rawdon  gained  him  a  complete 
rictory.  Havi  ng  pu  rsued  t  he  Americans 
to  the  sommit  of  the  hill,  after  silencing 
their  batteries,  he  charged  them,  an4 
put  the  whole  to  the  route.  General 
Green  rallied  his  troops  several  times» 
but  the  continual  charges  of  the  British, 
and  the  ardour  with  which  they  ad- 
vanced on  the  enemy,  were  irresistible, 
and  they  were  put  to  flight  on  all  sides. 
This  success  enabled  Lord  Rawdon  to 
concentrate  his  army,  and,  being  joined 
by  some  reinforcements  from  the  coast, 
he  succeeded  in  driving  the  enemy  to  a* 
considerable  distance;  but  the  capture 
of  Lord  Cornwall's,  which  soon  followed, 
and  the  declining  state  of  our  American 
affairs,  rendered  it  necessary  that  the 
troops  should  be  withdrawn  towards 
Charlestown,  where  both  armies  re- 
mained inactive  from  the  excessive  heat, 
and  perhaps  a  mutual  conviction  that 
the  contest  was  nearly  at  an  end. 

A  severe  and  dangerous  attack  of  ill- 
ness obliged  Lord  Rawdon  to  qnit  the 
army  fur  England,  but  the  vessel  ift 
which  he  embarked  was  captured  and 
carried  into  Brest.  Lord  Rawdon  wa!i 
almost  immediately  released,  and  on  his 
arrival  in  ICngland  was  honoured  with 
repeated  marks  of  distinction  and  kind- 
ness by  his  Sovereign,  who  appointed 
him  one  of  his  Aid-de-camps,  and  waft 
graciously  pleased  to  create  him  an 
English  Peer,  by  the  title  of  Baron 
Rawdon,  of  Rawdon  in  Yorkshire,  March 
5,  1783.  He  had  received  the  rank  of 
Colonel,  Nov.  SO,  1782. 

During  his  Lordship's  command  at 
Charlestown,  an  American  prisonefp 
named  Isaac  Haynes,  who,  not  content 
with  remaining  on  parole,  had  volun- 
tarily taken  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and 
received  his  liberty  on  that  account, 
contrived  in  the  roost  artful  manner  to 
corrupt  a  numerous  body  of  our  militia- 
men, having  first,  in  violation  of  his 
oath,  obtained  the  rank  of  Colonel  in 
the  hostile  army.  The  detection  of  his 
villainy  did  not  take  place  till  the  enemy 
were  already  advancing  on  Charlestown, 
and  when  he  was  carrying  off  bis  band 
of  deserters  to  Join  them.  A  court  of 
enquiry  immediately  set,  entirely  by  the 
direction  of  the  Commandant  of  Charles- 
town, to  whom  this  duty  appertained 
independently  of  Lord  Rawdon,  and 
Haynes  was  publicly  executed,  but  nut 
befbre  his  Lordship  had  endeavoured  to 
procure  the  man's  pardon  by  a  private 
commonication  with  some  It^llsft, 
whom  his  lAmltbi|i  ret|uested  to  |^lt)«n 


w 


0^XTUAiY.-*7A<  Marqum  ofHatiingi, 


[Jan. 


in  bif  behalf.    NotwithttaiMling  his  b«K  the  Ute  General  Sir  Charles  Stewart, 

jnaneesertionsy  be  was  actually  charged  ooe  of  the  best  officers  of  the  age,  uf- 

wlth   being  the  author  of    the'.. man's  fered  to  waive  the  seniority  of  raitk, 

death,  which. was  tefmed  a  wanton  act  -and  be  under  the  command  of  the  Earl 

of  military  despotism.    The  affair  made  of  Muira  on  this  occasion.    But  before 

considerable  noise  at  the  time,  both  in  .any  effective  movements  could  be  made, 

and  out  of  Parliament,  but  bis  Lordship  the   Republicans   bad  triumphed  cuni- 


amply  vindicated  himself,  and  obtained 
an  apology  in  the  House  of  Lords  from 
bis  Grace  the  Duke  of  Richmond. 

In  that  House  Lord  Rawdon  proved 
himself  a  clear  and  able  orator,  and  a 
judicious  man  of  business.  His  bene- 
volent and  (lersevering  exertions  pii  the 
l>ebtor  and  Creditor  Bill,  to  relieve  the 
distresses  of  (>erson8  imprisoned  forsmall 
debts,  will  remain  a  monument  of  pbi- 
'lantbropy  upon  our  parliamentary  re- 
cords ;  while  his  manly  deportment 
throughout  every  debate,  both  in  the 
English  and  the  Irish  Parliament,  proved 
liis  steadiness  as  a  statesman  not  infe- 
j'ior  to  bis  intrepidity  as  a  soldier. 

Having  formed  an  intimate  friend- 
ship with  the  Prince  of  Wales,  bis  Lord- 
ship took  an  active  part  in  the  Prince's 
favour  on  the  memorable  discussions 
respecting  the  Regency;  and  on  the 
\26th  of  December,  1789,  moved  in  the 
House  of  Lords  the  amendment  in  bis 
Royal  Higbness's  favour.  His  speech  on 
this  occasion  may  be  seen  in  vol.  Lix. 
.|).  3^8.  With  the  late  Duke  of  York 
bis  intercourse   was   equally   constant. 


pletely.  The  Earl's  own  expos^  of  the 
enterprise,  made  in  the  House  of  Lords, 
may  be  seen  in  vol.  LXiv.  p.  437. 

In  the  summer  of  1794,  when  the 
situation  of  the  British  army  and  thnc 
of  tbe  allies  in  Flanders  was  extremely 
critical,  and  the  former  was  obliged  lo 
retreat  ibrouf^h  Brabant  to  Antwerp, 
the  Earl  of  Moira  was  dispatched  with 
a  reinforcement  of  10,000  men,  and 
most  fortunately  succeeded  in  effecting 
a  junction  with  tbe  Duke  of  York, 
though  his  Ruyal  Highness  was  then 
nearly  surrounded  by  hostile  furccs  much 
superior  in  number.  Tbe  dispatch  Mhicli 
his  Lordship  bad  employed  ui  embark- 
ing bis  troops  without  either  tent«  or 
heavy  baggage  from  Southampton,  and 
in  debarking  them  at  Ostend,  tbe  30th 
of  June,  1794,  prevented  the  enemy's 
ascertaining  tbe  actual  strength  under 
cis  Lordship's  cummand,  which  was  an 
object  of  serious  importance  ;  and  to 
maintain  it,  the  Earl  directed  bis 
Quarter-masier-gt^neral,  the  late  Gfiu 
Welbure  Ellis  Doyle,  to  issue  orders  that 
quarters  should  be  provided  at  Brugtrs 


md  in  May,  1789»  his  Lordship  acted  as     for  25,000  troop;*,  although  hiit  force  did 


second  to  his  Royal  Highness,  in  his 
duel  with  Lieut.-Col.  Lennox,  the  parti- 
culars of  which  are  given  in  our  Memoir 
of  his  Royal  Highness,  in  p.  70. 
I  In  October  of  the  same  year^  on  tbe 
death  of  his  maternal  uncle  the  Earl  of 
Huntingdon,  he  came  into  possebbion  of 
the  bulk  of  that  nobleman's  fortune; 
.a  very  seasonable  acquisition,  for  by 
bis  great  liberality  be  bad  involved  him- 
.»elf  in  considerable  pecuniary  diflicnl- 
ties.  His  mother  then  succeeded  to  the 
barony  of  Hastings,  and  the  other  ba- 


not  exceed  10,000.  The  delusion  was 
admirably  maintained,  and  the  French 
General  Pichegru,  who  was  in  tbe  vi- 
cinity of  Bruges  with  a  force  much 
greater  than  the  British,  completely 
de«-eived. 

He  soon  afterwards  returned  to  Eng- 
land;  had  a  cummand  little  more  than 
nominal  at  Southampton;  was  regular 
and  active  in  the  dincharge  of  his  par- 
liamentary  duties;  was  accu&tomed  to 
take  tbe  chair  at  masonic  and  other 
anniversarv    meetings ;     and    acquired 


.ronies  in  fee  possessed  by    her  father,     great  popularity  throughout  the  coun- 


while  the  earldom  of  Huntnigilon  was 
.tinrUimed,  and  remained  d<*rtnatit  till 
confirmed  to  tbe  present  Earl  in  1819. 

In  1791  was  published  in  8vo.  the 
substance  of  Lord  Rawdon's  siieecb  in 
the  House  of  Lords,  on  tbe  third  read- 
ing of  the  Bank  Loan  Bill. 

On  the  20th  of  June,  1793,  his  Lord- 
ship succeeded  his  father  as  second  Earl 


try.  As  a  Freemason  his  Lordship  was 
particularly  enthusiastic  and  active ; 
and  from  the  time  the  Prince  of  Wales 
was  elected  Grand  Master,  undertouk 
the  efficient  discharge  of  that  office. 
He  was  the  author  of  an  elegant  ad- 
dress, presented  by  tbe  Grand  Lodge  to 
the  King  in  1793,  which  was  considered 
a  complete    refutation   of   the    charge 


of  Moira,  and  on  the  12tb  ui  October  brought  against  the  brotberhoud  by  Ab- 

Chat  year  be  was  advanced  to  the  rank  b^  Barruel  and  Professor  Robinson. 

4|f  Major-General.    At  tbe  same  period  in    1797    was    published,    in    8vo.  a 

he  was  appointed  Commander-in-chief  Speech  by  Lord  Moira  mi  the  dreadful 

«f  an  army  intended  to  co-operate  with  and  alarming  state  of  Ireland  ;  and  in 

4he  Royalisu  in  BritUny,  and  all  the  1798  appeared  Letters  by  bis  Lordship 

Aiieieot  nobility  of  France  were  to  serve  to  CoL  Mac  Mahon,  on  tlie  subject  of  a 

ffodcrhijB*    it  ia  remarkable  too,  that  chjwge  in  bisM^ty's  Miuisteia.    In 


ia«r.] 


OBiT»AAT^-^n«  Mmrqym$  afUmtings. 


89 


rtview  of  tW  kMer  pMnphlet  {vol. 
%J9UU  fi.  905)  will  be  fuuiid  a  ktmf 
•tateiuevt  of  the  ucfociotiont  to  wliidi 
it  rc4att«l.  Tke  Eori  was  to  have  been 
placed  at  t^  bead  of  the  new  Admiiii»> 
teation,  and  it  baa  been  said  tbat  wben 
bit  pfeatrnt  Majetty  became  Avf^ent  in 
i^i  1,  tbe  Earl  uf  Meira  was  afpiiu  eon* 
■Miaionrd  to  form  aii  admiiiistraiian  of 
nble  and  rai|»«rtial  statesmen  <  but  on 
IvAh  ueensioiM  it  was  foniid  impraeti- 
eable  to  form  sucb  a  coaUtiun  as  be  had 
|jru|ecied. 

la  J80i3  the  Earl  of  Muira  was  ap»- 
fNjitiled  ConiBUiHder*iii-rhicf  in  Scirt- 
land,  and  promoted  to  the  rauk  of  Ge« 
neral,  Oct.  I. 

On  tbe  I  St b  of  July,  1804,  his  Lord^ 
ship  mnrricd  Flora-Muir  Campbell,  tbe 
present  Coantes^  of  Loudoun.  Tbe  ce*> 
reroony  took  place  by  special  licence,  at 
tbe  buu^e  uf  Lady  I'ertb  in  Grusvenor* 
square ;  it  was  performed  by  Dr.  For- 
lews,  tb«fi  Bishop  of  Luiiduii  {  and  tlie 
Prince  of  Wales  fcave  the  bride's  band, 
(see  vol.  LXXiv.  p.  689*) 

ilh  LurdvlUp  bavttig  acted  steadily 
witli  tbe  Opposition,  be  was,  uben  they 
cane  into  power  in  1806,  iippotnie<l  to 
tbv  post  uf  Master-general  of  tbe  Ord- 
uaooe,  in  wbicb  be  cuntiaued  till  ibe 
Tory  party  rcKained  their  ascendancy. 
in  tbe  inquiry  into  tbe  conduct  of  tbe 
Princess  of  Wales,  be  touk  a  most  active 
part  i«i  favour  of  tbe  Prince,  and  ro* 
operated  in  firomotiti^  tbe  investigntion 
o4  thuse  cireurostaticcs  wbicb  were  cmi- 
atdcred  a«  toiplicating  tbe  buHonr  uf  bis 
Royal  Fneud, 

In  1B08  his  LonUbip,  on  tbe  death  of 
bii  muther,  (of  wbom  see  a  sliurt  me- 
moir in  vol.  LXXviii.  p.  461,)  succeeded 
tu  the  anoient  IsngliSb  baronies  enjoyed 
■by  ber;  awl  a  > ear  or  two  after  he  i%as 
bouonrrd  with  the  Order  of  tbe  Garter. 

iu  1812  tbe  -Earl  of  Moira  was  ap- 
^pointed  <»i  the  bigb  and  distinguished 
4^fi&ee  <>f  Goveruor-|(eneral  of  British  In* 
dia.  <Uiider  bis  Lunkliip's  govemuieiit 
limce^  4be  glory  of  our  arms  was  sus* 
toiMed  in  tbe  fkind,  and  Justice  and  be* 
tievolonce  itisiiiigtiiabed  every  measure 
nf  ibe  Cabinet  of  Calcutta.  The  vigor- 
4iua  proseciMtoh  and  successful  acvom- 
plisbnient  of  the  Nepaul  war  was  hia 
siMst  impiirtfiiti  aebie¥«meuc.  Its  eri- 
iniial  object  waa  merely  ibe  Mi|»preiision 
4i4  ilm  Pindnrriifs,  an  a»ao<:iatioH  whose 
tsndiagttiscd  prinetpte  waa  tbe  pluiider 
sif  all  iti  iieigbbunrs  (  but  It  termiuaiedt 
nn  tbe  recent  -Burmeae  war  has  done,  in 
mJditig  gveathr  tn  tbii  territories  of  tbe 
ddonournUe  CDmpany.  Tbe  Earl  biin- 
aelf  declared}  in  nn  ntldress  to  tbe  mhi^ 
iatiims<»f  Caimrtta,  <*  Undonbtedly  yattf 


12 


fewi^r  has  been  prodiginttaly  eUtnnded  by 
tbe  krte  nperutions.  Tbe  Indus  is  noit 
In  affsct  your  frontier!  and,  on  tbe  eon* 
ditions  of  tbe  arrangement,  I  thank 
Heaven  that  it  is  to.  What  is  tbef« 
between  Calcutta  and  tbat  boundary? 
Nothing  but  slates  bound  by  a  sense  of 
common  interest  with  you,  or  a  compn* 
ratively  small  proportion  of  ill-disposed 
population,  rendered  incaiiable  of  raisinf 
a  standard  against  you."  * 

On  the  7th  of  December,  1816,  bit 
Lordship  was  created  Viscount  Loudoun, 
Earl  uf  Rawdon,  and  Marqiies«  of  Has* 
tings  ;  and  on  the  Ctb  of  February  fol« 
lowing  he  was  honoured  with  the  thanks 
of  Parliament  for  his  conduct  in  tho 
Nepaul  war.  Tbe  vote,  together  widi 
some  remarks  on  our  hero's  brilliant 
career,  may  be  seen  in  vol.  LXXXvii.  li* 
340,  eatracted  from  Evans's  **  JEgu  of 
England  )"  as  may  the  similar  eulogies 
of  an  earlier  writer,  Mr.  J.  P.  Rober- 
drau,  in  vul.  lxxv.  p.  152. 

The  Marquess's  health  being  aSeetad 
by  his  residence  in  India,  be  returned  to 
England  in  18£8,  and  was  succeeded  ity 
Lord  (nuw  Earl)  Amherst,  tbe  present 
Governor-  general.  On  the  S2d  of  March, 
18124,  be  was  nominated  Governor  and 
Couimander-in-ekref  of  Malta.  From 
bis  Lordship's  exceasive  liberaliiy-— bit 
unbuunded  generusity — he  ii  known  to 
have  been  more  ur  less  embarrassed  dur» 
ing  life,  and  pecuniary  difficulties  wero 
said  to  have  been  the  chief  cause  of  bis 
appointment,  after  resigning  tbe  prince* 
ly  government  of  India,  to  ibe  compa- 
ratively insignificant  one  be  latterly 
filled.  k\\s  Lordt»hip*s  generosity  and 
benevolence  were  beyond  all  bouiidai 
Ibe  devotion  of  his  property  to  tbe  cause 
of  the  Freneb  emigrants,  and  tbe  ge* 
neral  exercises  ef  charity  and  benefi- 
cence, greatly  impoverished  bim ;  but 
be  was  rich  indeed,  in  that  satisfaction 
wbicb  arisi-s  from  the  practice  of  every 
kind  and  humane  feeling  tbat  can  adorn 
the  human  heart. 

6t>me  weeks  before  bis  doatb  bis 
Lordship  had  met  with  a  fall  from  bis 
horse,  which  produced  very  distressing 
eflEects  on  the  hernia,  from  which  be 
bad  lonr  suflfercd.  The  following  lettof| 
dated  Naples,  Nov.  99,  details  tbe  eirr 
eum^aiicfcs  of  bis  decease :  **  Arrange* 

ments  having  been  made  on  board  tho 

—  ■   II    -       ■      ■     ■  I  .  .» 

•  The  whole  of  tbe  Earl  of  Moira'f 
narrative,  from  which  tbe  above  is  an 
extract,  may  be  seen  in  the  Royal  Mili« 
Ury  Calendar,  voL  i.  pp.  33S— 344.  To 
the  same  work  we  arc  indebted  for  tho 
account  we  have  given  of  bis  Lonlabip'f 
prcviotts  military  exploits* 


«0 


OBiTUART.-p-HMiy  Clme,  esq* 


[Janr. 


Revenge,  for  receiving  tbe  Marquess  of 
Hastings  and  family  on  board,  by  tbe 
officers  giving  up  tbe  ward-room  and 
the  cabins  in  it,  he  was,  on  the  80th, 
brought  down  from  tbe  palace  at  Malta 
to  the  shore  in  a  sofa  arranged  for  that 
purpose,  and  pot  into  the  Admiral's 
barge  and  towed  alongside,  to  prevent 
the  noise  of  the  oars  in  the  boat  in 
which  he  was  i  was  hoisted  in  and  carried 
to  the  cabin  in  the  ward-room  quite 
safelv,  and  at  day  light  next  morning 
ing  Revenge  went  to  sea.  He  was  in 
soch  a  weak  state,  when  brought  on 
board,  that  it  was  quite  wonderful  his 
surviving  one  hour  after  tbe  other.  He 
was  removed  from  Malta  quite  against 
the  opinion  of  all  the  medical  men.  The 
ship  had  fartunately  a  very  quick  and 
very  quiet  passage,  being  only  three 
days  I  but,  on  the  arrival  of  tbe  Revenge, 
he  was  so  ill  that  it  was  found  im- 
possible to  move  him ;  therefore  tbe 
ship  remained  at  Baia  Bay  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  smooth  water,  the  Ad- 
miral as  usual  doing  every  thing  he 
could,  and  putting  himself  to  many  in- 
conveniences. Tbe  Marquess  lingered 
in  the  most  melancholy  state,  showing 
the  greatest  firmness  and  resignation  I 
ever  heard  of;  and  on  the  S8th,  at 
about  eleven  at  nighty  he  breathed  bis 
last,  surrounded  by  bis  unhappy  wife 
and  four  daughters.  His  son  is  not 
here,  but  is  expected  every  hour.  So 
well  was  he  convinced  that  his  time  was 
close  at  hand,  that  be  took  leave  of  his 
children  several  days  before  his  death, 
and  told  bis  medical  man  not  to  give 
him  any  thing  to  prevent  the  event 
taking  place  ar  once,  as  he  was  sure 
nothing  could  save  him.  In  this  noble- 
man's death,  a  wife  has  lost  the  best  of 
husbands,  children  tbe  best  of  fathers, 
and  I  think,  if  possible,  poor  Malta  has 
lost  even  more  ; — the  good  he  has  done, 
and  what  he  had  planned  to  do  for  that 
island,  requires  a  much  more  able  pen 
than  mine  to  explain.  It  may  be  most 
truly  said,  that  tbe  Maltese  have  lost 
tbe  best  friend  and  protector  they  ever 
bad."  Another  letter,  from  an  officer  of 
tbe  Revenge,  states  tbe  following  re- 
markable request  of  the  illustrious  de- 
ceased :  **  The  late  Marquess  of  Has- 
tings, in  a  letter  found  amongst  his 
papers  after  his  death,  requested  that  on 
bis  decease,  his  right  hand  might  be  cut 
off,  and  preserved  until  the  death  of  tbe 
Marchioness,  when  it  was  to  be  interred 
in  tbe  same  coffin  with  her  Ladyship ! 
In  pursuance  of  bis  direction  the  hand 
has  been  amputated." 

The  children  of  the  Marquess  of  Hat- 
tings  and  the  Countess  of  Loudoun,  wert 
two  sons  and  four  daughters,    all  of 


whom,  exeept  tbe  eldest  ton,  survive 
him.  They  were  1.  FIora-EUxabeth, 
bom  in  Queen-street,  Edinburgh,  Feb. 
11,1806;  3.  Francis-George-Augustus, 
Lord  Macblrne  (his  mother's  second 
title),  born  in  St.  James's- place, London, 
Feb.  13,  1807,  and  died  next  day;  jk 
George-Augustus-Francis,  now  Mar- 
quess of  Hastings,  born  in  the  same 
place,  Feb.  4,  1808,  an.d  baptized  on  the 
7th  of  April  following,  his  present  Ma- 
jesty being  one  of  the  sponsors ;  4.  So- 
phia-Frederica-Chrisiina,  born  Feb.  I, 
1809;  5.  SelinaConstantia,  bom  April 
15,  1810;  6.  Adelaide-Augusta- Lavinia, 
born  Feb.  S5,  1813. 

The  Marchioness  intends  remaining 
at  Naples  for  some  time,  and  the  re- 
mains of  the  Marquess,  at  his  Lordship's 
desire,  were  conveyed  to  Malta,  for  in- 
terment, in  his  Majesty's  ship  Ariadne, 
Captain  Fiticlarence. 

At  a  general  meeting  of  tbe  Pro- 
prietors of  East  India  Stock,  which  was 
held  Dec  18,  Sir  Charles  Forbes  ex- 
pressed his  hope  that  the  next  occasion 
on  which  the  Proprietors  should  be  as- 
sembled, would  be  to  pay  sOme  mark  of 
respect  to  the  memory  of  that  great  and 
good  man,  tbe  Marquess  of  Hastings. 
He  was  convinced,  be  said,  that  such  a 
a  proposition  would  be  unanimously 
adopted,  and  he  trusted  that,  ere  twelve 
months  should  elapse,  the  statue  of  that 
lamented  and  noble  individual  would  be 
seen  adorning  that  Court,  which  would 
be  the  most  striking  testimony  of  re- 
spect they  could  possibly  pay  to  him. 
This  intimation  was  received  with  loud 
cheers  by  the  whole  Court* 


Henry  Cline,  Esq.  F.R.S. 

Jan*  9.  At  his  house  in  Lincoln's  Ton 
Fields,  aged  76,  Henry  Cline,  esq.  F.R.S. 
His  death  was  occasioned  by  a  gradual  bodily 
decay,  consequent  upon  an  iDtermitting  ferer 
under  which  he  for  some  time  laboured  more 
than  three  yesrs  ago.  During  his  decline, 
which  was  attended  with  extraordinary  ema- 
ciation aud  weakness,  he  retained  his  mental 
powers  in  a  remarkable  degree,  and  possessed 
a  vigour  of  intellect  and  liveliness  of  fancy, 
and  a  cheerfulness  of  disposition  which  made 
life  desirable. 

During  the  active  part  of  his  life,  he  was 
for  a  great  number  of  years  one  of  the  sur- 
geons of  St.  Thomas's  Hospital,  and  gave 
lectures  there  upon  Anatomy  and  Snrgerv ; 
and  by  his  professional  skill  maintained  the 
high  character  which  former  surgeons  had 
given  to  the  Hospital,  and  by  his  talents  as 
a  lecturer  increased  the  •  reputation  of  its 
school  of  Anatomy  and  Surgery. 

He  was  eminently  succesunl  as  a  private 
practitioner.    It  might  be  invidious  to  say. 


1887.] 


Clergjf  Decioied. 


n 


that  he  wu  the  fint  of  the  London  Sur- 
geons of  his  daj,  but  it  is  tpprehended,  that 
every  person  competent  to  wna  a  judgment, 
will  rMdilj  admit,  that  he  had  no  superior* 
It  is  believed,  that  no  such  person  will  main- 
tain that  he  was  inferior  to  any  one  of  them, 
with  res|iect  to  acuteness  in  discovering  and 
ascertabing  disease,  soundness  of  judgment^ 
skill  in  uperatinff,  the  number,  together 
with  the  rank  of  his  patients,  and  above  ally 
with  respect  to  the  confidence  with  which  he 
inspired  them.  He  was  regarded  hj  his  pro* 
fessional  brethren  with  good  will  and  esteem 
and  respect  in  a  remarkable  degree  ;  and  hia 
patients  looked  upon  him  as  a  friend  as  well 
as  a  professional  adviser.  It  would  perhaps 
be  difficult  to  name  a  person  whose  inter- 
course, in  the  way  of  his  profession  merely, 
gave  occasion  to  an  equal  number  of  private 
friendships. 

He  was  indebted  for  this  success  very  little 
to  adventitious  circumstances.  It  was  princi- 
pally owing  to  his  skill  and  knowledge ;  it 
was  owing  likewise  in  a  considerable  degree 
to  his  general  talents,  to  his  strength  of 
mind,  and  to  the  mildness  of  his  manners. 

His  feelings  both  selfish  and  social  were 
ardent,  his  imagination  lively,  his  intelleo- 
tual  Acuities  powerful ;  but  the  exercise  of 
air  his  feelings  and  powers  was  under  the 
complete  controul  of  his  will,  so  that  he  was 
able  to  exhibit,  and  he  did  exhibit  habitu- 
ally, in  his  countenance  and  deportment,  an 
equanimity  not  to  l>e  disturbed  by  accident, 
and  a  mildness  and  kindness  of  disposition, 
which  conciliated  people  at  first  sight.  This 
early  prepossession  in  his  favour  was  strength- 
ened by  a  further  acquaintance,  which  dis- 
covered his  patient  attentiou,  his  caution  and 
|>rudence,  his  knowledge  and  skill,  his  frutt- 
fulness  in  resources,  his  dignified  self-com- 
mand, and  that  calm  and  well-grounded  con- 
fidence in  himself,  which  universally  excites 
the  confidence  of  others.  Thus  the  fiivour- 
able  opinion  of  him,  which  was  at  first  a 
prejudice,  became  afterward  a  reasonable 
ground  of  attachment  and  of  earnest  recom- 
mendation. 

He  distinguished  himself  as  a  surgeon, 
and  a  teacher  of  Anatomv  and  Surgery,  but 
he  was  a  person  wlio  would  have  distinguish- 
ed himself,  whatever  had  been  his  situation 
and  calling.  His  strone  intellect,  his  self- 
determination,  his  steady  adherence  to  hit 
purpose,  and  his  consummate  prudence, 
wt»uld  have  ensured  him  success  in  any 
career  of  honourable  ambition. 

CLERGY  DECEASED. 

• 

At  Ab  Kettleby,  Leicestersb.  aged  57,  the 
Rev.  J.  B.  Copesteakt,  Vicar  of  that  place, 
and  of  Calverton  near  Nottingham.  He  has 
left  6»000/.  to  the  Derby,  l,000t  to  the 
Nottiogham,  and  700^  to  the  Leicester  In- 


At  LiDUtbgow  Manie,  much  «od  JufUj 


regretted,  the  Rev.  J.  DoHe,  D.D.  in  tbe> 
81st  year  of  hia  age,  and  64th  of  his  minii-t 
try. 

The  Rev.  f^m.  Gordon,  Rector  of  Chil-    - 
comb,  Hants,  to  which  church  he  was  pre- 
sented by  the   Rev.   Dr.  North,   the    lat« 
Bishop  of  Winchester. 

At  High  Offlcy,  Staffordshire,  aged  75,' 
the  Rev.  Thomas  Harding,  Perpetual  Curate 
of  Adbaston  and  Ranton,  both  in  tlialf 
county,  and  for  thirty-five  years  Curate  of 
High  Offley.  To  Ranton  he  was  presented 
in  1 802,  by  the  Earl  of  Aboyne,  and  to  Ad- 
baston in  1818,  by  the  Dean  of  Lichfield. 

At  Exeter,  the  Rev.  James  Sidney  NeU" 
eatre,  Rector  of  Wordwell,  near  Bury.  He 
was  presented  to  that  church  (of  which  we 
lately  gave  a  view  in  vol.  xciv.  i.  297,)  in 
1795,  by  the  late  Earl  of  Bristol,  and  was  a 
man  whose  piety,  kindness,  aud  simplicity  of 
heart  gained  him  a  universal  good  opinion. 

At  Kirkandrews-upon-Esk,  Cumberland; 
in  his  70th  year,  after  a  few  days'  illness,  the 
Rev.  John  Nichols.  He  had  been  Curate  of 
that  parish  for  40  years. — We  know  uol 
whether  he  was  the  same  as  the  Rev.  Johi4 
Nichols,  Minister  of  Warneford,  Northum- 
berland, and  author  of  "  A  short  view  of 
the  evidences,  doctrines,  and  duties  of-  the 
Christian  Religion,  179f."  Svo. 

Aged  75,  the  Rev.  WiUiam  PeebUs,  D.D. 
Minister  of  Newton,  Ayrshire,  and  formerly 
of  Weston-upon-Ayr.  He  published  **  Ser- 
mons on  various  subjects  ;  to  which  are  sub- 
joined Hymns,  suited  to  the  several  Dis- 
courses, 1794,"  Svo.  **The  Crisis,  or  the 
Progress  of  Revolutionary  Principles,  a  Poem. 
1804."  Svo. 

At  his  residence,  the  Friary,  Newark, 
aged  73,  the  Rev.  fnUiam  Rastall,  Rector 
of  Thorpe,  Notts.  He  was  the  representa- 
tive of  a  family  long  eminent  among  the  in- 
habitants of  Newark  ;  the  founder  of  which 
was  William  Rasull,  made  Judge  of  the 
King's  Bench  in  1558  ;  and  was  the  second 
son  of  Timothy  Rastall,  esq.  and  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Robert  Heron,  esq.  Recorder  of 
Newark.  Samuel,  his  only  brother,  died 
Dean  of  Killaloc,  in  1781 ;  and  Elizabeth, 
his  only  sister,  was  married  to  the  Rev.  Sam. 
Beilby,  D.D.  The  late  Historian  of  New- 
ark, William  Rastall,  esq.  who  took  the  name 
of  Dickinson,  (and  of  whom  see  a  memoir 
in  vol.  xcii.  ii.  d7(),)  was  his  half-cousin, 
both  being  descended  from  the  same  grand- 
fiither,  Sam.  Rastall,  esq.  four  times  Mayor 
of  Newark,  the  now  deceased  from  his  first 
marriage,  and  the  Historian  from  his  second, 
with  Anne,  daughter  of  Edmund  Dickinson, 
esq.  The  deceased  was  presented  to  the  ' 
Rectory  of  Thorpe,  by  the  King,  in  1788. 
He  was  for  some  years  also  Rector  of  Win- 
thorpe,  Notts,  to  which  church,  being  the 
patron,  he  presented  his  eldest  son,  the  Rev. 
Robert  Raatall,  in  1819.  He  married  Mary,  .A 
daughter  of  Williani  LA&aM»  ol  C«SQ£m^  m 
hMBkf  «q.  by  wYioia  \ia  \iiii  ^  TramRnroi 


fg                                           OBiTUiAT,  [Aid; 

ma's  Hi»|ory  of  Newwk,  jp.  99«.  tev  O'Kellj,  tsq. 

Nbv.  91 »    hii  DAtal'^jy  at  the  Gleb**  Jiim.P.  AtBattU^bridgs,  aged  100,  Mm- 

Wmc,  Smiuadhaay  In  oanwq«MBc«  of  •  gtrat*  xdict  of  Mr.  John  RuW,  of  Bwwiclk- 

fcUfratthithorMoaUM  ll(hult.Bged71»  on-Twced. 

iIm  R««.  /if^  A»mc7iy  Roetor  <if  thiit  pMrith,  At  the  houio  of  Mr.  Williua  Harrli,  (l»to 

nod  Little  Glemhiun,  end  perpetual  Curate  of  the  Royal  Inititution  Libranr,)  in  BrcMop- 

9I  Oreal  Gleahau.    This  retpcctable  dirine  ten*crea6ent»  Mn.    Elizabeth   Howard,  n 

fMetved  bit  academioal  education  at  Trin.  lady    whose  talents  and  acquirements  went 

Colk  Cam.  whfre  betook  the  degree  of  A.B.  jnMly  distinguished  '•■  raM  and  uncommon ; 

i»1777.    In  17S3t  He  was  lic^sed  to  the  bnt    whose    benevoUnce    and  kindnese  of 

Fbrpelaal  Curacy  ol  Famham,  on  the  oomi*  heart,  warmth  and  sincerity  of  friendahip, 

aUiMiofCharleaLoog,  of  Hurts  Hail,  esq. }  purity  and  rectitude  of   mind,  gentleneea 

in  178S,  he  was  presented  to  the  Rectory  of  and  urbanity  of  nsanners,  were  even  more 

(•MBundliam,  wnich  he  resigned  in  1788,  conspicuous.    She  was  deeply  versed  In  all 

hf  the  same  patron  1  in  1798,  he  was  again  the  ancient  Uuguaces  and  classical  literature, 

ywseated  to  this  Rectory,  as  well  as   to  and  was  probably  the  most  learned  woman  ia 

||m(  of  Olembam  Panra,  by  Dudley  Long  Earope.     She  had  frequent  visitors  among 

llorch,   of  Glemham  Hall,  esq. )    and  in  literary  cliaractere,  and  was  lately  honoured 

'|80S»  he  was  licensed  to  the  perpetua)  Cu*  with    a  visit    from     his    Royal  Highncee 

ncy  of  Glemham  Parva.     It  Is  iHit  justice  the  Duke  of  Sussex.     She  baa  bequeathed 

t»  the  memory  of  Mr.  Brown,  to  atate  that  the  whole  of  her  valuable  library  to  her 

h$  wee  CMr  zealous  in  the  discharge  of  hie  friend,  the  Hon.  Mr.  Justice  Gaseke,  and  a 

■liaiBterial  duties  }  beloved  by  his  relations  handsome  legacy  to  Mr.  Harris. 

tm4  (i^eods,  and  most  doservedly  regretted  la  Upper  Belgravc-place,  Pimlieo,  aged 

iff  his  numerous  parishioners.  67,  John  Terwin,  esq. 

** Vale!  Jan,  10.  In  Baker-street,  aged  83,  the 

Quaato  minus  eat  cum  reliquis  versari^  widow  of  Geo.  Stainforth,  esq. 

Qum  tui  meminisse.*'                         J.  F.  Jan,   11.   Mary,  second    dau.  of  Jolm 

■     '  Farley,  esq.  of  Clapham-common. 

DEATHS.  In    South    Audley-street,  i^   91,  the 

LowDOK  AND  IT!  VicwiTY.  Hon.  Emma  Gary,  sister  of  Vise.  Falkland* 

Dec.  «1.  At  Stockwell,   aged  80.  Mr.  wjj^nlyjlau.  of  Charles  John,  late  and  8th 

Thomas    Nicholls,   the  author  of   several  "^"^  ^^^   ,„  y          George-.t.  Bryan- 

^^'."^Al'^eToi   Hotel,  Covent-  '^^I^^V^' ^^d 'I™rf^^^ 

garden   aged  ea,  Peter  Flrmin,  esq.  of  Ded.  ^^^^.^^tJ^l^^^            ^"^^^ 

D^cTuC.  Salter,  esq.    solicitor,   of  At  Im  clumbers,  in  Gray's  Inn,  rged  63, 

Chancery-lane.                      *  ^T     /1**'1'^m''**^*?        rK  I         *K. 

Lateli.  At  Fimlico,  aged  74,  Mr.  John  y««. /f.  At  Manor-place,  Chelsea,  iOie 

RaauH,  formerly  an  ex^n.ive  fiirmer  and  r\!^/''^'i^'^\Y'  **V  "^'"  °^  ^• 

malster'  at  Great  Ponton,  in  Lincolnshire,  ij*'  Mahng  of  the  Horse  Guards,  the  confi- 

Jan' I .  At  Putney  HouU,  aged  nearly  80,  ^^^^^^^^  ^c:retary  to  the  lau  Duke 

r;;eTtte;:2n o?:h: Hrnta^  If  ^ ViLf^-''^ ^r^ ^^ -'^ 

Legge,  Baron  ii  the    Exchequer.  (seeoSd  ^  ^'^ ,      .^>  "^J  ^T*  J  ^  ''"i^'^u* 

•on^of  William  first  Earl  of  bartmouth,)  ^K»f ".  1°  ^»«  ^''^tfti'Iil  """^  ""L"^ 

by  Catharine,  dau.  and  coh.  of  Jonati  J  ^"^  °f  ^."IS?  "^^J/^^^^J"  i^^^^^^^ 

Fogg,  esq.  merchant  of  London,  and  niece  ru"^^' u\^uT:}]i^l^    V n^^t 

Jt&  Johi  Barnard,  Lord  Mayoi  in  1 738.  Blegborough.  M.DJate  of  Br.dg...t.  Blac4c- 

He  was  marriedin  1768  to  EUzibeth  second  ^'     "*  P«Wi.hed,  m  1803.  "  tacts  and 

dan.  of  Philip  Musgrave,  sixth  Bart,  of  Eden-  OhMcn^ifyo*  lespecting  the  efficacy  of  the 

hall,  Cumberland,\nd  aunt  of  the  prewjnt  Air-pump^  Vap^mr-baih  m  gout  and  other 

Sir  Philii^Christopher  Musgrave.  Tills  Udy  $f*»^  •    «d  laarr.ed  June  I,  1819,  Mrs. 

died  Maih4,  1890.  Mr.  iJjgge  was  oncec*  ^^^^»  •^  Brixton, 

Idlicote,   and  afterward  of  Ajhton  Hall  in  ■ 

Warwickahlre.  Bucks -^Jan.  9.  At  CUydon  Houae,  aged 

Jan,  «.  Aged  38,  Eliza,  w.fe  of  Ferd.  3     ^^^  ^.^^  ^^  ^  ^J^  Vemey.     ^ 

•niomas,  esq.  of  Regentstreet.        _  DEYOnamo^io/rfy.  At  Compton  Gif- 


B^gcnios  KocfWi  e»4* 


Dbmrr.^  Aiot.  48.  kl  HiMilnitw^  igtd  If— tthkiMyof  Ballngtaiiy  m.  smomI  ton 

84,  Tbo*.  Hilt,  Mq.  cif  ReT.  Df.  9fmil^Kmtm:\ML  Vt^  •! 

Jen.  «.   At  Smnncr'biH  Hows,  I^9FBM,  Durlmn,  and  bratW  of  iIm  iMt  8liP  VTyvd' 

tged  89,  Cd.  WUIwrnt,  fooMrly  of  Rhodt  iMa  KiMtchlnill,  Wpi    At  m  ^irlj  m»  ki 

Hill,  Up  Lym*,  but  Utterly  of  Lymo,  entortd  iato  tk«  Moyat  N«v^  whcim  ki 

Esstx.— n/im.  6.  At  Chigwtll-row,  f^  tonwl  97  yttn  t  and|  hawing  obtahwd  the 

98,  Elix.  wife  of  Muodcforid  Allen,  esq.  nuik  of  Poet  Ceptun,  c«mnwa4ed  n  Koo  e# 

Jan,  9.     At  MalHon,  £liz.  wifii  of  Rev.  bntlk-ekip  in  iev>erai  eotiooe  in  tho  Wert 

FpmL  Doveton,  Ute  Rector  of  Woodfanm  lodim,  and  in  theglorlonebettleof  thel9A 

Walter.  gf  April,  under  Lonl  Rodney.    He  letWed 

GtoocBSTUieHiNB.— -Jim.    7*     Haanaliy  from  the  navj  soon  after  penee  wta  eonehidw 

wik  ef  John  Winwood,  esq.  of  Henhuiy*  ed,  at  the  tame  tioM  rtllaquishing  hie  haU^ 

hill,  and  eldeet  dau.  of  J,  W.  Rickctta,  cm^  pay.     He  then  served  m  Field  O&er  hi  til* 

Vincent  Lodae.  militia    and  Tolunleen    m  the  oefunty  of 

Jmn,  1 6.  At  hit  teel,  Fairfbrd  Park,  aged  Somerset,  dorioi^  the  ensuing  war. 

88,  John  Raymond  Barker,  eeq.  Jaru  4.  At  Bath,  aged  74,  after  a  Knetr- 

Hawti.— ^Xon.  4.     In    Kingaland"plnee,  lag  ilhieea,  Dame  Henrietta,  relici  of 't|i# 

flonthamptnn,  aged  89,  J.   Hodnos,  eeq.  late  Sir  Thomas  Champneyt,  iimt  hart,  of 

He  enjoyed  a    considemble  pension  ftnoi  Orvhardley.      Sho  was  dau.  of  Homphregp 

Government,  ibr  havinff,   whilst  serving  ne  Minchin,  esq.  of  Stubbington,  Hants,  aM 

engmeer  under  Gen.  Elliott,  at  Gibraltar,  eiater  of  the  nreeent  Henry  Mioehin,  eeq. 

he«B  the  first  inventor  of  the  red-hot  ball.  of  Clayfield  Honse  in  that  ee«nty.     Shn 

Jan,  14.  Suddenly,  in  the  High-st.  Win*  was  the  second  wife  of  Sir  Thomas  Champ- 

chester,  aged  87,  John  Sayer,  esq.  neye,  who  died  July  9, 1891. 

HiRTt.-^.Ain.  1.    At    Cheshnnt,  Jaaa  Jan,  6,  AtBath,  Praneee*  widowofRalpli 

Fraaeei,  sister  of  Adm.  Sir  Rich.  Hussey*  Shipperdson  eeq.  of  Hall  Garth,  Durhaoii 

Bickerton,  second  hart,  of  Upwood,  Hante.  and  seoond  dau.  ef  the  late  Rev.  Dr  Kev* 

She  was  the  second  and  youngeH  dan.  of  thn  thaw,  Reotor  of  Ripley,  and  VIear  of  Leedk 

hrte  Rear-adm.  Sir  Richard  Biekerten,  by  Jan,  8.     At  Bath,  Sarah,  third  dan.  ti 

Maria-Anne,dan.ofTho.  Hnseey,  ofWrtn*  the  hite  Ames  HelHcar,  eso.  of  Brittd. 

ham,  esq.  Jem.  II.    At  the  Rectory,  Wahen,  FreA 

•Xsn.8.  At  Sawbridgeworth,  Wm.  Bro«»,  Chas.  youngest  child  of  the   Rfv.   Loii 

esq.  of  Bruuswick-so.  John  "AiynQe. 

Jan,  9.  Anne,  wife  of  O.  A.  Martin,  eeq.  Surrey. — At  Richmond,  hi  his  79d  ycnfy 

of  Freezy  Water,  Walthaweroee.  Jamee  B«M,  esq. 

Kent. — Jon,  U»  At  Woolwich,  Joseph  J^n,  8,    At  Epsqm,  aged  ^8,  the  relict 

Kirkpatrick,  esq,  of  St  Cross  House,  Isle  of  of  W|h.  Newdick,  esq.  of  CheshuQt|  Herts. 

Wight.  Jan,  IS.    Aged  64,  Henry  Woodk,  «i^ 

LiNCOLNiHiRB.— Dm:.    98.     At    Grofva  of  Purcn>ft,  Chertsey, 

House,  Grimsbr,  Thos.  Moore  Wllliamsoo»  Sussex.— Z)<*c  80.     At  Brighton,  la  hef 

•on  of  Lieut.  N.  Williamson,   R«N,  com-  3<1  year,  Anne-Cecil,  dau.  of  the  Hon.  and 

maoder  of  the  revenue  cutter  Greyhound.  R«v-  Richard  Carlcton   (brother  of  Lord 

Jan,  8.  Aged  79,  the  wife  of  Mr.  Aid.  Dorchester),  by  Frances  Louisa,  9d  dau.  of 

Wardale,  of  Grimsby.  Eos.  Hatton,  of  Catton  Hall,  Derby,  esq. 

Jon.  10.    At  Hull, aged  78,  Gilbert  Farr*  Jan-io.    At  Bfightoo.Aaoc,  widow  of 

esq.  of  Healing.  Charles    Drake    Garrard,    esq.  of  Lamer, 

Jan,  14.     At  Gainsboroueh,  iged  76,  Herts, 

Eliz.  last  surviving  sister  of  Uie  late   Wm.  WBiTMORELAirD.— Jan.  18.      Aged  70, 

Etheriogton,  esq.  Mrs.  L.  Pritchards,  of  Oroft  Lodge,  Amble- 

MiDDLEBEX.--Van.  7.     At  Forty   Hill,  tide. 

Enfield,  aged  67,  Wm.  Green,  esq.  WiLTt<«^DM, 96.  At  the  Paddocks,  near 

Jan,  8.  At  Hayes,  aged  90,  Mrs.  Elliot,  Chippenham,  Henry  Delm^  Awdry,  esq.  of 

leaving  9   children,  58  grand-ehlldren»  and  Quae's  College,  Oxford. 

43  threat  graad-children,  now  living.  lately ,  aged  99,  Mrs.  Wi^1«n,  aiOlh«r  of 

NoRroLK. — Jan.  93.    At  Diss,  ^ged  dO,  Mr.  Waylen,  Surgeon,  of  Devizes. 

Z.  Fmcham,  esq.  Jan  1.     At  Bemerion,  in  her  84th  year, 

NoRTHAMPT^--Va'i.l9.  ALthehovaeof  Mrs.  Cath.  Thiatlfthwmrte  Pelham,  eldert 

Ooley  Savilltf  Onley,  esq.  Pitsford,  seed  94 »  <l*v.  and  co  heiress  of  Alex.  Thistlethwayt9^ 

Cha.  Bouverie,  esq.  second  son  of  £dw.  eeq.  formerly  M.  P.  for  HanU. 

Bouverie,  esq.  of  Delapre  Abbey.  Jan,  6 .    Of  a  deep  decline,  aged  98,  Mia8 

Northumberland. — Jan,  6. — ^At  Lau-  Harriet  Shrapnell,  or  Bradford,  Wilu,  grand* 

ton,  John  Davison,  esq.  only  brother  of  dau.  of  the  late  Nfr.  Renison,  Gent,  of  the 

Alex.  Davison,  esq.  of  Swarla^  House.  eamu  place.     Her  sister,  Mrs.  M.  Beale,  wife 

OxroRDMiiRB.---Jan.  9.  At  Stanford  in  of  Mr.  Beale,  Lombard-st.  died  last  SepL  of 

the  Vale,  aged  88,  liha  »idnw  of  Joha  tho  sanm  disorder,  in  her  9Sik  year. 

Hughes  King,  esq.  Jan.  6    Harriet,  relict  of  DuiM  Qf^f 

SoMUMTiv— Die.  98.   A^ad  ?9,  Charles  lea»  mq.  of  Urchfcat. 


Obitua&y. 


[Jan. 


Jan,  90.  The  wife  of  Mr.  John  Tubb» 
LMid-tunreyor,  of  Fbhertoa  Aoger. 

WoRCBSTiRSHiRE. — JoH,  6.  At  Dudley 
Vicftngey  aged  30,  Elix.  the  beloved  wife  of 
Uie  Rev.  Dr.  Booker,  vicar  of  that  parisli. 

YoRKiHiRL — Lately.  AtUlverstooe,ag^ 
98,  Wm.  Fisher,  esq.  ooe  of  the  Societv  of 
Friends,  and  formerly  uf  the  house  of  Fisher, 
NboB,  and  Co.  of  Leeds. 

Jan,^,  Aged  71,  Wm.  Robinson,  esq. 
of  Hemingbrough. 

•/an.  8.  At  Applebridge  House,  near 
Stokesley,  aged  87,  Cipt.  L.  M.  Hill. 

Jan,  4.  Ann,  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Hus- 
band, Vicar  of  Whixley,  near  York. 

Jan»  5.  At  Colton  Lodge,  near  York, 
and  87,  C.  Morritt,  esq.  only  surviving  son 
M  the  late  Bacon  Morritt,  esq.  of  Cawood, 
■ad  uncle  to  J.  B.  S.  Morritt,  of  Rokeby 
Pkrk,  esq. 

Jan.  6.  Aged  88,  Geo.  Braikenridge, 
eeq.  of  Winash,  Brislinston. 

Jan,  11.  At  York,  Caroline,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Chas.  Fiennes  Clinton,  a  week  aftec 
the  birth  of  a  daughter. 

Jan,  15.  Charlotte,  Lady  of  Sir  Chas. 
Ibbetton,  fourth  and  present  Bart,  of  Denton 
Purk,  and  Sd  dau.  of  Thos.  Stooghton,  of 
Bath,  esq.    She  was  married,  Feb.  4 ,  1819. 

Jan,  18.  Aged  94,  Charlotte,  dau.  of  the 
late  Wm.  Grabum,  esq.  of  Kingaforth,  near 
Barton-upon-Humber. 

Jan.  11.  Aged  6S,  Henry  Pyke,  Esq.  of 
Wick,  near  Pewsey. 


WALBf^ — Jan*  10.  Sarah  Ann,  eldest 
dan.  of  Francis  Minnitt,  eaq»  Cardiff. 

Scotland..— •/an.  9.  At  GUsstMvin,  Sa- 
lah,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Grier,  and  sister  to 
the  Abp.  of  Dublin. 

LtUdy.  At  Gibbs's  Hotel,  Edinburgh, 
Count  G.  H.  de  St.  George,  of  Chaogios,  in 
Switcerland. 

Ireland. — Jau.  6.  At  his  seat  at  Roe- 
buck, aged  76*1  John  Exshaw,  esq.  senior 
Alderman,  and  the  oldest  magistrate  in  the 
county  of  Dublin.  Alderman  Exshaw  was 
elected  to  the  aldermanic  gown  in  the  year 
1789.  In  1790  Ite  contested  the  election 
for  the  city  of  Dublin  in  the  Irish  Parlia- 
ment, but  did  not  succeed.  During  the 
disturbances  in  1797  and  1798  he  com- 
manded the  Stephen's-green  yeomanry,  which 
formed  a  6ne  and  well-  disciplined  battalion, 
upwards  of  1000  strong;  be  was  likewise 
Adjutant-general  to  the  entire  yeomanry 
forces  of  the  Dublin  district,  and  was  con- 
sidered an  excellent  officer,  reversing  the 
adage,  cedunt  arma  togcB,  On  one  occasion, 
during  these  disturbances,  the  command  of 
the  Dublin  Garrison  devolved  upon  him  for 
a  short  time,  in  consequence  of  the  absence 
of  the  troops  of  the  line.  Alderman  Ex- 
shaw was  one  of  the  police  magistrates  uf 
the  9d  division ;  this  office,  in  consequence 
of  the  late  arrangements,  dies  with  bim. 
He  was  likewise  the  publisher  of  the  <*  Hue 
and  Cry,*'  the  emoluments  of  which  are 
stated  to  be  about  1000/.  a  year. 


BILL  OF  MORTALITY,  from  Deo.S7,  1896,  to  Jan.  98,  1897. 


Chriatened. 
Males    ■  -     876l,^^_ 
Female.  -    896 /'^OO 


Buried. 
Males  -  656 
Females  -     658 


Whereof  have  died  under  two  years  old 
Salt  55.  per  bushel :  I  ^d.  per  pound. 


} 


1814 
831 


9  and  5  110 
5  and  10  43 
10  and  90  47 
90  and  30  84 
80  and  40  191 
40  and  50  196 


50  and  60  139 
60  and  70  196 
70  and  80  133 
80  and  DO  54 
90  and  100      7 


Wheat. 

Barley. 

Oata. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

t.     d. 

t.     d. 

t,     d. 

t.      d. 

«.      d. 

53   10 

84  10 

99     1 

40     6 

46      1 

AGGREGATE  AVERAGE  of  BRITISH  CORN  which  governs  Importation, 

from  the  Returns  ending  Jan.  19. 

Peas. 
5.     d, 
49     4 

AVERAGE  PRICE  of  SUGAR,  60j.  to  90j.  per  cwt. 

PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW. 

St.  James's,  Hay  5/.  155.    Straw  1/.  195.    Clover  67.  155. — Whitechapel,  Hay  5/.  55. 

Straw  1/.  16*5.     Clover  6/.  Qs. 

SMITHFIELD,  Jan.  99.    To  sink  the  Offid— per  stone  of  8lbs. 


Petf 45.  8</.  to  55.  Ad. 

Motton 35.  \0d.  to  45.  ^d. 

Veal 55.  0</.  to  55.  8(/. 

Poik 45.  6</.  to  55.  ed. 


Lamb 05.  0</.'to  05.  od. 

Head  of  Cattle  at  Markets  Jan.  99  : 

Beasts 9109       Calves  160 

Sheep  and  Lambs  95,900       I'igs^      SO 


COAL  MARKET,  Jan.  99^  965.  0<f;  to  405.  Od. 
TALLOW f  per  Cwt.  Town  Tallow  505.  Sd,    Yellow  Russia  405.  Od. 
80AP,  Yellow  765.  Mottled  841. Ocf.  Curd  8Bf.- CANDLES,  ai.per  Doz.Moulda  I0s.6d. 


PRICES  OF  SHARES,  Jan.  89,  IM7, 

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GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


FEBRUARY,   1827. 

[PUBLISHED  MARCH  1.] 


0ristna(  Cammunjcatlsn^. 

n  CciitMMroNDtNCt-DiDRrraui  Spirit 
ithutic'iiia— Prcihkiciri   Punun,   Do- 
,  inJ  Maok.— Epltipli  OD  John  Druninggi 
tivc  cuniiecMd  »ich  tlie  DuLr  of  Yuck.  ^< 
lor^oftluDukoofyortlo: 


loFitMKiBGdumofKcD 


llibllcil  Quci;  reipectine  «  Sun.  il  33 119 

Topognplij  af  Somenan,  Oifurdihiic 113 

StDiiitumi  oEMndern  loGiliriCT 117 

['[.vl.ttVM,  Nn.XEiv.~5lr.r.H>riagtini  US 
OnTeirk»l>iiryCllurc1i,l>DdiuMunD>^lal-lal 
Pnl'igrea  uf  tlie  Kemp  F&idLI;  of  nm^t.  ...12! 

:Kptunl  mil  Chlueie  C'hrciii.iUiRj 133 

Aichiuc'tunl  ImprnvcmeiiU  id  WeitmliuMr  114 

BJuca  WhiM  Md  Antonio  G(v in 137 

Memoiiali  of  LoodouChuccLnbunit  I66fi  ItS 

ClttiitiD  or  jHim  Vublitarton^. 

I  Hiiior;  ofScoiluid isg 

i>l|Aae  McDiuin ISO 

Smitb'i  Tdui  in  DcDmufc,  Piuiiia,  &c 1113 

p'l  Vit«  of  Eoyilih  Oti>i ]3H 

CimngUin'iDirtmoar-BcntttoiiAgriculturs  138 


Biirtua'iPetition— WithmanForgMTicM  189 

Chrittie  uo  Gre«k  Vo« uo 

Slor J  »f ■  Vfiaie  rer— Sa^rr'i  M  em~  of  itibtol  1 M 
Frc>it*i  Medico-BoUniol  Omtion.... 
Scott'i  13<«iti«  of  Eminant  Wrlwn. 

Chriitun  Rniair,  No.  I ,  _. 

PenruM  un  Scrijilurt  Miraclu. IM 

On  Che  Slve  Trade,  l&l.-~^;DU[(da'nihM 
Cbiiuic^'i  Hi(lo(7  of  HeiUiinUi' 


MlM 

Msriowa,  &e.  &«. 

'NewPubiintiOBilM 

Ahtisjuihiin  ReseaKCHU 

Select  PuiTRV , 

tl^iftoncnl  Cfitanirlt. 

Proc0cdiri?i  in  prelt^nt  Sciiiua  of  Pvl 

Furpijfn  tiewi,  Ice.— DcimHlIe  0«iirmeHl67 

Anecdote!  of  ti»Uuke  of  York 109 

Promotioog,  &c.— Binlii  uid  ftlirriwM.,.,] 
OliTDAHT'.   xithMrmoin  ofSiT  B.Wmi 

S1rS.Yonnff!  OnenU  J.A.H*ni>,  KrW. 

Sicwm,  A.C.  Jukton ;  Col.  J .  Rudd  i  Dn. 

RobciUon  and  Coltiaion;  &c.  Sic I 

Mirkeu.— Bill  ofMorttJilf ,  ISO.— Sli«N„191 
Metenrolosicil  D'lMry. — Pricn  of  Stuiiki....I9a 

«    W,i.L 


By    SYLVANUS    URBAN,    Gent. 


[    98    ] 

MINOR    CORRESPONDENCE. 

'       Verax  obMnre»,  "  As  the  CathoUc  quet-  wkj^  that  to  no  Greek  Profesaor,  since  the 

tion  is  again  to  be  agitated  in  Parliament,  foundation  of  the  office,  is  the  University  of 

and  party  sentimenu  probably  to  be  urged  Cambridge  more  indebted  than  to  Professor 

with  the  usual  warmth,  allow  me  to  recall  to  Monk,  whether  we  consider  his  editorial 

'  your  readers  the  memorable  words  of  a  sin-  services,  his  valuable  assisUnce  in  the  re- 
cere  patriot  and  admirable  writer,  the  author  formation  of  our  classical  examinations,  or 
of  <  The  Pursuiu  of  Literature.'  Speaking  his  able  and  judicious  defence  of  Alma 
of  the  public  maintenance  of  the  Roman  Mater,  on  all  occasions  when  her  honour 


Catholic  Clergy,  as  a  body,  bjr  our  Govern-  and  advantage  were  concerned.' 

ment,    he   thus   expresses  himself:   «  We  H.  B.  remarks,  "  In  an  article  signed 

must  remember  that  the  very  firame  and  D.  A.  V.  in  your  Supplementary  number,  p. 

spirit  of  the  Laws,  Ordinances,  and  Consti-  696,  there  is  mentioned  an  inscription  «  very 

tution  of  England,  are  in  the  most  direct  quaint  and  pedantic,  and  which  has  puzzled 

opposition  to  the  Roman  Catholic  religion,  many.'    Allow  me  to  make  some  remarks 

and  all  its   doctrines,   practices,  opinions,  upon  it,  and  to  oflPer  you  at  the  same  time  a 

superstitions,  and  tyrannv.    I  am  astonished  translation  of  it.     In  the  first  place,  then, 

that  we  can  forget  their  history  and  eflPects.'  the  use  of  post  for  erga  is  singular  and  un- 

«  We  may  depend  upon  it,  wherever  common.    The  word  Bralieum  too,  for  the 

the  Roman  Catholic  religion  is  introduced,  more-  olassio  one  of  Bravium,— certaminis 

or  permitted,  or  fostered,  or  pitied,  or  en-  vel  paltestrm  pissmionir-may  smack  some- 

couraged,  the  words  of  the  poet  will   be  what  of  the  pedant, 

found  eminently  true—  <>  .     .^ 

-...,,       it..            it                 4  ^'"*  hr%\'i%  duplicis  Kltnam  tulbU.~-Prwii.. 

Spintus  lotus  slit,  totmnque  infasa  p«r  aTtus  ^  ^                ' 

Mens  agiut  molcm,  ct  miigno  se  cot  pore  miscct.  The  initial  letters  D.  O.  M.   signify  Divo 

ViRAZ  of  Cambridge  says,  "  In  looking  Optimo  Maximo,  meaning,  when  used  by^ 

over  your  Obituary  fur  the  month  of  Sep-  heatheu  writers,   Jupiter,  the  all-powerful 

tember  1895,  I  discovered  an  error  in  the  ruler  of  the  world.     By  Christian  writers, 

account  there  given  of  the  late  Professor  u  here,  it  means  God,  the  Almighty  power; 

Dobree,  which,  bearing  as  it  does  upon  the  I  would  translate  the  inscription  thus.    The 

high  and  deserved  reputation  of  his  prede-  words  in  a  Mreuthesis  are  understood  in  the 

Oetsor  in  the  Greek  Professorship,  I  am  I*tin.     «  By  his  pious  posterity  (is  erected) 

anxious  to  see  rectified.     It  is  said  that  <  he  this  stone,  to  (the  memory  of)  Mr.  John 

(M(.  Dobree)    was    intimately    acquainted  Bruning,  priest  in  holv  orders,  and  a  most 

with  Porson,  who  set  the  highest  value  on  futhful  ecclesiastic  of  this  place.     He  was  a 

h'ls  talents ;  and  at  the  death  of  that  great  man  of  venerable  age,  full  of  fiime  as  of 

nan,  was  considered  as  his  natural  succes-  years.     As  a  quadragenarian  ever  most  lie- 

sor:   but  he  was  at  that  time  out  of  the  loved^  and,  whilst  living,  the  support  and 

kingdom,  and  the  diffidence  of  his  diposi-  ornament  of  his  day  and  of  his  ncighbour- 

^ion  would  not  permit  him  to  become  an  hood.     A  splendid  example  of  the  higher 

active  competitor  for  any  honour.'    You  literary  attainments,  fearless  faith  and  moral 

will  judge  of  your  Correspondent's  accuracy,  sanctity.    As  a  friend  he  was  most  true,  and' 

when  I  inform  you,  that  Mr.  Dobree  was  most  delighting  in  peace,  obtained  at  how- 

not  only  in  England  ^  the  time  of  Porson's  ever  great  a  sacrifice.    Economical,  prudent, 

decease,  but  that  he  was  actually  a  candidate  benevolent,  most  hospitable ;  a  very  parent 

to  succeed  him  in  the  Professorial  chair,  to  his  rel*tives  and  the  poor^  wnom  he 

So  far,  however,  was  he  from  being  consi-  was  wont  to  consider  as  such.    In  short, 

dered  as  his  natural  successor,  that  ne  very  illustrious  fur  every  virtue,  yet  still,  at  the 

toon  thought  it  advisable  to  withdraw  his  same  time,  more  illustrious  for  an  extremely 

nitme  and  pretensious,  upon  finding  the  in-  modest  and  unaffected  demeanor.     He  lived 

dination  or  the  Electors,  1  might  ahnost  say  66  years  M.D.  and  quitted  this  life,  for  • 

vnanimonsly,    turned  tpwards  Mr.  Monk,  heavenly  reward,  the  Sd  Calend  of  April, 

then  a  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  and  now  A.D.  1663." 

Dean  of  Peterborough.  The  same  course  Mr.  Henry  W.  Whatton  requests  per- 
was  adopted  on  this  occasion  by  the  third  mission  to  correct,  by  the  Woodford  Cnar- 
Candidate,  at  present  one  of  the  most  d'ls-  tulary  in  the  Bri^sh  Museum,  and  other 
tinguished  characters  in  this  realm;  aud  memorials  of  evidences,  some  errors  in  vol. 
thus  the  field  was  lef^  open  to  him,  who,  xcv.i.  p.  201^  originating  from. modem  his- 
from  the  result,  may  perhaps  with  more  tory  and  erroneous  quotations.  For  Mar- 
propriety  be  sud  to  have  been  considered  as  caret,  daughter  of  Robert  Woodford,  reoif 
the  natural  successor  to  Porson.  Enter-  Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas,  son  of  the 
taining,  as  I  unquestionably  do,  a  very  high  last  Sir  Robert.  jK»r  Isabel,  the  daughter 
regard  both  for  the  literary  and  private  cha-  of  John  Neville,  descendant  of  Sir  William, 
racter  of  the  late  Professor  Dobree,  I  shall  read  Isabel,  daughter  of  the  latter, 
not  hazard  a  depredation  of  either  by  uastl-  Vol.  zcvi.  ii.  147.  The  name  of  the 
tuting  any  comparison  between  him  and  Irish  Counsellor  slain  in  the  recent  dud,. 
mthen:  hmt  this  J  will  take  upon  myself  to  waa  John,  not  Dominion  Brie 


THE 

GENTLEMAN'S     MAGAZINE 


FEBRUARY,   1827. 


ORIOZNAX.   COMMUNZCATIONB. 

IvTBRBSTiiro  Narratiyb  covnxctbd  with  tbb  Dukb  of  York. 

Mr.  Urban,  commanded  the  cavalry  that  cooTored 

THE  accompanying  paper,  which  us  on  our  way  to  France.  When  aa 
came  acciaentally  into  my  hands,  opportunity  offered,  I  introduced  the 
is  so  interesting,  and  redounds  so  much  subject  to  the  French  commandant^ 
to  the  credit  of  His  Royal  Highness  the  who  corroborated  the  story  related  by 
late  Commander  in  Chief,  and  other  the  Spanish  lady,  who  it  turned  oot 
persons  concerned  in  it,  that  I  venture  was  his  ch^re  amie.  I  then  mention- 
to  think  the  insertion  of  it  may  sratify  ed  the  circumstance  to  the  British  ofli- 
many  readers  of  your  valuable  Maga-  cer,  who,  as  well  as  mvself,  conjointly 
zine.                                               C.  endeavoured  to  prevail  on  the  Frcncn 

officer  to  give  up  the  child  to  his  natq- 

Passing  over  the  Guadarama  moun-  ral  protectors,  but  all  our  arguments 

tains,  seven  leagues,  north  of  Madrid,  and  entreaties  were  in  vain,  for  he  was 

on  the  13th  October,    I8O9,  accom-  so  much  attached  to  the  boy,  that  he 

ranied  by  some  British  officers  of  the  would  not  part  with  him  on  any  ac- 

Guards,  about  80  British  soldiers,  and  count 

several  Spaniards,  the  whole  convoyed  At  this  period,  independent  of  his 
by  a  strons  escort  of  French  troops,  history,  the  manners  of  the  child  were 
cavalry  ana  infantry,  I  |)erceived  in  extremely  interesting,  and  he  could' 
the  centre  of  the  escort  a  very  interest-  speak  four  languages  with  no  small  de- 
ins  looking  child,  apparently  seven  years  pet  of  fluency.  French,  he  acquired 
old,  sitting  with  a  Spanish  female  in  a  from  the  French  officer  ;  German, 
kind  of  cart;  the  appearance  of  the  from  the  officer's  servant,  who  hap- 
boy  indicated  that  he  was  n<^»  a  native  pened  to  be  of  the  Saxon  contingent; 
of  a  southern  climate :  this,  toother  Spanish,  from  the  female,  who  could 
with  a  naivet^  and  playfulness  m  his  not  speak  ^  word  of  French ;  and  he 
manner,  induced  me  to  address  him.  still  retained  a  knowledge  of  his  na- 
I  accordingly  spoke  to  him  in  Spanish,  tive  tongue.  We  journeyed  together 
to  which  he  made  a  suitable  reply ;  three  weeks  longer  towards  the  French 
and  to  my  no  small  surprise,  imme-  frontier,  and  on  our  arrival  at  Tolosa, 
diately  after  he  addressed  me  in  Ens-  30  miles  south  of  Bayonne,  the  French 
lish.  Having  enquired  of  the  female  commandant  received  orders  to  000- 
(who  appeared  to  have  the  boy  under  duct  the  Spanish  prisoners  of  war  to 
her  care)  where  he  had  learned  to  speak  the  fortress  of  Pampeluna,  while  the 
the  English  language,  she  replied  that  British  wounded,  who  fell  into  the 
the  boy  was  born  in  Scotlanci,  that  his  hands  of  the  enemy  in  the  hospital 
father,  who  had  been  a  serjeant  in  the  after  the  battle  of  Talavera,  were  or- 
42d  regiment^  had  served  the  year  he-  dered  to  prosecute  their  march  toFrance; 
fore  in  the  British  armv  under  Sir  but  (as  I  was  subsequently  informed) 
John  Moore,  and  was  Killed  at  the  the  road  to  Pampelunaoeing  intercepted 
battle  in  front  of  Corunna  :  previous  by  the  Spanish  Guerillas,  it  was  neces- 
to  which,  on  the  retreat  of  tne  British  saiy  that  the  French  officer  should  re- 
troops  from  Lugo,  the  mother,  together  store  the  communication  at  the  head  of 
with  -the  boy,  were  left  behind,  sick,  a  lar^  force.  In  the  mean  time  he 
in  the  hospital  at  Lugo ;  that  she  fell  a  left  his  establishment  at  Tolosa,  until 
victim  to  disease,  and  her  child  was'  it  would  be  prudent  to  order  it  to  re- 
found  in  the  hospital,  in  an  abandoned,  join  him ;  but  the  Spanish  lady  (on 
wretched  condition,  by  the  French  account  of  living  with  a  French  omcer,) 
officer  of  cavalry,  who  at  that  moment  dreaded  the  resentment  of  her  country- 


J  00  lAterettmg  Narraiwe  connected  with  the  Duke  of  York.       [Feb. 

men  lo  much,  that  in  a  few  days  aftef  yards  before  me ;  I  soon  overtook  this 

the  departure  of  the  French  officer,  she  man»  who  happened  to  senre  in  the 

fieif  &nJ  deserted  thie  child  in  her  434  retfini«nt«  and  hav&ig  inquired  of 

charge.                                            ^  him  if  he  had  been  acquainted  with 

About  a  month  after  this  period^  Serjeant  M'Gallum  of  nis  regiment. 

Captain,   now  Major  H        ■,  of  tho  who  wai  kilM  the  year  before  at  Cor- 

S3a  Dragoons,  whose  wounds  did  not  nmna,  he  answerea,  **  Sir,  I  did  not 

permit   him  to   accompany  us    from  know  any  man  of  that  name  who  was 

Madrid,  in  passing  through  Tolosa  on  killed,  but  will  you  be  so  good  as  to 

his  way  to  Vertfid,  accidentally  heard  teR  me  why  yoo  have  askcu  me  that 

that  there  was  an  English  boy  in  an  question/'    Because,  said  I,  pointing 

abandoned,   forlorn  condition   in   the  out  to  him  the  boy,  that  is  his  child, 

town«    He  rnwnediatcly  took  the  child  whom  1  ftvst  fonnd  in  Sptin.*— "  Oh ! 

under  his  protection,  and  having  heard  Sir,**  said  he  (rushing  over  to  the  boy), 

si  Orleans  that  I  had  received  a  pass-  "  he  b  my  child  ;  James,  doni  yot» 

port  to  return  to  England,  and  being  know  mef**     The  scene    that   took 

aiAtious  that  I  should  convey  some  let-  place  can    be    more    easily  imas^ined 

tervto  his  family,  ventured  to  proceed  than  described — alternation  of  joy  and 

to  Pftris ;  here  I  recognised  my  little  grief,  exuhation  and  despondency,  dc- 

tfovelling  companion,  who  recollected  picted  in  the  countenance,  and  evinced 

uit  immediately.    In  a  few  days  I  pre-  in  the  manner  of  this  soUlier,  on  the 

vailed  on  Captain  H          to  allow  me  sodden  discovery  of  his  long  lust  child, 

to  take  the  boy  to  England;  and  hav-  and  on  his  being  simultaneously  made 

itrg  presented  my  little  protegd  at  the  acquainted  with  the  death  of  his  wife. 

Bateau  de  Guerre,  his  manners  and  I  roust  confess  it  affected  mc  so  much, 

history  s^on  obtained  permission  for  that  (as  well  to  repress  my  feelings,  as 

him  to  return  home.  to  avoid  the  crowd  that  collected  around 

Previous  to  leaving  the  French  me-  us  in  the  street),  I   was  obliged   to 

tropolls.  Captain   H gave  me  a  retire  iuto  the  next  shop  that  presented 

letter,  addressed  to  His  Royal  High-  itself.     In  a  short  time  we  proceeded 

ness  the  Duke  of  York,  the  founder  of  together  to  Richmond  House;  where, 

tbeMilitary  Asylum,  and  another  letter  after  bavins  presented  my  protege  to 

to  the  Marquis  of  Huntley,  Colonel  of  Lord  Huntley,  I  related  to  his  Lord- 

the  regiment  in  which  the  boy *s  father  ship  the  discovery  I  had  just  made, 

had  served.    On  my  arrival  in  London,  and  the  extraordinary  circumstance  ni- 

I  lost  no  time  in  delivering  these  letters,  tending    it.     On    the    soldier    being 

and  soon  after  was  (together  with  the  brought  fcfward^  he  delivered  a  letter 

child)  honoured  by  an  interview  with  to  Lord  Hundey  from  Colonel  Sterling, 

His  Royal  Highness,   who   was  very  then  commanding  the  1st   batt.  42d 

much  pleased  with  the  boy,  took  him  reg.  at  Canterbury,  which  stated,  that 

in  his  arms,  and  spoke  to  him  in  French  he  was  happy  to  inform  his  Lordship, 

ati^  German,  to  which  the  little  fellow  that  the  n»an  alluded  to  in  his  Loni- 

made  suitable    answers.     His   Royal  ship's  letter,  relative  to  an  orphan  boy 

Highness  was  pleased  to  make  everv  of  tne  regiment,  was  severelv  wounded 

necessary  arrangement  for  the  boy  s  at  Coronoa  (but  not  killed),  and  was 

admission    into    the    Royal    Military  the  bearer  of  his  letter,  and  be  had 

Atfyfum,  Chelsea,  with  as  little  delay  sent  the  man  to  town  without  making 

as  possible.    Lord  Huntley,  on  receipt  him  acquainted  with  the  object  of  his 

of  Capt.  H.*s  letter,  immeaiatelv  wrote  journev. 

totheColonelof  the  1st.  bate  4ad  reg.  It  then  appeared  that  this  soldier 

then  quartered  at  Canterbury,  to  make  was  in  the  act  of  proceeding  to  Rich- 

ioQoiry  if  the  child  had  any  friends  mond  House  with  this  letter  to  Lord 

living  in  Scotland.    In  a  few  days  Huntley,  when  I  accidentally  fell  in 

•after  (it  beins  necessary  to  procure  tne  with  him.    In  a  few  days  aTter»  the 

Marquis  of  Huntley's  sisnature  to  some  boy  was  admitted  into  the  Royal  Mill- 

papers,  previous  to  the  boy's  admission  tary  Asylum,  where  he  now  is.    We 

into  the  Asvlum)  I,  together, with  my  parted  irom  each  other  with  mutual 

little  protege,  was  proceeding* to  Rich-  regret;  he  wept  so  bitterly  that  his 

monti  House  for  tnat  purpose,  when,  tears  were  nearly  contagious. 

on  our  arrival  in  Charins  Cross,  I  per-  In  iustice  to  Lord  Huntley,  I  must 

ceived  a  soldier,  in  the  Highland  uni-  add,  tnat  his  Lordship  in  a  very  hand- 

ftriPj   waiking   leburely  about    100  some  manner  offered  to  remunerate  me 


1827.] 


ia  thi  Memory  of  tk^  Dttha  of  York. 


}»l 


for  the  expences  I  had  incuricd  lo    half-mile  in  the' eottrgte  of  eigkt' lloa#t» 
clothing  and  brmguig  the  boy  to  Eogr  >  the  iMoai  tiiae,  38,^44  penoos  would. 


land,  Kc.  which  1  begged  leave  to 
decline,  aiating,  that  whatever  Htllo 
merit  might  be  ascribed  to  me  for  tak- 
ing care  of  the  boy,  would  in  my 
opinion  be  done  away  with,  by  accept- 
ing any  pecuniary  recompense ;  I  there- 
fore hopi'd  his  tordship  would  excuse 


each  day,  pass  through  the  house  ot 
mourning,  in  proper  attire.  Thepoliee 
would  direct  all  joianig  the  procession 
to  take  post  in  the  rear  of  the  movlog 
column.  To  exclude  the  posaibility  of 
any  hazardous  erowdiii^,  ticketa  mark- 
ed for  the  day,  and  with  certain  ini- 


my  receiving  any.  JLora  nuniiey  was  tiais,  mignt,  in  four»  or  mote  pkures, 
then  pleaseci  to  say,  it  was  evident,  be  given  out,  on  the  previou»  day,  to 
from  itie  appearance  of  the  boy»  that     applicanta.     It   is   too  mantfeai,  that 

without  such  a  plan  as  this,  or  some 
beiter-inagiiied,  few  can  have  an  op- 
portunity of  giving  a  (inai  proof  ol  at- 
tachment and  respect. 

It  %vould  prevent  serious  accidetUt- 
and  robberies  at  several  public  places, 
were  entrance  regulated  oy  the  admis-' 
sion  of  succetsive  Jiie$  (brmed  in  the 
order  in  which  they  arrived  at  the  doors. 
Yours,  kc.     John  Macdonalo. 


1  had  taken  every  possible  care  of  him» 
and  added,  thai  he  would  be  happy  at 
any  time  to  do  any  thing  in  his  ix)wer 
to  forward  my  promotion. 
March,  1810. 


Mr.  Urban,       Riehmond,  Feb-  ft. 

THE  character  and  .amiable  qua- 
litiesof  the  much-hmirnted  Dukb 
or  York,  have  justly  imfwessed  the 
public  mind  with  feelings  of  unfeign- 
ed admiration,  and  lasting  regret :  and 
many  as  there  might  have  been,  who 
witnessed  the  last  melancholy  and  im-  THOUGH  deeo  regrets,  «nd  fature  fears, 
pres«^'e  scene  of  human  grandeur,  infi-  ^  Mig*^  <««  these  eyes  with  selfish  tears,, 
Uu^U,  mnr«  w#r*.    frvced    bv    circnm-     X*'  *A"  I  qmt  myself;  Kid  smg 


THE  TWENTIETH  OF  JANUARY. 


Bright  image  of  his  noble  Site 

In  mien,  and  valour's  temperate  fire ; 

Tlie  poor  man*s  friend,  the  rich  nau'a  pride. 

The  soldier's  eonCort,  and  bis  guide. 


;harging 
parted  worth. 

A  methodised  procedure  would  cer- 
tainly  have    obviated    accidents    and 

danger  to  which  he)pl«s  ^ni ales  were  g^.^.^,^  ^^  ^,^  ^^^^ 

more  especially  exposed  in  one  of  the     ^^J  ^^,^  ^^^^^ 
most  dense  and  oppressing  crowds  that     j^^  ^^^  ^^  Belvoir's  castled  steep 
ever  assembled.     UiMant  may  such  so-     ^y^^^  y^^^,    ^^^j^  ^^^^  Veteran  weep ; 
lemniiies  be !  but  let  the  past  furnish     Though  still  unblam'd  he  might  repine 
a  lesson  for  the  future.  For  her,  of  Howard's  noble  line; 

On  account  of  the  great  increase  of     Yet  if  a  tear  remain  unshed 
population.  Jive  days  would  be  requi*     For  th'  honour'd  partaer  of  his  bed, 
site  for  a  due  observance  of  such  an 
affecting    ceremony.      On    the    first. 
Noblemen  and  Gentlemen's  carriages 
only,  would  attend.    The  second  and 


He'll  pour  it  on  this  day,  and  prove 
As  true  to  friendship,  as  to  love. 

But  ehiefly.  Sice,  shall  thou  bemoan, 
Dear  to  thy  hearty  as  near  thy  throne, 


fourth  days  would  be  assigned  for  the     Him  studious  of  his  Country's  weal, 
admission  of  females  and  grown  chil-     In  honour  tried,  and  loyal  zeal, 
dien,  (or  for  bdies  and  gentlemen)  ;     S!!! ^^.J^u^  ^!!Ti^^      «^  . 


while   the   other    sex   would  be  ad-     ?•«»  t*  his  soul !  so  Wess  hha,  God  ! 

mitted  on   the   third   and  fifth  days. 

Perfect   regularity  and    order  might 

easihf  be  maintained.    Let  an  avenue 

extending  from  anv  given  point,  half  a 

mile,  bo  formed  uy  a  mditary  force, 

A  moving  ooluma  of  four  persons  in 


LINES 

On  the  Fumeral  or  his  Royal  HiouNisa 
THE  Duke  of  York  and  Albany. 

A  LAS !  what  means  that  sad  procession. 
Moving  at  a  paee  so  slow. 


each  of  its  files,   would  occupy   thia     Drooping  troops  ia  long  suooeseioD, 


avenue  t  and  each  file  occupying  twenty^ 
six  inches,  1917  file*  would  constitute 
the  moving  column,  containing  4868 
persons.  Supposing  the  column  to 
take  CTCB  an  bour  to  moTO  over  the 


Warriors  quits  vHunanned  with  wge. 

I  see  a  People  clad  in  mourning ; 

I  see  tiheir  King  o'erwhelmed  with  grief  r 
I  see  a  Priaeeas  deeply  sorrowhig. 

But  her  tears  bring  no  rellet 


THMet  io  ihe  Memory  of  tim  Duke  of  York. 


101 

BAM  the  laboorar^a  hind  b  ttaid, 
With  downoMt  looks  the  Nobles  stand. 

The  holy  Priesthood  is  dismejedy 
And  ftdness  darkens  ell  the  lend. 

He's  gone  who  wes  the  Army's  Chief, 
He  s  gone  who  was  the  Monarch's  stay* 

Who  to  the  friendless  brought  relief, 
England's  hope  is  swept  away. 

Long  and  tryhig  was  his  sickness, 
Pbm  now  nlicTed,  yet  still  renewed, 

Bdt  strong  in  Faith,  and  Christian  meekness. 
His  constant  mind  was  unsubdued. 

Oenily  soothing  odieirs'  sorrow, 
A  Sister's  tear,  a  Brother's  sigh, 

He  cherished  hopes  still  for  the  morrow. 
Though  preper'd  ere  then  to  die. 

Unstained  with  pride  though  next  theThrone, 
A  master  kind,  a  steadfast  Frieud, 

Indulgent  Husband,  duteous  Son, 
A  subject,  faithful  to  the  end. 

Religious, — to  the  Church  most  true. 
But  proof  against  th'  Enthusiast's  cant, 

Espectrng  what  to  rank  is  due» 
But  turning  from  the  Sycophant. 

With  modesty  he  shunned  applause. 
Unostentatious  'midst  the  throng. 

But  lored  his  Country,  and  her  Laws, 
And  blessings  followed  as  he  mored  along. 

Oh!  ne'er  can  England  see  again, 
A  Prince  more  loyal  and  more  brave, 

A  man  more  true  to  other  men. 
Than  he  now  laid  within  the  grave. 

But  cease  to  weep,  and  cease  to  mourn. 
His  heavenly  spirit  mounts  on  high, 

A  Father  gieeu  a  Son's  return. 

And  Angels  guide  him  through  the  sky. 

Well  pleased  all  ready  from  above, 

He  hears  the  praise  that  lifts  his  name, 

A  name  that  bears  a  Nation's  love, 
A  name  entwined  with  Britain's  fame, 
Jan,  80.  Amon. 

REFLECTIONS 

<ON  THE  Death  or  ms  Royal  HioHNSt s 

THE  Duke  or  York. 

By  W.  Heksbe. 

-(•  XJOW  are  the  migh^  fiOlen!"— The 

*^      manly  brow,       (princely  smile,— 

fonn'd    for   the    glittering   diadem, — the 

The  voice  that  spoke  the  language  of  the 

heart, — 
Where  are  they  now  ?  Sleeping  in  the  dust ! 
Tlie   British  ChiefUin    and   the  soldier's 

friend. 
To  whom  the  widow  and  the  orphan  child, 
Amid  their  deepest  sorrows,  oh  appeal'd. 
And  ne'er  appeal'd  in  vain;— that  gen'rous 

Chief  [tomb. 

Hath  Join'd  his  fathers  in  the  darksome 
Ah!  how  precarious  are  the  things  of  earth!. 
The  great  destroyer  of  the  bfightest  hopes, 


tPcb. 


The  ivdilese  tynmt  of  all  human  kbd. 
Comes  4ike  a  thief  by  aight^  with  silent 

tiead. 
And  plants  his  dacger  in  the  princelv  heart  1 
O  what  a  lesson  tOM  for  earthly  pride  * 
The  pomp  and  splendour  of  the  funeral  train. 
The  nithful  tribute  of  a  nation's  tears, 
Thf  holy  anthems  of  the  sacred  choir. 
Are  all  u  vain,  to  hush  the  voice  of  Truth : 
The  hand  of  Death  descends  alike  on  all, — 
The  mausoleum  of  the  Royal  corse. 
Clothed  in  rich  velvet  of  imperisl  hue, 
Contains  no  more  than  does  the  lowlpr  grave 
Where  Poverty  hath  found  a  place  of^rest ; 
O  what  a  lesson  this  for  earthly  pride ! 

Mr.  Urban,  Cork,  Jan.  ig. 

HAVING  for  some  time  been  en- 
gaged in  the  study  of  Anglo- 
Saxon  Heptarchic  Coins,  it  appears  to 
ine  thait  many  mistakes  have  been  com- 
mitted by  the  writers  on  that  subject. 
'The  stuay  indeed  seems  to  be  almost 
in  its  infancy,  a  circumstance  little  to 
be  wondered  at,  when  we  consider  the 
rude  stale  of  the  coinage  of  that  period, 
the  few  coins  we  have  extant  of  most 
of  their  princes,  and  the  number  of 
princes  of  the  same  name  occurring, 
which  Tenders  it  difHcult  to  know  to 
whom  to  attribute  them.  Should  the 
following  remarks  on  the  coins  of  the 
kingdom  of  Kent  be  considered  worthy 
of  insertion,  I  shall  feel  happy  in  com- 
municating such  observations  on  the 
coins  of  the  other  kingdoms  as  have 
occurred  to  me. 

Ethelbbrt,  Kiko  of  Kent. 

The  only  part  of  the  King's  name 
which  appears  on  this  coin  is  edili, 
which  forms  the  first  part  of  the  names 
of  several  Heptarchic  princes,  as  Edil- 
walchy  A.  D.  595,  King  of  the  South 
Saxons;  fithehere,  654;  and  Ethel- 
wald,  655 1  Kings  of  East  Anglia ; 
Ethelred  ,675,  Kine  of  Mercia;  Ethel- 
ward,  726,  of  the  W'est  Saxons,  and 
several  others;  not  to  mention  those 
beginning  with  athel,  as  Athelric, 
580,  and  Athelfrid,  593,  Kings  of 
Northumberland,  and  whose  names 
may  probably  have  commenced  with 
an  E.  I  see,  therefore,  no  good  rea- 
son for  assigning  this  coin  to  Kent ; 
indeed  were  I  to  assign  it  to  any  one 
kingdom  in  preference  to  others,  it 
should  be  the  South  Saxons,  if  the 
rude  reverse  is  to  be  considered  as  a 
bird,  the  martlets,  according  to  Speed,. 
being  the  ensign  or  arms  of  that  king- 
dom ;  but  thu  coDJecturc  I  must  allow 


10€7  J            On  ike  Saxon  Corns  of  ike  Kingdom  of  Keni.  lOB' 

is  little  more  ptobtble  than  that  which  which  is  generally  supposed  to  he  the 

kjis  assigned  them  to  Kent,  for  which  name  of  a  moneyer,  but  which  I  have 

1   can  discover  no  reason  whatever^  little  doubt  was  intended  for  Eadberht,. 

except  that  other  sceaias  were  found  King  of  Northumberland.    We  shall 

bearing  the  name  of  Egbert,  and  which  ihen  have  the  King's  name  on  one 

have  been  attributed  to  Kent;  but  if  I  side,    and  the    Archbishop's    on   the 

•hall  be  able  to  show  that  the  sceatas  (other,  as  we  find  occurring  on  many 

of  Egbert  do  not  belong  to  Kent,  I  other  coins  of  that  period.     We  most 

think  it  most  be  admitted  that  neither  also  suppose  the  coins  bearing  on  one 

is  there  any  good  grounds  for  assigning  side  an  animal  supposed  to  be  a  dra- 

those  bearing  the  name  edilI  to  that  gon,  and  on  the  other  side  the  same 

kingdom.  name,  EQTBERfiDTVr,  to  belong  to 

F/^D.n-r    ir,«A  ^.  v^..*^  ^^^  ^^^  prince;  and   if  these  coins 

Egbert,  Kih6  of  K*nt.  ^^,        ^^  iiorthumberland,  it  is  pro^ 

I  have  often  doubted  whether  there  bable  this  animal  is  a  lion,  to  which 

was  any  good  reason  for  supposing  the  it  appears  to  bear  some  resemblance  ; 

sceatas   bearmg  the  name  of  Egbert  but  if  it  should  be  contended  for  that 

to  belong  to  Kent.     1  was  ait^  first  in.  U  is  really  a  dragon,  I  shall  only  ob- 

clined  to  attribute  them  to  Egbert  of  serve,  that  we  have  no  proof  that  a 

Wesscx,  from  the  dragon  on  the  re-  dragon  was  used  as  an  ensign  or  badge 

verse,  which  Speed  eives  as  the  arms  by  the  Kings  tf  Kent,  to  whom  these 

of  that  kingdom.     With  this  «oojec-  coins  have  been  hitherto  attributed.— 

ture  I  was  by  no  means  fully  satisfied^  U  may  be  objected  that  some  of  those 

but  only  considered   it  as  more  pro-  coins  with  the  supposed  dragon  bear 

bable  than  that  which  assigned  ihem  to  on  the  other  side  a  different  name  from 

Kent.     1  have  since,  however,  disc^  that  of  Eadbert.    This,  so  far  from  be- 

vered  a  chain  of  evidence  which  goes  ing    an   objection,  however,  will,  I 

to    overturn    both    suppositions,    and  tWnk,  tend  to  establish  in  a  still  clearer 

which  1  think  establishes  almost  be-  nnmner    thai    these  coins   belong  to 

yond  doubt  that  they  belong  to  North-  Northumberland.     One  of  the  other 

umbesland.  names  which  occur  on  them  is  AE- 

In  Riiding's  pUtes  we  find  a  sccata,  tHRED ;  and  if  we  refer  to  histosicafi 
(Appendix,  PL  26,  No.  7.)  which  accoimts,  we  shall  find  that  amonost 
bears  on  one  side  a  head,  with  a  cross  the  Kings  of  Northumerland,  is  to  be 
under  it,  and  the  legend  SGLVNOO-  found  the  name  of  Alcred,  A.  D.  766, 
Tl  lA ;  and  on  referring  to  Speed,  only  seven  years  after  the  death  o£ 
page  318,  I  find  that  there  was  a  son  Eadberht.  The  name  is  differently 
of  Ailred  or  Alcred,  King  of  North-  spelt  in  different  histories,  some  call- 
uniberland,  who  was  called  Alhnud,  ing  it  Alured,  some  Ailred;  but  in« 
and  was  slain  by  the  Danes,  and  ca-  Rapin,  vol.  I.  p.  154,  he  is  called  Al*> 
nonized  as  a  saint;  and  it  is  highly  cred.  The  name  EEVAIR,  accord- 
probable  this  coin  may  belong  to  him.  ing  to  Ruding,  is  also  amongst  the 
The  reverse  has  a  man  with  two  moneyers ;  I  have  not  seen  this  coin>. 
crosses  in  his  hands,  a  figure  similar  to  or  any  engraving  of  it,  but  perhaps  it 
which  may  be  found  on  several  sceatas,  may  belong  to  Egfrid,  and  the  letters 
and  particularly  those  bearing  the  name  thus  formed,  EL  V  RID;  the  R  being, 
of  Egbert.  This  circumstance  natu-  often  made  like  an  A,  and  the  D  like 
rally  awakens  a  suspicion,  that  those  an  R.  it  may  also  be  observed  that 
coins  may  belong  to  the  kingdom  of  the  figure  to  which  the  name  of  £g- 
Northumberland.  On  referring  to  the  bert  is  added,  appears  more  like  an- 
history  of  that  kingdom,  we  find  in-  ecclesiastic  than  a  King,  as  it  bears  a 
deed  no  King  named  Egbert,  except  a  cross  in  each  hand,  and  has  a  head- 

n  prince  who  reigned  only  a  year,  dress  somewhat   similar  to  those  oa 

e  time  of  Alfred,  to  whom  it  is  some  of  the  ecclesiastical    coins.     I 

not  probable  they  belong  ;  but  we  find  think,  therefore,  the  coins  bearing  the 

an    Archbishop   of   York,   who   was  names  of  A Ihnod,  Egbert,  Edbert,  and' 

called  St.  Egbert,  and  was  brother  to  Alcred,  form  together  such  a  chain  of 

Eadberht,   King  of  Norihuniberland,  evidence,  as  will  well  warrant  us  in 

A.  D.  738.  attributing  all  these  coins,  as  well  as- 

If  we  look  to  the  other  side  of  these  the  sceatas  (plate  S6,  nos.  6  and  Q)^  ta 
coins  we  find  the  name  variously  spelt,    the  kingdom  of  Northumberland. 

EQTBEREirrvr  .  EADBEREDTVP;  Yours,  &c.          Johk  LaND«A.Y. 


MrlURBAify  /vs.  SO*  or  for  anjpurpoie,  denytbeGodhettd 

THE  Uffiitanaot*  or  at  least  chat  of  his  Redeenier,  or  the  penonaitty  of 

poition  of  the  sect  who  term  the  Holy  Spirit  i  iMiindy»  that  his  pre- 

Aheonselves  Fveethinken,  appear  to  be  tensioiM  to  particular  tcnderaen  of  coi»- 

^ciAiag  weary  of  ihat  ^oiet  'ohscurity  science  was  base  hypocrisy,  that  he 

into  which  ih^  have  hitherto  been  possessed  one  of  those  placid  consciences 

involved^  aad   to  have  become  very  which  never  do  their  possessors  any 

a»xto«s  to  atiract  public  aiAeotion  to  harm,  and  that,  consequently,  be  was 

themselves  4ind  their  doctrines,  and  in  far,  very  iar  from  being  entitled  to  re- 

parauit  of  that  laudable  object  (the  ai*>  ^pect  or  even  compassion, 
tainment  of  notoriety),  having  lately         Let  these  people  be  treated  with  the 

•takee  to  poiesiinx  a^inst  the  injury  contempt   they  merit,  if  they  ahould 

done  io  their  cousciences   by  being  again  present  themselves  to  libel  the 

compelled  lo  aoqniesoe  in  the  Mar-  ordinancy,  and  vilify  the  belief  of  the 

riage    ceremony   of  the    Established  :Church  of  England.     Let  them   be 

Churchy  and  on  two  late  occaaiona,  told  that  the  fathers  of  that  Church 

have    caused   considerable  delay  and  were  men  who  despised  and  forsook 

Qoofiision  in  the  performance  of  Di*-  all  worldly  advantages,    honours,    or 

«iue  seivioe  in  conseouence.    It  is  to  possessions,  rather  than  act  contrary  to 

4>e  hoped,  however,  that  if  suoh  kind  -the  dicuies  of  their  consciences — that 

of  pioteats  be  again  offered,  that  no  ill-  they  were  content  to  be  driven  from 

founded  pity  for  their  supposed  scruples  their  families,  exiled  from  their  coun- 

«f  oenscieiice  will  be  suffered  to  pre-  try,  nay  even  to  lay  down  their  lives  at 

«ail«  or  rather  to  avert  that  just  con*  the  stake,  rather  than  offend  the  mo- 

lempt    and    indignation  which    such  nitor  within,  rather  than  to  acquiesce 

conduct  is  calculated  to  excite,  whea  in  tenets  they  denied,  or  submit  to  ordt- 

viewed  in  its  proper  light.     It  is  but  nances  they  disallowed.    And  let  them 

justice  however  to  say,  that  on  both  be  told,  that  the  Church  of  Eneland, 

the  lale  occasions  of  protests   being  -at  the  present  clay  (and  not  merely  the 

offered  axainst  the  performance  of  the  Church  of  England,  but  all  classes  of 

>larriage    Ceremony,    the    officiating  Christians),   refuses    and    rejecu    the 

clergyman  Chut  especially  the  Rev.  Dr.  claims  of  any  man  to  peculiar  tender- 

CCice)  displayed  a  proper  sense  of  the  ness  of  conscience,  wrio  will  not  do 

indecency,  and  a  fixed  determioaiion  likewise ;  thot  it  considers  iheir  pro- 

to  resist  it  as  far  as  possible.  -tests  in  the  light  of  deliberate  insults. 

These  Freethinkers,  it  appears,  en*  not  however  worthy  of  being  resented 

tertain  very  strong  objections  against  otherwise    than    by   reminding  them 

the  Marriuge  llitual  of  the  Church  of  how  little  they  resembled  the  founders 

England ;  thc^ consider  that  the  invo-  of  the  Protestant  faith,  to  whom  they 

cation  of  the  Trinity  is  impiety  of  the  affect  to  compare  themselves, 
most  dreadful  kind,  as  elevating  to  the         Let   it   not    be    forgotten,   by   tlie 

rank  of  Deity  a  mere  human  being.  Freethinkers,  or  any  other  persons  who 

and  paying  divine  hotiours  to  this  hu>  may  afiect  to  entertain  conscientious 

•man  being,  and  to  a  third  personage,  scruples    in    regard    to   the  Marriage 

whom  they  conceive  lo  be  the  creature  Ritual  of  the  Church  of  England,  that 

«f  fancy  or  mistake.     Now  even  upon  if  they  chose  to  take  a  trip  to  Scotland, 

this  objection,  without  taking  into  ao-  or  even  to  cross  the  British  Channel, 

count  those  of  a  minor  description,  can  they  might  be  united  in   matrimony 

we  tMiopofie  that  these  men  really  do  without  giving  their  assent  to  the  ob- 

hold  tn IS  opinion  ?  or  if  they  do,  what  noxious  doctrines  they  complain  of, 

idea  can  we  form  of  their  consciences,  as  marriage  may  be  nuw  contracted  as 

if  they  will,  to  secure  any  advantages  a  civil  contract,  without  any  profession 

whatever,  deliberately  and  publicly  re^  of  religious  belief;  and  that  the  law  of 

pudiate  this  doctrine^  nay,  according  England  recognises  ttle  validity  of  such 

to  their  view  of  the  subject,  commit  marriages   to  the  fullest   extent.     If, 

positive  and   direct  blasphemy.     We  therefore,  the  Freethinkers  choose  to 

must  entertain  the  same  opinion  of  sacrifice  their  consciences  rather  than 

them  that  we  should  of  a  professed  be»  a  few  pounds,  let  them  do  so  in  silence, 

liever  io  the  divinity  of  our  Saviour  lest  thev  provoke  contempt  rather  than 

who  should,  uuiler  any  circumatancea,  sympatny.  R.  H. 


^^f^^s^^ 


MEMOIR  OF  WILLIAM  GIFFORD,  £so. 

(With  a  Portrait.) 

On  the  last  dajr  of  the  departed  year,  house  of  a    person    named   Carlislcp 

^ied.athishousem  James-street,  Buck-  who,  for  money  advanced  to  his  mo- 

ingham-gate,  aged  70,  William  GifTord,  ther,  had  taken  possession  of  all  her  ef- 

esq.  author  of  the  Baviadand  Msviad,  fects,  and  who  was  also  bis  eodfather. 

translator  of  Juvenal  and  Perkins,  and  William   GifTord  had   in  his  father's 

Editor  of  the  Quarterly  Review  from  life-time,  though  to  little  profit,  spent 

its  commencement  to  the  beginning  of  three  years  at  the  free-school,  ana  his 

1826.  godfather,  from  *' respect  for  the  opi- 

To  those  who  have  seen  the  Juvenal,  nion  of  the  town,'*  now  sent  him  agam, 
of  this  bighW-gifted  man,  the  captivat*  and  he  studied  with  ereater  diligence, 
ing  piece  of  autobiography  prefixed  to  .With  the  expense  of  this,  however, 
that  work  must  necessarily  be  familiar;  Carlisle  was  soon  tired,  and  after  three 
and  indeed  on  its  first  ap|)earance  in  mootht  he  removed  his  godson,  and 
1802,  we  gave  a  short  epitome  of  it  in  began  to  look  round  for  some  opportu- 
vol.  Lxxxii.  ii.  897.  At  the  same  time  nity  of  ridding  himself  of  a  useless 
we  think  no  apology  necessary  for  oar  charge.  Having  been  unsuccessful  in 
making,  on  this  appropriate  occasion^  persuading  the  boy  to  follow  the  plough, 
some  more  extensive  extracts.  In  pe-  ne  appears  to  have  determined  on  some 
rusing  that  exceedingly  interettinp  nar-  maritiaie  employment  for  him.  An 
rative,  it  is  difficult  to  fay  which  it  arrangement  was  made  that  he  should 
most  entitled  to  our  MRi^fation,  the  be  fitted  out  to  assist  in  a  Newfound- 
writer's  manly  candotfT  10  onfoldiqg  land' store-house,  but  the  merchant  on 
his  humble  origin,  or  hit  genuine  nio^  .teeini^him,  pronounced  him  to  be  "  too 
destv  in  \eiling  his  acquired  eminence.  Mnall;"  and  so  hnmbied  were  his  pros- 

Mr.  GifTord  was  of  a  Devonshire  fi^  pioett  after  this,  that  his  godfather  next 
mily,  and  was  bom  at  Athburton  ia  .proposed  toapprentice  him  in  one  of  the 
ihat  county  in  April  17d6.  His  ance%-  Torbay  fishing^lioats.  The  matter  was, 
try  he  could  trace  no  further  than  to  however,  com promiied  by  his  consent- 
his  great-grand-father,  who  resided  at  .ing  to  go  on  board  a  small  coaster  be- 
Halsbury  near  that  town,  and  waspos-  longing  to  Brixham,  and  thither  he 
aessed  of  considerable  property.  This,  went  when  little  more  than  thirteen, 
however,  his  son  and  grandson  entirely  "In  this  vessel,**  he  says,  **  1  con- 
dissipated,  and,  at  the  period  when  tinned  nearly  a  twelvemoqth ;  and  here 
Mr.  GifTord  en tere<l  the  world,  his  mo-  I  got  acquainted  with  nautical  terms, 
ther  was  living  alone  on  very  scanty  and  contracted  a  love  for  the  sea  which 
resources,  his  father  having  lately  gone  a  lapse  of  thirty  years  has  but  little  di- 
to  sea  as  second  in  command  oftlie  minished.  It  will  be  easily  conceived 
Lyon  transport.  He  did  not  return  till  that  my  life  was  a  life  of  hardship.  1 
1764;  and  then,  after  having  for  about  was  not  only  a  Ship-boy  on  the  hi^h 
three  years  unprofitably  carried  on  his  and  giddy  mast,'  but  also  in  the  cabin, 
business  as  a  painter  and  glazier,  sunk  where  every  menial  office  fell  to  my 
from  intemperance  into  the  >5rave,  whi-  lot:  yei  if  I  was  restless  and  discon- 
ther  his  widow  followed  hini  within  a  tented,  I  can  safely  say  it  was  not  so 
twelvemonth.  "She  was,**  says  her  nuich  on  account  of  this,  as  of  my 
son,  **an  excellent  woman,  bore  my  .beiuf;  precluded  from  all  possibility  of 
father's  infirmities  with  fxiiience  and  reading;  as  my  master  did  not  possess, 
good  humour,  loved  her  children  dearly,  nor  do  I  rcc<»llect  seeing  during  the 
anddiedailasi,  exhau«;!ed  with  anxiety  whole  time  of  my  abode  with  him,  a 
ami  grief,more  on  their  account  than  single  book  of  any  description,  except 
her  own."  the  Coasting  Pilot. 

Mr.  GifTord  was  thus  left  an  orphan  •*  As  my  Tot  teemed  to  l>e  cast,  bow- 
when  not  quite  tiiirieen,  with  a  bro-  ever,  1  was  not  negligent  in  seeking 
ther  hardly  two,  •*  and  we  had  not,"  such  information  as  promised  to  be 
he  says,  "a  relation  or  friend  in  the  useful  ;  and  I  therefore  frequented,  at 
world.'*  His  brother  was  consigned  to  my  leisure  hours,  such  vessels  as  dropt 
the  alms-house,  and  after  a  short  life  of  into  Torbay.  On  attempting  to  get  on 
hardship  and  suffering,  died  a  youth,  board  one  of  these,  which  I  did  at  mid- 
He  was  himself  at  first  uken  lo  the  night,  I  missed  my  footing,  and  fell 

GiHT.  Mag.  February,  I  it7.  into  the  sea.   The  floating  away  of  the 

2 


106 


o/mUiam  G^ord,  Esq. 


LPeb. 


boat  alarmed  the  man  on  deck,  who 
came  to  the  ships  side  joit  in  time  to 
aee  me  sink.  He  immediately  threw 
out  several  ropes,  one  of  which  provi- 
dentially  (for  1  was  unconscious  of  it,) 
intangled  itself  about  me,  and  I  was 


negotiating  with  his  cousin,  a  shoe- 
maker of  tome  retpectabihty,  who  had 
liberaily  agreed  to  take  me  without  a 
fee,  as  an  apprentice.  1  was  so  shocked 
at  this  intelligence,  that  I  did  not  remon- 
strate ;  but  went  in  sullenness  and  sr- 


drawn  up  to  the  surface,  till  a  boat  lence  to  my  new  master,  to  whom  i 

could  be  got  roond.    The  usual  me-  was  soon  alter  bound,  till  I  should  ar- 

thods  were  taken  to  recover  me,  and  I  tain  the  age  of  twenty-one. 

awoke  in  bed  the  next  morning,  re-  ''As  I   hated  my   new  profession 

membering  nothing  but  the  horror  I  with    a  perfect    hatred,   I  made  no 

fdt^  when!  first  found  m^elf  unable  to  progress  m  it ;  and  was  consequently 

cry  out  for  assistance.  This  was  not  my  little  regarded  in  the  family,  of  which 

only  escape,  but  I  forbear  to  speak  of  1  sunk  by  decrees  into  the  common 

them.    An  escape  of  another  kmd  was  drudge:  this  did  not  much  disquiet 

preparing  for  me."  me,  for  my  spirits  were  now  humbled. 

This  was  an  alteration  in  the  con-  I  did  not,  however,  quite  resign  the 

duct  of  his  godfather,  who,  to  allay  a  hope  of  one  day  succeeding  to  Mr. 

nurmuring  which  had  arisen  amongst  Hugh  Smerdon,  and  therefore  secretly 


the  townspeople,  had  now  determined 
to  recal  him  from  his  degraded  situa- 
tion, and  restore  him  to  school.  This, 
at  he  wanted  some  months  of  fourteen, 
and  was  not  yet  bound  apprentice,  was 
easily  effected ;  and  '*  my  heart,"  he 
continues,  "which  had  been  cruellj 
shot  up,  now  opened  to  kinder  senti- 
ments, and  fairer  views.*' 

** After  the  holidays  I  returned  to 
my  darling    pursuit,   arithmetic:   my 


prosecuted  mv  favourite  study,  at  every 
mterval  of  leisure.  These  interval 
were  not  very  freouent;  and  when  the 
use  I  made  of  them  was  found  out, 
they  were  rendered  still  less  so.  1 
could  not  guess  the  motives  for  this  at 
first ;  but  at  length  I  discovered  ihut 
my  Master  destined  his  youngest  son 
for  the  situation  to  which  I  aspired. 

"I  possessed  at  this  time  but  one 
book  in  the  world :  it  was  a  treatise 


{progress  was  now  so  rapid,  that  in  a    on  Algebra,  given  to  me  by  a  young 
ew  mouths  I  was  at  the  head  of  the    woman,  who  had  found  it  in  a  lode- 


school,  and  qualified  to  assist  my  mas- 
ter, Mr.  £.  Foulong,  on  any  extraor- 
dinary emergency.  As  he  usually  gave 
me  a  trifle  on  those  occasions,  it  raised 
a  thought  in  me,  that,  by  engaging 
with  him  as  a  regular  assistant,  and 
undertaking  the  instruction  of  a  few 
evening  scholars,  1  might,  with  a  lit- 
tle additional  aid,  be  enabled  to  sup- 


ing-house.  1  considered  it  as  a  trea- 
sure ;  but  it  was  a  treasure  locked  up ; 
for  it  supposed  the  reader  to  be  well 
acquainted  with  simple  equation,  and 
I  knew  nothing  of  the  matter.  My 
master's  son  had  purchased  Fenning's 
Introduction  :  this  was  precisely  what 
1  wanted  ;  but  he  carefully  concealed 
it   from   me,   and    I   was  indebted   to 


port  myself.     God  knows,  njy  ideas  of    chance  alone  for  stumbling  upon  his 


topport  at  this  time  were  of  no  very 
extravagant  nature.  I  had,  besides, 
another  object  in  view.  Mr.  Hugh 
Smerdon,  my  6rst  Master,  was  now 
srown  old  and  infirm ;  it  seemed  un- 
likely that  he  should  hold  out  above 
three  or  four  years;  and  I  fondly  flat- 


hiding-place.  I  sat  up  for  the  greatest 
part  of  several  nights  successively,  and 
before  he  suspected  that  his  trejtise 
was  discovered,  hnd  completely  nias- 
tered  it.  I  could  now  enter  upon  my 
own ;  and  that  carried  me  pretty  far 
into  the  science.     This  was  not  done 


tered  myself  that,  notwithstanding  my     without  difiicully.     1   had  not   a   (ur- 
youth,  I  might  possibly  be  ap|X)inted    -thing  on  earth,   nor  a  friend  to  give 


to  succeed  him.  1  was  in  my  fifteenth 
year,  when  I  built  these  castles.  A 
ttorm,  however,  was  collecting,  which 
unexpectedly  burst  upon  me,  and 
iwept  them  all  away. 

"  On  mentioning  my  little  plan  to 


me  one  ;  pen,  ink,  and  pa()er,  there- 
fore, (in  despite  of  the  flippant  remark 
of  Lord  Orford,)  were,  for  the  moH 
part,  as  completely  out  of  my  reach  as 
a  crown  ana  sceptre.  There  was,  in- 
deed, a  resource ;  but  the  utmost  cau- 


Carlisle,  he  treated  it  with  the  utmost  tion  and  secrery  were  necessary  in  ap- 
contempt;  and  told  me,  that,  as  1  had  plying  to  it.  I  beat  out  pieces  of  lea- 
learned  enough  at  school,  he  must  be  tber  as  smooth  as  possible,  and  wrought 
considered  as  having  fairly  discharged  my  problems  on  tnem  with  a  blunted 
Ilia  duty ;  he  added,  that  he  had  b«?n  awl ;  for  the  rest,  my  memory  vms  te^ 


JB97.^  Mmnok  of  mUiam  Qifford,  J&f.  )07 

jucioQtj  and  I  coald  multiply  anddv>    nuster't  angtr  was  railed  to  a  tonril^ 
▼ide  by  it  to  a  great  extent.  pitch  by  mjr  indifiference  to  hit  oodp 

"Hitherto  1  bad  not  so  much  at  cerns,  and  still  more  by  the  reportt  that  ■ 
breamed  of  poetry :  indeed,  I  scarcely  were  daily  brought  to  nim  of  mypre- 
knew  it  b;^  name;  and  whatever  may  sumptuous  attempu at  versification.  I  ^ 
be  said  ot  the  force  of  nature,  I  cer-  was  reauired  to  give  up  my  papers,  and 
tainly  never  '  lisp*d  in  numbers.'  I  when  1  refused,  my  mrret  was  searcb- 
jrecoflect  the  occasion  of  my  first  at-  ed,  my  little  hoard  ofbooks  discovered 
tempt;  it  is,  like  all  the  rest  of  my  and  removed,  and  all  future  repetitiona 
non-adventures,  of  so  unimportant  a  prohibited  in  the  strictest  manner, 
nature,  that  1  should  blush  to  call  the  "  This  was  a  very  severe  stroke,  and 
attention  of  the  idlest  reader  to  it,  but  I  felt  it  most  sensibly;  it  was  followed 
for  the  reason  alleged  in  the  introduo-  by  another  severer  still,— a  stroke 
tory  paragraph.  A  person,  whose  name  which  crushed  the  hopes  I  had  so  Ions 
^apes  me,  had  undertaken  to  paint  a  and  so  fondly  cherished,  and  resienea 
sign  for  an  ale-house :  it  was  to  have  me  at  once  to  despair.  Mr.  Hugh 
been  a  lion,  but  the  unfortunate  artr  Smerdon,  on  whose  succession  I  had 
ist  produced  a  dog.  On  this  awkward  calculated,  died,  and  was  succeeded  bj 
afiair,  one  of  my  acauaintance  wrote  a  a  person  not  much  older  than  myself, 
copv  of  what  we  called  verse :  I  liked  and  certainly  not  so  well  qualifiol  for 
it,  but  fancied  that  1  could  compote     the  situation. 

something  more  to  the  purpose.  I  "  In  this  humble  and  obseure  state, 
made  the  experiment,  and  by  the  una-  poor  beyond  the  common  lot,  yet  flat* 
nimous  suffrage  of  my  shopmates,  was  tering  my  ambition  with  day-dreamt, 
allowed  to  have  succeeded.  Noiwiih-  which,  perhaps  would  never  have  been 
standing  this  encouragement,  I  thought  realized,  I  was  found,  in  the  twentieth 
no  more  of  verse  till  another  occur-  year  of  my  age,  by  Mr.  William 
rence,  as  trifling  as  the  former,  fur-  Cookesl  y— a  name  never  to  be  pro- 
nished  me  with  a  fresh  subject ;  and  nounced  by  me  without  veneration, 
thus  1  went  on,  till  I  had  got  together  The  lamentable  doggerel  which  I  have 
about  a  dozen  of  them.  Ceruinly,  already  mentionedirand  which  had 
nothing  on  earth  was  so  deplorable ;  passed  from  mouth  to  mouth  among 
such  as  they  were,  however,  tney  were  people  of  my  own  degree,  had,  bj 
talked  of  in  my  little  circle,  and  I  wat  some  accident  or  other,  reached  his  ear, 
sometimes  invited  to  repeat  them,  even  and  given  him  a  curiosity  to  inquire 
out  of  it.  I  never  committed  a  line  to  after  the  author, 
paper  for  two  reasons— first,  because  **  It  was  my  good  fortune  to  intereat 
1  had  no  paper ;  and  secondly— per-  his  benevolence.  My  little  history  wat 
haps  I  might  be  excused  from  going  not  untinctured  with  melancholy,  and 
further;  but,  in  truth,  I  wat  afraid,  at  I  laid  it  fairly  before  him.  His  fink 
my  master  had  already  threatened  me,  care  was  to  console;  his  second,  which 
for  inadvertently  hitching  the  name  of  he  cherished  to  the  last  moment  of 
one  of  his  customers  into  a  rhyme.  his  existence,  was  to  relieve  and  sup- 

"  The  repetitions  of  which  I  speak  port  me. 
were  always  attended  with  applause>  '* Mr. Cookesley  was  not  rich;  hit 
and  sometimes  with  favours  more  sub-  eminence  in  his  profession,  which  wat 
stantial :  little  collections  were  now  that  of  a  surgeon,  procured  him,  in- 
and  then  made,  and  J  have  received  deed,  much  employment;  but  in  a 
sixpence  in  an  evening.  To  one  who  country  town,  men  of  science  are  not 
had  long  lived  in  the  absolute  want  of  the  most  liberally  rewarded :  he  had, 
money,  such  a  resource  seemed  a  Pe-  besides,  a  very  numerous  family,  which 
ruvian  mine:  I  furnished  myself  by  lelt  him  little  for  the  purposes  of  ge- 
degrees  with  paper,  &c.  and,  what  was  neral  benevolence;  that  little,  how- 
of  more  importance,  with  books  of  ever,  was  cheerfully  bestowed,  and  hit 
geometry  ana  of  the  hisher  branches  activity  and  zeal  were  always  at  hand 
of  algebra,  which  I  cautiously  conceal-  to  supply  the  deficiencies  of  his  for- 
ed.    Poetry,  even  at  this  time,  was  no    tune.'* 

amusement  of  mine;  it  was  subser-  Through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Cookes- 
vieut  to  other  purposes;  and  I  only  had  ley,  a  suoscription  was  raised,  "for 
recourse  to  it,  when  I  wanted  money  purchasing  the  remainder  of  the  time 
for  my  mathematical  pursuiu.  But  of  William  Gifford ;  and  for  enabling 
the  clouds  were  gathering  &tt.    My    him  to   improve  himself  in   writing 


los 


Mmok  qf  fVUHam  Gififtd,  E$q. 


[Feb* 


and  fidglish  fframinar.''--Sufficient  was 
fhos  collects  for  purchasing  the  eish- 
teen  months  which  remained  of  his 
apprenticeship,  and  for  maintaining  the 
youthful  genius  for  a  few  months,  dur- 
ing which  he  assiduously  attended  the 
Retr.  Thomas  Smerdon. 

"  At  the  expiration  of  this  period, 
it  was  found  tnat  my  progress  (for  I 
will  speak  the  truth  in  modesty)  had 
^been  more  considerable  than  my  pa- 
trons expected.  I  had  also  written  in 
tbe  interim  several  little  pieces  of  poe- 
try, less  rugged,  I  suppose,  than  my 
former  ones ;  and  certainly  with  fewer 
«  anomalies  of  language.  My  precep- 
tor, too,  spoke  favourably  of  me;  and 
my  benefactor,  wlio  was  now  become 
my  father  and  my  friend,  had  little 
difficulty  in  persuading  my  patrons  to 
renew  their  donations,  and  continue 
me  at  school  for  another  year.  Such 
liberality  was  not  lost  upon  me ;  I  grew 
anxious  to  make  the  best  return  in  my 
power,  and  I  redoubled  my  diligence. 
Kow,  that  I  am  sunk  into  indolence, 
I  look  back  with  some  desree  of  scep- 
ticism to  the  exertions  of  that  period. 

"  In  two  years  and  two  months  from 
the  day  of  my  emancipation,  I  was 
pronounced  by  Mr.  Smerdon  fit  for 
the  University;  and  Mr.  Cookesley 
looked  round  for  some  one  who  had 
interest  enough  to  procure  me  some 
little  office  at  Oxford.  This  person, 
who  was  soon  found,  was  Thomas 
Taylor,  esq.  of  Denbury,  a  gentleman 
to  whom  1  had  already  been  indebted 
for  much  liberal  and  friendly  support. 
He  procured  me  the  place  of  Bib. 
Lect.  at  Exeter  College;  and  this, 
with  such  occasional  assistance  from 
the  country  as  Mr.  Cookesley  under- 
took to  provide,  was  thought  sufficient 
to  enable  me  to  live,  at  least  till  I  had 
taken  a  degree. 

"  During  my  attendance  on  Mr. 
Smerdon  1'  had  written,  as  I  observed 
before,  several  tuneful  trifles,  some  as 
exercises,  others  voluntarily,  (for  poe- 
try was  now  become  my  delight,^*  and 
not  a  few  at  the  desire  of  my  friends. 
When  I  became  capable,  however,  of 
reading  Latin  and  Greek  with  some 
degree  of  facility,  that  gentleman  em- 
ployed  all  my  leisure  hours  in  transla- 
tions from  the  classics ;  and  indeed  I 
scarcely  know  a  single  school-book  of 
which  J  did  not  render  some  portion 
into  English  verse.  Among  others, 
JuvBVAL  engaged  my  attention,  or 
rather' ray  master's,  and  I  translated 


the  Tenth  Satir*  for  a  holiday  task* 
Mr.  Smerdon  was  much  pleased  with 
this,  (I  was  not  undelighted  with  it 
myself,)  and  as  1  was  now  become 
fond  of  the  author,  he  easily  persuaded 
me  to  proceed  with  him ;  and  I  trans- 
lated in  succession  the  Third,  the 
Fourth,  the  Twelfth,  and,  I  think,  the 
Eighth  Satires.  As  I  had  no  end  in 
view  but  that  of  giving  a  temporary 
satisfaction  to  my  benefactors,  1  thought 
little  more  of  these,  than  of  manv  other 
things  of  the  same  nature,  which  I 
wrote  from  time  to  time,  and  of  which 
I  never  copied  a  single  line. 

**  On  my  removing  to  Exeter  Gol- 
1^,  however,  my  friend,  ever  atten- 
tive to  my  concerns,  advised  me  to 
copy  my  translation  of  the  Tenth  Sa- 
tire, and  present  it,  on  my  arrival,  to 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Stinton  (afterwards  Rec- 
tor), to  whom  Mr. Taylor  had  given 
me  an  introductory  letter.  I  did  so, 
and  it  was  kindly  received.  Thus  en- 
couraged, I  took  up  the  First  and  Se- 
cond Satires,  (1  mention  them  in  the 
order  they  were  translated,)  when  my 
friend,  who  had  sedulously  watched 
my  progress,  first  started  tne  idea  of 
going  through  the  whole,  and  pub- 
lishing it  by  subscription,  as  a  scheme 
for  increasing  my  means  of  subsist- 
ance.  To  this  I  readily  acceded,  and 
finished  the  Thirteenth,  Eleventh,  and 
Fifteenth  Satires ;  the  remainder  were 
a  work  of  a  much  later  period.  When 
I  had  got  thus  far,  we  thought  it  a  fit 
time  to  mention  our  design  ;  it  was 
very  generally  approved  of  by  my 
friends  ;  and  on  the  first  of  January, 
1781,  the  subscription  was  opened  by 
Mr.  Cookesley  at  Ashburton,  and  by 
myself  at  Exeter  College. 

"So  bold  an  undertaking  so  precipi- 
tately announced,  will  give  the  reader, 
I  fear,  a  higher  opinion  of  my  conceit 
than  of  my  talents ;  neither  the  one 
nor  the  other,  however,  had  the  small- 
est concern  with  the  business,  which 
originated  solely  in  ignorance :  I  wrote 
verses  with  great  facility,  and  was  sim- 
ple enough  to  imagine  that  little  more 
was  necessary  for  a  translator  of  Juve- 
nal !  1  was  not,  indeed,  unconscious 
of  my  inaccuracies :  1  knew  that  they 
were  numerous,  and  that  I  had  need 
of  some  friendly  eye  to  point  them  out, 
and  some  judicious  hand  to  rectify  or 
remove  them:  but  for  these,  as  well 
as  for  every  thins  else,  1  looked  to  Mr. 
Cookeslev,  and  tnat  worthy  man,  with 
his  usual  alacrity  of  kindness,  under^ 


le^f]                   Mtmoir  of  fVUliam  Qiford,  Esq.  log 

took  the  laborious  task  of  revising  the  become  more  intimately  acquainted 
Mr  hole  translation.  My  friend  was  no  with  the  classics,  and  to  acquire  some 
great  Laiinist,  perhaps  I  was  the  bet-  of  the  modern  languages :  by  permit- 
ter  of  the  two ;  but  he  had  taste  and  sion  too,  or  rather  recommendation,  of 
judgment,  which  1  wanted.  What  the  Rector  and  Fellows,  I  also  under* 
advantages  might  have  been  ultimately  took  the  care  of  a  few  pupils.*' 
derived  from  them,  there  was  unhap-  On  returning,  after  the  lapse  of 
pily  no  opportunitjr  of  ascertaining,  as  many  months,  to  his  Juvenal,  Mr. 
It  pleased  the  Almightv  to  call  him  to  Gifford  "  discovered,  for  the  first  time, 
himself  by  a  sudden  oeath,  before  we  that  my  own  experience,  and  the  ad- 
had  quite  finished  the  First  Satire.  He  vice  of  my  too,  too  partial  friend,  had 
died  with  a  letter  of  mine,  unopened,  engaged  me  in  a  work  for  the  due  ex- 
in  his  hands.  .  ecution  of  which  my  literary  attaio- 

"  This  event,  which  took  place  on  ments  were  by  no  means  sufiicient.^ 

the  10th  of  January,  1781,  afflicted  me  Seeing,  therefore,   the  necessity  of  a 

beyond  measure.     1  was  not  only  de-  long  and  painful  revision,  which  woaM 

pnved  of  a  most  faithful  and  affection-  have  carried  him  far  beyond  the  time 

ate  friend,  but  of  a  zealous  and  ever  fixed  for  the  appearance  of  the  volume, 

active   protector,  on   whom   1  confi-  he  resolved  to  renounce  the  publica- 

dently   relied   for  support:   the  sums  tion  for  the  present.     In  pursuance  of 

that  were  still  necessary  for  me,  he  al-  this  resolution,  luuch  of  tne  subscrii^ 

ways  collected ;  and  it  was  to  be  feared  tion'money  was  returned  ;  but  he  still 

that  the  assistance  which  was  not  so-  secretly  determined   to  complete   the 

licited  with  warmth,  would  insensibly  work,  and  to  illustrate  it  with  notes, 

cease  to  be  afforded.  which  he  "  now  perceived  to  be  abso- 

"  In  matiyinstances  this  was  actually  lutely  necessary."    At  this  crisis  hit 

the   case.    The    desertion,    however,  views  were  entirely  chaug«l  by  his  ao- 

was  not  general ;  and  I  was  encouraaed  cidental  introduction  to  Lxird  Grosve* 

to  hope,  by  the  unexpected  friendship  nor,  which  he  thus  describes : 

ofServinetonSavery,  a  gentleman  who  "  1  had  contracted  an  acquaintance 

volunurily  stood  forth  as  my  patron,  with  [the  Rev.  William  Peters,  R.A.3 

and   watched   over  my  interest  with  recommended  to  my  particular  notice 

kindness  and  attention.  by  a  gentleman  of  Devonshire,  whom 

"  Some  time  before  Mr.  Cookesley's  I  was  proud  of  an  opportunity  to  oblige, 

death,  we  had  agreed  that  it  would  be  This  person's  residence  at  Oxford  wae 

proper  to  deliver  out,  with  the  terms  not  long,  and  when   he  returned  to 

of   subscription,  a  specimen  of  the  town,  1  maintained  a  correspondence 

manner  in  which  the  translation  was  with  him  by  letters.    At  his  |>artical«r 

executed.    To  obviate  any  idea  of  se-  request,  these  were  enclosed  in  ooven^ 

lection,  a  sheet  was  accordingly  taken  and  sent  to  Lord  GrosTcnor.    One  day 

from  the  beginning  of  the  First  Satire.  I  inadvertently  omitted  the  directioiH 

My  friend  died  while  it  was  in  the  and  his  Lordship,  necessarily  supposina; 

press.  the  letter  to   be  meant  for   himself 

'*  After  a  few  melancholy  weeks,  I  opened  and  read  it.  There  was  some- 
resumed  the  translation;  but  found  thing  in  it  which  attracted  his  notice; 
myself  utterly  incapable  of  proceeding,  and  when  he  gave  it  to  my  friend,  he 
I  had  been  so  accustomed  to  connect  had  the  curiosity  to  inquire  about  hit 
the  name  of  Mr.  Cookesley  with  every  correspondent  at  Oxford,  and,  upon  the 
part  of  it,  and  1  laboureo  with  sucn  answer  he  received,  the  kindness  to 
delight  in  the  hope  of  giving  him  plea-  desire  that  he  might  be  brought  to  see 
sure,  that  now,  when  he  appeared  to  him  upon  his  coming  to  town.  To 
have  left  me  in  the  midst  of^my  enter-  this  circumstance,  purely  accidental  oa 
prize,  and  I  was  abandoned  to  my  all  sides,  and  to  this  alone,  I  owe  mj 
own  efifbrts,  1  seemed  to  be  engnpircf  in  introduction  to  that  nobleman, 
a  hopeless  struggle,  without  motive  or  "  On  my  first  visit,  he  asked  me 
end :  and  this  idea,  which  was  perpe-  what  friends  I  had,  and  what  were  my 
tually  recnrring  to  me,  brought  such  prospects  in  life;  and  I  told  him  that 
bitter  anguish  with  it,  that  1  shut  up  1  had  no  friends,  and  no  prospects  of 
the  work  with  feelings  bordering  on  any  kind.  He  said  no  more:  but  when 
distraction !  I  called  to  take  leave,  previous  to  re« 
•  '*  To  relieve  my  mind,  I  bad  reconrse  turning  to  college,  I  found  that  thit 
to  other  pursuits.    I  endeavoured  to  simple  exposure  of  my  circunstancct 


IID. 


if  of  mJiXum  Gt^ord^  Enq. 


[Feb. 


Iigd  lank  deep  into  his  mind.  At 
ptrttng,  heinformed  me  that  he  charged 
■imsetf  with  my  present  support,  and 
futore  establishment;  and  that  till  this 
kst  coold  be  eflPected  to  my  wish,  I 
should  come  and  reside  with  him. 
These  were  not  words  of  course— they 
.were  more  than  fulBlled  in  every  point. 
J  did  go,  and  reside  with  him ;  and  I 
experienced  a  warm  and  cordial  recep- 
tion, a  kind  and  affectionate  esteem, 
that  has  known  neither  diminution 
nor  interruption  from  that  hour  to 
this — a  period  of  20  years  !  • 

*'  In  his  Lordship's  house,  I  pro- 
cteded  with  Juvenal,  till  I  was  called 
upon  to  accompany  his  son  (one  of  the 
jDOst  amiable  and  accomplished  young 
noblemen  that  this  country,  fertile  in 
tnch  characters,  could  ever  boast,)  to 
-the  continent.  With  him,  in  two  suc- 
cessive tours,  I  spent  many  years — 
^ears  of  which  the  remembrance  will 
always  be  dear  to  me,  from  the  recol^ 
•lection  that  a  friendship  was  then  con- 
tracted, which  time  and  a  more  inti- 
mate knowledge  of  each  other  have 
mellowed  into  a  regard  that  forms  at 
once  the  pride  and  happiness  of  my 
life/' 

In  this  manner  concluded  Mr.  Gif- 
ford*t  own  autobiographical  narrative, 
fifst  published  with  his  Juvenal  in  1808. 
He  had  already  acquired  great  cele- 
brity as  the  author  of  "  The  Baviad  *' 
and  "  The  Maeviad,*'  though  he  does 
not  himself  notice  those  successful  pro- 
ductions of  his  muse.  The  former 
aatire  was  published  in  1794 ;  and  the 
^object  of  its  attack  was  what  was  called 
the  Delia  Cruscan  school  of  poetry. 
This  school  had  first  orisinated  in  1785, 
when,  says  Mr.  GifTord,  ''  a  few  Eng- 
lish of  both  sexes,  whom  chance  had 
jombled  together  at  Florence,  took  a 
fancy  to  while  away  their  tinie  in 
•cribbling  high  panegyrics  on  them** 
•elves,  and  complimentary  canzonettes 
on  two  or  three  Italians,  who  under- 
stood too  little  of  the  language  to  be 
disgusted   with  them."    These  trifles 


would  in  themselves  have  been  un- 
worthy the  notice  of  Gifford ;  but, 
being  published  in  England  in  the 
daily  paper  called  the  World,  which 
then  enjoyed  a  large  circulation,  they 
became  fashionable  and  popular,  and 
Were  imitated  from  one  end  of  the 
kingdom  to  the  other.  The  appearance 
of  the  Baviad  effectually  routed  this 
tribe  of  poetasters,  and  laid  on  the 
ruins  of  their  popularity  the  founda- 
tion of  the  more  elevated  fame  of  Gif- 
ford. 

The  Maeviad,  which  appeared  in  the 
following  year,  was  more  particularly 
directed  to  the  state  of  dramatic  poetry, 
and  was  equally  successful  in  obtaining 
for  itself  the  applause  of  the  public,  if 
not  in  correcting  its  theatrical  taste. 
The  Baviad  and  Maeviad  have  been 
frequently  republished  together,  accom- 
panied by  an  Epistle  to  Feter  Pindar. 

Mr.  Gifl'ord's  Juvenal,  as  before 
mentioned,  6rst  appeared  in  1802,  in 
4to.  (and  it  was  then  reviewed  in  voL 
Lxxii.  ii.  p.  882,  992).  Of  the  stric- 
tures of  the  Critical  Review,  Mr.  Gif- 
ford published  an  "  Examination"  in 
1803,  and  a  "  Supplement'*  to  that 
Examination  in  1804.  A  second  edi- 
tion of  the  Juvenal  was  published  in 
Svo,  in  1806. 

As  the  editor  of  the  Anti-jacobin 
newspaper,  Mr.  Gifford  greatly  added 
to  his  celebrity ;  and  on  the  first  esta- 
blishment of  the  Quarterly  Review  in 
180Q,  he  was,  in  a  happy  hour  for  its 
proprietor  and  the  public,  chosen  to 
conduct  that  publication,  of  which  he 
continued  the  Editor  till  within  a  year 
of  his  death. 

In  the  notes  to  his  Juvenal,  Mr. 
Gifford  had  displayed  an  extensive  ao- 
quaintance  with  the  early  English 
poets ;  and  throughout  his  life  he  pro- 
secuted at  his  leisure  hours  that  inte- 
resting; study.  In  1808  he  published 
an  edition  of  the  Plays  of  Massinger  in 
4  vols.  8vo;  in  18 if)  the  Works  of 
Ben  Jonson,  in  9  vols.  8vo ;  and  durius 
the  few  latter  years  of  his  life,  he  had 


*  To  this  pMiage  Mr.  Gifford,  in  the  second  edition  of  his  Javenal>  appended  the  fol- 
lowing note : 

"  i  have  A  melsncholj  Mtisfkction  in  recording  that  this  revered  friend  and  patron  lived 
to  witness  my  erateful  acknowledgment  of  bit  kmdness.  He  turvived  the  appearance  of 
the  tnnslation  but  a  very  few  days,  and  I  paid  the  last  sad  duty  to  his  memory  by  attending 
bb  remains  to  the  grave.  To  me,  this  laborious  work  has  not  been  happy ;  the  same  dis- 
astrods  event  that  marked  its  commencement  has  iaabittered  its  conclusion,  and  frequently 
fecead  ufkon  my  recolleotioa  the  calamity  of  the  rebuilder  of  Jericho — <  He  lakl  the  foundar 
lion  thersof  in  Abiram>  bis  first  bore,  aad  set  up  the  gates  thereof  in  hb  younaest  son, 
8e§nb/-.l«0fi." 


iSVO 


Mmohr  of  WiUiam  O^ctd,  Etq. 


ill 


Ixcn  preparing  the  Work«  of  Ford  and 
Shirley.  The  former  is  complete  in 
two  volumes,  aod  ready  for  publica- 
tion ;  of  the  latter,  five  volumes,  and 
<xie-half  of  the  sixth,  are  printed. 

Of  Jonson  in  particular,  the  first 
poet  of  his  age  in  the  estimation  of  his 
contemporaries,  though  Shakspeare  has 
«o  much  eclipaed  him  in  the  opinion 
of  posterity,  a  standard  edition  was 
certainly  a  great  desideratum.  The 
impartial  reader  must  peruse  with  de- 
light and  adniiration  the  able  and  con- 
vmcing  vindication  of  the  Poet's  per- 
sonal character,  which  is  contained  in 


cipally  who  have  pandered  to  flatter 
the  popular  deification  of  Shakspeare 
by  sacrificing  at  his  altar  every  author 
who  could  possibly  be  brought  into 
comparison  with  him,— ^no  writer  could 
have  so  completely  and  thoroughly  ex- 
posed, as  the  author  of  the  Baviad  and 
Maeviad. 

A  portrait  of  Mr.  GifTord,  from  a 
painting  by  his  intimate  friend  Hopp- 
ner,  was  prefixed  to  his  Juvenal,  and 
copied  in  the  Monthly  Mirror  for  Sept. 
1802.  The  engraving  which  is  pub- 
blished  in  the  present  Magazine,  is 
from  an  earlier  painting  by  the  same 
artist,  copied  by  permission  from  the 
original  in  the  possession  of  the  Dean 
of  Westminster. 

The  mortal  remains  of  this  distin- 
guished scholar  and  critic  were  depo- 
sited in  Westminster  Abbey,  imme- 
diately below  the  monuments  of  Cam- 
den and  Garrick,  on  the  Sth  of  January. 

The  first  mourning  coach  contained 
Dr.  Ireland,  Dean  of  Westminster, 
General  Grosvenor,  Mr.  Cookesley, 
sen.,  and  Mr.  Cookesley,  jun. ;  the 
second,  Mr.  Croker,  Mr.  Barrow,  Mr. 
Hay,  and  Mr.  Backhouse;  the  third, 
Mr.  Chantrey  (the  sculptor),  Mr.  Bed- 
ford, Mr.  Lock  hart,  and  Mr.  Sergeant 
Rough;  the  fourth,  Mr.Palgrave,  Mr. 
Hoppner,  Mr.  Jacob,  and  Mr.  Tay- 
lor (the  late  proprietor  of  the  Sun 
newsjKiper)  ;  the  fifth  and  last,  Mr. 
Bandmell,  Dr. Thompson,  Mr.  Parsloe, 
Mr.  Cooper,  and  Mr.  Murray. 

The  deceased  gentleman's  carriage, 
the  Dean  of  Westminster's,  Lord  Gros- 
venor's,  Mr.  Parsloe's,  Mr.  Jacob's, 
Lord  Belgrave's,  Mr.  Backhouse's,  Dr. 
Thompson's,  and  M  r.Croker's  followed. 

The  probate  of  Mr.  GifFord*s  will  it 
taken  out  under  25,000/.  personal  proi- 
perty.    He  h«s  left  the  bulk  of  his  for- 


tune to  (he  fter.  Mr.  Cooktikf^  wk« 
is  likewise  his  residuary  legatee.  He 
has  left  bis  house  in  James-street,  for 
the  remainder  of  the  term,  nearly 
thirty  years,  to  Mrs.  Hoppner,  widow 
of  tne  eminent  portrait- painter,  and 
legacies  of  a  few  hundreds  to.  her 
children.  He  has  left  a  snm  of  money^ 
the  interest  of  which  is  to  be  distri- 
buted annually  amongst  the  poor  of 
Ashburton.  He  has  likewise  left  t9 
Exeter  College  another  sum,  the  fouo# 
dation  of  two  scholarships.  Three 
thousand  pounds  are  lefttotherelativci 
of  his  beloved  maid  sen'ant,  who  was 
buried  in  South  Audley  Chapel,  where 
the  Poet  himself  intended  to  repose, 
but  for  the  pressing  request  of  his  Ex« 
ecutor,  who  was  anxious  that  Giflbrd*« 
remains  should  be  mingled  with  the 
great  and  good,  in  Poet's  Corner.  He 
has  left  to  Mr.  Heber  his  edition  of 
Maiiiaire's  Classics,  and  any  other  books 
Mr.  Heber  may  choose  to  select.  Tq 
Mr.  Murray,  the  bookseller,  he  has  left 
100/.  as  a  memorial;  likewise  five  hun- 
dred guineas,  to  enable  him  to  reim* 
burse  a  military  gentleman,  to  whon 
he  appears  to  have  become  jointly 
bound  for  the  advance  of  that  sum  'fur 
Mr.  Cookesley,  at  a  former  period. 
He  leaves  to  his  executor,  Dr.  Ireland, 
fifty  guineas  for  a  ring,  and  any  of  his 
books  the  Dean  may  select.  He  re- 
ouests  his  Executor  to  destroy  all  con- 
mien  tial  papers,  especially  those  relat- 
ing to  the  Review,  so  that  the  illus* 
trated  Quarterly/,  mentioned  in  the 
newspapers,  in  which  the  names  of 
the  authors,  and  the  prices  paid  for 
each  article,  are  said  to  have  been 
inserted,  will  never  see  the  light. 
Other  legacies  to  individuals  are  like? 
wise  left.  There  are  various  codicils  to 
the  will.  The  whole  is  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Mr.  Gifford. 

"  With  what  frelings,"  says  Mr. 
GiflTord,  in  concluding  the  preface  to 
his  Jonson,  "do  I  trace  the  words 
— THE  Dean  of  Westminster! 
Five  and  forty  springs  have  now 
passed  over  my  head,  since  I  first 
found  Dr.  Ireland,  some  years  my 
junior,  in  our  little  school,  at  his  spelf- 
ing-book.  During  this  long  period, 
our  friendship  has  been  without  a 
cloud ;  my  delight  in  youth,  my  pride 
and  consolation  in  old  age!" — Mr. 
Giflbrd  had  before  alluded  to  this  fiaith- 
ful  friendship,  in  the  following  beau* 
tiful  lines  of  the  "  Baviad :" 
Sure,  if  oar  fiites  hang  on  some  hidden  poweri 
And  take  their  eoloar  from  the  natal  hoar* 


Il5t                        Bibli€al  Qu§rfi,  ^  Samuel,  11. 23*  [Feb. 

Then,  Ireland,  tba  same  plantt  on  ut  roM»  language  or  behaTioitr  to  Jonathan,  to 

Such  the  ttrongtjinpathiet  oar lires  disclose,  tav  that  they  were  lovely  or  pleasant : 

Thou  know'tt  how  toon  we  felt  this  in-  wnereas,  in  the  short  historv  delivered 

fluence  bland,  respecting  the  monarch  and  his  son. 

And  sought  the  brook  and  coppice  h»nd  in  y,^  read  that  upon  a  solemn  occasion, 

.    .  ,       ?'  ,  ,             ,           .1.1  Saul  reproached  Jonathan  as  "  the  son 

And  tbeped  rude  bow.,  and  uncouth  wbutlee  ^f  ^  pg^^^g  rebellious  woman,''  (we  all 

AndpeperMtes  (e  Iwt,  great  effort!)  flew,  know  by  what  terms  such  an  expr^ic^ 

And  When  the  day  wa.  done,  retired  io  rest,  J"  /»»«  Oriental   languara    might  be 

Sleep  on  our  eyes,  and  wnihine  on  our  breast.  «»»7y  translated  ui to  vulgar  Enjjlish,) 

In  nper  years,  again  together  thrown,  *"^,P?^  content  with  such    indignity 

Our  fttadies,  as  our  snortt  before,  were  one,  publicly  oilered  to  a  great  prince  (whom 

Together  we  explored  the  stoic  page  ne  ought  at  least  to  have  honoured  be- 

Of  the  Ligurian,  stem  though  beardless,  fore  his  guests  and  his  people,  in  what- 

sage !  soever  terms   he  might  have  rebuked 

Together  too,  when  Greece  unlock'd  her  him  more  privately,)  ««  cast  a  javelin 

stores,                                 [shores,  at  him  to  smite  him."     Really,  Sir,  in 

^V!r'^,}°  5^?"?^*  °'*I  T'"*^*  ^^'"'^?  common  reasoning,   this  appears  not 

Or  follow  d,  while  he  sought  his  native  soil,  j^^^j    ^^          pleasant.     Nor  does 

That «;  old  mw  eloquent,    from  toil  to  toil ,  joiJaihan  seem   to  have  considered   it 

Liiniirerinjr  with  jrood  AlcinoQs  o  er  the  tale,  ..                       .          .          r      i. 

Till  the  cMtredL-d  and  the  surs  grew  pale.  5''^^^P"*;  °J/^^  ^'^"'  ^°'  ^"^  f??1 

So  past  our  life,-Ull  Fate,  severely  kindT  '^~'"  *^«  ^^^^l  '^  ^^[""^  anger,  and  did 

Tore  us  apart,  and  land  and  sea  disjoined  «*t   "/>  '^<^^}f  «c.    "  because  his  father 

For  many  a  yesr ;  now  met,  to  part  no  more,  had  done  him  shame.' 

The  ascendant  power,  confess'd  so  strong  of  I  humbly  desire   that  this  question 

yore,  niay  not  be  misconstrued   into  a  cavil 

Stronger  by  absence  every  thought  controls,  respecting  the   language  or  sentiments 

And  knits  in  perfect  unity  our  souls !  contained  in  the  best  of  Books,  but  I 

^  think  it   may  quite  as  usefully  employ 

Mr.  U  RBAN,       Leicesier.  Jan.  15.  ^'^J  ^','??^  ""^  ^^'^^  °^  ^*^«f «  gemlemea, 

B»«.  T^  «  T  o  t    1           1  .  .  who  like  your  correspondent,  Clencus, 

IBLICAL  Scholars  multiply  every  r.,.  303,  of  the  last  volume  of  Genu 

day,  and  as  the  svslem  of  religi-  ^Slag.]  seems  desirous  of  opening  the 

ousedocation  IS  rapidly  extending,  it  doors  of  the  pulpit  to  all  manner  of 

may  be  hoped  that  those  who  are  so  teachers,  to  shew  that  they  understand 

zealous   m   the  encouragement  of  it,  ^he  Scriptures,  by  rendering  this,  and 

will  not  content  themselves  with  giv-  j^^h  like  passages  plain  to  the  meanest 

ing  the  mere  outlines  and  shadows  of  capacity,  as  in  preparing  speeches  for 

instruction,  but  teach  their  disciples  to  Bible-society  meetings,   or   harangues 

understand,   as   well   as   to    read    the  ^^^^    the  advantages  of  communion 

books  placed  in   their  hands.     With  ^\^^  Dissenters  of  all  denominations, 

the  hope,  therefore,  that   information  nierelv  because  they  may  percAanc^  be 

may  now  be  obtained  respecting  sub-  ^^^y  pious 

iects  which  might  a  few  vears  oro  have  ^g^e,  Mr.  Urban,  1  find  myself  ap- 

Ijeen  only  adapted  to  the  learned  few,  I  proaching  to   the  question  respecting 

beg  leave  to  propose  a  quesuon,  which  extemporary  preaching  and  expound- 

perhaps  it  may   be  deemed  very  igiio-  -      .  1,^^^   .^j^h  all  due  deference   to 

rant  in  anyone  to  ask  in  these  en  light-  your  correspondent,  1  may  be  permitted 

ened  days;  but  which,  if  so,  may  he  the  ^^  ^^y  that,  if  such  langii.igc  be  neces- 

more  readily  answered.  ^^y  j^^  ducidaiing  anv  religious  sub- 

In  the  song  or  poem  called  The  Bow,  i^^  „  ^  ^.^^  cannot  "brinR  himself 

mentioned   in  the   1st  chapter  of  the  ^^  commit  to  paper,  it   is  not  fii  or  be- 

2nd   Book   of  Samuel,   m  which    the  ^„,ing  j^  ^^^  ^  ^,,a„    ;„  ihechuich. 

Book  of  Jasher  is  cited  as  containitjg  ^r  on  public  occasions  ;  and  it  should 

the  original,  there  is  the  following  re-  therefore  make  iiart  of  the  business  as 

markable  expression  :^  ^.^.|1  ^^  j^jy  ^^  ^|,^.  parochial  clergy  to 

•*  Saul  and  Jonathan    were  lovely  and  supply  by  private  instruction,  such  a 

pleasant  in  their  lives."  degree  of  information  as  may  qualify 

Now  I  would  enquire  in  what  sense  their    |)arishioners  for  understanding 

these  words  are  to  be  understood  ;  for  such  language  as    they  can    '*  bring 

surely  without  very  ample  poetical  li*  themselves*'  to  utter  in  the  pulpit  and 

cense,  it  can  scarcely  be  deemed  agree<>  to  commit  to  writing, 

able  io  ihe  preceding  account  of  Saul't  .  Yours,  &c.       A  ri^AiN  Speakxr. 


I 


1W7.]                     Topography  qf  Somerion,  Oxfardthirt.  1 13 

Mr.  Urban,                       Feb.  1.  yet,   slipping   ihcm   off  from   above 

IN  the  norlliern  part  of  the  County  the  roots,  1  could  uke  the  grass  by 

of  Oxford,  there  is  a  valley  of  con-  the  end  and  pull   it   clean  out  as  it 

siderable  extent.    The  river  Chcrwell  were  from  a  sheath  of  stone,  so  lilile 

runs  through  it,   fertilizes,  and  adds  cohesion   had   the  one  to  the  other. 

CQMiderably    to    iu    beauty.     About  The   reason   of   which  1   guess  may 

thrat  miles  south-east  of  EtaddingloD,  be,  that  the  pores  of  the  plant,  pos- 

tbn  valley  opens  with  pecvliar  ckMirnis,  test  with  its  own  juice,  and  already 

ni  if  finely  featured.    Al  ihis  poini  fHrAish'd  with  a  congenial  salt,  might 

nc  Htnated  the  three  villages  of  North-  well  refuse  adventitious  ones  f.*' 

AslMif    Middle- Aston,    and   Steeple-  -  In  a  subsequent  part  of  his  work, 

AilDD,   which  derive  their  common  Dr.  Plot  recurs  to  this  subject,   and 

nanefrocn  their  situation  on  the  eos/em  gives  a   representation   of  the  grass: 

uit  of  ihe  vale.    Opposite  to  them,  "  Hither   also    must  he  referred  the 

and  hi  full  view  of  a  richly  luxuriant  fresh-water  Adarce,  mnde  at  the  Cas- 

oosntry,  is  Somerton.     It  takes  Iu  a|>^  cade  at  Somincrton,  which,  though  but 

prilrtkai  fiom  iSow we  (Celtic)  a  valley,  a  meer  incrustation,  and  formed  not  of 

flr-nter  or  at  the  bottom  of,  and  ion  a  itself,  but  adformam  ultcrius,  viz.  of 

hUL'.  "j^fae  aituation  is  very  favourable,  the  grass  about  which  it  gathers,  and 

heiiy  i^iii|lpl  ■!  Itided  from  the  eastern  therefore  none  of  the  Lithophyta,  yet 

wMit^faMFm^        a  view  of  the  it  having  some  form  (though  but  acci- 

btaorifilt  jWiiH  II  of  Deddington  to  the  denial),  I  have  thought  rather  fit  to 

w»|Ih  tW  fark-Itkc  grounds  of  Col.  misplace  it  here,  than  omit  to  shew 

B»w|n  aind  North- Aston  immediately  the  reader  how  prettily  the  grass  is 

opMMli^  and^  in  addition  10  the Cher-f  iheathed  with  stone,  which  is  accu- 

f^^^^eJMTprd  Canal  and  iu  nume-  rately  expressed  Ijy  [Plate  VI  ] fig.  1 0  {." 

^j^^  ^^^^^  In  the  time  of  the  Romans,  a  Port- 


extends  from  east  to  west     way   passed  through   the  village.     It 
ffapgf  V90  Biilca;  fnmi  north  to  south     was  a  branch  of  the  Akeman-street, 


MM-*^^***:    The. laud  it  hilly,  and,    which  led  from  the  city  of  Alcester 
uncMtow  of  100  acres,  was  CUT    to  .Wallingford§.    The  tract  of  the 


cloMrf about  Bo  years  ago.    The  soil  is     road  is  still  distinp^uishahlc. 

of  the  atone  brash  sort,  with         At  the  period  of  the  Domesday  Sur- 


lUlL 
MM 


■tnd*  to  the  iMDth-wett.  voy,  Rainald  Wadard  held  *'  Sumer- 

Dlr.  Plol,  in  his  Natanil  History  of'  tono"  of  Odo  Bishop  of  Baieux,  the 
Oafbidihire,  speaking  of  the  flux  of  ri-  half-brtMher  of  the  Con(|Ucror.  It  con- 
Tl|feti|^  mentions  that  here,  as  making  tained  nine  hides.  The  arable  land 
Ic  about  seven  feet  high.    It     was  nine  carucates;  of  which  two  were 


Atc^llent  for  petrifactions,  since  in  demesne  with  one  serf,  and  seven- 
"ibe  liviiw  blades  ofgrass,  of  not  above  teen  villeins  and  nine  borders  held  the 
lialf  a  yaps  g;TOWth,  within  that  small  remaining  seven.  There  was  a  mill 
liqpie  are -all  covered  with  stone,  and  worth  S0«.  yearly,  and  the  river  an- 
Ihm  <iow9i  the  bank  like  so  maov  nually  produced  4(K)  eels.  There  were 
i^ews^  the  earth  itself  over  whicn  forty  acres  of  meadow,  and  156  of  pas- 
it  Jljiidcs,  as  'twere  foliated  over  with  a  ture.  It  had  been  worth  9/.  per  ann. 
crust  of  stone  like  the  mi^gco  ptirato  of  but  its  value  was  then  advanced  to  12/.  || 
Fcrante  Imperato*."  The  lands  of  Bishop  Odo  having  re- 
.This  incrusuiion  or  petrifaction,  he*  rerted  to  the  Crown,  the  manor  of 
fwilicr  observes,  is  fixt  only  to  the  Somerton  was  next  conferred  on  the 
nperficial  parts,  as  it  were  by  aggreu-  Barony  of  Arsic.  Robert  de  Arsic 
^an,  not  entering  the  solid  body,  siding  with  the  rebellious  Barons  against 
^.tlie  grass,  being  one  of  theJ^oiV  King  John,  forfeited  his  esute  to  the 
IiIm,  is  covered  over  with  a  soft  stone ;  Crown,  and  it  was  giveh  to  Sampson 
aAd  yet  so,  that  broken  off,  the  grass  de  Gangy,  who  had  stood  firm  to  the 
^Bpeared  as  fresh .  and  ereen  as  any  King.  Again,  in  the  following  year, 
otfier  not  crusted,  nothing  of  the  the  King  disposed  of  it  for  the  support 
hUe  being  altered  or  impaired.   Tho*  of  the  g«<rrison  in  Oxford  Castle.    The 


of  these  petrified  blades  of  grass 

hung  down  at  least  a  foot  in  length,  f  Plot,  ch.  9,  sect.  96, 

— X  Ibid.  ch.  5,  sect.  141. 

*  Plot,  ch.  9,  sect.  99.  %  Ibid.  ch.  10,  sect.  97. 

OiifT.  Ma*.  Fehmmyf  1 M7.  II  Domesd.  fo.  155  b. 


lU 


Topography  of  Sonurion,  Orfordihire, 


[F^b. 


Araics,  however,  must  have  cither  re-  that  he  might  give  the  manor  of  So- 
taincd  or  recovered  part  of  the  manor,  merton,  and  the  right  of  a  second 
since  Waher  de  Grey,  Archbishop  of    course  of  presenting  to  the  Church,  to 


York,  bought  of  Robert  de  Arsic,  and 
at  his  death  demised  to  his  brother  Ro- 
bert, a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Somer- 
ton,  held  by  the  service  of  keeping 
Dover  Castle. 

In  the  chartulary  of  Eynsham  Ab- 
bey, Oxfordshire,  it  is  recorded  that 
Alice  de  Langetot  had  given  to  that 
monastery  three  virgates  of  land  she 
had  in  Somerton,  for  the  health  of  her 
soul,  and  for  those  of  her  sons  and 
daughters,  Hugh,  William,  and  Robert, 
Hawise,  Beatrice,  and  Isabella;  and 
for  the  souls  of  her  husband  Roger  de 
Chaisni,  and  her  sons  Ralph  and  Ro- 
ger, and  her  daughters,  &c.  The  date 
of  this  does  not  appear.* 

In  1291  the  Prior  of  Merton  had 
here  possessions,  worth  annually  24s. 
and  Sd. 

Roger,  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Giffard, 
km.  paid  a  fine  to  the  King,  July  21, 


Sibil,  the  widow  of  the  said  Sir  Tho- 
mas Giffard,  for  her  lifef . 

Notwithstanding  these  several  alie- 
natioiis,  the  descendants  of  the  Arsics 
seem  to  have  retained  the  paramount 
interest  in  the  manor  of  Somerton, 
which  descended  from  them  through 
the  families  of  Deincoort  and  Lovel, 
to  the  Greys  of  Rotherfield.   After  the 
battle  of  Bosworth,   it  was  declared 
forfeited  by  the  latter  family,  and  be- 
stowed on  Jasper  Duke  of  Bedford  J. 
At  that  Nobleman's  death  it  again  re- 
verted to  the  Crown,  and  was  grant- 
ed to  William  Fermor,  esq.  Clerk  of 
the  Crown,  who  seated  himself  here, 
and,  leaving  no  issue  male,  bequeathed 
his  estate  at  his  death  to  his  nephew 
Thomas,  in  whose  descendants  (many 
of  whose  epitaphs  will  be  subsequently 
given)  it  continued   till  recently,  ac- 
cording to  the  subjoined  pedigree : 


Thomas  RicArds,=r=2d,  w.  Emmotte,  dsu.  and  h.  of  Sirnkm  Hervey,  esq. 

»•        t:> I  tJ *  tl VHT^ 


<Uias  Fermor 


^ 


widow  of  Henry  Wenm&n. 


Richard  Fermor,  Merchant  of  the^Anne,  dau.  of  Sir  William   Fermor,    to    whom 

«.     •      *r^.i.?_   i!— . — * — *«riii     Wm.Brown, Lord  Somerton  wu  given,  marr.  four 

Mayor   of   Lon-  tiroes,  but  died  •.  p.  m.  Sept.  20, 

don.  1552. 


Staple  of  Calais,  first  master  of  Will 
Somen,  the  celebrated  Jester  of 
Henry  VIU. 


Sir  .John  Fermor,  ances-  Thomas  Fermor,  2d;?=BRiDGET,  dao.  and  cob.  of  Sir  Henry 
tor  of  the  Earls  op  Pom-  surviving  son,  died  I  Bradshaw,  of  Halton,  kot.  Chief  Baron 
y\^  Aug.  8,  1580.  I  of  the  Exchequer. 

T 


FRET. 


Sir  Richard  Fermoh,:yCornelia,  dau.  and  coh.  of  Sir 


knt.  Sheriff  of  Oxon. 
ie02. 


Ance, died  Apr.  12, 1575. 


Cornwaliis,    knt.   and    graod-dau.   of    Mary,  named  in  her  fa- 
John  last  Lord  Neville  of  Latimer.  ther's  will. 


Hbnrv  Fermor,=j=Ur8ULA,  dau.  of  Sir  Peter  Middleton,  knt.;     Jane,  eldest  dau.  marr. 


died     Jan.    SO, 
1672,  aged  60. 


great-grand-dau.  of  Charles  Neville,  last  Earl     Col.  Thos.  Morgan,  of 
of  Westmoreland,  died  Sept.  8,  1 669,  aged  58.     Heyford,  North\onsh. 


Richard  Fer-=j=Frances,  dau.  of  Sir  Basil  Brooke,  of  Madeley,     Peter,   and  five   otlter 


MOR,  died  Jan. 
6,  1684. 


Salop,  knt.  grand-dau.  of  John  Lord  Mordaunt 
o(  Turvey. 


children. 


HlNRY  Firmor,  died=j=HELEN,  dau.  of  Sir  Geo.  Browne,  of  Shefford,     Richard,  died  May 
Feb.  8,  1683.         I  Berks.  K.  B.;  died  Aug.  13,  1741.  18,1730. 

James  Fermor,=j=Mary,  dau.  of  Sir  Rob.         Henry.  Henrietu,  died  unm.  Sept.  4, 


died    Nov.   SO, 
1722. 


r 


Throgmnrtoa,  of  Wes- 


1  nrogmnrtc 
ton,  Bucks, 


hart. 


1744  ;   and  six  other  daugh- 
ters. 


Hinry  Fermor,  died  Jan.^FRANCEs,  daughter  of  Edw.  Shel-        James',  and  four  other 
.-___«,  .  ...  children. 


INRY  rERMOR,  died  «fan.^i<  ranges,  daugtiter  of  Kdw.  Sh< 
1 7,  1 746-7,  aged  31.  don,  of  Weston,  Warw.  esq. 


William  Fermor,  died  July  1,        Henry. 
1806,  aged  68. 


Elizabetn,  James,  and  Fraoeea, 
died  young. 


•  Dugdale*s  Monasticon,  new  edit.  vol.  iii.  p.  23. 

f  Dodsworth  MSS.  vol.  Hi.  35.  I  Dugdale't  Baioaage,  ii.  242. 


16970 


Topography  ofSamerion,  Oxfordihiri. 


Hi 


Of  this  familjT  also^  was  Arabella 
FenDor,  the  heroine  of  Pope's  "  Rape 
of  the  Lock." 

Tusmore  is  now  the  residence  of 
this  branch  of  the  Fermors.  Their 
ancient  mansion  at  Somerton,  which 
they  deserted  about  the  beginning  of 
the  last  century,  is  now  entirely  dila- 

Sidated,  except  the  window  of  the 
[nil.  Over  this  was  an  apartment 
called  the  Prince's  Chamber,  of  which 
some  old  people  in  the  village  recollect 
to  have  seen  a  portion.  It  had  its 
name  from  the  circumstance  of  James 
Duke  of  York  (the  misguided  Abdica- 
tor  of  his  kingdom)  having  honoured 
Somerton  with  a  visit,  and  slept  in 
tliat  room.  Tradition  reports,  that 
when  he  came  to  the  throne,  he  gave 
to  the  village  a  charier  for  a  fair,  which 
was  held  in  a  place  now  called  Broad- 
pound.  The  Fermors  retained  the 
Lordship  of  Somerton  many  years  after 
discontinuing  to  reside  there;  but  sold 
it  about  ten  years  since  to  the  present 
Earl  of  Jersey.  It  is  worth  upwards 
of  1300/.  per  annum. 

The  village  consists  principally  of  a 
street,  extending  north  and  south.  The 
following  ha%'e  been  the  returns  to  the 
several  Population  Acts : 

Iloases.        Fiunilies.         Versoos. 
1801       -       58       -       58       -       254 
1811       -       55       -       55       -       314 
18«1       -       71       -       71       -       400 
The  population   is   almost  entirely 
employed  in  Agriculture.    The  wake 
follows  the  Sunday  after  St.  James. 

The  Advowson  of  Somerton  was 
given  by  Robert  de  Arsic,  to  the  reli- 
gious house  of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr 
of  Aeon,  reserving  the  right  of  tne 
house  of  Medley,  provided  it  were 
founded  by  the  consent  of  the  Bishop 
of  Lincoln,  and  the  Abbot  and  Con- 
vent of  Fescamp.  The  proctor  of  St. 
St.  Thomas  of  Aeon  presented  to  the 
living  in  20  Hen7  III.  (1235.)  It 
came  to  the  Fermors  with  the  manor, 
and  remained  in  that  family  till  Henry 
Fermor,  esq.  who  died  in  1736,  sold 
the  impropriation  to  Dr.  Crisp,  who 
sold  it  to  the  Rev.  Barfoot  Colston, 
Canon  of  Salisbury,   from   whom   it 

essed  to  the  present  Rector,  the  Rev. 
enry  Wintle. 

The  value  of  the  Rectory  in  the  time 
of  Henry  the  Eighth  was  15/.  Is,  lOjfiJ. ; 
it  is  now  worm  150/.  per  annum,  be- 
sides the  glebe.  It  pays:  Surrogates, 
2«. ;  Bishops,  3i.  6d. ;  Archdeacon,  8#. 
7 id.',  yearly  tenths,  1/.  10«.  2id*    In 


the  endowment  of  the  Chapter  of  Ox- 
ford a  pension  was  to  be  paid  ont  of  it 
of  7s,  odf. 

Among  the  Rectors  have  been : 

William  Juxon,  the  eminent  Arch* 
bishop  of  Canterbury.  He  was  pre- 
sented to  Somerton  in  lGl4;  and  held 
the  living  for  many  years,  whilst  he 
was  president  of  St.  John's  College, 
Oxford.  During  his  incumbency  tie 
rebuilt  the  rectory,  and  regiazea  the 
east  window  of  the  chancel,  placing 
therein  his  arms,  viz.  Or,  a  crost 
Gules  between  four  nesroes'  headt 
couped  Sable,  wreathed  Or,  with  the 
date  1630.  This,  a  beautiful  speci- 
men of  stained  glass,  is  now  carefully 
presen'cd  in  the  hall-window  of  the  , 
Parsonage. 

Edwin  Marten,  of  New  College, 
Oxford,  B.C  L.  1713,  D.C.L.  1718, 
who  married  in  1716  the  widow  of 
Sir  Robert  Howard,  of  Ashtcd  in  Sur- 
rey, K.  B.  younger  son  of  the  first  Earl 
of  Berkshire. 

On  a  recent  repair  of  the  parsonage, 
two  antique  spoons,  of  silver-gilt,  were 
discovered.  From  the  initials,  R.H.M., 
they  are  presumed  to  have  belonged  to 
the  Marten  family. 

The  Register  begins  in  l627« 

The  Church,  dedicated  to  St.  James, 
is  a  handsome  structure  (engraved  in 
Plate  II).  It  is  composed  of  a  tower 
(in  which  are  five  bells),  nave,  north 
and  south  ailes,  chancel  and  a  south 
chapel.  The  nave  is  about  52  feel 
long,  and  the  chancel  33.  On  the 
north  side  of  the  tower  is  a  carving  of 
our  Saviour  between  the  two  Thieves; 
and  in  the  Church  is  one  of  the  Last 
Supper,  resembling  that  of  Da  Vinci, 
which  has  been  lately  repaired  at  the 
expense  of  the  Rector,  and  placed  over 
the  Communion>table. 

The  Fermor  epitaphs  shall  now  be 
siven.  The  first  William  was  buried 
in  the  chapel  on  the  north  side  of  the 
chancel,  under  an  altar-tomb  of  grey 
marble,  whereon  are  brass  plates,  of 
himself  and  last  wife,|  and  under 
them  the  following  inscription : 

l^eare  l?ett  (urfeti  Mv*  Wmiam 
jFermour  <gjlqutrc,  tpbgcte  uia^  Uorft  of 

t  Willis's  Cathedrals,  p.  121. 
X  He  married  four,  and  another  had  this 
^itaph  at  Hornchurch  in  Ewex  : 

l^ere  Ipctb  Hatterin  tbe  baugbttr 
of  ^it  iSimiam  PatDlct,  ftn^gbr,  topf 
of  IDiniam  fermour,  CUtkt  of  tje 
Ccottn;  ttbo  dieti  jQlae  fte  tf^t  ^confe 
of  Wenrp  tbe  eigbte. 


IK                     Ttpographu  ofSemertm,  Oxfotd$hire.  tFeb- 

tffit  taMint  iuib  satron  of  tii#  c^iirct ;  On  Unuk,  wife  of  Hcniy  : 

I'^'^fJS^'i'*  2f— *£!l?r!  ♦in  SJ  Hie  Jicet  U«ul.  Fermor,  Hniiel  F«f- 

mnBV.«»»nt|)  '»»'"«»'«' *5f.'t J  roor  .raigTi  coDJux,  Petri  Mid<l.lt<»  d. 

but  tbt  i<otb  0«?  of  ISK  m  tit  Btat  "f        ^^^j.  j^^.^  ^^^    ^ ^ 

our  »0ttlJ5«b  •«!•.«"*««•*"«  mig.ti  .t  Aon.  N.vil  «ori..  tertU  fiUa 

tobojfe  anb  aJt  tflin^tene  «onW  Sim  J^  ^,„^,  siptembrU  8»  u>a.  Domini 

tabtmrrtp.              ^         V           .  ie69,«u«Uveto54. 

Thomaa  Fermor,  the  nephew  and  „.   n-  l    j             e  ti             i  tt 

successor  of  William,  was  M.P.  for  To  Richard,  son  of  Henry  and  Ui- 

Chipping-Wicombe  in  15  Elii.  (1572)  »"•?!  °?  >  flat-stone  adjoining  to  that 

He  had;  according  to  his  will,  (from  »•  "i*  father : 

which  see  some  extracts  in  Brydges's  Rlch»tdui  Fermor  de  Tuimore  annigef 

Peerage,  vol.  iv.  p.  201)  an  alabaster  !>'«  reqaieicit,  Henrici  Fermor  da  Tutmore 

tomb  erected  in  the  same  chapel,  with  •rm'ge",  et  uxari>  Ursula  Middleton  filiiu, 

recumbent  effigies  of  himself  and  wife.  !?»»IJ°'?"'«'J"°5'"».  F""'"/*  Brooke,  fi- 

It  has  this  inscription  round  its  verge :  ".Bv""  Brooke,  d.  M«lele,  m  com-  S.- 

(Cftome     JTarmar    armfgero,     tiirt  jrf^^^t.  Johannis  Mordant  d«  Turvey  in 

animi  magnituDine  contra  bo?te«r,  be--  ^^^j^„  Bedfordicn.i  baroms  fili«.    Ei  ei 

neflcentia  erga  iJOCtO^  ajmirabl^^^  .4ulto.   sepiem   lihero*  smcepit;    quorum 

mmo  Mltu^  territoni  fteni0ni£^imo,  et  y^^^j^^^  ^J  Richardu.  fu«re  seBion^.  Paris 

note    .*c60je    t^nn^»««0"^  I^P^^^  /"  morbo  correpti  et  extincti,  in  templo  Bene- 

perpttuam  I^UI,  f^im^''''^^'l^^'l'  die    monm  ^nglorum    .epulti.    Julij  30, 

Bitte,    ftemine  ««^'ff«"l^'  ^""^^^^  1679.     Richardus    .ero   lindini,  Jan.  5 

ep  tcjtftamento  eirecutorejtf  4u\  tjoc  mo-  ...g .                                      ' 

numentum  flentei*  ereperunt.    4^Wt  °'  * 

tiero  anno  Domini  minej^imo  quin^  There  is  something  mysterious  in 

0tnte|i*imo    octogcjfimo,    die   Xugu^ti  the  above    passage    which  says    that 

OCtallOv  Richard's  two  sons  died  at   Paris  in 

On  a  flat  stone,  from  which  the  brass  l679,  since  there  are  other  memorials 
image  of  a  child  has  been  removed,  re-  which  state  that  they  died,  the  young- 
mains  this  inscription.  est  in  1730,  and  the  eldest  in  1683  (a 

^re  tpetfj  fcuritO  t^t  ttitp  of  «nne  yeat  before  his  father's  decease,  which 

JFarmoc,  bauglbtcr  unto  If  ()oma^  Hx-  renders  the  circumstance  the  more  ex- 

moc  (fijlq.  toibo  Oeccai^cU  tlfte  ttaelftb  Oas  traordioary).  The  epiuph  of  Richard  is : 

•f  aCycH,  %^  1575.  Hio  jwset  Richardus   Fermor,  Richardi 

The   tomb  of  Sir  Richard,  son  of  Fermor  de  Tusmore  armig^i  filios;   obiit 

Thomas,   was  erected  on    the   south  Maji  is^ao,  Dom.  1780. 

side  of  the  Church  close  to  the  small  That  on  Henry : 

door.     His  epitaph  is  much  obliterat-  Hie  jacet  Henricus  Fermor,  de  Tusmore 

ed ;  and   the  following  are  the  only  '»  eom«  Oxonieosi  armiger,  filius  Richaidi 

legible  words:  Fermor  de  Tusmore  armigeri,  et  ooojugta 

Quis  jaceam  hie  qossris  ?  jaeeo  hoc  sub  Franciscse  Bnokes.    Matrimooio  sibi  junxit 

Olim  Ricb....                      [marmore  pnlvis  Heleaam  Browse,  filiam  Georgii  Browne  de 

His  son  Henry  has  the  following,  Sherfo^  m  com*  Berks  equitUbalnei,  ux- 

on  a  flat  stone  m  the  centre  of  the  «'«<!»  EkMbethae  IngUfeld,  fil«  Fran^^ 

•        .  loglcfield  de  Wooton  Btuet  m  com*  WUt. 

oP*  i™.  H u.    p        .  .1.  -r^— .  UronHli,  e(  uxori*  Winifredc  Briak>Iav  da 

H.C  j.«et  Heancu.  Fermor,  d.  T»«M»  5^^^,^   .^  ^,  Lectrienii.  Ex  hoc  Jon- 

in  com-  Oxoman..  armiger,  film.  R.ch«d^  .     ;     ^           g„      j  ^             Henricom, 

iermor  m  eoden  00m.  «,»«. ««M..  at  «*  i?.bi.^.ptem  ralicti.,  mortuu.  Fab.  8,  «. 

OTIS  Coraeliae  Corawallis, e^tuUi  au-  |x         .^^                   '                *»i#  «, 

nti,  con|agiftq;  LneisB  Nievil  ilUse  JolMmns 

Nevil  Barunis  de  Lathner  isttus  nominis  «il-  To  Jamct»  son  of  the  last : 

timi,  filia  fuit  et  coheres.    Ursulaox  Mid-  Hie  jacet  Jacobus  Fermor,  de  Tusmore 

dleton,  Petri  Middleton  equitife  aurati  fill-  Jn  com*  Oxonieosi  armiger,  filius  Henrici 

am,  uxorem  ducens,  ex.  eft  septem  adnltos  Fermor  da  Tusmore  armigeri^  et  conjugis 

susoepit  liberos,  qoonim  Richaraus  et  I^rus  ^elense  Browne.     Matrimonto  sibi  Junxit 

lu^re  seniores.    Vitam  omniraod^  Chrislia-  MariamTbrogmorton»fiKam  Robert!  Throg- 

nam  80  J'kili  conduslt  anno  Dom*i  167^,  morton  da  Weston  io  com"  Bucks  baronetti, 

M!tat!s  vero  61.    Oodo  vid^re  bon  DooHtd  ex  quo  coojngio  sax  snsceptis  Kberis,  qao- 

in  terr&  viventiuma  rum  seaioret  (uamiit  Haoficits  at  Jacobus : 


1817.] 


SfiHpitmi  of  Uodwm  hfidtUif. 


IVT 


mortelitadt  vincaKt  ibtolutus  obdormmt  in 
Doniao,  Nov.  30>  an.  Dooi^  t793. 

On  Helen,  and  Henrietta,  hit  mo- 
'  ther  and  sister : 

Hie  jacet  Hellena  Fenoor,  Henrici  Fer- 
mor  de  Tut«  arm.  coajux,  Qeorgii  Browne 
de  ShefFord  io  com.  Berks,  equitis  baloei 
filia;  obiit  Aug.  13,  1741. 

Hie  jacet  Henrietu  Ferinory  filia  Henrici 
Fermor  de  Tutroore  armigeri  {  obiit  4  Sep* 
tembris,  anno  salutis  mlllesimo  septimo  cen- 
tesiino  quadrafetimo  quarto>  Ktatis  vero 
SUM  49.  R.  l.r. 

The  next  is  on  Henry,  son  of  James: 

Hie  jacet  Henricus  Fermor  de  Tutmore 
in  comiutu  Oxoniensi  armiger.  Filius  fuit 
primogenitus  Jacobi  Fermor  de  Tusmore 
armigeri,  ex  sulL  conjoge  Marii  Thock- 
morton.  Sibi  matrimonio  junxit  Francis- 
cam  Sheldon,  filiam  £dvardi  Sheldon  de 
Weston  in  comitatu  Warwicensi  armigeri ; 
ex  quo  coujugio  quinque  suscepit  liberoty 
Gulielroum  scilicet,  ElizaUtham,  Henri- 
cum,  Jncobum,  et  Francitcam.  Reliquts 
prcemacur&  murte  ereptis,  solos  Gulielmum 
et  Henricum  post  se  viventes  reliquit.  Ob. 
17  Jan.  Ktatls  anno  93,  Dom.  1746-7. 

On  William,  son  of  Henry: 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of  William  Fer- 
mor, esq.  who  died  1st  July,  1806,  aged 
68  years. 

The  latest  epitaph  to  any  of  the  fa- 
mily is  that  of  Richard  Fermor,  esc^. 
who  died  May  6,  1817»  aged  88. 

The  following  Is  also  on  a  stone  in 
the  Fermor  chapel : 

Hie  jacet  quod  reltquum  est  esiroii  viri 
ThoflBSB  Morgan  armigeri,  cujus  splendidos 
natales  eeaeroaior  animus  illostravit;  qui 
Heyfordne  in  agro  Northonensi  diu  privatus 
vixity— suum  vivere  contentus,  nam  cum 
augustiore  genio  conversari  non  puterat. 
Tandem,  periculorum  non  minus  quam  glo- 
rias contemptor,  Regise  Militias  uomen  de- 
dit,  in  qui  fortissimus  Chillarcha  occubuit  \ 
reliqua  mandamus  fiimse. 

Here  lies  enterred  what  death  has  left  be- 
hind 

Of  noUe  dust  once  join'd  t*  a  noble  mind : 

If  yon  wonld  leame  who  'tis,  goe  aske  of 
Fame, 

For  only  thai  can  sound  great  Morgan's 
•anol 

Were  we  to  follow  the  advice  of  the 
rhapsodical  panegyrist,  it  is  to  he  feared 
that  lady  Fame  ^vould  now  have  for- 
sotten  ber  lesson.  Her  bettef  sister 
History,  however,  informs  us  that,  in 
plain  terms,  this  Colonel  Morgan  was 
slain  at  Newbury  in  the  Royal  serriee, 
Sept.  20,  1643.  He  was  son-in-law  of 
Sir  Rich.  Fermor  of  Somerton,  hiring 
i-j  jgQ^  the  Knight's  cMesft daugh- 


ter; and  was  the  toa  of  Anthony  Mor» 
gan  of  Mitchell  Town  in  Monmouth* 
shire,  esq.  by  Bridget,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Anthony  Morgan  of  Hey- 
ford  in  Northamptonshire,  esq.  It  is 
a  remarkable  genealogical  incident  that 
his  mother's  second  husband  was  also 
a  Morgan  (Sir  William  of  Tredegar  in 
Monmouthshire),  and  thus  thit  lady, 
thouah  twice  married,  never  lost  her 
maiden  name.  See  the  pedigree  in 
Baker's  Northamptonsh.  vol.  i.  p.  184. 

The  site  of  a  Parish  School  at  So- 
merton was  provided  by  the  will  of 
Thos.  Fermor,  esq.  June  16,  1680,  ia 
which  **  the  CastelUyerde  and  the 
Chappell  therein  sunuing  (the  water- 
mill  only  excepted)"  were  given  for 
the  purpose.  With  the  100/.  which  ht 
left  to  support  the  School,  an  annuity  of 
10/.  per  ann.  (not  land),  was  onforta^ 
nately  purchased,  and  even  iMirt  of  this 
stipend  is  withheld  from  tne  Mastery 
because,  when  the  property  on  which 
it  was  fixed  passed  into  other  hands^ 
it  was  not  duly  mentioned  in  the  con* 
veyance.  The  Countess  of  Jersey  hat 
founded  a  school  for  female  children. 

In  the  Churchyard  is  a  cross,  which 
has  escaped  the  injuries  of  the  sera  of 
enthusiasm.  On  its  south  side  is  a 
fine  crucifix  in  basso  relievo.    H.  W« 


Mr.  Urban, 


Feb.  I. 


THE  habitual  practices  of  society; 
and  the  current  habits  which  we 
are  accustomed  to  acquire,  seldom 
come  into  strict  review,  until  we  are 
about  to  withdraw  from  the  world, 
and  to  retire  from  its  daily  occupatiofM. 
This  is  a  time  which  is  a  great  cause 
for  thankfulness  whenever  it  is  allowed 
to  us  at  any  period,  bnt  more  espe- 
cially before  the  decline  of  our  faculties, 
at  our  last  day  here  approaches. 

In  that  season  we  shall  be  readv  to 
thank  Dean  Stanhope  for  the  excellent 
sentiment  which  will  enable  ever^  one 
in  retirement  to  examine  himselftmly 
— **  the  innocence  of  the  heart  is  ib- 
solutelynecessary  to  preserve  the  free- 
dom of  the  mind."  If  we  apply  this 
gentle  touchstone  to  ourselves,  we  shall 
clearly  see,  that  any  carelessness  of 
their  mnocence  is  a  proof  of  infidelity^ 
for  without  it,  who  shall  attain  either 
the  means  or  the  desire  to  prepare  his 
mind  for  the  great  chance  tnat  ap- 
proaches? without  it,  who  does  not 
rebel  against  some  divine  command? 
or  reject  some  proffered  degree  of  r6- 
'  wartT?  who  does  not,  without  it,  com- 


118                          Sffmpioms  of  Modem  InfiddUy.  [Feb. 

mtt  his  dearest  ooocerns  rather  to  the  uation  boastful  of  our  denominatioti  of 

mischances  of  evil,  than  to  the  uner-  Chritttians,    and  something  has  been 

ring  rules  of  scriptural   truth  ?     Let  sounded  in  our  ears  by  holy  men  and 

but  vanity  be  questioned,  whether  it  by  our  Church,  concerning  our  salva- 

has  not  betrayed  many  a  generally  re-  tion  ;  but  we  find  that  our  faith  is  en- 

ceived  moral  and  Christian  duty,  in  tirely  excluded  from  conversation  or 

order  to  acquire  public  notice,  as  some-  allusion;    that  these  are  for   private 

thing  deeper  than  his  neighbours,  and  study  only ;  that  they  are  always  called 

as  Bp.  Sherlock  said,  '*  in  order  to  be  iil-timed,    pharasaical,    methodtstical, 

esteemed  a  very  discerning  man" — or  and  canting;  that  they  are  not  made 

in  some  prominent  act  of  public  mu-  part  or  principal  part  of  education  in 

Dificence,  with  a  view  to  praise,  not  genteel  circles,  but  are  reserved  for  cen- 

altogether  clear  from  some  sinister  mo-  tral  and  national  schools  for  poor  chil- 

tive!     When  an   impartial  examiner  dren  ;  except  that  much  im|)ortance  is 

takes  up  such  a  charge  as  this,  he  dis-  attached  to  the  purchase  of  an  elegantly 

covers  his  carelessness  of  the  only  eye  bound  bible  and  prayer  book,  or  more 

which  could  penetrate  into  his  hidden  frequently  the  latter  only,  to  be  carried 

motive:  and  what  is  this  carelessness  to  Church  on  Sunday  nrtornings  and 

but  a  symptom  of  infidelity?  Christmas  day.    When  we  find  that  in 

2.  We  are  advised  ana  encouraged  consequence  of  these  neglects,  young 
to  make  known  our  wants  and  neces-  people  are  apt  to  grow  up  with  formstl 
sities  to  God  ;  and  to  offer  Him  thanks  rather  than  radical  information  of  the 
and  praise  for  all  blessings  and  mercies  most  sublime  and  grateful  of  all  sub- 
granted  and  promised.  Let  us  try  this  jccts,  and  the  most  easy  to  their  capa- 
rule  with  the  lives  we  have  led;  and  city,  and  the  fittest  to  ha\e  the  ad- 
we  shall  find  on  the  reverse  an-  habitual  vantage  of  the  early  impression  on  their 
neglect  of  it.  We  are  quick  enough  minds  ;  and  when,  on  the  contrary, 
to  entreat  and  thank  those  who  are,  as  we  see  the  most  sedulous  care  and  re- 
we  believe,  possessed  of  the  power  to  petition  of  their  exercises  to  render 
grant  favours  and  promotion  tor  either  them  many  degrees  more  perfect  in  the 
our  children  or  ourselves,  and  we  are  politer  acquisitions  of  the  pagan  and 
most  urgent  in  our  solicitations,  lest  classical  mythology  of  the  ancient 
the  benefit  be  siven  to  those  who  think  Poets,  of  the  elegances  of  the  Belles 
it  better  worth  their  while  to  apply,  Lettres,  and  of  the  ingenious  devices 
and  even  to  shew  a  strong  importunity  of  metaphysical  and  mathematical  re- 
therein ;  and  when  the  preferment  has  fincments  of  the  schools  ;  we  must  in 
been  gained,  and  the  patron  has  de-  all  these  cases  charge  ourselves  with 
clared  himself  our  best  friend,  we  are  the  ignorance  too  commonly  prevalent 
in  haste  to  proffer  the  warmest  and  of  the  one  only  important  science,  and 
most  zealous  thanks  we  can  express ;  its  fatal  consequences,  and  we  must 
but  if  we  can  detect  ourselves  in  ne^-  then  assure  ourselves  of  the  absolute 
lecting  a  dutiful  and  submissive  pelt-  and  immediate  necessity  of  application 
tion  to  the  throne  of  universal  Grace,  to  the  chief  of  all  physicians  to  heal  us 
for  any  spiritual  want,  or  for  aid  to  and  our  children  from  these  certain 
enable  us  to  recal  our  steps  from  the  characters  of  infidelity. 

path  in  which  we  have  erred,  and  have  4.  Our  reason,  acuteness,  and  dis- 
Deen  deceived ;  or  to  relieve  us  from  cerning  enquiry  were  evidently  gifts 
any  anxiety  and  tribulation ;  or  if,  as  intended  to  conduct  our  understand- 
•ooo  as  we  experience  the  comfort  of  in^s  into  eternity,  and  not  to  be  li- 
that  relief  for  which  we  have  been  so  mited  to  the  afFairs  of  this  brief  and 
urgent,  we  sit  down  in  cold-hearted  uncertain  state  of  primary  existence: 
possession  of  the  gift,  and  take  it  as  we  but,  if  we  would  devote  a  small  portion 
are  apt  to  take  the  daily  blessing  of  of  them  to  the  study  of  the  religion 
light  and  food,  as  things  of  course,  and  which  we  profess,  and  the  rest  to  our 
unworthy  of  thanks,  we  must  then  be  affairs,  to  the  extension  of  our  corn- 
assured  that  we  have  to  complain  of  a  roerce,  to  forensic  eloquence,  to  legis- 
grievous  symptom  of  infidelity.       ^  lative  authorities,  and  the  multifarious 

3.  But  It  cannot  be  very  surprising,  arts  of  government,  and  the  inter- 
if  in  our  worldly  concerns  we  find  courses  of  the  world,  we  should  find 
these  latent  marks  of  the  great  enemj,  them  to  be  all  compatible  studies, 
that  we  should  also  discover  them  m  which  would  render  our  probationary 
our  religious  calling.    We  are  in  this  state  far  more  readily  understood,  and 


18270  Fi'Y  Lbayes,  No.  zxxy.— iSir  John  Uarvf^ion.  119 

happier  in  its  course ;  for  then  all  that  revelation  has  never  excluded 
these  would  be  regulated  by  a  recti-  merc^,  until  it  is  offended  and  rejected; 
linear  guide,  the  want  of  which  is  the  that  it  encourages  the  hope  of  pardon, 
certain  cause  of  error  and  failure ;  it  is  while  it  condemns,  provided  the  offender 
like  any  architect  heginningan  edifice  turns  from  his  negligences,  and  learns 
without  his  line  and  rule!  This,  then,  the  science  of  humility,  repentance, 
is  another  common  symptom  of  infide-  and  gratitude;  but  that,  if  tney  suffer 
lily.  the  day-spring  from  on  high  to  pass  by 

5.  It  must  be  considered  that,  al-  them  unnoticed,  and  they  find  tliem- 
though  much  fame  and  exaltation  in  selves  placed  at  the  bar  of  divine  judg- 
life  IS  acquired  by  these  accomplish-  ment  unprepared  with  any  defence, 
ments,  and  although  they  are  to  be  the  evidence  recorded  against  them 
deeply  cultivated  because  they  tend  to  may  be  found  too  strong  for  their  jusli- 
improve  mankind  and  the  state  of  fication,  and  the  redemption  which 
society  in  which  they  are  introduced,  they  have  either  rejected  or  forgotten, 
yet  that  they  are  all  calculated  for  this  be  closed  against  them  forever!  They 
world  only,  and  will  be  of  little  service  will  then  find  that  all  their  speculations 
to  us  except  by  recollection,  in  a  more  "  were  a  very  dear  bargain*'  (Bp.  Shcr- 
reBned  and  future  state  ofexistence;  and  lock);  and  St.  Matthew  tells  us  in 
therefore  they  are  to  be  necessarily  es-  very  uneouivocal  terms,  if  they  would 
teemed  of  inferior  value  to  those  studies  not,  while  they  have  time,  litten  to 
of  revelation  which  were  ^ielivered  for  him,  what  will  be  the  irrevocable  alter- 
the  eternal  salvation  of  life ;  which,  for    native. 

any  thing  we  know  to  the  contrary,  There  is  perhaps  more  than  common 
may  commence  with  us  before  the  need  for  these  admonitions  at  the  pre- 
day  is  closed  upon  us.  If  we  meet  sent  moment,  since  there  never  was  a 
daily  with  those  who  defer  this  study  period  when  the  enemy  with  more 
to  some  future  day,  which  may  never  inveterate  malignity  sought  the  ruin  of 
arrive,  and  sufier  the  rest  of  their  days  the  Church,  or  laboured  to  compass  it 
to  pass  on  without  preparation,  they  with  more  consummate  artifice  and 
are  guilty  of  less  caution  than  they  ob-  deceit,  yet  not  givine  plac^  to  him,  no 
serve  in  their  affairs  and  engagements,  not  for  an  hour.  Gal.  li.  6.  (See  and 
which  they  are  stationed  here  to  fulfil,  study  the  present  truly  venerable  Bp. 
Such  persons  may  be  fairly  examined,  of  Durham's  able  and  most  interesting 
whether  this  neglect  is  not  also  a  symp-  Lectures  on  Infidelity,  vol.  i.  46l.) 
torn  of  infidelity.  Not  to  extend  these  observations  too 

6.   In   the  habits  of  life,  we  may     far,    I   trust   that  if   any  man    were 
every  day  discover  the  utmost  careless-    "  found  faithful,''  they  will  not  be  ap- 
ness  and  frequent  violations  of  positive     plicable  to  him;  but  it  i^  the  breach 
commands,    and   especially   of    some    of  this  sacred    trust,  and  the  misuse 
which  in  the  decalogue  are  not  only    of  all  the  talents  committed   to  his 
read  to  us  every  Sabbath  day,  and  to    charge,  that  constitute  a    reprovable 
the  obedience  of  which  we  are  accus-    and  deep-rooted  disease,  which  destroys 
tomed  to  respond  a  solemn  prayer  that    his  own  eternal  interests  and  those  of 
our  hearts  may  be  inclined  ;  but  when     his  fellow  creatures  who  have  a  just 
it  is  considered  how  short  is  the  space    claim  upon  them,  and  upon  their  ex- 
of  time  which  elapses  between   ibis    ample  to  their  fullest  extent,  and  who, 
prayer  and  the  violation  of  the  com-     thus  left  and  deserted,  have  a  right  to 
mand,  an  alarming  and  terrific  record    charge   him,    and  it  is   much   to  be 
is  probably  reserved  for  us  to  hear  at    feared   that  he  will  be  hereafter  also 
the  6nal  bar  of  offended  justice;  and    charged,  with  not  merely  the  symptoms 
who  shall  be  hardy  enough  to  say  that    but  the  aggravated  disease  of  infidelity, 
this  also  is  not  an  increase  of  thesymp^  A.  H. 

toms  of  infidelity.  ^ 

7.  But  some,  when  thus  charged,  p^y  LEAVES.  No.  XXXV. 

sund  up  to  justify;  and  retort,   that  o-    r  r    n    •     i       l^m 

what  is  everlasting  is  not  eternal ;  that  -Sftr  John  Banngton,  knt. 

any  omission  or  offence  committed  in  QiR  John  Harington,  knt  the 
the  brief  course  of  70  or  80  years,  can-  O  translator  of  "  Orlando  Furioso," 
not  shut  out  the  mercy  of  God  for  ever,  which  occasioned  his  contemporary 
These  weak  arguers  may  be  assured    George  Peele  to  describe  him  as 


190'  Flt  Lbatbs,  No.  xxxv^r— £ir  John  Harmgton^  knt        [Feb* 

'<  wett-bttflv^  Mid  diicrMCy  As  odiov*  play  and  fet  in  courte  oft  tMo«» 

That  hath  ao  purely  natwaliicd  A  outrey  Iraiave  Co  trump  a  king  or  queen : 

Stfaoj^  vordty  and  vada  them  all  free  de* .       4.  That  was  trtt  Coiet  next  a  game  whoie 

ByaoQs  'i^ :  number, 

was  tlia  aotbor.  of  Epigrams,  some  of  ntwmengam^,  al  yjiru  did  cumber, 

which  were  poolhaaUutly  pobli.hed.  Ff<^t'>»e<^'<^looktTcnmtght.u, 

The  fir«i  editwo.  as  "  Epimras  both  ^'f*  "f*  «"  «  {»';.  V^  '"f""*  <*>•«  •• 
I                  J       •         »  ./::<     ^  fi*  After  came  Iiodam  hand  to  hande,  or 

pleasant  and  serious  "  l6lf ;  4«o.  con-  ^^^^  j-  ^^^e,^ 

tains  in  number  ll6,  and      The  most  ^t  which  some  maids  so  ill  did  keepe  y 

elegant  and  witty  Epigrams,  Digested  Thai  vncxpected,  in  a  short  abode, 

into  fovrc  bookes,  three  whereof  never  They  could  not  cleanly  bear  away  their  lode : 

before   published,"    l6l8,   8vo,  acain         6.  Then  noddy  followed  next,  as  well  it 

1633,  folio,  has  341 ,  leaving,  according  might, 

to  the  author's  own  copy,  63  unprinled.  Although  it  should  have  gone  afore  by  right. 

Two  specimens  will  show  the  slight  At  w«»»  1  saw,  I  name  not  any  liody, 

reganl  had  lo  the  manuscript.  ^^  o«*«'  ^^  t*»c  knave,  yet  laid  for  noddy ; 

The  last  game  now  in  vse  is  hankrout, 

Jn  praite  qf  a  book  cold  the  GenUe  Crqft  f,  Wc»»  will  be  plaid  at  still  I  stand  in  doubt, 

uriUtn  ly  a  sh»mAker.  Vntill  Lavalu  turn  the  wheelc  of  tyme, 

[B.  iv.  £p.  11.]  And  mak  it  come  about  againe  to  Prime. 
IpastthisotherdaythroughPowlesChurch-         Supposing  the  above   lines  written 

•  Aiidsimsomreedabook,andreedinglaft;  circa  I59O-I60O   the  games  enumerated 

The  tytle  of  that  book  was  Gentle  Craft,  "T^'^  probably  those  in  some  "  request 

the  frndect  was,  as  by  their  speech  I  heard,  »"J"«  ^mirt  circle.    Prime,  or  Prmero, 

To  pnove,  among  sdm  less  important  things,  ^  Spanish  fame  played  with  six  cards. 

That  shomakere  and  sowters  had  been  kings:  was   long  in  fashion,  though  difficult 

Bntab  I  markt  the  matter  with  regard,  to  obtain  the  knowledge  of  an  adept, 

A  ilew  sprong  branch  yt  in  my  minde  did  as  Sir  Thomas  Elliott,    in  a  proheme 

g™«»  [writt  itt,  of  the  knowlede  whiche  maketh  a  wise 

And  tfaualaaid:  Sira,  skom  not  him  that  man,  1533,  believed  Wisdom  **  soone 

A  gu'dded  blade  hath  oft  a  dudgeon  haft,  Icrned,    in   ^ood    f.mhe  sooner   than 

^  And  .ewr  I  see  this  writer  roves  a  ahaft  Primero."  Dr.  Wilson,  in  a  Discourse 

Neer  Y^^J*"*"'  ^"""^^  ^^^  ^^  **'*  upon  Vsurye,  1572,  would  impress  his 

ForneierLthelykebooksoxddinPowles  -"eaders  wiili  a  belief  there  was  -  lewde 

Yf  so  with  gentle  crJft  yt  could  pemwade  hazarding  of  great  wealth  and  reuenues 

Great  princes  midst  thiir  pomps  to  learn  a  without    all    wyite,    vpon    a    mayne 

trade,  [sowles.  chaunce  at  dyce,  or  vpon  a  carde  or 

Once  in  their  lives  to  work  to  mend  their  twoo  at  Primero."    Among  the  Gamei 

The  lines  in  italics  in  the  above  and  ^°'(  *»  "V"..'"  ^"g/^^^*  France,  and 

following  epigrams,  are  omitted  in  the  ^P""'^'  published  without  date,  about 

printed  copies.  "*^  close  of  the  seventeenth  century, 

^^  .  ,'      ^     .  ,     .        .  «n^   chiefly  borrowed    from   Cotton's 

Of  the  games  at  the  C«at  that  have  been  tn  Compleat  bamester,  168O,  is  a  descrip- 

request,  ^j^^  ^^  Primero,  which  gave  place  to 

[Bookiv. £p.  19]  Ombre,  and  nine  instead  of  six  cards 

I  heard  one  make  a  pretty  observation,  appears  the  principal  variation  between 

How  games  have  in  the  court  turn*dw»»'tha  the   two  games.     At  that  time,  it  is 

&8hion:  gaj^^    l^e  reputation  of  Primero  was 

1.  The  first  game  was  the  best  when  free  ^^\^^  diminished,  while  Ombre  was  in 

Tu-  ^  -*i"  ***°*f»     ,,         .    .t   .      .  extraordinary  request.     Post  and  Pair 

9  ^^L^        1    *'•*"!      fVrti  was  agameof  b?ag,  much  favoured  in 

a.  1  he  second  gama  was  poste,  vntdl  w"  .,  ^^      r    rr      1      1      /-  ..     » 

posting,  rbostinc-  ^*'*   ^^*^   °^   England.     Cottons   re- 

They  payd  so  &st  'twa.  time  to  leave  their  marks  explain  the  above  lines.    **  This 

Yet  ojl  the  gamesters  aU  have  been  so  fair,  ?*^Y  depends  much  upon  daring;   so 

That  tviih  one  carde  one  hath  been  sett  a  pair :  ^^^^  some  may  win  very  considiTa  biy, 

S.  Then  thirdly  fbUow'd  heaving  of  the  who  have  this  boldness  to  adventure 

maw,  much  upon   the  vve,  although  their 

A  game  without  civiUitie,  or  law,  cards   are   verv  iDClifferent,  you  must 

'    ■  first  stake  at  rost,  then  at  Pair ;  after 

*  Honour  of  the  Oarter.    1594.  this,  deal  two  cards  apiece,  then  stake 

t  The  Ckntle  Craft  is  now  only  foand  ts  at  the  seat,   artd  thed  deal  the  third 

a  tommoo  diap-book.  card  about'* 


iBVk'] 


Oh.Teifkeibury  CHurch,  OndM^JdonummiU. 


im 


To  find  Mawe  ill  coortly  requett^ 
does  not  accord  with  a  Dialogvs  eon. 
ceming  the  strife  of  our  Churche,  &c. 
1684,  declaring  "  there  be  too  many  of 
ihose  graae  deuines  which  bestow  mo 
how  res  vpon  the  ale-bench  at  mum* 
chaunce,  or  at  mawe^  then  they  do  in 
catechising  their  people/*  However, 
the  |X)pularity  of  the  first  three  games 
appears  in  the  following  extract  from 
the  comedy  of  Nobody  and  Somebody, 
n.  d.  where  Sicophant  is  instructing 
Somebody  to  cheat  Nobody,  and  is 
overheard  by  the  Clown  acting  as  ser- 
vant to  the  latter  character. 

Sicophant. 
So  I  for  cards.    These  for'the  pime  at  Maw, 
All,  saving  one,  are  cut,  n^xt  under  that 
Lay  me  the  Ace  of  Harts,  then  cut  the  cmrdt, 
O  your  fellow  must  needs  haue  it  in  his  first 
tricke. 

Cloum. 
Vie  teach  yoa  a  trick 'for  this  yfisith. 

Sico. 
These  for  Primero,  cut  vpon  the  sides, 
As  the  other  on  the  end. 

Claicn. 
Mtfk  the  end  of  all  this. 

Sico, 
These  are  for  Post  and  Paire. 

Passing  Tres  Cozes  and  Lodam,  I 
shall  venture  to  dispatch  Noddy,  which 
appears  to  have  been  played  somewhat 
similar  toCribbage,  with  a  Catch  from 
an  old  MS. 

Oh  hold  your  hands. 

Or  loose  your  lands  : 
The  Noddy  board  marches  about,  ahouty 
The  ^candlestick  flew,  and  candle  went  out, 
Till  murder,  murder,  cnrM  one  out. 
And  thb  is  the  end  of  trie  rabble  route : 

Strike  old  Jack. 

liD.   HoOD. 


Mcnrahe  fiditora  of  the' new  '*  Mbna^ 
uoon.f .   That  work  being  in  my  owii> 

rssession,  I  had  recourse  to  it  oefoi^ 
had  mn  ojiportunity  of  examining 
Mr.  Foabroke  s  elaborate  Collectioo  of 
Gloucestershire  Records.  As  to  the 
supposed  derivation  of  the  name  of 
Tewkesbury,  I  merely  gave  it  at  I 
found  it  in  the  ancient  Clirontcli>, 
without  expressing  my  own  belief  in 
it,  nor  am  I  at  all  disposed  to  enter 
into  its  vindication.  1  am  too  well 
aware  how  little  reliance  ousht  to  b* 
placed  on  such  legendary  relations. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  Mr.  Nash 
was  not  so  fortunate  as  to  see  the  in* 
teresting  fragment  of  the  stall   men- 
tioned   by   Mr.  Fosbroke,    which    in 
that  case  might  have  been  represented 
in  the  plate  of  miscellaneous  detailt. 
The  descriptions  of  the  drawings  were 
furnished  by  Mr.  Nash,  to  whose  skill- 
and  taste  as  an  archiiecturul  draughts* 
man,  Mr.  Fosbroke  has  borne  honour- 
able testimony.     In  justice  to  myself, 
I  cannot  conclude  without  observing- 
that,  with  respect  to  my  own  sluire  in 
ihe  publication,  all  that  1  ui»dertook 
to  do  as  a  Member  of  Council  of  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries,  was  to  supply 
a  general  summary  of  the  History  of 
Tewkesbury  Abbey,  extracted  and  con- 
densed from  the  received  authorities. 
This,  indeed,  I  expressly  stated.   I  had 
no  new  discoveries  to  offer,  and  was- 
only  anxious  that  this  portion  of  the 
'*  Vetusta  Monamenta"  should  not  g<^- 
forth  to  the  public  open  to  the  objec- 
tion   which   had   been   raised  against 
some  former  ones,   namely,    that  of 
being    wholly     unaccompanied    with 
letter-press  illustrations  of  the  subjecls 
engraved.  Thomas  Amyot*    - 


Mr.UmBAN.      J<"<ie,.>ircet.ire,t- 

'  mtntier,  rcb.  7. 

WITH  reference  to  the  observa- 
tions which  in  your  last  Sup- 
plement, p.  S87>  Mr.  Fosbroke  hLt 
bestowed  on  the  account  of  the  Ab- 
bey Church  of  TewkesburVy  published 
in  the  "  Vetusta  Monumenta,**  I  beg 
to  assure  him  that  the  Cotton  Mb. 
Cleop.  c.  111.  was  not,  as  he  supposes, 
"obscurely  quoted*'  from  the  County 
Histories  of  Atkynsor  Rudder.  Even 
withoat  resorting  to  the  manuscript  it- 
self, there  was  no  occasion  to  refer  to 
any  imi^erfect  translntion  of  it,  since 
the  original  had  lieen  printed  by  the 
Gsrr.  Mao.* Fdruafy,  \ 8«7. 


Mr.  Urban,  Britlol,  Feb,  2. 

I'^HR  privilege  of  free  enquiry  hav- 
ing been  tor  so  many  yeairs  a  dis- 
tinctive feature  in  your  Magazine,  per- 
mit me,  through  its  medium,  to  notice 
a  paragraph  contained  in  a  paper  pub- 
lished in  your  last  Supplement,  '*  On 
the  derivation  of  the  word  Tewkes- 
bury." 

It  is  there  said,  that  '*  the  upper- 
part  of  the  curious  and  beautiful  stalls  *' 
m  Tewkesbury  Abbey,  which  the  f^- 
iusta  Monumenta  states  to  have  been' 
lost,  were  in  1824  discovered  by  your 
Correspondent  on  the  roofing  of  the 
Countess  of  Warwick's  Chapel,  though ' 


y 


Ftd^m  pfih$  Kemp  PamUf  gf  TkwopU 


called  by  ih%  clerk  a  coronet  for  the 
kneeling  effigies  of  Sir  Edward  De-> 
apenser. 

The  Chapel  here  alloded  to,  seems 
to  be  inadvertently  confounded  with 
another  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
chancel,  erected  by  Isabel  Countess  of 
Warwick,  on  the  roof  of  which  1  be- 
lieve no  fragments  whatever  are  to  be 
found.  But  upon  the  Cliapel  of  the 
Holy  Trinity,  on  the  south  side  of  the 
chancel,  is  a  kneeling  effigy  surround- 
ed by  pieces  of  disjointed  stone-work  ; 
the  largest  of  these  is  a  mass  wrought 
into  the  form  of  a  cupola,  about  four 
feet  in  diameter,  with  a  series  of  cinque- 
foils  and  (ledimeuts  carried  round  the 
edge ',  the  other  principal  fragment  is 
a  parallelozral  fillet,  upon  which  seve- 
ral beautifully  carved  leaves  are  placed 
in  a  coronal  manner,  and  from  within 
this,  has  evidently  risen  a  hollow  cone 
or  spire,  terminated  by  a  boquet  or 
finiai. 

.  The  stalls  to  which  the  oassage  in 
the  work  above  mentioned  alludes,  are, 
I  conceive,  the  three  standing  south  of 
the  altar,  in  which  the  priest  and 
deacons  sat  during  certain  parts  of  the 
service;  as  from  the  specimens,  now 
in  the  transept,  of  the  oaken  sulls  that 
lined  the  choir,  the  expression  cannot 
be  applied  to  them.  The  former  (two 
of  which  are  correctly  represented  in 
Lysons's  Etchings  for  Gloucestershire), 
are  perfect,  with  the  exception  of  Ihe 
upper  pari  of  each  pediment,  which 
has  unfortunately  been  broken  from 
ihete  curious  and  beautiful  stalls  (  and 
are  pot,  I  fear,  at  present  to  be  found 
in  any  part  of  the  Church.  Now,  as 
all  that  is  wanting  to  complete  them  is 
a  piece  of  stone  fur  each,  not  one  fourth 
so  large  as  the  chief  fragment  on  the 
adjoining  Chapel  (all  of  which,  from 
their  peculiar  form,  appear  perfectly 
distinct),  these  must  have  served  a  dif- 
ferent purpose:  and  a  careful  exami* 
nation  would,  I  doubt  not,  favour  the 
opinion  that  they  originally  formed  a 
canopy  to  the  kneeling  eitigy  which 
your  Correspondent  concludes  to  be  in- 
tended for  Gilbert  the  last  Earl  of  Clare. 
Had  not  a  long  residence  in  Tewkes- 
bury aflbrded  me  repeated  opportunities 
foe   minutely  examining    the  objects 


(Feb. 


conuined  in  its  noble  Church,  I  should 
not  intrude  a  remark  upon  any  opinion 
advanced  by  so  learned  an  antiquary  a» 
your  Correspondent.  But  do  not  thd 
arms  of  Oespenser,  painted  on  the 
surcoat  of  the  effigy,  warrant  the 
hitherto  received  opiuiim  thut  it  is  in- 
tended to  represent  Sir  Edward  De- 
spenser,  who  died  in  1373  ?  to  whose 
memory  the  Chapel  of  the  Holy  Tri- 
nity was  erected*  by  his  widow,  with- 
Ills  effigy,  kneelinz  on  the  roof,  direct- 
ing its  fuce  toward  the  high  aluir. 

Yours,  &c.  4b,  JUL 

Mr.  Urban,  Fcl.  14 

YOURcorrespondentD.A.Y.  would 
much  oblige  me  if  he  would  com- 
municate the  nature  and  authority  of 
the  MS.  from  which  he  takes  the  pe- 
digree of  Keiii pe  of  Thway t,  printed  in 
your  last  Supplement,  p.  594. 

1   have  a  considerable  collection  of 
Kempe    Pedigrees,    transcribed   some 

Cm  ago  from  the  original  MSS.  of 
Neve,  in  which  no  issue  is  given  to 
the  Thomas  Kemp,  who  married  Anne 
Moore  of  Ipswich :  and  a  pretty  close 
investigation,  which  I  have  lately  had 
occasion  to  make  of  the  Pedigree  of 
Kemp  of  Thwayle,  has  led  mc  to  pre- 
sume strongly  (though  1  have  not  been 
able  to  procure  absolute  evidence  of 
the  fact)  that  the  Kempe  who  married 
the  coheir  of  Hobart  of  Thwaite  (and 
whose  Christian  name,  by  the  bye,  was 
Thomas,  not  John,)  was  the  seventh 
son  of  Robert  Kempe  of  Gissing,  grand- 
son of  the  Robert  who  married  Eliza- 
beth de  Grty  (not  Delpey)  of  Merton, 
and  father  of  Sir  Robert,  the  first  bart. 
of  the  Gissing  family.  My  conjeciure 
is  mainly,  however,  founded  on  the 
fact,  that  Sir  Robert  Kemp,  the  second 
bart.  was  chief  party  to  the  marriage 
settlement  in  1649,  of  Thomas  Kempe 
of  Thwaite,  son  and  heir  of  the  Tho- 
mas who  married  Hobart;  an  office 
he  is  much  more  likely  to  have  under- 
taken for  his  first  cousin,  as  my  hypo- 
thesis would  make  this  Thomas,  than 
for  a  person  two  or  three  desrees  further 
removed  in  relationship.  The  family* 
name  of  the  wife  of  that  Thomas,  who 
was  so  married  in  1649,  I  have  not 


*  This  is,  I  btlieve,  recorded  in  th«  MS.  Chroaicle  of  the  Abbey,  discovered  by  Sir 
WUUsm  Dugdale  in  the  Cottoniui  Library.  At  aU  evcots,  a  curious  paintfaig  upon  tbe 
•Mi  wall  dcCcminct  ths  naose  of  this  Chapel}  and  the  tiles  in  the  pavsment  prsseol  ua 
-^  ibt  affOBt  of  Sir  Edwardi  Impaliag  those  of  Eliaabtth  Da  Burgharsi  Jiis  wife. 


l«f.} 


Or  Scriptural  mid  Cfciiww  drfvolaf  y. 


l«ft 


been  able  16  aseeruin,  but  take  it  to  •  party  to  the  iettlemenr.  From  thb 
have  been  Corbet,  from  the  circum-  Tnomaa  and  Frances,  the  pedigree  pii»ii 
stance  of  Sir  Thomas  Corbet  being  alto    ceeds  as  follows : 

ThoBHU  Kampey  of  Thwaite,  buritd  thercP^Frsncet  (snppoMd  Corbet) ,  buried 
Aprils,  1668.  I  at  Ely,  1691. 

Hobertf  died    Rev.Robt.  Keinp,=y=PeDelope,  dau.  of    Elisabetb. 


Clement  Kempey 
eldest  son,  boned 
•t  Thweite,  Oct. 
19,  1674.  =1= 


•tBombey,  ofStreetham.Iile 

unm.  1689.  of    £lj,     buried 

ThoiDM,died  there    May    17, 

yooog.  1696. 


r 


Sir  Francia  Dan-  Frances,  mar.  the 

eorabe,  ht.  buried  Rer.Thoe.  Ben- 

atStreatham,Feb.  yon,  of  Ely  j  aad 

18, 1695.  8dly,— BolUM. 


Duncombe  Kemp,  of  London, 
Apothecary,  diod  onmarried, 
17S6,  buried  at  Streatham. 


1 


Pendope» 

bom 

1699. 


Fmees,  dao.  and  heires,  mar.  Rot. 
Abraham  Clerke,  of  Seething,  co. 
Norfolk,  and  had  isiue.  xfs 

I  am  inclined  to  think  that  Eliza-  Clement  Kempe.     Perhaps  some  of 

beth,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Kempe  your  Correspondents  may  be  able  to 

abovenamed,  married  the  Mr.  Home  throw  light  upon  this  point. 
or  Hearne,  who  purchasedTh wayte  of  Yours,  &c.  S.  D. 


Mr.  Urbav.  Feb,  14. 

ALTHOUGH  wholly  incompe- 
lent  to  discuss  the  correctness  of 
A.  H.'s  chronological  calculations, 
there  are  in  his  communication  of  last 
month,  some  unguarded  expressions, 
which,  as  they  appear  to  me  in  some 
degree  to  call  in  question  the  Divine 
inspiration  of  the  scriptures,  I  cannot 
pass  witliout  animadversion.  In  the 
first  pbce,  if  we  are  to  understand  by 
the  term  prophecy  the  announcement 
(whether  expressly  or  metaphorically) 
of  future  events,  which  could  not  be 
otherwise  known  than  by  a  Divine  in- 
spiration, and  which  we  know  has 
never  flowed  but  in  one  authorized 
channel,  and  of  which  the  Scriptures 
Mte  the  only  authentic  record,  whv 
does  A.  H.  in  the  same  sentence,  spoik 
of  the  prophetical  language  of  &np- 
ture,  and  of  the  propheiical  books  of 
the  Chinese  t  thus,  teeming  to  class 
the  wisdom,  probably  the  Jraud,  of 
man,  with  the  wisdom  of  God.  Let 
them  be  designated  by  a  characteristic 
appellation  or  a  disimctive  epithet-— 
they  cannot  both  be  prophetical  in  the 
tame  sense;  the  diflference,  therefore, 
should  be  accurately  marked. 

Again,  he  speaks  of  the  Deluge  **  as 
an  sera  to  which  all  Nations  have 
reckoned  up  ;**  and  adds,  "  that  if  all 
were  content  to  remain  there,  we  should 
all  be  satisfied  of  the  truth  of  our  own, 
and  of  profane,  and  Sacred  history.*' 
Does  A.  H.  include,  in  this  censure, 
Motet,  or  rather  God,  who  by  the  pen 
of  Moses,  has  declared  that  "  In  the 
bcannlhig  If  e  created  the  Heavens  and 


the  Earth  ?  which  beginning  of  timt» 
by  the  aid  of  recorded  ages  of  the  An- 
tediluvians, it  is  not  very  difficult  to 
compute.  If  we  will  lay  aside/anq/b/ 
theories,  and  perplexing  subtleties,  we 
may  surely  reooncile  in  our  minds  the 
truth  of  the  sacred  narrative,  with  the 
inain  facta  of  our  own  and  of  profane 
history.  Onee  more,  in  speaking  of 
the  Tower  of  Babel,  A.  H.  designates 
it  as  a  '<  land -mark**  by  which  the 
simple-hearted  inhabitants  of  that- 
golden  age  might  know  which  way  to 
return  home !  "  a  motive,'*  he  adds, 
for  the  building  of  it,  "  far  more  tfuio^ 
cent  than  that  ascribed  by  Moses." 
But  ho.w  can  any  one  even  attempt  to 
prove  the  s'finocence  of  the  andertaking, 
without,  at  the  same  time,  charging 
God  foolishly  ?  The  attempt,  in  Hu 
judgment,  was  of  that  nature,  as  to  de- 
mand an  immediate  and  perpetual  re» 
buke.  If  the  building  were  founded 
on  an  innocent  or  useful  intent,  t>r 
even  but  on  a  mistaken  judgment* 
either  God  took  uf^ust  vengeance,  or 
Moses  has  written  from  traditional  pre* 
judice,  and  was  not  one  of  the  "  holy 
men  of  old,  who  spake  as  they  were 
moved  by  the  Holy  Ghost.** 

Not  in  this  age  onlv,  but  in  all* 
there  are  too  many  who  are  glad  to 
lay  hold  of  any  such  loose  expressioa 
which  tends  to  invalidate  the  Scrip- 
tures, and  to  lower  them  to  the  level  of 
uninspired  wriungs;  a  mischief  which 
cannot  be  too  carefully  guarded  against* 
nor  too  sedulously  counteracted :  for  to 
render  them  pron  table  for  doctrine*  for 
correction,  for  instruction  in  rightr — 


M4 


Arckiktckur^  Improvement  in  fVe$tmmtter. 


[Febf 


Den,  it  jnU9t  b«  laid  down  as  an  invio* 
UUfle  priaeiplef  that  all  Scripture  is 
ffiven  by  inspiration  of  God  f  Question 
the  probability  of  but  one  recorded fact^ 
and  you  weaken  the  hold  oF  everv  doc- 
trine and  precept.— On  their  Divine 
inspiration,  as  on  the  moving  principle 
of  some  powerful  engine,  depends  all 
their  influence  and  authority  over  the 
eoosciences  and  lives  of  men.       Y.  D. 

Mr.  Urban,    Westminster,  Feb,  5. 

IT  is  gratifying  to  6nd  that  the  spi- 
rit of  improvement  has  not  yet  be- 
eome  extinct ;  and  that  those  who  have 
\he  power  have  also  the  inclination  to 
contribute  to  the  increase  of  the  comfort 
of  the  citizens  of  this  "overgrown  Me- 
tropolis,*' by  a  better  arrangement  of  the 
parts  and  consequent  increase  of  effect 
and  beauty  to  the  whole.  This  spirit 
—more  especially  observable  in  the  de- 
signs for  altering  the  neighbourhood  of 
the  two  Houses  of  Legislature — must 
give  peat  satisfaction  lo  the  public — 
especially  to  those  whom  convenience 
Or  choice  may  have  induced  to  (ix  their 
residences  here — and  must  be  produc- 
tiTe  of  much  that  is  eood.  The  design 
which  the  Board  of  Works  has  agreed 
to  adopt,  as  it  tends  considerably  to  re- 
stoie  to  a  healthy  state  a  part  of  the 
present  diseased  *'  Lungs  or  London*' 
will  be  of  the  greatest  utility,  and  af- 
ford the  most  unequivocal  df  lieht  For 
some  years  past  the  royal  Park  of  St. 
James's  has  been  suffered  to  exist  in  a 
very  deplorable  condition — inconveni- 
ent to  the  visitors,  and  disgraceful  to 
the  country— without  any,  or  scarcely 
any  efforts  being  made  towards  the 
amelioration  of  the  one,  and  conse- 
qocnt  annihilation  of  the  other.  The 
mrmal  arrangement  of  pleasure  grounds 
in  the  time  of  the  gaiety -inspiring 
Charles ;  or  the  no  less  cold  distribu- 
tion of  landscape  in  the  beginning  of 
the  18th  century,  would  be  far  prefer- 
able to  its  present  appearaitce.  In  the 
former  period  there  was  somethin^j^  in 
this  promenade,  whereon  the  eye  might 
rest  with  some  feelings  borderm^  upon 
satisfaction  and  pleasure;  but  since  it 
has  ceased  to  be  the  gardens  of  the  Pa- 


lace it]  has  been  gradually 'retrograding; 
till,  it  has  arrived  at  the  lowest  state  of 
degradation.  Gwynne,  in  his  ".Lon- 
don and  Westminster  Improved,*'  a 
book  I  have  had  occasion  to  notice  be- 
fore in  my  correspondence  upon  the 
Improvements  of  Westminster,  men- 
tioned the  encroachments  which  were 
tl^en  making  on  the  beauty  of  this  spot 
—a  spot  as  he  iustly  remarks,  which 
ought  to  be  held  sacred — with  proper 
severity  and  due  warmth ;  anci  sug- 
gested many  alterations  for  its  improve- 
ment. 

There  is  a  point  to  which  all  things 
must  arrive  before  a  change  can  be  ef- 
fected. Our  Park  had  arrived  at  this 
point;  and  is  now  undergoing  some  al- 
terations for  the  better.  My  expecta-. 
tions  that  these  would  be  preluues  to 
greater  exertions  are,  I  perceive,  with 
no  small  dea;ree  of  pleasure  upon  the 
point  of  being  confirmed:  it  having 
been  at  Inst  decided  that  a  terrace  is  to 
be  erected  along  the  south  side  of  the 
park  to  James- street,  Buckingham- 
gate,  to  accord  with  the  alterations 
now  in  progress  on  the  site  of  Carlton 
Palace. 

This  plan,  which  must  have  struck 
very  forcibly  the  minds  of  those  who 
ha\e  given  the  subject  a  moment's  con- 
sideration as  the  only  .one  calculated 
to  produce  grandeur  and  beauty, — was  I 
believe,  first  promulgated  in  a  Well- 
written  pamphlet,  entitled  "  Conside- 
rations on  the  expediency  of  building  a 
Metropolitan  Palace.'*  The  author,— 
whoever  it  may  be — and  I  have  heard 
it  attributed  to  a  gentleman  whose  plan 
for  the  comfort  of  the  citizens  has  been 
unt-equited,  though  deserving  of  the 
highest  praise  and  attention — displays 

freat  taste  and  feeling  in  his  remarks. 
le  says : 

<<  What  ctn  be  more  iriste  than  St. 
James's  Park  ?  A  filthy  dark  wall  extends 
firom  Spring-gardens  to  the  Stable-yard  *  ; 
a  miserable  grove  imperfectly  concealing 
another  dead  wall,  cramps  the  view  of  Con- 
stitution-hill;  the  Bird  Cage-walk  aflbrdt 
tha  united  pleasure  of  a  barrack-yard  and 
of  Tothill  Fields.  Compare  with  these  the 
gay  promenades  of  Paris;  gardens  much 
more  confined  in  space,  but  as  the  Frencb, 


*  Tlib  I  presume  will  be  removed  in  the  alterations  now  in  progress  upon  the  site  of 
Carlton  House.  Here  I  may  be  allowed  to  remark  that  the  demolition  of  this  regal  pile  is 
npidly  proceeding :  the  screen — which  had  the  merit  of  hiding  the  beautiful  porticoes 
atarly  taken  away ;  and  the  east  end  of  the  edifice  is  rapidly  uliing  under  the  destroying 
utensils  oC  tbe  biUlder.  The  beautifully  diversified  garden  has.  been  all  torn  up,  and  the 
naked  wall  of  the  house,  destitute  of  ornament,  has  beeu  laid  open  to  our  view,  with  the 
two  QothSo  cloisters-altogether  presenting  a  dreary  prospect,  calculated  to  excite  the 
reflections  of  the  moralist. 


i8«ro 


Archiieehtral  tmpro^emmiti  in  H^mimimUr. 


Its 


entretams  raeeWe  fit>ai  tbeir  dteoimf'    H  beedniM  t  qattttoa  of  ft  tw%  w&tn  Iv 


tioDy  unI  from  tbt  (irM  circuUktioo  of  lij^bt 
umI  air,  ft  giM^ty  of  ftppeannoft  which  ii  in 
ito«lf  ft  rem)  recreatiou. ' 

The  reason  assigned  for  this  saperi- 
ority  of  French  pleasure-gardens  has 
been  very  tastily  clothed  by  the  Muse 
in  the  following  lines: 

The  Frencli  hare  taste  in  all  thej  do^ 
Which  we  are  ouite  without ; 

For  Nature,  whicn  to  them  gave  gout, 
To  us  gave  only  goui ! 

But  I  am  digressing  too  much.  It 
will  therefore  l)e  necessary  to  return  to 
the  line  of  houses  running  from  those 
now  existing  on  the  south  side  of 
Princes-court  to  Queen* sauare,  and  so 
continued  to  the  aforesaid  James-street. 
One  continued  terrace  would  be  far 
from  handsome,  owins  to  its  extent: 
they  might  therefore  oe  disposed  in 
convenient  groups,  to  accommodate 
the  various  entrances  to  and  from  the 
city ;  the  facade  of  each  group  to  pos- 
sessdifferent  architectural  features,  simi- 
lar to  the  Pallnzini,  as  Lord  Farnborou^h 
very  appropriately  designates  them,  m 
the  Regent's  Park.  To  each  group  might 
bcallotted  a  small  portion  of  eround,  to 
be  adorned  with  a  very  low  shrubbery^ 


ought  to  bt  a  ({uetiino  of  a  \xf%  waA  they 
prune  wbefe  tmy  ought  to  eradicate.  In 
such  cases  ft  storm  is  the  only  remedy  i  i| 
ofitsn  does  what  the  hatohet  should  have  done 
kmg  before,  and  the  proprietor  is  surprised 
at  tne  improvement.*' 

It  will  be  necessary,  when  this  plan 
is  put  in  execution,  to  form  a  road  run* 
ning  Daralltl  with  the  park,  which 
shoula  be  the  only  carriage-way  tr>  th« 
new  houses,  no  vorfiicles  whatever  being 
permitted  within  the  park  gates.  This 
road  would  then  form  an  admirable 
carriage  communication  with  Chelsea 
•^the  want  of  which  is  at  present  so 
deservedly  complained  of— and   be    a 

Seat  convenience  to  the  west  end  of 
e  town,  and  particularly  to  the  world 
of  houses  *  now  erecting  on  the  Gros* 
venor  estate. 

Respecting  the  new  distribution  of  tbt 
ground  within  the  park  I  am  unac* 
Quainted :  indeed  I  have  not  even  heard 
tnat  any  new  arrangement  is  intended^ 
though  no  doubt  can  be  entertained  at 
to  its  desirableness.  Gwynne  in  his  plan 
laid  down  a  new  disposition  of  the  trees 
and  walks  which,  however  agreeable 
to  the  geometrically- cut  taste  of  his 
time,   would  ill  accord  with  modern 


or  Uid  out  in  parterres  of  flowers.  To  notions  of  effect  in  scenery.  Among 
prevent  the  architectural  character  of  j^e  most  conspicuous  alterations  weiS 
the  facades  from  bemg  hidden ;  and  to     j^^  ^^  ^^^  canal,  and  the  erec* 

give  the  parks  an  air  of  gaiety — which  -or 

nobody  can  say  they  now  possess, — the 
planting  of  large  or  forest  trees  should 
be  absolutely  prohibited.  The  injudi- 
ciooft  permission  of  this  in  the  ^ruens 
attached  to  the  houses  in  Arlington- 
street,  has  been  justly  censured  by  Lord 
Farnborough  in  his  able  pamphletupon 
the  Improvement  of  Westminster.  As 
this  pamphlet  has  not  been  so  generally 
circulated  as  its  merits  demand,  I  shall 
qnote  one  passage  bearing  on  the  point. 

^  There  are  many  places  and  gardens 
which  have  lost  all  tbeir  cheerful  character 
from  their  possessors  having  suffered  their 
trees  to  overgrow  the  original  intention  of 
the  plantation.  Perhaps  toe  spot  when  first 
planted  was  cold  and  naked,  but  nature  clothes 
snpidly,  tbongh  imperceptibly,  and  that 
whidi  was  once  open  and  exposed,  has  be- 
come dose  and  gloomy.  Most  people  have 
the  incUnfttion  to  plant,  but  few  have  the 
eonrage  to  cnt  down ;  witen  all  view  is  shut 
oat,  and  tbev  feel  the  neossaity  of  making 
aa  opening,  tKey.  do  it  with  ft  timid*  hand. 


tion  of  an  equestrian  statue  or  group 
of  figures  in  the  centre  of  the  parade. 

The  former,  I  by  no  means  approve 
of;  for,  though  the  canal  is  devoid  of 
all  beauty,  it  might  yet  be  made  to 
blend  harmoniously  with  the  surround* 
ing  scenery  at  a  very  trifling  ex4 
pence.  A  mere  naked  parallel  sheet 
of  water  has  a  cold  white  glare,  and  n 
the  more  disgusting  as  it  reminds  one 
of  its  difference  from  the  beautiful 
lines  of  a  meandering  river.  Price  hu^ 
mourously  says  it  may  be  made  of  linen  i 
for  nothing  can  be  more  like  than  a 
sheet  of  water  and  a  real  sheet. 

An  appropriate  subject  for  the  latter 
h>is  been  suggested  by  your  valued  Cor- 
respondent Col.  Macdonald  in  p.  3. 
That  it  may  be  carried  into  effect  must 
be  the  hearty  wish  of  every  admirer  of 
those  feelings  which  swayed  the  pub- 
lic conduct  of  his  Royal  Highness, 
and  made  him  the  beloved  and  re- 
spected friend  of  the  army— the  steady 


*  The  houses  in  the  squares  erecting  on  this  extensive  property  have  a  mtist  megnifi- 
ceat  pftthway  before  them,  peved  with  stones  of  such  ft  lencth  as  to  serve  also  for  the  roof 
if  tlie  vaolls.  ThUrpUn  of  paving  has  two  advantftges,  seldom  or  ever  blended,  economy 
sadeibel. 


136 


ArMiUekaral,  tmprovemtmU  m  fFuimiiuier. 


[Feb« 


upholder  of  our  glorioat  Coostitution— . 
and  which  has  caated  his  death  to  be 
ao  generally  lamented.  I  cannot  place 
f  umcient  reliance  upon  my  own  Icnow- 
ledge  of  landscape  to  lay  down  a  plan 
for  a  new  distribution  of  the  objects 
necessary  to  produce  that  tout  ensemble, 
which  could  aJone  inspire  the  man  of 
taste  with  any  feelings  of  pleasure  and 
contentment.  But  still  it  is  necessary 
that  it  should  be  done;  and  I  feel  con- 
fident that  those  who  have  begun  the 
work  of  adorning  the  park,  will  not 
leave  off  in  the  middle. 

The  plan  adopted  at  the  Thuileries 
of  permitting  the  public  who  frequent 
the  gardens  the  convenience  of  reading 
any  newspaper  in  the  world  upon  pay- 
ment of  two  tous  or  one  penny,  mignt 
1  think  with  great  propriety  be  adopted 
here*.  There  would  then  be  some 
kind  of  amusement  for  the  visitors  in- 
stead of  resorting  to  the  petty  scandal 
of  the  day,  or  invidious  remarks  upon 
their  neighbours  for  something  to  re- 
lieve the  time. 

When  the  intended  alterations  are 
completed,  it  cannot  be  too  much  to 
expect  that  the  performance  of  mili- 
tary evolutions  in  a  place  devoted  to 
pleasure  will  no  longer  be  permitted  ; 
•o  that  the  public  who  promenade  here 
to  obtain  relief  to  the  exertions  of  the 
mind,  may  not  be  pained  in  witness- 
ing the  miseries  which  are  necessarily 
endured  by  those  in  drill  for  this  pro- 
fession. Indeed  the  barracks  should 
be  removed  in  toto  :  Westminster 
might  then  breathe  a  purer  atmo- 
f  phere,  and  retrieve  a  portion  of  its  lost 
cnaracter. 

Most  Westminsters,  of  several  years 
standing,  must  well  remember  the  si- 
tuation of  the  Hell  Pumpf,  as  it  was 
named,  at  the  entrance  of  tlie  passage 
which  led  to  the  Exchequer  and  Oli- 
ver's Coffee-houses,  and  so  to  the  Hall. 
When  the  demolition  of  these  low 
buildings—themselves  of  modern  erec- 
tion— took  place  to  allow  for  the  com- 


pletion of  Kent's  range  oT  buildings, 
this  pump  was  carefully  preserved.  But 
the  inconvenience  and  nuisance  occa-i 
sioned  by  the  spilling  of  the  water  on 
the  pavement  as  it  was  conveyed  from 
the  pump,  called  for  its  removal,  which 
has  been  accordingly  done.  A  new 
pump  of  neat  execution  has  been  made, 
and  erected  on  the  edee  of  the  road  on 
the  western  side  of  St.  Margaret*s- 
street,  to  which  the  water  is  conducted 
from  the  old  well  on  the  opposite  side, 
through  iron  pipes.  Thus  the  inhabit- 
ant)B  of  Westminster  may  still  have 
the  pleasure  of  partaking  of  "Hell's" 
pure  stream. 

The  "Privy-council**  stables  erect- 
ing in  Princes-street,  and  the  range  of 
offices  at  Whitehall,  are  in  a  very  pro- 
gressive state.  Of  these,  at  some  fu- 
ture time,  1  may  furnish  you  with  de- 
scriptions, but  at  present  must  be  al- 
lowed to  conclude,  and  sign  myself 

Yours,  &c.  C« 

Mr.  Urban,  Feh.  £0. 

THE  Rev.  Joseph  Blanco  White, 
first  known  to  the  British  public 
by  his  allusive  names  of  Lucadio  Dob" 
ladoy  prefixed  to  his  valuable  Letters 
on  Spain,  has  since  been  indefatigable 
in  his  endeavours  to  guard  his  adopted 
country  (the  country  of  his  ancestors) 
from  the  snares  and  tyranny  of  Popery. 
In  his  "Practical  and  internal  Evi- 
dence  against  Catholicism  X**  after  de- 
scribing the  stru^les  and  fluctuations 
of  his  own  mind,  m  his  perilous  transi- 
tion from  inculcated  error  to  disco- 
vered truth,  he  addressed  the  impar- 
tial amons  his  former  brethren,  on  the 
errors  and  abuses  of  their  Church.  la 
a  tract  of  still  more  extensive  utility, 
he  has  since  addressed  a  warning  to 
the  lower  classes  of  this  country§; 
thereby  demonstrating  not  only  ttie 
sincerity  but  the  disinterested  cnarac« 
ter  of  his  zeal  for  truth  |).  But  it  it 
not  for  the  sake  of  eulogizing  that  ex- 


*  But  with  more  propriety  at  Kensington  Gardens. 

t  There  were  tenements  or  bouses  nearly  adioining  to  Westminster  Hall  known  by  the 
names  of  V  Paradise,"  "  Purgatory,*'  and  <*  Hefl  ;'*  as  appears  bv  an  instrument  printed  in 
Rymer's  Foedera,  whereby  Henry  the  Seventh,  in  the  first  year  of  hb  reign,  granted  the  eus- 
.tody  of  them  with  others  to  one  Anthony  Kene,  esij.  The  situation  of  this  pump 
marks  the  spot  where  "  Hell'*  was  situated.  There  was  also  in  Westminster  a  place  known 
by  the  name  of  *'  Heaven  ;*'  and  there  is  now  a  spring  in  Princes-street,  in  a  place  whieh 
was  fi>rmerly  known  bj  the  name  of  "  Broken  Croift  '—The  origin  of  all  which  names 
-may  be  tfaiwd  to  their  situation  so  near  the  Monastery. 

X  Reviewed  in  vol.  xc. 

I  Entitled  "  The  Poor  Man's  Preservative  sfpunst  Popery." 

H  Having  given  away  the  copy«rtght.— A  huit  or  two  on  the  subject  of  what  is  called 


1887.]  Blanco  Whii€  and  jhUmh  Gttchu  197 


cellcot  tnan»  much  at  he  deserves  eu-^  that  the  Mid  Rer.  Mr.  Qwln,  tfttt 

logy,  i\\U  I  now  take  up  the  pen,  but  publicly  mmI  tolemnly  ti^vitd  the  enon  o^ 

to  revive  the  knowledge  of  a  similar  ^«  RomUh  Religion,  and  beti^  thertapon 

case,  which  occurred  a  century  ago.  f"*/;^.  ^  ^\  ^""^^  <^  Englaad,  oa. 

About   the    year   1714,   a  Spanish  the  third  d^  of  Janwiy,  1715-16,  he  had 

priest,  whose  name  was  jlnionio  Ga^  f^'*^  "T  ^ It '^'ru^T^r  n  '^.  ^^"*' 

L,  being  disgusted  with  the  supersu-  ^^^  ^  [^^^^a'^SL?  i^^^ 

tions  in  which  he  had  been  educated,  chaplain  of  his  Majesty'?  ship  ihVfr^, 

escaped  to  England  in  the  disguise  of  y^'^^y  y,^^^  to  p,eich  in  English,  and 

an   officer.     He    had   been   a   secular  ^  administer  the  Sacraments  at  home  and 

priest  in  the  city  of  SaragOfsa,  and  was  »broad,  in  aU  the  churches  and  chapeb  of 

there  known  as  such  to  Lord  Stanhope  my  diocese. 

and  other    English   gentlemen.     Ar-  **  Given  under  my  hand  in  London  the 

rived  in   London,  and  understanding  ISthofJuly,  1780. 

that  our  Church  would  receive  him,  (Signed)                   John  Lovdon." 

if  his  claim   to  orders    in    his   own  rru      u  .    «^     *u               •«•...       j 

church  could  be  «tayUhed,a„d  ,he  ..JJ^GaWnTad  2 'sS    'h  Vn*^ 

.fit  purpose.    Some   temporary  difli-  ?«'«"'  °  "^T  "'  f '"''.    'f"  "'k  "'' 

cully  aroie  from  the  want  if  hi/letter.  «>.<>b«''?  »>!«  .f.PPT'°'«}  *»f  «  '»»»P- 

of  oJder,,  which  the  fear  of  being  de-  ^'"  '"  *f  'l""*h.*'r^    ^IL""  "•?" 

tecied  in  hi,  flight  had  ohliged^him  L""«'"''Ki  '"''''*'' r   '.,?^'T^'£ 

!h  'Th  "'"/"Ld^"'  b£'"^o"„"'  fe\.'^  -terL^^Td  '„  «^^^ 

then  Bwhop  of  London    being  con.  ^^  ./^  ^.                Lord  Sunhope. 

jr.nced  of  iW  fact,  by  the  testimony  ^^^.   ^          .  1^;,,              j     ^    j^_ 

laid  before  him,  accepted  his  renun-  ,;  u  w  ,...,^ 

elation  of  Popery,  and  reconciled  him  "»0^^"8eum.                             ^ 

to theChurc.r:7En,^^^^^^^^  ^.f-^i-X-  ^«iP,T::^.  j^?- 

.      ,r,.           .      . , * . curious  and  important  book,  under  the 

.hop>  licence  u  given  at  large  in  one  ;  ,       ^  ..  ^  Ma„er.key  to  Popery.- 

of  K..  publication.,  and  »  thus  ex-  ^^j^^  ^„„^,i„.  ,^^  f„„2;  e.JKf 

presse    .  ^1^^  errors   and    practices  which   had 

jjtcence.  disgusted  him  in  the  religion  of  Spain* 

«  Whereas  the  Rev.  Mr.  Antony  Gavm  j^  ^^^  followed  by  two  other  volumes, 

was  recommended  to  me  by  the  Richt  Ho-  j„  ^^^  ensuing  year,  pursuing  the  same 

nourable  Lord  btanhope.  and  by  tBe  swne  y^^^      ^  p^^    j^'  J^^^  promised,  but 

and  other  Eoelisb  gentlemen,  1  was  certi-  i**.             ^u           '           ji?t 

fied  that  the  lud  I&v.  Mr.  Gavin  was  a  se-  ^oes  not  seem  to  have  appeared.     EU 

cular  Priest,  and  Master  of  ArU  in  the  Uni-  jl'^^  the  author  di«l,  or  the  booksellen 

vertity  of  the  city  of  Zaragosa,  in  the  king-  »onn«  ^nat  the  public  curiosity  on  the 

dom  of  Arragon  in  Spain,  and  that  they  subject  was  satisfied  for  the  time.  The 

knew  him  in  the  said  city,  and  conversed  three  volumes,  however,  were  publish- 

with  him  several  times;  This  is  to  certify,  ed  in  1736,  in  a  French  translation, 

the  Catholic  Question,  I  cannot  refrain  copybg  from  this  tract. — "  Tliere  is  indeed  no 
reason  for  either  fear  or  suspicion,  with  rq^rd  to  the  Roman  Catholics  of  these  king* 
doms,  as  long  as  both  the  Oovemment  and  Parliament  remain  purely  Protestant ;  but  I 
would  not  answer  for  the  consequences,  if  the  Pope,  through  his  priests,  could  obtain  aa> 
underhand  influence  in  either."     P.  8. 

**  Had  I  a  voice  that  could  be  heard  from  north  to  sooth,  and  from  east  to  west,  in  thes» 
islands,  I  would  use  it  to  warn  every  Protestant  against  the  wiles  of  Rome  ;  wiles  and  arts, 
indeed,  of  so  subtle  and  disgnised  a  nature,  that  I  feel  assured  many  of  the  freeborn  Britons 
who  are  made  the  instruments  and  prompters  of  them,  do  not  so  much  as  dream  of  the 
snare  into  which  they  are  trying  to  decoy  their  countrymen.  Such  as  believe  that  Popery, 
if  allowed  to  interfere  with  the  Taws  of  Eiagland,  would  not  most  steadily  aim  at  the  ruin  of 
Protestantism,  even  at  the  plain  risk  of  spreading  the  most  rank  in6delity,  shonld  be  sent 
to  learn  the  character  of  that  religion,  where  it  prevails  uncontrolled ;  whers  I  have  learnt 
it  during  five  and  twenty  years  in  sincere  submission,  and  for  ten  in  secret  rebellion.** 
P^  f  tf* 

f  have  been  told,  and  it  b  not  improbal^e,  that  in  some  places  endeavours  have  been 
made  to  persuade  the  common  people  that  no  such  man  as  BUoteo  IVhite  existsi  and  that 
tbi  whole  is  a  mere  &bricatioD. 


198 


Memonali  4f  London  Chupdhm  hwmi  V966. 


:[Feb; 


bj  a  M.  Jani^on.  The  work»  how- 
ever, waf  to  much  noticed,  that  it  pro- 
ceeded rapidly  to  a  third  edition,  each 
volume  beine  dedicated  to  some  great 
person ;  to  the  Princess  of  Wales,  to 
JLqrd  Carteret,  and  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Armagh. 

To  the  first  edition  Gavin  prefixed  a 
tolerably  ample  Preface,  gi^m^  an  ac« 
count  or  himself,  not  so  interestmg,  but 
apparently  not  less  honest  than  that  of 
his  couniryman,  who  has  lately  follow- 
ed his  steps.  This  Preface  is  preserved 
in  the  French  translaiion,  and  was 
peHiaps  in  the  second  edition  ;  but  is 
omitted  in  the  third,  which  is  that  in 
my  hands.  The  first  is  in  the  British 
Museum.  The  further  account  given 
by  Gavin  of  himself,  after  having 
been  chaplain  in  the  Preston,  is  thus 
stated : 

.  "The  ship  being  put  oot  of  comtnission, 
•nd  my  Loid  Staohope  being  in  Hanover 
with  the  King,  1  came  over  to  {reland,  on 
the  importunity  of  a  friend,  with  a  design 
t9  stay  here  till  my  Lord's  return  to  Eng- 
land. But  while  I  was  thinking  of  going 
over  again,  I  heard  of  my  Lord's  death,  and 
having  in  him  lost  my  best  patron,  I  re- 
solved to  try  in  this  kingdom  whether  I 
could  find  a  settlement.  Afler  a  few  days, 
by  the  favour  of  his  Grace  the  Lord  Arch- 
bishop of  Cashel,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Perci- 
val,  I  got  the  corscy  of  Gowran,  on  which 
I  resided  almost  eleven  months,  by  the  li- 
ceooe  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Ossorv ;  who 
afterwards,  upon  my  goinz  to  Cork,  gave 
me  his  letters  dimissory."  Pref.  p.  vL 

It  appears  that  he  continued  some 
ttme  at  Cork,  beyond  which  I  have 
ilot  found  any  traces  of  him.     It   is 

Erobable  that  there  he  died.  But  his 
ooks  still  live,  and  may  be  consulted 
by  the  curious  without  difRculty.  They 
contain  most  horrible  narratives,  the 
truth  of  which  will  perhaps  be  denied 
by  those  who  are  interested  to  deny 
them;  but  which  agree  too  well  with 
many  concurring  testimonies,  to  be 
doubted  by  those  whose  minds  are 
open  to  fair  evidence.  That  the  wri- 
ter was  a  man  worthy  to  be  believed, 
there  is  every  appearance,  in  what  we 
know  of  his  story  ;  and  though  he  was 
CTidently  a  man  of  less  talents  and  ac- 
complishmentsthan  Mr.  BlancoWhite, 
I  see  no  reason  to  suspect  that  he  was 
less  sincere  in  his  conversion,  or  less 
veracious  in  his  narratives.  Let  others 
judge  for  themselves.    The  similarity 


of  the  two  cates  in  many  ttfikinjg  par- 
ticulars induced  me  to  recal  to  notice 
Che  almost  forgotten  Gavin,  and  to 
point  oot  his  Master-key  as  that 
which  will  unlock  as  much  horror 
and  abomination  as  that  which  opened 
the  secret  chamber  of  the  formidable 
Blue-beard.  Wi  cliff. 


Mr  Urban         Myddeiton-house, 
Mr.  URBAN,  Feb.  25, 

IN  vol.  xciv.  part  i.  p.  8,  the  con- 
duct of  those  Parishes  whose 
Church  was  burnt  at  the  Fire  of  I^n- 
don,  and  have  judiciously  affixed  u 
tablet  to  denote  the  site  thereof,  is 
highly  commended.  If  it  will  not 
trespass  on  your  pages,  I  should  be 
gratified  to  see  them  recorded.  From 
the  following  interesting  inscriptions, 
the  deficient  parishes  have  an  oppor- 
tunity of  selecting  and  amending  as 
circumstances  require. 

**  Near  this  marble  in  y*  place  which  be- 
fore the  Fire  of  London  was  the  porch  of 
y*  Church  of  St.  Anne  Black  Friars,  lye  in- 
terred," &c. 

<*  Before  the  dreadfull  Fire,  Anno  1666, 
stood  the  P^ish  Church  of  St.  Bennet 
Sherehor." 

"  Betora  the  late  dreadfull  Fire,  Anno 
Domini  1666,  Here  stood  the  Parish 
Church  of  St.  John  Baptist  upon  Wall- 
broke,  &c.  The  above  stone  was  new 
heed,  and  the  letters  fresh  cut,  A.D.  1774." 

«  Before  the  dread5rU  Fire  Anno  Dom. 
1666,  stood  the  Parish  Church  of  St.  Mary 
£ftayning." 

*<This  was  the  Parish  Chvrch  of  St. 
Olave  Silver-street,  dcstroy'd  by  the  dread- 
fvl  Fire  in  the  yeare  1 666.'* 

•*  Before  y«  late  dreadfvll  Fver  this  was 

g  Parish  Chvrch  of  St.  Peter  Pivls  Wharfe. 
emolished  September  166*6,  and  nnwerectr 
ed  for  a  Chvrchyarde,  Anno  Domini,  1675. 
This  stone  was  new  &c'd  and  letter'd  1779.** 

Wilkinson's  **  Londinn  Illustrata*' 
ffives  a  representation  of  the  tablet 
heretofore  affixed  to  the  wall  of  the 
buryini  eround  of  St.  Leonard  Foster- 
lane,  with  this  inscription : 

«  Before  the  dread^ll  Fure,  Anno.  Dom. 
1  eee.  Here  stood  the  Parish  Church  of  St. 
Lenard  Foeter-laoe." 

The  tablet  should  now  be  placed  on 
the  house  of  Mr.  Elles,  baker,  Foster- 
lane,  obliterating  the  word  "  here," 
and  engraving,  instead,  the  word  ''op- 
posite.'^ H.  C.  B. 


us;.] 


C     J89    3 


REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


14.  ThemstcryqfSeoiUndtfromtheearheii 
period  to  the  middU  of  the  ninih  century. 
By  the  Rev.  Alexander  Low,  j4,M.  Cor- 
respondent Member  of  the  Society  of  Scot- 
tish Antiquaries,  8u>,  />/>.  414.  Append, 
84. 

OUR  readen  will  have  the  goodness 
to  observe,  that  nothing  certain 
is  known  of  the  early  history  of  Scot- 
land, before  the  expeoition  of  Agricota ; 
and  that  the  earliest  inhabitants  were 
Celts.  The  work  before  us  is  a  collec- 
tion of  various  ancient  evidences,  cer- 
tainly not  a  history f  and  those  ancient 
evidences  are  all  jumble<l  together  in  a 
manner  which  it  would  require  a  che- 
mical analysis  to  deconi|)ose.  In  fact, 
our  author  s  work  appears  in  the  shape 
of  ore,  not  of  metal;  and  is  a  subject 
for  the  Furnace,  more  than  the  Assay. 
He  makes  the  Scots  to  be  emigrants 
from  Ireland;  and  the  Picts,  from 
Germany,  or  Scandinavia.  Now  it  is 
a  rule  with  us  to  think,  that  all  islands 
have  been  first  peopled  from  the  nearest 
continents;  and  we  judge  a  great  deal 
on  tiiat  subject  from  the  physical  con- 
formation of  the  people,  in  face,  sta- 
ture, &c.  Mr.  Warner  has  clearly 
shown,  that  Strabo*s  description  of  the 
Celts  is  strictly  applicable  to  the  mo- 
dern Welch  ;  and  we  certainly  have 
seen  in  a  town  in  Devonshire  (on  a 
market-day),  a  complete  collection  of 
Belgic  visages;  but  all  the  genuine 
Scotchmen  known  to  us  have  been 
small-eyed,  high-cheek- boned,  red  or 
light  haired,  and  otherwise  character- 
ized, as  were  and  are  the  natives  of 
the  Baltic  coasts.  The  Welch  and 
Irish  have  a  greater  leaning  in  charac- 
ter to  dark  hair,  eyes,  ancT  eyebrows ; 
and  the  former  in  particular  have  very 
commonly  a  decidedly  French  look. 
The  native  Welch  have  a  remarkably 
stout  short  figure,  amounting  in  in- 
stances to  deformity;  for  we  have  seen 
:he  legs  of  Welchmen,  and  Welch- 
women,  to  be  completely  of  the  form 
of  nine-pins,  from  excess  of  muscle, 
while  the  Scotchman  exhibits  tallness 
and  bone; — one  is  the  broad-backed 
poney,  the  other  the  cart-horse. 

Let  not  the  reader  blame  iis  for  tak- 
ing this  physical  line  of  ar^ment  on 
such  subiccts  as  the  aborigines  of  na- 
tions.   Nature  cannot  err,  but  authors 

GivT.  Mao.  February^  1 8i7. 


may ;  and  in  the  intermarriages  of  tho 
poor,  where  the  countries  nave  been 
agricultural,  original  breeds  are  as  cor- 
rectly supported,  as  are  those  of  deer 
in  a  forest  of  the  most  ancient  date. 
What  the  ancient  Scots  and  Picts  were 
is  clearly  shown  from  Xiphiline,  in 
his  Epitome  of  Dio ;  the  uctics,  the 
dirk,  the  broad-sword,  the  target,  the 
small  horses,  the  living  in  huts,  the 
robbery  by  black  mail,  the  subsistence 
by  hunting  and   plunder  (u«iTr  rii;^ 

IX  Ti  yo/uiti;  xa»-6«i^a(  ax^vw>Tf  rivinr 
fft»wi?.  (Hist.  Aug.  iii.  ;42l.  Ed.  Syl- 
burg)  are  all  circumstances  proved  by 
Ossian,  Froissart,  and  other  Englisa 
and  Scotch  histories.  That  there  were 
individuals,  who,  by  introducing  reli- 
gion as  an  instrument  of  civilization 
and  pacific  modes  of  existence, — by 
consequence  arts  of  agriculture,  upon 
which  the  means  of  such  civilized  ex- 
istence must  as  to  food  and  clothing 
totally  depend, — and  laws,  by  which 
alone  it  could  be  possible  for  property 
to  be  secured, — is  evident  from  the  His- 
tory of  Britain,  Ireland,  Scotland,  and 
all  the  barbarous  provinces  of  the  Ro- 
man empire.  First  come  Generals  and 
Soldiers;  this  is  a  system  which  cam- 
not  last.  Next  come  Saints,  Mer<^ 
chants,  and  Husbandmen,  whose  oc- 
cupations necessarily  imply  |ieace. 
Such,  in  a  general  view,  is  the  early 
history  of  Great  Britain  and  Scotland; 
and  that  in  fact  is  the  only  history 
which  exists ;  for,  though  we  may  find 
in  these  early  periods  the  Lives  of  par- 
ticular Kings,  Warriors,  or  Saints, 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  National  His- 
tory, properly  so  called.  Perhap  it  was 
not  possible,  where  there  was  not  a 
universal  simultaneous  action  or  go- 
vernment. 

We  shall  not  enter  into  any  analysis 
of  this  work,  for  it  is  impracticable. 
\Vc  shall  however  say  that,  whenever 
the  author  appears  in  his  own  person, 
his  original  remarks  are  very  good; 
but  he  has  not  even  used  common 
caution  in  digesting  his  materials. 

in  p.  21  we  have  CAt'verius  for  C/ii- 
verius,  and  such  wretched  misnomers 
of  authors  and  places,  as  to  show  that 
Mr.  Low  is,  as  to  literary  habits,  the 
most  slovenly  writer  whom  we  know. 


ISO 


Rbviiw.— Low's  HisioTf/  of  Scotland. 


VMk 


But  he  has  collected  an  enormous 
quantity  of  ancient  facts  (some  of  them 
Tery  valuable) ;  and  had  he  published 
them  as  such,  would  have  been  irre- 
proachable. 

We  shall,  however,  give  our  author's 
account    of    that    exquisite    subject, 

Scotch  Music;  our  readers  vvill  recol-  ,^„„ted  for,  since  they  make  use  of  the 
leci  that  It  IS  called  an  inlrcKluction  of  ^^^  ,^,1^^.  it  appears,  indeed,  that  the 
the  unfortunate  Riziio.  W  e  will  not  Celtic  nations  carried  it  ahmg  with  them  iu 
ly  that  the  opinion  is  correct ;  but  we     their  first  migratious  to  Eur.ipe ;  and,  al- 


llving.  Aecnstomcd  to  woodhsd  tcenerf» 
th«y  introduced  into  their  compositions  the 
melodies  of  the  grove ;  and  the  blackhird« 
the  woodcock  and  plover  furnished  them 
with  sftme  of  the  finest  notes  iu  the  pibroch. 
The  melodies  of  China  *  and  Hindostao  are 
the  only  lunes  which  bear  a  resemblance  to 
the  Scottish  airst,  but  this  can  easily  be 


Will  say,  that  the  sentiment  displayed 
in  Ossian,  and  the  beautiful  air  in  the 
music,  are  extraordinary  problems  in 
the  history  of  a  nation  deficient  in  all 
the  luxuries  of  civilization,  from  which 
in  general  such  refinements  proceed. 
But  things  may  be  so.  The  rouiance 
of  Pastoral  and  Arcadian  scenes  and 
feelings  is  of  earlier  date;  and  plnugh- 
boys  and  dairymaids,  and  soldiers  and 
sailors,  may  express  thei\iselves  in  the 
inost  beautiful  sentiments  of  original 
undefecated  nature,  and  have  done  and 
itill  do  so. 

*<  The  Scots  have  ever  been  distinguished 


though  ihe  Welch  and  the  Irish  had  lost 
this  scale  before  the  twelfth  century  §,  it  is 
itill  preserved  in  Sc<»tland.  The  Welch 
tung  not  in  unison,  but  had  as  many  dif- 
ferent parts  as  they  had  performers,  which 
finally  terminated  in  one  common  organic 
melody  on  a  flat.  The  treble  part  they 
began  in  a  soft  moiid ;  and  producing  at 
length  what  may  he  called  an  irregular  regu- 
larity, the  melody  became  harmonious  and 
Complete  ||.  Although  the  Welch  at  an 
early  period  adopted  the  diatonic  and  chro- 
matic scale,  their  music  was  not  the  same  as 
that  on  the  Continent.  The  Northumbrian 
music,  which  was  introduced  into  England 
in  the  eighth  century  by  some  Italians,  dif- 
fbr  their  musVc."  According  to  a  writer  of     fered  fnim  the  Welch  in  making  a  concord 


the  Middle  Ages,  they  were  indebted  for  this. 
Ml  for  many  other  things,  to  the  Irish ;  but. 
If  this  was  the  case,  they  were  better  musi- 
cians than  their  instructors  in  the  twelfth 
century*.     Both   the   Welch,   Irish,    and 
Seots  received  it  from  one  common  origin. 
The  bards  of  the  British  and  Celtic  nations 
ks  general  were  musicians,  and  raised  the 
song,  and  tuned  the  harp  by  turns  1*.    The 
Scottish  monks  dedicated,  amongst  studies 
of  higher  importance,  no  small  portion  of 
their  time  to  that  of  music,  and  left  behind 
them  several  treatises  upon  this  art^.     The 
scale  on  which  the  old  genuine  airs  belong- 
ing to  this  nation  were   performed,  was  a 
scale^of  five  notes  iustead  of  seven,  deficient 
in  the  fourth  and  seventh  in  the  msjor  key ; 
but  if  we  take  the  entire  octave,  it  contains 
only  six.     The  Scottish  scale  is  less  perfect, 
but  more  simple  than  that  which  b  generally 
made  use  of  at  the  present  day.     By  using 
thb,  instead  of  the  diatonic  and  chromatic 
musical  scale,  which  was  observed  by  the 
iorroundiug  nations  of  Europe,  the  Scots 
have  preserved  their  airs  in  that  state  of 
siosplicity  and  beauty,  which  belongs  not  to 
the  music  of  the  more  perfect  one.    But  al- 
though this  was  one  great  means  of  presenr- 
hig  the  Scottish  melitdies,  they  owe  their 
simplieity  perhi^s  to  another  cause.    In 
aiatic,  the  Soots  had  made  as  little  refine- 
ment as  in  nMinnera  and  customs.    Simpli- 
01^  is  the  distinguishing  characteristic  of 
their  music,  as  well  as  of  their  modes  of 

*  Gifsldus  Cambrsusb,  who  lived  in  1 1 86. 

f  Dioior.  Sic  lib.  v. 

X  Triliheniiist  Gttal.  IHas.  Vir.  p.  itft. 


in  unisons  and  octaves^.     Pp.  368,  364. 

There  are  several  similar  things  of 
intercbt  and  value.  In  the  Appendix 
(p.  62)  is  a  very  elaborate  dissertation, 
proving  that  Marpherson*8  Ossianic 
poems  *'  were  pretty  faithfully  trans- 
lated from  the  Gaelic  originals." 


15.  Transalpine  Memnirs,  or  Anecdotes  an4 
Oiservations,  shewing  the  actual  state  of 
Italy  and  the  Italians,  By  an  English 
Catholic,     SCO,  8  vols, 

A  WRITER  of  Travels  has  a  very 
easy  liierary  task,  provided  he  is  a  man 
of  taste  and  information.  He  has  only 
to  make  memoranda  on  the  spot, 
concerning  the  manners,  laws,  arts, 
antiquities,  agriculture  and  commerce 
of  the  country,  and  he  will  scarcely  fail 
producing  a  valuable  work.  But  the 
misfortune  is,  that  very  many  travellers 
have  no  taste;  and  then  their  works 
have  the  asi>ect  of  a  dusty  warehouse, 
which  contains  all  sorts  of  goods,  but 
neither  arranged  nor  displayed. 

The  book  before  us  abounds  with 
those  traits,  which  distinguish  the  gen- 

*  Father  Amyot. 

f  Macculocb*s  Travels  in  Scotland. 
t  Father  Amyot. 
I  Giraldos  Cambrensb. 
n  Sab  obtusa  (sic)  gross!  orb  (sic)  eord* 
ftonltv.    Qir.  Csmbr. 
f  Ginldns  CusbctBsls. 


lat?.]                    Hkvixw.— IViMiia^iliM  Mmimm*  tf  I 

llemaD*  and  yerify  the  title,  as  to  aneo-  only  of  the  firtente  of  fa^ada ;  ihit  pedinHi«|^ 

dole  and  obien-ation.     Here  and  there  and  the  rest  t*i  the  eDtablatuM  at  each  ead 

the  Catholic  appears,  blinking  the  two  of  it,  surmouated  by  a  high  wall,  omamcak- 

iinportant features oftheqiiesiion,— one  «<*  **'***  pilaaters  ao.l  square  windows,  and 

thertr.intro«luciion  of  papal  authority  »"PP»'t'ng  »  "tone  Ulusirade,  above  tha 

into  thii.  realm.— the  other  the  refusal  '^l'"  •"^  ^l  ;»»ic»»  T'^T  ""^'"f^*  *^^ 

of  prolest-inis  to  recognize   doctrines  P^^-^^^^^  ^^^^  wh.ch  themselves  .up. 

^^                 •  I      . u     D ■  I  I        rtM.  V^^^  ^  ^1^^  and  two  keys ;    three  doaow 

not  sanciioned  by  the  B.ble.     The  au-  ^,,,   ^^^^  ^   ^^i,  ^^,  '^j  balustl^^ 

Ihor  ca  Is  II  persecution,  if  civil,  politi-  ^,„  ^^^  j,,^  jjj^^^      ;„j  ^^^^  ^^^^^ 

cal,  and  ecclesiastical  institutions  object  then  viewed  them,  but  which,  a«  1  approaeb- 

to  things,  which  in  his  judgment  are  ed   nearer,  entirely  sunk  behind  this  vile 

inolTensi  ve  matters  of  course ;  but  which  screen.     Such  is  the  facade  of  St.  Peter's/' 

by  his  opponents  are  deemed  alarm-  i.  47. 

ingly  dangerous.     But  as  these  things  Qur  author  then  proceeds  to  criticiae . 

are  by  no  means  proniinent  character-  ihe  intericr : 

isiics,  are  not  obstructions  in  the  hmli-  <,  rm.     -i     -i     »  i_             .     . 

way  of  the  book,  it  U  not  worth  while  J^"^*  "'^'J  t'"  ^T       ^  t~ 

.-.       »•      .u                 r    .1  D"  prop<»rtion  with  the   center,  and  that* 

to  notice  them  any  further.  ahhongh  so  narrow,  thev  are  also  encu«i 

The  work  contains  many  judicious  y^^^  ^^  j^,,,,,.  ^f  p^    •    „d  Sovereign., 

and  curious  notices,  some  of  which  we  The  trsoscpt.  erodata,  appeared  to  me  too 

shall  extract,    llappt-ars.  ihatat  Rome  uarrow,    and  not  suflBciently  ornamented, 

a  tax  is  paid  of  18  scudi  (or  4/.)  for  Looking  from  the  west  end  [the  Church  is 

the    privilege  of    readinpr   old    books,  aUeredJrom  the  east  eml]  down  the  center 

mostly  of  education  and  Catholic  piety,  aile,  a  bad  effect  is  produced  by  window. 

So  much  for  any  encouragement  given  »*co  "^cr  the  doors,  and  which  comrouni- 

to    the  Catholics  even    to    understand  ^^  between  the  Church  and  the  second 

their  own  creed.  story  of  the  portico.     The  plain,  oblong, 

St.  Peter's  and  St.  PauPs  are  in  our  •"l^,.«'indows,  placed  in  many  parts  of  the 

judgments  only  splendid  caverns,  not  Basilica,  particularly  those  round  the  doma, 

churches.     The  author   makes   many  ^''/uiTrr^"'^" V''P*Tk'V^ '^ 

I                   •      e.  o       «     -n  ^  dome  Itself  1  say  aothiuir;   the  Df>ast  ra- 

justremarksconceniing  St.  Peter  s.  Be-  ^^.j^j  ^  j^j^,,^,  ^ngelo  is  in  some  s«im 

ginning  with  the  Colonnade,  he  says:  fulfilled;  a  dome,  it  is  true,  but  not  a  paa- 
"  It  appears  too  small  for  the  building  to  theon,  is  raised  in  the.  aii ;  an  architectural 
which  it  leads  {  and  four  rows  of  pillars  are  difficulty  has  been  overcome ;  but  ha.  an 
most  unnecessarily  crowded  together  to  sup-  architectural  beauty  been  gained  ?  ought  a 
port  an  useless  roof  that  would  have  rested  dome  to  be  placed  on  huge  pillars  of  ma- 
a.  safely  on  half  that  number.  These  pillars  snnry,  like  the  cover  of  a  pepper-box  stand- 
are  not  formed  of  one  single  block,  but  of  ing  on  stilts  ?  I  think  not.  The  interior  of 
many  separate  stones,  which  plurality  of  the  dome  of  St.  Peter's  is  not  visible  from 
stones  in  one  column  has  a  shabby  appear-  the  entrance  of  the  Church.  The  whole  of 
ance.  The  obelisk  and  fountains  in  the  it  can  be  seen  by  those  only  who  stand  im- 
centre  of  the  space  enclosed  by  the  colon-  mediately  under  it,  and  even  then  its  pro- 
nade,  have  a  too  ornamental  and  gardenlike  |H>rtions  cannot  be  iudged  of.  On  account 
air ;  which  is  increased  by  the  shape  of  of  the  height  to  which  it  b  raised,  it  can- 
these  fountains,  similar  to  those  generally  not  be  perceived  how  great  is  its  expauM  ff 
.Men  in  gardens,  but  formed  of  a  greater  arched  roof.  When  a  dome  is  on  the  earth, 
nnmher  of  squirts,  which  divide  up  the  mass  as  the  Pantheoq,  its  form,  its  majesty,  and 
of  water. — ^The  colonnade  is  on  each  side  its  extent  break  at  once  on  the  spectator, 
joined  to  the  Church  by  a  naked  wall ;  it  is  who  sees  it  rise  from  the  ground,  and  sn- 
decorated  only  by  some  scarce  perceptible  blimely  bend  above  him  ;  it  forms  of  itself  a 
pilasters,  which  seem  to  break  off  iu  con-  grand  hall,  every  part  of  which  is  present  to 
nection  with  the  main  body  of  the  building,  the  eye.  But  the  dome  of  St.  Peter*,  ha. 
The  facade  of  the  Church  1  can  only  com-  not  the  least  relation  to  the  hall  below  $ 
pare  to  a  new-built  hotel  de  vUlcy  town  hall,  and  the  conviction  of  its  ntter  inutility  per- 
or  soma  other  public  building ;  not  to  a  vades  the  mind,  at  the  Mue  time  that  the 
Chnrch — that  is  the  last  thing  to  which  it  strained  eyes  and  distorted  neck  give  sensible 
can  be  assimilated.  Pillar,  and  pilaster.,  proofs  of  the  incfmvenieace  of  its  situatioa. 
plaeed  one  on  the  other ;  the  intermediate  The  end  of  architecture  is  to  create  a  fine 
.pace  occupied  by  arched  and  oblong  gate-  object^  at  the  same  time  that  a  want  is  snp- 
way.,  by  scpiaie  and  long  windows — soma  plied;  that  therefore  which  is  unnecessary 
with,  some  without  balconies — and  by  mez-  and  useless,  is  devoid  of  its  greatest  claipi 
sonini,  Mimetimes  open,  sometimes  blocked  to  admiraUon. 

up  with  baM-reiie£i,  a.  if  to  save  window  *<  An  easy  staircase  leads  to  the  roof :  I 

.lax ;  a  iiiMill  pedimant  rking  over  one  third  was  disappointed,  on  reaching  it,  to  find 


IM 


Rb VIEW.— TraMa/pine  Mtmohri. 


[Feb, 


fiooe  of  tliat  grandeur  and  battle,  mentioDed 
with  tuch  enthusiasm  hj  Eustace.  On  the 
cootraryy  the  different  glass  Unterns  of  the 
various  domes,  which  peep  through  it,  have 
the  sppcarance  of  so  many  glass  hotohouses. 
The  two  minor  domes,  seen  when  at  a  suffi- 
cient distance,  one  on  each  side  of  the  large 
one,  are  of  no  possible  use ;  they  have  no 
communication  with  the  inside  of  the  Church, 
but  are  raised  on  pillars  on  the  flat  roof. 
Of  what  service  are  the  enormous  pillar- 
covered  buttresses  built  against  the  great 
dome  ?  If  they  were  placed  tliere  to  sup- 
port it,  they  have  ill  fulfilled  their  office, 
for  the  dome  is  split.  These  buttresses 
give  it  the  ungraceful  appearance  of  being 
too  wide  for  its  height."     Pp.  49-51. 

It  appears  that,  when  a  brigand  in 
the  Papal  State  is  tired  of  robbery  and 
assassination,  he  has  only  to  capitulate 
—be  pardoned — and  pensioned  for  life. 

i.  7.'J. 

The  Apollo,  the  Laocoon,  &c.  are 

placed  in  cabinets  on  pedestals  too  close 

to  the  wall  for  their  backs  to  be  visible, 

and  have  bars  of  iron  Jixed  in  thdr 

.  spines,  to  support  them.     i.  99. 

As  to  the  Vatican  library,  it  can 
be  only  presumed  that  there  are  books 
in  the  cases,  for  they  are  never  opened 
without  a  special  order,  and,  as  there  is 
rio  door-keeper,  "  none  can  enter  the 
library,  when  the  librarian  happens  to 
be  beyond  hearing  of  the  knocker." 
Pp.  101-102. 

Our  author  wishes,  that  Rome  had 
remained  uninhabited — been  only  a 
heap  of  ancient  ruins ;  and  so  do  we, 
for  modern  buildings  spoil  it.  The 
following  reflections  are  highly  senti- 
mental— worthy  of  Madame  de  Stael : 

**  Excepting  a  few  of  the  principal  monu- 
ments, the  other  remains  of  ancient  Rome 
present  little  interest.  Let  Antiquaries  ad- 
mire, study,  and  explain  each  remnant.  I 
am  nnable  to  confine  myself  in  this  manner ; 
to  embarrass  my  mind  with  details,  the 
which  always  lessen,  whatever  is  in  itself 
really  grand.  I  can  look  only  at  the  whole, 
at  the  ensemble,  and  what  an  ensemble  ! 
Here,  then,  stood  Rome ;  here  on  tliit 
grc«\ind!  Th'ts  is  the  spot  on  which  my 
thoughts  had  been  so  long  rivetted,  that 
had  so  long  attracted  my  desires !  And 
now  thit  they  are  accomplished,  what  do  I 
find  ?  a  wilderness  ?  No,  that  were  pre- 
ferable to  the  crowds  and  cares  that  have 
again  risen  from  this  consecrated  soil.  A 
desert  were  more  congenial  to  my  imagina- 
tion than  the  life  that  covers  this  grand 
wreck.  Set  aside  the  modern  town,  and 
suppose,  only  for  an  instant,  the  Pantheon, 
the  Forum,  and  the  Coliseum  to  be  standing 
alone ;  to  be  towering  in  solitary  grandeur, 


like  the  temples  of  Psestnm.  Sappose  theA 
lurroanded  with  the  minor,  hot  nevertheless 
giant  limbs  that  still  remain  of  the  capital 
of  the  world ;  suppose  them  diminishing  as 
they  depart  from  the  center,  and  finally 
losing  themselves  in  a  sublime  and  uninter- 
rupted desolation.  Such  are  the  reflections 
that  must  press  upon  the  mind  of  the 
stranger,  who,  visiting  in  succession  every 
firagment  of  antiquity,  turns  away  discon- 
tented with  every  object  that  successivelv 
strikes  him  as  unworthy  of  the  city  of  whicn 
it  is  a  relic."    Pp.  106,  107. 

There  are  many  curious  anecdotes 
concerning  our  countrymen,  in  which 
our  readers  will  easily  recognize  the 
genuine  features  of  John  Bull. 

It  seems,  that  it  is  the  custom,  during 
the  Carnival  at  Rome,  for  persons  who 
are  acquainted,  to  throw  ^ora^on; (sugar- 
plums) at  each  other.  The  Romans 
f>atronize  it  hut  little,  **  while  the  Eng- 
ish  carry  it  on  with  all  the  fury  and 
boisterousness  of  schoolboys."     t.  111. 

Durinc  the  ceremonies  of  the  Holy 
week,  places  in  the  Churches  were 
partitioned  off  for  the  English,  "  who 
carried  with  them  cold  meat,  fowls, 
and  bread,  which  they  ate  durins  the 
celebration  of  the  omces,  and  tnrew 
the  bones  and  waste  pieces  on  the 
Church-floors."     129,  130. 

The  Neapolitan  "  Geornale'' (news- 
paper) related,  that  an  English  surgeon 
had  killed  his  wife  with  a  pokero;  and 
the  Editor  annexed  a  note,  saying, 
"we  do  not  know  if  this  pokero  be  a 
domestic  or  surgical  instrument.**  ii.  13. 

An  English  man-of-war  having  an- 
chored otlBaix,  '*  all  the  officers,  even 
the  cabin-boys,  set  up  as  declaretl  and 
intrepid  antiquaries,  and  landed  with 
boat- loads  of  sailors,  urovtded  with 
spades  and  pickaxes.  Parties  of  men 
were  sent  out  to  mark  places  for  the 
next  day*s  excavation.  One  of  them 
reported  the  discovery  of  a  capital  re- 
main. It  turned  out  to  be  a  modern 
monument,  with  the  arms  of  the  King 
of  Naples.  The  sailors  had  put  the 
ropes  around  it  to  pull  it  down,  when 
the  oncers  discovered  the  mistake.** 

We  shall  close  this  account  of  Angli- 
cisms with  the  following  anecdote : 

*<  An  Englishman  purchased  in  the  Pon- 
tine marshes  two  little  pigs,  whose  race  he 
admired,  and  which  he  intended  to  take  ip 
his  carriage  to  Ei^land.  He  was  very  na- 
turally anxious  that  they  should  be  well  fSed, 
in  order  that  they  might  support  the  fii- 
tigues  uf  tlie  long  journey  they  were  about 
to  undertake  {  but  his  French  Valet  de- 
uaoded  imperiuusly  *  whethqr  he  had  beou 


1897-]              Rktibw—  Smith's  Tour  in  Denmark,  ftc.  in 

hired  u  Kalet  de  Chambref  or  to  feed  pin  ?  add  entertaioment,  as  well  as  the  Sta- 

stmrio^  that  th«  pi|^  might  die,  if  they  tistics,  unite  in  rendering  it  Yaluable 

liked,  for  from   tlimt   moment  he  woald  for  reading,  as  well  as  reference.    One 

never  again  touch  them.  'Our  countryman,  thing  particularly  pleasurable  we  derire 

retolving  to  do  any  thing  rather  than  ahan-  f^^n^  {^^  ^j,,  that,  as  in  Italy  and  the 

don  bU  pigi,  wa»  therefore  obhged  to  hire  g^^^h  of  Europe,  difference  of  opinion 

a  boy  to  feed  them.      P.  146.  j^  rclieion  and  politics,  and  national 

We  all  know  the  outcry  which  was  jealousies,  render  the  Enclish  nnpopu- 
raised  against  Government,  in  the  |ar;  so,  on  the  contrary,  in  the  North, 
matter  of  (as  the  lawyers  call  it)  the  the  "  very  name  of  Englishman  carries 
late  Queen  Caroline.  We  knew  the  with  it  the  sump  of  integrity,  and  is 
scandal  concerning  it  to  be  rife  all  a  sufficient  passport  to  the  best  and 
over  Italy,  before  proceedings  were  highest  society  which  the  counuies 
commenced.  The  tollowing  anecdote  can  afford."  r.  504. 
will  satisfy  the  impartial  reader  that  We  shall  notice  some  curious  parti- 
tlie  evidence  was  not  fabricated,  as  culars.  Danish  carriages  resemble  a 
some  pretended,  foraCourtpurpose.  At  four-wheeled  English  phaeton,  but 
Terni  is  the  Palazzino,  a  neat  counting-  have  a  window,  which  may  be  drop- 
house  belonging  to  the  Conte.  ded  down  in  front,  into  a  frame,  fixed 

"  My  guide  informed  me  that  in  this  to  the  top  of  the  apron,   making    it 

house  the  Princess  of  Wales  and  Bergami  quite  close  when  necessary  (p.  21).  At 

liad  passed  a  fortnight  in  each  other's  com-  certain  times  of  the  year,  when  hydro- 


ssid,  that  no  one  firomTerniW  been  caUed     ^^opjed     in    Enirlaud     (Il^idJ^      The 
a.  witness  to  England.       u.  166.  ^.j^^^^j^  ^j.  ^^^^  g^^^j^^^  j^^  ^  ^^^^^^^^ 


IfCaio  could  again  revisit  the  earth,  steeple,    which    is    ascended    by  366 

what  would  he  say,  when  he  saw  Ro-  steps,  one-third  of  which  form  a  cir- 

MARS  drest  in  round  hats  and  London  cular  or  spiral  staircase  at  the  outside 

cut  coals;  and  Roman  rooms,  covered  of  the  building,  covered  with  copper, 

with  English  carjxrU,  and  paj^ered  with  and  made  secure  by  a  firm  railing  (38). 
views  of  Paris,   i.  27,  28.     Even  Eng-         In  p.  90  we  have  a  long  and  mott 

lish  fish-sauces  abound,     i.  1 10.  interesting  account  of    the    beautiful 

We  have  only  room  to  add  one  cu-  Queen  of  Prussia — her  letters  to  her 

rious  thing  more,  out  of  many ;  rtz.  father — her  dying  hours,  and  inter  alia 

an  island  to  be  sold  near  Baise,  with  a  the  following  statement  of  her  ioter- 

(/uca/ title  annexed,  for  only  four  bun-  view    with   I^apoleon.     It  had   been 

dred   pounds!   i.  239.     So  much   for  deemed    advisable,    that    this    lovely 

foreign  titles!  and  what  a  prize  for  an  Queen,   although   in  a  weak  state  of 

English  puppy!  health,  should  repair  to  head-quarten 

We  can  justly  recommend  these  to  endeavour  by  her  commanding  ad- 
Travels  as  frequently  curious,  and  al*  dress,  to  obtain  an  influence  over  Na- 
ways  entertaining.  The  Author  is  poleon,  and  gain  from  him  some  alle* 
particularly  entitled  to  praise  for  his  viation  of  his  cruel  mandates  against 
sentiment,  which  in  places  assimilates  thetott«rring  kingdom  of  Prussia.  There 
with  success  that  of  the  "Sketch  are  two  accounts  of  this  interview.  One 
Book."  of  these  Mr.  Smith  says  he  derived  from 

♦  a  person,  who 

1 0-.     Nous  made  during  a  Tour  in  Denmark,         ,,  Lod    j  immediately  opposite  the  Km^ 

H..lstein,  Mecklenburgh  Schwenn,  Po-  ^^  p,u»,it's  apartment,  and  at  the  first  iii- 

nierania,  the  Isle  of  Ku-en,  1  russia,  fo-  ^^.^^  ^j^j^j^  Napoleon  liad  with  the  Queen, 

Und,  Saxony,  Brunswick,  Hannover,  Me  ^^^,j  distinctly  see  both,  as  tliey  stood  to- 

Hanseauc  Tcrntants,  Oldenhiirg,  Fries-  j^^^  ^  ^y^^  ^^^^  ^.^^^^ 

land,  Holland,  Brabant,  the  Khine  Cbim-  »  ,.  r^^  countenance  of  the  Queen  was  par- 

(ry,  aiidi  ranee.     Interspersed  wUhume  ^.^^,i„,   ^ni„.ted,  and  she  appeared  t»>  dwell 

•  Observahms  on  the  Foretgn  Cum  Trade,  ^j^j^  ^J^^,^  ^^^^^  ^^  ^y^^  miseries  which  her 

By  R.  Smith,  Esq,  F,R.  S.L.     8w.  pp.  ^^^^^  ^xxffered  from  the  French  yoke.     Na- 

^^'  poleon  rested  his  arm  on  the  window,  his 

THE  modest  title  of  this  work  by  head  reclining  on  his  hand,  and  seemed  dnf- 

no  means  conveys  a  just  idea  of  its  me-  uig  most  part  of  the  time  to  receive  the  td- 

riu.  The  uumcrous  matters  of  iulerest  dress  of  the  Queen  with  the  greatest 


*¥ 


lUvinr.— iSmitb'*  Tour  in  Dmmark,  Ac. 


[Fct>. 


pomrey  looldog  «tnie«t)j  at  her.  OocMion- 
•lljr*  however,  when  the  appeared  vcrir  warm* 
henuted  himself,  and  teemed  •omewhat  era- 
liarrassed,  but  again  rehtpaed  into  the  lamo 
pbatore." 

The  second  account  is  this  : 

**  At  toon  at  the  Queen  arrived,  Napo- 
leon waited  upon  her  ;  and  it  was  to  her  an 
taty  task  how  to  conduct  herself  during  the 
first  moments  of  tliat  singular  meeting.  She 
received  NaiK>leon  with  a  refined  elegance, 
and  tuch  a  commanding  address,  as  superior 
powers  of  mind  alone  can  c;ivei-— first  la- 
mented that  he  had  been  obliged  to  ascend 
to  her  apartments  by  such  miserable  stairs 
[the  lodged  over  a  mill] ,  and  inquired  how 
4he  northern  climate  had  agreed  with  his 
health,  during  the  preceding  winter.  She 
ihen  proceeded  to  the  object  of  her  visit ; — 
•he  had  come  to  exert  her  influence,  in  en- 
deavouring to  obtain  for  Prussia  a  peace, 
which  would  at  least  be  supportable.  Na- 
poleon possessed  but  little  gallantry,  conse- 
quently the  intercession  of  this  nuble  woman 
was  entirely  fruitless.  Of  the  conversation 
at  this  singular  conference,  during  which 
the  Queen  gave  many  proofs  of  a  uuble  and 
elevated  soin,  I  shall  only  further  notice,  in 
conclusion,  one  of  her  replies,  which  excited 
the  admiration  of  the  bye-stauders.  Napo- 
leon asked  her,  *  But  how  dared  you  com- 
mence the  war  against  me,*— and  there  was 
iomething  terrible  in  the  tone  in  which  these 
words  were  uttered.  The  Queen  antwered 
with  calm,  yet  dignified  compotore.  <  Sire, 
11  ^it  permit  k  la  gloire  de  Frederic,  de 
Bout  tromper  tur  not  rooyent,  ti  toutefoit 
nous  nout  tommet  tromp^/  Thit  reply  wat 
beard  by  the  French  minister  Talleyrand, 
and  by  him  repeated  to  the  writer."  P.  98. 

At  Memel,  owing  to  the  almost  ex- 
.dusive  connexion  during  the  wrar  with 
G/eat  Britain,  not  only  is  our  language 
spoken  freciueniiy,  but  pgrt  wine  has 
been  introduced ;  indeed  the  bias  to- 
wards what  is  English  is  so  great,  that 
Mr.  Smitli  says,  if  our  timber  duties 
were  moderated,  a  much  moreexten- 
tiTC  and  reciprocal  trade  would  be  the 
result,  p.  121. — At  the  battle  of  £y/ati. 
Napoleon  took  his  station  intheChurch 
steeple,  built  of  wood,  and  covered  with 
ahiBglcs,  through  which  peeping- holes 
were  made  for  him.  The  steeple  was 
perforated  in  set*eral  places  by  oullets, 
JO  that  he  mast  have  been  in  consider- 
able danger,  p.  196. — Our  author  in 
S.  199  commends  the  fortress  of  Grau- 
entZy  because  it  is  a  mile  from  the 
city,  a  situation  which  prevents  the  de- 
struction of  the  latter  in  case  of  siege.— 
'The  Royal  Palace  of  Cronckarnio  ooa- 
•iBts  of  very  large  gardens,  but  a  miall 
bouBe».ofoDlytixtecnapartiuentt,  ''the 


iloon  of  which  are  fonned  of  small 
squares  of  oak,  without  nails,'*  (144). 
.-f-The  seat  of  Firld^niarshal  Lubor- 
merski  likewise  consists  of  a  siuall 
-house  of  two  stories  only,  surrounded 
by  an  extensive  garden.  The  ground- 
floor  is  formed  as  a  hermit's  cave, 
with  walls  of  a  substance  exactly  re- 
sembling rock  (incongruously  intermix- 
ed with  looking  glass),  and  in  another 
room  with  a  painted  screen  over  tlie 
window,  in  order  to  produce  an  arti- 
ficial dimness  (143). 

Here  we  shall  pause  a  moment  to 
notice  the  folly  of  erecting  permanent 
buildings,  where  only  a  diy  or  two's 
residei>ce  is  desirable.  A  nne  conve- 
nient tent  is  the  proper  thing;  and 
with  camp  kitchens  and  other  conve- 
niences of  camp  furniture  is  far  better 
than  the  wasteful  extravagance  of  re- 
gular houses,  doomed  to  nun-habilation 
and  ruin. 

Mr.  Smith,  in  p.  149,  states  a  curious 
fact  concerning  the  acquisition  of  fo- 
reign languages : 

"  From  the  difficulty,  owing  to  the  num- 
ber of  consonants,  of  pronouncing  the  Polish 
dialect,  the  natives  can  with  ease  acquire  the 
accent  of  any  other  tongue."     P.  149. 

He  also  tells  us,  that  he  occasionally 
met  with  a 

'*  Female  Jewith  banker,  of  immense 
wealth,  whose  sole  conversation  wa*  on  mer- 
cantile affairi ;  and  the  would  talk  of  the 
French  obligationt,  or  the  English  stocks, 
in  a  phraseology  which  a  Knight  of  the 
Stock  Exchange  need  not  be  athamed  of." 
P.  149. 

We  rejoice  that  we  English  have 
DO  she-bankers,  who  are  men  of  busi- 
ness, and  personally  dabble  in  consols. 
In  our  judgment,  all  the  peach-bloom 
of  the  female  character  must  be  destroy- 
ed by  the  dealer  and  chapmanship  of 
^i/titg /o  If // agat  n ,  a  ve  ry  d  ifFeren  1 1  h  i  ng 
from  common  marketing  and  shop- 
ping, which  is  a  mere  morning's  amuse- 
ment. But  business — business  which 
shuts  up  the  heart,  makes  of  a  woman 
a  man  spoiled — makes  an  automaton 
chess-player  of  an  angeU  s  term  which 
philosophers  may  use  in  reference  to 
that  grace,  disinterestedness,  and  pu- 
rity which  distinguish  the  feelings  and 
afiections  of  women;  not  because  poets 
SQ  denominate  pretty  htiman  playthings 
of  eighteen  or  nineteen. 

In  p.  J 63  we  find  reaping  with  a 
scythe,  provided  with  a  cradle,  to  lay 
.the  swsthc  straight  ^o  the  ground.-r- 


18870                ibviiw.— Smith's  Tour  in  D^mmark,  9ft.  Itt 

The  porerty  of  Fhnitsian  towns  may  h^  •*  The  •  Dttaesm  fnm  Gla*go#/  od  thtf 

known  by  the  postmaster  at  Grieflen-  'M'Giegon   from    Pauley;*    ntithtr  t6# 

berg,  being  also  attorney,  surgeon,  apo-  length  of  the  journey,  nor  («t  that  time) 

thecary,  and  accoucheur;  the  Ian  branch  '**•  *'^^«  probability  of  a  brisk  £Ur,  eoold. 

of  his  profession  being  denoted  by  the  P^'^*"'  *he  indefatigable  Scotchman  froi» 

figure  of  a  stork  over  his  door;  a  bird  P«°ctrating  thus  fiw.    Indeed  it  must  b« 

held  sacred  by  females,  who  deem  it  a  acknowledged,    that  our  brethren  of  th« 

very  favourable  omen,  if  one  of  the  f:^''**  "",  ?°  ^  met  with  in  the  most  dis- 

^'      u     I  I   u            .             .u     u  ^"^  countries;  and  to  their  credit  be  It 

siMTCies  build  her  nest  near  the  house  „:j    .„  ..      *    ..  .        \\         "^•:  ,"•  *• 

.'•       ..•                         /.rj»       A^  ■**°»  ^^  almost  uuiversallT  successful  and 

during  ihfir   pregnancy  (p.  154).     At  respected."    P.  aei. 

Berlin,  there  18,  it  seems,  an  iron  foun-  c.        ■     i    . 

dt-ry,  where  small   trinkets  "are  pre-  /^^[^'T  body  knows  that  the  ex  plosioa 

pared,   lo  which  Mr.  Smith  saw  no-  ?       -     ."^ r  *^  ^'P»»<^  prematurely, 

thing  similar  in  England"  p.  KK).    In  *">  njistake  of  a  corporal  as  pretended, 

rccoinpence,it  seems,  we  have  not  only  occasioned  a  great  loss  lo  the  French 

manufactured  better  cotton  stockings,  JJ.P""   *"^»'  rtirc^y     Our  author  (p. 

but  undersold  the  Prussians  at  their  y^^  states,  that  it  was,  however,  ef- 

own  doors.  Ibid,  '^^^t  ^  *^^'  ^^^^^  ^"'"*  Buona- 
Blucher  (the  drunken  dragoon,  as  P^/^^  «^«^cause  the  Comcks  were  dread- 
Napoleon  called  him  in  spken,  hut  »^"''y  "tangling  his  rear,  and  the  allies, 
who  was  far  his  master  in  the  art  of  [.^H'^  advancing,  on  which  account 
successful  retreat,)  was  a  man,  whose  he  ^notf»2n^/y  sacrificed  Ponialowsky 

integrity  had  a  nobility  of  principle,  •"^^''t  .      u     i.    • 

equal  to  that  of  Leonidas);  and  we  arc  „  "anSxer  should,  it  seems,  be  spelt 

sure  that  every  possible  account  of  him  "«" "over,  and  pronounced  Hannover, 

will  be  interesting  to  our  readers.     By  ^^""^  *?"*°'  "r'^  .c.°r™P'«"»»  ^^  ^*» 

the  way.  has  there  ever  been  a  Life  of  "an^f'an  ma^»»  which  is  a  commoit 

him  published  ?  covered  cart.     From  the  connection  of 

„n.       D,    u      ,  .          L.  that  country  with  England,  our  rcad- 

^•1    •    fu  ?   "^  ^'*  ''•'"^  •'  ^"  ^'^^. '°  «^»  "nay  ^akc  an  interest  in  the  follow- 

Silwia,  I  had  not  an  opportunity  of  .ee.ng  j,,     statistical  table, 
that  gallant  veteran  ;   but  I   accompanied  a 

banker  to  inspect  hi«  palace  in  the  Branden-  '*  Compendium  op  Hannover. — ^EatMl, 

korg-aquare.     The  house  was  fitted  up  in  14,835  square  £ngltsh  miles,  or  9,494,400 

the  most  elegant  style,  and  one  ronm   en-  aeret :  inhabitants,  in  1816,  1,325,000.  In 

tirely  fumbhed  with  presents  from  different  ^c  same  year  the  marriages  were  13,786  % 

•overeigna.     Amongst  the  paintings,  I  no-  births,  50,257  ;  deaths,  31,964. — Refigitmf. 

ticed  portraits  of  our  late  revered  Monarch,  Lutherans,  1,050000;  Githolies,  I60,000f 

George  HI.,  and  of  his  present  Majesty,  as  R<>f^rraed,  90,000;  remainder  Mennonitee» 

Colonel  of  the  10th  Hussars,  very  finely  ex-  Moravians,  and  Jews.     National  income  Je- 

ecuted ;  of  the  King  and  late  Queen  of  Prus-  crel ;  but  supposed  to  he  1 2,000  gulders  ^er 

sia;  of  the  late  £m)>eror  of  Russia;  ofNa-  annum  (ahout  1,500,000/).     The  monarch 

puleon ;  a  very  curious  one  of  the  Emperor  >»  the  largest  land-owner.    The  Vice-roy 

of  China;  and  the  celebrated  full-lengths  of  draws  from   the  Treasury  annually  36,000 

the  Buonaparte  fiiroily,  by  Rohert,  viz.  the  nx  dollars  (5,500/.)  The  Assembly  of  Statet 

Princesses   Borghese  and   Pauline,  Joseph  consists  of  10  deputates,  of  which  101  are 

ami  his  wife,  Louis  and  his  wife,  and  Ma-  chosen  foTy  but  not  by  tlie  Clergy,  49  by 

dame  Murat:  the  features  of  the  last  aie  Ritters  (land-proprietors),  and  42  by  City 

extremely  beautiful.     The  study  was  orna-  Corporations. — ^The  Military  are  12,940,  of 

mented  with  engravings  of  Christ  Church,  which  6,300   (or  10  battalions)  are  infiui* 

Oxford,    and    the    coloured   views   out   of  try."     P.  287. 

'  Boye,-.  Triumphs  of  Europ.'."    P.  168.  ,„  p  347  „g„ti„„  ;,  „„j,  „f  ,„  j„. 

He  was  lodged  at  Christ  Church,  genious  American  buoy,  provided  with 

Oxford,  during  the  visit  of  the  Royal  a  vane,  which,  when  moved  with  the 

Sovereigns  in  1814.     It  is  still  told  of  wind,  shakes  a  number  of  small  bells, 

him  by  students  of  the  day,  that  ht  fixed  in  the  inside,  so  as  to  be  heard, 

was  seen  early  in  the  morning  at  his  when  from  darkness  it  cannot  be  seen, 

lodgings   there,  sitting    in   his  shirt-  P.  34?. 

ileeves,  smoking  his  pipe;  and  that.  In  Holland  we  find  a  picture  with 

at  the  University  dinner,  he  took  up  five  lights  introduced  into  it  (348);  a 

the  lobtter  sauce,  and  ale  it  without  Church  clock  marked  ".William  Spta- 

iceoiBpaoiment.     At    the  celebrated  k  il  fecit  1 670"  (352) ;  the  men,  wear- 

l^tptie   fiiir,    nnongst    other    aign..  ing  their  hau  at  Church  r350) ;  hack- 

hoardf^  were  frequently  to  be  lecn  ney  coacbet,  atUched  to  sledgei  (360); 


136 


Rbvibw.— Robeon's  Views  of  Engli$h  CUies. 


[Feb. 


a  head  with  a  mouih  open,  and  prepos- 
terously carved,  the  indication  at  the 
doors  of  an  apothecary's  residence 
(384) ;  Church-paintings,  so  large,  that 
they  may  be  distinctly  seen  from  the 
west  end,  looking  down  the  ailes,  of 
.  iohich  in  the  nave  there  are  seven 
(389). 

As  the  passage  of  estuaries  and  riyers' 
18  a  matter  of  great  convenience,  and 
a  sufficiency  of  bridges  is  certainly  not 
brovided  in  this  country ;  and  as  a  simi- 
lar expedient  is  successfully  adopted  at 
Little  Hampton  in  Sussex,  we  mention 
the  followinc];  contrivance  for  passing 
the  river  at  Cologne  : 

*'  The  pass«p;c  of  the  rivor  is  made  in  an 
excellent  and  safe  contrivance,  called  the 
*  BrQcke,'  a  floating  bridge,  which  it  a  plat- 
ibrm,  firmly  fixed  on  the  decks  of  two  flat- 
bottomed  boats,  affording  sufficient  space 
for  a  number  of  carriages  and  horses,  with- 
out incommoding  the  passengers ';  aod  the 
whole  being  railed  round,  is  perfectly  secure. 
In  the  centre  are  two  upright  pieces  of  tim- 
ber, with  a  beam  placed  transversely  upon 
them,  stren^hened  by  two  strong  chains 
proceeding  from  the  end  of  the  platform. 
Another  chain  attached  to  the  cross-beam 
is  of  great  length,  and  bound  near  the  end 
to  the  masts  of  seven  or  eight  small  boats, 
the  furthest  of  which  lies  at  anchor  near  the 
Diddla  of  the  stream.  These  boats,  from 
tfieir  buoyancy,  occasion  a  considerable 
spring  on  the  chain ;  and  when  the  rope, 
which  holds  the  raft  to  the  opposite  pier  is 
loosened,  the  current  causes  a  great  lateral 
pressure  on  the  raft,  which  pressure  being 
assisted  by  two  long  oars,  acting  as  rudders, 
has  the  effect  of  propelling  it  across  the 
river,  in  the  space  of  ten  minutes."  P.  4 1  f>. 

We  are  now  obliged  to  conclude, 
but  cannot  do  so  with  justice  to  the 
author,  without  noticing  the  stuiisiicul 
tables  of  the  export  of  n;rain.  in  ihat 
concerning  the  exports  from  Riga  (Ap- 
pendix, No.  iv.)  we  were  much  struck 
with  the  fluctuations  in  the  quantities, 
e.g.  in  1817,  the  total  of  all  kinds  of 

frain  exported  was  965,073§  quarters. 
t  continued  to  diminish  somewhat 
tradually  till  1821,  when  it  dropped 
own  to  64,5/4  ;  and  in  1823,  to  so 
low  an  ebb  as  10,396,  after  which  it 
rises  again. — ^These  tables  are  good  stu- 
dies for  the  Statist. 

We  have  derived  much  valuable  in- 
struction and  pleasing  amusement  from 
this  work  ;  and  feel  ourselves  bound  to 
acknowledge,  that  our  limits  have  pre- 
vented us  from  noticing  a  rare  mass  of 
useful  iutelligence. 


17.  Pieturesqw  Fiews  of  the  EngYuh  Cities. 
From  Drawings  by  G.  F.  Robson.  Edited 
ly  J.Britton,  P.S.A.  ifc. 

HAVING  always  been  enthusiastic 
admirers  (and  who  are  not?)  of  the 
masnlBcent  productions  of  the  pencil 
of  Robson,  and  well  knowing  that  the 
public  spirit  of  the  gentleman  who  has 
undertaken  the  task  of  editing  and  pub- 
lishing this  collection  of  cities  "  from 
their  beauty,  variety,  fidelity,  and  pic- 
turesque eftects,*'  would  not  [>ermit  the 
work  to  appear  in  any  other,  way  than 
was  calculated  to  enhance  the  reputa- 
tion of  the  artists  engaged  in  its  pro- 
duction,r-^nd  to  afford  the  purchasers 
an  unrivalled  collection  of  beautiful 
prints, — we  hailed  its  announcement 
with  feelings  .of  much  satisfaction; 
and  the  number  before  us  has  in  no 
way  diminished  that  degree  of  plea- 
sure. The  impressions  which  we  im- 
bibed from  a  hasty  glance  at  its  con- 
tents were  such  as  cannot  fail  of  being 
received  by  every  one  who  possesses  a 
soul  capable  of  appreciating  the  beauties 
of  art-— all  the  high,  intellectual  powers 
of  which  are  brought  into  active  ex- 
ertion here — and  a  mind  "feelingly 
alive  to  each  fine  impulse.*'  To  hmi 
who  contemplates  works  of  art  with 
enthusiasm,  and  not,  as  the  Abb^  Win- 
kelman  observes  "  comnie  cet  homme, 
qui  voyant  la  mer  pour  la  premiere 
fois,  dit  (|u*elle  ^tait  assez-jolie,*' — 
this  collection  of  gems,  exhibiting  the 
**  Union  of  Topography  and  the  Fine 
Arts,"  will  afford  a  considerable  por- 
tion of  delight: 

"That  such  an  union,"  observes  the 
Editor  in  a  very  well- written  address,  «  is 
calculated  to  gratifjr  our  best  feelings,  and 
administer  to' rational  pleasures,  few  will  be 
hardy  or  vulgar  enough  to  deny.  In  con- 
templating prints  of  this  class,  the  mind  is 
iro]>erceptibly  and  delightfully  seduced  by 
the  charms  of  the  pencil  and  graver.  They 
awaken  reflections  on  the  individual  and  col- 
lective pursuits  and  habitations  of  civilized 
man;  for 

'  Tower'd  diies  please  us  then. 
And  the  busy  hum  of  men.' 

The  variegated  and  ever  changeable  ef- 
fects produced  by  clouds,  which  alternately 
and  successively  indicate  the  tranquil  gray 
mom — the  vivid  mid-day — the  twinkling  or 
flaming  sun-set  of  evening — the  murky  and 
awful  storm — the  prismatic  rainbow — the 
mystic  baze, — and  by  their  absence  in  the 
cloudless  sky — constitute  the  machinery 
which  the  Artist  employs  to  heighten  and 
•dora  the  local  scene,  or  the  composed  land- 


IBW'.]            RETiiw.— Ro&oh'a  Vieioi  of  English  Citia.  15T 

tcftpe.    In  the  teHes  of  priuts  which  no*  Interesting  reading  from  the  able  pen 

clatnit  the  Mtrooage  «f  the  amateur,  each  of  Mr.  Drition,  we  must  reserve  rur« 

andaUoftheteeffecu  will  be  represented^  ther  remark  for  another  opportunity. 

<  Rohed  ia  Aimet  and  amber  light,  In  the  mean  time  we  cannot  but  ex- 

The  CUfuds  in  thousand  TiTeries  dight.'  press  a  wish  that  be  who  has  60  long 

"  The  CUy,  both  in  the  olden  and  modern  Wielded  his  pen  against  the  existence 
atate,— environed  with  fortified  waifs  and  of  this  degrading  tax,— and  who  has 
bastion  towers :— seated  on  a  navigable  ri-  pledged  himself  lo  a  continuance  of 
ver,  (l.ondaf0^^fr  Tranquil  Stream :  (^-  his  exeftions  while  the  cafuse  exists—* 
Usbitry) — crouching  in  the  peaceful  valley :  will  bring  the  subject  once  more  be- 
rTf^//^;— or  crowning  the  bold  roek:  fDur*  fore  the  Legislature;  and  that  every 
haivO — with  its  vast  and  venerable Cathedrali  friend  to  the  progress  of  knowledge, 
overtopping  and  dignifying  the  crowded  n,  ^}^^  improvement  of  the  hilman 
dwellings  of  its  citizens,  is  unquestionably  ^j^^,  ^^j  thereby  to  the  exaltation  of 
a  pl.^  of  vaned  and  commanding  interest.  ^j,|  ^^^^j^  ^  ^  ^^  ^^^^^ 
Its  relations  and  associations  are  manifold ,  .  ^^.^^  ^^  ^^J^  .^^  ^^  , 
all  e\yinz  it  historical  and  antiquarian  im-  rrii  '  •  .  •  ^  •  *.!.• 
porinceintheannalsofourcounly.  What-  The  views  contained  in  this  num- 
^er  therefore  tends  to  inform  and  improve  ^^  ^^  }^Wl^  ore  Norwich  from  the 
the  mind,  through  the  medium  of  amusement  east;  Lichfield  and  Kochester  froiri 
or  didactic  instruction  on  such  subjects,  is  the  west ;  Worcester  and  York  from 
worthy  of  the  artist  and  of  the  author;  and  the  south ;  Canterbury  from  the  north; 
equally  claims  tbe  attention  ot  the  well  in-  Chichester  from  the  west ;  and  Dris- 
formed  gentleman.  Althougb,  on  the  pre-  tol  from  the  north-west ;  and  these 
sent  occasion,  the  Author  has  but  little  constitute  a  fourth  of  the  whole  num« 
share  in  the  work,  he  may  orobably  here-  ber  to  be  published.  They  are  "en- 
after  make  an  appendage  worthv  of  the  sub-  —^^  j^  ^^  f,oni  a  partiality  to  this 
ject  and  of  the  engravings.  But  for  that  g^^n^jh  of  the  art,  and  personal  friend- 
oppressive  and  unjust  literary  tax,  which  ^y^^  ^„  ^„,^  ^j.  j^^  mplTitorious  proiet- 
eaacU  eleven  copies  of  every  published  book  .^^„  ^„  ..  ^  ^^^  ^r  ,.  ^  cju^l  .«k^ 
an  author  may  produce,  thV  Editor  would  •<«'  ^."  ^^^  V^^  ""^  ^^?  ^^1°^  ^*^ 
have  written  a^  iccount  of  each  city,  to  ac-  ^  designed  an  exceedingly  interest- 
comiNuiy  and  exempli^  the  respective  re-  «"?  title-page— composed  of  archilec 
presenutions.  To  avoid  this  heaVy  and  un-  tural  and  sculptural  ornaments  ana- 
recompensed  impost^  he  U  precluded  from  lagous  to  cities— and  which  is  dcli- 
attempting  such  novel  and  impressive  ac-  cately  engraved  on  wood  by  S.  Wil- 
counts  of  the  different  cities,  as  would  at  liams.  The  Cathedral  of  Nifrwtck, 
once  give  value  fo  the  book,  and  become  in-  rearing  its  lofty  embellished  spire 
teresting  to  natives  and  strangers.  Surely  above  the  surrounding  edifices,  li  a 
our  legislators  must  be  either  indifferent  to  pleasing  figure,  while  trie  bold  hills  — 
the  claims  and  charms  of  literature,  or  fancy  rugged  in  their  appearance— gradu- 
they  promote  its  interests  and  utilities,  by  ^n  ^^  ^^  ^  ^^^  ^  „  t^,  ^^^jj 
revying  a  pecuhsranclexc^iuetax  on  Au-  ^  (j^^»  ^^  ^^^  ^,|,  ^^^j  ^^^  ^^  ^j,^ 
thors.  Were  the  whole  class  of  wnurs  rich.  ^  ^^^  ^^  ^.^  ^  , 
or  amply  remunerated  for  their  labours,  they  ,  .  .  ,  '  a  e  ^' 
might  quietly  and  ucitly  bear  the  burden:  ^^^e*";"  *"*;i"S  »ts  bate,  and  forming  a 
but  H  should  be  generklly  known  that  an-  boundary  line  to  the  twodivisionsof  this 
thorship  IS  seldom  paid  equal  to  aby  of  the  interesting  picture.  Lichfield,  with  its 
other  libend  professions,  and  that  many^  Cathedral  and  well-disposed  wooded 
loo  many  of  the  literati,  are  reduced  to  the  scenery,  is  a  magnificent  engraving,  in 
nortifyiog  condition  of  claiming  pecuniary  which  Tombleson  has  done  justice  to 
aid  from  the  Literary  Furtd  in  the  decline  the  pencil  of  the  Draughtsman ;  as 
oflifie.*'  have  Smith  and  Barber  in  the  cities 

Upon  the  injustice  of  an  Act — which  of  i^ocAei/er  and  Worcester,     In  the 

has  the  power  to  check  the  exertions  of  latter,  how  calm  and  tranquil  is  the 

inteflcct,  to  quench  the  rising  genius  scene!    The  river  without  one  mur- 

of  the  nation,  and  to  o|)erute  to  the  muring   ripple — save  that  occasioned 

prejudice  of  those  who,   while  they  by  the  ^iidiogs  of  the  feathery  tribe ; 

secv  to  yield  instruction  to  the  unin-  ^-the  delicately  finished  pipnacles  of 

itiatcd,  and  gratification  to  the  enquir-  the  Cathedral,  and  the  lofty  monu- 

tng  minds,  rely  upon  such  resources  inent  of  uninstructed  talent,  St.  An- 

fortheir  daily  breaa — we  had  purposed  drew's  spire,  all    combine  to   render 

to   have  given   our  opinion   at  ^ome  this  a  picture  of  no  ordinary  occur- 

length;  but  having  extracted  so  much  rcnce.     This  and  Chichester  are,  we 

Gnrr.  Mao.  Fetntaryt  1897. 

6 


138 


Rbvi^w.— Dor^maof.— -Benett  on  Jgriculturt. 


[FeU 


confess,  our  favourites ;.iboti^h  those 
of  Canterbury,  York»  and  Bristol,  ex- 
hibit innumerable  beauties,  and  pour- 
tray  the  varied  tints  and  forms  ot  Na- 
ture; but  Chichester  with  its,  li^ht 
Cathedral,  and  the  arc  of  the  receding 
bow,  forms  a  contrast  with  the  "dark 
and  dismal*'  clouds  which  declare  im- 
pending storms;  and  inspire  us  with 
sentiments  of  admiration  at  the  talents 
of  the  artists  who  haye  successively  em- 
bodied the  bold  touches  of  Nature  on 
the  canvas  and  the  copper.  It  is  a 
magnificent  picture,  from  which  we 
are  loath  to  turn  away — not  one  fea- 
ture tires  the  eye— «very  thing  is  so 
blended  as  to  relieve  and  heighten  the 
effects  of  the  surrounding  objects,  and 
we  dwell  with  new  pleasures  upon 
eacQ  individual  beauty. 


18.  Dartmoor,  a  Descriptive  Poem*  By 
N.  T.  Carrington*  Second  Edit,  8vo.  />/>• 
906.    Mumy. 

.  SINCE  we  had  the  gratification  of 
paying  our  meed  of  praise  to  the  first 
edition  of  this  production  of  the  well- 
deserving  muse  of  Mr.  Carrington,  we 
have  had  occasion  to  call  the  attention 
of  the  admirers  of  song  to  those  sub- 
lime and  vivid  lines  which  accompa- 
nied the  "  Martyred  Student,'*  (Kirke 
White,  we  presume)  in  Dagley's 
"Death's  Doings.'*  These,  which 
alone  will  entitle  the  author  to  hold 
a  place  in  the  public  estimation  as 
high  as  any  other  living  poet,  were 
Quoted  in  vol.  xcvi.  ii.  p.  437,  and 
they  are  sure  to  inspire  those,  who 
may  not  have  perused  his  larger 
works,  with  a  desire  of  becoming  more 
intimately  acquainted  with  one  who 
possesses  the  power  of  delineating  his 
characters  in  so  superior  a  manner. 

Those  who  were  debarred  from  pur- 
chasing the  6rst  edition  of  "Dart- 
moor, will  now  have  an  opportunity 
of  adorning  their  libraries  with  one 
of  the  finest  poems  in  our  language, 
and  of  indulfjing  themselves,  as  we 
have 'done,  with  a  perusal  and  a  re- 
perusal  of  it — for  it  deserves  more  than 
usual  attention.  Notwithstandine  the 
first  impression  was  entirely  sold,  we 
are  sorry  to  learn  that  the  author  is 
under  the  necessity  of  relying  upon 
the  encouragement  which  may  be 
given  to  this  new  edition — for  any  re- 
muneration for  his  labours^  or  a  sti- 
mulus to  future  works.  And  it  is  to 
assist  in  procuring  this  well-earned  re- 


ward that  we  go  out  of  our  usual 
course,  and  notice  a  second  edition. 

We  cannot  forbear  mentioning  the 
general  error  into  which  Mr.  Burt  (the 
gentleman  who  contributed  the  notes 
— and  who  is  since  dead)  has  fallen 
in  deciphering  ancient  dates.  In  page 
118,  speaking  of  Fice's  well,  he  OD- 
serves,  "The  date  ll68  is  an  extra- 
ordinary one,  and  the  whole  bears  the 
undeniable  appearance  of  great  anti- 
quity." If  this  date  was  read  1568,  its 
extraordinary  quality  will  vanish.  A 
close  inspection  of  the  original,  we 
think,  will  justify  our  reading. 


19.  On  the  relaHve  Importance  of  Agricul- 
ture and  Foreign  Trade.  By  John  Be- 
nett,  Esq.  M.  P.    Svo.    pp.  53. 

Mr.  BENETT  contends,  that  the 
free  introduction  of  foreign  grain  would . 
render  the  poor  classes  of  soils  incapa- 
ble of  repaying  the  cost  of  production, 
exclusive  of  rent,  and  occasion  the  loss 
of  the  capital  expended  in  improve- 
ment; "that  cheapness  produced  by 
foreign  import  is  tne  su(e  forerunner 
of  scarcity;  and  that  when  the  import 
of  foreign  com  was  restrained  by  very 
high  duties,  our  own  growth  supplied 
a  stock  of  corn  fully  ample  for  our 
consumption.  For  this  affirmation, 
Mr.  Benett  quotes  Mr.  Huskisson  (in 
p.  10.) 

For  our  parts,,  we  solemnly  believe 
that,  if  the  abolition  of  the  Corn  Laws 
was  effected  to-morrow,  in  the  very 
form  which  the  empirics  of  that  fa- 
shionable quackery,  political  economy, 
so  warmly  recommend,  and  with  which 
they  have  turned  the  heads  of  our  ma- 
nufacturers, it  would  be  productive  of  * 
great partialinjury,andof  little  more  be- 
nefit than  enriching  a  few  speculators. 
We  believe  the  outcry  to  originate  in 
sore  feeling  caused  by  an  excess  of  goods 
and  workmen,  and  we  think  witn  Mr. 
Benett  (p.  31)  that  an  increase  of  po- 
pulation may  be  considered  as  an  aug- 
mentation of  wealth  and  strength, 
provided  the  internal  supply  of  food 
shall  precede  it ;  and  cheap  com  be  a 
national  good,  provided  cheapness  shall 
.he  occasioned  ht/  excess  of  home  produce 
iion,  or  reduction  of  the  cost  of  home 
production,     P.  32. 

The  anti  Corn-Bill  manufacturer 
contends  that  he  can  make  goods,  ad 
infinitum,  very  cheap,  and  that  if  he 
could  find  customers  in  the  exporting 
countries,  a  stimulus  would  be  given 


1837.]    Rbtuiw.— Holder's  PetUion.'^Vriihen  an  Formt  Trm.        139 


to  the  tn^e  at  hoaie ;  but  that  such 
foreigners  cannot  take  our  goods,  be- 
cause we  cannot  take  their  com. 

Now  if  the  ports  were  thrown  open 
dutv  free,  we  should  only  get  ria  of 
a  glut  of  goods,  to  hare  a  glut  of  corn 
instead,  and  the  burden  be  merely 
shified  from  one  hand  to  the  other. 
We  have  only  to  state  that  Mr.  Benett 
is  an  able  advocate  for  the  landed  in- 
terest, and  writes  with  the  temper, 
reason,  and  caution,  which*  becfome  a. 
senator. 


M.  ji  PetUion,i  with  seasonabU  Advice  to  the 
Members  of  the  New  Pariiamentf  fiom 
Nathaniel  Burton,  of  St.  Mary-Axe 
Garret.   Holder.    Bvo,  pp.61. 

THIS  is  an  ironical  sneer  at  the 
pretended. advantages  which  are  to  re- 
sult from  abolition  of  the  Com  Laws. 
These  pretended  advantages  are,  we 
believe  with  the  8oi-disai)t  Mr.  Bur- 
ton, "castles  in  the  air;**  for  "if  we 
buy  our  grain  from  the  serfs  of  Poland, 
the  Cossacks  in  the  Ukraine,  or  the 
Sclavooians  on  the  Black  Sea,  where 
it  is  cheapest,  these  impoverished  peo- 
ple can  take  but  few  of  our  manufac- 
tures in  return,  as  they  are  clad  with 
skins,  rugs,  or  coarse  stuffs  of  their 
own,  and  need  none  of  our  fine  fa- 
brics.    P.  56. 

The  cheapness  of  com  would  also 
throw  a  large  portion  of  arable  land 
into  common  and  pasture.     Now 

"  This  would  certainly  cast  some  millions 
of  ploughmen  and  fiirming  labourers  out  of 
employ,  and  as  in  that  case  they  could  nei- 
ther buy  clothing  nor  utensils,  this  would 
lessen  considerably  the  demand  for  manu- 
fiMtnred  goods.  And  how  the  ruined  peo- 
ple could  lie  employed  or  subsisted  no  poli- 
tical economist  nas  been  able  to  tell.*'  p.  57. 

Political  economists!  We  consider 
the  majority  of  their  theories  to  be 
like  Italian  fruit  in  marble,  wood,  or 
wax ;  pretty  things  for  show,  but  not 
eatable ;  and  we  heartily  hope  that  the 
pouularity  of  this  new  science  will  not 
mauce  our  countrymen  to  act  upon  its 
notions,  without  making  previous  ex- 
periments. 

91.  ji  Memoir  addressed  to  the  Society  fir 

the  Bneouragemtnt  qfArts,  Manufactures, 

and  Commerce,  on  the  planting  and  rear- 

wg  of  Forest  Trees.     By  Wm.  Withers, 

jun.    Svo.  pp.  43. 

Mb.  withers   in    the    present 


Memoir  successfully  demonstrates  the 
great  advantage  ot  deeply  ploughing 
or  trenching  land  previous  to  planting, 
and  of  keeping  it  clean  and  tree  from 
weeds  for  some  years  afterwards.  In 
p.  8  he  shows,  tliat  where  land  is  pro- 
perly preserved  and  kept  clean,  deci- 
duous trees  will  make  much  more 
wood  than  firs ;  and  where  the  hole- 
digging  system  is  adopted  (on  less  Uie 
land  is  very  good),  the  firs  are  the  only 
trees  that  will  succeed.  He  meets  Uie 
objections  conceming  (1)  weeds  keep- 
ing the  land  moist,  and  shading  the 
roots  from  the  heat  of  the  Sun ;  (9) 
the  expence  of  keeping  the  land  clean ^ 
and  (3)  destro]^ing  cover  for  game,  in 
ronnner  followmg. 

With  regard  to  the  first,  he  confutes 
it,  by  the  practice  of  nurserymen  and 
gardeners,  who  consider  keeping  the 
ground  clean  to  be  the  most  efiectual 
means  of  promoting  the  growth  of 
plants. 

As  to  the  second,  the  expence  of 
hoeing,  he  says, 

"  What  can  be  the  object  of  sixteen  shil- 
lings an  acre  for  three  years,  compared  with 
the  difference  in  value  between  a  good  and 
a   bad  plantation, — between  fine  growing 

i>lant8  of  oak,  ash,  and  chesnut,  and  worth- 
ed Scotch  firs  ?"     P.  19. 

As  to  the  third  objection  about  a 
cover  for  game,  he  says, 

**  I  admit  that  heath  and  whins  will  afford 
better  cover  than  land  in  a  clean  state ;  bat 
this  will  not  last  many  years  under  Scotch 
firs,  which  it  is  well  Imown  will  destroy  all 
v^etation  beneath  them.  A  good  perma- 
nent cover  is  not  to  be  liad  in  a  plantation 
without  underwood;  and  this  cannot  be 
made  to  grow  amongst  heath  and  whins, 
nor  unless  the  ground  JM  kept  perfectly 
clean.  To  hoe  round  plantations  is,  there- 
fore, not  less  necessary  to  obtain  a  good 
cover  for  game,  than  it  is  to  insure  a  profit- 
able crop  of  timber."    P.  IS.     ' 

Mr.  Withers  shows  by  tables  the 
great  advantage  of  ■  his  plans.  We 
shall  beg  to  make  another  use  of  them. 
In  the  present  period,  when  the  ma- 
nufactures are  overloaded  with  popu- 
lation, might  not  the  unemployed 
poor  be  profitably  occupied  by  the  no- 
bility and  gentry  in  cleaning  their 
plantations,  and  spreading  marie  or 
brick  earth,  or  muck,  "  which  much 
promote  the  growth  of  trees,*'  upon 
))Oor  lisht  soils.  A  speedy  and  certain 
return  is  (says  Mr.  Withers,  p. «/)  the 
result  of  a  more  liberal  expenditure  in 
planting.    See  the  A^^udVx.    " 


M^ 


M. 


ItfTitw.— Chriati^  an  Greek  Va$e$, 


(;Feb. 


88^ 


Mk.  CHRISTIE  giTCs  the  foUow- 
il^  iHX^nt  of  lh€  Etriwcan  Vases : 

«« 1\ii  tmum  of  depoBiting  vues  in  se- 
paMuM  U  sappoMd  to  have  been  intra- 
W^a  mto  Sk(K  ukI  Magna  Grecia  by  the 
mHy  Gi«*k  colooiet  from  Greece  Troper, 
«dl  Uto  Etturia  by  emigrants  from  the 
t  covntry.  The  manner  in  which  these 
»h  af*  disposed  in  tombs,  is  well  repre- 
td  ia  an  engraving  introduced  into 
second  volume  of  the  great  work  of 


this  reason  some  will  htvo  it»  and  very 
justly,  that  the  eotascolate  Bacchus  wia  f  Dr 
titled  Attis.'*     pp.  3  0,  S 1 . 

What  these  mysteries  were  we  know 
not>  nor  are  likely  to  know,  as  will 
appear  by  the  following  passage,  which 
we  shall  give  from  Peilerin. 

*<The  gods  Cabiri  were  originally  Sy- 
rian or  Phoenician,  and  all  that  is  knovm  of 
their  origin  and  actions  is  to  be  found  in  a 

Eassage  of  Sanchoniathon,  quoted  by  £u»e- 
ius,  who  says  that  the  Dioscuri,  Cabires, 
Corybantos,  and  Saroothraces,  were  the  in- 
ventors of  ship-building.     The  Greeks  fa- 


lyHaocarville,  p.  57,  that  illustrates  the     T^r^'y,  *"  ""F-"u..u.n§.     * ..«  «rc«.    •- 
«rcMvw«»«  >   r        '  J  L    .u    u»^     bricated  a  vast  variety  of  mythological  tales 

int  collection  of  vases  formed  by  the  late  .       .,    ^.  .«„../„:„„  Zn. .  i?...  n.^.rU 


Sir 


deceased  was  deposited  m  the  centre  of  the      ■     '^        j  i    j        a  i       e    • 

.  .M<  ».ll  of  th.  .tructur..     It  *«  .ur-     *•')•  «»»!=«™'»K  »»>•  »y««""  «>f  '>>es.  god. 


^1^  I     L    ^  •  .  :  -J  .».:«•»  Jupiter  and  Leda.     An  equal  confusion  pre- 

VMiltfl  or  upon  an  embankment  raised  against  ^  •      ..u  ?  •       r^u  j 

^^j        11    r  *k      *      .  T*  .-I?  ....  vails  concerning  the  mysteries  of  these  cods, 

a  tide  wall  of  the  structure.     It  was  sur-  *ii     . .  .  j  j  •u'  .•    i 

J  J  .      ^.  .  ^  J        ..  ^..^1.  All  which  regarded  them  was  mystical,  even 

rounded  by  these  painted  eartlien   vessels,  ^     ,,    .         ^  c*    u        u      j  . 

f    C'  u  u  J       -^'     I  •»•-..  to   their  names,  says  btrabo.     Herodotus 

some  of  which  had  particular  positions  as-  .        .«    ^  .t       u  j     ..       i    •    i? 

,       J  *    ^u  I   •         II •i.«  mentions  that  they  had  a  temple  in  Lcypt, 

iicned  to  them,  one  beioc  placed  upon  the        ,  .         .    ^  ^  .        ,j«^      .    .'^^'^  » 

X.*  ^e  .k.     ' J   .!^«»K..  C-,--«  wne«  the  priesU  alone  had  permission  of 


dwst  of  the  corpse,  and  another  between 
the  legs,  and  (occasionally  at  least)  a  lamp 
near  tne  crown  of  the  head.  The  most  cu- 
Houi  kinds  of  vases  are  found  in  the  tombs 
ill  Sicily,  those  of  finest  manufacture  near 
Nola  in  Campania.  A  different  description 
of  vessel  seems  to  have  been  peculiar  to 
different  districts,  yet  some  of  almost  every 
kind  are  found  in  the  same  tomb.     P.  4. 

**  The  mystic  doctrine  of  the  immortality 
of  the  soul,  imparted  at  £Ieusis,  being  alle- 
gorically  expressed  by  an  elegant  group  on 
the  side  of  tne  vase,  the  painting  itself  was 
put  for  the  religious  opinion  of  the  person, 
and  the  person  was  in  some  degree  repre- 
sented by  the  vase.     P.  8. 

**  The  absence  of  painted^r/iZia  from  the 
Cuman  sepulchre,  examined  by  Mr.  Joria, 
prevents  me  from  supposing  that  the  de- 
ceased had  enjoyed  the  l)enefit  of  initiation." 
P.  26. 

If  we  correctly  understand  Mr. 
Christie,  he  means  to  say  that  the 
painted  vases  are  limited  to  the  Eleu- 
sinian  initiates. 

Of  the  iT^ythology  of  the  Etruscans, 
we  have  very  imperfect  intimations. 
Their  knowledge  of  the  Cabiric  ini- 
tiation is,  however,  shown  by  Cle- 
mens Alcxandrinus  in  the  following 
words : 

"  For  as  they  stvle  the  Corybantes  Cabirs, 
so  do  they  term  this  the  Cabiric  initiation. 
For  the  two  who  slew  their  brother,  taking 
lip  the  chest  in  which  the  member  of 
Dionysius  was  deposited,  brought  It  into 
Etruria,  and  truly  they  were  the  importers 
of  a  precious  freight.  There  these  run- 
aways took  up  their  abode,  and  imparted 
their  valuable  lessons  in  religion  to  the 
Etruriaosy  by  proposbg  to  them  the  mem- 
ber and  chest  m  oljectB  for  worship.     For 


permission 
entrance.  Pausanias  says  that  their  myate- 
ries  were  only  known  to  the  initiated  ;  and 
that  the  latter  did  not  dare  to  divulge  them 
without  exposing  themselves  to  the  greatest 
rolsfortuues.  According  to  that  author,  the 
mysteries  of  Ceres  Cabiria  in  Bceoiia  were 
the  same  as  those  of  the  Cabiri  in  Samo- 
thracia.  If  the  initiated  took  so  much  care 
not  to  speak  of  them,  it  was  doubtless  less 
from  fear  of  punishment,  than  because  the:ie 
mysteries  were  infdmous,  according  to  the 
recital  made  of  them  by  Clemens  oj  Alejcan- 
driflt  in  speaking  of  the  worship  of  the  Ca- 
biri among  the  Etruscans** — Peilerin,  Me- 
lange de  Medailles,  tom.  i.  p.  82. 

Vases  referring  to  the  Dioscuri  may 
be  easily  known  by  the  bonnets  with 
stars  over  them,  according  to  the 
Greek  mode  of  representing  them. 
But  the  Etruscan  mode  of  sepulture 
under  discussion  is  much  earlier  than 
the  Greek  aera,  having  been  derived 
from  Egypt.  Boissard  (Antiq.  sive 
Monument.  Roman.  1.  ii.  annexed  to 
Antiq.  Roman,  pars  iv.  p.  34)  observes 
that  the  Etruscans  embalmed  their 
dead  like  the  Egyptians,  and  annexed 
a  book  full  of  hieroglvphical  charac- 
ters, and  vases  full  ot  oleaginous  1i« 
quor.  The  vase  in  the  instance  below 
was  of  gold.  The  pas<>age  is  as  follows: 

**  Neque  solum  apud  Egyptios  [embalm- 
ing the  dead]  usitatum  fuit,  sed  etiam  apud 
antiquos  Italos  kuoo  morero  servatum  ani- 
roadversum  est,  nempe  Hetruscos,  qui  ex 
Egypto  in  Italiam  navigantes  regnum  teniie- 
niut  apud  Tyrrhenos  et  Ligiires.  Memini 
me  audivisse'  a  clarissimo  viro  Julio  Roscio 
S.  Marise  Transtiberinse  cauonico  Romae, 
suo  tempore  ad  Arnum  ex  fluminis  inunda- 
tlone  deteptum  fwisse  sepulchrum,  in  quo 


18870 


IUvxBW.^-Cbrutie  fm  Grettk  V^a^f. 


141 


iAventiun  est  corpot  huroanum  adhuo  intp- 
ffrum  et  iacomipuim ;  in  cujus  concATiUte 
fiber  erat  Uteris  tuerogljphicU  noUtui  cum 
phiala  aurea  plena  nescio  <)uo  liquore  olea- 
giuoso." 

That  all  this  is  perfectly  correct,  ap- 
pears from  two  curious  facts  recorded 
by  Suetonius,  which  ihrow  some  light 
upon  this  obscure  subjecti     He  says, 
that  while   the   new    colonists  were 
throwing  down  the  very  ancient  se- 
pulchres of  Capua,  in  the  time  of  Cae- 
sar, in  order  to  build  their  villas,  and 
proceeded  more  earnestly,  **  ouod  o/t- 
^uanium  vasculorum  operit  anttqui  scru- 
titantes  reperiebant,"  a  brass  plate  was 
found  in  a  monument  a-^cribed  to  Ca- 
pys,  founder  of  Capua,  on  which  was 
written  in  Greek  words  and  letters,  a 
vaticination,  that  when  the  bones  of 
Capys  were  uncovered,  a  descendant 
of  lulus  [Jul.  Caesar]  should  be  killed 
by  his  own  relatives,  and  his  death  be 
afterwards  avenged  by  great  slaughters 
throughout  Italy.   (Suet,  in  Caesar,  c. 
81.)    The    Delphin  editor    observes, 
from  Virgil  and  Dionysius  of  Halicar- 
natsus,  that  this  Capys  was  a  compa- 
nion, and  very  probably  a  relative,  of 
^neas.    (p.  S2.)      Another    in^itance 
(which  by  the  way  shows  the  origin 
of  the  bard's  pointing  out  the  tomb  of 
Arthur  at  Glastonbury  to  Henry  the 
Second),  is  as  follows. — At  Tegea  in 
Arcadia,  ly  the  insiinct  of  soothsayers, 
(inttinctu    vaticinantium),     vases    of 
antique    work    were  excavated    in  a 
consecrated  place,  and  '*  in  them  an 
image  like  Vespasian.'*   (Suet.  Vespas. 
c.  VII.)     As  to  the  inscriptions  or  ta- 
blet^, Mr.  Dodwell  says,  that  laminao 
of  lead  containing  imprecations  of  ene- 
mies, are  found  both  in  Grecian  and 
Etruscan  tombs;  but  that  the  Etrus- 
can vasts  fiave  no  resemblance  to  those 
of  Greece,    (i.  463,  459.)      He  also 
mentions  a  Greek   tomb  with   eight 
vases.    At  the  head  and   feet  of  the 
skeleton  were  placed,  at  each,  one;  and 
three  upon  each  side.  (id.  438.)     H^ 
shows  from  Homer  and  Aristophanes, 
that  these  lecythi  were   placed   with 
the  dead,  and  probably  contained  the 
ointment  and  wine,  with  which  liba- 
tions were  made  u|)on  the  body.  (id. 
438,  452.)     It   is,    however,  certain 
that  the  dead  were  presumed  to  be 
very  thirsty  (a  superstition  of  Egyptian 
origin),  and  that  vases  were  placed  with 
them,  under  the  presumption  that  they 
would  drink  of  the  contents.    (Enc.  of 
Aotiq.  i.  6($.) 


To  return  to  the  subjects  of  th^e 
fiaintings.-^VVe  wish  that  Mr.  Chris- 
tie had  searched   the  inscriptions  in 
Spon,  Gruter,  Keinesius,  &c.  for  piie 
which  certified  the  deceased  to  have 
been  initiated  in  the  Eleusinian  mys- 
teries ;  for  such  inscriptions  do  occur 
with  regard  to    the  adepts  in  other 
mysteries;  and  it  is  certain   that  the 
Eleusinian  were  only  introduced  into 
Italy  in  the  reign  of  Hadrian ;  that 
Claudius  had  attempted  previously  to 
do  so,  and  that  Nero  had  oeen  rejected 
as  a  candidate  through  his  impiety. 
(See  Suetonius  and  the  Augusun  His* 
tory.)    We  do  not,  however,  deny  Mr. 
Christie's  hypothesis,  because  we  have 
seen  symbols  of  these   mysteries,  as 
mentioned  by  Clemens  Alexandrinus, 
upon  these   vases ;  and   from  Tertul- 
lian  (p.  S8Q),  mentioning  the  Phallus 
in  the  Adyta,  we  think  that  the  In* 
dian  Lingam  was  the  archetype,  and 
that  there  is  to  be  sought  the  primary 
origin  of   the    Eleusinian    mysteries. 
Tumblers  were  usual  at  funerals;  and 
in  Mr.  Christie's  first  plate  we  see  an 
Indian  dancing  girl ;  the  conformation 
too  of  the  6gures  in  general  is  so  slen- 
der, as  to  resemble  the  forms  of  these 
Asiatics.    Dr.  Clarke  thinks  that  the 
Myrrhine  vases  were  only  porcelain; 
it  IS  clear  that  Propertius  makes  them 
fictile.    (L.  iv.  El.  6.) 

Seu  quse  palmiferee  inittunt  venalia  Tbebs, 
Murrheaque  in  Parthis  pocula  cocta  focis. 

From  this  passage,  we  make  no 
doubt  of  the  Greeks  and  Etruscan^ 
having  derived  the  art  of  makinz  their 
beautiful  pottery  from  Asia  or  Africa. 
If  so,  they  may  have  derived  from 
thence  some  also  of  the  subjects,  for 
Mr.  Christie  finds  the  following  ana- 
logy between  certain  festivals  in  Hin- 
dostan  and  the  Eleusinian  mysteries. 
Speaking  of  the  illuminations  during 
the  Dewati,  which  falls  soon  after  the 
autumnal  equinox,  he  says, 

"As  the  Suu  about  that  tinao  goes  dowo 
into  the  lower  bemLiphere,  these  illumina- 
tions anticipate  the  return  of  his  light ;  and 
this  fnUval  is  aceordingly  held  in  honour 
of  the  dead,  to  whom,  as  at  Eleusit,  was 
indicated  a  similar  return  from  the  shades. 
£ven  that  autumnsl  feast,  the  MuUaum  in 
Boolan,  and  the  correspondent  Durga  Poo- 
Jah  of  the  Hindoos,  though  now  appearing 
to  present  a  moral  scenic  exhibition,  it  may 
be  presumed  had  once  at  least  a  dHferent 
meaning.  The  first  of  these,  we  are  in- 
formed, is  celebrated  during  ten  da^a.  WVaX  j 
then  forbids  out  coaiv*^^^  ^  %\Kx\x.  m^ 


149           •             RBViB^.—Chrittie  Oft  GretAc  l^tfj«i.  [Feb. 

meaning   vr\ih   tht    Elatuiukn    mysteries    (Enc.  of  Antia,  i.  I99I)    In  Ishort,  we 
which  iMtad  nearly  mi  aqaal  number  ?    Hie    believe  that  tne  Etruscan  and  Greek 

Durga  Poojah,  we  mre  told,  consists  in  the  vaies  were  painted  upon  this  plan,  for 

display  of  a  gaudy  toene,  with  Durga  and  they  look  as  if  they  were  outlined  by  a 

various  figures  in  alto  relief,  loaded  with  ^^^j^^^  ^nd  in  fact  were  no  other  than 

tinsel  and  other  ornaments.    At  the  close  ^^^^^^^^    ^^ina.      If    they   had    been 

of  the  exhibition.  It  IS  i^nducted  to  the  j„^^   ^     j^^^j    ^^  inequality  and 

GaneeSk  to  the  waves  of  which  it  is  com-  S>ir               r    u        .           y        r 

mitt^  ;ith  due  solemnity.    Who  doe.  not  d|?erence  of  character  and  workman- 

here  discover  a  counteriart  to  the  oma-  »^'R_  ™"»i».!^«^  ^^JJ*^'  *^*T«  *^n  '"«; 

mented  sutue  of  the  goddess  in  the  temple  citable.     Pliny  tells  us,  that  some  of 

at  Eleusis,  *  frott^  avec  soin,  om^e  avcc  ^h©  nrst  sculptors  and  painters  made 

gout,  et  revfttue  de  ses  plus  beau*  habits,'  designs   for   potierjr;    hardly   for   one 

as  described  by  the  Baron  de  Ste.  Croix  ?  piece  only ;    but   if  the    ]>rofessional 

Whence  we  mav  possibly  be  furnished  with  potters   were  so   able  of  themselves, 

a  solution  of  that  expression,  upon  which  why  should  this  resource  be  adopted  ? 

Meursius  exercised  his  ingenuity  with  much  They  copied  in  sculpture,  why  not  in 

fellci^,— 'AAAAE  MYLTAI,   *  To  the  painting  ? 

•ea,  O  MystsB,'  which  gave  the  nune  to  «  gut  the  Etruscan  vases  ought  to  be 

particular  day  of  the  Mysteries.      P.  42.  called  Greek  vases.     So  says  Deoon, 

We  meet  with  other  corroborations  because  the  Etruscans  were  a  colony 

of  the  Asiatic  origin  of  these  beautiful  of  Greeks.     But   we   protest    against 

vases.    Mr.  Christie  says,  this  misnomer,  because  it  leads  to  very 

"The  missionary  Paolioo,  struck  with  wrong  opinions,    and    because   it    is 

the  apparent  correspondence  of  many  In-  •omcwhat    like    calling    the    modern 

dian  ceremonies  with  others,  Which  he  had  Mglish     Anglo-Saxons    or     British, 

formerly  noticed  upon  the  Greek  vases,  de-  whereas  neither  in  arts,  manners,  pc- 

elared,  that  a  satUfactory  explanation  of  disree,  &c.  are  we  any  other  than    a 

the  latter  could  not  be  given,  until   they  mixed    breed.     Mr.    Dodwcll,    who, 

we're  compared  with  the  manners  of  the  however,  has  written  the  best  book  on 

orientals." — ^TraTcls,  p.  855,  Engl.  ed.  8ro.  Greece,  says,  in  a  passage  before  quoted. 

We  believe  Paolino  1  for  it  is  a  re-  that  there  is  no  resemblance  between 

markable  fact,  that  the  mystic  words  Greek    and    Etruscan   vases.     Why, 

xoyf  SuT«f ,  which  closed  the  celebra-  **»«"•    because    a  French    tailor    has 

tion  of  the  Eleusinian  mysteries,  are  «»ade  in   London    an    English  coat, 

Sanscrit  words.    This  is  clearly  shown  ?»^«  w«  ^o  f  ^11  it  a  French  coat  ?  when 

in  p.  56.  ^^  '^  notorious  that  he  has  made  it  in 

To  add  further  information  concern-  the  English  fashion, 

ing    the   oriental   character    of  these  .  But  we  must  approach  to  a  dose, 

paintings,  another  circumstance  is  es-  Mr.  Christie  has  with  great  ingenuity 

pccially  noted  by  Mr.  Christie.     Upon  allegorised  the  subject,  and  we  do  not 

these  vases,  scarfs  or  fillets  are  very  ^^"7  »bat  he  may  in  certain  instances 

common  symbols.  '>«  correct.     It  is,  in  short,  a  most  ele- 

"In  the  very  entertaining  narrative  of  8f"^  and   able    work.      But   that    he 

Captain  Turner's  embassy  to  Tiliet,  we  are  P*«*^^^  "«  \"  »  most  cruel  dilemma,— 

Informed,  that  '  between  people  of  eveiy  *"?^  ?«  calU  upon  us  to  compromise 

rank  and,«tation  in  life,  the  presenting  a  principle,    is    evident   from    his   own 

silken  scarf  constantly  forms  an  essential  words.       It    has    ever    been    a    rule 

part  of  the  ceremonial  of  salutation.    If  with  us  to  think  that  contemporaries 

persons  of  equal  rank  meet,  an  exchange  Can  best  explain  contemporary  things, 

takes  place;  if  a  superior  b  aporoached,  he  But  in    page  QO,  Mr.  Cnristie  denies 

holds  out  his  hand  to  receive  the  scarf,  and  (without  quoting  any  authority)   the 

«  similar  one  is  thrown  across  the  shoulders  explanation  given  by  Diodoriis  of  the 

of  the  inferior  by  the  hand  of  an  attendant  fj^n^s  skin  worn  by  Bacchus,  and   in 

at  the  moment  of  his  dismission.       pp.  ^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^^^  in  the  same  allegori- 

*  cal  way,  **  would  he  dispose  of  most 

"J^hibet  is  not  far  from  China;  and  of  those  subjects  on  vases,  which  An- 
Dr.  Clarke  says,  that  in  Greece,  as  in  tiquaries  have  termed  Homeric.*'  P.  95. 
China,  the  professions  beiiij^  heredi-  This  is  to  declare  war  against  the 
tary,  the  patterns  of  the  paintin8;8  were  ancients  and  Winckelman.  For  in- 
taken  fVom  pieces  of  paper  laid  upon  stance,  in  the  gems  of  Stosch,  we  have 
the  clay,  and  that  the  work  of  the  Love  enveloped  in  drapery,  walking 
artist  was  therefore  mechanical  only,  softly,  and  holding  a  lantern  in  his 


1S«7.]                              Review.— rA«  Wanderer.  143 

hand.  Mr.  Christie  has  en^rared  a  many  subjects  of  these  paintinn  are 
paste  copy  of  this  gem  (pi.  lii.)  and  apparently  taken  from  Indian,  Egyp- 
calls  it  the  infant  Dioscurus  hooded,  tian,  and  Etruscan  mythology,  which 
and  bearing  the  Bacchus  under  'the  is  neither  known  or  to  be  known,  ex- 
form  of  a  lantern  to  the  lower  regions,  cept  in  parts.  If,  therefore,  Mr. 
(p.  54.)  Again,  in  Plate  vii.  Love  ap-  Christie  succeeds  in  some  instances, 
pears  standing  on  an  amphora,  floating  and  fails  in  others,  no  man  living  can 
on  the  sea.    He  manages  a  sail,  which  do  more. 

is  swelled  by  the  wind.  Winckelman  Leaving  this  unpleasant  part  of  the 
refers  it  to  Ovid's  description  of  sue-  subject,  we  shall  close  with  an  ex- 
cessful  sailing  down  the  sea  of  Love,  tract,  which  shows  the  origin  of  a  very 
Mr.  Christie  says  that  the  return  of  curious  superstition,  viz.  tliat  of  Si- 
Bacchus  is  here  neatly  expressed  by  a  meon  Stylites  and  his  imitators,  who 
winged  genius  upon  the  amphora,  passed  tneir  lives  upon  the  tops  of 
which  is  wafted  along  by  means  of  a  pillars. 

pointed  sail.     P.  55.  «<The  ancient  temple  at  Hierapolb  in 

Now  we  certainly  prefer  the  expla-  Syria  b  reported  [by  Lucian  de  Del  Syril] 

nation  of  Ovid,  but  we  should  be  act-  to  hare  stood  upon  an  eminence  in  the 

ing  unjustly  to  Mr.  Christie,  if  we  did  middle  of  the  city,  the  bate  of  which  emi- 

not  allow  the  astronomical  allegory  of  nence  was  inclosed  by  a  double  wall.    Near 


support,  and  that  there  was  a  Bacchus  ^l'"^  •^^'^  y«"»  ^^T^^  fC'^ ^^  ^  ,^ 

,  .■^*                    .  ,                      .•        I  L  cham,  as  was  practised  by  the  Arabs  m 

A^(f>«Tiif,  or  Adoueus,  mentioned  by  ^,;^i,ing  the  pim-trees  of  their  coontry. 

Macrobius  and  Ausonius,  which  had  ^rrifed  at  the  top,  he  coiled  his  clothes,  to 

a  relation  to  the  Sun,  and  was  an  ana-  „  ^o  form  a  nest  or  seat,  and  having  let 

logy  invented   by  the  Egyptians.     In  down  another  chain,  which  he  carried  with 

truth,  there  were  no  less  than  thirty  him,  and  drawu  up  by  the  means  of  it  food 

Bacchuses  of  different  denominations,  and  neeessariesy  he  remained  upon  thePhal- 

many  of  them   with   distinct  inytho-  lus  seven  days.    Seated  aloft,  he  prayed  f>r 

logics;  but  Herodotus  (1.  2,  C.  42)  says  »ll  Sjrria,  but  while  he  prayed  he  rang  a 

that  the  Greeks,  in  adopting  the  Egyp-  ^"•*     P*  '^S- 

tian  divinities,  gave  the  name  of  Bac-  Here  then  we  have  also  the  origin 

chus  to  Osiris,  'Oo-»^*»  A*o»v<rof  tiftu  of  the  holy  bells  carried  about  bjr  the. 

Xpywr*,   and    Diodorus    i}iculus  (1.  i.  Ir.wh.  Briush,  and  early  Anglo-Saxon 

c.  1 1 )  makes  the  same  assertion.     We  •*»»**•                          »#    i-..    .    . 

also   know  that   the   ancienU  them-  .In   a"  Appendix  Mr.  Christie  has 

selves  have  given  different  symbolical  g\vcn  a  classification  of  vases  in  the 

meanings  to  the  same  thing,  and  that  Linnsean  manner.    The  idea  that  the 

Strabo  and  Pausanias  did  not  under-  pcricarpia  or  seed-vessels  of  plants  first 

stand  various  paintings  and  bas-reliefs,  wgg^ted  the  forms  of  vases,  is  due  to 

until  they  had  been  interpreted  to  them  Mr.  Fosbroke  (hnc.  of  Aniiq.  i.  196), 

upon  the  spot.     Upon  these  grounds  and  we  are  glad  to  see  that  Mr.  Chris- 

we  are  so  prejudiced  as  to  think  that  t«e  has  proved  its  accuracy  by  showing 

of  the  antient  allegories,  only  a  very  the  ease  of  adapting  it  to  the  botanical 

few  can  now  be  intelligible,  and  that  nomenclature. 

those  require  every  particular  to  be  as  The  Plates  are  numerous  and  capi- 
minutely  proved  by  ancient  authori-  tally  executed.     Upon  one  of  them 
ties,  as  a  claim  to  a  peerage  before  the  (p»ate  X.)  we  were  surprised  to  see  a 
House  of  Lords.     We  most  willingly  presumed  Mercury  in  a  modern  swat- 
allow  every  credit  to  the  ingenuity  and  low-tailed  coat,   not  reaching  to  the 
sagacity  of  Mr.  Christie;  but  it  is  not  knees,  and  padded  or  sweUmg  upon 
our  fault  that  he  assumes  his  positions,  the  neck  and  shoulders,  but  with  Urm- 
and  that  most  of  the  ancient  vases  "oles  instead  of  sleeves,  and  cwering 
must  remain  unintelligible,  unless  this  the   forepart  of  the  body.     It  was  a 
privilege  be  allowedr    We  do  not  s^ive  travelling  dress.     ^ 
credit  to  all  the  elucidations  of  Wine-  W 
kelman,    Millin,  D'Hancarville,   &c.  i3.  The  Story  of  a  f^anderer,  founded  upon 
Sec,  because  we  believe  these  eminent  ^"  RecoUectkms  of  Incidents  in  Russian 
'  men  to  have  undertaken  an  impossi-  ^  Cossack  Scenes.    8vo.  pp.  298. 
bility;  we  say  impossibility,  bM»use  THESE  Tales,  which  are  of  a  me- 


144                                  Rbvibw. — ^Scyer's  Bristol,  [Feb. 

kiQcholy  kind,  and  are  cbnversant  with  Manchester ;  and  contains  minute  and 
a  barbarous  state  of  society,  show  in  a  elaborate  investigations  of  the  local  an- 
ftriking  light  the  great  miseries  to  tiquities,  and,  generally  speaking,  ex- 
which  existence  is  -subject,  under  ar-  eellent  commentaries  upon  them.  It 
bitrary  and  unconstitutional  Govern-  must  be  exceedingly  interesting  to  the 
ments.  For  whatever  may  be  the  vir-  inhabitants  of  Bristol.  The  autho- 
cue  of  the  Sovereign,  he  is  inevitably  ritiea  are  manuscript  calendars  and 
subject  to  a  misrepresentation  of  things  printed  historical  works.  The  national 
and  |)ersons,  and  must  ever  be  so,  un-  riecords,  and  the  manuscripts  in  the 
less  he  could  be  omniscient.  It  is  the  British  Museum  (with  only  one  or  two 
peculiar  f[:ood  fortune  of  the  English,  exceptions),  have  been  disregarded, 
that  the  Government  has  no  con  iron  I  perhaps  because  Mr.  Seyer  means  to 
over  the  private  life  of  individuals,  and  tncluae  them  in  a  third  volume,  which 
no  power  of  defermining  the  guilt  or  he  has  announced.  We  hope  that  he 
innocence  of  the  accused.  So  tar  from  will  do  so,  because  we  have  some  ac- 
ita  being  a  desirable  thing  in  the  Sove-  quaintance  with  these  documents,  and 
feign  or  his  agents  to  possess  any  other  know  that  without  them  no  local  his- 
than  a  political  power  in  public  mat-  tory  can  be  pronounced  authentic  or 
ters,  the  very  necessity  of  reference  in  complete;  but  in  what  manner  they 
{N>ivate  affairs  to  the  supreme  autho-  c^n  possibly  be  exhibited  to  advantage, 
rity  must  be,  to  any  one  but  a  trou-  xcept  by  that  Archaeological  Science 
blesonie  officious  tyrant,  a  very  irk-  which  Mr.  Seyer  holds  in  disregard, 
iOme,  in  fact  unnecessary,  part  of  his  we  know  not.  From  what  we  have 
ofBce ;  for  it  is  better  done  by  law,  a  heard,  his  superciliousness  is  about  to 
Jiidge  and  Jury.  According  to  the  produce  a  rival,  in  Mr.  Evans, 
accounts  of  Russia  here  stated,  the  Whitaker,  a  man  of  strong  intellect 
dominion  is  or  was  too  extensive  for  (lawyer  like  used),  but  a  pedant,  has 
the  support  of  even  a  police,  and  Go-  made  a  plausible  romance  of  th(*  His- 
fernment  was  obliged  to  permit  gangs  tonr  of  Manchester,  by  ascribing  the 
of  banditti  to  increase,  till  they  had  refinements  of  the  Romanized  Britons 
power  sufficient  to  require  a  regular  to  those  of  the  Celtick  sera;  and  ar- 
trmy  to  subdue  them ;  and  thus  a  raigning,  as  imbecils,  writers  who  did 
civil  war  became,  to  a  certain  extent,  not  make  similar  mistakes.  He  was 
jc  necessary  evil.  Such  is  the  account  a  turkey-cock,  strutted,  spread  his  tail, 
given  of  the  Zaparogian  Cossacks  and  goobled  at  us  domestic  poultry  of 
^page  84)  —  ferocious  gangs,  whose  antiquaries,  for  presuming  to  pick  up 
avowed  object  was  war  and  plunder  barley-corns  of  history  in  his  august 
(p*  @9)  ;  9()d  «  these  same  men,  who  presence.  Mr.  Seyer  imitates  his  arche- 
in  the  leisure  of  the  camp  were  the  type  in  never  quoting  a  modern  anti- 
grossest  of  all  sensualists,  spending  quary,  and  in  speaking,  we  believe  in 
every  interval  of  repose  in  gluttony  more  ih^n  one  phce,  o(  *' 4he  dreams  of 
and  drunkenness,  became  sober  and  Antiquaries,**  as  if  many  of  them  had 
vigilant  soldiers  the  moment  they  not  been  as  good  dreamers  as  Joseph, 
were  detached  on  any  marauding  ex-  and  as  certain  expounders  of  them, 
pedition.'*  Had  Mr.  Seyer  not  scorned  these 
.  The  author  seems  to  have  been  a  dreamers,  he  would  not  have  rendered 
nervous  sensitive  character,  placed  in  (i.  228)  the  term  Nulriius  by  scholar, 
countries  which  require  the  iron  feel-  but  in  its  precise  sense  (see  Ducange) ; 
ings  and  habits  of  a  soldier,  and  his  neither  would  he  have  published  such 
fine  sentiments  are  as  much  out  of  a  passage  as  this  (i.  343),  that  Fitz  Os- 
place,  as  the  song  of  a  nightingale  borne  nnilt  the  Castle  of  Elastbridge 
among  carousing  boors.  The  book.  Hotel  {Hotel  in  Domesday  book !)  at 
iMwever,  is  a  very  useful  one,  as  it  Gloucester,  whereas  the  right  reading 
•hows  4IS  the  vast  blessing  of  a  Con-  is  Estrtgoil,  or  Chepstow,  niou^h  it  is 
atitutional  Grovernment  and  civilized  mixed  up  with  the  account  of  Glouces- 
habits.  ter,  in  the  Survey,  through  the  follow- 

^  ing  cause.     Domesday- book  was  tran* 

a.    o      ,   njt .  .  rn  • .  1  tcribed  in  London  from  loose  notes, 

84.  Seyer  .  Memoirs  ^Brftol.  ^j,^^^^j  .^ ^^^  ^^^^^^^  ^^ j  ^^^^  ^^.^^ 

it>mdu4ed  from  voL  xcvt.  ti.  698 J  not  having  a  geographical  knowledge 

WE  shall  now  give  the  literary  cha-  of  the  counties,  have  often  erroneously 

racter  of  Mr.  Seyer*s  work.    It  it  evi-  cUsted  places  together,  and  even  sepa- 

dentlywritlenontheplanofWhitaker*s  rated    returns    relating    to    the  same 


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146 


manor  (see  Owen  and  Blakeway*t 
Skrewsburvt  li.  30S).  In  the  Liber 
Niger,  published  by  Hearne,  we  have 
(i.  iGO)  Godrich  Castle  in  Hereford- 
shire, and  military  tenures  of  William 
Marshall,  Eurl  of  Pembroke,  classified 
under  the  return  of  the  Abbot  of 
Winchcorobe. — In  fact,  there  neither 
is,  nor  can  be,  any  naturnl  connection 
between  Archscology  and  intellectual 
imbecility ;  nor  is  Archaeology  any 
other  than  a  minute  knowledge  of  his- 
tory ;  in  fact,  to  use  the  words  of  Arch- 
deacon Owen  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Blake- 
way,  who  have  written  a  most  valuable 
History  of  Shrewsbury, 

"  The  factt  adduced  by  Antiquaries  are 
the  noilestones  of  history,  landmark!  in  the 
progress  of  social  lifo»  collected  to  vindicate 
the  study  of  Antiquities,  and  redeem  it  from 
the  sneer  of  the  supercilious  sciolist."  i.  308. 

We  have  only  spoken  thus  in  de- 
fence of  our  profession,  to  which  Mr. 
Seyer  has  (from  charily  we  suppose) 
Tendered  much  service  by  some  very 
valuable  descriptions  of  ancient  earth- 
works. These  we  have  not  room  to 
notice ;  but  one  puzzle  we  cannot  pass 
by.  Adjacent  to  a  considerable  British 
fortress,  is  an  earthwork  called  Ban- 
well  Camp,  though  containing  only 
three  quarters  of  an  acre, 

*'  It  is  a  small  plot  of  ground  nearly 
square,  surrounded  with  a  rampart  of  earth 
only  three  feet  higb>  tnd  a  slight  ditch  ;  it 
is  Sbiiout  55  yards  long  from  VVest  to  £ast> 
and  45  yards  broad  from  North  to  South. 
The  entrance  is  on  the  East.  In  the  area  is 
a  raised  ridge  about  two  feet  high,  and  four 
or  five  feet  wide,  formed  in  shape  of  a  cross, 
edged  on  all  sides  by  a  slight  ditch  or  trench, 
scarcely  half  a  foot  deep.  In  the  middle  of 
the  cross  is  an  excavation,  apparently  the 
mouth  of  an  old  well."     P.  85. 

We  have  seen  another  print  of  it  in 
Sir  R.  C.  Hoarc's  Aricient  Wilts  (ii. 
43).  Now  a  raised  ridge  onliffour  or 
Jive  feet  wide,  could  not  be  intended 
for  a  place  of  residence,  barn, or  church, 
or  if  ever  built  upon,  for  more  than 
passages.  That  the  whole  furtificatipn 
was,  however,  meant  to  refer  to  the 
well,  we  doubt  not,  because  the  place 
is  called  Banwelt.  If  Ban  be  derived 
from  Bane  (Interfector),  some  murder 
or  murderer  may  have  been  coimected 
with  its  history;  perhaps  the  cruciform 
ridge  may  have  been  intended  to  denote 
a  pagan  assassinationof  a  British  Chris- 
tian Saint  ;.  or  as  Bane  also  means  de^ 

GMmr.  Mao.  February 9 1887. 


if  ruction,  the  word  may  imply  an  ido» 
latrous  use  of  the  well,  and  spiritnid 
destruction  thereby,  a  superstition  prD- 
hibited  in  the  Laws  of  Ina,  &c.;  aDd 
the  cruciform  ridge  have  then  beeo 
thrown  up  to  show  Christian  re-coo- 
secration,  or  have  an  expiatory  or  pro* 
hibitory  object.  Neither  of  these  exr 
planutions  we  dare  to  call  satisfactory^ 
though  the  best  we  can  give.  The 
spade  might  produce  far  belter. 

Many  of  our  readers  know,  that  the 
site  of  the  place,  on  the  borders  of  the 
Wiccii,  where  Augustine  preached  to 
the  Britons,  has  been  long  contested. 
Mr.  Sever  ulaces  it  at  Bristol,  and  we 
shall  give  his  account  of  it,  because  it 
is  introduced  with  a  preface,  perfectly 
li  la  JVhi taker,  and  is  a  very  successful 
imitation. 

<<  I  undertake  to  convince  the  reader, 
that  not  Jordan  only,  but  Austin  himadf, 
preached  here,  and  that  his  celebrated  oo»- 
ference  with  the  British  Bishops,  waa  holdea 
on  our  College  green ;  and  I  suppose,  that 
the  monastery  afterwanls  built  there  ra- 
ceivsd  its  name  as  a  memorial  of  that  traae- 
action.  And  this  I  say,  without  partialis 
for  him,  whom  we  call  Saint  Augustin,  bat 
iudsced  by  historical  evidence  alone. 

'*  The  original  Author  who  mentions  this 
conference  is  Bede  *.  He  says,  that  it  was 
A.D.  60S,  in  a  place  which  to  this  day  la 
called,  in  the  language  of  the  English, 
j4ugusiinaes  ac  [i.  e.  Augaslme*s  OakXy  9$ 
the  confines  of  the  liuiccii  and  the  Weet 
Saxons.  Alfred's  translation  of  the  paaaagp 
is,  *  on  Aluere  stowe,  dhe  mon  nemnetw 
jlgiutinus  Ac  on  Hurina  gemaere  and  West 
Sexna.'  Austin  died  in  605.  Now  the 
place  of  conference  is  supposed  by  all  our 
Antiquaries  to  be  in  Worcestershire  ;  as- 
suming that  the  Wiccii  or  Huiccii  lived  in 
Worcestershire  alone,  and  that  the  West 
Saxon  kingdom  extended  to  the  same  county, 
neither  of  which  asxtunptions  is  true.  Wiui 
regard  to  the  latter,  Gloucestershire  waa 
jDot  a  part  of  the  West  Saxon  kingdom,  aa 
will  be  proved  below ;  and  tberefiire  the 
confines  of  the  West  Saxons  could  not 
touch  Worcestershire  at  all.  And  secondly^ 
the  Gloucestershire  men  were  fJ^iccH,  aa 
well  as  the  IVorcestershire  men ;  and  there- 
fore Austin*s  Oak  must  be  at  some  place^ 
where  the  Wiccii  in  Gloucestershire  touch 
the  West  Saxons  in  Wiltshire  or  Somerset- 
shire, and  all  along  that  line.  I  know  no 
place,  the  name  of  which  has  any  relation 
to  this  conft^rcnce,  except  St.  Augustine't 
Green  in  Bristol,  nor  any  place,  where  a 
number  of  Bishops  from  South  Wales  would 
so  conveniently  meet  as  in  Bristol.     And 


•  Hist.  vv.%. 


7 


If« 


KsTitw.--£eyer*f  Bristol, 


[Feb. 


W  «MMn  «r  Sc  Ai^Mtint  ?  ftod  that 
IWifcM  Im  fiAbtr»  auMd  ooe  of  h»  mm 
"    '  of  llMprw^JierAugut- 


tli  I  sWl  tpMk  of  ihen  more  at  Urge ; 
1M%  mUt  Wenaw  I  tt^po*^  ^^  Bristol  wu 
1^  iImw  ««•  oornny  umI  ^habited  by  them, 
Wm  obo  UfW  fonaer  hiitori&m  have  said 
i«7  little  eoMemiag  them.  They  have 
ItlMltno  bctn  ooBiidtred  at  inhabitanti  of 
WwioeUnhire  cxclufively ;  but  in  fact, 
iImv  iBbabited  Gloaoeitershire  alio,  and 
jMi  of  Wiltahire,  being  nearly,  if  not 
vbollyy  the  wine  as  the  ancient  Dobuni, 
iMk  a  oe«r  name.  They  were  a  British 
ttibo»  and  not  Saxon,  as  we  find  from  the 
Mowinc  passage.  Austin*,  with  the  Bi- 
tlMpt  Neilitos  and  Justus,  invited  to  con- 
ftranoe  the  Bishops,  and  Cliief  Doctors,  and 
Priwts  of  the  countiy  of  the  Britons,  at  a 
plMS  which  is  still  called,  in  the  language  of 
fim  Boglish,  Augustine's  Ok,  in  the  confines 
^  tho  Britons  and  the  West-Saxons.  And 
MWtber  writer  f  proves  the  same.  Bede, 
•who  died  in  A.D.7d5,  is  the  first  writer 
who  mentions  them;  but  after  him,  they 
oootinue  to  be  spoken  of  by  historians  until 
after  the  Norman  Conquest." 

Here  Mr.  Seyer  proves,  that  Wofces- 
tenhire  formed  part  of  the  province 
Hwiccia.  As  this,  according  to  our 
knowledge,  was  never  disputed,  we 
pais  over  the  proofs,  and  give  those 
which  show  that  Gioucestershire  was 
alio  another  province  of  Hwiccia.  The 
principal  proof  is  the  diocesan  union 
of  that  county  with  the  Sec  of  Worces- 
ter; besides  which,  Mr.  Seyer  quotes 
the  following  circumstance : 

<<  Ethelred,  King  of  Mcrcia,  appointed 
Osree,  son  of  Peoda,  a  former  King  of  Mer- 
eia,  to  be  Governor  of  the  Wicces ;  and 
gave  him  among  many  gifts  the  royalty  of 
the  town  of  Glocestcr,  for  the  purpose  of 
hnilding  and  endowing  the  monastery  there. 
Ho  finished  the  nunnery,  settled  on  it  all 
which  he  had  received  from  Echelred,  and 
made  his  own  sister,  Kyneburg,  the  first 
Abbess." 

**  But  the  conference  at  St.  Augustin's 
Oak  makes  it  necessary  to  enquire  particu- 
larly how  far  the  Wiccii  extended.  The 
men  of  Worcestershire  were  certamly  Wic- 
cii )  the  Latin  name  of  that  city  and  county 
eonfirms  it ;  fVig-Wfwi  being  derived  from 
the  Saxon  pyic^wara.  Gibson  sayst>  that 
tbey  also  inhabited  Oxfordshire,  which  is 
likely  enough,   but  be  has  apparently  no 

*  Biomptoo. 

t  Aunai.  ad  cale.  Flor.  Wigom. 

X  Sotoner  de  Portn  Iceio,  p.  xi. 


other  anthority,  than  because  the  0oboDi 
poseetsed  it.  Next,  there  is  sufficient  proof 
that  the  Wiccii  extended  over  Gloocester- 
ahire  also  *.  Kenulph,  King  of  the  Mer- 
ciana,  in  his  Charter  to  the  Monastery  of 
Wiochcomb  in  Gloucestershire,  A.  D.  8U, 
says,  that  he  built  it  at  a  place  called  an- 
ciently by  the  inhabitants  Wincelcombe,  in 
the  province  of  the  Wixesf.  Adelred,  Go- 
vernor of  the  Wixes,  about  A.D.  740,  gave 
lands  in  Barton  to  the  Monastery  of  Glou- 
cester. Asser,  in  his  life  of  Alfred,  A.D. 
879,  speaks  of  *  Cirrenceaster^,'  which  is 
called  in  the  British  language  Cair  Cert, 
which  is  in  the  southern  part  of  the  Wiccii. 
Add  to  this,  that  Gloucestershire  was  until 
the  16th  century,  part  of  the  diocese  of  the 
Wiccii,  and  subject  to  their  Bishop ;  which 
alone  would  be  a  sufficient  argument  that 
its  inhabitants  were  Wiccii.  Moreover  the 
Wiccii  extended  far  into  North  Wiltshire, 
as  the  Dobuni  did  before  them,  fur  Bromp- 
ton  mentions  the  cities  Chipenham  and  Ci- 
recestre,  which  are  on  the§  South  of  the 
Wiccii.  And  a  battle  ||  was  fought  between 
Kanute  and  Edmund  Ironside,  at  a  place 
called  Scorstan,  in  the  province  of  the  Wic- 
cii ;  which  is  supposed  by  Camden  to  be 
Sherstone  in  Wiltshire,  but  others  place  it 
differently :  Stowe  says  it  was  Shsrestane  in 
Worcestershire." 

"  On  the  whole  of  this  question,  con- 
cerning the  situation  of  Austin's  Oak,  it 
has  been  proved  to  a  certainty,  that  the 
Wiccii  were  the  inhabitants  of  Gloucester- 
shire, as  well  as  of  Worcestershire;  and 
therefore  the  boundary  between  them  and 
the  West  Saxons,  must  be  far  away  from 
Worcestershire,  and  can  be  onlv  near  the 
Avon  T>f  Bristol ;  and  if  so,  the  reasons 
which  have  been  given  above,  make  it 
probable,  in  the  highest  degree,  that  the 
conferrnoe  of  Aogustin  with  the  British 
Bishops,  A.  D.  603,  was  holden  at  our  Col- 
lege Green."     Pp.  •229,  330. 

Here  we  shall  tuke  our  leave  of  the 
Memoirs  of  Bristol.  As  an  historical 
Writer,  we  do  not  deny  the  consider- 
able merits  of  Mr.  Seyer ;  and  as  Bar- 
rett had  made  a  Topographical  compila- 
tion on  the  subject,  it  might  be  thought 
expedient,  at  least  agreeable  to  take 
new  ground.  But  we  utterly  object 
to  Whitaker*s  Manchester  being  made 
a  model  for  any  Topographical  work. 
Provincial  history,  conducted  upon  loose 

*  Atkyns's  Gloucest.  Winchcomb,  page 
435. 

i*  Sir  R.  Atkyns,  in  Barton,  quotes 
Domesday-book  as  his  authority  for  this  fact. 

X  Cirenceastre  adiit,  qupe  est  in  meri- 
diani  parte  Huicciorum. 

I  Drbroton»  anno  879. 

U  Brumton'a  Chron. 


16«7.] 


Rbvibw. — Piroetf  Botanieai  Oration. 


147 


general  principles,  is  like  founding  the 
iography  of  an  eminent  individual, 
upon  dissection  of  his  corpse,  in  which 
il  will  merely  appear  that  he  had  the 
same  anatomical  conformation  as  the 
rest  of  mankind.  The  best  book  which 
we  have  seen  as  a  model  for  the  History 
of  Towns,  is  that  of  Shrewsbury.  The 
illustration  of  ancient  manners  and 
customs  is  the  grand  obji^ct,  and  the 
local  documents  are  consulted  with 
this  interesting  and  curious  purpose  in 
view.  Rapin  and  the  History  of  Eng- 
land do  not  form  the  foundation  (be- 
cause it  is  trite  and  threadbare),  but 
the  display  of  ancient  manners  for  en- 
tertainment and  instruction,  and  of 
original  documents  and  records,  for  the 
authentication  of  facts.  Whiiaker  has 
merely  made  Manchester  a  peg  whereon 
to  hang  his  dissertation  upon  the  Ro- 
manized Britons,  but  certainly  has 
proved  nothing  beyond  what  was  evi- 
dent. And  what  has  he  done  for  the 
Britons,  and  Roman  Stations  and  Roads, 
compared  with  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare? 

The  subject  has  been  treated  by 
means  of  the  spade  and  local  survey, 
ufK)n  the  plan  of  philosophical  experi- 
ment; and  the  civilization,  arts,  and 
statistics  of  the  Britons,  have  been 
placed  upon  an  authentic  foundation. 
by  merely  parsing  Topography  from 
the  History  of  England,  like  school- 
boys from  a  Grammar,  no  accession 
can  be  made  to  knowledge ;  and  book 
after  book  must  be  wearisome  from 
identity.  But  minute  local  investiga- 
tions (in  which  Mr.  Seyer  excels),  re- 
searches into  ancient  records,  exami- 
nation of  old  remains,  and  the  other 
minutiae  of  Archaeological  science, 
present  not  only  very  curious  informa- 
tion concerning  the  nabits  of  our  an- 
cestors, but,  like  coins  and  marbles, 
conBrm  and  illustrate  History  in  its 
most  interesting  points ;  whereas  mere 
political  events  are  only  the  same  things 
done  at  different  times  and  places. 

However,  Mr.  Seyer  promises  us  a 
third  volume,  which  we  hope  will  be 
founded  upon  the  school  ot  Dugdale, 
not  that  of  Whitaker ;  for  manuscript 
and  record  we  hold  to  be  metallic  cur- 
rency in  works  of  Topography.  Whit- 
aker was  a  dashing  fellow—- one,  in  col- 
loquial language  of  a  great  deal  of  vovf 
(nous),  but  very  little  of  the  needful  in 
his  coffers,  very  little  of  archaeological 
science.  He  was  a  capital  quack,  and 
abused  regular  doctors  of  course.     We 


hope,  therefore,  that  Mr.  Sever  will 
not  consider  the  example  of  Dugdale 
beneath  him  in  his  third  volume ;  and 
then  we  doubt  not  but  we  shall  have 
an  archaeological ly  orthodox  work. 

%b.  An  Oration  delivered  before  the  Medico- 
Ethnical  Society  of  Ix>iMiao,  Friday ,  Oct* 
1 3 ,  1 8«6.  By  John  Frost,  F,A^.  F,L^, 
licc.bfc.ii^'c.  Dedicated  by  permission  ta 
his  R,  H.  the  Duke  of  York,    4to,pp,  15. 

IT  is  a  fact,  and  a  very  <lisgracefol 
one,  in  the  annals  of  Medicine,  that 
the  medical  properties  of  vegetablet 
should  be  a  study  consigned  of  lale 
years  to  old  women  ;  for  it  is  to  be  re- 
collected, that  the  medicine  furnished 
by  Providence  consists  chiefly  in  the 
knowledge  of  those  properties.  Their  ' 
power  o\*er  the  human  frame  is  evident, 
and  yet  the  study  of  them  has  been 
neglected.  Mr.  Frost  very  justly  ob^' 
serves, 

"  There  it  no  substance  in  Natare,  how- 
ever poisonous,  as  it  is  termed,  that  would 
produce  unpleasant  effects,  were  it  not  ibr 
the  want  of  a  proper  Judgment  to  apportiott 
its  dose.  As  we  advance  in  the  state  of 
knowledge,  we  shall  be  convinced,  that  It 
has  been  our  paucity  of  it,  which  has  led  m 
to  form  such  erroneous  conclusions." 

«  As  it  is  admitted,  that  the  power  to 
ameliorate  disease  is  of  the  first  importasoe 
to  mankind,  so  it  will  be  allowed,  that  the 
study  of  those  agents  by  which  it  is  to  be 
effected,  cannot  be  too  much  inculcated. 
What  can  be  more  laudable  than  the  objects 
of  the  Medico- Botanical  Society,  whoee 
sole  purpose  is  the  investigation  of  vegetable 
medicines." 

The  utility  of  this  science  is  particu- 
larly conspicuous  on  foreign  service. 
Medical  men  stationed  abroad, 

**  ought  to  be  conversant  with  the  plants 
indigenous  to  the  place ;  tbey  would  be 
able  to  treat  maladies  more  successfidly  by 
employing  native  medicines,  than  by  liaving 
recourse  to  mineral  ones  (except  nnder  par- 
ticular indications),  and  by  collecting  the 
names  of  the  herbs  used  by  the  natives,  and 
atuching  to  them  their  provincial,  ifben 
their  scientific  names  are  not  known,  they 
would,  in  the  course  of  time,  form  a  very 
complete  catalogue  of  Materia  Medtca,  to 
band  down  to  successors  to  their  station* 
which  would  render  benefits  to  medical 
science  that  are  not  now  appreciated."  P.  13. 

We  need  only  mention  the  immense 
good  resulting  from  the  discovery  of 
Bark,  to  show  the  importance  of  tnese 
arguments.     Mr.  Fto«X  mtuvvtiVA  tit.vf 


149 


Rb v«w.— Seotfg  BmuUm  if  Emnm  Writen.  [Fob; 


mediciDet  daily  received  from  Mexico 
and  South  America;  and  if,  as  Mr. 
FfQst  says,  from  a  Roman  poet,  <*  No- 
bis viverc  cari/*  the  means  of  prolong* 

ing  life  cannot  be  loo  much  amplified. 
T^k:-    ^^ :.: :.  _.   -.i_r  .1  '      . 


^7.    The   Cktistmaii  Revmo,  mi  Ckrnmi 

No,  J, 


This  position  is  as  plain  as  that  two 
and  two  make  Tour;  but  as  in  manage- 
ment of  money,  so  in  life,  they  may  be 
made  much  more. 

We  are  glad  that  Mr.  Frost  has 
brought  the  subject,  by  his  excellent 
Oration,  before  the  public,  and  hope 
that  it  will  excite  much  attention. 


%S.  Beauties  of  Eminent  ff^riters,  selected  and 
s  arranged  for  the  instruction  of  Youth,  in 
the  proper  reading  and  reciting  of  the  Eng- 
iish  Language,  ^c.  By  Wililam  Scott, 
laie  Teacher  of  Elocutic^i  and  Geography 
ui  Edioburgh.     ^  vols,  iinu), 

IT  is  certain  that  few  people  read 
well.     The  leading  cause  seems' to  be 
ignorance,  that  the  roice   is  a  flute, 
which  has  various  stops  for  the  inflec- 
tions of  sound,  but  which  they  treat  as 
a  mere  hollow  stick;  and  blow  through 
it  in  one  continuous  tone.    The  words 
they  articulate,  but  that  is  all.     Every 
aucn  reader  is  in  consequence  a  mere 
automaton  ;  and  as  it  is  the  property  of 
all  uninteresting  sounds  to  send  us  to 
aieep,  that  is  tl)e  natural  consequence 
of  such  wretched  recitation.    The  ge- 
neral rule,  that  people  ^should  read  as 
they  speak,  and  modulate  the  voice  ac- 
cording to  the  sense,  is  unquestionable ; 
and  it  is  best  to  becin  young  in  this, 
as  in  many  other  things,  for  school- 
boys    particularly    require    attention. 
Men  may,  and  mostly  do  drone,  but 
schoolboys  gabble  in  prose,  and  chant 
in  poetry.    They  should  be  taught  to 
pronounce  their  words  distinctly,  and 
be  told   the    proper    places    for    the 
Emphasis.    This  will   teach  them  to 
reau  with  expression  and  correctness, 
by  sinking  the  particles,  and  other  more 
connecting  links  of  the  sentence.  How- 
ever, this  cafinot  be  done  without  prac- 
tice; and  of  course  exercises  should 
be  connected  with  rules. 

In  both  these  respects,  Mr.  Scott's 
work  is  not  only  unexceptionable,  but 
of  superior  character.  The  passages 
•elected  are  not  only  instructive,  but 
m  most  instances  such  as  are  suited  to 

Soint  out  the  absolute  necessity  of  in- 
ection  in  the  delivery,  and  by  conse- 
quence to  overcome  the  great  evil  to 
which  reading  is  especially  obnoxious, 
tfiz,  monotony. 


IT  is  well  known  that  the  Clergy 
of  the  Church  of  England  are  now  di- 
vided into  two  distinct  classes,  the 
Orthodox  and  the  Evangelical.  The 
former  exercise  their  functions  accord- 
ing to. what  Bishop  Mann  calls  Ra- 
tional Piety ;  the  other  adopt  the  sen- 
timents and  ideas  of  Religious  Enthu- 
siasts. The  imposture*  before  us  af- 
firms that  the  great  enemy  of  souls 
maintains  his  strongest  hold  among 
High-Churchmen— Anti-Calvini$t»— 
admirers  of  the  Liturgy-^nd  the  Or- 
thodox ;— with  the  latter  he  classes 
us,  and  calls  us  errant  bunglers,  super- 
eminently bad  theologians,  blasphem- 
ers, &c.  (see  pp.  70—78.)  We  assure 
our  readers  that  we  feel  no  anger  at 
these  slanders,  because  they  are  quite 
harmless  in  comparison  with  the  modes 
of  aspersion  not  to  he  named,  which 

fanatics  employ  when  opposed. To 

take  any  other  notice  of  such  vitupera- 
tions would  be  unnecessary;  for  the 
Bishop  of  London  is  called  upon  (p.  8) 
*•  to  determine  between  his  conscience 
and  his  God,"  because  his  Lordship 
do^  not  approve  of  rank  fanaticism ; 
—and  such  is  the  character  of  this 
violent  calumnious  publication,  its 
authors,  and  its  friends. 

We  have  never  thought  it  necessary 
that  a  man  should  become  a  fool  or  a 
madman,  in  order  to  be  a  Christian ; 
and  we  know  that  the  Constitution  in 
Church  and  State  is  the  principle  upon 
which  this  Miscellany  is  conducted. 
Who  we  are,  and  what  we  are, — what 
are  our  pretensions,  in  regard  to  cha- 
racter and  literature,  are  known  to  the 
Editor.  We  could  successfully  appeal 
to  the  Episcopal  Bench  for  the  former, 
and  to  the  public  favour  for  the  latter. 
We  therefore  observe,  that  we  are  Or- 
thodox from  principle,  and  we  shall 
state  our  reasons. 

Religious  enthusiasm  we  hold  to 
be  a  civil  and  political  evil,  (1)  be- 
cause Spain,  Italy,  Portugal,  and 
fFalti,  show  that  a  country  retrogrades 
when  filled  with  devotees ;  (2)  be- 
cause it  is  a  known  state- principle, 
that  no  person  shall  be  made  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  who  is  intem- 
perate in  his  principles;  (3)  because 
religious  enthusiasm  substitutes  feel- 


•  No  Clergyman  would  choose  or  dare 
to  writ*  this  work.   See  hereafter. 


ingf  for  actioDS»  UMkes  faith  a  coveiw  Bishops  have  recommended  our  oppo» 
ing  for  sins^  and  lays  no  stress  upon  nents'  nostrums  in  their  Charges  ?  and 
the  qualities  oseful  to  society ;  (4)  be«  whether  -the  Society  for  Promotinc 
cause  it  confounds  the  purity  of  prin-  Christian  Knowledge  has  expungea 
ciple  inculcated  by  Christianity,  with  from  its  catalogue  dissuasiTes  from  re* 
a  war  against  harps  and  piano-fortes ;  ligious  enthusiasm  I  Surely  these  high 
{.*>)  because  it  foments  all  the  low  pas-  and  virtoous  persons  woold  so  do,  if 
sions  consequent  npon  strong  party-  they  were  not  satisfied  that  it  is  not 
feeling,  and  is  shockingly  uncharita-  their  duty  to  recommend  quacks, 
ble;  (G)  because  it  depreciates  the  The  violent  attack  made  upon  m 
arts,  sciences,  and  knowledge,  and  originates,  it  seems,  in  a  critique  by 
thus  injures  improvement ;  and,  lastly ,  us  of  a  work  entitled  '*  Is  this  Reli- 
because  it  is  a  bubble;  for  eminent  gion?"  We  gave  to  the  author  high 
philosophers  have  Justly  observed,  praise  for  his  talents  in  sentiment,  bol 
that  religious  fanaticism  has  often  at-  we  objected  to  his  Calvinistic  princi** 
tempted  to  revive  the  golden  age,  i.  e.  pies,  his  condemnation  of  all  the  Can- 
produce  a  race  of  men  without  vice  or  tabrigians  who  do  not  attend  Mr.  Si* 
misery,  and  has  always  failed  in  the  roeon's  church,  and  his  innovations  on 
attempt.  The  only  result  which  it  the  Liturgy,  by  demanding  profes* 
has  ever  had,  is  the  convulsion  of  so-  sional  knowledge  from  the  sick  whom 
ciety  by  violent  faction.  We  appeal  he  visited.  The  Liturgy  requires  only 
to  History,  civil  and  ecclesiastical.  a  confession  of  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  | 

Instead  of  fanatical  preaching  and  and    this    author,    for  going   bevond 

incautious  doctrines,  eitner  separating  the    Rubric,    we    consider    to    "have 

or    tending    to    separate    faitn    from  incurred  the  same  censures  as  Bishop 

works,    we  have  strongly  inculcated  Tomline  has   applied    to  the    Atha'* 

religious  and  moral  education,  the  be-  nasian  Creed,  in  the  following  words  f 

nefits  of  which  have  been  proved  in  "It  is  utterly  repugnant  to  the  attri- 

Scotland.  We  will  put  a  case.    There  butes  of  God,  nor  can   it  be   recoil* 

are  two  adjacent  parishes.     In  A,  is  a  ciled  to  our  ideas  of  common  justice^ 

very   violent    preacher,  who  detracts  that  a  person  should  be  consigned  to 

the  congregations  from  all  the  neish-  eternal  punishment  because  he  did  not 

bouring  churches.    In  B,  a  reasonable  believe  certain  articles  of  faith,  which 

man  preaches  temperate,  practical,  and  were  never  proposed  to  him,  or  of  th§ 

edifying  explanations  of  tne  Scriptures,  truth  of  which  he  was  not  qualified  to 

and  also  supports  a  large  school,  from  judge."     (Art.  viii.  p.  223.)     If  a  vi* 

which  fifty  or  a  hundred  children  are  siting  Clergyman  affrights  the  sick,  he 

sent  into  the   world   "with  (in  the  destroys  the  operation  of  the  medicines 

phrase  of  Archbishop  Seeker)  the  bias  proposed  for  his,  relief;   and  though 

of  good    principles.*'      Men   may  be  the  sick  man's  life  may  not  have  been 

better,  but  cannot  be  worse  for  educa-  praiseworthy,  still,  in  the  words  of  Bp; 

tion.     Now  which  would  a  sensible  Tomline  (p.  £24),  "  he  must  be  left  to 

father  of  a  family  prefer  for  a  child,—  the  uncovenanted  mercies  of  God." 

a  good  and  moral  education,  or   the  The  last  and  grand  accusation  of  all 

enthusiasm  of  a  fanatic?  is,  that  we  have  railed  against  CaWin* 

But  we  have  a  few  questions  to  ask  ism,  not  knowing  what  Calvinism  is, 

of  these  violent  slanderers  of  the  Or-  and  by  so  doing  nave  committed  bias- 

thodox  Clergy.     It  is  irregular  in  an  phemy,   liow,  risum  teneatis?  the  very 

Episcopal  Church  for  the  Clergy  of  passages  selected  in  proof  of  this  accu- 

any  diocese  to  belong  to  religious  so-  sation  are  mere  quotations  by  us  from 

cieties  which  the  Bishop  does  not  pa-  Milton,  Bishop  Burgess,  and  Bishop 

trooize,  or  to  make  any  mnovations  in  Tomline. 

its  doctrine  or  discipline,  unsanctioned  We  have  said,  "  if  the  system  of 

by  authority, — to  do  so,  only  belongs  Calvin  be  true,  God  is  the  author  of 

to  the  congregational  plan  which  ob-  evil.** — This  is  called  llasphemy  !^l£ 

tains  among  sectaries,  and  has  caused,  our  readers  will  refer  to  our  Review 

according  to  Bishop  Middleton,  sound  (in  our  last  Supplement,  p.  6ll)  of 

doctrines  to  be  sacrificed   to  popular  Milton's   "  Protestant   Union,"    they 

and     dangerous     mistakes.       Before,  will  see  that  the  sentiment  and  words 

therefore,  these  calumniators  slander  here  called  blasphemy  are  taken  from 

OS  Orihodox^men,  we  bes  to  be  in-  '  the  above   work,  page  Q.     By  ceCev* 

formed  whether  the  Archbishop!  atid  ring  also  to   Bi»\\o^  Totc\\\tA  ^V*^ 


150                    RnyiEVr^^V^nroee  an  Scripture  Jfirdclet,  [Feb. 

3S0),  they  will  see  that  Calvifdsm  tiamiu,  ike  qualiiUs  ut^l  to  society  s 
is  the  term  applied  to  the  detestable  which  the  former  either  undervalue  or 
doctrine  exposed  in  our  Ma^zine  discounteuance,  often  do  both, 
for  January  last^  page  38.  It  is  un-  ^ 
iiecessary  to  say  more  concerning  " 
these  uncharitable  Bigots,  for  they  88.  ^  Treatise  on  the  Evidence  of  Scripture 
cannot  belong  to  our  Church  of  £ng-  Miracles,  By  John  Penrose,  M,  A,for- 
land.  merly  of  C.  C.C.  Oxford.  Svo.  pp.  Sb6, 
If  instances  of  lukewarm ness  have  MIRACLES  are  to  be  considered 
occurred  among  the  Orthodox  j  if  the  as  acts  of  Providence,  exerted  for  the 
jwpularity  of  Blair's  Sermons  brought  effectuation  of  some  particular  purpose 
into  vogue  mere  moral  preaching,  re-  of  its  own,  not  the  private  purpose  of 
formation  might  have  been  made  with-  any  person  or  persons.  The  action 
out  adopting  the  low  taste  and  igno-  of  them  may  lie  extended  to  any  thing 
ranee  of  sectaries.  Exemplary  con-  which  does  not  -imply  physical  impos- 
duct,  active  philanthropy,  and  a  «^f7f/y,  such  as  the  Romish  doctrine 
meek  overflowing  benevolence  of  of  transubstantiaiion,  it  being  physi- 
heart,  ai«  the  fittest  qualities  for  a  cally  impossible  that  Christ,  when  he 
real  Clergxman.  But  to  what  pur-  insiiluled  the  Sacrament,  could  take 
pose  would  It  be  to  say  more?  The  his  own  body  and  his  own  blood  into 
term  Clerical  Magazine  is  an  irapos-  his  own  hands,  and  deliver  them  to 
ture,  for  i\6  Cler^man  (evangelical  everyone  of  his  apostles.  (Tomline, 
even  to  combustibility)  would  apply  ©n  Art.  xxviii.)  As  to  miracles  pro- 
to  the  admirers  of  the  LUurgy  the  fessed  to  have  been  done  by  human 
field- preaching  absurdity  and  cant  agency  only,  the  fact,  if  it  were  cre- 
displayed  in  the  passage  below  ♦.  But  Jible,  could  only  show  the  greater 
enough  of  this  farrago.  We  assure  our  probability  of  their  having  been  effect- 
readers,  that  we  never  have  written  a  ed  by  the  Almighty;  and  scriptural 
line  upon  a  divinity  topic,  which  is  miracles  have  this  distinction,  that 
unsupported  by  legitimate  authority;  they  have  been  predicted.  (Grotius, 
but  as  we  will  not  make  the  pen  per-  J  §  13  viii  §  8  ) 
form  the  office  belonging  only  to  the  ^^  j^^^^^  '  ^^j  ,^^  following 
horsewhip,  we  shall  not^er«irter  take  ^  „,  ^f  jy,,  p^^^^ .  8 
notice  of  such  a  book  as  this  before  us;  ° 

nor  should  have  noticed  it  at  all,  if  it  "What  with  ns  are  miracles,  that  is, 
had  not  been  prudent  to  expose  its  discrepancies  from  or  exceptions  to  those 
slanderous  and  fanatical  characier.  ^"^^  W  **»'ch  our  world  Useen  to  be  go- 
Religious  fanaticism  (says  the  Bishop  ^«"«?»  ^V!  'tiH  be  with  God  on  certain 
of  London  in  his  Charge)  is  an  excess  <^e"»ons,  evenu  no  Jess  natural  than  the 
which  arises  from   the  over-powerful  nw  and  fiiU  of  the  tides,  and  no  greater  vim- 

c             A       '     '   \                 'J  Jations  of  i/M  order  or  system,      p.  It. 

action  of  a  good  principle,  on  minds  ^             '^ 

disposed  to  disease. — In  point  of  fact.  The  great  difRcuUy  concerning  mi- 

if  we  analyse  such  fanaticism  chemi-  racles  is  the  supposed  power  of  work- 

cally,  we  shall  find  it  merely  to  con-  ing  them  by  persons  acting  in  opposi- 

sist    in   doing  those   things  violently  tion  to  the  will  of  God,  as  in  the  case 

which  the   regular  Clergy  do  tempe*  of  the  magicians  who  opposed  Most^. 

ralety;  and  with  this  difference, — the  Concerning  these  Mr.  Penrose  says: 

latter  do  not  destroy  practical  Chris-  ,.  ^11  those  passages  of  Scripture  which 

appear  at  first  sight  to  recognise  the  pos- 

*  We  allude  to  the  following  paragraph.  ^^[^^  of  any  miraculous  or  superhaman 

— *<  We  refer  not  to  the  professed  infidel,  j^^er  by  magicians  or  witches,  or  by  h\Be 

It  U  a  different  class  of  persons  we  now  at-  prophets  of  any  kind,  are  intended  only  to 

tack.     And  attack  them  we  roust  and  will ;  [ntimate  that  they  pretended  to  miracles,  not 

for  among  them,  we  verily  believe,  the  great  xhaX,  they  really  possessed   the  power  of 

enemy  of  souls  mamuins  at  thU  hour  his  working  them.    He  apprehends,  therefore, 

strongest   holds    in   the   united  kingdom,  ^y^  ^he  Egyptian  magicUns  wrought  n»- 

They  call  themselvei  High  Churchmen—  ^hing   but  mere   delusions   or  chicanery." 

Atati-CaJvmists — Admirersof  the  Liturgy —  pp.  34   85. 

Orthodox."     We  could  with  fairness  apply  _  '        .                        . ,            ,         , 

certain  colloquial    terms  to  those  propa-  To  us  it  appears  evident,  that  the 

gaton  of  CbristUnity  by  slander,  but  no  magicians  were  permitied  to  ]>erform 

respectable  person  will  attend  to  such  road  miracles  to  a  certain  extent,  but  only 

fimattctsm.  to   show    the    superior    authority   of 


IB^f.] 


RiTixWd— -if JifreM  on  the  Skmt  Trade. 


151 


Moses ;  and  this  we  infer  from  their 
being  |)er formed  to  a  certain  length 
and  no  further. 

The  mirack  concerning  Julian's  at- 
tempt to  rebuild  the  temple  at  Jerusa- 
lem, is  considered  by  Mr.  Penrose  as  a 
matter  of  which  we  do  not  possess 
clear  and  incontroTertible  proof,  pp.  72, 
&c. 

The  appearance  of  Samuel  at  the 
evocation  of  the  Witch  of  Endor,  Mr. 
Penrose  thinks  with  Farmer  to  be  a 
divine  miracle,  p.  342.  Justin  Martyr 
holds  that  she  was  a  ventriloquist ;  but 
it  is  plain  that,  if  miracles  were  expli- 
cable by  human  understaiMling,  tney 
would  be  no  longer  miraculous,  and 
that  Providence  could  not  intend  mi- 
racles to  be  introduced,  unless  they 
were  miracles  in  reality,  for  otherwise 
they  would  prove  nothing,  and  be  use- 
less. Moreover,  as  they  only  imply 
temporary  suspensions  of  the  laws  of 
nature,  or  affect  individuals  only,  there 
is  no  violation  of  order,  because  the 
customary  operations  of  nature  conti- 
nue the  same,  except  in  such  tempo- 
rary or  individual  cases. 

We  recommend  Mr.  Penrose*s  work 
as  edifying  and  instructive. 


99.  ^n  Address  to  the  Members  of  the  New 
Parliament^  on  the  Proceedings  of  the  Co- 
lonial Department,  in  furtherance  of  the 
Resolutions  of  the  House  qf  Commons  of 
the  ISth  of  May,  1823,  "for  ameHorat- 
ing  the  Condition  of  the  Slave  Population 
in  his  Majesly*s  Colonies  f**  and  on  the 
only  course  that  ought  now  to  be  pursued 
by  his  Mqiesty*s  Government,  Svo.  pp,  36. 

•'  TO  raise  the  devil"  may  be  a  very 
easy  thing,  for  our  ancestors  conceived 
that  it  was  done  by  only  saying  the 
Lord*s  Prayer  backward  ;  but  "  to  lay 
him  again,  *  according  to  the  same  old 
saws,  was  a  far  more  difficult  matter. 
We  form  the  same  opinion  concerning 
the  Slave  Trade ;  it  is  very  easy  to  com- 
mence it,  and  very  difficult  to  suppress 
it.  We  have  considered  its  abolihon  to 
be  a  surgical  operation  in  which  the  pa- 
tient may  bleed  to  death  in  the  process, 
and  we  have  spoken  cautiously,  but 
not  in  disapprobation.  To  prevent 
misconstruction,  we  beg  to  lay  before 
our  readers  the  following  short  ab- 
stract of  a  statement  in  the  Quarterly 
Review  of  September  last  (1826),  No. 
Ixviii.  p.  579---6O8,  as  being  the  opi- 
tiions  of  others.  It  is  there  said,  (I) 
chat  the  intemperate  and  misgoided 


proceedings  of  our  Ultra -abolitionists 
are  much  better  calculated  to  injure 
than  to  ameliorate  the  fortunes  of  the 
African  race  (p.  582);  (2)  that  they 
have  only  tended  to  give  an  increased 
appetite  to  S))eculation  in  the  Slave 
Trade  (ibid.) ;  in  short,  that  they  have 
only  been  the  means  of  transferring 
the  trade  from  ourselves  to  foreigners. 
It  is  further  to  be  added,  that  the  pre* 
sumed  object  of  the  Abolitionists  is  a 
spurious  kind  of  reputation  and  im- 
portance, or  else  a  mercantile  specula- 
tion, grounded  on  the  idea  that  the 
ruin  of  our  Western  Colonies  would 
promote  their  own  personal  interests 
in  the  East.  p.  581.  Lastly,  that  "  a 
general  and  indiscriminate  massacre 
would  he  the  rendt  of  the  recommenda* 
(ions  of  the  Abolitionists  among  the  va* 
ried  population  of  our  sugar  islands  i 
thai  a  total  destruction  of  all  property 
would  be  inevitable ;  and,  in  a  wora, 
that  these  valuable  possessions  of  the 
British  empire  would  be  utterly  lost 
and  annihilated.*'    pp.  579i  680. 

We  are  among  those  who,  *<]ook* 
ing  before  leaping,"  do  not  like  violent 
measures  in  politics,  and  think,  upon 
Lord  Bacon's  authority,  that  enthu- 
siasts are  only  6t  to  execute,  not  to 
contrive.  We  repeat  that,  while  mo- 
ney can  be  made  by  any  species  of 
traffic,  however  base,  that  traffic  will 
be  continued,  and  that  difficulties  in- 
terposed will  only  advance  the  price 'of 
the  article.  This  has  been  shown  by 
the  dearness  of  dead  human  bodies  for 
surseons,  as  well  as  live  ones  for  West 
Indians.  Both  trades  have  been  ob- 
structed. In  fact,  the  only  mode  by 
which,  according  to  history,  slavery 
has  ever  been  abolished,  is  that  of  re- 
ligion and  civilization.  The  author 
of  the  pamphlet  before  us  sees  the  sub- 
ject in  a  temperate  light,  and  is  dis- 
posed to  act  with  reason,  and  not  in 
expelling  one  evil  spirit  to  cause  seven 
others  more  wicked  than  himself  to  be 
called  in.     He  proposes 

*'  A  ParliaroeDtary  declaration  to  tbe  ef- 
fect that  tber^  Is  no  intention  to  deny  the 
rights  and  privileges  of  the  colonists  ;  that 
before  tbe  adoption  of  any  measures  affect- 
ing their  interests,  the  fullest  and  most  ef- 
fectual investigation  will  be  allowed ;  that 
Parliament  is  sensible  that  the  condition  of 
the  slaves  has  been  ameliorated  of  late  years) 
that  there  is,  therefore,  a  well-grounded 
expectation  that  the  planters  will  introdoca 
the  ameliorations  recommended  bj  his  Ma- 
Jetty's  Government  wvt\\  aa  ViXX\a  ^i^^  v^ 


IM  BavibW^^AToJot  Coutt.<N»  Tithefi  [Feb. 

>  ooosisten^  with  a  doe  regmrd  to  the  wUtiy    «sUte  subject  to  tithes,  fltod  does  riot 
oC  the  Golonaef.     Th»t  in  regerd  t«  the    dedoct  that  and  all  other  claims  from 


i^e  colonUte,  until  the  important  subject  ^  ^^^  because,  if  nine  parts  out 

ptrtle..  Such  a  decleratioo  iould  conci-  «^^f  ^j'  J"  "uP'^^'^i^u"  u""  T'*  ^"^ 
Ihte  the  colonists,  and  indme  them  to  do  .  checked  than  he  would  .be  by  the  ex- 

erery  thine  in  their  power  to  consult  the  ?«"«  of  a  journey  to  receive  a  legacy, 

wishes  of  GkiTemment."    P.  84.  lo   short,  the  late    Lord   Chancellor 

--,.  ,  ,  ,  fiathurst  declared,  that  he  had   long 

With  regard  to  compulsory  manu-  ^„j  j^^  |     ,^^^4^^  ^^c  subject,  and 

inission,  It  16  clearly  shown  that  negroes  jj,at  he  tould  find  nothing  so  advan- 

wU  not  work  for  hire ;  and  that,  if  ^        ,  ^^  ^^^  ^3^^^^  33  ^^c   present 

the  planters  were  left  to  the  mercy  of  ^y,^^^^     ^„y  jj^^  ^^  commutation  by 

the  free  negroes,  land,  except  in  case  of  new  inclosure, 

•<  No  esUte  would  be  worth  two  years  {^  erroneous,  because  tithes  will  only 

purchase.    With  such  possibilities  in  pros-  .^n  f^^  fourteen  years  purchase,  and 

pect,  it  is  not  surprising  that  the  planters  j.^j  ^^^^^^  ^^  y^^     y^^  under  Iwenty- 

ehould  be  opposed  to  the  opening  of  any  ^^^  ^^  ihirtv. 
•other  door  to  let  out  slavery,   than  thM         tt  <.    vu  .*«u 

Which   is   now  open,  and  through  which  'J^.^  ""^'1  ™"»*  «»'^«'*  P^X  ^'l^^.  "» 

there  U  a  graduJi  escape.    In  Jamaica  the  the  form  of  rent  or  taxes  (as  he  ine- 

immumlssious  are  said  to  have  been  four  ^^^^^Y  must),  whether  he  pays  it  to 

' thousand  between  the  years  1820  and  1828;  »  "nan  in  a  black  instead  of  a  brown 

and  in  the  beginning  of  the  present  year,  ooat,  can  be  no  Other  difference  than 

there  were  upwards  of  one  hundred  volun-  this,  that  the  money  is  paid,  for  sup- 

tary  manumissions  in  Demerara.     U  will  port  of  religion   and    morals,    to   the 

pfobobly  be  found,  on  examining  the  ques-  former,  and  to  the  other,  is   a   mere 

tion,  that  any  larger  opening  would  be  in-  dishonest  robbery  for  no  public   pur- 

p^mpatible  '  with   the  well-being    of  the  pQj^  whatever. 

eUves  themselves,  with  the  safety  of  the  CO-         ^he    Major    has    talent,    and    we 

lonies,  and  with  a  fair  luid  equitable  consi-  ,1^^^,^,  ^g  glad  to  see  it  exhibited  upon 

4ei»uon  of  the  rights  of  private  property.  ^^^^  premises. 

For  our  parts,   we  do   not  expect  ^ 

slavery  to  be  abolished,  till  the  civili-  31,  The  History  of  Hertfordshire.  By  Sir 
xation  of  Africa  renders  it  impractica-  Henry  Chauncy.  Rfprinied  by  J.  M. 
"ble  to  procure  slaves.  It  is  certain  Mullinger,  Bishop  Stortford.  2  ix>^.  Bvo, 
that  the  obstruction  to  the  trade  has        pp'  1100. 

only  quadrupled  il>€   miseries  of  the        Mr.  MULLINGER  has  rendered 

unfortunate  victims.  ,  jcrvice  to  the  County  of  Hertford  by 

.        ^  reprinting  a  new  edition  of  Sir  Henry 

to.  Theory  and  Eicts  in  proof  that  the  Laws  Chauncy  s   scarce  and    valuable   His- 

•  far  the  Impotition  of  Tithes  are  attended  tory  in  a  reasonable  and  commodious 

•  with  the  most  eaUumlous  consequences  to  form ;  a  ut)rk  which,   from   the   va- 

•  the  Country  ;  with  Plans  fs^^  the  Redemp'  riety  of  curious  matter  and  general  in- 
<ioii  of  Tithes,  j^k  By  Mqjor  M.  H.  formation  contained  in  it,  must  always 
Court,  Member  ^  the  Royal  Asiatic  So-  be  held  in  high  estimation  by  the  All- 
ciety,  svo,  pp.  63.  2rf  Edit.  tiquary  and  Topographer.  It  appears 
NO  question  can  possibly  have  been  from    the    original    Prospectus    that 

more  sitted  than  the  predial  tax  called  500  copies  of  the  folio  edition  were 

Tithes,  and  no  result  has  been  more  printed.     These    have    been    eagerly 

self-evident,  than   that,   if  the   tithes  purchased   at    high    prices,  whenever 

were    taken    from    the    Clergy,    the  they  have  found  their  way  into  the 

amount  would  only  be  levied  in  the  in-  market;  and  consequently  have  been 

•creased  rent  of  the  tenant.    The  pur-  beyond  the  reach  of  the  generality  of 

chaser  ofaneslatesubject  to  tithes  Duys  readers.    At  a  period  too  when,  from 

it  in  consequence  so  much  cheaper,  the  diffusion  of  learning,  every  person 

and    therefore  can    have    no   hrmest  is  expected  to  be  more  or  less  conver- 

claim  to  that  immunity  for  which  he  sant  with  subjects  which  a  century 

never  paid ;  and  if  a  renter  takes  an  1^0  were  confined  to  the  Hearnes  and 


IIWO  RBTiiw.-^JIr.  Mendham  on  the  ChurA  of  Rome.  IBt 

Browne  Willis's  of  the  day.    We  eafi-  woidt  are  rendered  in  the  seme  p«ea« 

Bot,  however^  Bgree  with  Mr.  Mullia-  liar  to  the  Church  of  Rome,  as  do 

St,  that,  because  Chauncy  did  not  ^eitancf,  instead  of  rfpen/,  and  so  forth, 
inic  it  worth  while  to  correct  the  tcTnauktioni  of  the  Old  Teatunent  ma¥ 
errors  in  the  monamenul  inscriptions,  be tllowed; but onh  tolevned and  plout men, 
il  was  justifiable  to  print  a  new  edi-  at  the  diaoration  of  the  Bishop;  provided  they 
tion,  ill  which  not  only  all  the  former  use  them  merely  m  ebcidttions  of  the  Vul- 
mistakes  are  careful! v  copied,  but  the  ctteversbn,  in  order  to  fmderstaad  the  Holy 
list  of  Errata  fearfully  augmented  (see  Seriptaret,  and  not  m  the  Saored  Text  itie& 
pp.  318,319,  of  vol.  I.)  so  much  so,  But  tnmslationf  of  the  New  Testament 
that  many  of  the  epitaphs,  as  they  now  "*<*«  hy  authors  of  the  first  class  of  this 
stand,  are  almost  unintelligible.  We  *;^«»  are  allowed  to  no  one,  sbce  little 
throw  out  this  hint,  that  other  persons  ^vantage,  but  much  danpr,  generaUy 
I A   :^  -:~.:i :•-  .1.^  ^^4  "Om  readme  them.     If  notes  accoi 


arises 


• J    t^        . "»T  oe  permicteo  to  De  read  or  tne  same 

we  recommend  Uie  coaree  specimens  per,ons  as  the  versions,  after  the  suspected 

of  Lithography  as  worthy  of  imitation.  pUoes  have  been  expunged  by  the  theolo- 

A  gical  faculty  of  some  ^thoKc  UoiTerslty, 

'^  or  by  the  general  Inquisitor.    On  the  same 

38.  jin  Aeenmi  (f  the  Indexet,  both  proM-  conditions  dso,  pious  and  learned  men  may 

biiory  OMd  expurgatary,  of  the  Church  of  °f  I^f™*?*?*  ^  '^^  "^^^  »•  called  Vate- 

^ifeo.  Joseph  Mendham,  JV.itf.  ""^«  ^'"•>  «'  ^1  part  of  it.    But  the 


M  iss.  prefitce  and  prolegomena  of  the  Bible,  pub- 

'^         ^  fished  by  Istdorus  Clarius,  are,  however,  ex- 

IT  is  said  in  Birt*s   Letters,  that,  oepted ;  and  the  text  nt  his  editions  is  not 

when  the  wife  of  a  Scotch  Minister  to  he  considered  as  the  text  of  the  Vulgate 

was  showing  the  parish  Kirk  to  an  «^itlons. 

English  visitor,  he  asked  why  the  pew  "  Inasmuch  as  it  is  manifest  from  expe- 

of  3ie  laird  was  not  hunj?  with  green  f*°«:»  **»J  "^  **>•  *^o'r  B'^^l^t  transUted 

baize?     She  replied,  ihat^her  husband  •  *?5^  **\«  ^"^6"  tongue,  be  indiscriminately 

would  never  suffer  it,   for   he  would  •^I^^J  »<>  ^-e'-y  one.  the  tementy  of  men 

au-    1    ^u  .  *.                A    e  n               XT  ..  ^"1  eause  more  evil  than  cood  to  arise  from 

think  that  It  savoured  of  Popery.    Not  it,  u  is,  on  this  point,  referred  to  the  judg- 

more  hypercritically  fastidious  was  this  „„t  ^f  the  Bbhon,  or  Inquisitors,  wfc 

Minister,  than  has  been  the  Church  ^ay,  by  Uie  adtlce  of  the  Priest  or  Con- 

of  Rome,  in  its  prohibition  of  books,  fessor,  permit  tlie  reading  of   the  BiUe 

It  makes  of  a  library  a  doctor's  shop,  trantdated  into  the  vulgar  tongue  by  Catho- 

This  is  poison, — that  is  dangerous,— «  lie  authors,  to  those  persons  whose  faith 

these  two  or  three  are  indifferent ;  but  and  piety  they  apprehend  will  be  augmented 

all   those  shelves  are  filled  with  good  ^<l  °ot  injured  by  it ;  and  this  permission 

things;  part  of  that  peculiar  class  of  '*>«y  ™"*^  *i*ve  in  writing.     But  if  any  one 

medicine  which  the  owner  of  the  shop  '^  have  the  presumption  to  read  or  pos- 

considers  and  recommends  as  particu-  "f"**  without  such  written  permission,  he 

larly  good.    The  Church   of  l^ome,  J*^"  °?*  T*''*'  ""^tT??  "°^''  i^*  ^^ 

u«.^.^-    ««»-  ,«►«  ».M.^«»ti..  :«    .1,:!  nr«t  delivered  up  such  Bible  to  the  ordi- 

however,  acts  very  prudently  in   this  Booksellers,  however,  who  shall  sell 

respect;    for  a  legerdemain  conjuror  or  otherwise  dispose  of  Bibles  in  the  vulgar 

would  not  do  Wiscfy,  if  he.  showed  the  tongue  to  any  perTon  not  having  suck  pSr- 

spectators  how  bis   tricks   were   per-  misswn,  shall  forfeit  the  value  of  the  books, 

formed.  to  be  applied  by  the  Bishop  to  some  pious 

Mr.  Mendham  observes,  very  justly,  nse ;  and  be  subjected  to  such  other  penal- 

(Pref.  viii.)  that  these  expurgatory  In-  ties  as  the  Bishop  shall  judge  proper,  ac- 

dexes  well  show  "  the  sentiment,  spi-  cording  to  the  quality  of  the  offence.    But 

rit,  and   policy  of  an  empire  claiming,  Regulars  shall  neither  read  nor  purchase 

with  the  most  critical  exactness,  the  »;»ch  Bibles,  without  a  special  licence  from 

terrific  appellation  of  The  Mystery  **^"f  superiors."    pp.  38—86. 

OF  Iniquity.'*  We  have  heard  that  Protestant  ser- 

We  shall  extract  a  passage,  showing  yants  in  Catholic  families  have  been 

how  far  perusal  of  the  Bible  is  alloweo,  dismissed,  only  fur  reading  their  Hliig- 

though  we  need  not  of  course  premise  lish  Bible  upon  Sundays.     We  think 

that  transUtions  of  it  by  Protestants  prohibition  of  reading  tne  Bible  lo  be 

are  condemned  tn  toiot  unless  certain  a  great  sin,  and  serious  political  mis- 

Gairr.  Mao.  February,  1827. 

8 


154 


RxY  II Wd— Dr.  Booker's  Strmon. 


[Feb. 


chief.    We  need  not  state  the  reasons, 
for  they  are  obvious. 

The  <<pawings  to  get. free"  of  the 
Catholics  have  alarmed  the  Protest- 
ants^  and  liberty  and  reason  will  both 
be  essentially  served  by  the  expositions 
of  such  useful  writers  as  Mr.  Mend- 
ham.  How  Popery  can  think  itself 
able  to  endure  tne  microscope  of  the 
nineteenth  century  is  unaccountable; 
but  it  has  a  temporal  object  in  view, 
and  much  to  gain  by  success,  and  no- 
thing to  lose  by  disappointment. 

83.  A  Sermon  preached  b^e  several  United 
Lodga  ond  Friendly  Societies,  in  the  Pa- 
rish Church  qf  Waltall,  on  Monday,  Dec, 
4»  18Stf.  By  the  Rev.  Luke  Booker, 
LL.D.  F.RS,L.  and  Viear  of  Dudley. 
8¥q.     pp.  40. 

F£ARFUL  lest  suspected  partiality 
(on  account  of  the  friendship  the  au- 
thor of  this  Discourse  is  known  to 
have  entertained  for  the  late  venerable 
Editor  of  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,) 
may  be  supposed  to  influence  us  in 
speaking  ot  nis  present  performance, 
we  shall  reluctantly  abstain  from  say- 
ing one  word  of  commendation  con- 
cerning it;  and  merely  slate  its  con- 
tents.— In  an  exordium,  applying  to 
some  of  the  Societies  whom  the 
preacher  addressed,  bearing  singular 
titles  (which  circumstance  ne  was  ap- 
prehensive might  operate  to  their  dis- 
advantage), he  says, 

"It  is  not  enough  that  the  retpeotive 
memberi  themselTes  are  satisfied  about  the 
harmlessness  of  their  title,  or  that  I  am 
convinced  of  their  rectitude  and  compas- 
sionate conduct ;  the  Pubtic  are  likewise  en- 
titled to  respect ;  at  least  the  wise  and  re- 
ligious portion  of  it,  who  *  care  for  the^ 
things.'  Yes,  they  should  likewise  feel  as- 
sured that  no  body  of  men  are  encouraged, 
under  the  sanction  of  a  relizious  ceremony, 
to  desecrate  that  Temple  of  the  living  Ood, 
where  they  themselves  humbly  endeavour  to 
<  worship  him  in  spirit  and  in  truth.' " 

He  then  proceeds  to  a  consideration 
of  the  text, "  One  is  your  Master,  even 
Christ ;  and  alive  axe  brethren.'*  Matt, 
xxiii.  8.  Dr.  B.  then  proves,  from  the 
language  of  Christ  and  his  apostles, 
the  imperative  necessity  of  an  adher- 
ence to  **  the  law  of  kindness"  by  the 
members  to  each  other,  and  to  all  man- 
kind. He  notices,  with  marked  ap- 
probation, that  by  the  rules  of  their 
several  Societies,  blasphemy  and^  . 
drunkenness  are  forbidden  during  their 
hours  of  occasional  meetings  "but,'' 


adds  he, ''  what  matters  tuck  restraint, 
if,  at  other  times,  ye  scruple  not  to  be 
guilty  of  the  atrocious  sins ;"  remind- 
ing them  that,  "  for  all  these  thinjg^s, 
their  heavenly  Master,  even  Christ, 
will  bring  them  into  judgment." — A 
short  peroration  allusive  to  the  public 
Charity  for  which  the  Discourse  was 
preached  (and  which  was  benefited  by 
upwards  of  100/.  collected  on  the  oc- 
casion),  closes  the  Sermon.  The  fine 
prayer  **  for  unitv,"  selected  from  the 
service  appointea  to  be  used  on  the 
Kingj^s  Accession,  is  appositely  and 
judiciously  added. 

34.    The  Works  qf  Christopher  Marlowe. 

3  vols. 

WITH  a  plain  unassuming  title  is 
collected  under  the  auspices  of  Mr. 
Pickering,  from  whose  bold  and  libe- 
ral speculations  as  a  publisher  have  pro- 
ceeded several  other  valuable  works, 
those  of  a  dramatic  writer,  whose  pre- 
mature death  in  1593  alone  prevented 
his  competing  for  the  palm  of  popu- 
larity with  the  Bard. of  Avon.  Every 
attempt  to  supply  the  text  of  an  author 
as  neglected  and  celebrated  as  Chris- 
topher Marlowe,  may  be  esteemed 
firaiseworthy,  and  a  covetable  aid  to 
iterary  research ;  although  the  pages 
may  not  be  extended  with  notes  swell- 
ed with  passages  from  contemporaries, 
apposite  or  inapposite,  nor  with  long 
and  often  vague  conjectural  criticisms. 
Where  such  annoutions  are  not  the 
result  and  labour  of  a  tedious  research, 
having  the  important  fiat  of  a  well- 
known  editor*s  name,  whose  laurels 
may  be  tarnished,  they  are  usually 
found  valueless,  and  it  is  better,  as  in 
the  present  instance,  to  let  the  whole 
pass  anonymously. 

Of  our  author  little  satisfactory  is 
known,  but  that  little  has  been  ga- 
thered with  some  care  in  the  Life  pre- 
fixed. He  flourished  like  other  talent- 
ed men  of  his  period,  who  indignantly 
fancied  virtue  and  prudence  were  too 
subordinate  characters  in  society  to 
rank  with  wits,  and  therefore  little 
worthy  of  notice,  and  still  less  to  be 
sought  for  as  associates.  History,  were 
it  required,  might  supply  remoter  pa- 
rallels of  such  injudicious  folly,  and 
continue  the  synonymy  to  a  recent  pe- 
riod. Some  apology  may  be  urged  for 
the  writer  of  an  age  gone  by,  and  some 
doubts  may  arise  whether  candour  can 
decide  as  to  either  the  paucity  of  his  vir- 


18f7.] 


RiTiiw— Marlowe's  Wcrki. 


lU 


tuesy  or  abundance  of  Wis  vices.  The 
tiDceasing  quicksand  of  Time  is  found 
too  commonly  to  hury  the  first,  while 
his  scythe  leares  unmown  all  the  rank 

Srowth  of  the  latter.  Charity  may 
oubt  if  Marlowe,  at  an  age  scarcely 
mature,  did  not  follow  ihe  foible  of 
the  day,  in  assuming  loose  principles 
of  religion ;  and  if  the  fatal  event  of 
his  disreputable  death  might  not  have 
been  as  faithfully,  if  more  favourably, 
narrated. 

Let  it  be  recoRected  that  Marlowe 
classes  within  the  first  fifty  known 
writers  for  the  English  Stage,  and 
wrote  at  a  time  when  the  drama  was 
little  more  than  attempting  to  shake 
off  the  trammels  of  bulioonery,  so  ne- 
cessary to  the  support  of  interludes, 
and  tne  strait-laced  sanctity  of  dull 
moralities.  The  emancipation  was 
slow  in  progress,  and  to  throw  off  the 
leaven  of  time,  there  was  a  strong 
stimulatory  counteraction  necessary. 
Every  age  revels  in  its  own  fashions, 
which  are  no  sooner  cast  by  than  it  is 
usual  to  denounce  the  whole  as  ab- 
surdities. Still,  by  those  who  follow, 
their  temporary  influence  must  not  be 
forgot.  Thus  the  groundling  of  the 
early  theatres,  accustomed  nightly  to 
hear  if  not  hold  converse  with  the 
Clown,  or  his  forerunner  the  Vice« 
could  not  be  expected  quietly  to  per- 
mit such  important  characters  to  be 
banished  without  some  equally  im- 
portant feature  of  novelty,  and  bold 
must  have  been  the  author  who  ven- 
tured to  expect  success  without  the 
assistance  of  either  of  those  ancient 
and  almost  hereditary  favourites.  In 
that  attempt  Marlowe  was  an  early 
voluntary,  and  no  doubt  met  witn 
success.  To  point  out  his  substitutes 
for  the  usual  subordinate  characters 
just  noticed,  they  seem  to  be  found, 
taking  his  most  popular  pieces,  in  the 
exhibition  of  Ba^azet  in  an  iron  cage, 
and  his  **  brainmg"  himself  therein, 
as  represented  in  the  first  part  of  Tani- 


berlain;  the  extravagant  action  of 
Tamberlain  in  the  second  part;  the 
rapid  succession  of  tragic  incidents  in 
the  Jew  of  Malta;  as  also  in  the 
Massacre  of  Paris ;  with  the  magical 
power  given  to  Dr.  Faustus,  and  the 
imposing  character  of  his  attendant 
Mephostophilus,  two  persons  that  have 
recently  flourished  with  renovated  re- 
pute.* These  appear  manifest  proofs 
of  Marlowe's  dramatic  genius,  and  of 
his  oower  to  rivet  the  attention  of  the 
restless  groundlings  to  the  story  of  his 
drama,  and  secure  approbation  and 
success  to  the  labours  of  his  mote. 
Certainly  his  productions  appear  no 
unimportant  stepping-stone  in  the  pro- 
gress of  the  improvements  of  the  Stage, 
which  afterwards  obtained  such  power« 
ful  and  decisive  aid  from  Shakspeaie; 
and  the  present  work  may  be  confi- 
dently pressed  upon  the  attention  of 
every  lover  of  the  drama,  even  if  he  u 
fortunate  enouj^h  to  possess  some  of 
the  original  editions. 

The  third  volume  contains  most  of 
the  author's  Poems,  not  now  attain- 
able,—as  the  Hero  and  Leander, 
Lucan,  Ovid*s  Elegies,  printed  at 
Middleburgh,  unmutilated ;  and  with 
other  pieces,  those  simple  lines  that 
cast  an  unfading  halo  round  the  name 
of  Kit  Marlowe,  to  remain  while  the 
English  language  lasts.  Needs  the 
memory  of  any  reader  refreshening  for 
the  reference  ? 

**  Come,  lire  with  me  tod  be  my  love.'* 


85.  Horhu  Sulmrbamu,  or  a  Catakgue  of 
the  Plants  cuUivmied  in  ihe  Gardens  q/T 
Great  Britain.  By  Robert  Sweet,  F.Lw^. 
Author  qf  «  Hortus  Suburhanus  Londi- 
nentisi"  **  The  Botanical  Cultioaivr  g" 
**  Gtramae€m i**  **The  British  Flower 
Garden  i"  *^  Bntish  fTarblers,"  SHc,  8vo. 
RJdgway. 

THIS  work  arranges  the  plants  cul- 
tivated in  our  gardens  according  to 
their  natural  affinities,  which  is  cer- 


*  Most  of  Marlowe's  dnuaetic  pieees  were  posthumoiulj  published.  The  Tragical 
History  of  the  Life  and  Death  of  Dr.  Faiutus,  is  kaown  with  dates  of  ltf04»  1611,  \6\Qf 
ltfl9»  1624,  1681,  1661,  aod  1668,  4to.  The  inteose  ioteiest  this  play  created  might 
arise  firom  ao  estraordinary  character  performing  (it  may  be  presumed  but  once)  in  wis 
piece,  which  may  be  given  in  the  words  of  that  veritable  historian  William  Prynn.  After 
recounting  what  be  would  pronounce  as  judgments  on  certain  playhouses,  be  says :  <<  To- 
gether with  the  visible  apparition  of  the  Devil  on  the  stage  at  the  Belsavage  Play-bouse, 
in  Queen  Elizabeth's  dayes  (to  the  great  amasement  both  of  the  actors  and  spectators), 
while  they  were  profisnelv  playing  the  History  of  Faustus  (the  truth  of  which  I  have  heard 
from  many  now  alive,  wno  well  remember  it),  there  being  some  distracted  with  that  feare-' 
full  sight."    See  Histrio-Masiix,  1633,  fol.  556. 


RlTlBW«-r-Ari 


156 


Uinly  of  great  utility  to  the  cultivator, 
as  it  brings  together  at  one  view  all 
the  plants  that  are  nearest  related.  At 
each  genus  we  also  see  the  Linnsean 
classical  order  to  which  it  belongs,  and 
the  systematic  and  English  name  to 
each  species,  when  first  caltivated  in 
this  country,  where  native,  time  of 
flowerlns,  and  reference  to  a  Bgure, 
and  the  information  altogether  is  cer- 
tainly all  that  can  be  required.  The 
numerous  synonym]^  throughout  the 
work  renders  it  particularly  useful. 

36.  Mr.  Jackion's  State  rf^  tki  Jews,  is 
a  liberal  appeal  on  behalf  of  many  ni\justly 
suffering  men.  We  certainly  think  it  leze 
humaniti,  tliat  it  abould  be  written  on  the 


BwUwi. 


[Feb* 


turnpike  gates  in  Oermany,  **Jeuii$  and 
Piftpev  toll  here"  (see  p.  7.)  but  if  Jews 
insult  Jesus  Christ,  it  is  not  singula!,  that 
Chrtstians  sheuld  retort  the  contumely. 
Civil  oppression,  however,  certainly  makes 
rogues  and  bad  subjects  ;  and  every  liberal 
protection,  consistent  with  publick  safely 
and  monds,  i«  politick  with  regard  to  all 
dasses  of  a  state,  or  they  take  no  interest  in 
its  well-being. 

87.  The  Country  Vicar  $   the  Bride  of 
Thrybergh,  and  other  Poems,  is  a  meritorious 
book.    The  Doctor-Svntaxian  mode  of  des- 
aribing  the  Vicar  and  ois  various  Curates,  is 
the  best  part,  and  has  numy  happy  passages. 

88.  The  Odd  Moments,  or  Time  beguiled, 
contains  very  pleasing  instructive  tales. 


JLITERARY    AND    SCIENTIFIC    INTELLIGENCE. 


Cambridob,  Jan.  26. 

The  senior  Wra^ler  this  year  is  the  son 
•of  Sir  Willougbby  Uordon,  bart.  The  pre- 
sent is  the  first  year  in  which  gentlemen  of 
Mr.-  Gordon's  rank  have  been  subjected  to 
examination  for  degrees. 

The  Hulsean  Prize  has  been  adjudeed  to 
Mr.  W.  M.  Mavers,  of  Catherine  Hall,  a 
converted  Jew,  for  his  dissertation  on  the 
lullowing  subject : — *'  A  critical  examina- 
tioA  of  our  Saviour's  Discourses  with  regard 
to  the  evidence  which  they  afford  of  hb 
Pivtne  nature." 

Pr.  Smith's  annual  prizes  of  95/.  each,  to 
the  two  best  proficients  in  mathematics  and 
natural  philosophy  amoug  the  commencing 
Bachelors  of  Arts,  were  this  day  adjudged  to 
Mr.  Tho».  Turner,  of  Trinity  college,  and 
Henry- Percy  Gordon,  esq.  of  St.  reter's 
college,  the  second  and  first  Wranglers. 


Ready  for  Pullicatioju 

The  SoveTei<'nty  of  the  Great  Seal  main- 
tained against  toe  One  Hundred  and  Eighty- 
eight  Propositions  of  the  Chancery  Com- 
missioners ;  in  a  Letter  to  the  Right  Hon. 
the  Lord  High  Chancellor.  By  Prancis- 
Faul  Stratposd,  Esq.  Senior  Master  in 
Ordmary  of  thie  Court  of  Chancery. 

]*1agellum  Parliamentarium ;  being  Sar- 
castic Notices  of  nearly  200  Members  of  the 
first  Parliament  after  tne  Restoration,  A.D. 
1661  to  1678.  From  a  contemporary  MS. 
in  the  British  Museum.  This  little  Work 
presents  an  extraordinary  specimen  of  that 
party  spirit  for  which  the  reign  of  Charles 
the  oecond  was  so  distinguished. 

The  Pocket  Encyclopaedia  of  Natural  Phe- 
nomena, for  the  Use  of  Mariners,  Shepherds, 
Gardeners,  Husbandmen,  and  others ;  being 
a  Compendium  of  Prognostications  of  the 
Weallier,  Signs  of  the  Seasons,  Period^  of 
Plaints,  and  other  Phenomena  in   Natural 


History  and  Philosophy.  Compiled  princi- 
pally from  the  MSS.  of  the  late  T.  F.  Fors- 
tcr,  esq.  F.L.S.  By  T.  Forstbr,  M.B. 
F.L.S.  M.  A.S.  and  M.M.S.  and  Corre- 
sponding Member  of  the  Academy  of  Natu- 
ral Sciences  at  Philadelphia. 

A  Treatise  on  the  Natural  History,  Phy- 
siology, and  Management  of  the  Honey  Bee. 
By  Dr.  Bevan. 

Heraldic  Notices  of  Canterbury  Cathedral, 
with  Genealogical  and  Topographical  Notes : 
to  which  is  added,  a  Chronological  List  of 
the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury,  with  the 
blazon  of  their  respective  Arms.  By  Tho- 
mas WiLLEMENT,  author  of  Regal  Heraldry. 

A  Historical,  Antiquarian,  and  Picturesque 
Account  of  Kirkstall  Abbey,  illustrated  with 
highly  finished  Engravings  in  the  Lane  Man- 
ner. By  John  Cousen,  pupil  of  the  late 
John  Scott,  esq.  from  drawings  by  Wm. 
Mulready,  esq.  R.A.  and  Chas.  Cope. 

No.  XVni.  of  Illustrations  of  the  Public 
Buildings  of  London,"  containing  historical 
and  descriptive  Accounts  of  Carlton  Palace, 
the  Church  of  St.  Luke  at  Chelsea,  &c. ; 
also  remarks  on  Modem  Gothic  Architec- 
ture, &c. 

Bsitton's  Cathedral  Antiquities,  Nos. 
38  and  89  ;  the  first  being  the  concluding 
part  of  Exeter  Cathedral,  and  the  other  com- 
mencing the  illustrations  of  Peterborough. 

No.  in.  of  Soecimens  of  the  Architectural 
Antiquities  of  Normandy.  By  Mr.  Pugin  and 
J.  and  H.  Lb  Kbux.  Containing  20  Engrav- 
ings, illustrative  chiefly  of  the  ancient  build- 
ings of  Caen.  The  editor,  Mr.  Britton, 
announces  in  the  present  Number,  that  the 
whole  of  the  Letter^press  will  be  given  to 
the  Subscribers  with  the  next  Number, 
which  finishes  the  work,  in  order  to  obviate 
the  severe  tax  on  Literature,  of  presenting 
eleven  copies  of  the  work  to  so  many  publie 
and  private  Libraries. 

Mr.  George  Cooke  has  published  threa 


lAUraiwn  and  SckHa.  157 

Nombtrs  of  s  new  Work*  eoQUitiiig  of  lii§  of  poiiiee  from  its  prwmiting  Um  carliett 

Views  only,  iUuitntiTO  of  London  •od  ili  bUzon  of  Armorial  batringt  which  ia  oxtant  i 

Vicinity.    The  Viewt  appenr  to  be  beeuti-  aiid  thui  proving  that  Heraldry  was  reduced 

luUy  execnfeed ;  and  in  many  of  them  the  to  a  toienoe  at  to  temote  a  period  as  th« 

fif^aret  and  effect  are  added  from  the  pencil  doee  of  the  Thirteenth  Century. 

of  A.  W.  Calieott,  R.  A.    The  work,  it  ii  A  History  of  Bed£Mdsbire  ii  popoeed 

expected,  will  extend  to  fbor  volomet.  to  be  published  by  tnbecription,  to  tllottratt 

A  Biographical  Work,    entitled  **  The  which,  no  proper  expenM  wlU  be  tpaied  in 

Modem    Jesuita."     Trantlated   from    the  the  Eograving  department.    Great  part  of 

French  of  L*Abb^  Martial  Marcet  de  La  the  work  will   be  derived  from  materiale 

Roche  AmaoM.    By  Emilk  Lapaob,  Pro-  which  have  been  for  a  very  long  period  of 

£eMor  of  the  French  Language,  Fullianu  years  in  prepamtioo,  eon  amort.    Much  at  • 

Nngm  Canone;  or  Epitaphian  Memen-  tention  has  been  pud  to  Mineralogy  and 

toes  (in  stone-cutters'  verse)  of  the  Medial  Botany  i  and  a  Biographical  sketch  has  been 

Family,  of  modem  times.  By  Unus  Quorum,  drawn  up  of  every  individual  of  note,  who 

A  New  Edition  of  the  Rev.  GaEViLLt  has  been  in  any  way  connected  with  the 
EwiNo'tScripture  Lexicon,  very  considerably  County;  including  a  notice  (^  the  Arch- 
enlarged,  and  adapted  to  the  general  reading  deacons  of  Bedfoid,  and  one  of  living  Authon. 
of  the  Greek  Classics.  Materials  towards  a  well-digested  History 

Catholic    Emancipation    considered    on  i^  Bristol }    comprising  an  Essay  on  the 

Protestant  Principles.    In  a  Letter  to  the  Topographical  Etymologies  of  that  City  and 

Earl  of  Liverpool.    By  an  Irish  Member  of  Neighbourhood ;  and  a  Critical  Examinatioa 

Parliament.  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Seyer's  «  Memoirs  of 

A  Letter  to  Viscount  Milton,  M.  P.    By  BristoL"    By  John  Evans,  Author  of  <<  A 

one  of  his  ConsUtuenU.  Chronological  Outlme  of  the   History  of 

Historical  References,  &c    By  HftNRY  Bristol,  &c." 

Howard,  of  Corby  Castle  esq.  A  Translation  of  Niebuhr's  Roman  His- 

Views  on  the  Subject  of  Cora  and  Cur-  tory,  undertaken  in  concert  with  the  Author, 

rency.     By  Thomas  Joplin,  esq.  By  the  Rev.  Julius  Harb,  and  C  Thirl- 

A  Reply  to  Dr.  Lingard*s  Viodication.  wall,  esq.  Fellowa  of  Trinity  College,  Cam- 
By  JoHv  Allen,  esq.  bridge. 

Professor  Lee's  Lectures  on  the  He-  A  new  edition  of   Sir   John  Wynne's 

brew  Language.  celebrated  History  of  the  Gwydir  Family, 

A  Wort:  on  Paper  Money,  Banking,  and  edited  In  1770,  by  Daines  Katrington,  esq. 

Overtrading.    By  Sir  Henry  Par  NELL,  hart.  With    additional   Notes    and  illustrations. 

The  True  Tlieory  of  Rent,  in  Opposition  By  a  Native  of  the  Principality.    To  which 

to  Mr.  Ricardo  and  others.     By  a  Member  will  be  annexed,  an  original  work,  contain- 

of  the  University  of  Cambridge.  ing  Memoirs  of  celebrated  and  distinguished 

Selections  ^om  the  Works  of  Bishop  contemporary  Welshmen,  Bishops,  Ike 

Hopkins.    By  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wilson.  Memoirs  of  the  Rival  Houses  of  York  and 

Idolatry,  a  Poem.   By  the  Rev.  William  Lancaster,  hutorical  and  biographical.     By 

Swan,  MUsionsry.  Km  ma  Roberts. 

A   New  Comedy.     By  the  Author    of  A  Series  of  Tales,  entitled  Tales  of  Welsh 

<*  Athens."  Society  and  Scenery  \  comprising  descrip- 

^_^___^  tions  of  several  cheracterisuc  customs,  with 

delineations  of  the  scenery  and  manners  nf 

Preparing  for  Publicaiioru  ^^  natives,  in  tlie  upland  and  more  secluded 

Illustrated  by  upwards  of  1 00  wood-cuts  districts  of  the  Principality, 

of  Arms,  The  Siege  of   Ca'-lsveiock :    a  A  new  Poem  from  the  pen  of  Bernard 

French  Poem,  containing  an  account  of  the  Barton,  entitled   «  The  Widow's  Tale," 

Siege  and  Capture  of  Carlaverock  Castle,  in  founded  on  the  melancholy  lots  of  the  Five 

Scotland,  by  King  Edward   the   First,   in  Wesleyan  Missionaries  in  the  Mail  Boat  off 

June  1301,  with  a  description  of  the  Arms  the  Island  of  Antigua, 

and  merits  of  each  Knight  in  the  English  Travels  from  India  to  England,  by  way  of 

Army  who  was  present  on  the  occssion,  the  Burman  Empire,  Persia,  Asia  Minor, 

written    soon  after   that  event.     With  a  Turkey,  &c.  in  the  years  1826-6*.     By  J.  £. 

Translation ;  an  Historical  and  Topograph!-  Alexander,  esq.  H.  P. 

cal  Account  of  the  Castle ;  and  Memoirs  of  The  Autobiography  of  Thomas  Dihdin, 

all  the  Lidividuals  who  are  mentioned.     By  of  the  Theatres  Royal  Drury-lane,  Covent* 

Nicholas  Harris  Nicolas,  esq.  Barrister-  garden,  Haymarket,  &c.  and  Author  of  the 

at-Law ;   Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Anti-  "  Cabinet, '  the  «  Jew  and  the  Doctor," 

queries.   This  interesting  Poem  merits  much  &c. 

more  attention  than  it  has  hitherto  received ;  Recollections  of  an  Officer  of  the  King's 

for  the  Historical  and  Heraldic  information  German  Legion ;  being  an  account  of  his 

which  it  contains  is  not  only  important  in  Campaigns  and  Services  in  the  Peninaulai^ 

reUtion  to  the  event  and  the  individuals  Sicily,  Italy,  ami  Malta,  England,  Ireland^ 

conmeinorated,  but  is   peculiarly  desenr-  and  Denmark.    In  2  vols. 


158 


LUitaiuri  and -ScMRce. 


[Feb. 


Six  Disconnet  deliverad  before  the  Royml 
'  Society  tt  their  Annivenary  MeetiniB^,  on 
the  award  of  the  Royal  and  Copley  Medals  { 
preceded  by  an  Addreas  to  the  Society,  de- 
uvered  in  1 800,  on  the  Progress  and  Pros* 
mets  of  Science.    BySirHuMPHRBYDiVY, 

Bart. 

Transactions  of  the  Perth  Literary  and 
Antiquarian  Society;  including  some  very 
curious  and  oriffinal  MSS.,  amonff  Aoee 
•re  an  Historicu  Chronicle  from  the  year 
1660  ;  and  Scotland's  Tearei,  By  W.  Lith- 
gow,  the  Traveller. 

The  Institutions  of  Physiology.  By  J.  F. 
Blumbnbach,  M.  D.  ProfSsssor  of  Medicine 
in  the  University  of  Gottingen.  Translated 
from  the  last  Latin  Edition.  With  copious 
notes,  by  John  Elliotson,  M.  D. 

The  History  of  the  Rise  and  Progress  of 
the  United  States  of  North  America  till  the 
British  Revolution  in  1688.  By  Jamu 
GlUHAMB,  esq. 

The  Rev.  Archdeacon  Wranonam's  Anti- 
quiorian  Trio ;  consisting  of  Views  and  De- 
teriptions  of  the  Duke  of  Buckingham's 
House,  Kirkby  ;  Rudston  Church  and  Obe- 
Ink ;  Effigy  Bt  Scarborough ;  to  which  will 
be  added  the  Poet's  Favourite  Tree. 

Travels  of  the  Russian  Mission  through 
Mongolia  to  China,  and  Residence  in  Pekin, 
In  the  Years  1820-21.  By  Oeoroe  Tim- 
Kowsxi,  with  Corrections  and  Notes,  by 
M.  J.  Klaproth. 

A  Winter's  Journey  through  Lapland 
asd  Sweden.  By  Mr.  Arthur  Capell 
Brook. 

Sir  Thomas  More ;  a  series  of  Colloquies 
on  the  Progress  and  Prospects  of  Society. 
By  Robert  Sootbey. 

The  present  State  of  the  Island  of  Sar- 
dinia, with  PUtes.  By  Capuin  William 
Henry  Smyth,  R.  N. 

A  New  Edition  of  Fox's  Book  of  Mar- 
tyrs, illustrated  by  copious  Notes  and  splen- 
did Illuminations.    Edited  by  Dr.  Diboin. 

The  manuscript  Life  of  Mr.  Fox,- written 
by  the  late  Malcolm  Lang,  esq.  in  the 
possession  of  Lord  Holland;  to  be  edited 
and  enlarged  by  a  distinguished  literary  and 
political  Friend. 

No.  III.  of  Robson's  Picturesque  Views 
of  all  the  English  Cities. 

The  Union  of  Architecture,  Sculpture, 
and  Painting,  exemplified  in  a  series  of 
illustrations  of,  and  descriptive  dissertations 
oo,  the  House  and  Museum  of  J.  Soane, 
esq.  in  Lincolo's-inn  Fields.  By  J.  Brittok. 

A  Course  of  Lectures  on  the  Evidences 
of  Christianity,  delivered  by  the  Rev.  W. 
*Orme,  Dr.  Collver,  Rev.  H.  F.  Border, 
Btratten,  Walford,  Dr.  J.  Pye  Smith,  Rev. 
A.  Reed,  Curwen,  Philip,  Dr.  Winter,  Rev. 
J.  Morrison,  and  the  Rev.  Joseph' Fletcher. 

The  Birthday  Present.  By  Mrs.  Sher- 
wood. 

The  ElemenU  of  the  History  of  Philo- 


sophy and  Science.  ,  By  the  R<v.  T.  Mo- 

RBIX. 

A  Table  of  the  Logarithms  <yf  natural 
Nomben  to  Seven  Figures.    By  Mr.  Bab- 

BAOB. 

Flora  Anttiahaia.  By  Mr.  Swbet,  the 
BoCinist. 

The  Pocket  Road  Book  of  Ireland,  on 
the  Plan  of  Reiohard's  Itinenuries,  intended 
to  form  a  Companion  to  Leigh's  New 
Pbel»t  Road  Book  of  EngUmd  and  Wales. 

Adventures  of  British  Seamen  in  tlie 
Southern  Ocean.  By  Hugh  Murray,  esq. 
F.R.S.E. 

MemooB  of  the  Marchioness  of  Larochc- 
jaqnelein,  the  War  m  La  Vendee,  &e. 
From  the  French.  With  Pre&ce  and  Notes 
By  Sir  Walter  Scott. 

Converts  from  Infidelity)  or  Lives  of 
Eminent  Individuals  who  have  renounced 
Sceptical  and  Infidel  Opinions,  and  em- 
braced Christianity.  By  Andrew  Crichtok. 

Birman  Empire. — An  Account  of  the 
Embassy  to  the  Kingdom  of  Ava,  in  the 
year  1795.  9y  Michael  Symes,  esq.  Ma- 
jor in  hii  Majesty's  76th  Regiment.— Nar- 
rative of  the  Ute  Militoir  and  Political 
Operations  in  the  Burmese  Territory. 

Roman  Law. 

The  Institutes  of  Gaius,  recently  disco- 
vered in  Italy  by  the  learned  men  of  Ger- 
many, is  precisely  the  elementary  book  of 
the  Roman  law,  which  at  Rome  the  Profes- 
sors farUecessoret)  used  to  put  into  the 
hands  of  youth  ;  and  indeed  it  was  from  the 
Institutes  of  Gaius,  that  Justinian  derived 
the  greater  part  of  those  which  bear  his 
name.  They  were  little  known  to  the  mo- 
dems, except  by  scattered  fragments  in  the 
Digest,  and  by  what  the  Breviarium  AUni- 
eianum  contained  of  them;  when  in  the 
year  1816,  M.  Niebuhr  deciphered,  from  a 
palimpsest  io  the  library  of  the  Chapter  uf 
Verona,  the  early  pages  of  the  book,  which 
was  ultimately  entirely  restored  by  the  labours 
of  Messrs.  Goeschen,  Hekker,  and  Holweg. 
Immediately  after  the  publication  of  this 
discovery,  this  new  classic  (which  exhibited 
the  elements  of  a  legislation  three  centuries 
prior  to  that  of  Justinian,  and  of  which  the 
various  branches  ceased  to  be  in  harmnny 
when  that  Emperor  introduced  into  it  a  heap 
of  innovations,  some  of  which  were  incon- 
sistent with  its  ancient  principles,)  was 
adopted  in  teaching  the  Roman  law.  The 
diflsculties  of  the  text  to  the  students  are, 
however,  considerable.  M.  Boulet,  a  Pari- 
sian advocate,  has  published  a  translation  of 
the  work  into  French,  with  explanatory 
notes,  and  conjectural  fillings  up  of  several 
little  gaps  which  still  exist  in  the  original. 

Valuable  Oriental  Manuscripts. 
The  publication  of  three  manuscripts  of 
great  antiquity  and  undoubted  authenticity 


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will  vffy  shortiT  Uka  pkety  calcaUted  to 
CommiiDJcate  the  inott  ntcfbl  light  opon 
the  earliest  epochs  of  histofj,  u  well  of 
eootanental  Indjay  as  of  Ceirloo»  the  prinol'- 
pal  site  of  the  religion  of  Budhoo,  his  birth 
place  and  abode.  These  interestine  doou- 
menu  are,  1st.  the  Mahi-ifansiy  or  m  doc- 
trine, race,  and  lineaee  of  Bodhoo :  it  stands 
at  the  bead  of  the  Biidhist  books  of  autho- 
rity, and  exhibits  a  detailed  account  of  the 
incarnation,  birth,  and  actions  of  Bodhoo 
Gnatama,  together  with  the  hutory  and 
particulars  of  the  introduction  and  spread  of 
nis  doctrine,  his  soccessors,  the  dates  of  the 
principal  events,  and  various  data  involving 
very  important  subjects  of  consideration  for 
scientific  Europe.  The  Raji-vaU,  the  se- 
ries of  IGngs ;  and  the  R4i2-ratnicari,  the 
Jewel  Mine  or  Ocean  of  Kings,  are  mora 
historical  than  the  Mahi-vansi,  and  will 
certainly  help  to  fix  the  date  of  events  16 
or  1 6  centuries  back. 

The  circumstances  under  which  the  fore- 
going three  manuscripts  were  acquired,  are 
such  as  to  furnish  the  strongest  evidence  of 
their  authenticity;  although  the  value  o( 
these  books  have  been  long  known  to  the 
Orientalist,  yet  hitherto  they  have  been  bu- 
ried in  the  Vtfharis  attached  to  Budhoo'a 
temples,  or  hidden  under  the  almost  un- 
known characters  m  which  they  were  writ- 
ten ;  yet  they  are  confessedly  oslculated  to 
brin£  before  us  sundry  most  essential  dates, 
which,  collated  with  the  Hindi^  histories, 
may  fix  with  a  good  degree  of  certainty  the 
chronology  of  events,  treated,  for  want  of 
such  testimony,  as  mere  fables. 

Sir  A.  Johnston,  Chief  Justice  of  Ceylon, 
has  the  credit  of  procuring  these  valuable 
MSS.  from  the  Buddhist  priests ;  and  they 
are  to  be  published  by  subscription. 

•     St.  John's,  Wxstminstbr. 

Simon  Stephenson,  esq.  Vestry  Clerk  of 
the  united  parishes  of  St.  Margaret's  and 
St.  John's,  Westminster,  has  presented  to 
the  Parish  Church  of  St.  John,  an  excellent 
copr,  bv  a  young  Oxford  artist,  of  the  beau- 
tiful Altar-piece,  by  Murillo,  at  Magdalen 
College,  Oxford.  The  subject  is  our  Saviour 
bearing  the  Cross,  and  is  better  known  to 
the  public  by  a  good  engraving  by  J.  K. 
Shanrin. 

Valuablb  Marblbs. 

Dr.  Bnckland,  the  Reader  in  Mineralogy 
and  Geology  at  Oxford,  has  recently  re- 
ceived a  letter  from  Rome,  announcing  that 
the  writer,  Stephen  Jarrett,  esq.  of  Magda- 
len College,  has  purchased  a  vary  valoibla 
collection  al  maroles,  &c.  in  that  city,  for 
the  purpose  of  presenting  them  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Oxfbid.  This  collection  has  been 
formed  by  an  Advocate  of  Rome,  Signer 
Corsi,  during  a  residence  there  of  many 
jears,  and  consists  of  1000  polished  pieces, 
all  exactly  of  the  same  size,  of  every  variety 


of  granita,  sicBtta,  porphyry,  sarpentme,  and 
jasper  marble,  alabaster,  &c.  that  b  known 
to  exist.  The  size  of  each  piece  being  that 
of  a  small  octavo  volomay  is  sufficient  to 
show  the  effect  en  nuuse  of  each  snbstaaot 
it  contains  a  descriptive  eatalogua  of  the 
collection  has  been  published  at  Rome. 

SopTBNfNO  Cast  Ikow. 

A  way  has  ktely  been  discovered  of  ntr 
daring  cast  iron  soft  and  malleable ;  it  oo«- 
sbts  in  placing  it  in  a  pot  surrounded  by  a 
sof^  red  ore  found  in  Cumberland  and  otnar 
parts  of  Rngland,  which  pot  is  placed4n  * 
common  oven,  the  doors  of  which  being 
closed,  aud  but  a  slight  draught  of  air  per- 
mitted under  the  grate,  a  reguUr  heat  is 
kept  up  for  one  or  two  weeks,  according  to 
the  thickness  and  weight  of  the  castings 
The  pots  are  then  withdrawn  and  snfiared 
to  cool,  and  by  this  operation  the  hardeit 
cast  metal  is  rendered  so  soft  and  malleable 
that  it  may  be  welded  together,  or,  when  in 
a  cool  state,  bent  into  sJmost  any  shape  by 
a  hammer  or  vice. 

Polar  Ezpbdition. 

It  has  been  resolved  by  the  AdmiraItT 
that  another  Expedition  to  the  North  Pol* 
shall  be  undertaken}  and  in  consequenbo 
the  Hecia  has  been  undergoing  repairs  fat 
the  last  four  months  in  the  Dock-yard  at 
Deptford,  preparatory  to  setting  out  a  third 
time,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Pany*  « 
The  vessel  is  to  proceed  to  Cloven  Cliff,  in 
Spitzbergen,  latitude  79.  50,  about  600 
miles  from  the  North  Pole,  which  place,  it 
is  expected,  she  will  reach  about  the  com- 
mencement of  June.  Here  the  Hecla  w  to 
remain,  and  be  established  as  a  sort  of  head- 
quarters, to  which  recourse  is  to  be  had 
when  necessary,  and  parties  are  to  be  do- 
tached  to  explore  the  surrounding  coasta 
.and  seas,  while  the  main  object  of  the  Exr 
pedition,  an  approach  to  the  NorUi  Pole, 
is  attempted  by  Captain  Parry's  party.  The 
Captain  is  to  depart  with  two  vessels,  which 
are  so  constructed  as  to  be  capable  of  being 
used  either  as  boats,  or  sledges  to  run  upon 
the  ice,  according  to  circumstances.  "Two 
officers  and  ten  men  are  to  be  appointed  to 
each,  and  for  this  number  provisions  for 
three  months  are  to  be  laid  in  each.  ThuSy 
should  they  be  able  to  travel  on  an  aversga 
fourteen  miles  per  day,  and  meet  with  no 
obstacles,  they  will  be  able  to  reach  the 
long-wbhed  ror  Pole,  and  return  to  tha 
Hecla  afier  the  accomplishment  of  their  ob- 
ject. Capt.  Franklin,  last  year,  c^ered  him- 
self to  undertake  a  journey  on  the  ice  from 
Spitzbergen  to  the  Pole.  The  first  who 
set  a  bold  example  in  this  mode  of  travel- 
liog  was  Baron  Wrangell.  He  had  only 
slMges  with  which  to  accomplish  bis  jour- 
ney on  the  ice,  and  his  only  subsbtenea 
while  travelling  was  dried  fish,  on  whiah 
he  lived  forty  tty  whiel  going  on  tha  ice. 


160  ScieiU\fie  and  /iHiiquarian  Rmearches.  [Feb^ 

until  he  «m  itopped  bj  the  WBtory  and  ex*  fceC  in. 

pgeed  to  doigert  for  which  he  wu  toUllj  Ftcm  the  tip  of  one  of  the  buier 
nnpiof  ided.    The  Barou  pmed  newly  font  hianehet  to  the  tip  of  the  oppo- 

jean  on  the  ice  in  this  ohmete.  aile  bmeh    ------a      O 

— «—  Tbefareedth  of  one  of  thepelmt  withfai 
ORQAmc  RxMAlNS.  the  bnnehet      .....  i      7 

Jan.  SI.    The  heed,  horns,  vertebrae  of  ^ho  length  of  the  heed  from  the 
the  neck,  and  tome  rib  bonee,  of  a  large  hack  of  the  akull  to  the  cxtte- 

animal  of  the  deer  Mod,  which  mav  now  be  ^    mity  of  the  npper  Uw    ..    .    -  l     10 

regarded  as  an  extinct  species,    were  dU-  The  breadth  of  the  skall       -    -    -  0     10 

cofered  in  the  cliff  at  Skipsea,  and  have  ^  The  brow-antlers,  as  well  as  the   main 

enbsequently  been  exhibited  in  Bridlington,  honis,  are  palmated,  and  ilightly  divided  at 

by  James  Boswell,  the  person  who  found  themnds,  and  the  whole  may  justly  be  eon- 

them.    They  were  partly  imbedded  In  sa-  "«»?  as  a  rare  and  interesting  specimen  of 

poaaeeous  clay,    overhud    with    vegeuble  oiganic  remains. 

matter,  about  five  feet  in  thickness,  and  in         An  object  which  has  excited  considerable 

different  stages  of  decomposition  (shout  two  cariosity,  has  lately  been  discovered  iu  the 

•5d  a  half  feet  being  a  sort  of  moor  soil,  and  vichii^  of  Westbury.    As  the  workmen  of 

the  remaining  two  and   a  half  feet  being  Mr.   Jesse  Greenland,    brickmaker,    were 

oompoied  of  half-decayed  leaves,  twigs,  &c.)  diggbg  for  clay,  they  came,  when  about 

above  this,  to  the  surface,  about  one  fbot  five  Ibet  below  the  suince,  to  a  hard  mas- 

of  eommon  earth.     The  head,   with  the  sive  substance,  which  proved  to  be  a  piece 

upper  jaw,  containing  a  row  of  fine  teeth  on  of  an  oak  tree,    in  an  upright  position, 

eeeh  side,  is  entire ;  the  under  jaw  want-  closely  imbedded  In  the  surrounding  clay. 

ing.    The  horns  which  are  broken  toward  The  clay  was  carefully  sepamted  till  they 

tlks  top,  are  large  and  branching,  their  di-  reached  its  base,  which  was  six  feet  lower 

mensious  being  nearly  as  follows : —  ia  the  ground.     The   wood    ie  perfectly 

feet.  in.  bbdi,  and  solid  in  the  middle*,   measuring 

From  the  extreme  tip  of  each  horn     8      0  six  leet  in  length,  and  upwards  of  thiee  feet 

Flrom  the  tip  of  one  horn  to  its  root   5      9  in  circumference. 


ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 

-                   .                          -  themselves  out  of  observation  as  much  as 

Society  OF  Anticoarim  OF  Loudon.  pa,aible,uponthe  Restoration  of  Charles  II. 

F^,  1.     Hudson  Oumey,  esq.  V.  P.  in  as  the  laws  against  them  had  never  been 

the  Chair :  formally  repealed. 

Mr.  Ellis,  in  a  Letter  to  the  President^  Mr.  £His  gave  two  Extracts  firom  the  Jour- 

oommimicated  a  transcript  of  a  letter  in  the  nals  of  the  House  of  Commons,  shewing  that 

Harleian  Collection,  addressed  by  Mr.  Green-  the  Jews  had  returned  to  England  as  a  peo- 

howe  to  a  minister  named  Crompton,  giving  pie,  before  the  Restoration  ;  and  cites  a  pe- 

some   curious  information  respecting   the  tirion  to  Parliament,  from  a  goldsmith  nam- 

Jews  in  Eneland  in  1669.    The  time  at  ed  Violet,  which  fixes  the  year  1666  as  the 

which  the  Jews  were  recalled    into    this  date  of  their  recal.    About  this  time  they 

oountry,  as  a  people,  Mr.  Ellis  observed,  had  undercooe  great  persecutions  in  Poland, 

had  been  a  subject  of  doubt  and  contro-  from  which  country  tney  had  at  length  been 

versy;  Burnet  stating  them  to  have  been  expelled;  and  Cromwell,  having  thoughts 

recalled  by  Oliver  Cromwell,  whilst  this  is  of  recalling  them  into  England,  sent  for  tho 

denied  by  Tovey,  who,  in  his  Anglia  Ju"  princiiial  lawyers  the  chief  Citizens  of  Lon« 

dtdeaf  affirms,  that  in  the  year  1668  there  don,  and  twelve  Ministers  of  various  deno^ 

were  not  twelve  Jews  resident  in  London,  minations  of  London  to  advise  him  upon  the 

The  Letter  now  communicated,  however,  point.  The  Lawyers  were  fiivourable  to  the 

proves  that  the  Jews  existed  as  a  people  in  recal  of  the  Jews,  and  the  Citizens  were  in- 

London  in  1669,  having  a  Synagogue,  cele-  diffsient ;  but  the  Preachers,  among  whom 

braung  therein  their  own  worship,  assist-  was  the  celebrated  Hugh  Peters,  differed 

ing  at  which  the  writer  saw  above  a  bun-  greatly  in  their  opinions,    assailing   each 

diiid  Jews,  besides  women,  many  richly  ap-  other  with  texts  of  Scripture,  until  they 

pgrdled,  and  some  wearing  jewels;  all  of  ^rad  out  the  Protector,  who  said  he  had 

them  seeming  to  be  merchants  and  traders,  sent  for  them  for  his  conscience'  sake,  but 

without  one  mechanic  person  among  them,  tliat  instead  of  resolving  his  doubts  as  to  the 

These  Jews,  it  also  appeared  from  the  same  lawfulness  of  recalling  the  Jews,  they  had 

dooument,  had  only  a  nw  years  before  ode-  only  increased  them  by  their  contention ; 

bratad  the  &st  of  Tabernacles  iu  booths  on  and  he  would  therefore  desire  nothing  of 

the  south  side  of  the  Thames;  but  kept  them  but  their  prayers  that  be  and  bis 


i8«r.] 


AnUquarum  JteeffrcAet  • 


151 


council  BUghft  be  gnkkd  wight  in  their  de* 


Thii  TCTj  intcretting  ptptr  tenninatcs 
with  tome  renarkt  on  the  high  ettiniAtioii 
in  which  Cromwell  wm  held  by  the  Jews, 
M  well  on  the  Contioent  as  in  this  country, 
on  account  of  his  recalling  them  hither. 
Regarding  him  as  a  powerful  prince,  favour- 
ing ihem  by  all  the  means  in  his  power,  it 
appears  that  if  they  could  in  any  way  have 
made  out  for  him  a  Jewish  decent,  they 
would  have  declared  him  to  be  their  tem- 
poral Messiah ! 

Bristol  Philosofhical  atxd  LiTEKiiSY 

SOCIBTY. 

•/on.  95.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Eden  read  a 
short  Memoir  by  Sir  Richard  Colt  H<«re, 
ban.  on  the  snbject  of  the  Kimmeridge 
Coal  Money, — specimens  of  which  lay  on 
the  table  for  inspection.  Afiker  quoting  a 
passage  ^m  Hutdiins's  History  of  Dorset, 
in  which  this  article  is  mentioned,  with  an 
observation  that  coal  is  the  cant  word  in. 
some  countries  for  money,  the  learned  fift* 
ronet  remarked,  that  it  had  been  reserved 
for  Mr.  Miles  (who  lately  nublished  an  in* 
teresting  account  of  the  Deverel  Barrow, 
reviewed  in  our  last  vol.  pp.  491,  530, 
616),  to  throw  a  further  lignt  upon  the 
coal  money,  though  not  to  ascertain  the 
'  positive  purposes  to  which  it  was  originally 
applied.  He  had  proved,  however,  that  it 
was  of  very  early  date,  and  that  the  tradi- 
tion of  its  having  been  used  as  monev  in 
more  modem  times  was  erroneous.  He  had 
also  proved,  in  the  most  satisfactory  man- 
ner, tliat  the  spot  on  which  these  relics 
have  been  found  was  once  inhabited  by  some 
foreign  settlement.— He  proceeded  to  re- 
mark, that  the  most  singular  discovery 
which  tends  to  ascertain  the  high  authority 
of  this  place  as  onoe  inhabited,  was  that  of 
a  sacrifice  of  a  young  bullock's  head,  placed 
within  a  shallow  patera  of  stone,  which  he 
had  in  his  own  possession ;  and  he  con- 
cluded by  saying,  that  it  was  evident  there 
must  have  been  some  antient  settlement  on 
this  ground,  probably  one  that  was  engaged 
in  maritime  pursuits. 

Dr.  Carrick  read  to  the  Society  another 
letter  of  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  giving  an  account 
of  the  opening  of  an  ancient  Barrow,  at 
Nettleton,  Wilts,  with  some  prefatory  re- 
marks by  the  Doctor,  descriptive  of^  the  < 
place  and  adjoining  parishes,  wnich  seem  to 
nave  been  in  former  times  Uie  scene  of  va- 
rious remarkable  events.  Amongst  other 
remains  of  antiquity  in  the  vicinity,  Dr. 
Carrick  pointed  out  two  loQg  barrows, 
about  half  way  between  Derham  and  Net- 
tleton, one  on  each  side  of  the  road,  which 
he  conjectured  may  have  served  to  cover 
the  remains  of  tfie  combatants,  who  fell  in 
the  great  faattb,  feighl  'm  thai  nei|^ibonf^ 
hood  in  the  year  ft77>  bOiwea  Ceidlb, 

Ourr.  Mao.  Mmuy^  19§7, 

9 


King  of  Watsexf  and  the  Britons.  He  then 
adverted  to  the  adjoii^ng  parishes  of  Lit- 
tleton Drew,  or  Littleton  St.  Andrew,  af 
doobtful  etymology  \  Castlecomb,  so  c^led 
from  the  remains  of  an  ancient  Britbh 
fortress  near  the  Tumolos  and  the  Fossa 
road  s  and  Slaughterfbrd,  fisrther  down  tha 
river,  a  name  strikingly  indicative  of  deeda 
of  dMth  in  former  tiotes,  although  neither, 
the  period  ox  the  actors  hat's  been  ascer- 
tained. The  Doctor  conjectures  it  to  be 
the  scene  of  the  great  butle,  so  important 
in  its  consequences,  between  Edward  the 
elder,  the  son  of  Alfred,  and  the  Danes,  in 
910  i  in  which  the  two  celebrated  Kings  of 
the  Danes,  Hslfdane  and  Edwills,  sons  of 
Ragnar  Lodbrog,  were  slain,  and  the  Danish 
power  permanently  broken.  The  Barrow,'- 
as  described  by  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  is  a  long 
Stone  Barrow,  with  a  Cromlech,  or  Kett- 
vaen,  on  iu  eastern  extremity  ;  one  of  that 
sort  which  is  of  the  most  rare  ocourrenee« ' 
and  which,  from  its  eatemal  and  internal: 
circumstances,  appears  to  be  one  of  the 
most  ancient  of  the  British  sepulchral  mo- 
numents. The  Tumulus  was  laid  open  loa- 
gftudinally  to  the  extent  of  150  feet;  but 
nothing  wss  discovered  iu  it  but  the  remawe 
cvf  a  single  interment,  appareativ  of  b  young 
man,  about  six  feet  in  neight,  lying  on  the  ' 
left  side,  with  his  legs  gathered  up,  and  the 
knees  approaching  the  chin.  The  skeleton 
was  in  a  remarkable  state  of  preservation, 
alter  the  lapse  of  probably  more  than  9000 
years.  No  sort  of  weapon,  nor  urn,  nor 
implement,  was  found  there,  except  a  small 
sharp  instrument  of  flint,  the  use  of  which 
appears  uncertain.  The  Cromlech,  on  the 
extremity  of  the  Tumulus  (colisiitiag  noir 
of  only  three  large  stones,  two  erect,  and 
one  large  flat  stone  fidlen  down,  and  re- 
clining against  the  former)  was  not  db- 
turbed ;  uthough  Sir  RrC.  Hoare  was  of 
opinion,  that  the  principal  interment  lay 
under  it:  but  his  considerate  forbearanoa 
woold  not  allow  him,  by  a  closer  examina-  = 
tion,  to  risk  the  falling  of  the  stones,  and 
the  destruction  of  that  ancient  British  mo- 
nument, notwithstanding  his  longing  de- 
sire to  ascertain  that  doubtful  point.  It  b 
almost  unnecessary  to  say,  that  the  skeleton 
was  lefv  in  situ  ;  and  that  the  Tiimulns  wis  ' 
restored  as  exactly  as  possible  in  its  former  « 
state  by  the  laucbble  care  of  that  lailouB, 
munificent,  and  judicious  Antiquary. 

Roman  Antiquities.  "*" 

A  discovery  of  rather  a  curious  natorr ' 
has  taken  place  in  the  neighbourhood  o£v' 
Newbury:  as  a  servant  belonging  to  Mr* 
Aldridsa  was  daaring  out  a  drain  which  nm:» 
into  a  heap  of  rubbisk  near  the  premises,  he 
strook  upon  an  ashlar  stone  which  appeared  V 
to  cross  the  drain,  and  on  lifting  it  up,  db- 
cov^rad  an  ancient  vaaet  w\&Vl  %RMa  >^ 
shipa  Mid  olbm*  dfeQ»iMHncm>  y*^r«^  *^ 


/intiquoFim  Mmi&rrkmj-*^8ekei  Poetry. 


m 


•ttf  to  be  of  RoMB  mMu,  Tko  ^uo  k 
•beat  Mvtn  ia^hot  hlgn,  the  lower  pert 
eyliiuiricelly  ftirnied»  teminatta^  in  en  ele- 
gmtly  theped  neok }  end,  judging  from  He 
ooknir,  it  is  of  that  eompotitioo  which  hie- 
tafient  oell  the  Samtati  Jei.  The  lettere 
H }  o  M :  in  one  lioe»  end  S  :  M  :  L :  in 
iBOtber  under  ity  ere  vltiUj  impreMed  upon 
hf  hot  there  ere  otheie  whieh  neve  not  yet 


[F^b. 


been  OTcypbeted*  itt  tbe  TesB  wee  e  <iipotit 
of  derk-coioured  eshee,  which  hed  evidently 
been  oelcined,  e  tmell  piece  of  Iron  or  steel 
ebont  two  bchet  long*  fixed  in  e  nrt  of 
hendle  of  horn,  on  iniich  ere  impretted, 
wther  indistinctly  the  letters  P  :  R  :  M. 
Tliere  ere  ebo  two  emell  coins,  the  literal 
bweriotion  obliterated,  but  on  the  side  of 
one  of  them  b  a  femele  figure  with  e  spear. 


■^p^" 


SELECT    POETRY. 


SONNET 

To  Sylvanus  Usban,  GenL 

By  John  Tayi.or,  B$q. 

TTOBAN  or  NICHOLS  •,  einoe  in  either 


Beoerolenoe  and  knowledge  we  can  true, 
Merita  deseeodiag  to  thy  lineel  noe, 
TImo,  friend,  I  greet,  end  wkh  agratefbl  aim, 
IWtbon  hast  shewn  for  me  pure  firiend- 
ship's  flame. 
Still  vice  end  IbUy  In  tby  recorda  chase, 
Reoordi  that  Learning  and  that  Virtue 

g»«SOt 

And  hence,  indeed  **  Thk  GaimBMAir  '^ 

proeleim.  [hend 

Tb  tbine  to  feseoe  from  Time'e  grasping 

What  ehe  w  dark  Oblivion  be  would  hide. 

Th  thine  to  Join  with  zeel  that  noble  Bandf 

Who  Genius  aid,  yet  spere  iu  decent  pride. 

Hiil  to  the  Fund,  the  boost  of  Freedom'e 

land,  [fide. 

la  whose  prompt  bounty  Smtow  mey  oon- 

SONNET 
7b  Amzaifdir  Chalmbrs,  Btq.  F3^. 

By  the  tame, 

QHALMBRS,  thy  worth  I've  known  fuU 
^        menyeyeer, 
Hence  to  the  Samian's  t  doctrine  I  egree, 
And  Addison  egein  f  view  in  thee. 
Like  hie,  thy  worics,  Judioioos,  tease,  and 

cleer.   ■ 
Im  thy  PiUMjieTOR  |  vividly  appear 
Leaning  profimnd,  and  Humour  chaetely 

free, 
Sm^  Bs  meakmd  in  hb.  Sfbctatoa  see» 
Tnnch'd  with  a  moral  ebarm  to  Virtue  4eer. 
Nflt  bu  we  ia  thy  Biogmphie  pege  U 
Jq4g"»«at  alUoid  with  tattt  m  oeiidour 
fiod> 

•  John  Niehob,  esq.  Editor  of  **  The 
Cbatbmen'a  Megaziae/'  the  oMest  end 
■■et  reepeefable  of  snnilar  publieatiooe. 
Thb  Sonnet  wae  wiitfeen  pnrvions  to  ib^ 
telh.  of  Ihb  veaembU  yntlemen.  i  J.  T. 
,  f  The.  CoodnetDn  of  Tu  LmRABT 
f^nnK  Mr.  Niehoh.  wae  many  yean  one 
jQl^the  BegbtniB  oftbetSuBiBty. 
X:  ffrmAOOAAB. 

-0  A  mri99 oijmfmm,  mittBaby  tbb  gf^ 
ibmma,  mod  Snt  puhlkhed  m  ibb  Mi^jaime. 
f  JUwm  of  tbe  BriMh  Poete* 


Tboing  enother  Johnson,  lofty  sage. 
In  manners  stern,  but  still  in  neture  kind. 

Thus  three  great  Pow'rs  in  Virtue's  cause 
encage. 
Thou,  frbndi  oombiniag  eech  congenial 


WHEN  IS  IT  TIME  TO  DIB! 
By  the  Author  qf  "  Mabbii^burou. 

"^HEiN  b  it  time  to  die ! 

When  soul  end  spirits  fiul? 
When  heert  within,  end  world  without* 
Tell  the  sbbm  dreary  tale  ? 


*» 


When  b  It  time  to  db ! 

When  friends  are  all  estranged ; 
When  in  thb  lone  inooustant  world. 

Not  one  remains  unchanged  ? 

When  is  it  tioM  to  db  t 

When  o*eF  tbe  troubled  soul, 

file  deep  ftill  gnsh^  the  whelming  tide. 
Of  bitter  weters  roll  ? 

When  b  it  time  to  db  I 
When  peseioBs  all  at  strifr» 

lUcoil  and  sting,  like  serpent  brood,. 
The  heart  that  warmed  to  li£i  ? 

When  b  it  time  to  die ! 

When  Memory,  traitor  grown, 
Comes  like  Remorse,  with  all  the  past. 

And  shows  iis  of  our  own  ? 

Or  when  revengeful  Hope, 

Reproeehed  es  ineiocere, 
Leeves  us  to  dark  Reality, 

To  sMke  the  truth  appeer  ? 

Then  b  it  time  to  die.! 

Not  if  eech  pulse  wevB  pain 
That  beet  within  thb  drooping  heart» 

Or  oBaddened  through  the  brain. 

No !  'tb  but  time  to  die 

When  God  the  summoni  sendi— 
Bear  up  poor  heart  and  sinking  frame, 

TU)  He  thy  trouble  ends. 


nRST  SENSATIONS. 
Q  YBS»  whMi  Litft  tak  mmj 


When  all  aimnd.b  eiill^ 
no  WMMi  fSeraoR  wiea. 


law.] 


SeUit  Poetry. 


IfS 


Then  thrills  lh«  hMit  to  nature  tiuej^ 

The  best  of  leeUiigi  gWii ; 
O  then  does  ev'iy  hour  renew 

Th'  epproviog  smile  of  Hear'n. 

Yon  songster  firom  the  leafy  tprajy 
Sweet  music  breathes  around, 

And  artless,  throui;h  the  lirelong  day. 
Its  grateful  warblings  sound. 

Thus  pleas'd,  content,  should  mortal  man 
To  heav*n  his  day  commend  t 

And  wisely  seek  in  Virtue's  plan 
Those  joys  which  ne'er  can  end. 

C.  Ward. 


THE 

CHARTER  SONG  of  LONDONDERRY. 

ffrittenfir  the  Celebration  of  the  ShiUtingqf 
the  ChUet  of  that  City  against  King  James's 
jlrmy  on  the  7th  of  December^  1688  ♦. 

By  the  Rev.  John  Graham,  M^. 
Rector  ofTamlaghtard, 

A  Freeman  and  Freeholder  qfthat  City* 

fAir — Auld  lang  Syne.J^ 

pUIX  many  a  long  wild  winter's  night. 

And  sultry  summer's  day, 
Ara  pass'd  and  gone,  since  James  took  flight. 

Prom  Derrv  walls  away  ; 
Cold  are  the  hands  that  clos'd  that  gate 

Agrainst  the  wily  foe, 
But  neie  to  Time  s  remotest  date 

Their  Spirit  still  shall  glow. 

Chorus. 

These  walls  still  held  by  valiant  men, 

No  slave  shall  e'er  subdue — 
And  when  we  close  our  gates  again 

We'll  all  be  found  True  Blub. 

Lord  Antrim's  mea  came  down  yon  glen 

With  drums  and  trumpets  gay. 
The  'Prentice  Boys  Just  tieard  tne  noise. 

And  then  prepar'd  for  play ; 
While  some  oppos'd,  the  gates  they  clos'd. 

And  joining  Land  in  hand. 
Before  the  wall  resolv'd  to  fall. 

Or  for  their  freedom  stand. 

Chorus. 

When  honour  calls  to  Dirry  walls 

The  noble  and-  the  brave. 
Oh  he  that  in  the  battle  fklls 

Must  find  a  hero's  grave. 

Then  came  the  hot  end  doubtful  fray. 

With  many  a  mortal  wound. 
While  thousands  in  wHd  war's  array 

Stood  marshall'd  all  around. 
Each  hilt  and  plain  was  streVd  with  slam. 

The  FoYLt  ran  red  with  blood. 
But  all  was  vain,  the  town  to  gain 

Here  William's  standard  stood. 


*  Gar  ktt  Sappleineiity  pp^  604— <?09| 
SHaSU  «1m  hblory  vi  tbU  impimai  tvent. 


Chorus* 
Renown'd  are  those,  who  fitfe  their  foes. 

As  men  and  heroes  should— 
But  basely  to  the  grave  he  goes  . 

Who  fears  to  SMd  his  blood. 

The  matchless  deeds  of  those  who  here 

Defied  the  Tyrant's  frown. 
On  History's  bright  rolls  appear 

Emblaion'd  in  renown-— 
Here  deathless  Walkir's  faithful  word 

Sent  hosts  against  the  foe. 
And  Gallant  Murray's  bloody  aword 

The  Gallic  chief  laid  low. 

Chorus. 
We  honour  those  heroic  dead^ 

Their  glorious  memory ; 
May  we  who  stand  here  in  their  stead 

As  wise  and  valiant  be. 

Oh  sure  a  heart  of  stone  would  melt 

The  scenes  once  here  to  see. 
And  witness  all  our  Fathers  felt 

To  leave  their  country  free ; 
They  saw  the  lovely  matron's  cheek 

With  want  and  terror  pale. 
They  heard  their  child's  expiring  shriek 

Float  on  the  passing  gale. 

Chorus. 
Yet  here  they  stood,  in  fire  and  blood. 

As  battle  rag'd  around, 
Resolv'd  to  die  till  Victory 

Their  purple  standard  crown'd. 

The  sacred  rights  these  heroes  gain'd 

In  many  a  nard-fbnght  day. 
Shall  they  by  us  be  still  maintain'd, 

Or  basely  cast  away  ? 
Shall  rebels  vile  rule  o'er  our  Isle> 

And  call  it  all  their  own  ? 
Oh  surely  no,  the  fiuthless  foe 

Must  bend  before  the  throne. 

Chorus. 
Our  lovely  Isle,  once  more  will  smile. 

From  bigot's  fury  free. 
While  baffled  Rome  shall  keep  al  home 

Her  chains  and  slavery. 

HOW  COLD  IT  IS ! 

Vides,  ut  alti  stet  nive  candidmn 
Soracte  :  nee  jam  sustineant  onus 
Sylvse  laborantes,  geluqne 
Flumina  constiterint  acoto  ? 
Hot,  Carm.  1, 9.  AdThaiUarehm, 

XrOW  the  blustering  Boreas  blows. 
See  the  waters  round  are  froze ; 
The  trees  that  skirt  the  dreary  pfain 
All  day  a  murmuring  cry  maintaini ; 
The  trembling  forest  hears  their  moan, 
And  sadly  mingles  groan  with  groan  : 
How  dismal  all  from  East  to  West ! 
Heaven  defend  the  poor  distrest ! 

Such  is  the  tale  on  hiU  and  valsf 
Each  traveller  may  behold  it  ia  \ 

WhiU  Vow  MMi^ui^  «x%\mmi4  Vk  sitl> 


164 


SeliCt'Fo€iry, 


{Feb. 


Lo  I  tlumberinff  Sloths  that  cannot  bear 
The  question  of  the  Marehiqg  air, 
Lifts  up  her  unkempt  head,  and  tries, 
fiat  cannot  fur  her  bondage  rise : 
The  whilst  the  hoosewife  oriskly  throws 
Around  her  wheel,  and  sweetly  shews 
The  healthful  cheek  that  labour  brings, 
Which  is  not  in  the  gift  of  kings. 

To  her  long  life,  devoid  of  strife, 
And  justly,  too,  unfolded  is, 

The  while  the  sloth  to  stir  is  loth. 
And  shivering  cries,  **  How  cold  it  is  !*' 

Now  lisps  Sir  Fopliog, — tender  weed  !— 
All  quaking  like  a  shaken  reed, 
**  How  keen  the  blast  attacks  my  back ! 
John,  place  some  list  u|K>n  that  crack : 
Quick,  sandbag  all  the  sashes  round,    ' 
Go,  see  there  s  not  an  air-hole  found. 
Ah  1  Uees  me  !  still  I  feel  a  breath ; 
Good  lack !  't'ls  like  the  chill  of  death !" 

lodulffence  pale  tells  this  weak  tale, 
mi  he  in  furs  enfolded  is. 

Still,  still,  complains,  for  all  his  pains, 
**  Bless  my  heart.  How  cold  it  is  !" 

Now  the  poor  Newsman  from  the  town 
Explores  his  path  along  the  down, 
His  frozen  fingers  sadly  blows. 
And  still  he  tramps,  and  still  it  snows ; 
Till  cover*d  all  from  head  to  fSeet, 
Like  penance  in  her  whitest  sheet  ;— 
**  Go,  take  his  paper,  Richard,  go, 
And  give  a  dram,  to  make  him  glow." 

Il\is  was  thy  cry.  Humanity, 
More  precious  far  than  gold  it  is. 

Such  gifts  to  deal,  when  newsmen  feel, 
All  clad  in  snow.  How  cold  it  is. 

Humanity !  delightful  tale ! 
While  we  feel  the  winter-gale. 
May  the  peer  in  ermined  coat 
Bend  his  ear  to  sorrow's  note ; 
And  where  with  misery's  weight  opprest 
A  sufferer  sits,  a  shivering  guest. 
Full  ample  let  his  bounty  flow, 
To  soothe  the  bosom  numb'd  with  woe. 

In  town  or  vale,  oirhere'er  the  tale 
Of  real  grief  unfolded  is, 

Oh !  may  he  give  the  means  to  live 
To  those  who  know  How  cold  it  is. 

Perhaps  some  Warrior,  blind  and  lam'd. 
Some  dauntless  Tar  for  Britain  maim'd,— 
Consider  these  ;  for  thee  they  bore 
The  loss  of  limb,  and  ventured  more : 
Oh !  pass  them  not ;  or,  if  ye  do, 
I'll  sigh  to  think  they  fought  for  you. 
Go  !  Fity  all  i  but,  ^bove  the  rest. 
The  Soldier  or  the  Tar  distrest. 

Through  winter's  reign,  relieve  their  paii^ 
For  what  they've  done,  sure,  bold  it  is ; 

Their  wants  supply,  whene'er  they  orr, 
<«God  blesi  as,  Sirs !  How  cold  it  is  1" 

Stiod  forth!  Ya  tl^ggtrds,  sloths,  and 
beamE! 
Who  dnad  tbft  Doto  that  WiirrM  blows  . 


Adopt  tha  eornnel  of  afrieDd, 
Unless  the  voice  of  truth  offlnid. 
While  Nature  deals  her  frosts  around. 
Face  the  pure  air,  and  pace  the  ground ; 
Keep  early  hours  and  exercise : 
Therein  Health's  balmy  blessing  lies. 

On  hill  and  dale,  though  brisk  the  gale. 
Though  sleety  you  behold  it  is. 

Your  blood  shall  glow,  your  spirits  flow. 
And  you'll  ne'er  cry,  •<  How  cold  it  is  !" 

Chelsea.  Paul  Pry. 

SONNETS, 

From  a  New  Ediiion  of  Sonnets  and 
other  Poems,  By  D.  L.  Richardson.  In 
the  Press, 

\,   To  A  Lady  at  the  Harp. 

/^H !  breathe  melodious  Minstrel,  once 
again 

Thy  soul- en  trancing  song!  responsive  tears 

Attest  thy  power.  Thy  gentle  voice  ap- 
pears 

Like  sounds  of  summer's  eve,  or  some  sweet 
strain 

That  wildly  haunts  the  visionary  brain. 

Or  charms  the  slumbering  mourner;  va- 
nished years. 

That  Time's  dim  twilight  hallows  and  en- 
dears, 

Return,  like  shadows,  o'er  the  trembling 
main 

Beneath  the  lunar  beam.    Then  waken  still 

Those  magic  notes,  with  more  than  music 
fraught, — 

Angelic  harmonies  !  Each  echo  seems 

A  spell  firoro  Heaven  by  skill  celestial 
wrought 

To  cheer  the  clouded  mind,  the  sad  heart 
thrill 

With  sacred  meniories,and  delightful  dreams ! 

H.      LONOOV    IN    THE   MORNINO. 

fHE  Morning  wakes,  and  through  the 

misty  air. 
In  sickly  radiance  struggles  like  the  dream  * 
Of  sorrow -shrouded  hope. — O'er  Tharoes's 

stream. 
Whose  sluggish  waves  a  loathsome  burden 


The  bloated  Gty's  refuse — the  feint  glare 

Of  early  sunlight  spreads — the  long  streets 
seem 

Unpeopled  yet :  but  soon  each  path^  shall 
teem 

With  hurried  steps  and  visages  of  care ! 

And  eager  throngs  shall  meet,  where  crowd- 
ed marts 

Edbo  with  minted  sounds,  too  of^  fraught 

With  pain  and  strife-— alas !  how  many  hearts 

The  lust  of  gold  may  taint,  'tUl  aad^ 
taittht 

The  countless  pangs  its  spurioos  charm  im- 
paru. 

The  finer  splrtt  icorai  the  pritt  it  tonght. 


1887.] 


t    1«    3 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS    IN    PARLIAMENT. 


F^b,  8.  The  two  Houses  met  this  dvf, 
panuaDt  to  adjournmeoty  and  were  chiefly 
occupied  with  receiving  Petitions  respect- 
iog  the  Catholic  Question  and  Corn  Bill, 
numbers  of  which  have  been  daily  presented 
to  the  Parliament. 


Houss  OF  Lords,  Feb,  19. 

The  Earl  of  Liverpool,  after  postponing 
his  motion  on  the  Com  Question,  moved 
an  Address  of  Condolence  to  his  Msiesty> 
on  the  lamented  death  of  the  Duke  of  York, 
and  made  a  recapitulation  of  some  of  the 
more  prominent  public  virtues  of  the  illus- 
trious Prince,  adverting  slif^btly  ,  but  feel- 
ingly, to  his  many  sroiable  private  qualities. 

Hie  same  day,  in  the  House  op  Com- 
mons, Mr.  Peel  moved  an  Address  of  Con- 
dolence similar  to  that  agreed  to  in  the 
House  of  Lords.    The  Right  Hon.  Gent, 
qaoting  the  last  words  he  bad  heard  firom 
the  dcNceased  Prince,  asked  to  compare  the 
state  of  the  Army  disembarked  the  other 
day  at  Lisbon,  with  that  of  the  troops  which 
landed  at  Ostend  in   1794.     For  the  kind- 
liness of  demeanor,  urbanity,  and  unimpeach- 
able impartiality,  which  the  Duke  of  York 
had  maintained  towards  all  men  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  his  office,  he  appealed  to  the 
many  members  around  him  wno  had  them- 
selves had  experience  of  his  excellent  qua- 
lities.    In  conclusion,  he  called  upon  the 
House  to  express  its  sympathy  with  the  sor- 
rows of  Him  who  had  lost  the  companion  of 
his   io&ncy — the  partner  of  his  youthful 
sports  and  studies— and  the  friend  of  his  whole 
life ;  and  at  the  same  time,  to  mark  their 
estimation  of  him  whom  they  had  all  lost— 
of  him  who  had  toiled  so  long,  bo  zealously, 
and  so  successfully  in  the  public  service,  and 
,   in  that  long  periixl  bad  never  broken  a  pro- 
mise— never  resented  a  personal  injury — and 
never  deserted   a  friend.  —  Mr.  Brougham 
and  Sir  Robert  ff^ilson  bore  ready  testimony 
to  the  justice  of  all  that  had  been  said  in 
praise  of  the  illustrious  Prince ;  and  the  Ad- 
dress was  unanimously  agreed  to. 

House  o?  Commons,  Feb,  15. 

Mr.  fVUmoi  Hortan  moved  for  a  Cum- 
jBittee  to  take  into  consideration  the  expe- 
jdieiu^  of  adopting  an  extenslTC  system  of 
£miomation>  to  relieve  the  redundant  po- 
imlation  of  the  United  Kingdom.  He  be- 
g^a  with  a  brief  history  of  the  former  £mi- 
mtioD  Connnittee,  aoid  proceeded  to  detail 
^iMultoftlM  UibUmI  arpMiiMBt  frhiob 


bad  been  made  under  the  recommendation^ 
which  result  be  showed  had  been  so  soc- 
cessfnl  in  every  relation,  that  il  called  fbrth 
the  thanks  as  well  of  the  emigrants  as  of  the 
previous  inhabiUoU  of  the  country  to  which 
they  had  been  transmitted.     He  adverted 
Tery  fully  to  the  sUte  of  IreUnd,  which,  be 
asserted,  presented  no  possible  chance  of 
amelioration  but  througb  the  removal  of  a 
great  part  of  her  present  unemployed  popu- 
lation.— Mr.  James  GrdtUm   opposed  the 
motion,  on  the  ground  that  the  money  re- 
quisite to  remove  the  number  of  emigrants 
necessary  to  produce  any  sensible  alleviation 
could  be  much   more  advantageously  em- 
ployed at  home  ;  and  moved,  as  an  amend- 
'  ment,  "That  the  state  of  distress  which 
exists  in  this  country  now,  and  has  existed 
for  some  time,  calls  for  a  remedy  fkr  djffnr- 
ent  from  any  that  can  arise  from  the  re- 
newal of  the  committee  tm  emigration."-* 
Mr.  Peel  professed  to  hold  an  intermediata 
belief  between  the  sanguine  expectation  of 
some  gentlemen  and  the  despair  of  others. 
He  had  no  doubt  that  the  removal  of  a  part 
of  the  redundant  population  would  be  a  very 
happy  change  for  themselves  and  for  those 
from  whose  immediate  neighbourhood  they 
should  remove  ;  but  to  render  the  measure 
one  of  national  benefit,  it  must  be  carried  on 
upon  a  great  scale,  and  at  a  vast  expense, 
llie  motion  was  carried  without  <a  division^ 
and  a  committee  appointed. 

Housi  or  Lords,  Feb,  16. 

In  consequence  of  his  Majesty  having 
sent  a  Message  to  Parliament  respecting  an 
additional  provision  for  the  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  Qarence,  the  Earl  of  Liverpool 
moved  an  address  expressing  the  acqniese- 
ence  of  the  House.  He  stated  that  the 
proposed  addition  to  his  Royal  Higbness's 
income  was  a  jointure  of  6,000/.  per  annum 
to  the  Duchess,  with  a  grant  of  8,000<. 
per  annum  to  the  Duke,  whtch,  with  S,000£. 

Srr  annum,  to  which  he  is  entitled  from  the 
oke  of  York's  death,  would  form  a  total 
increase  of  19,000/.  per  annum  upon  the 
Duke's  present  income  of  about  96,000/.-^ 
a  provision,  he  submitted,  by  no  means  too 
liberal  for  the  Prince  next  in  probable  suc- 
cession to  the  Throne. — The  Address  was 
mnmimously  agreed  to. 

In  the  House  or  Commons,  the  above 
grant  to  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Clareneey 
on  the  motion  of  the  OumceUor  qfihn  fiat- 
ehetfuer^  nu  cuiM  V3  %  xua^xt^  ^  \^ 
to  75.  * 


[   les  3 


[Feb. 


FOREIGN   NEWS- 


FRANCE. 


The  Paris  ptpen  have  been  occnpied  by 
discussions  on  a  projected  law  to  restrain, 
or  rather  to  crush,  the  liberty  of  the  press. 
The  measure  is  decidedly  unpopular  and  im- 
politic. All  the  literati  are  arrayed  against 
ity  and  three  distinguished  leaders  of  the 
French  Academy,  M.  M.  Michaud,  Lacre- 
telle,  and  Vileman,  have  been  deprived  of 
ihair  readerships  to  the  King,  for  support- 
ing, at  the  Academy,  a  proposition  describ- 
ing the  alarms  of  menaced  literature.  The 
first  is  an  editor  of  the  Quotidienne. 

A  petition  from  M.  de  Montlosler  against 
the  Jesuists,  presented  to  the  Chamber  of 
Peers,  was  met  by  a  motion  to  proceed  to 
the  order  of  the  day.  This  motion  was  de- 
feated by  a  majority  of  one  hundred  and 
thirteen  to  seventy-three,  and  the  petition 
was  ordered  to  be  referred  to  the  branch  of 
the  ministry,  to  whose  cognizance  it  be- 
longed. Tnis  decision  must  be  very  disa- 
greeable to  the  Court.  The  truth  seems  to 
he  that  the  French  Chamber  consider  the 
Jesuists  too  devoted  to  the  Court  of  Rome 
to  render  their  influence  very  desirable. 

A  singular  difficulty  asitates  the  new-made 
nobility  of  France.  When  the  armies  of 
Napoleon  spread  themselves  over  Europe, 
lie  took  the  liberty  of  granting  titles  to  his 
Generals:  some  taken  from  the  names  of 
fields  of  battle,  some  from  the  towns  and 
provinces  of  which  he  had  temporary  posses- 
sion. The  Austrian  Court  refuses  to  recog- 
nize those  titles  which  are  taken  from  towns 
or  provinces  of  its  own  dominions  ;  acknow- 
ledging, however,  those  which  merely  com- 
memorate victories,  as  Wagram,  Ks&ling, 
and  so  forth. — The  Dukes  of  DaJraatia,  Ra- 
gttsa,  Belluno,  and  some  otherj  are  thus 
dia-tilled  by  Austria,  though  their  titles  are 
confirmed  by  the  restored  Government  of 
FnuBce. 

A  deplorable  event  happened  on  the  8  th, 
•t  Rouen.  Mr.  Drake,  an  Fnelishman,  50 
years  of  age,  was  on  his  way  irom  London 
to  Paris,  with  3  rattle  snakes  and  some 
young  crocodiles.  Notwithstanding  the  pre- 
cautions he  had  taken  to  secure  them  against 
the  cold,  the  finest  of  the  three  serpents 
was  dead  on  his  arrival.  The  two  others, 
appearing  very  languid,  were  placed  in  their 
cage  near  the  stove.  Mr.  Drake  thinking 
that  one  of  them  seemed  dead,  waa  so  im- 
pnideat  at  to  take  it  and  carry  it  to  the 
window.  Suddenly  the  creature  revived, 
and  bit  him  on  the  left  hand  in  two  places. 
Ut  ran  into  the  court-yard,  and  rubbed  the 
voande  with  ice,  and  bound  a  cord  round 
th«  arm  just  above  the  wrist.  Dr.  Pihorel 
was  immediately  seat  fi)r,  and  at  Drake's 
desire  cauterized  the  wounds  in  a  manner 
udb/c/i  judde  the  specUton  tremble.    Drake 


took  half  a  glass  of  olive  oil,  and  for  a  short 
time  seemed  easy,  bnt  fiital  symptoms  ap- 
peared, and  he  died  in  eight  hours  and  three 
quarters  after  the  accident.  Dr.  Fihorel 
will  send  a  deu'ded  account  of  the  case  to 
the  Royal  Academy  of  Medicine. 

SPAIN  AND  PORTUGAL. 

The  arrangement  with  Spain,  for  the  set- 
tlement of  the  British  claims,  was  finally 
agreed  to  in  Paris,  on  the  4th  Feb.  It  will 
be  e£Fected  by  an  issue  of  debentures  for  the 
sam  of  3,000,000/1  sterling,  bearing  in- 
terest at  the  rate  of  5jper  cent,  per  annum, 
payable  half  yearly  in  London. 

Letters  from  Madrid  of  the  25th  of  Jan. 
give  the  details  of  a  battle  in  the  province 
of  Beira,  between  the  insurgents  under  the 
Marquis  de  Chaves  and  the  constitutionalists 
under  the  command  of  Count  de  Villa 
Flor.  The  former  consisted  of  1 1 ,000  men, 
and  the  latter  of  about  7,000.  Victory  was 
warmly  disputed  daring  the  whole  day,  but 
the  report  of  the  landing  of  the  English 
troops,  with  the  addition,  that  they  had 
immediately  marched  for  Beira,  caused  a 
panic  terror  in  the  camp  of  the  Marquis  de 
Chaves.  The  officers  and  commanders  them- 
selves, except  Count  Caneltas,  were  the 
first  to  take  to  flight.  The  soldiers  followed, 
and  a  great  number  of  them  went  over  to 
the  enemy.  When  they  reached  Almeida, 
the  fugitives  were  beginning  to  rally,  when 
almost  the  whole  corps  of  Magessi,  hear- 
ing of  the  amnesty  published  by  the  Re- 
gent, went  in  a  body  to  give  themselves  up 
to  the  Count  de  Villa  Flor.  The  remainder 
were  terrified,  and  fled  to  the  Spanish  ter- 
titory,  where,  in  a  tumultuous  assembly 
the  Marquis  de  Chaves  was  deprived  of  the 
chief  command,  which  was  given  to  Vis- 
count Montealegre,  who  was  able  to  collect 
but  little  more  than  1,000  men,  with  whom 
he  is  said  to  have  re-entered  Portugal  by 
Tras-os-Montes.  Another  acconnt  states 
that  the  Marquis  and  Marchioness  of  Chaves, 
General  Jordao,  and  the  Governor  of  Al- 
meida, escaped  with  800  men,  and  re-en- 
tered Spain.  Eight  hundred  men  of  the 
Spanish  garrison  of  Ciudad  Rodrigo  nuirched 
to  meet  them,  in  order  to  disarm  them,  but 
gave  them  time  to  re-pass  the  Douro,  and 
return  into  Portugal  by  the  Province  of 
Tras-os-Montes.  Mr.  Lamb,  the  English 
Ambassador,  complained  of  this  conduct  to 
the  Spanish  Government,  and  in  conse- 
quence General  Longa,  the  Governor  of 
Ciudad  Rodrigo,  and  the  Commander  of 
the  detachment,  have  been  suspended  from 
their  functions,  and  all  three  hnrooght  befbre 
a  Court  Martial. 

By  intelligence  of  more  recent  date  than 
the  preceding,  it  appenn  that  tlie  rebeh 


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bad  rallift],  sad  ptottimted  to  within  19  or 
16  mites  of  Oporto ;  thb  unexpected  move* 
uedt,  it  teems,  was  made  in  consequence  of 
Count  Villa  Flor  bein;^  employed,  with  hb 
forces,  in  covering  Beira,  bat  he  having 
immediately  moved  down  to  cover  the  city, 
and  re-iuforce  the  garrison,  all  apprehen- 
aions  had  subsided  as  to  the  ultimate  opera- 
tions of  the  rebels. 

The  British  army  nnder  the  command  of 
GenehJ  Clinton,  had  marched  from  Lisbon 
for  Coimbra,  which  was  to  be  their  head* 
quarters,  and  where  they  were  to  arrive  by 
the  16th.  It  was  considered  that  bv  the 
10th  Inst,  there  would  not  be  a  Britisn  sol- 
dier in  Lisbon,  except  thole  in  the  dej>ot9 
and  in  the  hospitals.  A  Proclamation  from 
the  War  Department,  issued  in  the  name  of 
the  Infanta  Princess  Regent,  on  the  6th, 
announces  the  departure  of  our  brave  fel- 
lows, and  expresses  the  confident  hope  of 
the  Princess  tnat  in  every  part  of  the  interior 
where  they  may  arrive,  their  '*  order  and 
propriety'*  will  **  renew  the  same  ties  of  fra- 
ternity which,  during  the  Peninsular  war, 
united  the  Portuguese  and  English  army  into 
This  Proclamation   speaks  also  in 


one. 


high  terms  of  the  discipline  and  regularity 
of  the  British  troops  while  they  remained  ia 
the  capital. 

BATAVIA. 

About  the  1st  of  October  a  battle  took 
place  between  the  Dutch  forces,  commanded 
by  General  Van  Green  (who  is  second  in 
command,  and  next  to  General  de  Kock, 
the  Lieutenant  Ckivemor  and  Commander-in 
Chief),  and  the  insurgents,  commanded  by 
Djopo  Nagoro,  when  the  Dutch  forces  were 


beaten  and  totally  umibilatad.  The  Geo«^ 
ml  only  saved  his  life  by  hiding  hiniself,  and 
returned  to  Samarang  without  a  single  M* 
lower.  The  battle  wss  fought  between  Solar 
and  Samarang.  When  the  accoant  canw 
away,  every  exertion  was  making  for  thw 
removal  of  property.  Palambang,  on  th« 
coast  of  Sumatra,  which  caused  the  Dntdi 
so  much  blood  and  treasure,  is  again  in  tber 
hand*  of  the  natives.  Unfortunately,  of  tbff 
two  line  of  baule  ships  lately  seat  by  the 
mother  country  with  troops,  one,  the  Wat- 
sasner,  was  totally  wrecked,  and  the  other  to 
much  injured  as  to  be  obliged  to  return. 

SOUTH  AMERICA. 

Tlie  intelligence  firom  Colombia  is  im- 
portant. Bolivar  entered  Bogota,  the  ca- 
pital, on  the  14th  November,  and  ww 
received  with  enthusiasm.  On  his  way  from 
Peru,  he  had  pacified  the  departments  of 
the  South,  which  had  been  the  occasion 
of  delaying  his  progress.  The  Charge 
d' Affaires  of  Great  Britain,  Mexico,  and 
the  United  States,  were  presented  to  hiu 
on  the  14th,  on  which  occasion  he  begged 
Col.  Campbell  *<  to  make  known  to  tha. 
British  Government,  the  profound  feeliagv 
of  admiration  he  entertained  for  the  great 
Monarch,  and  the  great  people,  who  em- 
ployed the  omnipotence  of  their  arms  in  the 
promotion  of  freedom." — It  appears,  that  ob: 
the  25th  Bolivar  left  Bogota,  for  Venezuela^ 
the  only  department  where  dissension  then 
existed,  and  where,  there  was  evevy  reason 
to  hope,  his  fpresence  and  influence  would* 
succeed  in  the  perfect  restoration  of  tfan-' 
quillity. 


DOMESTIC   OCCiJRRENCES. 


IRELAND. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Irish  Erluca- 
tioa  Society  took  place  in  Kildare- Street, 
Dublin,  on  the  8d  instant,  the  Earl  of 
Longford  in  the  Chair.  From  the  report, 
whicn  is  a  most  gratifying  and  interesting 
document,  it  appears  that  education  In  Ire* 
land  is  extending  to  a  degree  far  beyond 
what  ia  generally  imagined.  When  the  so- 
ciety was  formed,  in  1811,  there  were  in 
that  country  only  4,600  schools,  with 
900,000  scholars; — in  1834  they  bad  in- 
cneased  to  11,883  schools,  and  560,000 
scholan— an  augmentation  in  18  years,  not 
very  fiat  from  three-fold.  It  seems  that  not 
only  IB  education  advancing,  but  also  a  de- 
aire  for  scriptnral  knowledge.  Out  of  these 
*  ll»883  schools*  the  bifade  is  read  in  no 
fbrer  than  6,058,  of  which  4179  are  con- 
dacted  by  teachen  (many  of  theqp  Catho- 
lici)  whoUj  imfatieTedy  and  dependant  for 
lopport  on  the  ftsmiU  oi  th§k  pnpih,  who 


cannot  therefore  be  opposed  to  inch  i»* 
Btruction.  The  Association  has  already  con- 
ferred the  most  important  henefifia  upon- 
Ireland  ;  and,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  as  the  a^ 
lumnies  of  its  opponents  have  been  ia.sr 
great  measure  silenced,  will  continue  to  diS. 
Uut,  through  that  unfortunate  country,  tha* 
advantages  of  a  religious  and  rooial  ed»» 
cation. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY. 
THE  DUKE  OF  YORK. 
The  Provisional  Committee  for  erecting 
a  National  Monument  to  the  Duke  of  York, 
met  on  the  9  th  inat.  at  the  rooms  of  tha 
Royal  Union  Association,  when  letters  from 
numerous  distinguished  Noblemen,  eager  to .     t 
participate  in  the  honor  of  promoting  tfaia 
national  object,  were  read.     It  was  datet« 
mined  that  the  work  %KwM  Vta  «x%tt^\Ai6k V| 
Britiab  AitMU»  ua^i  i!^  lui^w  A\«ai6«aaia  «1 
a  Cpmittktta  ayeimitod  ^y^  ^^  i>Aiaaitftw%«^ 


168 


Anecdoits  of  the  Duke  of  York. 


[Feb. 


U  mt  ratolved  uuKumoutly,  that  Lord  Our- 
Wkry  should  be  added  to  the  Committee, 
and  that  Lieutenant-General  John  Slade, 
who  had  forwarded  a  tubicription  of  100^ 
should  be  requested  to  act  with  the  other 
distiognished  individuals,  whose  services  were 
thiu  engaged.  Arrangements  were  then 
saade  for  a  general  invitation  to  the  friends 
of  the  undertaking  to  hold  meetings  in  va- 
rious places,  particularly  in  Ireland,  in  aid  of 
the  subscription ;  and,  with  a  view  to  render 
the  measure  truly  national,  it  was  finally 
rasolved,  that  it  was  best  consulting  the 
feelings  of  the  public  to  make  the  subscrip- 
tion unlimited,  and  to  receive  the  smallest 
amounts  tendered. 

On  the  96th  inst.  a  public  meeting  was 
held  at  the  Freemasons'  Tavern,  Great 
Queen-street  (the  Duke  of  Wellington  in 
the  Chair),  to  take  into  consideration  the 
best  means  for  promoting  the  above  object. 
The  meeting  was  numerously  attended  by 
nulitary  men  of  the  highest  rank,  sod  a 
aeries  of  resolutions  were  adopted  for  for- 
warding the  necessary  subscriptions. 

The  following  anecdotes  of  the  lamented 
Duke  of  York  we  have  considered  worth 
selecting  from  the  many  that  have  recently 
appiwred  in  tlie  public  papers : 

The  first,  is  an  illustration  of  the  reten- 
tiveness  of  his  memory,  as  well  as  the  good- 
ness of  his  heart.  Some  years  ago,  his 
Boyal  Highness  being  on  a  visit  at  the  Earl 
of  Westmoreland's  seat,  at  Apethorpe,  a 
basket  of  figs  was  sent  by  a  gentleman  at 
Oundle,  who  knew  that  the  noble  Earl  had 
not  any  in  his  gardens.  The  messenger  was 
a  helper  in  the  stables  of  the  gentleman  at 
Oundle,  and  had  formerly  been  a  dragoon 
in  the  army  in  France,  commanded  by  ihe 
Duke  of  York.  On  his  near  approach  to 
Apethorpe  House,  the  Duke  passed  him  in 
his  carriage ;  bis  Royal  Highness  imme- 
diately recognised  him,  stopped  his  carriage, 
and  said,  **  1  know  you,  my  man."  **  Yes," 
•aid  the  old  soldier,  *<  and  I  know  your 
Royal  Highness :  I  was  your  orderly  when  I 
was  in  the  — ^—  regiment,  fighting  under 
you  in  France."  *'  Good  fellow,^'  added 
the  Duke,  '*  I  remember  you — call  on  me 
to-morrow."  The  last  time  his  Royal 
Highness  had  seen  him  was  a  gieat  many 
years  before ;  the  man  had  been  wounded  in 
several  places,  and  when  he  had  got  home 
was  dtschareed  on  a  pension.  I'he  veteran, 
faithful  to  bis  appointment,  called  on  the 
Duke  next  day  at  Apethorpe,  and  was  at 
first  refiised  by  the  footmen,  who  were  as- 
tonished at  his  demand  of  seeing  the  Royal 
naitor ;  but  he  knew  too  well  the  value  of 
obedience  to  orders,  and  at  length  succeeded 
ia  his  object.  The  Commander-in-Chief 
received  him  with  kindness  as  an  old  com- 
panion in  arms,  gave  him  three  guineas, 
Motf  hw  hu  roodescendiag  manner  delighted 
/WW  fVoodcack,  who  k  9$iU  Ufing  ia  Oiuidle. 


About  the  year  1810,  his  Roval  Highness 
was  raviewing,  ia  company  wim  his  present 
Majesty,  the  troops  of  the  eastern  district, 
oa  Lexden-heath,  near  Colchester,  when 
an  old  soldier,  mounted  on  an  old  hack, 
was  observed  by  his  Majesty,  who  requested 
to  be  informed  who  he  was.  The  Com- 
numder-in-Chief  replied — **  Why,  it  is  old 
Andrews,  the  oldest  soldier  in  the  service, 
having  served  in  the  reigns  of  George  the 
Flntt  Second,  and  Third,  and  now  on  half- 
pay."  An  Aide-de-Camp  was  immediately 
despatched  for  the  veteran's  attends  nee,  and 
a  long  conversation  ensued,  of  which  the 
following  forms  part :— **  How  old  are  you, 
Andrews,  and  how  long  have  you  been  in 
tlie  service?"  said  the  Duke.  «  Why, 
your  Royal  Highness,  I  am  now  ninety 
years  old,  and  have  been  in  the  service  about 
70  years."  But  his  Royal  Highness,  seeing 
he  was  dressed  in  sn  old  suit  of  regimentals, 
asked  how  long  he  had  them  ?  **  Why, 
your  Highness,  about  forty  years ;"  at  which 
his  Royal  Highness  took  up  the  skirt  of  his 
coat  for  the  purpose  of  feeling  its  texture, 
remarked  that  such  cloth  was  not  made  now- 
a-days. — **  No,"  replied  the  old  veteran, 
"  nor  such  men  either."  The  reply  so 
pleased  his  Roy  si  Highness  and  His  Ma- 
jesty, that  the  old  veteran  was  placed  from 
tiiat  day  on  full  |>ay,  making  the  remainder 
of  his  days  comfortable.  He  died  at  the 
advanced  age  of  97,  and  was  buried  in  the 
church-yard  of  St.  Mary's,  Colchester. 

A  short  time  after  the  death  of  the  Duchess 
of  York,  his  Ruyal  Highness  arriving  at  the 
Palace,  observed  the  house-keeper  turn 
away  a  miserable-looking  woman,  without 
giving  her  any  thing.  He  inquired  who  she 
was.  The  house-keeper  answered  that  she 
was  **  a  beggar,  a  soldier's  wife."  **  What," 
rejoined  his  Royal  Highness,  **  snd  what 
was  your  mistress  but  a  soldier's  wife  ?" 

As  a  proof  of  the  Duke's  attention  to  the 
o£Fspring  of  old  officers — there  is  an  officer 
now  quartered  at  Chatham,  who  laid  before 
his  Royal  Highness  the  commissions  of  his 
ancestors,  sigued-by  King  Charles  I.  and  H., 
King  William  Hi.,  Queen  Anne,  King 
George  I.  and  H.,  and  one  given  to  his 
great-grandfather  on  the  field  at  the  battle 
of  Aughrim,  signed  by  General  de  Ginkell, 
dated  1691.  His  Royal  Highness  imme- 
diately appointed  him  to  an  Ensigncy. 
Tliis  officer  joined  his  regiment  in  Spain, 
and  was  severely  wounded  at  the  battles  of 
the  Pyrenees,  and  Toulouse. 

A  young  and  promising  officer,  named 
Drew,  a  native  of  the  county  of  Clare,  who 
had  served  during  a  Threat  part  of  the  Penin- 
sular campaign,  oad  the  misfortune  to  lose 
his  left  arm  in  the  memorable  battle  of  Sa- 
lamanca ;  for  which  he  was  invalided,  with 
the  half-pay  of  Laeutenant,  and  compensa- 
Uon  fot  the  loss  of  the  limb.  Mr.  D.  was 
nol  one  of  those  who  love  **  inglorious 


IWJ  An€cdoi€s  of.  the  Duke  of  York.  ii59 


"  liat,  fooo  after  hit  retam  to  Bmg'  Bkke-strwt,  waited  on  the  Colonel  to  re* 

ItM,  he  made  several  uieffectaal  apptiea-  onest  that  thej  might  be  allowed  to  attead 

tiona  to  be  placed  once  more  on  active  ler-  onapel  on  the  Sandaj  forenoon.    This  i^. 

Yice.    Chance  unexpectedly  broiwht   him  teriered  with  some   arrangements  of  tb» 

Older  the  notice  ef  the  Duke  of  York,  and  regiment*  and  leave  wm  politely  refnsef^ 

eventoallv  led  to  the  accomprishment  of  his  but  the  Colonel'  said  they  should  attend  in 

hopes.     In  his  early  liie,  Mr.  Drew  wss  le-  the  afternoon.    As,  however,  by  attending. 

markaUe  for  his  skill  in  horsemanship,  and  only  on  that  part  of  the  day,  the  most  lOK 

thmt  now  constituted  his  chief  amusement,  portent  part  of  the  service  of  the  Roma» 

Riding  through  the  park  one  morning,  he  church,  high  mass,  could  not  be  heardf. 

perceived  the  Commander-in-Chief  comug  Mr.  Rayment  wrote  to  the  Commander-in- 

towards  him  in  the  ride  ;  though  mounted  Chief,  and  the  next  Sunday  every  man  wm 

on  a  mettlesome  and  rather  unmanageable  at  chapel. 

animal,  Mr.  Drew  placed  the  reins  in  his  Among  'the  many  .other  institutions  nf 
mouth,  took  off  his  hat,  and  gracefully  sa-  public  charity  which  his  mincely  munificenoe 
luted  his  Royal  Highness,  whe  was  so  struck  patronised,  in  1 788  his  Royal  Highness  be- 
not  only  with  the  fine  appearance  of  the  came,  by  the  usual  qualification,  a  Governor 
**  young  veteran,'*  but  with  the  singularly  of  the  Smallpox  Hospital  at  Pancras ;  and 
elegant  manner  in  which  the  action  was  per-  af^rwards,  upon  the  death  of  the  late  Dukn 
formed,  that  he  directed  one  of  the  officers  of  Leeds  in  1799,  acceeded  to  the  solicitn- 
to  inquire  the  gentleman's  name,  &c.  The  tion  of  that  Society,  by  beconune  the  Preai- 
card  of  Lieut.  Drew,  half-pay,  was  returned,  dent.  He  almost  invariably  took  the  Chair 
and,  by  the  Duke's  desire,  the  young  soldier  at  the  annual  Festival,  and  presented  at  eadi 
was  commanded  to  attend  the  next  Military  of  them,  during  seventeen  successive  yearly 
Levee  at  the  Horse  Guards.  After  a  formal  his  generous  l^oefibction  of  100  guineu. 
introduction,  the  Royal  Duke  entered  fami-  Wheiiever  be  presided  at  the  General  Courta, 
llarly  into  eonversation  with  Mr.  D.,  as  to  he  never  &iled  to  close  the  details  of  those 


witnessmg 

the  remuneration  was  more  thaif  equal  to  his  the  tenderness  and  humanity  of  his  disposi- 

deserts,  but  at  the  same  time  modestly  hinted,  tion. 

that  he  had  yet  an  arm  which  could  wield  a  His  Royal  Highness's  skill  as  a  sporta- 
sword  in  defence  of  his  King  and  country,  man  is  well  known.  lu  the  season  of  1843-4- 
and  that,  if  his  appointment  to  active  ser-  he  wis  in  vigorous  health,  and  extremely 
vice  was  compatible  with  military  etiquette,  fortunate  in  all  his  shooting  parties ;  parti- 
he  would  consider  himself  peculiarly  fa-  cularly  on  Saturday,  the  84 tn  of  January, 
vonred.  The  Commander-in-Chief  made  no  1824,  at  the  seat  of  the  Earl  of .  Verularo* 
comment  on  this  address  at  the  moment,  in  H^furdsbire,  when  his  Royal  HighneM 
but  the  appointment  of  Mr.  Drew  to  a  com-  killed  98  pheasants,  besides  other  game, 
pany  in  the  84th  Foot  appeared  in  the  next  The  Duke  continued  the  pursuit  of  his  sport 
Gazette.  till  dark,  as  was  his  Royal  Highness's 
The  following  circumstance  was  related  custom,  and  afterwards  dined  with  the  Earl 
by  Mr.  Lawless  at  a  meeting  of  the  Roman  and  Countess,  stopped  to  an  evenine  party. 
Catholic  Association  in  Dublin.  Mr.M'Der-  and  left  between  one  and  two  o'clock  fur 
mott,  a  Roman  Catholic  of  respectabili^,  London,  where  he  airived  on  Sunday  mom- 
and  who  had  been  formerly  in  the  army,  had  ing  about  four  o'clock,  and  attended  divinti 
two  sons  who  were  very  well  educated.  He  service  at  the  Chapel  Royal,  at  twelve 
wrote  a  letter  to  his  Royal  Highness,  stat-  o'clock. 

ing,  that  owing  to  adverse  circumstances  he  The  appointment  of  the  Dukb  op  Wbl- 

had  been  reduced  considerably  in  his  fortune,  linoton  as  Commander-in-Chief,  was  ac- 

and  that  his  two  sons  were  extremely  anxious  companied  by  the  following  General  Order, 

to  get  into  the  army.     He  referred  ihe  which  does  the  highest  honour  to  the  head 

NoUe  Duke  to  respectable  authorities,  for  and  heart  of  the  illustrious  personage  by 

n  verification  of  his  statement.     He  receiv-  whom  it  has  been  issued : — 

ed,  by  return  of  post,  a  letter  from  the  *'  Horse  GtuirdSf  Tuesday  Nighty 

Duke's  Secretary,  statmg  that  an  inquiry  Jan,  23,  1827. 

ahould  be  made  into  the  circumstances  olF  **  The  last  duties  having  been  paid  to  the 

tite  case.    The  inquiry  was  immediately  in-  remains  of  his  Royal  Highness  the  Dukb  or 

atituted — the  dots  were  found  to  be  as  York,  the  late  Commander-m-Chief,  the 

atated,  and  the  two  young  gentlemen  were  King  deems  it  right  to  oonvey  to  the  Army 

forthwith  u>pointed  to  Commissions.  an  expression  of  the  melancholy  satisfiwtion 

When  m  13th  Regiment  was  quartered  which  His  Muesty  derives  from  the  deep 

in  York,  the  greater  part  of  the  men  were  feeling  of  grief  manifested  by  every  class  of 

Roman  Catholics ;  and  Mr.  Rayment,  the  the  Military  Profession,   in  common  with 

priest  who  officiates  at  tlie  cliapel  in  Little  his  people  at  large,  under  the  great  calamity 

Gbmt.  Mao.  Feltuary^  1827.  with  which  it  has  pleased  the  Almlf^jht^  V^ 

10 


t 

it»                         Amedohs  if  the  JD^kt  •f  K^rlr.  [j^b. 

tflli<si  tk*  tItt&Mi  ind  hm  MMtmr-^vUii*  Jbm  Issaitod  betwiMi  tbft  IMt  of  York  ana 

Mty  whMi  hm  4earivtd  tin  Cuown  of  tm  Imiy  BaUranl  firon  UMit  time  to  the  period 

of  itt  nidtt  vd^Mble  mi  dntinffOMfatd  Ser-  vf  hb  Royal  HighiMM'e  death.    At  iho  in- 

tints,  and  HJi  Maitmr  of  a  MoTisd  cad  tartiev  wkieh  took  jplaeo  betwoaa  hit  Ma- 

nAsfetiflllftl^  Brother.  faitj  iod  hia  Ro^l  ArMhtr,    a  few  days 

The  KiHO  doet  Mt  tfcink  it  necAiMfy  to  before  the  Diihe  of  York*i  deaths  hit  Roval 

dwielt  tijpoii  the  pfe^^MtoiiMBt  laerita  of  tlio  Uigkoete  ve^uettfed  thlit  hit  Majetty  wouldi 

hM  DvKX  Of  YWkKi  Hk  MtJierY  knoWa  h  the  event  of  hit  dhorder  proTiafr  faul, 

that  tbeae  i^  imptetigd  on  the  mhidi  aad  tend  a  loek  of  hit  Rojid  Highaeta*t  hair  to 

entraten  on  the  heaitt  of  Hit  Muiirv't  her  Ladphin  in  token  of  hit  frieadthip  and 

SMAert.    Hit    Majmtt   detiret    it    ma^  aiitetieo.    m%  M^etty  hat  forwarded  the 

ttierely  he  cHweried  thut  t^  able  ndnrinatfar  hair  to  Lady  fiathviet  at  the  Albion  Hotel, 

tioi^  of  the  command  held  by  hit  late  Rove!  at  BrighMm. 

Iliglweta  #«r  a  long  conrte  of  yean,   hit  Febk  ft.  The  Whole  of  the  ttud,  &e.  of  hia 

aitlduocil  attention  to  tbe  weHnre  of  ikm  late  Royal  Highnett^  were  brovglit  to  the 

Soldfer,  hit  unremitting  ekfetttont  to  incn^  hammer   by  Meatra.  TattertalU    Amongst 

late  the  two  prinoiplei  of  order  and  ditei-  tlie  imraerons    biddert,  were   the    follow- 

plhie,  hk  ditclmmenit  in  bringing  merit  te  log  noblemen  and  gentlemen :  —  Duke  of 

^  Hol^  of  the  Crown,  and  the  jnst  im-  Richmond,  4Marq«it  of  Graham,  £arl   of 

pertiallty  with  which  he  upheld  the  hoaonr  Mountcharlcn  (who  attended  for  the  King), 

of  the  e'ertioe,  hove  combined  to  p'fodace  Lord  Rrnce,  JBarl  of  Chesterfield ;  Lnrds 

letuks  lilMt  identify  the  Army  aa  a  jMesino  Svmthampton,  FitBh>y,  Orford,  Harborougli, 

iimti  l^e  glory  «nd  jprospeilty  of  tint  great  Ji*embroke ;  Gen.  GrOtrenor  {  Coloaela  Rut- 

eoootry,  nod  which  mil  cftate  hit  Tirtoee  tell>  Lrfgh,  Udny  j  Mettr#.  Greville,  Charl- 

and  MTvf  c^  to  Hve  in  the  grateftd  remem-  ton,  Payne,  &e.     The ,  tale  eontitted  of 

branoe  of  the  hMii  posterity.  tfaiity-titfve   thbraogh-bred   hortet,  seven 

The  KniO  feels  tnat,  under  the  fresent  haoki,  ten  k/ts  of  Oarriagea«  gigs,  and  hames«, 

iilkelhig  tifCditttattMt,  Hit  MsJtSTY  can^  &a  and  twelve  duga.    The  following  it  a 

not  teore  effebtsnMy  tdjpply  the  Iota  which  ^  riteap&tulaftion  of  the  whole  amount  of  tbe 

the  NfttioDH  and  the  At oiy  htve  sustained,  lots  : 

thbn   by  snaolftting   to  the  Chief   Com-  Racing  Stock  «...    7,S30gs 

msnd    of   His    Majuty'b    Forces,    Pield  Hacks  •-*...        787gs 

MaWhil  his  dnet  the  Dukx  or  Wiluho-  Carriages    -    -     -    -     -    ^974     6    0 

TDK,  ^e  gfreat  and  distinguished  General  Dogs     *     •    -     -     -     -i^llll7     6* 

irho  hM  bo  oftea  led  the  armies  of  the  Na-  ■ 

tion  to  fletory  tui  glory  ;  and  whose  high  Grand  Total    -     jf 8,804    0    6 

military  renown  Is  blended  with  the  bistoij  * 

of  EnrWpe.  The  wines,  china,  linen,  ind  fttmiture  of 

By  His  Mal^ty's  Comtnaod,  the  Duke  of  York  were  sold  by  Mr.  Christie, 

HvmiY  TonnaifB,  Adj.-Oen."  on  Feb.  SI,  and  thMe  following  days.    The 

The  Will  of  his  kte  Royal  i^gfaness^  rooms  were  crowded  by  kshionable  com- 

datedDec.  S6,  IBSft,  was  proved  on  the  ad  psny,  end   great  competition  was  evinced^ 

of  February,  when  ^e  personal  estate  waa  The  Plate  k  annoonced  forsdeby  Mr.ChrU- 

sworn  under  18^,000/.  Thedocnnpent  com-  tk,  Mareh  19,  tnd  Uirec  following  days, 

menees  trith  a  deckratlon^  written  m  the  The  Baten  which  #as  carried  at  the  funeral 

Duke's  own  hand,  that  he  most  sincerely  oi  the  Commander-in-Chief,  was  bis  real 

anid  icDoAdefitly  hoped  that  the  produce  eif  offickl  one,  not  one  formed,  like  the  Coro- 

his  real  and  "nersOniJI  proper^  wonki  suroly  net,  for  the  occSsien.   As  the  Baton  should 

a  fund  more  than  amply  sufficient  to  pay  his  have  been  lefi,  with  the  Coronet,  on  the 

^1>ts.    He  gives  all  hk  real  and  personal  coffin,  this  ckoamstanoe  occasioned  a  little 

ptoperCv  to  Sir  HsfftiftT  TAYXon  and  Co^  difficnlty  at  the  Solemnity,  which  the  news- 

LOtriL  STtratNWm  (hk  executors)  m  tmst,  papers  unwarrantably  magnified  into  a  dk- 

to  oay  til  hk  just  debts,  ind  the  hiterest  of  puts  between  the  Clergy  and  the  Executors, 

sach  4ebts  as  carry  hiterest,  fend  fiay  oNrer  The  symbol  in  qnMtion  k  thas  described  t 

the  residue  to  the  PnncCBSi  Sophia.  — The  staff  is  covered  with  crimson  velvet 

)lis  Majesty  has  prH^nfed  to  Sir  Herbert  studded  with  golden  lions ;  the  lower  end 

Ti^lor  the  CoRor  of  the  Gnelpblc  Order,  has  a  large  ferhile^  or  termination,  of  chased 

Worn  by  the  Dwke  of  York.  gold,  betring  an'  inscription  of  its  heing  n 

Lady  Batbunt,  the  eit^  of  the  kte  gift  of  hk  Majesty's ;  «nd  the  nppcr  end  has 

Du1ce  cf  Ridnhond,  was  Viot  forgotten  ^  a  like  termmation  of  chased  gold,  surmount- 

iftie  Dtfke  «f  York  hi  hk  list  tnokients.  ed  by  an  equestrian  figoie  of  St.  George, 

The  conduct  of  the  Duke  of  York  In  refiising  also  of  gold. 

to  ISre  when  he  met  the  Duhe  of  Rk^mondy  The  Caledonian  United  Service  plub  <as 

th<A  Colondl  Leonoi,  on  ihe  occasion  nf  well  aa  that  m  London,  aa  before  noticed  in. 

their  dis(Mite,  excited  the  highest admfaMioo  p.  81),  have  rtfolved  to   place  n  marble 

ef  hk  Royil  Highdess's  magnaifhnity  m  the  iMBt  of  the  Duke  m  one  of^  their  rooms  et 

mind  of  Mr  Udyehlp.    A  sUoag  frkiid-  Edmburgk. 


\m 


CircuUs.Shirifi.^niairical  RegUter. 


SPRING  CIROJlTg,  U97. 

t»«— Lord  Chief  Baroo  and  Jintioe  Lil- 
t  Hertford,  March  7.  Chelmsfeiid* 
eh  It.  Maidatoqa, Mawh  19.  Hon- 
j'M«n)K  fiS.    Kinntony  April  t.    . 
Ifitif — Jostiot  Bayby  and  Baron  Hiil- 
Pnrham,  Feb.  88.   Appleby,  Mardi 
"lie, March 6.   Newcattle, March 
inbfrland,  March  7.    Laocta- 
1 0.  York  and  Qty,  Maioh  94. 
Fiutice  Piurk  and  Jnttice  Bus- 
."^meheeter,  March  6.    New  Sn- 
10.    Dorchester,  March  16. 
liljd  Qtff  March  81 .  Launoeaim, 
Mai«)|«Ov  Taunton,  April  5. 
OrFonn  I  BmPIH    Garmw   and   Vaughan: 
ReadU^^lllI^  8.    Oxford,  March  6. 
WorceSlff  H|lt  ^itj,  March  10.  StaifiDrd, 
MarcKlf^  Hjijiiribury,  March  89.  Here- 
ford, Maifh  <l.    Mounouth,  April  (• 
Gloooetter  and  City,  April  9. 
Midland — Lord  Chief  Justice  Beat  and 
Juttioe  Holfoyd :  Northampton,  Marchj. 
Oakham,  March  9.    Lincoln  and  City, 
March    I  p.      Nottingham    and   Tows, 
March  15.    Derby,  March  19.    Leicea- 
ter  and  Boronnh,  March  8).    Coventry 
and  Warwick,  March  86. 
l^^onffOLK^'-Xofid  Chief  Justice  Abbott  iod 
Justice  Oaselee :   Aylesbnry,   March  6. 
Bedford,  March  13.    Huntingdcm,  March 
17.    Cambridge,  March  80.    Thetlbrd, 
||aieh84.    Bniy  St.  £dmmids.  Mar.  81. 

IFFS  FOR  THE  YEAR  1887. 
lAtrr— O.N.Edwards,  ofHeolow,  esq. 
-T.  Duflield,  Marcham  Park,  esq. 
\kmnshire—T»  Saunders,   of  Aston 
esq. 

lire  an4  HtaUingdonshireyr-John 
\9  of  St.*Ives,  esq. 
-Peter  Leigh,  of  Booth's,  esq. 
*W.  James,  Barrock  Lodge,  esq.' 
Ctynupal^^t^tt  Chas.  Lemon,  Carclew,  bart. 
Z>ertyM.^>|(.  S.  C.  Pole,  R#dboume,  esq.' 
Devemhtn^^-^  W.  Newman,  Sandridge,  esq. 
Donetihirt^.  B;  6ha1and,  of  Stone  Co^ 

U^9  WiniVprne,  e?q, 
£MpHr-Sir  J.^f^relf,  Boreham  House,  bart. 
(;AN/cei^mAtr»^6.  B.  P.  Prinn,  of  Charlton 

Km^,  «sq. 
B€rtfar4ih,---4,  Qriffiths,  of  the  Weir,  esq. 
Herf/bnMUr»--J.  ]>(our,  of  Hexton,  esq. 
Kent — ^Isaac  Miii»t,  of  Baid|vhu,  esq. 
Lancash, — C  GibsoD,  Queromore  P»rk,  esq. 
LeietOenh,^^,  Manners,  t>f  Gondby  Malr- 

wood,  esq. 
Z.cii£olRsA.--J.ReeTe,Leadenh8m-honse,eiq. 
Monmouthshire — ^Wm.  A.  Williams,  of  Llan- 

gibby,  esq. 
JVc^A:— Chas.  Tompson,  of  Gwal  Witch- 

inaham,  esq. 
Horthamftmnhisn^-^iAkn  Jackson  Blcneowt, 

Marstop  St.  Lawnence,  esq. 
Mrnikwrnk-T^H,  Dixon,  Long  Benton,  Ht^ 
HaUm^kamihin    V.  BobiMDay  of  Widmof- 
pool,  esq. 


171 


OxforM — J.  Wilson,  Nether  Worlon,  «m. 
Hmtiandsh^^T.  J.  Bryan,  Stoke  Dry,  ttu 
Shnpthire^W.TtyUm^  Bun|tngsdale,  cm. 
Somemifkin^H,   P.   CoUin*^    of  ^^ 


Bff nchamp,  esq. 
[.CM 

^   ^       ^^ 
Wiokham,  esq. 


Stqford$h-^H 

CtHaUy  <if  Southampim^.  C.  Poorf 


'eynell.  Hoar  Cross,  •m. 


SuJUlc-rJ,  F.  Leathes,  Herringfieet,  m% 
i^urrc^H-Wnw  Crawford,  of  Dof king,  etq^ 
5i«M»— Sir  C  F.  Gorifie,  Highden,  ban., 
jrarwickth.'-W.mWe,  MaxtockCaatle,eiai 
J^iOfMre-T.  B.  M  BaifcmUje,  ofRo3- 

ley  house,  wq^ 
WorcetUrfhire~-6.  Farley,  Henwick,  esq* . 
rprAs^e— H.  Darley,  o/Aklby  P»rk,  w^ 

South  Walks. 

Carmarthensh.^,  Gulstone,  Derwy4d,ai|i|. 
Pembrokesh, — A.  L  Stokes,  Score»ton,  ^ 
Cardiganshire — A.  Jones,  Cardigan,  esq,  ^ 
Glamorgansh, — J.  H.  Vivian,  Marin^,  e|i|i 
Breconshire — C.  H.  Leigh,  Llanelly,  esq^  ' 
Raibwrshire~-S.  Beavan,  Glasoombe,  pq« 

North  Walm. 

j^f^Usey-'K.B.W,  Bulkdet,  BaronhiU,  cm. 
Carnarvonshire— W.  Q,  Griffith,  of  Bodf- 

groes,  esq. 
Merionethshire— 'Thot,  Hartley,  Llwyn,  e^« 
Montgomery sh,^^ ,  Jones,  Maesmawr,  es^ 
Denbighshire — JohnPrice,ofPlascochLlany» 

chan,  esq. 
FHnithire— J oue%  Panton,  of  Coleshill,  Mq. 

THEATRICAL  REGISTER. 

Drury  Lanx. 

Jan,  87.  An  Opera,  entitled '£nglu^bieii 
in  Indiaf  was  performed  with  the  completest 
success.  The  plot  is  laid  in  Hindpstan. 
The  hero  of  the  piece  is  a  gallant  yoUng 
officer,  Col.  Oswald,  and  the  heroine  a  natiTO 
princess  named  Gulnare,  who,  when  a  chikt^ 
.  %ras  saved  jRpom  destructibn  by  the  former, 
then  only  a  Toung  ensign,  at  the  taking  of  m 
town.  She  had  been  committed  to  Oswald's 
care  on  the  field  of  battle,  by  an  unde,  wko 
declared  her  to  be  last  of  a  royal  race. 
WheA  she  was  fourteen,  Oswald  visited  Eng- 
land to  arrange  some  family  aAurs,  and  m 
four  years  returns,  and  finds  Chdnere  % 
handsome  and  prepossessing  womxn.    The 

f>lot  opens  Just  before  his  retnm,  «nd  tkto 
ove  wnieh  Oswald  and  Guhiafe  cherish  for 
each  other,  opposed  by^  many  incidental  oir*  . 
cumstances,  constitute  the  interest  of  the 
piece.  It  was  announced  for  repetitiott 
amidst  universd  applause. 

COVXNT  Gardew. 
Feb.  20.  An  Opera,  entitled  7%^  Oraeief 
waa  produced;  Tnt  music  w«s  plcMing,  and 
well  executed.  The  sc^ery,  fhessesy  imd 
decorations,  were  all  -ext^mply  fplei^di^i  . 
but  the  {dot  contained  Ut|le  ipterfst,  TImt 
Operft  was,  upon  tlie  whoH^  «%\X  tt^vifbj^ 


PROMOTIONS    AND    PREFERMENTS. 


[Feb 


GilZBTTI  PBOMOnOlft. 

fVhitehaO,  Jan,  S7.  The  Rev.  Maurice 
Fitzgerald lownsend,  Clerk,  Vicar ofTboro- 
burj,  CO.  Glouc.  and  Alice-£liz.  bis  wife, 
•nd  tbeir-iMue,  to  take  and  use  the  surname 
of  Stephens,  and  bear  the  arms  of  Stephens 
quarterly  with  those  ofTownsend;  and  the 
said  Alice -Elizabeth  to  bear  the  arms  of 
Steptieos  quarterly  with  those  ofShute. 

mif-OJice,  Feb.  1.  67th  Reg.  of  Foot 
to  bear  on  its  colours  and  appointments  the 
figure  of  a  royal  tiger,  with  toe  word  <*  India*' 
superscribed,  in  commemoration  of  its  ser- 
vices in  that  part  of  the  world  from  the  year 
ISOS  to  1826\^83d  Reg.  of  Foot  to  bear 
the  word  "  Touloufe,"  in  commemoration 
i^the  distinguished  services  of  the  Regi- 
ment in  the  attack  of  the  position  covering 
Toulouse,  on  the  1 0th  April,  1814. — 65th 
Reg.  Foot,  Major  Thos.  Perronet  Thomp- 
son to  be  Major. — ^Unattached ;  upon  half- 
p4y^  To  be  Majors  of  Inf.—Brevet  Major 
Octavius  Temple.  —  Brevet  -  Major  John 
Longden,  3Sd  Foot;  Brevet  Lieut.-coL 
Chas.  Mackenzie,  6Qth  Foot. 

Rear-Admiral  Charles  Adam  is  appointed 
to  succeed  Lord  A  melius  Beauclerk  as  Com- 
inander-in  Chief  at  Lisbon>and  on  the  coast 
.of  Portugal. 

Adm.  Earl  Northesk  to  succeed  Sir  Geo. 
Martin  as  Coram,  in  Chief  at  Portsmouth. 

Members  returned  to  serve  in  Parliament. 
Horsham,—^,  W.  R.  Colford,  esq.  of  West 

Harllng-hall,    Norfolk^    vice   the   Hon. 

H.  £.tox,  who  has  accepted  the  Chiltem 

Hundreds. 
Leominster, — ^Rowland  Stephenson,  esq.  (fe- 

clared  duly  elected. 

BIR 

Jan.  90.  The  wife  of  the  Rev.  F.  Dyson, 
^f  Merton-college,  a  son.— 29,  At  Pen- 
•nington  House,  near  Lymington,  the  wife 
of  the  Rev.  Chas.  Heath,  a  son.  At 
Aldbury,  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev. 
Fred.  Bertie,  a  dau. 94.  The  wife  of  Phi- 
lip Saltmarshe,  esq.  of  Saltmarshe,  Yorksh. 
A  dau.— 97'  At  the  Vicanffe,  Southwell, 
Notts,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Fowler, 
imddau.  of  Mr.  Bish,  of  London,  a  dau. 
98.  At  the  Down  House,  Dorset,  the  seat 
,of  her  Father,  Sir  J.  W.  Smith,  bart.,  the 
wife  of  >the  Rev  J.  Digby  Wingfield,  a  dau. 
.r-^-^At  the  Vicarage,  A£Fpuddle,  the  wife  of 

the  Rev.  Mr.  Waldy,  a  son. ^99.  At 

Melksham,  WUu.,  the^wife  of  Thos.  Noyet 


/ZcAes^er.— Hon.  Lionel  Talmash,  and  Hon. 

Felix  I.  Talmashy  duly  elected. 
Ipswich. — C.  Mackinnon  and  Rob.  Adam 

Dundas,  duly  elected. 

Ecclesiastical  Prbpermekts. 
Right  Rev.  Dr.  John  Kaye,  Bp.  of  Bristol, 

to  be  Bp.  of  Lincoln. 
Rev.  Dr.  Chas.  Lloyd,  Regius  Professor  of 
-     Divinity  in  Oxford  University,  to  be  Bp. 

of  Oxford. 
Rev.  J.  Headlam  to  be  Archd.  of  Richmond. 
Rev.  J.  B.  Atldnson,  West  Cowes  P.  C. 

Hants. 
Rev.  L.  A.  Cliffe,  Sampford  Arundell  V. 

SomersH. 
Rev.  W.  £.  Coldwell,  Sandon  V.  HerU. 
.Rev.  T.  Coventry,  Croome  Montis  R.  co. 

Wore. 
Rev.  Mr.  Croft,  Hutton  Bushel  V.  co.  York. 
Rev.  Dr.  French,  Moor  Monkton  R.  co.York 
Rev.  L.  M.  Halton,  Woolhampton  R.  Berks. 
Rev.  C.  A.  St.  John  Mildmay,  Chelmsford 

R.  Essex. 
Rev,  G.  Pellew,  St.  George   R.  with  St. 

Mary  Magdalen,  Canterbury. 
Rev.  T.  Morgan,  Lansadara  V.  with  Lana- 

rada  Chapel,  co.  Carnarvon. 
Rev.  C.  Musgrave,  Halifax  V.  co.  York. 
Rev.  F.  Swanton,  St.  John's  P.  C.  Winch. 
Rev.  T.  Tweddell,  Liddington  V.  with  Calde- 

coti  CO.  Rutland. 
Rev.  W.  Vaughan,  Astley  P.  C.  Salop. 
Rev.  J.  Vernon,  Shrawley  R.  co.  Wore. 

Chaplains. 
Rev.  C.  Hall,  Chaplain  to  Lord  Macdonald. 
Rev.  N.  R.  Dennis,  and  Rev.  H.  Parker,  to 
be  Chaplains  to  the  Forces, 

T  H  S. 

Lewis,  esq.  of  Wedhampton  Cottage,  a  dau. 

SO.  At  Sway  House,  near  Lyfpington, 

the  wife  of  H.  C.  Lys,  esq.  a  dau.— ^—81. 
At  Chacombe  Priory,  the  wife  of  Hen.  John 
Pye,  esq.  a  son. 

Feb.  1 ..  In  the  Island  of  Guernsey,  the 
wife  of  the  Principal  of  ElizAbeth  College, 

a  son. 10.  At  York-terrace,  Regenrs- 

park,  the  wife  of  P.  Grant,  esq.  of  twin 

sons. 19.    In    Nottingham»placc,  the 

wife  of  Clias.  Rich.  Pole,  esq.  a  dau. 

13.  At  Long  Ichington,  Warwickshire,  the 

wife  of  the  Kev.  Edw.  Philip  Cooper,  Vicar, 

a  dau. 18.    At  Brockenhurst    House, 

Hants,  the  Lady  Caroline  Morant,  a  dau« 


MARRIAGES. 


Od, «.  At  Rio  Grande  St.  Pedro  de  Gaul, 
Brazils,  Mr.  Thos.  Messiter,  Merchant,  to 
Eliza,  dau.  of  Oipt.  J.  More,  of  New  Yoili. 

Jan.  16.  At  Tidenhan,  Gloucestershire, 
tho  RsT.  Jam^  Davis,  M.A.  to  Heariettn 


Eliza,  only  dau.  of  the  late  T.  Vores,  eso.  of 

Orchard-street,  Portman-sq. ^At  Cnel- 

tenham,  Tho.  Thistlethwayte,  esq.  of  South- 
wick  Park,  to  Typhena  Bathurst,  second  dau. 
of  Bbbop  of  Norwich..       17*  At  Abbota 


lQ8f.]                                  Birihi.'^-^Marnagei.  173 

LangUy,  L4eat.  Wm.  Sherwood,  R.N.  to  of  Tho«.  Pedibertoa,  esc^  of  the  Iihtod  ^ 

Sophia  Ann,  eldest  dau.  of  the  Ute  Thomas     St;  Chriatopher. At  Bath,  J.  R  BnuB- 

Smith,  esq. ^At  Pinnacle  Hill,  near  Kelao,  hie,  esq.  of  Prior  Pkrk,  Cottage,  Widcombo* 

James  Elliott,  esq.  of  WooUie,  Roxburghah.  to  Elizabeth  Cumick,  relict  of  the  late  John 

to  Margaret,  dan.  of  the  late  R.  Davison,  Curnick,    esq.    of   Lacock,    Wilts.         At 

of  Pinnacle  Hill. 1 8.  At  St.  James's  Ch.  Bathwick,   Somerset,   Rev.  George  Taun- 

the  Rev.  Edmund  John  Siukler,  of  Docking,  ton,  B.  D.  rector  of  Stratford  Tony,  Wilt% 

Norfolk,  to  Eleanor  Eliz.  Stevens,  of  St.  to  Sarah,  fourth  dao.  of  James  madfoid^ 

James's-place,  London,  eldelt  dau.  of  the  esq.  of  Luira-place,  Bath,  and  of  SwIndoOy 

Ute  Rev.  W.  Stevens,  of  Sedbergh,  Yorksh.     Wilts. ^At  Kirkheaton,  the  Rev.  Henry 

At  Brompton,  co.  York,  Sarah  Phila-  Torre,    Rector    of    Thomhill,    to    Sanh 

delphia,  fourth|dao.  of  Sir  Geo.  Cayley,  hart.  Coroline,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  John  Lb* 

to  W.  Wor&ley,  esq.  of  Hovingham. 19.  ter  Kaye,   hart,    of  Denby   Grange, 


Wm.  Gray,  esq.  barrister  at  law,  to  Eleanor,  Wakefield. At    St.  Msry-le-bone  Nmr 

eldest  dau.  of  Lieut-gen.  Ker,  of  East  Bol-  Church,  Mr.  Rich.  Craddook,  of  Islington, 

ton,  Northumberland. 29.  At  St.  Ann's,  to  Eliz.  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  CapL  Massen- 

Blackfriars,   John   Frost,  esq.   F.  A.  S.  of  g»le,  of  Lynn. a.  At  St.  George's,  H»- 

Bridge-street,  Blackfriars,  to  Harriot,  only  nover-square,  Joseph  Whatley,  esq.  of  HUl- 

dau.  of  the  late  J.  P.  Yosy,  esq.  of  Berne,  street,  Berkeley-square,  to  Char.  AugostSf 

and  niece  to  Col.  Brooke. ^At  Walcot,  widow  of  Thos.  Crespigny,  esq.  fbrmeriy 

Bath,  Lord  Wm.  Paget,  R.  N.  second  son  M. P.  for  Sudbury. ^At  Droxfbrd  Churehf 

of  the  Marq.  of  Anglesea,  to  Fanny,  only  Hants,  J.  D.  Berrington,  esq.  barrister  at 

dau.  of  Lieut.-Gen.  hir  Francis  de  Rotten-  Uw,  to  Charlotte,  only  dau.  of  the  late  B« 

bare. 3d.  At  Dorking,  Surrey,  the  Rev.  Hall,  esq.  M.P.  of  Abercame,  Monmouth- 

W.  VVinthrop,  to  Frances  Mary,  eldest  dau.  shire. 5.  At  York,  Robert  Bhmd,  esq. 

of  the  Rev.  Geo.  Feachem,  Vicar  of  Dorking,  brother  to    Depu^  Assistant  Commissary 

25.  At  Streatham,  the  Rev.  F.  Swan-  General  Bland,  Trinidad,  West  Indies,  to 

ton,  of  Winchester,  to  Mary,  only  dau.  of  Miss  Charlotte  Harrison,  of  Market  Wei^- 

the  late  Rev.  John  Brercton,   Rector  of  ton.         6.  At  Clifion,  co.  Gloucester,  W. 

Alton   Barnes,    Wilts.         At    Petersham,  Morris  Reade,  esq.  of  Rossenarra,  co.  Kil- 

Jas.  Bradshaw  Tyrwhitt,  esq.  to  Ann,  only  kennv,  and  of  Marchington,  Staffordshini^ 

dau.  of  the  late  J.  Barrett,  esq.  of  Bushy,  to  Eliza,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Patrick  Mait- 

Herts. 96.  At  Streatham,  Chas. 'Not-  ^t^nd,  esq.  of  Calcutta,  and  of  Kilmarono 

tidge,  esq.  of  the  Exchequer,   to    Sarah,  Castle,  Fifeshire.— -At  St.  George's,  Ha- 

youngest  dau.  of  B.  Drew,  esq.  of  the  Kent-  nnver-sqnare,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Wolff,  Mia* 

road. 97.  At  Kensington,  Herbert  John  sionary  to  the  Jews,  to  the  Ladv  Georgians 

Jones,  esq.  to  Mary-Green,  dau.  of  the  late  Mary  Walpole,  fourth  dau.  of  the  late,  and 

Arch.  Armstrong,  esq. At  Northwood,  eister  to  the  present  Earl   of  Orford.— 

Isle  of  Wight,  Deut.Thos.  Williams,  R.  N.  Fred.  Toulmin,  esq.  of  Hackney,  to  Mary, 

to  Juliana,  only  child  of  J.Drinkwater,esq.  Ann,  third  dau.  of  W.  Flower,  esq.  of  Up- 

<yf  Q.  Anne  Cottage,  Plymouth. 99.  At  P^r  Bedford-place,  and  of  Harefield-grott. 

Garendon,  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Hamilton  to  the  8.   At  St.  Giles's  Church,  the  Rtr. 

Hon.  Mrs.  Cowper. 30.  At  Bury,  Edm.  Bertie  Johnson,    Rector    of  Lymme,  co. 

Geo.  Hornby,  esq.  of  Dalton  Hall,  co.  Lan-  Chester,  to  Isabel,  second  dau.  of  the  I«t« 

caster,  to  Sarah,   eldest  dau.   of  the  late  John  Legh,  esq.  of  Booth's  Hall.— ——18. 

Thos.  Yates,  esq.   of  Irwell  House,  near  At  Salisbury,  James  Barry,  esq.  formerly  of 

Bury. 8 1 .  At  Coleorton,  co.  Leicester,  Teneriffe,  to  Penelope  Anne,  widow  of  th« 

Edw.  Fisher,  esq.  solicitor,  of  Ashby  de  la  late  Captain  Lambe,  R.  N.— ->At  Kidl^ 

Zouch,  to  Mary,  only  dau.  of  Wm.  Sherwin,  stone  Church,  Wm.  Drury  Holden,  esq.  to 

esq.  of  Coleorton.  Caroline    Esther,   youngest  dau.   of   Lord 

Lately,    At  St.  John's,  Southwark,  the  Scarsdale. Chas.  Clarke,  esq.  of  Gray'f 

Rev.  Hen.  Vallance,  to  Charlotte  Channing,  Inn,  to   Cath.  Spence,   eldest  dau.   of  T. 

dau.  ofthe  late  Rev.  Wm.JarvisAbdy,Rec-  Davison,  esq.  of  Bedford-row. W.  H. 

tor  of  St.  John's. Robert  Stone,  esq.  of  Tmney,   esq.    of  Lincoln's-bn,   to    Anna 

Gate-house,  Sussex,  to  Louisa,  second  dan.  Maria,  eldest  dau.  of  Rev.  T.  H.  HnoM, 

of  Alex.  Donovan,  esq.  of  Framfield  Park.  Canon  of  Salisbury. T.  W.  Chevalier, 

At  St.  Mary's,  Bryanstone-square,  Hen.  esq.  of  South  Audley-st.  to  Albertba  Mary, 

Bum,  esq.  of  Great  Quebec-street,  to  Eliza  eldest  dau.  ofthe  late  G.  A.  Ravizzotte,  esq. 

Maria,  widow  of  the  late  Henry   Belllnff-  of  Paris. 1 5.  At  Bath,  C.  Penruddooke, 

ham,     esq.    of   Kingston,    Surrey. In  esq.  barrister-at-Uw,  to  Julian^  Letitia,  eM. 

Guernsey,  John  Gimingham,  esq.  of  His  dau.  ofCapt.  Penruddocke,  Sd  Foot  Guards. 

Majesty's  l^xchequer,  to  Carteret,  eldest  dau.  At  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Capt.  Dewsa, 

of  Rich.  Saumarez,  esq.  Circus,  Bath,  niece  R.  A.  to  Louisa,  youngest  dau.  of  the  lata 

of  Lieut.-Gen.  Sir  Thos.  Saumarez,  and  of  T.  Atkins,  eso.  of  Aylsham,  Norfolk^ 90. 

Sir  James  Saumarez,  bart.  K.C.B.  Vice-  Adam  Maxwell,  esq.  of  Mayerhouse,  Baijifl 

Adm.  of  England.  shire,  to  Miss  N.  Vaodenburgh,  of  Owen's 

Jiffr.  1.  At  Chelsea,  Alfred  Perkins,  esq.  Row,  Islington, 
of  Cadogan-pUce,  to  Charlotte,  daughter 


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0  3ITUARY. 


StR  BOtJRCHIBIL  WrSY»  BaRT« 

i^ov.  SO,  At  Ilia  tf My  Holne  GhtM, 
|l«vun»birt«  Sir  Bourcbier  Wrey^teveiitb 
Bmrttiuit  of  TMUuby  in  Corawali,  aud 
IkCL. 

Sir  &>urohiitr  was  tbe  eklMt  aaii  of 
iir  Baurcbier  tbt  tiath  Baronet,  by  bte 
•Moqd  wife  Ellen*  daugbter  of  Jubn 
Tbreaber,  esq.  He  lucceeded  bii  father, 
Afril  83,  1784,  aud  married,  ^rst,  in 
1786,  Anne,  eldeat  daughter  of  Sir  Ro- 
Wrt  Palk,  ftr8t  Barunetol  Haldon  Huuti^, 
CO.  Devon.  By  this  lady  be  bad  if  sue, 
one  daughter,  Aniie<-Eieanora,  married 
In  1808  to  Edward  Hartop|»,  of  Little 
Daiby,  in  Leiceatertbm,  esq.  (who  died 
Feb.  5,  1813);  and  two  sons,  Bourcbier, 
who  bai  Bucoeedod  to  the  title  1  and 
RubertoB<uircbier.  Haring  lost  bit  first 
lady  in  1791 »  the  lat#  Baronst  married, 
aeeoiidly,  in  171l3i  Anne,  daughter  of 
John  Osborne,  esq.  and  by  her  had  one 
danghter,  fileanora-Elixabeth,  married 
in  1815,  to  Albany  Saville^  e«q.  of  Swedt- 
lands,  CO.  Devon,  M.  P.  forOakbampton ; 
•lid  one  son,  Heiiry-Bourobier. 

Sir  Sam.  Youno,  Bart. 

Dec.,..  At  bis  seat,  Formosa-place, 
Rt'rksbire,  aged  61,  Sir  Samuel  Young, 
Bart.  F.R.S.  and  F.8JL 

Sir  Samuel  was  bom  Feb.  83.  1764, 
tbe  eldest  son  of  Adm.  Sir  George  Young, 
Kht.  by  bis  second  wife  Eliaabeih, 
daugbter  of  Sanu  Bradshaw,e«q.  of  Mar- 
low,  Bucks  ;  and  was  created  a  Baronet, 
Nov.  84, 1813. 

He  married  EmHy,  daugbter  of 
Cbaries  Baring,  of  Exoiouth,  esq.  and 
ba4  Issue,  George  R.  N.  bom  in  1797, 
who  has  succeeded  to  the  title;  Charles- 
Baring,  Henry,  Horatio -Begvman» 
WilKam-Jackson,  Emily,  LuoU,  and 
mncMherson  bom  in  1818. 

Gbnrral  J.  A.  Harris. 

Jan.  8t.  At  Hoddesdon,  Herts,  aged 
88,  General  John  Adalpbus  Harris. 

This  ofAcer  entered  the  servi^^e  as  En- 
•fgn  ill  the  84tb  foot,  Jan,  1 1,  1760,  and 
obtained  a  Lieutenancy  in  that  regiment, 
Jan.  88,  1768.  He  served  in  the  West 
Indies  a  year  and  a  iialf,  and  was  present 
at  the  siege  of  tbe  Havantiab.  On  the 
tWtb  Nov.  1771,  be  obtained  a  company 
in  his  regiment  $  he  served  in  America 
ftrum  1775  till  1784,  and  was  severely 
wounded  at  Hnbarton.  He  was  appoint- 
mfl  Mi^or  in  the  late  84th  foot,  ()ct.  92, 
1779  ;  was  on  half- pay  from  June  1784, 
to  Sept.  84, 4787»  when  be  was  appointed 
to  tbe  60th  foot  in  Aoierica,  and  be  re- 


Reived  a  (lieut-colonalcy  of  thai  «m|^ 
«Rnt»Jan.  16,  1788.  He  obtained  Mmr 
fank  of  Colonel  in  the  army,  Feb.  ^^ 
n9li;  of  Mijur-geacraU  Jan.  1,  1798  r 
Litut.-generalf  Jan.  I,  1805  j  General, 
June  4,  1814, 

Lt.-Grh.  thr  Hon.  Sir  Wu.  Stewart. 

«/a«.  7*  At  Cumloden,  near  Newtown 
Stewart, in  Wigtonsbire,  aged  53,  Lieut.- 
General  the  Han,  Sir  William  Stewart, 
G.  C.  B.  K.T.S.  Colonel  of  tbe  RiAe 
Brigade,  and  next  brother  of  the  Earl  uf 
Galloway,  K.  T. 

This  eminent  oAeer  was  one  of  the 
siateen  children,  and  the  fourth,  but 
second  sunrtving  son  of  John,  eighth 
and  late  Earl  of  Galloway,  K.  T.  hy  his 
second  wife,  Anne,  daugbter  uf  S<r  James 
Dash  wood,  bart.  He  was  appointed  to 
an  Ensigncy  in  tbe  4Sd  foot,  in  1786  ; 
to  a  Lieutenancy  in  the67tb,  in  1787  ; 
and  Captain  in  an  independent  company 
in  1790.  In  that  year  he  was  employed 
•n  a  diplomatic  mission  at  Vienna,  and 
in  1798,  he  was  removed  to  a  company 
in  the  88d  fo4it.  In  1793  he  commanded 
tbe  grenadier  company  under  Lieut. - 
general  Sir  Cbaries  Grey,  in  the  West 
Indies  ;  and  in  1794  served  in  the  Wind- 
ward Islands  under  that  officer;  in  tbe 
latter  year  be  received  the  Mi\iority  of 
the  3 1  St  foot,  and  returned  from  the 
West  Indies  in  November.  In  1795  he 
was  appointed  Lieut.-colonei,  and  Assist- 
ant Adjutant-general  to  tlie  Earl  of 
Moira's  army  in  England,  and  subt^- 
qneiitly  Adjutant-general  to  Major-gene- 
ral Doyle's  army,  employed  on  the  coast 
of  France.  In  1796  he  was  appointed' 
Lieut.- eolonel  of  the  67th,  which  corps 
be  commanded  in  St.  Domingo  with  the 
local  rank  of  Colonel ;  in  1797  he  was  ap- 
pointed commandant  at  Mule  St.  Nicho- 
la<  ;  in  1799  be  attended  the  Prussian  and 
Hessian  reviews,  and  served  with  tbe  Al- 
lied Armies  under  tbe  Archduke  Charles, 
Marshal  Suwarrow,  and  General  Korsa- 
cow,  in  Suabia,  Switserland,  and  Italy. 
In  1 800,  Lieut.-colonel  Stewart  formed 
the  Rifle  corps  (now  the  95th  regiment,) 
under  Colonel  Manningham'b  orders, 
and  was  employed  on  the  expedition  to 
Ferrol  and  the  coast  of  Prance,  where  be 
commanded  a  detachment  of  that  cor|is. 
In  1801  he  was  appointed  Lieut.-colonel 
'in  the  Rifle  corps,  and  commanded  the 
troops  on  board  the  British  fleet  in  the 
Baltic,  for  which  service  he  obtained  tbe 
thanks  of  Parliament.  He  rereived  the 
rank  of  Coloneli  April  9^,  that  year, 
after  the  action  of   Copenhagen.      In 


180*  he  wmi  mppoimc^  B#i|cWi<rtyocfal»    Mftbt  f   but  Im  iM  \mU  ««  Mitt«« 
and  commanded  the  volunteer  dictfiet     tean  a  uwmiber  tif  the  Hovie  •£  €•!»• 


Qf  Cai»brtd0e,  Hutitiiifnlaii^  mtiA  PaUr-  aMiiit  tiaoa  tha  latter  year. 

borqasb  ;  in  18Q6,  MBrtxaditr-caiieral*  -«i^-^ 

he  served  on  the  staff  in  Sicily  (  ih  JBOT  LT.'4SBii«  A.  C  ^AcMtm* 

in  Egypt,  under  the  late  Lieaii-Keiicral  Jam^  9$.   AtDawlMi,agcd  64,  UcM^ 

|f*Keiiti«  Fraser;  in  1808  heeoamaud-^  geneml  Akeaander  OmIj^  Jatfcson< 

rdatSyracttfcandFaro,disirietof  Sicilyi  This  officer  wai  ap^nt«d  Ensign  iH 


and  reof  ived  the  rank  of  Major-generei,  the  40th  regiment,  in  July  1790| 

the  25th  of  Aprilf  in  1809  heeommaBd*  Lieotetialit  in  the  same  corps  hi  Dmk 

ad  the  light  brigade  in  thte  Walcheren  179S.    Ha  bad  embarked  for  Tuulon  ill 

expedition,  and  was  appointed,  August  November  of  the  lalt«^y«ar;  but,  afta# 

3 1 ,  Cplonel  of  the  3d  hatallion  95th  foai  |  seventeen  weeks  cotH4i«uaiire  in  crowded 

In   1810  he  commanded  at  Cadia,  Hud  transpoi^s,  It  fevef  hn»ka  cMt  amdiig  the 

%ru  appointed  tu  the  command  of  tha  men,  which  was  very  iatid,  and  Xbe  fifi- 

tMond  division  of   the  Allied  Array  in  ment  was  sfcnt  to  Plymouth,  and  tb«Nt 

I^MFhigal,  in  the  iuDHner  of  that  yeaiv  dieconbarkfd..      In   March,     1794^    b« 

Al|4  eentinued  in  it  during  the  follow-  was  appointed  Oiptain  of  the  late  94«li 

i«i||^%  In  18 IS  he  wfs  placed  on  the  staff  (Lord  Hulohinsion*s)  regiment »  And  |olw>* 

^  tbt  ttasicrn  district;  h«!  afterwards  ed  his  corps  at  Guernsey;  he  obtaineil 

feJoWM  Dhe  Allied  Army  in  Spain,  and  the  Majority  of  it  hi  i>ecerobfer,  UPfl^ 

coaiiilttfiti  the  second  division  till  th^  and  in  March,  1798,  wai  placed  om  lurtl« 

tenniiMAllMI  of   hostilities  t  the  4th  of  pay  from  the  redimtian  and  dissallitiail 

June,    18^1^  be  received  the  raak  ^  of  the  corps.    In  August  1799,  ha  wM 

Li^ut^eiiMiS  appointed  Miior  of  his  farmer  regimant^ 

His  setvlcifl«tMring  t bete  years  will  bd  the  40tht  whicb  be  accompanied  on  tlw 

best  ap|>reeiftteJli  when  it  is  remembercid  Helder  expedition^  and  was  preient  Im 

that  be  comnMltidcd  the  seeond  division  the  battles  of  the  lOrh  and  19(h  irf  8e|^ 

of  the  army  H^  the  actions  of  Busac^  tember^  and  9d  of  Offtob^r.    In  tbd  ••« 

Albuhera,   Vitloria,   Pyrenees,  Nivelte^  eond  of  thcSte,  the  f^aHant  40tb  sAiiinii 

Nive,  Bayontit,  Orthes,  andTouloustf  very  considerably  In  ofBccn  and  s^en^ 

that  he  received  frequent  wounds  dorinc  and  were  highly  disfini^rished  and  prait* 

seventceu  foreign  eampalgiis;  «nd  thaf^  ed  In  the  Duke  of  York's  public  lettM 

on  the  S4th  of  June^  1814,  Sir  WiUiaas  and  ordecs.    In  March,  1800,  be  aeewviH 

Stewart  had  the  proud  honour  of  thrias  panted  his  corps  on  a  lecund  eiipeditiaii  ■ 

receiTing,  in  the  House  of  Commom#  umJer  General  Pigot,  which  w«s  desalneil 

the   puhke  thanks    of   his  assembled  at  Minorca  sonle  weeks,  and  a#i^ved  ks 

country men^  The  Speaker  first  addresi«  the  Gulph  of  Gen6a  too  late  toetMfpataiff, 

ed  him  individsNilly,  ffH*  his  great  eaet^  with  the  AoitrianS,  who  bid  unlortaa^* 

tions  at  thebattleof  Vlttoria,  June  84|  aiely  been  defeated  Ht  Marengo.    TbV 

1813;    next«  Jointly   with  Sir  William  expeditioik  returned    to    Minorca,    Mid 

Pringle  for  tl)it|c  suecessful  repulsion  of  joined  the  army  ufider  the  lale  Sir  R«l|il8 

the  atllicki  of  Mari^l  Soolt,  hettnrifcli  AbercruUihy,    wbifh  proceeded-  to    the 

the  S54h  of  July   and    1st  of  August  |  unsuccessful  attempt  on  Cadiz.    In  tiM 

and  lastly,  jointly  wh h  Sir  Thomas  Pie-  latt^ciid  of  1800, be pruceeUedto  Mekil^ 

ton.  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  and  Sir  William  and  in  Jantiafy^  1801,  obtained  the  bre^ 

Pringle,  <*  for.  their  able  and  distinguish-  vet  of  iiieat.-Ouloiiel.    He  oHntinued  III 

ed  conduct  tbrouglkout  the  operations  garrison  at  Malta  and  Minorca,  until 

which  coricluded  with  the  entire  defeat  the  peace  of  Amiens,  irhen,  having  re« 

of  the  enemy  at  Orthes,  and  the  occupa-  turned  to  England  with  the  seeond  bat« 

tion  of  BounieauK  by  the  allied  forces/'  talion,  he  wa»  placed  oa  balf^pay 6epte«|4 

These  three  addresses  of  the  Speaker^  ber,  1803.                                                 ,\ 

and  the  answers  of  the  several  heroei,  On  the  breaking  out  of  tbewar.beii^ 

among  which  Sir  William  Stewart  cer-  appohtted  to  the  majori^r  of  the  67tll 

tainly  shines   as   tha  best  oratdr^  are  regiment  in  July  IftOJ,  he  joined  tbsfl 

recorded  In  our  voL  lxkxiv.  ii.  pp.  69  corps  immediately  in  Ireland^  proceeded 

— 71.  with  them   to  Guernsey,  and  in  Ap#il» 

Sir  William  Stewart  first  sat  in  the  1805,  «D>barke<l  with  them  for  the  Bail 

House  of  Commons  as  member  for  Salt-  Indies.     In  1808,   while  in  Bengal,  bm 

ash,  fur  which  borough  he  was  returned  was  selected  to  the  eummand  c»f  the  Mi 

in  the  place  of  his  brotber  tbe  present  Lif^t  Infami^  whkh  dorps  wastraiited 

Earl  of  GaDoway,  in  1795.    In  ib^  ioU  by   him,  and  ordered,  in  a  few  Incmha 

louring  Pa^Uament,  from   1796  to  ItOfli  after  their  formation,  to  march  against 

be   repreeeiHed  the  County  of  Wigtoui  RanjutShig,  a  predatory  chiet   In  1810 

and   in    the  nest>  irom  Nov.  1803  t#  be  dbtained  the  rank  of  iffeuL^coKiiely 

1806,  be  eti  Ibrtibe  Wigton  dfetridiif  aiidiuBeceigbi^«IUi«LfidM^t!bit\iiNN^^ 


eoloneley  af  the  66th  reg)aienty  which  he  ahd  toperintendant  of  tht  Radeliffe  Ok- 

joined  in  Ceylon ;  he  there  afterwarde  lenratory. 

held  lereral  important  commands.    In  Dr.  Robertson  was  bom  at  Dunse,  in 

the  brevet  of  tbe4tb  of  June,  1813,  he  the  county  of  Berwick,  Nov.  4,  I7SI. 

was  appointed  Miyor-genejral,  and  to  the  Early  in  life  be  bad  a  school   at  Great 

staff  of  Ceylon.    At  the  conquest  of  the  Ryle,  in  Northumberland,  and  afterwurds 

Candian  territory,  he  directed  the  move-  in  his  native  place.  This,  however,  did  not 

ment  of  the  third  division  on  the  nor-  eoAtinue  Ion;  •  for,  when  he  Was  twenty- 

thern  side,  and  was  engaged  in  the  blood-  three  or  twenty-four  years  of  agt*,  he 

lets,  but  fatiguing  service  of  that  cam«  came  up  to  Lfondon  in  hopes  of  obtaining 

paign.    He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  a  situation  in  the  East    ladies.     The 

Xieat.-general  in  1835.  .friend  on  whose  patronage  be  depended, 

—  died  before  any  provision  could  be  made 

Lt.-Col.John  RuDD,  C.  B.  for  him,  and  be  was  left  to   find  some 

Jan,  17.  At  Ayr,  North  Britain,  after  other  means  of  support.     Confidence  in 

many  years  suffering  from  the  effects  of  his  own  powers  persuaded  him  to  try  his 

severe  wounds  in  the  bead  received  at  fortune  in  the  University  of  Oxford,  and 

the  storming  of  Fort  Picurina,  Lieut.-  the  event  was    equally   honourable   to 

eolonel  John  Rudd,  C.  B.  late  of  the  7Tth  biroielf  and  to  the  place  which  be  had 

regiroenr.  selected.    He  went  there  without  any 

This  officer  went  to  the  East  Indies  as  personal  friend  to  assist  or  even  intru- 
a  volunteer  in  the  75tb  regiment,  com-  duce  him ;  and  he  rose  to  the  highest 
manded  by  General  Sir  Robert  Abercrom-  stations  which  were  open  to  his  particu- 
by,  in  1788.  He  was  presentat  the  bat-  lar  line  of  studies. 
tie  of  Yravengarry,  in  the  Rajah  uf  Tra-  His  knowledge  of  Mathematics  led 
vehcore's  country,  in  1790.  He  served  him  to  Dr.  Smith,  theSavilian  Professor 
with  the  army  before  Seringapatam  in  of  Geometry  ;  he  was  afterwards  patron- 
tbe  East  Indies,  under  Lord  Cornwallis,  ised  by  Mr.  Alexander,  now  Chief  Baron 
in  1791  and  1792  ;  and  for  bis  service^:,  of  the  Exchequer,  who  was  then  a  gen- 
Sir  Robert  Abercromby,  the  Commander-  tleman-cnmmoner  of  Christ-church,  ami 
in-cbief  of  the  Bombay  army,  recom-  who,  with  the  assistance  of  Dr.  Berkeley, 
nehded  him  for  an  Ensjgncy,  which  he  procured  him  admission,  in  1775,  into 
obtained  nth  April,  1792,  in  the  77th  that  Society.  The  way  was  now  open  to 
regiment.  Having  been  appointed  Lieu-  him  ;  and  his  talents,  industry,  and  good 
tenant  October  25,  1794,  he  was  present  conduct^  secured  his  future  advance- 
at  the  siege  and  capture  of  the  fortress  ment. 

of  Cochin  in  the  East  Indies,  October  He  became  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  June, 

90tb,  1795;  and  served  at  the  siege  and  1782i  and  took  orders  at  the  following 

capture  of  Cnlumho,   in  the   Island  of  Christmas,  when  Dr.  Bagot,  who  hail 

Ceylon,  February  16,  1796.  recently  succeeded  Dr.  Markham  in  the 

He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Cap-  Deanry,  made  him  one  of  the  Chaplains 

tain  June  25,  1803  ;  Major,  January  25,  of  Christ- church.     In   1782,  he  gained 

1810;  and  Lifut.-colonel,  April  27,  1812.  the  Chancellor's  prize  for  an  English 

He  served  in  Spain,  and  was  present  in  essay   ''  on  Original  Composition,**  and 

the  engagement  at  El  Boden,  under  Lord  in  the  following  Dectrober  he  proceeded 

Wellington,  September  25,  181 1.     The  to  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

troops  engaged  in  that  affair,  in  which  Dr.  Smith  was  established  as  a   pby- 

the  77th   regiment  bore    a   most  con-  sician   at  Cheltenham,  and   wms  in    the 

spicuous  part,  received  the  unqualified  habit  of  engaging  some  able   Mai  henia* 

praise  of  his  Lordship  in  general  orders,  ticlan  from  among  tbe  resident  Masters 

He  «as  engaged  at  tbe  siege  of  Cuidad  at  Oxford  to  read  lectures  as  his  substi- 
Rodrigo,  March  25, 1812,  and  was  severe- ^  tute.    This  office  had   been  held  by  Dr. 

ly  wounded  when  storming  La  Picurina  Austin,  of  Wadham  College  ;  and  when 

Fort,  under  Major.-gieneral  Kempt,  on  he  left  the  University  for  London,  about 

the  night  of  the  same  day.    On  this  oc-  1784,  Mr.  Robertson  was  fixed  upon   to 

casion  he  obtained  the  brevet  of  Lieut.-  di&charge  those  duties,  which  be  con- 

eolonel.     He  afterwards  served  with  the  tinned   to  do  for  the  remainder  of  Dr. 

77tb  in  France  before  Bayonne,  and  re-  Smith's  life.     His  manner  of  lecturing 

nained  there  until  that  regiment  was  was  deliberate  and  perspicuous;  and  lie 

ordered  home.  was  always  reatty  to  assist  and  encourage 

.  Lieotd-colonel  Rudd  has  left  a  widow  the  studenU  who  attended  him  ;  he  fre- 

and  eight  children.  quently  lent  them  his  papers  to  examine 

— — —  at  their  leisure ;  and,  as  be  found  that 

Abram  Robertson,  D.  D.  the  5th  definition  of  the  Fifth  Book  of 

/IfC.  4.    At  the  Radcliffe  Ohiervatory,  Euclid  was  often  the  occasion  of  much 

Oxford,  aged  75f  Abram  Robertson,  D.D.    difficulty  to  beginners,  be  printed  ex- 

P.RJS,  Savilian  Professor  of  Astronomy,  pressly  for  their  use,  a  demonstration  of 


i8«r.l 


Obitvavlj, ^^Jhram  Robertson,  D.  D. 


177 


this  funda mental  property  of    propor* 
Clonal  qoanticies. 

In  1789,  Mr.  Robertson  was  pr<>8ented 
by  the  Dean  and  Canons  of  Cbrist- 
cburcb  to  tbe  Vicarage  of  Raventtburpe 
nearNurtbainptun,  and  soon  after  mar- 
ried Miss  Bacon  of  Drayton,  in  Berk- 
shire. His  principal  residence,  however, 
still  continued  to  be  at  Oxford  or  in  its 
neigbbuurbood.  This  was  necessary  for 
his  scientific  and  literary  pursuits.  Tbe 
University  bavin^^  undertaken  to  publish 
the  works  of  Archimedes,  which  Turelli 
had  prepared  fur  the  press,  tbe  care  of 
superintending  it  was  entrusted  tu  Mr. 
Kobertson.  This  was  completed  in  1792, 
and  in  the  same  year  be  bruu<(ht  uut  his 
large  work,  entitled  **Sectiunum  Coiii- 
carum  Libri  VIJ,"  &c.  which  he  dedicat- 
ed to  his  firm  and  active  iriend  and 
patron,  Dr.  Cyril  JacksdUt  who,  in  1783, 
bad  become  Dean  of  Christ  Cburcb.  It 
was  likewise  in  I79t2,  that  Archdeacon 
Nares  and  hi«  friends,  having  undertaken 
to  counteract  the  pernicious  tendency  of 
some  of  the  old  Reviews,  commenced 
the  publication  of  tbe  British  Critic,  on 
orthodox  and  loyal  principles  ;  and  Mr. 
Robertson  shewed  his  attachment  to  the 
cau«e  of  social  order,  by  contributing  to 
the  earlier  volumes  several  articles  of 
criticism  in  his  own  department. 

In  1795,  be  was  elected  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Society,  and  bis  Demonstration  of 
tbe  Binomial  Theorem  was  published 
in  tbe  Philosophical  Transactions  fur 
that  year. 

In  1797,  be  succeeded,  on  Dr.  Smith's 
deatb,  to  the  Savilian  Professorship  of 
Geometry  ;  and  tbe  next  year  he  engaged 
in  a  work  which  occupied  a  coukiderable 
time.  Dr.  Horusby  having  seen  tbe  firtit 
volume  of  Bradley's  Astronomical  Obser- 
vations through  the  press,  was  obliged 
by  ill  health  to  relinquish  tbe  undertak- 
ing, and  the  labour  of  superintending 
tbe  publication  ui  tbe  second  volume 
fell  on  Mr.  Robertson.  This  he  com- 
pleted in  1805,  but  without  iieglecting 
bis  public  lecture,  or  his  other  pursuits. 

lu  bis  treatise  of  Conic  Sections,  he 
had  endeavoured  to  collect  together  all 
that  had  been  written  on  the  subject, 
and  be  bad  subjoined  to  it  a  most  valu- 
able historical  notice  of  the  progress  of 
this  branch  of  science:  but  the  book.- 
with  all  its  merits,  was  too  large,  and 
written  in  too  diffuse  a  manner  lor  the 
ordinary  stud^nt.  He.  therefore,  in 
J 802,  published  a  shorter  treatise  ;  and 
this  be  further  abridged  in  iBlB,  (when 
be  published  bis  "  Elements  ot  Conic 
Sections,"]  a  second  edition  of  which 
came  out  in  1825. 

A  plan  having  been   suggesed  fot  re- 
Gk.vt.  Mao.  February^  18S7. 


placing  London  Bridge  by  a  single  iron 
arch,  the  Committee  of  the  House  of 
Commons  sent  a  list  of  questions  on  tbe 
subject,  to  tbe  most  distinguished  men 
of  science  in  the  country.  Mr.  Robert- 
son was  included  in  the  number,  and  his 
answers  will  be  found  annexed  to  the 
Report,  which  was  printed  in  1801. 

In  1805,  tbe  late  Earl  of  Liverpool 
published  his  work  on  the  **  Coins  of 
tbe  Realm."  Mr.  Robertson  had  been 
engaged  by  bis  Lordship  to  make  the 
necessary  calculations  for  bim,  and  tbe 
'*  Appendix,  containing  an  account  of 
the  relative  value  of  gold  and  silver 
among  the  Persians,  Grecians,  and  Ro- 
mans,*' was  drawn  up  by  Mr.  R. 

In  tbe  Philosophical  Transactions  for 
1806,  there  is  a  republication  and  ex- 
tension of  bis  demonstration  of  the  Bi- 
nomial Theorem';  and  in  those  for  1807, 
there  is  a  paper  of  bis  on  tbe  Procession 
of  the  Equinox.  Some  severe  strictures 
on  these  induced  him,  in  18U8,  to  pub- 
lish <*  A  reply  to  a  Monthly  and  Criti- 
cal Reviewer."  This  pamphlet  was 
printed  during  bis  absence  in  London, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  1807,  in  mak- 
ing the  calculations  for  Lord  Grenville's 
system  of  finance;  and  in  1808,  in 
drawing  up  the  tables  for  Mr.  Percival's 
plan  of  increasing  tbe  Sinking  Fund,  by 
granting  Life  Annuities  on  Government 
security. 

in  1807,  he  took  the  degree  of  D.  D. ; 
and  in  1810,  he  surcet^ded  Dr.  Hornsby 
in  the  care  of  tbe  Radcliffe  Observatory, 
the  electors  of  Sir  Henry  Savile's  Pro- 
fessors having  permitted  him  to  ex* 
change  tbe  chair  of  Geometry  (whioh  he 
had  occupied  so  much  to  the  credit  and 
advantage  of  the  University,)  for  that  of 
Astronomy.  When  he  undjirtook  this 
charge*,  it  was  proposed  tliat  the  observa- 
tions should  hepuhlisbedevery  year,  but 
the  expence  was  con<»idered  to  be  so  far 
beyond  tbe  probable  advantage  of  such 
a  measure,  that  it  was  afterwards  aban- 
doned. Tbe  Radcliffe  trustees,  how- 
ever, were  anxious  that  the  observations 
should  be  made  accessible  to  those  men 
of  science  who  might  wish  to  consult 
them  ;  they  therefore  directed  that  one 
manuscript  copy  should  be  annually 
deposited  in  the  Radcliffe  library  at  Ox- 
ford, and  that  a  second  should  be  pre- 
sented to  the  Royal  Society.  This  bat 
been  regularly  executed,  and  evince  the 
attention  with  which  the  duties  of  the 
Observer's  office  have  been  performed. 

There  are  two  papers  of  Dr.  Robert- 
8on*s  in  the  Philosophical  Transactions 
for  1816  ;  the  one  on  calculating  tbe 
excentric  anomaly  of  planets  ;  the  other 
on  Dr.  Maskelyne's  formula  Cs)t  ¥wvi^\\\^ 


11 


ITB                  OBiTaA^T.-^SftpHmift  Colltnsm,  D.  D.  [Feb, 

the  lonj^tude  and  latitude  of  a  eeleitl^l  Bned  to  his  native  place  \   but,  at  he 

hody  from  its  right  ascension  and  decli-  found  his  end  approaching,  he  had  eni- 

liation.  ployed  himself  in  destroying  his  papers. 

Baron  Von  Zach  printed  an  account  of  so  that  it  was  only  from  a  letter  which 

some  papers  of  Harriot,  which  was  after-  had  been  accidentally  overlooked,  that 

wards  inserted  in  Dr.  Mutton's  Diction*  his  benevolence  in  this   particular  in- 

ary,   (art.  Harriot,)  with  assurance  of  stance  was  accidentally  discovered, 

their  having  been  presented  to  the  Uiii-  — 

▼ersity  of  Oxford,  and  of   their  being  Sbptimus  Collinson,  D.  D. 

*'  in  a  fair  way  to  be  published.*'     Now,  Jan,  S4.     At  his  Lodge,  aged  87,  the 

Ibe  papers  had  been  examineil,  and  hav-  Rev.  Septimus  Collinson,  D.  D.  Provost 

ing  been  found  wholly  unfit  for  publica-  of    Queen's  College,  Oxford,   Margaret 

tiuii,  had  been  returned  to  Lord  Egre-  Professor  of    Divinity,    Prebendary    of 

monf,  in  whose  possession  they  had  been  Worcester,  and  Rector  of  Dowli^b  Wake 

discovered  by  Zacb.     Notwithstanding  and  Dowlish  West  in  Somersetshire, 

this.  Dr.  Htitton,  after  the  lapse  of  many  Dr.  Collinson  was  educated  at  Queen's 

vears,  reprinted  the  original  statement,  Colleipe.     He  took  the  degree  ut  M.A. 

In  the  second  edition  of  bis  Dictionary,  In    1767*  was  presented  to  his  rectories 

which  came  out  in  1813.   This  occasion-  in    1 7*7 8  by  J.  Hanning,  esq.,  proceeded 

ed  many  invidious  and  unjust  remarks  ;  B.  D.ln  1792,  and  D.  D.  in  the  following 

Dr.  Robertson,  therefore,  drew  up  a  full  year.    He  was  for  some  years  one  of  (he 

and  exact  account  of  the  whole,  and  he  City  Lecturers,   and  resigned  in   17S)5. 

took  the  opportunity  of  correcting,  at  He  succeeded  Dr.  Fothergill  as  Provost 

the  same  time,   a  gross  roistatement  of  of   Queen's   in    1796,  and  was  elected 

l)r. Thomson's,  with  respect  to  Bradley's  Margaret  Professor  of  Divinity,  in   the 

Observations.   These  remarks  were  pub-  place  of  Dr.   Neve  of  Merton  College, 

lished  in  the  sixth  volume  of  Dr.  Brews-  in  1798. 

ter's  Edinburgh   Philosophical  Journal.  The    duties    of    his    Provostship,    to 

Dr.  Robertson  was  of  a  moderate  sta-  which  situation  Dr.  Collinson  was  unani- 

ture  and  spare  make  ;  he  was  placid  in  mously  elected,  and  which   he   enjoyed 

his  disposition,  and  extremely  temperate ;  for  a  longer  period  than  any  former  Pro- 

hisconstitution,though  not  strong,  seem-  vost,  were  discharged  by  him  with  great 

ed  to  have  a  tenaciousness  of  li'e,  which  ability,  diligence,  and  discretion.    In  his 

would  probably  have  protracted  his  ex-  office  of  Professor  be  laboured  with  un- 

istence,  if  it  had  not  been  counteracted  eXampled  efficiency  and  aeal.    The  Lec- 

by  local  disease.     The  sufferings  which  tures  on  the  Thirty-n^ne  Articles  of  the 

this  produced  were  severe  ;  but  he  bore  Church  of  England,  w\)ich  he  delivered 

them   with  the  greatest  fort4tutle  :  his  in  that  capacity,  evinced  deep  research, 

mind  retained  its  clearness   to  the  last,  sound  judgment,   correct  and   enlarged 

but  his  bodily  powers  gradually  gave  way,  views  of  religion,  and  great  moderation, 

and   the  beginning  of  his  76ih  year  was  He  was  justly  esteemed  by  the  Univer&i- 

the  painful  end   of  his  existence   upon  ty,  as  having  rendered  a  most  important 

earth.    He  was  bhried,  by  his  own  direc-  service  by  those  Lectures.     So  great  was 

lion,  in  the  church-yard  of  Si.  Peter's  in  bis  anxiety  to  be  useful  in  that  depart- 

the  East, in  the  same  vault  with  his  wife,  ment,  that  he  delivered  a  course  of  Lec- 

whom    he  bad  lost  a  few  years  after  he  tures  at  the  age  of  eighty.  He  frequently 

tiecame  Professor  of  r;;Himelry,  and   by  preached  before    the   University,   even 

whom  he  had  no  family.  when  he  had  arrived  at  a  very  advanced 

Dr.  Robertson's  manners  were  marked  age.    The  sermons  which   be  delivered 

by  great  simplicity.    Though  his  habits,  before  that  audience,  exhibited  decisive 

from  the  circumstances  of  his  early  life,  proofs  of  a  vigorous  and   acute  mind, 

were  oecononiical,  they  were  not  penuri-  habituated  to  calm  and  patient  inquiry, 

bus.    He  was  indulgent   to  those  about  and  to  close  and  accurate  reasoning.  His 

him;  generous  and  charitable,  whenever  delivery  was  peculiarly  impressive,  and 

there  was  any  reasonable  call  on  him,  he  never  failed  to  produce  a  very  powerful 

Was  always  ready  to  recede  from  his  due  ;  effect   on  the   minds  of   bis  numerous 

large  sums,   w^hich   he   liad  destined  for  hearers. 

relations  after  his  death,  he  gave  up   to  His   character  was   marked   by  very 

them  during  his  life,  when  he  thought  high  independence.     To  all  public  Insti* 

they  could  be  more  servi cable  to  them  $  tutions  of  acknowledged  utility  he  was 

lind  in  addition  to  what  he  gave  away  in  a  liberal  benefactor.     In   social   inter- 

liis  immediate  neighbourhood,   he  used  course  he  exhibited  a  disposition  singu- 

to    send  money   to    the  clergyman  of  larly  benevolent.     No  uncharitable  nor 

'Dunse,  to  be  distributed  by  him  among  unkind  expression  fell  from  his  lips.    He 

Iboie  who  wanted  it.   It  is  probable  that  possessed  remarkable  equanimity ;  and 

itr#  rharities  of  this  kind  were  not  con-  retained,  even  to  the  cooclusion  of  life. 


1S870  Obituait/— ioAn  Dent,  Eiq.^W.  Fletchir,  Eiq. 


17» 


lUiAbated  cbctrfulness  and  unimpair^ 
•oerigy  of  mind.  Tbouf^b  his  frame  was 
weak  and  delicate,  yet  he  enjoyed  almost 
uninterrupted  health,  the  reward  of  the 
regular  habits  to  which  be  bad  adhered 
from  bis  earliest  years.  After  a  very 
short  illness,  be  closed  a  long  and  useful 
life,  which  had  been  uniformly  distan- 
gutshed  by  unaffected  piety. 

John  Dbnt»  Esq. 

Nw,  14.  In  Hertford-street,  May- 
fair,  John  Dent,  esq.  F.A.S.  late  M.  P. 
for  Poole,  and  formerly  for  Lancaster. 

The  father  of  Mr.  Dent  is  stated  to 
have  been  the  master  of  the  school  of  a 
small  town  in  Cumberland.  Accident 
and  superior  penmanship  introduced  the 
son  to  Mr.  Child  the  banker,  who  en- 
gaged him  as  clerk,  from  which  situa- 
tion he  rose,  according  to  the  custom  of 
that  eminent  bouse,  to  reap,  as  a  partner^ 
a  large  share  of  the  profits  of  tbe  busi- 
neas. 

Mr.  Dent  was  first  elected  to  tbe 
House  of  Commons  in  1 7dO»  as  represen- 
tative of  the  Borough  of  Lancaster,  for 
which  he  sat  during  five  successive 
parliaments,  till  tbe  dissolution  in  1812. 
He  was  first  chosen  for  Poole  in  1818, 
and  represented  that  borough  in  two 
parliaments,  till  tbe  dissolution  iii  1826. 
As  a  member  of  tbe  legislature,  Mr. 
Dent  was  active  and  useful,  and  he  fre- 
quently took  occasion  to  deliver  his  sen- 
timents,  particularly  on  financial  sub- 
jects. He  usually  supported  the  mea- 
sures of  Mr.  Pitt  and  his  succossors  in 
ofiBce,  and  was  generally  known  as  tbe 
author  of  the  Tax  upon  Dogs. 

Mr.  Dent,  at  a  vast  enpence,  accu* 
mulated  a  very  fine  library,  particularly 
rich  in  classics  and  large-paper  copies 
of  County  Histories.  Dr.  Dibdin,  in 
bis  Decameron,  has  described  a  most 


resplendent  and  beautiful  MS.  Roinan 
Breviary,  possessed  by  Mr.  Dent,  and 
given  a  specimen  of  tbe  illuminations.  It 
contains  5S3  leaves,  every  page  more  or 
less  ornamented  ;  so  that,  collectively,  it 
is  hardly  to  be  matched  by  any  other 
Missal.  Dr.  Dibdin  also  describes  Mr. 
Dent's  beautiful  and  interesting  MS.  of 
the  Greek  Gospels,  written  about  the 
year  ISOO,  and  gives  specimens  of  the 
illuminations.  Mr.  Dent,  among  numer- 
ous other  rarities,  possessed  a  fine  copy 
of  tbe  Junta  Vitruvius  upon  vellum. 
Mr.  Dent's  library,  we  understand,  is  to 
come  under  the  hammer  of  Mr.  Evans. 


Wm.  Fletcher,  Esq. 

Dec,  27.  At  his  bouse,  Clarendon- 
street,  O&furd,  in  his 87th  year,  William 
Fletcher,  esq.  senior  partner  in  tbe  Ox- 
ford Old  B.ink,  a  gentleman  distinguish- 
ed in  all  tbe  relations  of  life,  by  the 
strictest  integrity,  tbe  soundest  judg- 
ment, and  the  most  uniTorm  benevo- 
lence. Tbe  good  opinion  of  his  fellow 
citizens  had  conferred  upon  him  the 
Alderman's  gown  in  1798,  and  had 
placed  him  three  times  in  the  civic  chairj 
in  1782,  1796,  and  \dOD*  In  tbe  dis- 
charge of  all  these  duties,  he  was  at  once 
firm  and  courieou>,  combining  upon 
these,  as  upon  all  other  occasions,  tbe 
most  pacific  disposition  with  the  most 
conscientious  adherence  to  his  own  prin- 
ciples and  opinions  ;  and  it  is  to  be  re- 
membered, that  he  had  to  act  in  timet 
of  great  political  agitation,  and  when  it 
was  important  that  a  magistrate  should 
be  forward  to  avow,  as  well  as  faithful  to 
maintain,  tbe  principles  of  tbe  constitu- 
tion. 

Mr.  Fletcher  was  always  among  the 
first  to  come  forward  in  support  of  those 
public  measures,  which  he  deemed  con- 
ducive to  tbe  good  of  bis  country,  and  to 


*  Another  correspondent  has  furnished  us  with  tbe  following  more  particular 
data,  with  respect  to  the  Alderman's  early  life  and  civic  honours : — He  was  tbe  son 
of  Mr.  James  Fletcher,  an  eminent  bookseller,  living  little  short  of  a  century  past 
in  tbe  Turl  of  Oxford,  and  tbe  eldest  of  the  four  venerable  Oxford  bibliopolists, 
whose  ages  in  1794  are  recorded  (by  Daniel  Prince,  who  stands  third  of  them)  in 
our  volume  for  that  year,  p.  499.  He  was  apprenticed  to  Mr.  William  Wickbami 
a  draper,  and  also  a  magistrate  of  Oxford,  residing  opposite  University  college. 
With  bim  be  afterward  joined  in  partnership}  and  ultimately  succeeded  to  the  whole 
buaiuess.  After  some  years  had  elapsed,  be  became  partner  with  Mr.  Alderman 
Parsons,  who  was  also  a  draper,  and  in  conjunction  with  him  established  the  Old 
Bank,  in  which  be  continued  a  partner  till  bis  death.  On  tbe  14tb  of  June,  n6bf 
Mr.  Fletcher  was  admitted  to  his  freedom  of  tbe  City  of  Oxford,  and  so  soon  after 
as  September  30,  1766,  be  was  elected  a  Common  Councilman.  He  was  chosen  to 
tbe  office  of  Chamberlain  July  31,  1769f  to  fill  tbe  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  death 
of  Mr.  Townsend  Pitman.  He  served  the  office  of  Bailiff  with  Mr.  Nicholas  Halse 
io  tbe  year  1773,  and  upon  tbe  death  of  Mr.  Samuel  Culley,  he  was  elected  April  2, 

1781,  one  of  tbe  eight  Assistants  of  the  City.    He  filled  the  civic  chair  in  tbe  vear 

1782,  and  again  in  1796,  and  upon  the  resignation  of  Alderman  Sir  John  Treacher, 
in  1790>liis  fallow  cit^^ns  conferred  the  vacant  gown  upon  hUn.     itk  \&^d  \>i^  7t%» 
chosen  for  the  tbiritimej  Chief  Magistrate  of  his  fiUive  city* 


180  Obituary.— flF^.  FUtcher,  Esq.-^On  H.  WheUr,  Esq. 


[Feb 


the  stability  of  its  conAitution  in  church 
apd  state. 

But  that  which  formed  the  peculiar 
feature  in  the  character  of  this  upright 
and  amiable  member  of  society,  was  his 
benevolence,  or  rather,  the  considerate 
nature  of  his  benevolence;  to  be  charit* 
ably  disposed  is  one  thing,  to  study  how 
to  be  charitable  in  the  most  serviceable 
way  another  :  and  it  was  the  character- 
istic of  Mr.  Fletcher's  charity,  to  be  dili- 
gent in  Hiiding  out  w>hat  he  considered 
to  be  the  best  ways  and  means  of  ad- 
ministering to  the  wants,  comforts,  and 
happiness  of  his  fellow-creatures.  This 
habit  of  pondering  upon  sorrow  in  its 
less  obvious  distresses,  and  upon  poverty 
in  all  the  little  details  of  its  wants,  led 
him  to  unfrequented  paths  of  kindness, 
and  to  modes  of  charitable  donation, 
which  a  less  studious  almoner  would 
never  have  thought  of,  and  one  less 
strenuous  would  not  have  been  disposed 
to  undertake  and  pursue. 

But  amidst  the  studies  of  his  benevo- 
lence, and  the  avocations  of  his  business 
and  his  duties,  Mr.  Fletcher  found  op- 
portunities to  pursue,  and  with  consider- 
able success,  some  antiquarian  enquiries 
respecting  the  counties  of  Oxford  and 
Berks,  having  made  some  interesting 
collections  for  the  illustration  of  the 
topography  of  those  counties.  It  may 
be  important  to  add,  that  they  are  now 
in  the  possession  of  his  nephew,  Tho- 
mas Robinson,  esq.  of  the  Oxford  Old 
Bank. 

The  same  lore  of  antiquity  led  him 
Into  a  line  of  enquiry,  which,  when  he 
entered  upon  it,  was  less  pursued  than  it 
is  at  present ;  he  made  large  collections 
of  ancient  stained,  or  painted  glass,  upon 
a  variety  of  subjects  in  sacred  and  pro- 
fane history,  heraldry,  and  portraiture  ; 
and  he  was  as  munificent  in  giving,  as 
he  was  diligent  in  collecting  and  preserv- 
ing, what  had  escaped  the  ravages  of 
time  and  the  fury  of  fanaticism.  Out 
of  these  collections,  he  formed  (by  a 
symmetrical  arrangement  of  the  several 
pieces)  some  large  and  splendid  windows, 
two  of  which  he  presented  to  the  Uiii- 
▼ersitv  ot  Oxford,  and  placed  in  the 
tower' of  the  Picture  Gallery  ;  to  which, 
he  alio  contributed  original  portraits  of 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  and  Lord  Bur- 
leigh ;  other  windows  he  gave  to  the 
Curators  of  the  Bodleian  ;  one,  entirely 
composed  of  the  Oseney  Abbey  glass,  to 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of. Christ  Church; 
for  which  acts  of  munificence,  he  re- 
ceived the  thanks  of  those  learned 
bodies. 

He  also  presented  a  suite  of  windows 
of  painted  glass  to  the  church  of  Ysm- 
ion,  a  yiJlage  in  the  vicinity  of  Oxford, 


for  which,  from  early  reeollections,  he 
always  felt  a  strong  attachment.  It  had 
happened  that  in  hit  infancy  be  had 
been  nursed  in  that  village,  where  he 
also  passed  the  first  year  of  his  childhood, 
and  hence  arose  that  kindness,  and  those 
multiplied  proofs  of  it,  which  that  place 
and  its  inhabitants  ever  experienced 
from  him.  For,  besides  the  gifts  of  the 
windows,  he  new  pewed  and  paved,  and 
otherwise  improved  the  church;  he  also 
built  a  substantial  stone  house  for  the 
parish  clerk,  with  a  school-room  adjoin- 
ing ;  every  year  of  his  life  he  used  to 
bestow  alms  in  a  variety  of  ways  upon 
young  and  old,  and  he  has  bequeathed 
by  will  several  legacies  and  benefactions 
to  individuals,  or  for  permanent  purposes, 
at  that  place.  This  force  of  local  attach- 
ment and  earl}  associations  still  further 
shewed  itself  in  his  desire  to  be  buried 
there,  and  in  the  grave  which  he  had 
long  before  prepared  for  himself  in  the 
parish  church. 

As  a  man  of  business,  Mr.  Fletcher 
was  clear,  exact,  and  punctual.  To  all 
wiihin  the  circle  of  bis  acquaintance, 
friendship,  or  connection,  hewascaNdid, 
sincere,  and  kindly  affectioned.  Mr. 
Fletcher  never  having  been  married,  he 
made  his  nearest  and  dearest  relatives 
the  objects  of  his  paternal  regard.  But 
that  which  completed  the  character  of 
this  christian  philanthropist,  was  his 
humility.  Wealth,  office,  high  reputa- 
tion, and  universal  esteem,  were  not  for 
a  moment  able  to  change  the  lowliness 
of  his  heart  ;  and  so  precious  in  his  eyes 
was  the  garb  of  humility,  that  he,  who 
h'<d  always  worn  it  so  gracefully  through 
life,  wished  to  indicate  even  after  death 
how  much  he  prized  it,  by  leaving  it  as 
his  request,  that  his  remains  from  the 
hearse  to  the  grave,  might  he  borne  on 
the  bier,  and  be  covered  with  the  pall  of 
the  parish. 

G.  H.  WnELRR,  Esq.  F.S.  A. 

Ftb.  3.  At  Gordon's  Hotel,  in  Albe- 
marle street,  aged  50,  Granville  Hast- 
ings Wheler,  esq.  F.S. A.  of  Otterden- 
place  in  Kent,  and  of  Ledston-lodge  in 
Yorkshire.  He  was  descended  from  the 
Rev.  Sir  George  Wheler,  the  traveller, 
(of  whom  an  account  is  given  in  vol. 
Lxxxvi,  ii.  426,)  and  was  related  to  Sir 
Charles  Wheler,  hart. 

By  the  marriage  of  his  grandfather, 
the  Rev.  Granville  Wheler,*  only  surviv- 
ing son  of  the  above-mentioned  Sir 
George,  with  the  Lady  Catherine  Maria 
Hastings,  sixth  daughter  of  Tbeophilus, 
seventh   Earl  of  Huntingdon,  he    was 

.  *  Author    of  various    papers    in  the 
Philosophical  Transactions. 


lasr.] 


Obituary. — T.  H.  EUerbff,  Etq. 


181 


penrly  allied  to  that  noble  family  ;  and, 
failini;  the  iS9ue  of  the  Ufe  Countess  of 
Moira,  stood  next  in  succession  to  the 
Barouiei  of  Iluit|rerford,  Hastings,  &e. 
which  devolved  upon  that  lady,  on  the 
death  of  her  brother  Francis,  10th  Earl 
of  Huntingdon  ;  and  at  her  death,  upon 
her  son  the  illustrious  Marquess  of  Hast- 
ings, whose  lamented  death  is  noticed 
ill  our  last  number.  Upon  the  demise 
of  Francis,  lOih  Earl  of  Huntingdon, 
Mr.  Wheler  became  possessed  of  con- 
siderable estatf  s  in  Yorkshire,  under  the 
will  of  the  excellent  and  pidus  Lady 
Elizabeth  Hastings,*  eldest  surviving 
daughter  of  the  before- mentioned  I'heo- 
pbilus,  7th  Earl,  which  she  inherited  in 
rigbt  of  her  mother,  one  of  the  daugh- 
ters and  co-heirs  of  .Sir  John  Lewis  of 
Ledstone,  hart. 

His  father,  Granville  Hastings  Wheler, 
esq.  the  only  sun  of  the  Rev.  Granville 
Wheler  before- men lionid,  married  Sybil- 
la,  one  of  the  daughters  of  Capt.  Robert 
Haswell,  R.  N.  who,  after  the  death  of 
her  husband,  married,  secondly  the  Rev. 
John  Tattersall,  Chaplain  in  Ordinary 
to  his  Mnjesiy,  and  aiterwards  Vioar  of 
Harewood.  She  is  still  living,  and  has 
one  surviving  daughter  by  ber  second 
marriage,  Frances,  wife  of  the  Rev.  John 
Baker,  Vicar  of  Thorp-arch,  to  which 
be  was  presented  by  Mr.  Wheler 

The  »ubjfict  of  this  memoir  was  a 
gentleman  commoner  of  Corpus  Christ i, 
hi  Oxford.  He  married  Jane,  serond 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Wi  liam  De  Chair 
Tattersall,  Rector  of  Weat  Bourne,  in 
Sussex,  and  one  of  his  MajesTv's  Chap- 
laius,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  who  died 
an  infant ;  bis  lady  survives  him. 

Mr.  Wheler's  favourite  pursuit  was  the 
study  of  antiquity  ;  and  he  had  paid 
particular  attention  to  heraldry,  and 
whatever  related  to  pedigrees  and  the 
knowledge  of  descents.  He  was  possess- 
ed of  a  critical  and  intimate  knowledge 
of  the  various  styles  (and  of  the  eras 
when  the  several  alterations  took  place), 
of  Saxon,  Norman,  and  Pointed  archi- 
tecture. No  one  more  heartly  lamented 
the  dilapidations  which  antiquaries  are 
so  frequently  doomed  to  witness.f  or 
more  strongly  reprobated  the  innova- 
tions in  which,  under  the  semblance  of 
restoration,  some  modern  architects 
have  been  too  prone  to  indulge.  At  the 
sam«  time  he  readily  gave  his  unquali- 
fied approbation  to  some  recent  struc- 
tures which  have  been  chastely  executed 

*  See  vol.  LVll.  p.  403. 

•f*  Particularly  at  Canterbury  by  the 
destruction  of  those  venerable  and  in- 
teresting remains,  the  South  Cate^  aod 
Ethelbert't  Tower. 


in  the  Pointed  ityle.t  He  evineed  tlie 
correctness  of  his  taste  and  judgment  iti 
the  alterations  and  additions  he  wis 
making  at  Otterden,  and  those  he  sug- 
gested at  Leeds  Castle  and  other  placet. 
On  all  these  subjects  he  was  an  occasional 
correspondent  of  Mr.  Urban. 

He  had  some  peculiar  habits  and 
opinions,  which,  though  neither  of  a 
religious  nature,  (for  be  was  steadily 
attarbed  to  the  doctrines  of  the  Chureh 
of  England,)  nor  deviations  from  moral 
rectitude,  were  the  more  regretted  by 
his  friends,  on  account  of  his  many 
estimable  qualities.  One  of  these,  an 
erroneous  idea  respecting  the  state  of 
his  health,  is  supposed  to  have  shortened 
his  life,  having  by  injudicious  medical 
treatment  of  himself  so  greatly  reduced 
his  strength,  that  bis  constitution  sunk 
under  it. 

Mr.  Wheler  h-id  great  ecclesiastical 
patronage;  and  to  his  honour  it  de* 
berves  to  be  mentioned,  that  he  never 
sold  any  of  the  presentations  to  his 
livings.  He  was  patron  of  Ledsham, 
Collingham,  aTid  Thorp-arch,  and  had 
the  alternate  presentation  to  Harewood 
in  Yorkshire,   the  perpetual  curacy  of 

Oiterdon,  in  Kent,  of— in  Suffolk, 

and  the  chapel  in  Wheler- street,  Spital- 
fields.  Upon  the  death  of  his  uterine 
brother,  tbe  late  Francis  Tattersall,  (to 
whom  he  had  given  the  living  of  Leds- 
ham,) being  desirous  of  placing  a  c'ergy- 
man  who  should  be  resident,  and  diligent 
in  tbe  performanceof  his  parochial  duties 
in  that  parish,  be,  at  the  recommendation 
of  certain  of  his  friends,  presented  tbe 
Rev.  Christopher  Benson  (now  Master  of 
the  Temple),  at  that  time  an  entire 
stranger  to  him.  to  that  VHluable  living, 
which  preferment  be  still  enjoys. 

T.  R.  Ellbrbv,  Esg. 

Jan,  29  Aged  37>  in  Broad-st.  Thomas 
Robson  Ellerhy,  esq.  Surgeon  to  the 
Islington  Dispensary,  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  a  man  of  singu- 
lar habits.  He  left  in  his  will  the  ful* 
lowing  extraordinary  directions  :^ 

**  For  the  guidance  and  instruction  of 
those  whom  1  may  appoint  as  the  execu- 
tors of  this  my  last  will,  1  do  here  set 
down  what  my  wish  is,  concerning  the 
disposal  of  my  body :— After  my  decease, 
I  request  to  be  placed  in  a  very  plain 
shell  or  coffin,  with  all  possible  despatch; 
that  my  friends  and  acquaintances  be  as- 
sembled as  soon  as  convenient.  Prefer- 
ing  to  be  of  some  use  after  my  death,  I 
do  will,  wish,  beg,  pray,  and  desire,  that 
at  the  conclusion  of  such  meeting  of  my 

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U3  OBiTVARY.-^Lieui.  Sioka,  R.  N.  [Feb; 

friends  and  acquaintances  and  ac  which  Lieut.  Stokes,  R.  N. 

X  particularly  wish  those  medical  friends         Dec.  $,    At  St.    Leonard's,   Bridge- 


who  hare  so  kindly  attended  me  through  north,  whither  he  had  lately  removed, 

my  long  iliness  to  be  present,  that  the  aged  about  36,  William  Smith  Stokes, 

•hell  or  coffin  in  which  I  may  Le  laid,  be  Lieut.  R.  N. 

placed  in  a  plain  hearse,  with  directions  He  received  the  chief  part  of  his  edu- 

lor  it  to  be  taken  to  Mr.  Kiernan's,  or  cation  under  Dr.  Butler,  at  the  public 

some   dissecting-room  of   an   approved  school  in  Shrewsbury.    At  an  early  age 

anatomical  school,  followed  simply  by  he  entered  into  the  navy,  and  when  not 

the  medical  men   in  one  or  two  plain  more  than  15,  wason>boardtbe  Tonant, 

coaches,  and  that  ibey  do  there  examine  at  the  ever-memorable  battle  of  Trafal- 

it  to  their  full  satisfaction,  taking  away  gar,  where,  in  the  midst  of  victory,  he 

such   parts  as   may  be   of  patbulogical  was  eye-witness  to  the  fall  of  the    Com- 

iltility.     After  which,  that  the  remains  mander-in-chief. 

be  dissected,  or  made  whatever  use  of  In  the  spring  of  1813,  he  landed    in 

the  anatomical  teacher  at  such  school  Spain,  and  found  the  whole  coast  from 

ipay  think  proper.  Puerto  Santa  Maria  to  Ayamonte  in   a 

'*  This  I  do  as  a  last  tribute  t»  a  state  of  blockade,  to  prevent  the  French 
science  which  I  have  delighted  iu,  and  forces  receiving  supplies  by  sea ;  and 
to  which  1  now  regret  that  1  have  con-  near  to  Badajos  he  saw  for  the  lasit  time 
Iributtfd  so  little  }  but  if  this  example,  his  eldest  brother  Lieut.  James  Marshall 
which  1  have  set,  and  design  for  my  pro-  Stokes,  who  shortly  after,  on  6th  of  April, 
fessional  bretbern,  be  only  followed  to  in  leading  the  Ist  battalion  ot  95tb  regi- 
^be  extent  I  wish,  1  am  satisfied  that  ment  of  foot  to  the  entrenchments  be- 
much  good  to  science  will  result  from  fore  that  town, fell  gloriously  among  the 
it  i  for  if  medical  men,  instead  of  taking  slain  immediately  prior  to  its  being 
such  care  of  their  precious  carcasen,  taken.  Since  the  conclusion  of  the 
ifere  to  set  the  exaniple  of  giving  their  peace,  he  has  occasionally  resided  with 
own  bodies  fur  dis«iection,  the  prejudice  his  widowed  mother  at  the  family  resi- 
which  exists  in  this  country  against  ana-  dence,  Roughton  in  Worfield,  co.  Salop, 
tomical  examinations,  and  which  is  in-  He  was  of  an  ancient  and  wealthy 
(greasing  to  such  an  alarming  degree,  family  of  his  own  paternal  name,  long 
would  soon  be  done  away  with,  and  resident  in  and  about  the  neighbour- 
tcience  proportionably  benefited  as  the  hood  of  Tettenhall  co.  Stafford.  His 
obstacles  were  thus  removed.  Nay,  so  grandfather,  and  other  lineal  and  col- 
^r  du  1  think  this  a  duty  incumbent  lateral  ancestors  were  the  strenuous  par- 
upon  every  one  entering  the  profession,  tisans  and  secret  supporters  of  the  un- 
that  I  would  have  it,  if  possible,  framed  fortunate  house  of  Stuart,  though  their 
into  a  law,  that  on  taking  au  examina-  other  political  and  religious  principles 
tion  at  a  public  college  for  licence  to  were  diametrically  opposite  to  those  of 
practise,  whether  physic,  surgery,  or  that  exiled  family.  He  was  also  descend- 
pliarmacy,  it  should  be  made  a  sine  qud  ed  from  Francis  Smith,  that  very  cele- 
Aon,  that  every  one  on  taking  such  brated  and  eminent  architect  of  a  cen- 
license,  should  enter  into  a  specific  agree-  tury  past,  from  whose  excellent  plans 
ment,  that  his  body  should,  after  his  and  suggestions  arose  the  great  man- 
death,  become  the  property  of  his  surviv-  sions  of  PattishuU,  Hallon  (now  called 
ing  brethren,  under  regulations  instiiut-  Davenport -house),  Kinlet,  Mawley, 
ed  by  authority."  Ombersley    (the  seat  of  the  late   Lord 

After  this,  follows  the  distribution  of  Sondes),  &c.    From  that  eminent  man, 

the  different  parts  of  the  body  to  the  whose  surname  he  bore,  be  at  length 

medical  gentlemen  who  attended  him  in  inherited     very    valuable     possessions, 

his  last  illness  ;  such  parts  being  those  which  now  devolve  on  his  only  brother, 

only  which,  from  the  particular  studies  Michael  Smith  Stokes,  esq.  of  Rough- 

of  each,  were  supposed  by  Mr.  EUerby  ton.    In  disposition  Lieut.  Stokes  was 

to  have  to   such    of   them  a    peculiar  mild,  brave,  and  generous,  but  carelesa 

interest.  of  himself,  and  trifling  with  his  health, 

Mr.  EUerby  was  a  man  of  some  ac-  he  brought  on  a  long  protracted  illnesa 

quirements,  and  only  turned  bis  thought!  and  great  sufferings,   which  at  length 

to  the  profession  at  a  mature  age.      He  terminated  bis  earthly  career. 

was  an  active  member  of  the  committee  

appointed  by  the  General  Meeting  of  the  Mrs.  Howard. 

Members   of  the  College  of  Surgeons,  Jan,  9.     The     late    Mrs.   Elizabeth 

beld  at  Freemasons'  Hall,  for  the  pur-  Howard,   (of    whom  we    gave  a  brief 

pose  of  petitioning  Parliament  for  re-  notice  in  p.  93),  was  the  only  daughter 

4iesa  of  certain  grievaneea  now  said  to  of  Richard  Howard^  esq.  of  Chiswiok* 

be  experienced  by  the  body  of  Stirgeooti  who  held  a  respectable  a ituation  in  the 


1887.] 


OaituaHy.— Mrt.  Homard. 


18S 


Coart  of  Chancery,  when  Lord  Nor* 
chington  filled  the  office  of  Chancellor  ) 
and  who,  by  hU  marriage  with  an  hetr^ 
e«  of  the  family  of  Beresford,  came 
into  posseuioii  of  a  coiitiderablc  estate 
ill  the  county  of  Lincoln. 

Mrs.  Howard  was  justly  distinguished 
in  the  circle  of  her  friends  and  acquaint- 
ance, by  talents  of  the  h  iff  best  order, 
and  by  extraordinary  and  extensive  at- 
tainments. An  elv^ant  and  accoro- 
plikhed  classical  s<;hoiar,  she  possessed  a 
thuroug>h  kiiuwl«<lge  uf  the  learned  lan- 
guages; while,  at  the  same  time,  she 
was  equally  conversant  with  the  Grrinan, 
French,  Italian,  and  Spanish  ;  all  which 
she  read  with  facility  and  t.icte.  Yet, 
rare  and  brilliant  as  were  the  acquire- 
ments of  her  highly-cultivated  mind,  she 
shone  even  mure  conspicuously  in  the 
nobler  and  more  estimnble  q«ialities  of 
the  heart. 

Her  genuine  benevolence  and  kind- 
ness, the  warmth  and  sincerity  of  her 
friendship,  the  purity,  CHiifiour,  recti- 
tude, and  singleness  of  her  mind,  were 
eminently  characteristic  ;  but  her  fpene- 
rosity  and  disinterestedness  were  almost 
without  limit  ;  and,  whenever  the  wel- 
fare or  gratification  of  a  friend  ctuild  be 
proaMted  by  any  effort  or  sacrifice  on 
her  part,  she  scrupled  not  to  make  it  i 
for,  in  her  view,  self  was  always  the 
last  consideration — a  feeling  by  which 
she  was  actuated  to  a  Vfry  unrommon 
degree.  lu  manners,  this  excellent  lady 
was  particularly  pleasing,  ea«y,  gentle, 
and  refined,  more  from  the  influence  of 
native  courtesy  than  the  studied  f(»rms 
of  artificial  politeness ;  though  she  was, 
on  all  occasion*,  a  nice  observor  of  ihe 
rules  of  good-breeding,  both  in  herself 
and  others.  Accomplishments  like  these 
failed  not  to  secure  to  their  possessor  a 
high  degree  of  respect  and  reganl,  from 
such  as  could  estimate  the  full  value  of 
so  amiable  and  dignified  a  character; 
nor  was  she  less  beloved  by  those  who 
were  unalile  to  appreciate  her  higher 
attainments. 

Wholly  free  from  vanity  or  ostenta- 
tion, she  unaffectedly  sought  to  conceal, 
rat  her  than  to  display  hersuperi.<r  know- 
ledse;'  and  so  great  was  tl»e  natural 
difSdence  of  her  disposition,  that  stran- 
gers have  sometimes  been  in  her  com- 
pany, wiihout  discovering  that  she  pos- 
sessed any  extraordinary  information. 
To  those  who  had  the  happiness  of 
enjoying  her  society  in  the  unrestrained 
freedom. of  friendly  intercourse,  hercoii- 
rersation  was  highly  interesting  ;  to 
them  the  treasures  of  her  well-stored  and 
ricbly-gif^^  mind,  with  a  memory  pecu. 
liarly  clear  and  retentive,  were  unfolded, 
and 'afforded  inttructioii,    amntenieiity 


and  delist.  8he  MMy  be  tald  to  havo 
bad,  in  a  remarkable  degree,  th«  hapmr 
talent  of  blending  the  cheerful  and  sootal 
with  the  intelleetual  companion.  la 
sentiment,  Mrs.  Howard  uniforoi^ 
maintained  the  principles  of  civil  aad 
religious  liberty ;  considering  them  ao 
inseparably  connected  with  the  bast 
interests  of  mankind.  Diligent  in  bor 
inquiries  on  the  subject  of  religioMs 
truth,  she  applied  the  singular  advant- 
ages she  possessed  in  its  investigation ; 
and  attentively  perused  the  sacred  writ- 
ings ill  their  original  languages  ;  the 
result  of  which  was  a  firm  and  decided 
conviction  of  their  authenticity  and  im» 
portance ;  and  not  only  in  principle,  but 
in  practice  also,  was  she  a  sincere  and 
consistent  christian.  Mrs.  Howard  had 
collected  a  curious  and  valuable  libraiy, 
comprising  works  in  various  languages, 
and  in  different  departments  of  literatma 
and  science.  Among  her  friends  wera 
many  persons  of  talent,  learning,  and 
private  worth,  whom  she  greatly  valued, 
and  always  received  and  welcomed  with 
peculiar  pleasure.  Their  frequent  visits, 
together  with  her  books  and  her  literary 
pursuits,  constituted  her  principal  ei^Joy* 
mem  6. 

The  writer  who  has  attempted  tUt 
imperfect  tribute  to  her  fine  talents  and 
her  exemplary  virtues,  has  long  known 
her  ;  and  esteems  it  one  of  the  happy 
occurrences  of  her  life,  to  have  been 
intimately  acquainted  with  Mrs.  Host* 
ard,  and   to  have  shared  her  friendship. 

She  has  often  listened  with  delight, 
when  young,  to  her  instructive  con  versa* 
tion  ;  and  will  ever  cherish  a  sincere  and 
affectionate  regard  for  her  memory.  Tb« 
lile  of  this  lamented  friend  was  tenal* 
nated  by  a  severe  and  painful  attack  of 
inflammation  on  the  chest;  and  her 
frame,  which  had  never  been  robust. 
Could  not  long  contend  with  the  com* 
plaint  ;  exhausted  by  previous  suffering. 
Which  she  bore  with  christian  resigua* 
tion  and  fortitude,  she  calmly  sunk  to 
sleep  without  a  struggle,  in  full  assur- 
ance of  a  happy  and  glorious  immor- 
tality, having  retained  her  faculties  to 
the  last.  Her  remains  were,  in  con- 
formity with  her  own  desire,  deposited  in 
the  church-yard  at  Kensington. 

The  following  extract  from  a  letter  of 
Mrs.  Howard  to  a  common  friend  (the 
late  Rev.  Dr.  Disney),  on  the  death  of  a 
lady  well  known  and  highly  esteemed 
(the  widow  of  Dr.  Jebb),  while  it  justly 
delineates  in  simple  and  concise,  but  ex- 
pressive terms,  the  character  of  the  ex- 
cellent person  of  whom  she  speaks,  it 
also  so  peculiarly  applicable  to  herself, 
that  its  introduetion  here  will  i«t^f% 
no  apoh>gy  >-> 


164       Obituahy.— Mn.  $hor€.^^Mn.  Daiohu. — G.  W.  Strong,      [Feb. 


**  We  hare  lo«t  indeed  a  friend  of  un» 
eominon  excellence  j  wicb  an  under- 
■tandingf  to  f^ood  and  cultivated,  so 
ardent  a  spirit,  where  yet  no  vapour  of 
ill  will  to  any  sentient  being  could  find  a 
plac«*.  She  has  her  reward ;— perhaps 
has  been  mercifully  removed  before  those 
faculties  which  made  her  happy,  even  in 
pain  and  ill  heahh,  were  blunted  by  the 
effects  of  tii:ie." 

Mrs.  Shore. 

Dec,9'  Ajed  65,  Harriet,  the  beloved 
wife  of  Samuel  Shore,  esq.  of  Norton- 
bNll,  Derbyshire.  The  followitifr  extract 
from  a  fuut-ral  sermon,  preached  at  the 
parish  church  of  Norton,  Dec.  S4th,  by 
the  Rev.  Henry  Pearson,  the  Vicar,  gives 
•bme  trails  uf  the  character  of  this 
amiable  lady  : 

«  She  was  indeed,  *  full  of  good  works,' 
which  she  did  not  from  ostentation,  and 
for  a  name,  but  from  a  benevolent  heart 
•nd  christian  feeling.  In  her  we  are 
forcibly  reminded  of  the  charitable  Dor- 
cas, of  whom  such  honourable  mention 
is  made  in  the  Scriptures  of  Truth. 
Well  may  her  own  sex  lament  her,  for 
she  was  a  pattern  to  them.  Well  may 
her  surviving  partner  deplore  the  disso- 
lution of  a  union,  founded  on  mutual 
affection,  and  cemented  by  many  suc- 
ceeding happy  years.  Alas!  it  is  a  sor- 
rowful memento  to  others  also,  united 
by  the  same  sacred  bonds,  that  the  dear- 
est friends  must  one  day  separate  ;  and 
that  it  is  a  perishing  finger  on  which  the 
ring  is  placed.  Well  m Ay  her  children 
cherish  the  fond  remembrance  of  her 
virtues ;  for  her  walk  and  conversation 
were  worthy  of  their  imitation.  *  Being 
dead,  she  yet  speaketh,'  and  to  them  is- 
sues a  voice  from  the  grave,  '  Be  ye  fol- 
lowers of  me.'  Well  then  may  her  own 
affectionate  family  and  household,  grieve 
for  such  a  deprivation  $  for,  in  every  rela- 
tiv«*  duty,  as  a  wife,  a  mother,  and  a  mis- 
tress she  was  without  reproach.  1  may 
truly  add,  well  may  the  poor,  who  shall 
never  cease  out  of  the  land,  be  afflicted 
and  mourn,  for  they  have  great  reason  tu 
stand  weeping  over  her  tomb,  and,  shew- 
ing the  roats  and  garments  which  she 
had  provided  for  their  use  while  she 
was  with  them,  they  may  say,  <  I  was, 
hungry  and  she  fed  me ;  I  was  thirsty, 
and  she  gave  me  drink ;  I  was  naked, 
and  she  clothed  me  ;  1  was  sick,  and  she 
visited  me.' " 

Mrs.  S.  Davibs. 
Jan.  8.  After  about  two  months  ill- 
ness, aged  78,  Mrs.  Sophia  Davies,  of 
IsKiigton  Green,  in  which  parish  the 
freatest  part  of  her  life  bad  been  spent. 
She  was  born  io  the  parish  of  St.  Bride, 


Sept.  99,  1748,  and  married  Oct.  96, 
1780,  to  Mr.  Hector  Davies,  (son  of  the 
Rev.  David  Davies,)  who  died  March  6, 
1785.  He  left  by  her  one  surviving  child, 
the  Rev.  Hector  Davies»  who  has  taken 
the  name  of  Morgan,  of  Castle  Heding- 
haoi,  Essex.  She  was  a  zealous  advocate 
of-  the  Church  and  State,  a  sincere 
friend,  and  an  accomplished  woman. 
The  early  part  of  her  life  had  been 
spent  in  the  society  of  literar)*  and  en- 
lightened persons;  but  in  her  few  re- 
maining years,  the  power  of  intellect 
had  greatly  failed.  By  the  paternal  side 
she  was  nearly  connected  with  the  cele- 
brated lawyer.  Sir  William  Blackstone, 
her  grandfather  being  the  judge's  bro- 
ther; on  the  maternal  side  she  was  de- 
scended from  the  Ashbys  of  Harefield, 
in  Middlesex.  (See  Gent.  Mag.  xciii.  ii. 
p.  312.) 

Her  remains  were  deposited  with  her 
family,  in  the  vault  of  St.  Mary's,  Isling- 
ton, followed  by  her  son,  the  Rev.  H.  D. 
Morgan,  M.  A.,  Rev.  Richard  Lendon, 
M.  A.,  Mr.  Taylor,  and  Mr.  W.  H. 
Gwyn. 

George-William  Strong. 

Jan.  7.  At  Woodbridge,  Suffolk,  aged  7, 
George- William,  youngest  son  of  the  Rer. 
William  and  Susanna  Strong,  of  Scao- 
ground,  Hunts. 

It  is  seldom  that  even  parental  affection 
can  6nd  an  apology  for  obtrudiog  upon  the 
uninterested  reader  its  reminiscences  of  so 
short  a  career ;  but  there  was  a  peculiarity 
in  the  character  and  conduct  of  this  child, 
which  seems  to  render  it  a  duty  that  the  in- 
fluence of  such  an  example  should  not  be 
confined  within  the  narrow  circle  of  his  own 
family,  or  the  span  of  his  earthly  sojourn. 
With  uDComniou  strength  of  intellect  and 
unusual  rouuliness  of  disposition,  he  com- 
bined an  acute  perception  of  moral  rectitude 
and  a  scrupulous  attention  to  all  the  pro- 
prieties and  delicacies  of  more  advanced  age. 
His  character  was  entirely  of  a. religious 
cast,  but  unshsdowed  by  tue  slightest,  tinc- 
ture of  melsncholy.  Prayer  was  nis/>/eastire, 
scarcely  less  than  praise.  After  having 
copied  a  part  of  **  Patrick's  Devotions,"  ho 
had  at  length  begged  to  have  the  book,  and 
the  good  use  which  he  made  of  it  cannot  be 
better  exemplified  than  in  the  two  following 
instances.  On  the  morning  of  the  last  anni- 
versary of  his  birth,  no  sooner  had  his 
father  quitted  his  room  than  he  hastened 
from  play,  in  which  he  was  briskly  engaged, 
and  entreated  his  mother  to  join  him  in 
offering  up  the  prayer  recommended  for 
such  an  occasion.  He  had  aUo  selected  for 
private  devotion  the  *'  Prayer  for  a  Student," 
contained  in  the  same  work ;  this  he  used 
daily  until  his  studies  were  in  some  degree 
interrupted  by  a  visit  into  Suffolk ;  thither 


188T0                  Obitu AUY*-^GMrg§'9yilHam  Strong.  185 

the  ▼oUnne  was  carried  at  hit  particular  da-  watcli*keyy  which  h«  really  naadod,  ami  re- 
tire, but  that  petitiott  rendered  lest  •PP*o~  tamed  bden  not  with  tojt  and  triflet,  "but 
priate  waa  dtscontintied.  Of  Hymaa  he  had  with  a  luit  of  clothet  for  the  son  of  a  Ite- 
spontaaeoutly  comoiitted  to  menory  a  con-  boorer  in  the  villtj^.  To  a  sitter  one  year 
aiderable  niriety ;  before  he  was  fbnr  yeart  younger  than  himtelf  he  wat  a  friend,  a 
old,  QBintUed  and  uaencouraged,  h«  had  guide,  and  a  guardian,  bearing  all  her  llttlt 
learned  the  greater  part  of  one  (contained  hi  faneiet  with  imperturbable  good  humoar, 
the  Magdalen  collection),  conunenctnr,  but  on  the  tlightett  indication  of  mtiGoudu<}t» 
**  Hark,  my  gay  friend,  that  tolemn  toll/'  reproring  her  with  a  tone  of  gentle  authcP* 
The  tone  of  hit  mind  not  being  then  ao  rity  which  was  never  resisted.  One  beautl- 
well  known,  so  toon  as  his  continual  recor-  ful  instance  of  hit  mode  of  control  should 
rence  to  it  was  observed,  the  book  wat  rt-  not  be  omitted.  When  he  had  not  l<mg 
moved ;  but  the  vertet  acquired  remained  completed  hit  third  year,  the  was  ttoopfaig 
indelibly  engraved,  and  tlie  touud  of  a  patt-  in  the  wantonnett  of  infimcy  to  ptuck  a 
ing  bell  never  fiiiled  to  draw  forth  an  em-  primrote ;  he  rushed  forward  and  checked 
phatic  repetition  of  the  first  line.  ber,  saying  that  the  flower  was  not  hers'  but 
From  nis  earliest  infancy  the  Bible  had  papa's ;  she  cried  in  consequence,  and  hn 
been  to  him  what  the  story-book  is  to  chil-  proceeded  in  his  reasoning,  *'  tho'  papa 
dren  in  genera),  the  most  unfailing  source  cannot  see  you,  God  can,"  and  enforced  thSt 
of  nmutemeat  i  he  had  long  been  pursuing  obtervation  with  a  quotation  from  Wattt, 
A  voluntary  plan  of  reading  it  regularly  **  There's  not  a  plaee  where  we  can  flee» 
thfougfa.  This  natural  bent  had  been  in-  hot  He  is  present  there ;"  «  betides,"  he 
dulged  by  permitting  him  to  commence  his  added,  **  you  should  not  pull  flowers." 
acquaintance  with  the  ancient  languages.  *'  There't  not  a  plant  or  flower  below,  but 
With  the  Hebrew  hit  progrett  had  been  makes  Ood't  gloriet  known." 
aach  aa  no  talents,  however  great,  could  That  tuch  a  child  could  not  be  retignad 
haire  tecMcd,  unlets  the  heart  also  liad  been  without  a  tevere  struggle,  may  be  eafUy 
deeply  engaged  in  the  pursuit.  A  note  conceived,  and  if  therebe  a  parent  who  in 
written  to  nit  fkther,  nearly  a  twrelveraonth  the  agony  of  bereavement  may  be  tempted 
aoioe,  in  that  language,  had  earned  him  a  impatiently  to  exehtim,  **  Never  wat  torrov 
Hebrew  Bible,  and  thit  pottettion  wat  in  like  my  torrow,"  let  him  turn  to  thit  feebtb 
hit  aatlmatioo  invaluable.  He  had  for  some  memorial.  This  angel  quitted  a  &ther  dnl/  • 
tina  before  his  dtcease  been  importunate  to  sensible  of  his  coimtless  excellencies  only 
be  permitted  to  acquire  a  knowledge  like-  about  a  fortnight  before  his  decease,  in  bit 
wiae  of  Oradt,  from  an  ardent  anxiety  to  usual  buovant  spirits,  and  when  thikt  fitther 
read  the  New  Testament  also  in  the  original,  next  beheld  him,  it  was — in  his  coffin.  The 
and  hit  advancement  in  that  of  Hebrew  jnt<  mournful  meditation  upon  thit  dreadful  cov- 
fifyiog  n  diviaion  of  hit  attention,  had  oh-  trast,  which  ensued  upon  a  sleepless  pillo^, 
tainad  n  prooBite  of  tpeedy  gratification,  wat  embodied  in  the  few  following  liuat : 
Inaatiable  at  hit  thirtt  for  learning  was,  the  these  the  dear  little  fellow  bore  in  his  hand 
Latin  not  being  a  primitive  language  of  the  to  the  grave,  and  sympathy  mav  perhapa 
tacred  Scripturety  etood  much  lower  in  hb  impart  to  them  an  mterett  to  which  thtir 
aataena ;  but  a  work  connected  with  hit  bib-  poetical  merit  could  make  little  claim : 
lical  retearchet  having  been  choeen,  he  had  In  that  inanimate,  tho*  placid  face, 
begin  the  attamment  of  it  with  apparent  Thy  speaking  look,  al^  how  thall  Fancy 
tatitfiictloii.    He    had  acquired  an    useful  findt 

hnbit  of  noting  down,  or  requesting  othcrt  On  that  drawn  lip,  thy  wonted  smile  retrace^ 

to  note  for  him  m  what  he  termed  hit  When  Mme  new  truth  beamed  on  thy 

«  Jonmal,"  any  pieoe  of  inttructlve  infbr-  opening  mind  ! 


commenced  an  Onomatticon  of  the  Bible.  .                              "              r^^  % 

or ^htTrf  ^'^"'f^i^n^  F«,m  thy  blunt  rtiog.  «htt  e»  my  »gd  ' 

w««Mk»0Ud  to  the  jpid..  i  m  th.  .poti  •  J^h J»M.  r«Lm..  wh«  ,^«4aJii 

appnmnated  to  himself  not  a  weed  wat  per-  ^^^                               '     ' 

mitCM  to  appear,  and  ho  entered  with  all  „.                           ,        .     .  . 

tUamdationofa  practitioner  into  a  friendly  Hit  remamt  are  ^posited  m  •   PN^ 

competition  with  £e  gardener,  for  the  pro-  grave-yard  at  Great  Beahngs  near  Wood- 

awtum  of  the  fiiat  flower  and  the  earliest  t"dg« ;  fad  on  hit  tomb  will  stand  the  ap- 

vegetable.  posite  old  motto— 

Hit  aident  love  to  God  was  necetaarily  "  W*f«"»  coelo  non  cadit  ante  diem." 

accompanied  with  a  corresponding  love  to  He  iklle  maturely  who  it  npe  for  bliat. 

Ban.    At  n  Fab  which  occurred  in  October  ^ 

Jart,  or  n  munber  of  ahUringt  with  which  ha  nECEASTO 

h^  bitn  Mwented,  he  expended  only  one  CLERGY  VYC&AStAJ. 

atnHMOe  fur  hhntelf  m  the  pnrdiate  cf  a  The  Rev.  Dwnd  Rogers,  ol  ^««c»Aif^ 

Own.  Ma:  Ptiinmry,  1M7.  near  NewoMtk  ILa^fUi  Cana.   ^N%mk  «n 

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186                                       <^^  Deceased.  [fi^b. 

his  wtT  to  serve  the  Church  of  LUndugwydd,  i.  475.    His  brother's  (wtron  had  beea  the 

Csrd.  iiftving  occasion  to  slight  from  hb  gig,  former  Dean,  Dr.  Lukin. 

he  suddenly  expired  in  s  fit.  Jan,  8.    At  Great  Fakenham,  Suilfolk,  ia 

At  Hallaton  Rectory,  Leicest.  by  a  sud-  hu  e7th  year,  the  Rev.  Chartn-John  Smith, 

den  stroke  of  apoplexy,  the  Rev.  John  fVU-  Rector  of  that  pUce,  Vicar  of  Calton,  Nor- 

SDfi,  Curate  of  that  parish.   He  was  formerly  folk,  and  formerly  Fellow  of  New  College, 

one  of  the  Chaplains  of  Trin.  Coll.  Cam.  Oxford,  M.  A.  1786.     He  was  second  sur- 

where  he  proceeded  B.A.  1799,  M.A.  1 795,  vivinc  son  of  Joseph  Smyth,  esq.  of  Shole- 

•nd  Heid-master  of  the  Grammar-school  at  brook  Lodge,  Northamptonshire,  Lieutenant 

Boltoo-le-Moors.  of  Whittlebunr  Forest,  by  Lucy,  daughter 

Dec,  13.  In  Guernsey,  after  a  long  and  of  Lucy  Knightley,  esq.  of  Fawsley  in  the 

lingering  illness,  the  Rev.  Peter  Maingy,  same  county. 

M.A.    He  was  formerly  scholar  of  Pemb.  ^ 

Coll.  Oxf.  and  lately  Curate  of  Bampton,  rfcCATxio 

Oxon.  ,            DEAIHS. 

Dec.  16.  At  Bath,  aged  68,  the  Rev.  London  and  its  Vicinity. 

Joseph  Batington,  AJM.  and  M  J).     He  was  Dee.  1 .    Very  suddenly,  Mr.  Wm.  Ward, 

bom  Jan.  13,  1768,  the  fifth  and  youneest  A.R.A.  eminently  skillejl  in  his  profession 

•on   of  Thomas    Babington,    of  Rothley  as  an  artist. 

Temple,  Leicestersh.  esq.  by  Lydia,  dau.  of  ^  Jan,  15.  At  Clapton,  aged  77f  Mrs.  Pet- 

the  Rev.  Joseph  Cardale,  Vicar  of  Hinckley :  tingall,  formerlv  of  the  Pump-room,  Bath, 

and    brother  of  Thomas  Babington,  esq.  widow  of  Mr.  H.  Pettingall,  silk-mercer  in 

formerly  M.P.  for  Leicester.  He  was  origin-  that  city. 

ally  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1791,  Jan.  IB.  At  Hampton  Court  Pakce,  Eliz. 

M.  A.   1794  ;    was  incorporated  of  Pemh.  Mallet,  wife  of  Horace  Sevmour,  esq.  M.P. 

Coll.  Oxf.  m  the  latter  year,  proceeded  M.B.  Jan.  1 9.     In  Cavendish-sq.  Eliz.  Mary, 

1795,  M.D.  179..  youngest  dau.  of  Wm.  Thompson  Corbett, 

Dec.  21.  At  Assington  Hall,  Suffolk,  of  esq.  of  Elsham  Hall,  Line, 

apoplexy,  aged  77>  the  Rev.  John  Hallwardy  Jan.  90.  At  his  chambers,  aged  76,  Ran- 

Hector  of  Mil  Jen,  and  Vicar  of  Assington.  dal  Norris,  esq.  many  years  Sub-Treasurer 

He  was  of  Wore.  Coll.  Oxf.  M.A.  1773,  and  of  the  loner  Temple, 

was  presented  to  both  his  churches  in  1780,  Jan.  93.  In  Vork-terrace,  Regent's  Park, 

by  the  Rev.  P.  Gurdon.     He  has  left  two  the  widow  of  Chas.  Grant,  esq.  the  cele- 

sons  in  the  Church,  Thomas  and  John,  both  brated  Director  of  the  E.I.C.  of  whom  we 

M.A.  of  Wore.  Coll.  and  the  former  present-  gave  so  lung  a  memoir  in  voU  xciii.  ii.  56 L 

ed  by  his  father  in  1 819,  to  the  Rectory  of  —569. 

Sunton  on  the  Wolds,  Notts.  Jan.  94.     At  Highgate,  Frances,  dau.  of 

'    Dec.   93.    Aged   71,    the    Rev.   Daniel  the  late  Thos.  Longman,    esq.   and   sister 

Stephen  OUvier,  Rector  of  Clifton,   Beds,  of  the  present  Thomas  Norton  Longman, 

He  was  the  only  son  of  Daniel  Joseph  Oli-  esq. 

vier,  esq.  formerly  sn  eminent  merchant  in  Jan.  94.     In  Devooshire-sq.  aged  37> 

London,    and    resident    at  Croom's  Hill,  Harriet,  wife  of  J.  Cockbum,  esq. 

Greenwich,  who  died  in   1782  ;  see  in  vol.  In  Trinity-sq.  Christina,  wife  of  Gilbert- 

Lxxiii.  p.  1 89f  his  epitaph  in  St.  Botolph,  Stnart  Bruce,  esq. 

Bbhopsgate,  then  the  church  of  his  son-in-  Jan.  95.  Aeed  89,  Frances,  wife  of  Fred, 
law,  Wm.  Conybeare,  D.D.    The  deceased  Pollock,  esq.  Barrister,  of  Bedford-row ;  and 
was  of  Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Oxf.  B.C. L.  dan.  of  the  late  Francis  Rivers,  esq. 
1784,  and  was  presented  to  hi  i  living  by  his  John-Chicheley,  infentson  of  Chas.  Plow- 
mother  in  1790.     He  was  twice  married;  den,  esq.  of  York-st.  Portman-sq. 
lastly,  May  12, 1821,  to  Miss  Susan  Enders-  In  Milbank-row,  aged  50,  John  Vidler, 
by.    He  had  two  sisters,  one  the  wife  of  Dr.  contractor  for  mail-coaches. 
Conybeare,  the  other  of  Capt.  Eyre.  Jan.  26.    Aged  38,  R.  F.  Clemeutson, 
Dec.  94.  Suddenly,  aged  62,  universally  esq.  of  Clement  a  Inn,  and  Great  Suffolk-st. 
lamented,  the  Rev.  Robt.  Bertie  Broughton  Southwark. 

Robinson,  Rector  of  Waterstock,  Oxf.  and  At  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Cadogan's,  Grosvenor- 

of  Emminston,  Bucks.     He  wss  of  Christ-  St.  West,Jieut.  Wm.  Milner  Slade,  R.N. 

church  Coll.  Oxf.  M. A.  1789;  and  was  pre-  In  Bryanstone-sq.Jas.AlUm,  the  infent 

sented  to  both  his  churches  in  1790,  by  W.  son  of  Joseph  Hume,  esq.  M.P. 

H*  Ashurst,  esq.  Jan.  27.     In  Csstle-court,  Budge-row, 

Jan.  3.   At   Wedmore  Vicarage,   Som.  aged  51,  Geo.  Suawforth,  esq. 

ai^  60,  the  Rev.  Josqth  Richards,  Vicar  of  Jan.  28.  In  1>few-st.  Spring-gardens,  Edw. 

thiat  pUux.    He  was  of  Ex.  Coll.  Oxf.  M.A.  Harvey  Delafield,  esq. 

1791>  and  was  presented  to  Wedmore  in  In  the  .Strand,  John  Borford,  esq.  of  the 

1895,  by  the  Bo,  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry,  Panoramas  in  Leicester-sq.  and  the  Strand, 

as  Dean  of  Welhy  after  the  death  of  hit  In  OldBorlington-st.  aged55,  Wm.Grif- 

hrother  the  Rev.  John  Richards,  the  Curate  Sa,  esq.  late  Sec.  of  the  Baud  of  Ordnance, 

of  St.  Michael's,  Bath,  of  whom  in  vol.  xc  v.  Jan,  99.    In  Doke-st.  Westminster,  aged 


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77)  the  Right  Hon.  Ltdv  Louitt,  widow  of 
Right  Hon.  Sir  Arch.  Maedootld^  hart,  and 
•ister  to  the  Marq.  of  Stafford.  She  was 
the  eldest  child  of  GraoviUty  the  first  aod 
late  Marquess,  K.  G.  hy  his  second  wife 
Louisa,  dan.  of  Scroope,  1st  Earl  of  Bridg- 
water ;  was  bom  Oct.  99,  1749,  uarr.  1>ec. 
96,  1777  }  and  had  several  childrsn  (see 
the  memoir  of  her  husband,  whom  she  sur- 
vived but  eight  months,  in  our  last  vol.  pt. 
i.  p.  573). 

•Am.30.  At  her  son's  chambers,  Verulam- 
buildings,  Gray's  Inn,  aged  49,  Anne,  widow 
of  Sam.  Kni^lit,  esq.  of  £dmooton. 

Jan.  81 .  At  Park  House,  Walworth,  aged 
81,  Sarah,  relict  of  Sam.  Brandon,  esq. 

In  Wobum-pl.  Russell'sq.  the  widow  of 
Benj.  Rouse,  esq.  of  New  Bridge-st. 

At  Isle  worth,  the  widow  of  Joseph  Thack- 
eray, esq. 

Lately,  At  Chelsea,  aged  83,  Capt.  Abra- 
ham, formerly  of  the  69d  regt. 

In  Stanhope-st.  G.Kesrton,  esq.  of  Kear- 
ton  Hall,  Isumd  of  St.  Vincent. 

In  Hatton-garden,  aged  65,  Anth.  Robin- 
son, esq. 

Feb,\,  In  Grove-lane,  Caroberwell,  aged 
78,  Mr.  Sam.  Carter,  late  of  Blackman-st. 

Mr.  Chatham,  of  Furnival's-inn  Coffse- 
house,  Hotbom. 

Feb,  4.  In  Prince's-court,  Westminster, 
aged  67,  James  Campbell,  esq. 

Sir  William  Rawson>  late  of  Albemarle- 
street. 

Feb.  5.  In  Cottage-pl.  City-road,  aged 
6*6,  Jas.  Day,  esq. 

At  Waltbiamstow,  aged  68,  Samuel,  third 
son  of  the  late  Peter  Dobree,  esq.  of  Beaure- 
gard la  Guernsey. 

Anne,  wife  of  Rich.  Moorby,  esq.  Mae- 
clesfield-Bt.  Soho. 

In  Upper  Wimpole-st.  Mary-Anne,  wife 
of  Maj.-QtB.  H.  Fox  Calcraft. 

iu  QoMn-sq.  Westminster,  aged  86,  Mr. 
Roht.  Hooke. 

Feb,  9.  At  Whitehall,  In  her  70th  year, 
the  Right  Hon.  Anne,  Lady  Carrington.  She 
was  the  dan.  of  Henry -Boldero  Barnard, 
esq.  of  Cave  Castle,  near  Beverley ;  was  the 
wife  of  Robert,  1st  and  present  Lord 
Carrington,  and  had  issue  one  son  and  ele- 
ven daughters.  Her  Ladyship's  funeral  took 
place  on  the  19th  at  St.  Peter's,  Notttng- 
IMUD.  Besides  Lord  Carrington  and  the  Hoc* 
Robt.  Smith,  there  were  present  Earl  Stan- 
hope and  Lord  Granville  Somerset  (her 
Ladyship's  sons-in-law\  Samuel,  John, 
George,  and  Robert  Smitn,  esqs.  Wm.  Man- 
ning, esq.  and  several  Junior  members  of  the 
£unily. 

Feb.  10.  In  Charlotte-st.  Portland-pl. 
aged  77»  the  widow  of  Dr.  Reynolds. 

Fidf.  11.  Jeauy  wife  of  Wm.  Pratt,  esq. 
of  Russell-sq. 

Aged  18,  Mary- Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  Mi- 
chael Gibbs,  esq.  Walbrook. 


Aged  7,  Edw.-Henry,  son  of  C.  H.  Phil- 
lips, esq.  of  Half  Moon-tt. 

^.  19.  Cath.-Mary,  wife  of  John  Jorge, 
esq.  of  Upper  Montagoe-st.  Russell-sq. 

Feb,  IS.  Aged  bO§  Sarah- Anne,  wife  of 
£dw.  Skesg,  esq.  of /ohn-st.  Adelphi. 

In  Bedror$l-sq.  Joseph  Ward,  esq. 

Feb.  14.  Aged  68,  Lucy,  relict  of  Thoa. 
Marriott,  eso.  of  Old  Broad-st. 

Aged  91,  John,  eldest  son  of  John  Moore, 
esq.  of  Lincoln's  Inn  and  Walnut-tree-walk, 
Lambeth. 

Feb,  15.  In  Great  Qneen-st.  Westmin- 
ster, sfed  37,  Mrs.  Sutherland,  mother  of 
Alex.  R.  Sutherland,  M.D. 

At  Denmark-hill,  Camberwell,  G.  Scorer, 
esq — ^In  Percy-st.  aged  93,  Mrs.  Harris. 

Feb.  16.  At  Hempstead- heath,  aged  60, 
Wm.  Giikes,  esq. 

Feb  17.  Wm.  Jennings,  esq.  of  Blooma- 
bunr-sq,  aged  78. 

In  CooDanght-sq.  Mary,  wife  of  Lieut.- - 
col.  Radclyffe,  and  eldest  sister  of  Henry 
Crockett,  esq.  €xf  Little  Onn  Hall,  Staff. 

At  Downshire  -  hill,  Hampstead,  Mn. 
Charles  Maltun. 

J.Cugnoni,  M.D.  of  Upper  Thornhaugh- 
street. 

In  Lower  Berkeley-st.  the  widow  ofThos. 
Hibbert,  esq.  of  Cbalfont,  Bocks. 

BERKS.-^Jan.  93.  At  LoTell-hill  Cot- 
tage, James  Cumminsr,  esq.  F.  S.  A.  and 
late  of  the  Office  of  the  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  the  Affairs  of  India. 

Jan.  97*  At  Reading,  in  his  80th  year, 
John  Shuttleworth,  esq.  formerly  of  £lsi- 
nore,  and  late  of  London,  merchant. 

Jan:  30.  Eliza-Harriott,  widow  of  Mi- 
chael Anthony,  esa.  of  Sheppon  House. 

Feb,  3.  In  Oxford-road,  Reading,'  aged 
100,  Mr.  Sam.  Stepney.  Until  within  a 
few  days  of  his  death,  he  could  see  to  read 
the  smallest  print  without  the  aid  of  glasses, 
and  at  96,  was  in  full  possession  of  all  his 
feculties.  He  has  left  a  widow,  aged  96^ 
who  had  been  his  wife  for  70  years. 

Feb.  5.  At  his  seat,  near  Heading,  Cha. 
Dickinson,  esq.  of  Stafford-row,  London, 
and  Farley* hill,  Berks,  many  years  an  active 
Magistrate  of  Berkshire,  a  Fellow  of  the 
Antiquarian  Society,  one  of  the  original  pro- 
prietors of  the  Royal  Institution,  and  a 
member  of  several  of  the  most  distinguished 
Literary  Clubs.  Descended  from  an  ancieiit 
femily,  he  was  through  life  remarkable  for 
the  polish  and  ameni^  of  manner  whldi 
best  characterise  a  gentleman,  as  well  as  io* 
the  grace  and  power  of  his  conversation, 
and  the  variety  and  exactness  of  his  acquire- 
ments. His  large  estates  in  Somersetshire, 
Jamaica,  &c  devolve  on  an  infant  daughter. 

Bucks. — AtChesham,  aged99,  Mr.  Wm. 
Price.  He  was,  until  a  few  weeks  before  his 
death,  in  the  full  possession  of  all  his  fecul- 
ties.   He  was  the  eldest  member  of  the 


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Goltbmitbs'  CamjMAy,  and  used  ^fequently 
to  express  a  wist  that  ba  mi|^t  attain  the 
aga  m  100,  for  ha  woiild»  in  that  case,  he 
aaidy  be  entitled  to  an  annuity  allowed  by  the 
Company  to  those  of  their  members  who 
Five  to  he  centenarians. 

CmsHiRK. — Jan.  30.  At  Cheadle  Hall, 
aged  83,  Mary,  widow  of  Jas.  Harrison,  esq. 

Feb,  1.  At  the  Elms,  near  Bentley,  aged 
55  years,  universally  r^retted^  John  Twem- 
low,  esq. 

Cumberland.— Jon.  14.  In  Shoddon 
Gate,  Carlisle,  after  a  long  illness^  aged  73, 
Mr.  Wm.  Pitt.  He  possessed  various  scien- 
tific acquirements,  and  rationally  employed 
hif  leisure  in  philosophical  recreations ;  his 
meteorological  observations  were  singularly 
accurate,  and  he  usually  communicated  the 
reault  to  the  Monthly  Magazine. 

Jan.  80.  At  Burtholme,  near  Bromp* 
ton,  aged  100,  Mr.  Timothv  Lowtbian. 

DiRBT. — Jan.  20.  At  tne  Elms,  Derby, 
aged  60,  E.  Ward,  esq. 

M.  10.  Aged  21,  Robert-Hayhurst, 
Sd  son  of  the  Rev*  John  Hancock  Half,  of 
Ruley  Hall. 

Devon.— Lo^^.  At  Chudleigh,  Com- 
mander The.  Arscott,  R.  N. 

At  SidmoQtb,  Eliza*Mary,  only  dau.  of 
Lieut.- coL  Stevens. 

Feb.  6.  At  Alpbington,  Exeter,  the 
wile  of  Thoft,  Haggard,  esq.  late  of  Antigua. 

Feb.  7.  At  Sidmouth,  Josias  Readshaw 
Morley,  esq.  of  Marrick  Park,  Yorkshire. 

Dorset. — Jan,  20.  AtWareham,  aged 
76,  Rich.  Robinson,  esq.  father  of  the  M.  P. 
for  Worcester.  His  father  was  Rector  of 
Coombe  Keynes,  and  of  East  Stoke,  Dorset, 
and  his  uncle  served  the  office  of  High 
Sheriff  of  that  county  in  1766. 

Feb.  11.  At  Frapcis  Woodforde*s,  Esq. 
Sbeibome,  aged  52,  Jane,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
W.  F.  Grove,  of  Melburv  Abbas,  Dorset. 

Feb,  12.  At  Abbotobury  Castle,  aged 
28,  the  Hon.  Giles-Digby-Robert  Fox- 
Strangways,  Capt.  7th  Hussars,  brother 
to  the  Earl  of  Ilchester.  He  was  the  2d 
aon  of  Henry-Thomas,  2d  and  late  Earl,  , 
bv  Juliana,  dau.  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Wm. 
Digby,  Dean  of  Durham,  brother  of  the 
Ist  Earl  Digby. 

Durham.  Feb,  I.  Aged 34,  Mr.  Thos. 
Green,  of  South  Shields,  son  of  the  late 
Rob.  Gr^n,  esq.  This  gentleman  displayed 
his  brave  and  humane  character  in  rescuing, 
at  the  imminent  peril  of  his  own  life,  and 
when  every  hope  had  ceased,  the  crews  of 
two  vessels  wrecked  near  Tynemoudi,  Deo. 
2,  1825. 

EiSEX. — Jeoi.  29.  At  Clavering,  aged 
87,  Mary,  relict  of  Mr.  Wm.  Wales, 
mathematical  master  of  Christ's  HospitaK 
who  accompanied  Capt.  Cook  as  astronomer 
in  bis  second  voyage  round  the  world. 

Gloucestershire.— Jitm.  S3.  At  Chel- 
tenham, aged  72»  Jamet  Dunsferd,  esq.  up-, 
wards  of  30  yean  the  Chief  Clerk  to  the 


Oxibrd  Canal  Company,  £rom  which  office 
he  retired  a  few  yean  tinoe. 

Feb.  I.  Aged  22,  ElisuJoneaveldestdau. 
of  T.  Hardwicke,  esq.  of  Ty t^wrington. 

Feb.B.  At  firiatol,  John  WhitfieU,  esq. 
of  St.  Edmund  Hall,  Oxfor*!. 

Feb.  0.  At  the  Wikleroesf.  Eliz.  ralict 
of  John  Colchester,  esq.  of  Westburj-on- 
Severn. 

F^.  11.  At  Northknd- cottage,  Chelten- 
ham. Mrs.  M.  Hodges,  eldest  dau.  of  tlie 
late  Wickers  Hodges,  esq.  of  Highgate. 

Feb,  12.  Aged  53,  William  S^ly,  esq.  of 
Shireliampton. 

Hants. — Feb.  5.  At  Emsworth,  aged  49, 
Maurice  Evans,  esq.  Navy  Agent. 

Jan.  18.  At  Chawton,  aged  87,  the  re- 
lict of  Rev.  Qto.  Austen. 

At  Portsea,  aged  87,  Mr.  Lowcay,  R.  N. 
who  has  left  four  sons  in  the  Naval  Service — 
Commander  H.  Lowcay,  and  Lieut.  Wm. 
Robert,  and  George  Lowcay. 

Hkrrpord. — At  HereCord,  aged  97,  Phi- 
lip Lane  (better  known  by  his  appellation  of 
**  Blind  PkU:*),  who  for  nearly  70  yean 
was  bell-ringer  at  Hereford  Cathedral. 

Herts. — Feb.l9.  At  Little  Berkham- 
stead,  aged  17,  Henry,  youngest  aon  of  late 
John  Stntton,  esq. 

Feb.  9.  At  Shenley,  Rachel,  wife  of  J. 
M.  Winter,  esq. 

Kent.  —  Jan.  27*  At  Beckenluim,  H. 
Warren,  esq  late  of  Dedham-grove,  Essex. 

Jan.  28.  At  Tuobridge  Wells,  aged  50, 
Miss  Eliz.  Fnr,  of  Grove  House,  equally 
distinguished  ror  true  Christian  piety  and 
extensive  benevolence. 

LkKCAnHiKU^Latebf,  At  the  Cavalry 
Barracks,  at  Hulme,  near  Manchester,  Ma- 
jor Soulsby,  2d  Drag.  Guards. 

LbicestershirR.— Jan.  IS.  At  Great 
Bowden,  aged  70,  Anne,  wife  of  Hen.  Shut- 
tle worth,  esq. 

LiHcoLNSKiRR. — Fdf.  0.  At  Lincoln, 
Mn.  Sophia  Sill,  sister  of  the  late  Joseph 
Sill,  esq.  of  Bath  (formerly  of  Lincoln)  and 
of  the  Viscountess  deTagoah,  of  Picoidilly. 

Middlesex. — Feb.  18.  At  Gunnersbury 
House  (the  seat  of  hif  uncle.  Major  Mori- 
son),  aged  24,  Oapi.  Geo.  Nixon  Ramsay, 
6th  Enniskillen  Reg.  Drag,  only  son  of 
Major-Gen.  Ramsay,  of  the  White  Frian, 
Canterbury. 

.  NoRFOLK.<— Fe2r.  10.  At  Berwick  House, 
aced  27,  Caroline,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Wm.  Hoste,  esq. 

Northamptonshire.  —  D«c.  15.  Aged 
60,  Matthew  Wilson,  esq.  of  Kettering. 
He  bequeathed  various  sums  to  religious  and 
charitable  institutions ;  amongst  which  are, 
to  the  Northampton  General  Infirmary, 
500/. ;  to  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible 
Society,  1000/.;  and  to  the  London  Mis- 
sionary Society,  500/. 

Northumb.— J<m.  16.  At  Berwick  Hill, 
aged  104,  Mn.  Berbara  CNive. 


Jjtn,  07.  Ac  Alnmdt,  Tbot.  Bell^  fl«j. 
Solieitor. 

OxfORMHiRE. — Jan,  1&  At  Comvdly 
Fnoeif  PcnyKon,  esq.  whose  cfaancttr  m  a 
gcntleaiMi  And  a  roagiatnte  will  loog  em- 
balm hii  memory  witn  respect. 

Jan,  31.  Ajj^ed  29,  Mr.  Joseph  Richr 
mood  Dowson,  Commoner  of  Queen's  Col- 
lege, son  of  K^;  Wm.  Dowson,  of  Gray- 
stoek,  Comberland,  and  neuhew  of  Dr. 
Dowton,  formerly  Prineipal  ot  Edmnad  Hall. 

Jan,  31.  At  Middle  Aston,  aged  101, 
Mary,  wife  of  Mr.  Wm.  Faithom,  late  "of 
High  Wyoomb. 

Feb,  9.  In  her  99th  year,  Mrs.  Jane 
Trollops,  of  St.  Giles's,  Oxford.  She  was 
the  dau.  ofThoa.  Trollope,  esq.  Barrister-at- 
Lkw,  and  died  in  the  mansion-house  in  whi^ 
she  was  bom.  She  was  sister-in-law  to 
Tbos.  Rnwney,  esq.  M.  P.  for  Oxford  for 
several  Parliaments. 

Feb^lO.  At  Oxford,  aged  54,  Mr.  T. 
Hollis,  possessed  of  a  kind  disposition  and 
benevomt  heart. 

•  Feb,  12.  At  Sciidley  Priory,  LeBlouBt, 
fourth  son  of  Sir  Alex.  Croke. 

Salop. — Jwu  18.  Aged  18,  Matilda- 
£liz.  second  dau.  of  Thomas  Parr,  esq.  of 
Lythwood  Hall. 

Feb,  13.  At  Ludlow,  aged  58,  Genraise 
Thorp,  esq.  M.  D. 

SoMERasT. — Jan,  86.  In  Stanhope-st. 
Bath,  aged  95,  Mrs.  Charlotte  Gibeme, 
maternal  aunt  of  Rer.  Geo.  Butler,  D.D. 
Head  Master  of  Harrow  School.  Her  re- 
mains were  buried,  Feb.  9,  in  a  family  vanlt 
in  Weston  Church-yard,  Bath,  the  Rer. 
Weeden  Butler,  of  Chelsea,  nephew  to  the 
deceased,  and  one  of  her  legatees,  attending 
aa  chief  mourner. 

Jan.  17.'  At  Montaeute,  Anne,  youngest 
dan.  of  J.  Fhelips,  Esq. 

'  dan.  91.  At  Yeovil,  Geo.  Proctor  Up- 
ton, Esq.  solicitor.  Mayor  of  Lyme  Regis, 
and  steward  to  the  Earl  of  Westmorland. 

Lately.  At  Bath,  aged  66,  Mary,  widow 
of  Martin  Dempsev,  esq.  of  Clarges-st. 

Feb,  7.  In  Bath,  aeed  49,  Lucy,  wife  of 
John  Benett,  esq.  M.  r.  for  Wilts,  and  dau. 
of  late  Edmund  Lambert,  esq.  of  Boyton. 

Suffolk.  —  Feb.  19.  At  Milden-hall^ 
Joseph  Andrews,  esq. 

Surrey. — Jan,  15.  Aged  64,  Henry 
Woods,  esq.  of  Purcroft,  Chertsey.  His 
moral  and  religious  character  was  through 
life  unimpeachable.  Possessing  great  me- 
mory and  talents,  it  was  his  delignt  to  diffuse 
his  extensive  knowledge. 

Feb,  9.  At  Limpsfield,  aged  84^  Clement 
Samuel  Strong,  esq. 

Feb.  4.  At  tbe  Rectory,  Stoke  D'Abemon, 
£liz.  wife  of  Rev.  Philip  Vaillant. 

Feb.  11.  At  his  son-in-lsw's,  Capt.  John- 
son,  of  Croydon,  aged  8f>,  Mr.  Joseph  Cooke, 
Surgeon. 

Feb,  15.  At  Bndg6eld  House,  Wands- 
worth, Ann,  relict  of  Wm.  Atkinson,  esq. 
late  of  Stockwetly  and  Austin-friara/  London. 


OisnumT. 


lao 


SpjHtF,!  i^.  IK  ArBimlrrnn  nnfiMi^ 
nearChidietter,  Lady  CollW,  widow  ofSr 
John  Collins,  K  N. 

Jan.  90.  .  At  CViefaetter,  Rich.  Miiniy, 
esq.  banker. 

Jan,  93,  At  Brighton,  aged  57,  Major 
Hqgh  Falconer. 

Jan.  94.  At  Storrington,  the  widow  if 
Col.  Harry  Bisshopp. 

Jan,  99.  At  Brighton,  aged  53,  Josiali 
Robert  Harrison,  esq.  late  of  the  firm  of 
Boydell  and  Co,  Printsellers,  Chei^pside. 

Feb.  I .  At  HastingiT,  apd  80,  the  leliel 
of  the  Right  Hon.  Theophilus  Jones.  Shm 
was  dan.  of  CoL  John  Aiurray,  M.  P.  oo« 
Moaaghan,  by  Mary,  dau.  of  Cadwalk^, 
9th  Lord  Blayney;  and  was  consequently 
sister  to  the  late  Countess  of  Clermont  ana 
the  Dowager  Lady  Rossmore. 

Feb.  1 1 .  Aged  99,  Edw.  Wm.  3d  son  of 
T.  R.  Ridge,  esq.  of  Fyning  House. 

Feb.  13.  In  her  9ddTear,  Caroline,  8d 
dan.  of  the  Rev.  Rich.  Wetherell,  of  Pteh- 
ley  House,  Ticehurst. 

Feb,  19.  At  Brighton,  Charlotte,  wife  of 
Thos.  Lockwood,  esq.  and  3d  dau.  of  tho 
late  Lord  (George  Manners  Sutton. 

Warwick.— F«^.  7.   Aged  74,  MtlliseBiy 

J  roundest  and  only  surviring  sister  of  ^M 
ate  John  Newdigate  Ludford,  esq.  D.  C  L. 
of  Ansley  Hall. 

Feb,  8.  Aged  54,  Susan,  wife  of  T.  F. 
Steele  Perkins,  esq.  of  Sutton  Coldfield. 

Wbstmorelamd. — Jan.  19.  At  Tempia* 
Sowerby,   in  his   80th  year,  Joshua  Mar- 
riott, esq.  fonnerly  of  Rnsholme,  near  Man- 
chester. 

Wiltshire. — Jan.22.  At  an  advanced age^. 
John  Garrett,  Esq.  of  Market  Lavington. 

Jan,  93.  At  Salisbury,  Geo.  Baker,  esq, 

Jan  97.  At  QnaX  Bedwln,  aged  101, 
Eliz.  Sopp,  widow. 

Jan.  98.  At  Waminster,  Ja^e  Elii. 
eldest  dau.  of'Hecekiah  Wyche,  Esq.  of 
Salisbury. 

WoRCBSTBRSHiRS. — Jan.  94.  At  the 
Link,  parish  of  Leigh,  aced  109,  Catherine 
Hill.  She  had  been  confined  to  her  bed,  on 
account  of  bodily  weakness,  and  had  lost 
her  sight,  but  her  mental  feculties  and  hear- 
ing were  unimpaired  until  nearly  the  end  of 
her  life. 

Feb.  5.  At  Rose  Lawn,  near  Worcester, 
at  an  advanced  sge,  Margaret,  relict  ai 
Francis  Wheeley,  Esq.  of  Birmingham. 

Yorkshire. — Jan.  90.  At  Easingwold, 
aged  83,  Thos.  Jackson,  Esq.  formerly  an 
eminent  tanner  there. 

Feb^  9.  At  the  Ghrove,  Richmond,  Maria 
Jufiana,  wife  of  Thos.  Stapleton,  Esq.  of 
Drax,  and  sister  of  Sir  Wm.  Gerard,  Bart. 
She  was  the  second  dau.  of  Sir  Robert  Caui- 
field  Gerard,  the  9th  Bart,  of  Bryn,  by  Cath. 
dau.  of  Wm.  Anderton,  of  Buxton,  Esq. 

Feb,  11.     Aged  51,  Mr.  Rich.  Garland, 
of  Hull,  solicitor.    He  was  a  man  of  f^ceaX 
literary  attainments,    and    aM.\^ot  ot  ^^  N. 
Tour  In  Teeadaley  mcludm^  i^V^Vf  asi\  \N.% 


190 


Obitvabt. 


i^brons."  He  was  abo  iha  tnntbtorof 
'<]>elIoii't  Acoonnt  of  the  loqnuitioD  »t 
Go* ;"  and  oJF  **  Slrioldtbnuid*s  riekiretque 
Tour  to  the  North  Cape." 
■  IsLB  OF  Man. — Jan.  10.  At  Cattletown, 
aged  %9,  Mary  Anoe,  wife  of  Nicholas 
Taubman  ChristiaD>  Esq.  and  eldest  dao.  of 
Major  Hooke,  R.  A. 

Scotland. — Jan,  5»  James  Maxwell^ 
esq.  of  Kirkcudbright. 

Jan.  7.  In  North  Hanorer-street,  £dio- 
faaif  b,  aged  64,  Mr.  Peter  Marshall,  artist, 
inventor  of  the  ingenious  Peristrephic  Pa- 
norama. 

Jan.  17,«  At  Edinburgh,  Anne,  wife  of 
J.  A.  Robertson,  eso.  M.  D.  youngest  dau. 
of  late  Charles  Lockhart,  esq.  of  New  Hall, 
Ross-shire. 

Jan,  S4.  At  Wellshot  House,  near  Glas- 
gow, aged  64,  Wm.  Forlong,  esq. 

Jan,  S7.  At  Springland,  Perthshire, 
Jane-Eliz.  youngest  dau.  of  David  Geo.  San- 
deman,  esq. 

Jan.  28.  In  Edinburgh,  Robert  Allow, 
eiq.  Lecturer  on  Surgery,  and  one  of  the 
Saigeons  of  the  Royal  Infirmary. 

At  Glasgow  College,  aged  84,  George 
Jardine,  esq.  Professor  of  Logic  in  that 
University. 

.  Feb,  6.  •  At  Press,  near  Edinburgh,  aged 
57,  Alex.  Henderson,  esq.  late  Chief  Magis- 
trate of  that  city. 

Ireland. — Lately,      In  Dublin,   Eliza, 
dan.  of  the  late  Adam  Marshall,  esq.  of 
Edinburgh. 
>  AtBallina,  aged  117»  Mr.  H.  Gallagher. 


[Feb. 


10.  At  this  Palace,  Waterford, 
Frances,  wife  of  the  Hon.  and  Right  Rev. 
Rich.  Biiurke,  Lord  Buhop  of  that  diocese. 
This  excellent  and  accomplished  woman  was 
the  second  dao.  of  the  late  Most  Rev.  Rob. 
Fowler,  Archbp.  of  Dublin,  and  sister  to  the 
mesent  Bp.  of  Ossory,  and  the  Countess  of 
Kilkenny. 

Jan,  15.  At  Lame,  David  Linn,  esq. 
tnrgeon,  half-pay  63d  reg.  Hu  remains 
were  interred  at  the  fiimily  burying-pUoc  ifc 
Rishee. 

At  Fruit-hill,  co.  Derry,  aged  7^,  Conolty 
M'Causland  Ga^e,  esq.  late  of  the  Mall, 
Clifton,  near  Bristol. 

Abroad. — Aug.  5.  At  Rajkote,  East 
Indies,  aged  99,  Lieut.  Alex.  Balmanno,  9d 
Bombay  Light  CavalrY,  youngest  son  of 
Alex.  Balmanno,  esq.  of  Upper  Charlotte-st. 
Fitzroy-sq.  and  Netter's  Hall,  Hawkhurst, 
Kent. 

Jug.  19.  On  board  the  Duchess  of  Athol, 
at  Singapore,  on  his  passage  home,  Chas. 
Gore  Houlton,  esq.  of  Bombay  Civil  Ser- 
vice, second  son  of  Col.  Houlton,  of  Far- 
leigh  Castle,  Somerset. 

Nov.  At  Tampico,  Mexico,  Commodore 
Chas.  Thurlow  Smith,  of  the  Mexican  Navy, 
late  Post  Captain  in  the  British  Service 
(commanding  the  Hibemia,  Undaunted, 
&c.),  and  nephew  to  Sir  Sidney  Smith. 

Jan,  98.  At  Marseilles,  Capt.  Henry 
Thomson,  R.N. 

Feb.  1 0.  At  .Montereau  Faut  Youne,  in 
France,  John  Spurrier,  esq.  formerly  of 
Yardley  Bury,  Herts. 


BILL  OF  MORTALITY,  from  Jan.  94,  to  Feb.  IS,  1897. 


Christened. 
Males       -  10731 
Females  -     989  J 


9069 


Buried. 
Males  -  847 
Females'     889 


Whereof  have  died  under  two  years  old 
Salt  55.  per  bushel ;  1  id,  per  pound. 


9  and  5  418 
5  and  10  96 
10  and  90  70 
90  and  80  117 
80  and  40  157 
40  and  50  189 


50  and  60  193 
60  and  70  181 
70  and  80  138 
80  and  90  63 
90  and  100     8 


AGGREGATE  AVERAGE  of  BRITISH  CORN  which  governs  Importation, 

from  the  Returns  ending  Feb.  9. 


Wheat. 
t,  d. 
58     5 


Barley. 

Oato. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

5.    d. 

s,     d. 

s,     d. 

s,     d. 

36     9 

98     4 

89     5 

46     9 

Peas. 
t,     d, 

47     6 


AVERAGE  PRICE  of  SUGAR,  605.  to  905.  per  cwt. 

PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW. 
St.  James's,  Hay  SL  6s.    Straw  1/.  195.   Clover  6(.  175. — ^Whitechapel,  Hay  5/.  55. 

Straw  n.  165.     Clover  6/.  65. 

SMTTHFIELD,  Feb.  19.    To  sink  the  Oflfal— per  stone  of  8lU. 


Beef 45. 

Mutton 45. 

Veal 45. 

Pork 45. 


Od.  to  55. 

id. 

Od,  to  45. 

Sd, 

6d,  to  55. 

Sd. 

9d  to  55. 

4d. 

Lamb 05.  Od,  to  05.  Od. 

.Head  of  Cattle  at  Market  Feb.  19 : 

Beasts 9958      Calves  119 

Sheep  and  Lambs  9 6,660       Pigs     190 

COAL  MARKET,  Feb.  19,  985.  6d,  to  395.  Od, 
TALLOW,  per  Cwt.  Town  TaUow  4&f.  6d,    YeUow  Russia  405.  Od. 
SOAP,  YeUow  765.  Mottled  845.  Otf.  Cud  SSt.-'CANDLES,  9«.  per  Dos.  Moulds  105.  6tf. 


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PRICES  OF  SHARES,  Feb.  19,  18^, 
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CANALS. 

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1  dil. 

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Diullfj  .... 

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Albiou    .    .    . 

5S«     0 

590     0 

9S    '0 

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Forth  uid  Cljdo    . 

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ap.et. 

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Suclatj  fin  PurehMiBg  Qmreh  Pnf*iiiienU.9l9 

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Lmmi  uf  Rvben  Burton. saa 


Ahtiquiriiin  Rfaurcku. — Elepart  nl  ihi 
Society  of  A  Dtic|uaric>. — Curinui  P«ntugi 
juit  itiMonrad  in  WtitniaiUr  AMit^j — 
Mr.  Skinner  on  thaRomuSMiioii  CuihiIi>- 
dunuDi,&c atO-SM 

Select  PnETnr ass' 

tfittoTitui  Cbrenjtict  | 

Proecedlnn  in  pretrncSetiiiai  orPulianMBtaSTj 
Fonigi.  rUf,.  jb-S.— The  Dnke  oF  VBrk.....MSl 
t'riiinutlant,  )t;c.— ninhi  and  Marriij«i_...g(^| 
OaiTiUHVi   >itli  Memoin  uF  the  Eirl  nf 
Outlaw;  Biihopi  Pelhun,  King,  Ltggt, 
Pluokatt;  lArdDuffud  Gaa.Cutwri^ti 
Count   Orlovi     Malte    Brum     ProfMaor 

Bnde:  John  Flumin,  eM|.;  Ikcttc t7l{ 

Markati.— llill»rftIanBJil7,!S6.— Shuw..l87 
Maleoiological  Diary. — Pricai  oF  Slocb....t8S 
of  an  AirttHT  Cur ;  ud  Viem  nf  the 
lUFEL  of  St.  Bauu>4i.  Si.  Luke**,  MiddliMi. 


By    SYLVANUS    URBAN,    Cent. 


PriaUd  iij  J.B.  NiCHOU,  ClCtan*!  He>d,.SS,  Parliament  Street., Wntn)iifteri' 
shate  all'LelMra  to  tha  Editor  are  reqneited  to  be  i|Hit,.f  Oil^Vf  lO. 


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MINOR    CORRESPONDENCE. 

The  writer  of  in  •iticU  tigned  Vbraz  ia  in  **  roundlj  affinning  th*t  there  it  no  snch 

our  MagAzine  for  Noy.  ISSS*  p;  S99»  ii  ni-  thing  in  existenee  m  any  peculiar  stjla  of 

apeetftilTy  tolicitecl  to  forward  hit  realad*  architecture  iorented  or  even  adopted  by 

dreu  to  us  immediately  :  the  institution  he  the  Normans."  .  The  reader  is  referred  to 

has  so  strongly  recommended  being  on  the  pt  long  note  in  the  account  of  Peterborough 

point  of  formation.  Cathedral,  published  in  the  first  Part  of  Mr. 

We  rdPer  Ezploratok  to  the  College  of  Storer's  pubUcation,  and  the  opinions  which 

Anna,  where  his  inquiries  will  receive  all  it  developes  are  repeated  in  many  subsequent 

the   elncidation  which   they   admit.    The  pages  of  the  work. 

names  Tomlins  and  Tomkint  are  both  evi*  C.  K.  P.  observes ;  "  One  of  your  Corre- 

dently  dtrainutives  of  Tom ;  and  Toiplinson  ppoodents  lately  alluded  to  the  continuation 

and  Tomkinson  can,  therdToret  both  mean  of  Baronets'  names  in  the  Almanacks,  &c 

nothing  more  than  <  the  son  of  little  Tom.'  ihough  their  titles  are  extinct ;  permit  me 

Mr.  JoiiAH  Pratt  says,  "  If  Philalethes  on  the  other  hand  to  mention,  thist  seveml 


1891,  It  shall  be  at  his  service,  for  his  own  the  latter.  Sir  Oeofge  Farmer,  resides  in 
uae,  or  for  any  public  purpose  to  which  he  Ireland ;   his  gallant  grandfather.  Captain 
aaay  be  pleased  to  apply  it.    It  did  not  ap-  Farmer,  was  a  native  of  the  county  of  Cork, 
pear  to  me,  hitving  availed  myself  of  the  —not  York,  m  in  the  Baronetage  book." 
verr  valuable  'Dissuasive    from   Poperv,'  J.  G.  N.  writee:   *<The  last  Baronetcf 
which  is  prefixed'  to  the  volume,  that  the  created  by  King  James  th^  First  (the  founder 
contradictions  among  the  Roman  Catholic  of  the  order)  was  bestowed  on  Sir  Thomas 
Doctors    would    sufficiently    interest    the  PUyters,  of  Sotterley  in  Suffolk,  knight; 
reader  to  justify  the  re-publication  of  the  whose  descendant  Sir  John,  the  eighth  Ba<- 
work."  ronet  (mentioned  in  Kimber'i  Baronetage, 
A  Cor RBSPONDKNT  observes,  that  the  ar-  1771,  vol.  III.  p.  488,]  died  about  1790. 
dhitectural  improvements  at  Christ's  Hos-  Since  that  period  the  family  has  not  been 
pital  proceed  rapidly,  and  are  highly  credit^  noticed  In  tne  pocket  Baronetages,  nor  does 
able  to  the  taste  and  skill  of  the  architect,  Betham  include  it  in  his  quarto  of  1801. 
John  Shaw,  esq.    The  great  dining  hall,  —In   the  Gent.  Mag.  for  1806,   p.  451, 
when  completed*  will  exceed  1 80  feet  in  M.  M.  enquired  why  tne  name  of  Sir  Charles 
length.    It  is  in  the  iuteresting  style  of  Playters  was  omitted  in  the  Court  Calen- 
Heory  VIII.'s  relgu,  and  has  been  copied  dars,  and  in  page  777  of  the  same  volume 
from  the  hall  of  Hampton  Court  Palace,  is  the  following  death :  '  July  8,   at    his 
from  which  noble  model,  however,  it  diflfera  apartments  at  Hayneford,  co.  Norfolk,  in 
in  many  respecu.    A  precise  imitation  of  his  58th  year.  Sir  Charles  Playters,  hart, 
any  ancient  design  for  a  building  in  a  new  He  is  succeeded  in  title  bv  h'ls  half-brother 
•ituation,  is  seldom  desirable,  but  In  the  de-  William,  now  abroad.'     In  the  Court  Ca- 
Tiations  proposed,  whether  for  the  sake  of  lendar  of  1807,  the  name  of  Sir  Wm.  Play- 
increasing  or  varymir  the  enrichmenU,  good  ters  is  inserted  in  the  list  of  Baronets ;  but 
taste  requires  that  the  style  of  the  original  not  in  that  of  1 809.    Qu.  what  was  the 
be  scmpnloosly  miunlaiped ;  and  thb  rule  descent  of  Sir  Charles  and  Sir  William,  and 
has  be«  observed  br  Mr.  Shaiw,  who  will  ia  the  title  now  extinct  ?"     ' 
doubtlaas  render  the  ball  of  Christ's  Hospi-  J.  D.  Ozon  states,  m  renly  to  the  enquiry 
tal  one  of  the  most  magnificent  banqueting  made  by  **A  Plain  SpeMtr,"  p.  119,  on 
rooms  in  England.  ft  Sam.  i.  ftS,  of  *'  David's  lamentation  over 
Mr.  Storer,  in  referenoe'  to  his  work  on  Saul  and  Jonathan,"  that  the  most  rational 
the  British  Cathedrals,  claims  our  imnar-  interpretation  seems  to  be  as  follows :  **Sanl 
tiality  to  make  the  following  statement.  Mr.  and  Jonathan  were  lovely  and  pleasant  ia 
Britton,  in  his  Preface  to  the  fiflh  Volume  their  lives,"  or,  aecordlog  to  our  marginal 
of  Architectural  Antiquities' Jnst  published,  annotation,  *'  sweet,"  t.  e.  simply  towaida 
says,  *<  The  terms  Saxon  aod  Gothic  have  the  people,  but  not  towards  one  another, 
been  much  confounded,  and  indiscriminately  ^f.  would  be  obliged  by  an  expUnatioo  of 
used  by  almost  ettry  writer  who  has  pobh-  Stump-pye,  which  occurs  in  Ashmole's  ek" 
lished  opinitms  or  ohservatious  on  the  su^  borate  rolio,  on  the  Order  of  the'Garter,  and 
Ject,  whilst  that  of  Norman  has  been  im-  is  mentioned  in  two  or  three  of  the  lists  of 
properly  and  uofisirly  omitted  by  the  writer  the  dishes  prepared  for  the  great  official  din- 
of  the  literary  part  of  Storer's  account  of  aers  of  the  Knighta.     Neither  in  Pegge'a 
Cathedrals."    From  this  obtarvation  it  may-  "  Form  of  Cury,"  nor  in  Warner's  «  CvAl" 
be  auppoaad,  tbat  the  writer  alluded  to  haa  aary  Aatiqaitias,"  nor  iu  May's,  Rahisha'a, 
paid  BO  tttentlea  whatever  to  tha  term  Nor-  ar  other  old  Cookery  Boob»  is  tluna  aaj 
11%  iaimf  cC  wtlidl  Il8  haa  B1  heatttltd  aeaoaat  of  Jftiayfyeii 


THB 

GENTLEMAN'S     MAGAZINE. 


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MARCH,    1827. 
ORiaiNAXi   COMMUmCATZONS. 


HBW  H0R8B  ARMOURY  AT  THB,  TOWBR. 

• 

Mr.  Urban,                      March  1.  Henry  III.  Edw.  II.  and  Richard  III. 

AS  you  deemed  my  former  Leiter  being  represented  on  the  three  remain* 

detailing  the  commencement  of  ing  ones,  my  intention  being  to  give 

my  proceedings  at  the  Tower,  of  that  ocular  demonstration  of  the  propiiety 

public  interest,  as  to  insert  it  in  your  of  what  1  had  done.    My  motive  doef 

Taloable  Miscellanv,  I  am  induced  to  not    appear,   however,  to  have  beea 

trouble  yoa  with  this,  which  gives  no-  clearly   understood,  as  no  order   hai 

ticc  of  their  termination.     Had  the  been  given  to  prepare  them.    Other* 

order  from  the  Honourable  Board  of  wise,  when  the  blmds  (as  in  sommei^ 

Ordnance  to  their  inferior  agenu  at  were  all  pulled  down,  the  room  would 

the  Tower;  to  render  me  every  assist-  have  contained  a  complete  series  of 

ance,  been  without  exception  cordially  military  costume,  from  the  time  of  the 

complied  with,  thb  period  would  have  Conquest  to  that  of  James  II.  iocla- 

arrived  long  aso  ;   out  the  obstacles  sive.     Another  object  has  been  to  give 

which  the  Clerk  of  the  Works  and  hit  the  suits  of  armour  the  appearance  of 


partisans  have,  through  a  petty  jealousy,     having  within  them  living  figures,  in* 


until  it  has  excited  just  complaints  on  of  the  torture.     A  third,  and  no  easy 

the  part  of  the  public.  matter,  especially  with  those  on  horse* 

I  hope,  by  means  of  vour  Magazine,  back,  so  to  vary  the  attitudes,  that 

to  pot  on  record  that  I  have  had  no-  there  should  not  be  two  alike,  in  lieu 

thin^  to  do  with  what  is  called  the  Of  one  position,  as  previously,  for  the 

Spanuh  Armoury,  which  still  contt-  whole. 

noes  the  cradle  of  falsehood,  nor  with  '  These  three  things  I  have  effected, 

the    contemptible    puppet-show    of  Another  likewise,  attended  with  great 

Queen    Elizabeth,    which    I    should  difficulty,  from  the  repetition,  was  to 

conceive  would  disgrace  even  Bartho*  dispose  of  the  detachra  pieces  on  the 

lomew  Fair.     Nor  have  I   had  any  walls  with  as  much  taste  as  in   my- 

thing  to  do  with  the  new  buildine  for  power.    Whether  I  have  been  succen- 

the  .Horse  Armoury,  erected  without  ful  here,  the  public  must  judge  ;  but 

aoy  knowledge  of  now  effect  is  pro-  in  the  hopes  of  rendering  a  service  to 

duoed,  with  the  exception  of  substi-  the  country,  I  have  ^iven  above  thirty 

totingsomeof  Mr.  Willement's  paint-  whole  days  of  my  time  to  this  pur* 

ed  glass  for  the  childish  and  tasteless  pose,  working  on  each   of  them  ai 

amamenis  of  two  out  of  four  semi-  nard  as  any  of  the  artificers.     I  must 

circular  windows.  beg  them  also  to  understand,  that  I 

You ,  may  remember  that  the  row  of  have  had  only  common  carpenters  io 

Kings,  as  it  was  called,  bid  defiance  form  what  was  wanted  of  the  human 

to  truth.     One  of  my  objects  was,  figure,  and  common  house  painters  to 

therefore,  to  restore  tlie  suits  of  arm-  execute  the  heraldry ;  and  that  I  was 

oor  to  their  real  dates.  .  Having  ousted  charged  to  bear  in  mind,  that  on  all 

William  the  Conqueror,  Richard  I.  occasions  the  strictest  economy  was  to 

Edw.  III.  John  of  Gaunt,  and  Henry  be  attended  to.     What  my  intentiona 

V.  1  reoom mended  to  the  Board  that  might  have  been,  had  these  matters 

the  true  oostame  of  those  times  should  been  otherwise,  is  what  I  call  on  the 

be  painted  on  five  of  the  canvas  blinds,  public  in  justice  to  consider,  rathec 


196                          Horid  Armoury  at  the  Tower.  [IMburch, 

thaa  what  they  are;  nor  do  I  suppose  is'Earl  of  Chester;  and  that  attributed 
they. could  expect  t^a^j^  should. jnake  to. Hugh  Lupus;    foe  the  steel   em- 
good    the  defkienftie»  in    the  actual  boved  target  of  the  iimt  of  Henry 
armour,    occasioned    by    the    lawless  VIII.  and  the  ditto  casque  of  a  demi- 
proceedings  of  the  ciyil  wars.  lancer  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  both 
Because  Edward  I.  in  his  last  cam«  fahely  cailed  Roman  ;  and  a  couple  of 
paign  in  Wales,  had  interspersed  tAt  t^K^o-nandied  swords;  and  to  the  Earl 
archers  and  cavalry,  it  was  supposed  Marshal,  for  the  sword  and  dagger  of 
by  those  who  arranged  the  armoury  on  James  IV.  of  Scotland.    These  con- 
the  Rest9^ti6h   oF  Charles  II.  fhat  gregatdd  in  one   of  tl'ie  glass  cases, 
these  archers  were  dismounted  ;  quite  would  have  been  highly  valuable  illus- 
eontrary   to    the   fact ;  and   therefore  trations  of  the  military  history  of  Eng- 
they  asserted  that  the  ancient  mocle  of  land,  and  as.  each  would  have  written 
drawing  up  armies  was  by  placing  the  over  it  by  whom  it  was  sent,  while  a 
oiHUy  and  iofant^y  alternately ;  ancf  receipt  would  have  been  given,   ac- 
they  endeavoured  to  represent  this  idea,  knowledjging  the  right  of  possession  to 
vstng^  forsooth,  heavy  cavalry  suits  of^  b«  in  the  party  sending  it,  I  vvias  in 
the  time  of  Charles  I.  for   their  in-  hopes  this  woold  have  been  effected, 
fentry.    This  absurdity  I  have  Entirely  The  things  would  not  only  be  more 
abolished,  and  at  the  same  time  re-  dseful  in  such  a  place,  but  in  far  bet- 
moved  tlie   lateral   props  for  holdings  ter  custody;  as  to  instance  solely  the 
the  horses,  ^hich  now  appear  to  stand  jupon  of  the  Black  Prince;  exposure  to 
trithout  any  support,  except  their  own  the  air  has  destroyed  the  original  co- 
legs,  lours,  and  a  very  eminent  artist,  novi^ 
The  row  of  equestrian  figures  is  dis-  no  more,  showed  me  a  large  piece  he 
posed  strictly  according  to  the  conse-  had  cut   off  from  it.     Those  in  the 
cutive  dates  of  the  armour,  as  painted  churches  are  iK)t  safe   thetl  in   their 
above,  but  of  the  names  of  contempo-  present  position,  with  the  exception  of 
rary  owners,  assigned  to  them  for  the  the  jupon,  as  it  has  b^en  removed ;  and 
safce  of  uniformity,  I  cannot,  if  called  as  no  rights  would  have  been  sacri- 
upoQ,  produce  the  proofs  of  the  iden-  ficed  by  my  proposal,  I  cannot  help 
tity  of  iiiore  than  eight  or  ten.    Should  regretting  that  it  hai  not  been  carried 
the  Board  of  Ordnance  at  any  time  into    effect,   though   I    have   written 
think  of  printing  a  catalogne  raisonn^,  three  long  letters  on  the  subject, 
these  particulars  mieht  be  fully  stated;  I  beg  that  I  may  not  in  these obser- 
in  the  mean  time,  I  shall  recommenci  rations  be  supposed  to  east  any  ref^ec- 
that  those  known  should  be  marked  tion  on  the  Board  of  Ordnance;  for  it 
in  the  present  sale  catalogues  with  an  would  be  most  unworthy  in  me,  wer^ 
asterisk.  I  not  distinctly  to  avow  that  the  con- 
I  have,  notwithstanding  all  the  ef-  duct  I  have  experienced  from  them  has 
forts  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Works  to  pre-  been  in  every  respect  attentive  and  ob- 
vent  it,  introduced  four  glass  cases  to  liging. 

hold  a  saceesbion  of  tiand  fire-arms,  As  a  tribute  most  iustly  due  to  the 

and  the  more  curious  detached  speci-  Master  General  of  the  Ordnance,  un<^ 

mens.  As  1  had  dispossessed  Ed w.  III.  der  whose  auspices  the  improvement, 

and  Henry  V.  from  being  falsely  re-  as  I  trust  1  may  call  it,  has  been  ef- 
presented,  I  suggested  the  propriety  of    fected,  I  have  taken  care  that  the  ex* 

app1)ring  to  the  Archbishop  and  dig-  hibition  should  commence  and  termi^* 

nitaries  of  Canterbury  for  the  jupon,  nate  witK  the  spoils  of  Waterloo, 

tournament-helmet,  knight's  cap  and  Announcing,  therefore,  that  I  ex-^ 

forest,  shield  and  gauntlets  of  Edward  pect  this  national  collection  of  armour 

the  Black  Prince ;  to  the  Dean  and  to  be  open  to  the  public  next  month. 

Chapter  of  Westminster,  for  the  tour-  I  subscribe  myself,        Yourt,  *c. 

nament-helmet,  shield  and  saddle  of  Sam.  R.  MbVrIck. 
Wenry  V.t  to  the  trustees  of  the  British 

Museum  ♦  for  the  sword  of  Ed  ward  V.  ^ 

_^ Mr.  U It B Air,                   March  SO. 


•  Lord  Stowdl  kindly  undertook  this  TP^^  folJowmg  extracts  from  a 
eiice  at  my  suggestion,  but  the  Trustees  f-  lf"e^  <>' a  Midshipman  in  the  In- 
found  that  the  presents  having  been  mtdd  dian  Seas,  dated  Trincomalee,Ocl.  19, 
Vy  the  Storiiio  hbaSiy,  a  subsequent  Act  of  1 826,  may  be  interesting  to  yoftr  readw 
na1iaiQe/R  praveated  their  itmovdil.  ers.                                       W.  R. 


latr.) 


LdUar  •fa  MkdMhhpmm  m  <*«  ItkdUm  Smtk 


Wl 


Wb  left  Madrat  oft  the  80tl>  Maf , . 
ind  after  riioning  across  the  Bay  df 
Bengal,  reached  Elangoon  on  the  98thy 
and  sailed  up  the  river  as  long  as  one 
tide  would  carry  us,  and  anchored  just 
in  sight  of  the  golden  Pagoda.  We 
sent  our  despatches  that  night  to  his 
Majesty's  ship  Champion,  then  lying 
before  the  town,  where  she  has  been 
ever  since,  and  is  now,  with  her 
people,  half  eaien  up  by  musqmioef. 
Having  heard  that  we  should  not  re- 
main here  longer  than  S4  hours,  1  de- 
termined, if  possible,  to  have  a  peep  at 
the  town,  for  which  purpose  I  joined 
a  party  of  the  gun-room  officers.  We 
started  the  next  morning  with  the 
lide,  and  on  our  arrival  at  the  town,  I 
was  surprised  at  the  wretched  appear- 
aoce  of  the  inhabitants.  I  do  not  won- 
der at  our  soldiers  and  sailors  being 
•o  atckly  whilst  on  this  most  desperate 
service,  for  in  the  rainy  season  Ran- 
goon is  one  complete  swamp.  The 
town  is  built  on  piles,  and  the  huts 
afe  made  of  bamboo,  which  appear  to 
me  to  be  merely  four  stout  bamboos 
placed  upright,  lo  form  the  four  angles 
of  the  buildings,  and  others  to  form 
the  flooring,  secured  horizontally 
iibout  foHur  feet  from  the  ground ;  the 
roofs,  &c.  are  of  bamboo  mats.  It 
would  not  take  a  man  morr  than  a 
week  to  build  his  own  house.  I  ob« 
•erved  some  of  these  huts  by  the  road- 
side standing  in  stagnant  pools,  with 
the  filth  and  dirt  of  the  huts  collected 
onder  the  flooring,  the  inhabitants  be- 
in((  too  indolent  to  remove  it. 

The  Burmese  appear  to  be  a  short 
stout  race,  and  they  go  almost  naked  j 
ihey  are  a  warlike  |X'ople,  fighting  in 
war  boats  and  stockades.  The  women 
have  large  rings  through  their  notes 
and  ears,  and  round  their  ancles  and 
toes.  They  have  a  peculiar  sort  of  vest, 
which  is  open  all  down  the  *eft  side. 
They  are  well  made,  and  walk  grace- 
fully ;  they  have  fine  eyes,  and  1  have 
seen  some  very  pretty  coloured  women 
amongst  them. 

The  remains  of  the  ravages  of  war 
are  still  to  be  seen ;  I  remarked  that 
the  sides  of  the  smaller  pagodas  were 
fall  of  large  holes,  which  the  soldiers 
had  broken  in  expectation  of  finding 
treasure.  They  are  now  in  the  state  of 
Toins,  the  golden  Pagoda  (a  place  of 
worship)  excepted.  The  view  from 
the  road,  on  approaching  this  pagoda, 
in  good  and  pleasing.  The  golden 
Pagoda  is  buiU  cm  «  Biouat :  it  n  of 


f^t  buight;  entirely  solid.  Mid  gikloi 
kom  the  bottooi  to  lihe  to|»^ ;  she  baa^ 
is  a  lai^e  soiuare  of  steps,  upo»  whitk 
ia  a  Urge  dome.  This  wiU  giveycNi 
an  idea^  of  it,  at  1  did  noi  reoMiitt 
long  enouffh  lo  make  a  drawing  or  aay 
remarks ;  .l)u4  I  believe  the  aleps  ant 
the  places  where  the  Burmese  perfenn 
their  worship  ai  tun-rist  and  suqhMW 
They  fought  hard  for  thia  sboi»  and 
repulsed  our  soldieit  tevetal  iiaMt» 
hue  hoving  gained  the  naount  mk 
one  side,  they  drove  the  Buraaete 
down  the  other,  the  sCeepcsi,  and  neat 
was  the  havoc  amoncst  them.  Thia  < 
pagoda  is  surrounded  by  a  sort  of  low 
ornamental  wall,  with  niches  for  tlwir 
gods,  one  of  which  I  bought  in  ibe 
town  f  those  in  the  niches  were  aH 
uken  or  destroyed  by  the  soldiers. 

The  Burmese  are  now  very  eiviJ, 
and  it  is  thought  they  will  sooo  desert 
the  place  altogether.  You  would  have 
smiled  at  the  appearance  of  o«r  party, 
as  we  Were  obliged  to  buy  tome  Chi- 
nese chattars  or  umbrellas  to  proteoi  ■• 
from  the  Sun. 

There  ia  an  excellent  view  from  the 
mount:  it  is  all  jungle  outside  the 
town,  but  a  glimpse  of  the  river  heit 
and  there  through  it,  gave  it  a  very 
imposing  appearance.  The  refketion 
that  on  the  spot  where  I  stood,  maajT 
of  our  bra%-e  soldiers  had  fallen  for  their 
couQiry,  added  greinly  to  iu  interest 

After  leaving  Rauf^oon,  we  steered 
to  the  southward.  We.fiisl  reached 
Tavay,  and  ancliored  at  the  mouth  of 
the  river,  but  not  having  had  an  op* 
porturvity  of  going  on  shore,  I  can  say 
nothing  of  tliis  place,  except  that  at 
low  water  the  nxUnkiet  and  b^ 
boons  came  down  in  parties  of  fr#ai 
40  to  60  on  (he  mud  to  pick  cockles ; 
and  they  afibrded  us  sonae  amute* 
ment*  It  is  a  beautiful  country,  but 
as  the  rainy  season  had  just  set  in,  I 
did  not  go  to  the  jungle  to  shoot.  We 
left  this  place  for  Penang,  or  Prince  of 
Wales*s  Island.  This  is  A  place  of 
considerable  trade,  and  the  land  very 
fertile.  The  anchorage  is  between 
this  island  and  the  Queda  shore.  Bri- 
tish goods  may  be  bought  here,  bot  ai 
very  high  prices,  being  brought  out  by 
the  East  India  Company**  shipa.  I 
was  obliged  to  pay  a  dollar  for  a  tooth- 
brush. 

The  town  is  neatly  built,  and  clean. 
The  Chinese  are  the  workmen  at  all 
places  I  Itave  yet  been  to  in  thia  quar- 
ter of  the  gtobct  and  tht:)  ax^  wel 


IM 


LeiUr  of  a  mdihipman  in  the  Indian,  Seoi.         [March, 


{pdoitriout -nee  of  people;  they  al-* 
ynp  sit  dowD  to  their  work.  The 
streets  seem  to  he  inhabited  by  the 
difierent  tradesmen  or  workmen,  such 
M  one  street  full  of  blacksmiths,  ano- 
ther of  carpenters,  and  so  on  with  all 
toe  other  artificers ;  the  gentlemen 
living  a  mile  or  two  from  the  town, 
amongst  groves  of  cocoa-nut  trees,  in 
houses  suited  to  the  climate.  The 
average  heat  on  our  main  deck  with 
all  the  ports  open,  which  is  the  coolest 
place  on  board,  was  from  85  to  gO ;  it 
was  at  94  at  Madras  on  the  main 
deck.  There  are  two  hotels  here, 
which  made  it  pleasant  for  us,  when 
we  went  on  shore;  horses  could  be 
dbtained,  and  I  had  many  delightful 
ndes  about  the  island.  I  rode  out  to 
the  water-fall,  which  is  about  60  or 
70  feet  in  the  fall ;  the  noise  of  the 
water  was  so  great,  that  1  could  not 
make  my  companions  hear  me,  al- 
thoogh  not  far  off. 

Coooa-nuts  are  so  plentiful,  that 
they  are  scarcely  noticed;  they  are 
plucked  when  green  for  the  sake  of  the 
milk ;  it  is  a  pleasant  drink  taken  early 
ID  the  mommg.  Toddy  is  alvo  taken 
ifom  the  cocoa-nut  trees,  but  these 
trees  bear  no  fruit;  it  is  merely  the  sap 
which  is  collected  in  pots  suspended 
to  a  cut  branch.  Great  quantities  of 
oil  are  extracted  from  the  cocoa-nut^ 
which,  when  used,  burns  very  clear. 
With  this  oil  the  natives  rub  them- 
selves all  over,  to  polish  their  black 
hides.  It  is  not  safe  to  bathe  here, 
as  the  alligators  are  very  numerous. 
Whilst  we  were  stayine  here,  a  black 
fjcllow  went  to  the  beach  to  bathe 
iOme*  horses,- when  one  of  them  was 
killed  by  an  alligator. 

From  Penang  we  sailed  for  Malterea, 
passing  through  the  straits  of  Callam, 
a  most  notorious  place  for  pirates;  in 
fact  all  along  the  Malay  coast  it  is  the 
same.  It  so  happenea  we  were  ob- 
hfgtd  to  anchor  in  these  straits,  on  ac- 
count of  the  wind  failing,  and  the  tide 
mnning  against  us.  Merchants*  ships 
seldom  go  throngh  this  passage,  on 
aooonnt  of  the  Prows  which  are 
manned  by  fifty* or  sixty  men  each, 
with  a  long  gun  in  the  bow  on  a 
swivel. 

We  went  from  Singapore  to  Pelio, 
very  nearly  under  the  line.  We  ar- 
rived at  Trineomalee  on  the  l6th  Oct. 
I  have  made  a  few  sketches.  The 
Admiral  is  here;  and  on  our  arrival^ 
found  his  Majesty's  ships  Athol, 


Tamer,  Hind^  Lame,  an<|  Pandora; 
the  Java  and  Success  are  expected 
daily. 

To  Dr.  Patrick  Curtis  and  thk 
Titulary  Bishops  of  Ireland. 

(hio  tentam  vulbu  muianUm  Protea  nodo  f 
Sirs,  .  Tamlagktard,  March  6. 

1HAVE  read  your  Petition  to  the 
Lords  Spiritual  and  Temporal  as- 
sembled in  the  present  Parliament; 
and  wish  to  make  the  following  brief 
observations  on  it. 

In  the  first  place.  Gentlemen,  in 
this  your  address  to  the  Upper  House 
of  our  Legislature,  it  would  have  been 
well  if  you  had  borne  in  mind  through 
the  whole  of  it  that  you  were  craving 
a  boon  from  his  Grace  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  and  his  Suffragan  Pre- 
lates of  the  Established  Church,  whose 
members  in  Ireland  you  impeach  with 
the  crime  of  exercising  their  privileges 
without  due  moderatiOD^  and  that  as 
Lords  Spiritual,  the  guardians  of  the 
true  Catholic  faith  of  the  empire,  they 
have  the  precedence  over  the  tempo- 
ral Lords.  ^  It  would  have  been  pru- 
dent too  in  the  drawing  up  x>f  this  pe- 
tition, that  you  should  have  recollected 
the  decided  opinion,  manifested  more 
than  once,  upon  your  claims  for  poli- 
tical power,  b^  the  same  august  House, 
to  the  frustration  of  the  hopes  excited 
by  your  success  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons. 

You  begin  by  requiring  an  bntirb 

REPBAL  OF  WHAT  YOU  CALL -THE  PE- 
NAL coDB ;  the  proportionably  small 
part  of  which  that  now  remains  upon 
our  Statute-books,  you  say  produces 
DISCONTENT  amoug  the  prOtessors  of 
the  religion  of  Rome  in  Ireland,  and 
"  diminishes  that  respect  which  a 
Christian  people  shoula  entertain  for 
those  who  are  placed  in  authority  over 
them.*'  As  to  this  Code,  Sirs,  it  was 
enacted  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Christian  religion  m  these  realms,  un- 
polluted by  tne  superstition  of  Italy ; 
all  that  could  be  denominated  penal 
in  it  was  repealed  between  the  years 
1778  and  1798 ;  the  events  of  which 
latter  year,  together  with  the  state  in 
which  you  truly  represent  this  Iskind 
to  be  in  at  the  present  time,  from  the 
agitation  of  you^  claims,  demonstrate 
at  once  the  wisdom  and  the  foresight 
of  those  who  enacted  this  Code;  driven 
to  the  measure  by  their  dear-bought 
expcnence  of  the  intolerant  and  cruel 


18!i7.]  On  th€  Papal  Petition  to  the  Htmse  <^  Lords.  IM 


spirit  of  the  Romish   religion.     Sir 
John  Temple,  Master  of  the  Rolls  in 
Ireland,  col leeted  and  published  his  ce- 
lebrated monitory  records  of  the  dread- 
ful scenes  of  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  for  the  express  purpose 
that  when  this  part  qfthe  realm  should 
come  to  he  replanted  with  British  tii- 
habitants,  and   settled  once   more  tii 
peace,  such  a  course  might  he  taken^ 
and  such  provisions  made,  that  it  should 
not  be  in  the  power  qf  the  Romish  pea* 
santry  to  rise  up,  as  they  then  and  at 
Jormer  periods  of  our  history  did,  to  de* 
stray  and  root  them  out,  before  they 
could  put  themselves  into  a  posture  of 
drfence^  or  assemble  to  resist  the  aS' 
sassins,  whose  ancestors  in  the  same  un- 
changeable  spirit  of  popery,  had   so 
often  lifted  the  latch  of  the  English 
settlers*  door,  and  sprinkled  the  hearth* 
stone  with  the  bhod  of  his  family.'^ 
The  conduct  which  justified  this  de- 
precated Code  in  the  reign  of  James 
the  Second,  is  matter  of  public  history, 
and  therefore  need  not  be  recapitulated 
here.    The  intrigues  during  the  reign 
of  Queen  Akni  and  the  two  first  of 
the  Georges,  to  restore  the  abdicated 
fiimily  to  the  throne,  and  re-establish 
the  dominion  of  superstition  in  Ire- 
land, are  equally  notorious  ;— the  con- 
duct oT  the  Popish  Bishop  Coppinger, 
while  the  massacre  of  the  Protestants 
was  going  on  at  Wexford  Bridge  in 
1798,  as  well  as  the  Edict  of  the  Ro- 
mish Prelates  at  TuUow,  in  I8O9  are 
well  known.     While  the  pastorals  of 
1.  K.  L.  (John  Kildare  and  Lauehlin,) 
or  if  ?ou  please  of  Doctor  Dotle, 
manifest  at  once  the  credit  due  to  the 
Allegations  in  your  petition,  that  **you 
wUtnot  exercise  any  privilege,  to  wmth 
you  are  or  may  he  entitled,  to  disturb 
or  weaken  the  Protestant  Religion,  and 
ikai  you  have  no  intention  to  subvert 
the  present  Protestant  Church  EstO" 
hUshmentr 

How  any  men  or  body  of  men,  who 
Had,  as  you  acknowleclge  in  this  peti- 
tion, abjured  the  intention  to  weaken 
the  Protestant  relision,  or  subvert  the 
Church  established  in  Ireland — could 
conscientiously  collect  rent,  and  num- 
her  the  people  for  the  Demagogue  As' 
sdciatioti  in  the  Com  Exchange  of  Dub' 
Imi,  and  support  such  newspapers  as 
form  the  Popish  press  in  Ireland,  is  to 
me  a  matter  of  astonishment^  and  will 
scarcely  be  credited  by  posterity. 

•But  the  fact  is.   Gentlemen,  that 
two  temporal  Kingdoms  may  as  well 


coexist  in  one  given  area  as  two  spirt* 
tual  ones ;  the  government  of  your 
Church,  formed  as  we  acknowledge 
it  to  be,  on  an  apostolical  model,  and 
in  this  respect  making  a  direct  con- 
trast to  your  faith,  is  so  admirably  fit- 
ted for  the  rulirij;  of  one  great  ano  un« 
divided  body  or  men  t  that  a  second* 
and  exactly  similar  hierarchy  could  ne« 
ver  exist  in  any  country  for  naif  a  cen* 
tury  toother  without  arranging  the 
population  of  it  against  each  other; 
and  precipitating  the  great  body  of  the 
people  into  a  mortal  contest  with  eacK 
other  for  ascendancy.  It  was  on  thiji 
account  that  the  reformed  ChristiaiM 
on  the  Continent  of  Europe  could  ne- 
ver hope  for  an  Episcopal  establish- 
ment, and  on  this  account  either  yoar 
Hierarchy,  or  the  Esublished  Church 
of  the  Empire  must  be  put  down,  be^ 
fore  we  can  calculate  on  this  unhappy 
Island,  as  you  truly  call  it,  being  res- 
cued from  a  state  ot  misery,  unparalleled 
perhaps  on  earth,  a  state  in  which 
"  the  relations  qf  civil  life  are  troubled, 
natural  kindness  is  interrupted  in  iii 
course,  and  the  sources  qf  Christifm 
charity  are  dried  up.'* 

It  will  be  for  the  Kins,  with  hit 
Majesty's  faithful  Ix>rds  andCommons^ 
to  judge  the  cause  between  the  religioci 
of  England  and  the  superstition  6t 
Italy;  between  the  faith  of  our  good 
King's  royal  Father  of  blessed  memory* 
and  that  of  a  Transalpine  Prelate ;  be- 
tween the  Church  wnich  at  his  Coro- 
nation his  Majesty  swore  to  support, 
and  that  for  which  the  race  ot  the 
Stuarts  forfeited  the  Crown  of  these 
three  United  Kingdoms. 

In  the  pressing  of  your  ambitioot* 
claims,  Grentlemen,  you  **  disclaim  oas- 
bilion/*  and  talk  with  matchless  con- 
fidence of  the  long-tried  obedience  of 
Irish  Paputs  to  their  Protestant  go- 
vernors. The  language  of  your  peti- 
tion sutes  that  the  **  blessings  qf  tht 
Christian  dispensation,  and  the  labomn 
qf  the  sacred  ministry,  (as  if  no  mi- 
nistry were  sacred  here  but  yours)  ere 
counteracted,  and  will  continue  to  be 
so,  until  huh  Houses  of  Parliament, 
the  Privy  Council,  and  the  Legal 
Bench,  snail  be  opened  to  your  ambi» 
lion.  As  to  the  trials  of  your  obedi- 
ence to  the  British  crown  in  the  reigns 
of  Henry  the  Eiehth,  Elizabeth,  James 
the  First,  Charles  the  First,  William 
the  Third,  Anne,  and  all  the  Georges,* 
the  public  history  of  our  country  as- 
certains the  exact  quantum  of  U^  ^'mI 


no 


Q»  Jibe  PaptU  Tetmon  to  the  BoMit  ^  Lordi.        [March, 


the  iperiodicftl -prials  of  the^prasent  day 
cobhibit,  in  too  legible  oharaotets,  ihe 
obedience  which  is  lo  be  expected  from 
Uk  united  itMiiAmioni$is  and  ribbon 
ijntmdfrs  of  Ireiand,  in  case  .the  em- 
pire  should  be  involved  in  a  foreign 
%«arGire. 

.    We  find  by  Hall's  ChroDicle,  page 
90Z,  that  Henry  the  £ighth  obeerved 
ef  the  .Romish   Clergy,  that    **  ihey 
make  on  oaih  U>  tke  rope  oleane  eon* 
irmie  to  4kat  ufkiok  they  make  to  the 
Xmgf  40  that  'they  seemed  to  him  to 
be  She  Bishop  ofliome'ssuhtects  ra* 
4ker 'than  his:"    James  the  First  told 
hit  'Parliament,  what  time  has  since 
fMWvcd  to  be  tfue,  that  the  restless  «pt- 
Hi  ^  the  Popish  religion  would  strive 
hf  these  grtdatiooss  1st.  for  a.con- 
aiiVANCB;  0.  for  a  tolbratiov;  3. 
lor  Air  A80BVDANO.T,  <to  the  litter  sub* 
irvrtion    of  ithe    true    religion.    The 
whole  ^if  the   tnbseqoent  history  of 
Sngland  and  Ireland  is  a  faiihful  and 
Siocrring  commentary  >on  those  pro- 
fihtftic  <wordsy  and  therefore  your  ad- 
^rocAles  either  shut  their  eyes  against 
<be  experience  of  past  ages,  or  will 
feceive  it  only  through  the  'medium 
of  sneh  unblushing  talsiAers  of  it  as 
X>>bbett,  vihose  malicious  ^historv  of 
the  Reformation  has  been  circulated 
through   Ireland  of  late  with  .impa- 
tallelcd  industry.    Yonr  denial  of.  the 
4Kiwer  'of  >Pope  or  Priest  to  absolve 
ains,  without 'repentance,  is  at  vari- 
ance with  the   public  formuhiries  of 
.yonr  Church,  and  the  practice  of  your 
•'Clergy.     Sins  to   be  committed  can 
:iiardlybe  repented  of  at  the  time  an 
absolution  or  indulgence  is  purchased 
4by  him  who  intends  to  commit  them  ; 
•and  wlien  you  talk  of  oien  "  making 
rATOJUBUsnT  for 'their  sins,"  you  speak 
ithe  language  of  infidels,  and  addressing 
tnch  words- to  the  Archbishop  of  Can- 
'terbury,  and  the  other  Peers  of  Parlia- 
'inent,  spiritual  and  temporal,  you  only 
•offrr  insult  to  his  Grace  and  their  Lord- 
-thips,  "  the  legal  guardians  of  public 
morality,'*  and   the  protectors  of  the 
virile  Catholic  iaith  established  in  the 
I  British  empire. 

.It  is  obvious  that  you  take  great  li- 
-Iwrty  with  respect  to  the  interprcta- 
-tion  of  the  word  lawful,  when  you 
fMWf  that  those  of  your  religion  "do  not 
'  heiiewe  ihe  law  allows  them  to  murder 
•amf  person  under  pretence  qf  his  being 
•o  heretic**  How  many  they  have  mur- 
-4ered  in  Ifdand  and  elsewhere  un- 


der this  pretence,  it  would  not  -be  easy 
to  enumecatc ;  yon  may  safely  swear 
there  is  no  English  statute  to  warrant 
such  an  act,  and  that  it  is  not  Lawful 
according  to  English  or  Irish  law ; 
but,  according  to  Italian  law,  or  what 
holds  as  good  .with  the  Pope's  .vassals, 
auch  an  act  is  not  only  lawful,  but 
fioramandable  to  do.  ao,  and  .there- 
fove  it  has  been  practised  with  great 
approbation  at  convenient  ojiportuni* 
ttes. 

The  following  are  the  words  of  a  de^ 
creeof  Urban  li.  Bp.  of  Rome,  *'  Aan 
iaifi^  H  CM  I  CI  DiB  qm  adoersus  excommu- 

ntCtt/Of.ZfiLO  UATRIS  BGCLBSliBarmafl.. 

/tir,eosque/riictc^/.'*  Bythecaooalaw 
(GlbmentIV,.  Decretal,  Lib,  V,  tit, 
7.  cap.  13),  it  is  decreed,  that  **  thru 
who  under  the  ledge  of  the  Cross  shall 
set  themselves  to  exterminate  heretiest 
shall  obtain  a  full  remission  qf  all  their 
eins,  and  a  greater  degree  qf'  happiness 
4n  .heaven  than  others  can  expect,**''^ 
The  Council  of  Tient  {Sqp.  xiv.  5,) 
affirms  this  to  be  the  voice  of  the 
whole  Church  ;  and  the  Council  of 
Constance  requires  all  Archbishops 
and  Bishops,  under  pain  of  depriva^- 
tion,  *'  to  search  for  heretics,ana  deli- 
ver them  over  to  the  secular  magistrate 
to  be  punished,**  This  .punishment  * 
(^Council  Ben.  torn.  xi.  p.  1 126)  con- 
sisted of  confiscation  of  goods,  ioipri- 
sonment,  exile,  or  death.— Every  Po- 
pish priest  and  Bishop  of  the  Romish 
Church  are  bound  by  oath  to.obsert'e 
these  canons ;  and  among  tliese  is  one 
on  the  authority  of  which  the  follow- 
ing sentence  was  inserted  in  the  Ex- 
communication of  Henry  VHI.  King 
of  England,  **  JuramentCt  Cmtfedera- 
tiones,  obti^tiones,  quee  heereticem  re- 
^em  juvart  posiunt,  irritas,  cauas,  et 
tnmnes  decermems**  When  you  say 
the  Pope  exeh^ises  no  tempor.au  power 
here,  you  allege  that  the  bootmaker 
in  Cork,  or  the  baker  in  DooegaU  SMf- 
fered  no  temporal  injury  from  the  ex- 
communications issued  against  them 
by  two  of  your  body ;  the  juries,  how- 
ever«  who  on  their  oaths  found  ver- 
dicts of  damages  for  these  persecuted 
men,  thought  otherwise,  and  pive  as 
mudi  credence  to  your  allegations  on 
this  head  as  they  can  possibly  obtain 
among- the  Lords  Spiritual  and  Teiijpo- 
rali now  assembled  in  the  Imperial*Iv- 
liament  of  Great  .Britain  anu  Jrcland* 

Yours^  &c.  JoHir  Gkabam. 


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Antient  Cup.-^WUhtn't  Ptatmt. 


tK' 


'  Mr.  Urban.     Stlutury,  Jan.  B. 

I  SEND  you  i  tketch  oT  >n  incient 
Cap,  ind  a  diawing  on  a  brger 
•c«le  (Plait  I.)  to  illustriLc  the  dif- 
Terent  coiiipanmenti  inl"  which  it  is 
diviiM.  hi)  imde oT  while  ungUird 
lery,  and  ii  in  Tcry  Hoc  ptesrn'itiun. 
ith  iJie  hittM;  of.  it,  prior  lo  tlie 
tijM  oT  iia  cuoi'ing  into  mj  poMcwon, 
I  am  uaacqiuinieil,  ino  thall  fM' 
obVigti  to  tpuai  four  Corrtipondeoli 
who  UQ  fiirnith  me  with  infarmalion 
H  lo  iu  probable  ori^n. 

The  three  Scriptural  lulijecti  which 
<xcu|iy  the  centie  row  of  comnart- 
inenti,  are  onr  fiaftom  curing  the  deaT, 
"■  1  lUKt/TII.  I  leiWKiog  ihe 
;,  iixii:Hbea  ltgc  s' 


:rib«l 


blind  to^t.iixicHb_  _ 
and  ghinf  the  kcja  lo  Pcteri  i — 
Lvci  xril.''  At  the  l6ih  chapter  of 
St.  Maithew  i«  the  only  pUce  in  ihe 
GM|di  mben  ihia  lait  occnrmice  ii 
nccrdcd.  it  mail  ba  cpnelnited  that  a 
wrabg  tabel  wai  intdmieail;  placed 
M  ihiiGonpartmrDtf  and  it  ma;  iherfi- 
fbrc  be  preninKd  that  tevenl  jogi 
were  made,  ornamented  ftom  the 
■arae  mouUl*. 

The  armorial  bearingt  are  evidently 
fareign,  Ihengh  *onie  of  the  cost*  are 
not  diiiiniilaT  lo  tuch  at  have  been 
bonie  in  thia  country.  £.  S. 

Mr.  Urbaw,  Feb.  34. 

IITKEN  1  ptiuled  my  Preface  lo 
T?  the  new  edition  of  Geo.  Wi- 
ratMBHjfMntMMi&mgiiiflieChurch, 
J8I>,  I  had  miilaid  the  following  cu- 
tioui  cairact  froin  Hari.  MSS.,  No. 
Gam.  M*a.  itforcA,  IK7. 


7000.  Unta  nie  bf  Mr.  lyimdi,)  < 

the  (u^Jcct  of  that  work,  ou  Ita  fir 
publicaiion  in  lG33 ;  and  I  with  jt 
M  preterve  it  in  vout  Taluable  Uiace 
lany.  E.  B. 

Extract  of  a  Lelttrfi-Bm  Edieard  Ra- 
liagkam,  lo  Sir  Tliomat  Pucktrv^ 
Bait. 

Jan.  ta,  ifisa. , 

"  Upon  Friday  latt,  Wrraiu  tlj 


London-  The  mailer  wa«  (hit:  tl 
WiTHBRS  hath,  to  pleaae  ttinwdi 
iraoilated  our  (iodnfE  pailn*  into  a 
other  *ene,  which  he  conott  b«tl 
than  thoae  the  Church  haih  mi  htn 
uied,  and  therefore  he  hath  been  I 
the  charge  to  procure  a  patent  frm 
hii  MajMly  under  the  brood  tea),  lb 
hi*  irantlaiion  thall  be  printed  an 
bound  to  all  Biblei  that  are  vAi.  Tt 
Stationer*  Tcfonog  tobindibeniand.1 
lell  them  with  the  Bible  (the  troth  * 
nobody  would  buy  the  Bible  wlf 
luch  a  log  at  the  eud  of  it),  and  bi 
cauie  lome  of  ihem  itood  upon,  ihd 
guard  and  would  not  luHlEr  Hr.  Wj 
Tvaai,  with  hi*  oCEceri,  to  caDe  ioi 
their  ahopi  and  seize  upon  mea  BiM 
ai  wintM  hi*  addiiioni,  ihec«fi«e  b 
comnlaioed  of  tbem  for  a  caniempt  < 
the  Great  Seal. 

"After  their  Lordship  b«^  beat 
the  business  pro  and  coit,  at  leogll 
their  Lordship*  thought  grwd  to  dam 
hi*  patent  in  pari]  that  ia,  that  tb 
translulion  ihould  no  lonnr  be  Mil 
wiib  the  Bible,  but  only  by  Iiael 
And  for  my  part,  1  think  their  Lw^ 
ships  have  done  very  wcUin  orderin 


Mr.  Urba»,  Jm.15. 

IN  a  recent  number  of  the  "Gen 
tieman's  Magazine"  you rery  pm 
perly  informed  your  CoireajMOdeBl 
that  pedigrrei  of  noble  familica,  i 
which  Sir  William  Dugdale  and  othc 
zeneaiogical  writers  had  fallen  int 
importDnt  erron,  would  be  acceptabi 
com  muni  cations  i  provided  they  wa 
aniheniicaied  by  emitnce. 

The  accompaiivinK  pedigree  of  th 
ancient  Bareni  of  Hu(gber*h  c*iw 
strictly  within  the  line  you  have  lai 
down ;  and  as  in  my  recent  pnbliei 
lion,  "  TIm  Synopiis  of  the  Feeiage, 
1  have  committed  the  wn»  'moM^ 


9X» 


PedUgfHitf  Ae  BardMi  qf^urgheM. 


[Mluvh 


>  •- 


ift  Biy  account  of  Abat  family  as  has 
been  made  by»  I  ^ resume^  ererv  nrc^ 
vlous  writer;  I  ought  to  acknowleoj^, 
and  thus  pubhcly  lo  correct  my  er- 
ror. ,  The  point  is  of  more  than 
ordinary  importance^  4br  it  involves 
thi  descent  not  merely  of  the  original, 


but,  of  another  Barony-t  which  is 
now  for  the  first  time  diiCovered  to 
have  been  creatud. 

1  will  first  give  Uie  pedigree  as  it 
hat  hitherto  born  received^  and  as»  I 
believe,  it  standa  in  everf  existing 
record. 


Eobtrt  de  Bttighershy  sammoned  to  PsrlUment  from  ss  Edir.l.  to.  St  Xdw.  I.  ob. 

1805^ 


Slspliea  da  Borgbershy  son  and  hair.  He  wm  never  samm.  to  PaHJawaaU  elL  ••;... ^ 

I  ■       ■  ■    ■  '  '       '■  ■         * 

Bariholoaatw  de  Biughtrshi  son  and  heir,  sommonad  to  PsrliansMl  froai  4  $Aw,  IK.  to 

98  £dw.  III.  ob.  lS56.=r= 

Bahboloiiiew  da  Bnigbenh,  ton  and  heir,  summoned  to  PkriiaaMOt  froai  31  £d^.  III.  to 

49  Edw.  III.  K.  O.  ob.  )S69,  •.  p.ni.^ 

Elizabeth,  sole  daughter  and  beiresaiYEdward  Baron  la  Datpanear. 

Thus,  according  to  the  above  pedi*  of  tlie  marriage  of  Elizsibeth  Burgh- 

gree,  the  Barony  of  Burghersh,  creat-  ersh   and    Edward    Lord   Despencer. 

ed  by  the  Writ  of  Summons  of  the  But  the  following  is  the  real  atate  (»f 

3t  £aw.  I.  devolved  upon  the  issue  the  case. 

.  Robert  de  Burgbertb,  summoned  to  Parliament  from  19  Nov.  89  Edw.  I.  1803,  to  18 

June  83  Edw.  I.  1305,  ob.  1805.  Bseh.  eod,  annJ^ 

Stephen  de  Burgh-  Henry  de  Burgb-  Bartholomew  de  Burghenh,  8d  son,  foondbrother 

efsh,  son  and  heir,  enh,  9d  son,  ap-  and  heir  of  Henry  Bishop  of  Lbeoln,  15  Edw. 

seI.  98»  88  Edw.  I.  oointed  Bishop  of  III.  and  then  set.  36.  EseL  eod  ann.    Summoned 

Aejk.  eod.  mm.  He  Liacola,  98  May  to  Parliament  from  95  Jan.  4  Edw.  III.  1880  to 

waanevef  summon-  1890,     ob.    14  15  March  98  Edw.  IIL  1854,  Admiral  of  the 

ed  to  Parliament.  Edw.  III.   Eseh.  Cinque  PorU,   19  Edw.  III.  Rot.  Pari.  v.  ii.  p. 

ob. 8 Edw. II.  Eseh.  eod.  ann.  100.  ob.  99  Edw.  III.  1855.  Eieh.eod.i 


toit  ann.nr' 


iCVMLHr* 


tarde 
Fava- 

lay»l 

hnsb. 

ob.  I 

Bdw. 

III. 

Sich. 

tod.. 

t 

OfUI. 


Wal-^^and  de  Burgh-qrThomas       Bartholomew  de  Boighersb,  eon  and  heir,  set.  96. 


de  Aldon,  99  Edw.  III.  Etch.  eod.  ann.    Summoned  to  Paili- 

9dhutb.  ament  from  15  Dec.  81  Edw.  UI.  1857  to  94  Feb. 

nar^  ante  49  Edw.  III.  1868.  On  the  7th  Jnne,  89  Edw.  III. 

5Ed«r.III.  he  released  to  Tbomas  Aldon,  Knt.  all  his  right  in 

Eseh.  eod.  the  manors  in  gavelkind  which  belonged  to  Kobert 

am,  ob.  de  Burghersh.    MS.  c.  16.  t  978  in  CbU,  Arm. 

85,  Edw.  Found  heir  to  his  mother  ESizabeth  de  Verdon,  84 

[ILleaving  Edw.  HI.  then  8et.86  Eseh.  eod.  torn,  and  to  his  bro- 

Maudhis  ther  Henry,  then  set.  96,  98  Edw.  III.  Ibid.    Will 

widow.  lb,  dated  4  April  1869,  ob.  43  Edw.  III.  /6id.^ 

Thomas  de  Al-    Elizabeth,  dau.  andf  heiress  set.  96,-i-Edwani 


ersh,da.  and  heir- 
ess, set.  5,8  Edw. 
H.  Eseh.  eod.  aim. 
Made  proof  of 
her  age,  1 9  Edw. 
li.  and  then  wife 
ofWalterdePave- 
ley.  /Hd.  ob»  cir- 
ca, 4  Rlc.II./Zot. 
CUms.eod.  ann. 


Sir  Walter  Paveley, 
Kiit.sK  8  1st  Edw.  in. 
Each.  ood.  ann.  Found 
cfwam  and  heir  to  Hen. 
Bp.  of  Lincoln,  of  his 
hads  in  NorthMnpton- 
AhalS40,14Ed«.lII. 
Steh.l6Edw,  III.  ob 
^9Edw.IILjj 


don,  set.  96, 85  48  Edw.  III.  Eseh^  eod.  ann.  Made 
Bdw.lll.  Eseh.  proolof  her  age9  Ric  II.  Ibid.  De- 
eod.  ann.  son  &  scribed  as  Elisabeth,  widow  of  Ed- 
heir  of  Maud  de  ward  le  Despenser,  deu.  and  heir  of 
Burghersh,  4  Bartholomew,  son  of  Bartholomew 
Rio.  II.  Roi.  de  Burghersh,  60  Edw,  III.  RoL 
Clous,  eod.  ann.  Clous,  eod.  ann. 


leDes- 

pensar. 


$1^  Walter  Pkveley,  K.O.  ob.  s.  p.  circa  4  Ric.  tl.  RoL  Clous.  4  Ric.  tn.  7.    He  was  bc- 

fueathad  a  oup  by  Bartholomew  Lord  Burghersh,  and  appobted  b'ls  executor  in  1^69. 
a  his  will,  dated  91  Nov.  1879,  he  orders  diat  a  stone  shall  be  pUced  in  the  Chapel  of 
Boston  Church  for  his  grandsire  and  grand-dame,  with  the  escutcheon  of  Pavfley  and 
i- ^Bttsgheish  qnarterly.-^resc.  fW«<. 


,WWO  BarQU^fo/Burghersh.  fj^qs 

In  further  proof  of  ihis  pedigree,  U  reversalof  that  AtUioUer  ia  1461  it  fell 

k  to  be  obaenred,  that  Robert  defiurahr-  into  Abeyauoe  between  the  daujB^teii 

crih,  who  died  in  1305,  was  seised  of  and  coheirs  of  Isabel,  daughter  and 

the  Manors  of  Siffleton,  Chiddingston,  eventually  soie  heir  of  Thomas  Loid 

Hocton,    Witham,    and    Stuiinge   in  Despeuser,  who  was  atuinted  in  1400, 

Kent,  and  of  Burghersh,  Dodewell  and  bv  her  two  husbands,  Richard  Earl  pf 

WoUeston  in  Sussex*  ;  that  Stephen  Vvorccster,  and  Richard  Earl  of  War- 

his  son  died  seised  of  Sifflaton,  Boo-  wick:  and  though'the  abeyance  of  the 

4on,  Stutinge,  Burghersh,  Dodewell,  Barony  of  Despenser  has  been  several 

andWolveston*;  that  Walter  de  Pave-  times  terminated,  that  of  Burghersh 

lev,  who  died  1st  £dw.  III.  was  seised  has  never  been  revived.     It  still  there« 

of  the  manor  of  Bocton  in  risht  of  fore  conlinues  in  abeyance  among  the 

Maud  his  wife*;  and  that  in  the  35  heirs  of  the  body  or  the  said   Isatel 

£dw.  III.  Thomat  de  Aldon  (son  of  Countess  of  Warwick.    This  mistake 

Maud  de  Burghersh,  who  was  then  was  far  easier  of  commission  than  it  k 

living,  by  her  second  husband)   was  of  defence, 
found  heir  to  that  manor*.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  remailc 

The  only  point  which  can  be  at  all  that  the  Barony  of  Burghersh,  inherited 
deemed  questionable  in  the  pedigree,  is  by  the  Earl  ot  Westmoreland,  had  its 
the  difference  between    the   ages   of  origin  in  the  Patent  to  his  ancestor  in 
Henry  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  and  of  his  l624;  and  that  it  is  granted  to  the 
brother  Bartholomew ;  for  it  is  mani-  heirs  male  of  the  body  of  the  grantee, 
fest  from  the  escheat  on  the  death  of  and  is  a  totally  distinct  dignity  from 
the  Bishop  that  his  brother  was  then  either  of  the  others  of  that  nape. 
36  yean  ot  age,  and  must  consequently        Yours,  &c.  N.  H.  N. 
havebeenbomin  1304,oneyearonlybe-                                 a 
fore  his  father's  death  j  whilst,  as  the  Bi-                                !rTT*. 
shop  was  appointed  to  his  see  as  early        Mr.  Urban,    Cambndge,  Feb.  1?. 
as  1320,  he  could  not  have  been  born  f^^  ^^^  inaccuracies  of  which  Qua* 
much  later  than  12g0,  but  this  circum-  V^    bens  speaks,  p.  8, 1  am  not  con- 
stance  establishes  nothing  contradic-  scious ;  I  was  strictly  accurate,  inas- 
tory  to  the  evidence  we  possess  on  the  much  as  my  assertions  were  borne  oat 
subject.  either  by  authorities  quoted   in  your 

According  to  the  opinions  now  held  number  for  May  last,  or  depended  upon 
respecting  dignities,  it  appears  that  the  the  arguments  there  advanced.  To  that 
Barony  created  by  the  writ  to  Robert  I  must  necessarily  refer  for  the  defence 
de  Buqjhersh  in  the  32  Edw.  I.  is  of  what  QuiERENS  terms  inaccuracies, 
vested  in  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  his  As  ihere  mentioned,  Valckaenaer  (with 
grand-daughter  Maud,  the  wife  1st  of  whoseleamingand  accuracy,  as  a  reader 
Walter  de  Pdveley  and  2dly  of  Thomas  of  Herodotus,  QtiiBRENS  must  be  ao- 
de  Aldon ;  and  that  a  new  Barony  was  quainted  ;  and  has,  perhaps,  oflen  been 
created  by  the  writ  to  Bartholomew  assisted  by  him  in  understanding  any 
de  Burghersh  in  4  Edw.  III.  which  difficult  passage)  is  my  authority  for 
is  now  vested  in  the  heirs  of  the  body  ascribing  68  years  to  the  reign  of  cVimp- 
of  his  grand-daughter  Elizabeth,  the  eres  (not  Ajaxeres). — Sir  Isaac  New- 
wife  of  Edward  Lord  le  Despenser.  ton  and  Mr.  Ferguson  have  by  calcu- 

Another  error  connected  with  the  lation  found  that  the  eclipse  your  cor- 
Barony  of  Burghersh  occurs  in  the  respondent  mentions,  took  place  B.C. 
"Synopsis  of  the  Peerage,'*  which  I  am  585 ;  not  as  Volney  asserts,  B.C.  625. 
also  ansious  to  correct.  After  stating  I  confess,  however,  there  may  be  some 
that  the  Barony  inherited  by  Elizabeth  ({uestion  about  this ;  for  Larcher  places 
Baroness  le  Despenser  became  united  it  B.C.  597.  But  Reine,  andSchweig-> 
to  that  of  Despenser,  i^  is  said  that  at  hsuser,  and  Gainsford,  adopt  New* 
this  moment  it  is  vested  in  Lord  le  ton's  computation ;  and  it  is  manifest 
Despenser.  Such,  however,  is  not  the  from  Herodotus*s  account  of  the  mat- 
case^  Upon  the  death  of  that  lady,  it  ter,  that  it  must  have  happened  after 
is  tme  that  the  Barony  of  Burghersh  the  expulsion  of  the  Scythians  (Vom 
devolved  upon  her  son  and  heir  Tho-  Media  (lib.  i.  cap.  74).  And  he  ex- 
mas  Lord  Despenser,  and  was  forfeited  pressly  tells  us  that  it  was  in  the  reion 
by  his  attainder  in  1400 ;  but  upon  the  of  Alyattes,  King  of  Lydia,  who  aid 

...    '  not  be^in  to  reign  before  B.C.  6l7,  pr 

*  EscbeaU  of  tim  respective  years.  at  earliest  62Q ;  as  is  acknowledge^  bf 


«M 


MtmiHn  iff  tin  BofUf  Ami/jr. 


LMucI, 


aH  vutonDiQtttfi  I  md  cio  m  proved 
limn  aathtfotie  records.  (See  Larcher^ 
ehnmologt  in  the  7th  Yohiaie  of  hb 
'•Histoire  d'Herodote."  Herod,  lib. 
1. 16,  he.)  This  folly  shows  that  Vol- 
ney  is  mistaken. 

Moreover^ocreas  has  no  authori^ 
for  writing  Kyros,  and  Kyaxeres  |  aw 
though  I  bielief  e  Uiev  oognt  to  be  so 
pronounced.  The  Hoinans»  however, 
always  rendered  the  Greek  «  by  their 
ei  and  met  versdt  and  therefore  we 
are  justified  in  retaining  oar  orthograr 
phy,  though  not  our  pronunciation. 

The  transportation  of  the  names  of 
Astyages  and  Cyaxeres,  as  I  observed 
in  my  first  essay*  was  originally  ad- 
vanced by  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  and 
adopted  by  me  for  reasons  there  siven. 
Herodotas  indeed  tells  us  that  Cyrus 
reighed  29  years,  and  Justin  and  Cte- 
sias  (ap.  Phot)  say  30.  But  this  must 
be  considered  as  over  Persia  alone ;  for 
otherwise  it  is  inconsistent  with  the 
more  probable  narrative  of  Xenophon, 
(Cyrop.  lib.  8.)  and  the  sacred  book  of 
Daniel,  and  Ptolemy's  Canon :  from 
which  authorities  (see  also  Newton's. 
Chron.  pp.  40.  307,  331.  Prideaux  ad 
Ann.  630.  Petau  de  Doct.  Temp.  x. 
15,  and  observe  Hutchinson's  note  on 
Cyrop.  VIII.  7.  init.  comuare  it  with 
Newton.)  I  placed  the  neginning  of 
'  the  reign  of  Cyrus  in  Media,  B.C.  536: 
which  1  considered  as  a  clear  "  deter- 
minate point  to  set  out  from."  With 
these  remarks  I  must  decline  any  fur- 
ther controversy  on  the  subject.  A.  Z. 

Mr.  Urbav,  Feh  1827. 

THE  search  for  information  relative 
to  the  connexions  of  respectable 
persons,  who,  as  literary  characters,  or 
otherwise,  have  rendered  themselves 
eonspicuous,  is  a  source  of  much 
amusement.  Inthe'^LifeofHayley" 
the  I'oet,  the  autobiographer  adopted 
nnusual  conciseness,  and  want  of  con- 
nexive  explanatioii  in  regard  to  such 
matters ;  and  as  I  am  disposed  to  think 
that  some  of  your  friends,  who  may 

•  have  perused  the  work,  will  have  form- 
ed a  similar  opinion ;  I  therefore  hope, 

-  that  your  introdoctiain  of  the  following 
particulars  will  not  be  objected  to. 
<     The  substance  of  the  few  lines  which 

•  the  Poet  has  bten  contented  to  bestow 
1  nixNi  his  worthy  paternal  grandfather, 

and  mat-uncle,  may  be  comprized  in 
"^  the  three  followins expressions:  name- 
'lyi^that  he  was  the  grandson  of  Tho- 


mai  Hi^ley,  Dean  of  CMehester  i  that 
he  was  nained  William  after  hil  great- 
uncle  1  and  that  it  is  remaitable  that 
two  brothers  of  the  same  name  should 
have  been  both  deans  of  the  same  Ca- 
thedral.—I  commence  my  statement, 
therefore,  by  o^rving,  that  the  names 
of  these  two  Difnitaries  of  the  Church 
may  be  added  to  the  list  of  eminent 
natives  of  the  cotmty  of  Salop,  which 
a  valuable  Correspondent  enabled  yoa 
to  present  to  your  readers  in  the  Maga- 
zine for  1881.— They  were  bom  at 
Cleobory  Mortimer,  in  the  above-men- 
tioned county,  and  were  the  sorrs  of 
William  Hayley,  a  resident  at  that 
town ;  to  the  poor  of  which  the  elder 
brother,  William,  left  a  legacy^  in 
compliment  to  his  birth-place.  The 
vounger  brother,  E>ean  Thomas  Hay- 
ley,  was  also  # Prebendary  of  Winches- 
ter, and  a  contemporary  of  Dr.  Richard 
Willis,  who  was  Bbhopof  that  See, 
and  a  native  of  the  town  of  Dewdley, 
which  is  situate  in  Worcestershire,  but 
adjoins  to  the  above-mentioned  parish 
of  Cleobury,  in  Salop. 

Of  these  parties  the  Rev  Alex- 
ander Hay,  after  having  in  his  **  His- 
tory of  Chichester,"  particularly  no- 
ticed several  worthy  Prelates  ana  Dr?- 
niuria  of  the  Cathedral  Church  in 
that  city,  expresses  as  foUowa: — «To 
these  may  be  added  with  propriety, 
and  could  not  be  omitted  but  with 

freat   impropriet}^    Doctor    William 
[ayley,  and  Dnllionias  Hayley,  both 
Deans  of  Chichestet;   the  latter  the 

fraud  father  of  the  present  William 
layley,  Esq.*'  (the  Poet)  "  of  whom, 
though  I  am  inhibited,  by  his  strict  in- 
junction, from  saying  any  thing,  yet 
'  surely  I  may,  without  offence,  repeat 
the  voice  of  Fame  concerning  those 
departed  worthies,  that  they  well  de- 
served all  the  lustre  that  their  descend- 
ant can  reflect  on  their  memories^  how 
great  soever  that  lustre  may  be.** 

From  the  record  which  refers  to  the 
matriculation  of  the  elder  brother, 
William,  at  Balliol  College,  in  1673, 
when  he  was  fifteen  years  old,  it  may 
be  readily  supposed  that  their  father's 
station  in  life  was,  at  that  period,  very 
far  from  elevated.  It  may  therefore  be 
fairly  considered,  in  justice  to  the  me- 
mory of  these  two  worthies,  that  the 
patronage  which  they  met  with,  and 
their  consequent  rising. in  the  scale  of 
society,  were'  the  result  of  their  own 
sterlingabilities,  and  meritorioua  con- 
duct  The  marriage  of  Dean  William 


•  1 897 J                     Mmoki  of  < At  Aqjrlfy  FamUf.  '805 

•     •  • 

-  Htjrley  becitait  to  him^  moftorery  an  promotion  of  pemanent  adranti^. 
important  stepetone  towardt  an  opu-  The  only  ton  of  the  laM-inentfoaed 
lence  which,  alas !  wai  dittipatH  by  P<^y>  ^u  the  Rer.  John  Hayley,  of 

*  hit  heir :  and  others  of  the  Hayleyt  Scotton,  in  Lincolnshire,  who  died  in 
haTC  also  been  much  indebted  to  the  1784,  and  was,  at  the  time  of  his  de- 
ladies  for  acquisition  of  temporal  pot-  cease,  the  nearest  relation  the  Poet 
aessions.— The  Poet  notices  such  a  be-  had  on  his  father's  side ;  as,  in  the  last- 
neficial  effect  as  applicable  to  the  first  mentioned  Work,  he  has  correctly 
maniage  of  his  father,  the  only  son  of  stated ;  but  he  has  left  his  readers  to 
Dean  Thomas  Hayley : — bnt  here  also,  guess  both  as  to  the^  line  and  degree  of 
in  the  lifetime  of  the  immediate  sue-  'tne  relationship.  He  has  further  stated 
oetsor,  who,  like  many  other  votaries  as  follows:—**  This  John  Hayley  was 

'  of  the  Moses,  was,  {xrhaps,  no  very  born  to  the  prospect  of  an  immense 

Sod  Bnancier,  these  benents  seem  to  fortune ;  but  nis  father,  who  had'  de- 

▼e  gradually,  and  almost  entirely,  corated  the  villa  at  Erith,  on  the  banks 

glided    away.     And  in  an  anicle  of  oftheThamet,  which  was  afterwards 

'your  Magazme,  vol.  lxxviii.  part  i.  sold  to  Sir  Sampson  Gideon,  had  so  pe- 

555.  expressions  of  a  similar  aavanta-  rilous  a  propensity  to  lavish  expense, 

•g^os    tendency   (and    that    he    was  that  his  only  son  inherited  little  or  no- 

thereby  "  enabled  to  improve  his  own  thing  of  his  dissipated  wealth,  buthap- 

rank  and  fortune  very  considerably")  pily  proved  a  worthy  man  of  God,  with 

are  reported  in  reference  to  a  cousin  of  a  cultivated  and  cheerful  spirit,  con- 

the  foregoing  parties,  George  Hayley,  tented    with    very    moderate    prefer- 

who,  in  his  latter  days,  became  an  ment.** 

Alderman  of  London.  In  this  in-  In  another  place,  the  Poet,  writing 
stance,  however,  it  is  satisfactory  to  to  his  first  wife,  shortly  after  the  de- 
find,  that  the  advanta^  have  descend-  cease  of  this  gentleman,  expresses  hrm- 
ed  to  respectable  parties  who  are  like-  self  thus  : — **  I  confess  to  you,  that  I 
wise  noticed  in  your  volumes  of  more  felt  for  a  moment  surpTised  and  mor- 

-  recent  date,  and  whom  I  shall  also  fur-  tiffed,  that  his  affection  had  not  led  him 
ther  mention  in  the  latter  part  of  this  to  honour  my  name  with  some  endear- 
article.  ing,  though  trivial  bequest:  a  single 

'     Doctor  William  Hayley  espoused,  book  from  his  library,  or  the  picture 

in   \6g/6,  a  daughter  of  dir  Thomas  of  our  comely  great-uncle." — A  be- 

Meres,  of  Lincoln,  &c.,  a  gentleman,  quest  to  one  of  nis  friends  consists  of 

not  only  of  old  family,  ana  of  consi-  an  item  of  curiosity ;  namely,  the  but* 

derable  wealth,  but  likewise  having  tons  which  were  formerly  Lord  Straf- 

very  extensive  interest  at  Court  during  ford's. 

the'time  of  King  William.    The  Doc-  •     Dean  Thomas   Hayley,  the  Poet's 

tor  (*'  Mr.  Dean  HaJey,*  as  says  Mr.  grandfather,  married   (as  appears   by 

Parton,  in  his  entertaining  History,  he  the  inscription  to  his  memory  in  Chi- 

is  always  called  in  the  parish  books:  Chester  Cathedral)  Sarah,  daughter  and 

and  from  other  circumstances  also,  I  co-heir  of  Thomas  Harlow,  Esq.  of 

think  it  very  likely  that  the  family  Bromley,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 

name  was  so  spellra  originally)  held  and  died  in  1739. 

for  many  years,  besides  his  Deanery,  Whether  or  not  the  Hayley  family 

the  isaluable  Rectory  of  St.  Giles's  in  orisinally  settled  in  this  country  from 

the  Fields;   and  to  the  poor  of  this  Ireland,  as  Mr.  Dallaway  (who  most 

parish  also,  he  gave  a  testamentary  me-  likely  received  his  information  from  the 

memo.     He  died  in  1715,  leaving  an  Poet)  states,  in  his  excellent  *' History 

only  son,  Thomas  (who   in  Hasted's  of  Western  Sussex,"  is  a  subject  of  in- 

Kent,  is  erroneously  called  George),  and  vestisation  which  I  have  not  been  dis- 

a  daughter,  Ann.     Several  collateral  posed  to  dive  into;  but  I  find  that  a 

circumstances,  arising  from  their  con-  grant  of  arms  as  follows : — Or,  ou  a 

nexion  with  the  Meres  family,  occur-  cross    azure,    a   cinquefoil,    between 

red,  so  as  to  very  greatly  enrich  the  four  mascles  of  thie  first.     Crest:    a 

'  former,  as  his  mother's  representative,  crescent    Argent,     charged    with    a 

It  will  be  seen,  however,  from  a  pas-  cross  pa tde  Gules :  was,  in  1701,  made 

'  sage  which  I  shall  borrow  from  the  au-  to  the  aforesaid  William  Hayley,  of 
tooiographical  production  above  refer-  Cleobury  Mortimer :  and  from  the  re- 
red  to,  that  he  had  not  sufficient  pru-  cord  thereof  at  the  Heralds*  College,  I 

-dcnce  to  apply  these  benefits  to  the  also  find  that  his  father  John,  and 


^HOO                          Mimoiri  of  iki  UayUg  FamU§.                    [March, 

flrandfather .WilltaiDy were retpectWely  daughter,  Elizabeth;  and  aotne  pot- 
lohabitaots  (and  that  the  latter  of  theqi  tions  of  their  respcctable.ditsceodacits 
filled  the  office  of  Chief  Bailiff  of  the  (two  of  their  daughtertp  Ann  aivt 
Corporation  thereof)  of  the  town  of  Mary  having  luurried  and  had  i^Hniliet) 
Briogenor^:  but  this  official  docti-  are  still  reiadent  at  Aldingbourn,  and 
ment  does  not  iastruct  me  as  to  the  one  of  its  haniletSf  Norion.  Their  soil 
name  of  his  wife,  or  the  number  of  his  Thomas,  who  died  single  (and  whose 
children.  His  family,  however,  was  surname  is  exuressed  correctly  in  the 
not  limited,  to  .William  and  Thomas  will  of  Mr.  Thomas  Hayley,  father 
above-mentioned;  for  in  the^Will  of  of  the  Poet;  but  the  scribe  who 
Dean  William  are.ex pressed  his  sisters,  prepared  for  signature  that  of  Dean 
Mary  Tedstil  (of  whom  the  Rev.  Hum-  Thomas  Hayley,  wrote  in  error  us  fol- 
phry  Tedstil,  resident  in  17479  at  Ex-  lows:  *<  My  cousin.  Mrs.  Welland, 
too,  in  Hampshire,  was  a  descendant)-  widow,  her  son,  the  liev.  Mr.  Tho- 
and  Elixabetn  Starey :  also  his  brother  mas  Jfelland,  &c.)  was  Rector  cTan 
Samuel.  The  latter  party  is 'likewise  adjoining  liviojg,  Tangmere;  the  ad- 
named  in  the  Will  of  Dean  Thomas  Towson  of  which  had  for  many  years 
Hayley»  who  left  him  a  small  annuity,  belonged  to  the  family  of  his  patroni*sa. 
He  was  buried  atCleobury,  in  17^0;  Mary  Dowager  Countess  ot  Derby« 
and  diedy  as  I  have  many  reasons  to  whoseacuof  benevolence  at  Hal nakcr, 
suppose,  unmarried.  If  1  am  correct  and  its  neighbourhood,  are  deservedly 
in  this  particular,  there  is  not  at  the  recorded  in  your  pa^^  and  in  some 
present  time,  any  descendant  of  the  other  leadinsr  publications, 
name  of  Havley  from  either  of  the  George  Hayley  had  an  only  son, 
three  lines  ol  this  branch  of  the  family,  who  was  named  after  him,  and  be- 
which  were  respectively  represented  by  came,  as  above-mentioned,  an  Alder- 
the  two  Deans  and  their  aforesaid  bro-  man  of  the  city  of  Lohdon.  This  ctr- 
ther  Samuel ;  inasmuch  as  the  Poet,  cuuistance  took  place  in  1774 ;  and 
and  his  cousin,  the  above-mentioned  during  the  same  year  he  was  elected 
Rev.  John  Hayley,  both  died  without  one  of  its  four  RepresenUtives  in  Par- 
leaving  families.                             ^  liainent,  a  few  days  after  a  strong  con- 

Tbe  name,  however,  is  not  extinct,  test  among  the  citizens  had  placed 
as  exempUBed  by  seveiral  respectable  Mrs.  Hayley *s  brother,  the  popular  and 
parties  resident  at  or  near  Bewdiey  celebrated  Wilkes,  in  ihe  mayoralty, 
aforesaid;  and  likewise  by  the  Rev.  His  sole  heiress  was  the  late  Lady  Ba- 
John  Hayley,  who  is  Incumbent  and  ker,  of  whom,  as  well  as  of  her  hu^ 
Proprietor  of  the  Rectory  of  Brigh ding,  band,  the  late  Sir  Robert  Baker,  Bart, 
a  parish  in  the  Easlern  part  of  Sussex,  and  their  family,  respectful  notices  have 
These  parties  are  descended  from  John  already  appeared  in  your  Magazine. 
Hayley,  an  inhabitant  of  Bewdiey,  The  late  Rev.  William  Hayley, 
who  died  in  1744,  durins  his  office  of  eldest  son  of  the  aforesaid  Bailiff  of 
Bailiff  of  that  town;  and  was  nearly  Bewdiey,  held  the  Rectory  of  Bright- 
connected,  as  follows,  with  the  persons  liiif^,  but  once  resided  at  an  adjoining 
who  have  been  referred  to  in  the  for-  parish,  Bur%vash.  He  was  also  In- 
nier  parts  of  this  article.  eumbent  of  Preston,    near  Brighton. 

The  above-named  William  Hnjley,  The  advowson  of  Brightling  came  to 

of  Cleobury,  had  a  brother  John,  resi-  him  as  part  of  the  inheritance  of  hia 

dent  at  the  same  place;  and  whose  wife;    and  dying  in   1 789,    without 

only  soUf  of  the  same  name,  had  four  family,  he^  by  his  will  (in  which*  by 

children ;  John  (who  settled  at  Bewd-  the  by,  I  do  not  find  mentioned  the 

ley  as  aforesaid),  George,  Elizabeth,  singular  circumstance  set  fortli  respeci- 

and  Catherine.    The  latter  was  the  ing  him,  in  your  Obituary  for  Noveui- 

second  wife  of  the  Rev.  William  Pres-  her  in  that  year;    namely,  thai  "  lie 

tun,  Vioar  of  Falmer,  near  Lewes ;  also  willed  eight  guineas  to  eight  persons  of 

of  Heathfiekl,  a  parish  adjoining  to  his  own   class    to    bear   him  to  the 

Brightling  above-mentioned  ;  and  died  grave'*)  gave  it  to  the  eldest  son  (father 

without  fainily.    The  Rev.  Thorny  of  the  present  Incumbent)  of  his  de- 

Wellings,  Vicar  of  Aldingbourn,  in  the  ceased  brother,  John  Hayley,  who  died 

WeUem  prt  of  Sussex,  of  whose  ue-  in  1 779*  at  about  two  years  before  kis 

phew  and   namesake  complimentary  kinsman^  the  before-mentiooed  aUkr- 

mentton  is  made  in  your  obituary  for  man. 

February    1785,    married   the    cnher  Mr.  Hayley,  the  Pbet,  had«  oo 


I 


f        1M7J  lUconciliatUm  of  Chineie  tmd  Euriipttm  DfBUet.  909^ 

fBOthcr't  ticle,  a  fine  routin.  Captain .  tion  wUh6ut  accilralcl^  markii^  \^km 

Godfirey,  ofFurfWt;  and  by  hit^  will,  dificrmce. 

he  nominaifd  this  Benilfman  as  hit        8.  1  certainly  did  parpotely  ofirr  t . 

fCfliduary  Irgatce,     Some   parts  of  a  |)ropotilion  that  the  Uelage  ahoold  be 

codicil  which  the  testator  added,  and  the  point  from  which  post-dciofiaro. 

which  coni|}rises  his  "  picture  lega-  should  set  ont  in  their  calculatiooa  tX 

cies,**  are  expressed  in  an  inflated  tone  time ;  and  my  expression,  **  if  thay 

of  sentiment,  not  very  usually  found  in  would  be  content  to  remain  thkn, 

documents  of  such  a  description.  was  adopted  to  shew»  that  as*  all  im«' 

A  Constant  Riadbr.  tions  ot  whom  I  had  ererread,  bad,. 

^  either  by  terrestrial  eTidenee,    or  by 

^  traditional  history,  ample  groandt  foT' 

Tt^i,  Ti»oA«r  »f/.-^A  lo  the  beliefof  the  ceruitaty  of  a  general 

Mr.  UaaAN.  March  12.  ^^^^^^^  ^^  ^^j^  ^  i^uer  S»bW- 

BEG  to  acknowledge  the  notice  to  agree  in  our  dates,  if  the  date  ofthia 

taken  by  Y.  D.  p.  1S3,  of  my  Let-  crfat  event  could  be  mutually  adjusted, 

ter,  p.  1 1 ,  on  the  Reconciliation  of  1  had  no  idea  that  any  *'  censure"  was 

Chinese  and  European  Dates,  which,  conveyed  in  this  idea,  or  that  the  earlier 

on  leconsideraiion,  I  do  not  agree  to  history  given  by  Moses  was  apparently 

correct  agreeably  to  his  sugj^estion;  for  doubted  :  If  1  ilate  the  history  of  my 

though  I  nerfectly  acree  with  him,  that  own  kingdom  from  the  authorities  of 

the  sacrea  Scriptures  are  our  authen-  English  historians,  an  equal  right  is 

tic  record,  ana  of  which,  all  that  I  scarcely  afforded  of  endeavouring  to  ftx' 

have  ever  learnt,  and  all  that  I  have  the  sra  of  the  Chinese  from  To-hi 

constantly. written,  afibrd  eminent,  and  after    the    Deluge ;     without    being 

to  me  satisfactory  proofs;  yet  I  can  chargeable  with  any  censure  of  the* 

scarcely  allow  that  there  was,  in  my  earlier  and   more  sacred   history,  bf ' 

Letter  oi  design,    an^  expression  so  Moses,  of  the  whole  creation.    And 

*'  nngoarded,"  or  which  can  fairly  be  besides,  as  it  is  well  known  that  Ch^ 

deemed  "to  call  in  question  the  Di-  Chinese  errors,  or  traditions  of  facta 

vine  Inspiration   of  the  Scriptures;'*  and  dates,  were  such  as  to  be  hopelcM 

a  sobject  on  which  I  have  ever  retain*  of  all  reconciliation   with    European 

ed  a  becoming  reverence,  and  which  I  dates,  it  would  have  been  a  waste  oC 

have  defended  against  those  who  who  time  to  suggest  any  epoch  earlier  than 

suggested  the  contrary:    and  in  this  that  of  the  Deluge,  because  of  that 

sentiment!  carry  my  tenacity  further,  fact  we  are  all  agreed,  and  becaasathe 

perhaps,  than  others.     If  Y.  D.  will  sole  object  of  my  eflbrt  was  to  6x  one 

repenne  the  sentence  to  which  he  re-  date  for  all  nations ;  assuming,  indeut 

iess,  it  may  be  that  he  will  find  the  that  our   Bible  chronology  was  the 

word  *' propheticar*  used  in  coniunc-  best. 

tion  with  "  metaphorical,'*  as  relating        4.  A^in,  Y.  D.  has  mistaken  mjp 

to  oor  own  Scriptures.    To  the  cor-  observations   relative    to    the   Babel 

rectness  of  these  epithets  in  union.  Tower,  which   he  will  acknowledge 

there  can  scacely  be  an  objection,  as  on  reperusal  of  my  Letter,  and  alao  on 

almost  every  line  of  tliem  is  clothed  in  referring  to  the  new  vol.  of  A.  D.  1890, 

metaphor.      My  idea  is  apparent  in  of  L*Art  de  Verifier  les  Dates  i    by 

making  a  similar  application  to  the  which  he  will  sec,  that  in  ouoting  the 

sapred  Books  of  the  Chinese,  that  they  tradition  of  a  land-mark,  I  grouiided 

"may    likewise    have    metaphorical  my  remark  upon  that  of  the  lX>minicatt 

lerma;*'buthere  was  nothing  to  around  editors  of  that  celebrated  work,  wbicll 

a  charRe  that  they  were  classea  toge-  was  assuredly  a  far  more  innocent  luo- 

thcr ;  had  1  been  considering;  any  part  tive  for  the  building  than  what  Metes 

of  the  Koran,  1  might  ha«'e  (reely  ven-  had  assigned  to  it.     It  was,  and  is,  far 

tnred  to  apply  the  same  terms,  but  not  from  my  mind  to  suggest  that  Motes 

in  such  a  shape  as  to  seem  to  **  class  was  wrong,  or  to  presume  that  God 

the  wisdom,  nrobably  the  fraod,  of  took  unjust  vengeance !     In  using  the 

man,    with    the  Wisdom  of  God."  word  '*  innocent,"  1  meant  to  convey  a 

Y.  D.  recommends  that  they  should  kind  of  &niile  at  those  editors  convey* 

be  designated  liy  a  characteristic  ap*  iiig  such  a  motive,  when  we  knowl 

pellation,  or  a  distinctive  epithet;  but  from  Moses,  both  the  criminalidr aija 

ihefi  be  abould  have  furnished  one  of  its  consequent  vengeance;   but  i  ttill 

this  kind,  and  not  closed  his  observa-  venture  to  think,  ^ud  to  Ivo^^xVaXw^ 


9M  7%t  Itflf  oi  CtoU^e  0/ PAyiicioM.  [Mareh/: 

other  reader,  than  Y.  D.,  has  been  With  BaAiwn  aod  Goo&ifln,  tna  GfaAiwM^  • 
gifted  with  ao  keen  a  stock  of  ingenu-  »  ««*  Poeoek,  [Md  loeoek  t  - 

ity  upon  the  sentenbe  as  to  believe  that  And  JUcoek,  woABaneock,  ud  Bwkoek^ 

it  could  conrey  a  preference  of  those ;  Than  Barker  sad  Hawker,  to  lem  d  tboiit ; 
traditions,   or   of    those    Dominican  '      .     phthisick,  .J^i^^  * ' 

editor.  SlcmseWs,  to  the  history  of;  ^^r^'^T^^^^ 

***i,     1^'  t    .        .  r  %r   ¥A  •  And  du<4cr,  and  Baeoth  tad  Lam^  with  hk 

5.  To  dfc  last « sentence  of  Y.  D/s  f^oo^j  • 

Letter,   '«  Not  in    this  age,"    &c.  I  j^^d  BuUoek,  whose  ttenk,  of  n  pound  and' 

readily  subscribe  my  assent,  and  have  qoarter,  [cold  wmter. 

very  btely  been  eng;aged  in  the  renew-  •  !•  better  than  Lamb,  with  dry  bread  and 

ed  study  of  the  same  subject ;  but  I  ■  Should  you  find  ydnnelf  low,  ihould  your 

am  rather  at  a  loss  to  see  its  connection  stomach  decline,  [wine, 

with  the  endeavour  to  reconcile  these  Look  out  for  a  Dtictor,  who  lives  on  good 

^les;  A.  H.  ^or  many  there  are,  laige  fortonei  who 

make,  [take. 

^  Bt  giving  advice  they  themselves  would  not . 

.m        n  r>  Should  Soulima  roar— to  turn  foul  wind  to , 

The  Rotal  Collbgb  of  ^\f^  n^^^  ' 

rHYSICIAK'S.  Por  foul- wind  *s  an  ill- wind,  no  mortal  can 

*0  fitot  0f«x^r,  A  Zt  rix>^  AMfxfti.  Call  in  Doctor  North,  or  should  South  suit 

Man's  life  U  short.  Science  rather  longer,  „         you  best,  TH^L 

The  London  Doctors  make  both  stout  and  Yo°  T^;^}^?  point-and  consult  Doctor 

stroneer.  Should  the  wmd  prove  too  hot,  or  too  dry, 

-..  -   ,  you  must  icnow  [Doctor  <S!nou*/ 

"  Physicians  are  some  of  them  so  pleas-  wiiere  to  find  Doctor  Frost,  or  the  fiur 

ing  and  amformable  to  the  humour  of  the  Or  to  alter  your  habits  according  to  weather, 

patient,  as  they  press  not  the  true  cure  of  Consult  Doctors  ITmter  and  iSomer*  together. 

the  disease ;  and  some  others  are  so  regular  jf  ^^^^  y^^^  gj,  „j  cold  fito  of  ague  you 

in  proceeding  according  to  art,  for  the  dis-  ^y^^  j„^  [Aikin, 

^. ."  ^^  /"P**^  °°'  sufficiently  the  Seek  out  Doctor  Pain,  or  the  leam'd  Doctor, 

condition  of  the  patient.    Take  one  of  a  k  y^  ^^^  y^^  phthisis,  instead  of 

middle  temper;  or,  if  It  may  not  be  found  caurrh,  [%  Farre, 

in  one  man,  combine  two  of  either  sort ;  ^nd  the  means  of  reliefs  to  be  sought  from 

and  fwget  not  to  call  as  well  the  best  ac-  before  you  set  off.  to  travel  and  rout  it, 

^uainted  with  your  body,  as  the  best  reputed  j^^  ^^  Doctors  Paris  and  flWtoidaboutlt. 

of  for  hit  (acuity.  — Loao  Bacok.  Perhaps  they'll  prescribe  an  emulsion  or 
As  our  bane,  and  our  physic  the  same  earth  blister,  [Lister  s 

bestows,  [rose.  As  would  Doctors  Malon,  Macmiehad,  of 

And  near  to  the  nettle  we  find  blooms  the  Should  these  not  succeed,  and  their  remedies 
So,  here— when  the  leam'd  of  the  College  fail,  [HiU,  and  Dalkm 

you'd  try,  [you  die  t  Then  there's  ffarren  and  Htatk%  wish  MWd, 

As  you  choose  a  good  Doctor — yoa  live^r  Besides  Doctors  Frank,  Bliss,  Bland,  Hlstt 
If  you  get  but  a  true  one,  boM,  orthodox,.  Bett,  and  Hope,  [and  Pope* 

]mte,  [work  a  cure.  With  Church  and  thePorjont,  Dean,  Bishops 

Though  he  work  well  your  pocket,  lie'U  suri(  Should  the  n«ii'  U%htt  affect  you — -your  mind 
Since  to  aave  or  to  slay,  all  a  full  licence  being  gone,  \pt  John? 

claim.  Who  so  like  to  restore  it  as  Mark,  Lukei 

And  for  killing  or  curing  the  fee  is  tlie  same.  Is  it  bracing  you  want,  for  complaints  they 
It  may  not  be  amiss  to  depict  the  leam'd  call  nervous  ?  [preserve  us) 

quorum,  ['*  utrum  horum."  (From  which  and  the  plague,  kind  heaven 

Then  the  siek  and  the  ailing — may  pick —  Are  the  vapours  afflicting  your  wives  or  your 
Ev'ry  sort  they  will  find,  each  color,  each  daughters  ?  [and  H^aiert, 

kind.  Then  seek  Doctor  Steele,  Doctors  Buxton, 

As  varied  in  person,  as  varied  in  mind —  Having  giv'n  a  clue  to  this  Medical  station. 

With  their  sixes  and   qualities,  thus  we'll  Witli  a  list  of  the  learned  who  physic  the 

begin —  [Doctor  Thyrme,  nation. 

Doctor  ^ori.  Doctor  SnuiU,  Doctor  Bigg,  Perhaps,  being  titled  yourself,  you  require 

Doctor  Long^  Doctor  Short,  and  Doctor  A  Doctor  with  rank  above  an  Esquire : 

Askew,  [Doctor  ffue—  Then  seek  Haffard  the  Preses,  whose  clas- 

Doctor  Black,   Doctor  While,   and  e'en  sical  knowledge  [Colleca. 

Doctor  Brown,  Doctor  Grey,  and  some  who  Bespeaks  him  as  worthy  the  chair  of  uia 

look  blue  s  If  experience  you  seek— call  sage  Gilbert 
Doctor  Tdto-hf  bright^  and  light  Doctor  BUme, 

'  Green  ;  [Mae-Queen.  Whd  yon'd  take  for  the  father  of  Hamlel  the 

Doaior  Prince,  Doctor  King,  and  Doctor  Dane,  i 


18970  Nbw  Churcbbs. — Si.  John*$,  Hoxton,  309 

Or  the  fioher  of  physic — should  jou  judge  faced  with  fttone,  and  contains  two  at* 

bj  his  look,  [a  book,  tached  columns  of  the  Ionic  order ;  the 

X)r  his  words  as  they  come — like  words  from  shafts  are  fluted,  and  the  capitals  are 

With  any  or  ell  of  such  men  M  I've  nam'd,  from  Grecian  examples.    Between  the 

fake  the  oldest  or  youngest  they  re  all  of  columns    is    a    doorway   bounded   by 

i<  n        v^  *™i.«   »»    V    r  J  an  architrave.    Above  this  is  a  win- 

Wnin"^^  •€.•»«•  and  j^^^^^  corresponding  character.  The 

And  the ''modu'smedendi"  acutely  disilml  f.^"«  Y<>'^   "j   marked    by  horizontal 

Leaves  us  only  to  wonder,  that  with  Doctors  ''""»  the  modern  substitute  for  rustic 

so  clever,  work.     The  remaining  two  divisions 

His  Majesty's  subjects  don't  live.  Sir,  for  contain  four  windows  in  two  series : 

ever.  W.  W.  the   lower  are    slightly    arched,    and 

^  bounded  by  stone  architraves;  the  up- 

NEW  CHURCHES.— No.  XI.  P?''  ^*^»^(l  F'**  ^"^"^  *,P*»'*P  ^"* 

e      T        »    tf^  rT  of  Stone  dividinc  the  elevation   into 

St.  John  s  Church,  Hoxton.  ^^^  ^,j„^  ^„  ,«„g^  ^.^^^  aemicircu- 

Jrckiieci,  Edwards.  .  Uir  heads,  and  are  destitute  of  archi- 

IT  is  pleasins;  to  witness  the  erection  iraves.    The  divisions,  as  well  as  the 

of  new  Churches  in   neighbour*  angles  of  the  buildings,  are  guarded 

hoods  in  which,  at  the  same  time  that  by  antse ;  an  entablature  and  parapet 

great   noise  is    eternally  made  ubout  m>ken  above  the  central  division  fi" 

the   *' spread   of  the  Gotfpel,"  every  nish  the  elevation.    A  flight  of  steiit 

obstacle  is  raised  to  impede  the  ex-  of  eoual  height  with  the  stone  pikith 

ertionsof  the  members  of  the  Establish-  whicn    surrounds    the    building,    an 

nient  in  disseminating  rational  piety  '  placed  in  front  of  the  doorway, 
and   sound  religion.     It  is.  the  more        The  tooth  side,  seen  in  the  view,  it 

pleasing    to  witness    such    Churches  made  hy  antse  into  three  divisions^  tht 

when  built,  attended  by  numerous  and  centre  considerably  larger  than  the  h/^ 

respectable  tongfegations*   and   when  teral  ones,   and  tne  whole  is  again  dU 

such  an  etrent  occurs  it  ought  to  be  vided  into  two  stories  by  a  plain  coarse 

hailed  as  a  triumph    of    intellectual  of  stone  corresponding  with  the  west 

religion  and  good  sense  over  cant  and  front.    The  central  division  contains 

fanaticism .  two  series  of  windows  of  the  same  cha- 

The  Church,  which  forms  the  first  racter  as  those  which  occnpy  the  la- 
subject  in  the  accompanying  engrav-  teral  divisions  of  the  w?st  front.  In 
ing  ftee  Plate  II.)  has  been  erected  each  of  the  smaller  divisions  is  a  door- 
by  the  Commissioners  in  a  piece  of  way  bounded  by  an  architrave  of  stone 
ground  at  the  soath*east  extremity  of  and  finished  by  a  cornice.  Above  this 
the  New  North  Road,  for  the  inha-  is  a  window,  the  circular  head  of 
bitants  of  this  ancient  hamlet,  which,  which  is  bounded  hy  an  architrave 
although  it  once  had  a  market,  was  resting  on  an  impost  moulding.  The 
until  very  lately  destitute  of  a  Church,  elevation  finishes  with  the  entablature 
It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  want  of  and  parapet  continued  from  the  wesit 
a  spirit  of  liberality  in  the  parish  has  front,  and  brought  out  above  the  late- 
not  allowed  of  a  more  splendid  build-  ral  divisions. 

ing,  for,  if  the  steeple  were  taken  away.  The  east  front  is  also  in  three  divi- 
it  would  present  in  all  its  features  the  sions,  the  central  projecting.  It  con- 
appearance  of  a  large  meeting-house,  tains  the  eastern  window,  and  one  be* 
— a  circumstance,  however,  which  may  neath,  which,  singularly  enough,  is 
have  the  effect  of  rendering  the  new  not  seen  from  the  interior.  Trie  ge- 
building  less  odious  in  the  eyes  of  many  neral  architectural  character  of  this 
of  the  Hoxton  people,  than  if  it  had  a  front  is  the  same  as  descrihecf.  In 
more  decided  Church-like  character.  the  north  front  the  *  entabhlture  and 

Theview  here  given  shews  the  whold  other  archhectural  ornamehts  reqni- 

of  the  south  side  and  the  western  front  site  to*  render  it  correspondent  with 

of  the  edifice^  and  when  it  is  added,  the  southern,  are  omitted  In  the  cen- 

that  the  walls  are  built  of  brick,  it  tre  division;  the  elevation  in  conse- 

will    be    seen     that   the     tneetimj-'  quence    shews    a   plain   brrck    wall, 

hoose  clUnicter  I  have  given  to  it  i»  with  windows  in  nomber  and  form 

strictly   eoivect    The  western    front  resembling  the  opposite  front  of  the 

it  in  three  dWisiont.*  The  central  is;  building,   but   destitute  even  of  (be 

GiNT.Mio.  Mareht  1897.  ixiveriy  of  decorailou  YiV\VLVv\\^\>atftTv 

3 


910 


New  Cbvrcues.'^SU  John's,  Hoxton, 


I.Marcb> 


bestowed  upon  that  portion.  The  roof 
is  slated,  and  rises  to  a  ridge  consi- 
derably above  the  parapet,  in  the  true 
meeting-house  style. 

The  steeple  may  be  considered  as  a 
redeeming  feature.  The  defects,  how- 
ever, it  IS  but  fair  to  add,  are  not 
chargeable  on  the  architect;  on  the 
contrary,  great  praise  is  due  to  him 
for  doing  what  he  has  done.  It  is 
the  pitiful  spirit  of  parsimony  on  the 
part  of  the  parish  which  alone  de- 
serves reproof.  The  steeple  rises  in 
three  stories  in  the  centre  of  the 
western  end  of  the  building.  The  first 
story  is  square,  the  angles  strengthened 
by  buttresses,  and  eacn  face  is  pierced 
by  a  window,  which,  however,  differs 
from  the  majority  of  those  in  the 
Church,  inasmuch  as  it  is  lintelled, 
and,  like  the  windows  in  Grecian 
buildings,  is  in  the  form  of  a  trun- 
cated pyramid.  It  is  surrounded  by  an 
architrave.  The  next  story  takes  a  cir- 
cular form,  and  consists  of  a  plinth 
which  has  four  tablets  corresponding 
with  the  sides  of  the  square  basement, 
to  receive  the  clock  dials,  when  the  libe* 
rality  of  the  parish  may  bestow  such  an 
adjunct  upon  the  tower;  and  it  sup- 
ports a  circular  story  enriched  with  eignt 
antse  sustaining  an  entablature  and 
parapet;  the  frieze  enriched  with  chap- 
lets  of  myrtle,  anc]  the  cornice   with 

>  Grecian  tiles.  The  spaces  between 
the  ants  are  pierced  with  semicircular 
headed  windows.  A  graduated  plinth 
sustains  the  next  story,  which  is  also 
circular,  with  eight  coupled  Ionic  co- 
lumns placed  at  intervals  corresponding 
with  the  angles  of  the  square  base- 
ment, and  sustaining  the  entablature 
of  the  order  brought  out  above  each 
pair  of  the  columns ;  the  elevation  is 
/crowned  with  a  hemispherical  cupola, 
on  the  apex  of  which  is  a  Corinthian 
capital  sustaining  a  small  giU  cross. 
The  steeple,  upon  the  whole,  pos- 
sesses great  merit;  it  is  well  shewn  in 
the  enzraving,  and,  whatever  mav  be 
the  detects  of  the  building,  it  will  be 
teen  that  they  are  not  to  be  charged 
on  the  architect,  who  has  shewn  by 
the  design  of  the  steeple  what  might 
have  been  done.  It  is  true  it  too  much  ' 
resembles  the    generality  of  modern 

,  steeples,  but  among  them  it  is  entitled 
to  tne  highest  rank ;  it  would  be  dif- 
ficult to  find  any  one  in  the  various 
new  Churches,  which,  for  symmetry 
in  the  proportioiWy  and  elegance  in  the 
design,  can  surptis  it. 


Thb  Interior 


will  not  occupy  long  in  the  descrip- 
tion. At  the  west  end  are  three  loo- 
bies, the  centre  forming  a  vestibule  to 
the  body  of  the  Church,  the  others 
containing  stairs  to  the  galleries,  and 
doorways  to  the  side  ailes.  Upou  en- 
tering the  bod)r  of  the  Church  the 
meeting-house  air  is  the  most  striking 
feature.  A  gallery  is  erected  along 
three  sides,  sustained  on  iron  columns, 
which  viewed,  in  connexion  with  the 
whitened  fronts  of  the  superstructure, 
have  nrodieiously  the  look  of  a  con- 
venticle. The  naked  walls  of  the  tower 
protruding  into  the  Churcli  in  con- 
sequence of  the  upper  part  of  the  side 
lobbies  being  occupied  by  galleries  for 
the  charity  children,  is  another  defor- 
mity. The  ceiling  is  slightly  curved 
at  its  sides;  it  rests  on  an  architrave, 
and  the  cove  is  furnished  with  a  cor- 
nice; all  the  remainder  is  flat,  and  with- 
out ornament,  except  a  small  space 
above  the  altar,  which  is  panelled.  The 
pulpit  and  reading  desk  are  similar  in 
design  and  dimensions,  according  to 
the  modern  practice ;  they  are  varnish- 
ed, to  imitate  oak,  and  have  nothing 
striking  in  their  appearance.  The  altar 
screen  is  composed  of  four  fluted  Ionic 
columns,  supporting  their  entabla- 
ture, above  which  is  a  square  frontis- 
piece, containing  a  broad  ornamental 
*  arch  surrounding  the  eastern  window, 
the  whole  being  executed  in  imitation 
of  veined  marble.  In  the  intercolour- 
ing  of  the  screen,  on  slabs  of  grey  vein- 
ed marble,  are  inscribed  the  command- 
ments, &c.  in  gilt  letters,  so  small  as  to 
require  a  very  near  view  to  be  able  to 
read  them.  A  small  portion  of  the 
ailes  is  parted  ofl'  at  tne  east  end,  at 
one  side  for  a  vestry,  at  the  other  for  a 
lobby.  A  temporary  organ  is  set  up 
in  the  western  gallery.  On  the  archi- 
trave beneath  is  the  following  inscrip- 
tion: "This  Church  was  built  by  his 
Majesty's  Commissioners,  and  conse- 
crated by  William  Lord  Bishop  of 
London,  to  the  service  of  Almighty 
God,  on  the22d  of  June,  A.D.  1826;^' 
with  the  names  of  the  Vicar  and 
Churchwardens. 

Theestimatedexpensepf  this  Church 
is  stated  in  the  reports  of  the  Commis- 
sioners to  be  14,600/.  and  the  congre- 
gation accommodated  are  in  the  same 
authority  said  to  be  1,73S,  but  the 
actual  number'  I  should  judge  to  be 
greater. 


] 


Si.  BanuiJM  Chapel,  Si.  Luke's,  MMIuex. 


St.  Barnaras's  Chapel, 

^ftVARB,  St.  Luxe,  Old-strbbt. 

Archiieci,  Hardwick, 

immense  delay  has  occurred  be- 
the  coinplelion  Rnd  consecra- 
P  this  Chapel.  The  erection  of 
/harches  was  perhaps  an  anwel- 
•object  with  the  worthies  com- 
;  the  vestry  of  this  populous  pa- 
ri which  the  W s  and  select 

nen  have  become  as  important  io 
slves,  as  the  Demagogue  (whose 
t  it  was  to  be  of  the  same  name 
ittiochial Cicero,) and  hisMiddle- 
eholders  ever  were.  The  present 
Commissioners  was  not,  I  fear,  re- 
with  much  thankfulness  by  these 
,  though  1  cannot  suppose  they 
i  to  make  an  expression  of  ^ra- 
to   the  donors  for  assimilatmg 
ructure,    as    far  as   appearance 
to  their  favourite  conventicles. 
west   front,  ranging  with  the 
forming  the  east  side  of  King- 
,   IB    the   only   portion  of    the 
ig    visible,    and    this  elevation 
the  second  subject  in  the  en- 
|.    It  will  be  seen  that  the  cen- 
'ttion  is  recessed  and  fronted  by 
Oman  Ionic  columns  sustaining 
»blature  of  the  order,  and  rest- 
on  a  flight  of  steps.    The  late- 
vions,  which  are  brick,  contain 
riodows,   as  if  Churches  were 
like  private  houses  for  the  en- 
It  of  light  and  air.    The  upright 
>hcd  with  a  frieze  and  cornice 
parapet,  the  portion  of  which  is 
ibe  central  division  having  a  ba- 
ft.   Immediately  at  the  back  of 
lie  pillars  are  others  of  a  square 
he  intention  of  which  secondary 
ten  is  to  uphold  the  superincum- 
aU  with  its  spire,  wbich,  curtailed 
i  of  fair  proportions,   required 
upport,  the  four  columns  only 
log  the  balustrade.    In  the  cen- 
ihe  wall,  at  the  back  of  the  re- 
ao  entrance  to  the^  body  of  the 
p  and  there  are  two  other  en- 
io  the  side  walls  opening  into 
,    which    contain    the    gallery 
nd  entrances  to  the  ailes.    The 
auare  tower,  with  its  diniinu- 
ire,  a  portion  of  which  at  the 
art  of  nieial,  upon   the  whole 
ling  a   lengthened   mile-stone, 
ficienily  made  out  in  the  view 
er  a  detailed  description  onne- 
:  were  there  an^  thing  either  in 
sign  or  embellishments  worthy 


til 

of  critidtm.  These  are  the  chief  fea- 
I  urea  of  the  western  front.  The  north 
and  south  sides  are  uniform,  and,  with 
the  exception  of  the  first  division,  in 
each  of  which  is  a  repetition  of  the  la- 
teral portions  of  the  west  front,  are  mere 
brick  walls  pierced  with  two  series  of 
arched  windows,  and  finished  with  ' 
a  dwelling-house  coping.  The  east 
end  is  of  the  same  character ;  in  the 
centre  it  a  semi-octagon  projection 
brought  out  for  the  altar,  the  extreme 
wall  of  which  contains  a  window. 

The  Interior, 

like  the  last  described  building,  has 
more  the  air  of  a  conventicle  than 
a  Chapel  of  the  Establishment.  A 
gallery  sustained  by  slender  iron  co- 
lumns occupies  the  south-west  and 
north  sides  of  the  building.  The  stone* 
colour  tint  thrown  over  the  walls,  with 
the  plain  gallery  fronts,  all  have  a  cold 
meeting-house  appearance,  and  indeed 
there  is  nothing  in  the  interior  to  induce 
a  contrary  idea.  The  aliar  is  formed  of 
four  pilasters,  with  an  architrave  and 
cornice,  in  imitation  of  veined  marble^ 
between  which,  on  dark  red  pannelt^ 
are  the  commandments,  &c.  and  above 
this  a  large  uncomfortable  looking  win- 
dow. Tne  ceiling  is  quite  flat,  and 
is  entirely  surrounded  with  a  border, 
enriched  with  a  scries  of  square  pan- 
nels;  the  remainder  being  entirely  des- 
titute of  ornament.  The  pulpit  and 
reading-desk  differ  in  form  and  height, 
a  circumstance  worthy  of  notice,  as  it 
forms  an  exception  to  the  absurd  prac- 
tice of  setting  up  two  pulpits.  In  the 
western-  gallery  is  a  small  temporary 
organ. 

The  first  stone  was  laid  so  long  since 
as  the  27th  of  Jan.  1822,  and  the  Cha- 
pel was  not  consecrated  until  the  12ih 
of  June,  1826.  The  estimate  in  the 
Commissioners  reports  is  stated  to  be 
15,065/.  13 J.  3d.  but  which  must  have 
been  far  above  the  actual  cost  of  the 
edifice,  and  the  number  accommodated 
is  16O8.  H.  I.  C. 

Mr.  Urran,  Feb.  14. 

I  AM  much  gratified  by  hearing  that 
my  observations  on  the  subject 
of  inscribing  the  Commandments  at 
the  altars  of  parish  Churches  should 
have  met  with  attention  in  a  quarter 
in  which  they  are  likely  to  further  the 
object  with  which  they  were  made, 
and  I  now  hope  that,  if  the  practice  i» 
not  altogether  disconlluutdy  \x  vt'^dX  iX 


319       On  ih€  CoamUkdrnMi,  Sse.  Mng  )pui  u^  iw  Ckult6kei.        [Uaicb, 


leatt  be  diapenied  with  In  cases  whefe 
the  exercise  of  it  teiuis  to  injare  or  dis- 
parage a  building. 

Bat  before  1  proceed  to  reply  nnore 
immediately  to  tbe  subject  of  your 
Correspondent's  letter  (Suppl.  p.  688) 
il  will  be  necessary  to  call  your  atten- 
tion to  the  canon  m  question,  which 
I  agree  with  "  A  Looker  On,'  has  cer- 
tainly become  obsolete,  if  it  has  not, 
as  1  think  I  shall  be  able  to  shew, 
been  entirely  abrogated.  The  82(1 
canon  enjoins  three  things  to  be 
observed ;  1st,  that,  the  communion 
table  shall  be  provided  with  a  de- 
cent covering,  and  be  so  placed  at 
the  time  of  administration,  that  the 
congregation  may  hear,  &c.  ;  Snd. 
that  the  ten  commandments  be  set  up 
at  the  east  end  of  eveiy  Church  and 
Chapel,  where  the  people  may  best  tee 
and  read  the  same,  and  other  chosen 
sentences  written  upon  the  walls  of  the 
buildings ;  and  lastly,  that  a  convenient 
seat  be  made  for  the  minister  to  read 
service  in.  Having  shewn  then  what 
the  canon  actually  directs,  I  now  pro- 
ceed to  the  mode  in  which  it  is  ob- 
served at  the  present  day,  and  which 
being  sanctioned  h^  authority,  must 
lead  to  the  conclusion  that  the  canon 
is,  with  the  exception  of  the  last- 
mentioned  regulation,  virtually  ab- 
rogated. 

At  the  passing  of  the  canon  the  com- 
munion table  was  evidently  moveable, 
and,  except  at  the  time  of  the  administra- 
tion, itstood  in  any  corneroftheChtirch, 
by  chance  perhaps  in  the  place  of  the 
ancient  altar,  and  was  moved  out  and 
set  in  the  middle  of  the  buildin)^  when 
the  congregation  were  to  receive  the 
sacrament.  This  indecent  practice 
succeeded  the  destruction  of  the  altars, 
in  consequence  of  the  prejudices  of  the 
fanatical  Bishop  Hooper,  and  the  table 
was  not  at  the  passing  of  the  canon,  nor 
until  long  af\er,  restored  to  its  proper 
place,  as  we  find  one  of  the  charges 
made  by  the  puritans  against  the  mar- 
tyred Laud,  was  his  directing  the  al- 
tar to  be  placed  at  the  east  end  of  the 
Church  within  the  railing;  and  in  the 
want  spirit  the  puritanical  Parliament 
of  that  day  ordered  the  table  of  St. 
Margaret's  Church  to  be  moved  from 
the  east  end  to  the  middle  aile.  At 
length,  when  the  reaction  in  the  af- 


fairs of  the  Chntoh  testored  the  alur, 
and  sc^  it  up  in  its  proper  station, 
the  moveable  communion-table  was 
disused  * ;  It  is  true  the  stationary 
altars  in  most  instances  still  continue 
to  be  made  of  wood  ^  but,  as  in  se- 
veral Churches  altars  of  stone  have 
been  raised,  and  the  covering  dispensed 
with,  and  that  under  the  sanction  of 
authority,  the  first  branch  of  the  ca« 
non  has  ceased  to  be  regarded  either 
in  law  or  practice. 

I  have  extended  these  preliminary 
observations  to  this  length,  to  shew  that 
the  canon  contemplates  no  necessary 
connexion  between  the  altar  and  the 
inscriptions.  I  now  come  to  the  more 
immediate  answer  to  your  Correspond- 
ent, viz.  that  which  relates  to  the  Com- 
mandments, and  we  find  that  they  are 
to  be  set  up  at  the  east  end  of  all  Ch  urehes 
and  Chapels.  Now  any  one  conversant 
with  the  formation  of  ancient  Churches 
must  be  aware  that  the  canon  in 
this  regard  has  no  where  been  com- 
plied with,  either  at  the  present  day, 
or  in  any  Church  built  in  the  last 
century,^ t  being  the  universal  prac- 
tice to  inscribe  these  subjects  over 
the  altar  at  the  east  end,  not  of  the 
Church,  but  the  Chancel.    That  this 

firactice,  is  in  direct  opposition  to  the 
etter  of  the  canon,  may  be  seen  by  vi- 
siting some  old  Churches.  As  a  spe- 
cimen near  home,  I  can  instance  Lam- 
beth, in  which  the  Commandments 
still  retain  their  pristine  situation  in 
the  wall  immediately  above  the  arch 
which  separates  the  Church  from  the 
Chancel,  although  in  more  modem 
times  a  second  set  of  inscriptions  have 
been  added  at  the  eastern  end  of  the 
chancel.  In  this  instance  the  cation 
has  been  literally  complied  with.  The 
ten  commandments  have  been  set  up 
at  the  east  end  of  the  Church,  "  and 
where  the  people  might  best  see  and 
read  the  same,**  and  not  placed  in  a 
situation  where  they  are  generally 
hid  from  view  by  the  pulpit,  reading- 
desk,  and  in  many  instances  by  a  pon- 
derous stove  in  the  middle  aile. 

It  being  seen,  then,  that  the  canon  has 
been  completely  altered,  and  in  modern 
times  never  observed  according  to  its 
letter,  1  shall  proceed  to  shew  that  it  has 
never  been  strictly  enforced  in  any. 
Though  the  canon  exempu  no  descrip- 


*  The  old  table  which  itaads  beoeath  the  organ  gallery  at  St.  Saviour's  is,  I  ap* 
prehend,  the  ancient  moveable  table,  and  that  it  stood  in  the  same  placej  being  op- 
posite the  font,  at  all  times  when  not  required  for  the  sacrament. 


I 


Jl8t74         ^ ^ C^wmandmenit, 4c« Uimg  jmiupln  Chutcket. 


813 


tioQ  of  Chorchct  or  Chapels  frotti  iu 
operation.  Cathedrals  have  never  been 
eonsidered  subjecl  to  it;  neither  has 
the  Collegiate  Chureh  of  St.  Peter, 
Westminster;  nor  the  Parochial,  as 
well  as  Collegiate  Church  of  St.  Ka- 
therine  by  the  Tower  (the  sacrilegious 
destruction  of  which  we  have  already 
deplored).  The  consecrated  and  ex« 
tra  Parochial  Chapel  of  LincolnVinn 
it  also  an  exception,  as  well  as  many 
other  Chapels.  In  these  Churches 
and  Chapels,  then,  the  Command- 
ments have  been  omitted.  In  many 
others,  and  in  nearly  every  pne  of  the 
new  Churches,  it  is  complied  with  in 
a  manner  which  amounts  to  an  eva- 
sion. At  this  period  it  is  but  right  to 
inform  yonr  Correspondent  that  among 
the  Churches  alluded  to  in  the  descrip- 
tion of  Chelsea  Church,  I  can  enume- 
rate at  present  St.  Margaret's,  Westmin- 
ster, and  St.  Bride's,  and  Sl  Georse's, 
Camberwell.  In  the  first  of  these 
Churches,  the  centre    of  the  altar- 

e'ece  is  occupied  by  a  relief  of  the 
[eeting  at  Emmaus, — the  only  thing 
that  can  be  seen  by  the  congregation ; 
the  decalogue  is  inscribed  on  the 
southern  wall,  and  consequently  could 
not  be  seen  by  half  of  the  congrega- 
tion, if  no  other  impediment  interven- 
ed. The  letters  are  gold  on  a  white 
ground.  In  the  other  two  Churches 
named,  the  subjects  are  inscribed  on 
sbbs  of  veined  marble;  and  in  Hox- 
too  Church  (vide  p.  210,  in  the  pre- 
sent number),  the  same  obscure  prac- 
tise has  been  adopted.  In  all  these  in- 
stances the  inscriptions  may  iiKleed  be 
seen  if  looked  for,  but  are  destitute  of 
thatconspicuousness  which  was  the  ob- 
ject for  which  the  canon  was  framed. 
The  same  sentence  which  directs  the 
inscription  of  the  (Commandments  also 
directs  that  Scriptural  sentences  should 
be  written  on  the  walls.  If,  therefore, 
the  canon  is  quoted  as  an  authority 
for  on3  set  of  inscriptions,  I  would  ask 
by  what  authority  is  this  part  of  it  so 
totally  set  aside  and  disregarded?  It 
would,  I  believe,  be  difficult  to  point 
out  any  London  Church  in  which  the 
latter  practice  exists.  As,  therefore, 
the  canon  in  question  has  in  one  re- 
spect been  altered  bv  the  sanction  of 
authority,  in  another  oy  custom,  appa- 
rently unauthorized ;  as  it  has  never 
been  strictly  enforced  at  any  time ;  as 
a  mere  compliance  with  the  letter  of 
if  is  held  sufficient,  and  one  of  its 
enactments  being  totally  disregarded— I 


think  it  is  not  going  too  far  to  lay  that 
it  is  by  the  higher  authorities  deemod 
to  have  been  abrogated.  It  is  well 
known  that  the  canons  have  never  re- 
ceived the  sanction  of  the  legislature, 
and  are  therefore  not  binding;;  bo# 
then  can  the  observance  of  this  obso- 
lete canon  be  enforced,  if  the  Church 
Committee  of  Chelsea  (as  I  sincerely 
hope  and  trust  for  the  sake  of  good 
taste  they  will)  should  omit  to  set  op 
the  inscnptions  in  the  new  Chureh. 
To  any  one  who  can  in  the  least  ad- 
mire the  beautiful  niche  and  stall- 
work  which  composes  an  ancient 
altar-screen,  and  which  has  been 
successfully  imitated  at  Chelsea,  how 
painful  must  it  be  to  see  such  an 
object  defaced  by  additions  founded 
on  a  law  dictated  by  the  spirit  of 
Puritanism,  and  now  only  held  up  by 
custom.  When  I  saw  the  splen- 
did altar-screen  of  Sl.  Alban's  Abbey, 
it  was  undefaced  by  any  inscription. 
I  have  since  learnt  that  the  command- 
menu,  &c.  have  been  affixed  to  it,  and 
I  have  moreover  heard  that  this  magni- 
ficent screen  was  thus  defaced  by  the 
command  of  a  high  authority.  I 
cannot  give  credence,  however,  to  the 
report.  It  would  indeed  be  painful  to 
believe  that  this  unrivalled  piece  of 
workmanship  should  have  escaped  the 
tender  mercies  of  the  destroyers  of  Po- 
pery in  the  first  years  of  the  Reforma- 
tion, and  have  suffered  so  little  from 
the  canting  hypocrites  of  the  (Com- 
monwealth ;  and  after  all  to  be  defaced 
by  the  command  of  an  enlightened 
living  dienitary  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land. No,  I  cannot  but  reject  the 
idea,  that    the    alteration   has  taken 

Clace.  1  know  from  good  authority, 
ut  1  cannot  l)elieve  so  barbarous  an 
action  could  have  originated  in  the 
quarter  to  which  I  have  heard  it  at- 
tributed. To  return,  however,  to  the 
building  in  question;  1  cannot  help  ex- 
pressing my  satisfaction  that  the  in- 
scriptions are  not  yet  set  up  in  Chel- 
sea Church,  and  let  me,  through  the 
medium  of  your  pages,  eamesuy  en- 
treat the  enlightens  Church  Com- 
mittee of  that  parish,  to  prevent  their 
ever  occupying  a  station  in  which  they 
will  be  of  no  service,  but  to  deface  a 
splendid  piece  of  workmanship,  and 
that  only  for  the  sake  of  observing 
an  useless  custom,  fbnnded  on  a  law 
which  could  never  be  enforced,  if  it 
has  not  long  fiillen  into  desuetude.  If 
the  omisaioo  X%  made,  no  notice  is 


S>4 


Oil  ih§  PoUcff  of  rejecting  the  Jpocrypkeu  [Mardi, 


likely  to  be  taken  of  it;  the  distin- 
euished  Prelate,  who  is  at  the  head  of 
Uie  diocese,  will  never  deem  it  neces- 
sary to  enforce  a  law,  which,  if  it  were 
of  any  avail,  would  in  this  instance 
only  effect  an  action  worthy  alone 
of  a  Richard  Culmer*,  or  a  Praise 
Ood  Barebones. 

It  is  very  questionable,  even  allow- 
ing the  canons  to  have  the  force  of  an 
Act  of  Parliament,  which  they  have 
not,  whose  duty  it  is  to  affix  these  Com- 
mandments. According  to  a  compen- 
dium of  the  duty  of  Churchwardens, 
drawn  up  by  the  present  Bishop  of 
Chester,  when  Archdeacon  Blomneld, 
(vide  vol.  xcii.  i.  p.  220),  it  is  part  of 
the  oath  of  a  Churchwarden  to  see 
that  the  Commandmenu  are  set  up. 
Now,  with  the  profoundest  respect  for 
the  high  authority  I  have  quoted,  I 
must  beg  to  differ  from  this  construc- 
tion of  the  law.  If  the  Churchwarden's 
oath  goes  to  the  length  his  Lordship 
supposes  it  does,  then  every  one  who 
taKes  such  an  oath  incurs  an  awful  re- 
sponsibility, as  it  is  equally  obligatory 
on  him  to  see  the  sentences  tofitlen  on 
the  walls f  and  it  is  further  to  be  observ- 
ed that  so  sacred  a  matter  as  an  oath 
ought  to  bestrictiv  performed,  and  this 
is  not  done  by  afnxmg  the  inscriptions 
in  question  to  the  east  end  of  the  Chan" 
eel  when  that  part  of  the  Church  is 
the  situation  iu  which  this  ought  to  be 
placed,  and  neither  is  the  letter  or  spi- 
rit of  the  oach  observed,  if  the  subjects 
are  not  so  inscribed  as  to  be  distinctly 
seen  by  the  congregation.  If  I  am 
wrong,  and  the  oath  actually  goes 
so  far,  I  should  hope,  for  the  ho- 
nour of  the  country,  that  this  unneces- 
sary swearing  and  simulation  of  truth 
will  be  in  future  dispensed  with. 

I  forbear  to  trespass  longer  on 
your  pages,  which  I  fear  I  have  al- 
ready too  much  occupied  with  a  sub- 
ject of  a  local  nature.  When  1  can 
find  any  other  instances  to  further 
satisfy  your  Correspondent,  I  will 
communicate  them. 

Yours,  &c.  E.  I.e. 

Mr.  Urban,  Fel\  26. 

AT  that  self-supposed  Goliah,  Pres- 
byter ORTHODOXUS,f    who  SO 

proudly  shakes  his  spear  against  "  the 
puny  Theologians  of^  the  present  day,** 

*  Blue  Dick,  vide  Goeding'i  Csnterbnry. 
t*  See  No.  for  Jaauary,  ISSTy  p.  99,  &c. 


I  will,  with  your  permisabn,  sling 
only  one  smooth  stone,  and  then  re- 
tire from  the .  arena  of  dispute  respect- 
ing the  Apocrypha.  However  inferior 
to  liim  iu  talent,  I  will  not  acknow- 
led^  myself  to  be  so  in  Orthodoxy. 
Neither  will  I  thank  him  for  that 
<<  paraded  '*  information,  which,  from 
the  plenitude  of  his  gigantic  mind,  he 
has  condescended  to  impart  concerning 
various  matters  appertaining  to  this 
subject;  because,  with  them  I  was 
already  acquainted,  I  have  said,  "  I 
will  retire  from  the  arena  of  dispute." 
Hea\'en  knows  I  have  never  before 
entered  it;  and  if  P.  O.  will  please  to 
refer  to  my  letter,  he  will  tnere  see 
that,  "into"  neither  of  the  "two" 
errors  have  I  fallen,  which  he  cen* 
sures ;  for  there  is  not  a  word  in  that 
letter  that  implies  my  credence  of  *'  the 
Apocrypha  as  a  whole,  in  all  its  parts," 
possessing  "  equal  authority.*'  I  mere- 
ly "  entered  my  veto  against  a  precipi- 
tate rejectionof  the  Apocryphal  books, 
on  account  of  their  instructive  len- 
dencj  in  general,  and  of  the  useful 
application  that  is  made  of  their  aphor- 
istns  and  counsels  to  the  circumstances 
of  all  mankind;"  then  adding,  "they 
contain,  if  I  mistake  not,  more  claims 
to  a  divine  character  than  their   int- 

fugners  are  aware  of.'*  But,  Sir,  when 
wrote  thus,  I  did  not  think  of  ever 
being  charged  with  believing  the 
"  whole"  of  them  to  be  possessed  of  a 
divine  character.  If  P.  O.  insist  on 
pressing  the  pronoun  theu  into  Jiis  ser- 
vice, as  implying  this,  1  assure  him 
that  he  attaches  to  that  word  a  "  mean- 
ing never  meant  ;'*  for  no  one  would 
more  rejoice  than  myself  to  see,  dts- 
creetly  removed,  from  the  coi'erings  of 
the  really-inspired  Word,  every  ex- 
traneous and  doubtful  portion  that  may 
have  obtained  an  unauthorized  posses- 
sion there;  thus  separating  the  chafT 
from  the  wheat.  Yet,  in  these  re- 
forming, innovating  days,  when  so 
many  Uzziahs  are  obtruding  them- 
selves into  an  ofBce  not  their  own, 
and  so  many  meddling  Uzzas  are 
"  putting  forth  their  hands  to  lay  hold 
of  the  ark'*  of  the  living  God,  I 
deprecated  a  "precipitate'  sweeping 
r^ection  of  books,  with  whose  sacred 
or  relative  value  the  rejectors  do  not 
seem  to  be  completely  acquainted.  I 
adverted  only  to  one  chapter  in  the 
Apocrypha,  or  rather  to  two  verses 
only  in  that  chapter,  which  1  will 
here  again  transcribe,  introducing  each 


i82r.] 


fVetUffon  MethodisU.'^Phgiammi  m  Epitopht. 


«15 


of  them  by  its  parallel  passage,  from 
the  New  Testament.  Addressing  the 
Scribes  and  Pharisees,  our  blessed 
Lord  says,  "  Therefore  also,  said  the 
wisdom  of  God,  1  will  send  them  pro- 
phets and  apostles;  and  some  of  ihem 
ihey  will  slay  and  persecute ;  that  the 
blood  of  all  the  prophets,  which  was 
shed  from  the  foundation  of  the  world, 
may  be  required  of  this  generation.'* — 
Luke  xi.  49,  50. 

That  Christ  here  refers  to  tome 
sacred  authority  that  existed  anterior 
to  his  speaking  is  evident:  and  where, 
except  in  the  following  passage,  can 
O.  P.  fnd  that  authority?  ««i  sent 
unto  you  my  servants,  the  prophets; 
whom  ye  have  taken  and  slain,  &c. ; 
whose  blood  1  will  require  at  your 
hands,  saith  the  Lord.*'— '2.  Esaras, 
1.32. 

Christ,  the  divine  Logos,  (who,  by  . 
St.  Paul,  is  styled  «*  the  Wisdom  of 
God,")  quotes  the  above  words  in  a 
very  peculiar  manner;  i.e.  as  words 
dictated  by  his  Spirit ;  which  words 
the  writer  must  therefore  have  noted 
down,  while  under  the  influence  of 
plenary  inspiration. — See  the  corres- 
pondent passage  to  that  of  St.  Luke  in 
the  xxiii.  of  St.  Matihew,  where,  at 
the  3dth  verse,  occurs^  this  awful  de- 
claration, "  Behold !  your  house  is  left 
unto  vnu  desolate;*'  and,  it  is  very 
remaricable,  that,  in  the  same  chapter 
of  Esdras,  above  quoted,  this  corres- 
pondent declaration  should  be  found  : 
"Thus  saith  ihe  Almighty  Lord,  your 
house  is  desolate!'* — v.  S3. 

What  O.  P.  and  also  E.  1.  C.  are 

}>leased  to  think  respecting  my  having 
brmed  an  erroneously  partial  opinion 
of  the  W^esleyan  Methodists,  may  be 
true.  Should  it  prove  erroneous  I 
shall  be  sorry,  as  feeling  that  '*  cha- 
rity '*  to  be  anected  which  "  thinketh 
no  evil.'*  For  both  those  gentlemen 
may  rest  assured,  that  1  have  no  undue 
leaning  to  that  sect,  and  only  estimate 
its  political  principles  by  the  conduct 
which  actuated  its  members  through- 
out the  whole  of  those  "  troublous 
times,*'  when  the  very  existence  of 
every  thins  dear  to  Britons  was  me- 
naced by  me  late  tremendous  revolu^ 
tionary  war.  They  were  then  infl^- 
bly  loyal,  notwithstanding  the  emis- 
saries of  treason  and  sedition  were 
indefatigable  in  attempting  to  turn  the 
phydcal  strength  of  that  numerous 
body  againsu  the  Government  of  their 
country.     Nor,  as  a  body,  were  they 


then  chargeable  with  disrespectful. con- 
duct towards  the  Established  Church. 
For  the  misconduct  of  a  few  indivi« 
duals  among  them,  they  are  no  more 
amenable  than  is  the  Established  Re- 
ligion for  the  ravings  of  such  men  as 
the  reverend  leader  of  "  the  Christian 
Evidence  Society.'*  The  circumstance 
I  mentioned  in  my  statement,  taken  in 
conjunction  with  what  was  asserted  to 
have  occurred  elsewhere  (demonstra- 
tive of  a  wish  in  many  of  them  to 
return  to  the  Church)  appeared  to  me 
too  important  to  be  passed  over  in 
silence.  How  far  thai  conciliatory 
spirit  may  extend,  or  how  long  it  will 
last,  I  pretend  not  to  judge.  Should  , 
it  be  manifested  by  them  generally,  let 
us  not  return  them  hatred  for  their 
good-will.  By  their  fruits  we  shall 
know  them.  Clericus. 


Mr.  Urban,  Dec,  10. 

F)R  Mr.  Urban  still  lives  in  spite 
of  the  grim  tyrant's  wound,  his 
fatal  wound,  which  not  one  of  your 
numerous  corres|>ondents  more  feel- 
ingly or  affectionately  laments  than  the 
writer  who  now  addresses  you, — pray, 
allow  an  old,  a  very  old  corresponaent 
to  thank  SuuM  Cuique  for  publish- 
ing his  fair  exposure  of  plagiarism,  in 
Oct.  Mag.  p.  303.  Such  instances  as  that 
which  he  has  brought  forward  are  not 
very  uncommon  ;  so  it  is  to  be  wished 
that  their  being  detected  may  prevent 
a  practice  extremely  disgraceful  to 
literature.  An  instance  strikes  my 
memory  which  may,  in  some  degree, 
confirm  what  has  been  advanced,  and, 
whilst  it  supports  the  evident  inten- 
tion of  one  of  your  Correspondents^ 
may  possibly  keep  another  from  feel- 
ing  too  acutely,  by  shewing  that  such 
things  are  in  more  places  than  one. 
In  a  village  in  Buckinghamshire  I 
remember  to  have  read  on  the  marble 
monument  of  a  young  lady  the  follow- 
ing lines : — 

"  Releas'd,  blest  mud,  from  every  woe, 

Beyond  the  reach  of  pain : 
Thy  friends  one  coosoladon  know, 

Tis  meeting  thee  again. 

«  When  the  Archangel  calls  thee  forth. 

And  tools  and  bodies  join, 
What  crowds  will  with  their  time  on  earth 

Had  been  as  short  as  thine !" 

These  lines  were  placed  there  by  a 
Clergyman  who  claimed  to  be  their 
author^  (though  not  a  very  high  claim 
to  be  sure,)  and  some  years  a£te.tvi^x^\ 


%^6 


Oh  ik$  UamagtMQj  Fr^ihMmg  ChriHUau. 


mwA, 


1  saw  the  very  same  epiiaph,  with  » 
much  earlier  date  aunexed  to  it,  io 
aoother  church  in  the  vicinity  of  New- 
port Pagnell,  and  to  have  also  read  it 
in  a  publication  ascribed  to  an  eminent 
Dissenting  Minister ! 

Now,  Air.  Urban,  hj  what  word 
can  such  barefaced  plagiarism  be  de- 
scribed more  properly,  than  by  the 
epithet  impudent,  Ot  all  vanity,  per- 
haps, that  of  authorship  is  the  most 
tilly ;  but  to  pretend  to  be  the  writer 
of  another  man's  verses,  or  epitaph,  or 
essay,  can  only  be  equalled  m  ridicu* 
lous  impudence  by  that  of  an  old 
woman,  who,  under  some  name  very 
like  that  of  Pilkington,  about  thirty 
years  ago,  favoured  the  public  with  a 
volume  of  very  good  poems,  of  which 
common  fame  gave  her  the  credit  of 
being  the  writer,  but  common  justice 
denied  that  she  had  a  right  to  more 
than  about  some  half  dozen  lines. 
This  soi'duant  poetess,  having  confided 
her  manuscripts  to  the  inspection  of  a 
literary  friend  (an  old  Correspondent 
of  ^urs,  whose  letters  on  the  compa* 
rative  merits  of  Pope  and  Dryden  are 
not  readily  to  be  forgotten),  supplied 
him  with  an  anecdote  which  he  often 
related  with  much  glee;  for,  when  he 
found  amongst  them  a  copy  of  Beattie*s 
Minstrel,  and  naturally  expressed  his 
ntrpruef  the  lady  mistook  it  -for  admi- 
ration,  and  boldly  avowed  it  to  be  her 
own !  Mr.  W.  who  had  some* of  the 
irascibility  of  the  poet,  as  well  as  the 
vivacity  of  the  wit,  burst  out,  "  why 
Madam,  for  shame!  you  must  have 
stolen  this  from  Beaiiie  /"  *•  No  such 
thing.  Sir,'*  replied  the  would-be 
authoress.  "  If  Beattie  has  published 
any  poem  like  this,  he  must  have  stolen 
U  from  me  /"  Sexaoenarius. 

Mr.  Urban,  FeL,  7. 

PERMIT  me  to  make  a  few  obser- 
vations on  the  occurrences  which 
have  lately  taken  place  respecting  the 
marriage  of  what  ar«  called  Freethinko. 
ing  Dissenters.  They  assume,  that 
marriage  is  merely  a  civil  contract,  and 
therefore  ought  not  to  be  subjected  to 
a  religious,  ceremony.  Now  this  doo- 
trine  cannot  be  admitted  by  any  Chris- 
tian; for  Christ  himself,  referring  to  the 
original  institution  of  marriage  as  men- 
tioned by  Moset,  says,  "  What  there- 
fore Goa  bath  joined  together  let  not 
roan  put  asun((er"  (Matth.  ch.  xlx.  v. 
6),  plainly  intimatliig  that  this  is  a  re- 


ligious union,  not  merely  a  civil  con- 
tjcact.  Their  objection,  then,  must  be 
reduced  to  the  established  form  of  so- 
lemnisation, and  this  is  grounded  opon 
the  acknowledgment  of  the  Trinity 
therein  con fess«^d.  1 1  must  be  observra, 
however,  that  neither  of  the  parties 
make  any  profession  of  this  doctrine, 
except  in  the  express  words  of  Scrip- 
ture, when  the  man  aays,  "  with  all 
my  worldly  goods  I  thee  endow :  in 
the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost,**  which 
words  the  Unitarians  themselves  con- 
tend do  not  imply  the  doctrine  of  the 
Trinity,  and  therefore  the  bridegroom, 
by  using  them,  cannot  complain  that 
he  is  thereby  signifying  his  assent  to 
this  doctrine. 

In  the  subsequent  part  of  the  cere- 
mony, it  is  true,  the  belief  of  the  Tri- 
nity IS  most  explicitly  asserted,  not  by 
the  parties,  but  by  the  minister,  in  the 
works,  "  God  the  Father,  God  the 
Son,  God  the  Holy  Ghost,  bless,  pre- 
serve, and  keep  you.*'  But  if  the 
parties  do  not  believe  this  doctrine  in 
their  hearts,  neither  are  they  called 
upon  to  confess  it  with  their  mouths, 
'  and  therefore  their  protest  is  super- 
fluous. If,  however,  to  avoid  the  of- 
lence  which  the  solemn  declaration  of 
thb  doctrine,  in  their  presence,  occa- 
sions them,  they  are  determined  to  re- 
tire immediately  before  the  minister 
•hall  add  this  blessing,  they  will  recol- 
lect that,  though  their  marriage  is  com- 
plete, the  Clergyman  would  not  be 
jusiiBed  in  registering  it,  till  he  had 
concluded  the  service,  having  engaged 
to  con  form  to  the  Liturgy  of  the  Church 
of  England,  when  he  was  ordained. 
They  would  thus  deprive  themselves  of 
the  proper  legal  proof  of  their  marriage. 

The  effect  of^  their  protest  I  confess 
I  do  not  clearly  see ;  it  it  is  merely  to 
inform  the  minister  of  their  theological 
opinions,  I  apprehend  they  would 
spurn  at  such  a  demand,  if  required  of 
them ;  if  to  satisfy  their  own  party, 
this  may  l>e  effected,  without  saying  a 
word  on  the  subject,  in  the  presence  of 
the  Clergyman. 

With  regard  to  the  term  Freethink- 
ing  Christians,  are  not  all  men  (ChfM- 
tians  or  not)  freethinkers  2  Can  any 
one  control  the  thoughtt  of  another, 
though  he  may  his  actions?  Every 
man  thinks  freely,  though  he  may 
think  erroneously.  In  future  let  them 
c^ioose  some  really  discriminative  deno- 
mination. G. 


lMf4 


PeHgTM  ofih§Prmem  Eigkm. 


«ir 


Mr.  Urbait.  March  8. 

I  TRANSMIT  the  foUowiog  oHrU 
-Btt  Pedigree'  of  the  Princeit  £1- 
gvMi  of  England,  and  her  descendants 
fwith  various  notes).  It  relates  cbieflv 
to  the  Nevilles  of  RoHeston,  a  brancn 
very  little  known,  and  hitherto  inac- 
curately deduced,  not  only  as  to  the 
individiials  themselves,  but  also  in  re- 
gard to  the  acquisition  and  inheritance 


of  their  property.  Conceiving,  from 
the  attthentiealed  atyle  in  which  the 
descent  is  compiled,  that  my  researehet 
may  possibly  be  useful  to  the  Anti- 
quary and  Historian,  I  conjecture  yoa 
may  consider  them  worthy  to  form  a 
part  with  those  interestine  volumesy 
which  for  96  years  have  acfomed  your 
venerable  name. 

Hbnrt  \V.  Whattow. 


Pedigrtt  qf  the  Princeti  Elgiutt,  and  her  Detcendanii, 


Edielred  I  J.  King  of  £og-=?:EI%iDa,  dao.  Waltheof,i  Earl  of^udith,  dan.  of  Laa- 
kad,  10 16,  the  7th  in  sue-  of  Earl  Tho-  Northumberland^^  I  bert.  Count  of  Lens, 
ccaeioo  firom  Egbert.         I  raid.  of  Hallamtlure.         I    in  Artoia. 

Elgiva  (Hoved.  p.  494,  Francf^Utbred,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  sumamed  the  Bold, 
edit.)  (ibid.) 

I ■* 

Algitb,  befaMS  of  Raby,  co.  Durham.  (Ib.)^=Maldred  Fitx  Crinan,  an  eminent  Tbane.  (lb.) 

Coepatriot  Etrl  of  Northumb.  Lord  of  Raby,  1070.  (Dmigl.  Peer.  Scot.  p.  487.]^ 

Duphia,  Lonl^Aliee,  niece  and  betresa 
of  Raby,  1 118.  of  Walcber,  Bishop  of 
(Ibid.)  I    Dorbam. 


T 

Walderus.  Etnelreda  mar.  KiogI>uneas, 
Coapatriciot.  ton  of  King  Malcolm  Can* 
(Ibid.)  more.  (Ibid.) 


MaldndFitaDol- 
jpbiayLoidof 
Raby.  (Char- 

tnlary  ol 
Coldstteam.) 


Geoffrey  de  Nevill,  Lord  of  Branoepatb!=p£mma, 
(Dttrh.)t  l^raadson  of  Gilbert  de  Nevill, 
Admiral  of  the  Fleet,  &c.  1066.  Arms  : 
Or,  fretty  Gulea,  00  a  canton  per  pale 
Ermine  and  Or,  a  galley  with  the  lalU 
furled  Sable.  (Ex  Coll.  R.  Glov.  S.) 


dan.    and 

heireM  of  Bertram 

da  Bulmer,  a  gveaS 

Baron  in  the 

North.  (Dngd. 

Bar.vol.  I.p.987.) 


I  I 

Rob.  Fits  Maldred.  Lord  of  Rdby,Stand-=j=Isabel  Nevill, 

throp,  Branotpath,  and  Sheriffbutton,  |  beirett  of  her 

CO.  Yarik.  (Vineent*8  Bar.  90.  p.  H  7.  in      iktber  and 

XHL  Arm.)  |      brother. 

r- • 

Gwiifrey  Nevill  (Pitt  Robert),  I/>rd  of  Raby,  &c.(Ibid.]=Y=Marg.daa.  of  John  Longvillen.' 


Hen.  de  Nevill,  oh.  s.  p. 
11  Hen.  IH.  (BurtonS- 
Man.  Ebor.  pp.   969.' 
886.) 


Robe  Nevill,  a  Baron,7lfabeI,  dan.  of 


and  Lord  of  Raby. 
Amu:  Galea,  a  hJ* 
tier  Aigeni.  Ob.  10 
Edv.  I.  (Ibid.) 


Roger  Bertram, 
Lord  of  Mit- 
ford,co.  North- 
umberland. 


Hence  the  NevilU  of  Raby,  the  Earls  of 
Westmorland,  Salisbury,  and  War- 
wick, a  Maraois  Montacute,  a  Duke 
of  Bedford,  the  Barons  Latimer,  Fau- 
eonberg,  Fumival,  Abergavenny,  and 
otbera.  (See  Niebok'a  Leie.  vol.  IL 
p.7ao.) 


,  dan.  of  Ralph 
Murdac,  and  dau.  and 
heiress  of  Eva,  wife  of 
Reg;L<iGrey.(Brydgea' 
North*pton,I.p.  908.) 

Sir  JohnNevill,  lent.  o^Matilda',daiLof  Am- 


Sir  John  Nevill,  knt.::r^ati1da 
of  Holt,    CO.  Leic. 
Arms :  Gules,  a  sal- 
tier  Ermine.     (Ibid. 
p.  118.) 


Hoh.  (Nichols's  Leic.  in 
which  admirable  work  a 
beautiful  engraving  of 
the  mansion  bouse  at 
HoU  may  be  seen.) 


Chilicia,  lady  of  Rol- 
>ston  (co.  Nott.) 
daughter  of  Akn, 
Constable  of  Rich- 
mood  Castle,  CO. 
York. 


1  The  History  of  Sheffield  describes  him  as  aon  of  Siward  the  Dane,  who  kd  the  armica 
of  tlw  Cenleaaor  against  Macbeth,  the  usnrptr  of  the  Throne  of  Scotland.  Hallamsbirs 
wps  a  large  district  comprising  the  manor  of  nalUm,  Sheffield  (the  Caput  Baroaise  of  Da 
Lovetot),  and  the  surrounding  oountry.  It  was  held  under  the  Countess  Judith,  bv  Roger 
de  Bosli ;  on  the  deadi  of  him  and;b*ts  son,  it  passed  by  marriage  to  the  fiunily  of  Lovetot. 
's  In  Whitaker's  Richmondfbire,  vol.  I.  pp.  109,  U4  ;  II.  p.  137  t  her  grand&ther  Aka 
is  described  as  a  (^Mendaat  of  Roaldi,  the  bander  <Mf  the.  magni6cent  Abbey  efSt.  Agatha, 

Ob>t.  Mao.  JTcrcA,  1897. 


%\B 


Pedign§  of  thi  Dacendanti  of  PriMee$s  Elgioa*       [March, 


Sir  ThcMnM  Nerill,  knt.  Lord  of  Rolletton,  PiVal,  &6;^=Cieeljr  >,  dto.  and  heirott  of 
(Woodford  ChutuUry,  Mai.  Brit.  BibL  Cot.  Clmud.  A.  ]  Sir  Gaj  Blanchmiiiater,  knt. 
XIII.  p.  870.)  J (IbljL) 

Randolf  Nevill 
of  G>mir«IL 
(Ibid.) 


Sir  William  NeviU,  knt.  Lord  of^pEliubeth,  dan.  and  heireM 


Rolleiton,  Pikal,  &c.  5  Rich.  II. 
(Reg.  de  Thiurg.  p.  1 88.  Wuodf. 
Chart,  p.  970.) 


of  Sir  Thomas  Fencotte* 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Com- 
mon  Pleay. 


Sir  Robert^  NeviIl,=?=Darothy,      EIiza-=^ir  John  Bur-       lM-=T=Sir  Robert'  Woodford, 
knt.  Lord  of  Rol-     dau.of  Sir       beth.      ton,   knt.    of       bel.       knt.   Lord  of  Ashby 

FoWilley    CO.    Leic. 
warrior  at  Agincourt. 
(Ibid.  p.  975.) 


knt.  Lord  of  Rol- 
leston,  Pikal,  &c. 
Esquire  of  the 
body  to  Hen.  IV. 


dau.ofSir 
Nicholas 
Longford 
knt. 


ton,  knt.  of 
Burton  Joyce> 
CO.  Nott. 


4^ 


at  Easebyt  the  beautiful  and  interesting  remains  of  which  are  finely  delineated.  Her  mo- 
ther married  Jollan  de  Nevill  of  the  Anglo-Norman  branch,  second  son  of  Hugh,  son  of 
Ralph,  founder  of  the  Cistertian  Nunnery  at  Hoton  in  Yorkshire,  AJ>.  1 169.  This 
Hugh,  says  Matth.  Paris,  SIS'".  1.  9,  being  hi  the  Holy  Land  with  King  Richard,  slew  a 
lion  with  his  own  hand,  wherefore  it  was  said;  Viribus  Hugonis  viret  peri^re  leonis.  A^ 
fine  engraving  of  a  seal,  displaying  the  contest  with  the  furious  animal,  is  in  Thompson's 
History  of  Boston,  p.  915.  Jt  represents  a  knight  in  mail  armour,  raising  his  sword  to 
strike  a  rampant  lion,^  which  bearing,  it  may  be  remarked,  is  also  depicted  cm  his  shield. 
A  tree  placed  near  the  combatants  indicates  that  the  scene  of  action  is  a  forest.     The  le- 

Send  is,  or,  a  oaroez  .  bel  ami  trop  .  tort  .  baaillb  .  i  .  a  .  ci  .  words  evidently  ad- 
ressed  to  the  lion  by  his  opponent.  Returning  to  Jollau,  he  was  a  Justice  itmerant  1 8  Hen. 
HI.  and  the  compiler  of  the  manuscript  book  in  the  Exchequer,  containimr  the  Knights* 
feesj  then  certified,  which  still  bears  the  name  of  Testa  de  Nevill.  With  Amphiltcia 
Jollan  had  the  lordship  of  Rolleston  (see  the  Testa  de  Nevill,  p.  13),  and  Pikal  (Picala), 
as  appears  by  a  charter  containing  these  words :  "  Alanus,  Cuostabularius  Richmondiae, 
omnibus  suis  hominibus  et  amicis  Francis  et  Anglis  sal*.  Sciatis  quod  ego  do  Jullano  de 
Nevilla  filiam  meam  Amfeluc  ad  sponsam,  et  cum  ea  do  ci  Pikale  et  Monasterium  et  perti- 
nentias,  &c."  Amphilicia  had  also  a  son,  called  John^  whose  two  sons,  Andrew  and  Jol- 
lan (the  former  living  9  Edw.  I.  the  latter  S  Ed.  III.)  died  s.  p.  The  lordships  of  Rolles- 
ton and  Pikal  then  passed  to  Sir  Thomas  NeviU*  her  grandson,  iu  whose  posterity  they 
continued  seveml  generations. 

s  The  family  of  Blanchminster,  De  Albo  Monasterio,  earlier  than  the  reign  of  Edw.  I. 
dwelt  at  Ennor  Castle  in  Scilly,  of  which  islsnd  they  were  Lords,  and  at  fiinamy  Castle  in 
the  reign  of  Edw.  III. ;  and,  according  to  Lysous's  Cornwall,  p.  Ixviii.  were  descended 
from  ....  Champernon  and  Joan  Plantagenet  his  wife,  natural  daughter  of  Richard,  King 
of  the  Romans.  The  arms  of  Blanchminster  given  by  Lysons,  are  :  Argent,  three  beudlets 
Sable,  over  all  a  chevmn  Ermine.  Richard,  says  Matthew  Paris,  p.  819,  u.  10,  was 
created  in  1995,  by  his  brother  Hen.  III.,  Earl  of  Poictou  and  Cornwall,  where  lie  had  a 
seat  called  Tiadagel  Castle,  a  place  of  great  antiquity  and  note,  the  description  and  renuuns 
of  which  are  introduced  by  Borlace  in  his  History  of  the  Duchy,  and  more  recently  by 
Lysons  in  his  Magna  Britannia. 

4  His  ancestors,  it  is  already  shown,  in  earlier  times  resided  at  Holt.  William  Nevil), 
his  grandson,  married  Catherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Palmer,  esq.  of  Holt, 
whicn  circumstance,  says  Thornton,  p.  394,  occasioned  the  removal  of  this  family  to  that 
place. 

'  His  bearing  was :  Sable,  three  leopards'  heads  Gules,  jessant  flenrs  de  lis  Anrent. 
The  following  curious  memorial  of  him  is  recorded  in  the  Woodfoid  Chartolary.  "  Kyng 
Harry  the  F;^  reyned  Kyng  of  Yogland  Ix  yere  and  more ;  and  in  the  third  yere  of  his 
regne  he  wan  hareflyeht  by  a  sege';  and  on  the  friday,  in  the  fest  of  Saynt  Cryspyn  and 
Crispynyam,  eriy  in  the  mornyng,  he  dubbyd  S'  Rob*  Wodford  knyght.  And  many  odura 
at  that  Sage  beyng  p*sent ;  And  a  non  aft'  that  same  friday  he  faught  manfully  a  gens  a  C 
thowsand  of  frenchmen  at  Agyng  court.  And  had  the  victory  of  he.  And  toke  the  Duke 
of  Orlyaunee  and  od'  dukis  and  grete  lordya  of  Pnce,  And  ther  was  sUyn  of  franehemen  y* 
day  xiij  thowsannd.  And  tit*  he  wan  the  Cyte  of  Roon  and  Cane  and  all  wholle  Normandy 
and  )«  Cyte  of  Paryse,  and  mykyll  of  all  Toce.  And  be  made  his  brod^  S'  John  the 
Dnkt  of  Bedford  Resent  of  all  Frauoce.  Aod  aft'  that  at  the  ix  yere  of  hys  Reyngne,  he 
peeaid  to  Ood  Almygbtyy  on  mhu  eonlle  J'hv  heve  m*cy.  Amen.'* 


18«7J 


Oil  Corns  ofKmgi  ofKeni.and  East  AngUa, 


819 


Mr.  Urban,  Cork,  Feb,  S3. 

IN  my  former  Letter  I  offered  some 
remarks  ou  the  coins  attributed  to 
Etbelbert  and  Egbert,  Kings  of  Kent; 
and  before  I  proceed  to  make  some  ob- 
servations on  the  coins  of  the  other 
kingdoms  of  the  Heptarchy,  I  think  it 
may  not  be  unnecessary  to  notice  the 
coins  of  Edbert  II.  of  Kent,  A.D.  794. 

These  coins  are,  I  believe,  very  pro- 
perly given  to  Edbert  II.  of  Kent,  but 
their  claim  to  a  place  in  the  Kentish 
series,  or  their  appropriation  to  £dl>ert 
II.  in  particular,  does  not  appear  to 
rest  on  so  strong  a  foundation,  as  to 
make  any  further  evidence  unneces- 
sary ;  there  is  nothing  in  the  types  of 
the  coins  which  denote  any  particular 
kingdom  or  period  of  coinage,  or  give 
any  reason  for  attributing  them  to  Ed- 
bert II.  in  preference  to  Edbert  I.  725, 
or  Edbert  of  Northumberland,  738. 
The  name  of  one  of  the  moneyers, 
Ethelmod,  which  occurs  also  on  the 
coins  of  OfTa,  Coenwulf,  and  Baldred, 
certainly  affords  strong  grounds  for  sup- 
posing tnem  to  belong  to  Edbert  II.  of 
Kent,  but  perhaps  the  following  may 
be  a  still  stronger. 

On  the  reverse  of  one  of  his  coins 
we  find  the  name  lANBERK.  (see 
Kuding,  pi.  3,  no.  2.)  This  I  am 
strongly  inclined  to  think  was  intend- 
ed for  Archbishop  Jaenbert ;  and  if  it 
be  so,  it  will,  I  think,  decide  the  ques- 
tion at  once ;  for  Jaenbert  succeeded 
to  the  see  of  Canterbury  in  7^4,  seve- 
ral years  after  the  reigns  of  the  other 
two  Edberts :  nor  would  his  name  ap- 
pear on  any  coin  of  Northumberland, 
which  was  then  under  the  ecclesiasti- 
cal jurisdiction  of  York.  It  may  be 
objected  that  neither  could  his  name 
appear  on  any  coin  of  Edbert  I  J.,  as 
Jaenbert,  according  to  historical  ac- 
coants,  died  in  7£P»  and  Edbert  did' 
not  ascend  the  throne  until  794 ;  but, 
if  we  examine  the  Anglo-Saxon  re- 
cords, we  shall  often  find  a  greater  va- 
riance than  the  difference  of  a  year, 
aod  that  very  little,  was  known  of  the 
hutory  of  this  Edbert,  may  be  pre- 
somcd  from  the  fact  that  he  is  called 
Etbelbert  by  Speed,  Egbert  by  Hume, 
aod  Edbert  by  Kapin. 

AXTHVLWBARD,  KlNG  OF  THl  WeST 

Saxons. 

• 

The  opinion  of  the  late  celebrated 
Antiquary  Mr.  Combe,  that  these 
coins  belong  to  some  unknown  King 
of  the  East  Angles,  is  beyond  all  doubt- 


•  correct ;  the  types  tad  fbrmation  of  the 
letters  are  similar,  and  out  of  five  mo- 
neyers whose  names  appear  on  Aethel« 

'  weard's  coins,  four  are  to  be  found  on 
the  coins  of  Eadmund,  King  of  the 
East  Ancles.  Mr.  Woolstone  says, 
none  of  Aethelweard*s  moneyers' 
names  occur  on  any  other  coins,  ex- 
cept the  name  of  Oudda,  which  is 
found  on  the  coins  of  Cuthred,  King 
of  Kent,  and  seems  to  think  that  the 
same  man  was  moneyer  to  both  $  but 
this  is  exceedingly  improbable,  for 
there  were  58  years  between  the  death 
of  Aethelweard,  Kin||^  of  the  West 
Saxons,  and  the  accession  of  Cuthred  j 
and  it  is  evident  that  Mr.  Woolstone 
did  not  compare  the  moneyers  of  these 
coins  with  those  of  Eadmund,  or  he 

•  would  have  found  that  four  of  them 
were  common  to  both.  These  coins, 
therefore,  clearly  belong  to  some  King 
of  the  East  Angles,  or  if  not,  to  some 
other  King  contemporary  with  Ead- 
mund ;  but  the  former  is  much  more 
probable,  as  the  only  other  kingdoms 
of  the  Heptarchy  which  remained  at 
that  perioa  were  Mercia  and  North- 
umberland,  the  succession  of  whose 
princes  is  pretty  well  ascertained.  We 
must  therefore  examine  the  history  of 
England,  to  discover  whether  any 
prince  of  that  name  can  be  found  at 
that  period.  We  there  find  a  prince 
called  Ethel wald  by  most  historians, 
but  whom  Hapin,  vol.  I.  pp.  286,  327, 
calls  Ethel  ward,  which  probably  was 
his  right  name.  This  prince  was  son 
to  Etbelbert,  King  of  England,  but 
was  deprived  of  the  throne  by  Ethel- 
wulfs  will,  which  limited  the  Crown 
to  the  sons  of  Ethelwulf  in  succession. 
This  prince,  after  the  murder  of  Ead- 
mund, King  of  the  East  Angles,  in 
870,    might  possibly  have  been   ap- 

rointed  to  the  vacant  throne  of  that 
ina;dom  by  his  uncle  Ethelred  or  Al- 
fred. The  Danes  were,  according  to 
the  accounts  we  have,  in  possession  of 
East  Anglia,  or  the  greatest  part  of  it, 
from  the  year  870  to  878,  when  Ethel- 
stan  the  Dane  was  from  motives  of 
policy  established  on  the  throne  by 
Alfred ;  but  in  some  part  of  the  eight 
years  above  mentioned,  during  one  of 
those  intervals  of  success  which  then 
occasionally  attended  the  English 
arms,  Ethel  ward  might  have  for  even 
a  short  time  enjoyed  the  kingdom  of 
East  Anslia,  and  coined  money.  W-e 
also  find  that  this  Ethelward  after- 
wards, on  the  death  of  Alfred,  the  last 


no                   On  Coku  of  the  Kuhgi  of  the  Eoii  JngUi,  {Mftrtfa, 

•of  the  tons  of  Eihdwalf,  disputed  the  on  which  the  word  rw  it  imbd,  I 
throne  of  England  with  Edward  the  thinlc  it  not  unlikfehr  it  bdmoii  to 
elder,  and  was  elected  King  of  East  Mercia,as  1  shall  endcayoor  to  stiew, 
Anglia  and  Northumberland  by  the  when  I  come  to  the  coins  of  North- 
Danes  ;  but,  as  this  was  30  years  later  umbeiland. 

than  the  time  of  Eadmund,  it  is  much  ETHELSTAH.—In  plete  17,  no.  5,  of 

more  probable  that  the  coins  bearing  Rudin^,  we  find  a  coin  which  has 

his  name  were  struck  between  870  and  been  given  to  Etbelstan,  King  of  Eog- 

878,  particularly  as  none  of  his  mo-  land,  but  which  I  think  it  highlv  pro- 

^neycrs*  names  occur  on  the  coins  of  bable  belongs  to  this  King,  and  Mr. 

•Ethelstan,  King  of  the  East  Angles.  Woolstone  was  clearly  of  the  same 

opinion.    The  bust  is  Tcry  rude,  and 

Kings  of  the  East  Anodes.  ^^j^j^Uy  different  from    those    on   the 

Beorna. — These  sceattas  have  on  other  coins  of  Ethelstan,  King  of  Eng- 

ihe  reverse  three  £*s,  by  reading  the  land.    The  letters  also  bear  a  resem- 

centre  of  which  an  F,  a  mooeyer's  blance  to  those  of  Ethelstan,  King  of 

name  is  attempted  to  be  made  out ;  it  the  East  Angles;  and  the  reverse  is 

is  much  more  probable,  however,  that  almost  the  same  as  that  of  Berhtulf, 

the  letter  E  was  intend^  to  denote  the  King  of  Mercia,  and  other   princes, 

initial  of  some  name ;  it  may  be  that  who  reigned  about  the  same  time.     If 

of  the   moneyer,   or   perhaps  that  of  to  these  reasons  are  added,  that  the 

Ethelbert  Beorna,  partner  in  the  king-  moneyer  EADEAR  was  actually  one 

doin,  or  of  Eadilfrcd,  who  was  then  of  those  of  Ethelstan,   King  of  the 

Bishop  of  the  East  Angles;  or  per-  East  Angles,  I  think  there  can  be  lit- 

hups  the  three  E's  may  be  intended  tie  doubt  that  it  belongs  to  that  prince, 

for  the  three  crowns,  which,  accord-  St.  Edmubd.— These   coins  were 

ing  to  Speed,  was  the  ensign  of  the  thought  by   Mr.  Woolstone    to   have 

East  Angles.     Which  of  these  conjee-  been  struck  between   870  and  878; 

tures  is  most  probable,  i  leave  to  the  that    this  opinion   is    erroneous,   has 

decision  of  the  learned.  been  clearly  proved  by  jfour  learned 

Ethelreo. — This  coin   has  been  Correspondent   in   page  308   of  your 

appropriated  to  the  East  Andes  by  Mr.  last  year's  Volume,  Part  i.    I  think, 

Woolstone;  the  fallacy  of  nis  reason-  however,  it  is  not  quite  so  clear  that 

ing,  however,  has  been  well  shewn  by  they  were  struck  at  the  Bury  Mint  in 

a  very  in^tiious  and  learned  Corre-  ihe  reign  of  the  Conftrssor;  I  should 

?pondent  m  page  308  of  the  first  Part  rather   suppose    them    to   have   been 

of  your  last  year's  Volume.  Mr.  Wool-  struck  about  the  time  of  Edward  the 

stone's  error  will  be  more  apparent,  if  Elder. 

we  consider   the    coins    bearing   the  In  my  next  letter  I  shdl  offer  some 

names  of  Egbert,  Eadberi,  &c.  to  be-  remarks  on  the  coins  of  MerCia  and 

long    to    Northumberland,    and   Mr.  Northumberland. 

Woolstone  in  such  case  would  him-  Yours,  &c.         Johm  Lind5ay. 

self,  perhans,  have  assigned  this  coin  ,   .  ^ 

of  Ethelred  to  that  kingdom.     I  con-  Mr.  Urban,                       March  8. 

fcss.  indeed,  1  am  myself  strongly  in-  rpHE   following  stanzas,  to  which 

clined  to  attribute  this  com  to  North-  X          attention  has  been  called  by 

uraberland,  not  because  sceattas  have  ^  ij^^^        f^^^^^  ^^.^  written  about 

been  found  ol  this  or  that  kingdom,  ^be  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century, 

but  because,  from  the  account  given  of  g^j   ^^e    copied    from   the    Harleian 

it  by  Mr.  Woolstone,  it  appears  to  re-  j^gg^  i840.     From  their_poignant  se- 

semble  the  siycas,  and  also  because  the  ^g^ity  on  the  doctrine  of  Transubstan- 

word  rex,  which  is  wanting  on   this  tiation,  they  will  doubtlessly  be  ac- 

com,  IS  to  be  found  on  the  sceattas  of  ceptable  at  this  moment.                •X* 

Beorn^k,  the  predecessor  of  iithelred,  ,.^_ 

And  on  all  the  coins  of  Mercia,  but  Uppoj,  Pop,shb  Transobstaiitiitioh. 

does  not,  appear  on  the  sceattas  bearing  p,.^^  ^^  ^hrifs  boddy  and  bk>ud 

the  names  of  Eadbert  and  Alcred,  or  y^^  „„,^  ^^^  ^^^^^ 

the  siycas  of  Eardulf,  whose  coins  Mr.  jhey  eate  him,  drink  him,  box  him, 

Pinkerton  and   Mr.  Woolstone  have  Beare  him  ahoute ; 

put  at  the  end  of  the  series  of  stycas  -,  One  b  too  little,  bread  and  wine 

whereas  I  think  they  belong  to  Ear<-  Houki  him  severall,  so  we  dine 

dulfy  796.     As  to  the  styca  of  Egfrid,  I  with  my  Chrtet,  thou  with  tliiae. 


J8tfJ          TnaltMh$kmtkUi4m.—FvfLMAYmt,f9c.%KXtu  m 

Am  pitoi't  aMmthM  fk«  Vbgia't  vomU  ?  direedoBt  to  the  HulMuidAan  profHB 

li  btMd  Imt  Mcde  ?  the  aotbor  praetictllvexpericiioedy  tad 

Aft  tbtir  wMdt  Um  Holjr  Ghon  ?  oor  aothor  ttlU  G.  8.  «*  who  iovct  tb« 

Itthis/MrtfMde?  town,"  thai  he  hiimelf  '•  laoghi  ui 

O  pwiampteow  wulyftofcw !  j^^  from  care  and  bMiuess  fiee.** 

Nef«r  edit  could  imI»  the  bd»r,  j^  ^n^  ^^f  ^j,        ^  ^^  ^ji,  „^^ 

Yat  tba  pnett  md  md»  hit  maker.  ^j^^^  ^  j^^^^  ^^^^  „  ^j^         j^  j^,. 

What*!  become  of  til  those  Chritti  from    '<  Withaai  aiid   fair  Thaiiici*t 

That  pneitt  have  made  ?  higher  8treaiM»"  as  alto  <' Norwiek 

Do  thMe  hoatta  of  hoeti  abide,  plenteous  stream/*  the  "  sacied  Cam  * 

/L^/4f  .^S^i       •  ^  a  a°«>  "  ft^**'  Trent/'  with  other  rivei^ 

Oae  Chrin's  trew,  the  rest  a^.  »»8.^  wide  circle  for  »io«ement  and  a 

'  Tanance  of  society  to  which  he  mntC 

#  have  been  ^neraily  known,  althowgk 

FLY  LEAVES.— No.  XXXVI.  ^^5  above  initials  still  remain  onap- 

lo/^.      J  o    sL      ^,h    J    I  P"^»  •""  "^^^  probably  persevered  ui 

J.  8.  Gent.    A  Brother  qfthe  Angle,  ^j^h  the  usual  unambiticMs  pursuit  of 

AT  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  an  angler  seeking  no  higher  trait  of 

century,  under  the  above  initials,  character  than  *'tlM  Innocent  Epicure.'' 

flourished  a  humble  but  useful  com-  -^— 

piler  for  the  press,  whose  principal  Thomoi  Lodge, 

work  known  was  called  **  Prqfif  and  The  information  respecting  this  ao* 

Pleasure  uniied,  or  the  Bushandman*s  thor*s  works    is   probably  imperfect. 

Magazine^  ifc,  illustrated  with  copper  His  biographers  name,  ar  the  earKaal 

cuts.    By  J.  8.  16M,*' 8vo.  piecein  iirint,J?apAsie*f(?o/dtfii  X€]^aqr, 

.   The  conienu  of  the  volume  are  mul-  1 58 1 ,  and  it  is  the  only  one  known  b»» 

tifar ions,  and  many  directions  are  given  fore  the  Alarum  aemnst  Usurers,  1 684  *  | 

in  *'  the  mystery  of  husbandry"  for  but,  as  in  the  dedication  to  the  hrt 

the  treatment  of  animals  and  improve-  he  declares  he  *  hath  long  time  slept  m 

ment  of  agrtcutture.    Ther^  is  added  silence,'  it  seems  to  imply  he  had  been 

the  Art  of  Angling,  Hunting,  Hawk-  oftener  before  the  public  than  could  be 

iiig,  noble  recreation  of  ringine,  and  allowed  in  the  vaunt  of  a  single  pmbti« 

also  making  fire-works.    One  of  these  cation.    That  dedication  b  now  re* 

treatises  appears  the  foundation  of,  and  printed  as  an  interesting  proof  of  what 

many  times  printed  as  "  The  compleat  forbearance  and   consistency  can   to* 

Fisher,  ar  the  true  Art  of  Angling,  compltsh  in  confuting  the  oatentatiow 

By  J,  S.  a  brother  of  the  Angle."  l6mo.  bitterness  of  a  critical  antagonist,  whoi 

Another  portion  of  his  labour,  and  avoiding  the  real  question,  laboon  to 

somewhat  rarer,  was  "  The  experienced  impress  his  readers  with  a  belief  thai 

Fowler:  or  the  Gentleman,  Cithehg  personal  abuse  b  reaaooing,  and  an 

and  Cotmtryman's  pleasant  and  pr^  atuck  on  character  a  reply  arguaMn* 

fitahle  recreation.     By  J.  S,   Gent,  tative  and  incontrovertible. 

1697.'*   l6mo.  Stephen  Gosson  published  the iSbibal 

But  hts  pretensions  as  author  of  the  of  Abuse,  containing  a  pleasant  invee* 

following  poem,  are  now  for  the  first  tive  against  Poets,  Pipers,  Players, 

time  noticed.  *'  The  Innocent  Epicure :  &c.  1679t ;  ^ud  in  the  same  year  ap* 

ar  the  Art  of  Angling  f  a  poem,  \Ggj,**  peared  The  Eahemerides  of  PhialoX, 

8vo.  having  a  Defence  of  the  School  off 

The  preface  b  subscribed  **  N.  Tale,"  Abuse !    There,  it  is  said,  the  playwa 

and  the  poem  b  therefrom  commoiUy     ■  ■    ^ ' .  'i   \ 

given  to  that  author,  though  decUred  *  Thew -some <h^ci^<7u> tha d^, 

S  the  preface  to  be  the  plSuction  of  5^:  ^ro^^^^::;^  hb^lSS  m 

-  a  gentlem^  who  wrote  It  forhjs  ^^^IZ^^ 

diversion ;'  and  the  initials  of  our  com-  ^  Jierofore  it  matt  be  luppoted  he  w^ 

oiler  head  the  introductory  epistle  as  .^  j^g,     ^i^  ^^  diioover  a  copy  <if  the 

ih)m  *'  J.  S.  to  C.  S.'*  Alarum  agaiast  Vsuiers,  with  toch  a  oorrs- 

It  may  be  fairly  inferred,  therefore,  gponding  date, 

that  J.  S.  Gent,  on  Fowling,  and  J.S.  f  lUprinted  b  Lord  Somen'   Tneti, 

a  Gentleman  on  Angling,  with  both  ^sio,  vol.  tii. 

works  printed  in  the  same  ]fear,  could  I  Sea  British  Bibliographer,  vol  iv.  p. 

have  hut  one  oommoa  origiii.    The  S89. 


^)9  Flt  Lbaybsi  No.  kxxyi.— Thomas  Lodge^  [March, 

had  applied  to  both  Universities  iti  doaht,  my'iMtont  that  indtice  me  hcrovnio 
Tftin,  to  find  one  to  defend  them,  and  be  lach,  et  both  yon  may  allowe  of  them, 
*  were  driven  too  flie  to  a  weak  hedge,  •inoe  thsy  be  well  meant,  and  eoeomit  of 
and  fight  for  themselves  with  a  rotten  *hem  •ince  they  tend  to  your  profit.  I  haue 
sukc.'  And  the  aulhor  remarks,  *  it  IV^Ww^ej*  heere  of  Mt  purpose  a  tried  expe- 
ls tolde  mee  that  they  haue  got  one  in  ™»"**  «»( ''°/'^V  •*»»■«'  defcnbing  heerein 
"London  to  write  ceruine  Honest  Ex-  "ptonely  those  monsters  which  weie  ba- 

cttses,  for  so  they  tcrme  it,'  afterwards  ""^^•^.  ^'^^r'  ^™||«  V**"?"'  *>»'  ^ 

...  '      ,r^      ^      u     j«-iif         u*  such  deaonnoe  caterpulari,  who  not  onely 

jddifig.  '  I  stav  my  bande  till  1  see  his  y^^  ^,^j  ,j,fj,  ^    *'„  ^^^  ^^y^  ^^ 

booke;  when  1  banc  perused  it,  I  wil  f^^^^^  ^^^  ^^^  ,p*^^  ^t,i,  ^„^„  ^^^ 

4cll  you  more.  .     ,         .  some  priiiate  Gentlemen  of  your  profession. 

How   far   the   'rotten    sUke      and  which  considered,  I  thought  good  in  open- 


pbinting 
nitv  colTe 


Lod^  out  (who  was  of  Tri-  hig  the  wound,  to  preuent  an  vlcer,  and  by 

iiity  colTege,  Oxon,)  as  one  not  belong-  counselling  before  escape,  forewarn  before 

ing  to  the  University,  provoked  any  the  mischiefe.    Led  then  by  these  perswa- 

ironical  or  sarcastic  observation  from  sions,  I  doubt  not,  but  as  1  haue  alwayes 

our  *  biting  Satyrist'  in  the  answer  to  ^onnd  yon  fiiuourable,  so  now  you  will  not 

Gosson,  is  not  known,  for  no  copy  of  ^^  ^  ^  friendly,  both  in  protecting  of 

the   work    has    yet   been   discovered,  this  iust  cause  from  vmust  slsnder,  and  my 

Wood  calls  it  a  Treatise  in  defence  of  P^"**"  ^°°>  ^^^  ^f^^'  ^^»*:S'  '^T'  ^5 

»i       *    -«j    :f  .*^»  ...:»*^j    ...»-  ^-  yeares  smce,  an  iniurious  cauiUer  obiected 

P/flV,»,  and.  If  not  printed,  was  pro-  l^^^^  ^^!         ^^^^^  ^^^^^         q^^^_ 

babfy  freely  circulated  in  manuscript  ^^^^  ^„  ^^.f^^  ^y^^  1,^,  ,.f^  hath 
soon  after  the  School  of  Abuse  ap-  ^^^  .^  j^^j^  „  ,  companie  was  odious, 
peared,  being  suppressed,  according  to  nor  my  behauiour  so  Kght,  as  ttuu  it  shuld 
our  author,  '  by  the  godly  and  reucrent  pawe  the  limiu  of  modestie :  this  notwith- 
that  had  to  deale  in  the  cause.*  Gos-  sUnding  a  licentious  HwpomUe,  neither  re- 
ton  obtaining  '  a  priuate  vnperfect  garding  the  asperitie  ot  the  lawts  touching 
coppye,'  answered  it  in  Plays  confuted  slaunderous  Libellers,  nor  the  offspring  from 
sit  Jive  Actions,  n.  d.  but  publislied  whence  I  came,  which  is  not  contemptible, 
about  1582,  if  the  conjecture  in  the  •ttemtcd,  not  only  in  publike  and  reproch- 
note  below  is  tenable.  ^»»"  terms  to  condemn  me  in  his  wriiinp. 
To  this  philippic.  Lodge  made  no  H"*  •*•?  5^  •*"^?  ."«»  ••  °«*^'  »»»»»^ 
reply  for  two  yeare,  whenT  having  oc-  •**"j^  ^^l"^  ''  •*»  ^r°°"«  ?  ^^^^^  T  ^ 

cation  to  addris  the  Gentlemen  of  the  ^^JZ'.'^^'^I^^A.  t^vlh^r. 

.          r  r^       .   t^    £>             J           _ii  yeres  aco  one  otepnen  Uotson  puoiisnecl  a 

•  Inns  of  Court,  he  first  condescended  to  tooke,  intituled.  The  SchooU  ^  Abuse,  in 
DOtice  the  virulence  of  his  antagonist  ^i,ich  hauing  escaped  in  many  and  sundry 
with  the  conscious  pride  of  his  own  co'clusions,  I,  as  the  occasion  the*  fitted  me, 
«  withers  being  unwrung/  by  a  judi-  shapt  him  such  an  answere  as  beseemed  his 
cious  appeal  against  the  falsehoods  discourse,  which  br  reason  of  the  slender- 
urged  against  him ;  and,  after  a  tempe-  ness  of  y«  snbiect  (because  it  was  in  defe'ce 
rate  admonishmentto amend,  concludes  of  plaies  and  play  makers)  y<  godly  and  re- 
his  observations  by  cool  disarming  ad-  uerent  y'  had  to  des^e  in  the  cause,  misllk- 
vicc,  and  a  candid  acknowledgment  ing  it»  forbad  the  publishing,  notwithstand- 
that  his  antagonist  had  '  a  good  pen.'  ">«  ^^  comming  by  a  priuate  vnperfect  cop- 

The  Dedication  is  inscribed  P7«»  .•^'f'  ?*<»  Tf'*'  "°!»'  made  a  reply, 

dmidiog  It  into  nue   sexions,  and  m  his 

"  To  the  right  worshipfull,  my  curteous  EpUtle  dedicatory,  to  the  right  honorable 

friends,    the  Gentlemen  of  the  Innes   of  Sir  Francis  FFalsingham,  he  impugneth  me 
Court,  Thomas  Lodge  of  Uncolnes  Inne,  '  with  these  reproches  i  that  I  am  become  a 

Gentleman,  wisheth  prosperous  successe  in  ragarant  person,  visited  be  y«  heuy  hand  of 

their  studies,  and  happie  euent  in  their  tra-  God,  lighter  then  libertie,  and  looser  the* 

uailes. — Curteous  Gentlemen>  let  it  not  vanitie.     At  such  time  as  I  first  came  to  y« 

seeme  straunge  vnto  you,  that  hee  which  ,ight  heerof  (iudge   you  gentlemen  how 

hath  long  time  slept  In  silence,  now  be-  hardly  I  could  disgest  it),  I  bethought  my- 

^naeth  publikely  to  salute  you,  smce  no  ,elfe  to  frame  an  answere,  but  considermg 

— '■ — that  the  labour  was  but  lost,  I  gaue  way  to 

^  *  This  I  have  not  yet  seen,'  says  Wood,,  my  misfortune,  contenting  myselfe  to  wait 

and  in  the  new  edition  of  the  Ath.  Ox.  y*  opportiinitie  wherein  I  mieht,  not  aecord- 

0r.  Bliss  only  lefSers  by  note  Ur  Gosson's  ing  to  the  impertinacie  of  the  ininrye,  but 

answer.    After  the  laborious  research  of  as  equitye  might  countenance  mee,  cast  a 

ihose  two  editors  without  success,  there  raine  ouer  the  vntamed  curtailes  chaps,  and 

seems  but  slight  ground  to  expect  it  ever  wiping  out  the  suspition  of  this  slander  from 

win  be  discovered.    See  Ath.  Ox.  by  Bliss,,  the  remembrance  of  those  y'  knew  me,  not 

vol.  ii.  col.  384.  comisell-thls  iniurious  Astmus  to  become 


18S7.]       Fi'T  LsAvis,.  No.  xxxYi.^-^Reformatian  in  Cwum. 


«SS 


more  coafimnable  in  his  reportM  %  aad  nowy 
Chentlemtn,  liaaing  occationa  to  pBM  1117 
trauftilm  in  pnUilcey  I  thooght  it  not  amisM 
Bomewliat  to  touch  the  •launder,  and  prou- 
ing  it  to  be  niost  wicked  and  discom- 
mendable, leaue  the  rett  to  the  discretion  of 
those  in  authoritie,  who  if  the  Gentleman 
had  not  plaid  bo  peep  thus  long,  would 
hane  taught  him  to  haue  counted  his  cards 
a  little  better :  and  now  Stephen  Gosson  let 
XD«  but  fitmiliarly  reason  with  thee  thus  : 
Thinkest  thou  j*  in  handllog  a  good  causf^  it 
is  requisite  to  indure  a  fids  propositio',  al- 
though thou  wilt  say  it  is  a  part  of  Retho- 
rike  tp  ^rgue  A  Persona,  yet  is  it  a  practise 
of  small  honestie  to  conclude  without  occa- 
sion :  if  thY  cause  wer  good,  I  doubt  not 
but  in  so  large  and  ample  a  discourse  as 
thou  hadst  to  handle,  tDou  mightest  lutd 
[hare]  left  the  honor  of  a  gentleman  inuio- 
late.  But  thy  base  deeree,  subiect  to  ser- 
uile  attempu,  mcasuretn  all  things  accord- 
ing to  cauilling  capacitie,  thinking  because 
nature  hath  bestowed  vpo'  tliee  a  plausible 
discourse,  thou  maist  in  thy  sweet  termes 
present  the  sowrest  and  &lsest  reports  y" 
canst  imagine  :  but  it  may  be,  y*  as  it  for- 
tuned to  the  noble  man  of  Italy,  it  now 
fareth  w^  me,  who,  as  Petrarch  reported, 
gioe*  greatly  to  y*  entertainment  of  strangers, 
and  pleasure  of  the  chase,  respected  not  the 
braue  and  gorcious  garments  of  a  courtier, 
but  delighted  m  such  clothing  as  seemed  y* 
place  where  he  soiouroed,  this  noble  gentle- 
man returning  on  a  time  fro'  his  game, 
found  all  his  house  furaished.wiUi  strangers, 
on  who'  bestowing  his  accustomed  welcf>me, 
he  bent  himself  to  the  overseeing  of  his  do- 
mestical oreparatio',  and  coming  to  y'  stable 
among  the  hors-keepers  of  his  new  come 
suests,  and  reprehending  one  of  the'  for 
faultering  in  his  office,  y*  fellow  impatient 
of  reproofe,  and  measuring  y*  gentleman  by 
hb  piaine  coat,  stroke  him  on  the  fiure,  and 
turned  him  out  of  y*  stable,  but  afterward 
attending  on  his  master,  and  perceiuing  him 
whom  he  had  stroken  to  be  y*  Lord  of  y« 
house,  he  humbly  craued  pardo' :  y*  gentle- 
man, as  patient  as  plesant,  not  only  torgaue 
him  y*  escape,  but  pretely  answered  thus,  I 
blame  not  thee,  good  fellow,  for  thy  out- 
ran, but  this  companion,  pointing  to  his 
coat,  which  hath  made  thee  mistake  my  per- 
•on.  So  at  this  instant  esteeme  I.  M.  Goe* 
son  hath  dealt  with  me,  who  not  mesuring 
me  by  my  liirth,  but  by  y*  subiect  I  handled, 
like  Will  Summer  strikiug  him  y'  stood  next 
him,  hath  tpbraided  me  in  person,  whe'  he 
had  no  quarrell,  but  to  my  cause,  and  therein 
pleaded  hit  own  indiscretio',  and  loded  me 
with  intoUerable  iniurie.  But  if  with  Zoy^ 
iuM  hee  might  kisse  the  gibet,  or  with  Pata- 
cum  hopheadleise,  the  world  shoulde  be  rid 
o£  an  iniurious  slaunderer,  and  that  tongue 
laboured  in  suppositions,  might  be  nailed  vp 
as  Tuliiet  was  for  his  PHitipieaU  declama- 
tioBs.    Bal  g«od  Supkm^  in  like  lorte  will 


I  dMde  with  thee  le  PhiUp  ^iiaeeJkm  with 
Nieanor,  who  not  respecting  the  maiestie  of 
the  king,  but  giuing  himselfe  ouer  to  tbt 
petnlancie  of  his  tongue,  vainly  inueished 
against  him,  whom  notwithstandmg  Pnii^ 
so  cunningly  hsndeled,  that  not  onely  h$ 
ceased  the  rumor  of  his  report,  but  also 
made  him  as  lauish  in  commending,  as  ow/B 
he  was  profuse  in  discommending:  his  at- 
tempt  was  thxis'performed,  he  seeing  Nicanar 
sorely  pressed  with  pouerty,  releeued  him  to 
his  content.  Wherevpon  sJtering  his  coppSe^' 
and  breaking  out  into  singular  commenda- 
tion of  Philip,  the  king  concluded  thoAt 
Loe,  curtesie  can  make  of  bad  good,  and  oC 
NicttJtor  an  enemie  Nieanor  a  firiend.  Whose 
actions,  my  reprouer,  I  will  now  fit  to  thtty 
who  hauin^  slaundered  me  without  cause«  I 
will  no  other wi«e  reuenge  it,  but  by  this 
meanes,  that  now  in  publike  1  confesse  thoa 
hast  a  good  pen,  and  if  thou  keepe  thy 
methode  in  discourse,  and  leaue  thy  slander- 
ing without  cause,  there  is  no  doubt  but 
thou  shalt  bee  commended  for  thy  coppie^ 
and  praised  for  thy  stile.  And  thus  desir* 
ing  tnee  to  measure  thy  reportes  with  iustiooy 
and  you  good  Gentlemen  to  answere  in  my. 
liehalfe  if  you  heare  me  reproched,  I  leant 
you  to  your  pleasures,  and  for  myself  I  vi||' 
studie  your  profit.  Your  loving  frindy 
Thomas  Luoge." 

£u.  HOO0. 

Reformation  im  Cavaw. 

AS  this  ioieresting  place  is  situated 
in  K 11  more,  the  central  Diocese 
of  Ireland,  it  may  be  interesting  at  the 
present  time  to  trace  the  dawn  and  re- 
vival of  the  Beformation  in  it,  since 
the  year  1;')76.  At  that  time  this 
Bishoprick  was  possessed  by  one  Rich- 
ard Brady,  of  an  ancient  family  in  the 
county  of  Cavan,  where  this  name  it 
still  a  popular  one.  Lying  in  a  tu- 
multuous and  unsettled  country,  as 
Walter  Harris  in  his  improved  edition 
of  Sir  James  Ware's  Works  observes, 
the  See  of  Kilmore  had  been  neglected 
by  the  Crown  of  England,  so  that  even 
after  the  Reformation  the  Bishops  of  it 
succeeded,  either  by  usurpation  or  by 
Papal  autl^rity. 

So  savage  was  the  state  of  this  part 
of  Ulster,  that  the  Popish  Bishop  who 
succeeded  to  this  See  in  1511,  one 
Dermot,  a  man  of  learning  and  a  lover 
of  tranquillity,  withdrew  from  it  to  the 
Vicarage  of  Swords,  in  the  English 
pale,  near  Dublin,  where  he  died  in 
1529;  and  his  successor,  Edmund  Nu- 
gent, left  it  to  be  Prior  of  the  Convent 
of  the  blessed  Virgin  at  Tristernagh, 
in  the  county  of  Westmeath,  retain- 
ing, howeirer,  the  BUho^ivt  Vir)  «(»s^ 


t9# 


BtformaiioM  in  Ca»an4 


[Maix^, 


iilefida'in» an^l  he  resigned  it,  in  I54l| 
to  King  Henry  VI H.  who  granted  him 
kn  annaal  pension  of  S6/.  \3s.4d.  pay- 
nble  out  of  the  revenues  of  that  sup- 
pressed Priory  during  his  life. 

Bishop  Brady,  according  to  the  ac- 
count given  ot  him  by  the  Lord  De- 
a.  Sir  John  Perrot,  to  Queen  Eliza- 
in  1585,  had  been  a  *'  lewd  Friar , 
who,  coming  from  Rome  at  a  delegate 
qflhe  Pope,  had  usurped  this  See,  and 
was  ditpersing  abroad  seditious  Balls 
and  other  sucn  trash.**  The  Lord  De- 
puty added,  that  he  had  dispossessed 
this  intruder  of  the  place  he  had  usurp- 
ed, and  expected  to  bring  him  to  sud- 
mission  or  answer  for  his  lewdness. 
■  He  recommended  John  Garvey, 
Dean  of  Christ  Church,  Dublin,  to 
SjDCceed  to  this  Bishopric,  stating,  that 
"It  would  bean  increase  of  the  Qaeen's 
interest  among  the  barbarous  people  of 
this  part  of  Ireland,  if  a  Bishop  were 
placed  there  under  the  Queen's  autho- 
rity." 

Brady*8  character  must  have   been 
extremely  bad,  and  his  conduct  into- 
lerable, to  elicit  such  a  character  as 
this  from  Sir  John  Perrot,  who  was 
known  to  have  been  exceedingly  mild, 
if  not  culpably  favourable  to  the  na- 
tives in  his  Government  of  Ireland ; 
and  we  6nd  in  Sir  John  Davis's  Re- 
ports (fol.  84),  that  this  seditious  eccle- 
siastic was  indicted  in  the  year  1 600, 
upon  the  act  of  l6ih  of  Richard  II. 
commonly  called  the  statute  of  Prje- 
MUMIRB,    for    having    ordained    one 
Hichard  Lawlor  a  Priest,  and  having, 
under  the  authority  of  a  commission 
from  the  Bishop  of  Rome,  constituted 
the  said  Lawlor,  Vicar-General  of  the 
Dioceses  of  Dublin,  Kildareand  Ferns. 
In    1585,    John   Garvey,   Dean   of 
Christ  Church,   was,  on  the  above- 
mentioned  recommendation  of  Sir  John 
Perrot,  advanced  to  the  See  of  Kilmore, 
and  was  the  6rst  Protestant  Bishop  of 
it.     He  was  of  Irish  parentage,  and 
bom  in  the  county  of  Kilkenny,  but 
was  educated  without  a  taint  of  Popery, 
in  the  University  of  Oxford.     For  the 
first  ten  or  eleven  years  of  the  reign  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  both  ProtesUnts  and 
Papists  were  in  the  habit  of  resorting 
to  the  service  of  the  Reformed  Church, 
and  the  Pope  made  an  offer  to  confirm 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  by  his 
authority,  if  the  Queen  and  her  sub- 
jects would  acknowledge  his  lawful 
power  to  do  so;  but  this  overture  was 
rejected.    In  the  mean  time,  Garvey 


dfstingoisbed  himself  by  ttraiaous  ef- 
forts to  convert  his  deluded  oonotry- 
tnen  from  the  fatal  errors  of  Rome,  and 
he  was  generally  reputed  to  be  the  au- 
thor of  a  valuable  treatise  (a  copy  of 
which  is  in  the  possession  of  the  writer 
of  this  essay),  intitled,  "  An  account  of 
the  conversion  of  Philip  Curwen,  a 
Franciscan  Friar,  to  the  Reformation 
of  the  Protesunt  Religion.'*  The  con- 
version  of  Curwen  was  a  matter  of 
considerable  importance  at  this  time, 
in  Ireland,  for  he  was  nephew  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Dublin,  who  himself 
had  been  born  and  educated  before  the 
Reformation  had  been  accomplished 
in  England. 

Bishop  Garvey  was  translated  to  the 
Primacy  in  1589;  and,  to  the  severe 
injury  of  the  cause  of  Christian  know- 
ledge in  it,  tlie  neighbourhood  of  Ca- 
van  and  See  of  Kilmore  remained  for 
fourteen  years  without  the  advantage 
of  a  Protestant  Prelate.     During  the 
vacancy  a  custodium  of  it  was  granted 
to  Dr.  Edgeworth,  Bishop  of  Down 
and  Connor,   for  such  was  the  con- 
fusion of  the  times,  from  the  intrieues 
of  the  Romish  ecclesiastics,  and  their 
influence  with  the  uncivilized  natives, 
that  no  Christian  Bishop  could  live  in 
that  part  of  Ireland.     In  1603,  Robert 
Draper,  Rector  of  Trim,  was  appoint- 
ed to  this  Bishopric,  and  on  his  death 
in  l6l2.  Dr.  Thomas  Moygne,  Dean 
of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin,  succeeded  to 
it,  and  to  the  adjoining  See  of  Ardagh, 
now  for  the  first  time  united  to  Kil- 
more, and  a  strong  Protestant  planta- 
tion in  the  counties  of  Longford  and' 
Leitrim,    situated   in   the  latter  See, 
enabled    this   Prelate  to  recover   the 
episcopal  lands  which  had  belonged  to 
the  former  Bishops  of  it,  no  less  than 
seven  of  whom  had,  in  the  preceding 
two  centuries,  been  of  the  name  and 
family  of  O'Ferral,  Princes  of  Annally, 
and   proprietors  of  the  whole  of  the; 
tract  of  country  afterwards  called  the 
county  of  Longford.    The  Edge  worths, 
Tuites,  and  Delamars,   were   at  this  - 
time  settled,   with   other  English  fa- 
milies,   in    this   new-named  county, 
while  the  Hamiltons  were  established 
at  Killesandra,  in  the  county  of  Cavan, 
where  they  built  a  castle  and  a  town, 
well  supplied  with  Scottish  soldiers  and 
inhabitants.    The  O'Ferrals,  O'Reil- 
lys, O'Bradys,  O^Curries,  O'Sheridans, 
iVjacKeernans,  and  Plunkets,  were  the 
principal  Romish  families  who  pos- 
sessed the  rest  of  the  soil  in  the  coua- 


18«70 

ties  of  Loogford  and  Cavan,  at  the 
close  of  Queen  Elisabeth's  reign. 

Dr.  Bloygne  was  a  Prelate  of  great 
firmness,  and  well  fitted  for  the  cir- 
comstances  of  the  time  in  which  he 
lived ;  not  content  with  his  vigorous 
and  successful  efTorts  to  recover  the 
alienated  propertv  of  the  Sees  of  Kil- 
more  and  Ardagn,  in  which  he  was 
sup|)orted  by  his  friend  George  Mont- 
fsoroery,  the  first  Protestant  Bishop  of 
Derry,  he  was  one  of  the  eleven  Irish 
Bishops  who  joined  Primate  Usher  on 
the  SOth  of  November,  1626,  in  a  prc^ 
.  test  against  the  toleration  of  Popery  in 
Ireland,  in  consideration  of  money  be« 
iiig  ofi*ered  by  the  Pope's  agents  for 
that  boon.  This  they  declared  to  be 
**  no  fest  than  seiiing  religion  io  sale, 
and  with  it  the  touls  qf  the  people 
whom  Christ  our  Saviour  had  re- 
deemed with  hit  most  pr ectotis  blood.** 

Bishop  Moygne  could  not  have 
maintained  his  ground  at  Cavan,  or 
even  been  sofferra  to  enter  on  the  epis- 
copal property  in  it,  had  not  a  strong 
British  settlement  been  established  in 
that  county  a  few  years  before  his  ap- 
pointment to  the  See  of  Kilmore.  The 
propertv  there  having  been  sacrificed 
in  rebellion  at  the  shrine  of  Popery  in 
the  reign  of  his  illustrious  predecessor, 
— ^King  James  the  First  granted  it  to 
Lord  Aubigny,  Lord  Lambert,  Sir  John 
HamiUon,^ir  William  Taafe,  Sir  John 
Elliott)  Sir  Stephen  Butler,  Sir  Hugh 
Worral,  Sir  Alexander  Hamilton,  Sir 
Claude  Hamilton,  Sir  Richard  Gra- 
ham, Sir  George  Graham,  Sir  Thomas 
Ash,  and  Sir  Thomas  Pheitilace,  and 
to  other  British  settlers  of  the  name  of 
Garth,  Ridge  way,  Tirrel,  Taylor,  Wal- 
dron.  Fish,  Home,  Mannering,  Lyons, 
Jones,  Atkinson,  Russel,  Aghmuty, 
Atcheson,  Culme,  Parsons,  andlTalbot. 
The  King  in  mercy  and  hope  of  their 
reconciliation,  granted,  as  native  free- 
holds, 900  acres  of  these  lands  to  Shane 
Philip  O'Reillcy,  1000  to  Capuin 
Molmoric  Mac  Philip  O'Reilly,  called 
Ittery  Outra  ;  to  Captain  O'Reilly, 
)000  acres  of  Lisconnor ;  to  Mulmore 
X>ge  O'Reilly  3000  acres  5  and  to  Ma- 
Rouran,  commonly  called  Prince  of 
Glen,  1000  acres,  upon  which  he  built 
a  strong  stone  house,  with  a  ditch 
about  it.  The  present  Romish  Bishop 
of  Ardagh  is  the  direct  descendant  and 
representative  of  this  object  of  British 
clemency.  He  witness^  the  late  dis- 
comfiture of  Popery  at  Cavan,    and 

Otirr.  M40.  March,  1  Bt7. 


in  Gmmoi. 


would  do  well  to  prove  hit  graikiide  to 
British  demency,  as  well  as  hit  ifiJi 
to  advance  the  cause  of  Christianity  m 
Ireland,  bv  setting  the  example  to  bb 
Clergy  and  the  people  under  their  in- 
fluence, by  adding  his  respectable  name 
to  the  list  of  those  who  are  now  aban- 
doning the  demoralizing  sapersUtion  of 
Rome,  and  joining  the  professors  of 
the  true  religion  estaolished  amongst  at. 

Doctor  Moygne  died  in  the  bc^n- 
niuR  of  the  year  16S8,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded in  the  Sees  of  Kilmore  and  Ar- 
dagh, by  the  celebrated  Dr.  Bedell,  at 
that  time  Provost  of  Trinity  Colkms, 
Dublin.  The  life  of  this  eminent  di- 
vine, by  Bishop  Burnett^  is  to  well 
known,  that  the  details  in  it  of  the 
progress  of  the  Reformation  in  the 
county  of  Cavan,  in  his  dark  and  stormy 
day,  'need  not  be  repeated  here.  It 
may  be  sufficient  to  notice  a  few  of 
them,  however,  with  some  circum- 
stances not  recorded  by  his  eminent 
bioerapher,  but  noted  by  Walter  Harris 
ancrotners. 

Bishop  Bedell  found  these  diocetet 
in  a  deplorable  state,  ignorance  and 
superstition  triumphant  over  know- 
ledge and  religion,  and  producing  their 
never-failing  fruits  of  vice  and  misery. 
The  pretensions  of  Popery  at  that  time 
to  an  ascendancy  in  Ireland,  were 
strikingly  similar  to  those  advanced  in 
it  at  the  present  day,  and  the.  meafis  to 
sustain  and  advance  them  pretty  pauch 
the  same.  EncouraRcd  by  tl)e  footing 
Popery  had  ^ot  in  the  English  Court, 
by  the  marriage  of  Henrietta  Maria 
with  the  uiiforiunate  King  Charles  the 
First,  the  Pope,  through  the  asency  of 
his  Nuncio  residing  in  Brussels,  con- 
trived to  maintain  a  direct  and  regular 
communication  between  the  newly- 
formed  congregation  "  de  propaganda 
Jide"  at  Rome,  and  the  Priests  of  his 
Church  regular  and  secular  in  Ireland. 
The  number  of  these  Priests  was  at 
least  double  that  of  the  Protestant 
Clergy,  and  beins  generally  the  younger 
sons  of  the  ola  aristocratic  families, 
trained  the  ignorant  populace  into  a 
complete  subjugation  to  them,  and 
abused  them  with  the  most  flagrant 
misrepresentations  of  the  reformed  re- 
ligion. For  ibe  education  of  such 
ecclesiastics  in  hostility  to  the  religion 
and  ^ernment  of  England,  and  in 
opposition  to  the  Protestant  Uni^'crsity, 
founded  by  Queen  Tilizabeih,  near 
Dublin,  the  Bbhop  of  Rome  erected  a 
College  in  that  city,  the  Dean  or  Pro- 


^fl^  Refont^a^r^  «l  Cdifaif.^  [Marchi 


».  ' 


iH^t>f  wbich  was.  a  Friar  pamed- Har-v  iofpr^ts  upoa  iheir  mind*  iher import- 

^Ba  ihc  author  pf  ah  infamous  libel  ance  of  relitfton,  and  the  weighty  le- 

qg^inst  Primate  Ust her.    Friaries  were  aponsibility  laid  upon  those  who  un- 

^ffcjcted  through  the  whole  island,  and  dertake   to   teach    it.    He    promoted 
U|0 Monks ItineratJBd  through  it,  preach-  '  some  of  them  to  benefices,  and  had  the 

ipg  new  superstitionsi  and  doctrines  so  happiness  to  find,  that  of  all  his  coq- 

dfliestable,.  that    even  the  Parochial  verts,  there  was  but  one  who  relapsed. 

CicKgy  of   their    own  Church  were  into  Popery,  at  the  breaking  oat  ot  the 

^hamed  of  them,  and  implored  the  rebellion  of  1 641,  a  severe  time  of  trial 

Poctors  of  Sorbonne  to  use  their  en-  to  those  who  had  renounced  the  errors 

dravoars  to  have  a  restraint  put  upon  of  Popery,  who  were  persecuted  even 

their  extravagancies.    The  peasantry,  with  more  cruelty  than  those  who  had 

however,  flocked  in  great  numbers  lo  been  born  and  educated  Protestants, 

ihese  preachers,  and  poor  as  the  coun-  .  The  New  Testament  and  the  Book 

|iy  was,  the  collections  made  after  the  of  Common  Prayer  had  before  this 

•ermoos  amounted  to  five  or  six  pounds,  time  been   translated  into  the   Irish 

II  considerable  sum  if  we  take  into  ac-  language,  by  Dr.  Daniel,  Archbishop 

count  the  value  of  money  in  those  days,  of  Tuam, — and  Bishop  3edell,  bv  the 

B)r.  these  means,  as  well  as  by  the  more  advice  of  Primate  Usher,  eaused  one 

regular  demoralization  of  the  people  by  of  his  converts  to  translate  the  Old. 

their  Parish   PriesU   of  the  Romish  Testament  into  the  same  language.  He 

communion,  the  morality  of  the  island  eten  learned  this  language  himself,  at. 

sunk  to  an  ebb,  perhaps  lower  than  a  period  of  life  beyond  that  at  which 

Ihatof  any  heathen  country  in  ancient  Cato  is  said  to  have  attained  a  know- 

OE  modern  times,  and  in  no  part  of  Ire-  led^e  of  the  Greek  tongue,  and  such  a 

land,  as  the  subsequent  rebellion  and  proBciency  did  he  make  in  the  unpro- 

massacre  proved,  were  the  populace  misinfj;  study,  that  he  wrote  a  complete 

more  corrupted,  more  debased,  more  Irish  Grammar,  and  superintendea  the 

fallen  from  the  lowest  standard  of  mo-  translation  of  some  of  Chrysostom's 

lality,  than  in  the  diocess  of  Kilmore  and  Leo's  Homilies  in  praise  of  the 

'  and   county  of   Cavan.    The   titular  Scripture,  which  he  intended  to  have 

Bishop,  then  one  of  the  ancient  family  printed  with  his  Irish  Bible, 

of  Mac  Swine,  ofFanet,  in  the  county  He  furnished  his  converts  with  the 

of  Donegall,  was  a  most  abandoned  means  of  instructing  others  in  the  ele- 

dninkard,  and  in  his  liquor  the  pa-  mentary  parts  of  Christian  knowledge, 

rbxvams  of  his  fiiry  against  the  religion  by  a  short  Catechism,  printed  on  one 

pf  the  Bible,  resembled  the  ravings  of  sheet  in  the  £nglish  and  Irish  lan- 

a  maniac.    The  Parish  Priests  were  guages,  to  "which  he  added,  in  the 

notorious  for  drunkenness  and  lewd-  same  way,  some  forms  of  evangelical 

jiess.    Several  of  them  were  cited  into  prayer,  and  some  select  passages  of 

Bishop  Bedell's  Court  for  fornication  ;  holy  writ. 

where  he  mildly  and  gently  reproved  There  was  a  convent  of  Friars  near 

them  for  their  abominations,  and  cvinc-  the  palace  at  Kilmore,  with  whom 

ed  a  disposition  rather  to  reclaim  them  this  good  Bishop  took  great  pains,  with 

from  error  by  kindness,  than  run  the  proportionable  success.     Among  his 

risk  of  confirming  them  in  it  by  harsh-  converu  was  one  Mac  Swine  or  Swi- 

ness.     His  credit  with  such  of   the  uey,  brother  to  the  titular  Bishop,  and 

Romish  CleiKy  who  had  a  regard  for  FriarDennisSheridan,  ofTogher,  near 

morality,  and  were  sincere  in  their  re-  Cavan.— The  titular  Bishop,  notwith- 

4igion,  such  as  it  was,  soon  became  so  standing  his  bigotry,  does  not  appear 

^reat,  that  he  prevailed,  in  a  short  to  have  resentedthis  act  with  respect 

iime,  over  several  of  the  most  intel-  to  his  brother — for  he  manifested  some 

ligent  of  them,  to  adopt  the  faith  of  the  kindness  towards  the  persecuted  Be- 

ffcformed  Church ;  and  as  they  were  all  dell  for  two  months  after  the  massacre 

.well  acouainted  with   the  Irish  Ian-  of  the  Protestants  commenced.   It  was 

goage,  then  universal  among  the  pea-  not  until  the  Christmas  following  ihe 

tantry,.  they  became  the  happy  instru-  dreadful  83d  ofOctober,  l641,  that  he 

jnenu  of   turning  many  from  their  took  possession  of  the  episcoiial  house, 

.mors,  and.  reconciling  them  to  the  and  when  he  did  so,  probably  by  the 

purified  faith.    The  good  Bishop  took  command  of  the  rebels,  he  protested 

great  pains  with  these  clerical  converts  that  he  came  there  only  to  protect  the 

f— he  was  indefatigable  in  his  efibrt»  to  venerable  owner  of  it ;   and  detiicd 


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that  he  should  hlmieir  be  admiited- 
only  as  a  lodger.  As  to  Sheridan,  his 
cbavenioti  was  a  sincere  one,  knd  it 
was  rewarded  by  his  affording  an  asylum 
to  his  Tenerable  instructor,  at  a  time 
wheii  the  Protestant  blood  was  flow- 
ing in  aH  directions  round  them,  and. 
nothing  but  the  habitual  respect  paid 
by  the  Irish  to  the  ancient  families  of 
tne  country,  enabled  the  convert  thus 
to  evince  his  gratitude.  This  converted 
Friar  married  an  English  Protestant 
lady,  by  whom  he  had  issue  three 
sons;  one  of  them,  Patrick  Sheridan^, 
SQCceeded  to  this  very  See,  but  was 
deprived  of  it  for  refusing  to  take  the 
oath  of  allesiance  to  Kmg  Williarn 
and  Queen  Mary.  The  second  son 
was  successively  Dean  of  Connor  and 
Bishop  of  Clo3me;  and  the  third  son 
was  Sir  Thomas  Sheridan,  some  time 
Secretary  to  King  Janies  the  Second, 
and  father  of  the  celebrated  school- 
master of  Cavan,  the  friend  of  Swift. 

The  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion 
frustrated  all  these  efforts  to  rescue  the 
people  of  Cavan  from  the  dominion  of 
Satan,  but  in  proof  of  the  veneration 
in  which  the  apostolical  Bedel  was 
held  even  by  persecuting  enemies,  one 
circumstance,  not  mentioned  by  his 
Episcopal  biographer,  but  related  by 
Waller  Harris,  deserves  to  be  recorded. 
Burnett  tells  us  that  the  Irish  rebels, 
who  in  great  force  attended  the  funeral 
of  this  Prelate  to  the  church-yard  of 
Kilmore,  desired  his  son-in-law  to  bury 
hts  body  according  to  the  (church  ser- 
vice— tnat  they  fired  a  volley  of  shot, 
not  in  triumph,  but  in  token  of  respect, 
over  his  grave,  and  raised  a  loud  cry, 
with  these  words,  "  Reguiescal  in  pace 
uUimus  Anglorum  /**  Harris  adds,  that 
one  Edmund  O'Farrel,  a  Priest  of  the 
Romish  Church,  exclaimed  over  the 
grave,  **  0  sit  anima  mca  cum  Bedelio  /" 

It  may  be  right  to  add  here,  for  the 
instruction  of  those  now  happily  en- 
gaged in  Bedell's  interrupted  work,  a 
brief  extract  from  almost  the  only 
written  sermon  he  left  after  him ;  for 
he,  like  Usher  and  many  other  of  the 
most  distinguished  divines  of  the  earlier 
days  of  the  Church  of  England,  was 
im  extemporary  preacher. 

Preachmg  on  these  words  of  our 
Sayiour^  **  learn  of  me,  for  I  am 
meek  and  lowlt/,*'  he  thus  addressed  the 
Irish  House  of  Commons,  in  which 
(here  were  at  that  time  matjy  members 
of  the  Church  of  Rome-—**  Qod  help 
t»,  we  had  neid-  to  aftfend-  to  the  less6n 


of  Cikii^Ti  iob»§entle,«listlie'A)ailNAe 
dii'ects,  apt  to  teach,  patient;  InMi^kif 
ness    instructing,  those    that,   opfojk 
themselves;  if  God  perad'venture^wiH> 
sive  thein  repentance  to  the  aeknbw-* 
ledging  of  tne  truth,  and  that  thc^ 
who  are  taken  captive  by  Satan  at  hia^ 
will,  may  recover  themselves  put  of  .bill 
snare."  (ii.Tim.  24»  23,  and  26i^"  i< 
have  long  been  of   this .  mind,  thaft^ 
many  in  their  sermons  and  writingsl 
are  to  blame  for  their  manner  of  deaU; 
ing  with  the  adversaries  of  theie  opi-i 
nions,  when  they  ^ive  reins  to  iheir.' 
tongues  and  pens  m  railing  aod.ie-: 
proachful    speeches,    and  thinjc  they: 
nave  done  well  when  they  exce^  them.* 
in  that,  wherein  to  have  the  better  it; 
indeed  to  be  the  worse.*'    "  It  is  .not- 
the  storm  of  words  but  the  strength  oi' 
reasons  that  will  stay  a  waverinsjudg^^ 
ment.    Our  calling  is  to  deal  with* 
errors,  not  to  diserace  men  with  scold- > 
ing    words.      When    Alexander   the 
Great  overheard  one  of  his  soldiers 
railing   against  Darius,    he  reproved' 
him,  saying,  '  /  enter iain  thee  tojight 
against  Darius,    not   to    revile  kirn/' 
Thus  may  we  suppose  our  Divine  Mas- 
ter might  say  to  some  of  us,  *  I  wouldf 
that  you  should  refute  Popery,  and  set 
yourselves  against  Antichrist  my  enemy, 
with  all  the  discoloured  sects  and  he-i 
resies   who    fight    under    his   banner- 
against  me,  and  not  to  call  him  aiul 
his  troops  all  to  nought.*    In  this  my 
poor  opmion  I  differ  from  some  men* 
of  great  note— from  Luther  and  from 
Calvin  and  others— they  were,  perhaps: 
by  complexion  or  otherwise,  given  over' 
too  much  to  anger,  but  sure  I  am  that: 
the  rule  of  the  Apostle  is  plain,  and 
that  with  lenity  we  should  instruct, 
even  such  as  are*  the  slaves  of  Satan,' 
waiting,  that  when  escaping  out  of  his 
snare,    they  should   recover  a  sound 
mind  to  do  God's  will." 

J.  Grahak. 
Magilligan,  Feb,  15. 

%*  Since  ws  have  received  the  above' 
communicatioo,  the  Dullm  fTctrden  states^ 
that  **  tweotj  Romaa  Catholics  have  just 
abjured  the  errors  of  Popery  m  the  Church 
of  Cavan ;  three  at  Bally-haiie,  co.  Cavan ; 
two  at  Knockhrtde,  ditto ;  eight  at  Omagh; 
eight  at  Westport,  co.  Mayo,  pubkioly  re- 
canted,   besides    eleven,    who  attenil.  the' 
worship  of  the  Established  Church,  without 
having  gone  through'  the  ceremony  bf  tf 
formal  i3>)uratiun;  five  at  KllconattdlEr  M*. 
Wexibrd;  thirteen  in  Portarlington^  Qneen'a 
county,"  &c.  &.c. — Edit.  *^    ^    *^- 


938 


SoekHfffir  purchating  Ckurch  Preftrmenii* 


[March/ 


Mr.  Urbav,        March  I,  1897. 

WHAT  your  Correspondent  E.  I. 
C.  '*nas  o(\en  heard  asserted 
concerning  the  existence  of  a  Society, 
for  the  avowed  purpose  of  purchasina 
Livings  intheCnurch  of£ngland,  alra. 
bestowing  the  same  upon  persons  of  a 
fanatical  persuasion,*'  he  may  be  as- 
sured is  a  fact.*  The  case,  indeed,  is 
so  notorious,  that  I  wonder  one  so 
intelligent  should  "doubt  it.*'  The 
nest-egg  of  the  fund,  in  the  hands  of 
this  self-constituted  body  (comprising, 
it  seems,  by  the  Cheltenham  presenta- 
tion, devotees  of  both  sexes)  was  laid 
and  left,  for  the  said  "  purpose,'*  by  a 
wealthy  individual  who  died  about  30 
yeflts  since.  That  pecuniary  princt" 
mum  was  devised,  in  trust  to  accumu- 
Mte,  till  it  attained  a  certain  magni- 
tude, and  then  the  trustees  were  to 
commence  operations  by  the  purchase 
of  improveaole  Church  Livings,  in 
populous  places,  or  in  places  likely  to 
become  so.  Nor  were  they  to  rest 
there ;  but  they  were  to  seelc  out,  and 
easily  were  to  be  accessible  to,  young 
men  **  decidedly  pious  *'  (as  the  pre- 
sent cant  phrase  is)  to  be  trained  at  the 
University  for  the  Livings  so  pur- 
chased, as  they  should  become  vacant. 
These  loaves  and  fishes,  though  al- 
ready by  no  means  few,  not  being 
sufficient  among  so  many,  the  trained 
bands  are  marcned  forward,  under  the 
auspices  of  their  patrons,  into  Cura- 
cies,— no  matter  how  small  the  imme- 
diate stipends,— /i//««  for  orders  being 
the  chief  object.  Arrogating  to  them- 
selves a  distinction,  to  which  of  all 
men  they  have  the  least  right — that  of 
Evangelical  Ministers.  This  sect  (for 
such  they  are),  like  their  prototypes  the 
Puritans  of  old,  are  fast  strippmg  reli- 
gion of  all  her  lovely  graces,  and  cloth- 
ing her  in  sombre  weeds  and  repulsive 
gloom.  I  said,  they  have  no  nght  to 
their  assumed  title — Hvangelical;  be- 
cause their  preachers  seldom  take  their 
texts  from  the  Gospel,  and  scarcely 
ever  from  that  sermon  of  sermons  in 
the  Gospel,  the  Redeemer's  own  ser- 
mon on  the  Mount.  That^  I  suppose, 
would  be  denominated  by  them  "a 
moral  sermon.*'  If  they  are  deter- 
Oiioed  to  have  a  distinctive  title,  Rpis- 
Uknan$  would  better  suit  them;  as 
tbe  chief  sources  of  their  sermons  are 
St,  Faul's  Epistles ;  not  that  the  writ- 

*  Sm  Gsnt^  Mag.  for  Nov.  18S6^  p. 


inps  of  that  Apostle  are  incongruous 
with  the  doctrines  of  his  Divine  Mas- 
ter, far  from  it,  they  are  in  perfect 
harmony :  but  thence  these  "  new 
lights  '*  find  it  easier  (especially  from 
passages  *'  hard  to  be  understood  *')  to 
promulgate  their  favourite,  or  (as  I 
suspect)  their  imposed  Calvinistic  no- 
tions of  Predestination  and  Election. 

Concerning  distinctive  names,  set. 
up  as  "  walls  of  partition  *'  among 
professed  worshippers  of  the  one  living 
and  true  God,  I  devoutly  wish  the 
predicted  time  were  come,  when  all 
those  worshippers  would  unite  their 
righteous  hands  to  throw  them  down, 
*•  even  to  the  ground !"  whether 
Churchmen  or  Dissenters, — Catholics 
or  Protestants,— Calvinists  or  Arme- 
nians,— Quakers  or  Methodists, — with 
all  the  other  "  divisions  and  sub-divi- 
sions *'  of  sects,  which  now  unhappily 
exist,  to  the  manifest  detriment  of 
Divine  Revelation,  and  to  the  foster- 
ing of  infidel  principles.  I  do  con- 
jure them  to  amalgamate  under  the 
one  grand,  and  only -authorized  distinc- 
tive name  of  Christiam.  Thus  were 
"  the  disciples  of  Christ  first  called  in 
Antioch,"  and  why  should  they  not 
thus  be  designated  m  Britain?  Ami 
therefore  an  advocate  for  Latitudina- 
rianism  ?  or  do  I  deem  all  "  modet  of 
faith"  of  little  consequence?  By  no 
meaus ;  I  object  to  the  existent  deno* 
minations  of  religious  faith  as  "  gen- 
dering strife,'*  and  tending  to  prevent 
that  "  unity  of  spirit  which  should  be 
preserved  in  the  bond  of  pface."  I 
object  to  them  for  the  same  reason  that 
induced  an  amiable  Prelate  (the  late 
Bishop  Home)  to  say  (I  quote  from 
recollection)  *'  were  the  Lord  now  to 
Icok  down  from  heaven  upon  the  chil- 
dren of  men,  what  would  he  behold  ? 
He  would  behold  that  blessed  Gospel 
which  was  mercifully  designed  to  unite 
them  in  peace  and  amity,  torn  in  pieces 
by  contending  secu,  till  there  is 
scarcely  enough  left  for  every  one  of 
them  to  take  a  little !"  Nay,  I  object 
to  such  fanciful  and  mischievous  dis- 
tinctions on  still  firmer  ground.  Di- 
vine AuTHORiTir.  1  here  quote  from 
the  inspired  Volume ; — ••  Now,  I  be- 
seech  you,  brethren,  by  the  name  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  that  ye  all 
speak  the  same  thing,  and  that  there 
be  no  divisions  among  you ;  but  tliat 
ye  be  perfectly  joined  together  in  the 
same  mind,  and  iiw  the  same  jad|{- 
nent.    For  it  hath  been  declared  unto 


18«7.} 


&o€iiaffw  fmcha»mg  Chur^  Pr^ftnMmtt. 


39ft^ 


loe  pfyody  my  brethren,  tbsit  there  are  C.*s  letter,  relative '  to  the^  yftAffgrnsfi 
conteotions  among  you.  One  of  you  Methodists*  vnion  with  the  Choich,  i 
■aith,  I  am  of  Paul,  and  I  of  Apollot, 
and  I  of  Cephas,  and.'*  (the  only  one 
that  was  risht)  "/  o/*  Ckriit.  Is 
Christ  divided?  was" Pan/  crucified 
for  you  ?  or  were  you  haptited  in  the 
name  of  Paul  V* — J .  Cor.  i.  10,  et  $eQ, 
**  Note  or  comment"  to  these  words 
unnecessary.     Every  candid  mind 


meant  to  say  something.  As,  how 
ever,  on  that  subject  Clericus  seems 
fully  competent  lo  answer  for  himself, 
I  shall  not  *' meddle  with  another 
man's  matters,"  but  now  produce  my 
promised  extract,  giving  snch  reference 
as  may  guide  £.  I.  C.  or  those  whom 
it  concerns,  to  the  very  curious  ori- 
must  interpret  them  aright.    May  the    ginal  \  a  document  that  furnishes  aa 


IS 


interpretation  lead  to  good  1 

Reverting  to  the  persons  aiming  to 
establish  an  imperium  in  imperio,  who, 
on  calling  forth  the  inquiry  of  £.  I.C. 
have  virtually  prompted  these  animad- 
versions, I  tnink  it  right  to  say  that  I 
acquit  them  of  inieniional  mischief, 
altnough  they  are  doing  a  great  deal ; 
and  I,  morenirer,  give  them  credit  for 
abundance  of  zeal.  Yet,  as  generally, 
a  zeal  not  according  to  know- 


it  is 


additional  proof  of  a  wise  man's  say- 
ing, that  "  there  is  nothing  new  under 
the  sun.'*  For  even  old  heresies  and 
schisms,  supposed  to  have  been  put 
down  by  tne  strong  arm  of  law,  or 
that  were  believed  to  have  passed  away 
to  return  no  more,  revive  and  re-ap- 
pear: like  comets  supposed  to  have 
departed  from  our  horizon  for  ever,  we 
see  them  revisiting  us  again,  to  gleam, 
with  baleful  aspect  on  the  happiness 


Process  in  the  Exchequer^    HUary  Tefm, 
A,D.  1639  :  against  sundry  persons.  Jar 
encroaching  upon  the  King's  Regaiity,  m. 
erecting  themselves  into  a  society  or  eorpo'i 
ration,  caiUd  the  CoUeetors  qf  St.  Anthn^ 
iyn's,  Jor  the  purchase  qf  Chwch  Litings* 


ledge,'*  they  are  here  reminded  of  of  mankind, 
what  their  favourite  Apostle  says  on 
that  matter:  "  It  is  good  to  be  zea- 
lously affected  always ;"  but  in  what  ? 
"tn  a  eood  iking. — Gal.  iv.  18.  I 
will  go  further,  and  declare  my  belief 
that  they  are,  for  the  most  part,  well- 
meaning  people.  But  meaning  v^tW,  #  .  ..^h  had  made  a  depeodance  of 
and  possessing  ability  to  act  well,  are  ciergymsn  upon  them ;  and  went  on  at  if 
very  different  properties.  An  advocate  t^ey  designed  u>  become  supreme  patrons  j 
of  John  Wesley  (arguing  with  Dr.  when  it  W*  be  easy  for  them  to  introduce 
Johnson  respecting  the  propriety  of  Poritans  into  the  most  considerable  placet 
expelling  that  founder  of  Methodism  in  the  kingdom." — Harleiaa  Catalogne; 
from  College)  said  he  meant  well,  and  where  a  copy  of  this  process  is  noted.  No. 
was  a  good  kind  of  man.  •' That  may  88«.  They  held  meetings  from  15  Feb. 
be.  Sir,'*  replied  the  sententious  ca-  1626,  to  15  March.  16S1. 
suist,  "  so  is  a  cow  a  very  good  kind  of  ,    "  Whereas  His  Maj«.tvs  Attorney  Geo& 

animal,   but  we  turn  her  out  of  a  ^.**'f,**^'**'^^?  W.  •   fTi'^'-S 

.      %,  the  Court,  on  His  Majesty  s  behaJte,  ag" 

^1       *  ij  r      •  u            n                i.«.  W-.  Gouch,  RicM.  Sibbs,  Giles  Ospringj 

1  could  furnish  your  Correspondent  ^  j^^^  pavenport,  Clerks;  Tho.  fcre5 

with    some  singular  facU,  illustrative  ^,^  ^^  j^^jt.  Sel^.t  Uwe;  Robt  Eyres^ 

of  the  doings  of  the   •'Society      he  an  Apprentice  of  theLawe;  John  White, 

mentions,    were   1    not  unwilling   to  Samuel  Browne,  BarrUters  at  Lawe  ;  Ni- 


occupy  an  undue  portion  of  your  va- 
luable columns;  and  having  still  to 
transcribe,  from  an  authentic  docu- 
ment, an  extract,  which  will,  per- 
haps, lead  to  further  investigations. 
On  reading  that  extract,  mutatis  mti- 
iantUs,  who  will  hesiute  to  say,  that 
the  acts  and  deeds  of  the  men,  in 
the  two  generations,  are  not  the  same  i 


cholas  Raynton,  Citizen  and  Aldennan  of 
London;  John  Gearing,  Richard  Daviet, 
George  Harwood,  Francis  Bridges,  Mer- 
chants; W"  Levans  and  Rich<*  Foxley, 
Clerks ;  and  '  Price,  defendants :  shew- 
ine  thereby,  y*  »ince  y«  10*^  yeare  of  y* 
reigne  of  y*  late  kinc  James  of  blessed 
memorie,  —7*  s<*  defendants,  to  j*  intent  to 
obtain,  and  procure  into  thelre  hands,  divers 
manors,    messages,     lands,     teneoiGots,— 


Nay, . will  not  the  Behe^ce-huying  men  ^.^^^ '  ^^i^„  «  ^  ^^  ^f  ^  ^^ 

of  this  ffeneraliou,  and  their  sanctimo-  ^y^  ^f  ^j^^j,   ^^  authoritie,    cieat  and 

nious  adherenu,  almost  fancy  thev  see  ^^^^  themselves. into  a  societie  or  bodie 

their   own   natural    faces  in   a  glass  ?  oorporste,  called  sometimes  by  the  name  of 

Yet,  I  fear,  they  will  «>  their  way,  the  Collectors  of  S*  Antholyne's,  &  some- 

aod  straightway  forget  what  manner  of  times  by  the  name  of  y*  Treasorers :  &  soe 

inen  they  are.  continued  ever  since :   and,  from  time  to 

CoQiccniiDg  the  latter  part  of  E.  I.  time,  to  make  Assemblies  and  Cba^Ut%  ^^ 


Sld^  DeanHtrnK  Profetsf>r  Dohree,  imd  Bp.  BMmfitld.     [Msneli,^ 


tWiiueli^ )  tMd  to  hal^  Coniiellty  &  to 
mtke  Oidinaoeet  oonciniiiig  tho  promiaesy 
•■d«  ai  toim  of  tham  dje  or  be^  rtmoTcdy 
to  elect  otken  im  their  pboety  for  theet 
pijlrpoMiy  end  to  appoint  and  conatitata 
K^isten  &  Actoariea  of  their  doings,  and 
Ord'inances  therein i  who  write  the  fame, 
into  their  bookes  and  Regiitert ;  w«^  they 
keep  among  theinaelves  :  and  under  cobur 
thereof,  aitoence  the  layd  tenth  yeare,  had 
gbClen  into  their  hands  dirers  somea  of 
lAoneijf  inUnded  by  y*  givers  ofthem*iot 
nteeaaarie  relief  and  suatenance  of  men  of 
the  Oergie,  harine  core  of  Soulc;*,  and  for 
oiber  aueh  like  pi»>lick  pioua  works :  and 
wftH  P*^  thereof  had  porchaaed  to  them- 
atlvea,  oi*  aome  othera  &  their  heirs  (bnt 
with  purpose  to  be  at  their  duposit"')  the 
Reetorie  of  l)uoatable  in  the  Coonty  of 
Bedford,  the  Reetorie  of  Cieester  in  the 
County  of  Gloucester,"  and  a  variety  of 
other  places,  both  in  England  and  Wales, 
too  numerous  here  to  mention  }  and  if  men' 
lunudf  would  make  the  inhabitants  of  some 
places  stare.  The  Court,  however,  was  of 
optektn,  **  that  the  proceedings  of  the  said 
defendants  were  agamU  ike  Laws  and  Ous- 
tmu  rf  this  realm  j  and  tend  to  the  draw- 
ing to  themselves,  in  time,  a  principal 
dependence  of  the  whole  Clergie  of  the 
realm,  that  shotdd  receive  reward  from 
them,  in  such  measure,  and  on  such  oondi- 
tioos  as  they  should  fitncy ;  thereby  inlro- 
duciog  many  novelties  of  dangerous  conse- 
quence, both  to  the  Church  and  common 
weal ;  and  were  usurpations  upon  Hu  Ma- 
Jestie's  Rcgalitie.'^  Fact. 

Mr.  Urbak,      Kellington,  Mar,  Q. 

WHETHER  it  may  be  considered 
as  fathtouable,  in  the  present 
day,  for  highly-talented  autliors,  or  for 
^uch  as,  at  least,  esteem  themselves  so, 
le  write  complimentary  notices  of 
themselves,  or  occasionally  to  inforitft 
the  world,  by  means  of  flattering  re- 
▼tewB  of  their  own  productions,  oT  the 
Talde  and  importlince  of  their  own  la« 
boun  and  discoveries,  I  pretend  not  to 
day.  The  aiticle,  however,  which  ap- 
peared in  the  last  number  of  your  va- 
luable Publication,  among  the  Minor 
Correspondence,  purporting  to  come 
from  Ferax  of  Cambridge,  though  it 
cannot  possibly,  for  a  moment,  be  sup- 
posed to  proceed  from  the  pen  of  the 
ictmed  Dean  of  Peterborough  himself; 
yet  certainly  must  have  emanated  from 
some  warm  advocate  of  his,  who,  with 
the  pdrtiidity  of  friendship,  manifetllj 
shows  **  what  pretty-  things  one  mati 

V 

-^11     *^i     I .  .      ■  ^^m  m      ■[■ji.MfiMii  M_w         II  I  ■  -- 

*  The  ncdgerr  meaat  them  for  vety  dif^ 
lexeBi 


of  parts  can  say  of  another.      Toai^' 
tempt  to  exalt  jone  character  by  the  de- ' 
pression  (though  that  inay  be  said  to ' 
DC  only  apparent)  of  another,  mosi 
always  be  considered  as  illiberal  as  it 
is  certainly  unjust 

The  writer  of  the  Memoir  of  the 
late  Professor  Dohree,  in  Tyonr  Obitu- 
ary for  October,  1825  (not  September), 
had  there  said,  "  that  he  was  inti- 
mately acquainted  with  Porson,  who 
set  the  highest  value  on  his  talents; 
and  at  the  aeath  of  that  great  man,  he 
was  considered  as  his  natural  successor.' 
He  was,  at  that  time,  out  of  the  kinfl"- 
dom,  and  the  diffidence  of  his  diiposi- 
tion  would  not  permit  him  to  become 
an  active  competitor  for  any  honour." 
Whether  Professor  Dobree  was  out  of 
the  kingdom  at  the  time  of  Porson's 
death,  or  whether  he  was  along  with 
the  learned  Bishop  of  Chester,  a  rival 
candidate  of  the  present  Dean  of  Peter- 
borough, who,  on  that  occasion,  finally 
succeeded  to  the  vacant  chair  of  the 
Greek  Professor,  being  at  that  time 
absent  from  the  University,  I  do  not 
accurately  remember.  To  the  absolute 
truth  of  the  other  parts  of  this  charac- 
ter, 1  am,  however,  from  a  long  inti- 
macy, sufficiently  enabled  to  bear  am- 
ple testimony,  supposing  the  case  to 
be  as  stated  by  Ferax,  this  would  by  no' 
means  be  a  solitary  instance  in  which' 
the  diffidence  ofhis  disposition  "  would 
not  permit  him  to  become  an  active 
competitor  for  any  honour.'*  From 
what  I  have  heard,  and  from  what  I 
have  seen,  I  can  sincerely  declare, 
that  of  the  celebrated  trio.  Monk,  Do- 
bree, and  Bloomfield,  that  Dobree  was 
invariably  considered  the  favourite  pu- 
pil of  the  late  eminent  Professor ;  and 
well  might,  without  any  impropriety, 
be  denominated  the  natural  successor 
of  that  ^reat  man.  Ferax,  however, 
would  wish  us  to  draw  a  diflerent  con- 
clusion from  these  premises.  He  con- 
tends, that  it  is  the  greatest  degree  of 
inaccuracy  thus  to  reason.  Dobriee 
did  not,  on  that  occasion,  succeed "tt^ 
the  vacant  chair,  and  therefore  could 
not- be  justly  considered  as  the  natural 
successor  of  Porson.  To  little  purpose 
has  he  attended  to  either  the  new  re- 
gjulations  or  the  old  system  of  educa- 
tion pursued  in  the  University  of  Caiti- 
bridge,  if  they  have  only  taughi  him 
.to  draw  such  consequences  as  thes^ 
It  is  well  known  to  every  member  of 
Trinity  College,  that,. in  that  Socie^ 
tncrfe  are  two  liay-fcHowahips,  thtr'is. 


18^.1  :     Grnk  Pf^fmar  i^  Cambriig4.^TUk^ 


831 


two  which  are  tcoable  withont  enter- 

tpg  into  Holy  Orden :  when  a  Yacancy 

oocon  JO  either  of  theie»  the  nomina- 

tioD  ofasucceMor  rests  with  the  Master 

alooe,  who  nevertheless  is  bound  to 

elect  one  from  the  number  of  already  _  ^ 

existing  Fellows.    Porson»  on  account    down  to  the  level  of^less  eDlishteiieS 

gf  his  very  superior  merit  as  ajjreek    capacities  the  almost  innumenble  dis^ 


^ace  with  Porsob,  who  wa^  jnttly  co»i 
sideied»  both  by  fneoda  and  foes,  iht 
deeuest,  the  most  acule  and  accurate 
mooern  Grecian  scholar  that  perhaps 
ever  existed.  They  each  of  them  used 
their  several  advantages,  in  brii^ng 


scholar,  was  elected  a  regular  Fellow 
of  that  Society  a  ^ear  earlier  than  the 
usual  time.     Having,  however,  some 
decided  objection,  or  dislike  to  enter 
into  Orders,  at  the  expiration  of  seven 
years  his  Fellowship  expired.    A  little 
orevioos    to    that  time    an    opening 
fortunately  happened  on  the  Lay-foun- 
dation :  who  then  would  not  have  said 
that  Porson  was  the  natural  successor 
to  the  vacant  Fellowship  ?     He  did  not 
ultimately  succeed;    but  who  would 
hesitate  (or  a  nxmient  in  pronouncing 
him  the  natural  heir  (as  it  were)  to  the 
pending  honour.    This  seems  to  me 
to  be  a  case  in  point    Purson  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate   for  a   certain 
piece  of  preferment :  Dobree  was  the 
same.     The  number  of  electors,  in 
each  case,  was  confined  to  a  few ;  they 
were  not,   it  must  be  observed,  the 
whole  of  the  members  of  the  Senate. 
Bat  in  consequence  of  those  respective 
failures,  neitner  the  learning  of  Por- 
son, nor  the  superior  claims  of  Dobree, 
were,  in  the  least  degree,  either  ques- 
tioned or  impeached. 

In  what  is  said  above,  no  disparage- 
ment whatever  is  intended,  either  to 
the  literary  acouirements  or  strenu- 
oos  exertions  or  Dr.  Monk.  Among 
all  the  numerous  pro^ny  of  Alma 
Mater,  who  have,  at  different  periods, 
been  nurtured  within  her  sacred  walls, 
she  would  in  vain  seek  to  find  a  warm- 


coveries,  and  critical  minotisB,  in  thai 
most  comprehensive  of  all  languages^ 
of  their  neat  Prototypej 

One  of  these  dtstioguished  Itteraiy 
characters  is  already  gone  to  **  thiut 
bourn  from  whence  no  traveller  re^ 
turns,"  and  is  consequently  now  alike 
insensible  of  human  praise  and  cen- 
sure. The  active  sphere  of  utility  and 
benevolence  of  another  of  them  hat 
been  considerablv  enlarsed  by  his  re- 
cent call  to  the  EpitcopaT  Bench  :  and 
amid  the  vast  number  of  mitres  which 
are,  at  present,  showering  down  witU 
such  unwonted  profusion,  upon  the 
reverend  heads  ot  the  dignifiea  Clergy, 
that  one  may  be  found  aptly  fitted  tOk 
incircle  (hat  of  the  learned,  the  active^ 
and  the  worthy  Dean  of  Peterborough^ 
is  the  sincere  wish,  and  ardent  hope,. 

of. 

Yours,  &c.  Omicron. 

Mr.  Urban,       Gray's  Inn,  Feb,  6. 

I  WAS  gratified  to  see  a  paper  in 
your  January  number  (p.  85),  on 
"Titles  by  Courtesy,"  by  Lbctor 
RusTicDS.  It  is  a  subject  which  has 
engaged  much  of  my  attention  of  late 
years,  aixl  I  hope  it  will  call  forth 
some  abler  Correspondent  than  myself, . 
because  I  think  it  is  a  subject  which 
ought  to  be  uken  notice  of,  and  made 
as  public  as  possible. 

1  agree  with  your  Correspondent 
er,  a  more  active,  or  more  eloquent  that  it  is  well  that  the  eldest  soi|s  of 
advocate  of  her  rights  and  privileges  £arls,  and  all  the  sons  of  Marquesses 
than  the  late  Greek  Professor.  and  Dukes,  should  have  the  title  by 

To  institute  any  inquiry  into,  and  courtesy,  but  why  a  tide  shooldgo 
by  it  to  draw  a  comparison  with  reeard  lower,  unless  conferred  specially  by 
to  the  individual  meriu  of  the  tKree  the  King,  it  b  impossible  to  say* 
eminent  classical  scholars  above-men-  They  ceruinly  have  no  grounds  for 
tioned,  would  be  as  invidious  as  it  assuming  the  title:  and  if  the  eldest 
would  be  useleu.     Their  respective  *         •  '     "-'  jr^.L^...  .u:-j 

works  have,  for  some  time,  been  iA 
the  hands  of  the  learned ;  and  they  have 
each  of  them  received  from  the  most 

diiunsoished  critics,  both  at  home  and    your  Correspoadent  in  error  when  he 
abroad,  the  merited  palm  of  approba-    quotes  the  case  of  the  Duk^  of  Man^ 
tion  and 
themj 

forman]r 

emendations  of,  ancient  classical  wn- 

ters,  to  a  long  and  intin^te  acquaint-  *• !»  ^is  98th  yr^-EDiT. 


grandson  claim  his  grandfather's  third 
title,  his  brothers  sorely  can  have  nO> 
reason  for  assuming  the  title  of  Lord 
before  their  Christian  names.    Is  not 


«53 


TUlu  bif  Caurtety.-^LHUr  of  Robert  Butiw.         [March, 


■8  to  this*.  There  it  another  case,' 
though  not  menti<med  bj  your  Cbr- 
Tespondenty  yet  it  was  most  likely  in 
his  mind  when  he  wrote ;  the  grand- 
tons  of  Dukes  and  Marquesses  throu^ 
their  younger  sons,  now  claim  the 
word  "Honourable*'  before  their 
names ;  thus  Lord  George  Cavendish's 
tons  are  called  "  Hon.  C.  G.  Caven- 
dish," &c.  &c.  If  this  is  permitted  to 
go  on,  we  shall  be  in  lime  overrun 
with  these  descendants  of  nobility,  like 
some  of  our  Continental  allies,  where 
every  branch  of  the  family  becomes 
one  of  the  Peerage. 

Allow  me.  Sir,  to  add  two  queries 
to  those  of  your  Correspondent.  Why 
are  the  daughters  of  an  Earl  all  stylea 
"  Ladies/'  and  the  younger  sons  only 
"  Honourable  Misters  ?"  and  as  the 
sons  of  Lord  George  Cavendish  assume 
the  title,  of  "Honourable**  before  their 
name,  suppose  a  sister  of  bis  had  mar- 
ried a  Commoner,  would  her  children 
assume,  the  title  of  "  Honourable*' 
also?  They  certainly  would  have  as 
piuch  claim  to  the  title  as  the  others. 
Yours,  &c.  I.  S.  K. 


Mr.  Urban, 


March  IS. 


YOUR  correspondent  Lector  Rus- 
tic us  has  failed  to  notice,  among 
his  .other  ingenious  observations,  the 
assumption  of  the  title  of  Viscount  by 
the  eldest  sons  of  Earls,  where  the  in- 
ferior paternal  title  is  but  a  Barony. 
Thus  tneEarl  of  Limerick*s  eldest  son 
styles  himself  Viscount  Glentworth, 
though  the  uoble  Earl  possesses  the 
title  of  Baron  Glentworth  only;  in 
like  manner  the  present  Earl  of  Wick- 
low,  in  the  life  time  of  his  father,  was 
designated  Viscount  Clonmore,  though 
the  family  title  is  but  Baron  Clonmore. 
It  is  true  both  the  noble  Earls  are 
Viscounts  by  the  same  title ,  as  their 
Earldoms,  but  here  are  assumptions  of 
titles  never  granted.  By  the  way  too, 
these  usurpers  gain  no  object  by  this 
informality,  for  their  rank  is  that  of 
an  Earl's  eldest  son,  no  matter  whether 
called  Viscount  or  Baron. 

A  more  excusable  case  is,  where  the 
Earl  enjoys  no  inferior  dignity  what- 
ever, (he  eldest  son  assuming  the  title 
of  Lord,  prefixed  to  the  surname ;  thus 
the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Huntin^on 
and  Lindsey  are  called  Lord  Hastmgs 
and  Lord  Elertie. 

*  To  our  knowledge,  the  gruidson  of 
the  Duke  of  Norfolk  is  styled  txird  Fits 
AUhi'  -KniT. 


If  E.  T.  Pilgrim  (p.  2)  be  right  tti 
his  answer  to  the  first  query  proposed 
in  yoar  December  Number,  p.  482, 
respecting  the  style  of  Bishops,  it  fol- 
lows, by  a  parity  of  reasoning,  that  the 
Style  of  the  son  of  a  Peer,  when  also  a 
Privy  Councillor,  should  be  the  Hon. 
and  Right  Hon,,  the  former  being  **  he- 
reditary'* and  "  inalienable,'*  the  latter 
**  subsequently  engrafted  thereon." 
The  usage,  however,  is  different ;  the 
son  of  the  Peer  is  always  styled  Right 
Hon.  when  a  Privy  Councillor,  though 
he  ranks  higher  as  an  Hon.  in  the 
scale  of  precedence.  E.  T.  Pilgrim 
seems  somewhat  to  have  misunderstood 
this  second  query.  Perhaps  it  would 
put  the  thing  in  a  clearer  point  of  view 
to  inquire  wny  the  son  of  a  Peer,  on 
being  elevated  to  the  superior  rank  of 
Bishop,  retains  his  title  of  Hon.  but 
drops  It  on  accepting  the  inferior  rank 
of  a  Privy  Councillor.         C.  K.  P. 

Mr.UaBAir,   Htghgate,  ntur  Birm. 
'     xngham,  March  14. 

AMONGSTtheCollectionsofWiL- 
LiAM  Burton  the  Leicestershire 
Historian,  which  (with  those  of  Erdes- 
wick  and  Chetwynd)  I  am  now  ar- 
ranging for  the  Right  Hon.  Earl  Tal- 
bot, I  nnd  the  following  fragment  of  a 
letter  from  his  brother  Robert,  the 
celebrated  Author  of  the  Anatomy  of 
Melancholy}  which,  as  it  informs  us 
of  the  share  that  he  had  in  preparing 
for  King  James's  Entertainment  at 
Oxford  in  August  l605,  may  be  vvorth 
printing  in  .your  Magazine,  as  an  illus- 
tration of  the  "  Royal  Progresses,"  voL 
i.  p.  529.  W*iLLi AM  Hamper. 

"  Heere  is  no  newes  but  prKpwmtion  for 
theKinges  cominge,  who  will.be  hesre  on 
Teusdsy  come  forwe  nighte,  Playes,  Verses, 
etc.  That  parte  of  j*  Play  w«^  I  made  is 
very  well  liked,  espetiallv  those  scenes  of 
the  Magus,  and  I  nave  had  greate  thAnkes 
for  ny  paynes  of  D.  Kiogc  o*  newe  Deane. 
I  wolde  knowe  nowe  howe  longe  yoa  meaoe 
to  tarry  in  London.  After  the  Kinge  is 
gone  from  hence,  or  a  little  after,  I  wdMe 
not  care  to  make  an  odde  voyage  to  London, 
if  youre  chamberfeUowe  he  not  their,  etc* 
Lette  roe  knowe  your  minde.  I  pray  you 
that  if  you  chance  to  walke  uppe  into  Lon- 
don amongest  the  brokers,  you  wdde  see  if 
you  can  meete  w*^  Seneca  the  Philosopher's 
workes  at  seconde  hande,  and  sende  me  the 
loest  price,  etc. :  or  if  you  canoe  not  meete 
w*^  tne'  so,  tell  me  hOwe  they  be'  solde 
newe  theiie,  in  one  volume  8vo.  And  so  for 
this  time  fiure  yon  well.  The  xj^  of  August^ 
1665.  lUe  ego  qui  quonda' 

JloasRTus  BoRTOir." 


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REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


99.  The  MoDiRV  Juuifti ;  iranslaijed 
from  the  French  ofVAhU  MartUl  Marcet 
de  U  Roche  Anurald,  by  Einile  Leptge, 

'  Prqfesmr  of  the  French  Language,  Ful- 
ham.     Itmo,  pp.  924.     Longnuua. 

THE  Jesuits  are  the  Janissaries  of 
Popery.  Wherever  tolerated,  they  have 
acquired  an  ascendancy  over  the  mnl- 
titude  which  was  calculated  to  destroy 
nil  political  freedom,  and  endan^r  the 
safety  of  states.  As  the  Turkish  Ja- 
nissaries assumed  the  prero^tive  of 
being  the  champions  or  the  Crescent, 
and  even  kepi  tne  Grand  Sukan  hiiA- 
•elf  in  awe, — so  the  Jesuits  (as  the 
pretended  supporters  of  Jesus)  are  the 
Church  Miliunts  of  Popery,  whose 
object  is  to  reduce  both  Kings  and 
Kmgdoms  to  the  degraded  state  of  pa- 
pal vassalage.  Their  insidious  ai^d 
treasonable  designs  have  been  fre- 
quently detected;  and  the  Order  has 
been  as  frequently  abolished  by  pub- 
lic edicts ;  ibot  the  spirit  of  Jesuitism, 
though  sometimes  dormant,  appears  to 
he  coeval,  and  only  to  be  entirely 
annihilated,  (as  the  Janissaries  have 
recently  been)  with  Popery  itself.  Like 
Catholicism,  it  aspires  at  universality, 
by  first  subjugating  the  human  mind, 
and  then  reducing  society  to  an  abso- 
lute state  of  slavery.  Jesuitism,  like 
Popery,  ia  the  cruel  and  inexorable  foe 
of  Proteslantism  (the  anagram  for  Jir- 
suiia  being  seviiia) ;  and  for  blood- 
thirsty cruelty,  in  the  execution  of  the 
Pop^  s  curses  throughout  the  world,  it 
has  only  been  surpassed  by  the  infer- 
nal Inquisition  itself*. 

There  is  oue  advantage  which  .Prp- 
t^antism  may  have  derived  from  the. 
late  audacious  proceedings  of  Jesuit- 
ism ;  and  it  is— that  the  most  incon- 
trovertible proofs  have  been  afforded 
of  the  dangerous  *f*r\i  of  Popery,  and 
the  utter  inadmissioility  of  the  Catho- 
lie  Claims,  while  that  spirit  is  known 
to  exist.    The  outrageous  conduct  of 

*  A  well-digested  "History  of  the  la- 
avisition  df  Spain,"  abridga'd  and  traotlatad 
mm  the  origiaal  works  of  O.- Jean  Antoiaa 
JJorcnte  has  recently  been  published  in  oile 
9v9,  volinne,  wkidi  we  lecommend  as  a 
avttabls  aeoonpaaiment  te  the  Abb<  A»- 
taakl's  Hietory  of  the  Modem  Jaeuiets-^ 
tka  IaN|ttisiti<m  and  Jasaitisai  being  the  two 


GawT.  JIao.  March,  1897. 


the  Jesuits,  Apoetolica,  and  other  pa« 
pistical  factions,  have  happily  cxpoeed 
the  falsehood  and  prevarication  ivhieh 
the  Catholic  Association  and  their  Re* 
verend  Expounders  attempted  to  impoitt 
upon  the  unsuspecting  portion  of  the 
Protestant  community ;  and  it  aibrda 
us  some  degree  of  satiafoetion  to  reflect 
that  we  were  amongst  the  first  to  call 
the  attention  of  the  publie  and  other 
contemporary  Joarnalists  to  the  inti** 
dious  manoeuvring,  previooa  to  the  late 
Parliamentary  Election,  of  the  Popjth 
Prelacy  and  their  devoted  minions.  The 
fate  ot  the  Catholic  Question  baa  pror- 
ed  that  those  pap'iatical  manifestos  were 
disbelieved ;  and  that  such  attempts  at 
imposition  were  only  calculated  to  in- 
jure the  cause  they  were  intended  to 
promote.  In  18S5,  the  Catholic  Quca- 
tion  was  carried  by  a  majority  of  twenty- 
seven;  but  in  tnis  last  attempt,  not- 
withstanding every  effort  on  the  part  of 
the  Catholic  interest,  it  was  lost  by 
four;  thus  exhibiting,  in  theCommoas 
House    alone,    a    numerical    increase 
against  Popery  of  thirty-one  I  and  we 
have  little  doubt  of  this  Anti-catholio 
feeling    having    increased  throughoat 
the  community  in  a  proportionate  ra- 
tio— solely  on  account  of  the  jesuiticai, 
insidious,  and  dangerous  spirit  whioh 
Catholicism  has  recently  evinced,  both 
secretly  and  in  public.    "  We  find  the 
Catholic  religion  and  the  influence  6f 
the  Papal  see,  (said  the  Master  of  the 
Rolls,  in  his  late  memorable  speech 
against  the  Catholic  Claims)  actively 
and  vigilantly  alive  in  every  corner  af 
Europe.  In  every  State  we  see  ferment 
and  excitement  produced  bv  the  move- 
ments of  these  powers,  and  it  is  an  ex- 
traordinary and  marvellous  fact,  that 
whilst  the  advocates  of  liberal  prind- 
ples  at  home  are  upholding  the  cause 
of  the  Catholics,  the  advocates  of  those 
principles  on  the  Continent — the  men 
who  know  the  workings  of  the  system 
— who  see  its  effects  at  every  turn,  and 
feel  them  every  day  of  their  livesyfinil 
themselves  compelled  to  oppose  its  ad- 
vances, and  to  repress  its  encroach- 
menu.    I  implore  of  the  House,  whUe 
they  consider  these  topics,  to  bear  in 
miud  tha  permeious  n^fluenee  rf  4ke 
Jetuiis,  mU  iheir  tuhih  minptei^  •»- 
jtmi«/tfig  Ifccmxtott  Mil%  c«tv^  MiU 


^4 


Riviiw.^T//#  Modtrn  Je$mU. 


[Mardi, 


in  Europi,    I  would  beg  to  refer  Gen- 
tlemen to  a  popular  work,  entitled  a 
« History'  of   the  Sapiiression  Of  the 
Society    of  Jesus.'      Ihe    author  ex- 
presses his  astonishment  that  the  world 
Could  ever  have  been  in  such  a  condi" 
itoft  as  to  tolerate  such  a  body  of  men. 
Little  did   I  imagine  that  m  a  very 
few  years  after  its  suppression  the  same 
Order  would  be   revived  with  all  its 
baneful  attributes  and  destructive  ef- 
fects; a  body  carrying  on  its  crafty  ope- 
fltions  in  all  the  nations  of  Europe- 
its  different  branches  acting  in  concert, 
>obeying  blindly,  and  without  examina- 
-  tion  or  question,  the  dictates  of  their 
'  anperion,  disclaiming  any  controul  but 
that  of  their  own  constituted  heads, 
'  acknowledging  no  responsibility  to  the 
Government,  and  evaaing  all  iuierfer- 
'  CDce  with  their  secret  designs.     What 
'arftnraent  do  I  found  upon  this  propo- 
-aition?     My  argument  is  this,  that  if 
<aecurity  was  deemed  necessary  at  a  time 
when  the  machinations  of  such  a  body 
were  repressed,  that  security  must  be 
at  least  as  indispensable  at  the  present 
moment.*' 

As  some  confirmation  of  the  senti- 
ments advanced  by  the  Master  of  the 
Rolls,  we  refer  to  the  valuable  lit- 
tle work  before  us.  The  Abb^  de  la 
Roche  Arnauld,  as  a  young  ecclesias- 
tic, was  himself  intended  tor  the  So- 
ciety. «*  He  would  (says  he)  have  been 
a  Jesuit,  had  he  not  obeyed  the  dic- 
tates of  his  conscience ;  but  he  abhor- 
red the  idea  of  becoming  a  member  of 
the  Society.*'  His  connexion  with  the 
'Society,  and  his  intimate  acquaintance 
with  many  of  its  members,  have,  how- 
ever, enabled  the  author  to  present  to 
the  world  a  faithful  portraiture  of  that 
-dangerous  association.  **  If  it  be  asked 
(ob^rves  the  Abb^)  what  evidences  he 
can  adduce  in  support  of  his  statements, 
hit  answer  is  ready.  Those  evidences 
are,  Mont-Rouge,  Paris,  Vitry,  St. 
Acheul,  Bordeaux,  Provence,  Madrid, 
Aome,  Europe  in  its  present  debase- 
ment ;  the  whole  world." 

"  With  the  Je«uiu  (says  the  writer,  id  hia 
iDtrodoctofy  reinarks}  no  peace,  no  patriot- 
'%%mt  cao  asy'lobgor  exist;  they  are  men 
who  will  not  endure  such  feeling*.  They 
Thm  only  by  war.  Loyola,  on  establiahhig 
thtm,  presented  to  them  a  standard,  and 
aroiind  that  standard  they  have  twom  to 
vally  all  the  nations  of  the  workL  Peace  is 
•-AOt  for  them;  or  if  there  be  a  peace,  «t 
nsst  be  a  4r«Ary  tfmnquilllty  of  the  dim- 
gfOB^  whta  the  approach  ol  night'  caites 


the  wretched  eaptivi^  to  sink  under  thy 
weight  of  his  chains^  and  when  the  over- 
whelming etfect  of  a  day  of  torture  has  ter- 
minated the  despair  of  the  victims  of  the 
Inquisition."         •         •         • 

<<  What  strange  disclosures  might  I  not 
hare  published  I  I  have  summoned  to  the 
bar  in  public  opinion  only  a  small  number 
of  Jesuits;  there  still  remain  thrke  hun- 
dred formidable  members  whom  I  have  not 
unveiled,  but  whom  I  ahall  unveil  at  a  fu- 
ture time.  I  have  seen  their  manoeuvres , 
and  I  am  constrained  to  expose  to  the  pub- 
lie  only  some  facts  which  are  mere  trifles 
compared  with  those  which  I  for  the  pre- 
sent suppress.  Suffice  It  to  say,  that  dar- 
ing the  time  I  was  among  them,  I  Incurred 
the  danger  of  losing  my  liberty  and  life  for 
having  been  the  most  candid  and  liberal  of 
men ;  the  regard,  the  indulgence,  the  ca- 
resses, the  menaces,  the  persecutions,  the 
outrages  of  that  Society,  all  failed  to  make 
me  view  with  indifference  and  apathy,  the 
secret  wiles  and  culpable  practices  which 
they  employ.     At  the  horrible  aspect .  of 

'  those  pertinacious  and  daring  men (the 

recollection  still  makes  nte  shudder) I 

averted  my  eyes  through  terror ;  and,  on 
seeing  the  sanctuary  of  peace  suUied  with 
all  toe  horrors  of  crime  and  imposture, 
I  trembled  at  the  thought  of  being  within 
its  walls.  I  resolved  to  escape  as  soon  as 
I  could  without  danger ;  and  when  with  in- 
credible precipitation  I  crossed  that  ac- 
cursed threshold,  I  exclaimed,  <  Just  Hea- 
ven !  can  any  honest  man  live  among 
them?'" 

The  following  is  an  outline  of  the 
government  of  this  Society,  which  is 
an  absolute  liierarchial  despotism, 
whose  objects  are  universal  dominion, 
and  universal  intolerance. 

"  He  who  has  been  chosen  by  the  prin- 
cipal members  of  the  Company  to  govern 
it,  is  called  the  General  ;  he  is,  as  St.  Ig- 
natius observes,  in  his  letter  on  obedience, 
dependent  solely  on  the  supreme  Chief 
whom  God  has  placed  on  eartli ;  that  this 
supreme  Chief,  whether  he  be  Uie  Pope  or 
Jesus  Christ,  {for  on  that  point  the  letter 
b  not  very  explicit,)  possesses  only  a  limit- 
ed authority  over  the  absolute  master  of  the 
Jesuits;  and,  lastly,  that  he  holds  perpe- 
tual dominion  over  all  persons  who  have  em- 
braced the  Institutes  of  Loyola. 

«<  What  IS  the  empire  of  thU  formidable 
-despot?  The  world  itself:  and  the  domi- 
nions of  the  most  powerfhl  monarchs  af« 

•  but  iu  Provinces,    fie   has  minbters  at- 
tendant OB  him,  to  conduct  the  affairs  of 

•  the  Company ;  they  are  called  AssMiUNtt 
of  the  provineea  which  they  sevenJIy  rep^ 

•sett,  and  from  which  they  are  comindBly 
I  islected  t  though.  I .  have  seen  it  stated  that 
a  MoDtnorencT.  wati  oBM  AtsisiuU  of  the 


V  ♦ 


1887«r 


HmriMW^'^ThM  Modim . Awi/ib 


9381* 


ptMiac*  «f  Ottmuji  and  ^t  a:LomiiM 
miftd  in  the-tam^^^Mcity  for  Fnnet. 

*<Let  it  Bol  b«  imagined  Uiat  tbeio  «•- 
sisiatUt  are  very  Bomerotu ;  thera  are  feteer 
of  then  than  there  are  miniatera  in  the 
French  government.  A  general  of  the  Je- 
suits cannot  endure  to  have  to  many  ecm- 
tiuizing  pbtervere  about  him.  He  has  fonr 
or  five  of  them,  who  are  assistants  of  the 
provinces  of  Italy,  Germany,  Spain,  France, 
and  England ;  and  in  these  nve  provinces 
the  whole  world  is  comprehended. 

*<  The  t*£5ce  of  Provincial  is  next  in 
rank  and  importance  to  that  of  Assistant, 
Placed  at  the  head  of  a  province,  he  is 
obliged  to  correspond  every  eight  days  with 
his  General,  and  to  perform  a  visitation  of 
his  province  annually,  accompanied  by  the 
SECRETAaV'GfiNEaAL  of  the  province,  who 
is  called  the  socitis  of  the  Father- Provincial. 
He,  like  the  General,  has  his  council,  which 
b  composed  of  th.e  Procurator-General, 
chaiged  with  all  the  temporal  aflbirs  of  the 
Society,  and  constantly  resident  in  the  House 
of  Professed  Members ;  and  of  two  of  the 
oldest  prqfessi  of  the  Company. 

**This  system  of  absolute  monarchy  pre- 
vaifs  even  in  the  noviciate,  and  in  the  ob- 
scurest of  the  colleges.  The  superior  of 
each  of  these  houses  is  called  the  Rector. 
At  the  noviciate  he  is  more  commonly  called 
Father-Master.  His  council  is  formed  of 
the  Father-M  mister,  cluu-ged  with  the  fi- 
nances, and  all  the  domestic  economy  of  the 
house;  of  the  Father- Procurator,  who  ex- 
ercises the  same  functions,  under  the  orders 
of  the  Father-Minister;  of  the  Prxpict  op 
SruDias,  and  another  Father,  who  has 
simply  the  title  of  Cottnsdhr. 

**  In  each  house  there  is  also  a  Prefect 
OF  Spiritual  Concerns,  to  whom  alone  the 
membera  of  the  Society  must  go  to  confes- 
sion, nor  can  they  address  themselves  to  any 
other  for  that  purpose,  without  permission 
from  the  Father-Provincial.  , 

. "  All  the  subjects  are  not  eligible  to  every 
grade  or  rank  in  tiie  Society.  Like  any  other 
absolute  monarchy,  it  has  its  privileged 
classes,  of  which  there  are  three, — the  Pro- 
PES8I,  the  Formed  Ojadjutors,  and  the 
Scholastics. 

**  Those  who  have  taken  the  vow  to  obey 
the  Pope,  and  to  establish,  at  whatever  cost, 
the  dominion  of  the  Society,  are  called  Pro- 
fessed Members  (Professi).  They  are  the 
depositaries  of  ita  secrets;  they  alone  are 
qualified  to  high  offices,  being  eligible  as 
generais,  assistants^  promneiatsy  and  rectors  ; 
and  they  alone  may  be  appointed  to  the 
dutrge  of  Rector  of  the  Noviciate.  To 
use  an  expression  of  their  own,  the  Com- 
pany belongs,  to  them ;  while  those  who  are 
not  professed  members  lielong  to  the  Com- 
pany. They  constitute,  in  short,  the  nobi- 
lity of  the  Jesuits. 

•«<  This  next  rank  ia  that  of  Coadjutors 
fcmuvih    Tilt  daia  of  the  JcauiUy  if  I.majp 


b«  allowed  to  continue  the  pvallel^  k  nt--: 
Iqgmn  to  that  middle  class,  called  the  bv*.. 
geesea   or   citiiens^  in  feudal  monarehieta: 
Hie  Coa/^julim,  aftex  oaakinc  a  vow  to  r«B«v' 
der  all  the  assistance  which  they  can  give  Uk> 
the  Professed  Members,  in  their  efforts  for 
the  aggiandizement  of  the  Society,  an  iai« 
tiated  in  some,  of  the  mysteries,  are  eligiblt^ 
to  some  superior  offices,  but  are  not  suscep« 
tible  of  ferther  advancemeut  when  they  Yuff» . 
taken  the  vow  of  Coadjutor  Jbrmed,  j 

''The  common  people  of  the  Jesuit  mo- 
narchy is  composed  of  all  those  who  tik». 
only  the  simple  vows,  but  at  the  same  time^ 
bind  themselves  by  a  specific  vow  to  receiva 
with  submission  all  the  degrees  which  the 
Society  may  be  pleased  to  confer  on  thenif,.i 
and  pnimise  on  tneir  oath  to  eater  into  tha 
Company  ;  whence  it  is  to  be  inferred,  ihal  . 
though  they  be  engaged  by  vows,  thev  do  ■ 
not  form  part  of  the  Company.  Among  toem . 
may  be  distinguished  two  remarkable  classet»  : 
that  of  the  Scholastics,  or  scholars  of  tba 
Society,  to  whom  all  the  degrees  are  aoctt-t  > 
sible  ;  and  tlwt  of  the  Temporal  Coadjutorsy  ; 
who  are  destined  for  the  lowest  offices,  and 
who  can  never  be  priests,  but  are  sometimta ; 
employed    in    important    negociationa,    of; 
which  we  have  seen  instances  in  France,  in 
Italy,  and  in  China." 

The  Biographical  Sketches,  which 
are  &1[>habetically  arranged,  are  ably 
executed.  They  chiefly  comprehend 
those  members  vi^ho  rank  among  the 
most  active  of  the  Society,  and  faith-  * 
fully  pourtray  the  true  characteristict 
of  Jesuitism.  We  shall  close  ourRe«' 
view  by  extracting  the  first  memoir 
as  a  specimen. 

<<  AiOLE  (de  ]'],  a  Popish  Jesuit,  de- ' 
scended  firom  one  of  the  first  families  ki ; 
Lithuania.  The  wily  disciples  of  IgnatioSy 
who  coveted  dominion  in  tne  North,  draw 
around  them  all  the  young  nobles,  and  at- 
tached many  members  of  the  aristocracy  ta 
their  Society.  Notwithstanding  the  open- 
ness and  liberality  of  his  character,  and  a  tuna 
of  mind  not  very  religious.  M.  do  TAiglo 
found  himself  enrolled,  as  it  were,  withoni 
his  consent,  and  was  obliged  to  assume  the 
monkish  habit  instead  of  the  miliury  cos-  . 
tume,  which  he  would  have  preferred ;  bov 
the  Society  always  managed  to  employ  him 
according  to  his  taste  and  intlination.  While  * 
the  French  armies  were  penetmting  faito 
Russia,  and  while  the  Jesuits  resident  on 
their  line  of  march,  were  hastening  into  tho 
interior  of  theempirt.  Father  de  rAiglealqae 
remained  in  the  houses  of  the  Society  with  . 
h|s  vassals,  to  make  head  against  the  enemj« 
He  followed  our  troops  for  a  long  time  m 
the  uniform  of  a  French  soldier ;  and  it  ia 
said  that  he  acted  thus  according  to  tho 
orders  transmitted  from  the  court  of  Ruisia, 
Be  tint  aa  it  may,  he  contribated  hurgtiy 
to  tkt  ovcfduroiP  of  a  frcneh  baUitloB>  Iv} 


RBViBWw«M<Jkport  oii  JStfMo^Mii  tfi  Miand.  [HmIi; 


ytmoMm  whfeb  bo  oontrad  to  ftmM 
off  M  Rouba  «ii4«i »  Md  if  w#  ]D»j  tMtwfv 
tlw  Jatuiti-  thenMlf «•»  bt  did  Bior*  iajiirj 
t*  Napoleott  (baa  tb4  wliole  militwy  force 
oftbftCar. 

•  «  On  tka  expakion  of  the  jMiiitt  horn 
Hwtffty  be  puMd  into  tbe  Aattrien  terri- 
4«fiet,  and  from  thence  into  Itely,  avoid- 
W  fVanee  ae  a  couatrf  act  agreeable  to 
IhSi*  By  aa  order  from  the  geaeral,  bow- 
ever,  be  waa  tent  to  Parisr  from  whence  he 
piooeeded  to  MotitoiorUloa  and  St.  Aaae ; 
aaMaviog  tnvelled  all  over  Fraaoe*  retired 
to  Vkry,  near  Paris,  to  prepare  bimatlf  for 
reoeiviog  the  superior  degrees  of  the  Sodetj. 
'He  IS  destined  to  gorern  the  western  be- 
niiphere. 

'<<  fa  their  American  territories,  the 
Jiealts  are  £nr  from  namerons.  Those 
of  England  can  afford  them  no  saccoar. 
Fiaaee,  which  swarms  with  Polish,  Rus- 
siaa,  ud  Germaa  Jesnists,  famishes  the 
forees  repaired  for  foreign  provinces ;  bands 
of  fomale  JesuiU  have  already  been  sent,  and 
at  Mont-Rooge  the  Society  is  training  mis- 
siibnaries  who  ve  determined  to  brave  all 
the  perils  of  the  ocean  in  order  to  extend 
tlkeir  empire." 


40.  First  Report  rf  the  Commissioners  on 
.Education  in  Jrdand.      Ordered  by  the 

House  qf  Commons  to  be  printed.    FbL 

pp.  109. 

IT  is  the  misfortune  of  our  country- 
men, that  they  do  not  estimate  the 
faigb  value  of  excellence,  t .  €.  of  a  su- 
perior quality  to  negative  moral  inno- 
cence, in  a  sufficient  light.  Not  hav- 
ing the  foreign  habits  of  living  abroad, 
dining  at  hotels,  and  congreaating  at 
public  places,  they  naturally  look  for 
comforts  at  home.  These  cannot  be 
had  without  the  domestic  virtues ;  and 
they  very  naturally  value  the  first  of  all 
blessings,  virtuous  and  amiable  cha- 
racters around  their  family  fire-sides. 
This  is  as  it  should  be;  but  they 
should  go  further.  Unfortunately,  with 
r^rd  to  excellenee»  in  the  view  of 
patriotism,  they  have  wrong  notions. 
They  are  biassed  by  faction  m  politics 
and  religion ;  and  the  high  reason  and 
strong  sense  of  the  nation  are  smother- 
ed by  political  and  religious  deaia- 
S;ucs,  who  are  endeavouring  to  dupe 
m  into  the  belief  of  an  impossibility, 
viz.  that  they  have  each  a  monopoly 
of  understanding  upon  religion  and 
politics.  This  occujpation  of  attention 
clients  many  atcnievements  which 
nave  national  l)enefit  for  their  object^ 
rach  at  would  be,  for  instance,  the 
etvilizption  of  Ireland ;   for  tliis  coyn- 


saaioely  to  be  conceived,  ^ven  by  aa  - 
Englismnaowho  is  thennfortnnate  te^ 
sident  pauper  of  a  wotichouse.  Thia  iii- 
dlffortencc  to  the  proper  exertion  of  the 
national  energies,  to  a  regard  fbr  ex- 
cellence in  the  pursuit  of  national  ob- 
jects, has  bad  resulu ;  for  certain  we 
are,  that  no  such  object  has  a  greater 
claim  upon  attention,  tlian  the  state  of 
Ireland. 

Next  to  conferring  a  fortune  upon 
a  man  r  which  is  impossible),  the  great- 
est good  which  we  can  do  to  him,  is 
giving  him  an  education  enabling  him 
to  get  one,  or,  at  least,  enabling  him 
to  exist  comfortably  in  a  state  of  civi- 
lization,—a  things  which  implies  an 
attention  to  virtue  and  decency.  For 
the  purpose  of  promoting  this  grand 
ol^ect.  Government  has  instituted  a 
Commission  for  examining  into  the 
state  of  Education  in  Ireland ;  and  the 
results  are  exhibited  in  this  momen- 
tous and  interesting  Report. 

The  first  serious,  or  rather  practica- 
ble, attempt  was  made  in  the  yeAr 
1733,  by  means  of  a  charter  forming 
an  *'  Incorporated  Society  for  promot- 
ing English  Protestant  Schools  in  Ire- 
land ;'*  but  this  was  defeated  by  the 
regulation,  that  children  received  into 
these  schools,  should  have  no  inter- 
course or  conversation  with  *'  any 
Popish  priest,  nor  any  relation  or  Pa- 
pist, or  any  pi'rson  unknown,  except 
m  the  presence  of  the  master  or  mis- 
tress." (P.  70  This  monstrous  and 
revolting  cruelly,  with  regard  to  pa- 
rents, rendered  them  unwilling  to  part 
with  their  children,  and  the  Charter 
Schools  in  the  main  degenerated  into 
bad  foundling  hospitals  for  unfortu- 
nate illegitimates,  who  were  inhu- 
manly treated  by  ruffians  of  school- 
masters, who,  it  seems,  flogged  boys 
nine  times  in  a  day,  with  a  leathern 
strap,  for  a  sum  m  Long  Division 
(l6),  or  beat  them  with  leathern 
cats  and  ropes,  or  branches  from 
elm  trees  (17),  or  gave  them  black 
eyes  with  blows  of  the  fist  (16), 
or  cut  and  bruised  their  heads  with 
sticks  (17);  in  fact,  treated  thena  in 
the  same  manner  as  our  vulgar  do 
donkies.  To  this  bad  treatment  were 
added,  starving,  nakedness,  neglect, 
dirt,  and  disease  (as  the  itch  and  imea 
eajiUis)  (p.  7,  &c.).  Nor  were  these 
evils  recompensed  by  attention  to  their 
education.    In  one  school 

M  The  two  heed  claases  eonsisled  of  tnea^ 
igp  b(^  of  tfaiftee^^.loiartctiiA  attd  BS^am  t 


i«n^ 


IUvumr<*nJIqMr('M  SAcMifi*  i»  Jpt<a£I 


«T 


j^Hn  qf  ^Agei  sevtaladii  of  them  dtdirtd 
thty  had  aev^r.  hmrd  of  St.  Paul,  and  balf 
of  them  Kad  no  idea  whetW  die  word 
''^  Europe "  meant  a  mao»  a  p1aee»  or  a 
thing ;  and  only  three  boys  in  the  sohool  , ' 
could  name  the  fbar  quarters  of  the  world. 
Two  hoys  only  appeared  even  to  luure  heard 
of  Job)  and  only  one  could  gire  any  account 
ofhishUtory/*    P.  17. 

This  wretched  system  ha;  cost 
enormous,  even  incredible  sums. 

**  The  expenditure  of  the  Society  during 
the  ninety  years  it  has  been  in  operation, 
has  been  no  less  than  ;f.  1,612,138,  of 
which  the  sum  of  ^.  1,027  >7 15  was  de- 
rired  from  Parliamentary  grants."    P.  SO.  . 

This  is  not  all, 

**  79906  children  apprenticed,  cost  Just 
a  million  sterling."    p.  80. 

This  is  enough  to  make  our  readers 
jumpnp  from  their  chairs,  and  stalk  up 
apd  down  the  room  to  recover  their 
tem|)ert.  But  it  is  e?idenl,  that  the 
principle  upon  which  the  business 
was  conducted  was  essentially  bad; 
indeed  the  Commissioners  tell  us,  that 
it  would  cost  twenty  millions  per  an- 
num to  carry  the  plan  into  general 
operation ;  and  that,  if  done,  it  may 
be  doubted,  whether  it  would  be  sen- 
sibly felt  or  gratefully  acknowledged. 
P.  29. 

Sensible  people  can,  however,   be 
only  led  into  blunders  by  unfortunate 
circumstances.    The  Charity  Schools 
of  England  (where  the  children  were 
not  only  educated,  but  clothed  and 
boarded)  were  set  up  to  counteract  the 
eBbru  of  the  Papists  in  the  reign  of 
James  II. — It  was  found  necessary  by 
providing  for  their  support,  to  insulate 
the  children  totally  from  their   rela- 
tives ;  and  the  same  plan  was  adopted 
for  Ireland,   but   both  were  founded 
upon  uncertain   data.    We  have  no 
ioea,  that  children  in  the  way  of  bad 
example  will  be  so  well  educated  as 
those  who  see  nothing  but  what  is 
good ;  but  few  parents  are  so  infamous 
and  unprincipled,  as  not  to  entertain  an 
anxiety  for  the  good  conduct  of  their  . 
children  ;  and  if  so,  children  will  at-  : 
tend  to  them,  infinitely  mure  than  to 
masters  and  mistresses ;   indeed,  there  . 
is  something  more  than  unnatural---  . 
something  that  makes  us  shudder,  in 
tearing  infant  children  from  mothers ;  . 
and  we  may  be  satisfied  that,  though 
Nature  in  maternal  fondness  will  con- 
descend to  allow  us  to  humour  her  into  , 
numenHis  prettv  arts,  yc^  \i  we  attempt  . 
to^w^^t<^<9tai|ij^|«t«ber)ii«t«ii , 


th*  matea  «f  the  nnmff  Is  bhaoglHl 
into  tht  stem  aehoolmistTeff ,  who  will 
support  'h«r  authority.  Aecofdingly 
the  Commissioners  say,    - 

**  Howevef  great  and  nmnerviia  the  h- 
•tanoea  of  misaanagement  and  abase,  which 
prevail  in  tboae  eMablishments,  h  appeals 
to  us,  that  the  main  objection  arises  tnm 
the  mistaken  principlei  on  which  they  am 
founded.  A  system  of  education,  which  se- 
parates children  firom  th«ir  kindred,  and 
which  tarns  them  out  into  h^  Fbfn  jwt 
arrived  at  maturity,  without  friends  or  rela- 
tions, and  without  that  practioal  ejiperieoos 
which  children  under  ordinary  cireumstan- 
ces  insensibW  acquire,  by  witnessing  the  re* 
alities  of  life  around  them,  does  not  appear 
to  us  likely  to  atuin  the  hene|iu  eicpeeted 
from  these  establishments." 

"  We  are  convinced,  that  if  a  tbomsadl 
children  educated  in  Charter  Schools  were 
to  be  compared  with  an  equal  number  wh« 
had  remained  in  the  apparendy  wretched 
cabins  inhabited  by  their  parents,  but  wh« 
had  attended  orderly  and  well-rega)ated 
Day  Schools,  it  would  be  fo«nd,  not  only 
that  the  latter  had  passed  their  years  of  b- 
struction  hr  more  oappily  to  themselves^ 
but  tkst  when  arrhred  at  the  age  of  man- 
hood, they  would,  upon  a  ffeneial  averagsi, 
be  in  every  respect  more  v  Juable  and  betr 
ter  instructed  members  of  society ;  they 
would  have  improved  in  kuowledge,  under 
circumstances  which  would  have  strength-* 
ened  and  confirmed  their  oonnection  wish 
all  those  to  whom  they  must  natumlly  lode 
for  protection  and  assistance,  and  would  en** 
ter  upon  life  with  their  affections  awakened* 
their  principles  confirmed,  and  their  cha- 
racter rais^  by  the  reliance  they  would 
have  learnt  to  place  in  their  own  eyerticMM, 
and  in  the  practice  they  would  have  acquired 
of  controlling  and  conducting  themselves." 

<*  It  is  very  different  in  the  instance  of  a 
boy  let  loose  from  a  Charter  School,  who 
had  lived  in  a  state  of  existence  entirely  arti- 
ficial. All  his  wants  havinc  been  supplied 
by  the  care  of  others,  he  has  become  peevish, 
fretful,  and  impatient,  if  not  supplied  accord- 
ing to  rule.  His  mind  is  impressed  by  a. 
feeling  of  sullenness  resulting  from  a  system 
of  severity  and  terror.  His  expectations 
have  been  unduly  raised,  as  to  his  own  fu-» 
ture  prospects,  though  the  habits  of  indo- 
lence and  apathy,  which  have  appeared  to 
us  peculiarly  to  characterise  these  children* 
render  them  altogether  unsuited.to  the  ac* 
tive,  patient,  persevering  exertions,  which 
are  necessary  to  their  success  in  life."  Pp. 
SO,  ai. 

It  appears,  that  the  Boman  Catho> 
lies  will  tolerate  no  system  of  educa- 
tion whatever  which  does  not  include 
their  own  faith.  The  London  Hiber- 
nian Society  proposes  no  other  object, 
than  the  mere  fundamentals  of  Gbiiaiu^ 


s^ 


]Uvii»(.-«*»JiiiH.SMriidlMi.Piq9erMM«y.  [Mtich, 


•aity»  only  4  rdigions  and  moral  trina- 
Ibrmation  ofekaracter,  not  an  exchange 
of  the  mere  ceremonial  of  one  Ghorcn 
for  that  of  the  other.    P.  70. 

Thbb  opposed  by  theCatholict,  who 
wish  10  have  Schools  of  their  own,  and 
for  that  porpose  to  have  pecuniary  aid 
fpom  Government.  Upon  this  point, 
the  Commissioners  thus  express  them- 
selves!— 

*'  Were  wt  to  recommeod  a  gnnt  of 
wmmty  io  aid  of  tueh  Schools,  the  retult 
j0mtM  be,  that  they  would  be  etcerly  tup- 
pesasd  hf  the  Romui  Catholic  £)dy,*  their 
mumktm  woald  iBereasa»  and  the  ntosters 
troald  be  better  paid,'  the  Schools  bettjer 
eumlied,  and  the  nMtracttonreodered  more 
effective;  bot  iti  eharacter  would  still  re- 
jBMun  the  tame.  The  Roman  Catholic 
diiidMii  would  alio,  no  doubt,  unlvenaUy 
withdraw  from  every  other  description  of 
Sshooliy  and  from  every  opportunity  of  be- 
buK  associated  with  IVotettants :  and  after 
aslMni  time  two  tyitems  would  be  establitb- 
ed  in  the  country,  in  which  Uie  children  of 
the  two  persuasions  would  be  so  educated, 
arto  be  more  than  ever  estranged  from  each 
other. 

••  The  evils  with  which  separate  educa- 
iieu  is  evidently  pregnant,  necessarily  fixed 
eoraaisntion  on  the  benefits  nrhich  would 
remit' from  a  contrairoourse.  A  system  of 
iittited  education,  nrom  which  suspicion 
should  if  possible  be  banished,  and  the 
causes  of  distrust  and  Jealousy  be  effectually 
iSJsevsd,  under  which  the  children  might 
imbibe  similar  ideas,  and  form  eoneenial 
habiu,  would  tend  rapidly  to  diminish,  in- 
stiSKl  of  increase,  the  distinctness  of  feeling 
which  is  now  but  too  prevalent."    P.  9 1 . 

Here  our  limits  compel  us  to  close 
the  account  of  this  valuable  Re)>ort. 
In  an  age,  when  in  the  fanatical  trash 
of  the  day,  the  Bishop  of  London  is 
invoked  to  place  tield-preachers  in  our 
streets  as  thickly  as  watchmen  (a  mea- 
sure which  would  in  an  educated  coun- 
tvf  cause  religion  to  be  made  an  object 
of  universal  contempt  and  ridicule), 
it  is  refreshing  to  see  that  common 
sense  is  not  absolutely  extinct;  that 
aU  our  countrymen  are  not  raving- 
mad;  and  that  the  excellent  under- 
standing for  which  the  country  has 
been  famed,  has  guided  this  wise  and 
philanthropic  measure  of  Govern- 
ment— this  very  excelleot  Commission. 

41.  ObtervaiUms  on  Paperfnoney,  Bank- 
'ing  and  Over'trading ;  including  those 
parts  qf  the  Evidence  taken  b^fare  the 
'  Qmnmitee  if  the  House  ((f  Commanit 
'whiehexp/am  the  Scotch Stfstemqf Bank' 
4ng.  By  Sir  Haery  Fsmell,  jBarl.  MJ^. 
•ese.fp.177. 


THE  jet  of  this  Pkmphlet  (and  it  is: : 
A  very  limiinous  one)  is  to  expose  the 
presumed'  bad  consequences  of  leaving 
the  whole  currency  at  the  disposal  m* 
the  Bank  of  England.  The  Directors 
(says  the  Hon.  Baronet)  prefer  the  in- 
terest of  their  concern  to  that  of  the 
public,  in  order  to  augment  the  divi* 
dends  and  bonuses.  For  the  effectua- 
ti'on  of  this  purpose,  they  inundate  the 
country  with  paper,  when  they  ouf^ht 
to  narrow  the  stream,  and  so  forth. 
In  remedy  of  this  grievance.  Sir  Henry 
proposes  a  dissolution  of  the  Bank 
monopoly,  and  an  open  trade  in  Bank- 
ing upon  the  Scotch  plan,  security 
vested  in  the  Funds,  &c.  because,  he 
says,. 

**  The  over-issuing  of  Paper,  and  the  de- 
preciation of  its  value  in  Scotland,  are  pre- 
vented hy  the  practice  that  all  the  Banks 
adopt,  of  exchanging  each  otben  notes 
twice  a  week,  aatd  psyiog  the  balances  of  the 
exchanges  with  bills,  at  ten  days'  sight,  on 
Xx>ndoD."    P.  168.    • 

Sir  Henry  is  certainly  supported  in 
this  position  by  the  evidence  before 
Parliament,  on  the  subject  of  the 
Scotch  Banks.  As  to  those  of  Eng- 
land, nothing  is  better  known,  than 
that  the  English  Country  Banks  ex- 
change their  bills  once  a  week,  or  at 
short  periods,  and  pay  their  balances  in 
the  national  currency ;  yet  we  do  not 
recollect,  that  this  custom  of  exchanges 
has,  in  England,  checked  over-issue, 
or  prevented  bankruptcy;  where  they 
have  had  distrust,  they  have  been 
known  to  change  bills  every  nieht. 
If  they  have  not  a  distrust,  or  collect 
the  bills  of  another  house  from  rivalry, 
and  pour  them  in  at  once,  the  balance, 
if  they  have  not  sufficient  cash  in  the 
country,  is  paid  by  a  consignment  on 
a  London  House.  This  we  believe  is 
the  usual  mode  of  conducting  the  ex- 
changes of  Country  Banks;  but,  aa 
the  majority  of  residents  in  the  country 
do  not  open  any  accounts  with  Banks, 
the  notes  to  far  the  largest  amount  lie 
out,  and  only  those  go  in  which  fall 
into  the  hands  of  customers  of  the  re- 
spective Banks.  These  amount  to 
such  small  sums  that  no  difficulty  is 
experienced  in  making  op  the  balances 
upon  exchange.  Of  course,  the  fear 
or  the  exchaneer  does  not  operate  to 
any  extent,  in  bheck  of  over-issue ;  but 
in  Scotland,  where  we  presume  the 
majority  of  the  notes  is  paid  into  some 
one  or  other  of  the  Banks,  the  compe- 
ttttOQ  may  produce  the-check  described. 


warj 


IUTi«w«-i-Sii:  H.  Pamell  om  P^tptr  Money. 


939 


^t  all  efCntSy  the  koowledj^e  that  tbeic 
exchanges  have  not  in  England  pre- 

.  Tented  either  ovcNissoe  or  faiture,  is 
sufficient  to  jostify  os,  in  not  commit- 
trng  ourselres  upon  the  subject ;  in- 
deed, that  subject  is  a  Parliamentary 
concern  of  the  6rst  moment. 

Sir  Henry,  however,  has  laid  before 

'  the  public  such  statements,  concerning 
the  mode  of  doing  business  by  the 
Bank  of  England  (which,  as  he  says, 
while  it  enriches  the  6rm  injures  the 
public),  that  it  is  certainly  incumbent 
either  upon  that  opulent  Society  to  dis- 
prove the  charges,  or  upon  Parliament 

'  to  investigate  them. 

The  book  we  have  said  is  luminous, 
and  this  we  attribute  to  its  having  no 
more  to  do  with  the  pretended  science 
of  political  economy,  than  what  is 
sound  and  just  in  it ;  we  therefore  ex- 
tract passages  of  uncommon  utility  to 
the  commercial  world. 

«  Wh«ii  trade  it  either  in  a  verj  depres- 
•ed  state,  or  in  a  very  prosperous  state, 
every  thios  is  contributing  to  produce  a 
ohange,  and  to  brinf  it  back  to  its  ordinary 
or  nataral  state.  Thus,  for  instance,  when 
trade  is  in  js  depressed  state,  the  making  and 
importing  of  goods  are  lessened,  and  capital 
is  withdrawn  from  being  employed  in  these 
transactions  ;  the  supply  of  commodities  is 
thus  reduced,  in  a  short  time  it  ceases  to 
exceed  the  demand,  and  prices  rise.  Whep 
trade,  on  the  other  hand,  is  in  a  very  pros- 
perous state,  new  capital  is  embarked  in 
making  and  importing  goods ;  and  every 
effort  is  employed  to  render  the  labour  of 
the  workmen  as  productive  as  possible ;  the 
supply  of  commodities  is  thus  increased,  in 
a  snort  time  it  equals  the  demand,  and 
prices  fall.*' 

It  is  when  trade  is  in  an  unusually 
prosperous  state,  that  the  temptation  to 
increase  productions  to  an  excess  is  so 
strong,  tnat  it  is  seldom  suffered  by 
mercnants  and  manufacturers  to  revert 
quietly  and  gradually  to  an  ordinary 
state,  without. first  passing  into  a  state 
of  over- trading.  It  is,  therefore,  just, 
when  trade  is  in  the  most  prosperous 
state,  that  there  exists  the  greatest 
danger  of  excessive  speculation,  and  of 
its  Being  exceedingly  depressed ;  and 
it  depends  wholly  on  the  judgment 
and  conduct  of  the  merchants  and  ma- 
Dofactuiers  whether  it  takes  its  natural 
course  of  qnietly  and  gradually  revert- 
ing to  an  ordinary  state  of  price  and 
profit,  or  whether  it  goes  forward  into 
a  state  of  roinoitt  qyer-tradins.   P.  42. 

ScMDC  lucid  i||uitfation8  follow,  but 


we  have  not  room  for  thete, and  goon 
to  p.  46. 

"  As  these  faeta  prove,  that  the  evil  of 
over^^radmg  arises  from  calculating  oo  the 
conUnuanoe  of  high  prices  at  tlie  very  time 
when  every  tliiiw  is  contributbg  to  make 
the  supply  equal  to  the  demand,  and  to 
lower. price,  it  seema  to  be  indispensable* 
as  one  step  towards  preserving  the  country 
from  the  recurrence  of  this  evil,  that  all 
persons  engaged  in  trade  should  make  it  a 
rule  to  consider  a  very  prosperous  state  of 
trade,  afier  it  has  lasted  for  some  time,  as  a 
certain  indication  that  the  period  is  not  dis- 
tant when  an  altered  ratio  of  supply  to  de- 
mand' will  lower  prices,  and  thus  render  it 
uufafe  to  extend  their  dealings." 

'*  As  to  the  forming  of  a  tolerably  tm* 
rect  opinion,  while  trade  is  prosperous,  in 
respect  to  the  period  when  it  may  cease  to 
be  so,  no  person  in  extensive  business  can 
have  any  great  difficulty,  if  he  seriously 
makes  the  attempt,  to  learn  those  factSt 
which  will  enable  nim  to  calculate  what  the 
existing  ratio  is  that  the  supply  bears  to  the 
demand  for  commodities.  By  examining 
price-currents,  and  lists  showing  the  impor- 
tations of  raw  materials  and  other  goods,  and 
the  exportations  of  manufacturers,  and  by 
making  diligent  inquiries  respe(;^ting  stocks 
in  hand,  and  respecting  the  measures  in  pro- 
gress for  increasing  productions,  persons 
conversant  with  trade  will  acquire  abundanca 
of  facts  for  forming  a  correct  conolusion  la 
respect  to  the  probable  state  of  prices*" 
P.  47. 

It  Is  evident,  that  this  book  may 
save  hundreds  from  ruin ;  and  we  hope 
that  we  have  given  enough  to  prove 
this  affirmation  ^  but,  as  there  are 
many  other  things  about  pap^r-nioney, 
and  other  important  subjects,  for  which 
we  have  not  room,  we  solicit  our  read- 
ers to  peruse  the  whole  work ;  and  are 
confident,  that  it  will  be  their  own 
fault  if  they  are  not  highly  instructed 
by  it. 

The  Golden  Fiolet,  with  its  Tales  ofRomanee 
and  Chivalri/,  and  other  Poems^  by  £• 
B'  L,    Longman  and  Co,  1 827* 

OF  this  accomplished  head  of  the 
Initial  School  we  ha«e  had  frequent 
occasion  to  speak,  and  almost  always 
in  the  language  of  warm  approbation. 
There  is  scarcely  a  periodical  of  any 
poetical  reputation  whose  pages  she 
has  not  adorned ;  on  one,  indeed,  that 
one  which  *<  taught  the  infant  shoot 
to  climb,*'  she  has  lavished,  with  a 
pious  and  generous  prodigality,  her 
varied  and  cosily  fragrance.  Here  her 
first  nnd  latest  dIossobis  .  haye  «2««id\ 


t 


940  Rtrisw.— Dbf  Goldtn  Vi<M.  [Maith, 

iiiid  here,  wiih  pt^titM  UnacHy  the    TU  Spttiknl  Ymd  «mm  iroM  tlii  Luid  -of 

has  clung,  repaying  ihc  supporKr  of     ^   ,  ^  ^5f*""*;.     w,        ,  v  j      i.  _» j 
her  early  lay  by  the  iaxtiriant  richness    Aad  A«i«nrtr  of  her  Mi>itre1th«lgiil»r'd 

of  her  inaturer   genius  and   talents.     _       /° '^^'^f!' 

Of  her  two  more  elaborate  perform.     From  fkr  «d  fw  «-r-it  wm  .timiige  io 

^!^  ^'  ^\  Im^rovisairice/'    and  ^^  g^;^^^  g^.^  ^^  ^^1 

"  The  Troubadour,     we  spoke  kindly,  j^j    .^^  together,  with  thoee  that  ooiie 

and  we  anticipated  greatly.  Once,  in-  Yrom  the  Highland  home  they  to  loved  to 

deed,  we  ventured  a  whisper,  that  the  name, 

tnjudicious  praise  of  her  friends  was  j^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^^  y^^  ^j^^j^^  ^j^^^ 

hurrying  her  ahmg  somewhat  too  ra-  j^  ^^^^  ^^^^^^  ^^^  ^^^-       %„j 

pidly  for  her  strength-."  Nenue  arcum  ^^  cannot  sufficiently  praise  the  good 

temper  tendit  A,)ollo;-and  wcsjem-  ,^      j         ^^^  appropriate  costume,  if 

ed  to  require  a  breathing  space  not  less  ^^  ^ay  apply  tlie\vord,  observable  in 

for  her  than  for  ourselves.  ^y^^  ^s^Ms,  Jnd  the  treatment  of  them. 

We  arc  now  to  speak  of  the  per-  by   the  several  Bards.     There  is  an 

formance  before    us—'*  The  Golden  ad  libitum  adjudication  of  the  prize, 

Violet."    The  plan  of  which,  though  tery  delicately  worded  by  Miss  Lan- 

possessing no  claim  to  novelty,  is  sim-  Jon;  and,  without  assisting  thejudg* 

pie  and  eflFective ;  it  is  a  kind  of  "  fes-  nodit  of  our  readers,  we  shallleave  each 

tival  of  pocu,— a  trial  of  skill  between  of  them  (after  the  perusal  of  the  vo- 

the  gifted  spirits  of  all  nations— the  lume)  to  present  the  violet  to  the  Bard 

invitation  is  a  general  one —  of  her  choice. 

«  Bidding  the  Bards  from  wide  aod  far  Our  limits  prevent  us  following  the 

Bring  song  of  love  or  tale  of  war."  arrangement   prescribed    by   L.  E.  L. 

_,                      . .   ,  Wc  shall  content  ourselves  with  the 

They  are  assembled—  following   specimens  of  poetry,    and 

<<  England  had  tent  will  not  mar  this  admirably  told  tale 

Her  harp  across  the  blue  element ;  by  a  mutilation  :— - 

The  Young  Avenger :  The  Spanish  MinstreCs  Tale, 

The  warrior>*s  strength  is  bow'd  bj  age,  the  warrior's  step  is  slow. 
And  the  heard  upon  hii  breast  is  white  as  is  the  winter  snow  t 
Yet  his  eye  shines  bright,  as  if  not  yet  iu  last  of  hme  were  woo ; 
Six  sons  stand  ready  in  their  arms  to  do  as  ho  has  done. 

''Now  take  yonr  way,  ye  Laras  bold,  and  to  the  battle  ride ; 
For  loud  upon  the  Christian  air  are  vaunts  of  Moorish  pride : 
Your  six  white  steeds  stand  at  the  gate ;  go  forth,  and  let  me  aeo 
Who  will  return  the  first  and  bring  a  Moslem  head  to  me." 

Forth  they  went,  six  gallant  knights,  all  mail'd  frdm  head  to  heel ; 

Is  it  not  death  to  him  who  first  their  fiery  strength  shall  feel  ? 

They  spurr*d  their  steeds,  and  on  they  dash'd,  as  sweeps  the  midnight  wind ; 

While  their  younger  brother  stood  and  wept  that  he  must  stay  b^ind. 

"  Co.me  here,  my  child,"  the  father  said,  **  and  wherefore  dott  thou  weep  ? 
The  time  will  come  when  from  the  fray  nought  shall  my  fiMrourite  keep  s 
When  thou  wilt  be  the  first  of  all  amid  the  hostile  spears." 
The  boy  shook  back  his  raven  hair,  and  laugh'd  amiq  his  tears. 

The  sun  went  down,  but  lance  nor  shield  refiected  back  his  light; 
The  moon  rose  up,  but  not  a  sound  broke  on  the  rest  of  olght. 
The  old  man  watch*d  impatientlv,  till  With  mom  o'tx  the  plain 
There  came  a  sound  of  horses'  Ket»  there  came  a.  martial  train. 

But  gleam'd  not  back  the  sunbeam  glad  from  plume  or  helm  of  goldf 
No,  it  shone  upon  the  crimson  vest,  the  turban's  emerald  fold. 
A  Moorish  herald ;  six  pale  heads  hnng  at  his  saddle-bow, 
Gash'd,  chang'd,  yet  well  the  father  knew  the  lines  of  each  fiur  brow. 

«  Oh !  did  they  fall  hy  numbers,  or  did  they  basely  yield  ?" 
-    *'  Not  so ;  beneath  the  same  hold  hand  thy  children  press'd  the  fields 
They  died  as  Nonrreddin  would  wish  all  foes  of  his  snoold  die ;     . 
Small  honour  does  the  conquest  boast  when  won  from  those  who  ^y. 

'    ^  And  thus  he  saith,  '  This  was  the  sword  that  swept,  down  thy  brave  baod^- 
Find  diott  one  who  can  draw  it  forth  in  all  thy  ChrisjtUn  Uisd.*' 

■  .If  frimiaymichsneh  sorrowia^paadscslhe  thouhast  endored, 

J>jiefld  thoa  to  wait  for  vengeaaee  till  his  summers  are  matured." 


ISV^;  Rbtibw.— ne  GoUm  VioUt.  Ut 

The  ftged  chieftMa  took  the  •«oni»  in  null  hit  hud  eiamy'd 
To  draw  It  from  its  tcahbtrd  forth,  or  poise  the  heavy  hltde ; 
He  fluDg  it  to  hit  only  child,  now  sidly  ttaudbg  hy.- 
«  Now  weep,  for  here  it  cause  for  tears}  aUw!  mine  own  are. dry." 

Then  answer'd  jproud  the  nohle  hoy,  «  My  tears  last  momiog  came 
For  weakness  or  my  own  right  hand^;  to  shed  them  now  were  shame : 
I  will  not  do  roy  brothers*  names  soch  deep  and  deadly  wrong  i 
Brave  were  they  nnto  death,  saceets  can  hut  to  God  helong." 

And  years  have  fled,  that  hoy  has  sprung  unto  a  goodly  height. 
And  fleet  of  foot  and  stout  of  arm  in  his  old  fiither's  light  {- 
Yet  breathed  he  never  with  to  take  in  glorious  strife  his  part. 
And  shame  and  grief  his  backwardness  was  to  that  father^  heart. 

Cold,  silent,  stem,  he  let  time  past,  until  he  rush'd  one  day. 
Where  mourning  o*er  his  waste  of  youth  the  weary  chieftain  lay. 
Unarm*d  he  was,  but  in  his  grasp  he  bore  a  heavy  brand, 
**  My  father,  I  can  wield  his  sword ;  now  knightnood  at  thine  hand. 

For  years  no  hour  of  quiet  sleep  upon  roy  eyelids  came. 

Fur  Nourreddin  had  poison'd  all  my  slumber  with  his  fame. 

I  htve  waited  for  roy  vengeance ;  but  now,  alive  or  dead, 

I  swear  to  thee  by  my  brothers'  graves  that  thou  shalt  have  his  he«d." 

It  was  a  glorious  sight  to  see,  when  those  two  warriors  met^ 
The  one  dark  as  a  thunder-cloud,  in  strength  and  manhood  seti 
The  other  young  and  lieautifiil,  with  lithe  and  graceful  form. 
But  terrible  as  is  the  flash  that  rushes  through  the  storm. 

And  eye  to  eye,  and  hand  to  hand,  in  deadly  strife  they  stood. 

And  smoked  the  ground  whereon  they  fought,  hot  with  their  mingled  Uood'; 

Till  droop'd  the  valiant  infidel,  fainter  hii  blows  and  few, 

While  fiercer  from  the  eumbat  still  the  youthful  Christian  grew, 

Nourreddin  falls,  his  sever* d  head,  it  b  young  Lara's  prize  s 
But  dizzily  the  field  of  death  floats  in  the  victor's  eyes. 
His  cheek  is  as  his  foeman's  pale,  hu  white  lips  gasp  for  breath : 
Ay,  this  was  all  he  ask'd  of  Heaven,  the  victory  and  death. 

He  raised  him  on  his  arm,  '*  My  page,  come  thou  and  do  my  will ; 
Ginst  thou  not  see  a  turban'd  band  upon  yon  distant  hill  ? 
Now  strip  me  of  my  armour,  boy,  by  yonder  river's  side. 
Place  firm  this  head  upon  my  breast,  and  fling  me  on  the  tide," 

That  river  wash'd  his  natal  halls,  its  waters  bore  him  on. 

Till  the  moonlight  on  the  hero  in  his  Other's  presence  shone. 

The  old  chief  tu  the  body  drew,  hit  gallant  boy  was  dead, 

But  his  vow  of  vengeance  had  been  kept,  he  bore  Nonrreddin's  head. 

We  will  not   now  transcribe    the        But  we  must  not  close  our  remarks 

numerous  passages  indicative  of  care-  with  the  semblance  of  censure.    We 

lessness  and    haste  with    which   the  regard  Miss  Landon  as  an  ornament  to 

pages   of  this  volume   abound ;   nor,  her  sex,  and  to  the  literature  of  her 

perhaps,   should  we  have  mentioned  country.      She   has    been,   doubtless, 

ihem  at  all,  did  we  not  suspect  that  surpassed    by    many   females    in    the 

Mbs  Landon  is  under  some  erroneous  strength  and  solidity  of  acquired  know* 

impression  as  to  their  eflfect.     It  is  no  ledge;  but  in  genius  feriiie,^inventive, 
doubt  painful  to   *              .•         •  -   ^-  •      n  .l-     ?  l  ?-?.— 

to  listen  to  the 
nicely  balanced 

ihii  monotony,  something  is  assuredly  To  the  '*  Giver  6f  All "  she  is  de'eplv 

dae   to  the  laws  of  rhyme  and  the  res|X)nsibIe  for  the  high  talents  witn 

regularity  of  metre;  and  it  is  of  the  which  she  has  been  so  lavishly  en* 

daring  defiance  of  all  rule  that  we  now  dowed.    On  her  has  fallen,  perhaps, 

complain.     If  intentional,  they  are  in  the  most  dangerous  gift  of  Providence  ; 

bad     taste — if    unpremeditated,    they  our  best  wishes  for  her  are,  that  it  m$f 

savour  of  the    «  fatal   facility,?   and  lead  her  to  honourable  fame,  and  pr^ 

ahould  be  corrected.  mote  the  glory  of  the  Betiowtr, 

*  GjBiff.  Mao.  JHoreA,  18t7.       ... 


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Rb?]«w.<— iViigtf  Conors, 


[March 


48.  Nygte  Canora;  or  Bpllapkwn  Me^ 
fRCMlof ,  in  Stonecutter**  vene,  ^  the  Mc 
did  Family  t^  Modem  Time*.  By  Uma 
Quorum,  pp.  70.  London.  Callow  and 
Wilson.     I8i7. 

WR  question  if  either  of  the  learned 
professions  can  accuse  th«  others  of 
oeini;  more  open  to  the  pen  of  satire, 
or  to  the  artillery  of  wit,  than  its  own ; 
and  it  argues  a  special  proof  of  libera- 
lity of  feeling,  when  a  member  can 
raise  an  innocent  laueh  at  the  pecu- 
liarities of  the  particular  profession  to 
which  he  belongs.  The  Pleader's 
Guide  was  the  oflspring  of  a  Lawyer, 
ind  we  have  no  doubt  but  the  com- 
piler of  the  facetiae  we  are  about  to 
notice,  is  a  good-humoured  graduate  of 
the  Medical  profession.  We  have 
heard  his  name  whispered  indeed,  but 
it  "  Wad  na  becom  us'*  to  reveal,  it. 

After  a  humorous  preface,  on  which 
the  author,  like  another  Cockney,  la- 
ments the  removal  of  the  Royal  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  from  Warwick-lane 
to  the  air  of  St.  James's,  and  an  equally 
humourous  dedication,  we  begin  to 
hold  high  converse  with  the  *'  Mas- 
ters*' in  the  old  School  of  Physic,  and 
in  the  reign  of  gold-headed  canes,  and 
full-bottomed  peruques,  as  they  appear 
in  the  paintings  of  Hogarth.  High 
testimony  is  borne  to  the  virtues,  ta- 
lents, and  acouirements  of  Hebcrden, 
Turton,  and  baker ;  and  we  are  then 
introduced  to  Sir  Richard  Jebb : — 

**  Here,  caught  in  Death's  web. 

Lies  the  great  Doctor  Jcbh, 
Who  got  gold-dust  just  like  Astley  Cooper ; 

Did  yon  8|)eak  about  diet. 

He  would  kick  up  a  riot, 
Aad  swear  like  a  madman  or  trooper. 

**  When  he  wanted  your  money, 

Uke  sugar  or  honey, 
Sir  Richard  look'd  happy  and  placid  ; 

Having  onoe  touch  d  the  cash. 

He  was  testy  and  rash. 
And  bis  honey  was  tnrn'd  to  an  acid. 

*'  Sir  Richard  Jebb  was  very  rough  and 
harsh  in  his  manner.  He  said  to  a  patient, 
to  whom  he  had  been  very  rude,  '  Sir,  it 
it  my  way.'  Then,  replied  the  patient, 
pointing  to  the  door,  *  I  beg  you  will  make 
thai  your  teay.' " 

'  The  notice  of  Dr.  Curry  is  of  ano- 
ther cbaricter,  and  shows  to  what 
lengdit  a  system  roav  be  carried,  and 
how  hard  a  "  hobby    may  be  ridden : 

**  Siste,  Viator !  do  not  be  in  a  hurry  i 
Beneath  lies  interred  Doctor  Calomel  Corryi 


Whose  history  proves  thiti  ^'coojectunl 

art" 
Oft  makes  a  bad  guess  of  tho  tma  peccant 

part. 
Severely  afflicted,  long  time  did  he  shiver. 
With  svmptoms  his  &ncy  ascribed  to  the 

liver : 
Hydrargynis  submur.  was  fruitlessly  taken, 
For  Death  proved  the  Doctor  his  case  had 

mistaken." 

The  following  perfection  of  Hiber- 
nicism  was  wont  to  be  told  by  Dr. 
Babington; — an  Irishman,  for  whom 
he  had  prescribed  an  emetic,  said, 
with  great  nalvet^,  my  dear  Doctor,  it 
is  of  no  use  your  ordering  me  an  eme- 
tic ;  I  tried  it  twice  in  Dublin,  and  it 
would  not  stay  on  iny  stomach  either 
time. 

Of  his  propensity  for  dosing,  no 
man  who  has  fallen  into  the  hands  of 
the  late  Dr.  Lettsom  can  forget ;  and 
the  epigram  which  our  autlior  has 
adopted,  must  be  familiar  to  all  who 
ever  heard  of  this  celebrated  man. 
His  list  of  patients  was  so  great,  that 
Dr.  Saunders  once  facetiously  inquired, 
•«  my  dear  Doctor  how  do  you  ma- 
nage? Do  you  write  for  them  by  the 
dozen  ?  or  nave  you  some  patent  plan 
of  practising  by  steam  my  much  «- 
teemed  friend?'  His  charities  were 
equally  notorious,  and  the  following  is 
not  less  honourable  to  his  humanity 
than  to  his  integrity: — 

«  The  Doctor  was  in  the  practice  of 
carrying  the  produce  of  his  fees  carelessly 
in  his  coat-pocket.  His  footman,  being 
awaf«  of  this,  used  to  make  free  with  a 
guinea  occasionally,  while  it  hung  up  in 
Uie  passage.  The  Doctor,  having  repeat- 
edly missed  his  gold,  wss  suspicious  of  the 
footman,  and  took  an  opportunity  of  watch- 
ing him.  He  succeeded  in  the  detection, 
and,  without  even  noticing  it  to  the  other 
servants,  called  him  into  his  study,  and 
coolly  said  to  him,  *■  John,  art  in  want  of 
money?'  *No;*  replied  John.  'Oh! 
then,  why  didst  thou  make  so  free  with  my 
pocket?  And  since  thou  didst  not  want 
money,  and  hast  told  me  a  lie,  1  mutt  part 
with  thee.  Now,  say  what  situation  ttiou 
vouldst  like  abroad,  and  1  will  obtain  it  fur 
thee;  for  I  cannot  keep  thee;  I  cannot 
recommend  thee ;  therefore  thou  must  go.' 
Suffice  it  to  say,  the  Doctor  procurtd  John 
a  situation,  and  he  went  abroad." 

Of  Cranioloey  it  is  well  said,  on  the 

authority  of  Blumenbach,  that  there  is 

a  ^reat  deal  that  is  new  and  true  in 

this  system,  but  the  new  is  not  Imf, 

.  and  the  true  is  not  new. 

All  professions  have  now  their  pious 


I«t7j 


BMrimw.'^Flag$Uum  ParUamenimriim. 


Mt> 


practitioners,  not  that  we  object  that 
the  ruling  principle  of  every  man  in 
his  profession,  or  in  his  tracfe,  should 
be  tne  religious  one;  guarding  the  one 
from  the  false  balance  and  the  deceit* 
ful  weight,  and  restraining  the  other 
firom  acquiring  wealth  by  dishonest 
means ;  but  there  is  a  lamentable  per- 
version of  terms,  born  of  cant  and 
hypocrisy,  pervading  the  notices  and 
aavertisements  of  a  certain  party,  even 
within  the  Church.  With  reference 
to  the  particular  profession  of  which 
our  author  treats,  we  have  the  follow- 
ing anecdotes : — 

<*  While  these  worthiei  are  quite  tare  of 
Wing*  well  provided  for  in  the  next  world, 
they  lose  no  opportunity  of  providing  for 
themselves  in  tnis ;  end  pasMget  of  Scrip- 
ture, and  portions  of  hymns,  are  turned  to 
good  account.  One  preaching  Doctor  sot 
a  wife  by  her  having  selected  a  verse  begin- 
ning, 'Where  thou  lodgest,  there  will  I 
lodge.' — Dr.  Dawson,  who  was  originally  a 
preacher,  eot  his  after  a  similar  manner. 
Soon  after  be  became  M.D.  he  attended  his 
neighbour  Miss  Corbett,  of  Hackney,  who 
was  indisposed ;  and  found  her  one  day  sit- 
ting solitary,  piously  and  pensively  musing 
upon  the  BUjIe,  when,  try  some  strange  acei' 
dent,  his  eyes  were  directed  to  the  passage 
where  Nathan  says  to  David,  <  Thou  art 
the  Man.'  The  Doctor  profited  by  the  kind 
hint ;  and,  after  a  proper  time  allowed  for 
drawing  op  articles  or  capitulation,  .  the 
lady,  on  the  99th  May,  1758,  surrendered 
herself  op  to  all  his  prescriptions,  and  the 
Doctor  very  speedily  performed  a  perfect 
cure." 

To  illustrate  the  opposite  error  we 
have  the  following! — 

«  This  Person  talk'd  of  Nature,  and  her 

works. 
In  language  only  fit  for  Pagan  Turks. 
His  error  shewn— >he  star^,  and  looked  as 

odd. 
As  if  her  works  were  not  the  works  of  God ! 
When  sick,  he  called  on  Nature  for  relief. 
But  Nature,  silent,  left  him  to  his  grief. 
How  hard,  ye  modem  Pagans,  is  your  lot. 
For  Nature  hears — as  if  she  heard  you  not* 

**  There  are  philosophers,  in  the  present 
age,  who  would  not  leave  unattempted  those 
jnysteries  of  Nature  which  seem  denied  to 
hnmaa  investigation :  they  would  enter  the 
temple,  where  she  works  In  secret,  traee 
the  unrevealed  sympathies  between  spirit 
and  matter,  and  unravel  the  whole  machineiT 
of  man!" 

■  But  it  is  hardly  fair  in  a  work  of  70 
pages  to  take  the  cream.  We  beg  to 
jecommepd  the  work  as  an  amusing 
collection  of  profmional  aoeodotes ; 


and,  with  a  few  specimeos  of  "  Stooe* 
cutter's  verse,''  we  shall  conclude-* 

A  Scotch  Doctor,    ^fter  Bums. 
"  Beneath  these  stones  He boneai 

O  Satan !  if  you  take  him. 
Appoint  him  doctor  to  your  sons. 

And  healthy  De'ils  hell  make  'em." 

«*  Here  lies  in  repose,  after  great  deeds  ol 
blood. 
An  Hospital  Surgeon  thorough. 
Who  bled  for  his  own  and  his  CobBlry^ 
good 
At  St.  Thomas's  Hospital,  Boroi^h." 

Nil  nisi  Bomim, 
**  To  shew  that,  unlike  to  old  dronesv 

Young  Surgeons  are  full  of  invention. 
Here  lies  one  who  did  add  to  the  bones, 

A  bone— called  the  «<  bone  o/CkmlenHonf* 

We  have  merely  to  add,  that  ouack* 
ery  has  received  a  full  castigation  at 
our  author's  hands ;  not  that  any  eas* 
ti^tion  can  abate  a  nuisance  which 
will  thrive  so  long  as  folly  and  credo* 
lity  are  permitted,  for  wise  purpose^ 
to  enter  into  the  composition  of  the 
mass  of  man  and  womankind. 


44.  Flagellum  Parliamentarium :  being 
castic  Notices  qf  nearly  200  Members^  ^ 
the  First  Parliament  qfter  the  Restoration^ 
1661—1678.   SmaU  6vo,  J.  B.  Nieholf . 
I8«7. 

THIS  curious  little  Tract  is  brought 
to  li^ht  by  a  gentleman  to  whom  the 
public  are  more  largely  indebted,  for 
tiis  excellent  Life  of  Davison,  his  very 
valuable  Collection  of  Ancient  Wills, 
and  his  extremely  useful  compendiont 
account  of  the  British  Peerage. 

In  this  "Flagellum"  17S  Mem- 
bers of  Parliament  are  illustrated  by 
characters  expkinatory  of  the  motivts 
which  induced  them  to  become  the 
mere  instruments  of  the  corrupt  Court 
of  the  Second  Charles.  They  mie 
remarkable  for  their  laconic  but  cat- 
ting satire,  and  remind  us  of  the  slash- 
ing severity  of  Dean  Swift,  io  hb 
"  Kemarks  on  the  Characters  of  the 
Court  of  Queen  Anne.*'  The  Editor 
proves  that  this  Tract  wai  writtea  io 
1671  or  1672. 

The  favourite  reproachful  exprea- 
sions  are  'VCoart  Cully/*  and  that  the 
parties  had  received  "Snip."  Butler 
would  have  furnished  an  appropriafie 
motto  :*- 

"  I  grant  Indeed  the  eavaliers 
Have  eanse  enough  to  han^tlMRi 


M4 


IlBViBW.-^drl^tcf  and  Scribbkrt  of  the  Day. 


[Mitf  eb 


'Whan  thty  •••    p«iuie^>   Jttnipf,    uid 

Sharpen,  tetters,  rakes,  and  bullies. 
To  favours  and  high  posU  preferr'd. 
They  can't  be  bUmed  to  think  it  hard." 

Hudibrasat  QmrL 

To  all  who  studv  the  History  of 
England  during  tne  reign  of  the 
•«  profligate*'  Charles,  these  pithy  cha- 
lacters  will  form  an  amusing  contrast 
to  the  eulogiums  on  the  same  indivi- 
^lais  to  be  found  in  the  works  of  Eve- 
lyn, North,  Pcpys,  &c.  These  por- 
traits, or  rather  caricatures,  were  evi- 
dently written  by  a  satirist  who  was 
well  acquainted  with  the  corruption  of 
^e  Court.  We  give  a  specimen  or 
two  :— 

"Sir  Thomas  Clifford.— The  grand- 
ton  9f  a  poor  Devonshire  Vicar;  Trea- 
anrer  of  the  Household ;  one  of  the  Lords 
Commistiooers  of  the  Treasury;  Bribe- 
master  General." 

<•  Sir  John  Trevor. — Once  the  great 
instrument  of  Cromwell,  who  has  got  by 
rebellion  1500/.  per  annum  out  of  the  Lord 
D^erby's  estates.  Has  been  Envoy  in  France, 
is  now  Secretary  of  State. 
"Charles  Lord  Buckhdrst,  who, 
with  a  good-will,  parted  with  hit  play 
wench,  and  in  eratilude  is  made  one  of  the 
Bedchamber  ;  has  the  ground  of  the  Ward- 
robe  given  him,  and  6,000/.  at  three  several 
times." 


45.     Critiea  and  Scribblers  qf  tht  Day.    A 
Satire.    By  a  Scribbler,     Svo.pp.  43. 

TO  the  author  of  this  tract  we 
would  say,  '*  more  in  pity  than  in 
anger,*'  tnat  having  pointed  his  shafts 
with  all  the  venom  he  possesses,  and 
having  discharged  them  with  all  the 
Ttgour  with  which  he  is  endowed,  wc 
are  as  unharmed  as  was  Gulliver  in 
the  land  of  Lilliput,  when,  according 
to  the  Historian, 

'  «  The  doughty  manikins 

Employed  themselves  in  sticking  pins 
And  needles  in  the  great  man's  breeches." 

We  are  most  willing  to  be  abused 
in  pood  company;  and  so  far  from 
feelmg  the  slightest  resentment  at  the 
abuse  of  this  Yorkshire  gentleman,,  we 
are  even  unwilling  to  show*  him  how 
small  is  the  quantity  of  oil  that  would 
iuflfocate  a  wasp ;  much  less  would  we 
descend  to  break  "  butterflies  on 
wheels/'  or  to  "  discharge  artillery  at 
flies.f*  We  are  really  sorry  that  an 
expression  in  our  Review,  which  was 
meant  to  be  inoocent,  shpuld  hurt  his 
too  sensitive  mind ;.  and .  we  lament 


that  dur  considerate  patience  in  sm* 
pending  our  judgment  till  the  appear- 
ance of  his  forthcoming  chef-d'oeuvre 
should  have  been  rejected  with  such 
perverse  ingratitude. 

One  word  with  this  Gentleman 
ujpon  the  subject  of  his  attack  on  our 
late  venerable  Editor.  If  there  ever 
was  a  human  being  who  had  the  milk 
of  human  kindness  in  his  heart,  and 
the  suavity  of  benevolence  on  his 
tongue  and  in  his  pen,  it  was  he.  So 
far  was  he  from  inditing  the  oflensive 
•*•  article,"  that  we  greatly  question  if 
it  ever  met  his  eye ;  and  we  are  com- 
pelled, by  a  sense  of  what  is  due  to 
that  lamented  individual,  to  retort  u|)on' 
the  author  of  this  foul  abuse  of  the 
blc  J.  Nichols,  his  own  battery: — 

**  Vain  fool !  attempt  as  well  to  blot  from 

tight 
Yon    Sun    triumphant   in    bis    march  of 

light ; 
The  pure  effulgence  of  his  noon-day  blaze 
Shall  flout  each  cloud  thy   maniac  spleen 

may  raise  '.*' 

Tims  much  injustice  to  the  dead. 

There  are  some  lines  in  the  present 
poem  that  indicate  a  certain  degree  of 
poetical  talent,  but  as  the  author  has 
determined,  and  we  think  wisely, 

''  No  more  to  murder  time 
In  counting  syllables  and  tinkling  rhyme  ;*' 

and  as  he  professes  an  acquaintance 
with  Horace,  we  beg,  without  animo- 
sity, to  say,  •*  Five  vaieque.*' 


AG.  Head  Pieces  and  Tail  Pieces.  By  a  Tra- 
veiling  Artist,   l^mo.pp,  95b.  TiU.  1896. 

THIS  is  a  little  volume  of  far  greater 
merit  than  its  unassuming  title  wotild 
appear  to  claim.     It  is  a  collection  of 
Tales  (ten  in  numlier)  written   with 
no  common    talent,    and    indicating 
eflbrts  of  a  practised  pen.    The  lan- 
guage of    the   "  Guerilla   Brothers,*' 
for  instance,  is  appropriately  vivid,  and 
describes  with  much  felicitous  energy 
the  scenes  of  heroic  valour   and  ro- 
mantic chivalry  which  the  presence  of 
the   French  army   rekindled    in    the 
mountains  and   fastnesses    of   Spain. 
There  are  some  exquisite  morceaux  of 
tenderness,  and  of  simple  yet  touching 
pathos   interspersed   through   the  vo- 
lume.    We  heartily  recommend  it  to 
the  lovers  of  Mhat  class  of  imagina- 
tive writings  %vhich  wear  the  shape  df 
reality,  and  the  irresistible  impress  of 
a  *' foundation  in  fact  " 


.  I 


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RiviBW.— WiUement'B  Hnaldic  Noiicei. 


S4» 


47*  Heraldic  Noticet  tf  Canteibary  Cathe' 
droit  with  Genealogical  and  Topogn^hictd 
Notes,  To  which  is  added  a  Chronological 
Lisl  of  the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury, 
tcith  the  Blazon  of  their  respective  Arms, 
By  Thomas  WiUemeDt,  Author  of  **  Re^ 
gal  Heraldry.**  4to.  pp.  175.  Harding, 
Lepard,  and  Co, 

OUR  heraldic  readers  will  rejoice 
to  find,  that  the  author  of  one  of  the 
inost  valuable  works  connected  with 
V  Coat  Armures,"  has  again  taken  the 
fields  and  although  his  present  volume, 
does  not  appear  Trom  the  title  to  pos« 
sess  the  same  claim  to  general  atten- 
tion as  his  "  Regal  Heraldty,*'  we  can 
assure  them  that  it  will  be  found 
equally  accurate  and  useful.  It  contains 
the  blazon  of  the  Arms  placed  in  Can- 
terbury Cathedral  at  diflerent  periods, 
from  the  rei^n  of  Richard  the  Se- 
cond to  that  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  and 
which  may  therefore  be  received  as 
contemporary  evidence  of  the  armorial, 
bearings  of  several  thousand .  persons 
within  that  period.  Every  one  at  all 
informed  on  the  point,  is  well  aware 
how  much  such  evidence  is  wanted  ; 
and  little  more  need  be  said  in  recom- 
mendaiion  of  this  interesting  volume, 
than  to  state  that  there  was  scarcely  a 
family  of  any  consequence  in  the  king- 
dom, in  the  fourteenth,  fifteenth,  and 
sixteenth  centuries,  whose  Arms  are  not 
to  be  found  in  that  Cathedral.  The  ac- 
cession of  information  which  is  thus 
afforded  to  the  science  of  Heraldry  is 
therefore  unquestionable,  more  es|)eci- 
ally  on  the  various  differences  assumed 
by  branches  of  the  same  family.  Be- 
sides being  a  text-book  of  reference, 
this  work  presents  materials  by  which 
even  the  best  Herald  of  the  day  will 
be  materially  benefited.  Nor  is  it 
by  any  means  a  dry  catalogue  of 
names  and  Arms,  for  every  page 
abounds  with  biographical  and  illus- 
trative notes,  collected  from  the  best 
authorities,  and  with  the  same  zeal  and. 
discrimination  as  distinguish  Mr.  VVil- 
lement*s  former  work.  Extracts  from 
a  collection  of  this  nature  are  wholly 
out  of  the  question;  but  to  this  fact 
we  pledge  ourselves, — that  the  more 
competent  the  individual  may  be  to> 
estimate  its  value,  or  the  labour  which 
has  been  betftowed  upon  it,  the  more 
will  he  be  impressed  with  both.  Mr. 
Willement  informs  us,  that  it  will  de- 
pend upon  the  encouragement  bestow- 
ed upon  his  attempt  whether  the  re- 
salt  of  similar  researches  in  other  cele- 


brated edifices  will  not  be  published  $ 
and  he  justly  observes,  •'  it  is  remarka- 
ble that  with  the  present  taste  for  to- 
pographical and  genealogical   investi- 
gation, Heraldic  antiquities  should  haye 
been   so  much    neglected,  intimately 
connected  as  they  are  with  the  personal 
memorials  of  our  nobility  and  gentry.** 
If  any  real  taste  for  Heraldry  exist, 
ample  encouragement  will  be  given;' 
and  a  series  of  records  similar  to  the' 
present  will,  it  is  hoped,  be  added  to 
our  libraries.     The  time  has  arrived' 
when  in  every  species  of  research  no- 
thing is  credited   without  contempb*. 
rary  proof.    This  volume  must  then  be 
received  with  gratitude  for  the  evidence' 
which  it  affords  in  a  department  so  intt-. 
mately  associated  with  all  that  is  no- 
ble and  chivalrous  in  English  history.   : 

The  work  is  ornamented  by  several* 
fac-similes  of  singular  bearings  as  well 
as  of  those  which  are  depicted  in 
an  unusual  manner.  Of  these  the 
most  remarkable  are  the  Arms  df 
England  on  the  body  of  a  lion  da« 
caiiy  collared ;  those  of  Jerusalem  oa~ 
the  body  of  an  elephant  with  a  castle 
on  his  back,  the  crest  of  the  illui. 
trious  family  of  Beaumont,  and  which 
evidently  alludes  to  their  descent  froin 
the  Kings  of  Jerusalem  ;  and  the  crest 
of  Stanley  charged  on  each  wing  n-ith 
a  shield,  the  one  containing  the  Arms 
of  Man,  and  the  other  quarterly,  l  and 
4,  Latham  ;  2  and  3,  Stanley. 

Towards  the  end  of  the  volume  is  a 
list  of  all  the  Archbishops  of  Canter- 
bury, which  is  valuable  from  its  pre* 
senting  the  blazon  of  their  Arms;  for 
a  regular  account  of  the  armorial  eb- 
signs  of  Prelates,  is  a  great  desidera* 
turn  in  English  Heraldry.  Our  limitt, 
will  not  allow  us  to  refer  particu- 
larly to  the  information  with  which 
the  notes  abound,  but  we  cannot  re- 
frain from  pointine  out  some  perii- 
nent  remarks  on  tne  Ostrich,  or  aa 
our  learned  friend  Dr.  Meyrick  con- 
tends. Heron's  feathers,  the^  crest  of 
Edward  the  Black  Prince«  in  p.  4&,  " 
ei  seq. 

Again  we  heartily  and  most  con- 
scientiously commend  these  "  Heral- 
dic Notices''  to  all  whoiivish  for  evi- 
dence of  the  Arms  borne  by  their  an- 
cestors, or  who  are  willing  to  acquire  ' 
a  knowledge  of  Heraldry  from  a  far 
better  source  than  even  Edmondson^  . 
Nisbet,  or  Randle  Holme — existing 
specimens  of  the  Arms  used  in  the 
fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centurtea* 


[    946    ]  CMaiAi 

LITERARY    AND   SCIENTIFIC    INTELLIGENCE. 


•  Cambridge^  Fc2r.l6^-— TlieNorrbian  prize  Furkh  Church  orWrockwArdSs*,  eo.  Salap. 

ott  (he  tubjeoty  **  The  Mosaic  Dispensation  By  the  Rer.  Joshua  CHlpin. 

fiof  ifUended  to  be  perpetual"  is  adjudged  to  A  Vdame  of  Serrooos  by  the  Rer.  Wm. 

■B  exercise  haviog  the  motto,  *<Lex  per  Dkaltry,  Rector  of  ClaphiuD. 

Mosen,  non  ad  salvandum,  sed  ad  convin-  Sermons,  chiefly  Doctrinal,  with  Noles. 

cendum  peccatorem  daU :  sed  gratia  et  ve-  By  GcoROi  D*Oyly,  D  J).  F.^. 

rfeas   per    lesum  Christum   pacta."     The  Twelve  Sermons  preached  to  a  Conntiy 

writer  omitted  to  send  in  any  paper  contain-  Congregation.     By  the  Rev.  A.  Dallas. 

log  his  name.  '^^  Consequences  and  UnJawfiiiness  of 

Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Feb, 27.  ^^'^il.   ^  Sermon  preachedm  ^ Cha- 

n  ij       J  I   -«-*  «*«....*« J  k»  fli«  \nnm.  P*»  o^  Winchester  Bridewell.    By  the  Rer. 

Gold  medals  were  presented  by  the  Vice-  f  q.  Zellwood,   A.M.    ChaphOn    to   th« 

Chancellor,  for  dutmguished  «iswer.ng  in  County  of  Hants                   ^ 

Science,— to  James  Berry  and  Dommick  ^  Y,  » *t*"*"*      *u    a*    •  ^.  .    a    •  *^ 

M-Causland;   and  in  Classics-to  Francis  Foraiilar.es  ,^  or^he  Magistrate  .  Assut- 

Ooold,  and  Edward  Fitz^rald.    The  Vice-  «^ ''  ^»«f  »  CoHection  of  Forms,  which 

Xfc^      11    I       •    .  A,,  i5«j...*«.  «--•  mA  occur  in  the  daily  practice  and  dnties  of  ■ 

F^ji*'Ti^rs^rth^^r.Sv^et^"  J«.ticeofPeace  out  of  Sessions.    By  Wm. 

^^??.n  J^^     '  ht  ite  J^l^  Robinson,  esq.  LL  D.  of  the  Middte  Tern- 

:^lSr?otoi'i:^^^^^^^  &>  :-^-   '^  -  -^  Magbtr^.  Pocket, 

ttius  (iCich«ji),  Boyle  imu.  (^«««);  «^  'part  IV.  of  Watkin.'s  Memoir  of  the  Life 

SSl^in'?^^^^^  -1^—^  ^^«  «-  ^  Highness  the 

ETu^s^^of  tt  Gr?f PrXs^f"  ^e  it  .^^^  and  Documents  ill^^^^^^^^  of  the 

y«^,  have  been  given  to  the  following  scho-  ^•'^V°'"nf      J  ^I'lS^'f  ****  ^"^  n"" 

f         ti-«k-i«p.    «f   Art.     «5mitLK    (a^nrtrm  of  William  III.     By  A.  H.  KxNNEY,  D.D. 

Q  V  ^^^M'rL                       ^        ^  Th«   Bo«»^   Colictor.'  Manual;    or,  a 

Sydney,)  and  M  Caul.  Guide   to   the   Knowledge   of  npwarda  of 

St.  David  s  Gof.LEOB,  Carmarthen.  8o,000  rare,  curious,  and   useful  Books, 

The  Corporation  of  Carmarthen  have  re-  either  printed  in  or  lelatbg  to  Great  Bri- 

otntW  voted,  an  annual  exhibition  of  lOZ.  in  tain  and  Ireland,  from  the  invfntion  of  print- 

St.  David'a  College  to  the  best  scholar  in  ingto  tlie  present  time. 

Carmardien  icho<n,  and  have  complimented  The  Gondola,a  series  of  tales  (elated  at  Sea. 

^e  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  with  the  nomina-  Pompeii  and  other  Poems, 

tion.    The  Bishop  has  nominated  the  Rev.  "  Poetic  Fugitives. 

L.  Llewellin,  principal  of  the  college,  to  be  Excursions  i)f  a  Country  Curate. 

the  examiner  of  the  candidates.  Jubal,  a  Dramatic  Poem.    By  R.  M.  Bi- 

—  VERLEY,  esq. 

Ready  for  Puhlieation.  Death  on  the  Pale  Horse.     By  Mr.  Jobh 

-  The  Third  and  concluding  Volume  of  Mr.  Bruce,  with  an  Emblematical  Frontispieoe. 

Clutterbuck's  History  and  Antiquatiea  of  Clarke's  Gvogmphieal  Dictionary,  S  vols. 

Bertfordshire.  4to. 

.  Scriptural  Geology ;  or  Geological  Phe-  Dr.  Liicoard's  Postscript,  m  Anaww  to 


^ consistent  only  with  tlie  literal  In-  Dr.  Allen's  Reply. 

tarpretation  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures,  upoo  Harding's  Stenography  conaiderably  im- 

^  subjects  of  the  Creation  and  Deluge,  m  proved. 

Answer  to  an  «  Essay  on  the  Theory  of  the  Sherwood's  (Mrs.)  History  of  My  Uncle 

Earth."    By  M.  Cuvier.  Timothy. 

The  Nature  and  Extent  of  the  Christian  '  The  Letter  of  OHver  Cromwell,  whlcfi  we 

Dispensation,  with  reference  to  the  Salva-  printed  in  p.  4,  has  been  roost  accurately  en- 

bility  of  the  Heathen.  By  £.  W.  Grinpield.  graved,  and  published  with  an  account  of  it. 

Essays  on  the  Perception  of  an  Eternal  By  John  Frost,  esq.  F.S.A.  F.L.S.  See. 

Universe,  and  other  Subjects  connected  with  — 

llie  Doctrine  of  Canaation.    By  Lady  Mary  Preparing  fir  PubUcatian, 

Shbpmbrd,  author  of  <*  An  Essay  upon  the  Mr.  Nicolas  is  prepariiw  for  pablieaftiOB 

Relation  of  Cause  and  Effect."  the  Jonmal  of  ThoiMM  de  Bekynton,  after-, 

Sermon*  on  the  Principal  Eesiivals  of  the  wards  Bialiop  of  Bath  and  Keeper  ot  the 

Christian  Cknrehi  to  which  are  added,  thre«  Privy  Seal,  and  Sir  Robert  Boos,  Knight* 

Sermons  on  Good  FridMr.  By  the  Rev.  Jouir  ^om  Windaor  to  Bordeaux,  and  thenoe  to 

Bird  Sumner,  M.A.  Freb.  of  Durham  and  London,  on  a  snecial  mission  frcun  Heai|r 

Vicar  of  Maplednrham,  Oxoo.  the  Six^,  from  June  1442  to  March  144ff. 

'  Twenty-OQt  Discounea  delivered  in  jM  Tbii  highly  cnriooa  document  containa  i» 


1887.1 


Liieraiwrt  and  Sckaee. 


mr 


Iftiotfwjr^f  ihcSr  Joufneyy  thcatiBM  of  tW 
panam  with  irhom  they  4liiic4  aod  rapptd 
4m  Meh  <kj  «t  the  dtfferavt  placet  throu&k 
whieh  they  pMted*  and  ao  acooant  of  tof 
cwrtieiilar  events  which  ocouncd ;  together 
with  copiet  of  ell  the  letters  which  they  inr 
eetred  and  tent  daring  that  period  to  and 
from  the  King,  and  other  ditfineuished 
personages.  From  a  contemporary  MS.  in 
tike  Ashmolean  Library. 

Aecouotof  the  Parish  of  Bremhill,  Wilts, 
wiiere  was  situated  the  Abbey  of  Stanley. 
Bf  the  Rev.  Wm.  Lisle  Bowles.  The  His- 
tory of  this  interesting  monument  of  monas- 
tic anticpiities  Mr.  Bowles  has  illustrated 
from  soarces  never  before  explored,  and  in- 
▼cstigated  other  points  of  national  as  well  as 
local  interest. 

A  Hebrew,  Sfriae,  Greek,  and  English, 
&e.  Lexicon  of  the  Scripture  Proper  Names, 
with  the  penultimate  quantities  accurately 
marked  and  accentuated.  By  the  Rev.  Dr. 
NiBLOCK,  F.S.A.  F.R.L.  author  of  the 
«  Classical  Latin  Dictionary." 

A  volume  of  Ballads  translated  from  the 
Servian  hmgoage,  with  other  specimens  of 
the  popular  poetry  of  that  people.     By  Mr. 

Bow  RING. 

History  of  the  Merovingian  Dynasty,  being 
the  6rst  part  of  a  new  History  uf  France.  By 
Mr.  John  Hawisworth. 

Second  Thoughts  on  the  Person  of  Christ, 
on  Human  Sin,  and  on  the  Atonement ;  coQ- 
taiuing  reasons  (or  the  author's  secession 
firom  the  UoiUrian  Communion,  and  his 
adherence  to  that  of  the  Esubli»hed  Church. 
By  Chai .  Abraham  Elton,  esq. 

Uuitarianism  Abandoned,  or  Reasons  as- 
ttfroiA  for  ceasing  to  be  connected  with  that 
dMcription  of  Religious  Professors  who  de- 
signate themselves  Uniurians.  By  Mr.  Gil- 
christ. 

Part  I.  of  a  new  Version  of  the  Psalms 
from  tlieir  original  Text.     By  Jas.  Usher. 

Sacred  Hours,  consisting  of  Select  Pieces 
in  Prose  uid  Verse.  By  the  Rev.  Samuel- 
Walter  BUROESS. 

Dramatic  Tales  for  Children,  intended  as 
an- additional  Volume  of  Parent's  Assistant. 
By  Miss  Edowortu. 

The  Chronicles  of  Wesleyan  Methodism: 
exhibiting  an  Alphabetical  Arrangement  of 
all  the  Circuits  in  its  connexion,  the  names 
of  the  Preachers  who  have  travelled  in  them, 
and  the  Yearly  order  of  their  succession, 
from  the  esublishment  of  Methodism  to 
the  present  time.     By  John  Stephens. 

An  Appeal  to  Reason ;  or,  Christianity 
and  Deism  Contrasted.  Dedicated  to  the 
Members  of  the  Christian  Evidence  Society. 
By  the  Rev.  Sam.  Walter  Burgess. 

Tht  Rev.  Thos.  Belsham**  Second  Vo- 
lume of  Doctrinal  and  Practical  Discourses. 

The  Life,  Voyages,  and  Adventures  of 
l^ufragus :  being  a  fiuthful  Narrative  <of 
the  Author's  real  Life,  and  conUining  a  ,«- 
riea  of  i emarkable  Adventares  in  Asia. 


ANcmrrLiTftftATtrRi  iito  Caaomeiiii. 

Literature  has  been  much  indiebted  to  ^ 
varioos  Societies  which  have  been  estab1uh» 
ed  for  the  dissembation  of  knowledge.  Under 
the  fostering  care  of  snch  Societies,  men  lif 
the  first'orate  talents  and  the  most  extensiv* 
knowledge  have  been  encouraged  to  devote 
their  time  to  the  earliest  records  of  the^ 
respective   countries.     In  Fmnce  M.  R€^- 
nouard  having  been  elected  perpetual  secre- 
tary of  the  Academic  Fran^aise,  was  induced 
to  publish  the  **  Remains  of  the  Romance 
Language,"  or  that  language  which  was' IB 
general  use  after  the  Latin  had  lost  maov  (if 
its  variable  terminations,  and  before  the  It»- 
lian,  Spanish,  Portuguese,  and  French,  wei^ 
modelled  into  their  present  forms.   The  So- 
ciety fur  Promoting  Ancient  Literature  df 
the  North,  at  Copenhagen,  has  patronised 
that  eminent  linguist  Professor  Rask«  add 
h'ts  able  coadjutor  Dr.  C.  Rafn,  who  m 
printing  the  <*  Icelandic  Sagas,"  or  Chroni- 
cles, wnd  what  remains  of  the  old  Norse,  or 
Dauish  language,  from  which  originate  thoia 
dialects  that  are  spoken  from  the  Frozen 
Ocean  to  the  river  Eyder.    Some  beautShl 
copies  of  these  Sssas  have  been  sent  to  oiir 
Royal  Society  of  Literature ;  among  whoM 
Royal  Associates  is  Mr.  Turner,  the  ind^ 
fatigable    and    accurate    Anglo-Saxon   aad 
English  hutorian.    To  his  unwearied  assi- 
duity in  searching  out  original  documentiy 
we  are  indebted  for  the  attention  which  Is 
now  paid  to  the  Anglo-Saxon, — a  langutfO 
most  important  to  every  Englishman  who 
would  wish  to  understand  the  origin  of  fair 
own  language,  customs,  and  laws. 

If  Societies  claim   our   praise  for  thriir 
exertions,  how  much  more  is  due  to  thoea 
patriotic  individuals  who  devote  their  pro- 
perty to  promote  the  cause  of  Literature  f 
Amongst  the  most  forward  of  these  is  hb 
Grace  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  and  Chan- 
dos,  whose  magnificent  library  at  Sto we  is  as 
much  distinguished  for  the  facility  that  Is 
given  to  literary  men  to  consult  its  storest 
as  for  its  fine  collection  of  printed  bool4» 
and  for  the  number  and  importance  of  its 
manuscripts,  particulariy  in  Irish  and  Anglo- 
Saxon  literature,  and  the  topography  of  the 
county  of  Bucks.     An  extensive  history  of 
the  county  is  preparing  under  the  patrona^ 
and  at  the  exjicnse  of  the  Duke.    The  ve- 
nerable   librarian    at  Stowe,  the  Rev.  C. 
O'Conor,  D.D.  has  previously  given  utl- 
doubted  proofs  of  his  great  erudition,  by 
publishing  an  account  ot  the  Stowe  Ma&u- 
scripts,  in  a  quarto  volume,  entitled  "  Bib- 
liotbeca  MS.  btoweusis."    H'ls  great  work» 
the  Irish  Chronicles,  equally  creditable  so 
the  author  and  his  noble  patron,  has  jdat 
appeared,  under  this  title,  «*  Rerum  Hiber- 
nicarum  Scriptores  Veteres."    This  work, 
which  dUpUys  the  sober  exercise  of  Dr. 
O'Conor's  extraordinary  critical  powers,  will 
ever  remain  a  monument  of  his  iudefifttigablo 
industry  and  ptofiwmdieaming.   Those  %ho 


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have  expeiienced  iha  low  of  tiiiie»  tK«  gratt 
cxpenoet  and  the  almost-  insuperable  diffi- 
CQltj  in .  deciphering  many  ancient  manu- 
acriptSi  rendered  still  more  illegible  by  fre- 
quent and  unusual  contractions^  will  know 
how  to  estimate  the  important  labours  of 
Dr.  O'Conor,  and  the  liberality  of  his  pa- 
tron in  giving  publicity  to  the  Irish  Chro- 
.  nicies.  They  are  intereseiug  in  many  points 
of  view,  but  especially  as  affording  autnendc 
specimens  of  a  language  which  iome  consi- 
der the  oldest  in  Europe,  and  closely  allied 
to  the  Phceoician  or  ancient  Hebrew.  The 
work  is  written  in  a  neat  and  easy  Latin 
stylcy  and  comprised  in  four  volumes  quarto, 
.containing  more  than  9700  pages.  It  is 
printed  at  Buckiosham,  and  does  great  cre- 
dit to  the  press  of  Mr.  Seeley. 

In  Vol.  1.  is  a  minute  description  of  the 

early  Irish  MSS.  and  some  particulars  of  the 

.suthors,  with  beautiful  and  most  accurate 

.  &c-similes  of  the  MSS. ;    the  most  early 

.  mention  of  Ireland,  collected  from  Greek, 

Roman,  and  other    authors  ;    remarks  on 

Irish  Poetry,  and  a  collection  of  the  most 

•aoient  and  interesting  poems,  with  a  literal 

Latin  translation,  &c. 

Vol.  1 1,  coutaios  the  Annals  of  Tis^ernach, 
an  abbot  of  Cloyne,  who  died  A.D.  1088. 
*  These  annals  begin  in  the  year  before  Christ 
305,  and  end  with  Tigernach's  death,  A.  D. 
1088.  There  are  two  columns  in  each  page: 
on  the  left  is  the  original  Irish,  printed  in  a 
.  most  beautiful  Irish  type,  and  on  the  right 
' ,  a  literal  Latin  version  by  Dr.O'Conor,  with 
,  copious  critical  notes  at  the  foot  of  the 
page. — The  Annals  of  Inisfallen,  so  called 
because  they  were  written  in  the  abbey  built 
on  tlie  island  of  Inis&Ileo,  in  the  lake  of 
Killamey:  these  annsis  are  fn>m  A.D.  4S8 
to  1196.  Another  copy  of  the  Annals  of 
Inisfallen*  from  the  Dublin  MS.  from  A.  D. 
950  to  1088  :  these  annals  are  not  printed 
in  columns,  but  the  Irish  is  in  the  italic 
character ;  and  immediately  Mow,  in  Ro- 
man type,  is  Dr.  0*Conor*s  literal  Latiu 
translation. — ^The  Annals  of  the  Monastery 
of  Buelley,  from  A.  D.  420  to  1945:  the 
former  part  of  the  text  is  chiefly  in  Latin, 
and  the  latter  in  Irish,  a  translation  of 
which  is  given  by  Dr  O'Conor. 

In  vol.  III.  wc  have  the  Annals  or  Chro- 
nicle of  Donegal,  or  wl.at  is  more  con  - 
monly  called  the  Fou/  Masters,  because 
these  annals  were  compiled  by  four  monks 
of  Donegal,  who  were  great  masters  of 
Irish  literature.  They  begin  about  9000 
years  before  the  Christian  sera,  and  extend 
to  A.D.  1171. 

Vol.  IV.  comprehends  the  Chronicles  of 
Ulster,  from  A.D.  431  to  1 ISI. 

Autographs  op  eAinent  Persons. 

One  of  tlie  most  curious  sales  which  for 

a  long  period  have  come  before  the  public, 

was  ..lately  concluded  by  Mr.  Southgate,  of 

.  Flaet-sUeet.     It  eonslited    priucij^lv  of 

Mitogipph  letteiiy  MSS.  &c.  of  tone  of  the 


BUMt  eminent  individualf  of  the  last  thine 
centuries.    It  was  curious  to  obeenre  tlM 
prices  which  some  of  those  articles  brought. 
A  translation  of  a  portion  of  Cicero,  as  an 
exercise  made  by  his  present  Majesty,  and 
•igned  *'  George  P."  brought  U.  as.    A  si- 
milar Exercise  by  the  late  Duke  of  York, 
signed  "Frederick,**  brought  1/.  U,    The 
original  grant  from  Edward  IV.  with  the 
great  seal  attached,  of  all  the  lands  and  poe- 
sessions  of  the  Rutland  family,  granted  after 
the  battle  of  Towton  to  Lond   Hastingi, 
-Chamberlain  of  England,  dated  dd  August, 
1467*  brought  7/.  10s.     This   was  one   of 
the  most  curious  documents  ever  submitted 
to  auetion.     The  great  families  mentioned 
in  it  were  attainted  of  treason,  and  their 
possessions  seized  and  disposed  of  by  this 
grant.     A    copy   of  Voltaire's  tragedy   of 
Tattcredif  with  the  author's  MS  notes  and 
additions,  evidently  corrected  for  a  new  edi- 
tion, went  off  for   W.  5s.    A  letter  from 
Charles  I.  to  the  Prmce  of  Orange,  dated 
May  94,  16S0,  was  sold  fur  4  guineas.     A 
letter  from  Oliver  Goldsmith  to  Mr.  Nourse 
the  bookseller,  offering  the  copyright  of  his 
History  of  the  Revolutions  of  Denmark,  was 
sold  for  5  guineas ;  this  high  price  arose 
from  the  circumstance  that  letters  and  au- 
tographs of  <<  Poor  Nol*'  are  extremely  rare. 
Charles  Mathews  purchased  a  note  from 
Lady  Denbigh  to  Garrick,  respecting  his 
performance,  and  the  original  draft  of  his 
answer,  written  from  the  Adelphi,  for  9/.  7s. 
6d. ;  and  four  other  theatrical  letters  from 
Garrick,  Foote,  Barry,  and  Mra.  Yates,  for 
6  guineas  and  a  half.     A  note  from  Pope  to 
Dr.  Oliver,  at  Bath,  was  liought  at  ]/.  7s. ; 
and  Addison's  Signature  to  an  official  letter, 
at  a  guinea.     Queen  Elizabeth's  Sign  Ma- 
nual dated  Richmond,  96th  of  July,  1564, 
brought  9  guineas  and  a  half.    A  letter,  en- 
tirely in  the  hand-writing  of  Charles  I.  ad- 
dressed to  his  only  sister,  the  Queen  of  Bo- 
hemia, and  dated  the  Sd  of  September,  1 647, 
from  Hampton  Court,  where  he  was  then 
confined,  brought  5/.  95.  6d,    This  was  in 
the   most    perfect   coudition,   and   written 
throughout  in  a  fine  Italian  or  court  hand, 
the  tetters  almost  perpendicular.  Autographs 
of  the  following  |)ersons  were  sold : — Falk- 
ner,   Sheostone,  VVarton,  Shelly,  Moore, 
Scott,  and  Cral)b,  one  lot,  1  /.  1 6s. ;  Guy, 
the  founder  of  the  Hospital,  19s. :  the  great 
Duke  of  Marlborough  (1709),  John  Duke 
of  Argyll  (1711},  the  Duke  of  Wellington 
(1814),  in  one  lot,  l/.6s. ;  Sir  Qoudnley 
Shovell  (1698),  Lord  Hood   (1808),  and 
Nelson  and  Bronte,  dated  on  board  the  Me- 
dusa, Aug.  7,   1801,  one  lot,  18s.;  Lord 
North,  Marquis  of  Rockingham,  Mr.  Pitt, 
and  Mr.  Jenkinson   (now  Lord  Liverpool), 
one  lot,  19s. i  C.J.  Fox,  Edmund  Burke, 
and  J.  Curwen,  one  lot,  a  guinea ;  the  signs 
manual  of  Charles  II.  (1663),  WUIiam  IH. 
(1690^,   Queen  Mary  (1699),  George  IL 
(1797)»  and  Geoive  III.  (1793),  one  lot, 
9/.   lis,}    Jamei  IL  under  liis  signatnre 


IMf.] 


Literiume  tmi  Sctcnef. 


t49 


<•  York,"  dated  St.  JamM't,  8th Sept.  ISM, 
•aocKer  tiguturay  m  Kisff,  ia  1688;  aad 
the  tignature  of  William  III.  when  Priooe 
of  Orange,  Jan.  7>  J688-:>y  one  lot,  8Z.  5«. } 
kia  present  Majetty»  an  order  written  in  bit 
own  hand,  when  Prince  of  Walet,  concera- 
ing  hit  box  at  the  Haymarket,  a  similar  one 
from  the  late  Dnlie  of  York,  dated  April  19, 
1796,  to  admit  Prince  £rnest  to  hia  boa  at 
Dniry-lane,  and  a  letter  by  the  celebrated 
Mrs.  Clarke,  one  lot,  dO«. ;  a  letter  of 
Loais  XrV.  to  the  Queen  of  James  !!•  on 
the  birth  of  his  grandson,  dated  Versailln, 
Sept.  19t  168S,  with  two  fine  impressions 
of  the  Royal  seal  upon  the  blue  sillc  with 
which  it  was  tied,  3/.  15^.;  Loub  XIV.  and 
Loois  XV.  1/,  8i. ;  Wentworth  Sari  of 
Strafford,  15i. ;  Prince  Rupert,  one  guinea; 
Geoige  Villiers,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  IL 
8«.;  Charles  II.  Oeorge  II.  and  George 
P.R.  (1814),  countersigned  *<  Sidmouth," 
1/.^.;  Georae  Cannbg,  Robert  Peel,  G. 

Roee,  R.  WT  Horton,  Tiemey,   W. 

Grant,  and  J.  Mackintosh,  one  lot,  7t.  { 
Buonsqparte,  David  the  painter,  Goemy  da 
Maubreuil  (who  recently  assaulted  M.  Tal- 
leyrand), and  Lady  HoUand,  one  loT, 
liroogbt  19t* 

Thi  Apostlis. 

^*  A  Tint  to  a  geuuine  collection  is  like 
going  a  pilgrimage ;  it  is  an  act  of  devo- 
tion at  the  Shrine  of  Art!"  Such  were  the 
sentiments  which  recurred  to  us  as  we  made 
our  second  visit  to  this  exhibition,  through 
which  the  Fine  Arts  have  experienced  a 
«nost  aplendid  aoqauitioo,  and  the  man  of 
taste  been  gratified. 

For  the  discovery  of  these   six  superb 
productions  of   the    Spanish  school,    the 
world  is  indebted  to  the  sound  taste  and 
penetration  of  Mr.  Harwood  of  Kensing- 
ton, who  met  with  them  at  a  sale,  dedaubed 
—probably   for  some   secret    purpose  un- 
known to  us — with  water  colour  landscapes. 
By  some  accident  his  acute  eye  discovered 
tlie    treasure   which  was  hidden   beneath, 
and   he  became  their  fortunate  possessor. 
Antiquaries   may  enthusiastically  celebrate 
the  discovery  of  ancient  paintings  on  tho 
walls  of  .old  and  splendid  palaces,   which 
the  caprice,  or  want  of  taste,  in  their  pos- 
sessors  bad  caused  to    be  white- washed ; 
bat  what  must  be  the  feelings  of  the  lover 
of  the  arts,  when  he  observes-  the  restora- 
tion of  snch  gems  as  those  which  have  been 
taiOy  exhibited.    We  say  lately  exhibited, 
and  we  recret  it,  for  they  are  now  for  ever 
dosed  to  the  public,  uuless  they  should  be 
purchased  for  the  National  Collection.     In- 
deed, we  think,  the  Committee  for  adding 
Co  this  Gallery  would   never  be  guilty  of 
sneh  a  derilection  of  duty,  as  to  permit 
them  to  remain  partially  buried  in  any  pri- 
mte  eollections ; — they  are  too  raaeniocent 
tw  thtm  i  they  must  beeone  the  Nation's 
Oext;  Mi«.  March,  l«f7. 

8 


own,  and  adorn  our  Sanctoaiy  of  Art! 
The?  are  not  estimated  as  the  prodootioBf 
of  this  or  that  master — ^for  at  present  tb* 
name  of  the  extraordinary  genius  tliat  pro- 
duced them  is  unknown — but  for  their  !•• 
trinsio  merit  and  sterling  worth.  They 
have  risen  to  a  |x>pularity  almost  unequallM 
by  their  merits,  and  these  are  suficient  to 
maintain  them  iu  their  present  high  statioa* 
They  represent  the  SainM  Jude,  Simoa* 
John,  fiartliolomew,  James  the  less,  and 
Philip;  and  have  their  names,  with  nassaget 
from  the  Creed,  written  ondemeatii;  botf 
indeoeodently  of  this,  we  recognized  the* 
as  familiar  by  their  symbols.  At  our  fitet 
visit  we  were  struck  with  the  giant  strengdl 
o^the  artist  exhibited  in  the  design;  th« 
grace  ond  freedom  in  the  swell  of  the  mne* 
cles;  the  natural  disposition  and  harmoiqf 
,af  the  drapery ;  and  tJie  depth  of  eo!oprii»* 
We  admired  them  as  the  architect  does  tnt 
columns  of  the  Doric  order,  for  their  gran- 
deur and  simplicity ;  and  a  subsequent  esar 
minatioki  has  impressed  their  charms  deeper 
and  dee|Mr  into  oar  minds.  There  ia  not  ft 
line  in  which  we  do  not  discover 
beauty,  which  does  not  yield  ut 
and  indicate  the  powers  and  anatoriiieal 
ledge  of  the  master.  All  of  them,  wltli 
the  exception  of  St.  Philip,  are  aeooi»i* 
panied  bv  boob,  which  are  extremely  wdl 
done.  What  can  be  finer  than  that  whiek 
St.  Simon  holds  in  his-  hsnds,  while  hit 
eyes  are  stedfastly  and  revereotially  fixed  om 
another  !    This  alone  is  a  study. 

The  Saint  John  is  decidedly  our  favourr 
rite.  The  Evangelist  is  in  the  Isle  of  Pat* 
mos  inditing  the  Revelation.  In  the  head 
the  passion  of  the  soul  is  admirably  aad 
forcibly  pourtrayed.  Totally  abstracted  lro« 
every  thing  earthly,  the  mmd  is  wrsppcd 
up  in  divine  inspiration  snd  communioa 
with  things  above.  A  glimpse  of  the  ao« 
companying  eagle — an  emblem  of  his  tow* 
ering  eminence — we  believe  first  induced 
Mr.,  Harwood  to  suppose  there  was  some- 
thing superior  to  the  ordinary  landscape 
whicn  covered  it :  and  who  is  there  thia 
can  look  at  it  without  admiring  the  beauti- 
fully flowing  liues  which  compose  it  ? 

The  Saint  Bartholomew  is  our  next.  It 
is  a  splendid  head — a  study  from  the  an* 
tique — deep  in  the  meditation  of  the  Holy 
Scriptures,  which  lie  open  before  him. 
Witn  what  an  intense  interest  does  h* 
inhale  the  holy  sweets,  and  how  perftotly 
does  he  defy  duturbance. 

How  is  impossible  for  us  or  any  one  pos- 
sessed of  a  genuine  love  of  the  Arts,  to  do 
otherwise  tlian  deprecate  the  opinions  of 
those  who  would  wish  to  expel  from  our  re- 
ligious edifices  paintings  such  as  these.  It 
would  be  banuhing  th6  handmaids  of  devo- 
tion from  their  homes ;  desuoying  the  grand 
incentives  to  religious  feelings,  and  tend  to 
^t  ■unihibtion  of  art  t  ^« 


[    350  -^  [U«re% 

ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


SociiTY  OP  AiiTiQVARiUy  LoNOON.  of  tome  celebrity,  it  may  be  prnper  to  eon- 

Fd>,  8.  The  Earl  of  Aberdeen,  Pretidenty  *^<1«'  ^o^  ^^  ^^^  opinions  art  importaa^ 

in  the  Chair :  on  t^is  Question. 

Henry  Brandram,  esq.  M.A.  F.S.A.  in  a  The  first  of  tbe  historians  thns  referred 
letter  addressed  to  Mr.  Carlisle,  cnmmuni-  ^  ^J  th«  Abb^  de  la  Rue  is  Hume.  Tho 
eated  an  account  of  four  coins,  which  he  opinion  of  this  writer  on  a  subject  of  re- 
presented to  tbe  Society.  Three  of  these  f^^rch  like  the  present,  is  of  less  value  than 
coins  were  discovered  near  St.  Aiban's ;  viz.  *t  would  be  on  many  other  points ;  and  Mr. 
a  brass  coin  of  Marcus  Agrippa,  found  at  Amyot  shows  how  improbable  is  the  suppo- 
Uie  place  kuown  to  have  been  the  cemetery  •it'on  that  Hume  could  have  been  led  to 
of  toe  Romans,  whilst  they  occupied  the  examine  the  question,  in  a  manner  that 
station  of  Verulamium ;  a  Denarius  ;  and  a  would  give  any  weight  to  his  decision  upon 
coin' of  King  Edward  the  Confessor,  found  !*•— The  accuracy  with  which  Lord  Lyttle- 
near  the  site  of  a  palace  of  our  Saxon  kings  ^on,  the  second  writer  quoted  by  M.  de  la 
at  St.  Alban's,  now  called  Kingsbury.  The  ^.u«>  1^<^  investigated  some  points  in  our 
fourth  was  found  in  Bedfordshire.  history,  renders  his  opinion  of  greater  value.. 
.  A  letter  was  also  read  from  Thot.  Amyot,*  H^*  objection  resU  principally  on  the  cir- 
esq.  V.  P.  addressed  to  the  President,  in  re-  cumstance  that  the  siege  ot  Dinant  is  repre- 


pesvy.     in  inis  communication  mr.  Amyot  *"  *"•*  4'*"n»rcu.     wir.  Amyos,  nowever, 
first  adverts  to  the  increased  interest  with  adduces  some  dogent  arguments  to  show, 
ilhich  the  Bayeux  Tapestry  b  now  regarded  ^^^  ^^^  Tapestry  in  this  case  must  be  the 
by  Antiquaries,  in  consequence  of  its  pub-  higher  authoritv,  and  that  this  circumstance 
lication   by  the   Society,   and  also   briefly  nther  proves  tnat  William  did  really  carry 
ptat^s  the  two  opinions  on  its  origin  whicn  on  his  army  to  Dinant,  at  the  time  repre- 
bave  been  entertained.    The  first  of  these  *ent«d  on  the  Tapestry, 
fipinions,  which  is  supported  by  tradition,         '^^^  ^]^^^^  authoritv  is  Stnitt,  whose  ob- 
by  the  greater  number  of  our  historians,  Jection  is  founded  chiefly  on  the  circnm- 
aod  particularly  in  the  Archseologia  a  few  •tance  of  some  parts  of  the  costume,  &c.  in 
Years  since,  by  Mr.  Hudson  Guruey,  the  '**•  Bayeux  Tapestry  so  closely  resemblbg 
late  Mr.  C.  Stothard,  and  Mr.  Amyot  him-  ^^'^^  depicted  in  certain  illumiaated  MSS.  of 
•elf,  is,  that  the  Tapestry  was  worked  at  the  ^^^  ^'n>®  of  the  Empress  Matilda;  whence 
period  immediately  subsequent  to  the  eventt  ^^  concludes  the  former  to  have  been  co- 
represented  upon  it,  by  or  under  the  direc-  P*^  ^com  the  latter.     In  constd<>ring  this 
tion,  of  Matilda,  the  wife  of  the  Conqueror;  objection,  Mr.  Amyot  adverts  to  the  loss 
and  that  it  is  therefore  to  be  regarded  as  a  'ustained  by  the  Society  in  tlj«  death  of 
fiuthful  delineation  of  the  costutue  of  the  ^^^'''  1*^  draughtsman,  Mr.  C.  Stothard ; 
period,  as  well  as  a  faithful  record  of  the  ^7  which  Mr.  A.  in  ))articular  is  deprived  of 
•vents  themselves.     The  second  opinion  on  ^^  <^^'^  supporter,  especially  on  this  point, 
the  subject,  is  that  which  has  found  aud  '^^^  objection,  however,  is  removed  in  a  sa- 
•till  fiuds  a  zealous  advocate  in  the  Abb^  de  tisfactory  manner :  it  is  shewn  to  be  much 
U .  Rue.     It  if,  that  the  Tapestry,  instead  of  >nore  probable  that  the  illuminations  alluded 
being  worked  towards  the  latter  end  of  the  ^  were  copied  from  the  previously  executed 
•leventh  century,  according  to  the  former  Tapestry,  which  must  have  been  in  its  day 
opinion,  was  worked  by  or  under  the  super-  *  work  of  great  authority  and  celebrity, 
iptendance  of  the  Emortss  Matilda,   near         Feb,  15.     The  President  in  the  Chair, 
the  middle  of  the  twerfth  century ;  in  which         A  paper  was  communicated  by  the  Rev. 
9ase,  if  proved,  its  value  as  a  record  both  of  John  Skinner,  M.A.  F.S.A.  contabing  som« 
lustory  and  costume  is  much  lessened.  observations  on  four  monumental  stones,  ac- 
Mr.  Amyot  intiniates  his  intention  of  re-  companied  with  drawings  of  them.    These 
plying,  in  communications  to  the  Society,  observations  were  in  some  degree  supple- 
to  such  parts  of  the  Abba's  work  as  it  may  roenUry  to  a  paper  by  the  same  author  on 
appear  necessary  to  controvert ;  but  he  con-  similar  Roman  aatiquities  discovered  on  the 
tJin  h'wiself,  in  the  present  paper,  to  an  line  of  Antonine's  Vallum,  read  before  the 
fxamioation  of  the  opmions  of  the  English  Society  a  short  time  suice.     One  of  the 
historians,  which  are  quoted  by  the  Abb^  atones  described  in  the  present  paper  bears 
fs  authorities  unfisvourable  to  the  first  view  the  sculptured  figure  of  the  bull  widi  horse's 
«f  the  subject  I  obMfving,  that  though  no  hoofs,  which  is  the  emblem  of  Cerigwen,  the 
point  in  history  a^uld  be  decided  opoa  Ceres  of  the  Britons,  and  designatM  her  mix- 
AMv  4mthenhf,  yet  as  the  writers  cited  are  •dcharacter  of  C«res  and  Minerva.   This  ap- 


1AV^~  AniiquaritM  Ratanhet.  ni 

pMn  to  b*  th*  nJ;  iotMBM  of  tlw  Msat- 

Sir  B.  C.  Hdtf.,  Un.  F.  S.  A.  «  .  U«Mr  W«T»iwm  Ai«t. 

adiraM«dtnN.f:ulul«,eiq.S*cnUf7,con-  A  raj  nriani  ditoonrf  bu  jmt  bten 

ManicMwl  dncriptioai.  illnttrMnt  with  «b-  niide  br  Mr.  Blon,  Surrcjror  of  VVntmiD- 

gnviap,  of  four  tsiHlMad  panmtnw  n>>  UerAbbn*.     On  hiouncjib*  ruunil  ihM 

MMIt  diicoTtiect  ia  the  conatj  of  Hum.  th*  roof  of  (ba  cub  ia  which  the  ^ndfinm 

The  Gnt  of  thai*  pttemenU,  U  Tbruilol,  of  Qilran  Aana,  (ha  Earl  of  Chiiliani,  itnd 

■M  britflf  dncribed  by  Sir  R.  C  Horn,  "h&t  ii  comnonlj  nllHl  the  n^z'A  itgi- 

■od  bj  Dr.  Iaj;nuii,  in  to*  Oentlemui'i  Ma-  bcdC,  wcr*  plrMd,  ban  nurlu  iiif  ai    ' 

guiai  for  Scptembir  lB9a,  p.  (30 :  <(  ip-  i>     -       •-  .   .. 

fmit  to  hi's  forawd  part  of  ■  temple  dtdl- 

onted  to  Baecbu.     Aoother  betonged  to  a 

villa;  tbne  of  ibeie   remaim  of  antiqnltj  an  ai  pteieot  m  miunca. 

han  bean  prneired  from  ftitore  iaiory  l^  With  chat  leal  for  the  pro»«r»i 

(Im  er*etion  over  then  of  lubitaiitial  build'  repair  of  hii  Church,  which  a   ' 

ion,  a  preoaalioB  wbith  bonourahlj  diitig-  the  learned  Dean,  ihii  curloui  remiia  hM 

n|ab«i  the  owntn  of  their  mpectiie  lita*  bean  rBmoTcd  to  the  Deanery,   til)  it  aM 

KoB  to  BUiuy  other  diutorerer*  of  aatiqsi-  ba  latoTcd  to  the  Abbey,  in  lueb  a  manaMI 

lia(«f  thii  deeoriptioa,  aa  to  leciirB  iu  pmerratloD,  for  thegratifii' 

Wli-  ■!■      At    tbit    Bwetiag  wu  eon-  CKion  of  the  publio.    The  patwlling  mm- 

nwitatd  the  reading  nf  a  paper,   on  Hand  nree  1 1  feet  in  widtli,  by  a  feet  in  helgbtt 

Fh^anai,  by  S.  R.  Meyiick,  LUO.  F.S.A.  and  ia  pauited,  and  oniamented  with  gilA^, 


The  bnmtiaa  of  hand  fire-arma  Dr.  Mer-  'a  the  nwit  elaboi 

riehcoBiidan  to  have  been  iunait*d  by  tha  It  coDiliia  of  fite  divliiooi  i  ia  the  centra, 

•obM  bxHM  which  th*  Oieek  Sre  wai  pro-  nnder  a  iplendid  poiaud  canopy,  iijiajiiirf 

ptUed  at  the  lalar  periodi  of  ^e  Eutera  a  figure  (probably  intended  fur  the  Deity,^ 

•diplr*,   and  particularly  at  the  tiegei   of  auiiported    on     each    aide,    under    aimilM 

f  niialaiiilaiiiilii  by  the  Rimiani. .    Ha  rehra  though    imaller   canopiet,    by    two  aaiala 

•1.^.  :.«_•:_..  >«  tk.  ■•.II...  .»l  «..  •)..  Bjth  palm-branchei.  On  the  left  aid*  '«C 
;entre  conpairtmeat  are  four  inlaraai^ 
iquarea,  painted  with  SeripBnra  hialv?^ 

fclaling  to  fpeotmena  of  early  hand  fire-  with  BDaaelled  work  of  aipleodid  kind,  aM^ 

aroia  preferred  in  yarioua  eollectiinia,    *•-  covered  with  gl*a><      The  outer  onnparH 

^^1  the  date  of  I4S0  to  thia  invention.  nan t  on  the  left  aide   ii  a  painting  of  St. 

Mardil.    The  Prnident  in  the  Chair.  Peter  under  a  canopy.     The  two  oonpcr^ 

Mr.  Elli*  comnuDicated  a  traaacrlpt  of  a  menta  on  the  right  of  tha  centre  have  m^ 

letter,  narrating  the  effect  at  the  Court  <rf  deacly  been  of  aimilai  deaign  i    bat  ban 

St.  Geraain'a,  of  the  arrival  uf  a  falte  re-  been   oainted  over  in  black  and  white  by; 

port  that  JanMi  II.  had  been  victorlona  at  tome  barijarnui  trnproufr,  probahlv  dniag. 

the  hanle  of  the  Boyne.  ifae  aigbteeiith  century,  when  perhapa  tfe» 

AfanAI.  Thnt.  Amyot,eiq.F.R.S.Tr«a-  wax  figure  of  Eari  Chatham  waa  pUcad  Is 

aniar  S.  A.  in  the  Chair.  tha  caae.     The  borden  of  the  painting  aad 

Titt  reading  of  Mr.  Meyriek'a  ddub  on  edgei  of  the  compartmenta  bare  bean  er» 

hand  fiTr-armi  waa  conLinued.    Among  tha  mented  in  tbe  moat  aoetly  maoDer  with  nw 

we^Mw*  deacribed  in  thl(  portion  of  tha  pa-  dalllost  and  cameot  after  the  antique,  isd 

par,  were  the  Biqneliua,  hackbut,  den  i- hack,  wichgliaa  which  hu  all  tbe  iplendour  ofpn- 

aad  nuaqoet.     Tha  arquehui  leaulled  from  ciuu*  ttonet.     There  ii  little  doubt  but  that 

theapplioation  of  a  gun-banel  to  the  ttoelc  thia  diacovery  will    eieila  much   attcntioa 

of  a  cTOia-bow.     Tbe  muiquet  waa  invented  among  the  antiqaariea  and  loven  of  the  arte. 

at  leaat  at  early  at  the  lime  of  Frwcia  I.  of  ' ._      i     ,.i.  -i..  ,.„.w.__ 

France ;  but  it  did  not  codm  b(i>  gsneni 


me  until  tlie  reign  of  Philip  II.  fif  Spain,  oonitrucled  by  Abbot  Eaieney. .  Itiadifi 

whan  it  wai  introduced  into  the  Low  Coun-  to  eay  for  what  it  originalU  wa>  inlmi 

trie*  by  tha  Duke  D'Alcai  and  from  the  hot  probably  !t  waa  tha  acffit  or  ceilin 

vido-apread  fame  of  tbe  Spanlih  infantry,  it  aome  tomb  or  ehrine.     Can  it  ba  coaneciaa 

looo  became  linown  and  employed  through-  with  what  haa  been  called  the  tomb  of  St. 

out  Europe.  Sabert  ?    (tea  fol.  xcv.  ii.  SOI.)   We  hop* 

March  IS.    Tilt  reading  of  Dr.  Meyrink'a  la  ba  enabled  toon  to  give  out  raadera  to- 

'notieea  of  military  writeri  on  Hand  Fiia>  thar  particulan  relatiTato  thi*  vary  •Insubl 

arm*  ma  DODtioiwd.  tpaoimanf^antienlart. 

*  Wd  take  thia  opportunity  ufcongiaCalaling  the  public  ontba  aeoeaiion  of  Mr.  Hlora  t* 
thii  office  i  well  knowing  how  much  our  aniJent  baildinst  ia  gsneral,  and  the  Abbey  in  par- 
liaalai,  are  likely  ta  be  benefitad  by  bit  taila  and  ImawMga  of  our  pointed  arahiMCWIts 


tit 


rmwertosyrPitd  ia  be  Camalodunum. 


IMarch, 


On  thi  cUrimi  rf  C4MBRTOir»  near  Batht  to 
he  contidend  a»  the  Camalodunum  spoken 
Iff  by  Dion  and  TaeitiUi  m  which  wom 
a$iabli^ted  the  Jim  CoUmy  rf  the  Romant 
ta  Britain, 
Bead  at  the  Bristol  Philosophical  and  Lite- 
rarlf  Society,    liy  the  Rev,  John  Skinner, 
.  J.M,  F.jf.S.  Rector  of  C^rotrton,  Thnrs- 
'  day,  Feb,  8,  1897.  / 

Mr.  SciNHER,  in  ftllusioo  to  a  former 
Fllper  read  to  tiie  Br'ntol  lustitution,  briefly 
■Catcd  hit  reasons  fiir  believing,  that  the 
Brigantes  mentioned  by  Tacitus,  whose  in- 
■urrection  re- called  the  General  Ostorioa 
horn  his  march  ahing  the  northern  coast  of 
Devonshire',  were  the  dwellers  near  the 
Briga,  or  principal  pass  over  the  Severn  in 
the  vicinity  of  Bris^astow  or  Bristow.  That 
tfie  Ictni,  who  had  been  previously  defeated 
hf  Ostorius,  inhabited  the  coast  of  Hamp- 
•fiire»  near  the  Itchen  or  Southampton 
viter>.  That  the  Cangi  dwelt  on  the  pro- 
jecting aocle  between  the  Parrett  and  the 
Severn*.  That  the  colony  settled  at  Cama- 
lodnnum,  the  royal  residence  of  Cunobelin  *, 
oeeupied  the  ridgo  of  high  ground  (cm 
which  is  situate  the  parish  of  Camerton) 
•itending  from  Twiney,  in  Wellow  parish, 
to  Clan  down  above  Panlton  parisn,  six 
miles  in  length,  and  nearly  two,  in  width ; 
which  high  land  or  dunum  was  nearly  en- 
eompassed  by  the  ^wo  streams  of  the  Cam 
•ad  •  brook  which  rises  at  Clan  down,  and 
fiUls  into  the  southern  branch  at  Radstock. 
That  the  lofty  hills,  deep  vallies,  and  conti- 
ttued  morasses  surrounding  the  territory,  af- 
forded a  strong  defence  to.  the  first  settlers 
■ad»their  Helgic  successors  for  centuries  be- 
Ibra  the  arrival  of  the  Romans  in  the  coun- 
try:  as  has  been  proved  by  existing  tumuli 
aad  their  contents  *»  together  with  the  ori- 
giaal  Celtic  name,  which  indicates  the  situa- 
tion of  a  strong-hold  encompassed  in  the 
manner  here  described'.  That  G>lchester 
•ad  Maiden  have  neither  of  them  the  same 
idantity  of  situation,  the  former  denominat- 


ed %f  the  BrttoBs  Caer  Cob  (whea  wnmwmt 
ColiMiea)  beia^  a  strong  pott,  above  th» 
rhrer  Cola,  aot  eacorapsMed  by  Hi  waters, 
aad  the  latter  Maldon  (id  est.  Mod  daa)y 
implyinpt  aimplv  a  detached  range  of  hiU. 
Thit,    although    Hollinshed   ai^  Canidea 
hod  partially  given  their  opinions  in  favour 
of  these  places  7,  yet  both  found  the  testi- 
mony of  Tacitus  so  strong  respecting  the 
operations  of  Ostorius  in  the  vicinity  of  tho: 
Severn  and  Avon  rivers,  and  of  the  establish- 
ment of  his  colony  in  those  parts,  that  they 
conjectured  it  must  have  been  at  CaoMdet,  a. 
strong  fortified  camp  at  the  S.  W.  extremity 
of  the  county  of  Somerset*;  but  that  this 
strong  hold,  only  90  acres  in  extent,  could 
not  nave  been  adapted  to  the  residence  of 
the  colony,  is  evident  from  the  further  tes- 
timony of  Tacitus  *,  who  says  the  colonists 
of  Comalodunum  had  no  regular  lines  of  de- 
fence, having  built  their  foundations  over 
the  territory  they  occupied,  os  pleasure  or 
convenience  inclined  them,  and  on  that  ac- 
count they  were  easily  overcome  by   the' 
Britons  ander  their  Queen  Boodicea,   and 
having  taken  refuse  in  the  temple  dedicated 
to  Claudius,  in  tEe  viciuity,  they  were  cut 
oflF  after  a  siege  of  twp  days.     It  moreover 
appears,  that  one  of  ihe  principal  reasons 
assigned  by  the  historian  for  this  revolt  of 
the  Britons  was,  because  the  revenues  of 
their  priests  had  been  alienated  and  bestow- 
ed on  the  Roman  Sacerdotes  who  officiated, 
in  the  temple  dedicated  to   the  £mperor 
CUudius  by  the  colonists  atCamalodunum^".. 
By  the  same  historian  we  ere  informed  that. 
Ostorius  occupied  a  chain  of  camps,  facing 
the  Severn  and  Avon  rivers,  in  order  to 
prevent  the  invasions  of  the  Silures,  and 
afUr  he  had  established  a  colony  at  Cama- 
lodunum,  he  prooeeded  from  thence  against 
that  people.    That  the  Camalodunum  men- 
tioned by  Tacitus  must  have  been  on  the 
west  of  England,  may  be  further  confirmed 
by  the  testimony  of  Dion,  who  asserts  it 
was  the  regal  residence  of  Cunobelin  before 


1  Taciti  Ann.  lib.  19,  cap.  81  and  89. 

s  Prutusagus,  the  King  of  these  Iceni,  hod  enriched  himself  by  the  traffic  of  the  metals 
through  his  territories.  Leiand  quotes  an  ancieat  anthor,  who  calls  the  New  Forest, 
Sylva,  or  Foresta  loenea.  Gale  also  reknarks  there  were  Iceni  dwelling  in  Hamphire, 
near 'the  Itchen. 

*  The  name  is  retained  in  Canniugtpn  and  the  Quantock  hills. 

^  Vide  Dion,  lib.  60,  Ka/AevXo^owioy  rov  KuvsCfXXiirov  BtfffiXiiov. 

*  There  is  a  large  vaulted  Celtic  tumulus  at  Stoney  Littleton,  in  Wellow  pariah; 
another  opened  in  Srays  Down,  in  the  same  parish,  contained  two  flint  arrow  heads  and 
•ome  very  coarse  pottery  \  in  a  third  place  of  interment  were  found  fragments  ai  an  ura  of 
the  rudest  constructioo. 

*  Carobodunum  under  the  Alps,  and  indeed  all  places  retuning  the  particle  CSiim,-are 
iaeloeed  territories  of  this  description. 

^  Camderi  and  Horsley  declare  in  &vour  of  Camalodunum,  at  Maiden;  Leiand  at  Col- 
ehester ;  Dr.  Oale  at  Soifrbn  Walden  t  others  at  Castle  Camps,  Cambridgeshire ;  Polydore 
Vergil  at  Doncaster ;  Hector  Boethlus  at  Camilon,  In  Scotland. 

*  Vide  HoUinshedy  vol.  i.  lib.  1 9,  cap.  83  ;  also  Gibson's  Camden,  vol.  L  p.  88 ;  Tacttl 
Abb.  lib.  U,  e.81. 

*  Tao.  Ann.  Kb.  14,  e.  81.      !«  Tac.  Abb.  Ub.  14,  c.  89.      "  Tac.  Ann.  lib.  19,  c.81. 


1M70  Camerton  pro/ved  to  he  Camaiodumum^  iUST 


ihm  Itwiin  bMamt  ibmImv  of  it»  donng     adnuiteffMof  sitnation.    ItfTMMtrljt^ttt-t 
Um  reign  of  ClatMKiM.    By  exMnilliog  xhm     dbtant  nrom  Kent,  the  aMtorn  txtrtmiqr  of. 
great  Yviety  of  ooint  ttamped  with  the     the  provioce»  Lend't  End  the  wetteni»  and 
BMM  of  CuDobelin,  and  Cam  on  the  reterte     Mona  the  northern  point  of  Britannia  &•• 
9ot  Camalodunum,  it  will  be  peroeived  that     ctinda,  then  about  to  be  nibdued.    But  th« 
the  •  effigies  there  represented  could  never     most  powerful  argument  which  may  be  ad* 
have  bMn  inteof led  for  the  same  persoOy     duced  in  favour  of  our  hypothesis,  is  this  t  - 
aince  the  features  of  some  of  the  heads  ara     — ^The   Roman  colonists^   by  establishing, 
wholly  different,  and  some,  indeed,  are  tha     themselves  in  this  part  of  the  Island,  had  all 
representatives  of  females.    The  name  Cy^     the  mines  of  Somerset,  Devon,  Cornwally 
nobellin  litorally  signifies  the  Cyn  or  Chief,     and  Wales,  open  to  their  commercial  specv* 

O  Bellin  of  the  Belgae ;  and  the  Roman  lations,  by  wnich  they  enriched  themselvti . 

mint  masters,   in   imitation  of  their  own  and  their  countrymen,  carrying  on  the  sama 

coins,  which  were  inscribed  with  I.  M.  P.  traffic  the  Belsic  Britons  did  with  the  conr 

signifying  Imperator  Romanoruro,  applied  tioent  prior  to  tlie  invasion  of  Julius  CssMur^*.- 
Cyn  O  Bellin  as  a  similar  term  for  the  ex-         Caer  Coin,  or  Colchester,  promised  noaa ' 

isting  ruler  of  the  Belgic  tribes  in  Britain,  of  these  advantages  for  commerce,  by  which . 

If  the  Cyn  O  Bellin  or  Chief  of  the  Beigm  the  colonists  might  have  enriched  them-  ■ 

hsd  his  royal  residence  at  Camslndunum,  selves;   as  the   original  strong  hold  frott 
where  are  we  to  look  fur  that  place  but  in     whence  the  station  sprang,  was  in  the  midst 

the  midst  of  the  Belgic  people  over  whom  of  woods  and  marshes,  and  had  no  mines  or 

these    chieftains   successively  presided  ^^  ?  minerals,  which  seem  to  have  held  out  the. . 

Besides,  on  tlie  authority  of  Tacitus  ",  the  priocipal  inducement  for  the   invasion  of 

Roman  Province  in  the  time  of  Ostorius,  Britain :  it  was  moreover  entirely  out  of  tba. 

did  not  extend  further  than  Britannia  Prima  way  of  all  the  subsequent  operations  af  Os- 

(or  as  he  terms  it  the  proxima  pars  Britan-  torius  and  his*  successors  against  Britannia 

niae).    This  was  the  country  bounded  by  the  Secunda  or  Wales. 

ThaoMs,  the  Severn,  and  the  channel,  which         From  these  premises  Mr.  S.  derived  tha. 

hsd  by  d^rees  been  reduced  into  the  form  following  conclusions  in  sup|Jort  of  his  opi-  . 

of  a   province  under  the   Oenemis  Aulus  nion  that  Camerton,  called  in  Domesday- 

Plautius,  Ostorius,  and  Vespasian.     Brttan-  book  Camerlertune,  has  very  strong  if  not. 

nia  Secunda,  or  Wales,  so  named  from  hav-  exclusive  claims  to  be  considered  "as  the* 

ing  been  the  second  fruits  of  the  Roman  Camalodunum,  recorded  by  Dion  and Tacitue. 

victories,  was  not  subdued  till  long  after  the  as  having  been  the  first  colony  of  the  Ro- 

death   of  Ostorius.      Indeed,   to   Agricola  mans  in  Britain: — 

may  be  attributed  chiefiy  the  conquest  of         1st. — It  accords  in  name  and  situation, 
the   other  parts  of  Britain  and  Scotlend^  The    name  Cam-al-o-dunum    implies    the. 
nearly  SO  years  afier   this   period.     How  stronghold  above  the  inclosing  streams  of , 
then  can  it,  with  any  shew  of  reason,  be  the  Cam — Cam-el-er-tun  indicates  exactly 
presumed  that  Camslndunum,  the  capital  of  the  same  thing ;  the  D  and  T  being  con- . 
the   province  of  Britannia  Prima,  was  at  vertihle  letters ;  vide  Dun  and  Tun,  Don , 
Colchester,  in  Essex,  which  place  was  en-  and  Ton.    Cam-er-ton  is  the  ton  or  residenoi . 
tirely  out  of  the  province,  and  every  way  re-  above  the  Cam  or  inclosing  streams.     With 
mote  firom  the  operations  which  Ostorius  respect  to  its  having  been  an  original  Da? . 
subsequently  carried  on  against  the  Silures  num   or  British  strong  hold,  it  eetirclv 
and  Ordovices,  the  inhabitants  of  South  and  coincides  with  the  description  given  if  socb . 
North  Wales  ?     Besides,  Pliny  asserts  that  capitals  of  districts,  capable  of  containing 
CamaloJunum  was  distant  from  Mora  two  the  whole  population  of  the  surrounding, 
hundred  miles '^    whereas  Coiouea,    now  country  with  the  flocks  and  herds  of  the 
Colchester,  as  it  appears  from  the  Itine-  inhabiunu. — Fide  Carobodunum,  Ebordit-'. 
raries,  measured  to  Caer  Segont,  or  Caer-  num,  Melodimum,  LugdunuiPy  Sorbeodu- 
narvon,  is  short  of  Mona,  321  miles.     Be-  num,   Maredunum,    &c.  &a    It  was  ap- 
sides, the  Romans  ever  kept  in  view  the  preached  by  no  less  than  eleven  vicinal, 
convenience  of  situation   with  respect  to  roads,  besides  the  Fosse-way,  the  Ridge- 
military  operations.  ^  The  few  were  to  over-  war,  and  Port-way ;  these  roads  are  known 
awe  the  many,  and  the  head-quarters  of  a  to  have  been  employed  by  the  ancients,  from 
Legion,  as  was  the  colony  in  question,  must  the  circumstance  of  interments  having  been  . 
have  had  a  centrical  situation  with  respect  '  discovered  by  the  way  side,  and  the  baaka 
to  the  country  already  conquered,  In  order  of  earth  by  which  they  w^e  defended ;  her 
to  transport  a  bodv  of  troops,  with  all  poa-  sides,   villsges    and  hamlets  have  sprung 
sible  celerity,  to  the  point  threatened.    Our  from  the  original  forts,  which  guarded  the 
western  Camalodunum  possessed  all  these  approaches  into  the  Dunum  over  the  forda. 

IS  Three  copper  coins  of  the  BelgB  have  been  found  at  Camerton  during  my  residence^ 
and  are  now  in  my  possession. — J.  S. 

IS  Agricobe  Vita,  cap.  U.  ^*  Plm.  lib.  8^ cap.  75. 

ii  Vide  Diodonis  Siculut,  lib.  6,  sect.  aO;  also  tic  Agrk.  Yit.  cap:  is. 


4&4'  Cmimto9i^f»roifedtob€€!amalodmium.  IKaxAt 


Mii  otvMWiyfi  vsmeljry  Badibrd,  Dvofirdy  oonfiMtted  to  mtlntiiw  iIm  Roma 

DirooCyRodbridge,  Ciidiinfeot-DimUrUniy  toi  irlio  offidsted  thertia. 

Combehay,    Mectfbnly    TwineT^    WeUov,  -  StBC«  the  Drakiical  circles  at  Stenton 

Stoney-Litdetoii^  Foxcote,  WritUbgUm,  Drew  ere  within  three  milee  of  Tem|*le 

Wohdboroagh,  aod  lUdttock.  Ctoiidy  we  baTe  ootht  to  Iof)k  for  the  origi* 

.  tdly.-^It  accords  as  to  the  general  sitoa*  of  this  discontent;  that  b,  supposing  it  b* 

tioB  of  the  ooontrj,  berog  in  Uie  vicinitj  of  admitted  that  Temple  Cloud  was  actually  the 

the  Avon  and  Severn  rivers.  site  of  the  temple  dedicated  to  Claudius-— 

Oetorins  havmg  conquered  the  Iceni  on  and  that  Clutton  was  the  Cloud-t\m  or  eet- 

tke  Hampshire  coast,  and  the  Cangi  beyond  tlement  of  some  of  the  Veterans  in  the  vici- 

Bridgewater,  and  quelled  an  insurrection  of  .  nity    of  the    temple.     Thu  the  Romans 

iIm  Ihrieantes,  dwellie^  near  the  Briga  or  worked  the  Iron  Mines  in  the  vicinity  of 

principu  pats  into  Wales,  established  a  co-  Clutton,  is  very  evident.    How  this  singular 

fony  in  this  part  of  the  country,  having  first  coincidence  in  respect  to  name  can  other- 

gttafded  the  Severn  and  Avon  rivers  by  a  wise  be  accounted  for,  I  cannot  pretend  to 

ooaneoted  line  of  forts  from  the  incursions  determine.      Templum    Claudii    affords    a 

of  the  Silures.    These  camps  are  still  re-  read^  solution  of  the  etymon, — if  it  be  not 

naining,   or   the   site    of  them    may    be  admitted,  where  are  we  to  look  for  another  ? 

tfaoed^  6thly, — ^The  distance  of  Camerton  from 

*  On  the  Severn*  — Portbury,  Portishead,  Mona  or  the  Isle  of  Anglesea,  two  hundred 
Walton,  Clevedon,  Worle,  Uphill,  Bream  miles,  accords  with  what  Plioy  mentions  as 
Down,  Brent  Knoll.  On  the  heights  above  the  actual  distance  between  Camalodunum 
these,  a  second  line  of  Camps — Cadbury  or  and  that  celebrated  abode  of  the  Druids. 
Tickenham,  Congersbury,  Dulebury,  and  Tlie  reason  Pliny  gives  the  distance  be- 
I^rnhurst,  Burringcon,  aud  Banwell,  with  tween  these  two  places,  and  connects  them 
Bieadon-hill.  together,  seems  to  be,  because  Paulinus  Su- 

On  the  Avon, — Clifton  camp,  Stoke-leigh,  etonius  was  called  from  the  conquest  of  (hat 

Barrough>walls,  Wick  in  Brisiington  parish,  island  by  an  insurrection  of  the  Britons 

a  Camp  facing  Hanham,  another  at  Twer-  under  Boadicea,  who  destroyed  the  colony 

ton,  and  a  third  at  Berwick-hill  on  the  line  at  Camalodunum,  and  the  temple  dedicated 

of  the  Foss  above  Bsth.     Above  these  on  to  Claudius,  before  the  Oeneiid  could  re- 

the  line  of  the  Wans  Dyke,    Maes-knoll,  turn   back  to  render  them  any  assistance. 

Knoll-hill,  Staoton-hury,  Newton  old  Park,  Some   books  probably    extant    in    PUny's 

Anglisoorob,  and  Oldun,   now  called  Old  time,  might  have  recorded  these  events,  and 

Down.  given  it  as  a  reason  for  his  not  having  been 

•  8dly, — It  accords  in  not  having  had  the  able  to  prevent  this  sad  catastrophe,  owing 
fi^s  of  a  regular  station  to  protect  the  coio-  to  the  distance  between  the  two  places, 
fitf/s.  Tacitus  informs  us,  that  the  Veterails  Gtbly » — ^The  number  of  Roman  coins  dis- 
sMtled  at  Camalodunum  were  not  guarded  covered  at  Camerton,  within  these  few  years, 
by  walb  as  was  usual  with  them  in  other  upwards  of  1800,  being  in  possession  of  the 
Instances,  but  were  scattered  over  the  ter-  Rector,  which  extend  in  an  almost  uninter- 
rkory  according  as  inclination  or  conveni-  rupted  series  from  Augustus  to  Honoriue— 
•nee  induced  uiem  to  fix  their  residences,  the  numerous  graves  and  tumuli  in  the  vici- 
It  is  a  singular  coincidence,  that  though  nity — the  various  fords,  roads,  and  track- 
Roman  coins  and  remains  have  been  dis-  ways  conducting  directly  to  the  Duaum— 
covered,  partially  over  the  whole  Dunum  thecarops,  out-posts,  and  earth- works  which 
ftom  Twiney  to  Clan  Down,  no  regular  defended  the  approaches  to  it — above  all,  its 
lines  or  fortifications  have  been  met  with  to  contiguity  to  the  boundary  of  the  Wans- 
OMurk  the  site  of  a  station  on  the  heights,  dyke,  which  securely  guarded  it  from  iava- 
This  coincidence  certainly  has  its  weight ;  sion  by  the  Avon,  together  with  its  con- 
moreover  it  clearly  proves  that  Camalet  or  aectlon  by  port-ways  leading  direct  to  the 
Cadbury,  which  is  a  strongly  guarded  camp  camps  on  the  Severn; — we  must  be  satis- 
With  a  triple  trench,  eotild  not  have  been  fied  of  the  importance  of  the  place  in  past 
occupied  by  the  colonists,  as  Tacitus  ex-  times,  and  since  there  is  no  other  name  so 
ptessly  says  it  had  no  regular  fortifications.  spplicable  as  that  of  Camalodunum,  to  iden- 

>  4thly, — Tlie  circumstance  of  there  having  Urf  a  situation  of  such  consequence,  we 

been  a  temple  dedicated  to  the  Emperor  foel  justified  in  supporting  the  opinion  that 

Glaiidius  in  the  vicinity  of  Camalodunum,  Camerton  or  Camelertone,  as  it  is  written 

accords  in  a  singular  manner,  both  with  the  in  Domesdsy-book,  was  actually  the  site  of 

iflune  tnd  situation  of  Temple  Cloud,  in  the  the  Roman  colony  esublished  by  Ostorius 

parish  of  Clutton,  a  short  distance  to  the  to  awe  the  Silures,  and  to  carry  cm  a  luera- 

N.  W.  of  the  Dunum.  tive  traffic  in  the  metals  with  uaul,  and  the 

We  learn  from  Dion,  Tacitus,  and  Se-  mother  countrv.      Indeed  the    subsequent 

neca,  there  was  a  temple  dediteted  to  Pau-  prosperity  of  Ae  district  in  which  it  is  sttu- 

dios  by  the    colonists    of   Camalodunum,  ate,  in  which  are  established  three  cities, 

which  gave  great  offence  to  the  Britons,  namely,  Bath,  Bristol,  and  Wells,  and  the 

as  the  revenues  of  their  own  priests  were  first  and  ciehest  monastory  in  Britain^ 


i&87.] 


Sitkct  Polity. 


It,  Glasfeoobaiyy  ou  IwRflj  bt  aceottoMd 
for,  unlett  hj  tuppMiog  that  it  wia  in  very 
earij  tiflBM  toe  principd,  mart  for  oonoMroa 
in  Briuin. 

Mr  Skinnui  c«melniled  hit  Essay  by  ts- 
pressiBg  his  sincera  wishes  that  (he  prdipe- 


rhj  of  these  Cities  might  lootf  oovtinuet 
and  that  ther  micht  be  spaved  for  ages  the 
desoUktioa  which  had  befallsQ  the  Capital, 
where  scarcely  one  stone  now  remains  on 
enotber  to  xeooird  where  ^-^'ntliHtmmh 
stood. 


SELECT    POETRY. 


»» 


On  the  Picture  of  *'  The  Holy  Famify, 
ptdnUd  by  Mrs,  W,  CarpenieTf  the  De- 
sign  from  a  Bas-relitf  by  Michael  An^ 
gelog  brought  from  Rome  by  the  late  Sir 
George  Beaumontf  Bart* 

By  John  Taylor,  Esq. 

nPHIS  Doble  work  by  Aneelo  design'd. 

The  pioos  offspring  of  nit  pregnant  mind. 
E'en  though  imperfect,  it  a  matter-piece, 
like  the  ftm*d  Torso  of  enlighten'd  Greece ! 
Beaumont,  to  judgment,  tatte,  and  virtue 

dear, 
Brought  from  reluctant  Rome  the  relic  here ; 
Beanmont  wlio  gave,  with  patriotic  zeal» 
Hit  graphic  treaauret  for  the  public  Weal : 
Hit  mind  well-stor'd,  benevolent  bit  heart, 
Patron  and  ornament  of  British  art. 
Not  Friendthipoolv  on  hit  honour'd  bier, 
Britain  thoold  shed  a  symjpathiziDg  tear. 
So  just  in  ev'ry  public,  private  tie, 
£*en  watchful  Envy  could  no  fault  descry. 
For  through  hit  gen'rout  course  'twas  still 
his  aim  [&me. 

To  cherish  worth,  and  prop  hit  country 't 
And  now,  foir  Artitt,  rightful  praise  it 
thine, 
Thut  to  complete  great  Angelo's  detign. 
Lo  I  Mary,  taintly  John,  the  Sacred  Boy, 
Who  seemt  to  tmile,  as  if  with  hallow*d  joy, 
Contcions  in  mercy  he  wat  sent  below. 
To  retcue  guilty  man  from  endless  woe. 
All  who  may  hence  thit  beauteous  pic- 
ture view^ 
To  pure  devotion  must  give  homage  due. 
And  justly  own  that  genius  so  refin'd. 
Brought  to  the  sculptor's  work  a  kindred 
mind. 


SHERWOOD  FOREST. 
By  Robert  Millhousk. 

(Extract  from  a  MS.  Poem  with  the  above 

TitleJ 

T^OE  and  destruction  to  that  wretched 
land. 
In  the  sad  hour  of  danger  and  of  €gbt. 
Whose  chief  defence  it  bondtmen,  and  their 
ttrand 
It  fill'd  with  fierce  invadert  in  their  misht ! 
For  what  have  they  to  lose  ?  the  proud  der 
light 


Of  freedom  never  to  their  breasts  can  flow ; 
They  to  their  homes  have  but  a  tecond  right  | 

Ine  love  of  country  little  do  they  know. 
Nor  feel  those  trdent  throbs  which  gene- 
rous laws  bestow. 

Such  the  effects  of  slavery  oo  man. 

Whose  chains  unnerve  the  sinews  of  the 
brave ; 
And  make  pale  Fear  their  captain  of  the  W, 
Who  ceaseless  points  to  an  Unworthy  grave. 
If  Freedom  come  unlooked  for  to  the  slave. 
Weak  are  his  counsels,  and  hit  skill  in 
arms 
Failt  when  the  battle  calls  him  on  to  save  . 
His  country  or  hit  kindred,  and  alannt    ^ 
Unknown  to  freebom  man,  his  dastard  soul 
disarms. 

Where  wat  the  dauntlett  courage  that  im- 
pelled 
Caractocus,  the  heroic  and  the  bold  ! 
When  countless  realmt  the  Roman  armt  had 
quell'd, 
To  keep  hit  native  land  long  uncontrouTd  { 
And  with  gigantic  power;  though  fow,  to 
bold  [aide  | 

That  freedom  dearer  (kt  than  ought  be- 
Kindling  with  patriot  warmth  the  weak  and 
cold, — 
Valour    which    when     an     chains    ne# 
strength  supplied. 
And  woo  the  meed  of  praite,  even  from 
'  Roman  pride. 

Or  thtt  which  liv'd  and  glow'd  within  the 
breatt 
Of  Boadicea,  Britain's  injur'd  Queen  I 
Whose  wrongs  had  never  been  in  part  re- 
dress'd. 
If  In  her  bosom  cowardice  had  been ; 
Hers  wat  a  soul  that  held  the  being  mean 
That  could   cringe  down  before  a  con- 
queror's spear ;  [were  teen  i 
Revenge  and  Death  in   her  proud  glance 
She  taw  the  Roman  hott,  yet  knew  not 
fear;                  [derert  paid  full  dear. 
And  for  her  daughters'  charmt  the  plun- 

Examplet  worthy  of  a  better  age  ! 

Spiritt  superior  to  your  rugged  race ! 
Yours  it  a  record  brief  on  hittory't  page,—-  > 

But,  still  a  reoord  time  mey  not  emor  I 
In  deeda  like  xoiin««»dati%i«i3K!aC%^&H(tMi^ 


9^ 


SekcA  F«ilry. 


(MgrA, 


We  £ni  ndoopCioD,  ^mly  to  bt  fmmd; 
Compared  with  yoiuri  Napoleon's  aimt  were 
beee;  [end  bounds- 

He  ton^t  end  eooiraer'dy — (hen  wm  foU'd 
'Ybr  freedom  tad  for'nome  ye  bled,  and  ere 
renowo'd. 

But  now  for  them  the  dreadful  die  wat  cast, 
'  For  toon  at  cultiTatioa  round  them  aroU'dy 
Retum'd  their  northern  fbet,  and  like  a  blast 
Consum'd  their  wealth,  and  left  the  land 
a  wild; 
Nor  were  their  treacherous  allies  more  mild ; 
Horde  after  horde,  the  adventurous  Saxon 
band, 
AIInr*d  by  conquest  in  the  sequel,  pil'd 
Extermination  o'er  the  bleeding  land, 
.Whence  amidst  rocks  unblest  they  took  their 
gloomy  stand. 

And  now,  old  Sherwood^  o*er  thy  forest 

bound. 

Proud  of  their  conquest,  a  rekindling  race. 

And  with  exulting  shouts,  with  hawk  and 

hound,  [chace; — 

,..  Bold  chiefs  and  Mercian  kings  pursued  the 

Ohy  Earth !   what  various  changes  on  thy 

£ice,  [sorrow, 

What  peals  of  triumph,  and  what  cries  of 

in  the  long  lapse  of  time  have  uken  place. 

From  whico  the  bard  and  the  historian 

borrow,—  [ful  morrow. 

Yet  may  they  not  unfold  the  dark  event- 


Oht  beholding  the  Remains  qf  the  late  Mrs, 
BoOKBK,*  for  the  last  Time,  the  Evening 
h^vre  lier  Interment, 

By  HIR  HuSBANO.f 

f^AN  Life's  best  treasure  fade  away. 

When  wedded  Love  and  Duty  die,— 
Can  Beauty's  fairest  form  decay. 

Without  one  tear,  one  tender  sigh  ? 
Ah,  no,  Eliza !  o'er  thy  bier 

.Is  heav'd  that  sigh,— is  shed  that  tear. 

But,  art  thou  dead  ? — sure  Death  his  prey 
Leaves  not  so  lovely. — Yet  the  rose 

That  o'er  thy  cheek  was  wont  to  8t*av, 
Comes  not,  -and  then  serenely  goes  ; 

But,  settled  there,  the  lily  white 
Stands  fix'd  as  marble  to  iny  sight. 


Hhmn  arty  then,  dead !  end  from  my  arms 
'    Sodden  dirore'd  by  that  decree 
That  robs  diem  of  onnumber'd  charms 

Which  were  united  all  in  thee, 
1  now  approach  thy  sable  bier, 
'    To  shed  o'er  thee  a  parting  tear,—* 

No  more  to  see  thee,  till  the  hour 
Arrive,  nnlook'd  for,  when  the  grave 

Shall  yield  its  victory  to  the  pow'r 
Of  Him  who  died  the  world  to  save ; 

Then  thou,  Eliza !  from  tlie  dust 

Shalt  rise,  with  all  the  ransom'd  just. 

Still  shall  thy  mem'ry  ne'er  decay. 
Nor  what  was  late  so  lovely  die, 

Nor  Life's  best  treasure  fade  away. 
Without  one  tear— one  tender  sigh : 

Ah,  no,  Elixa !  o'er  thy  bier 

k  heard  that  sigh, — is  shed  that  tear. 


UNES 
Sent  yvtTH  a  Sparrow  Hawk. 

TF  in  your  garden  I  may  walk, 

I  ne'er  will  crush  one  tender  stalk ; 
With  mice  and  frogs  I  mean  to  talk. 
All  vermin  %nll  destroy. 

The  ripening  fruit  unmov'd  I'll  see  ; 
The  pendent  flower  unhurt  shall  l>e. 
The  bursting  seed  from  lacking  free. 
My  talons  not  annoy. 

The  idol  schoolboy,  older  gro'^n. 
Now  seeks  the  academic  gown. 
He  leaves  all  childish  sports  alone. 
And  gladly  parts  with  me : 

While  I  from  noisy  mirth  and  fun. 
To  your  protection  liappy  lun ; 
Your  sparrow-luiwk  here  fears  no  gun. 
Securely  kept  by  thee. 

Thus  as  revolving  years  arise. 
Still  may  my  service  in  thy  eyes 
Appear  to  kiadoess  as  a  prize ; 

A  humble  lab'rer  where, 

When  years  decliae  the  frogs  appear. 
And  mice  and  rats  from  brewhouse  near. 
From  snch  vile  foes  my  range  I'll  clear,— 
They  shall  not  fright  the  ^ir. 


Hampstead, 


T. 


*  See  Obituary  for  January,  p.  94  :  an  article  we  shall  take  this  opportunity  to  enlarge. 
Mrs.  Booker  was  an  interesting  woman.  Her  figure  was  formed  with  exact  symmetry. 
Her  features  were  delipato,  and  highly  attractive ;  and  her  fine  hazel  eye  cast  an  irresistible 
eharm  over  her  countenance.  Her  voice  was  pleasing,  and  her  pronunciation  elegant. 
Her  mind  was  well  worthy  the  graces  of  her  person.  Her  acquirements  in  languages  were 
very  extensive.  She  excelled  in  Latin,  Italian,  Spanish,  French,  and  in  general  inforina- 
tion.  She  was  a  great  proficient  in  music.  The  instruments  ou  which  she  excelled  were 
the  pedal  harp,  dital  harp,  and  piano-forte;  bnt  on  the  musical  glasses,  she  drew  forth  the 
irery  soul  of  harmony.  In  singinc,  her  voice  was  soft,  clear,  and  flexible.  She  was,  more- 
over, active  in  every  Christian  duty ;  and  espeiBtally  in  those  within  the  province  of  a 
CiefgytaMn'i  wife«-4Bo 


HT. 


f  Seleeted,  by  Br«  Booker^s  perpiasioo,  from  levtial  other  mtcct  (printed, 
j^blbhed,)  mettled,  ^Hottira  of  Moiining:*'  s-       m 


but  not 


.r- 


HISTORICAl  CHRONICLE. 

PROCEEDINGS    IN    PARLIAMENT. 

House  op  Commons,  Feb,  SO.  miitee,  the  Right  Hon.  Gentleaifii  ofaft 
Mr.  ffVmoi  HorUm  moved  fer  leave  (9  tenred  that  every  hody  admitted  tbi  necfe- 
bring  ia  a  Bill  to  authorize  the  sale  fa  lity  of  protecting  the  agricultoral  interetep. 
Upper  and  Lower  Canada  of  a  certain  yov-  and  the  only  question  was,  the  mode  aM 
tiun  of  the  Clergy  reserves  in  those  pro*  degree  in  which  that  protection  should  \m 
vinces.  The  lauds  in  question  had  heen  administered.  Tliat  protection  wee  due  to 
reserved  for  the  uses  of  the  Clergy  of  the  domestic  agriculture — to  what  degree,  t^  - 
Established  Chivch,  with  the  view  of  re-  what  amount,  and  in  what  manner  was  tlui 
lieving  this  country  of  the  sums  annually  point  to  he  settled^  It  would  be  recoUectejl 
voted  for  their  support.  The  only  object  that  the  harvest  of  1816  was  one  of  tl|i 
was  to  render  them  available  for  the  general  most  un&vourable  ever  known  in  thb  conk-* 
purpcMes  of  the  Canada  provinces.  I^ave  try :  and  in  August  com  rose  above  the  ink- 
given  to  bring  in  the  Bill.  portable  price  ;  but  from  the  delay  in  making 

—  up  the  average  returns,  the  ports  were  nq^ 

Feb,^^,  Mr.  Pef/ obtained  leave  to  bring  in  open  till  November.    Thus  the  ports  f«-, 

several  Bills  to  amend  the  Criminal  Codi.  mained  shut  during  three  starving  monUit. 

1st.  To  consolidate  and  amend   the    laws  The  harveyt  of  1817  was  nearly  as  bad  m 

relating  to  burglary,  larceny,  and  robbery,  that  of  the  preceding  year ;  there  was  ^ 

8d.  A  similar  Bill  relating  to  malicious  in-  whole  winter  of  suffering,   and   the  porti 

juries  to  property.    3d.  A  similar  Bill,  re-  were  ooened  again  in  February.    The  haf- 

•  latiug  to  remedies   against  the  Hundred,  rest  ot  1818  was  extremely  abimdant,  not 

4th.  A  Bill  to  repeal  several  Acts  relating  to  only  in  England,  but  throughout  the  world, 

larceny,  burglary,  and  robbery  ;  to  malicious  and  it  was  then  u  much  a  matter  of  intereit ' 

injuries  to  property ;  and  to  remedies  against  to  keep  the  ports  closed  as  it  had  been  of 

the  Hundred.    'I  De  Right  Hon.  Oentle-  late  to  open  them.    Owing  to  the  distreif 

man  introduced    his    motion    by  an  able  in  1817  the  table  of  the  House  was  loadad 

speech  upon  the  subject.  with  petitions  from  the  agriculturists,  whieK 

— — —  were  continued  in  1819,  1830,  and  18Si» 

Feb,  28.  The  Master  of  the  Rolls  brought  In  1 89S  the  House  listened  to  the  petitioaa, 

forward  his  motion  for  leave  to  bring  in  a  and  the  Law  was  repealed.     A  new  Act  wae. 

Bill  to  alter  and  amend  the  practice  of  the  passed ;  it  gave  up  unlimited  prohibitbB» 

Court  of  Chancery,   founded  upon   the  and  recognized  a  certain  duty ;  but  a  clamo 

report  of  the  committee.~Mr.  M.  A.  TayloTy  was  added  to  this  e£Fiect — that  the  Act  itsotf 

Mr.  Harvey,  and  Mr.  J.  Smith,  objected  to  should  not  come  into  force  until  the  prioo 

the  proposed  measure  as  utterly  inadequate,  of  com  was  as  high  as  80s.    This  was,  hi 

Tliey  complained  of  the  evils  of  the  Equity  point  of  fact,  the  whole  of  the  law — all  th^ 

system;  but  bore  ready  testimony  to  the  .it   was  necessary  to  discuss;  becauie  tlie 

talent,  indiutry,  and  integrity  of  the  Lord  other,  provisions  of  the  Act  were  a  meio 

Chancellor.*— Mr.  Brovgham   charged    the  dead  letter.    The  price  had  never  been  to 

great  evil  to  be  '<the  man,  John  LordEI-  high  as  804. ;  it  was  still  under  80s.  and 

don;*' and  imputed  to  the  Noble  and  Learned  therefore  they  had  never  come  at  any  other 

Lord  the  offence  of  having  cajoled  the  com-  parts  of  the  Act.     Upon  the  best  discretion 

missioners,  in  addition  to  varioas  charges  of  that  he  and  his  Noble  Friend  (the  Earl  pf 

rapacity,  intriguing,  wilful  and  perverse  tardi-  Liverpool)  had  been  able  to  give  on  tlie ' 

ness,  8cc. — Mr.Pef/,withgreaupiritandsuc-  subject,  the  duty  of  90s.  when  the  price 

cess,  repelled  the  charges  alleged  against  his  reached  60s.  had  been  fixed  on  as  one  whioh 

Learned  Colleague ;  and,   entering  at  soMe  xt  would  be  reasonable  to  propose.    That 

lengths  into  the  details  of  the  commissioners'  duty  it  was  intended  should  dimmish  ^.  per 

report,  threw  out  a  pledge  that  he  would  quarter  for  every  Is.  of  increase  in  pnoe^.   • 

undertoke  a  revisal  of  the  law  of  property,  the  and  to  increase  3.«.  for  every  proportionate 

source  ofmostofthedifficulties,  and  of  much  diminution  of  price,  taking    6'Of.  as    the 

of  the  delay,  in  Chancery  prdceedings.    Tl)6  average  price  of  the  quarter  of  com.    The 

motion  was  carried  without  a  division.  effect  of  this  scale  would  be,  that  when  the 

average  price  was  60s.  the  4uty  would  be 

March  1.    Mr.  Canmng  brought  forward  905.;  from  6ls.  to  6is»  it  would  be  18s  t 

the  long  and  anxiously  expected  Ministerial  from  62s.  to  63s.  it  would  be  10s.;  from 

frq)eotfor  regulating'the  Corn  La  ws ;  le-  from  <ids.  to'  64s,  it  would  be  14s.;  fitnn 

utive  to  which  Laws  innumerable  petitions,  64s,  to  6Ss,  it  would  be  Iftf.;  from  65s.  to 

for  and  against,  had  been  presented.    Tlie  6*6s.  it  would  be  10s. ;  up  $hat  at  70f.  iSi[ 

Hoitoe  having  resolved  itself  into  a  Comr  duty  would  ceaae^  and  the  ittiportetion  h$ 
GftHT.  Mao.  ilforc/i,  1897. 


tft8  Praeaiingi  In  thepnimU  Amtaii  of  ParUmneiU. 


tMutb 


perfectly  ftm  wni  witlunit  ^otjry  «xMptiBg 
the  ordinary  regiftretioa  at  the  Cottom 
House.  On  the  other  hand,  when  the 
Average  price  should  amount  only  te  69<*  the 
duty  should  be  S2s.  and  for  everr  diminu- 
tion of  1«.  in  price,  2s,  of  duty  should  be 
added;  so  that  when  the  average  priee 
readied  65<.  the  duty  should  be  SOt.  If  the 
pfopoaitions  he  had  the  honour  to  submit 
were  adopted*  the  market  would  then  ex- 
hibit no  more  such  fluctuations  of  price  as 
had  been  experienced »  and  which  had  ex- 
tnided  from  1 18s.  to  86s.  per  quarter ;  the 
variation  would  be  bounded  between  5Ss.and 
6ftf.  This  plan  would  also  get  rid  of  the 
•hose  to  which  the  system  or  averages  had 
been  exposed.  The  averages  would  be  de* 
deied  weekly,  in  such  a  manner  as  to  pre- 
Vint  the  deep  speculations  which  now  took 
place.  He  aid  not  now  propose  to  call  upon 
the  House  for  any  vote  upon  the  resolutions, 
hit  would  prefer  that  the  debate  he  ad- 
joamed  untU  this  day  se'nnight.  In  the 
mean  time  he  entreated  the  House  to  receive 
lliem  as  they  were  intended^-^M  a  peace- 
offering,  and  as  the  best  effort  of  the  Ge^ 
^nmment,  and  of  his  Noble  Friend  (who 
was  entitled  to  the  largest  share  of  what- 
ever credit  might  belong  to  them.)  to  recon- 
cile conflictinff  interests,  and  to  proiliote 
tlie  wd&re  ol  the  country  in  one  of  ita 
moet  important  branches.  The  Right  Hon. 
Qestleman  then  moved  a  seriee  of  resolu- 
tiotts  to  the  effect  above  detailed.*— Mr.  C. 
ffalem  felt  great  apprehensions  respecting 
l3bi  utility  oi  the  propoaed  alterationst  and 
afowed  himself  strongly  in  fevour  of  the 
present  system. — ^Mr.  fTkUmare  thought 
that  the  duty  of  80s.  when  the  price  reached 
60s.  waa  too  high.— Sir  T.  Letkbruige  ex- 
pressed himself  dissatisfied  with  the  propo- 
dtSons,  while  Lord  jiUhorp,  Sir  J,  Sebrigktf 
Mr.  Curwenf  Lord  Milton^  and  Aldermen 
Wtod  andT&om/uon,  spoke  in  their  fevour.—* 
Mr.  Brougham  said  this  was  as  effectual  a 
prohibition  to  importation,  as  if  the  law  had 
absolutely  said,  you  shall  not  import  corn 
whilst  the  price  of  British  com  is  69s.-^ir 
K  Burdetl  declared  himself  the  decided 
advocate  of  a  free  trade  in  com,  as  well  as 
IB  other  branches  of  trade,  and  he  felt  satis- 
fied that  the  uppositioa  to  free  trade  arose 
from  misconception.— The  House  then  re- 
svmed,  and  the  fonira  discussion  was  fixed 
for  Thunday  the  8th  of  March. 

March  8.  Nearly  the  whole  of  the  even- 
ing was  occupied  in  praseuting  petitioas 
relattve  to  the  Roman  Catholics. — Mr. 
Pbmketif  on  presenting  a  petition  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Bishops,  took  the  oppor- 
tunity of  paying  them  some  high  compli- 
ments; wnen  Mr.  Maxwell  asked  whetner 
the  name  of  Doctor  Doyle  was  annexed  to 
the  petition,  and*  on  receiving  an  answer  in 
tlia  affirmatlvef  quoted   some  atrociously 


eeditioQS  and  libellous  pattagea  from  a  let- 
ter ascribed  te  that  person,  and  lately  pub- 
lished. Mr.  Maxwell  also  mentioned  some 
of  the  late  proceedings  of  the  peraons  eulo- 
gized by  Mr.  Plunkett.— Mr.  PhmktU  re- 
monstrated against  the  unfeiraess  of  ascrib- 
ing to  the  iloroan  Catholic  Biahops  the 
sentiments  avowed  in  the  writings  of  Doctor 
Doyle,  and  praeticaUy  evinced  in  the  conduct 
of  the  priests  alluded  to  by  Mr.  Maxwell. 
He  ascribed  the  violence  of  the  Rontan 
Catholic  clergy  to  the  "  crusade  of  Lord 
Famham,"  from  which  he  professed  to  an- 
ticipate no  good  result ;  and  even  affscted 
to  apprehend  the  most  disastrona  conse- 
«piences  to  the  peace  of  the  country.  Fi- 
nally he  implored  the  House  not  to  tn^Mtr 
the  authority  of  those  venerable  persona,  to 
whose  forbearance  or  influence  it  was,  he 
confessed,  due  that  Inland  was  not  even  in 
a  worse  state  than  at  presents-Mr.  LieBkie 
FoHer  compkuned  of  tUe  strain  in  whicli 
the  Irish  Attomey-Qeneral  had  spoken  of 
Lord  Famham's  noble  exertiona  in  the  Causa 
of  raligion,  and  described  the  success  of 
those  exertions  to  the  pragresa  of  educa- 
tion. 

The  Houee  divided  upon  the  grant  ol 
i^OOO  per  annum  to  the  Dnhe  of  Clarence, 
(see  p.  1 65)  which  Vas  carried  by  a  mi^rity 
of  188  to  39. 


March  5.  Sir  Franeii  Burdeti  Introduced 
the  Catholic  Qukstioii.  He  said  that 
when  he  recollected  the  numerous  and  im- 

Cnt  discussions  which  this  great  question 
undergone;  when  he  recollected  that 
the  cause  d[  the  Catholics  had  received  the 
sanction  of  the  most  eminent  men ;  when 
he  recollected  that  it  had  been  supported  by 
Burke,  by  Fox,  bv  Pitt,  by  Sheridan,  and 
**U»t,  not  least,  by  Grattan;  when  he 
recollected  that  almost  every  mdividual  dis- 
tinguished for  intellect  had  added  hia  autho- 
rity to  the  great  mass  of  opuiion  in  its 
fevour— it  appeared  to  him  that  that 
man  must  be  possessed  of  singular  confi- 
dence, who,  without  the  most  mature 
deliberation,  and  the  most  profound  reflec- 
tion, and  also  without  the  means  and  the 
ability  to  account  for  and  justify  hb  convic- 
tion, could  make  up  hb  mind,  M^aimt  such 
a  weight  of  authority,  to  resist  the  motion, 
with  which  he  (Sir  F.  Burdett)  should  have 
the  honour  to  conclude.  The  Hon.  Baronet» 
after  expatiating  on  the  hardships  to  which 
the  Catholics  were  exposed,  proceeded  to 
defend  them  from  the  charge  of  alavish 
subserviency  to  the  Pope  of  Rome,  and 
quoted  hi  their  behalf  the  answer  ol  the 
Catholic  Barons  in  the  reign  of  EdwaidL  I. 
to  the  Pope,,  refoslog  his  Jurisdiction.  He 
eubmitted  tlutt  the  Ottholics  were  folly  en- 
titled to  the  removal  of  disabilities  from  the 
fint  article  in  the  Treaty  of  Limerick.—* 
[Mr.  Peel  jaid,  these  words  refened  to  the 


is«4 


^^  J{  ^^^^^P^H^^^B^HV    P^B    w9^^f'    ■flr'^P'^^P^^^F    H^^PVW^pW  ^Cv    A    w^  W^^KI^^^^^^Www 


Mf 


Uiimid  ODly.J^It  wm^  laipotilUt  to  tup- 
poMtlii*  (bit  ariicb  rtfarrad  to  the  gir- 
fiMn  «ilj»  M  if  th«j  who  were  noet  vio« 
kill  m  tAeir  oppotitioa  were  eotttled  to  the  . 
afftrit  iwotectiooy  hot  the  article  aeyi  all 
Onholiet.      We  hed  keot  the  Treaty  of 
JiragMtztt   eod  brolceo   tW  of  limeriek. 
Bfr*   Put    intended   to    tieve   e£Furded  to 
the  CethoUct    their    eamocipeticm ;    from 
what  he   had  done  he    signified  what  he 
hileadedL    He  had  even  Im  office  at  one 
Miiodt  became  he  could  not  sopport  the 
Catholics  in  his  official  situation — the  firiendi 
of  Mr.  Pitt*  theUf  ought  to  be  the  friends 
o£  the  Cathoiice.  .  Taking  it  as  a  measurs 
«f  eeoBOBj  only*  the  Gttholic  claims  should 
bo  giaated.    Had  vre  treated  Ireland  as  she 
Jannrfd  ?    The  apprehension  respecting  the 
pope  was  a  hqgbear ;  the  practiced  point  to 
wbieh  the  ease  was  brought  was  thisy  that 
things  could  not  remain  as  they  were— ecmie 
thing  most  he  done*  and  the  sooner  the  beV> 
tir.    The  Hon.  Baronet  then  adduced  the 
King's  visit  to  Ireland  as  implying  rdief  to 
the  Catfiolica.     He  then  submitted  his  res(^ 
lotion  as  follows  : — '<That  it  is  expedient  ft^r 
this  House  to  take  into  consideiation  the 
etato  of  the  laws  which  impose  civil  disabi- 
lities upon  the  Roman  Catholic  subjects  of 
this  oomtrTy  with  a  view  to  their  repeal.** 

Mr.  G,  Dmwton  opposed  the  motion,  and 
severely  animadverted  on  the  conduct  of  the 
Irish  Catholic  Priests,  by  whom  every  tie, 
every  connection  between  landlord  and  te- 
nant had  been  severed.     In  lieu  of  mtitude 
lor  the  kindness  of  his  landlord,  the  Priest 
taught  the  Irish  tenant  to  look  upon  Kim  as 
» tyrant  who  oppressed  and  witoheld  firom 
him  hb  rigbte.    The  priesthood,  ih  idmoet 
•very  instance,  snoceeded  in  thus  detach- 
ing the  tenants  from  their  landlords,  but  in 
none  of  them  had  the  tenants  folUwed  the 
conviction  of  their  own  minds.    They  had 
been  made  the  victims  of  the  most  unfiur 
and  fqwehensible  practices,  menaced  with 
temporal  injmry  and  eternal  punishment— 
the  Priests  threatening  them  with  all  the 
vengeance  of  the  Holy  Church,  denyii^  to 
them  religious  consdatien  and  absolution, 
oven  refusing  the  sacrament,  and,  in  some 
jBstaQces»    extreme  unction    to  the    poor 
enatoies  who  had  not  voted  at  the  late 
election  as  they  (the  Priests)  had  desirsd. 
The  PHests  thus  abused  the  power  invested 
in  them  by  the  practice  and  the  rules  of 
their  churchy  not  to  excite  to  acts  of  patriot- 
iem,    but  to  deeds  of  ingratitude.      Let 
their  apoloffists    exculpate    them  it   they 
oonld ;  but  (et  them  not  profime  the  sacred 
name  of  justice,  by  saying  that  it  was  in  a 
juat  cause  that  those  exertions  had  been 
oscd.     Mr.  Dawson  then  laid  before  the 
Houae  several  documents  which  proved  the 
truth  of  bis  statements  relative  to  the  atro- 
cious conduct  of  the  Catliolic  leaden  and 
the  Priests,  and  concluded  by  saying,  that 
the  RoHMA  Catholioa  did  not  so  mneh  look 
Ibr  poMiiflil  power  ••  Iw  apintMl  Mipie- 


■aoy*  The  CMhoUc  religion  ia  ttnehmiged^ 
and  M  long  ae  It  shall  continue  unchimgedt 
eo  long  will  it  be  necessary  to  oppose  iti 
viewsd — ^Mr.  S,  Bict  supooited  the  motioiw 
and  observed,  they  should  pause  ere  thtf 
spread  discontent  (perhaps  rebellion  aatt 
wretchedness)  among  a  turbulent  and  bnvtt 
people.  If  they  be  wise  they  will  at  OMt 
mnt  emancipation  •  if  generous,  they  wiU 
nesitate  ere  they  refiise  the  reiterated  elaioiB 
of  a  people  of  whom  they  are  comparativetyr 
ignorant;  and  if  true  to  themselvee,  they 
will  remember  that  the  alternative— {*ro- 
testant  Ascendancy,  is  a  phrase  not  known 
to  the  British  constitution,  but  that  civil 
and  religious  liberty  is.— Mr.  F.  Sbiart  vin- 
dicated the  Roman  Catholic  Clergy  of  Ire- 
land, and  supported  the  motion.— Mr*  CnU 
opposed  any  further  concessions  to  the  Cm^ 
tholics,  and  observed  '<  that  a  burnt  chiki 
dreads  the  fire,  so  ought  we  to  dreed  F^ 
pery !  l"— Adjourned. 


McTtk  6.   Sb  J.  Newport  having  moved 
the  order  of  the   day  for    resuming  dm 
Catholic  Qobstion,    the  Mattdr  ^  ike 
RoUs  rose,  and  gave  an  historical  detail  of 
the  proceedings  of  the  Roman  GathAlica  at 
different  periods,  which  he  contended  proved 
the  necessity  of  retaining  the  existing  Lawe 
aeainst  them.       He  observed  that   when 
Hon.  Gentlemen  stood  up  in  the  House  ee 
advocates  for  the  Catholics,  and  spoke  of 
the  oppressive  and  intolerant  laws  that  had 
been  enacted  against  them,  they  most  care^- 
fuUy  kept  out  of  sight  the  occasions  on 
which  those  laws  were  enacted.    God  forbid 
(said  he)  that  I  shouki  ascribe  to  RomsB 
Catholics  of  the  present  day,  sentimenti 
such  as  those,  which  are  known  to  hspe 
been  professed  and  acted  upon  by  CatholioB 
of  the  seventeenth  century.     (Loud  cAeer- 
ing.)     But  we  are  called  upon  to  confer 
political  power  on  a  class,  whose  principles, 
experience  has  taught  us,  are  adverse  to 
libcr^  and  constitutional  government.    A 
most  remarkable  difference  occurred  in  the 
oath  proposed  in  the  Bill  of  1835>  as  con- 
trasted with  the  oath  of  1793.    In  the  lat- 
ter there  were  words  to  this  effect — **  I  do 
solemnly  swear,  that  I  will  defend  the  settle- 
ment of  property  as    in  this  realm  mem^ 
esubltshed  by  law."    If  that  were  a  neeei- 
sary  provision  in  the  oath  of  1793,  why  It 
it  now  omitted  ?   I  say,  will  not  the  House 
be  astonished  to  learn  that,  in  the  Bill  ef 
1895,  the  whole  of  this  provision  b  com- 
pletely omitted?    {Loud  ehetring.)     Wee 
the  omission  made  advisedly  and  deliberately  f 
Sir,  I  think  there  b  no  manner  of  doinit 
that  it  was.     If  so,  I  ask,  where  b  ih* 
power,  or  the  wish,  on  the  part  of  the  Cn- 
tholics,  to  give  the  security  to  which  we  eve 
entitled  ?    Let  me  ask  Gentbmen  to  take  n 
viewof  the  present  condition  of  Ireland?  In 
1810,  and  from  tbtt  to  \%\^«  Vtten^'«tn 
eompeietivilY  UiBqnl\  \iii^iM«i  i^>n' 


•stnrjr  to  ia^y  tht  irhoU  Maud  is  In  a  ttatt  mtlMd  to  (baargimieiito  used  by  the  Mkalar 
of  extireiM  agitrntkiii^uii  ditorder.    (Hear»  or  the  Itolli»  b  •  speech  replete  with  «lei# 
KeoTf  Aeor.)     What  occasions  the  present  reasoning  and  eloquence,   which  be  tfae^ 
state  of  things  in  that  coontrj?   I  answer,  concluded: — «Th'is    country    had  wooed^ 
•  hody  whicn  domineers  oter  the  country  had  won,  and  wedded  Ireluid — ^had  raised 
lias   caused  the    insubordination  and  dis-  her  to  a  share  in  the  empire — partioipatiii^ 
order.      (Hean)      What  do  they  ask— I  her  glory  with  her.     Was  she  not  then  Ut 
•honld  rather  say,  demand  ?    In  terms  the  admit  her  to  the  equal  enjoyment  of  poKti^ 
most  emphatic  and  peremptory,  they  de-  cal  rights  ?    Instesd  of  making  war  upo* 
isand  the  restoration  of  their  rights — their  ourselves,  ought  we  not  to  consolidate  our 
unconditional  restoration.   {Cheers.)   '<  Ire-  power  ?    This  country  had  been  truly  called 
land,"  to  use  the  expressive  language  of  one  the  admiration  and  the  envy  of  surrounding 
t>f  the  Roman  Catholic  oratora,  *<  Ireland  nations.    But  when  we  held  up  the  mirrar 
is  a  gigantic  suppliant,  thundering  at  the  of  public  freedom  to  those  nations,    let 
gates  of  the  Constitution."     (H9ar,  hear,)  them  not  see  the  flaw  by  which  its  beaolf 
The  Learned  Gentleman  said,  there  is  one  was  disfigured.     Lst  them  not  see  that  we 
argument  which  I  have  heard  over  and  over  are  a  divided  people — let  them  not  see  thai 
again  in  this  House,  that,  supposing  some  we  are  at  war  among  ourselves,  and  should 
aixty  or  seventy  Membera  or  the  Roman  we  be  engaged  in  foreign  hostilities,  let  net 
CatboUc  profession  were  returned  to  serve  in.    our  enemies  perceive  that  we  are  weakened 
-Piurliament,  what  possible  ibjury  could  arise  by  our  intestine  divuions,  but  rather  that 
from  such  a  circumstance,  and  by  what  pos-  we  possess  that  which  is  our  best  security  ih. 
sible  means  could  they  be  dangeroiu  to  the  peace  or  war— an  unanimity  of  sentiment^ 
State.    Now,  Sir,  I  will  entreat  the  House  founded  upon  a  community  of  biterests,  and 
to  recollect  (and  it  is  with  sincere  regret  a  community  of  affection. — ^Mr.  Peel  replied 
that  I  do  so),  that  there  are  at  the  present  to  the  arguments  of  the  last  speaker,  in  a 
TBOOent,  and  have  alwsys  been,  many  Pro-  speech   which  occupied  two  houra  in  the 
testant  Mewibers  of  the  House  of  Commons,  delivery.    The  Right  Hon.  Oentleman  ex- 
who  enterUun  views,  and  profess  sentiments,  amined  the  article  of  limerick  by  the  usual 
of  a  nature    hostile   to    the    Estabiislied  tests — the  interpretation  of  contemponury 
Church  of  these  realms ;  and  if  we  throw  writers,  firom  all  which  he  concluded  that 
into  the  scale  another  weight,  if  we  add  to  the  articles   in  question  promised  nothing 
this  body  another  mass,  knowing  as  we  do  that  but  a  toleration  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
both  will  aet  with  the  same  spirit,  and  make  one  worship.     In  allusion  to  the  inflammatory 
common  cause,  shall  we,  I  ask,  be  discharge  topics  of  the  Irish  Attorney-General,  Mr. 
ing  our  doty  to  the  Church,   of  which  we  Peel  remarked,  that  he  was  not  surprised 
fere  members,  and  which  we  have  pledged  at  the  existence  of  agiutiotf  and  discontent 
ourselves,  and  are  bound,   to  support?    I  in  a  country  over  the  legal  affaira  of  which 
am  sure,  from  what  I  know  of  the  Roman  he  presided.    The  Right  Hon.  Grentleman 
Catholic  religion,  that  the  moment  of  grant-  then  exposed  the  £iUacy  of  treating  the 
ing  this  measure  would  by  no  mesns  lead  to  question  as  a  religious  question,  by  showing 
the  permanent  allaying  of  those  difierences  that  the  machinery  of  the  Romis^  Church 
and  dissensions  which  now  exist.     Sir,  the  was  an  eugine  for  the  acquisition  and  exer- 
Roman  Catholic  religion  is  a  religion  of  cise  of  temporal  power.      He  successfully 
ambition,  and  iu  nature  is  continually  to  resisted  the  attempt  to  draw  a  distinction 
aim  at  the  possession  of  something  beyond  between  the  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy  and 
that  which   it    had    heretofore   possessed,  the  seditious  Association,  by  stating  that 
The  Roman  Catholics  have  always  consi-  eleven    of   the    whole  number  of   titular 
dered  the  Protestants  as  a  people  by  whom  Bishops  were  actually  incorporated  in  that 
they  have  been  supplanted,  and  the  Church  body,  and  that  all  of  them  were  in  corres- 
.  property  as  property  that  has  been  wrested  pondence  with  it ;  he  proved  by  quotations 
from  their  hands.    Is  there,  then,  ady  per-  rrom  the  addresses  of  tne  Roman  Catholics, 
son  in  this  country,  who  can  seriously  think  even  from  those  which  were  designed  to  be 
that  an  Hierarchy,  possessed  of  unbounded  conciliating,  that  they  had  objects  in  view 
sway,  would  ever  suffer  Ireland  to  remain  beyond  an  equalization  of  civil  privileges, 
tranquil,  while  some  object  or  other  was  yet  objects  inconsistent  with  the  safety  of  the 
to  be  obtained — that  it  would  ever  cease  its  Church,    and  concluded  by  avowine  that 
exertions,  day  after  day,  until  it  had  obtain-  whatever  alternative  of  danger  mi^t   be 
ed,  not  Catholic  emancipation,  but  Catholic  held  out,  he  would  adhere  to  the  preserva- 
aacendancy.    I,  therefore,  exhort  the  Mem-  tion  of  the  Constitution. — Mr.  Brmtgham 
ben  of  the  British  House  of  Commons  not  spoke  at  length  in  support  of  the  resole- 
to  imagine  that  such  a  measure  as  that  to  tion.     He  applied  himself  principally  to  the 
which  they  are  now  called  to  give  their  speech  of  the  Master  of  the  Rolls,  and 
sanction— notwithstanding  what  some  ho-  taunted  that  Gentleman  with  the  circum- 
nourehle  and  distinguished  individuals  nmy  stance,  that  the  University  of  Cambridge  had 

.chink  upon  the  subjeet — is  at  all  calculated  to  given  him  a  colleague  favourable  to  the  Ro- 

nscore'a-pennBBent  trai^ottillity  to  Ireland.  aanCatholics.-— Mr.  Cbimtiif  supported  the 

..'^Mr,  JftmiBtfi  BilffMita  the  Motion,  end  motion  with  fait  ulna]  strain  of  doqiiencn. 


ISViJ^.  frociailblg$  in  lk«  prknt  Sation  of  Parhamenl.  %6l 

re  kept  iu  ■  lEitc  of  deertdtlioo  M  b»d 

It  of  Cbe  Greeb  jiaier  the  Turkiih 

imenC— Lard  Radai  aiA,  that  there 

wluali  it  wu  wiM,  and  nprighti  lad  cxpeA'      ire  no  people  on  iba  fiee  of  the  etith  who 


nd  npnghti  *i 
■d,  haTUB  t 


__,..,  .  eujuy  more  libettj' than  the  Irith  Caiholiia. 

ahould  not  inirlle  (h«  Cktbolici  to  acopt  They  eajoT  cierjr  citiI   uid  political  right 

or  refpcli  hut    cat)    npos   tbtm    to  abtj,  pDneHedbf  Bri^ih  nhjecli,  with  the  at- 

(CJwCT'i.)     In  order  fioallT  (o  Mt  the  quea-  ceptina  ooly  of  that  of  iegitlalSng  fiir  ■  Pn>- 

tion  at  Kit,  it  wai  deemed,  and  tnitlj,  that  tescaoi  Chuiuh  and  nation.     1'lie  mare  ih* 

the  Crown  ibould  have  kaovlcd^  ^  til*  queitiim  U  diicuned.   the  better  It  oill  be 

pOKer  uF  inCeiferenca  in  the  appontmnit  of  uaiietBtood,  that  it  a  impoijible  to  admit 

Dmcnt  of^Pniaila  «•*  Romao   Catholio    to    legiilaM    under  oui 


td  hi  that  )ecarity.  '  Tha  Kio;  of 
tlra  Netbirlindi  wu  at  that  moDWDt  n«go- 
dMing  on  the  lubjeet ;  Amtri*,  Saionj, 
kod  maDT  Milan,  ware  in  actual  potMuioa      ,  '"jT""  ^'"'"'  "L  ™"'i"^». 


Id  the  Houii  of  Gommom. 


'd  bill)  for  Um  ci 
a  predecw.on'.'^hr™"      ite  C«.M>»U.Llwl.    The  bill,  he  proposed 
flB^BilhoptotheHouieofLordi.ofrt-      ",^  .    V'"'!'"^    j  u         fir.t  would  cm- 
WtO'thaJtoman   Catholit-.      Bj  rotiog      r^**?."''"'*::!'^  •*?'"" '""'"7 
.  ...   ....       ..  .>.'■...     '._.  .1.7?      to  tbafi  g  the  aecood  would  i:DasoIidate  the 

■hole  of  the  itatua  law  rektlvF  it>  malicloni 
lich,  for 


Vith  tb*  Hon,  Baronet,  he  did  no 
wnction  thia  propotitina ;  reatering  to  hiok- 
aatf  the  power  of  acting  or  not  acting  upon 

it.     Ob  the  other  hand,   if  thJt  Eteiolntion  ,     ,  •  ,  ■              ,  , 

b.  MntiW,  if  the    HouM  of  Coinnon.  ^.^T'^^'":  .      .           ,          ,    . 

■ahodTdeeide  lUt  th«  coo.idera.i«  of  tb.  '■'t^.»i»  -hole  of  the  aUt^te  l.«  „l.t,„ 

atalaof  l™landi.notwo.thjtobeente™d  to  tb.iinportaat  .tibject  of  r.me.I.e,  aga.o.t 

™,n.thenl.tb.Hou.eofCin,mon.«ha,«.  tb.bWred  i  the  fourth  -a,  "«"f""«- 

X,,deed,«dhe,huddeTedtocon..mpLiS.  W'-S 'he  whole  of  the  1,«.  „h,.h  „™ld 

the  con»qnnic«i  which  might  aria,  f^p  be  renderriunnecw.arj  bj;  tbu  miroducOon 

— l,V-il?™  oftheotbetthreebilli.     Tlie  rffcctof  theae 

"T  ^™6--  Irill,,  if  the,  n»t  with  the  .»ncti..n   of  the 

A  d..,..o«  then  took  place,  .ben   ther.  ,     j.'j.^^   i„^  ^e  «,  teniov,  no  l»,  ib« 

,fp,™i-For  tb.  mofOD  S7!  I  f^i  it  ,7^  ,j.„„.,    „j  ^e  had  th.  »tUi™- 

«76i  iD»Jon(]F4.,  oftlaiiogiotheHooie,  th*toot»ith.tMM§- 

■    Then  w*ra  pmrat  M  the  diviiioa  on  n»  ing  the  rrpul  of  ao  oanj  acta,  tb.  whol.  tt 

CMbolio  Queation  4a0  Bagliah  mambn*,  the   itatute  law  raUtiis  to  theft  would  )m 

91  Iritb,  *ad  37  Scotch.     111.  number  air  compriaed  in  99  p^^.     With  raipeiit  to 

■unamaBU.d  to  no,  hebw  93  Engtiab,  (|„  wontioe  of  theie  billi,  he  bad  not  .d- 

B  Iriah,  and  S  Scotch.     Of  tb.  Itiib  n»m-  hered  ilrietlj  to  that  of  other" lUtut..)    h» 

ban  67  Totwi  for  Sir  i'nncii  Burdett't  mo-  had   found  it  nec.siBrj   to  take  ■   middk 

Iko,  uid  S4  againat  it ;  of  the  Scotch  <i  courae  between  the  phnHolocr  of  th.  Iwr 

^.and  1»  mainiti    ud  of  ih.   Engliah  of  England  and  (he  bteriiy  of  tile  Fnnek. 

193  for,  and  197  agalnit  t  leering  ■  majo-  The  fint  bill,    "A   bill   for  couiolidali^ 

rit]'  of  S4  EpglUh  numben  againit  the  mo-  and  amending  the  lawi  in  EngUnd  ralitira 


Houti  Of  ixiFM,    March  18.  Housi  of  LoRDt,  March  16. 

Sennd  ^etitiona  were  pm.ntcd  aninU  On    «>ine    Iiiah    Roman   Catholio    Pe- 

tb.  Catholic  Claims,     the  Bp.  of  Bath  ,;t1uaa  beiuj;  preiented,   the  Earl  of  fTa- 

ud  IVtUi,  OD  prounting  one  ul^  theie  Pe-  ehrliea   replied    to   the    argumcnti    of  th. 

titiooa,  aaaured  the  Home,  that  however  op-  relitiunen,  sod  cited  tha  authority  of  Bua- 

poard  be  wa*  to  any  fuitber  cancEigloni  to  md,  of  the  preieni  Pojie,  and  of  othus, 

tb.  Clholica,  be  ihiiulJ  be  moit  happy  to  Jq  prouf  of  the  uochiDgetbli  chancier  of 


Lorda  Darnley  and  Douiuhirt,  ilated  that 
the  bMt  udiDrcatwav  of  niiing  the  Catho- 
lic popnlation  from  tbeir  prueot  degnda- 


the  Church  of  Rumi 
intolerant  and  uniocial  iplcil.     Tlie  Nobl* 
nplared  that  in  whatevc] 


whati-Hi 

lime,  the  Roma 

n  Catholic  QiMl- 

n  ahoi 

>ld  come  before 

tbalr 

Lord>hip*, 

th( 

J  waM  to  «:t  a.  (o 

leave 

th.  Britiah 

LtitUti 

to   till 

:=;'£ 

th< 

1  beat  Hcurity  ihu  th« 

empii 

ma 

It  had  loug  been 

.  the  , 

Tiutt  exalted 

1  the  face  of  the 

earth. 

*  FOREIGN  NEWS. 

I^F-  -              FRANCE.  «M,000    mil   to    b*   mt^ajti   ia   ibt 

-fti  bc™bg   demand   fcr  booh  »d  giiirr"  1"  *•  •™"  rf  SP^  l«% 

6»«>    ipcciei   of  liwralure   in    FrinM,  in  "™*' ""'■"' 

airect  oppnition  to  iU  kIiIm  of  ttia  High  PORTUQAL. 

Couit  pMty,  whu  »K  iofluf]W«d  by  the  Ji-  ^„  impoibiot  dieclo.ure  hu  Ukeii   pUce 

>mU  »nd  Api»lDlic«!i.   hu  foi  »om«  tinM  ;„  portueil :  unone  llie  buEurc  uken  from 

Uw  propoMd   new   Ibw  fut  mtfictitig   thu  ,|,g  p„vio^  ^f  Mioho,   »m  fcund  ft  mpj 

*oomhin^   tr.de,    DPlicei!   in   p.    166.    U  •  ^f  ,  ],„,,  ^droned  to  tliB  Queen  of  Por- 

■ppnn  lb«t  seven  timei  more  booki  wet*  ^       ^  ,,^  ^^^^  j-^^^,  j,  MontedogM,  one  of 

piialed   ip    IBSS    th»n    m   IBM;  ud  thfl  the  lelwl  Cliitftiins.  (■«  p.  IflC],  tog.lh.r 

nnisber  6>r  IsaU  rh  onf-6fUi  nior«  Cbin  ^■^^^,  ^  tulWtioa  of  letlen  bel««ii  nrtun 

due  for   I B95.     In   the   CM<r«r  IWm  p^„^^,  |^  j^,^,,^  „  ,  ^  ^^i^,  ,^^„^  [„. 


Ihers  ij  >  cuiioui  lutiit^cal  ucoust  of  tb* 


pliCHtiog  Pders,  de])U(«H>  tod  lome  e 


of  FrMCe    IB    mil    bJ   188S,  ^,cb-uH>.     Inlhe  leUer  froin  iheCount  to 

iam  up  bj-  Count  Diru,  Bfom  whieh  w*  ^  q^„^  Mothw  be  htj,  "  he  ™  thi 

gix  the  fullowipg  Bbitmcl,  being  nslB^n  fi„t  ^  „;„  i,ij  i-ord  ud  to  pcooUiin  tlia 

•feffieiil  p.poraotriiil)' Ji.iiin»Ii:—  ,ij,hH  of  Don  Miguel  I,"  »nd  aikno-ledg- 

la  IBil  there  were  prinlad —         Shi^.  jop  ^^\^  emtilode   the  "  munificence  buJ 

Oa  LegiilBtion        -         -         i,SSI,66<  aer<^r-eDough-to-be.iid<Dir«l  ge«rti.itT"  of 

Uo  ib(  Scienciii      •         -         a,ai4,3<»  Ferdinind  :  to  whom  "  be  it  iadabtcd  fur 

Phiioiophj               -         -            4I0,»»  ,igo,l  btnefiti."     He  ndmit,  ibut  he  took 

PoUiial  Econom;            -             ISI.ISS  iha  comaumd  of  '■  tbeRoyidiiKi"  from  the 

Mililuy  Aff.ir(       -         -         1,U7^00  Prio„.sej  Beir»  >ad  (be  tiilkiit>  uf  Spiin, 

ThePineAru         -         -             161,688  ,4mI  that  hi«  oepbe»,lh8  ManjuU  of  Chive., 

I^KIMur*                •         -         8,781, SIS  ,„  appointed  UeDeril-io-Chief  under -him, 

HiKD(7           -         -         -         8,876,891  .1  at  Iht  mil  of  ha  Calholic  Mq}csly :"  tliu. 

Di«eniutqecI«,Almuwcki,Sia.l,8B6,Bes  conf^iming  Ferdiniod'i  connection  witti  the 

TheoJog;      r         -         -         *.WS,76a  PortagneH  Iniumetian. 

ToUl     ■   -       1B,4G9,71S  ,                           PRUSSIA. 

h  1 8>Gi  tlw  Dnmbn  bid  riwn  to —  An  nent  which  lui  litdj  oocurred  In 

-     U^kLtion              -         -       ia,yia,SSS  Klnia  hu  cmuHd  lome  wUBtim.     laMie- 

ScMDoe*                   -         -       10,Ba8,<77  nl  vilUgei  of  tb*  circle  of  liegolti,  which 

niiloHphr             -        -        1,804,181  ia  Inhibilsd  putly  b]>  Cuholio*  ud  Futlj 

PoliticBl  Econimi]'            -         S,0IS,S9S  bj  Piotaituti,  the  latter,   who  I  in  co  tha 

Militvj  ASuii                 -         1,467,913  ben  term*  witb  the  fbrnwr,  hKl^vm  then 

piePinaAni         -         -         9, 937 ,801  Bible*   to  nd,   which  wna   Mon   in  th* 

liMncure                -         •       80,806,168  buidi    of  muf  C«haliei.      Th*    PiioB* 

Hiitorj           ...       39,467,987  K)hop  of  Bratliw,  M.  Von   Schimonih}', 

Diicn  lulgecti        -         -         3,886^78  wu  no  looner  infbnned  of  thia  thu  h*  lent 

Tbaolegy                  •         -       17,487,087  n  •aclcfiaatlsal  OQunielloT  la  th*  rilkgc*, 

I  to  induce    the  Cuholici,  hjr   eihortuioBa 

188,010,483  and  threat!,    to  ^*«  up  (he  Biblei. 


Glared  ih.t  the)-  were  theuiselve.  uboob  tbe 

3l'AlN-  numbe,  of  ti.„e  ,ho  were  guilty  of  retd- 

Tha  King  of  Spain  baa  iiiued  an  ordi-  ing  tlio  Bible,  and  even  threatened,  a>  loaM 

aaoce,  I7  Khich  he  npeni  a  direct  trade  be-  peraoni  aflinn,  thu  they  wuul!  all  go  oter 

MMO  Spain  and  Ameiica  in  foreign  Ttaatla.  In  tbe  Procejcanl  rellgiiin,  if  they  were  im- 

Thii    OTdinanoe    aulhnriiea    Spaoith  an-  porluned  any  brtber  on  tliii  auhject.     The 

dlBBU   to   ahlp    gDUili   directtj  fiir  Sooth  eecletiutit'il  countellor,  thereCure,  returoed 

America,  un  er  a  funigo  flu,  an  <   to  It-  rt  inftctS,  and  made  ha  report  to  the  PrinCB 

•rite  South  Americin  cnrnmuditiei  in  Spain  Bishop.     Hereupon,   tbe  Biihnp  U  atated 

vpcai  yjiog    certain   duties,  wtlhont  the  ts  have  claimed  the  aitirtaDce  of  the   ciril 

MccBtity  •  f  *  permit  ia  each  particular  in-  power,  with  which  lequeit  the  chi»f  preai- 

■tance,  ai  baa  hitherto  lieeo  the  cut.  dent.  Von  Meckel,  did  not  tlilnk  it  advii- 

IIm    Spaniah     Clergy    haie  giTcn   new  able  to  comjdy. 

propfi  of  their  dotolcdpeii  to  tha  canie  of  A  great  number  of  Cathnlic  Clergymen 

■ODarohy,  hy  offering  to  the  King'*  PriaM  in  Sileil*  htie  pmcuted  an  iililieii  to  thdir 

Minislar.,   M.    CalomaiJc,    ■   {MaOTI  */  luiKrior,   tha  Prince    Biihop  of  BreaUw, 


latrj 


Hiriifii  Nmti.'^Dmuiik  Oc€tttr9ikm^ 


ni|mUng  tht  •botttion  of  vwiom  tbuM% 
whieky  ■ccordiig  to  tbeir  experWooe^  am 
the  BMMt  advene  to  the  iaflueiioe  of  refi* 
gioD.  Tliej  desire  first  of  all,  and  especiaU}(, 
the  innprorenient  of  the  litargy.  Tbey  le- 
quire  tnat  the  whole  service  shall  be  hence- 
forward read,  not  io  a  language  unintelligible 
to  the  people,  but  in  tlwir  own  native  Ger- 
man. This  impanant  and  decisive  step  c^ 
the  Clergy  of  Silesia  (a  striking  contrast  to 
the  ^ostolioal  intrigues,  as  they  are  cailed, 
of  the  bigoted  Clergy  of  Spain,  Portugal, 
and  France)  will  likewise  be  attended  with 
important  and  decbive  consequences.  Sile* 
■ia,  the  largest  and  richest  province  in  the 
Prosuan  dominions,  contMUs  two  millions 
of  inhabitants,  of  whom  about  half  belong 
to  the  Catholic  Church. 

An  official  account  states,  that  in  the 
fbnr  years,  1 893—^96,  60,890  persons  were 
carried  off  by  extremely  sudden  death  in  the 
Pmsnan  empire;  4591.  were  murdered, 
4087  committed  suicide.  There  were  664 
robberies;  11,848  criminals  and  vacabonds 
were  arrested ;  there  were  1 1 ,683  ftres,  by 
which  176  ehnrches  and  convents^  4510 
dwelling  hoosee^  in  the  towns,  and  76,0t9 


hmmm  aa  the  •ooBliy^  him  ibdwtii  «i 


UNITED  STATES. 

In  both  Houses  of  Ceagrees  biUe  hm 
btrodttced,  jubetantisfiy  the  sbbm  hi 
form,  for  regulating  trade  aad  intercoww 
between  the  United  States,  and  the.BriMl 
Colonies.  The  object  of  this  bill  k  to  pM- 
▼ent  the  admission  of  any  vessele  into  dm 
poru  of  the  United  States  afUr  the  SOih 
of  Sept.  next,  from  the  Colonies  and  pos- 
sessions of  Great  Britam,  including  iheA 
all  by  name,  except  Upper  Canada ;  with  » 
provision  for  the  suspension  of  tho  aoty  If 
the  Ports  in  the  British  Colonies  and  p«*- 
sessions  are  open  to  the  admission  of  fist- 
eels  of  the  United  States,  paying  no  hidhir 
or  other  duties  than  those  levied  on  theBi^ 
tish  vessels,  &c.  &c. 

COLOMBIA. 

.  On  the  9d  of  Jan.  the  Liberator  and  G»> 
aeral  Paez  met  in  Valentia.  The  kttermi^ 
mittcd  himself  entirely  into  the  hands  of 
Bolivar,  who  immediately  bestowed  on  hioi 
the  title  of  Superior  Chief  of  Colombia.  Ho 
is  to  hold  military  rank  in  Colombia 
BolivaTy  with  this  title* 


DOMESTIC   OCCURRENCES. 

His  Royal  Hiaimiss  the  Duxx  op  York. 

A  veiy  iateresting  account  of  the  last  illness  of  the  lamented  Ouke  of  York 
has  appeared  from  tne  pen  of  his  gratefully  attached  Military  Secretary,  Lieot.- 
ge«.  Sir  Herbert  Taylor,  K.G.H.  It  is  written  with  great  feeling  and  afiectioo, 
in  the  form  of  a  Diary  or  Memorandum,  kept  between  the  9th  of  June,,  1890, 
(when  his  Royal  Hiehness's  indisposition  commenced,)  and  the  6th  of  Jan. 
18S7>  Sir  Herbert  Taylor  kindljr  transmitted  us  a  copy  for  insertion  in  oar 
Magazine ;  but  the  document  having  been  lithographeJ  for  private  circulation, 
unexpectedly  obtained  admission  into  the  daily  journals,  which  of  course  frua- 
tratea  our  intentions  of  giving  it  entire.  However,  we  cannot  resist  the  gratifi- 
cation of  presenting  the  following  extracts. 

"  Theinterest  excited  by  the  situation  of     wu,  in  every  point  of  view,  deserving  oftka 

respect  and  the  affection  which  havo  so 
strongry  marked  their  sentiments  towaids 
him,  and  of  the  deep  grief  and  regret  whidi 
his  death  has  occasioned  in  their  minds^ 
and  in  those  of  the  respectable  and  wall- 
thinking  individuals  of  every  class  in  this  * 
country."    *     *     *     *      , 

<'His  Royal  Highness  fintquently  spolw 
to  me  of  his  own  situation  and  feehngSf 
more  especially  on  the  98d  of  SeptembiTf 
when  he  told  me  he  did  his  best  to  sabmil 
with  patience  and  resignation ;  that  he  triad 
to  ke^  up  his  spirits;  he  met  his* friends 
cheerfully,  endeavoured  to  go  eorreolly 
through  what  he  had  to  do,  and  to  occupy  ^ 
himselif  at  other  times  with  rcadiug;  hal 
when  left  to  bis  own  thoughts,  when  ha 
went  to  bed  and  lay  awake,  the  situatiiHi 
was  not  agreeable;  the  contemplation  e£ 
one's  end,  not  to  be  met  at  once,  nor  witfaSa 
a  short  given  pwod,  but  protrai^  posiMbjIy 


iSbB  late  Duke  of  York,  and  by  every  circum 
connected  with  his  long,  painful,  and 
illness,  from  its  con^menoement 
unfil  the  filial  hour  which  closed  his  valuable 
existence,  has  been  so  great,  and  the  gene- 
lal  fiMling  which  it  produced  has  caused  so 
many  particulars  to  be  circulated  and  re- 
ceived by  the  puUio  as  authentic,  tor  which 
there  either  was  00  foundation,  or  at  least 
very  imperfBCt foundation,  that  I  have,  upon 
due  coBsidoration,  been  induced  to  oiaw 
up,  from  minutes  taken  during  this  distrsaa* 
jBg  and  trying  period  of  my  attendance 
upon  His  Royu  Highness,  a  statement,  not 
of  the  progress  of  the  disease,  or  of  ^ 
tnatment  pursued,  but  of  such  drcum- 
stanoes  and  fscts  as  will  shew  the  conditioQ 
of  H.  R.  H.'»  mrod  under  this  awful  visita- 
tion of  Providence,  will  do  justice  to  the 
exemplary  resolution  and  pious  resignation 
with  which  ho  met  and  submitted  to  it,  and 


«iU«tisfy  his  attaolMd  frienda  that  H.R.ii.    Idt  mootbiy 


''Ms  Make/  iht  Duke  of  Yorie$  tffttts.  [March 

"(dtm^  dsiliig  tht  Hotltod  ctmpaiga,  wltich  ft  itehes  long.    Uk  tiMT  eeotoe  h  ■rRooMm 

'WM  vldmAtely  knocked  down  for  twenty -one  ^umpk,  •etting  out  from  »  rained  city, 

gnincM  and  »  half.    The  invalid  chain  had  oompoced  of  moltitiidet  of  figoret,  Bome  fi 

-p^vaj  bidden,  and  the  one  in  which  hit  late  them  wholly  detached  firon  the  eronnd  of 

Royal  Highness    had    frequently    reposed  the  dish ;  the  border  is  embellished  with 

-during  his  last  illness,  was  sold,  afteraspi*  pastoral  figures,  after  Jordaens,   which  are 

liCed  competition,  for  twenty- eight  guineas  Very  richly  and  beautifully  chased  i  weight 

'■odahalr.    A  plain-lookiog  chair,  described  ISO  ozs.  15  dwts.     Great  competition  was 

.at  <'  Bonaparte's  chair,*'  in  the  catalogue,  manifested  for  this  and  the  following  lot,  a 

'Was  knocked  down  at  seven  pounds  and  a  similar  dub,  the  one  of  which  brought  one 

'erown.    A  card-box,  of  elaborate  and  deli*  guinea  an  ounce,  and  the  other  a  guinea 

'cately  carved  ivory,  with  the  Royal  Ducal  and  sixpence. 

Arms  upon  the  top,  and  five  other  boxes,         A  small  circular  waiter    of  solid  gold, 

tMch  with  the  coronet,  and  containing  1 1  formed  of  gold  boxes,  presented  with  tbe 

)8ozens  of  pearl  counten,  with  the  arms  en-  freedom  of  different  cities,  the  arms  of  all 

gnved,  ami  glass  shade,  sold  for  twenty-  which  are  fccordiugly  engraven  within  a  bor- 

Seven  guineas  and  a  half.    Among  tbe  linen,  der  of  oak  leaves,  with  the  Royal  Arms  in 

^'rnost  beantiful  Irish  damask  ubie  cloth,  the  centre;  a  Crieie  of  oak  leaves  aad  acorns 

whh  the  royal  arms  and  ordera  iu  the  pat-  beautifully  chased  upon  the  border ;  weight 

tarn,  and  cipher  at  the  cornen  (new),  9  41  ozs   11  dwtt.  knocked  down  at  41.  10«. 

yardt  long,   19/.  8s.    Two  dozen  and  nine  an  ouuce. 

napkins,  to  correspond  with  the  crest,  and         An  ink-stand  (a  biitb-day  present  from 

eollar  of  the  garter  in  the  pattern,  19/.  8s.  one  of  the  Princesses,)  with  a  finely  model- 

The  sale  of  plate  took  place  March  19 —  led  figure  of  a  female,  in  mat  gold,  kneeling 

9S,  when  the  most  prominent  articles  were  white  she  attaches  a  wreath  to  an  Ionic  co- 

■old  as  follows:— -A  magnificent  cistern,  18}  lumn  of  burnished  gold,  having  within  the 

laches  in  diameter,  the  neck  and  lip  en-  wreath  the  inscription  *'  Vous  la  meritez," 

wreathed  with  vines  in  fruit,  and  the  handle  W^  pvrcliased  for  a  member  of  the  KojaX 

formed  of  two  figures  of  Tritons  bending  Family,  at  1  Us.  Gd.  an  ounce. 
over  the  rim,  anfi  looking  in.    On  the  out-         The  shield  of  Achilles   produced   1000 

aide  combats  of  Roman  galleys,  with   nu-  guineas,  as  noticed  in  oar  memoir  of  Mr. 

meroos  .figures    very  spiritedly    designed.  Flaxman,  p.  S75. 

This  bowl  was  said  by  Mr.  Christie  to  have         A  beautiful  tazza,  by  Lewis,  within  it  a 

eost  his  Royal  Highness  1,500/.  and  pro-  comlutt  of  cavalry  in  relief,  and  on  it  abroad 

duced  only  446/.  frieze  of  masks  and  trophies,  in  cinquu  cents 

A  magnificent   candelabrum,    made    by  taste,  sold  for  1/.  10s.  6d,  per  oz.  about  6s. 

.Lewis,  of  St.  James's-street,  for  the  centre  «n  ounce  more  than  iu  cost  price, 
of  a  ubie,  representing  Hercules  attacking         A  {Mir  of  rich  Uzzas,  also  by  Lewis,  of 

the  Hydra,  and  surrounded  by  its  nine  heads,  exquisite  designs  and  workmanship,  sold  fur 

vhich  bear  as  many  nosles  for  lights.  Hylas,  97s.  an  ounce.    In  one  of  them  the  sute  of 

the  companion  of  Hercules,  is  represented  mankind  was  represented  before  the  flood. 

In  the  act  of  searing  a  neck  of  the  monster  Mid  an  allusion  to  the  catastrophe  by  water, 

below.     Tlie  candelabrum  was  supported  on  In  fine  relief,  and  on  the  ouuide  mere — 

a  mats  of  rock-work,  about  the  base  of  Faith,   Hope,  and  Charity,  in  three  com- 

which  are  various  reptiles.     Weight  1,144  partmenu  with  trophies.    The  stem  of  vase 

Oit.  5  dwU.  and  the  sacrifice,  said  Mr.  Chris-  shape  supported  by  termini,  in  fine  cinque 

lie»  was  here    «  mdeed  ffreat."    There  is  cento  taste.     Figures  playing  upm  musical 

only  one  duplicate  of   tliis   in    England,  iustrumenu  and  trophies,  are  upon  the  foot. 

This  was  knocked  down  for  6s,  an  ounce.  The  other  cup  represenU  the  story  of  Lot 

A  grand    pnefericulumy   with  scalloped  and  his  daughters,  and  the  destruction  of 

ntck  and  lip,  supported  by  two  satyre  seated  Sodom  by  fire.    The  exterior  sum  and  foot 

upon  the  snoulder,  the  handle  formed  of  a  are  embellished    with    similar    omamenU. 

iatyr»  rescuing  two  mfimt  satyn  entwined,  The  weight  49  os.  1 0  dwU. 
fom  the  fol£  of  a  dragon.    The  oviform        The  silver  pUu,  especially  the  last  thraa 

body  of  the  vase  covered  with  a.  spirited  re-  days  of  the  auction,  fetched  a  high  price,  in 

Baf,  representing  one  of  the  battles  of  Alex-  niany  insunces  more  than  the  purchasen 

ndar.    A  griffin  sopporU  the  bowl  of  tht  vonid  have  been  required  to  give,  had  the/ 

W<B,  and  upon  the  scalloped  foot  the  artt*  atapped  in  to  any  respecuble  silvenmith't 

of  FVance  are  thriee  repeated.    This  noblo  ah^p  in  London.    This  circumstance  roaj 

piece  of  plate  is  93  inches  high  to  the  top  ba  attributed  to  a  desire  to  possess  tome- 

of the  handle;  the  weight  880  ozs.  ISdwU.  thmg  in  the  shape  of  a  memento,  to  be 

Thiawaa  Ukawita  made  byMr.  Ltwit,  and  haaosd  down   as    heir-loomt    in  fomiliet» 

.«M    purcfaMad    by   a    gentleman    named  vhtch  had  once  belonged  to  the  lUustriona 

Thomaty  at  wall  at  tha  eomnaaioa  pnefieri-  FHoca.    The  product  of  thu  tale  wat,  we 

mdam,  at  ISt.  9<t>  par  oz.  «ader<tand»   about  98,640/.      Another  of 

A  kige  lUvar-gilt  ditb,  for  tba  aida-boaidy '  JcveUaiy,  8cc.  it.  now  in  progratt. 


iS37J  t    WT    ]  .\ 

PROMOTIONS    AND    PHEFEllMENTS. 


Gazette  Promotioni. 

Adm.  Sir  Rob.  Stopford,  K.  C.  B.  G>in- 
naiKfer-in-Chief  at  Plymouth. 

ff^f-Officey  March  5.  1st  Reg.  of  Dra|^. 
Guards,  Lieut.- gen.  Sir  Hen.  Fane,  G.C.E. 
•4  th  Drag.  Guanls,  to  be  Col.  r/ce  Cart- 
wright,  dec. ;  4th  ditto,  Lieut.-gen.  Sir 
Geo.  Anson,  K.  C.  B.  to  be  Col.  vice  Fane  ; 
fiOth  ditto,  Dolce  of  Cambridge  to  be  Col.. 
in-Chie£-— Rifle  Rrig.  Major-geo.  Sir  Tho. 
Sidney  Beckwich,  K  C.B.  to  be  Col.-comm. 
of  a  J^tlallon,  vice  Stewart 

March  9.  Mr.  A.  Richert  to  be  PniAlaft 
Consul  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope ;  and 
J.  Hullett,  Consul-gen.  in  Great  Britain  fur 
Rio  de  la  Plata. 

March  12.  Sd  Drag.  Goards,  to  be  Ma- 
jors ;  Capt.  Cha.  Kearney,  and  Capt.  Tho. 
Boyd,  4  th  Drag.  Guards. — Colds.  Reg. 
Foot  Guards,  Lleut.'Col.  H.  Salwey,  to  be 
Capt.  and  Lieut.  coL — Ist  Reg.  Foot,  Capt. 
Joseph  Wetberal),  to  be  Major  ;  24 th  ditto. 
Major  Staodbh  O'Grady,  to  be  Major; 
S8th  ditto,  Major  Harris  Haile,  88th  toot, 
to  be  Major ;  41st  ditto,  Capt.  Cha.  Lucas 
Bell,  87th  Foot,  to  be  Major  ;  67th  ditto, 
Capt.  Arthur  Poyntz,  to  be  Major;  72d 
ditto,  Capt.  Cha.  Maxwell  Maclean,  to  be 
Major;  86th  ditto,  Capt.  W.  RichardsoU) 
to  be  Major ;  87th  ditto,  Major  P.  La- 
touche  Chambers)  41st  Foot,  to  be  Lieut.- 
coU  ;  88th  ditto,  Major  W.  Onslow,  28th 
Foot,  to  be  Major. — Garrisons  :  Lieut.-col. 
Debbieg,  5th  Garrison  Bat.  to  be  Fort 
Major  of  Dartmouth  — Brevet :  Brevet  Ma- 
jor £dw.  Kelly,  2dd  Light  Drag,  to  be 
Lieut. -col.  in  the  Army ;  John  Oke,  esq. 
Lieut.-col.  on  the  Continent  of  'Europe 
only. — Commissariat :  Dep.-Assist-Conim.- 
Gen.  J.  Banner  Price,  to  be  A.-Comm.-Gen. 

Office  of  Ordnance,  March  12. — Royal 
Art.y  Major-gen.  John  F.  S.  Smith,  and 
Major-gen.  n.  Shrapnell,  to  be  Col.- Com- 
mandants. 

March  16, — O.  J.  A.  P.  Meyrick,  esq.  of 
BMorgati,  to  be  Sheriff  of  the  county  of 
Anglesey,  vice  W.  Bulkeley,  esq. 

Ecclesiastical  Preferments. 
Rev  Rob.  Gray,  D.D.  Prebendary  of  Dur- 
ham, to  be  Bp.  of  Bristol. 
Rev.  Dr.  King,  Archd.  of  Rochester. 

BIR 

Feb,  2.  At  Hob's  Castle,  Rosburghshire, 
the    lady  of  Sir  William  Francis  Elliott, 

Bart,    a     son  and    heir. 11.     At    the 

Rectory,  Pangboume,  Berks,  the  wife  of 

the  Rev.  U.  Breedon,  a  dau 16.    In 

Chester6eld-st.  May-fair,  the  wife  of  Tho. 

Greene,  esq.  M.P.  a  son. 19.  At  Berne, 

the  wife  of  Cbas.  Heury  Hall,  esq.  Secretary 
of  Legation  to  the  Swiss  Confederation,  » 
4aa.  I  go.  The  wife  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Rowley,  Master  of  University  College*  Ox- 


Rev.  W.  Ainrrer,  Preb.  of  Chester  Cath. 
Rev.  C.  £.  Keene,  Wivel'iMiombe  Preb.  ii 
•  Wells  Cath. 

Rev.  C.  R.  Ashfield,  Blakenham  R.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  T.  Baker,  Bexhili  V.  with  RodmiU  R. 

Sussex. 
Rev.  U.  F.  Betuderk,  St.  Michafll's  V. 

St.  Albans,  co.  Herts. 
Rev.  R.  Burnaby,  Su  George  R.  Leicetter, 
Rev.  T.  Clafk,  Dallinghoe  R.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  C.  Cremer,  Ailmertou  with  RuntonR. 

Norf(>lk. 
Rev.  C.  Cremer,  Feibrigg  with  Melton  R. 

Norfolk. 
Rev.  H.  Dawson,  Hopton  R.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  J.  Edmeads,    St.  Mary  Crickdale  JC 

Wilts. 
Rev. Elliott,  to  the  New  Chapel  cl 

St.  Mary's,  Brighton. 
Rev.  P.  Glubb,  Clanuaborough  R.  Dcfon*  , 
Rev,  J.  Griffith,  Fulbourn  V.  Cambridge.  ^ 
Rev.  W.  A.  Hadow,  Hateley  R.  Warwu:k. 
Rev.  J.   Hallward,  Assington  V.   Suffoll^ 

with  Easthope  R.  Essex. 
Rev.  Dr.  Irwin,  Chatham  P.C.  Kent. 
Rev.  W.  J  ones t  Eastbridge  R.  Kent. 
Rev.  F.  V.  Lockwood,  IVfersham  R.  Keat.- 
Rev.  S.  Rowe,  Budeaux  P.  C.  Devon. 
Rev.  W.  Wallinger,  Hellingby  V.  Sussex. 
Rev.  Dr.  WellesUy*  Bishop  Wearmouth  R. 

Durham.  

Chaplains. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Seyuiour,  to  the  King. 
Rev.  J.  Harrison,  to  the  Duke  of  Sussex. 
Rex.  J.  Fletcher,  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick. 

Civil  Prefbrmkntb. 
Oxford. — Tiie  Rev.  Lewis  Sneyd,  M.A.  to 
be  Warden  of  All  Souls,  vice  Bp.  Legge^ 
dec. ;  Stephen  Peter  Rigaud,  esq.  M.  A. 
to  be  Savilian  Professor  uf  Astronomy, 
vice  Dr.  Robertson ,  dec. ;  Rev.  Baden 
Powell,  to  be  Savilian  Professor  of  Ge- 
ometry, vice  Rigaud. 

.  Members  returned  to  servi  in  Parliament . 
Cockermoulh, — Lawrence    Peel,    esq.    viee 

Wilson,  who  has  accepted   the  Cbiltem 

Hundreds. 
Reading, — Charles  Fysche  Palmer,  esq.  vim 

Spence. 
SalUuh, — Hon.  Barth.  Bouverie. 


THS. 

ford,  a  dau. 


■21. 


At  Morval,  Cornwall, 
the  wife  of  John  BuUer,  esq.  a  dau.-— —27. 
In  Hill-st.  Berkeley-sq.  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Geo. 

Phillips,  a  dau. 28.   At  Freefolk,  Wilts, 

the  wife  of  John  Portal,  esq.  a  son. 

Lately.  At  Biddestone  House,  Wilts,  tha 
wife  of  Henry  Marsh,  esq.  a  son.  At 
North  Huish  Parsonage,  the  wife  of  tha 
Rev.  Jas.  Arthur,  a  son  and  heir. 

March  9.  At  Wickham,  the  vile  of 
CB«o.  C-oUins   Poore,  m^.  H\|Jiv  ^s!^t&  tH 


MB  Birthi, — Uarriaget.  [March 

Huti,  *  ton  wd  hall. — r'-    At  Rathdm  At  CoIi«-khiR,  Out  wit*  of  W.  Haljat, 

Bill,  NonlumpkiiuUra,  th«  wifi  of  Tbo.  au.  t  diu. Id  Grcut  Foitlud-d.   tin 

W]UiuBi,   «q.   ■  Km. 7.     In   RiukI-  rite  of  Fmcii   Momu,   «q.  ■  t-a. 

p1«c,  PitiroT-H.  the  irire  of  Ci[>t.  J.  P.  IS.     In   Minchcitei-iq,   ihi    mtt    at  Dr. 

WiUnu,  uf  tha  H.  C,  S.  Hjihe,  ■  dau. Bright,  twina 16.     In  Upper  Berkclc;- 

9.    Ths  Klfe  of  tlic  Htv.  Dr.  GDodeBough,  it.  tha  wife  of  J.  lUjmaad  iUr^Lti,   nq.  ■ 

Weilminitcr  School,    ■   loa 10.     At  (Uu. 17.     At    AasXej    Miinui    Huiix, 

BitterD  GroK,  nur  SouCbimpton,  ths  Ud;  Wilu,  ihn  wife  of  WrDMorlh  Bi;lj,  «q.  ■ 

of  Mwior-sttt.  Alhvarth,  m  ion.- — —11.  At  too.—  .■■■At  LkngDedmore-pJaca,  Cardigta- 

LtbeckHDuae,Hati>tll>,ch«wifearD>Diel  ihtie,  th«   ladj  of  Mijnr  Vmughin,   Mth 

Fmlcjr,  Mq.  of   Mooutil,  ■  lOD. At  R«h'.  •  dm. 19.    At  Hciwiirtby,  Cora- 

LodiwDrtbt  Suun.  die   vita  of  the  Kcv.  wull,  the  vifa  of  Fnacii  GluiUla,  ]uD.  eiq. 

W.L.BMltT,  laoa. 14.   The  wife  of  ■•on. 

Dr.  Budley,  of  Atbioa-it.  HuJl,  •  ion. 

MARRIAGES. 

fa.  6.     At  iDgaldnwIla,  co.  Linr.  An-  -ick,  Geo.  Morgto,  eiq.  of  Clntenn  trr- 

gutoe  Booth,  eiq.  of  Frlalmsj,  tn  Mary  nee,  Regeat'i  Fuk,  to  Anoe,  lecon.t  diii. 

Auille<r,  youageitdau.  nf  the  lite  Rev.  Stm.  of  the  late  W.  Anderaoa,  Mo-of  Hlghmind- 

Tutridge,    vicu    at    EatKm. 16.     At  hill,  Middleiei. se.  AtTnttmlitm,  tha 

H*Dda<iDrth,$tiff.W.Mu:ni1chul,M,D.8lc.  Rev.  Ged.  Hodgaon  Thompaon,  tu  Geurgi- 

of  Half  Monn->t.  Picodillv,  u>  Mary  Jtne,  ua,  dau.  of  Wti..  HdUi.ii,  eaq.  .4  Mark- 

odIj  dan.  of  the  Rev.Tho.  Lane  Fieer,  Rec-  field,  Sumford-hill 17.  Rebeit  Stoin, 

tor  of  Handiworth, At  Hertford,    tha  uq.  of  Duncaattr,  to  Martha,  youogeatdau. 

llw.lUch.W«gtrAIIU,R«tororQr«tWar-  of  J.To«n»ai.d,  i.q.  of  Penton.ille, »7. 

ley,  Euei,  to  Jaaa,  relict  of  the  late  Rev.  At  LAytoa,  E»ei,  Tho.  MaiiermaD,  eaq. 

Geo.  White,  LL.B. At  Dublin,  Cape.  ofNtw  Broad  at.  to  Helen,  youngeat  dan. 

Bloit,  R.N.  aecond  aon  of  Sir  Chai.  BInia,  of  the  tele  Ctilnet  Prlauli,  eiq.  uf  Beau- 
Bart,  of  Cockfield  Hall,  Suin>tli,  to  Eliia  liiu,  Guerniey. At  Didbruflk,.o.Ulou(.-. 

Knoi,  atdeat  dau.  of  the  Rev.  John  Barrett,  the  Rev.   DuDcombe  Stmit  Perkiat,  eideat 

Ractoi  of  Inniakeel.  eo.  Donegal. At  aon  nf  Shirley  Farmer  Steel  Perliina,  «iq. 

Charlton    Kinf^,     co.    Glouceiter,     John  of  Sutton    ColdGeld.    Warwick,   to   Ann, 

Samael,  only  100  of  the  late  Ailm.  Gravea,  eldeit  dau.  nf  Jotiah  Glat,  eiq.  orWiitminc- 

to  Maria,  aecond   unmanied  iltu._and  on  ton  Giange. Major  R.  Carlile  PotlucS, 

theHd,  at  Broadway  Church,  near  Middle-  SOth  Light  Inf.   to  Marj:.   A.    Sheddui, 

hill,  Worceicenhire,  Wm.    Nelson  Clark,  youi^ett  dau.  of  the  late  Mra.  Slicridon,  of 

atq.  of  Ardiogton  Houat,  Berk),  lu  Cath.  Percy-at.   Bedford-aq. At  St.  GriTgc'a, 

eldeit  uomarried  dau.  of  Lieut.-Uen.  Moly-  t1anovar-tq.  the  Rev.  Henry  Gunning,  it- 

neui. 19.  Mr.  JuhnCampbell.ofDerra-  tond  urn  of  the  late  Sir  Geo.  Gunning,  baft. 

leek, near Eiini(Vitlen,B»diiearly  BO,cl»ta  to  Mary  Cath.  das.  of  W.  R.  Carttright, 

day*  after  the  death  of  hl>  Rinner  vife,  vith  «(q.  M.  P. John  Taylor,  eiq.  of  Ofa- 

vhom  be  had  liied  60  year*,  to  Mi»  Mary  Dover,  toFraocei  Larkina,  dau.  ofloieTho. 

Maguire,  *^  IS. At  Miitley,  £»n,  Mather,  eaq.  of  Green-it.  Groiienor-aq. 

Lewit  Agaaiii,  eiq.  of  Sinur  Lodge,  Brwl-  Lalrly.     At  Rihtun,  York,  Nicholat  La 

Gald,  CO.  York,  to  Sarah  Eliza,  aecond  dau.  Qen<lre  Statkie,  esq.  M.  P.  of  Hunimyd, 

of  Tlio.  Nuon,  jun.  eiq. Capt,  John-  near  Paddihan,  to  Miai  Chamberlain,  etdaat 

atone,  Upper  Wimpote-at.  to  Uura,  eideat  dau.  of  Abraham  Chamberlain,  esq. 

dui.  of  H.  Rowlei,  eaq.  Stratlon-el. aO.  Marc*  1 .    At  St,  Mary'i,  UrTaDntanetq. 

At  St.  Oeorge-a,  Hanover-.q.   A.  W.  Call-  W,  Slrmlfurd  Dugdale.  only  aon  of  Duedai 

coU,  eeq.  R.  A.  to  Mra.  Graham. «0.  Stratford  Dugdale, eiq.  M.  P,  to  Ha.rie I ElU, 

Edw,  Doubleday,   eaq.  of  Great  Surrey-at,  youngeat  dau.  of  the  late,  and  aiiter  to  th« 

to  Anna,  eideat  dau.  of  W.  Careleia,  uq.  preaent  Edw.  Berkeley  Fortroao,  eaq.  M.  P. 

. g«.     At  Malta,  Lieut.  G.  St.  Vincent  ^Tl,f  Rev.  J.  NoUeColemwirto  M»r- 

Whilinore,  R.  E.  etdnt  aon  of  G.  Whit-  garotta  Elennora  Manila,  youngeit  dio.  of  j 

more.  eaq.  uf  Lower  Slaughter,  GInucnur-  the  late  Rev.  Daniel  Evdod   "     -        "■         ' 

sbire.  Col.  in  lanie  corpi,  to  laabella  Max-  temach,  co.   oF  Pembruki 

well,  eideat  dau.  of  Sir  J.  Stoddart,  Piai-  anpton,  the  Rev.  C.  !».   . 

dent  of  the  High   Coart  of  Appeal,   and  Bav.  T.  T.  Lee,  ofTI 

Juibe  of  the  Vice  Adm.  Court,  Malta. to  Harrietie,  eldeit  d 

Edm.  White,  eaq.  of  the  War  OS«,  to  >a.   At  St    J. 

Sarah, youngeatdau.orjaboRobertPaikcr,  Heaketb  Uthb  " 

eaq.   uf  Upper  Harleyat. At  Clielteo-  Tho.  Buckler  ■ 

bani,  Capt.  Wm.  H.  Foy,  E.  I.  C.  to  Maiy,  F*rk,  Sumcrti 

eideat  dau.ofCol.W.A.S.Boica«n. dau..'"" 

S6.     Joieuh  Hanne,  etq.  of  Haddon,  Jv-  Hou* 

naioa,  to  Frucaa  Jane,  dau.  of  Wm.  Car-  C.B. 

Ut,  nq.  of  Mlllhcpoli. 14.    At  Wat-  Hopkina.; 


[    M»    ] 

OBITUARY. 


Earl  of  Onilow. 

Frb  S3.  At  liik  mux,  CUiidon,  near 
Guildluri^,  niter  onlj'  a  (cut  lityt  coiifiiie* 
mt«t.  KEctl  7.1,  ibe  K.glii  Hon.  Thuiiiat 
Ootluo.  >t:cuii<l  Earl  uf  OoUuw,  Vii- 
L'ounl  C'lai.iFy,  Slid  B^roii  Craiiley  uf 
Imbtrcuuri,  tifih  Batun  Ouiluw  vf  Ou- 


l   CU« 


and  M 


jiih 


BaruiK^li    ai>a   On 
GnM  Pirk. 

Hit  Lvrdthip  WM  burn  March  la, 
1754,  lUe  eldest  tun  of  G-iircp,  li»I  una 
Inle  [uirl of  Ontluw,  by  Hviirirlla.ildrtt 
dAUKliiFr  ol  Sir  Jiiliii  hliulley,  fxurlb 
Banquet  uf  Mamtirld  Park,  Su'icx,  and 
aoiii  uf  ihu  |ir<'i<-i.i  Sir  Juhii  Sliilliy. 
DuriMR 


liiireiiof  Frnlrir-HritihAr.lt  Frankhndf 
etq.  (•....  uf  Sir  Thumut  Frank U.iil, 
■cciiiid  Baruiiai  i>r  Tliirkriby,  na.  Yurk). 
Hewiit  11  firit  iiiiciidid  fur  the  Aroiy, 
aiidfura  ihorl  lime  littd  h  cumiDitiioD 
iti  thv  guard],  but  artecKardi  deiermitied 
fur  the  Cburch,  and  luok  Ihe  irftre  at 
B.A.  a>  ut  CUrc-ball,  CambridKe,  in 
ITtlT.  He  livcame  ■  Catmii  Keiii]«iiiiarj 
u[  Lliichctlcr  III  ITUO,  being  preieiiird  to 
IheprcbeiiilurMldUlciuii  In  tbat  cliurrb 
by  tile  thiMi  1U>W)>,  Air  VVin.A>bhurn- 


r»|;e..l  Bcxlnll,  i 


iniiy 


Tbe   Eirl   oat 


burunsli  i>l  (iu]llur.l  i.>  fui 
>,  Iruni  1784  li.  IHOS.  l\ 
lied  Out-Kaiig^r  ul  Wind*. 
1793.  aiid  lun-eedi'd  b 
May  IT. 


Oil  I 


ll  Dei'. 


1793.  I 


l^c.  BO,  I 


7G,  111  Aralx 


Irdi  Km 


ried  M^ry,  tbini  dau^bler  of  ilie  Rev. 
Sir  Hkb-r,l  U).tuli,  l).U.  iir>[  Harui.et 
uf  F:iiiilMin    in  »urrry,  and  litttr  tu  Iha 

prF»i.tSirNel><,iiKycrult. 

■    ■       of  Dr, 


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f  Her 


if  Eal.ni 


Ellrrker,  uf  lli.by  P.irk,  Y.,rk>hin>, . 
By  ihi.  Udy  be  bad  i»<ie,  three  •<ini  i 
u»ed.iu^hirr:  .AnhnrGvurKe,  n.iw  li 
uf  Oiiiluo  i  Tbuiuai  l:raiiley,  «liu  * 
ceeded  hii  lather  «.  M.I'.  I.ir  (luildlord 
.    Mai'.*»i< 


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tUiiHbeili-H..r 
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i-Cbarlutte. 

by  the  dealb  uf  Ur.  Builer,  ibe  Ilun. 
Geu.  Pelliaiu  wai  cuiiaecraird  Bithup  uf 
Britiul,  and  received  ibcdexreeuFnCL. 
fri'Di  the  Ar.'bbialiup  uf  CHiilerbury.  In 
11104  he  ixiblUlied  (ba  Charge  delivered 
HI  bia  primary  >i>ilalion  (revieonl  In 
vul  LXXiv.  p.  11-11]  J  aiiditi  leUS,  aSer- 
niiin  preached  In  5i.  Paul'*  at  llie  yearly 
meeting  uf  ibe  Chiii'v  Schuuli  (review- 
ed iiivul.  UIXVI.  p.44b';. 

In  ld07,  un  tile  Iranilalion  uf  Dr. 
Fiaber  lu  ilic  See  ul  Saliabury,  vacant  by 
the  deaib  of  Ur.  Duuglia,  Dr.  PelhMt 
lucceeded  him  at  Exeter  )  and  in  laSO, 
un  lUe  remuval  uf  Ur.  Tumline  to  Iba 
Se«  uf  Winclietier,  vacant  by  Ibe  death  . 
uf  Dr.  Nurib,  the  lubject  uf  uar  meoMrir 
wai  pruiDuled  tit  Lideulii, 


a.  Peumm,  Bishop  or  Lincoln. 
Ftb.1.     At  hit   ho.xe   in   CunnauiEbl- 
k.  place,  aged  GO,  ll.e  Hi>n.  and  Kiiibi  IU< 
Pelhani,    D.C.L.    L  "  " 


'kof  til 
r  of    Kiiig-i  C..1I"K«.  ^> 
pnJ  of  Br.u'no^e  and  Liii''<iln 
TtSird,    and     Pr«- 
|C»nleiburj  ;  uncli 


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Obituary. — B'ukop$  #/  Rochenter  and  Oxford,        [March, 


tbe  first  of  them  leated  nt  that  place  ii 
■aid  to  have  come  out  of  Westmoreland » 
and  to  have  garrisoned  the  church  of 
Kirkby  Malbamdale  for  tbe  Parliament, 
temp.  Car.  1.  Tbe  father  of  tbe  Bi&hop 
was  tlie  Rev.  James  King,  S.T.P.  Chap- 
lain to  tbe  House  of  Commons,  minister 
•f  Cliiberoe  and  Dowi.ham  in  Lanca- 
shire, Vicar  o'  Guildford  in  Surrey,  Canoa 
•f  Windsor  1773,  Dean  of  Raphoe  1775, 
and  who  died  in  1795.  His  mother 
wa«  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  uf  John 
Wa!ker,  of  Hungerbill,  esq.  and  from 
this  family,  from  whom  his  Lordship 
rei'eived  bis  name,  be  was  doubly 
descended,  tbe  motlter  of  his  paternal 
^andmutber  being  also  a  Walker  of 
Hungerbill.  Tbe  Bishop  was  born  at 
Clitheroe,  tbe  third  of  five,  sons,  all 
eminent  in  their  professions.  The  eldest, 
Thomas  Kin?,  D.l).  was  Prebendary  uf 
Canierhury,  Chancellor  of  the  Church 
of  Lincoln,  Rector  of  Blaydoii,  (to  which 
Woodstock  is  a  chapelry),  and  died  in 
1801.  Tbe  second,  James  King,  LL.D. 
F.R.S.  was  the  celebrated  companion  of 
Capt.  Cook,  (he  compiler  of  tbe  last 
volume  of  his  voyage,  and  died  at  Nice, 
in  1784.  Edwani  King,  esq.  the  fourth, 
was  Vice-chancellor  of,  the  Duchy  of 
Lsncaster ;  atid  John  King,  esq.  tbe 
yi»ungeKt,  was  Uiider-secreiary  of  State 
un<Jer  the  administratiim  of  Lord  Gren- 
ville,  the  Duke  of  Portland,  and  Lord 
Pelliam. 

The  Bishop  was  first  admitted  of  Bra- 
senose  College,  Oxford,  but  afterward 
became  a  student  of  Christ-church,  and 
proceeded  IM.A.  1775,  B.  and  D.D.  1788. 
He  was  Private  Secretary  to  the  Mar- 
quess of  Rockingham,  when  Prime 
Minister,  and  was  the  confidential  friend 
and  one  of  (he  executors  of  tbe  celebrated 
Burke.  He  was  for  several  years  preacher 
to  Gray's  Inn,  and  published  in  8vo, 
1793,  two  Sermons  delivered  before  that 
Hon.  Society.  He  became  a  Canon  Resi- 
dentiary of  Well&in  1796,  being  present- 
ed by  Bishop  Moss  (o  tbe  prebend  of 
Wivelscombe  in  that  Cathedral  y  and  in 
1803  be  was  appointed  by  the  Crown,  a 
Prebendary  of  Canterbury.  In  1808  be 
was  elevated  to  the  See  of  Rochester,  on 
the  translation  of  Dr.  Dampier  to  (bat 
of  Ely,  then  vacant  by  the  death  of  tbe 
Hon.  Dr.  Yorke. 

His  Lordship  was  a  man  of  a  remark- 
ably liberal,  warm,  and  amiable  disposi- 
tion, and  possessed  very  highly  cultivated 
talents.  He  bad  tbe  inisfurtune  of  being 
blind,  or  nearly  so^  for  some  years  previ- 
ous to  bi9  death.  He  lived  just  long 
enough  to  appoint  his  son,  the  Rev. 
Walker  King,  of  Oriel  College,  Oxford, 
MJL  to  succeed  Dr.  Ltw,  a^  Archdeacon 
of  Rochester,  after  that  gentleman  bad 


held   tbe   office  for   no   lest   than  sixty 
yean. 

Dr.  Legoe,  Bishop  of  Oxford. 

Jan,  27.  At  his  lodge.  All  Suuls'  Col- 
lege, Oxford,  in  hi»:  60ih  year,  the  Hon. 
and  Right  Rev.  Edward  Lpgg»>,  D.C  L. 
Lord  Bishop  of  Oxford,  Warden  of  All 
Souls,  Vicar  of  Lewishatn,  Kent,  and  a 
Director  of  Greenwiib  Hospital;  ui.cle 
to  the  Earl  of  Dartmouth. 

This  pious,  learned,  and  exemplary 
prelate,  was  born  Dec.  4,  1767,  tlu» 
seventh  son  of  William,  second  Earl  of 
Dartmouth,  by  Frances-Catherine,  sol*^ 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Charles-Gunter 
Nicholl,  K.  B.  He  was  educate*!  at 
l^i'frby,  and  from  thence  became  a  mem- 
ber of  Christ  Church,  Oxford.  He  whs 
elected  to  a  Fellowship  in  All  Souls  in 
1789,  and  proceeded  B.C.L.  I79I,  D.C.L. 
as  a  grand  compounder,  1805.  He  was 
presented  by  his  father  to  the  family 
living  of  Lewisham  in  1797,  and  made 
a  Prebendary  of  Canterbury  in  1800; 
was  appointed  in  1805  to  the  Deanery 
of  Windsor,  then  resigned  by  Dr.  Man- 
ners Sutton  on  his  removal  trom  the  Stu 
of  Norwich  to  that  of  Canterbury  ;  and, 
resigning  the  Deanery  of  Windsor,  was 
advanced  to  the  Bishoprick  of  Oxford  in 
1316,  on  the  death  of  Dr.  Jackson.  In 
1817,  on  the  de(*ease  of  Dr.  l<bam,  he 
was  elected  Warden  of  All  Souls  :  and 
from  that  period  he  chiefly  resided  at 
Oxford. 

His  Lordship's  disordei^  was  pulmo- 
nary consumption,  which  Las  proved 
fatal  to  many  of  his  family. 

Bishop  Plunkett. 

Some  sensation  has  been  created  in 
the  Roman  Catholic  circles  in  Dublin,  by 
tbe  death  of  the  venerable  Dr.  Plunkett, 
titular  Bishop  of  Me^tb,  in  his  89tb 
year. 

Dr.  Plunkett  was  born  at  Kelso,  co. 
Meath,  Dec.  S4,  1738,  and  received  an 
excellent  education  in  the  celebrated 
college  of  Trente  trois,  founded  by  tbe 
Duke  of  Orleans.  Having  been  ordained 
to  the  priesthood,  he  obtained  a  profes- 
sorship in  the  Irish  community,  and  the» 
place  of  chief  almoner  in  one  of  the 
first  families  in  France.  He  subsequent- 
ly took  tbe  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity, 
became  an  associate  of  the  illustrioua 
and  royal  Navarre,  and  one  of  tbe  four 
provincial  superiors  of  the  Irish  college, 
called  tbe  Liimbard.  After  twenty-six 
years  absence,  he  returned  to  [relaufl, 
and  in  1778.'  succeeded  Dr.  Cheevers  in 
tbe  Papal  Bishoprick  of  Meath,  bis  first 
visitation  being  at  the  close  of  that  year » 
a  duty  which  for  forty-eight  years  be 
anitusUly  performed  with   tbe  zeal  and 


•19^*1  OBiTUAKT.<*^£.ofd  JDNf/itf:— *>Oca.  Ckrtmright,  4rc. 


sri 


•ptrit  of  a  priroitire  bishop.  Bein|f  A 
lealtnat  patron  of  tUe  domeftic  education 
of  the  Irish  clergy,  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  deliberations  of  the  Catbulic 
prelates  in  1794,  bavinf^  for  their  object 
the  establishment  of  Maynootb ;  being 
iiamed  one  of  the  original  trustees,  be 
was  present  with  the  late  Papal  primate 
and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Tri)y,  when  liis  Excel- 
lency Lord  Camden,  laid  the  foundation 
of  that  college  in  1796.  His  gruwing 
infirmities  compelled  him  to  resign  the 
trust  in  1825. 

Fur  very  nearly  half  a  century  be  pre- 
sided over  one  of  the  largest  Bisboprirks 
in  Ireland,  and  had  the  reputation, 
amongst  all  parties,  of  uniting  as  many 
4>f  the  qualities  of  the  CUrintian  pastor 
as  were  ever  concentrated  in  one  person. 


Lord  Duffus. 

%/an»  30.  At  bis  house  in  Harley- 
strect,  aged  80,  the  Right  Hon.  James 
Sutherland,  Baruu  Duflfus,  who  was  re- 
stored to  that  title  by  Act  of  Parliament 
which  received  the  royal  assent  May  S6, 
18S6. 

He  was  the  eldest  and  only  surviving 
son  of  Eric  Sutherland,  esq.  (son  of 
Kenneth  the  third  Barcn,  who  was  at- 
tainted in  1715)»  by  his  first  ctnisin 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Dun- 
bar, of  Hempriggs,  Bart.  The  family 
are  descended  from  Nicholas,  second  son 
of  Kenneth,  third  Earl  of  Sutherland, 
who  was  slain  at  Halidon  Hill,  in  1333, 
and  from  whom,  Alexander,  created  Lord 
Duffus  by  Charlfcs  the  First  in  1650, 
was  tenth,  and  the  Peer  now  deceased, 
fourteenth  in  lineal  descent. 

His  Lordship  was  formerly  in  the 
army.  No  one  ever  knew  him  without 
being  struck  with  the  uncommon  vigour 
of  his  intellect,  and  impressed  with  the 
fervent  kindness  of  his  heart.  Having 
never  married,  he  is  succeeded  in  bis 
title  by  bis  cousin  Sir  Benjamin  Dunbar, 
of  Hempriggs,  Baronet,  whosA  grand- 
father, the  Hon.  James  Sutherland, 
second  son  of  James,  second  Lord  Duflfus, 
assumed  thf  name  and  arms  «f  Dunbar, 
after  marriage  with  Elizabeth,  only  child 
and  heiress  of  Sir  William  Dunbar  of 
that  place. 

The  remains  of  Lord  Duffus  were  in- 
terred in  Marylebone  Church,  on  the 
7tb  of  February. 

General  Cartwright. 
Feb.  9.    At  his  house  in  Nottingham- 
place,  aged  73,  General  William  Cart- 
wright,  Colonel  of  the  first  or  King's 
-Dragoon  Guards. 

•    Tbit    officer    was    appointed    to    R 
Cornetcy  in  the  10th  drjigoooi»  Feb.  89» 


1769 ;  to  a  LtROtenancy,  March  S4, 
1775  {  Captain-lieutenant  in  the  Klng't 
own  dragoons,  Juna  S99  1779$  Major, 
May  10,  1786;  Lieot.-Colonel,  Dec.  4^ 
1793.  He  was  appointed  Aide-de-eaoip 
to  the  King,  and  received  the  brevet  of 
Colonel,  Dec  15,  1796;  and  in  1799  ba 
bad  the  command  of  a  brigade  of  cavalry 
under  orders  for  foreign  service.  He 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Miyoi^ 
General,  April  S9»  1803,  and  be  was  eooh 
ployed  on  the  staff  in  England  from  May 
S5  that  year,  to  MRy'9»  1808,  first  la 
the  inspection  of  cavalry  regimentf, 
chiefly  in  the  Western  district,  previoui^ 
ly  to  a  reduction  in  their  establishment ; 
afterward  in  the  command  of  the  cavaliy 
and  other  corps  on  the  coast  of  Kent  ( 
subsequently  in  command  of  the  cavaliy 
in  the  home  district ;  and  lastly  in  com* 
mand  of  a  brigade  of  cavalry  in  Kenl^ 
destined  for  foreign  service. 

On  Dec.  13, 1804,MMJor-GeneralCafe- 
wright  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Sild 
Light  Dragoons,  from  whence  he  wife 
removed  to  the  3d  or  King's  own,  Nov. 
18,  I8O7.  He  obtained  the  brevet  of 
Lieut. -general  April  25,  1808,  and  that 
of  General,  August  IS,  I819.  He  WRt 
a  member  of  the  Consolidated  Board  of 
General  Officers. 


Count  G  V.  Orlov. 

t/u/y  9.  Aged  47,  Count  Gregory* 
Vladimirovich  Orlov,  an  eminent  Rus- 
sian nobleman,  distinguished  for  his 
attachment  to  literature,  and  the  patron* 
age  he  extended  to  it. 

Having  been  obliged,  in  consequence 
of  the  delicate  state  of  his  health,  to 
exchange  his  native  climate  fur  a  milder 
one,  he  resided  several  years  in  Italy, 
during  which  period  he  composed  '<  M4- 
moires  Historiques,  Folitiques,  et  LittA* 
raires,  surle  Royaume  de  Naples,  18301** 
a  work  comprehending  the  entire  histoiy 
of  Lower  Italy,  and  marked  both  by  iti 
liberal  and  independent  tone,  and  ibe 
historical  research  it  displays.  This  was 
succeeded,  in  183S,  by  his  **  Histoire  des 
Arts  en  Italic,"  of  which  the  two  first 
volumes  relate  to  music  ;  the  two  others 
to  painting.  He  likewise  published  an 
account  of  his  travels  through  part  of 
France,  3  vols.  18S3  ;  and  it  is  to  him 
that  the  literary  world  is  indebted  for  R 
translation  into  French  and  Italian  of 
Krilov's  Fables,  which  was  conducted 
under  his  auspices.  Shortly  before  bit 
iieath,  he  bad  commenced  a  Freneb 
translation  of  Karamsin*s  History  of 
Russia,— a  labour  of  no  ordinary  magnt^ 
tude,  and  one  which,  if  accomplished, 
would  have  been  the  means  of  cooi^ 
-iBunieating  to  the  rest  of  Europe  that 
noble  monument  of  Russian  li^«t«x»X!Sc« 


tw 


OBiTUAET.-^Jfoiie  Brun, 


[March, 


Maltb  Brum. 

JDte.  14.  At  Paris,  n^d  51,  Conrad- 
Malie  Brunt  the  celebrated  f^eof^rapher, 
and  one  of  the  editor!  of  the  Journal 
det  Debats. 

He  was  born  in  1775,  in  the  peniniula 
of  JutUnd,  in  the  kingdom  of  Denmark. 
Hit  father's  family  was  one  of  the  first 
in  that  province;  and  pos^essin^  the 
nomination  tu  sererAl  t^enefices  in  the 
Lutheran  Churchi  he  sent  his  son  to  the 
Univeriity  of  Copenhagen,  to  study 
theolof;y,  and  take  his  degrees.  The 
latter  suffered  his  taste  in  the  belles 
letlres  to  supersede  theological  pursuits; 
and  at  C(>penh;«gen  he  published  a 
▼olume  of  puems,  and  undertook  the 
management  of  a  Theatrical  Review. 
At  the  University,  however,  he  acquired 
that  lofty  power  of  reasoning  which  he 
was  enabled  afterwards  to  apply  with  so 
much  success  on  various  subjects.  His 
father  was  of  the  aristocratic  party 
which  called  fur  a  war  with  France  ;  but 
be  espoused  the  cause  of  freedom,  and 
wrote  in  favour  of  the  enfranchisement 
of  the  serfs,  and  the  liberty  nf  fhe  press, 
opinions  not  discordant  from  those  of  the 
minister  Count  de  Bernstoff;  and,  a 
party  having  arisen  which  demanded  the 
establishment  of  a  free  constitution,  he 
became  one  of  its  most  active  members. 
In  1796,  he  published  the  Catechism  of 
the  Aristocrats,  a  biting  satire  against 
feudality  and  the  coalition  of  soverigus. 
Menaced  with  a  prosecution,  he  took 
refuge  in  Sweden;  and  while  there,  he 
published  a  volume  of  poems  which 
acquired  for  him  the  encouragement  and 
approbation  of  the  Academy  of  Stock- 
holm. 

When  Count  Bernstoff  was  on  his 
death -bed,  he  recommended  to  the 
,  Prince  Royal  to  recal  Malte  Brun,  and 
employ  him  in  some  diplomatic  capacity. 
Accordingly,  in  1797>  he  returned  to 
Denmark,  and  was  favourably  received  ; 
but,  having  publicly  attacked  cert:iin 
ministerial  measures,  he  was  again  under 
the  necessity  of  seeking  an  asylum  in 
Sweden.  Soon  after  he  removed  to 
Hamburgh ;  and  it  is  said  to  have  been 
about  this  time  that  he  became  either 
the  founder^  or  one  of  the  most  active 
members  of  a  secret  society,  called  the 
United  Scandinavians,  the  object  of 
which  was  to  unite  the  three  kingdoms 
of  the  North  into  one  federative  repub- 
lie.  This  project  excited  so  much 
alarm,  that  Paul  of  Russia,  and  Gusta- 
vus  of  Sweden,  demanded  from  the 
Danish  Government,  the  punishment  of 
its  authors.  In  consequence,  a  prosecu- 
tion was  commenced  against  Kf  alte  Brun , 
who  was  then  in  Paris,  and  he  was  sen- 
lenced  to  banishment.     He  settled  in 


Paris  in  1799,  detroting  himself  to  lite- 
rary employment.  In  conjunction  with 
Mentelle,  be  published,  between  1804 
and  1807,  "Political,  Physical,  and 
Mathematical  Geography,*'  in  sixteen 
volumes,  8vo.  On  the  reputation  obtain- 
ed by  that  work,  the  propritsturs  of  the 
Journal  des  Debats  requested  him  to 
join  in  the  editorship  of  that  paper.  He 
accepted  the  invitation;  and  excepting 
fur  one  brief  interval,  he  devoted  liim^ 
self  to  that  laborious  duty  to  the  very 
day  of  his  death.  Only  one  hour  before 
he  expired,  he  traced  a  few  lines  for  the 
Journal,  but  had  nut  strength  tu  finish 
them. 

M.  Malte  Brun  was  acquainted  with 
all  the  languages  of  Europe ;  he  wrote 
.French  with  the  facility  of  a  native; 
he  had  a  thorough  understanding  nf  the 
character  of  all  the  European  cabinets  ; 
and  the  correctness  of  his  memory,  the 
soundness  of  hi)  judgment,  and  the 
order  which  he  introduced  into  the  mass 
of  his  previou«;ly  acquired  knowledge, 
maile  it  easy  for  him  to  analyse  the  most 
complicated  subjects. 

In  1807  appeared  his  ** Picture  of 
Ancient  and  Modern  Pidaiid  ;  "  and  in 
1808,  he  commenced  a  periodical  work 
which  is  still  continued,  under  the  title 
of  Annals  of  Voyages  and  Traveh,  and 
of  Geography  and  History.  It  is  a  faith- 
ful  and  learned  analysis  of  all  the  voy- 
ages and  travels,  and  of  all  the  discove- 
ries in  modern  times.  In  (814  and  1815, 
he  produced  another  periodical,  called 
the  Spectator,  which  was  completed  in 
three  volumes.  Of  his  great  work,  his 
Summary  of  Universal  Geography,  six 
volumes  have  "Appeared  ;  and  the  print- 
ing of  the  seventh  and  last  volume  is 
nearly  finished.  During  the  Hundred 
Days,  he  had  the  boldness  to  publish 
"  Apology  for  Louis  the  XVIII ; "  and  in 
18S5,  appeared  his  Treatise  on  Legiti- 
macy, in  which  the  same  sentiments  are 
more  fully  developed. 

Lastly,  as  if  so  many  works  were  not 
sufficient  to  satisfy  the  passion  fur  study 
and  knowledge  which  consumed  him, 
M.  Malte  Brun  charged  himself,  during 
the  last  few  months  preceding  his  de- 
cease, with  the  drawing  up  of  a  Diction- 
ary of  Universal  Geography,  in  one 
volume,  which  is  in  part  printed.  His 
labours  were  too  great  for  his  strength  ; 
and  his  physical  energies  were  rapidly 
giving  way.  An  interval  of  repose  might 
have  restored  him,  but  he  neglected  the 
counsels  of  friendship ;  and  the  fatal 
crisis  speedily  arrived.  For.  three  days 
only  he  kept  his  room  ;  but  even  then 
be  felt  an  anxiety  to  render  himself  use- 
ful, and  only  death  could  snatch  the  pen 
from  bis  fingers. 


IS97.1 


Obituary.— ^ro/eMor  Bcde.'^J.  flaxman,  Etq, 


fTS 


'  ACMalte  Bran  wm  of  very  loeial 
babiti,  and  during^  the  winter  had  a- 
reguiar  weekly  dinner  of  the  literati  of 
eminence  of  every  cguntry.  He  was 
extremely  obliging^i  and  had  an  excellent 
heart  :  it  was  only  when  he  took  the 
pen  in  his  hand  that  he  was  really 
miehantf  fur  then  be  neither  spared 
friend  nor  foe,  which  made  him  many 
enemies. 

On  the  17th  of  December,  his  remaini 
were  interred  in  the  Cemetery  of  the 
West,  where  M.  Eyries  paid  the  tribute 
of  his  esteem  and  reg^ret  to  his  colleague, 
and  M.  de  la  Renaudiere  bade  a  last 
adieu  to  the  man  who  had  preceded  him 
in  his  office.  In  the  church  Rue  de 
Billettes,  a  funeral  oration  was  pro- 
nouneed  by  M.-  Buissand  the  Lutheran 
minister.  M.  Malte  Brun  has  left  a 
widow  and  two  sons. 

Professor  Bode. 

Lately.  At  Berlin,  in  his  80th  year, 
John  Elert  Bode,  Royal  Professor  of 
Astronomy  at  the  Academy  of  that  city. 

He  was  a  native  of  Hamburgh,  and 
early  displayed  a  love  of  the  mathemati- 
cal sciences.  The  eclipse  of  1766  first 
gave  an  opportunity  of  manifesting  his 
astronomical  knowledge,  and  be  was 
only  twenty-five  when  Tie  was  appointed 
in  1772  to  his  professorship  at  Berlin,  a 
post  he  held  for  fifty-four  years.  He 
soon  became  a  correspondent  of  all  the 
most  celebrated  aistronomers  ;  and  be 
published  numerous  works  of  accuracy 
and  value.  Among  the  principal  of  them 
are<  an  **  Introduction  to  the  knowledge 
of  the  Starry  Heavens  :  "  "  Elements  of 
the  Astronomical  Sciences;"  and  an 
*'  Atlas  Coelestis,"  in  twenty  sheets, 
contjuning  17,340  stars,  and  12,000  more 
than  had  been  previously  laid  down. 
Amongst  the  great  men  with  whom 
Bode  was  closely  connected,  was  Sal- 
lande,  who  is  s:iid  to  have  entertained  a 
higher  opinion  of  him  than  of  any  other 
of  his  competitors  in  the  same  science. 
The  Professor  was  found  dead  at  his  desk. 

John  Flaxman,  Esq.  P.S.R.  A. 

Dec,  3.  At  his  house,  7>  Bucking- 
ham-street, Fitzroy-square,  aged  71> 
John  Flaxnian,  esq.  R.  A.  Processor  of 
Sculpture  to  the  Royal  Academy ;  and 
Member  of  the  Academics  of  Ruoie^ 
Florence,  and  Carrara. 

This  eminent  sculptor  was  born  at 
York,  July  6,  1 755.  His  father,  of  the 
aaroe  name  and  profession,  was  for  many 
years  employed  by  Roubilliac  and  Schee- 
maker;  and  also  kept  a  lar»e  shop 
in  the  Strand,  for  the  sale  of  plaster 
figures,  which  was  not  then  so  hacki»ey* 
Gent.  Mao.  March,  18^7. 


ed  a  trade,  as  it  has  now  become,  iy 
the  large  importation  of  Italians. 

The  mind  of  the  son,  who  was  an  ex- 
cellent Greek  and  Latin  scholar,  seems  to 
have  been  early  imbued  with  that  classie 
feeling  and  taste  which  it  is  essential  an: 
historical  seulptor  should  possess,  and  in 
which  his  industry  subsequently  made 
him  pre-eminent.  He  was  admitted  a 
student  of  the  Royal  Academy  in  UTa 
In  1782,  he  married  Miss  Anne  DenoMOy 
of  a  respectable  family  in  London,  not 
only  an  amiable,  but  'a  highly  accom- 
plished female,  to  whom  he  was  greatly 
indebted,  when  designing  from  the  Greek 
authors,  for  pointing  out  beauties  which 
might  have  escaped  him,  and  which  told 
in  his  productions  with  admirable  effect. 

In  17879  Mr.  Flaxman  went  to  Italy, 
where  he  pursued  his  studies  for  seven 
years.  While  resident  in  Rome,  he  was 
engaged  by  the  late  Earl  of  Bristol  to 
execute  in  marble,  his  magnificent  group 
representing  the  Fury  of  Athamas,  from 
Ovid's  Metamorphoses,  consisting  of  four 
figures  above  the  natural  size.  For  tbii 
he  received  600/.,  a  sum  which  proved  far 
from  sufficient  to  cover  the  actual  cost, 
and  Flaxman,  in  all  but  reputation,  was 
a  considerable  loser  by  the  commission. 
The  group  is  preserved  at  Ickworth,  the 
seat  qf  the  Earl  of  Bristol  in  Suffolk. 

About  the  same  time  he  made,  for  Mr. 
Hare  Naylor,  about  eighty  designs  from 
the  Iliad  and  Odyssey.  These  were  so 
highly  approved,  that  he  was  afterwards 
engaged  to  illustrate,  in  the  same 
manner,  the  works  of  Dante  for  Mr. 
Thomas  Hope,  and  £schylus  for  the 
late  Countess  Spencer.  All  these  de- 
signs were  made  at  Rome,  and  engraved 
there  by  Thomas  Piroli.  Tbe  Homer 
was  published  in  4to.  1793,  and  again 
with  additional  plates,  in  1805;  the 
iEichylus  in  J795;  the  Dante  in  1807. 
His  illustrations  of  Uesiud  were  made 
after  his  return  to  England^  The  origi- 
nal drawings  remain  in  the  possession 
of  his  sisters  j  and  engravings  from 
them,  by  W.  Blake,  were  published 
in  181 G.  These  magnificent  works  es- 
tablished his  fame  throughout  Europe, 
particularly  among  the  critics  and  cog- 
noscenti of  Italy  and  Germany,  with 
whom  he  is  considered  to  have  ac- 
quired a  higher  reputation  than  any 
artist  of  our  country,  excepting  Sir 
Christopher  Wren  and  Sir  Joshua  Rey- 
nolds. In  1794,  Mr.  Flaxman  returned 
to  England,  atid  was  elected,  on  his  way, 
a  Member  of  tbe  Academies  of  Florence 
and  Carrara.  His  first  work  on  hit 
return,  and  for  which  he  received  the 
commission  before  be  left  Rome,  was  the 
monument  to  Lord  Mansfield,  in  West- 
mifister  Abbey. 


11 


As  A  io«lploi^  If fc  nMBMnf*  «r«rlM>  «iMMl«f»teiiMdv«raUer,lMrhMiat 

m  of  ibai  liftg^  otdtr  vlueh  it  aot  ^tped  m  in  deepioriow. 

cdkttUCMl  to  obtite  iMOMdiajto  pepo-  .  To  ibe£arl  of  MaiMfteM^-^  ftaiiio» 

Urity*  Ho  Mfoii  it  ii  btUofodgOMCiitod  in  bit  Jodioiol .  robot,  uoted  ia  oonnilo 

biiiu»  OKOopt  m  portioM  of  lopoldml  obair  pjmcod  on  a  lofty  pedestal*  with 

■MDOflMHCa*  to  tiMt  prodveiloa  of  wbieb*  ttandini;  fibres  of  Joitiee  and  Wit(loB»| 

§nm  4bo  devotional  ebaraeter  of  liia  and  l>ebiiid»  a  recumbent  youtb  emble* 

■ilnd»  ho  was  portkolarly  dkpoMd.  One  maticail  of  I>eath.    Tbe  expence  of  thie 

of  bii oarliatt prodoetiuna  vat  bit nonu-  motittnient    vta    3»500l{.ui  excellent 

nant  to  Williaat  GoUint»  in  Cbichetter  representation  of  it  is  engraved  in  Brit^ 

CatlM^fal,    ItrepfOtentt  the  poet  in  a  ton's  Fine  An%  of  tbe  English  School. 

iictiof -poatiiro,at«Mlying,  in  aoeordanco  To  Capt.  Janes  Montagu,*— a  majeetie 

with  an  anecdote  told  of  bim  by  Dr.  atatae,  IwclKed  by  naval  trophies,  and 

Johnaetn,  <' the  best  of  books," — wbilo  oromroed  by  Victory,   with    two   lions 

hb  lyto  and  poetical  conapositions  lay  orouehiug  at  tbe  foot  of  tbe  pedestal, 

■ogloetid  on  the  ground.  This  mneb  e«lr  .  To  General  Paoli,*-a  bust, 

vifod  speclmoii  of  Flaunan's  genius,  waa  Tbe  following  arc  some  of  Mr.  Flax- 

tho  neauf  of  introducing  into  the  same  man's  other  monumental  works : 

Cnthfdnd  several  other  of  his  beautiful  In  St.  Andrea's  Chapel,  Aberdeen,  a 

pnodaetions.    Of  these,  tbe  one  be  bim^  atatue  to  Bishop  Skinner. 


aalf  iBOit  aattemed,  was  probably  tho  At  Brentford,  to  Dr.  William  HoweU 

MQBMiiont  to  Miss  Cromwell,  lor  that  Ewin. 

waa  selectod  to  aoooflDfiany  Collins's,  in  At  Brington,  In  Nortbamptonsbire,  to 

nplate  which  he  presented  to- Mr.  Dalla-  the  late  Countess  Spencer,  figures  of 

wi^B  History  of  Chichester.    It  repre-  Faith  and   Charity  with  her  children. 

•onta    an  .  esqunitely  beautiful  figure  This  monument,  which  is  situated  at  tbo 

lidng  .to  hoaven  with  three  angels,  and  oast  end  of  tho  Spencer  chapel,  is  so 

Jnaorihed  COMB  YS  BLBtBEO.  placed  immediately  under  that  of  tho 

.   Others  at  Chiobester  are  :  Jate  Carl  by.  Ncdlekins^  which  is  a  figure 

.   To  Dean  Ball,— a  female  figure  weep*  ef  Beuevoleuee  suspending  a  mcdallioa 

lag  over  a  saicopbagoa,  and  a  oonaoling  of  his  Lordship,  as  to  appear  a  portion 

jmgaL  of  the  tame  dMign.— See  in  one  of  the 

. .  To  Mrs.  Deary— ia  form  of  an  antique  heautiful  plates  presented  by  Earl  Spen- 

aKppna,  with  two   most  elegant    small  eer  to  the  fint   Part  of  Mr.  Baker^s 


of  Hope  and  Religion.  Northamptonshire. 

To  Mrs.  6mith,-*«  conjugal  genina  At  Caosberwell,  to  Dr.  Wanostroebt, 

•aalining  ever  an  extinguished  tordi.  —a  mourning  schoolboy. 

.   In  ^  Paul's  Cathedral :                  %  •  At  Christcbnrch,Uampshire,^«  group 

'  To  Earl  Howe,— Britannia  holding  a  the  sixe  of  nature,  to  Lady  Fitzharvis  and 

Irklent,  is  sitting  on  a  rostmted  pedestal  i  children. 

nn  her  left  tbe  Earl  stands  below  her.  At  Eartham^  in  Sussex,  a  small  bas- 

holding  a  telescope,  while  tbe  British  relief  to  Thomas  Hayley,  "his  beloved 

lion  is  watching  by  bis  side  ;  on  the  scbular/'  and  eon  of  the  poet, 

light.  History  ceoords  in  golden  letters  At  Flamsted,  in  Hertfordshire,  to  tbe 

the  xtchievements  of  the  Admiral,  and  Sebright  family,  figures  of    Faith  and 

Victory,  leaning  on  her  shouMer,  lays  a  Hope.*— See    the    inscriptions    in    voU 

pnlm-branoh  on  the  lap  of  Britannia.  Lxzzii.  L  81 1. 

.   To  Captain  Miller,— a  bas-relief  i  Bri-  In  Gloucester  Cathedral,  to  Mrs.  Mor- 

tannia  and  Victory  uniting  in  raising  ley, — a  figure  of  that  lady  sUnding  on 

against  a  palm-tree  a  medallion  of  the  the  aea,  with  an  infant  in  her  arms,  and 

deceased.  taken  charge  of  by  three  angels. 

.   To  Lord  Nelsonr--«£  atatue  of  the  hero  In  Ireland,  (but  where  we  are  not 

dieated  in  the  pelisse  presented  bim  by  informed,)  two  monuments,  to  the  Earl 

the  Grand  Signor,  leaning  on  an  anchor,  of  Massareene,  and  to  Mrs.  Tighe,  the 

and  raised  on  a  pedestal,  on  which  four  author  of  Piyohe. 

aaa  deities  are  carved  in  relief ;  with  Bri-  At  Leads,  to  Capts.  Wallcer  and  Baek- 

taania,  directing  the  attention  of  two  ott,  slain  at  Talavera,  tbe  expence  of 

ynung  seamen  to  their  great  example  }  which  was  6001. 

nnd  the  British  lion.  At  Lewisham  in  Kent,  to  Mist  Mary 

.   To  Shr  Joshna  Reynolds,— a  statna  in  Lnsbington,— a  mourning  mother,  roua- 

tha  gown  of  a  Doctor  of  Laws,  holding  ad  by  a  aonsoling  angel  to  the  toxt> 

his  leotorm  in  bis  right  hand,  and  bit  blbmbd  abb  trby  that  moubii.— Sea 

Uh  resting  on  a  pcdcsul  abova  thahaad  the  epitaph  by  Hayley,  vol.  lxkxi.  ii.Mrb 

oCMiobaalAngeki.  At  Mieheldeveo  Hampshire,  to  tim 

- .  in  WastmUuter  Abbey  s  family  of  Baring,— three  large  haa-rt* 

To  George  Undaay  Johnttooct  ea^d  ■■  liefs  of  designs  horn  the  LonT^  fWyer, 


muMly*  ift  Ibt  etaM»  •  iinRl«  tfOM(  «Mght  afcooff  €34  iMnieni.    TMi  '1n4I« 

InMribed  thy  will  mi  domb  ;  on  •nc  piMe  of  worknmiMfaip^  Mt.  CkrittieMMII 

•idti  •  fcnmp  from  tbo  puMfe,  try  hm  parchaitd  at  8,00tf.  '  Tbcft  wwf 

EfiHiDoii  COMB,  and  on  tho  oclMr»  «  onhr  flto  eopitt  of  it  oxhtfiif  » thrto  «f 

goMtpfrotn  tho elaote,  dblivkrw  from  wlifeli  wore  in  thm  fotMMkMi  of  Nobli^ 

■Yiu  Tkief  are  ongnyed  bv  Mr.  Brittos  fMn,  and  the  fonnli  wat  in  tbe  imnilt  of 

in  hiaFino  Arts  of  tbe  Englltb  SehooL  Mesan.  RooNlall  and  Bridso»  \tj  wbooi  M 

In  tba  chapel  of  Univanliy  CoUafOy  »at  chaacd  and  gilt.    A  aoMmiitiony  it 

Olibrdk    a  mononont  to   Sir  Williaa  added»  of  1,0001.  wn  left  by  a  K«litl0i 

Jonaap    reprvtantinf,   in    a   bas-reliaf)  nian,  and  on  potting  it  up  at  that  awn, 

which  it  aupportcd  by  tlgan'  lionda,  tba  Mr.  Bridga  oflbred  a  thooaand  gninaaai 

laamad  Jud^  engaged  in  a  digaat  of  tba  There  being  no  opposition,  it  was  knoelc^ 

Hindoo  oode,  with  Brahmins  attending,  ed  down  at  that  sum. 

There  Is  also  another  monnnent  to        The  eontemporary  aaMnanea  of  Flax* 

8ir  W.Jones  at  Oaford,  by  Mr. nazman.  man   and   Canora  neeeasarlly  brangbl 

At  Poplar,to  George  StacYens,««  l»aa-  them  into    frequent  comparison  ;   ML 

relief,  rsprrsenting  the  deceased  In  a  sit*  their  spheres  appear  to  bare  been  entlra* 

ting  posture,  ardenthr  eontcmplatlng  n  ly  distinct,  Canora   excelling  more  hk 

bust  of  Sbakspeare.    It  is  a  remariiably  the  exquisite  delicadcs  of  the  liulMMl 

beautiful  little  monument ;  and  is  en-  figure,  and  Plaxman  in  general  and  •■• 

graved  in  Lysons's   Environs,    Suppt.  tensive  eomposliion  of  figures.    Cariovn 

p.  S94.  himself,  when  in  this  aountry,  was  M 

At  Romsey,  to  Lord  and  Lady  Palmef-  struck  with  some  of  the  produetiona  iff 

ston.    This  was  being  erected  at  tba  Flaxman,  as  to  declare,  with  that  modesty 

period  of  Flaaman's  death.  which  alwajrs  aecompanies  ganinsi  timl 

In  Wincheuer  Cathedral :  To  the  wife  he  had  not  prodoeed  such  worits. 
of  Bishop  North,-^gures  of  Piety  and        In   1799  Mr.  Flaxman  pobllshad,  I* 

Faith.  4to.  •«A  letter  to  the  Gommittea  Ht 

To  Dr.  Joseph  Warton,— that  eminent  raising  the  Naval  PiHar  or  MohMDami 

pedagogue  seated  in  a  chair,  teaching  under  the  patronage  of  his,  Roytl  High^ 

three  boys  who  stand  before  him ;  en*  ne8«  the  Duke  of  Gloucastery**  to  wbleh  A 

graved  in  Milner's  Winchester,  vol.  ii.  reply  was  made  by  Alexander  Balfour,  aa 

p-  91.  architect.     Mr.  Flazman's  proposition 

The  basso-relievos   in   the    front  of  was  to  form  a  colossal  statue  of  SOO  feet 

Givent-parden  Theatre  were   designed  in  height,  to  be  placed  on  Greenwich^ 

by  Flaxmmn,  and  one  of  there,  and  the  hill,  to  be  seen  from  the  river, 
statue  of  Comedy,  of  his  own  execution.|  In  1 809  **  a  sketch  of  Romne/s  pro^ 

For  tbe  Earl  ot  Egreroont,  Mr.  FUz-  fessional  character "  was  contributed  bf 

man  executed  a  statue  of  ApiiUo,  and  a  Mr.  Flaxman  to  Hayley's  Life  of  that 

eotossal   group  of   Michael  the  Arch-  artist,  (see  vol.  LXXIX.  p.  1147.) 
angel's  victory  over  Satan,  which  is  but        Mr.  Flaxman  was  elected  a  member  of 

Juat  finitbed.  the  Royal  Academy  In   1800,  and  bid 

At  the  East  India  House,  a  statue  of  been  for  about  fifteen  years.  Professor  of 

Warren  Hastings.  Sculpture  to  that  Institution.    In  1816 

At  GUsgow,  a  statue  of  Pitt  In  the  he  was  elected,  with  Sir  Thomas  Law 

Townball,    and    a    colossal    statue  in  rence  and  Mr.  Fuseli,  a  member  of  tba 

bronse  of  Gen.  Sir  John  Moore.  Academy  of  Painting  and  Sculpture  at 

For  bis  present  Majeaty  lie  designed  a  Rome, 
model  of  the  shield  of  Achilles.    Thia        The  Professor's  lectures  at  the  Acad^ 

exquisite  perfurmanea  la  now  well  known  my  were  highly  admired,  and  we  am 

to  the  public,  from  the  duplicate  copy  happy  to  understand  that  they  and  other 

which  has    been  recently  sold  by  Mr.  tracts  will  be  published  by  his  sisters  i 

Christie  among  tbe  plate  of  the  Duke  who  are  having  many  works  in  sculp- 

of  York,  and  of  which  we  have  the  fol-  tore  of  great  importance  finished  under 

lowing    description :     In   the  eircular  the  direction  of  Mr.  Denman,  the  hnL 

compartmeni,  which  forms  the  centre,  tber-in-law  and  pupil  of  the  decease^, 

the  sun  is  represented  in  a  quadriga,  in  Among  these  is  a  statue  of  Bums  for 

alto  relievo,  surrounded  by  various  con*-  Edinburgh,  one  of  John  Philip  Kembia 

stellations,  on  a  celestial   planisphere.'  for  West  minster  Abbey,  and  a  third  df 

Round  this  are  described,  in  sueeesiva  the  Marquess  of  Hastings  fur  Bombay, 
groups,  the  marriage  procession,    and         It  may  be  added,  that  Mr.  Flaxman 

banquet ;  the  quarrel  and  Judicial  ap-  had  made  the  designs  for  nearly  all  tlm 

pcAl )    the  siege   and  ambuscade,  and  sculpture  for  the  exterior  of  the  King^ 

military  engagement ;  the  harvest-field  i  new  palace,  and  was  to  have  executed  ap 

the  vintage  ;  shepherds  defending  their  much  of  It  as  he  could  undertake. but 

herds,  attacked  by  liona  |  and  tba  Cra-  tbe  whole  wai  to  have  been  under  hl^ 

tan  dance.    Tba  wavea  of  tha  sea  farm  Erection.    Th«aa««Tnl^\iaX^stv«i\tt^ 

tba  border  of  tba  shield.    The  silver  ht  timchad|ai4imu««iVBni&»iiin>is« 


triS                        OaiTVAAY.— J.  M^  Good,  M.  Bi  [llaich, 

'  HATiiif  lost  lin  wifflT  in  1 990^  (te*  roL  want  In  otar  own  itlsod  maiiy,  both  in  tlM 

Lxxz.  i.  28 1.)  Mr.  Flasni«n'i  latter  yean  past  and  present  timea,  wlio  have  traeed, 

were  rather  retired.    He  vat  a  man  of  with  equal  energy  andiuccess,  this  two* 

warm  benevolenee  and  Hgid  integrity,  fold  path  to  fame.    But  a  few  yean  hare 

In  all    pecuniary    matten,  he  was  to  gone  by  linoe  we  lost,  and  in  the  vigour 

aevenly  lerupuloui  agaimt  hit  own  in-  of   hit  days,  the  lamented  Leyden,  a 

tenst,  that  bis  profettton  was  far  less  physician  distinguished  among  his  con- 

produetiTe  to  him  than  to  most  artists  temporaries  not  more  for  his  enthusiastic 

•njoying  equal  rank.  love  of  science,  than  for  the  beauty  of 

Mr.  Flaxman  contracted  a  severe  cold  his  poetry,  and  the  almost  unrivalled  ex- 

CHiiunday,  December  3  ;  but  was  suffioi-  tent  of  his  philological  attainments. 

entiy  well  on  Monday  to  receive  a  few  Like  Leyden,  the  subject  of  our  pre- 

friends  at  dinner.    Medical  advice  was  sent  brief  sketch  eariy  acquired  a  justly- 

ealled  in  the  same  evening.    His  consti-  earned  character  for  deep  and  multtfari- 

ttttion  had  been  weakened  by  a  gradual  ous  erudition  ;  but,  more  fortunate  than 

decline  of  health,  which  had  for  several  Leyden  in  length  of  days,  be  added  to 

yean  eicited  the  apprehensions  of  his  these  acquisitions  a  great,  and  we  think 

professional  and  pereonal  friends  ;  and  a  permanent  reputation  as  a  medical 

he  was  therefore  spared  the  suffering  of  writer  and  philosopher, 

a  severe  or  procrastinated  illnees.  Dr.  Good  was  born  atEpping  in  Essex, 

It  was  the  intention  of  the  memben  May  25,  1764,  and  was  descended  from 

of  the  Royal  Academy  to  follow  the  re-  a  family  of  great  respectability  and  an- 

mains  of  their  late  Professor  of  Sculp-  tiquity  at  Rorosey  near  Southampton, 

ture  to  the  grave,  in  a  manner  becoming  whither  his  father,  a  dissenting  minister 

the  respect  which  they  entertained  for  of  exemplary  character,  and  consider- 

his  virtues  and  talents.  This  mode  of  in-  able  literary  attainments,  immediately 

terment,  however,  was  found  to  be  con-  removed  on  the  death  of  his  elder  hro- 

trary  to  the  express  will  of  the  deceased,  tber,  and  whilst  the  subject  of  our  me- 

and  to  the   wishes  of  the  family ;   and,  moir  was  yet  an  infant.     Here,  under 

therefore,  the  funeral  was  private.    It  the  most  able  parental  tuition,  his  father 

took  place  on  the  15tb  December, attend-  having  married  Miss  Peyto,  the  favourite 

ed  by  the  President  and  Council  of  the  niece  of  that  excellent  man  John  Mason, 

Academy,  as  well  as  his  private  friends.  A.M.  the  author  of  the  well-known  trea- 

A  portrait  of  Mr.   Flaxman  was  pub-  tise  on  "SelfKnoai ledge,*' he  enjoyed  a 

liihed  in  Mr.  Dance's  Collection  ;  and  a  very  liberal  and  comprehensive  initiation 

later  likeness  in  the  European  Magazine  into  the  walks  of  literature  and  science. 

for  May  1823.    Two  others,  we  under-  Dr.  Good  commenced  the  exercise  of  his 

stand,  arc  about  to  appear  i  one,  painted  profession  as  a  general  practitioner  at 

by  J.  Jackson,  R.A.  to  be  engraved  by  Sudbury  in  SufTulk,   where  he  married 

Turner ;  and  the  other  from  a  medallion  one  of  the  daughters  of  the  late  T.  Fenn, 

modelled  by  himself  at  Rome,  to  be  pre-  esq.  a  banker  of  that  place, 

fixed  to  his  Lectures.  Sudbury,   however,  was  a    field  too 

■  confined  for  his  talents,  and  he  was  in- 

J.  M.  Good,  M.  D.  duceif ,  in  the  spring  of  1*93,  to  exchange 

Jan,  2.    At  the  house  of  his  daughter,  it  for  the  metropolis,  where  having  set- 

at  Shepperton  in  Middlesex,  of  an   in-  tied  himself  in  Guilford-street,  he  gradu' 

flammatory  attack  brought  on  by  cold,  ally  rose  into  that  celebrity,  both  as  a 

aged    62,  John    Mason    Good,   M.  D.  scholar  of  uncommon  powers,  and  as  a 

P.  R.  S.  &c.  medical  writer  of  the  firat  class,  to  which 

The  education  of  medical  men,  when  we  have  just  alluded, 
conducted,  as  ever  should  be  the  ca!ie.  With  a  critical  knowledge  of  classical 
upon  a  broad  and  liberal  plan,  not  only  literature.  Dr.  Good  had  early  in  life 
leads  to  a  vast  range  of  collateral  science,  combined  the  study  of  the  oriental  Ian- 
but  is  necessarily  based  on  an  intimacy  guages;  and  in  1803  he.  published  the 
with  the  language  and  the  literature  of  first  fruits  of  his  philological  acquisitions 
Greece  and  Rome.  Hence  many  of  the  under  the  title  of  **  Song  of  Songs  ;  or 
fint  physicians  in  all  ages  have  been  dis-  Sacred  Idyls ;  translated  from  the  origin- 
tingnished  as  well  for  their  love  and  pur-  al  Hebrew,  with  notes  critical  and  ex- 
suit  of  elegant  studies,  as  of  those  more  planator}-,"  8vo.  This  version,  which 
immediately  connected  with  the  practice  offers  a  new  arrangement,  is  beautifully 
of  the  healing  art.  On  the  continent,  executed,  under  the  double  form  of  prose 
amid  a  host  to  which  we  might  point  and  poetry.  The  metrical  translation  is, 
with  pride  and  pleasure,  it  will  suffice  to  in  a  high  degree,  spirited  and  elegant, 
mention  the  venerated  names  of  Fracas-  and  the  notes  exhibit  a  large  share  of 
tonus,  Haller*  and  Zimmerman,  men  taste  and  erudition.  (See  a  review  of  it 
alike  dear  to  the  student  of  nature  and  in  vol.  lxxv.  p.  333). 
thP  disciple  of  the  muse«.    Nor  do  wt  The  same  year  produced  our  aulhor^a 


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If eiBoirt  of  tht  life  and  Writittf^  of 
Rer.  AlexADder  Geddet»  LUD.  8to."  a 
work  which,  while  it  interests  ••  a  high- 
ly pleasing  and  impartially  written  ae« 
eount  of  a  very  profound  scholar  and 
truly  original  character,  impresses  us, 
at  the  same  time,  with  a  full  conviction 
of  the  writer's  sufficiency  for  the  task 
which  he  had  undertaken  as  a  biblical 
critic  and  scholar. 

Two  years   after  the    publication  of 
these  memoirs,  appeared  Dr.  Good's  very 
valuable  translation   of  Lucretius,   the 
most  elaborate  of  all  his  works  in   the 
provinces  of  pbilolof^y,  poetry,  and  cri- 
ticitm  ;   it  is  entitled   "  The  Nature  of 
Things,  a  Didactic  Poem,  translated  from 
the  Latin  of  Titus  Lucretius  Carus,  ac- 
companied with  the  original  Text,  and 
illustrated   with    various   Prolegomena, 
and  a  large  body  of  Notes,  Philological 
and  Physiological,"  2   vols.  4to.    This 
translation  is  in    blank  verse,  and   in 
numerous  instances,  where  the  original 
rises  into  fervour  and  inspiration,  does 
great  credit  to  Dr.  Good's   powers   of 
poetical  expression.    But   it  is  scarcely 
possible  to  convey  to  the  reader,  without 
his  actual  inspection,  an  adequate  idea 
of  the  vast  body  of  illustration,  critical 
and  phifiisophical,  which   is  included  in 
^he  notes.     Almost  every  polished   lan- 
guage, Asiatic  as   well  as   European,  is 
laid  under  contribution  $  and  the  versions 
which  uniformly  accompany  the  nume- 
rous parallelisms  and  quotations,  are,  for 
the  most  part,  executed  in  a   masterly 
style.     To   this,    in    1813,  succeeded   a 
version  of  **  The  Bouk  of  Job,  literally 
translated   from   the    original   Hebrew, 
and  restored  tu  its  natural  arrangement : 
with  Notes  critical  and  illustrative,  and 
an  introductory  Dissertation  on  its  scene, 
scope,  language,  author,  and  era,"   8vo, 
a  production  which  materially  augment- 
ed  its  author^s   fame   as  a  student  of 
Oriental  literature.     The  notes  are  upon 
a  very  extended  scale,  and  the  Disserta- 
tion includes  much  that  is  calculated  to 
excite  the  deepest  and  most  earnest  at- 
tention. 

If  we  now  turn  from  the  fields  of 
literature  to  those  of  science,  we  shall 
find  Dr.  Good  a  no  less  ardent  and  suc- 
cessful cultivator.  He  had  at  no  time 
suffered  bis  attachment  to  philological 
pursuits  to  interfere  with  his  professional 
seal  and  duties  ;  and,  as  a  proof  of  this, 
we  have  to  record,  that  between  the 
years  1795  and  1819,  he  had  produced, 
independentof  a  voluminous  compilation 
on  General  Science,  not  less  than  seven 
distinct  works  in  relation  to  the  history, 
theory,  and  practice  of  medicine. 

The  former  was  entitled  **  Pantologia, 
or  Universal  Dictionary  of  Arts,  Sciences 


and  Words';"  in  eonjanction  with  Dr. 
Olinthus  Gregory,  and  Mr.  Newton  Boi* 
worth,  IS  vols,  royal  8vo. 

Of  the  medical  works  the  following 
were  the  titles  t— 

A  Dissertation  on  the  Diseases  of 
Prisons  and  Poorhouses,  8vo.  1793. 

On  the  History  of  Medicine,  so  far  m 
it  relates  to  the  profession  of  an  Apotba- 
cary,  19mo.  1795. 

On  the  best  nieMnt  of  flMintaining  and 
employing  the  Poor  in  Parish  Wor-k- 
houses,  8vo.  1798.  Second  edition,  1805. 

Address  to  the  Members  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Surgeons,  8vo.  1800. 

Oration  on  the  General  Structure  and 
Physiology   of    Plants,   compared    with 
tho^e  of  Animals,  delivered  at  the  Anni- 
versary  of    the    Medical   Societv,    8vo. 
1808. 

Elssay  on     Medical    Technology   (to 
which  the  Fothergillian  Medal  was  votod 
by  the  Council  of  the  Medical  Society, 
of  which  he  became  the  Secretary),  8vo.  . 
1810. 

He  also  published  in  May,  1813,  a 
new  edition  of  Mason's  Self-know  ledge, 
with  a  Life  of  the  Author,  and  notes, 
12mo,  181S. 

It  is,  however,  to  the  year  1817  that 
we  would  point  as  the  era  which  placed 
Dr.  Good  amongst  the  ranks  of  those 
who  will  reach  a  distant  posterity  at 
guides  and  Instructors  in  the  healing  art. 
In  this  year  appeared  his  *'  Physiological 
System  of  Nosology,  with  a  corrected 
and  simplified  Nomenclature,'*  and  dedi- 
cated by  permission  to  the  President  and 
Fellows  of  the  Royal  College  of  Physi- 
cians in  London.  Of  this  undertaking, 
in  which  the  diseases  of  the  animal 
functions  are  arranged  in  classes  derived 
from  a  physiological  view  of  those  func- 
tions, it  may  justly  be  said,  that  more 
full  and  comprehensive  in  its  plan  than 
any  previous  system  of  Nosology,  more 
simple  and  intelligible  in  its  classifica- 
tion, and  more  classical  and  correct  in 
its  language,  it  bids  fair  to  supersede 
every  attempt  which  has  hitherto  been 
made  in  the  difficult  provinces  of  medi- 
cal technology  and  systematic  arrange- 
ment. 

Elaborate,  however,  and  arduous  as 
this  attempt  might  be  deemed,  it  was 
but  the  precursor  of  one  still  more  iOi- 
portant  and  extensive ;  for  in  the  year 
1828,  Dr.  Good  presented  us  with  *'  The 
Study  of  Medicine,"  in  four  large 
volumes,  8vo.  a  work  of  which  the  cbkf 
object  has  been  to  unite  under  one  gene- 
ral system,  and  in  copformity  to  the 
arrangement  he  bad  already  given  in  his 
Nosology,  the  various  branches  of  medi- 
cal science,  so  that  being  contemplated 
and  studied  under  one  puiiU  of  view, 


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tlMi^  *■!% ht  tkro#  on  eAtiioUicr'  m 
OMiCiiAl  and  steady  light.  Pliysiologyi 
therefore,  Patholo^,  Noiology,  and 
Tbera^uticSy  whiibf  when  considered  in 
detail,  have  almost  invariably  been  treat* 
ed  a|Mirt,  are  here  blended  into  one  har- 
monious whole,  and  their  junction  haf^ 
in  this  instance,  formed,  beyond  all  com- 
parison, the  most  complete  and  luminoua 
outline  of  the  science  of  medicine  which 
has  yet  been  published.  It  it  a  work,  in 
fact,  which  from  the  elegance  of  its 
eompoaition,  the  wide  range  and  intel* 
lectual  cast  of  its  illustrations,  and  the 
vast  fund  of  its  practical  information, 
will  be  alike  valued  by  the  man  of  let- 
ters, the  philosopher,  and  the  medical 
practitioner. 

Beside  the  works  which  we  have  now 
enumerated.  Dr.  Good,  at  various  times^ 
throughout  the  course  of  his  literary 
and  medical  career,  amused  himself  and 
the  public  by  some  beautiful  though 
anonymous  poetical  publications*  Two 
of  these  were  Maria,  an  Elegiac  Ode, 
4to,  I7a6»  Triumph  of  Britain,  an  Ode, 
Jlf03. 

Miss  Benger. 

Jmn.  9.  After  a  short  illness,  deeply 
srgretted,  Elizabeth  O.  Benger,  author 
of  several  interesting  and  popular  works, 
chiefly  biographical  and  historical. 

This  admirable  and  ex^^ellent  woman, 
an  instance  of  female  genius  struggKug 
through  obstacles  into  notice,  was  born 
at  Wellsy  in  1778.  Her  father,  late  iw 
Bfe,  was  impelled  by  an  adventrous  dis- 
position, 10  enter  the  navy,  and  ultimate* 
ly  became  a  purser.  The  vicissitudes  of 
hit  fortune  occasioned,  during  many 
years,  a  distressing  fluctuation  in  the 
plans  and  prospects  of  his  wife  and 
daughter)  ami  his  death  abroad, in  I796, 
left  them  finally  nith  a  slender  provision. 
For  some  years  after  this  event.  Miss 
Benger  resided  with  her  mother  in  Wilt- 
shire, where  she  had  many  a^ectionate 
friends  and  relations  who  never  lost  sight 
of  her. 

An  ardour  for  knowledge,  a  passion  for 
literary  distinction,  disclosed  itself  in 
her  early  childhood.  Her  connexions 
were  not  literary  ;  and  the  friend  who 
traces  this  imperfect  sketch  has  beard 
her  relate,  that  in  the  want  of  books 
which  she  at  one  time  suffcTed,  it  was 
her  common  practice  to  plant  herself  at 
the  window  uf  the  only  bookseller's 
shop  in  the  little  town  which  she  then 
inhabited,  to  read  the  open  pag«*s  of  the 
new  publications  there  di«played,  and  to 
return  again,  day  after  day,  to  examine 
whether,  by  good  fortune,  a  leaf  of  any 
of  them  might  have  been  turned  wer. 
But  the  bent  of  her  mind  was  so  decided^ 


flMt  A  jodicioiis  tboogb  iinttwfMd  firienil 
prevailed  upon  her  mother  at  len|(tb  to 
Indulge  it ;  and  aboot  the  age  of  twehroi 
she  was  sent  to  a  boy's  school  to  be  in- 
structed in  Latin.  At  fifteen  she  wrote 
and  published  a  poem,  in  which,  imper'* 
feet  as  it  necessarily  was,  marks  of 
opening  genius  were  discovered. 

At  length,  about  1803,  she  prevailed 
upon  her  mother  to  remove  to  London, 
where,  prinbipally  through  the  zealous 
friendship  of  Miss  Sarah  Wesley,  who 
had  already  discovered  her  in  her  soli- 
tude, she    almost    immediately  found 
herself  ushered  into  society  where  her 
merit  was  fully  appreciated  and  warmly 
fostered.    The  late  Dr.  George  Gregory, 
well  known  in  the  literary  world,  and 
his  valued  and  excellent  wife,  were  soon 
amongst  the  firmest  and  most  affection- 
ate of  her  friends.    By  them  she  was 
gratified  with  an  introduction  to  Mrs. 
Elisabeth  Hamilton,  of  whom  she  gare, 
many  years  afterwards,  so  interesting  a 
memoir  t  and  soon  after,  to  Mrs.  Bar* 
bauld,  and  to  the  late  Dr.  Aikin,  with 
the  various  members  of  whose  family, 
and  especially  with  her  who  now  in- 
scribes, with  an  aching  heart,  this  feeble 
record  of  her  grenius  and  virtues,  she 
contracted     an    affectionate    intimacy, 
never  interrupted  through  a  period  of 
more  than  twenty  years,  and  destined  to 
know  but   one  termination.     Another 
and  most  valuable  connexion  which  she 
soon  af^er  formed,  was  with  the  family 
of  R.  Smirke,  esq.  R.A.  in  whose  accom- 
plished   daughter  she   found  a  friend 
whose  offices  of  love  followed  her  with- 
out remission  to  the  last.    Many  other 
names,   amongst    which  that  of   Mrs. 
Joanna  Baillie  must  not  be  forgotten, 
might  be  added  to  the  list  of  those  who 
delighted  in  her  society,  and  took   an 
interest  in  her  happiness.     Her  circle  of 
acquaintance  extended  with  her  fame, 
and  she  was  often  able  to  assemble  round 
her  humble    tea-table,    n^mes    whose 
celebrity  woult)  have  attracted  attention 
In  the  proudest  saloons  of  the  metropolis. 
Early    in   her    literary  career,   Miss 
Banger  was  induced  to   fix  her  hopes  of 
fame  upon  the  drama,  for  which  her 
genius  appeared  in  many  respect^  peculi- 
arly  adapted  {  but   after  ample  experi- 
ence of  the  anxieties,  delays,  and  disap- 
pointments, which  in  this  age  sicken  the 
heart   of   almost  every     candidate   for 
celebrity  in  this  department,  she  tried 
her  powers  in  other  attempts,  and  pro- 
dured  first  her  poem  on  the  Abolition  uf 
the  Slave  Trade,   and    afterwards  two 
novels  published  anonymously.  All  these 
productions  had  great  merit,  but  wanted 
something  of  ngular  and    finished  ex- 
eelltnce  i  and  her  success  was  not  decid- 


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•d  till  f be  embarked  m  biof^rapby,  ai»4 
produced  in  succeMiou  ber  MeoMirs  of 
Mn.  Elizabeth  Hamilton^  Memoirs  of 
Jobn  Tubiii,  and  Notices  of  Klopstock 
and  bts  Friends,  prefixed  to  a  translation 
of  their  Letters  from  the  German ;  and 
finally  rising  to  the  department  of  his- 
tory, her  Lift:  of  Anne  Buleyn,  and  Me- 
Doirs  of  Mary  Q^een  of  Scots,  and  of 
the  Queen  of  Bohemia.  All  these  works 
attained  deserved  popularity  j  and  she 
would  probably  have  add«d  to  her  repu- 
tation by  the  Memoirs  of  Henry  IV  of 
France,  had  longer  life  been  lent  her  for 
their  completion. 

But  to  those  who  knew  her  and  ei\joy- 
ed  her  friendship,  her  writings  were  the 
smallest  part  of  her  merit.  To  the 
warmest,  most  afffciiunate,  and  grateful 
heart,  she  united  the  utmost  delicaey 
and  nobleness  of  sentiment,  active  bene- 
volence which  knew  no  limits  but  the 
furthest  extent  of  her  ability,  and  a 
boundless  enthusiasm  for  the  good  and 
fair  wherever  she  discovered  them.  Her 
lively  imagination  lent  an  inexpressible 
charm  to  ber  couversation,  which  was 
heightened  by  an  intuitive  diacernmcnC 
of  character,  rare  in  itself,  and  still  more 
so  in  combination  with  such  activity  of 
fancy  and  ardenry  of  feeling.  As  a 
companion,  whether  for  the  graver  or 
the  gayer  hour,  she  bad  few  equals  ;  and 
ber  perfect  kindness  of  heart  and  univer- 
sal sympathy  rendered  her  the  favourite 
of  all  classes  and  ages. 

Mb.  John  Thomas. 

Jlitarch  8.  At  Prior  Park,  near  Bath, 
which  be  purchased  about  fifteen  years 
since,  aged  74,  Mr.  John  Thomas,  oee 
pf  the  Society  of  Frieodf. 

He  commenced  business  as  a  grocer 
in  Bristol,  and  afterwards  established  a 
wholesale  house  in  the  same  line  in  part- 
nership with  hi«  sons.  Being  endowed 
with  eminent  talents  for  Mechanics  and 
Engineering,  which  were  called  into  ac- 
tion ill  1793  when  the  public  mind  was 
excited  to  speculation  in  Canals,  be 
took  a  great  interest  in  that  projected  to 
unite  the  cities  of  Loudon  and  Bristol 
by  connecting  the  rivers  Keniiet  and 
Avon,  and  was  one  of  the  earliest  mem* 
hers  of  the  Committee  of  Management. 
The  expenditure  having,  as  might  be 
expected  from  a  concern  of  such  magni- 
tude, exceeded  the  original  eatimatet 
this  great  work  languiihed  in  its  execa- 
tiun.  At  the  express  desire  of  the 
Managing  Committee,  Mr.  Tbomta 
undertook  the  superintendence  of  it  at 
a  salary  of  750/.  for  all  his  time,  labour, 
and  expences.  The  amount  of  the  salary 
is  here  mentioned,  because  it  has  been 
idly  believed  that  part  of  hia  large  for* 


tnne  was  accuaukrted  ia  the  aanaftr 
ment  of  that  concern.  His  uoimpeacU- 
able  integrity  obtained  and  secured  the 
confidence  of  the  various  interests  witii 
which  be  bad  to  contend,  and  bis  strong 
practical  setise  and  unwearied  attention 
directed  the  execution,  and  effected  the 
completion,  of  this  perhaps  the  best  coo*- 
structed  Canal  in  Europe.  After  be  had 
resigned  the  superintendence,  he  gave 
bis  disinterested  attention  to  the  coor 
duct  and  management  of  the  affairs  ef 
the  Company  to  almost  the  last  moment 
of  his  life. 

But  in  the  midst  of  active  pursuits  of 
this  and  other  kinds,  the  preparation  for 
another  state  of  existence  was  not  for-* 
gotten.  So  long  as  the  Great  Bestovcir 
of  health  was  graciously  pleased  to  grant 
to  him  the  possession  of  it,  so  long  were 
his  useful  talents  exerted  in  the  prune- 
tiou  of  public  charities,  and  a  large  perr 
tion  of  his  ample  means  employed  in 
acts  of  private  benevolence.  His  opinions 
and  advice  were  generally  sought  for) 
and  his  attendance  on  public  business,  at 
a  period  of  life  when  other  men  retise 
from  if,  was  useful  in  a  religious  and 
moral  view ;  for  it  is  pleasing  and  in* 
struct ive  to  see  strong  abilities  preaecved 
^y  temperence  and  exercise  to  adveneed 
age,  and  employed  with  disinterested* 
ness.  His  morals  were  pure  and  exem* 
p\ary,  and  his  religion  practical,  regular^ 
and  unobtrusive.  He  mixed  in  general 
society  more  than  is  common  for  those 
of  his  persuasion,  and  brought  into  it 
the  most  urbane  and  simple  maniieie, 
never  abstaining  from  the  participation 
of  cheerful  and  enlivening  conversation* 
He  was  patient  in  hearing,  and  slow  in 
reply  :  and  although  this  might  be  part* 
ly  owing  to  the  early  discipline  of  his 
society,  yet  the  clearness  of  expression 
and  soundness  of  argument  which  mark* 
ed  his  otservations  were  |>eculiarly  bit 
own.  He  was  indulgent  to  the  religtona 
opinions  of  others,  and  without  relin* 
quisbiiig  the  general  views  and  hebita  ef 
Friends,  he  felt  far  from  a  bigoted  at* 
tachment  to  tbem.  He  possessed  the 
adventitious  ornaments  of  a  fine  exprcs* 
sive  countenance,  a  well-proportioned 
and  rather  athletic  form,  and  a  general 
appearance  which  almost  always  made  e 
favourable  impression. 

This  excellent  roan  was  the  father  of 
a  numerous  family,  all  of  whom  stood 
around  hia  death  bed,  attentive  to  hii 
latest  comforts,  aod  partaking  his  dying 
advice  and  benediction.  To  them  it 
must  afford  a  melancholy  pleasure  to  be 
assured  that  their  sorrows  are  shared  fk» 
various  degrees  by  many  friends  and  ae^ 
quaintances,  and  that  feelings  of  regret 
for  his  loiB  extend  to  every  one  to  wiom 


SSO                       OBiTOAkY.~JI«o.  W.  H'hUear.  [March> 

their  depaKed  friend's  name  was  known*  ledge  of   the  difAcultjr  that  for  some 

and  by'  wbom  his  character  could  be  time  prevailed  in  the  appuintment  of  a 

properly  estimated.  curate,  and  which,  in  compliance  with 

the  request  of  his  dioce&an>   he   never 

Rbv.  W.  Whitbab.  relinquished. 

Dec,   10.    At  Starstun  Rectory,  Nor-  This,  however,  was  not  the  extent  of 

folk,  aged  48,  the  Rev.  William  Wbitear,  his  services  as  an  authorised  interpreter 

Rector  of  that  parish.  of  holy  writ ;  but  upon   the  Christian 

He  was  born  Feb.  26,  1778,  at  Hast-  Knowledge  Society's  adoption  of  that 
higs,  in  Sussex,  of  which  place  bis  father  important  measure,  the  editing  of  a 
was  for  many  years  the  respected  and  Family  Bible,  illustrated  by  a  selection 
beloved  Rector ;  and  having  l>een  pri*  from  tiie  expositions  of  our  approved 
▼ately  educated,  he  was  admitted  of  St.  divines,  he  immediately  tendered  liis 
John's  College, Cambridge,  and  proceed-  services  to  further  the  work,  and  the 
ed  to. the  degree  of  B.A.  with  the  honour  notes  upon  the  book  of  Psalms,  collect- 
of  ftfth  Wrangler,  in  1800.  He  was  ed  from  a  great  variety  of  sources,  are 
elected  Fellow  of  his  College  in  1801,  of  his  compilation.  He  possessed,  in- 
and  took  possession  in  1803  of  the  Rec-  deed,  rare  qualities,  wbicb  peculiarly 
tory  of  Starston,  un  tbe  presentation  of  fitted  him  for  the  station  in  which  ic 
the  late  Duke  of  Norfolk,  the  nomina-  pleased  God  to  place  biro.  His  ambition 
t ion  being  in  that  family,  though  the  never  seemed  to  stray  beyond  it,  and  by 
liring  roust  be  given  to  a  Foundation  tbe  obvious  benefits  of  this  limitation, 
Fellow  of  St.  John's.  Thus  early  become  and  tbe  happiness  resulting  from  it»  be 
the  incumbent  of  a  couritry  parish,  he  has  left  a  striking  example  of  the  wis- 
devoted  himself  assiduously  to  all  the  dom  of  his  choice.  During  more  than 
duties  of  it,  and  eminently  qualified  him-  twenty  years  he  bad  gradually  been 
self  for  discharging  them  with  the  most  acquiring  that  most  beneficial  and 
beneficial  effect.  Attached  on  serious  honourable  influence  which  arises  from 
conviction  to  tbe  Church  of  which  he  a  Just  confidence  in  integrity,  ability, 
was  a  minister,  he  was  zealous  and  and  benevolence,  aided  by  conciliatory 
active  in  assi&ting  to  form  the  diocesan  manners.  His  undaunted  courage  and 
committees  of  the  several  valuable  self-devotion  to  the  general  good,  and  a 
societies  connected  with  it,  and  was  habit  which  be  had  acquired  of  acting 
especially  instrumental  in  promoting  tbe  with  energy  and  decision  when  that  was 
formation  of  the  Norfolk  and  Norwich  to  be  promoted,  unfortunately  led  to  the 
society  for  educating  the  poor  in  the  lamentable  catastrophe  which  terminat- 
principles  of  the  Established  Church,  ed  his  earthly  career. 
He  took  great  delight  and  Was  peculiarly  In  consequence  of  nightly  depreda- 
adroit  in  publicly  examining  the  children  tions  fiequently  committed  in  tbe  neigb- 
of  tbe  central  school,  at  the  annual  bourhood,  tbe  inhabitants  of  Starston 
meeting  in  Norwich  j  and,  in  conjunc*  had  undertaken  to  watch  occasionally 
tlon  with  a  few  clerical  friends,  he  under-  by  turns;  some  went  out  themselvcfi, 
took  for  several  years  the  useful,  but  others  performird  their  duty  by  deputy, 
laborious  task  of  visiting  a  variety  of  Mr.  Whitear,  with  his  usual  forwardness 
schools  in  tbe  county  in  unison  with  it.  in  all  matters  of  public  utility,  volun- 
As  one  of  tbe  secretaries  of  this  society  teered  his  personal  services.  Great 
be  uniformly  attended  the  annual  meei-  security  bad  accrued  from  this  practice ; 
ing  of  the  National  Society  in  London,  but  some  relaxation  having  latterly 
and,  amongst  that  valuable  body  of  nieii«  taken  place,  depredations  were  return- 
to  whom  this  country  is  so  much  indebt-  ing  to  their  former  frequency,  and  it 
eilfor  the  diffusion  of  the  National  s>s-  seemed  expedient  to  resort  again  to  the 
ten  of  education,  and  for  the  energy  in  active  measures  formeriy  employed, 
which  it  is  preserved,  he  was  always  Certain  circumstances  having  transpired, 
looked  up  to  as  one  of  Its  most  efficient  which  created  a  suspicion  that  a  man  of 
members,  whose  presence  was  sure  to  notoriously  dishonest  character  migbt 
bring  with  it  some  valuable  accession  to  probably  he  detected  in  some  illegal  act 
tbe  information  of  the  meeting,  to  ani-  on  the  night  of  the  27th  November,  and 
mate  the  members  to  renewed  exertions,  be  thus  prevented  from  doing  further 
and  to  contribute  roost  agreeably  to  tbe  mischief,  the  whole  of  tbe  watch  agreed 
ioeial  harmony  of  the  occasion.  Nor  to  be  on  the  look  out.  Fire-arms  having 
was  be  less  diligent  and  successful  in  been  unaccountably  put  into  the  haniU 
promoting  the  religious  instruction  of  of  some  of  the  party,  to  the  total  frus« 
the  poor  in  his  own  parish,  and  in  tbe  tration  of  the  object  in  view^  one  of 
amall  adjoining  parish  of  Rushall,  the  them,  seized  with  a  panic  amounting  to 
core  of  which  he  had  undertaken  at  an  absolute  frenzy,  fired,  or  attempted  to 
inconsiderable  stipend,  from  hia  know*  fiie,  at  every  one  of  whom  be  ca«agbt 


IWJ.J  Mr,  Dewbery^^CUrgff  Dectand,  m 

ffifbC.     Unluppily   hit  piece  w«i   dit-  he  ww  preieated  in  1811  by  Mr.  Coarta* 

charged  when  directed  at  Mr.  Whitear,  nay,  and  to  the  latter  in  1815  by  the  Preh, 

and  thia  amiable  and  excellent  nan   fell  of  Lofi^ft  in  the  Cathedral  of  York.  Mr.- 

a  sacrifloe  to   bis   public  spirit,  which  Bucbaoan  was  one  of  the  most  intimate  ao^ 

would  not  allow  him  on  such  an  emer-  qoaintances  of  the  poet  Cowper. 
ipency   to  decli^ie    sharing  the   danger        At  Ashhome,  aged  74,  the  Rev.  Gwrgt 

with  bia  pariibinners.  Buckston,  Vicar  of  Shirland  and  of  firad- 

homecumBallidon,  all  in  Derbyshire.     Ht 

Mr.  John-William  Dewbbry.  was  of  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  B.  A.  1775,  M.A. 

Feb.  VI*    After  a  long  and  slowly  wait-  1778;  was  presented  to  Shirlaud  in   1799, 

kig  illness,  aged  68,  Mr.  John  WilliaiB  by  George  fiuckston,  esq.  and  to  Bradbome» 

Dewbery,  of  Cunduit-street,  Solicitor.  in  1803,  by  the  late  Duke  of  Devonshire. 

In  the  same  parish  (St.  George,  Han-         After  a  long  and  painful  illness,  aged  50, 

over-square,)   he  was  born  and  residetl  the  Rev.  f/mryPAt/ijpCbry>fr,  Vicar  of  £vca* 

during  the  whole  of  hit  lift*,  universally  ham,  and  Perpetual  Curate  of  Great  Hamp- 

respected,  and  long  esteemed  and  valued  ton.  Wore.     Iti  the  latter  he  was  presented 

through  a  circle  of  many  friends.    Hit  hj  Chrisl-church  Coll.  Oaf.  and  to  £veshaiii 

father  Joseph  D.  associated  with  the  dit-  >°  1^08  by  Mr.  Bloxame. 
tinguished   characters  of  the  day  that        Bev.  JoAn  tfese/Zon,  Mmister  of  the  New 

frequented    the    Mount    Coffee  -  house,  Chapel,  Morley,  Yorkshire, 
when  in  high  celebrity,  and  there  formed         ^{red  70,  the  Rev.  Thomat  Lio^,  Vicar 

one  of  the  party   to  wager  a  thousand  ^^  Albrighton,  Salop.     He  was  of  Pemb. 

guineas  as  to  Mis«  Pond  of  Newmarket^  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1780,  M.  A.  1788  ;  and 

riding  a  particular  poney  a   thousand  ^**  presented  to  Albrighton  by  the  Haber- 

miles  in    a  thousand  hours.    The  mile  <l^l>en' Company  in  1795. 
and  hour  not  being  named  to  be  reipec-         '^^  ^^*  f^^'  Miehell,  Rector  of  Coi* 

tively  successive,  the  task  was  performed  l^'g^*  Devon.     He  was  of  Caius  Cull.  Camb. 

without  difficulty,  but  attracted  general  ^-  \  1791,  and  waa  instituted  to  Cotle^h 

attention  from  the  novelty,  and  supplied  ^^  ^*'  ®^*^  presentation  in  1 805. 
Dr.  Johnson  with    a  subject  lor  the        •Age<l  75,  theRev.  Z>avtdAfuUfelo9i,  Re^ 

Idler,  No.  6.  tor  of  Crux  Easton,  Hants,  to  which  chm^ 

^  he  was  presented  in  1893. 
CLERGY    DECEASED.  At  Hereford,  aged  S«,  the  Rev.  Henry 

In  Nottingham,  aged  42,   the  Rev.  Tho-  Morse ,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Mr.  G.  Morse^ 

mas    Adin^    Rector    of  Charlotte  Town,  of  pdbrook. 

Prince  Edward's  Island,  and  Chaplain  to  his       ^K^^  7«,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Nelson,  Vicar 

Moietty's  forces  in  that  sUlion.  ®f  Owersby,  and   of  Kirkhy-cum-Osgodbr* 

The  Rev.  Richard  Barthohmew,  Rector  of  ^»°««     **•  "^  of  Trm.  Coll.  Camb.  B.A. 

Dunsfold,  Surrey,  to  which  church  he  was  ^777;  and  was  presented  to  his  livings  ia 

presented  in  1800  by  the  King.     He  was  ^  808,  by  the  late  Lord  Monson. 
son  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Bartholomew,  Rec-         Aged  38,  the  Rev.  Joshua- Holmes  Newbjf, 

tor  of  West  Clandon  and  Vicar  of  Shalford  ^-A.  Rector  of  Haseley,  near  Warwick.  H« 

in  Surrey,  and  aathor  of  a  travestie  of  the  ^'^  *°^  ^^  the  late  Rev.  Joshua  Newby, 

Iliad  (of  whom  see  some  particulars  in  vol.  ^^^low  of  Brazenose,  and  Rector  of  Greal 

X.ZX.  p.  1916', — vol.  Lxxi.  p.  174).  Rollright,  in  Oxfordshire.    The  deceased 

At  Framiiughara,  near  Norwich,  aged  70»  ^<^  educated  at  Hugby,  and  entered  at  Braz- 

the  Rev.  John  Blancks,  a  most  benevolent  cnose,  from  whence  he  was  elected  Demy  of 

character.     He  waa  of  Caius  Coll.  Camb.  Magdalen,  but  sacri6ced  his  college  prof 

B.A.  1777.    Of  the  same  society  were  two  pecu  to  an  early  marriage.    Having  been 

individuals  of  the  same  names,  the  latter  presented  in  1 894  by  the  late  Sir  £lmund 

B.A.  1799,  the  former  M.A.  1689.  Antrobus,  bart.  to  the  rectory  of  Haseley, 

The  Rev.  George  Bormey,  Vicar  of  San-  b«  immediately  resolved  to  fix  his  abode  for 
don,  Staffordshire.  He  was  foimerly  Fellow  I^'*  among  his  parishioners,  and,  the  parson* 
of  Jesus  Coll.  Camb.  where  he  proceeded  ^g®  being  old  and  inadequate  for  the  recep* 
B.A.  1781,  M.A,  1784  ;  and  was  presented  ^'^n  of  his  fiunily,  he  lost  no  time  in  rebuild- 
to  his  living  in  1799,  by  the  late  Lord  Har-  >°g  it*  To  such  friends  as  might  remark  on 
ruwby.  He  was  uncle  of  the  Ven.  Henry-  the  pecuniary  risk  incurred  by  this  outlay,  he 
Kaye  Bonney,  the  Archdeacon  of  Bedford.  «s«l  to  reply  "  Never  fJear, — if  we  lose  the 

In  his  80 ih  year,  the  Rev.  Joseph  BoW'  money,  the  parish  will  gain  a  resident  clergy- 
man, upwards  of  6fcy  years  Curate  of  Slaid-  <»«>•  Trust  in  Providence."  Haselv  and 
burn,  Yorkshire.  Hatton  being  nearly  contiguous,  Mr.  Ndwby 

At  Weston  Underwood,  Bocks,  the  Rev.  became  not  merely  intimate,  but  a  great 

John  Buchanan,  Perpetual  Curate  of  that  fi^vourite,  with  the  late  Dr.  Parr,  though, 

narish,    and    Vicar  of   North    Grimston,  barring  a  pun,  no  man  was  less  a  /wfiasite. 

Yorkshire,  to  the  former  of  which  eburehes  A  Tory  on  principle,  be  «raa  manly  and  iad»- 

OsNT.  Mao.  AfarrA,  1827.  pendent;   a  Truutarian  on  ecnvksiioo^  hi 

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cathoUo  and  toltCMit*  if  tb«i  ItMoeil 
Doctor  and  he  held  •slJ  ofMnioni  But  ifcrictly 
10  tiniton,  whether  lelifficMit  or  poHiicmf, 
thej  were  seldom  iotrodiiocd  polemically^ 
and  never  ctmed  •  moment's  sat peosbn  of 
karmony.  Alluding  to  a  circumstance 
before- mentioned,  the  Giant  of  Hatton  thiU 
iatniduced  Mr.  Newby  to  a  great  man  in 
their  common  vicinity  :  **  This  it  my  friend 
^ewby  {  he  was  a  Demy  of  Magdalen,  and 
ifould  have  beea  a  Fellow,  but  fur  this  lady 
(Mrs.  N.)  Sir/  he  is  possessed  of  an  ex- 
qelleot  library  ;  and,  better  still >  he  makes 
a  good  use  of  it."  lu  fact,  until  disabled 
by  declining  health,  Mr*  Newby  was  a  close 
leader,  particularly  in  his  own  proper  walk 
of  divinity.  His  religion  he  drew  from  tha 
Bible,  as  illustrated  and  exemplified  by  tha 

?rotcstant  divines,  from  Hooker  to  Home, 
le  loved  the  Church  of  England,  and  waa 
truly  orthodox  accordmg  to  her  Utorgy, 
articles,  and  homilies ;  but,  alraveali,  *' bm 
\tk  was  in  the  right."  Mr.  Newby  was  one 
of  the.  pall-bearers  named  in  Dr.  Pa^*s  will, 
and  attended  the  Doctor's  funeral  in  that 
capacity.  Mr.  N.  has  left  a  widow,  daughter 
of  C  M.  Hardy,  esq.  Surgeon,  of  Newport 
PbgBel,  and  a  numefoua  young  family. 

Aged  75,  the  Key.  John  Swann,  of  Brant 
Brogghton,  Line.  Vicar  of  Carlton-in-More- 
ksd,  and  Sequestrator  of  Stapleford  in  that 
county.  He  was  of  Jesus  Coll.  Camb.  B.A. 
1780,  and  was  presented  to  his  benefices  in 
1799  bv  the  lata  Lord  Middletou. 

At  Cluydagh  Gle lie- house,  near  Carlow, 
aged  75,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bartholomew  Thomost 
§ut  upwards  of  forty  years  Rector  of  the 
Union  of  Ctoydag,  and  Ptebendary  of  Shculty 
in  the  diocese  of  Leighlin. 

Jan.  9.  Aced  66',  the  Rev.  Sam.  Knight, 
Vicar  of  Halifax.  He  was  formerly  FeUuw 
of  Magdalen  CoU.  C^b.  where  he  proceed- 
ed B.A.  ]78a,  M.A.  1786*.  He  was  numi- 
nated  in  1798  the  first  incumbent  of  the 
Holy  Trinity  Church  in  Halifisx,  and  hekl 
tluit  preferment  till,  on  the  decease  of  Dr. 
Coulthurst  in  1817,  he  was  presented  to  the 
vicarage  by  the  Crown. 

Jan,  S3.  At  South  Pickenham  Hall, 
Norfolk,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Vert  Chute,  of 
that  place,  and  of  the  Viue  in  Hampshire. 
He  was  of  Pembroke-ball,  Camb.  B.  A.  1794, 
MiA.  1801  )  waa  presentfd  to  the  Rectory, 
of  Sherborne  St.  John,  in  Hampshire,  in 
lft04»  by  T.  L.  Chute,  esq.  to  that  of  Great 
Moultoa,  in  Norfolk,  in  the  same  year,  and 
to  that  of  South  Pickeoliam  iu  1811,  hf 
W.  Chute,  esq.  Ms.  Chute  has  left  hia 
aalates  to  his  eouiia  Wm.  Lyde  Wiggett,  of 
%h#  Middle  Temple,  eaq.  second  son  of  the 
lUv.  J^BBuea  Wicgatt,  Vjcar  of  CrudweH, 
«nd  Rsctoc  of  Haakartons  Wilts.  That 
^98»leiM|i  has  obtained  the  King's  ^o•Q|a 
to  take  the  a«ro«Be  of  Chute  io  additic^^  |o 
thM  of  Wiggit^  aimI  to  bear  the  aoBBi  of 
Chttlt  viay|a{ly« 

Jasu^J  At  Sammer^hUl^  nair  BimiB^- 


ham,  of  apoplexy,  aged  7tf,  the  Rev.  Jbibi* 
£018  Bokkn,  formerly  Rector  of  Upminster> 
Essex.  He  was  of  Queen's  Coll.  Oxf.  M.A. 
1774. 

Feb*  1 .  At  Linwood  Rectory,  Line,  a^ed 
67,  the  Rev.  Sam,  Fyemont,  Rector.  He 
was  of  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1789,  M.A. 
1785,  and  was  presented  to  Linwood  in  the 
latter  year  by  A.  Wallis,  gent. 

'Feif.  8.  Affcd  8»,  the  Rev.  ffm.  Harrison, 
Vicar  of  Wiaterton  and  Great  Limber, 
Lino.  He  was  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb. 
B.A.  1769,  M.A.  1787  i  and  was  prest-nted 
to  his  livings  by  the  King,  to  Wintertoo  in 
1779,  and  Grest  Limber  in  1789. 

Feb.  4.  At  Yarmouth,  after  a  short  ill- 
ness, aged  45.  the  Rev.  Sterling  Kelly,  one 
of  the  Senior  Fellows  of  King's  Coll.  Camb. 
where  he  proceeded  B.A.  1804,  M.A.  1807. 
Feb.  4.  At  Costock,  Notts,  the  Rev.  IV, 
Q.  JVUde,  incumbent  of  Kingston- upon- 
Soar,  to  which  Chapel ry  he  was  presented 
in  1807,  by  Thos.  Evans  and  Wm.  Strutt. 

FeL\  5.  At  Rochesur,  io  his  88th  year, 
tlie  Ven.  John  Law,  S.T.P.  Archdeacon  of 
Rochester,  Minister  of  Chatham,  Kent; 
Rector  of  WestmiU,  Heru,  and  of  Eastoa 
Magna,  Essex.  This  truly  venerable  Divine, 
vho  was  the  oldest  dignitary  of  the  Esta- 
blished Churchj  was  formerly  Fellow  of 
Emanuel  Coll.  Camb.  where  he  proceeded 
B.A.  1760,  M.A.  17(»3^  S.T.P.  1778.  He 
was  appointed  Archdeacon  of  Rochester 
by  Bishop  Zachary  Pearce  in  176*7;  was 
presented  to  Westmill  in  1771,  by  R. 
Freeman,  D.D.,  to  Great  Easton  in  1776 
by  the  late  Vise.  Maynard,  and  to  Chat- 
ham iu  1784,  by  th^  Dean  anil  Chapter 
of  Rochester.  He  published  Charges 
delivered  to  tlie  Clergy  of  the  Diocese  of 
Rochester  in  1779,  1782,  1798,  1809, 
1806,  1811,  1817,  and  probably  several 
others  ;  and  a  Sermon  at  the  Anniversary 
Meeting  of  the  Charity  Children  in  St. 
Paul's,  1797,  4to. 

Feb.  5.  At  Mereworth,  Kent,  aged  78, 
the  Rev.  Wm,- Foster  Pigott,  D.D.  F.S.A.  of 
Abingdon  Pigotts,  Carobridceshire,  Fellow 
of  Eton  College,  Rector  uf  Mereworth,  and 
of  Clewer,  Berks,  and  one  of  his  Majesty's 
chaplains.  He  obtained  the  latter  prefer- 
ment in  1793  ;  was  presen^ted  to  Mereworth 
bY  Lord  le  Despenser ;  and  to  Clewer  by 
Eton  College. 

Feb.  5.  At  Martock,  Som.  aged  66,  the 
Rev.  Elias  Taylor,  B.D.  of  Sliapwick-house, 
one  of  his  Majesty's  Justices  of  the  Peace, 
and  Rector  of  Lufton  in  that  county,  Rector 
of  Hayes,  Middlesex,  and  formerly  Fellow 
of  Tno.  Coll.  Oxf.  He  was  educated  at 
Winchester  under  Dr.  TVarton,  and  frqim 
thence,  there  being  no  vacaacy  at  New  Coll. 
ha  removed  to  Oxfordi  and  catered  as  « 
commoner  at  Trinity  ial  779,  and  the  foUow- 
iogjaar  was  elected  a  scholar,  and  In  1786 
a  rellow  of  that  Societpr.  Hera  he,  was 
necesaarily  thrown  much  into  tha  aooie^  of> 


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furi  ins  nuMt  uituJlj  the  cimipaiiioii  of  Toil 
WtnoQ,  witnessing  those  scenet  in  which  it 
ii  well  known  the  poet  so  mneh  deligltted. 
Mr.  Taylor  vacated  his  Fellowship  by  mar- 
riage in  1 805,  and,  in  a  few  years  after  upon 
the  deatli  of  a  rehitton,  became  poaaeased  of 
considerable  estates  in  Somersetshire,  where 
he  resided  till  his  death  in  the  exercise  of  a 
genprnus  but  unostentatious  hospitality.  To 
his  friends  his  house  was  always  open,  and 
their  welcome  to  it  was  hearty  and  sincere. 
To  his  own  family  he  wai  most  affectionately 
and  unalterably  attached.  He  was  a  good 
subject,  and  an  upright  magistrate,  a  firm 
and  zeak>us  supporter  «if  the  constitution  of 
his  coantrv  in  Church  and  state,  a  kind 
master,  and  a  lilieral  and  indulgent  landlf«rd. 
Feb.  1 2.  Aged  30,  the  Kev.  Geo.  Dales, 
late  Curate  of  the  Hnly  Trinity,  York,  and 
Minister  of  Dringhouses.  He  was  the  son 
of  Aid.  Dales  of  York,  and  was  a  zealous 
tad  laborious  advocate  in  the  cause  of  re- 
ligion. 

DEATHS. 

London  and  its  Environs. 

Felf.  9.  Lt.-gen.  John  Ramsay.  He  was 
appointed  3d  Lieut,  in  the  Royal  Artillery 
in  1771;  1st.  Lieut.  1779;  Captaiu-Lieut. 
and  Captain  1781,  Lt.-Colonel,  1796;  Co- 
lonel, 1803;  Major-General,  1800;  Colo- 
nel-Commandant in  the  Rnyal  Artillery, 
1813;  Lieut.-General,  1814. 

Jane,  wife  of  Robt.  Tabrum,  eiq.  of  Re- 
gent-st. 

Feb.  1 0.  At  Dalby-terrace,  Robt.  £wing» 
ttq.  late  of  Clapton -terrace. 

Feb.  1 5.  In  Bedford-place,  aged  65,  Edw. 
Lee,  esq. 

Feb.  17.  At  her  son-in-law's,  Adam 
Young,  esq.  of  Vanbrugh-field,  Blackheath, 
^ed  83,  Janet,  widow  of  John  Sime,  esq. 

Aged  8 1 ,  Mrs.  £.  Ware,  of  the  Crescent, 
Greenwich. 

Feb.  19.  At  Tumham-green,  aged  76, 
Rich.  Collett,  esq.  formerly  of  Chancery-la. 

Feb.}  9.  Of  an  aneurism  of  the  heart,  aged 
69,  Mr.  John  Harding,  bookseller,  of  Saint 
James*s-st. 

Feb.  80.  In  the  Royal  Terrace,  Adelphi, 
Emily-Catherine  Bethune,  the  infant  dau. 
of  H.  Leggatt,  esq. 

In  Cadogan-pl.  Mrs.  Twiss. 

Feb.  SI.  AtSumford-hUl,  aged  61, Capt. 
J.  Bayley. 

Feb.  23.  At  the  Earl  Ferrers's  villa,  in 
Paddington,  the  Right  Hon.  Elizabeth  Coun- 
tess Ferrers.  She  was  the  youngest  dau.  of 
the  late  Wrightson  Mundy,  of  Markeaton 
Hall,  Derbyshire,  esq.  and  sister  to  Francia 
Mundy,  esq.  the  present  M.P.  for  that 
county.  She  became  the  second  wife  of 
Robert,  seventh  and  preiient  Earl  Ferrers^ 
Sept.  88,  1799  i  but  left  no  children. 

Feb.  IS.  In  Grosvenor-pl.  aged  74,  Joha 
Musters,  esq.  of  Colwick  Hall,  NotU* 


At  Clapbam  Rise,  tht  widow  ^  jjohn 
Newosaa,  esq.  of  Fiamere  House,  co.  Oxf. ' 

In  GloQcester-pl.  aged  70,  Mary,  wife  oC 
John-Henton  Tritton,  esq. 

Feb.  96.  At  Islington,  aged  7j3,  Mrs* 
Eliz.  Bennett. 

In  Wobum-pl.  Russell-sq.  Eliz.  relict  of 
the  Rev.  Rowland  Berkeley,  LL.D.  late  of 
Writtle,  in  Essex. 

At  St.  German*s-place,  Blackheath,  in 
her  80th  year,  Marg.  wife  of  J.  Lb  Kensii^ 
ton,  esq. 

Feb.  88.  In  Great  Rossell-st  Bloomshoryi 
aged  56,  John  Butts,  esq. 

Lately.  In  Great  Ryder-st.  St.  James*Sy 
aged  65,  Thos.  Fisher,  esq. 

March  1 .  In  Sidmouth-st.  Mecklenb.-<M|k 
aged  80,  Hester,  wife  of  Thos.  Speneer,  es^ 

Aged  70,  Mrs.  Beddome,  ot  Claphamy 
relict  nf  Sam.  Beddome,  esq. 

At  Cromwell  House,  Old  Brompton,  aged 
59,  Meyrick  Bankes,  esq.  of  Winstanley 
Hall,  CO.  Lane. 

March  i.  At  East  Cottage,  Bexley  Heath» 
the  wife  of  Lieut-col.  J.  Hickes,  E.  I.  C. 

March  4.  Aged  96,  Mr.  Thos.  Whit«^ 
of  Staple-inn,  solicitor,  second  son  of  Hel^ 
White,  esq.  of  Hampstesd. 

March  6.  At  Gun-nl.  Camberwell,  aged 
65,  Anne,  only  dau.  or  the  late  Rev.  Arth. 
Young,  many  years  master  of  the  Founda- 
tion School  at  East  Mallini^,  in  Kent,  and 
sister  to  the  late  Rev.  Jas.  Young,  M.A.  of 
Leeds. 

At  Clapham- common,  aged  78,  Mrs. 
Hots  man. 

March  6,  Aged  88,  Anne,  relict  of  Wm, 
Selby,  esq.  of  Upper  Seymouf-st.  and  They- 
don -green,  Essex* 

At  Felix-cottage,  Liverpool-road,  Islin|^ 
ton,  aged  76,  Edw.  Ballard,  esq. 

In  Gerard-st.  in  his  80th  year,  John  Pef- 
kins,  esq.  of  Pendell  Court,  near  Blechlog- 
ley,  Surrey. 

March  9.  At  Compton-terrace,  Isling* 
ton,  aged  73,  Anne,  widow  of  Thos.  Row- 
ley,  esq. 

At  Greenwich,  u^ed  89,  John  Pingo,  esq. 

March  10.  In  Russell-sqnare,  aged  16» 
Sophia,  dau.  of  Claude  Geo.  Thornton,  esq. 

In  Manchester- sq.  R.  B.  Robson,  esq. 

March  II.  At  Mr.  Edw.  Treacher's^ 
Burton-crescent,  aged  77,  Sam.  Gamaull, 
esq.  Treasurer  to  the  New  River  Company 
siuce  Nov.  8,  1804.  He  died  unmarrira, 
and  has  left  nearly  the  whole  of  his  propbrtv 
to  his  grand-nephew,  the  son  of  H.  Cf. 
Bowles,  esq.  F.S.A.  of  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard, and  Myddelton  Hotiie,  Enfield.  The 
Gamaulta  are  of  French  extraction. 

Aged  7 1 ,  Marg.  wife  of  Mr.  Francis  Jolit, 
of  Old  Broad-street. 

Aged  96,  Jane  Harriet,  wife  of  John 
Robt.  Pitter,  eaq.  of  Bedford-street,  Cotent- 
garden*  ^ 

In  St.  John'i-w«od-road,  kgtd  US/  Jdte 
Uiher,  esq. 


'   ilforefclB.  At9tittnford-bill>Bged^5,Mr.  Denton  Fnit,  of  Clifton^  esq.  tnd  wm  bom 

James  Davis»  celebfaied  as  an  organ  builder  at  Bristol »  Dec.  1 1,  1764.    This  unfortu- 

for  tbe  last  SO  years.     No  person  since  tbe  nate  lady  was  at  no  period  competent  to 

time  of  Green,  has  built  so  many  organs,  or  partake  in  the  management  of  her  own  af- 

of  such  magnitude,  as  Mr.  D.     He  retired  hin,  and  in  consequence  her  lar^  esute 

from  business  about  six  years  ago,  in  conse*  was  placed  by  tbe  Lord  Cluuacellor  under 

qnence  of  coming  into  possession  of  some  the  control  of  a  committee,  and  her  person 

property  by  the  death  of  a  brother,  who  was  confided  to  tbe  care  of  her  cousin.  Miss 

mAny  years  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Clementi  Langley.    That  lady,  dau.  of  Geo.  Laogley, 

and  Co.  Cheapside.    The  largest  organ  he  esq.  Capt.  of  Marines,  by  Flora,  dau.  of  Sir 

ever  built  is  at  the  new  church  at  Stockport,  Francis  Fust,  the  fifth  baronet,  has  suc^ 

Lancashire.     The  last  organ  he  built  is  at  ceeded  to  the  entire  property. 
the  French  Catholic  Chapel,  Somers  Town.         At  Charlton  Kings,  Lieut.  Tho.  Loyesy» 

He  prouounced  this  as  his  best  organ.     He  R.  N. 

was  rery  partial  to  Schmidt  and  Harris's         Hakts. — March!.     At  Lyndhurst,  tbe 

organs.    The  diapasons  in  St.  Paul's  Cathe-  Right  Hon.   tbe  Countess  cmT  Effingham, 

drd,  and  the  reed  stops  Vn  St.  Sepulchre's  She  was    dau.   of  John    March,   esq. '  of 

ofgan,  he  said,  were  tne  finest  in  the  king-  Waresley  Park,  Hunts,  and  married  to  Rich- 

doro.->— Mr.  Bishop   succeeds    in   all   the  ard,  fourth  and  last  Earl  of  Effingham,  June 

church  business.  14, 1785  ;  but  had  no  issne.    The  earl  died 

March  14.     At  Highbury-terrace,  aged  in  1816. 
82,  Mary  Ann,  dau.  of  Thos.  Kldrid,  esq.  March  18.     At  Andover,   in  his  80th 

In  Cleveland-st.  Fitzroy-sq.  Edw.  French,  year,  John  Poore,  esq.  formerly  of  Red- 

esq.  formerly  of  tbe  Island  of  St.  Vincent.  bridge.  . 

March  \b.     In   Euston-place,  aged  79,         Heref. — At  Leominster,  Eliz.- Barbara, 

Robert  Woodifield,  esq.  late  of  Lyndhurst,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  H.  Vaughan» 

Hants.  vicar. 

March  16.     At  Ivy  Cottage,  Parson's-  Herts. — ilfarc^  17.  At  Sawbridgeworth, 

green,  aged  67»  James  Thompson,  esq.  aged  24,  Ralph  Allen,  esq. 

Mar^h  17.  In  Haker-st.  Portman-square,         March  19.     At  Watford,  aged  86,  Tho. 

aged  70,   Tho.  Dickason,  esq.  of  Fulwell  Day,  esq. 
Lodge,  Twickenham.  Kent. — Feb.  9»   At  a  lodging-house  near 

March  20.     Aged  22,  .losephine,  wife  of  the  1>ridge,  Maidstone,  William  Bamett,  a 

Geo.  Walter  Hume,  esq.  of  Long-acre.  rag-gatherer.    This  miserable  person,  whose 

At  Hoxton,  aged  42,  Mr.  William  Henry  general  occupation  was  that  of  l>egging,  had 

Harrison  Page.  scarcely  clothes  to  cover  him,  and  hardly  a 

— —  shoe  to  his  foot.     His  abstinence  was  so 

B£DS. — Feb,  25.     After  a  protracted  UN  great,  that  he  has  been  ttnowu  to  purchase 

ness,  Elizabeth,  eldest  dau.  of  W.  Fred,  meat  so  offensive  as  scarcely  to  be  endured 

Brown,  esq.  of  Dunstable.  by  ihe  other  inrnptes  of  the  house,  and  ge- 

Berks. — Feb,  27.      Mrs.   Ann  Waller,  nerally  ate  his  food  in  a  raw  sute,  to  save 
dau.  of  the  late  James  Waller,  of  Hurst.  the  expense  of  firing.     Yet,  just  before  his 

At  Windsor,  aged  81,  Cha.  Rooke,  esq.     death,  he  desired  the  woman   with  whom 

J^^.  28.     Suddenly,  at  his  seat,  Bishops-     he  lodged,   to  search  his  pockets,  aud  73 

gate  College,  Windsor  Park,  Geo.  Powney,  sovereigns  were  found  in  them  carefully 
esq.  whose  ancestors  represented  that  bo-     wrapped  up. 

rough  in  Parliament  for  a  great  number  of  Feb.  23.  At  Birchinrton,  Thanet,  aged 
years.  1  he  deceased  was  seized  with  a  fit  76,  Elizabeth,  sister  of  the  late  George 
•of  apoplexy  while  he  was  in  the  retiring-  Friend,  esq.  and  aunt  of  James  Taddy,  jnn. 
room,  and  was  found  lifeless  by  his  servants,     esq.     She  has  bequeathed  several  sums  of 

Devonshire. — Feb.  93.     At  Exmooth,  money  to  public  and  private  charities  in  the 
aged  4 1 ,  Rich.  Horwood,  esq.  late  com-     county  of  Kent, 
mander  of  the  ship  Milford  of  Bombay.  Lancashire. — Lately.  At  Duncan  Lodge, 

Dorset. — Lately.  At  Sherborne,  Jane,  near  Manchester,  the  widow  of  Wm.  Bent, 
wife  of  W.  F.  Grove,  of  Melburv-Abbas.  esq.  of  Stoney  Field,  near  Newcastle. 

Durham. — Feb.    21.      At    Bishopwear*         At  Ince  Hall,  near  Wigan,  Robt.  Lloyd, 
mouth,  aged  80,  the  widow  of  John  Elstob,     esq.  late  Collector  of  Excise. 
.  esq.  '  Leicestershire. — MarchS.  At  Appleby, 

March  II.  Advanced  in  age, Tho. Todd,  Chas.  Moore,  esq. Barrister-at- Law,  and  an 
esq.  of  Tunniside,  near  Lanchester,  and  lata  acting  magistrate  of  the  county.  He  was 
-of  the  Gen.  Post^Office.  a  gentleman  of  the  strictest   honour  and 

•Essex. — Lately.  Aged  61 ,  John  King,  most  unaffected  piety  :  to  all  who  had  the 
'esq.  a  magistrate  of  Colchester.  hap^iiess    of  his    acquaintance  he  was  a 

Glouc— 'At  Hill  Court,  aged  68,  Miss  sincere  and  valuable  friend ;  and  his  benevo- 
Fanny  Fust,  niece  of  the  late  bir  John  Foafe,     lence  to  the  poor  and  needy  was  unbounded 

the  sixth  and  last  baronet  of  that  pkoe.  juiid  unostentatious. 
She  was  the  only  surviving  child  of  tht  kte        Monk  I L    At  Cotsingtoo,  Maryf  eldetl 


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dav.  of  the  Uto  Thot.  Kiiig>  iMq,  of  Stieby. 

March  1 3.     Felix-Fredericy  younnst  sott 

of  Mr.  Price,  editor  of  the  Leicester  JounuJ» 

Norfolk. — Feb,  16\  At  MondhAiu,  agod 

75|  Wm.  Parker,  esq. 

March  19.  At  Guiat,  aged  59,  Edwaid 
Dewing,  esq. 

Northamptonshire. — March  14.  Ag«d 
19»  Emma,  eldest  dau.  of  Stafford  O'Brien, 
esq.  of  Blatherhythe-hall. 

Northumberland. — Feb.  \S,  At  North 
Shields,  aged  90,  Mr.  P.  Watson,  who  had  for 
sixty- three  years  successfully  practised  as  a 
surgeon  in  that  town.  His  name  is  associated 
with  the  history  of  most  of  the  pubCe 
charities  of  North  Shields.  A  monument, 
by  voluntary  subscription,  is  to  be  erected 
in  Tynemouth  church,  to  the  memory  of  this 
venerable  and  useful  individual. 

Feb,  12.  At  Berwick,  aged  77,  Wm. 
Berry,  esq.  of  Whitsom-hill,  banker,  of  th« 
firm  of  Batson,  Berry,  and  Co. 

Feb.  26.  At  £astwick-halJ,  aged  75,  Mrs. 
M.  Spearman,  sister  of  the  late  K.  Spear- 
man, esq.  the  celebrated  local  Antiquary. 

March  3.  In  £llison-place,  Newcastle, 
advanced  in  age,  Wm.  Laslie,  esq.  an  eminent 
ship  builder.  > 

March  11.  In  Elswick-court,  Newcastle, 
the  relict  of  William  Coulson,  esq.  and  mo- 
ther of  Lt.*Col.  Coulson,  of  Bleokinsop 
Castle. 

Oxford. — Jan.  15.  At  Corpns  Lodge, 
Edward,  infaotson  of  the  Rev.  J.  Lamb. 

Somersetshire. — Feb,  36.  At  Coroh* 
Haj-house,  near  Bath,  Jaciuthia,  wife  of 
Wm.  Gore  Laogton,  jun.  esq.  of  Magd. 
Coll.  Oxf.  eldest  son  of  Col.  Gore  Laogton. 
She  was  the  only  child  of  Henry  Powell 
Collins,  esq. 

Laiely.  At  Bath,  aged  93,  Mrs. Charlotte 
Holt,  sister  of  the  late  Rowland  Holt,  esq. 
of  Redgrave  Hall,  esq.  Suffolk,  3 1  years  M.r. 
for  that  county,  and  the  last  surviving  rela- 
tive of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt. 

At  Wells,  Major  Archibald  Christie,  late 
of  6th  regt.  foot,  fourth  son  of  the  late 
A.  Christie,  esq.  of  Ratho,  co.  Mid-Lothian. 
Feb,  37.  At  Staple-grove  Lodge,  near 
Taunton,  aged  63,  Chas.  Law,  esq.  formerly 
a  wholesale  bookseller  in  Ave-M aria- lane. 

Feb,  28.  At  Bath,  aged  79,  James  Nor- 
man, esq.  one  of  the  surgeons  of  the  Bristol 
Infirmary. 

March  10.  At  Bath,  aged  81,  Mrs. 
Hunn,  mother  of  the  Right  Hon.  George 
Canning. 

Staffordshire — Lately,  Ann,  wife  of 
Rich,  Rabone,  esq.  of  Smethwick  Hall. 

Surrey. — Feb.  28.  Near  Croydon,  aged 
86,  Robert  Lloyd  >  esq. 

March  3.  At  Great  Bookharo,  after  a 
long  and  severe  affliction,  aged  88,  Mr. 
George  Lowdell,  for  many  years  an  eminent 
surgeon  in  Southwark. 

March  5.  At  Banstead,  Lt.-Gen.  Sir 
£dw.  Howor^b^  of  (he  Royal  Hof«c-  Artil- 


lery, K.C.B.  and  G.C  Jl.  He  was  appobteil 
first  Lieut.  R.A.  in  1779,  Captain  in  1789, 
Major  in  the  army  1794,  Lieut.  -  Colonel 
1798,  Liettt.-Colonel  R.A.  1801,  Coloaei 
1805,  Major-General  1811,  a  d  Lient.^ 
General  1819.  He  served  in  the  Peninsttl% 
and  was  present  as  Brig.-General  coromaa^ 
ing  the  aitlUery  at  Talavera,  Busaco^  and 
Fuentes  d*Onor,  for  whieh  services  he  waa 
honoured  with  a  medal  and  two  clasps. 

Warwicxsuire. — Feb,  18.  At  PailtM 
Hall,  aged  71 ,  the  widow  of  T.  Grundy,  esq*  ' 

Feb.  37.  At  Stratford-upon-Avon,  aged 
41 ,  Chaa.-John- Henry  Howe,  esq. 

March  3.  At  Pyke  H«yes,  aged  St* 
Henesge  Walter  Legge,  Midshipman,^ R.N* 
and  youngest  surviving  son  of  the  Hon.  and 
Rev.  Augustus  George  Legge,  of  Wonstoo* 
Hants. 

March  14.  At  Stratford- upon- Avon* 
where  he  had  resided  nearly  fifty -years,  aged 
78,  Rich.  Wyatt,  esq.  solicitor. 

Wilts. — At  Marston  Maisey,  in  hb  84tk 
year,  Wm.  Jenner,  esq. 

Worcestershire. — Feb,  15.  At  Hab* 
berley-house,  near  Kidderminster,  aged  67, 
James  Hooman,  esq. 

Feb.  35.  Aged  85,  Bridget-Mary,  wife 
of  ThoB.-Charles  Homyolri,  esq.  of  Black- 
more  Park,  and  fifth  dau.  of  the  late  John 
Webb  Weston,  e^q.  of  Sutton-place,  Surrey. 

Yorkshire. — Feb.  31.  At  Leeds,  aged 
73.  John  Blayds,  esq.  of  the  firm  of  Blayda* 
Beckett  and  Co.  bankers.  Deputy  Lieut,  for 
tlte  County,  Senior  Member  of  the  Corpomr 
tion,  and  twice  Mayor  of  that  Borough, 
whose  great  public  and  private  worth  will  be 
long  remembered. 

Lately,  Anne  Katherine,  wife  of  R.  W« 
D.  Thorp,  M  J),  of  Leeds. 

March  6,  At  Hull,  aged  88,  John 
Brecken,  esq.  late  of  Prince  Edward's  Island. 

March  IS.  Aged  669  Gervas  Seaton« 
esq.  of  Redness. 

Vf ALa,— 'Lately,  Aged  69,  D.J.  Ed' 
wards  esq.  of  Rhydygorse,  near  CarmartbeD^ 

At  Whitehall,  Denb.  Mary,  wife  of  Johs 
Naylor,  tta. 

At  Lawhaden,  near  Narberth,  Capl. 
Skryme,  R.  N. 

Scotland. — Feb,  1.  At  his  brother's 
house,  Fallside,  Lanarkside,  in  the  prime  of 
life,  Alex.  Adkin,  M.  D.  Mouchive,  Dum- 
frieshire. 

Feb.  32.  At  Dunniker  House,  the  lady 
of  Lieut. -gen.  Sir  John  Oswald,  O.  C.B. 
and  dau.  of  the  late  Lord  C-  Aynsley,  of 
Little  Horle,  Northomberland^-one  of  the 
best  and  most  amiable  of  women. 

Feb.  28.  At  Canan  Lodge,  near  Edta- 
hnrch,  in  his  74th  year,  John  BUgrave,  esq. 
of  Calcot  Park,  and  Kingwood,  Berkshire. 

lRELAND.-~«/(tm.  30.  At  Castlemartyr, 
CO.  Cork,  aged  80,  the  right  hon.  Catha- 
rine, countess  dowager  of  Shannon.  She 
was  bom  April  3,  1 746,  the  eldest  dan.  of 
^  ti^i  hon.  John  PoDi<mb|«  SyaJutt  WL 


Onrvknii 


ih4  Irish  Hovie  bf  CoaiiMm,  hj  JjAy  BK« 
iftbeth  Ccv«ndiah,  Mcbnd  daiu  of  Wm« 
tiiird  Dak«  of  Devonshire,  K.  G.  She  wae 
iMBTied,  Dec.  15,  4  763,  toilichArdy  second 
■ad  late  Earl  of  Shannon,  R.  P.  t  and  wu 
lyother  of  Henry,  the  present  SarK  and  of 
Cblliartne-Henriettay  tne  late  Countess  of 
Baadon.  She  was  aunt  to  Lord  Poneonby 
•f  Imokiily,  and  to  Lord  Lismore.  Her 
Ladyship  was  one  of  the  most  benevolent 
•ad  charitable  characters  that  ever  adorned 
her  rank  of  life. 

March  1  .-—At  his  seat,  Carraic  Brec»  on 
the  Hill  of  Howthy  Qeonge  Hanoyngten, 
tl^  His  death  was  occasioned  by  niling 
iilto  a  stone  quarry. 

Abroad. — Avg,  1 7.  Aged  70,  the  Rev. 
Kdooss  Arratcon,  the  vicar  of  the  Arme- 
nian Church  in  Calcutta,  over  which  lie 
presided  five  years. 

jhif:.  On  board  the  Ganges,  in  the  passaee 
from  Rangoon  tn  Calcutta,  Chrku  Smyth, 
Mq.  chief  oflloer  of  that  ship,  son  of  Christ. 
Smyth,  esq.  of  Beech  Grove,  writer  in 
0«infri«s. 

Sept,  15.  On  board. H.  M.S.  Samarang, 
otf  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  aged  17, 
AMbuel,  third  son  of  Sir  Geo.  Wm.  Leeds, 
hart. 

Dec  1 .  At  Buenos  Ayres,  Geo.  Gwynne, 
<fn1y  surviving  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Wm. 
Hodges,  Vicar  of  Mattersea,  and  of  Hay- 
ton,  in  Notts. 


[Mtarcft^ 


91.  At  Rotterdam,  aged  63,  R»ar 
Adin.  J.  S.  May,  Naval  Commissioner  and 
Port  Adm.  there,  Knt^  of  the  8d  dess  of 
the  Royal  Military  Order  of  William,  Grand- 
cross  of  the  Russian  Order  of  St.  Ann,  and 
mnmber  of  sereral  learned  societies. 

Jan.  27.  At  Genoa,  Tho.  Harrington^ 
Jun.  esq.  of  Brighton. 

Latelff.  At  nis  son-in  law  Col.  Cook's, 
at  Honfleur,  Franca,  after  an  illness  of  two 
Wars  and  nine  months,  aged  77,  Aubone 
Sortees,  esq.  formerly  h  baaker  kt  New- 
eastie,  brother  to  the  lata  Rev.  Mauhew 
Sarteea,  and  brother-io-U#  to  the  Lord 
Chancellor. 

At  Quito,  in  Colombia,  Henry  Wood, 
esq.  his  Bri tabic  Majesty's  Otnsul  at  Gusya''' 
qttil,  and  8d  son  of  late  Capt.  Wood,  of 
Brambliug  House,  Kent. 

At  Mettra,  aged  97,  Francis  Dibdin,  se- 
nior Lieut,  of  the  8d  Light  Cavalry,  Ben«^l 
Estab.  and  only  surviving  son  of  the  Rev« 
T.F.  DiMIn,  D.D.  Rector  of  St.  Mary's 
Mary  -  le  -  bone,  and  vicar  of  £xnlng,  Suf- 
folk. 

Feb.  5.  At  St.  Helier's,  Jersey,  aged  45, 
Geo  Peter  Martyn  Young,  esq.  of  Netherexe 
House,  Devon. 

Feb.  9.  At  Rome,  in  his  97th  year, 
Rioh.  eldest  son  of  Mr.  Cmttwell,  proprietor 
and  printer  of  the  Bath  Chronicle. 

Feb.  94.  At  Rome,  Col.  Tho.  Daltoo, 
of  Parrocks,  Kent. 


BILL  OF  MORTALITY,  from  Feb.  97»  to  March  97,  1897. 


Christened. 
Females   -     995/*®^^ 


Buried. 
Males  •>  999 
Females  -     994 


9  and    5  146  1  50  and    60  9l9 


Whereof  have  died  under  two  yeirs  old 
Salt  5i.  per  bushel ;  1  ^d.  per  pound. 


5  and  10  64 
10  and  90  76 
90  and  80  118 
80  and  40  157 
40  and  50  185 


€0  and  70  1 88 
70  tnd  80  174 
60  and  90  77 
90  and  100      8 


Wheat. 

Bariey. 

Oats. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

$,     d. 

s.     d. 

».     d. 

$.     d. 

s.     d. 

k4   10 

se  10 

30   10 

36     0 

48     6 

AGGREGATE  AVERAGE  of  BRITISH  CORN  which  governs  Importation, 

from  the  Returns  ending  March  9. 

Peas. 
i.     d, 

49     4 

AVERAGE  PRICE  of  SUGAR,  605.  to  645.  per  cwt. 

PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW. 

St.  James's,  Hay  6l.  €i.    Straw  9/.  %s.    Clover  7/.  05. — Whitechapel,  Hay  5/.  15#. 

Straw  W.  185.     Gover  61.  155. 

SMITHFIELD,  March  90.    To  shik  the  Offsl— per  stone  of  8lbs. 


Beef 

35. 

4d.  to  65. 

'4d.  to  55. 

6d.  to  55. 

(>d.  to  55. 

9d. 

Mutton  .  .* 

Veal 

Pork 

35. 

45. 

45. 

2d, 
Bd. 
6d, 

Lamb 05.  Od,  to  05.  0^, 

Head  of  Cattle  at  Market  March  90  : 

Beasts 9409       Calves  149 

Sheep  an  j  Lamba  1 6^890      Figs     136 

COAL  MARKET,  Hfirch  90,  8 is.  od.  Ho  885.  Otf. 
TALLOW9  perCwt.  TawBTUiow4«5.  Od    YUlow  RuiaU  405.  0<{. 
SQAf,  YftUoir  Ttfs.  Mott!Ma4f. Otf.  Cuid  ist.'^^kNDUS&p  fii.  pfr DdcMooMi  10«.  M* 


PRIOES 

AitlitOffiMofWOLFE,  But 

Tan  ALS^ 

Athtua  ind  Oldliun 
Bunilfj  .  .  . 
Birniugh.  (1-8thih. 
Bnckiwck  &  Alicrgii 


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OP  SHARES,  Uairii  19,  l»tr. 

)T>it>»,  Stack  &  Shire  Itiukoci,  4ar'CbMige  Allay,  ( 


Cnen 


Dtlhj     .... 

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Furlli  uul  tijd,  . 

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Gnad  JuncEiuD  . 
Gnod  Surrey  . 

GruaUniDD    .  . 

Gnnd  Wniera  . 

Huddenficlj     .     . 
KtanetiwlAiDU.     . 


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Tbunn  Si  Seiirn,  Rti 
Ditiu,  Bluk    .    . 
Tienl  and  Mtney 
Wnr^.  .id  Bir-nini;. 
War>»l  ud  Naplun 
Wilti  and  Baiki    .     . 
Vioic.  ud  Biimioe- 

DOCKS. 
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Lundon  (SWck) 

Wm(  iadia  (Stock) 
Eiit  India  (Stock) 
Cummenial     (Stock) 

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MINES. 


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Pueo  Penoian      .    . 


Wckhlr.mHHlCual 

GAS  LIGHTS. 

(-half. 


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Auurallan  |  Agncult') 
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t     488     ] 

METEOROLOGICAL  DIARY,  by  W.  GARY,  Stbamd, 

Pnm  Ftb.  96,  Ib  March  K,  1817,  Mk  mcbuivr. 


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363fipm. 

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64  SB  pm.  34  35  pm. 

34  3(ipm. 

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36  3Sp«. 

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S6  pm,    3433  pm, 

34  SB  pm. 

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M56pra.'34  35pm. 

S4  3Spm. 

»7*     i 

56  55  pm.  34  as  pro. 

34  36  pm. 

97i     , 

5S  56pm.    35  pm. 

36  pm. 

33  36  pm, 

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39  40  pm. 

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Nn  SoHth  Sm  Ana.  Fib.  97,  89|    Much  ts,  Bi*.    March  17,  B9.    Muck  19,  89|. 

Much  81,  39*' 

RICHARDSON,  OOODLUCK,  hmI  Co.  1M,  Coraar  of  Buik-buiUid|i,  ContiUL 

J.l.  Miamfj.U,-r4*U4«HIT  IT«UT. 


GENTLEMANS  MAGAZINE. 


APRIL,   1827 


<9riBinBl  Cummunicatldn^, 


[PUBLISHED  MAY  I.] 


...A197 

lOo  FuDcnl  CeramndieT 

Tha  PtilT-OlLian  of  Dnjlon 302 

Duiiti  Church,  WdldDK-iqnue 904 

BmiccptCh  CMlla,  Duihim ,805 

LetUr  of  Mn.  MonUgus 306 

ucleni  Romu  Cmuims S07 

r  Leivei — Msjsur  of  ihc  Quds,  &c...a09 
On  Frca  Tilde,  u  applied  w  the  UniMd 

Kiiij;ilam 813 

On  the  Authoriljr  of  tha  ApociTpfat SIS 

Repun  of  St.Muy'a  HilJ,  CoveDti7 S17 

DafinLtim  of"  Stump  Pja" ^10 

Slttiitw  ef  JBitt>  PublUnrionf. 

Tmuietioai  of  Rojal  Society  of  ldtarMiira.S9l 

Dr.  Fontar'i  Pocket  EDcyclopEdii 8>4 

"   '         "  iaicDon'i  CoimjiaiidrDca. JII6 

Bt  of  ilia  Ohu  IWily. 319 

Honw'i  lattoduetioD  in  the  Bible 331 

AlphoDio,  339.— Schlllar'a  Wal1eliiteiii.....S33 
Rodd'f  Cilalogue  of  PortnbU. 


Kood'i  Whimt  and  Odditiai,  &c.. 


£«iIt  Metrical  Talu ».. 

Johoitan  on  Education  in  Franca 

Helfr^'i  Diicourac* 

Homrd'i  Liber  Ecdeiiaiticu •.... 

View  of  tlia  World 

Pattct'i  Sacred  Mniic - , 

Nieolas'a  Memoir  of  AiignitiiiaViiKant....J4l 

Cooiis't  Southani  Cout  of  Eoglaiid »-841 

Adiaotuni  of  Naufngiu. 

Stratford  on  thedurt  oTChuiccrj 

RobKm'i  Viann  of  Cilia* it. 

LiTERiny  liiTELLtasNCE.-NewPablicitioua4S 

Ancient  Uteratun  of  Bath. - 

Ahtiduarian  Reiuhchu ^09 

SiLECT  POITRV  

Qi^oritat  Cbisniclt. 

Proceadingi  iaprateotSeisionoFParlianiaBtSSS 

Fonign  Stm,  3S7.-Dunieitic  Ocx:urTSDc«i 


.  Ac— Birtbi  and  Mi 
OiiTviRv;   witli  Menoin  oF  the  CmpMH 
of  tlie  Brazil!  t  Sir  J.  L-Kaye  ;  Adminla 
Markhim  and  Dilkei ;  Qea.  T-iii ;  CoL 
Radclilfe  i  J.  Smith,  C.  W.  le  Geit,  T, 
W.  Tattoo,  W.  MiCford,  and  B.  Strut, 
eaqairH  ;  Dn.  Eiani  and  Jddh,  &c.  &c.^S8 
Markett — Bill  of  Mortality,  3B3.—SUrM.^9a 
Meteoiotogieal  Diary. — Priest  of  Stocln... .884 
Embclliahed  with  Viewa  of  FaxTEiBURV  Chvrc 
and  of  BRtnctriTH  CtsTLi,  Durham. 


.By    SYLVANUS    URBAN,    Gent. 


[    290    ] 

MINOR    CORRESPONDENCE. 

We  are  particularlj  requested  to  state,  in  firom  Spring  Gardeos  to  the  Parade  was  in- 
add'ition  to  the  Memoir  of  Major«gen.  Wm.  •loted  fur  Sir.  Penn*a  house,  and  the  puh- 
Fawcett,  in  vol.  zcvi.  ii.  558,  that  besides  lie  were  excluded  bj  iron  rails  from  a  large 
"  the  son  of  his  own  Aame  and  profession,"  grass  plot  adjoining.  In  the  course  of  last 
noticed  in  that  Memoir,  the  Major-general  tommer  a  triangular  piece  has  been  inclosed 
has  left  two  Younger  sons,  one  a  Lieute-  for  a  shrubbery  in  £ront  of  Mr.  Canning's 
nant  in  the  Rojal  Nary ;  the  other  little  house ;  and  the  plan  which  (C.  so  pom- 
known  from  his  priraoy,  liaring  been  un-  pouslj  eulogizes,  now  proposes  to  build 
fbrtunateW  crippled  from  his  youth,  and  re-  over  the  Birdcage-walk  (one  of  the  most 
•ident  witn  his  widowed  mother.  beautiful  promenades  in  the  Metropolis,  if 

The  Rev.  J.  Graham  is  informed  that  the  properly  attended  to),  and  to  spoil  the  re- 

epitaph  <'  on  the  great  and  good  Chief  Jus-  mainder  of  the  Park  by  making  a  road  for 

tice  Kenyon,"  is  already  printed  in  our  vol.  carriages.    It  is  to  be  hoped  some  notice  of 

Lxxvii.  p.  89.  this  attempt  will  yet  be  ttken  of  it  in  Par- 

S.  T.  begs  leave  to  convey  his  thanks  to  liamenc,  and  the  attention  of  his  Majesty 
'*Clericus  Ebor."  for  his  obliging  com-  will  be  called  to  an  alteration  disadvan- 
munication.  If  he  will  &vour  him  with  his  tageous  to  the  appearance  of  the  new  Pa- 
address,  a  packet  will  be  transmitted  to  him.  lace,  and  destructive  to  the  property  of  his 

£.  I.  C.  says,  *'  An  old  Correspondbnt  subjects  adjoining  the  Park.'^ 
has  begged  me  to  call  tlie  attention  of  our  C.  K.    states,    that   «  the   barony    of 

Correspondent   <  Sexagenarius,'   p.  815,  to  Athenry  is  not  extinct*  as  would  seem  to  be 

the  following  epitaph*  which,  with  the  sub-  implied  in  page  640,  where   the  Earl   of 

Joined  authority,  is  given  in  the  introduc-  Louth  is  called  '  last  Lord  Athenry.'    This 

tion  to  Dr.  Johnson's  Dictionary,  as  an  very  ancient  barony,  the  premier  of  Ireland, 

example  of  versification.  u  in  abeyance  between  the  Earl's  daughters 

Beneath  this  stone  an  infent  lies,  and  their  representatives ;  it  was  at  one  time 

To  earth  whose  bodv  lent,  assumed  by  Mr.  Bermingham,  the  heir  male 

Hereafter  shall  more  glorious  rise,  of  the  fitmily, — but  without  any  authority." 

But  not  more  innocent.  K.  says,  "  There  is  an  escuent  vegeu- 

When  the  archangel's  trump  shall  blow,  ble,  now  much  used  in  Paris,  called  the 

And  souls  to  bodies  join,  aubergijie  or  mdonghu,  of  which  there  are 

.  What  crowds  shall  wbh  their  lives  below  two  varieties,  viz.  vioUiU  tongue  ct  vioielte 

Had  been  as  short  as  thine. — Wesley.  ronde, — If  any  Correspondent  should  be  ac- 
A  glance  at  the  two  compositions  is  suffi-  quainted  with  this  vegetable,  and  will  fa- 
dent  to  show  which  is  the  genuine  one.  So  vour  the  public  with  a  description  of  it,  its 
that,  allowing  the  Clergyman  every  credit  cultivation,  and  the  mode  of  preparing  it 
that  his  alteration  deserves,  and  by  which  for  the  table,  an  obligation  will  be  conferred 
he  has  sadly  crippled  the  versification  of  the  on  many  readers  of  your  widely-circulated 
second  stanza,  it  will  appear  evident  that  he  Magazine." 

has  little  claim  to  the  authorship  of  the         J.  R.  J.  inquires  for  information  respect- 
verses."  ing  the  Ballad  of  the  Berkshire  Lady ;  the 

C.  W.  observes,  "  Your  Correspondent  subject  of  it  is  this  :  A  young  lady  residing 

IC,  in  p.  124,  has   taken  so  erroneous   a  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Reading  (tradition 

view  of   the  intended    alterations   in    St.  states  at  Southcot  House,  or  Calcot  Park), 

James's  Park,  that  I  cannot  consider  him  possessedofconsiderableproperty,  was  much 

in  any  other  light  than  the  projector  of  struck  with   a  gentleman  residing  at  that 

them  himself,  as  he  complimenta  the  most  place :  having  tried  several  expedienta  to  at- 

ridiculous  plan  ever  proposed  in  the  roost  tract  his  notice  without  success,  she  at  length 

hyperbolical  manner,  and  seems  to  think  sent  him  a  chtlleuge,  purporting  to  come 

that  the  Park  whi^h  he  calls  the  lungs  of  from  a  gentleman  whom  he  had  offended, 

the  Metropolb,  will  be  improved,  and  ren-  On  his  going  to  the  appointed  place,  she 

-  dered  more  healthy  by  depriving  it  of  one  of  presented  herself  masked,  and  with  a  sword. 

Its  lobes.     Every  alteration  which  has  taken  and  stated  that  he  must  either  fight  or  marry 

place  in  the  Park  for  almost  a  century,  has  her ;  after  a  short  consideration,  he  acreed 

deprived  the  public  procressivelv  of  some  of  to  the  latter ;  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the 

their  enjoyment  of  it.    When  the  lata  King  ceremony,  the  lady  (still  masked)  took  him 

first  resided  in  Buckingham  House,  many  to  her  house,  where  the  bridegroom  waa- 

acres  of  the  Green  Park  were  inclosed  to  \eh  waiting  in  a  room,  to  enjoy  his  own 

add  to  the  gardens  of  that  palace,  and  the  thoughto  on  the  subject  for  two  hours ;  dur- 

' public   were  excluded  from  the   beautifiil  ing    this  time    considerable  laughter  was 

walks  which  till  then  extended  by  the  sides  heard,  and  at  length  a  lady  most  elegantly 

of  the  canal,  and  in  that  part  of  tlie  Park  dressed,  made  her  appearance,  stating  her 

called  the  Island.    About  twenty-five  years  servants  had  informed  her,  he  hod  waited 

ago,  several  acres  were  taken  firom  the  Green  there  some  time,  and  desired  to  know  his 

Park  to  afford  gardens  to  Lord  Spencer,  the  business ;    he  then  told  her  the  circum- ' 

Ailv    of  Bri^f^ewattTf  and  other  houses  stances,  and  received  lor  answer,  she  heraelC 

rmogisig  with  th^m  ;  ifi^^h  •  Itfg<  put  waa  waa  tVia  \id),  and  that  he  '  was  lord  of  all 

-mddtd  to  the  Duke  of  York's  gar&n,  a  walk  %\\t  \»A: 


THE 

GENTLEMAN'S     MAGAZINE. 


APRIL,    1827. 


ORIGZNAI.  cohmunzcatzoivb. 


NEW  METHOD  OF  HBATIHO  ORBBN HOUSES,  &C. 

\f    TT     4v     Derhy-streei,  Parlia*  unfit  commtinication  to  make  to  this 

Mr.  URBAN,    jneni'Sireet,  April  \g.  meeting. 

AS  the  knowledge  of  a  very  cheap.  The  application  of  hot  water  for  thb 
simple,  and  ^efficient  method  of  ?^\?^  depends  on  the  following  fkcL 
heating  Green-houses  may  be  accepta-  "  ^fom  the  side  of  any  open  boiler, 
ble  to  many  gentlemen  who  are  read-  ^^o  pipes  proceed  horizontally,  com- 
ers of  your  widely-circulating  MisceU  municatmg  at  their  extremities  at  any 
lany,  1  beg  to  indose  a  short  paper  on  ^".^"^cj  '^m  the  boiler;  and  the 
the  subject,  which  I  read  to  the  mem-  boiler  be  filled  with  water  to  such  a 
bers  of  the  Institution  of  Civil  En-  weight  that  the  surface  of  the  water 
gineers  at  their  last  meeting.  ^^Y  ^  above  the  orifice  of  the  upper 
You™.  &c.  _       W.  Cc„rr.  SKlnr^rL"^-  •?;  S^'  «J 

^                n^  .1.  J    jy  L    r      r^  ^^^^  ^***  *^°  ^o  circulate  along  the 

On  a  new  Method  of  heating  Gteej^  ^^^^  3nj  continue  so  to  do  whilst 

houses,  Conseryaiortes,  fife.    Hy  W.  ^ny  fire  is  kept  under  the  boiler;  the 

CuBiTT.   Ctvtl  Engineer,  read  he-  ^^ler  passing  along  the  upper   pipe 

fore  the  Institution    of  Cml  En^  f^m  the  boirer,  and  returning  by  the 

gineers  on  Tuesday  April  10,  18«7.  lower  pine  to  the  boiler.     The  same 

The  object  of  this  communication  effect  will  also  take  place,  if  instead  of 

is  to  explam  a  mode  of  heating  Green-  joining  the  pipes  at  their  extremities, 

houses.  Vineries,  Pine  Pits,  &c.  bv  they  be  made  to  terminate  in  a  cistera 

means  of  hot  water  circulating  through  of  water  on  the  same  level  with  the 

pipes,  instead  of  the  usual  method  of  boiler.    The  water  will  still  continue 

brick  flues,  or  the  more  improved  me-  to  circulate  as  before,  and  continual^ 

thpd  of  steam  pipes.  keeps  changing  the  water  fh>m  the 

During  the  early  part  of  the  last  boiler  to  the  cistern,  and  from  the 

Session,  and  before  I  had  the  oppor-  cistern  to  the  boiler,  as  long  as  any 

^unity  of  regularly  attending  the  meet-  fire  remain,  and  at  any  temperature  of 

ings  of  this  Institution,  I  understood  the  water,  between  tne  natural  tem- 

that  this  subject  had  been  before  the  perature  at  the  time,  and  the  boiling 

Society,  and  some  forms  of  apparatus  point. 

for  the  purpose  stated  and  discussed.  In  describing  the  apparatus,  as  used 

upon  which  much  difference  of  opi-  by  Mr.  Bacon,  I  believe  I  cannot  do 

nion  existed  as  to  the  pFacticabiiitj  better  than  quote  the  vciy  words  of 

and  utility  of  the  plan.  the  g^irdener  (Wm.  Whall),  from  a 

During  the  last  week;  I  have  had  letter  he  had  just  written  with  hb 

an  opportunity  of  seeing  this  method  master's  permission  to  a  gentleman, 

of  warming  hot-houses  as  successfully  with  information  on  thc^  ^object.    In 

carried  into  effect  by  Anthoiw  Bacon,  describing  one  of  the  vineries,  he  says, 

es3.  (an  associate  ^^"'^^fj^'l}^^  «  The  ho«e  is  40  fbet  long  and  lO  fiet 

stitution),  at  his  seat  at  Elcot  l^rk,  ^.^^  j^^^^  j^^,^ ,,    ^  ^^  ^^^  j„  ^ 

near  Newbury ;  and  as  this  method  ,^^,^,3  .„  ^j^^  ^^^  rf  the  bwk  wall;  the 

appears  to  me  to  be  superior  to  any  £„.piiee  under  the  boilsr  is  cot  at  from  a 

other  mode  I  have  yet  seen  or  heard  back  shed  $  the  boiler  is  two  feet  six  inchea 

described,  I  trust  that  a  general  de-  long,  one  foot  sfai  inches  wide,  and  one  foot 

scription  of  the  apparatus,  as  CFected  by  eight  inches  deep;  from  the  end  of  the 

Mr.  Baconv  w>^^  ^^^  ^  deemed  an  boiler  four  casS-iron  pipes  proceed  horxsoa- 


9&9  Niw  Meikod  of  heat'mg  Greenhouses,  [ApriT, 

tally  of  3)  inches  diameter ;  two  of  them         *'  Steam  may  do  very  well  on  a  large 

•re  joined  to  the  boiler  just  alK>ve  the  hot-  tcale,  and  when  there  n  constant  attention 

tOAf  and  the  other  two  just  beiow  the  sur-  to  thcfire  both  day  and  night;  but  the  ub- 

iaoe  of  the  water ;  the  bouse  is  divided  by  jections  are  the  great  expense  of  a  steam 

glazed  partitions  into  three  compartmenu,  boiler  and  the   apparatus  belonging  to  it, 

tor  the  .convenience  of  forcing  one  part  with-  the  frequent  repurs  that  are  required,  and 

out  the  other ;  the  middle  compartment  is  the  necessary  attention  to  the  fire,  which  is 

two  lights  in  width,  and  the  extreme  com-  as  great  upon  a  small  as  on  a  larger  scale, 

partmenta  four  lights  wide ;  the  pipes  from  besides  this  there  is  a  greater  risk  of  explo- 

the  boiler  proceed  horizontally  to  the  front  sion  in  a  hot-house  steam  boiler,  than  in 

wall,  where  they  divide,  one  upper  imd  one  that  of  a  steam  engine,  for  steam  engines 

lower  pipe  proceeding  to  the  east  compart-  have  generally  persons  properly  instructed 

ment,  and  the  other  two  pipes  to  the  west>  to  manage  them,  but  gardeners  or  their  as- 

and  are  carried  to  the  ends  c»f  the  house^  sit^ts  cannot  be  so  competent, 
where  they  join  to  cast-iron  cisterns  or  re-         "  Th^  beating  with  hot  water  has  none 

lervotrs  at  each  end  of  the  house,  which  of  the  objections  I  have  mentioned  of  flues 

fesenroirs  are  3  ft.  6  in.  long,  1  ft.  6  in.  and  steam ;  the  apparatus  is  simple,  and  not 

wide,  and  1  ft.  8  in.  deep,  having  loose  iron  liable  to  get  out  of  order :  the  boiler  has 

covers ;  these  reservoirs  are  filled  with  wa-  only  a  loose  wooden  lid,  and  no  safety  valves 

ter,  which  communicates  by  the  pipes  with  are  required ;  the  quantity  of  fuel  consumed 

the  water  in  the  boiler.  U  very  moderate,  and  when  once  the  water 

"  When  the  boiler  pipes  and  Teservoira  is  heated  very  little  attention  is  required, 

•re  filled  with  water,  and  a  fire  lighted  under  for  it  retains  its  heat  for  many  hourt  after 

the  boiler,  the  water  in  heating  ascendmg  to  the  fire  is  gone  out." 

t7pe°/ti'th^^^^^^^^^^^^  Such  are  the  remarks  of  a  practical 

fcdiig  its  way  back  to  the  bottom  of  the  ""^n,  and  one  who  has  had  much  ex- 

boUer  through  the  under  pipes,  and  the  cir-  penence  with  flues  and  the  mana^e- 

cdation  continues  regular  as  long  as  there  ment  of  hot-houses  and  conservatories 

.  is  any  heat  under  the  boiler ;  the  hot  water  on  tbe  usual  plan.     He  decidedly  pre- 

flowing  through  the  upper  pipes  to  the  re-  fers  the  plan  of  heating  lyith  hot  wa- 

•ervoir,  and  as  it  cools  returns  back  to  the  ter,  and  na»  petitioned  his  master  to 

boiler  through  the  under  oipes.  have  all  the  hot-houses  and  pits  put 

«<  1  have  repeatedly  after  the  water  has  „pon  that  plan,  and  by  which  also  a 

been  heated,  immersed  a  thermometer  m  yery  large  conservatory  adjoining  the 

the  reservoirs  at  the  ends  of  the  house,  and  ^^^  h^uje  i,  ^^  l^  ^itai^^d,     I  can  bear 

have  only  found  a  difference  of  three  or  four  ^j^„^  ^  ^y^^  correctness  of  the  gar- 

decrees  between  that  and  the  water  m  the     j^^^,»^   j^^.*  »•  «     u„  • ^. 

ho^r,  it  is  not  necessary  to  make  the  wa.  f«*"?  descripUon,   having    seen   the 

ter  boU;  consequently  if  the  fire  b  judi-  "^J5g  »°  operation, 

ciously  managed,  no  steam  wiU  be  raised,  ,  ^n®  gf«»'  advantages  of  this  method 

•nd  no  water  wasted,  but  it  is  necessary  to  above  others,  are  economy,  simplicity, 

examme  the  boiler,  and  add  water  when  any  and  facility  of  management ;  to  what 

It  evaporated.             ^  extent  it  may  be  possible  to  carry  it 

'<In  Mr.  Bacon's  two  pine  pits,  a  fire-  with    advantage^  remains    for    expe<- 

place  with  a  boiler  over  it,  is  pUced  between  rience  to  prove ;  but  the  very  success- 

them;  they  are  each  30  feet  long,  and  10  ful  manner  in  which  Mr.  Bacon  has 

fret  wide;  the  western  pit  U  heated  by  hot  carried  it  into  effect,  makes  me  think 

water  pipes,  the  eastern  one  by  a  common  it  an  object  worthy  the  attention  of  aU 

flue,  heated  bv  the  -ame  fire  after  .t  ha.  ^^o  are  in  any  w/y  concerned  in  pur- 

.    passed  under  the  boiler.    During  the  severe  -«:*«  #*r»i>:- Li^j    /«j      -ii  r          ''^   e 

Sghu  of  last  wmter,  thermoSeter.  were  ^^^^  ?^^^"  *^»"^'  *»^  ^»"  ^P'""  ^«"f- 

.^pended  in  these  piu  md  exammed  every  *'^'®"*  «C"»«.  ^^  my  trespassing  so  long 

normng;  when  the  pits  were  uncovered,  ®"  the  attention  of  the  meetmc;  and  as 

that  heated  by  the  hot  water  was  invariably  «ome  description  may  probably  arise 

from  7  to  9  degrees  higher  than  the  flued  ^^  this  subject  at  future  meetings  of 

pits.  the  Institution,  I  sh^ll  conclude  by 

«  Brick  flues,  from  the  numerous  joints  proposing  the  following  question  for 

•ad  the  mortar  crackmg,  are  subject  to  give  consideration,  viz. 

oi^t  at'times  a  sulphurous  gas,  which  is  m-  What  is  the  best  form  of  boiler,  and 

jurious  to  plants,  and  even  with  two  ^n-  proportional    size    and    perpendicular 

places  in  a  house  forty  or  fifty  feet  long,  it  distance  of  pipes,  regard  being  had  to 

«  impossible  to  keen  up  an  ^uaJ  tempera-  their  length,  to  produce  a  mtximum 

ture  in  the  ^bole  length;  the  houses  set  «ic.^»  :«!,-.!.*•       r*          u             r^ 

overheated  in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  fire-  L^^fl'?  j^'f^^  Green>uses,  Coa- 

pkce,  and  it  is  difficult  to  keep  up  a  proper  ««^*'atoricS,  &c.  on  the  above  plan  ? 

temperature  at  the  atremities  of  the  floet.  W.  Cubitt. 


181^.]  On  the  different  Theoriee  iff -the  Earth.  nS 

itTf.  Jinn  Am  PougkUl,  DevoH,    impossibiHttes  in  the  attempt  to  ao-< 

rat.  URBAN,  j^^^  j2  ^^*^  knowledge,  and  often  exaspe. 

TH  E   phenomena   of    the    globe    rated  with  the  scanty  means  afibraed 
whicn  we  inhabit  are  so  interest-    it  to  make  the  acquisition.    It  is  en- 
ing  in  themselves,  and  sO  intimately    tertaining  to  imu;me  Burnet  bringing 
cpnnected    with    almost   every  other    up  the  waters  of  the  Deluge  throiMh 
branch    of   natural   philosophy,   that     the  broken  crust  in  which  he  fancSd 
their    development  has  occupied  the     they  had  been  confined  during  the  an- 
attention  and  exercised  the  inventive     tedilovian  period;  and  after  he  has 
ingenuity  of  the  most  celebrated  philo-     permitted  them  to  effect  the  univeml ' 
sophers  of  every  age.    Most  of  the  an-     devastation,  we  are  still  interested  to 
cient  as  well  as  the  modern  cosmpgo-     find  him  collecting  them  into  fathom- 
nists  endeavoured   to  investigate  the    less  oceans,  and  piling  the  fragments 
original  condition  of  the  constituent    of  his  shell   until  they  become  the 
parts  of  the  earth,  but  their  duration     loftiest  mountains.    It  is  pleasing  to 
on  an  exceedingly  confined  spot  of  the     let  fancy  follow  Woodward  through 
great  theatre  of  Nature  has  been  too    his    process   of  suspending    cohesion 
momentary,    and    consequently  their    among  the  particles  of  the  globe,  re- 
observations  have  l>een  too  limited  to    ducing  all  its  matter  to  a  soft  paste, 
trace  with  precision  the  various  changes,     and  then  forming  a  new  earth  from 
combinations,     and     decompositions,     the  immense  heap  of  mortar.    In  pe- 
which  have  been  effected  on  the  sur-    rusing  the  theory  of  the  extraordinary 
face  of  the  globe,  by  the  numerous    Whiston,  who  couki  not  make  a  globe 
a^nts  that  have  altered  it, — an  indu-     without  calling  a  comet  to  his  astist- 
bitable  proof  that  the  attention  of  a    ance,  we  almost  participate  in  his  pro-! 
moment,  as  it  were,  is  not  sufficient     phetic  fear  that  the  near  appulse  ofone 
to  account  for  operations  which  have    of  these  harmless  celestial  visitants  may 
employed  the  ever-working  hand  of    at  some  distant  period  occasion  ano- 
Nature  for  ages   to   produce.    Thus-   ther  deluge.     Lastly,    the   celebrated, 
finding    their  resources    too   circom-    Count  de  Buffon,  surpassing  all  hit 
scribed  to  explain  the  grand  pheno-     predecessors  in  vividness  of  fancy,  and 
mena  around  them,  the  imagination    all  the  other  system-makers  in  rich* 
was  called  upon  to  supply  the  requi-    ness  of  language,  delights  us  with  the 
site  desiderata,  and  from   this  fertile    description  of  his  imaginary  soppoai- 
source  they  obtained  not  ont^  an  ex-    tion  ttiat  our  earth  was  once  only  an 
ptanatiou  of  the  different  modifications     excrescence  on  the  face  of  the  Son, 
which  are  continually  occurring  oto     which  being  dexterously  struck  off  by 
the  surface,  but  even  tne  materials  that    the  collision  of  a  comet  in  a  state  of 
form   the  nodule  at  the  centre  were    liquefaction  bv  fire  assumed  its  present 
analysed  with  apparent  exactness,  or    form.    His  tneory,  which  is  the  ori- 
in  the  absence  of  matter,  a  description    ^nal  offspring  of  a  fine  imaginatioo, 
of  the  central  cavity  was  readily  sup-     is  so  illusory,  that  in  reading  it,  it  ia  ' 
plied.    Although  the  results  of  these    difficult  to  retain -Reason  on  her  seat; 
reveries  which  have  been  commonly     we  are  half  inclined  to  forget  that  had 
termed  theories  of  the  earth,  are  caf-     the  earth  been  struck  off  from  the  Snn,^ 
culated  to  give  us  a  better  idea  of  pri-    it  would  move  in  an  orbit  that  passes 
meval  chaos  than  can  easily  be  formed     through  the  Sun,  instead  of  having  the 
without  them,  we  must,  notwithstand-    Sun  for  its  focus,  and  thus  woiila  IbN 
ing,  acknowledge  ourselves  indebted  to    into  the  Sun  again,  and  terminate  its 
those  ingenious  writers  who  have  la-    career  at  the  end  of  the  first  revolii- 
boured  so  industriously  to  form  ideas     tion. 

concerning  the  great  phenomena  of  These  are  some  of  the  most  cele- 
the  earth,  for  the  source  of  rational  brated  and  popular  writers  who  have 
amusement,  if  not  of  sound  philoso-  favoured  us  with  theories  of  the  earths 
phy,  which  they  have  left  us ;  it  is.  Each  author  has  his  disciples  and  ad- 
says  an  author,  an  ample  compensation  vocates,  and  therefore  since  their  theo- 
for  curiosity,  even  while  we  want  the  ries  differ  so  widely  from  one  another, 
force  of  conviction.  We  feel  enter-  it  is  not  wonderful  that  there  are  i^ 
tained  in  perusing  their  productions,  many  surmises  extant  respecting  the. 
however  fanciful  their  hypotheses,  or  constituent  parts  and  original  construe* 
imaginary  their  theories ;  for  in  their  tion  of  the  earth,  especially  as  they  are 
works  we  find  genius  coaleadiog  with    a  subject  ou  which  every  oae  i&  v^vi^ 


S94  Bgmarks  on  Coimographj/.  [April, 

legjti   to  enioy  the  opinioQ  (hat  he  (vide  uhi  tupra),  **  however  the  pla- 
chooset  to  aoopt.  nets  have  been  formed  while  they  were 
Your  ingenious  conespondent  CoL  in  fluid  masses,  all  the  heavier  matter 
Mdcdonald     has    recently    published  subsided  to  the  centre,**    The  great 
some   articles  in   this  Magazine,  in  distance  of  the  centre  of  the   earth 
which  he  advances  an  opinion  that  from  its  surface,  precludes  all  possi- 
t)ie earth  is  hollow,  and  he  endeavours  bility  of  our  actually  ascertaining  its 
to  establish  his  notion  on  the  autho->  constituent  central    matter,    but    we 
ri^  of  some  expressions  in  the  sacred  may    form     reasonable    conjectures* 
history  of  Moses.    With  a  reverential  The  atmosphere  which  surrounds  and 
^rmuQ  for  the  authenticity  of  the  Mo-  revolves  with  it  has  been  found  to  be 
•tie  relation,  and  a  due  deference  for  much  rarer  at, a  considerable  altitude, 
the   gentleman    whom    I   have  just  than  it  is  near  the  earth's  surface,  the 
named,  it  may  be  asserted   that  his  densest  part  of  it  contiguous  to  the 
hypothesis  is  in  direct  opposition  to  earth  is  much  lighter  than  water,  and 
the  opinion  of  philosophers  of  the  first  water  is  of  less  density  than  the  mat- 
order,  and  to  the  inferences  drawn  ter  composing  the  surface,  and  again, 
from    very    satisfactory    experiments*  the  materials  of  the  surface  are  not  so 
Sir  Isaac  Newton  says  (Princip.  Prop*  heavy  as  those  which  constitute  the 
10,  Lib.  3),  "  Since  the  common  mat-  strata  of  mines  {  hence,  then,  reason- 
tff  of  our  earth  on  the  surface  thereof  ing  from  analogy,  and  without  assnm- 
b  about  twice  as  heavy  as  water,  and  ing  too  great  a  license  in  doing  so,^re 
a  little  lower,  in  mines,  is  found  three  we  not  justified  in  concluding  that 
or  four  or  even  five  times  more  heavy,  there  is  a  greater  probability  of  the 
.it  is  probable  that  the  quantity  of  the  earth's  being  denser  at  the  centre  than 
whole  matter-  qf  the  earth  may  be  five  it  is  at  the  surface  ? 
or  six  times  greater  than  water.*'  May        Maclaurin,  in  his  Fluxions,  §  868, 
not  a  conclusion  be  fairly  drawn  from  has  submitted   Or.  Halley's  supposi- 
this,  that  Sir  Isaac  suppoiied  the  matter  tion  that  the  earth  is  hollow,  with  a 
^  the  earth  more  dense  at  the  cbn-  nucleus  included,  to  a  mathematical 
TRB  than  it  is  at  the  surface  i    The  investigation,  but  from  the  result,  he 
same  unrivalled  philosopher  surmised,  does  not  appear  to  insist  on  the  conse- 
and  experience  authenticates  the  fact,'  qaences  that  would  follow  from  such  a 
that  heavy  bodies  endeavour  to  de*  constitution  of  the  internal  parts  of  the 
scend   towards    the   centre   of   the  earth.     In  the  concluding  part  of  the 
earth.     It  may  be  asked,  to  where  do  article  he  says,  ''  When  more  degrees 
they  tend  ?    The  answer  is,  if  Col.  shall  be  measured  accurately  on  the 
Macdonald's  hypothesis  be  true,  to  an  meridian,  and  the  increase  of  gravita- 
empty  nothingness :  if  we  admit  the  tion  from  the  equator  towards  the  pole 
truth    of   Newton's  established  law,  determined  by  a  series  of  many  exact 
and  at  the  same  time  suppose    the  observations,    the  various  hy[x>theses 
earth  a  shell,  we  tacitly  acknowledge  that  may  be  imagined  concerning  the 
that  we  entertain  the  strange  notion  internal  constitution  of  the  earth,  may 
that  all  heavy  bodies  have  an  innate  be  examined   with   more  certainty, 
propensity  to  fill  the  central  cavity.  Since  the  above-named  celebrated  ma» 
jtlie  penetrating  genius  of  Newton  di»-  thematician  wrote  the  preceding  pas» 
covered,  and  tne  discovery  has  been  sa^,  many  admeasurements  have  been 
-verified  by  many  accurate  admeasure-  made  in  different  places  by  Colond 
ments  and  experiments,  that  the  fi-  Mudge,  the  French  academicians,  &c. 
gure  of  the  earth  is  that  of  an  oblate  but  perhaps  no  admeasurements  or  ex- 
^pheroid,  which  is  the  figure  that  a  ho-  periments  which  have  been  effected, 
mogeneous  flaid  assumes  in  revolving  nave  afforded  so  conclusive  an  infer- 
^oo  an  axis :  if  we  admit,  then,  the  sup-  ence  with  respect  to  the  component 
position  of  {^legists,  that  the  earth  matter  of  the  earth,  as  those  made  at 
was  in  a  fluid  state  at  the  commenco-  the  mountain  Schillellian,  under  the 
jBOOt  of  motion,  we  must  deny  that  it  superin tendance  of  the  late  Dr.  Mask&- 
is  at  present  hollow ;  for  by  the  lawa  line.    Theoadines  of  the  various  ex- 
'Of  gravitation,  the  heaviest  bodies  ar-  perimental  operations  were  submitted 
-ranged  themselves  round  the  centre,  to  Dr.  Hutton  for  calculation,  to  de- 
aod  the  progressively  lighter  ones  oh  duce  from  them  the  real  mean  density 
Uie  surface  of  the  foregoing  ones.  This  of  the  earthy  which  the  Doctor  found 
it  almost  Newlon't  Umguage ;  he  says  to  be  to  that  of  water  as  9.8,  and  to 


1827.] 


On  the  SupposUion  that  the  Barth  is  hollow. 


S95 


common  stone  as  Q.S,  from  which 
very  considerable  mean  density,  the 
Doctor  says,  it  may  be  presumed  that 
the  internal  paru  contain  great  quan- 
tities of  metal.  Or.  Hutton's  conclu- 
sion (vide  his  Mathem.  and  Philos. 
Diet.  art.  Attraction  of  Mountains)^ 
is  so  very  apposite  to  my  present  com- 
munication, that  i  shall  beg  to  tran- 
scribe his  own  language,  and  leave  the 
impartial  reader  to  form  his  own  judg- 
ment. 

«  We  ma  J  therefore  be  allowed  (says  the 
Doctor)  to  admit  this  law,  and  to  acknow- 
ledge that  the  mean  density  of  the  earth  is 
about  double  of  that  at  the  surface;  and 
consequently  that  the  density  of  the  inter- 
nal PARTS   of  the  earth  is  much  greater 
than  near  the  surface.      Hence  alio  the 
whole  quantity  of  matter  in  the  earth  will 
be  at  least  as  great  again  as  if  it  had  been 
all  composed  of  matter  of  the  same  density 
with  tliat  at  the  surface,  or  will  be  about  4 
or  5  times  as  great  as  if  it  were  all  com- 
posed of  water.    This  conclusion  is  totally 
contrary  to  the  hypothesis  of  some  natu- 
jalists,  who  suppose  the  earth  to  be  only  a 
large  hollow  shell ;  supporting  itself  from 
the  property  of  an  arch,  with  an  immense 
vacuity  in  the  midst  of  it.     But  were  that 
the  case,  the  attractions  of  mountains^  and 
even    smaller  irregularities   in  the   earth's 
snr&ce,  would  be  very  great»  contrary  to 
experiment,  and  would  affect  the  measures 
of  the  degrees  of  the  meridian  much  more 
than  we  find  they  do  ;  and  the  variation  of 
gravity,  in  different  latitudes,  in  going  from 
the  equator  to  the  poles,  as  found  by  pen- 
dulums, would  not  be  near  so  regular  as  ex- 
periments have  shown  it  to  be." 


Col.  Macdonald  has  informed  us, 
"that  the  earth's  polar  diameter  is 
less  than  its  equatorial  by  about  27 
miles.**  Taking  the  earth's  diameter 
7958  miles,  we  have  230  :  229: :  7958  : 
7929,  which  gives  29  miles  for  the  ex- 
cess of  the  equatorial  above  the  polar 
diameter.  Hence  the  foregoing  ratio, 
which  is  Newton's,  and  obtained  by 
the  Theory  of  Gravity,  makes  the 
difference  of  the  earth's  diameter  only 
two  miles  more  than  that  assigned 
them  by  Col.  Macdonald.  I  should 
like  to  know  the  principles  from  which 
the  Colonel  obtamed  the  difference  he 
has  given  ;  I  have  tried  the  different 
ratios  mentioned  by  Dr.  Horsley  in  his 
Mathematics,  and  have  not  met  with 
any  number  that  approximates  so  near 
in  the  result  to  Col.  Macdonald*s  dif- 
ference as  that  which  I  have  adopted 
above. 

If  the  preceding  facts  are  not  suffi- 


cient to  prove  the  earth  a  solid  body, 
it  would  be  an  interesting  communi- 
cation, were  Col.  Macdonald  t6  fur- 
nish us  with  the  exact  diameter  of  the 
concavity,  and  the  method  of  deter- 
mining it.  The  term  "hollow**  is 
ambiguous;  according  to  the  idea 
which  it  gives  us,  the  hollow  may  be 
only  a  foot  in  diameter,  or  the  earth 
may  be  a  mere  shell ;  in  the  latter 
case,  should  the  venturesome  miner . 
penetrate  to  the  inner  part  of  the  crtist; 
he  may  possibly  set  into  the  magnum 
inane,  from  which  he  might  not  easily 
find  his  way  out  again  !  But  an  intel- 
ligent author  observes,  that,  so  far,  the 
deepest  penetrations  which  avarice  has 
made  in  the  globe  of  the  earth,  are  no 
roorjs  than  the  punctures  made  by  the 
proboscis  of  a  knat  on  the  body  of  an 
elephant. 

Col.  Macdonald  has  been  at  some 
pains  to  prove  that  the  original  mean- 
ing of  Gep.  i.  2,  implies  that  the  earth 
is  hollow ;  but  Moses  there  describes 
the  earth  in  its  chaotic  state;  and, 
therefore,  admitting  that  "  David 
Levy**  is  correct  in  rendering  the  ex- 
pression "void  and  empty,'*  I  do  not 
see  how  we  can  infer  from  it  that  the 
earth  was  hollow,  after  "the  waters 
had  been  gathered  together  in  one 
place,  and  the  dry  land  made  to  ap- 
pear." Bp.  Patrick  (see  Mant's  Bi- 
nle)  expounds  the  passage  to  which 
I  have  alluded  thus:  "A  confused 
indigested  heap,  without  any  order  or 
shape  ;  having  no  beast  nor  trees,  nor 
any  thing  else  with  which  we  now 
see  it  adorned.*'  This  appears  to  be  a 
commonly  received  opmion.  Park- 
hurst,  in  his  Greek  Lexicon,  informs 
us,  that  Pythagoras  and  Plato  seem  to 
have  borrowed  their  YAH  (chaotic 
matter  or  atoms)  from  the  inn,  or  un- 
formed mass,  of  Moses,  Gen.  i.  2, 
whence  must  also  be  ultimately  de- 
duced Ovid's 


"  —  Rudis  indigestaque  moles 

A^on  benejunctarum  discordia  semina  rerum," 

With  respect  to  the  expression  in 
the  9th  verse  of  the  4th  chap,  of  Ephe- 
sians,  to  which  Col.  Macdonald  has 
adverted  in  his  paper  on  the  Magnetic 
Poles  (page  127,  in  the  Ma^.  for  Au- 
gust 1820),  I  have  perused  Locke  on 
the  Epistles,  Paley's  Hora  Paulinae, 
and  some  other  commentators  on  thai 
verse,  but  cannot  find  that  any  of  them 
have  inferred  from  it  that  the  earth  is 
hollow.    Poole,   in  his  Annotations, 


fi96 


Oil  the  Supposition  that  the  Earth  is  hoUow,  [April, 


says,  ''The  apostle  interprets  the 
Psalmist,  and  concludes  that  David, 
ivhen  he  foretold  Christ's  glorifica- 
tivn,  or  ascending  up  to  Heaven,  did 
likewise  foresee  his  humiliation  and 
descent  to  the  earth ;  q.  d;  when  Da- 
vid speaks  of  God  in  the  flesh  ascend- 
ing up  on  high,  he  doth  thereby  im- 
ply that  he  should. first  descend  to  the 
earth.  Either  simply  the  earth  as  the 
lowelt  part  of  the  visible  world,  and  so 
opposecf  to  heaven  from  whence  he 
came  down."  I  do  not  pretend  to 
know  what  species  of  argument  can 
be  hence  adopted  to  render  the  expres- 
sion, or  the  commentaries  on  it,  a  very 
rational  scriptural  proof  that  the  eartn 
is  hollow.  Perhaps  10  chap.  1  Cor. 
verse  26,  might  be  quoted,  quite  as 
reasonably,  to  prove  tnat  the  earth  is 
full  or  solid,  but  I  refrain  from  draw- 
ing plausible  inferences  of  this  kind 
from  scriptural  expressions.  I  per- 
fectly agree  with  the  ingenious  Vica- 
rius  Humilis  (vide  Mag.  Aug.  1826), 
*'that  these  Scriptures  were  not  de- 
signed to  instruct  us  in  human  science, 
,  or  in  any  information  attainable  by 
ouf  natural  powers,  but  were  given  us 
exclusively  in  those  all -important 
truths  will  relate  to  our  immortality." 
The  amiable  Cow  per  says, 

-  *'  The  critic  on  the  stered  book  should  be 
Candid  and  learned,  dispassionate  and  free. 
Free  from  tha  bias  wayward  bigots  feel, 

'  From  Jancy's   tn/Zuoice,  and  Intemperate 
zeal." 

^  At  all  events,  in  my  opinion,  we 
should  undoubtedly  be  very  cautious 
of  advancing  an  hypothesis,  and  sup- 
porting it  on  a  forced  interpretation  of 
a  scriptural  passage,  especially  when 
such  an  explanation  is  directly  repug- 
nant to  the  writings  of  the  best  bibli- 
cal commentators,  and  even  to  com- 
mon sense.  By  doing  this,  we  not 
only  rest  our  theory  on  the  most  slip- 
pery basis,  but  often  indiscreetly  con- 
vert the  wisely-intended  foundation  oil- 
our  hopes  into  a  fons  asinorum,  to 
eonnect  our  imaginary  suppositions 
with  direct  absurdity. 

Having  adverted  to  Col.  Macdonald*s 
paper  on  the  Magnetic  Poles  (the  pri- 
mary object  of  which  appears  to  prove 
that  the  earth  is  hollow),  I  may  further 
observe  on  the  Colonel's  assertion, 
*'  that  Newton,  after  much  study  and 
doubt,  at  last  arrived  at  the  great  and 
important  truth,  that  all  space  is  filled 
with  ether,  a  subtle  spirit  or  fluid,  or 
air,  of  vast  elastic  force:  in  this  the 


planets  move  with  an  exact  correspond- 
ence between  their  weight  and  bulk, 
_  and  the  weight  of  the  ether  they  con- 
stantly displace  in  their  revolutions.** 
This  IS  not  very  coiiicident  with  New- 
ton's own  language,  Princip.  Prop. 
22,  Lib.  '2,  where  he  informs  us, 
*'  that  at  200  miles  above  the  earth  the 
air  is  more  rare  than  it  is  at  the  super- 
ficies of  the  earth,  in  the  ratio  of 
30  to  00000000000003998,  or  as 
75000000000000  to  1  nearly,  and 
hence  the  planet  Jupiter  revolving  in 
a  medium  of  the  same  density  with 
that  superior  air,  would  not  lose  by 
the  resistance  of  the  medium  the 
1000000th  part  of  his  motion  in 
1000000  years."  Again  (page  26 1, 
vol.  II.),  *'  hence  afso  it  is  evident 
that  the  celestial  spaces  are  void  of 
resistance,  for  though  the  comets  are 
carried  in  oblique  paths,  and  some- 
times contrary  to  the  course  of  the 
planets,  yet  they  move  every  way  with 
the  greatest  freedom,  and  preserve  their 
motions  for  an  exceedingly  long-course 
of  lime,  even  when  contrary  to  the 
course  of  the  planets.'*  Playfair,  in 
his  Outlines,  vol.  ii.  page  198,  re- 
marks "that  the  phenomena  of  the 
tails  of  comets  show  the  celestial  spaces 
to  be  VOID  of  resistance.*' 

In  conclusion,  it  may  be  remarked, 
I  have  taken  for  granteid,  that  when- 
ever an  opinion  is  advanced,  a  consis- 
tent objection  to  it  is  always  allowable, 
and  that  the  conclusion  deduced  from 
experimental  evidence  or  sound  rea- 
soning is  the  only  criterion  of  the  pro- 
hahility  of  fact.  Admitting  this  as- 
sumption then,  Mr.  Urban,  Col.  Mac- 
donald*s  supposition,  and  my  reasons 
for  being  of  a  different  opinion,  are 
both  before  the  public.  We  have 
each  subn^itted  our  ppinion  to  the 
same  impartial  tribunal,  the  readers  of 
your  interesting  Publication,  who  are 
fully  competent  to  draw  an  Inference 
for  themselves. 

Yours,  &c.        James  Jbrwood. 

%*  T.  S.  K.  remarks,  that  in  our  Me- 
moir of  Dr.  Good  (p.  376),  his  last  pub- 
eation  is  omitted ;  it  is  in  3  vols.  6vo,  en- 
titled <<  The  Book  of  Nature,"  the  sub- 
stance of  a  course  of  lectures  delivered  some 
years  back  at  the  Surrey  Institution.  It  is  a 
very  useful  and  interestiug  work)  itnd  fully 
maintains  bis  high  reputation.  Dr..  Good 
also  composed  in  1896  an  Essay  «  On  the 
Origin,  Connexion,  and  Character  of  the 
Passions,"  read  at  the  Royal  Society  of  Li- 
terature. (See  our  vol.  xcvi.  i.  695). 


• 

^ 


) 


1627.]                           PoKteshury  Church/ Salop.  ^97 

Mr.  Urbav,  Shrewsbury,  Feb.  25.  •  "  In  memory  of  Arthur  WtrJ,  of  Kin- 

IN     continuation     of      Shropshire  ton,  gent,  who  died  the  nth  day  of  Aug. 

Churches,  I  enclose  you  a  view  1682,  aged  82." 

ok'  the  fine  old  Church  of  Ponlesbury,  Against  the  east  wall  of  the  chancel, 

taken  down    in    1826,   with    ihc  ex-  secured  by  folding-doors,  is  the  portrait 

cepiion  of  the  chancel,  being  consi-  ofai>oy,  in  a  loose  mantle,  over  which 

dcred  in  a  dangerous  state.    It  is  to.  ,„  aerial  form,  with  a  wreath  or  chap- 

buiiding  ID  the  pointed  style  of  archi-  1^,  with  which  she  is  going  to  crowil 

tccture.                                 ..  ; ,  ■.  •  h*™ »  in  *he  clouds  are  several  cherubs 

Ponteabury  is  a  rectory  divided- into  heads,  and  below  the  portrait  the  fol- 

threc    iMirtions,   in    the   Hundred   of  lowing  inscription : 

Ford,    and    Deanery  of   PontesbuiV,        ,,  b.^ t^,    .     ».  m. 

The  Church,  which'  was  dedicated  U)  ;,  '  "l°  ^fl^J'^L'S'l'*"'"  "Tl 

^      ^,             '                   ,            .          ,  et  conainen,  quod  cum  absolvere  non  potuit 

St.   George,    was    a    large    irregular  iniqq^  delcvit ;  natus  in  tumuU  tritteVatri- 

building  of  several   styles  of   ancient  aoniurn,  parentum  in  Juctu  solum  primi- 

nrchilecture.     It  consisted  of  a  nave,  geniee  jus  retulit;    indolis  tantse,  de  qui 

a  north  and  south  aite,  and  chancel^  mnima  sperare  licnit,  nunc  vero  maximi 

divided  from  the  nave  by  a   pointed  iugore.     Anub  tenerrimls   virtutibus    (bet 

arch.  The  north  ailc  was  separated  front  pradiginm)  p^maturis,   ut   plud   aV   utero 

the  nave  by  three  semicircular  arcbe^;  crederesi  quikm  •  diaciplini  excelli.    Oln|$ 

6up|)orted  by  clustered  columns,  eacK  il^"»  die  Martij  An«>  Dom*  ib'a*?,  aetout 

capital  with  different  ornamenu.   The  ^}\  Ea  virtui  Inuocentia  in  Paradisum  re« 

souih  aile  was  divided  from  the  nave  «'P''  ^"^  P'""""  *^«™<>  depcrditA  exulavit. 

by  four  pointed  arches,  supported  by  "  Here's  om  whose  meriu  b'  yo*  sad 

irregular  fluted   columns,  with  plain  **!li^* 


„        .    TM      a.   I.           .J  AndjaauM*  wiabes  too  outstrid. 

small  cjuatrcfoils.  At  the  west  end  was  Hia  yewa  ao  fcn*,  m  whoe  did  come 

an  ancient  stone  font.    The  length  of  yf^X  .aucated  from  the  wombe. 

the  nave  76  ft.  6  in. ;  breadth  59  ft.  t  ,  Ad  infimt  saynt,  wb«re  we  might  see 

in.,  side  aSlea  ificlud«d  ;  length  of  the  Virtues  n'er  knew  minoritle. 

chancel  49  ft.  8  in. ;  breadth  2 1  ft.  6  in:  Whom  Nature  dress'd  for  her  show  here. 

The  tower,  wliicK  stood  oh  the  north  Sen^  as  no  gnettf  but  to  appeare. 

side,  was  sir  ft.  3 ini  by  24  ft.  5  in.  con-  -    iiSach  •  bright  enrky  anch   innocent 

tained  5  bells:  rojui\dtbe  tenor,  ** The-  shape, 

mas  Koberu,'  of  Salop,  cast  these  iive^  Angells-  wbea  they  vor  earth  escape, 

1 68 1 .     William   Medlicott,  N  icholat  Are  thoogjit  t'asamne ;  and  whan  wee  lim* 

BrocUson^  Wardens.**   :     ■  Thoee  fringed  heads,  irae  fsyne  like  him. 

The  following  monumental  memo*  And  more  to  prove,  that  he  was  one, 

rials,   taken  when    I    last  visited   the  Hee  nassed  here  like  some  vbion. 

Church,   previous   lb   it«   demolition,  fp«  •b«P^  bi|B«?  "others  ih^l  teeme  nigh, 

you   will   probably  deem   worthy  of  t^'^x^     "^  u^'n*^"  *^'  ^  .  u 

^reservation              ■  Hither  wild  youth  shall  coma  and  sigh, 

*    On  stonei  in  the  floor,  within  the  P"y«  fo' His  imiocence,  and  dye." 

communion  rails:  .    Ou  a  flat  stone  in  the  floor,  undftr 

"  Here  lyeth  intertfid  the  body  of  Tlur  **  monument : 

mas  Niccolii,   of  Boycott,  esq.   who  deJ-  **  Here  lyeth  the  bodv  of  Thoe.  Ottley, 

parted  this  life  y«-  16th  (ky. of  April,  in  che  eldest  son  of  Fradeb  Octley  and  Lucy  hit 

year  of  our  Lord  God,  1646."  *if«»  •<>»  »«!  heir  apparent  of  Thos.  Ottley, 

«  Hera  lyeth  interred  the  body  of  Tho»  of  Pitchford,  esq.  who  departed  this  \\£t  wa 

mas,  the  sonne  of  Rowknd  Niccolls,  eso.  'Sth  of  March,  163«." 

Aod  Aone  his  wife,  who  was  buried  y*  6tb  .      On  a  neat  marble  tablet,  against  the 

day  of  Jvly  An^  D»»  1 659."               .  -east  wall  of  the  ch^neel : 

«  The  remains  of  Mrs.  Ann  Wingfie]4  « jft-«,i-.  M.*.  OSUrAv   AM    >-  t— 

wife  of  the  JUv.  Mr.  Benjamii^  Wlnifield,  ^^f^J^lJ^  A  ^Vtm     ChiSitl  ^S^ 

A  \i               *  ^L    i-   *    !L*'^    -r  vu.*^..  naasi  agro  natua,  A.JJ.  1701.   .t^nnsti  me* 

.A.M.  rector  of  the  first  portion  of Jonta^  ,  .     S^juj^.fi^       mortalitajaia  aaoit. 

bury,  wliodied  21st  Jan.  1756,  acfd^../*  •  V*"!;  \^:  ..      ^    *   i«i«»n««u  nam 

"The  Rev. Benjamin  Wingfield,  M. A.  ^JJ.  1B«3. 

rector  of  the  first  portion  of  this  Church,  On  a  brass  plate,  against  the  nortl^ 

bied  96th  Sept.  176:5,  aged  53."  wall  of  the  chancel : 

Gkmt.  Mao.  April,  1 827. 


ft96 


Pantetbury  Church,  Salop. 


tApril, 


**  MoR9  Piis  LVCRVM.  Hunc  prope  locum 
Jacet  corpus  Oeni  Davis,  CoIleg'Ojnnium  Aiii> 
marum  Oxon.  socii  seuioris,  ac  hvius  ecc'lise 
per  spaciam  xviii'  aanor'  uaivs  jMistoru',  qui 
■enio  confectus  xii<^  dio  Maii  Anno  Salvtis 
Nostrae  16' 14,  et  peregiinationis  suae  72, 
ab  hac  vita  Deo  et  hominibvs  cbanrs  ad 
evm  ia  qvo  coufisvs  est  pacifice  migravit ;  in 
cujvs  piam  meiaoHam  Maria  yxor  eivs  filia 
Richard  i  Fosteri  Evaog.  Divini  dispensatoris 
fidelis  ab  anttqua  Eveleusi  fiimilia  orti,  viri 
doctrina,  pietate,  et  moribvs  approbat.  Coll. 
iVtn  Trinitat',  Cantabr.  socii,  hio  etiam 
Anno  Christ!  1596  sepuit.  mceroris  plena 
hoc  monvmentvm  posvit.^ 

Against  the  north,  wall  of  the  chan- 
cel, a  handsome  monument  of  marble; 
pn  the  right  side  a  figure  of  Hope,  on 
the  left  Charity ;  under  the  tablet,  in 
bas-relief,  a  ship  in  full  sail;  on  the 
Ubie  the  following  inscription  : 

*'  M.  S.     THOMiE   Da  VIES,    Mercatoris 

Lend,  filii  natu  minimi hujus  £c- 

cletiae  unius  olim  e  Rectoribus,  cujus  In- 
^triam  spe  tantum  fulcitam,  cujus  inte- 
gritatem,  probitatemq'  nezotiis  obeuudis,  cu- 
jus postea  indigcDtibus  coaritatem  pariterq' 
in  geutem  propriam  (nee  numero  nee  in- 
opia  minimam)  munificentiam,  divitiarum, 
amicorum,  precii  gratitudinis,  afflnentia 
Divini  Numinis  providentia  (in  cujns  tu- 
telam  ab  ipsis  incunabilis  com'issus  fuit  ut- 

S»te  patre  orbatus)  abinde  compensavtt. 
uod  reliqaum  est,  his  vlrtutibns  non  so- 
lorn  eiemplar  se  voluit  esse,  sed  patronum, 
qui  ut  iudustriam  promoveret  centum  lib. 
pueris  egenis  apud  Hospitale  Christi  Lond. 
Lujusce  autem  natalis  soli  emeritis  seni- 
bus  ducentas  largitus  est.  Obiit  ziii.  Cal. 
Sept.  A.D.  ciD.iD.Lxxiv.  JEt,  lzi.  r.d.  nb- 
poe  POsuiT." 

"Arms. — Sable,  a  chevron  Gules,  be- 
tween three  swans'  heads  Or ;  on  a  chief 
of  the  Third  a  fleurde-lis  Sable." 

On  a  monument  against  the  south 
wall  of  the  chancel : 


to  his  friends,  affable  and  cocnteeua  to  all ; 
geueralij  beloved  whilst  he  lived,  and  much 
lamented  at  his  death." 

On  a  ublet  against  the  north  wall : 

**  Near  this  nlace  are  deposited  the  re- 
mains of  John  Oliver,  of  Shrewsbury,  esq. 
who  died  Nov.  24,  1789,  aged  48. 

«*  Also,  of  Bold  Oliver,  of  the  same 
place,  esq.  who  died  May  8,  1791,  aged  44 
years." 

«*  Also,  of  Elizabeth  Oliver,  widow  of 
the  above  Bold  Oliver,  esq.  who  died  May 
17,  1801,  aged  54  years." 

On  a  monument  against  the  north 
Yirall  of  the  chancel  : 

**  Beneath  are  interred  the  remains  of 
Richard  Ward  Offley,  of  Hinton,  esq. 
who  died  29th  May,  1762,  aged  46  years. 
He  was  a  gentleman  of  an  ancient  family, 
acted  in  the  Commission  of  the  Peace  for 
this  county,  and  was  not  only  assiduous  of 
doing  good  in  general,  but  particularly  at- 
tended the  true  interests  of  this  parish  and 
neighbourhood.  He  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  George  Penbury  of  Wothertou,  esq. 
by  whom  he  left  issue  a  daughter  Sarah, 
and  one  son.  Ward  Opflby,  who,  whilst  in 
the  service  of  his  country,  fell  a  sacrifice  to 
the  malignant  influence  of  the  climate  at 
Antigua,  on  the  24th  of  November,  1 793, 
in  the  S8d  year  of  his  age." 

'*  Arms :  Argent,  on  a  cross  pat^  flory 
Azure  a  lion  passant  gardant  Or,  between 
four  Cornish  choughs  Proper;  impaling 
Penbury." 

On  a  plain  stone  in  the  chancel : 

"  Here  lieth  the  body  of  John  Harris 
of  Cruckton,  esq.  who  departed  this  life 
Oct  21,  1746,  aged  55.  As  likewise  of 
Sarah  his  wife,  daughter  of  Robert  Hill, 
esq.  who  died  Sd  Dec.  1772,  aged  80. 
Alicia  Harris,  died  19th  Nov.  1798,  aged 
79. 

Arms :  Barry  of  eight.  Ermine  and  Azure, 
over  all  three  annulets ;  impaling  Ermine, 

Rhetor  prim«  et  terti.  pottioni.  huja,  Ec-     ^fl"  n7  n^.'*'  '  i'^     ',  "T      ." 

dnUi,    obijt   17»  Julij   1757.  yEm.  56.     '"'It'  °''  P7'"5  °!  '  P"*."""'  >"': 
Multis  ille  bonis  flebilis  occidit."  ^ 

*'  Arms. — ^Argent,  a  saltier  Sable.  Crest, 
on  a  mount  Vert  »  cockatrice  Argent ;  wat- 
tled, combed,  and  beaked  Or,  duodly  gorged 
and  lined  of  the  Last." 


On  a  tablet  against  the  north  wall  of 


the  nave : 

'<  Near  this  stone  lie  the  remains  of  Ro- 
bert Phillips  of  Crock-Meole,  esq.  and 
Catharine  his  wife,  daughter  of  Sir  Ed- 
On  a  monument  at  the  east  end  of    ward  Acton  of  Aldenham,  hart.    He  died 


the  south  aile 

**  In  memory  of  William  Boycott,  of 
Boycott,  esq.  who  died  the  2d  day  of  Au- 
gust 1707,  aged  46,  this  monument  was 
erected  by  hia  affectionate  and  mournful 
widdow.  He  was  steady  to  the  principles 
•f  the  Church  of  England,  of  great  pro- 
bity, justice,  and  integrity,  charitable  and 
Kbenl  lo  the  poor,  hospitable  and  generous 


18th  of  April,  A.D.  1772,  eet.  96 1  and  she 
the  14th  of  Oct.  1743,  set.  58.  They  had 
issue  Edward  and  Mary;  Edward  died  young. 
Mary  married  Thomas  Harris  of  Cruckton, 
esq.;  she  died  23d  Jan.  A.D.  1767>  set.  48. 
Thomas  Harris,  esq.  died  Sept.  27th, 
A.D.  1798,  aged  82." 

On  a  plain  stone  in  the  chancel 
floor: 


wsrf 


Cohu  of 


and  Norihtmherland. 


99ft 


*'  H«n  IjHh  tU  body  of  Mn.  Janb 
Dau,  titler  to  the  Rector  of  tha  itcoiid 
poction  of  PoofiMbory,  danghtec  of  HcoH 
UAiMf  M.A.  fonnerly  F«Uow  of  BnxeniiOM 
Collage,  Oxford,  Chipkin  to  j*  Duke  of 
Bridgewster,  Rector  of  Middle,  eftenrardt 
of  Settrington  and  Donnington  ia  Yorkshiie, 
ivho  Burried  a  daughter  of  Ponteahury  Owen, 
eiq. ;  the  died  die  14th  of  Oct.  1788, 
aged  81." 

On  a  tablet  against  the  north  wall 
of  the  chancel : 

"  In  memory  of  the  Rer.  William  Puoh, 
formerly  Curate  of  thia  pariah.  Died  Feb. 
18th,  1775,  aged  74.'* 

There  are  several  other  memoriali 
to  the  families  of  Phillips,  Heigh  way, 
ice  D.  Parkxs. 


Mr.  Urban,         Cork,  March  83. 

1  SHALL  now  proceed  to  notice  the 
Coins  of  Mercia;  with  respect  to 
which  fewer  mistakes  appear  to  have 
been  made  than  in  those  of  any  of  the 
other  kin^oms,  a  circumstance  pro* 
bably  arising  from  the  coins  of  that 
kingdom  being  more  numerous,  and 
the  succession  of  its  princes  and  their 
names  better  ascertained. 

Kings  of  Mbrcxa. 

Egbbbt. — These  rare  coins  are  Bt- 
tributed  to  the  son  of  06Gi,  for  no 
other  reason,  I  believe,  than  that  the 
moneyers  names,  Babba  and  Udd.  oc- 
cur on  the  coins  of  Offa ;  but  I  think 
it  much  more  probable  that  they  be* 
long  to  Egbert  of  Wessex,  who  as- 
cended the  throne  of  that  kingdom  in 
800,  only  six  years  after  the  death  of 
Offa,  and  migntwell  have  had  some 
of  his  moneyers,  as  he  certainly  had 
many  of  those  of  Coenwulf ;  indeed 
the  name  of  Oba,  one  of  Egbert's  mo- 
neyers, appears  on  the  coins  of  Cene- 
dred  the  queen  of  Ofla ;  and  the  nam^ 
of  Eoba  on  the  coins  of  the  latter, 
was  possibly  the  same  name;  Osmund 
also,  another  of  Egbert's  moneyers, 
perhaps  worked  for  Ofia  himself,  as 
we  find  on  the  coins  of  the  latter  the 
names  Olhmund  and  Osmod,  which 
may  both  have  been  intended  for  Os« 
mond. 

If  OfFa  had  realtor  a  son  named  Eg- 
bert, I  should  certainly  have  ascribed 
these  coins  to  him ;  but  in  all  histories 
I  believe  in  existence,  he  is  called  Ea^ 
frith,  Egferth,  or  Egfrid.  A  still 
further  reason  will  exist  in  support  of 
iny  opinion,  if  it  should  be  supposed 
fbat   the  stycB  attributed,  to  Jbgfrid 


of  Northamberland  befoogi  to  tkc 
jKm  of  Of&,  as  I  shall  attempt  to  sliew 
when  I  oome  to  the  coins  of  that 
kingdom. 

CiOLWDLF  I.  and  IL— Two  coint 
are  attributed  by  Ruding  to  Ciolwnlf 
II.  from  their  resemblance  to  the  ooint 
of  Burgred,  who  reigned  before  him. 
The  moneyers'  names,  however,  Here- 
berht  and  Oba,  do  not  occur  amonost 
those  of  Burgred,  whilst  th^  are  to  be 
found,  as  well  as  most  of  tliose  of 
Ciolwnlf  I.,  amongst  those  of  Coen- 
wulf the  predecessor  of  Ciolwnlf  I. ; 
besides,  a  similar  kind  of  reverse  ap^ 
pears  on  the  coins  of  Edbert  II.  of 
Kent,  particularly  No.  I.,  and  the  cut- 
tom  of^  placing  tne  legend  of  the  rc^ 
verse,  and  sometimes  even  that  of  the 
obverse,  in  lines  in  the  field  of  (be 
coin,  was  more  common  before  the 
time  of  Burgred,  than  it  was  after  {U 
Mr.  Woolston  acknowledge  that  these 
coins  were  ascribed  by  Sir  Andrew 
Fountaine  to  Ciolwnlf  I.,  but  con- 
tends they  must  belong  to  Ciolwulf  II.» 
and  says,  they  are  evidently  copied 
from  Burgred's  coins;  but  why  mav 
not  Borgred's  be  copied  from  them  r 
Sir  Andrew,  therefore,  I  think,  was 
undoubtedly  right,  and  these  two  coint 
ought  to  be  transferred  to  Ciolwnlf  I. 

There  is  one  coin,  however,  given 
by  Ruding  toCiolwulfl.,  which  seema 
to  belong  to  Ciolwulf  II. ;  it  is  PI,  7, 
No.  2,  and  is  onite  different  in  type 
from  all  the  other  coins  which  bonr 
the  name  of  Ciolwnlf;  it.  has  on  the 
reverse  the  name  of  Dealing,  who  wai 
one  of  Alfred's  moneyers,  whereas  no 
name  nearer  to  it  than  Deal  la  occoib 
on  the  coins  of  Coenwulf;  the  legend, 
indeed,  is  capable  of  another  reading, 
ALINE  MON  D£  or  DEV,  which 
last  syllable  may  be  intended  to  denote 
Chester,  but  this  would  make  it  still 
more  probable  that  it  belongs  to  Ciot 
wnlf  1 1.,  as  the  places  of  mintage  begBA 
at  that  time  to  appear  more  frequently 
on  coins. 

Kings  of  NoRTHnMBBRi^AXD. 

EoFRiD. — That  this  little  coin 
should  have  been  assigned  to  North- 
umberland, is  by  no  means  to  be 
wondered  at ;  no  stycas  have  been  dis- 
covered which  could  with  any  degree 
of  certainty  be  attributed  to  any  of  the 
other  kingdoms,  and  Egfrid  was  one 
of  the  most  celebrated  of  the  Northum- 
brian princes ;  it  is  therefore  not  with« 
Out  QODsidcnble  hesiution^  that  I  caa 


QQQ  On'.fykerid  Ca^montH.  [April; 


_  iiifsftir  ib  expfen  any  opipioo  that  all'thiMe,  except  Ko.'96,  begin 
tba^^would  disturb  this  anangement  i  the  name  of  the  prinee  T^ith  an  A. 
hilt  fpc  sereral  reasons  which  I  shall        Eardolf. — Ruding  does  not  appear 
offer,  I  am  strongly  inclined  to  doubt  to  have  noticed   those  stycas  which 
4b0  propriety  of  so  classing  it,  and  I  have  Eardulf  on  both  sides,  probably 
IJbinK  it  far  more  likely  that  it  belongs  conceiving  them  to  bear  only  tne  name 
jto  ^frid,  the  son  of  OflEa,  king  of  of  a  moneyer  of  Eanred  or  Ethelrcd. 
Jdercia.  Piukerton  has  classed  them  with  the 
.    This  coin  appears  rather  too  elegant  kings,  but  has  siven  them  the  date 
ijor  the  seveotn  century,  and  seems  to  oiQ ;  and  Mr.  Woolston  has  followed 
bare  been  struck  when  a  considerable  him,  and  put  them  at  the  end  of  the 
.degree  of  improvement  had  taken  place  stycas,  I  know  not  on  what  authority, 
in  the. coinage,   for  which  improve-  as  I  cannot  find  any  such  king  of  that 
^nrnt  the  reign  of  Offa  was  roost  re-  date.     I  should  much  rather  suppose 
Biarkable,.  as  nis  coins  are  the  best  ex-  they  belong  to  Eardulf,  who  began  to 
jccuted  of  all  those  of  the  Heptarchy.  reign  in  7^'*     All  those  of  Eardulf  I 
The  letters  LV  on  the  reverse,  (for  have  seen,  appear  to  have  the  name  on 
4he  X  seems  rather  to  be  a  cross,)  pro-  both  sides,  bat  want  the  word  Rex  ; 
^bly  denoted  the  monever's  name,  as  the  letters,  and  the  manner  in  which 
•the  word  LVL  for  LVLLA  is  found  they  were  struck,  seem  very  different 
dDH  the  coins  both  of  Ofla  and  Coen-  from  those  of  Eanred  or  Ethel  red. 
^Ifiylf;  besides, -the cross,  according  to        I  here  conclude  my  observations  on 
rSpeed,  was  the  ensign  of  Mercia,  and  such  of  the  Heptarchic  coins  as  have 
^e  highly-ornamented  one  on  the  re-  been  already  classed  and  assigned  to 
,:ierse  of  this  coin  is  not  unlike  that  on  the  different  kingdoms.     In  a  future 
.a^eral  of  Offa's  coins.   To  these  argu-  letter  I  purpose  offering  some  remarks 
;IDents  may  be  added  that,  as  1  have  on  the  sceattas  published  in  Ruding, 
•iKfore  observed,  the  word  Rex  occurs  a  subject  certainly  of  the  greatest  difR- 
ixk  all  the  coins  of  Mercia,  but  does  culty,  and  which  I  never  should  have 
.jloMppcar  on  any  of  the  earliest  coins  attempted   to  undertake  but   (br  the 
.of  Northumberland.  purpose  of  inducing  others  of  more 
.  .Etjivlred  I,  a*  D.  774.— In  a  for-  experience  to  investigate  the  matter. 
finer  letter  I  expressed  an  opinion  that  *       Yours,  &c.      John  Lindsay. 
Jihm  scpatta,  noticed  by  Mr.  Woolston  ^ 
.l^loQged  to  Northumberland  ;  if  this        Mr.  Urban,  April  3. 
(Conjecture  should  be  ri^ht,  it  is  most  'T^HERE  is  perhaps  no  part  of  the 
•probable  it  belongs  to  this  prince,  \Vho      1.    history  of  human  manners  more 
•peg9n  his  reign  in  774,  was  dethroned  lingular,  than  that  which  regards  t{ie 
.in  779*  and  was  afterwards  restored  in  funenil  rites  and  memorials  of  barbarous 
<794*     I  am  also  strongly  inclined  to  and  pazan  nations.    Trifling  as  such 
,think  that  a  fe\y  of  the  Stycas  attri-  particulars  may  appear  to  the  general 
^bnted  to  Ethelrcd  II.  836,  belong  to  observer,  the  slightest  facts  which  re- 
^ihif  prince,  particularly  Nos.  28,  2Q,  fleet  light  upon  ancient  and  widely- 
;  ^and  36  of  PI.  10,  ami  the  styca  in  spread  customs,  have  still  their  value, 
^pp.  PI.  27»  as  we  find  the  word  Rex  They  present  us  with  a  pase  in  the 
jWanjiin^  qu  them,  as  it  is  on  all  the  history  of  human  nature,  and  often  in- 
jearlycomsof  Northumberland,  whilst,  cidentally  develope  the  combinations 
/on  (lie  contrary,  it  occurs  on  the  stvcas  of  varied  passion.    Amidst  the  vast 
^f  Eanred  and  almost  all  the  subse-  diversity  which  here  crowd  upon  our 
iiuent'  ones,    those  of   Osberht  and  observation,  there  are  several  customs 
those  we  are  now  cmisidering,  form-  which   seem  reasonably  traceable   to 
ing,   I   believe,   the  only  exceptions,  those    natural    emotions    and   wishes 
and  on  those  of  Osberht  wp  aenerally  which  are  excited   by  death   in   the 
i^nd  the  letter  R  for  Rex.    T'his  opi-  mindsofihe survivors;  to  the poip;nancy 
•Dion    derives,     I     think,     additional  of  sorrow,  and  the  warmth  of  affec- 
•atrength  from  the  name Eanbald,  which  tion ;  some  owe  their  origin  to  an  ex- 
pire meet  with  on  No.  2Q,  and  which  travagantadmiration  of  departed  worth; 
rwas  probably  intended  for  Eanbnld  L  in  others  we  mark  the  strong  influence 
or  II.  who  were  Archbishops  of  York  of  religious  prejudice  or  philosophical 
from  780  to  812,   neither  of  whose  theory,  or  perhaps  the  wanderings  of 
Jiamea  could  occur  on  the  coins  of  imagination  in  the  fields  of  poetical 
EtlielTd  II.    It  will  also  be  reaarkcd^  aJlegory.    Sometimes  also  they  furnish 


JI8S70                     /    09  A^ot  OfTM^Miiika..                            Ml 

m  with  itrikiB^  toMUncm  lU  oplf  lioiite  for  the  teec^tiofl  ai  bit  Gilhci> 

pion  tDd  pracUGc  between  the  imH  mMl,  formally  pnrcfaued  it«  and  thru 

remote  oations,  which  are  either  ao  after  aetting  forth  a  rich  repaat^  wilb 

geoeral  at  to  mark  the  wide  operation  fonr  piofoimd  howt»  he  reoneated  ih^ 

of  certain  principles  and  passioniy  or  apirit  to  accept  of  hit  new  hahitatio** 

to  minute  at  to  lUuttrate  the  original  Accordingly,  a  ttaine,  repretenting  thi 

identity  of  nations,  and  the  uniform  tonl,  upon  which  ^e  Kina;*t  num 

presenration  of  ancient  tradition.  Lastly*  was   written,    wat  conreyed   thilhaf 

there  are  tome  coatoros  of  thit  clast  to  with  great  pomp,  and  to  conclude  th^ 

peculiar  and  extraragant,  that  it  it  ex-  ceremony,  thit  palace  with  all  itacottJv 

tremely  difficult  to  reduce  them  to  anv  furniture  wat  tet  6re  to,  and  contumon 

more  tatitfactory  causet  than  man  s  Another  traveller  relates,  thai  the  J** 

vain  and  wanton  caprice,  or  the  sense-  paneae,  upon  a  yearly  festival,  viait 

less  corruptions  of  rustic  ignorance.  the  tombs,  where  they  have  familiar 

My  preaent  purpose  is  to  throw  into  intercourse  with  the  dead,  whom  they 

one  view  a  few  of  the  more  remarkable  invite  to  follow  them  back  to  the  eiiy; 

of  these  phenomena.  To  this  the  souls  consent,  but  after 

1.  It  IS  well  known  that  the  ancient  two  days  sojourn  among  the  liviog^ 

Greeks   and    Romans    attached    the  they  are  driven  back  to  the  tombs  by  a 

highest  importance  to  the  due  per-  great  shower  of  stones;  for  any  further 

formance  ot  the  obsequies  of  their  de*  continuance  of  their  visit  would  be 

parted  friends,  and  that  the  souls  of  esteemed  highlyonfortunate.    In  thcw 

the  unburied  were  believed  to  wander  practices  we  may  readily  trace  a  belief 

for  the  space  of  an  hundred  years  upon  in  the  immortality  and  immateriality 

the  disconsolate  banks  of  the  Styx,  of  the  human  soul,  mingled  with  a 

The  Hindoos  also  (who  speak  of  a  confused  notion  of  its  partiality  to  tkp 

river  of  fire  to  be  crossed  by  the  disem-  body,  and  iu  subserviency  to  bumas 

bodied  spirit,  and  are  accustomed  to  influence. 

place  a  piece  of  money  in  the  mouth  Another  instance  of  extraordintiT 
of  the  corpse,)  declare  that  the  souls  care  bestowed  upon  the  rites  of  b«iriel» 
of  those  who  remain  unburied,  waixler  may  be  found  in  the  custom  prevalent 
as  evil  deities  through  the  earth.  In  both  in  ancient  Greece  and  modem 
conformity  with  such  prejudices,  where  Scotland,  of  preparing  the  shroud  of  a 
the  exequies  could  not  be  strictly  per-  sick  or  aged  person  even  long  before 
formed,  certain  ceremonies  by  way  of  the  approach  of  death.  Although  thb 
substitution  were  allowed.  It  is  no-  anxiety  may  not  be  very  easily  ao- 
torious,  from  the  testimony  of  Horace  counted  for  upon  pinciplea  of  rcatoo. 
and  other  writers,  that  three  handfuls  it  may  be  aeknowiedgca  at  the  natmal 
of  soft  earth  thrown  upon  the  body,  result  of  the  affection  of  ignorant  pe^ 
were  considered  effectual  for  this  pur-  tons,  attaching  identity  to  the  body  im- 
pose ;  and  we  know  that  Andromache,  atead  of  the  seal.  Hence  also  the  oo^ 
in  Virgil,  raised  an  empty  sepulchre  to  tom  common  among  pagan  nation!,  of 
the  memory  of  Hector.  But  similar  placing  food  beside  the  tombs  of  the 
customs  are  also  observed  in  the  re-  deceased,  which  was  in  some  cases  ear^ 
mote  kingdom  of  Tonquin.  Father  ried  so  far,  that  provitiont  were  let  down 
Marini  relates  that,  "  whien  any  friend  by  a  pipe  into  tne  grave,  and  tometimea 
is  dead,  and  his  body  is  no  where  to  be  were  even  appliecfto  the  mouth  of  the 
found,  they  write  his  name  on  a  piece  dead  person.  An  Ethiopian  nattoo, 
of  board,  and  perform  the  same  funeral  accorcliog  to  Herodotus,  preserved  the 
solemnities  to  that  representation  of  bodies  of  their  relationt  encloaed  in 
him,  as  if  it  were  bis  real  corpse.'*  coffins  made  of  a  sort  of  glass. 

In  the  third  JEneid,  v.  67,  68,  parti-  Stran^ly  mingled  with  these  marka 
ailar  ceremonies  are  specified,  by  of  aflection,  are  symptoms  of  a  auper** 
which  the  souls  of  the  dead  were  in-  stitious  dread  of  tne  relict  of  the  de- 
bited to  the  sepulchres,  and  made,  at  parted.  The  touch  of  a  corpse  war* 
it  were,  inhabitants  of  them,  ''  ani^  and  is  now  in  many  ports  of  the 
mamque  sepulchro  condimus.*'  So  in  world,  thought  to  impart  a  polloliQil 
Ausonius,  **  voce  ciere  animas  funeris  which  much  time  and  ceremony  alooe 
instar  hsbet.**  Now  it  if  curious  that,  could  cleanse.  The  Kings  of  tome 
according  to  Father  Tissanier's  account  countries  were  not  alk)wed  even .  to 
of  Tonquin,  a  king  of  that. country  behold  one,  and  the  Pontifcx  Max^ 
having  made  .choioe  flf  a  magnificent  mus .  of  Rome  wais  aocoplpig  tp  Scy 


tM                           Th€  Polff'OUnon  of  Drayton.  [April, 

pecai*,  laid  under  the  same  restraint  Captain  Kotzebae,,  in  a  similar  man- 

The  Hindoos,  we  are  assured,  consider  ner.    Yet  more  strange  is  the  usage  of 

carcasses  as  evil  deities,  and  the  bodies  the  Kamschadales,  who  regularly,  we 

of  those  who  die  under  an  unfortunate  are  told,  deliver  up  their  dead  as  food 

constellation,  are  carried   out  of  the  for  dogs,  and  this  not  from  intentional 

house,  not  by  the  door,  but  through  a  neglect,  but  because  they  think  it  a 

hole  made  in  the  wall,  and  the  house  means  of  procuring  6ne  aogs  for  their 

ii  deserted  for  a  considerable   time,  spirits  in  tne  other  world,  and  that  the 

This  last  peculiar  custom  is,  according  evil  powers,  who  are  the  authors  of 

to  Kolbens,  general  among  the  Hot-  death,  may  be  satisfied  with  seeing  the 

tentots,  who  carry  out  a  corpse  through  bodies  abandoned  without  the  houses'*, 

a  hole  in  the  back  of  the  hut ;  for  they  The  Gaores  or  Guebres  of  the  East, 

imagine,  he  adds,  that  the  dead  are  are  well  known  to  abandon  the  re- 

ibischievously  inclined   to  injure  the  mains  of  their  friends,  in  uncovered 

cattle  confined  in  the  midst  of  the  vil-  enclosures,    to  the   birds  which   live 

lage.    Lastly,  the  Kamschadales  fre-  upon  carrion.    The  same  practice  pre- 

queutly  desert  the  hut  in  which  a  rela-  vails  in  Tibet,  where  these  receptacles 

tion  has  breathed  his  last,  and  carefully  have  covered  passages  below  to  admit 

throw  away  all  the  clothes  which  he  the  beasts  of  prey :  some  bodies  are 

used  in  lifef .  thrown  into  a  river,  but  burial  is  quite 

When  we  consider  the  splendid  ob-  unknown.     The   inhabitants   of   the 

•equies    and    expensive   mausolea    so  parts  near  the  Pontus  Euxinus  were, 

common  in  most  ages  and  countries,  we  are  told,  in  ancient  times  so  mon- 

(he  solicitude  so  generally  manifested  strous,  as  to  devour  the  bodies  of  their 

to  ensure  the  rites  of  burial,  and  the  deceased    parents  ;    and   the  Balearic 

frequent  practice  of  deifying  the  de-  islanders  used  to  cut  them  to  pieces, 

parted,  it  may  appear  abstractedly  im-  and  place  the  mutilated  fragments  in 

J)robable  that  any  nations  are  to  be  earthen  pots, 
bund  by  whom  these  marks  of  respect  It  were  endless,  however,  to  enu- 
are  neglected ;  yet  instances  of  such  merate  the  extravagancies  with  which 
disrespect  art  discoverable  even  in  ci-  the  funeral  rites  of  barbarous  nations 
Tilized  regions.  In  Mexico,  Mr.  Bui-  are  replete.  The  very  follies  of  men 
lock  observed  no  memorials  of  the  may  become  instructive,  not  only  be- 
dead  ;  neither  monuments  nor  inscrip-  cause  such  relations  extend  our  know- 
ttons  appear  to  be  in  use.  InSwitzer-  ledge  of  the  human  mind,  and  conse- 
land  also,  though  funerals  are  con-  quently  of  ourselves,  but  because  they 
ducted  with  becoming  solemnity,  no  may  induce  us  more  hio;hly  to  value 
service  is  read  over  the  grave.  Among  those  blessings  of  pure  Ueligion  and 
mder  nations  may  be  perceived  marks  general  improvement,  which  have  de- 
of  a  studied  and  even  contemptuous  nvered  us  from  their  debasing  influence, 
disrespect.  The  ancient  Troglodyiae,  Yours,  &c.  A.  R.  C. 
as  Diodorus  relates,  were  in  the  habit  ^ 
of  covering  the  bodies  of  their  relations  M|.^  Urban,  April  10. 
id^ith  a  shower  of  stones,  accompanying  rpHE  Polyloibion  of  Drayton  is 
this  unceremonious  treatment  with  1  perhaps  one  of  the  most  singular 
peals  of  laughter  J.  Whether  this  pomt  performances  the  ingenuity  of  a  poet 
may  be  illustrated  by  the  conduct  of  ever  devised.  He  appears  to  have  in- 
that  people  who  were  said  to  lament  at  tended  to  make  it  the  great  repository 
every  birth,  and  to  rejoice  at  funerals,  of  whatever  was  connected  with  the 
from  an  opinion  of  the  misery  of  hu-  Jand  of  Britain,  its  history,  antiquities, 
man  life,  it  is  difficult  to  say.  The  religion,  natural  history,  and  geo- 
classical  writer  above  cited,  speaks  also  graphy ;  its  customs  and  manners,  and 
of  an  Ethiopian  tribe  who  abaijdon  romantic  legends:  and  this,  as  far  as 
their  dead  upon  the  coast,  below  low-  the  poem  goes,  he  has  accomplished 
water  mark,  from  the  exoress  desire  with  a  minuteness  and  accuracy,  rather 
that  they  may  become  food  for  fishes,  to  be  expected  from  the  prose  "folios  of 
The  inhabiunts  of  Radack,  an  island  one  whose  life  had  been  devoted  to 
in  the  Pacific  Ocean,  act,  according  to  science,  and  the  graver  studies  of  lite- 

*  Marc  15.  rature,  than  from  the  pen  of  a  votary 

t  History  of  Kamachatka,  translated  from  of  the  Muses. 

th«  Russian,  1764.  ■      — ~ 

:  BibL  L  iii.  €.  89.  «  Hist.  Kams. 


1827.] 


Tht  Pofy'Olbion  of  Drayton* 


SOS 


Y^t  great  and  elaborate  U  is  the  work  ^ 
and  correct  and  inteifesting  as  are  its 
details,  it  has  never,  and  from  its  very 
nature  can  never,  become  popular,  or 
be  read  with  pleasure  as  a  poem.  There 
is  nothing  more  opposed  to  the  genius 
of  poetry,  than  a  minuteness  and  con- 
tinuity of  detail.     Like  the  bee  which 
sips  not  at  every  flower  in  regular  pro- 
gression, but  flies  as  its  fancy  dictates, 
poetry  must  not  be  bound   down  or 
encumbered  with  a  weight  of  particu- 
larity and  enumeration  :    it  must  be 
free  and  wandering,  and  deal  in  gene- 
ralities, or  it  ceases  to  be  poetry.     Had 
Byron,  in  his  fourth  Canto  of  Child 
Harold,  instead  of  selecting  some  of 
the  most  striking  objects  in  his  beauti- 
ful descriptions  of  Rome  or  Venice, 
attempted  a  complete  and  detailed  ac- 
count of  their  temples  or  statues,  even 
his  mighty  genius  would  have  failed 
to  make  his  verse  less  tedious  or  less 
prosaic  than   the  greater  part  of  the 
Poly-Olbion.    This  is  the  great,  the 
staring   fault  of  Drayton.     He  gives 
you  the  name  and  particulars  of  every 
king,  from  the  first  landing  of  Brutus; 
of  every  saint  from  Joseph  of  Arima- 
thea ;    the    property  of  almost  every 
known  herb  or  tree ;  of  every  stone, 
beast,  fish,  or  fowl:  add  to  this  pro- 
lixity, the  unharmoniousness  and  mo- 
notony of  the  measure  he  has  chosen, 
and  it  will  require  but  little  discern- 
ment to  account  for  the  neglect  which 
as  a  poem  it  has  met  with.    Yet  Dray- 
ton was  a  poet  in  the  strictest  sense, 
and  superior  to  most,  if  not  all  his  im- 
mediate   contemporaries.     His  Nym- 
phida  is  a  gem  that  has  not  its  equal 
for    sportive    fancy   and    imaginative 
beauty  in  the  whole  circle  of  our  poetry. 
Many  of  the  poems  in  his  Muse's  Ely- 
sium, partake  of  the  same  character ; 
and  detached   nieces   abound   in   the 
Poly-Olbion,  of  the  highest  beauty  and 
poetic  feeling :  indeed  there  is  scarcely 
one  of  his  compositions  from  which 
something  could  not  be  culled,  indica* 
tive  of  his  talents  and  his  taste. 

Drayton  was  the  poet  of  the  country 
and  of  nature,  and  to  this,  in  great 
measure,  is  owing  his  superiority  over 
those  of  his  times.  He  is  compara- 
tively free  from  cold  metaphorical  sub- 

tilties,  and  the  worn-out  pedantry  ot 
the  Grecian  Mythology.  He  aban- 
doned the  thick  fogs  and  lay-stall  of 
the  city,  and  betook  himself  to  the 
temple  and  fields  of  the  Muse,  to  de- 
lightful groves  and  pleasant  downs. 


where  are  harmless  shepherds^  toma 
exercising  their   pipes,   some  singing 
roundelays  to  their  grazing  flocks*. 
He  mixed  in  the  sports  of  the  hamlet^ 
mingled  with  the  jokes  of  its  rustic  in- 
habitants, and  listened  to  their  tradi- 
tions and  legendaiy  tales.   He  followed 
the  huntsman  and  his  hounds  in  the 
field,  and  the  falconer  and  his  hawk 
by  the  river.    The  habits  and  notes  of 
the  feathered  tribe  from  the  wren  to 
the  eagle,  and   the  virtues  and   pro- 
perties of  plants  from  the  thistle  to  the 
pine-tree,  were  alike  the  objects  of  hia 
attention.    Nor  did  he,  in  his  devoted* 
ness    to    rural   simplicity  and  truth, 
forget  the  severer  studies  which  a  work 
on  such  a  plan  would  necessarily  re- 
quire.   The  old  chronicle  and  book  of 
science,    the    monkish   and  minstrel 
legend  were  pondered,  and  many  a  long 
hour  must  have  been  spent  in  extract- 
ing from  these  sources  the  flood  of 
learning   and    research,    apparent  ini 
every  page  of  his  poem.    This  over- 
flowing of  ancient  lore,  this  fidelity  of 
detail,  has  rendered  the  Poly-Olbion 
one  of  the  most  interesting  monuments 
in  our  language  to  the  literary  and  ge- 
neral  antiquary,   and  to  him  it  will 
always  be  a  store  of  pleasure  and  de-  . 
light;  there  is  still,  however,  some- 
thing wanting  to  complete  his  satisfac- 
tion, and  that  is  a  well  and  ably-written 
commentary.     What  the  learned  Sel- 
den  has  written  is  excellent,  yet  even 
his  notes  are  not  numerous  enough, 
and  they  are  far  from  including  the 
whole  ])oem.    But  where  is  the  man; 
at  the  present  day,  who  will  undertake 
to  compose  a  commentary  to  the  Poly- 
Olbion  that  shall  be  perfect,  or  even 
approach  perfection  ? 

Jn  the  preface  to  his  poem,  Drayton 
ranks  among  the  causes  which  make 
him  fearful  of  its  success,  the  want  of 
a  prior  model.  It  is  true  there  is  no  ' 
other  poem  in  English  on  the  same 
plan,  but  still  the  claim  of  complete 
originality  is  not,  1  think,  quite  clear. 
Compositions  both  in  verse  and  prose, 
of  a  somewhat  similar  nature,  were  not 
at  all  uncommon  in  the  middle  ages, 
only  the  plan  was  not  confined  to  a 
particular  country,  but  embraced  the 
universe.  Such,  for  instance,  is  the 
poem  L'Image  du  Monde,  of  Gan- 
tier  de  Metz ;  in  prose  the  Speculum 
Historiale  of  Vincent  de  Beauvais, 
and  the  popular  virork  of  our  coun- 

»  Preface  (0  the  Resdcr* 


woi. 


DdPiM  Church,  Wdlcioi^quwre^ 


[April; 


tsfsnan  Bartholdmeoiy  de  Proprtetati* 
bos  Rerann. 

Youn^  frc.  H. 

Mr.  U  KB  Air,  March  30. 

IN  the  area  of  Wellclose-square,  is  a 
Church  which  was  built  for  the 
King  of  Denmark,  by  Caius  Gabriel 
Cibber,  the  well-known  sculptor  of  the 
maniacs  formerly  in  Moor-helds.  Its 
obscure  situation  renders  it  but  little 
noticed  at  this  day,  or  I  feel  certain  it 
would  not  have  fallen  into  the  disgrace 
which  it  at  present  has. 
-  Your  readers  will,  I  am  sure,  be 
equally  surprised  with  myself,  at  hear- 
ing that  this  edifice  is  converted  into  a 
meeting-house  for  a  society  of  enthu- 
siasts calling  themselves  the  Bethel 
Union,  and  they  will  be  tlie  more 
grieved  when  they  read  the  description 
of  the  edifice.  The  exterior  shows 
merely  a  plain  brick  building,  with  a 
•mail  steeple  at  the  west  end.  The 
west  front  is  adorned  with  statues  of 
the  Christian  virtues.  Charity,  with 
its  accompanying  infants,  is  placed 
upon  the  cornice  of  the  doorway, 
Fajth  and  Hope  occupying  niches  at 
the  sides  of  it.  There  are  two  Latin  in- 
seriptionson  this  part,  setting  forth  the 
erection  and  dedication  of  the  building. 
The  interior,  however,  is  very  pleas- 
ing; its  decoi aliens  and  ornaments  are 
in  the  best  taste  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  are  executed  in  a  style  of 
elegance  and  profusion  not  surpassed 
by  any  building  of  the  kind  in  the  me- 
tropolis. It  resembles  the  primitive 
Churches  in  having  a  circular  tribune 
at  the  east  end,  behind  the  aii:ir  screen, 
leaving  a  vacancy  above  it,  which  bus 
a  far  belter  appearance  than  where  it 
is  placed  agaiUbt  a  wall.  It  is  a  6ne 
composition  of  the  Corinthian  order, 
and  beautifully  carved  ;  in  the  centre 
is  a  large  painting,  representing  the 
agony  in  the  Garden.  On  each  side 
'of  this,  upon  pedestals,  are  full-length 
atatues  the  size  of  life,  of  our  Sa- 
.viour  and  Moses,  and  on  the  cornice 
St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul,  of  smaller  pro*- 
.portions.  The  table  is  supported  b^ 
elegant  open  work  in  brass,  and  is 
covered  with  crimson  velvet.  At  the 
west  end  are  two  galleries  richly  carved. 
In  the  upper  is  the  case  of  an  organ, 
•'the  instrument  having  been  removed. 
.The  pulpit,  which  is  situated  against 
the  north  wall,  is  polygonal,  each  fiaice 
being  embellished  with  a  carving* in 
relief  fiom  the  history  of  our  I^rd. 


Opposite  to  it  is  a  large  pew,  glazed 
and  finished  with  a  canopied  roof;  once 
appropriated  to  Royalty.  The  ceiling  is 
nchly  worked  in  stucco,  the  centre 
rising  into  an  elegant  dome.  A  stone 
font  stands  in  a  pew  near  the  altar. 
The  royal  arms  of  Denmark,  and  the 
cypher  of  the  founder  (Christian),  is 
seen  in  several  jiarts  of  the  edifice. 
Upon  the  whole,  a  degree  of  richness 
and  splendour  are  visible  throughout 
the  building,  met  with  in  few  modern 
Churches.  —  When  1  advert  to  the 
present  appropriation  of  the  edifice,  I 
feel  certain  your  readers  will  participate 
with  me  in  the  feelings  of  indignation 
which  arose  when  I  witnessed  its  de- 
gradation. The  altar-table  serves  as  a 
aepository  for  hats,  and  the  statues  of 
our  Saviour  and  Moses  are  rendered 
ridiculous  by  having  blue  flags  stuck 
into  their  hands,  inscribed  with  the 
word  •*  Beihel,*'  like  those  carried  by 
benefit  societies,  and  at  other  proces- 
sions of  a  similar  stamp.  A  model  of 
a  ship  is  suspended  from  the  western 
galleries,  and  on  the  outside  of  the 
Church  a  mast  with  shrouds  and  tack- 
ing is  stuck  upon  the  roof.  It  would 
be  needless  to  add  more  u|)on  the  con- 
duct of  a  party  which  could  offer  so  great 
9n  indisnity  to  the  statue  of  our  Saviour 
88  that  1  have  just  noticed,  nor  will  it 
be  necessary  for  any  feelings  of  execra- 
tion against  such  conduct;  the  bare 
recital  of  the  facts  themselves  are  suffi- 
cient. After  the  service,  as  it  is  call- 
ed, had  ended,  and  the  congregation 
had  deposited  their  offerings  in  the 
shape  ot  pence  and  halfpenct:,  in  certain 
tin  boxes,  which  though  less  musical, 
as  efiectually  proclaimed  the  pharasai- 
cal  mode  of^  alms-giving,  as  a  trumpet 
wookl  have  done,  some  men  with 
fiddles  and  clarionets  struck  up  a  tune, 
in  which  they  were  vocally  accom- 
panied by  several  others,  with  voices 
so  devoid  of  grace  and  harmony,  that 
I  was  only  restrained  from  a  laugh  by 
the  consideration  that  the  building  had 
once  been  sacred,  and  the  feelings  of 
indignation  which  arose  from  witness- 
ing its  present  state. 

Is  the  Danish  Ambassador  cognisant 
6f  the  appropriation  of  the  building? 
I  Can  scarce  believe  that  the  King  of 
Denmark  would  ever  have  suflfered  a 
Chapel  built  by  one  of  his  predeces- 
sors on  the  throne  to  be  thus  de» 
'Mded.  If  Royalty,  however,  should 
display  an  unworthy  apathy  on  the 
occasion,  those  great  oodies,  the  Coai^ 


1827.]  Drancepelh  Castle,  Durham.  305 

mlssioners  for  building  new  Churches,  against  King  John,  but  in  the  17th  of 
and  the  Society  for  the  same  purpose,  that  King  found  it  politic  to  give  100 
are  neither  dead  nor  asleep,  and  I  can-  marks  for  his  restoration  to  favour,  and 
not  suppose  that  either  would  have  to  offer  as  a  pledge  of  future  fidelity 
sufTered  the  building  to  have  fallen  into  this  castle  ana  two  hosta^.  His  sis- 
its  present  use,  when  it  mi^ht  have  ter  after  his  death  carried  it  to  the  Fiti-' 
been  converted  into  a  Chapel  of  the  Maldreds,  whose  descendants  there-. 
Establishment,  so  much  %vanted  in  upon  took  the  name  of  Nevill,  and' 
the  neighbourhood,  if  they  liad  been  were  the  ancestors  of  the  renowned 
aware  of  the  change  before  it  took  Earls  of  Westmoreland*.  On  their 
place.  It  is  not,  however,  too  late  rebellion,  in  the  time  of  Queen  Eli- 
to  redeem  the  structure.  Let  me  zabeth,  this  Castle  and  Lordship  be- 
then,  Mr.  Urban,  call  upon  the  two  came  vested  in  the  Crown,  but  were 
bodies  I  have  named,  and  earnestly  sold  by  Charles  I.  to  Lady  Middleton 
entreat  the  members  of  ihem,  if  they  and  others :  since  which  time  they' 
feel  any  regard  for  the  honor  of  the  have  passed  into  various  hands. 
Established  Church,  if  they  are  ac-  Lclaiid,  the  faiiicr  of  Antiquaries, 
tuated  by  those  feelings  which  ought  noticing  the  building,  says  that  it  "is 
to  guide  (hem  in  the  performance  of  strongly  set  and  buililcd,  and  hath  two 
their  high  duties,  to  lose  no  time  in  courtcsof  high  building;:  there  is  a  lit- 
purchasing  the  structure,  and  restoring  tie  mote,  that  hemmeth  a  great  peace 
to  it  a^'iind  form  of  worship,  and  to  of  the  first  court.  In  this  court  be 
its  altii^  and  fdnt  their  respective  sacra-'  three  toures  of  logging,  and  three  small 
ments. '  Let  the  scriptural  liturgy  and  ad  omamenlum.  The  pleasure  of  the 
the  episcopallv  ordained  Clergyman  castle  is  in  the  second  court ;  and,  en- 
supersede  the  iow-liyed  stories  and  the  terin^;  into  it  by  a  great  toure,  I  saw  in 
coarse  vulgarity  of  the  boatswain's  mate,  scochin  in  the  fronte  of  it,  a  lion  ram- 
If  this  appeal,  howeVer,  is  received  pnt.  Some  say  that  Rafe  Nevill,  the 
with  apathy,  and  treated  with  con-  first  Erie  of  vVestmcrland,  builded 
tempt,  join  with  me,  Mr.  Urban,  in  much  of  this  house,  A.D.  1398.  The 
calling  upon  the  liberality  of  your  Eric  that  now  is,  hath  set  a  new  peace 
friends  to  raise  a  pritate  subscription  of  work  to  it.''  Tiic  priiicipl  court,  or 
for  this  laudable  purpo'se.  I  earnestly  irea,  is  of  an  octangular  form ;  having 
beg  your  insertion  of  this,  and  let  me  the  body  of  the  castle  on  the  south-west 
hope,  Mr.  Urban,  for  the  honour  of  side.  The  entrance  to  the  area  on  the 
the  Church,  that  it  will  not  be  disre-  north  is  defended  bv  a  gateway  with 
garded.                         •         E.  I.  C  two  square  towers ;  from  which  a  wall 

A  atid  parapet-extends  east  and  west  con- 

-._     -_  ^  s'la,  riectmg  with  the  castle.    Between  the 

Mr.  Urbak,  I     AprUS^    .;  ^j^er  a^j   1^^  gateway,  on  the   east 

AMONG  the  remaioi  of  mllitiiiy'  side,  are  two  large  square  towers,  corn- 
architecture  whieh* interest' the  municating  with  the  wall,  with  but- 
travelldir,  and  demand  the  inveslmtioit'  trestes  at  each  angle,  having  a  small 
of  the  antiquary,  is  Braneepeth  Castle*  turret  at  their  summits,  sustained  on 
in  the  county  of  Durham.  This  irre-  corbels,  open  at  the  sides,  but  not 
gular,  but  stately  pile,  (of  which  the  in  front.  The  main  pile  is  very  irre- 
annexed  view  is  a  very  accuate  repre-  gular;  from  the  subsequent  additions 
sentation,)  owed  its  erection  to  the  fa-  made  to  the  original  building,  which 
tnily  of  the  Buhners  during  the  early  arpp^ars  to  lia%'e  consisted  of  four  dis- 
part of  the  usurpation  of  Stephen,  tinct  quadrangular  towers,  similar  to 
when,  with  a  view  of  strengthening  one  just  described,  with  buttresses  and 
his  own  cause,  he  gave  his  Barons  per-'  turrets.  Various  modern  improvements 
mission  to  build  fortresses  and  embat-'  have  been  made  in  the  interior  for  do- 
tle  their  mansions  at  their  own tfhoi^.'  mestic  purposes;   and  several  of  the 

By  the  marriage  of  Emma,  hjei^rM  of  apartments   are   spacious,   and   hand- 

the  Buliuers,  it  came  into  tb^  Nevills,  somely  fitted  up.  These  improvements 

the  heads  of  which  family  several  rimes.  .  -■ 

api)f  ared  in  arms  against  their  Snye-         •  j^  the  Church,  which  bears  the  marks  ' 

reigns,  andthus  placed  their  extensive  <,f  jiving   been  eonventiul,  are  numerous 

possessions  in  .fcopardy.   Henry  deNe-  very  interesting  msmorials  to  the  first  Nc- 

\iU  assisted  the   confederate    Barons-  vUl  (iuniiy  and  its  branches. 

Gent.  Mag.  <^pn7,  1827.  . 

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506 


Letter  of  Mrt.  Montagu. 


[April, 


were  chiefly  made  bv  Wm.  Russell, 
esq.  who  also  created  an  ornamcQtal 
green-house,  and  made  several  altera- 
tions in  the  pleasure  srounds  and  park. 
While  in  this  nei^boorhood  1  will 
mention  a  peculiarly  interesting  remain 
oh  Brandon  Hill,  about  two  miles 
north  of  the  castle.  It  is  a  remarkable 
oblong  tumulus  or  barrow,  120  paces 
in  circumference  at  the  base,  and  about 
24  feet  in  perpendicular  height.  From 
this  hill  is  also  to  be  obtained  in  clear 
weather,  a  perfect  view  of  no  fewer 
than  eight  catties  and  a  vast  range  of 
country,  L.  S. 

Mr.  Urban, 

1SEND  you  a  Letter  of  the  cele- 
brated Mrs.  Montagu,  one  of  the 
best  epistolary  correspondents  that  ever 
existed,  and  well  known  for  her  bene- 
volence to  the  poor  chimney-sweepers. 
An  account  of  this  accomplished  and 
amiable  Lady  will  be  found  in  vol. 
Lxx.  p.  404,  and  of  her  husband  Mr. 
E.  Montagu  in  vol.  lxxiv.  p.  lOQO. 
Yours,  &c.  A.  H. 


Copy  of  a  Letter  from  Mrs,  Montagu 
to  Mrs.  ■ 

Dear  Mad-.  Sandford.  near  New- 

bury,  Oct.  22. 

1  find  my  letter  into  fiuckingham'* 
had  not  the  good  fortune  to  ^ei  to  your 
hands,  but  as  I  cannot  permit  an  acci- 
dent to  deprive  me  of  a  pleasure  you 
are  so  ^oocl  as  to  allow  me,  I  must  re- 
new our  corres)K>ndence  by  a  letter, 
which  I  hope  will  be  more  lucky  than 
the  last. 

If  I  was  to  give  you  an  account  of 
my  life  and  transactions,  since  1  saw 
you,  you  w**  think  I  had  been  very 
idly  busy.  1  «p<:nt  about  three  months 
at  Tunb ridge,  where  we  had  a  great 
deal  of  company.  Every  nation  of  the 
world  contributed  towards  our  crowd  ; 
every  sect  of  religion,  Jews  and  Gen- 
tiles ;  every  order  and  rank  of  life  was 
amongst  us,  so  that  the  charms  of  va- 
riety were  to  be  found  as  to  the  per- 
sons: but  the  amusements  were  still 
the  same.  Cards  and  gamins;  were  the 
darling  diversions,  in  which  I  never 
partake ;  so  that  I  had  a  greater  share 
of  leisure  than  most  people,  and  used 
to  ride  or  go  airing  every  day ;  and  by 
that  means  did  not  lose  those  rural 
pleasures  w^  I  think  are  the  most  de- 
nghtful  of  any;  and  as  to  society,  I 
found  some  very  agreeable  people,  who 
were  not  driven  to  cards  for  amuse- 


ment j  as  if  that,  though  this  creation 
is  so  delightful,  something  was  still 
wanting  to  human  happiness,  till  a 
piece  of  spotted  paper  was  invehted  as 
a  supplement  to  it. 

The  situation  of  houses  at  the  Wells 
is  very  pretty,  the  hills  look  very  fine, 
and  the  building  intermixed  with 
trees  have  a  peculiar  and  romantic  air. 
It  has  all  the  simplicity  of  a  country 
village  in  appearance.  The  great  in- 
habit cottages  there.  Ambition,  pride, 
and  luxury,  are  generally  found  in  no- 
bler edifices,  but,  I  fear,  a  Tunbridge 
cottage  often  contains  these  mighty 
passions. 

I  found  great  benefits  from  the  wa- 
ters, which  made  me  prolong  my  stay 
much  beyond  my  first  intention,  and 
I  cannot  but  Own  I  was  much  tired 
of  the  place. 

The  accession  of  company  is  a  lively 
representation  of  human  life,  one  race 
succeeding  another,  faces  and  charac- 
ters differing  in  something,  but  still  the 
same  passions,  inclinations,  virtues,  and 
frailties:  my  long  stay  was  a  sort  of 
old  age :  I  saw  my  best  friends  go  be- 
fore me ;  but  as  in  life,  tho*  the  great- 
est pleasures  are  over,  and  most  inti- 
mate friends  gone,  there  is  still  some- 
thing and  somebody,  for  whom  one 
w'  linger  and  tarry  a  little  longer. 

From  Tunbridge  I  came  to  town, 
which  I  found  more  melancholy,  and 
almost  as  solitary  as  a  desert.  I  stayed 
but  a  few  dap,  and  then  went  into 
Huntingdonshire  to  Lady  Sandwich*, 
where  I  spent  the  sliort  time  I  could 
stay  in  the  moit  agreeable  manner. 
She  was  so  good  as  to  come  herself 
with  me  to  London.  We  lay  one 
night  on  the  road,  on  purpose  to  make 
a  visit  to  Dr.  Young  t,  who'  enteruin- 
ed  us  very  agreeably.  His  house  is 
the  emblem  of  his  mind,  plain  but 
elegant.  He  here  entertains  his  friends 
genteelly,  the  poor  liberally;  is  beloved 
and  respected  by  all  his  neighbours, 
and  his  parishioners  are  not  less  edifyr 
ed  by  his  example  than  his  precepts  : 
he  lives  up  to  his  doctrine,  and  prac- 
tises what  he  preaches.  It  save  me 
true  joy  of  heart  to  see  my  old  friend 
enjoy  health'  and  spirits,  and  all  inter- 
nal and  external  comforts.  At  no 
greater  distance  than  25  miles  from 


*  Edward  Montagu,  esc^  the  husband  of 
tba  writer  of  thw  letter,  was  gnndson  of  tha 
first  Earl  of  Sandwich. 

t  At  Welwyo. 


1827.] 


jintieni  Roman  Cuit<mi$. 


SOT 


London,  he  is  as  great  a  hermit  as  if 
he  was  in  the  remotest  part  of  the 
earth, 

"  And  all  the  distant  din  the  world  can  keep 
Rolls  o'er  his  grotto,  and  but  sooths  his 
sleep." 

I  helieve  this  may  he  said  with  more 
truth  of  him  than  of  his  brother  poet, 
who  was  not  so  detached  from  the 
world,  nor  had  a  spirit  so  purified  from 
the  dross  of  it ;  tho*  I  am  sorry  one 
who  has  wrote  so  well  on  mortality 
should  be  accused  of  not  having  lived 
up  to  the  strictest  rules  of  it.  But  we 
must  make  allowances  for  the  envy  of 
mankind,  who  are  too  apt  to  throw 
something  into  the  other  scale,  where 
a  person's  merit  and  parts  so  much 
outweigh  the  usual  portion ;  and  let 
us  remember  that  his  doctrine  cannot 
he  invalidated  by  any  contradiction  his 
conduct  could  give  it.  The  enemies 
of  virtue  think  they  do  much,  if  they 
prove  that  there  are  few  virtuous ;  hut 
truth  is  unalterable,  nor  can  the  cor- 
ruptions of  custom  destroy  the  real  na- 
ture and  constitution  of  things. 

I  did  not  forget  your  recommenda- 
tion of  Phalaris*s  Epistles;  they  gave 
me  a  great  deal  of  pleasure :  the  cha- 
racter even  of  Phalaris  has  something 
noble  in  it.  A  contempt  of  art  and 
treachery,  a  superiority  to  revenge  in 
many  instances  make  one  grievM  he 
usurp'd  an  unjust  power.  The  re- 
morse and  anxiety  with  which  it  was 
attended  are  good  lessons.  The  letter 
of  Democritus  [Hippocritus]  is  very 
curious  ;  one  is  glad  of  such  an  ac- 
count of  a  philosopher,  whose  indig- 
nant mirth  has  rendered  him  famous 
for  so  many  ages. 

The  letters  of  the  great  men  of  an- 
tiquity are  very  entertaining ;  one  en- 
ters into  their  secret  counsels,  becomes 
in  a  manner  their  confidants ;  the  fa- 
miliarity one  seems  to  acquire  with 
them  makes  a  greater  impression,  and 
gives  a  more  intimate  knowledge  than 
one  can  have  from  history :  there  one 
sees  the  statesman  and  the  warrior,  but 
here  the  man ;  whatever  improvements 
the  moderns  may  boast  of  in  elegance 
and  delicacy  of  expression,  in  policy 
and  arts  of  government,  the  strength 
of  life  and  of  letters  does  not  subsist; 
the  vigour  of  Nature  seems  to  be  worn 
out ;  mediocrity  reigns  in  characters ; 
the  pre-eminence  of  virtue  and  wis- 
dom, of  military  and  civil  merit,  does 
not  so  appear  in  individuals.  I  am 
glad  the  race  of  warlike  heroes  is  ex- 


tinct. It  may  be  said  in  excuse  of 
their  desire  of*^  conquest,  that  the  only 
laudable  additions  to  the  riches  and 
strength  of  a  country,  which  are  such 
as  commerce  can  obtain,  were  not  then 
to  be  had.  Had  commerce  been  then 
well  known,  and  the  situation  of 
every  country  admitted  it,  patriotism 
had  had  a  gentler  beneficent  task,  car- 
ried out  blessings  as  well  as  brought 
them  home,  and  aggrandized  its  own 
country  without  desolating  others. 

I  shall  hope  for  the  favour  of  a  line 
when  you  have  leisure,  and  that  we 
shall  correspond  more  frequently  than 
we  have  done  this  summer,  if  thetength 
does  not  terrify  you.  My  sex  is  some 
apolo^  for  love  of  talkmg :  but  for 
once  I  will  say  a  great  deal  in  a  few 
words,  for  it  w<>  require  many  to  ex- 
press its  length,  how  much  1  am, 
D'  Madam, 
Y'  faithful  and  obed*  humble  serv*, 

E.  Montagu. 

Mr.  Urban,  April  lo. 

THE  followinj;  observations  on  some 
of  the  ancient  Roman  customs, 
may  probably  not  be  unacceptable  to 
the  readers  of  your  agreeable  and  in- 
structive Miscellany. 

The  custom  which  prevailed  amongst 
the  ancients  of  making  votive  offerings 
to  their  favourite  Divinities,  in  order 
to  procure  themselves  safe  journeys  by 
sea  or  land,  or  in  token  of  their  grati- 
tude for  preservation  from  some  im- 
minent danger,  still  exists  in  the  Ca- 
tholic countries  of  Europe  ;  as  the 
numerous  Churches  and  Chapels  in 
France,  Spain,  and  Italy,  amply  testify. 
In  the  Church  at  Boulogne,  for  ex- 
ample, several,  pictures  and  models  of 
ships  are  suspended  from  the  walls 
near  the  altar,  which  have  been  pr^ 
sented  as  offerings  to  the  Virgin  Mary 
by  the  Captains  of  French  trading  ves- 
sels belonging  to  the  port.  These 
paintings  represent  the  various  perilous 
situations  in  which  the  ships  and  their 
crews  have  been  placed  durins  their 
respective  voyages;  and  the  dangers 
from  which  they  suppose  themselves 
to  h^ve  been  miraculously  delivered 
through  her  influence.  We  may  here 
trace  a  strong  resemblance  to  the  cus- 
tom of  the  ancient  Romans  on  similar 
occasions,  such  as  their  preservation 
from  storms  and  shipwrecks,  when  it 
was  usual  for  the  saved  mariners  to 
hang  up  in  the  temple  of  Neptune 
their  dripping  garments,  or  pictures,  or 


MB                                Ancient  Roman  Custofju.  [April, 

-tome  other  token  emblematic  of  the  tiupend  their  arms  in  the  temple  of 

jevent,  as  grateful  and  jfropiiiatory  offer-  Hercules^  their  patron  Divinity : 

ings  to  that  Divinity.    This  custom  is «  Veianius,  armis 

alluded  to  by  Horace  in  the  fifth  Ode  HereuUs  ad  pastern  fixis,  Utet  abdltus  agio; 

of  his  first  Dook  :  Ne  popuJum  extremi  toties  exoret  areni." 

.                 «« Me  talulA  aacer  Horace,  B.  i.  Epist.  i.  4-6  J- 

yMu)d  paries  bdicat  uvida  In  order  to  explain  the  last  line  of 

Sttapendiiie  potent!  the  preceding  quoUtion,  it  should  be 

resiimenia  man.  Deo/      13-16  ».  .^^^^g  ^^at,  in  Ae  fighls  of  the  gladia- 

The  same  practice  prevailed  amongst  tors,  when  one  of  them  wounded  his 

the  ancient  Greeks,  as  mentioned  by  anugonist,  he  shouted  **  hoc  habet,'' 

Robinson,  in  his  Archaeologia  Grsca.  or  «'  habet,"  he  has  it.    The  wounded 

Shipwrecked  mariners  were  also  for-  combaUnt  dropped  his  weapon,   and 
mefly  accustomed  to  carry  about,  and  advancing  to  the  edge  of  the  arena§,  or 
•xhibit  in  public,  painted  re presenU-  sUge  of  ihe  amphiihealre,  he  suppli- 
lions  of  th^  calamities  which  had  be-  caled  the  spectators.    If  he  had  fought 
fallen  them  on  the  ocean,  for  the  pur-  wtW,  the  people  saved  him ;  if  other- 
pose  of  exciting  the  compassion  and  wise,   or  as  ihey  happened  to  be*  in- 
charity   of   their   fellow-countrymen.  clined,they  turned  down  their  thumbs, 
lEiorace  alludes  to  this  custom  m  his  and  he  was  slain.     A   ceremony  in 
Art  of  Poetry:  some  measure  similar  to  this,  is  ob- 
._^..^  €t  Fortassc  cuprestum  served  at  the  Spanish  boll-fights,  with 
Scia  aimnlare:  quid  hoc,  ti  fraclis  enatat  respect  to  the  slaughtering  of  the  bulls 
exspes  by  the  Matadores  (see  Hobhouse's  notes 
Kavibus,  acre  dato  qm pingitur  f*    i9-80t.  on  Childe  Harold,  canto  iv.  si.  cxlii). 

Persios,  in  his  Satires,  has  also  re-  The  raising  or   compression    of   the 

fcrred  to  this  practice:  thumbs  was,  among  the  Romans,  the 

„    ,                                   .  ,          ./.  usual  method  of  expressing;  approba- 

"  Men' moveat,qu,ppe,ct  canted  «na|2/ra-  Hon  or  disapprobation  :               ^ 

■giu,assem                             [picttim  ^^ 

Protulerim  ?  canias,  cum  fiactd  te  in  trabe  "  Fautor  utroque  tuum  laudalit  poUice  lu- 

JKa?  humero  partes  "    Sat.  i.  88-90.  dum." 

Thus    translated    by   Sir   William  „^^          Horace,  B.  i.  Epiatxriii.  66. 

Drummond,  in  his  version  of  Persius:  When  the  Gladiators  were  dismissed 

-*  w,  .  1.    ij         •     >     v^*  I >  '^^  ft'om  the  stage,   they  were  presented 

**  What  fbould  wc  give  ?  what  alms  r  if  on  .  .              a      r  •\      n  j       r          *u 

the  shore                                Uoore  ^''"  *  ^oo^*"  ">"  called  mats,  or  the 

While  round  hi^  neck  the  pictured  ^orm  kt  f oil  of  freedom,     Horace,  speaking  of 

The  shipwrecked  sailor,  destitute  of  aid,  himself  as  a  worn-out  giadiator.  says,  in 

Sung  as  he  begg%  and  jetted  as  he  j.rayM."  his  epistle  to  Maecenas, 

It  was  likewise  customary  amongst  "  Specutum  aatts>  et  donatum  jam  rude, 

the  Romans,  to  have  pictures  drawn  qusrUy 

of  certain  evente  in  their  lives,  which  M«cenaa,iterumantiquomeineludcreludo." 

they  bound  themselves   by  a  vow  to  ^'  '•  ^pi»t.  i.  2-3. 

consecrate  to  the  Gods.    Thus  Horace,  The   Romans  were  accustomed   to 

speaking  of  Luctlius,  remarks,  hang  up  their  arms  in  ihe  temples  of 

«  FbtivA  pateat  veluti  detcfipta  talelld  their  Divinities,  especially  in  those  of 

Vita  senu."    Satins,  Book  i.  Sat.  ii.  33.  Jupiter  Capitolinus,  and  Mars : 

The  Gladiators  were  accustomed  to "  Deniqae  asevain 

____^_____,..^,..._..__^_^_—  MUitiam  puer,  et  Cantabrica  bella  tulisti 

«  In  a  note  on  the  above  passage,  U  the  Sub  duce,  <jui  templis  Parthorum  signa  re- 

following  commenury,  which  illustrates  and  -^f;            „       „  . 

confirms  the  preceding  observaUons.    "  Vi-  Horace,  B.  i.  Epwt.  xvui.  64-66. 

demus  ant  em  hodie  quosdam  quoque  pingere      — — — . 

in  tabulia  suqs  casus,  quos  in  mari  passi  t  **  Gladiatores  in  tutelA  erant  Herculia. 

sint,  atque  in  fanis  marinorum  deorum  po-  Amphitheatres,velsacellaHerculisadjuncU9 

nere.     Sunt  autem  qui  vestem  quoque  ibi  vel  tola  fuisse  iostar  templorum  Herculis. 

auspendunty  Diis  earn  conaecrantes."     Vet.  Hie igiturfgurU ai^na GLadiaUires**    Scho- 

SchoK  B.  liaat. 

i*  '*  Notnm  est,"  says  a  commentator  on  §  The  arena  was  so  called,  because  it 

ibis  passage,  "  naufiragos  ad  commovendam  was  strewed  with  sand,  to  prevent  its  becom- 

popoli  misericofdiam  infortunium^uum  ta-  ing  slippery,  and  to  absorb  the  blood  of  tba 

Deiii  dspictom  htimeris  aircumgtstasse.*'  combatants. 


18W.] 


Raman  CKiio«u.— Fi.y  I^tbs* 


sot 


.— .  "  Tuft,  Csenr,  stas 
Frages  et  agm  retullt  uberet} 
Ettigna  nostra  restituit  Javi, 
JHrepta  Parlhorum  tuperbit 

Pottibus.*'    Horace,  B.  it.  Ode  zir.4-8. 

,  '*  Signa  ego  Punicis 

jiffixa  delubriSf  et  arma 
Militibua  sive  caede,  dudt 
DircpU  vidi." 

Horace,  B.iii.  Ode  ▼.  18-9lj*. 

*^  Nunc  arma,  defunctumque  bello 
Barbiton  kie paries  habeHi" 
•     *     «  Hie,  hU  ponile  ludda 
tkmaHa,  et  vectes,  et  areas 
OppotUit/orUms  minaces." 

Hot,  B.  III.  Ode  xxvi.  9-7 f. 

"  QoamriB  clypeo  Trojaaa refixoX 
Tempera  tesUtut,  nihil  ultra 
Nerroa    atqoe    cufiem    morti    conceitciiit 
atne." 

Her.  B.  i.  Ode  nTiii.  1 1-18. 

Even  in  modem  times  it  is  cus- 
tomary to  hang  up  in  Cathedrab  and 
Churches,  the  lags,  banners,  and  arms 
which  have  been  captured  from  the 
enemy  in  the  course  of  warfare^  as  me- 
morials and  trophies  of  victory. 

The  sacred  shields  of  the  Romans 
were  called  Anciiia,  one  of  which,  ac- 
cording to  tradition,  having  been  sent 
from  heaven,  was  a  token  of  empire 
being  established  at  Home;  and  in 
order  that  it  might  not  be  stolen, 
Numa  Pompilius  caused  eleven  others 
to  be  forged  exactly  like  it,  and  to  b« 
kepi  in  the  temple  of  Mars, 

■  **  Marsus  et  Appulus, 

Anciliorum,  nominit,  et  tog» 
Ohiitus,  Kternseque  Vestse, 
Incolumi  Jove,  et  urbe  RomL" 

Hor.  B.  III.  Ode  v.  9. 

The  Romans  were  also  in  the  habit 
of  presenting  their  manuscripts  to  their 
divinities,  especially  to  the  Palatine 
Apollo,  whose  temple  was  the  Au- 
gustan repository  for  the  writings  and 
effigies  of  men  of  genius : 

«  ,  Befttns  Famuat,  ultro 

Delatis  capsis  et  imagiTie." 

Horace,  B.  1.  Sat.iv.  81,  89. 

The  Pantheon  at  Rome,  so  denomi- 
nated from  being  dedicated  by  the  Ro- 
mans to  all  the  divinities  of  the  hea- 

•  «  Tempio  Martis  UltoriB,  ad  earn  rem 

condito,  illata  signa  ista  Punioa."  Scholiut. 

i*  **  Notum  eat  veteres,  ciim  artem  alt* 

2 nam  diroitterent,  instrumenta  ejus  artli 
)eo,  in  cujus  tuteli  fiierant,  aaapendere 
consueviaae.  In  auperiore  templorum  parte, 
parieteque  auatrali,  anatheiData  pendebsat." 
Scholiaat. 

X  Subintell  «  h  temph. 


If 


then  mythology,  coolained  ihcir  

tues,  busts,  and  other  ornaments  of 
sculpture  which  were  considered  la- 
cred.  It  has  since  been  made  tb«  Mr 
ceptacle  for  the  busts  of  distinguish^^ 
men  of  modern  times.  This  temnl^ 
passed  with  little  alteration  from  Sf 
pagan  into  the  present  worship^  and  m 
convenient  were  its  niches  for  ih» 
Christian  altar,  that  Michael  Angolo, 
ever  studious  of  ancient  beauty,  intitK 
daced  their  design  as  a  model  in  th« 
Catholic  church.  See  Forsyth's  L«u 
ters  on  Italy,  Lord  fiyrop  s  Childt 
Harold,  canto  iv.  st.  cxlvi.  &c  9Uf4 
Hobhou»e*s  Notes. 

The  Romans  also  placed  in  tbaif 
temples  statues  of  the  various  imiiofili 
and  objects  connected  by  tradition  or 
otherwise  with  the  foundation  of  thtir 
city.  The  celebrated  images  of  t|if 
wolf  which  suckled  Romulus  and  B«r 
mus  were  kept,  one  in  the  temple  •f 
Romulus  under  the  Palatine,  and  tllt^ 
other  in  the  Capitol.  The  buildiop 
of  modern  Sienna  abound  with  imagtf 
of  the  Roman  wolf. 

The  Roman  matrons  were  accmr 
tomed  to  carry  their  sick  infants  to  thf 
temple  of  Romulus;  and  after  the  worv* 
ship  of  the  founder  of  Rome  was  abflui- 
doued,  to  the  church  of  St.  Theodora 
erected  on  its  site.  The  practice  it 
continued  to  this  day.  L.  B,.F» 

FLY  LEAVES.— No.  XXXVU. 

May  iter  of  the  Game. 

THE  recreations  of  our  aaccsteiv 
gave  a  strong  bias  to  the  natiooil 
character  of  aociety.  Among  those  ihe 
diversion  of  hunting  was  often  the  moit 
prominent,  and  often  assimilated  in  it# 
various  pursuits  to  all  the  art,  busy  snf* 
prise,  and  cautious  manosuvring  of 
war,  and  therefore  commended  as  a  fi| 
school  of  discipline  foi  the  aspiriij^ 
soldier.  Beyond  a  robust  system  of 
exercise  the  ancient  character  of  thjt 
diversion  is  unknown  to  its  preseal 
followers :  nor  has  curiosity  called  fovtli^ 
from  its  manuscript  embryo,  that  amii^ 
ing  and  valuable  treatise,  known  UQr 
der  the  above  title,  and  attributed  to 
the  pen  of  Edmond  de  Laugley,  fifl^ 
son  of  Edward  IIL,  created  Duke  of 
York  in  1385. 

This  treatise  possesses  considerable 
merit  and  novelty,  giving  personal  ioir 
portance  to  all  the  characters,  from  the 
prince  to  the  peasant,  by  describing 
their  respective  duties  w  K(Mu;hqd.  lo 


.  SiO                      Flt  Lz4vb8 — Mayiter  of  the  Game.  [April:* 

the  chase.  The  following^  description  of  deere  is  spayed,  and  layde  on  that  on 

rewarding  the  hounds,  is  taken  from  syde,  er  tney  do  ought  elles,  the  meas« 

"  chap.  XXXV.,  how  the  herte  shulde  ter  of  the  game,  or  which  of  hors-men 

be  meved  with  the  lymer,  and  ronne  that  buth  there  at  the  deth,  sholden 

to  and  slayne  with  strength ;'  and  dif-  worthe  vp  on  hors  and  euery  man  drawe 

ftrs    from    the  French   and    English  his  waye  blowynge  the  deth,  til  on  of 

manner,  as  given  in  the  Noble  Art  of  hem  haue  mette  with  hym,  other  harde 

Venerie,  by  George  Gascoigne,  1575,  of  hym,  and  brouhte  hym  thider.  And 

4to.  zif  ze  may  not  mete  with  hym,  and 

"  Whanne  the  deere  is  down,  and  lith  that  they  haue  worde  that  he  is  gon 

on  the  ton  syde,  than  at  erfte  is  tyme  home  they  oughte  to  come  agayne,  and 

to  blowe  the  deth,  for  it  sholde  neuere  do  who  so  is  grettist  -^maister,  as  thy 

ben  I  blowe  at  harte  huntynge  til'  the  lonle  shulde  do,  zif  he  were  there. 

deere  be  on  the  ton  syde  and  thenne  And  rizhte  so  shulde  they  da  to  the  mais- 

tholde  the  houndes  be  coupled  vp,  and  ter  of  the  game  in  the  l^des  absence. 

&ste  as  man  maye.    On  of  the  berners  Rut  also  zif  the  lord  be  there  all  things 

•chulde  encore  hym,  that  is  to  saye  shulde  be  do  of  abaye  and  rewardynge 

trroe  his  homes  to  the  erthe wards  and  as  byfore  is  sayde:    and    thenne   he 

the  throte  vpwarde  and  slitte  the  skynpe  achufde  charge  whan  hym  silfe  luste  to 

of  the  throot  all  enlonge  the  neklie,  vndo  the  deere,  zif  the  houndes  schulde 

and  kytte  obte  labeles  on  either  syde  of  not  be  enquyrteyde  thereon,  for  zif  they 

*  the  skynne,  the  whiche  schall  hange  schulde  ther  nedeth  no  more  but  the 

•till  vponethe  heede,  for  thys  lonseth  caboche  his  heed:  all  the  ouerjawes 

lb  an  nerte  slayne  with  strengthe.  And  stille  ther  on  and  the  labeles  forsaide, 

cHes  nohte,  and  thenne  sholde  the  hun-  and  thenne  hilde  hym  and  lay  the  skyn 

ter  fiere  downe  the  skvnne  as  fer  as  he  vpon  &  leye  the  heed  at  the  sky  ones 

maye.     And  then  witn  a  scharpe  tren*  ende  righte  afore  the  shulders,   and 

choure  kiite  as  thikke  as  he  kan  the  whan  the  houndes  buth  thus  enquir- 

flesche  down  to  the  nakke  bone.   And  reyed   the  lymers  sholde  haue  bothe 

this  don  euery  man  stonde  abrode  and  sholdres  for  theire  rightes,  and  eiles 

blowe  the  dethe  and  make  a  shorte  thay  schul  noht  haue  but  the  eeres  and 

abaye  for  to  rewarde  the  houndes,  and  the  brayne,  whereof  they  shul  be  ser- 

cnery  man  haue  a  smale  rodde  in  his  ued  the  hartes  heed  liggynge  vnder 

honde  to  holde  of  the  houndes  that  thare  feet.    But  on  that  other  syde  zif 

they  schal  the  better  abaye :  and  euery  the  lorde  wole  haue  the '  deer  vndon, 

man  blowe  the  deth  that  blowe  maye,  he  that  he  biddeth  as  byforne  is  saide 

and  as  ofte  as  any  hunter  besinneth  to  shulde  vndo    hym    the  moost    wode 

'  blowe  euery  man  schulde  blowe  forth  manly  and  clenfy  that  he  kan.    And 

,    the  deth  to  makie  the  better  noj$e  and  ne  wondreth  zou  noght  though  I  sey 

make  the  houndes  the  better  know  the  wod  manly,  for  it  is  a  poynte  of  wode 

homes  and  abaye.    And  whan   they  man  crafte;    and  though  it   be  wel 

haue  abayed  awnile  let  the  houndes  sutynge  to  an  hunter  for  to  done  cannie 

come  to  and  ete  the  flesche  to  the  hit  neuere  the  latte  hit  longith  more  to 

harde  bon   fro  afoore  the    schuldres  wodeman  craft  than   to  hunters  and 

righte  to  the  heede  for  that  is  hure  therfore  as    of  the  manere    how  he 

rewarde  of  ryhte ;   and  thenne  take  shulde  be  vndo,  I  passe  ouer  lightly,  for 

hem  fayreofand  couple  hem  vp  agayne.  ther  is  no  wodeman,  nor  good  hunter 

And  tnenne  brynge  to  the  lyinee  anil  in  Engelond  that  they  ne  kan  do  hit 

•erne  eche  by  hymselfe.     And  tnenne  wel  ynogh,  and  wel  better  than  I  can 

•holde  the  lorde  zif  hym  luste  And  elles  teche  hem.     Neueriheles  whan   so  is 

this  maister  of  the  game,  or  zif  he  be  that  the  panche  is  taken  oute  clene 

absente,  who  so  is  grettest  of  the  hun-  and  hool,  and  the  small  gottes,  one  of 

ters  blowe  the  pryse  at  the  couplynge  the  gromes  chace  chiens  sholde  take 

vp ;  and  that  sholde  be  blowe  only  of  the  panche  and  go  to  the  next  water 

one  of  the  forsaide  and  of  name.     Na-  with  all  and  slitte  hit  and  caste  oute 

theles  hit  is  to  wit  that  zif  the  lorde  be  the  filthe  and  wasche  hit  clene,  that 

noht  come  sone  ynohgh  to  the  abaye  no  filthe  be    abyde    ther    inne    and 

whil  the  deer  is  on  lyue,  they  oughte  thenne  brynge  hit  azen  and  kutte  hit 

to  holde  the  abaye  as  longe  as  they  in  small  gobettes  in  the  bloode  that 

'maye,  with  oute  rebukynge  of   the  shulde  be  kepte  in  the  skyn  and  the 

hoondes,  to  abyde  the  lorde.    And  zif  longes  with  all,  zif  they  bee  hoot  and 

the  lorde  abyde  to  longe  anoon  at  the  elles  noht.    And  all  the  small  guttes- 


1827.] 


Fly  Leaves — Rewarding  the  Hounii, 


311 


withall  and  brede  broke  ther  amonee 
after  that  the  houndes  be  fewe  or  fete. 
And   all   this   turned  and  medled  .to- 
gedir  amonge  tlie  blode  til  hit  be  well 
enbrowed  in    the  biode  and   thanne 
loke  whare  as  moche  plak  of  grene  is, 
and  thedir  here  all  thisvpon  theskynne 
with  as  much  blode  as  may  be  saued, 
and  ihcr  laye  it  and  spred  the  skynne 
thervi)on   the   hyer  sydc  vpwarde  and 
laye  the   hcede  and    the  visage   fore- 
wardt  at  the   skynnes  ende   of    the 
Dekke.     And  thenne  the  lorde  sholde 
take  a  faire  small  rodde  in  his  honde, 
the  whiche  on  of  the  zemen  or  on  of 
the  gronies,  shulde  kutie  for  hym,  and 
the  maistcr  of  the  game,  and  other,  and 
the  sergeaunte,  and  eche  of  the  zemen 
at  hors,  and   other,   and  thenne  the 
lorde  shulde  take  vu  the  hartes  heede 
by  the  righte  syde  bytwene  the  fureal 
and   the  fourche,  or  troche,  whether 
that  he  here,  and  the  maister  of  the 
game    the    lefte   syde,    in    the    same 
wyse  and  hulde  the  heed  vpryghte,  and 
that  the  nose  louche  the  erthe,   and 
thenne  euery  man  that  is  there   safe 
the   berners  on  foot,  and  the  chace 
chiens  and  the  lymmers,  the  whiche 
schulde  'be   with   hure    houndes   and 
awayte  vpon   hem  in  a  faire  greene 
there,  as  ys  a  colde  shadwe   [shade] 
sholde  stond   a   fronte  in  ayther  syde 
the    heede,    with    roddes    that    noon 
hounds  come  aboute,  nor  on  the  sydes, 
but  that  all  stonde  afore.  And  whanne 
this  is  rcdy  the  maister  of  the  game, 
or  the  sergeaunt  sholde  crye  skilfully 
lowdc  dedow:  and  than  nchalowe  euery 
whight  and  euery  hunter  blowe  the 
deth,  when  the  houndes  be  come  and 
abayeth  the  heed  the  berners  shulde 
polie  of  the  couples  as   fast  as   they 
mowen  and  when   the  lord  thinketh 
that  the  abaye  hath  lasted  long  vnousli 
the   maister  of  the  game  sholde  pulle 
awaye    the    heede    and    one    shulde 
be   redy   hehynde   to  pulle  away  the 
skynne,  and  lat  the  hounde  come    to 
the   rewarde.      And    thenne  schulde 
the  lorde  and  the  maister  of  the  game, 
and  all   the   hunters  stonde   a   room 
all   aboute    the    rewarde   and    blowe 
the  deth  and  as  ofte  as  any  of  hem 
begynneth  euery  man  schulde  here  hym 
felawschyp,    til  the   houndes  be  wel 
rewarded   and   that    thay   have  noht 
lefte.     And  rizhte  thus   shal   be  do 
whanne  the  houndes  schal  be  enqui- 
reyed  of  the  hool  deere,  and  whenne 
there  is  noht  lefte  thenne  sholde  the 


lorde,   zif  hym    luste,  and  elles  the 
maister  of  the  game,  or  in  hU  absence 
who  so  is  grettest  next  hym,  shulde 
strake  in  this  wise  that  is  to  saye  blowe 
iiij    moot,  and  stynte  nohte  halfe  an 
aue  marie  while;  and  blowe  other  iiij 
moot  a  litil  lenger  than  the  firste  iiij^ 
and  thus  sholbe  na  wyht  strake  but 
when  the  herte  is  slayne  with  strengthe. 
And  whanne  oon  of  the  forseide  hath 
thus  blowen,  thenne  the  gromes  cou- 
ple vp  the  houndes  and  drawe  home- 
war(je  faire   and   softe;    and   all   the 
remanent    of    the   hunters    schuldon. 
strake    in   this   wise,    irut,    trororow, 
irororow,  and  iiij  moot,  with  all  of  on 
lengthe,  nohte  to  longe  nor  to  shorte. 
And  other  wise  shulde  non  harte  hun- 
ter strake  for  thenne  forth  til  they  go 
to  bedde.  And  thus  shulde  the  berners 
on  fote  and  the  groomes  lede  boom  the' 
houndes  and  sende  afore  that  the  kenele 
be  clene,    and   the   trogh  filled  with  . 
clene  watir  and  theire  couche  renewed 
with  fresche  strawe,  and  the  maister 
of  the  game  and  the  sergeaunte  and 
the  zemen  at.hors,  shulde  comen  home 
and  blowe  the  mene  at  the  halle  dore» 
or  at  the  celer  door,  as  I  shal  zow  de« 
uyse:  firste  the  maister,  or  who  is  gret- 
test next  hym  shal  begynne  and  blowe 
iij  moot  aflone,  and  at  the  iiij  moot 
the  remenaunt  of  the  foresaide  shulde- 
blowe  with  hym  and  beware  that  nod 
blowe  longer  than  other  :  and  after  the 
iiij  moot  euene   forthwith    they  shul 
blow  ij  recopes  as  thus,  trut,  Irut,  Iro- 
rorororowe:    and  that  they  be  avisde 
fro  the  tyme  that  they  falle  in  to  blowe 
togyder  that  none  of   hem   begynne 
aforne  other,  nor  ende  aftir  otherel  Zif 
hit  bee  the  firste  herte   slayne  with 
strengthe  in  the  seson,  or   the  laste^ 
the  ser]g;eaunt  and  the  zemen  shul  go 
on  theire  offyces  bihalf  and  ax  theyre 
fees,  of  the  whiche  I  reporte  me  to  the 
olde    statutes    and    custumes    of   the 
kynges  hous.   And  this  dothe,  maistcr 
of  the  game  oughle  to  jspeke  to  the 
officers  that  all  the  hunters  soper  bee 
wel   ordeyned,  and  that  they  drynke 
non  ale  for  no  thinge  but  all  wyne 
that  nyghte,  for  the  good  and  the  grete 
laboure  that  they  haue  hadde  for  the 
lordes  game  and  disporte,  and  for  the 
exploit  and  makynge  of  the  houndet, 
and  also    that   they  maye   the   more 
niirily  and  sladly  telle  what  eche  of 
hem  hath  done  of  all  the  daye  and 
which  houndes  haue  best  ronne  and 
boldlyest." 


aflt  ,  Fly  Lbavbs— ^ionn/z,  or  Ma$iiff.  tApiit 

Atawkt%f  Of  Matiiff,  go  faste  and  bee  hardy  to  nyme  lale 

Chauecr,  in  the  Knight's  Talc,  de-  mancre  beestet  with  oute  tarrynjc  and 

•tribes  "  the  gretc  king  of  Trace,  as  *^oW«  f«?.^  and  noghte  leue  hir  and 

wel  condicyoned  and  wel  at  his  mais- 

«« Aboal  his  char  thtre  wenteo  white  aisunfy  ter's  comaund  and  whenne  he  is  suche 

Twtntj  and  mo,  m  gret  as  any  stert,  men  holde  as  y  haae  ysaide  that  he  is 

To  hunten  at  the  Icon,  or  tht  dera,  ^^  ^^c  good  hounde  that  may  be  for  to 

And  falwed  him  with  mosel  fiuty  bound,  ^y^^  ^j  ^^^^^^  ^f  ht^x^.    That  other 

Colertd  with  gold  and  towtu.  filed  round.  ^^^^^^  ^^  ^,^^^^^   j,  ^,^p^j  ventrcrcs. 

Thealauntzis  an  animar  to  which  Almost  they  bee  schape  as  a  grey 
the  compiler  of  the  Master  of  the  hound  of  ful  schap.  They  haue  grete 
Game  has  devoted  chapter  xvi.  "  of  heedes,  grete  hyppes,  and  grete  eres 
the  Alauntz  and  of  his  nature,"  to  de-  and  with  suyche  men  helpith  hem  wel 
acribe  his  character  and  different  kinds:  at  baitynze  of  the  bole  and  all  bun- 
as '  gentil,'  '  ventreres/  and  •  buchery.*  tynge  of  the  wilde  bore :  for  they  holde 
— "  They  that  bee  gentele  schul  bee  faste  of  hir  nature  but  they  beth  heuy 
made  and  schape  lyke  a  hoonde  euene  and  foule  and  buth  slayne  with  the 
of  all  thinges,  safe  of  the  hede  whiche  wylde  boor  or  with  the  boke;  and  it 
ichulde  bee  grete  and  shorte,  and  though  is  noht  ful  grete  loste.  And  whan  they 
therbee  Alauntz  of  all  hues,  the  rerrey  may  ouertake  a  besle,  they  bitith  and 
hue  of  the  good  alauntz  and  that  is  holdeth  him  stille;  but  by  hem  selfe 
moste  comyneshulde  t>e  white  with  a  thei  schulde  neuere  holde  the  beast: 
blake  8|»otte  aboute  the  eeres;  small  but  gif  greyhoundes  were  with  them 
then  and  white  stondynge  eeres  and  for  to  make  the  best  tarye.  That  other 
iharpe  aboue.  Men  schulde  teche  nature  of  alauntz  of  bocherye  is  suyche 
alauntz  better  and  to  bee  of  better  cus-  as  ze  may  aldaye  see  in  good  townes 
tomes  than  any  other  beestes  for  he  is  that  beth  cald  grete  bocher  dogges ; 
better  schape  and  strenger  for  to  do  the  whych  bochers  holdith  for  to 
harme  than  any  other  beest.  And  also  helpe  hem  to  bringe  her  beestes  that 
comunly  alaunta  buth  sturdy  of  hir  they  biyth  in  the  contre  for  zif  an  ox  a 
owne  nature  and  haue  noghe  so  good  striped  fro  the  bochers  that  ledeth  hvm 
Wit  as  many  other  houndes  haue :  For  his  hounde  wolde  goe  take  and  holde 
yfaman  prikke  an  hors,  the  alauntz  hym  in  to  the  tyme  that  his  maister 
wil  gladly  renne  and  byte  the  hors ;  were  ycome  aikl  schulde  helpe  hym  to 
aiao  they  renneth  to  oxen  and  to  brynge  hym  ageyne  to  the  toun.  They 
sehepe  and  to  swyne  and  to  all  other  buth  of  litil  coste  for  they  eiith  the 
boestes ;  or  to  men ;  or  to  other  fbole  thinges  in  the  bochere,  and  also 
houndes.  For  men  haue  sey  alauntz  they  kepith  bur  maister's  hons.  They 
•le  his  mfaister,  and  in  all  maner  wise  buth  good  good  for  the  baytinse  of  the 
alauqiz  buth  inly  fel  and  yuel  vndir-  booke  and  huntynge  of  the  wilde  boor, 
stondynge,  and  more  foolyche  and  whether  it  bee  wit  greyhoundcs  at  the 
nore  sturdy  than  any  other  manere  of  tristre,  or  with  rennynge  houndes  at 
houndes.  And  ben  neuere  that  wel  the  baye  wiihinue  the  couert.  For 
eOndicyoned  aud  good.  For  a  good  whan  a  wylcle  bdor  is  in  a  stronge  hat 
alauntz  shulde  renne  also  faste  as  a  of  wode,  peraueniure  of  all  the  daye 
grey  hounde  and  any  beeste  that  he  he  wolde  not  voyde  ihennes  for  tne 
mave  come  to  he  schulde  holde  well  rennynge  houndes ;  and  whenne  men 
tiritn  his  sesoures  and  noghte  leoe  hit.  lat  suche  mastyfs  renne  at  the  boor, 
For  an  alauntz  of  his  nature  holdith  thai  taketh  hem  in  the  thykke  speis 
ftute  his  bitynge  then  schulde  iij  grey  and  make  some  man  sle  hym  ;  or  tney 
houndes  the  best  that  any  man  "m aye  make  hym  come 'ouzte  of  the  strengthe 
,  finde,  and  therfore  it  is  the  best  hounde  that  he  ne  schal  abyde  nought  longe 
for  to  holde  and  for  to  nyme  all  manere  at  a  bayes."  En.  Hood. 
bees^  and  holde  myehteliche.  And  a 
wheti  he  is  wel  condicioned  and  per-  /^     ^        m                    ^^r  j  »    si 

fitliche  men  holde  that  he  is  j^  ^'Jr^f^fPT'  ""'  f^lJL' 
among  all  other  houndes:  but  men  United  Kingdom,  and  e^peaally  as 
fynditTi  but  fewe  that  l>eth  pcrfite.    A        *'  ^^'^^^^  ^^'  '^'^P'^S  interest. 

good  alauntz  schulde  lone  nis  maister  ¥T  may  be   necessary  in    the    first 

and  folowe  hym  and  helpe  hym  in  all  Jl  place  to  take  a  slight  retrospect  of 

caas  and  what  thinge  his  maister  wolde  the  stale  of  the  country,  previous   to- 

hym  comande.    A  good  alaunt  schul  commencing  the  system  ot  free  trade. 


18S7.]  On  Rm  IVadi,  and  th§  Mhipping  tntermL  SIS 

The  General  Ptece  left  us  with  an'  ferved,  and  our  supreoacj  on  the  seat 

eoonnoas  debt,  a  depreciated  currencj  be  maintained,  an  extensire  mercantite 

(in  which  the  debt  had  been  cod-  marine  b  indispensable,  which' ni^iiM' 

tracted),  a  very  heavy  ezpenditiire,  and'  be  profitable  employed,  or  those  wli0' 

consequently  a  great  weight  of  taxes,  have  embarked  their  capitals  therdn» 

direct  and  indirect.    Immediately  after  will  gradually  withdraw  them  from  iC  * 

the  peace,  the  Corn  Bill  was  passed,  in  It  sl^old  be  borne  in  mind  that  th%' 

order  to  protect  the  agriculiuralinleresi.  Navy  of  France  has  increased  since  Um  ' 

Within  about  two  years  the  Bill  for  peace  to  about  50  sail  of  the  line,  aa^ 

enforcing  the  return  to  Cash  payments  many  frigates,  besides  small  craft;  and  * 

was  passed.    Two  measures  ceruinly  that  the  Government  is  encouraging - 

of  a  very  opposite  tendency.  the  increase  of  the  Merchant  Shipmng 

For  a  great  number  ot  years  duties  by  every  means  in  their  power.    The* 

for  the  sake  of  encouraging  and  pro-  Merchant  Shippingofthe  United  States 

tecting  our  manufactures  had  existed,  (the  power  wnom  we  have^  most  m- 

and  more  particularly  for  our  shipping,  son  to  fear)  is  now  nearly  equal  in 

About  1820»  from  the  fear  of  being  tonnage  to  our  own  at  the  commence- 

undersold   in  foreign  markets,  or  in  mentofl792.  \ 

the  hope  of  extending  our  external        In  order  that  our  Shipping  may  sue-'  ■ 

commerce,  it  was  determined  to  depart  cessfully  compete  with  those  of  tht* 

from  the  old  systenk    Now  conceoing  Northern  States  of  Europe,  it  will  be 

that  the  old  system  was  an  evil,  it  must  necessary  to  place  them  upon  a  foodns 

be  admitted    that  before  applying  a  approacning  to  equality.  Superior  skiu ' 

remedv  to  an  evil  of  great  magnitude,  and  industry  may  obviate  a  slight  dfa- ' 

and  ot  long  existence,  the  utrnost  cir-  panty»  hut  not  such  a  disparity  as  the- 

cumspection  is  necessary,  or  it  is  not  following  statements  will  snow» 
unlikely  that  our  remedy  may  prove        The  cost  of  Ship-building  in  Pnutiais 

an  aggravation  of  the  evil.    So  the  sys-  from  S40  to  960  florins  (isl.  to  \SL  starling)  * 

tern  of  Free  Trade,  although  excellent  per  bst— the  Pmstlan  latt,  which  ii  equal 

in  the  abstract,  may  not  be  suiuble  to  l  and  i-5tht  tons  of  British  r^tery ' 

for  us  without  some  preliminary  steps,  indodinjj  the  rigging.    Contracti  have  bean  , 

that    will    place    us    now    upon    an  ii»de  thie  yew  for  building  tbipe,  at  ll 6  to - 

equality  witti  the  cheap  nationVof  the  ]1^  ^^^:{^J^^^ 

ooniinent,  or  the  consequences  must  ?^rj»*^p  J^^^^\^*SS*^E'^-^'^ ' '*'!r^ 

be,  in  spite  of  capital,  machinery,  or       Tins  is  equal  to  41.  15#.  per  registw. 

superior  industry,  that  we  must  be  ^o°  5  'J  ^SP    «  7 'I^^?®^  ®*- .*''•  ®* 

undersold  in  our  home  market.    That  ^  9'-  <5*.    The  Bntish-built  ship  costs, 

the  Government  are  of  this  opinion  is  without  rigging,  9/.  to  12/.  per  ton; 

obvious  by  their  levying  protecting  du-  with  rigging  Hi.  to  10/.  per  ton. 

ties  on  almost  all  imporu  that  compete        The  cxpences  of  a  Prussian  three*' 

with  our  own  manufactures.*     Until  masted  ship  of  414  lasu  (680  tons), 

within  6  or  7  years,  the  Government  o"  *  voyage  to  England    for   three 

encouraged,  by  every  mieans  in  their  months,  are  as  follow. 

power,  the  Snipping  of  this  country,  ^P***°      ....     ^18  lO    0 

and  even  at  the  present  are  verbally  ™**         ....         ?    f    J. 

desirous  of  keeping  it    up.      It  has  ^wpenter  ...  «    *     • 

however,  been  determined  to  try  if  the  f!^'^''!^  '        *        *        All 

oi_«      •  .  ^    .!_  "^      1  o  oeiunen  ...         »4     o     9: 

Shipping  cannot  support   themselves  ^  ^.^^^       ,        ,        .        .        i«    S    • 

without  any  protection ;  hitherto  the  5h»lfditto         .        .        .        10    e    6 

plan  has  not  produced  very  flattering  Cabin  Boy  .        .        .  9    0.   6 

results,  and  it  is  to  be  feared,  unless  Provisions  •        •        .        89  19  11 

some  protection  is  granted,  or   con-  — ^...^ 

siderable  relief  afforded  them  by  taking  £m\    4    $ 

06'  their  burthens  here,  that  our  mer-        The  expences  of  a  British  ship  com- 

cantile  navy  will  dwindle  to  a  con-  plcte  for  three  months  are  as  follow, 

dition,  alarming  to  all  who  consider  Matter,  with  cabin  expences      £81  10    p 
the  naval  preponderance  of  the  conn-     Mate  .       »        .        »        15    0 .  0 

iry  of  any  importance.     If  it  is  in-  Caroenter  .        .        .        18  10    0 

tended  that  our  Colouiea  shall  be  pre-     19  Seamen         .        •        .        90    0    O 

- — - — —  6  Boys  averaging         .        .         15     0     0  ' 

*  Mr.  HaskiASon's  speech  on  the  Ship-'  Provisiona  •        •        •      115    0    0 

ping  interest,  p.  49,  admits  the  principle 


Mm*  ' 


Giirr.  Mao.  Afril,  1897.  jfteo    0  ^ 


3U 


Oft  Pree  Trade,  and  ih$  Shijtping  Intereti* 


[April, 


Whence  it  appears  that  the  necet* 
iipry  proTisioDs  and  ^zfgss  of  a  foreign 
ship  fiaiount  only  to  ISW.  4«.  biL» 
ivhile  the  requisite  expenditure  to  pro-*, 
cure  the  same  for  an  English  shi||f 
a'Ino^nt8  to  no  less  than  S80/r»  withoift 
taking  into  consideration  the  differ- 
ence of  capital  invested  (which  is 
more  than  qouhle),  and  the  increaied 
amount  of  interest^  insurance,  and  other 
charges. 

A  partial  relief  may  be  siven  to  the 
British  ship-owner,  by  taxing  off  the 
duties  upon  foreign  timber,  hemp, 
flaZf  &c.:  but  to  put  him  upon  a 
footing  of  equality  wiih  foreigners, 
our  taxation  must  be  considerably  re- 
duced, and  our  corn  laws  abolished.* 
Without  these  two  measures,  all  at- 
tempts at  establishing  a  system  of  free 
trade  and  reciprocity  will  be  nugatory  i 
indiiriduals  may  be  injured,  na^  they 
have  been  injured,  to  a  great  %xtent, 
but  the  beneBt  to  the  community  is  as 
a  drop  of  water  in  the  sea;  indeed  it 
will  be  difficult  for  the  thick-ahd-thin 
advocates  for  free  trade,  to  shew  by 
evidence  or  by  argument,  "  in  what 
respect  the  condition  of  the  body  of 
the  people  is  improved  by  the  new 
measures ;  has  the  poor  man  a  greater 
command  over  the  necessaries  or  com- 
forUof  life  than  he  had  before  1820?" 

Of  the  evil  inflicted  upon  indivi- 


duab  there  is  unfortunately  no  doubt. 
Since  the  removal  of  the  protect- 
ing duties  in  favour  of  our  own  Ship- 
ping, the  foreigners  have  increased. 
Whether  they  will  finally  thrust  us  out 
qf  the  Northern  trade,  time  only  can 
^ow ;  but  judging  by  the  past  our 
prospect  is  gloomy  indeed.  I  f  a  certain 
portion  of  British  shipping  is  to  be 
sacrificed,  a  portion  of  the  tradesmen 
depending  upon  them  will  sufier  in 
proportion,  and  where  are  men  to  look 
for  employment  in  this  over-peopled 
country?  Much  has  been  said  of 
the  great  increase  in  tonnage  dur- 
ing 1825;  but  it  has  been  satisfac- 
torily proved,  that  it  has  been  much 
exaggerated. 

When  examining  the  efTecls  of  the 
Reciprocity  system,  it  has  been  the 
practice  with  some,  in  order  to  blink 
the  question,  to  mix  up  the  Colonial 
and  Coasting  with  the  Foreign  trade; 
this  is  a  fallacy: — if  we  wish  to  know 
whether  our  Foreign  trade  has  relatively 
increased  or  diminished,  let  it  be  tried 
alone,  and  the  foreigners  will  be  found 

to  be  the  sole  gainers  by  the  change. 
•  ♦  « 

In  short,  if  it  is  intended  to  apply 
the  system  of  Free  Trade  to  this  country 
generally,  reduce  its  burthens  to  some- 
thing like  an  equality  with  others; — 
if  it  is  intended  to  apply  it  to  a  par- 


*  The  following  Table  shews  the  Population,  Revenue,  Publie  Debt,  and  proportion  of 
Btortheo  each  country  imposes  on  its  inhabitants. 


Countries, 

Population. 

RSVBNUE. 

Public  Debt. 

Pounds  sterling. 

Pounds  sterling. 

Sweden 

2,400,000 

1,140,000 

1,387,500 

(1816) 

(1819) 

Norway 

900,000 

'     300,000 

10,000 

(1819) 

(1819) 

in  annuities  per  ann. 

Denmark 

1,700,000 

1,700,000 

10,000,000 

Prussia 

10,536,571 

7,590,000 

26,000,000 

(1817) 

(1819) 

France 

ao,ooo,ooo 

35,000,000 

900,000,000 

United  States 

11,S00,000 

3,000,000 

19,800,000 

' 

(1896) 

(1894) 

England  . 

92,700,000 

70,000,000 

600,000,000 

Burthen 
head  per 

per 
ann. 
d. 

0     9 

6 

0     6 

8 

I      0 

0 

0   14 

8 

1      3 

4 

0     9 

4 

3      1      8 

The  public  debt  of  Sweden  has  been  reduced,  since  1813,  950,000^.  and  will  be  redeemed 
in  1838. 

The  debt  of  Prussia  is  both  funded  and  floating.  In  1819  the  revenue  exceeded  the 
expepdiSure  by  about  a  million  sterling. 

The  revenue  of  JFrance  includes  the  provincial  rates,  and  expence  of  collection. 

The  expenditure  of  the  separate  Sutes  of  the  United  States  is  about  a  dollar  per  head, 
w\iich  is  included,  in  the  95.  ^d,  charged  in  the  table  :  the  present  expenditure  is  estimated 
at  9,314,000^  which  will  make  the  pressure  Bs.  9d,  per  head.  The  debt  is  reduced  to 
16,000,000/. 

The  revenue  of  England  includes  the  expence  of  collection  and  parochial  rate,  but  takes 
BO  Dotioe  of  innumerable  direct  and  indireet  burthens. 

Tha  burthen  per  hMd  in  England  alone  (Icavbg  out  Scotland  and  Ireland),  it  about  52. 


1897.3  ^  <^  AiUhorUf  of  ih§  ApiKryphfly  316 

ticttlar  branch/  reduce  the  fiarticular  tion  from  any.  anterior  writing  |  but 

burthens  of  that  branch :  as  respecta  either  tacitly  admit,  or  else  exprenly 

Shipping,    allow    the    British    ship-  assert,  that  by  the  phrase  "  the  wisdoi|i 

owner  to  buy  his  ship  and  cargo  duty  of  Grod,"  our  Lord  intended  to  desig* 

free  where  he  pleases ;  to  get  his  men  nate  himself,  according  to  the  paralwl 

where  he   pleases;  or  give  him  the  passage  of  St.  Matthew's  Gospel,  xxiiL 

same  protection  as  the  agriculturalist,  34,    where    the  language  simply  i^ 

and  he  can  ask  no  more,  nor  will  he  "  Behold,  I  send  unto  you  Prophets.^ 

fear  com|>etltion.  But  even  admitting  this  to  be  a  quota- 

*  *  *  tion  of  such  a  nature  as  Clericos  con* 

If  it  is  the  intention  of  the  authors  tends,  I  really  am  surprised  at  betcic 

and  supporters  of  the  new  measures,  challenged   as   to  where  I  can  fioa 

to  induce  a  crisis  which  may  bring  «  some  sacred  anthoriiT,  that  existQ^ 

about  a  sweeping  change  that  they  dare  anterior*'  to  our  Lorda  time,  and  to 

not  now  propose,  that  effect  may  be  which  he  mijj^ht  here  refer;  since  the 

produced  at  last ;  but  the  most  power-  least  consultation  of  the  Coramentatofjt 

ful  interests  will  defend  themselves  the  would,  without  any  trouble,  have  r^^ 

lon^t,  and  thousands  will  previously  ferred  Clericus  to  2  Chron.  xxiv.  ig^ 

be  i/nvolved  in  ruin.  «  Yet  he  sent  Propbeta  to  them,  to 

^  bring  them  a^in  unto  the  Lord  :'*  to 

Mr.  Urban,  April,  18.  which  (supposmg  it  to  be  a  quotation) 

IN  your  last  Number  (p.  S14),  Cle-  the  whole  connection  shows,  that  our 

ricus  asserts,   that  in   his   former  Lord  here  refers.    For  the  passage  ia 

letter  he  had  fallen  into  neither  of  the  St.  Luke,  "  therefore,  also,  said  the 

\\\o  errors  with  which  I  had  charged,  wisdom  of  God,    I  will  send  them 

him.    The  Brst  of  these  errors  was,  prophets,**  occurs  in  close  connectioa 

speakingof  the  Apocrypha  as  a  whole,  witli    the    requirement  of   "all  the 

and  thereby  implying  that  all  its  parts  righteous  blood,  which  was  shed  from 

possessed   an   equal  authority.     Now  the  foundation  of  the  world  ;**  from 

even  thelangua^e  which  he  has  quoted  the  blood  of  Abel,  the  first-recorded 

from  his  former  letter  for  this  purpose,  martyr,  to  the  blood  of  Zechariah,  the 

so  fur  from  containing  the  least  inti-  last-recorded  martyr;  the  shedding  of 

roation  that  the  writer  recognised  any  which  is  narrated  in  this  chapter  of 

distinction  in  the  several  parts  of  the  the   Book   of  Chronicles.     A    single 

Apocrypha,  seems  clearly  to  preclude  point  of  dissimilarity  is,    that  he  is 

all  distmctions  by  its  generality ;  and  called  in  the  Old  Testament  *<  the  Soi| 

surely  no  one  ought  to  be  blamed  for  of  Jehoida,''  and  in  the  New,  **  the 

not  attributing  to  him  what  his  Ian-  Son  of  Barachiab.*'    A  double  name» 

guaee  seemed  to  preclude ;  and  what,  however,    is   not  unfrequent  in  the 

till  His  late  avowal  to  the  contrary,  it  Scriptures,  when  the  two  names  are  of 

could  not  be  presumed  that  he  enter-  a  similar  meaning,  or  the  word  Jehovah 

tained.  occurs  in  one  of  them;  both  which 

With  regard   to  the  second  error,  circumstances  app^y  here.    That  the 

that  the  hare  quoting  any  writing  in  same  identical  Zecnariah  is  intended, 

the  New  Testament,  even  without  the  is  evident;  as  being  the  last-recorded 

ascription  of  Divine  authority  to  it,  martyr   of   the  Old  Testament,    the 

stamps  such  an  authority  on  the  writ-  scene  of  his  death  being  the  same,  vitjk 

ing  quoted, — he  again  adduces  the  cor-  "  in  the  court  of  the  house  of   the 

respondence  between  2  Book  of  Es-  Lord,"  answerina  to  the  phrase  ".be- 

dras,  i.  32,  and  Luke  xi.  49;  in  which  tween   the  Temple  (Sanciuary)  and 

latter  it  appears  he  is  of  opinion  that  the  altar;*'  and  his  martyrdom,  and 

such  an  ascription  of  Divine  authority  dying  words  agreeing  with  the  whole 

really  exists.     His  words  are,  "  that  scope  of  our  Saviour's  design  in  the 

Christ  here  refers  to  some  sacred  au-  allusion,  for  "  when  he  died,  he  said,. 

thority  that  exists  anterior  to  his  speak-  the  Lord  look  upon  it,  and  requite  it.^ 

ing,  is  evident;  and  where,  except  in  The  order  too,  of  the  leading  ideas,  b 

the  following  passase,  can  P.  O.  6nd  the  same;  for  both  in  our  Lord's  decU* 

that  authority?**    Now  I  do  not  find  ration,  and  in  this  narrative  from  the. 

that  any  of  the  Commentators  regard  Old  Testament,  we  have,  JinU  the. 

the  phraseology  in  St.  Luke,  **  there-  sending  of  the  Propheu;  and,  iktn^, 

fore  also  said  the  wisdom  of  God,  I  their  martyrdom  ana  the  requiremeilC 

will  send  them  Prophets/'  as  a  qoota*  of  their  b|ood. 


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Q«  ihe  Po/icy  of  reacting  the  Apocrypha, 


[Apra, 


The  reason  why  I  did  not,  in  m^ 
last  comAiunication,  bring  forward  this 
correspondence  was,  that  I  thought  it 
perfectly  unnecessary;  since  most  of 
the  Commentators^^r  the  marginal  re- 
ferences, would  have  pointed  it  out, 
but  chiefly  because,  after  intimating 
the  general  opinion  that  this  Second 
Book  of  Esaras  was  written  subsc' 
quenlly  to  the  Gospels,  I  thought  that 
jia  one  could  possioly  refuse  to  see  as  a 
necessary  consequence,  that  it  could 
derive  no  authority  from  any  corre- 
spondence to'them,  till  this  tiook  had 
jirst  been  proved  anterior  to  the  Gos- 
pels; in  short,  till  it  had  been  shown 
that  the  Gospels  were  taken  from  the 
Second  Book  of  Esdras,  and  not  the 
Second  Book  of  Esdras  from  the  Gos- 
pels. Accordingly,  I  intimated  the 
extreme  infelicity  with  which  Clericus 
had  selected  this  particular  Book  of 
the  Apocrypha  for  the  commencement 
of  his  operations.  The  preface  to  it, 
in  D'Oyly  and  Mant*s  Bible,  speaks  of 
its  naming  Jesus  Christ  in  express 
terms  (see  cap.  vii.  28,  SQ)  as  a  mark 
of  its  posteriority ;  and  treats  the  lofty 
pretensions  of  its  author  to  inspiration, 
with  absolute  contempt.  Its  exclusion 
from  the  Canon  by  the  Church  of 
Rome,  and  from  the  Calendar  of  Les- 
sons by  our  own  Church,  shows  the 
suspicious  li^ht  in  which  all  parties 
have  viewed  it. 

In  the  remarks  I  have  here  offered 
on  the  Letter  of  Clericus,  I  have  la- 
boured under  a  considerable  difficulty. 
Whether  there  be  a  want  of  clearness 
in  that  gentleman's  mode  of  expres- 
sion, or  in  my  own  powers  of  com- 
prehension, I  shall  not  presume  to  de- 
cide; but  I  must  confess  myself  un- 
able to  determine,  whether  he  is  con- 
tending for  the  propriety  only  of  bind- 
ing up  the  Apocrypha  with  the  Bible; 
but  still,  under  the  degrading  mark  of 
Apocryphal,  by  an   appropriate  title, 
as  at  present ;  or  that  it  should  be  ad- 
.  mitted  ^as  by  the  Papists)  to  be  inter- 
mingled among  the  Canonical  Books 
without  distinction,  or  at  least  some 
parts  of  it  be  esteemed  as  of  equal  au- 
thority with  them.     His  language  is, 
"  They  contain,    if   I   mistake    not, 
more  claims  to  a  Divine  character  than 
their  impugnera^  are  aware  of.**     '*  No 
one  would  more  rejoice  than  myself, 
to   see  discreetly   removed    from  the 
coverings  of  the  really  inspired  word, 
every  extraneous  and  doubtful  portion 
that  may  have  obtained  an  anauthor- 


ized  possession  there.'*  Since  I  know 
of  no  medium  in  authority  between 
Divine  and  human,  between  inspira- 
tion and  no  inspiration,  I  can  attach 
no  meaning  to  this  way  of  speaking, 
but  that  some  parts  at  least  of  these 
Books,  in  consequence  of  their  claims 
to  a  Divine  character  (which  can  mean 
nothing  else  than  inspiration),  are  an 
intrinsic  and  undoubted  portion  of  the 
inspired  Canon.  Should  Clericus,  after 
all,  only  intend  the  propriety  of  con- 
tinuing them  within  "  the  coverhigs*' 
of  the  Bible,  under  a  separate  title  as 
at  present,  I  do  not  wish  to  dispute 
such  a  subject,  because  there  can  be 
no  more  objection  against  this,  than 
against  binding  up  the  Prayer  Book,  or 
any  other  pious  and  useful  work,  with 
the  Books  of  Scripture ;  and  because 
such  a  mere  arbitrary  juxtaposition 
cannot  diminish  the  inspiration  of  the 
sacred  volume,  or  confer  either  the 
whole  or  any  part  of  its  authority  upon 
such  writings.  But  I  must  protest 
against  the  use  of  language  in  con- 
tending for  such  a  custom,  which  con- 
founds the  mere  **  coverings"  of  the 
Bible  with  the  Canon  of  Holy  Scrip- 
ture; lest  for  so  unimportant  a  point, 
we  should  endanger  the  very  founda- 
tions of  the  Reformation  ;  which 
**  sweepingly,"  yet  **  discreetly,**  and 
I  trust  for  ever,  removed  from  the 
Rule  of  Faith  everything  "  extraneous 
and  doubtful." 

Clericus  says,  his  orthodoxy  is  as 
good  as  mine.  I  bqz  to  decline  all 
such  comparisons.  But  as  m^  design 
has  merely  been  to  guard  against  any 
depaiture  from  the  simplicity,  either  in 
doctrine  or  expression,  of  our  Vlth 
Article,  I  must  still  subscribe  myself, 
and  I  hope  without  offence, 

Prbsbytkr  Orthodoxus. 

Mp.  Urban,     Coventry,  March  2S, 

ABOUT  the  year  1793,  several  in- 
teresting Letters  were  published 
in  the  Gen t.'s  Magazine,  respecting  St. 
Mary's  Hall,  by  Mr.  Gough,  Mr.  Car- 
ter, &c.  The  particulars  which  1  have 
now  sent  you,  I  have  endeavoured  to 
keep  distinct  from  those  communica- 
tions, although  I  have  lately  embodied 
the  whole  into  a  small  publication. 

This  venerable  Hall  having  under- 
gone a  variety  of  improvements,  under 
the  judicious  direction  of  our  present 
mayor,  Jas.  Weare,  Esq.,  I  have  been 
induced  to  send  you  the  following  de- 
tailed account,  which  not  only  com- 


1897.]  Recmi  Rqnun  of  St,  Marf$  Bali,  CofoeMir^.  S17 

Eriaes  the  remarks  of  former  writcn»  it,  but  shall  at  once  proceed  to  cktcfibe 

ut  is  also  the  result  of  a  recent  per-  the  recent  alterations, 
sonal  inspection  of  the  fabric.  To  begin  with  the  Oriel.   This  win* 

The    magnificent   St.  Mary's  Hall  dow  has  l>een  taken  down,  &od  rebaih 

stands  a  little  south  of  St.  Michael's  in  a  handsome  and  substantial  manner. 

Church,  and  formerly  belonged  to  the  Some  ancient  quarries,  bearing  seveiml 

master,   brothers,  and  sisters,  of  St.  letters  and  paintings  of  arms  (which 

Mary*s,  or  Trinity  Gild.    The  site,  as  were  discovered  under  the  Duke  of 

appears  from   an  ancient  roll,   dated  Northumberland's  monument,    when 

1502-3  (now  in  my  possession),  was  it  was  removed  from  the  bottom  of  the 

originally    the   property   of   Guy  de  Hall),  served  in  part  for  the  new  floor. 

TyTbroke,  an  earl^  vicar  of  St.  Michsers  A  side-board,  of  ancient  English  oak. 

Church,  who  enjoined  his  successors,  in  the  front  of  which  is  a  variety  of 

Wm.  Colic,  and  other  members  of  the  carvings,  viz.  two  figures,  elephant  and 

Gild,  to  pay  a  rent-charge  of  6s.  an«  castle,  a  rose,  &c.  was  then  mad^  with 

Dually,  to  the  Benedictine  Monastery  great  taste,  and  placed  in  this  receaa. 

in  Coventry.  The  oak  ceiling  has  been  carefully  re- 

A  license  for  founding  this  Gild  placed,  and  the  window  filled  with 
was  granted  by  Edward  III.  in  1340,  ground  glass,  and  labels  or  scrolls,  con-  . 
and  a  Hall  for  the  necessary  meetings  tainins  the  names  of  benefactors  to  the 
of  this  Institution  was  immediately  city  of  (Coventry.  In  the  centre,  are 
erected;  the  entrance,  door- way,  k  itch-  the  names  of  Leofric  and  Godiva, 
ens,  and  other  parts  of  which  structure  which  are  rendered  extremely  coimdU 
still  remain.  After  the  aboice  period,  cuous  by  broad  yellow  borders.  Tne 
the  Gilds  of  the  Holy  Triaity,  St  John  following  names  also  appear : 
the  Baptist,  and  St.  Katherine,  were  Henry  II.,  Henry  Ill.»  Ranolf 
united  to  that  of  St.  Mary.  The  an-  Blundeville,  Roger  Montalt,  Edward 
nual  Master  sat  next  to  the  Mayor  at  I.,  Queen  Isabel,  Edward  III.,  £d« 
all  public  meetines,  arid  the  ancient  ward  the  Black  Prince,  Richard  11.^ 
carved  chair,  still  remaining  in  the  Henry  VI.,  Queen  Maroaret,  Thomat 
Hall,  is  supposed  to  have  been  used  Bond,  Thomas  Wheatley,  Williani 
for  that  purpose.  The  Society  had  Ford,  William  Pisford,  Thomas  Jet- 
also  the  power  of  appointing  a  public  son.  Sir  William  Hollis,  Sir  Thomaa 
fair.  It  was  at  this  period  when  the  White,  Henry  VI IL,  John  Hales, 
magnificent  Hall  was  erected.  Sogreat  John  Dudley,  Duke  of  Northumber^ 
was  the  reputation  of  this  united  Gild,  land. 

which  then  bore  the  name  of  the  The  ancient  pannelled  wainscots  oo 
Trinity,  that,  says  Sir  W.  Dugdale,  the  east  and  west  sides,  on  which  were 
Kings,  with  many  of  the  principal  No-  painted  the  ornamental  inscriptions, 
bility.  Bishops,  &c.  of  those  times,  arms,  &c.  in  1581,  have  been  removed  | 
thought  it  no  dishonour  to  be  admitted  and  the  same  inscriptions,  arms,  &c. 
members  of  the  fraternity.  In  1344;  have  been  copied  with  scrupulous  ex- 
Edward,  called  the  Black  Prince,  wais  actness  on  the  walls,  by  an  artist  of 
elected  a  Brother  of  Trinity  Gild;  and  celebrity,  Mr.  Wm.  Finley.  The  de- 
in  1379,  among  many  other  distin^  corations  in  the  old  Council-chamber 
guished  names,  occur  those  of  the  King  were  designed  and  executed  by  this 
and  Prince  of  Wales.  gentleman ;  as  were  also  the  drawing* 

At  the  Survey  which  was  taken  iti  for  the  stained  glass,  both  in  repairing 
1545,  by  order  of  HeQfyiVIli.  the  the  old,  and  fitting  op  the  new  win- 
revenue  of  all  the  lands  belonging  to  dows  in  the  Hall.  The  whole  of  the 
this  Gild  amounted  to  if  111.  I3s,  9d.  stained  glass  in  the  east  and  west  win- 
out  of  which  various  salaries  were  paid  dows,  and  the  Old  Council-chamber, 
to  priests,  &c.  In  1552,  all  the  lands  have  been  restored  and  replaced  by 
and  possessions,  belonging  to  the  Gilds  Mr.  C.  Pemberton,  of  Birmingham.  - 
and  Chantries,  were  purchased  from  The  delicacy  of  execution,  and  the 
the  Crown  by  the  Mayor,  &c.  of  this  brilliancy  of  the  various  parts  and  co- 
city,  for  the  sum  of  1^1,315  is.  Bd.  lours  of  these  beautiful  windows,  de- 

1  will  not  too  greatly  extend  this  serve  ^eat  praise.     In  each  compart- 

communication,  by  describing  the  nu-  ment  m  the  di£ferent  windows  is  a 

merous  royal  entertainmenu  given  in  sothic  canopy,  and  ornamented  pillars. 

St.  Marv*s  Hall,  or  l:^  recounting  the  In   the  upper  compartmenta  all  the 

various  historic erenti  coonectedwith  figure«  htve  been qurefally. repaired  and 


318 


Recent  Repairt  of  SU  Mary*$  Hall,  Coventry, 


[April, 


restored  from  the  ancient  glass.  The 
lower  compartmenls,  filled  with  new 
stained  glass,  contain  the  names  of  the 
Mayor  and  Aldermen,  each  in  a  shield, 
surmounied  hy  a  helmet,  and  placed 
beneaih  the  Ward  to  which  he  be- 
longs, with  a  Latin  inscription. 

In  the  upper  compartment  of  the 
west  window,  adjoinins;  the  Oriel,  is  a 
full-length  Bgure  of  fViitm  Beauchamp, 
D'n*s  Bergavenny,  fourth  son  of  Tho- 
mas Beauchamp,  third  Earl  of  War- 
wick, who  died  in  1411.  He  is  re- 
presented in  a  purple  habit,  with  a 
nood  of  cr i  ipson .  I  n  the  opposi  te  com- 
partment  is  his  wife  Johanna,  daugh- 
ter and  CO- heiress  of  Richard  Fitz 
Alan,  Earl  of  Arundel.  She  is  dressed 
in  a  purple  gown,  with  a  crimson 
mantle  lined  with  ermine,  and  her 
arms  inscribed,  et  Johanna  uxor  eiut. 
In  the  lower  compartments  are.  Bishop 
Street  Ward,  James  Weare,  Esq. 
Mayor. — Honesie  egi.  \S24 -,  and  Cross 
Cheaping  Ward,  Samuel  Whitwcll, 
"E^q.SuavUer  eiforiiier^  1800. 

In  the  first  upper  compartment  of 
the  west  centre  window  is  the  figure  of 
JohnBurghill,  Bishop  of  Coventry  and 
Lichfield  in  1399,  ^i^^.  &•  i^'^^^^  ^^d 
crosier,  and  an  embroidered  mantle 
lined  with  green.  The  following  in- 
tcription  is  round  a  shield  containing 
his  arms :  D'n's  Johannes  Burghill  ep*t 
Covif  Sf  Lich\  In  the  opposite  com- 
partment is  Richard  Crosby,  Prior  of 
Coventry  from  1399  to  143G,  mitred, 
holding  in  his  right  hand  a  clasped 
book,  and  in  his  left  a  crosier,  and 
dressed  in  a  long  blue  gown.  Round 
a  shield  is  liicardus  Croshie  prior  cc- 
clesie  Caih*  CoveUr,  Beneath  Bishop 
Burghill  is  the  motto  of  the  Black 
Prince,  Ich  Dien^  in  a  scroll,  and  a 
shield  containing  his  crest  or  plume. 
The  word  Cresiy,  and  date  1346,  show 
that  he  fought  the  battle  at  that  place 
in  that  place.  In  the  opposite  lower 
compartment,  are  the  words  Camera 
Principis,  and  the  City  Arms ;  and  be- 
neath, the  word  Incorporated  1343. 

In  the  op))Osite  window  on  the  west 
side,  first  compartment,  is  a  Mayor  of 
Coventry,  with  a  venerable  beara,  red 
cap  and  robe  over  a  blue  dress,  with 
the  inscription  Rolerius  Schypley, 
round  a  shield,  with  R  S.  in  the  cen- 
tre, and  a  merchant's  mark  between. 
.He  was  Mayor  in  1402,  and  again  in 
1415.  In  the  opposite  compartment 
is  a  similar  figure  of  a  Mayor,  with* 
out  an  impripuon.    Beneath  are^  Spon 


Street  Ward,  Samuel  Vale,  Esq.— 
Probiias  verus  honos.  1811;  and  Smith-* 
ford  Street- Ward,  a  Knight's  helmet. 
Sir  Skears  Rew,  Knt. — Fama  semper 
vivii.     1816. 

In  the  compartments  of  the  lower 
east  window  are  figures  of  fViitm'  Why- 
church.  Mayor  in  1400,  and  Richard 
Scharpe,  Mayor  in  1432.  The  four 
Mayors,  whose  effigies  are  in  the  win- 
dows, were  probably  contributors  and 
assistants  in  the  erecting  of  St.  Mary*s 
Hall,  and  were  certainly  members  of 
the  Gild.  Beneath  are.  Earl  Street 
Ward,  John  Clarke,  Esq. — Aliierquam 
speraham,  1817  ;  and  Broad  Gate 
Ward,  William  Perkins,  Esq. — Honor 
et  honest  as.    1819. 

In  the  first  upper  compartment  of 
the  centre  east  window,  is  a  figure, 
repaired  and  restored,  with  this  inscrip- 
tion,  rAowflji^rawif //, -4rcAiep' Gtin/acrr. 
In  the  corresponding  compartment  is 
the  figure  of  a  Bishop,  and  beneath, 
ronnd  a  shield,  Rogerus  JVatden,  Ep*s 
London*  (1404).  In  the  lower  com- 
partments. Much  Park  Street  Ward^ 
William  Carter,  Esq. — Res  non  verba, 
1824  ;  and,  Bayley  Lane  Ward,  Wil- 
liam Whittem,  Esq.— Ftre  et  vivat, 
1824. 

In  the  first  east  window,  near  to  the 
Mayoresses  Parlour,  in  the  first  upper 
compartment,  is  a  restored  whole- 
length  figure  of  Ricardus  Comes  de 
JFarwici,  who  died  in  1439,  ^^ith  his 
arms  below.  In  the  second  upper 
compartment  is  his  second  wife,  iia- 
hetla  Comitissa  de  JFarwici,  Beneath 
the  Earl  is,  Gosford  Street  Ward, 
James  Weare,  Esq.  and  in  a  scroll, 
the  motto,  Honeste  cgi.  1824.  In  the 
other  lower  compartment  is  Jonlan 
Well  Ward,  Nathaniel  Merridew,  Esq. 
^—Eqttahiliter  et  diiigenter,  1 824. 

These  figures  are  supposed  to  have 
been  originally  executed  by  John 
Thornton,  painter  and  glass-siainer,  of 
Coventry,  a  man  of  great  merit,  bein^ 
the  same  person  wno  executed  the 
great  eastern  window  of  York  Minster, 
between  1405  and  1407- 

Below  the  north  window  is  a  piece  of 
tapestry,  the  dimensions  of  which  are 
30  feet  in  length,  and  10  feet  in  height, 
and  divided  into  six  compartments, 
three  in  the  first  tier,  and  three  in  the 
upper  tier.  This  tapestry,  which  has 
lately  been  thoroughly  cleansed,  and 
re-hung  with  the  greatest  care,  con- 
tains, in  the  whole,  upwards  of  eighty 
6gares,  or  heads.   The  colours,  though 


18270  Recent  Repairt  of  St.  Mary'i  Bail,  CboaUry. 


somewhat  faded,  are  still  beautiful,  and 
the  general  effect  impressiye.  In  the 
6rst  left  hand  comiiartment  is  Henry 
VI.,  wiih  several  of  his  princifial  no- 
bility*. Henry  is  devotionally  on  his 
knees,  and  before  him  is  a  covered 
table,  whereon  lie  his  crown  and  a 
Qiissal.  He  wears  on  his  head  a  cap 
of  crimson  velvet,  adorned  with  a  but- 
ton or  jewel.  His  gown  is  of  a  sky- 
blue  colour,  richly  embroidered  with 
gold ;  and  round  his  neck  hanss  a 
very  large  gold  chain.  Behind  the  king 
is  Cardinal  Beaufort,  kneeling;  and  the 
figure  behind,  in  a  green  dress,  holding 
a  gold  coin  in  his  hand,  is  supposed  to 
be  the  King*s  Almoner.  Another  figora 
is  conjectured  to  represent  John  Vis- 
count Beaumont,  K.  G.  Karl  of  Bou- 
k^ne,  Constable  and  Lord  High  Cham- 
berlain of  England,  who  bore  the  arms 
of  Coventry  on  his  crest,  and  who  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Northampton,  in 
14()0.  He  is  dressed  in  a  coat  of  cloth 
of  gold,  fringed  with  silver,  and  gowu 
of  light-blue  colour,  bordered  with 
pink.  The  cap  on  his  head  is  similar 
to  the  King*s,  but  without  a  button ; 
he  has  also  an  highly  embroidered 
sachel  hanging  to  his  girdle.  The  rest 
of  the  personages  are  standing,  among 
whom  we  may  readily  point  out  the 
goo<l  Humphrey,  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
standing  behind  the  King's  back,  with 
a  book  in  his  hand  ;  he  has  a  long 
beard,  and  a  button  or  jewel  in  his 
cap,  with  a  brown  dress,  and  his  neck 
decorated  with  a  gold  chain.  The 
dresses  principally  shew  a  vestment 
next  the  body  depending  on  the  knees, 
and  a  robe,  with  large  sleeves  worn 
over  it.  The  shoes  are  long-quartered. 
The  caps  are  small  and  flat,  with  their 
brims  notched.  The  cut  of  the  hj^ir 
of  the  several  portraits  is  much  varied ; 
and  the  beards  of  Duke  Humphrey 
and  another  principal  character  are  left 
to  flow  to  an  unusual  length.  Each 
figure  has  his  neck  bare ;  and  just 
above  the  collar  of  the  under-garmeut 
something  like  linen  appears.  From 
Henry*s  crown  are  diverging  those 
hows,  with  globe  and  cross,  which - 
were  first  introduced  in  his  reign. 

In  the  second  compartment,  in  the 
first  tier,  is  St.  Mary  in  glory,  sur- 
jroonded    by  angels,    with  the  moon 

*  Id  1450,  HeDrj^VI.  cooferred  a  variety 
of  privileget  oa  Coventry,  and  made  it  a  City 
aod  County  totally  distinct  from  the  County 
of  Warwick  ;  and  in  I4b6,  paid  it  a  visit  in 
great  pomp. 


319 

under  her  feet,  which  is  sapported  by 
an  ang^l  also.  In  the  compartmenl 
above,  the  scene  is  continued,  where 
we  see  the  htavens  opened,  and  filled 
with  angels  arranged  round  the  celes- 
tial throne. 

In  the  third  compartment,  on  the 
first  tier,  we  see  Margaret,  Henry^a 
consort,  who  is  richly  habited*  There 
is  a  sreat  spirit  in  the  coontenanoe» 
though  injured  by  having  been  mended 
at  the  corner  of  the  mouth.  Her 
crowned  head-dress,  and  veil  studded 
with  pearls,  is  both  rich  and  elegant. 
Her.  sown  is  cloth  of  gold.  Her  at- 
attitude  somewhat  low,  as  if  kneeling 
on  a  bench,  with  both  hands  joined  in 
prayer,  before  a  covered  uble,  on  whtcb 
IS  seen  a  missal.  Slender  waists,  it 
appears,  were  then  in  fashion.  The 
lady  near  the  Queen  is  called  the 
Duchess  of  Buckingham.  The  rest  of 
this  assemblage  are  wholly  unknown.- 
The  dresses  of  these  ladies  are  a  robe, 
tight  on  the  body,  with  wide  flowing 
sleeves,  their  necks  bare,  and  on  those 
of  the  Queen,  the  Duchess,  and  three 
others,  are  gold  chains.  The  covering 
to  their  heads  is  peculiarly  gracefuL 
The  tier  above  shews  many  female 
Saints,  who,  we  may  conclude,  with 
the  corresponding  male  Saints  on  the 
other  side  of  the  tapestry,  were  the 
heavenly  patrons  of  the  principal  per- 
sons in  the  compartments  below  them. 

A  brass  plate,  erected  in  1571,  with 
an  ornamental  border  in  the  Anglo- 
Italian  stile  of  Elizabeth,  and  contain-^ 
iug  a  grant  of  the  Duke  of  Northum-  ' 
berland  of  pasturage  to  the  inhabitanta 
of  Coventry,  was  in  1836  fastened  to 
the  wall  of'^the  recess,  leading  from  the 
Hall  into  the  Mayoress's  Parlour. 

At  the  south-east  angle  of  the  Hall 
is  an  inscription  from  Hcclesiasticus,  c. 
xliv.  which  has  now  a  richly  orna- 
mented border.  On  the  left  side  it 
represented  a  mitred  Bishop  in  full 
dress,  under  a  canopy,  holdmg  a  cro- 
sier ;  and  on  the  opposite  side  an  armed 
knight,  with  heater  shield,  and  battle- 
axe,  of  the  time  of  Edward  III.  Va- 
rious ornamental  devices,  viz.  the  City 
arms,  crest,  sword  and  mace,  three 
feathers,  mitre,  crosier,  &c<  are  painted 
over  the  inscription. 

At  the  south  end  of  the  Hall  is  the 
minstrels*  gallery,  in  the  front  of  which 
are  suspended  several  suits  of  armour, 
recently  repaired  and  bronzed,  of  the 
n^ake  of  the  .17th  century,  which  were 
anciejntty  worn  by  the  attendants  of 
the  M^yor,  when. he  vfest  to-proclatia 


vn  of  Si.  Marjft  HaU,  Coventry. -^Siump  Pin.         [April, 

Council  -  chambers^  has  been  raised 
and  new  paved,  and  the  ascent  into 
the  room  rendered  commodious,  by  a 
single  step.  The  lam  screen,  which, 
with  the  Duke  of  Northumberland's 
monument,  occupied  the  whole  extent 
of  the  room,  have  been  removed,  and 
two  carved  partitions  of  smaller  dimen- 
sions erected  in  their  place.  At  either 
end  of  this  passage  there  is  a  flue  for 
introducing  warm  air  into  the  Hall. 

The  Hail  is  lighted  by  six  brass 
chandeliers,  suspended  by  chains  from 
the  roof.  The  seats  have  also  been  re- 
cently covered  with  crimson  cloth. 

In  the  year  1824,  the  western  ex- 
terior was  repaired,  and  abutments 
erected  in  the  room  of  those  which 
were  much  dilapidated.  In  the  follow- 
ing year,  the  stone  work  of  the  three 
eastern  windows  being  found  decayed, 
was  totally  removed,  and  new  mullions, 
&c.  introduced.  The  opposite  lights, 
viz.  on  the  western  side,  were  also 
made  to  correspond.  The  great  north- 
ern window,  whose  historical  treasure 
was  noticed  in  your  Magazine  for  179S, 
has,  as  yet,  received  no  alteration. 

Yours,  &c.  Wm.  Reader. 


StO 

Ac  great  fair.  The  armour  of  St. 
George  is  placed  in  the  centre;  and 
over  the  whole  are  a  variety  of  ancient 
pikes  and  bills.  The  appearance  of 
this  galleij  has  also  been  much  im- 
proved ;  Its  inconvenient  depth  has- 
been  remedied,  and  a  new  ornamental 
front  enables  it  to  harmonize  with  the 
interior  of  the  Hall.  There  were  for- 
merly two  ascents  into  the  Gallery  from 
the  Hall,  one  on  the  left  by  means  of 
a  circular  stone  stair-case  in  the  build- 
ing, and  the  other  on  the  risht,  by 
circular  wooden  stairs,  both  of  which 
are  removed.  The  Wardens*  Buttery,  - 
which  projected  over  the  gateway  front- 
ing the  street,  is  also  taken  away. 

At  the  southern  end  of  the  Hall  is 
the  Old  Council-chamber,  where  are 
the  Mayor's  seat,  and  those  for  the 
members  of  the  Council.  The  tables 
and  cushions  are  covered  with  crimson 
cloth.  Above  the  ancient  oak  wainscot 
were  painted  cloth  haneings,  on  which 
were  the  arms  of  Elizabeth ;  but  these 
have  been  long  removed,  and  damask 
crimson  hangings  have  been  now  sub- 
stituted, with  ornamental  red  and  green 
borders  of  flowers.  At  the  entrance  into 
the  Chamber  on  the  left  hand,  over 
the  Mayor's  elevated  seat,  are  the  City 
arms,  beautifully  painted  on  the  crim- 
son hangings,  and  underneath  the  words 
Camera  Principis  (the  Prince's  Cham- 
ber). On  the  east  side  are  the  follow- 
ing devices :  the  Prince's  Plume,  with 
the  letters  E.  P.  W.  surrounding  it; 
the  Kind's  Arms,  1426,  H.  VI.  R.  and 
his  cognizance,  the  Planta  Genuta.  1  n 
a  wreath  of  myrtle,  acfjoining  the  win- 
dow, is  the  following  inscription  (for- 
merly placed  over  the  door),  repainted 
in  ancient  characters:   "  Behold  how 

gX3d  and  pleasant  a  thing  it  is  for 
rethren  to  dwell  together  in  unit^." 

The  window  is  of  newly  painted 
glass,  the  centre  of  which  contains  the 
City  arms,  with  Camera  Principis  in  a 
scroll  underneath.  On  one  side  is  the 
Prince's  plume,  and  on  the  other  the 
Broom  Plant.  On  the  other  side  of 
the  window,  in  a  wreath  of  oak  leaves 
and  acorns,  is  the  following  inscrip- 
tion :  "  Anno  1826,  this  Council-cham- 
ber was  repaired  and  restored,  in  the 
Mayoralty  of  James  Weare,  Esq." 

C5n  the  west  side  are  the  arms  of  the 
Marquis  of  Hertford,  the  present  Re- 
corder ;  and  also  the  arms  of  the  Earl 
of  Craven,  the  late  Recorder. 

Among  other  internal  repairs  and 
improyements,  the  passage  at  the  bot- 
tom of  the  Hail,  leading  to  the  two 


Mr.  Urban,  April  10. 

YOUR  correspondent  N.  (p.  J 94.), 
desires  an  explanation  of  what  a 
Slump  Pie  consists.  Probabl;jr  he  has 
a  longing  for  a  taste  of  what  formed  a 
prominent  dish  at  a  certain  period,  at 
the  feasts  of  the  Knights  of  the  Garter. 
I  have  therefore  sent  him  a  recipe  to 
compose  one  secundum  ar tern,  and  have 
only  to  observe  that,  if  he  had  con- 
sulted books  on  the  culinary  art,  of 
somewhat  later  date  than  those  he  re- 
fers to,  he  would  not  have  been  disap- 
pointed in  the  search.    Yours,  S.  C.  P. 

Stump  Pye  to  season. 

Take  veal  or  mutton,  mince  it  raw,  put 
half  an  ounce  of  pepper,  half  an  ounce  of 
nutmegs,  and  half  an  ounce  of  cloves  and 
mace;   marjorara,  thyme,  and  savoury,  cut 
small ;  add  a  pound  of  currants ;  mix  them 
well  together,  and  put  to  them  two  pounds 
of  the  meat ;  work  them  up  into  balls  as  hig 
as  walnuts,  with  six  eggs,  and  at  the  closing  • 
up  put  a  pound  of  butter,  dispersed  amoqg. 
them  in  little  balls  as  big  as  marbles.    Then  . 
make  a  sauce  with  a  quarter  of  a  pint  of , 
white  wine,  half  a  quartern  of  veij.uice,  the  ' 
yolks  of  three  eggs,  and  a  little  whole  mace ; 
putting  in  a  quarter  of  a  pound  of  butter. 
When  they  are  well  beaten  up  and  thickaned  ' 
over  a  gentle  fire,  put  it  into  the  m,  and  ' 
so  closing  the  lid,  bake  it  m  an  iadUMiealiy 
well  heated  oveo. 


18*7.]  [    S«^    ] 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 

^ * 

4S.  Tramactums  of  the  Royal  Society  qf  account  of  the  Holy  Land,  compile^ 
titeratiire  qfthe  United  Kingdom.  VbL  L  for  the  use  of  Henry  V.  who,  upon  hit 
Part  I,  4 to.  ^.  227.  death-bed,  avowea  a  reiolutioo  rf 
THE  Royal  Society  of  Literature  is  making  the  expedition.  Wc  do  not 
incorporated  *'  for  the  advancement  of  ^o"ol  y}^  /?ct-  Gilbert  dc  Lannoi 
Literature,  by  the  publication  of  in-  wrote  his  Itinerary  in  14S2,  and  the 
edited  remains  of  ancient  Literature,  followtnff  account  of  his  work,  nn- 
and  of  such  works  as  may  be  of  great  "S^j*;^  ^K^\'  %S"°^  "  '°  Fabnciiw. 
intrinsic  value,  but  not  of  that  popular  (Biblioth.  Med.  Mv,  it.  718.) 
character  which  usually  claims  the  at-  «  Gilbertus  Lannoy  cajiu  Iter  tine  de^ 
tention  of  publishers ;  by  the  promo-  scriptio  peregnnationu  A.  142S»  sutceptil 
tion  of  discoveries  in  Literature ;  by  per  i£gYpUun,  Sjriam,  aliatqiia  regionat 
endeavouring  to  fix  the  standard,  as  far  e«uUt  MS.  Bmxtlla  in  BibUotheca  Aala^ 
at  it  practicable,  and  to  preserve  the  n. 50i.tMteV»Ierio  Andrea,  psg. 288.  BiU. 
parity  of  the  English  language;  by  BeW,  nam  in  Sweertu  Atbenif  nd^ 
the  critical  improvement  SfEnglUh  Ju«  L^noi.  mentio. 
lexicography;  by  the  reading  at  pub-  .  Mr.  Penn  procured  his  MS.  in  the 
lie  meetings  of  interesting  papers  on  immediate  vicinity  of  Lannoi,  the  fo- 
hiftory,  philosophy,  poetry,  philology,  miJy  •eat  of  the  author,  and  found  ao« 
and  the  arts,  and  the  publication  of  other  copy  among  the  Hatton  MSb. 
such  of  those  papers  as  shall  be  ap-  iQ  lh«  Bodleian.  Mr.  Penn  does  nol 
proved  of;  by  the  assigning  of  bono-  «ecni  to  be  aware  that  this  subject  wai 
rarv  rewards  to  works  of  great  literary  admirably  illustrated  in  a  paper  pre- 
me'rit,  and  to  imporunt  discoveries  in  ««nled  some  years  since  to  the  Society 
Literature;  and  by  esUblishing  a  cor-  of  Antiquaries,  by  the  Rev.  John  Webb, 
respondcnce  with  learned  men  in  fo-  accompanied  by  a  transcript  of  the  MS. 
reign  countries  for  the  purpose  of  lite-  deposited  in  the  Bodleian.  These,  we 
raiy  inquiry  and  information."  undersUnd,  are  printed  in  the  forth- 
Such  is  the  preamble  of  the  Char-  coming  volume  of  the  Archaeologia. 
t«r,  and  the  friends  of  Literature  can-  Whether  Mr.  Penn's  MS.  it  a  thini 
not  of  course  do  otherwise  than  wish  transcript,  or  the  same  as  the  Brusselt 
success  to  the  Institution.  We  now  one,  we  know  not.  It  it  certain  thaf 
proceed  to  the  conienu  of  the  Part  j  Lannoi  made  the  pilgrima^  by  cjw- 
premising  that  the  Papers  of  which  it  «nand  of  Henry  the  Fifth.  The 
18  composed,  together  with  numerous  eause  of  this  resolution  was  no  doubf 
others,  have  already  been  noticed  in  i^*^  g^^wi  by  Mr.  Fosbroke  (Brili*l| 
our  Reports  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Monachism,  p.  456),  because  it  waf 
Society,  in  vol.  xciv.  pt.  i.  p.  646;  t*^e  reawn  aligned  by  Henry  g  own 
vol.  xcv.  pi.  ii.  p.  6g;  and  xcvi.  fft*>er.  This  King  says,  in  Shakspeare, 
pt.  i.  p.  635.  ^^^^  to  avoid  bemg  dethroned^  he  ha4 

Art.  I.  Accmtni  of  an  unknown  Ma-  *  purpote— 

mucripi  of  1422,  illustrating  the  last  *'  To  laad  out  many  to  tht  Holy  Land, 

Declaration    of  King  Henry  K   and  Lest  rest  and  lying  still  might  maka  them 

vindicating    its    veracity    against    the  Too  near  bto  my  .tate ;"  Poofc 

scepticism  of  David  Hume.     By  Gran-  a  policy  which,  Mr.  Fosbroke  observet, 

ville  Penn,  esq.  was  suggested  by  i£lian  and  Jutting 

Every  body  has  read  that  crusadet  who  reuses  the  same  of  Diouysius  the 

to  the  Holy  Land  ceased  on  or  about  tyrant.     Henry's  idea  of  thus  exhaust- 

the  time  ot  Henry  V.  and,  if  our  recol-  in^  the  power  of  the  Nobility  upon  fo- 

lection  be  correct,  the  Popes  largely  reign  expeditions,  because  he  had  only. 

GODtnbuted  to  the  relinquishment  of  an  usurper's  title^  was  wisely  oonreived} 

such  a  romantic  prcgect,   by  making  for  his  early  decease,  and  long  minority 

use  of  it  at  a  mode  of  raising  money,  of  his  ton,  brought  on  the  dreadfin 

through  a  commutation  payment  to  civil  war  which  ended  in  the  acecssion 

themsdvts.    Mr.  Granville  renn  hat  of  Edward  the  Fourth, 
described  a  MS.  written  by  Gilbert  de        IL  On  the  qfinities  and  diversitiet 

Lannoi,   containing  a   topographical  in  the  Languages  qflke  World,  andim 
QtHT.MAQ.jIpril,  16%7, 


5^      Rbtibw.-— rrofiiacfioftf  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Literature.  [Apiil, 


their  primeval  cause.    By  SharoD  Tur- 
ner, esq. 

III.  On  the  Elemetflary  and  Com^ 
pound  Terms,  and  their  Cfassificaiions 

•     and  Affinities  for  the  Numeral  "  Two** 

IV.  Letter  on  the  terms  used  by  dif* 
fhrent  Nations  to  express  *•  Mother*' 

V.  On  the  classification  and  affinities 
^  the  words  in  various  languages  for 
«•  Father.*' 

VI.  Further  Illustration  of  the  pri- 
meval cause  of  the  affinities  and  diver'- 
sities  of  Languages. 

VII.  Further  Illustrations  of  the 
preceding  principles, 

Mr.  Turner  is  a  learned  if  not  a 
philosophical  historian,  but,  however 
excellent  are  his  works  as  narratives, 
there  will  always  be  in  such  histories 
important  desiderata.  The  papers  be- 
fore us  have  the  usual  erudite  character 
of  Mr.  Turner's  works  $  but  mere  phi- 
lology cannot  discover  what  was  the 
primeval  language;  because  such  know- 
ledge cannot  be  acquired  through  the 
menium  of  Phonetic  alphabets,  which 
were  subsequent  inventions.  As  to 
mimber,  unity  having  no  parts  is  rather 
the  generative  principle  of  numeration 
than  a  number  itself;  and  we  make 
no  doubt  but  the  vocable  (whatever  it 
was),  implying  one,  twice  repeated  or 
represented  by  two  objects,  was  the 
first  mode  of  expressing  two  i  and  that 
the  denotation  of  two  By  a  word  pecu- 
liar to  itself,  was  of  more  modem  ori- 
gin. Besides,  vcTwels,  as  being  sounds 
per  se,  are  prior  in  origin  to  conso- 
nants, whicti  cannot  be  pronounced 
but  as  modifications  of  vowels,  and,  if 
we  may  judge  from  the  language  of 
the  South  Sea  Islands,  had  no  exist- 
ence at  all  in  any  primeval  toneue. 
Arithmetic  is,  too,  quite  a  modern 
science;  and  the  selection  of  words 
expressing  number,  in  order  to  disco- 
ver a  first  language,  we  conceive  to  be 
peculiarly  unfortunate.  In  short,  a 
dissection  of  the  tongues  used  by  Aus- 
tralasians and  American  savases  is 
more  to  the  purpose  than  collation  of 
dictionaries;  but  we  much  doubt  whe- 
.  ther  any  method  whatever  could  effect 
^  object,  an  object  which,  in  our 
jodsment,  belongs  to  physiologists  and 
phiTosophers,  such  as  were  Professor 
Millar,  Lord  Kaimes,  and  others  of 
that  ^lass,  not  mere  historians  of  inci-: 
dent,  who,  unlike  Gibbon  and  Hume, 
do  not  trace  phenomena  in  the  history 
of  man  to  tneir  actual  causes.  The 
,  primeval  languaae  seems  in  &ct  to 
Jiave  eaoeUted  of  ejacidationt  or  cries. 


like  the  duckings  of  a  hen,  the  difler- 
ence  of  meaning  being  determined  by 
variation  of  tones;  and  this^  opinion 
we  form  from  the  rude  sounds  uttered 
"by  Peter  the  Wild  Boy,  and  confirm 
it  by  the  great  abundance  of  vowels 
in  tne  Otaheitean  language;  and  the 
same  word  in  the  Chinese  having  various 
senses,  according  to  the  enunciation. 

VIII.  Observations  on  the  River  Eu' 
phrates.    By  Sir  William  Ouseley,  knt. 

This  is  an  elaborate  and  interesting 
paper.     Sir  William  says, 

'<  Dorisg   mv  journey  along   the   Eu- 

fhratei,  espectilly  for  the  list  twenty  miles, 
remarked  that  it  mostly  flowed  between 
steep  rocky  banks,  of  whicn  the  greater  part 
seemed  finely  clothed  with  trees,  several  be- 
ing very  large,  and  of  different  kinds ;  among 
them  were  some  willows,  such  we  may  ima- 
gine as  those  on  which  the  captive  and  dis- 
consolate Hebrews  suspended  their  harps, 
when  they  <sat  down  and  wept'  by  tnii 
river,  or  the  streams  branching  from  it, 
near  Babylon,  where,  as  the  learned  Bochart 
informs  us,  a  whole  territory  was  denomi- 
nated the  <  Vale  of  Willows,'  from  the 
abundance  of  those  trees."    P.  1 14. 

Sir  W^illiam  has  added  a  note,  which 
shows  plainly  that  the  weeping  willow 
has  been  very  improperly  denominated 
the  "Salix  Babylonica.'*  The  real 
tree  i^  a  spreading  willow  of  yellow 
bark  and  leaves,  the  Arabian  garb  and 
Hebrew  aarbt  and  that  this  was  the 
identical  willow  of  the  Psalmist,  is 

graved  by  its  being  denominatcxl  in 
cripture  Arabim.     See  Dr.  Harris's 
Nat.  Hist,  of  the  Bible,  p.  39O. 

Sir  William  has  added  an  account  of 
the  numerous  authors  who  have  writ* 
ten  upon  the  presumed  site  of  Para- 
dise; and  who  do  not  seem  to  have 
recollected  that  the  Deluge  has  altered 
the  surface  of  the  globe. 

IX.  An  historical  Account  of  the 
Discoveries  made  in  Palimpsest  ManU" 
scripts.    By  Archdeacon  Nares,  V.  P. 

It  was  customary,  during  the  middle 
ages,  partially  to  erase  ancient  manu- 
scripu,  in  order  to  re-use  the  parch- 
ment for  other  more  modern  works. 
These  manuscripts,  called  Palimpsest 
[from  voXiv  and  •l^ew,  fo  wipe  or 
cleanse],  or  Rescript,  from  having 
been  twice  cleaned  or  twice  written, 
have  been  found  to  conceal  within 
themselves  others  some  centuries  older, 
and  often  of  much  superior  interest 
and  value.  The  largest  part  of  Cicero 
de  Republic^  has  been  thus  recovered ; 
and  the  activitjr  of  Signer  Mafi,  libra- 
rian of  the  Vatican,  promises  further 


18t70  RBViBw.-^TVoniocttoM  of  ih€  Ropdl  Society  of  Liieraiwre.     3SS 

discoveries   (see  toI.  xciv.  li.  547).  longing  io  the  Patriarchs  of  Jtfruta* 

The  literary  world  it  much  indebted  iem.    By  the  Rev.  Henry-John  ToOd. 
to  Archdeacon  Nares  for  the  direction        It  is  a  misfortune  that  this  Codex 

of  its  attention  to  Palimpsest  MSS.  was  not  copied  before  it  was  returned 

X.  *'  A  Collection  of  Passages  of  to  the  Patriarch  of  Jerusalem. 
State  under  Queen  Eiizaheth  ana  King  XIV.  On  the  Measure  of  the  Cot^ 
James.**  Communicated  by  the  Rev.  ditions  necessary  to  the  supply  of  Com' 
Henry-John  Todd.  moditieSf  By  the  Rev.T.  R.  Malthut. 
This  is  an  account  of  a  MS.  in  the  We  suppose  that  the  cost  in  labour, 
library  of  Yorlc  Cathedral,  written  by  time,  &c.  necessary  to  produce  a  corn- 
Sir  John  Harington,  though  hitherto  modity,  is  intimately  connected  with 
unknown  to  be  so,  and  consequently  the  supply  of  it.  The  difficulty  of  ob^ 
unnotic^  by  Mr.  Park  in  his  collec-  taining  diamonds  is  very  great,  there- 
tion  of  the  Harington  Papers,  entitled  fore  the  supply  is  small.  We  may  not 
Nugse  Antiqus.  It  had  been  asserted  clearly  unaerstand  Mr.  Malthus,  an4 
that  Sir  John  Harineton  "  had  formed  we  should  be  sorr^^  to  do  injustice  to 
a  plan  for  writing  a  history  of  his  own  such  a  man,  but  it  is  our  misfortune 
times,  but  did  not  live  to  execute  it."  to  think  Political  Economy  a  mere 
This  manuscript,  remarks  Mr.  Todd,  theory  made  out  of  things  as  plain  at 
is  certainly  eviaence  of  his  proceeding  A  B  C,  or  nothing  at  all,  and  eluci* 
upon  such  a  plan.  The  principal  con-  dated  into  obscurity.  We  may,  how* 
tents  of  it  have  been  noticed  in  vol.  ever,  be  prejudiced  or  stupid,  and  are 
xcv.  ii.  p,  63.  willing  so  to  be  so  denomiiiated,  pro- 
XL  On  a  Coin  of  Metapontum,  By  vided  we  are  not  obliged  to  adopt  the 
James  Millingen,  esq.  theories  of  Political  Economy.  ou|»ply 
An  aged  personage  with  a  long  thick  and  demand  are  doctrines  of  praot^eai 
beard,  and  remarkable  for  having«the  and  sound  application,  and  tnete  are 
horns  of  a  bull,  appears  on  the  reverse,  the  only  things  w^ich  yve  blockhead^ 
The  inscription  shows  it  to  have  been  consider  it  prudent  to  regard. 
Achelous.  Most  Antiquaries  (we  XV.  On  an  Edict  of  Diocletian^ 
quote  the  editors  of  the  Palais  Royal  fixing  a  Maximum  ^  Prices  through^ 
Gems)  have  ascribed  to  Achelous  the  out  the  Roman  Empire,  A.  D.  303« 
common  figure  of  the  ox  with  a  hu-  By  W.  Martin  Leake,  Esq. 
man  head,  and  the  Abb^  Ignarra  (far  A  volume  mighl  be  easily  made  out 
too  mercifully  palliated  by  Mr.  Milliii-  of  this  list,  concerning  the  aru,  trades, 
gen),  has,  to  support  this  hypothesis,  manufactures,  &c.  in  the  decline  of 
even  altered  the  text  of  the  Trachiniae  the  Roman  Empire ;  a  volume  both 
of  Sophocles,  which  licentiousness  Mr.  curious  and  valuable.  One  thing  will 
Millingen  (p.  144)  calls  a  mistake,  in  particular  strike  the  aptiquarv.  It 
The  coins  ot  the  GEniades  who  inha-  is  the  close  assimilation  of  the  lettert 
bited  the  country  situated  at  the  mouth  in  form  to  those  of  the  Lombardic. 
of  the  jichelous,  havt  for  their  type  a  It  seems  to  show  that  this  style  it 
head  of  an  old  man  bearded,  attached  older  than  the  middle  of  the  sixtl^ 
to  a  neck,  and  not  to  the  entire  body  century. 

of  a  bull.    Mr.  Millingen's  appropria-        XYi.  On  some  Egyptian  Monuments 

tion   has  therefore  been   anticipated,  in  the  British  Museum  and  other  CoU 

We  suggest  for  his  notice,  the  human  lections.  By  the  Right  Hon.  C.  Yorke 

head  without  a  beard  upon  a  bull's  and  W.  Martin  Leake,  esq. 
neck,  with  only  a  single  norn,  occur-        The  study  of  hieroglyphics  is  yet 

^ring  upon  the  coins  of  Acarnania  and  in  its  infancy;  but  this  we  see  plainly, 

Thyrxum.  See  Goltz.  Numism.  Univ.  that  anciently  there  was  more  than  one 

tab.  vi.  original  phonetic  alphabet.    It  is  plain 

XII.  On  some  Coins  of  the  City  of  from  the  alphabet,  see  plate  xx.  that 
Ki«^«of  in  Thessaly,  By  W.  Martin  ^^^  letters  are  sheer  absolute  hiero^Iy. 
Leake,  Esq.  phics.     The  cuneiform   PerscpohUn 

This  disquisition  is  important;  for  characters  appear  to  us  to  be  of  a  na- 

Pellerin,  who  has  wrongly  appropriated  ture  quite  distinct,  i,e,  to  be  repre- 

them  to  Cius  in  Bythinia,  calls  them  sentatives  of  letters  forming  words, 

RRRR.    The   essay  is  accompanied  whereas  these  Egyptian  letters  teem 

with  a  valuable  account  of  the  very  to  be  representatives  of  things  which 

obscure  city,  which  struck  the  coins.  denoted  letters,  and,  in  union,  wordi. 

XIII.  Jn  account  tf  a  Qodex  con*  To  be  more  clear,  the  Egyptians  teevx 
taining  several  Greek  Manuscripts  he*'  to  have  made  birds,  boats,  annt^  «c^ 


RBViBW.-^I^Miter'i  >()^*M  fetfydop^ifia/ 


[Aprit 


•Und  for  thtvoweb;  legs»  flowier-pots, 
&c.  for  B»  C,  and  so  forth. 

In  pursuing  these  inquiries^  say  the 
authors  of  this  raluable  paper^ 

«« One  of  the  ohief  reqoisitei  ii  dw  study 
of  the  Coptic—*  language  hitherto  little 
Aotieed  by  the  learned,  except  in  so  &r 
as  it  might  assist  in  the  ftutherance  of 
BiblicalCritieism.  Strong  reasons  oeenr 
ibr  supposing  the*  the  ancient  Egyptian 
langtiage  forms  the  prineipal  siibetanee  of 
the  Coptic."    P.  805. 

If  this  be  the  fact^  as  we  donbt  not 
btit  It  is^  then  to  attempt  deciphering 
iht  hieroglyph ics,  without  prefioasly 
Qiiderstanding  the  Coptic,  is  to  put 
tl>e  cart  to  draw  the  horse.  We  have 
no  opinion  that  th^  full  discoi'enr  of 
lh(p  hieroglyphieal  language  will  be 
attended  witn  any  valuable  accession 
of  knowledge ;  for  the  Egyptians,  in 
every  view  of  reason.  Were  so  mon- 
strously absurd,  that  we  think  little 
will  be  found  but  superstitious  my- 
t1i0logic|d  trash  (  and  we  fullv  believe 
that  the  Heathen  Idolatry  has  ever 
been  the  most  serious  impediment  to 
the  progress  of  philosophical  and  ra- 
tional thinking  ever  known.  People 
of  those  times  thought  that  the  saori- 
fiqe  of  a  hull  to  Neptune  was  a  better 
Purity  for  a  prosperous  voyage  than 
the  art  of  navigation.  Of  course  they 
Would  have  annexed  no  value  to  the 
invention  of  the  Marinelr^s  Compass. 
The  E^ptians  were  worse  than  others ; 
for  theirs  was  a  most  contemptible  ty- 
ranny of  priestcraft ;  and  the  uncom- 
mon mischief  done  to  the  world  by 
giving  animated  properties,  and  active 
providential  interference,  to  non-enti^^ 
lies,  was  certainly  a  confluent  smalU 
pox,  to  which  the  human  mind  was 
subject  previous  to  the  introduction  of 
the  vaccination  of  Christianity. 

49«  The  Pocket  Eneyelopdedia  qf  Naiund 
Phmomenatfir  the  uee  if  Mariners,  SKep- 
herdifGa^kneri,  Husbrndmerit  andoiheni 
iieing  aCampendiwn  qf  Fr^fpwstieaiioni  qjf" 
the  Ifemlher,  Sign*  qfike  Seasons,  Periods 
.  ^  Plants,  and  other  Phenomena  in  Natural 
Bistoru  and  PhUosophy,  conqriledjprinci'' 

. ,  pailyjrom  the  Manuscripts  and  AtS.Jour' 
fljaZf  of  the  laU  T.  F.Forster,  Esq,  P.LS* 
Jpy  T.  Forster,  M*B.  F.LJS*  M,AS.  and 
M,MJS,Sfe.O^G.  l9mo.pp,  440.  Nichols 
and  Son, 

THIS  is  a  very  valuable  work.  It 
ttofolds  the  phenomena  of  Natnre, 
whether  of  earth  or  heaven,  in  the 
idr  or  on  the  waters.    It  discourMs  of 


the  fiowen  of  the  field,  the  songs  of 
birds,  tht  habits  of  animals,  the  mo- 
tions of  the  heavenly  bodies,  and  of 
the  seasons  and  their  changes.  It  car- 
ries us  along  through  the  periodical 
development  of  Nature,  ana  revives^ 
from  day  to  day,  all  those  associations 
which  are  kindled  with  our  earliest 
and  latest  communications  with  the 
external  world.  It  is  a  sweet  compa- 
nion into  the  garden,  the  meadow- 
ground,  *and  the  woodland,  and  intro- 
duces us  to  an  interesting  acquaintance 
with  their  creations. 

We  have  ever  loved  this  (ilacid  con- 
templation and  intimate  intercourse 
with  Nature,  as  propitious  to  calm  and 
serene  thought,  and  affordine  the  re- 
laxation of  Tighter  subjects  of  medita- 
tion after  the  toil  of  business,  or  the 
wearisomeness  of  more  intense  study. 
To  those  from  whom  the  world  ex- 
acts no  particular  exertions,  out  of 
the  range  of  voluntary  pursuits,  a  taste 
for  natural  science  is  a  fund  of  pla- 
cid enjoyment.  To  those  whom  time 
and  the  bondage  of  circumstances  ri- 
vet to  scenes  which  have  lost  their  in- 
terest by  long  femiliarity,  it  procure 
the  means  of  constant  diversity. 

The  author  dedicates  his  work  t6 
the  lise  of  "  Mariners,  Shepherds,  Gar- 
deners, and  Husbandmen;*'  but  we 
see  not  that  these  "  country  content- 
ments'* should  be  engrossed  by  the 
seafaring  man  and  tne  denizen  of 
«« rural  villages.;^ 

Works  of  scientific  botany  are  in- 
iufferably  dull,-— mere  names  and  hard 
words,  and  distinctions  of  classes,  ge- 
nera, and  species.  We  have  here  more 
of  the  descriptive  writing  of  the  old 
time,  which  reminds  us  of  the  herb^ 
savoured  and  flower -breathing  lan- 
guage of  Gerard,  and  the  delightftil 
dialogoe  of  old  Izaak  Walton.  Indeed 
we  would  suggest  to  Dr.  Forster,  thitt 
the  incorporation  of  Gerard^s  dis- 
courses of  **  amiable  and  pleasant 
flowers,"  would  enrich  without  over-* 
extending  a  future  edition  of  the  En- 
cyclopedia. 

Dr.  Foster  siceras  to  have  been  pe^ 
culiarly  well  qualified  for  his  task,  alt 
his  family  having  been  naturaltata. 
His  grandfather  and  father  kept  jour- 
tials  of  the  weather  and  of  the  flowei^ 
iiig  of  plants  from  ITC?  to  1805. 
Hence,  in  great  part,  his  matertab; 
His  work  is  divided  into  five  sections, 
«•  The  Prognostica  of  the  Weather ;'' 
•^^Indications  Of  the  Seasons;"  ''Signs 


1M7J  RmriMW.'^FQicMitr*^  PHhti  Encfdop^ddith  9i| 

of  the  SesBODs;"  ''The  Rostie  Ca*  Slant,  Gloacestenhirt,  wJ^if^gooj 

lendar  \"  and    ''  Flora    Spectabilil."  naturalist^  relates  a  story  that  a  naglN 

The  first  part  "enables  us  to  predict  boar  shot  every  hedg&'sparfow  ml 

with    greater    certainty    the    fotore  came  into  his  garden,  not  awaie  thM 

chanees  of  the  weather.    It  contains  they  were  harmiest  as  respects  sardeo- 

a  code  of  prognostics,  founded  partly .  rofahery,  and,  in  soma  ways,  the  moil 

on  tradition  and  partly  on  experience^  useful  of  familiar  birds.    When  thia  - 

arranged  alphabetically.'*  was  told  the  avi-cide,  he  says,  "Tb^ 

Of  Part  II.  the  author  observes :  rose  the  com  two  shillings  a  buabel 

«  The  varioui  indication,  of  the  »pproaeh  one  year  for  all  that."-.The  autboreta 

of  the  different  seasons  of  the  yew  conrti-  of  the  «'  Sylvan  Sketches     states  thai 

tote  a  snbject  of  coBiiderable  interest;  they  the  elms  m  the  Bird-cage  walk  warn 

an  to  be  deduced  principally  team  the  pe-  preserved  by  wood*peckers,  which  de^ 

riodioalretam  of  certain  natoxalphenomeBa  I  voor  those  uisects  whose  larvss  decor* 

foeh  as  tbe  return  and  migration  of  birds  oi  ticate  the  elm.     A  tree  when  haunttd 

),  the  flowering  of  plants,  tbe  ripen-  by  this  bird,  is  considered  ripe  for  fdU 


ing  of  fruits,  and  Oie  periodical  pairing,  jng.     In  the  dissection  of  the  wood* 

nestling,  parturition,  and  other  habiu  of  pecker,    we   have   aUvays   found  tht 

animals.      P. «.  Stomach  full  of  insecU. 

Part  III.  compares  the  rising  and  We  could  make  very  many  obsenra* 

setting  of  the  start  with  the  flowerins  tions,  but  our  allotted  space  is  almoil 

of  plants,   the  arrival  of  birds,  and  filled.    Naturalists  of  either  sex,  wbtt 

other  natural  phenomena.    This  sec-  collect   or  interleave,    will   find   this 

tion  embraces  all  the  familiar  obser*  elegant  little  volume  an  excellent  SyU 

rations  of  the  antients  and  moderns.  labus  for  notes.    One  scrap  touching 

"Planting  and  sowing,  and  ingathering  *{»«  present  season  wiU  exhibit  the  aa. 

by  tbe  stars,  is  as  antient  as  any  record  wt  ^hor  s  style : 

potsess  of  agriculture  ;  and  pastoral  life  has  **  Tbe  early  shrubs  bud,  tbe  yellow  eollB* 

left  no  traces  behind  it  unconnected  with  foot  blows,  early  daffodils,  and  the  grssi 

accounts  of  the  celestial  warnings  of  the  early  jonquils  adorn  our  gardens,  and  hi 

heavenly  spheies."    P.  zxxiv.  some  places  tbe  former  covers  whole  fields 

The  IV,h  Part,  the  R««ic  Clen-  SS.'r.MS'gll3rj?r.hUSj 

dar,  comprises,  y^^^^  ^^  ^]^  i^„  .^^  spaaeled  with  the 

'<  An  arrangement  of  certain  consplcnoas  little  golden  stars  of  the  pilewort ;    ibt 

natural  phenomena,  according  to  tbe  times  sweet  violet  blows  in  oar  giudens,  and  Hi 

of  their  anniial  concurrence."    P.  xxzvii.  rich  odour  is  ofien  smelt  as  we  widk  aloiMJ 

An  interesting  account  is  here  given  it*  V^l  "^^^f?  *f  ^}^P^  ^^  i^  ^*? 

x>r  the  Catholic  origin  of  the  nai^  of  ^Tj^S        **  ,V^  *•.  ^'^ 

««:«,.!«  n«ri  ,xiar>»«  ^"'*'"  rwoUids  one  of  Shakspeaia's  beaaliM 

animals  and  plants.  line.  «i  the^i  floweia,  and  Vthe  twsea «f 

Dr.  Forster  observes :  Lownro  de  MedicL    Frogs  are  bow  han^ 

'*  Bullfinches  return  to  our  gardens,  and  croaking  from  tbe  ponds,  ditches,  and  dhsr 

are  very  useful,  destroying  those  buds  alone  waters ;  snails  are  found  clustered  on  tli# 

which  contain  the  larva  qf  destructive  in*  urarm  south  walls  by  the  early  Uossoms  ^ 

sects;   the  loud  and  shrill  laugh  of  tbe  the  i)eacb  tree;   toads  make  new  an  im» 

yaffle  or  green  woodpecker  is  heard  in  the  usual  grating  noise,  and  tbe  stone  cnriew^ 

woods."    P.  XV.  which  arrives  durine  the  last  days  of  Fe- 

*<  Sparrows  congregate  in   August  and  bruary,  is  now  heard  by  night  flying  over  Mtr 

September,  and  it  is  then  that  they  feed  heads  unseen,  and  \ittenng  Its  hafsh  ail4 

in  flocks  OD  the  standing  com,  and  are  mis*  shrill  cry.     In  fine  days  towards  Ladytidll, 

takenly  destroyed  for  the  mischief  they  do.  the  early  sulphur  butterfly  Is  seen  abool^ 

Intelligent  farmers  are,  however,  now  be-  and  the  bees  come  abroad.     At  a  iMTe  il^ 

ginning  to  be  aware  that  these,  as  well  ae  vanced  period  of  this  seaaoo,  and  Saott  afl«r 

most  birds,  do  more  good  by  the  vermin  they  Ladytide,  tbe  red  and  ihe  yellow  ctownlar 

destroy  in  Spring  and  Summer,  than  they  perials  and  the   dog's-tooth   violet    Uo«w 

do  mischief  by  the  grain  und  fruit  they  eat  The  primroses  and  diig  violets,  which  hmem 

in  Autumn,'*    P.  124.  blossomed  sparingly  before,  now  cover  evaqp 

Vulgar  pivjadice*  are  very etroBg  in  ^J'  "<*  j?~  »P"«»!<>».  «<» "".HW- 

thi>  re^i.  "We  have  known  orehfixl.  tl,^St^\y,J^  IjUaU  «t.Dd  th«r 

Jl  I        I  r                      t      *  flowering  mto  the  befnnnm^  of  the  nest  sea- 

menjmploved  for  a  s«ison  in  shoot-  .^n,  an!  are  scarc^y  out  of  blow  by  the 

ing  bullfinches, — parishes  that  pay  a  24th  of  May,  a  day  cm  which  the  two  Jloiaa 

po//.tax  for  every  sparrow's  head  pro-  dways  meet,  and  when  the  greatest  nnmb^ 

dueed.    The  Rev.  G.  C.  Jenner,  ttf  af  piaotsaie  in  flower  m  alftenpeiate  olT- 


I 


cotmiMiid  $n  um,  snd  take  eara  of  a  tifcl  ma4  craat'PriMaM  1m»  mH  an  apd  ui 

6*6  ^vooian  (p.  Idg).    The  husband  tl»ir  UMfor  erer;  tha  eoold  aot  n^oH  hfir 

of  the  PricKsese  haTinojoined  the  army,  •^  ihape,  but  the  hM  ipoiled  (hafe  of 

aha/M/arf  for  him.    This  waa  deemed  •^"»  ^  ^«  ■JJ'  •••  »oth"«  *»*  «l«»»y 

4HurryiDg  her  affection  to  the  greatest  ■»"  •^®''  bgm»»,      P.  418. 

•zivttme  (p.  179).    Of  Fenelon*s  tui-  She  complains  of  the  ladies  taking 

tkm  it  is  said,  "  nothing  is  now  spoken  so  much  snuff  as  to  be  quite  disgraced 

<lf  but  Telamachns ;  in  which  he  has  bv  it,  and  carrying  coloured  handker- 

taught  the  Prince  to  prefer  a  pacific  chiefs  in  their  pockets  (41^0)  i  and  says, 

kfing  to  a  oonqiieror ;  all  this  causes  that  she  knew  a  man  qjf  great  intellect^ 

dieoutcry  dT  what  you  hear'*  (p.  206).  who  maintained  that  me^  ought  to 

Among  Marlboroogh's  stratagems,  this  educate  females,  and  women  the  men 

If  mentioned  :   *'  Our  enemies   give  (494).   The  great  intellect  of  tliis  man 

doable  pay  and  double  clothing  to  tneir  is  not,  in  our  judgment^  exhibited  by 

ii^itrs,  in  order  to  encourage  them,  such  an  absurd  notion.    Louis  XIV., 

and  make  ours  desert,  which  scheme  it  seems,  did  not  like  fire-screens,  be- 

locceeded  but  too  well  '*  (p.  21()).    In  cause  they  disBsured  the  room  (p.  445). 

0.919  we  find  the  Pope  leduced  to  the  The  Duke  de  Uichlieu  saved  his  life 

Uttt  extremity,   and  complaint  mada  by  sucking  two  women  (ii.  p).    The 

that  God  upheld  heresy  and  injustice.  Queen  of  Spain  is,  she  says,  well  qua* 

mnd  oppressed  tkree  very  virtuous  kings  Hned  to  accompany  the  Aing  in  his 

and  countries,  where  he  was  &f//^stfrt;-  pleasures,  "as  she  shoots  well,'*  and 

€d  than  elsewhere.   The  small-pox  (p.  is  passionately  food  of  hunting.   P.  81. 

M3)  is  said  not  to  be  dangerous  in  hot  The  letters  of  Madame  de  Mainte«> 

coontries.     In  p.  268  she  rejoices  that  non  dose  in  p.  IO9,  and  the  reuvainder 

there  was  a  supply  of  pretty  women,  of  of  the  volumes  consists  of  the  letters  of 

•which  the  court  stood  in  need. — ^The  the  Princess  des  Ursins,  a  lady  who 

Doke  de  Fronsac  playing  many  wild  was  sent  to  attend  on  the  Princess  of 

pranks,  the  Duke  de  Richlieu  applied  Savoy,  theQueen  of  Philip,  and  through 

to  the  King  to  put  him  into  the  Bas-  her  to  manage  the  Spanish  monarch, 

tile  (p.  3f9),  and  there  it  is  said  (p.  There  are  many  curious  things  con- 

349)  lie  oonduoted  himself  with  the  ceming  the  absurd  opinions  and  ignor 

greatest  prudence.    Speaking  of  the  ranee  of  the  Spaniards,  but  wa  most 

IJnima»  Madame  da  Maintenon  says:  content   ourselves  with  one  exti'aet^ 

« I  know  nothing  more  innocent  than  !»j)>ch  will  show  the  consequence  of 

tftoia  repretentationt  of  dhtmatio  compoti-  following  the  recommendation  of  our 

iioBs,  whieh  are  full  of  rirtuoiis  maxims^  religious  mountebanks,  who  wish  tQ 

cauerMity,  and  fidelity;   they  are  proper  Stuit  this  country  with  devotees, 

folh  fo^r  King,  and  .nbjecU,  ^d  might  „  ^^„,j  ^^  ^^  j^  ^,^           fo,  ^, 

ikM  great  thn.  leain  that  whi^  dare  not  ^^^^     ^^^^  ,y^^  ^^  ^  ^,  ^^  „j^: 

f^m  be  told  them  (  indmdpalsrecog-  ,u«,  yi^  ^itae...    Nothing  afflicU  me  more 

'^^  aS  ^'^'  ^^"^          "''''  ^^"^  -  ^*  «ithori^of  the  King  oC 

^ai^.      r.4»oo.  Spam  so  limited,  as  not  to  dare  punish 

The  following  incident   is  said   to  people  who  openly  try  to  tear  the  crowa 

Iwve  happened  to  Harley  Earl  of  Ox-  nom  him,  and  who  are  but  too  justly  acr 

IM,  then  minister :  cused  of  many  other  crimes.    It  is^  how- 

^^Asmall  ease  WM.  sent  to  Md'Oxford,  t^  ^  ctf  ofT^e  h^fot^d  ThJ 

trfth  a  note,  requesting  he  would  open  it  ,,^3  ^^  establi.hing  «,  aUolutely,  that  it 

^^L  3l  "S!?         rl'  ^          u  *"**  i«notevenpermutedU,becriticired.^'p.l54. 

tha  alert  to  do  this;  and  the  person  whom  '^ 

iMampkiyed,  hitiead  of  opeamg  It  la  the  Notwithstanding  their  religion,  how*- 

onaal  way,  topk  off  the  bottom^  and  found  ever,  some  Spaniards  were  so  trans- 

eMsral  smaU  piatoit,  which  would  all  have  ported  on  aeeing  the  Queen,  that  they 

dMprgad  at  the  ssme  time,  and  might,  it  complimented  her  by  saying,  that  they 

wt^»^¥  rf ^^"*^ '^     *^  ^^edker  more  than  God!    P.  380. 

^m^Tpnttn^       ■  ■  **•  Our  readers  will  see  ipany  things  in 

.    8bm  speaks  thus  of  the  fashion  of  these  volumes  highly  j^ratifying  to  the 

arctring  stays ;  student  of  history,  policy,  and  the  phi- 

<M  am  aware  of  the  comfttft  that  is  de^  loiophy  of  man ;  and  be  will  alio  see 

tlvflfl  from  wearing  stays,  but  we  must  not  one  curious  fact,  that  leven  French  ^ar 

m^  aay  nara  about  Ais  ia  Fkaacoi  A  bi|ii»  nt^  qevar  meDtjboa  Marlborough  bul 


«70 


RttviBW.— Lodge's  Ltvet  of  the  Ca$ar  RmMf. 


SS9 


with  terror ;  for  it  is  certain,  that  thjs 
awful  enemy  not  only  beat  their  armies, 
but  spread  famine  throughout  the  conn- 
try,  and  could  with  eoie  nave  dethroned 
the  ruined  monarch. 

61.  The  Life  qf  Sir  Julius  C«Mr,  Knt, 
Judge  qf  the  High  Court  of  Admiralty^ 
Master  of  the  Rolls,  Chancellor  of  the  £r- 
ehequer,  and  a  Privy  Couneellor  to  King 
James  and  Charles  the  First,  with  Me- 
moirs  qf  his  Family  and  Descendants,  By 
Edmund  Lodge,  Esq.  Norroy  King  qf 
Arms,  To  which  is  added,  Numents  In* 
faunas,  an  Historical  ffork  ;  by  Charles 
CsBsar,  Esq,  Grandson  of  Sir  Julius.    4Iq. 

MR.  LODGE  very  happily  observes, 
*'  that  a  mere  pedigree  lii  a  biographi- 
cal skeleton,  and  that  a  regular  piece 
of  biography  is,  or  ought  to  be,  in 
great  measure,  an  embodied  pedigree.** 
The  present  work  is  written  upon  this 
principle.  The  6rst  edition  was  pub- 
lished in  1810,  and  illustrated  by  seven- 
teen portraits  after  original  pictures, 
and  other  engravings.  To  tliis  new 
edition  is  added  a  copious  pedigree  of 
the  Caesar  family,  ana  a  fresh  portrait, 
that  of  Mrs.  Aberdein. 

Peter  Maria  Adelmare,  of  the  city 
of  Treviso,  near  Venice,  LL.D.  was 
father  of  Caesar  Adelmare  (Sd  son),  an 
M.D.  who  settled  in  England  in  the 
year  1550.  He  left  three  sons,  Julids, 
Thomas,  and  Henry  (all  spoken  of  at 
large  in  this  work),  and  Charles  and 
William,  who  appear  to  have  died, 
8.  p.  Julius  was  born  at  Tottenham  in 
1557,  and  having  been  baptized  by  the 
name  of  Julius  Caesar,  used  the  latter, 
afterwards,  as  a  surname,  though  some 
of  the  brothers  and  their  issue  retain- 
ed the  designation  of  "  Cassar,*'  alias 
Adelmare.  Julius,  af^er  proceeding  to 
the  degree  of  M.  A.  at  Oxford,  went  to 
6nish  his  studies  for  the  profession  of 
a  civilian,  at  Paris.  He  relumed  to 
England,  and  In  1581  received  his  first 
public  professional  employment.  This 
was  an  office  no  longer  known,  vts. 
that  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  all 
causes  of  piracy,  and  such  like  through- 
out the  land.  He  was  also  appointed 
Chancellor  to  the  Master  of  the  royal 
peculiar  of  St.  Catharine's  near  the 
Tower.  He  then  married  a  widow  of 
only  twenty  years  of  age,  daughter  of  a 
rich  Alderman. 

*<  Id  1588  he  was  nominated  <  Couneel- 
lor to  the  City  of-Lcmdon,'  an  office,  whicb, 
if  ts  ever  were  attached  to  our  civil  judica- 

0«IIT.  Mao.  April,  1897. 

6 


ture,  no  longer  exkts.  It  ihoirfd  rathar 
seem,  that  it  was  usual  at  that  time  for  tW 
Corporation  of  London  to  retain  a  constuil 
advocate  in  his  Court,  for  the  special  mar> 
nagement  of  its  affiilrs  there,  and  that  tka 
aiipointment  was  accordingly  made,  not  by 
tne  Court,  but  by  that  Corporation,  and 
probablv  through  the  influence  of  his  lately 
acquired  £ither-in-law.  Be  thu  at  it  may, 
he  took  possession  of  it  the  eleventh  of  June 
in  that  year ;  and  on  the  i6th  of  the  nesS 
December,  was  made  Commissary  of  Eesezy 
Herts,  and  Middlesex.  These  were  his  if 
▼eral  gradations  towards  the  Bench,  and  he 
became  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  Court,  the 
thirtieth  of  April  in  the  following  year.  It 
seems  strange,  that  this  dignified  promotiea 
should  have  been  almost  immediately  soe- 
ceeded  by  his  acceptance  of  a  very  inferior 
appotntroeot,  as  on  the  twenty-first  of  June  • 
he  was  sworn  a  Master  in  Chancery,  and  of 
the  class  too,  which  is  denominated  estnr 
ordinary,  since  he  afterwards  tells  ua,  '  Oc- 
tober the  nmth,  1588,  I  was  admitted  a 
Master  in  Chancery  inOrdtnarr:'  but  it  was 
one  feature  of  the  rudeness  of  those  tinrn, 
for  persons  to  hold  offices  widely  disfimilar 
in  their  character,  and  in  the  degrees  -of 
their  dignity  and  profit.  He  might,  how- 
ever, even  at  that  time  have  turned  his  views 
of  future  aggrandizement  towards  that  Court 
in  which  he  was  many  years  afterwards  so 
highly  exalted,  and  perhaps  thought  it 
prudent,  even  in  this  manner,  to  become  a 
member  of  it."     Pp.  11,  1 9. 

]  t  seems  that  the  Judges  of  the  Ad- 
miralty Court  had  at  that  time  no 
stipends  front  the  Crown,  but  depend- 
ed for  their  emoluments  wholly  on. 
fees;  and  Dr.  Cscsar,  to  relieve  the. 
wants  of  poor  suitors  in  his  Court,  ex- 
pended from  his  own  purse  four  thou- 
sand pounds  more  than  his  profits  (pp. 
14,  15).  He  accordingly  petitioned 
the  Court  for  the  grant  of  some  other 
post  (as  a  Deanery,  though  a  layman) 
to  support  his  dignity  (p.  1^).  He  was. 
also  engaged  in  commercial  specula- 
tions. After  making  new  years  gifts 
to  the  ministers  and  favourites,  at  the 
end  of  five  years  he  obtained  the  post 
of  "  Master  of  Requests,*'  Governor  of 
the  mine  and  batterv  works  through- 
out England  and  Wales,  and  Master 
of  St.  Catharine*s  Hospital.  Pp.  10,80. 
'  The  English  (says  Madame  de  Main- 
tenon)  are  a  restless  nation,  and  whea 
the  noisy  pseudo-politicians  of  the  pre- 
sent day  talk  of  corruptions  in  the 
state,  the  antiquary  knows,  that  the 
state  was  formerly  a  most  notorious 
prostitute,  and  that  she  has  long  been 
reformed  into  a  virtuous  Magdalen* 
The  ensuing  extract  will  sKovi  vVv\\, 


380 


KBv;[Biir.— Lodge's  Lives  of  ifte  Ccsiur  FttntUp, 


[Apr  it 


**  A  letter  fromPr.Casaar  (o  Lord  Borgh- 
leji  rtUtive  to  lAiis  ■ppointmcnt  of  Muter 
of  St.,CftthAruie'B,  fuxniihea  an  ftnecdote  of 
•iagiilKr  ci^'iotity.    It  appears  not  only  that 
Dr.  Casar   gave  five   nimdred  pouodf  to 
Archibald  Douglaa,  who  was  at  that  time 
t|M  Scottish  Ambassador  to  England*  as  a 
bribe  for  his  interest  with  Elizabeth,  to  pro- 
cure the  promotioa  in  qoestion ;  but*  that 
the  ministers^  and  even  the  Queen  herself, 
bMllmownfroin  the  beginuiog,  that  it  had 
bf  en  obtained  hv  means  of  a  bargain  of  that 
khid»  though  tkey  were  not  precisely  in- 
formed of  the  amount  of  the  sum.     JLllza- 
betliy  who  neglected  no  means  of  keeping 
her  servants  in  a  state  of  dependance  on  her, 
was  particularly  careful  to  prevent  their  l»e- 
coming  rich.     She  had  been  informed  that 
Caesar  had  paid  a  larger  douceur  to  Dduglas 
than  he  really  had,  and  she  had  drawn  the 
inference  of  his  flourishing  circumstanoeSf 
and  determined  to  sto])  his  further  prefer- 
ment.   The  good  man  was  obliged,  there- 
fere,  to  make  this  candid  avowal  in  his  own 
delence }  and  the  Queen,  as  will  appear  by 
her  subsequent  conduct  towords  him,  was 
satisfied.     Elizabeth's  connivance    at   this 
sort  of  traffic,  furnished  too  another  tie  to 
the  subserviency  of  her  ministers :  it  afford- 
ed her  a  continually  increasing  store  of  mat- 
ter of  accusation  against  them,  which  she 
might  use  at  her  pleasure,  either  as  an  apo- 
logy for  discharging  a  servant,  who  had  be- 
come irksome  to  htf,  or  to  refresh  her  po- 
pularity by  the  only  infallible  qneans  in  the 
power  of  sovereigns,  the  sacrifice  of  their 
minister!."    P.  81. 

Having  further  obtained  100/.  a  year 
fte,  for  his  attendance  on  the  person 
of  the  Queen,  and  in  the  Court  of  Re- 
quests, We  soon  afterwards  meet  with 
another  specimen  of  the  "  Golden 
Days  of  good  Queen  Bess,'*  who  fol- 
lowed the  policy  of  her  father  and 
grandfather  in  keeping  down  the  noble 
and  rich  ;  for  doins  which,  we  ^nuke 
no  doubt  that  shederiyed  much  of  her 
^pularity  among  the  lower  orders  and 
the  people  at  large,  who  are  naturally 
fond  of  seeing  their  betters  brought 
down  to  their  own  level.  That  the 
rich  in  those  days  were  never  se- 
cure from  the  intrusion  of  the  Court, 
is  evident  from  the  forced  loans  de- 
manded from  them,  and  the  arbitrary 
disposal  of  rich  widows  and  daughters 
dmong  the  Courtiers.  Elizabeth,  like 
the  Sultans  and  Pachas  of  the  East, 
conceived  that  she  had  a  right  to  pounce, 
like  a  bird  of  prey,  upon  the  property 
of  the  opulent.    Mr.  Lodge  says, 

*'  Having  thus  become  at  least  inde- 
pendent, ami  perhaps  growing  wealthy,  Eli- 
zabeth honoured  him  with  the  feartul  dis- 


tUetioa  of  a  visit.     ^  Tuesdityr  the  Ifith  of 
September,  1 698,'  he  tells  us,  <  the  Queen 
visited  my  house  at  Mitcliam,  and  supped 
and  lodged  there,  ami  dined  there  the  next 
day.     1  presented  her  with  a  gown  of  cloth 
of  silver,  richly  embroidered ;  a  black  net- 
work mantle,  with  pure  gold  ;  a  taffata  hat, 
white,  with  flowers ;  and  a  jewel  of  gold, 
set  therein  with  rubies  and  diamonds.'    Her 
Majesty  removed  from  my  house  after  din- 
ner, the  thirteenth  of  September,  to  None- 
such, with  exceeding   good   contentment; 
'  which  entertainment  uf  her  Majesty/  adds 
he,  *  with  the  charge  of  the  former  disap^ 
pmntmeni,    amounted    to     seven    hundred 
pounds  sterling,  besides  mine  own   provi- 
sions,  and   whatevtrr  was  sent  me   by  my 
friends.'     It  certainly  was  a  constant  feature 
of   the  policy   of  this  very   extraordinary 
woman,   to   impoverish  her  public  officers 
and  courtiers,  and  these  myal  visits  formed 
digines  of  no  small  importance  in  the  me- 
chanism of  this  base  plan.     Of  her  chief 
entertainers,  and  greatest  favourites.  Burgh- 
ley's  prudence  saved  him  from  necessity. 
Hatton  and  Raleigh  were  always  in  narrow 
circumstances;  and  Walsingham  died  a  pau- 
per :  even  Leicester  outlived  the  most  part 
of  his  immense  revenues;  and  a  multitude 
of  minor  instances  might  be  cited."     P.  99. 
Anxiety  and  discontent  einbittfred 
his  public  life,  during  the  reign  of  Eli- 
zahethy    but    upon   the   accession    of 
James  he  was  knighted,  and  promoted 
to  the  office  of  Chancellor  ot  the  Ex- 
chequer.    Here  we  must  extract  on- 
other  of  Mr.  Lodge's  valuable  and  in- 
teresting elucidations. 

«  The  duties  of  a  Chancellor  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, in  those  days,  and  in  ours,  were 
almost  wholly  diffprent.  The  system  of 
public  finance,  which  has  since  arisen  to  so 
gigantic  a  height,  and  which,  now  while  it 
demands  extraordinary  talents  in  that  office, 
confers  on  him  such  extensive  influence, 
was  then  unknown,  and  even  unforeseen. 
The  principal  duties,  at  that  time,  of  a 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  were  perform- 
ed in  the  capacity  of  Chief  Jlkdge  in  that 
Court,  the  peculiar  province  of  wnich,  was 
to  administer  justice  in  all  controversies 
which  related  to  the  King^s  revenues,  strictly 
so  called ;  his  secondary  occupation  was  in 
the  private  and  extrajudicial  conservation 
8od  management  of  the  sources  of  those  re- 
venues, and  in  the  application  of  them  to 
the  public  and  private  disbursements  of  the 
Crown.  It  would  be  perhapa  impossible  to 
produce  a  stronger  presumptive  proof  of  this 
dissimilarity,  than  by  citing  the  undoubted 
fact,  that  Sir  Julius  Caesar  appears  to  have 
been  at  no  time  in  his  life,  a  Member  of  the 
House  of  Commons,  except  in  the  single 
instance  of  having  been  returned  for  Rei^ate 
in  Surrey,  in  the  thirty-first  of  Eiizabetn..* 
In  his  superintendanco  of  the  royal  rercnuesy 


18^.] 


Rbview*— Home's  Intredudiwi  to  ihe 


sa 


U  if  obferraUe,  that  he  directed  his  atten- 
tion with  peculiar  awiduitj  to  the  royal 
woods  and  toreets,  from  which  bdeed  a  vast 
income  was  thfn  derived.— But  the  main 
difficulty  of  the  office  of  Chancellor  of  the 
Exchequer,  in  this  reign,  consisted  not  in 
the  contrivance  of  eligible  modes  of  raising 
money,  nor  in  the  good  husbandry  of  it  for 
the  public  service,  when  obtained,  bnt  in 
promptly  administering  to  the  uncer^in  and 
irregular  necessities  of  the  King,  in  what 
might  be  called  lib  private  capacity."  Pp. 
98-i5. 

This  oiTice  of  aiding  James  "  to  raise 
the  wind,*'  was  one  of  continual  tor- 
ment, and  the  meannesses  to  which 
the  Court  Ofiicer»  were  obliged  to  sub- 
mit, may  be  conceived  by  the  Lord 
Treasurer  and  Lord  Chamberlain  en- 
tering into  a  speculation  in  Nutmegs, 
for  the  purpose  of  a  supply  (p.  29). 
However, •Sir  Julius  obtained  some  in- 
demnification for  his  vexation  and 
trouble,  in  his  promotion  in  161O  to 
the  office  of  Master  of  the  Rolls.  In 
this  honourable  situation  he  died,  April 
1 8,  1  ()36,  and  was  buried  at  Great  St. 
Helenas,  Bishopsgate-street. 

Here  our  limits  compel  us  to  close 
our  notice  of  this  work.  The  biogra- 
phical talents  of  Mr.  Lodge  are  too 
well-known,  to  render  any  eulogium 
necessary.  Every  thing  is  satisfactorily 
illustrated^  and  though  the  incidents 
of  human  life,  from  their  sameness, 
cannot  give  to  biography  the  charm  of 
novelty,  yet  taste  may  do  much  in 
setting  it  off,  and  we  think,  that  the 
specimen  whicli  we  have  given,  con- 
fers high  credit  on  Mr.  Lc^ge;  and  is 
a  good  sample  of  the  merit  of  the  other 
lives. 


58.  A  compendious  Introiuclion  to  the  Study 
of  the  Bible,  By  Thomas  Hartwell  Home, 
M.A,  Illustrated  with  Maps  and  other  En- 
gravings. Being  an  Analysis  of  an  Intro- 
duction  to  the  Critical  Study  and  Know- 
ledge of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  in  Jour  y6- 
lumes,  ly  the  same  Author,     ISmo.  pp. 

Mr.  HORNE'S  larger  Introduction 
having  been  repeatedly  pirated,  three 
times  within  the  last  twelve  months, 
his  friends  advised  him  immediately 
to  bring  out  (what  indeed  he  had  com- 
menced and  announced)  an  Abridg- 
ment of  his  large  Introduction.  This 
he  has  done  in  the  present  volume, 
which  he  has  ondcavoured  to  make  an 
analysis  for  those  who  have  that  work, 
and  H  com|)endioui>  manual  fot  Eng- 


lish Readers.  And  m  we  are  ex- 
posed to  two  kinds  of  antagonists,  lb- 
ndeh  and  Romanists,  he  has  endea- 
voured to  put  his  readers  on  their 
suard  against  hoth,  by  giving  tn.tlie 
nrst  part  a  concise  summary  of  the 
evidence  of  the  truth  of  the  Scrip- 
tures, with  short  but  distinct  replies 
to  the  most  modern  infidel  objection!; 
and  in  the  third  part,  which  treats  of 
Scripture  Interpretation,  by  showing 
how  Romanists  violate  every  rule  of' 
sound  interpretation,  in  order  to  sup- 
port their  erroneous  doctrines  of  trait- 
substantiation,  &c. 

There  is  no  law  against  talking  and 
writing  nonsense ;  indeed  we  are  in- 
clined to  think,  from  numerous  works, 
that  it  is  a  privilege  deemed  essential 
to  the  Liberty  of  the  Press,  and  there- 
fore strenuously  to  be  advocated  and 
exercised.  We  cannot  account  npoo 
any  other  reason  why  so  many  foolish 
books  appear  upon  religious  and  poli- 
tical subjects  ;  tor  certam  we  are  that 
they  admit  of  no  other  defence.  They, 
however,  serve  vice  coHs  to  draw  out 
sound  doctrines  from  those  upon  whom 
shall  alight  the  task  of  legitimate  de- 
fence. Such  a  task  has  devolved  upon 
Mr.  Home,  and  we  need  not  say  l!ow 
well  he  has  acquitted  his  task.  An 
age  of  education  is  one,  of  course,  of 
excitement,  and  that  restless  feeirns 
prompts  men  to  strive  for  distinetion. 
The  slow,  but  sure,  process  of  dalx)- 
rate  and  learned  composition  is  only 
suited  to  men  of  proper  educational 
qualifications ;  and,  these  being  nnat- 
tainable,  the  aspirants  in  Question  be- 
come mountebanks;  and  no  not  eten 
abstain  from  unworthy  means  of  pro- 
pagating these  nostrums.  They  osje 
all  kinds  of  slander,  and  disseminate 
political  and  civil  mischief  by  whole- 
sale; for  no  fact  is  more  self-evident 
than  that  it  is  a  most  serious  evil  to 
stuff  a  country  with  devotees.  The 
diffusion  of  Monkery  among  the 
Anglo-Saxons  rcn<lered  this  country 
unable  to  resist  the  Danes;  and  de- 
stroyed existence  in  comfort  for  at 
least  two  hundred  years.  Popery, 
which  implies  undivided  devotion  to 
its  cause,  did  not  benefit  the  people, 
only  tiic  priests ;  and  the  puritanism  of 
the  aera  of  Charles  I.  only  created  a  foc- 
tion  and  anarchy  whicn  the  nation 
could  not  endure  for  twenty  years.  Go 
to  Spain,  go  to  Italy,  go  to  Portugal, 
go  to  Wjucd — the  political  evil,  the 
indifl'crencc  to  morals,  impTOvement» 


jl38  Bbvixw.— Home's  iMrofductum  io  the  Bibles  [April, 

and  the  arts,  is  immediately  apparent,  had  the  principle  of  paraileliem  been 
What  is  the  reason  of  this?  Why,  Icoown,  and  the  psalms  been  so  pub- 
Christianity  is  made  a  trade — a  selfish  lished  at  first,  the  doggrels  of  Sierii- 
personal  source  of  advantage.  But  boU  and  Hopkins,  and  the  repeated 
Jet  practical  Christianity  be  the  ob-  failures  of  better  Tcrsifiers,  would  never 
ject  sought;— let  education,  morals,  have 'disgraced   them.     Music  would 

Ehilanthropy,  learning,  mark  the  pub-  have  been  adapted   to  these  parallel 

e  and  professional  conduct  of  its  mi-  constructions.     To    show    the    great 

Disters,— not    enthusiastic    preaching  beauty  of  this  manner,  we  shall  give 

and  party-conduct,   which  ends  only  an  instance  from  Psalm  xix.  7 — 1 !» 

in  faction— then  such   ministers  are  as  follows: 

to  be  found  in  the  Church  of  Eng-  «<The  law  of  Jehovah  U  perfect,  re- 
land —  thes«  occur  the   staunch   ad-  storing  the  soul, 

vocatas  of  rational  piety,  the  piety  The  testimony  of  Jehovah  is  tare,  making 
which  alone  is  a  public  and  poliiical  wise  the  ahnple ; 

advantage;  and  neither  last  nor  least  The  precepts  of  Jehovah  are  right,  re- 
among  these  ministers  is  Mr.  Home.  joicing  the  heart ; 

The  Scriptures    are    a    permanent  The  commandment  of  Jehovah  is  clear,  en- 

toochstone     of    truth ;     but    neither  ^    ^  lighteoing  the  eyes :         ^    ^       ^ 

touchstone  nor  gold  can  escape  coun-  ^*  ^^  °^  Jehovah  is  pure,  endnring  for 

terfcits.  L'ennui  du  heau  an^^  l^  The  judgments  of  Jehovah  are  truth;  they 
g^t  de  nngulter  is  an  adage,  which  ^^  .      altogether ,  ^ 

obUins  in  Theology,  as  m  every  thing  More  desirable  than  gold,  or  than  >uch 
else.    All    this   is  in   the  nature  of  fine  gold; 

things;  for  men  cannot  distinguish  And  sweeter  than  honev,  or  the  dropping 
themselves  by  any  other  means  than  of  honey  combs. '    P.  146. 

novelty.     It  is  vexatious  to  see  people         ^  j^   well-known   that  laws  were 

pulling  down    and    altermg  Chnsti-  ,        (reduced  to  measure,  in  order  to 

anity,  as  if  it  were  a  Citizen  s  box  near  beluiig;.  among  the  ancient  nations, 

London,  or  a  Summer-house,  instead  ^^     J         ^^at  they  might  be  better 

of  a  fine  old  Church ;  but  so  it  is  ;  and  committed  to  memory ;  and  we  doubt 

sorry  are  we  to  add,  to  our  owri  Uni-  ^^^  ^ut  the  same   motive  introduced 

tanan  pastrycooks  in  stone,  brick,  and  ^^e  parallelisms,  and,  by  the  way,  also 

mortar,  another  species  of  copper-gild-  gave  birth  to  the  triads  of  the  Druids. 

iogg»ngerbread-bakera,  in  certain  Ger-  J^m  a  similar  motive,  no  doubt,  in 

mans  thus  described  by  Mr.  Home,  ^hc  first  instance,  originated  the  said 

*<  An  ansound  and  pernicious  system  of  or  sung  of  the  Liturgy, 
intetpretation  of  the  Scriptures  U  adopted         Jt  is  utterly  unnecessary  to  praise  the 
^l  .">^y^»odem   eipositors  and  biblical  contents  of  a  library  condensed  into  a 
pntics  m  Germanv,  who  liave  applied  to  the  ^j     ,^  volume.     Such  is  Mr  Home's 
interpreuuon    of  the  Sacred  Volume    an  y^^      ^y^  j^^      ^y^^^  j^  ^jjl  y^ 
excess  of  philological   speculation,  which  pj'r  .'^  ^  •     -^  '     .u.^u 
woald  not  he  endured  if  aVpUed  to  the  ex-  ^*»«^ /  ^*>'  ""^^  ^^-^^J"  »^  \^^^^  '»?^; 
pUnation  of  a  classical  auior."    P.  600.  *  f^R^^  pretend  to  tell  us  what  a  clock 
„r     t                      I  »      ^1  It  IS  in  relieion,  who  do   not  know 
JSTe   know    a   wealthy  Clergyman  even  the  figures  on  the  dial -plate. 
who  published  a  volume  of  his  ser-  * 
mons    by  subscription,    because,    he                                  ^ 
said,  he  would  have  a  chance  of  their  ^S-    Alphowo,  or  the  Beggar^s  Boy,  a  Co- 
being  read.     Divinity-books  are  f»  le        nudy  in  nrse.  evo.  pp.  SS.    Ridgway. 
studies  for  the  closet;  and   consign-       .  WE  will  not  hazard  a  guess  on  the 
ing  Mr.  Home's  book,  as  not  being  a  subject  of  the  authorship  of  this  Co- 
novvl,  to  its  proper  place,  we   shall  medy,  and  as  we  .have  no  re<5ollection 
only  extract,  according  to  our  prac-  of  the  preceding  one  to  which   the 
tice,  something  that  is  novel  and  strik-  %vriter  alludes,  we  are  enabled  to  speak 
ing.    Our  readers  well  know,  that  the  of  the  present  without  the  partiality 
poetry  of  the  Hebrews  is  founded  on  of  acquaintanceship.     We  have  nohe- 
whai  is  called  parallelum, — sentences  sitation  in  pronouncing  it,  in  simpli- 
of  equal  length,  corresponding  words,  city  of  plot,  and  in  the  other  essen- 
ce.    Our  readers  will  see,  by  the  foU  tials  of  genuine  and  sterling  comedy, 
lowing  extract,  how  much  beauty  is  worthy  of  the  best  days  of  dramatic 
lost  in  the  Psalms  by  their  not  being  talent.   Superior  indeed  in  the  im^xirt- 
priuted  iu  the  uatire  metre ;  and  that  ant  qualities,  of  never  violating  the 


• 


1837.] 


RBVi.E\r.«-wllp/kNMo,  or  ihe  Beggar's  Bi^: 


strictest  boundary  of  dcscorum,  neter 
seek  log  aid  from  the  excitement  of 
the  corrupt  passions,  or  of  raising  a 
laugh  at  the  ex  pence  of  one  virtuous 
emotion.  In  thje  article  of  wit  pun- 
ning has  no  share— it  is  genuine,  ori- 
ginal, and  none  the  worse  for  a  fla- 
vour of  the  antique.  The  satire  is  ex- 
quisitely keen,  and  pointed  at  many 
of  the  prevailing  follies  of  the  day, 
although  with  a  pardonable  inconsis- 
tency as  to  time  and  place. 

It  would  be  impossible  for  us  to  do 
justice  to  this  production  virithout  such 
an  analysis  as  would  occupy  too  much 
of  the  space  we  can  devote  to  produc- 
tions of  this  class.  We  will,  however, 
present  our  readers  with  a  few  **  mem- 
bra disjecta,'M)y  which  they  may  judge 
of  the  vigour  of  the  style  and  the  pnii- 
gency  of  the  satire. 

Paulo,  Fie,  Laura,  fie,  he  is  a  nobleman 
Of  fair  repute. 

Laurc,    Yet,  but  I  fear  the  world 
Deems  a  man's  honour  like  a  lady's  face, 
The  fairer  for  a  few  black  spoU.    This  lord 
Is  one  who  trifles  with  so  light  an  air, 
Ai  if  he  had  no  other  thought  but  loy. 
And  life  were  one  long  jest ;  yet  is  he  selfish 
To  his  heart's  core,  and  to  attain  his  end. 
The  fancied  object  of  the  hour,  will  plod 
More  gravely  than  the  drudging  citizens^ 
Whose  toil  he  loves  to  mock  at ;  then  for 

malice. 
He'd  sooner  spare  at  play  some  wealthy  dope. 
Whom  youth  and  wine  ^and  trait'rous  cour- 
tesy 
Make  ripe  for  ruin,  than  forego  bis  hate. 
He  will  hy  turns  truckle  and  trample  ;  loathes 
The  manners  of  the  vulgar  while  he  actt    . 
Their  vices  ;  but  bis  honour,  oh,  there's  none 
Must  touch  bis  honour. 

•  •  • 

Ob  pride 
Is  but  ossum'd  to  hide  some  conscious  mean- 
ness; 
For  none  e'er  mount  on  stilts,  save  when 

they  purpose 
To  travel  in  the  dirt. 

»  ♦  ♦ 

To  fear,  my  Lord  ? 
No,  tho'  the  eagle  scream  amid  the  storm, 
Tis  not  for  fear. 

•  «  ♦ 

Countess,    In  my  day. 
As  you  so  pertly  call  it;  men  paid  beauty 
A  deep  respect&l  homage  as  her  due; 
But  now  you  all  go  shrugging  thro'  a  donee, 
Nod  to  this  belle  with  short  convulsive  jerks. 
Then  wink  at  that  with  such  fAUtiliar  looks. 

Ledger.  Do  I  ?  I'm  glad  you  notice  that 
in  me, 
*Tis  the  high  ton. 

•  ♦  • 


I  tdeaBy 
If  I  am  Duke,  to  pau  the  wisest  laws  I 
I'll  have  no  gout  or  palsy  in  my  laad^ 
Outlaw  lumbago,  issue  proclamations 
That  beaux  shall  to  their  latest  gasp  ba 

beaux-* 
And  have  my  Royal  privilege  to  win 
All  the  young  hearts  that  like  them>  and 

beside 
I'll  tear  all  saucy  registers  of  age. 
And  make  it  treason  'gainst  immortal  yonlli 
To  breathe  the  name  of  dotage. 

#  •  • 

For  who  would  not  prefer  an  age 
So  green  and  vigorous,  to  those  fimtastie 

things, 
I  will  not  call  them  men,  our  modem  beanx» 
So  slim  and  pale,  and  bearded  like  the  pard* 
Or  cat  o'mouutain,  that  I  scarce  forbear 
To  chase,  and  send  an  arrow  thro*  their 


54.  Wallenstein;  a  Dramatic  Poem,  from 
the  German  qf  Frederick  Schiller.  Ami 
S  vols, 

SCHILLER  was  a  blazing  star  that 
shot  across  the  firmament,  and   men 
wondered  at  it:    the  poetical  atinoa- 
phcre   was  calm,  when  suddenly   he 
burst  forth. — ^The  sublime,  the  terri- 
ble,  and  the  heroic,  appeared  in  the 
Robbers,  and  man  was  made  God  and 
devil,   and  grand   beyond   description 
in  the  soul  of  Charles  Moor; — Virtoe 
became  melancholy  mad — followed  the 
beckoning    of  Suicide,   and    sulleulj 
walked  into  hell. — Such  were  our  feel- 
ings when  we  first  perused  the  Rob- 
bers, thirty  years  ago,  and  wrote  poetry. 
In  truth,  a  mighty  mind,  in  awful  a^ 
tuations,  has  a  very  tremendous  cha- 
racter.    Who  could  have  beheld  Sam- 
son when  he  was  rocking  the  coluaiot» 
which  fell  and  buried  the  Philistines  in 
death  and  ruin,  without  feeling  that 
there  was  something  then  in  his  sool 
far  more  than  man?     And  could  the 
Painter  pourtray  his  horrid  look,  or  the 
Poet  describe  it?     Oh,  no! — We  bare 
heard  a  shriek  uttered  when  a  death- 
wound  was  received,  and  cannot  de- 
scribe the  horror  of  it — it  had  nothing 
natural,   and  was   very  terrible.    To 
such  feelings  have  we  in  our  early  days 
been    roused    by  Schiller,  when   he 
wrote  in  all  his  wildness. — It  has  been 
said,  that  he  wrote  better  afterwards ; 
but  it  is  our  lot  to  think,  that  poetry 
cannot  excite  emotion  loo  strong,  and 
we  do  not  want  it  to  be  gauged  by 
critical  excisemen  ;  wc  want  it  to  keep 
our  minds  in  continual  excitement-— 
make  us  toss^our  heads  like  Bacchaott, 


RliTi««>-^luIlBr'»  »«Ueiutei». 


EAprtI, 


and  bunt  ciit  into  such  flighty  ejacula- 
tions, as  those  with  which  we  have 
Gomroeiiced  our  review.  ''  Insamre 
lubet**  is  oar  motto  when  we  read 
potetiy. 

But  Wallenstein  ijs  pronounced  his 
best  work.  So  they  m^y  think  who 
Imagine  that  Gibraltar  would  be  im- 
proved by  being  chiaseled,  smoodicdf 
^and  cat  into  pattern  like  a  marble 
chimney-piece.  Such  critics  would, 
in  our  judgment,  shave  off  a  lion's 
mane,  crop  his  ears,  and  call  it  im- 
provement. Luckily,  nothing  could 
spoil  Schiller  ;  and  we  see  his  gigantic 
soul  still  animating  Wallenstein.  The 
following  soliloquy,  when  he  first 
turned  traitor,  is  equal  to  Milton  on 
.Samson  Agonistes,  and  that  must  be 
our  apology  for  an  extract  so  long. 

ff^allenstdn  (solus  J 

.  Aad  is  it  possible  ?     Is  thert  no  more 
Return,  even  though  I  would?     Must  I  in 

truth 
Fulfil  the  deed,  because  I  ponder'd  it, 
And  cast  not  forth  the  tempter  from  my 

soul  ? 
Because  my  heart  hath  fed  upon  a  dream, 
And  for  its  dim  fulfilment  I  have  kept 
The  meant  beside  me,  and  the  w^still  open? 
No,  by  the  God  of  Heaven  !     The  thou^t 

was  not 
The  slow  deliberate  purpose  of  my  mind ; 
Twas  but  an  abj  thought  that  haunted  it — 
A  vision  bora  of  freedom  and  of  power. 
IVas  it  a  crime,  if  fiuscy  did  build  up 
The  glittering  phantom  of  a  kingly  throne  ? 
Was  not  the  will  still  free  within  my  bosom. 
And  saw  I  not  the  path  beside  me  ever 
That  \eh  the  choice  still  open  fur  return  ? 
What  sudden  step  hath  led  me  on,  where  all 
Backward  lies  dark  and  trackless,  and  a  wall. 
By  my  own  acts  nprear'd,  behind  me  feow'rs 
luiaperably  high,  and  hems  me  in  ? 

[Hie  remains  mttsing.'] 

I  wear  the  hce  of  guilt.     Twere  vain  to 

struggle 
Against  the  charge — ^I  cannot  cast  it  from  roe, 
The  mysterv  of  my  life  will  speak  against  me ; 
And  even  toe  sacred  fountain  of  pure  deeds 
The  venom  of  suspicion  will  empoison. 
If  I  had  been  the  traitor  I  am  deem'd 
I  would  have  courted  fair  appearances — 
I  would  have  drawn  die  veil  aiore  closely 

round  me,  {knowing 

And  given  no  voice  to  my  complaints ;  but 
My  heart  was  pure,  my  wiU  was  guiltless, 

therefore 
I  gave  my  humour  and  my  passion  play. . 
Bude  were  my  words«  because  my  deeds  were 

gentle. 
.Now  every  thoughtless  action  of  my  life 
Will  seem  a  link  of  one  wide- reaching,  plan  ; 
The  idle  words,  that  Pride  and  Anger  spoke 


In  the  beart*s  overfly,  will  they  remember. 
And  weave  into  an  artfiil  web  agsinst  me. 
Aid  peal  a  fearful  clamour  in  ssine  ear. 
Before  which  1  must  needs  be  dumb.  So  am  I 
JSntangled  in  the  net  myself  have  wrought. 
And  nought  but  force  can  rend  its  meshes 
now. 

[Pausing,] 

H^w  dvffsrent  was  it,  when  my  soaring  spirit 

Alone  allured  me  to  the  deed,  which  now 

Safety  and  strong  necessity  compel ! 

Stern  is  the  aspect  of  necessity ; 

Nor  without  shuddering  does  the  liandof  man 

Dip  into  Destiny's  mysterious  urn. 

In  mine  own  breast  my  deed  was  still  mine 

own;  ^  [ment, 

But,  once  escapwg  from  that  dark  conceal - 
The  heart's  recess,  its  own  maternal  home, 
Let  it  but  wander  forth  to  light  and  day. 
And  it  belongs  to  those  capricious  powers. 
Whom  man  still  strives,  but  strives  in  vain, 

to  soften. 

[He  paces  hastily  through  the  chamber,  then 
slops,  again  musir^.'] 

Whft  is  thy  purpose?     Hast  thou  &irly 
viewed  it    '  [to  shake 

Thyself?     Thou  seek'st  from  its  broad  base 
The  calm  enthroned  majesty  of  power 
1^  ages  of  possession  consecrate — 
Firm  rooted  In  the  rugged  soil  of  custom — 
And  with  the  people's  first  and  fondest  foith. 
As  with  a  thousand  stubbora  tendrils  twin'd. 
That  were  no  strife,  where  strength  con- 
tends with  strength. 
It  is  not  strength  I  foar— I  fear  no  foe 
Tliat  with  mv  bodily  eye  I  see  and  scan. 
Who,  brave  himself,  inflames  my  courage  too. 
It  is  an  unseen  enemy  I  fear, 
Who  in  the  hearts  of  mankind  fights  against 

me — 
Fearful  to  me,  but  from  his  own  weak  fear. 
Not  that  which  proudly  towers  in  life  and 

strength 
Is  truly  dreadful,  but  the  mean  and  common, 
The  memory  of  th'  eternal  yesterday. 
Which,  ever  warning,  ever  still  returas. 
And  weighs  to-morrow  as  it  weighed  to-day ; 
For  out  of  common  things  is  man  made  up. 
And  clings  to  Custom,  as  her  foster-son. 
Woe  then  to  him,  whose  daring  hand  pro- 
fanes 
The  cherished  heir-looms  of  his  ancestors  t 
There  is  a  conseerating  power  in  time. 
And  what  is  grey  with  years  to  man  ts  god- 
like. 
Be, in  possession,  and  thou  art  in  right ; 
The  crowd  wiU  lend  their  aid  to  keep  it  holy. 

a.  IS— 16. 
or  course,  there  are  many  other  fine 
passages  in  this  poem,  because  it  is 
Schiller's.  We  wish  that  we  were  able 
todrifik  Schiller  out  of  the  bottle ;  end 
perhaps  much  of  his  spirit  and  flavour 
*  may  be  lost  by  twice  decanting,  first 
into  prdsc,  and  fhen  into  blank  terse. 


18^70 


^vuKW.— Rodd*s  Caindoguei  ijf  Porind^ 


Translatinni  into  proM  are  certainly 
more  faithful  pictures  of  the  otiginal  { 
but  upon  the  whole  we  have  no  faelt 
to  find.  The  Preface,  original  writing 
of  the  Translator,  does  him  credit. 


S5.  Catalogue  qf  Painted  Portraits,  eomr 
yrising  most  of  the  Sovereigns  ^Engkad, 
from  Heart  the  First  to  George  the 
Fourth,  ana  many  distinguished  person- 
ages, by  Holbein,  de  Heercy  Zucchero, 
^c.  A  e.    H.  Rodd. 

ALTHOUGH  Catalogues  of  this 
description  seldom  come  under  our  re- 
view,  we  cannot  forbear  noticing  the 
above  as  one  which  stands  alone,  both 
as  to  its  size  as  well  as  the  very 
amusins  manner  in  which  it  is  made 
out.  The  prefatory  remarks,  although 
a  little  too  much  tinted  with  common- 
place matter,  contains  a  few  very  use- 
fill  hints,  one  of  which  we  give  in  Mr. 
R.'s  own  words. 

"  There  are  tevend  Portraits  in  the  §o\~ 
lowing  Catalogue,  which  seem  almost  to  de- 
mand a  separate  allotment  or  series  of  them- 
telvei ;  these  are  the  Founders  of  Colleges 
and  Alms-houset)  whoae  magnificent  be- 
queathntent  of  their  wealth  hat  tended  to 
the  advancement  of  learning  and  science,  to 
the  bettering  of  the  condition  of  manluad, 
and  the  relieving  the  wants  of  extreme  old 
age.  It  would  be  imposing  but  a  slight  tax 
on  the  affluent,  were  these  portraits  occa- 
sionally purchased  anH  presented  to  the  com- 
mon halls  and  rooms  of  their  endowments ; 
they  would  not  only  serve  as  matters  of  or- 
nament, but  would  excite,  not  unfirequently» 
a  grateful  feeling  in  the  partakers  of  the  be- 
nefits so  liberally  bestowed  by  their  respec* 
tive  founders." 

Many  of  the  pictures  seem  to  be  of 
family  interest  only,  and  we  have  oo 
doobt,  hut  those  persons  who  wish  to 
adorn  their  mansions  with  their  ances- 
tors or  connexions,  may  meet  with 
some  of  them  in  Mr.  Rockl's  numerous 
list.  Amon^t  the  most  pre-eminent 
in  the  Historical  i>partment,  stand  the 
notorious  Lord  Lovat,  by  the  pencil  of 
Hosanh :  the  very  interesting  account 
of  this  Pbrtrait,  leaves  us  no  room  to 
doubt  its  genuineness,  did  the  very 
masterly  manner  in  which  it  is  exe- 
cuted not  speak  for  itself.  There  are 
several  interesting  notices  dispersed 
through  the  Catalogue ;  and  we  hope, 
although  aware  of  the  numerous  pre- 
judices which  exist  aeainst  the  At9l- 
ers  in  this  branch  of  the  art,  and 
which  most  justly  exists  against  thoie 
who,  by  altering  of  portraits  or  mis- 


naming tbera»  tend  to  mitleail  in  hf 
falsifying  history,  that  Mr.  Rodd  umf 
still  continue  his  course  in  selling  none 
but  soeh  as  be  c^n  warnnt  authentic ) 
and  we  are  very  sure  that,  by  doing 
this,  be  will  reap  the  benefit  be  seeka' 
by  his  publication* 

S6,  HnitmsandOddUieM,in  Prose  and  yiem. 
By  Thomas  Hood.  London,  ^-^^i^jgn 
Relfe.  ^ 

ON  opening  this  volume  we  were 
surprised  at  tne  boldness  of  the  au- 
thor in  presuming  to  treat  their  High 
Mightinesses,  the  Reviewers,  with 
such  unbecoming  levity,  in  his  die* 
dicatory  address;  and  we  felt  tempt- 
ed to  arouse  our  allies,  plant  our  artil- 
lery against  him,  and  oeat  him  ont  of 
the  field.  From  this,  however,  in  our 
usual  great  mercy  and  forbearauce,  we 
have  desisted,  and  are  willing  to  aiU 
mit  him  a  place  among  our  friends. 

The  fact  of  the  author  of  these  ad- 
mirable jeux-d*sprits  having  assisted  in 
the  execution*  of  other  works  which 
have  obtained  a  popularity  equal  to 
that  of  any  previous  volume  in  the 
same  vein,  is  of  itself  sufficient  to  en- 
sure the  present  collection  an  extensive 
sale ;  but  those  now  presented  to  tu 
exhibit  his  talent  in  almost  every  spe- 
cies of  composition,  both  in  verse  ai|d 
prose  I  and,  being  so  cleverly  exe- 
cuted, cannot  fail  of  becoming  unt* 
versal  favourites.  To  these  he  has  an- 
nexed 40  illustratious  '*  in  wood,'* 
of  exquisite  workmanship  and  detigo^' 
that  are  all  more  or  less  connected  with 
the  Letter-press.  Every  stroke  of  the 
pencil  admirably  harmonizes  with  eafch 
oth(er,  and  tends  to  produce  a  most 
pleasing  combination  of  oharactera; 
worthy  of  the  head  and  pencil  whioh 
produced  the  grand  caricature  illne* 
trative  of  the  *'  Progress  of  Cant,'* 
Many  of  them  are  suggested  by  Uie 
titles  of  some  of  the  popular  songs  bjr 
Anacreon,  junior  (who  is  favoured 
with  a  niche  among  the  "  Fancy  ^ir* 
traits,'*  at  the  close  of  this  volume,)  the 
inimitable  Bums,  and  other  succesaAil 
writers. 

To  the  "  r.t^ipe  for  Civilization,'* 
which  we  felt  inclined  to  elevate  to  the 
rank  of  the  best  imitation  of  the  in- 
comparable Hudibras,  is  attached  ft 
Erofile  of  the  "  Cook's  Oraele,"  Wms 
)r.  Kitchener,  alias  the  honuhgenkui^ 
or  genius  of  a  man.  This  very  worthy 
personage  is  honoured  with  the  under 


aa6. 


lUviiw.^-HoocTs  fFhimt  and  OddUia,  Stc. 


[ApriU 


aide  of  What  in  culinary  technicalities  is 
denominated  a  fryinsrpan,  as  a  subati- 
lute  for  his  head,  and  the  handle  forms 
a  tail  of  no  ordinary  appearance  :  a 
head  which,  though  it  dttles  the  Phre- 
oologist  from  its  perfect  flatness,  yet 
affords  an  excellent  illustration  of  the 
facial  angle.  In  his  .hand  he  holds  a 
gridiron,  broiling,  as  they  do  rump- 
slakes — some  few  musical  notes.  Thus 
fSir  for  the  head.  We  will  give  the 
author's  own  account  of  the  Poem : 

**  In  the  Poem,  his  culinary  enthusi- 
asm, as  usual,  boils  over  /  and  makes  it  seem 
written,  as  he  describes  himself  (see  the 
Cook's  Oracle),  with  the  spit  b  one  hand, 
and  the  frying-pan  in  the  other, — while  in 
tlie  style  of  the  rhymes  it  is  Hudibrastie, 
as  if  in  the  ingredients  of  versification,  he 
had  been  assisMd  by  his  Butler.'* 

In  the  *'  Sea  SpelP'  there  is  a  sub- 
limity of  thought  and  vigour  of  expres- 
sion which  can  only  be  considered 
inferior  to  the  Shipwreck  in  Don 
Joan.  Like  the  author  of  that  splen- 
did compo9ition,  Mr.  Hood  gradually 
elevates  us  to  the  extremest  point  of 
sensibility,  and  then  suddenly  precipi- 
tates us  into  the  depths  of  humour ;  a 
task,  however  difficult  to  effect,  and 
however  much  it  may  be  admired,  is 
not  altogether  agreeable  to  the  inclina- 
tion of  the  reader's  mind  at  the  time 
he  experiences  it.  Whereas  the  for- 
mer grappled  with  Death  in  various 
shapes,  and  rendered  him  subservient 
to  his  will,  the  latter  has  exerted  all 
his  extraordinary  powers  to  delineate 
the  fallacy  of  placing  implicit  faith  in 
the  imagined  security  of  a  ehiitTseaul, 
Besides  those  already  noticed  there  are 
«*The  Mermaid  of  Margate,"  •'The 
kafc  Man,"  the  Ballads  of  "Sally 
Brown"  and  "  Nelly  Grey,'|  &c.  &c. 
all  equally  excellent  in  their  various 
styles,  but  we  have  not  room  to  notice 
them  more  minuteljr. 

Of  the  prose  effusions  the  '*  Walton 
Redivivus  is  our  favourite.  It  is  adia* 
logue  between  two  sorry  anglers  on  the 
banks  of  the  New  River,  named  Pis* 
cator  and  Viator.  The  "  Love  me, 
Love  my  dog,*'  is  illustrated  by  three 
plates,  of  admirable  design  and  hu- 
mour. 

Those  whose  heads  Mx.  Hood  has 
*'  brushed  at,'^  and  hung  up  in  the  im* 
perfect  galleryannexed  to  this  volume, 
which  at  a  future  season  he  hopes  to 
complete,  are  about  nine  in  number. 
Amonffjihero  are  the  '*  Bard  uf  Hope,** 
«^Mr.  Bowleg"  and  the  "  Author  of 


Broad  Grins,'*  repFesented  in  bowls  of 
spoons  "as  in  mirrors.'* 

Having  thus  presented  our  readers 
with  the  anthor*s  bill-of-fare,  the  work 
will  require  no  other  recommendation 
than  its  own  intrinsic  merit  to  ensure 
it  the  well-merited  patronage  of  the 
public. 

^  The  author  of  "Whims  and  Oddi- 
ties'' has  lately  given  the  public  some 
specimens  of  nis  talents  in  serious  and 
moral  compositions,  entitled  **  Na» 
tional  Tales,**  which,  as  he  observes, 
are  a  deviation  from  his  former  at- 
tempts. He  has  shewn  that,  because 
he  nas  iested  elsewhere,  it  does  not 
follow  that  he  is  incompetent  for  gra- 
vity. Some  of  these  Tales,  of  which 
the  ''Spanish  Tragedy*'  is  the  princi- 
pal, are  of  a  chivalrous  and  romantic 
character,  and  generally  interesting. 
Others  are  of  a  lighter  description, 
usually  connected  with  love  affairs, 
and,  though  sometimes  rather  trivial 
and  destitute  of  sufficient  plot,  may 
afibrd  considerable  amusement  to 
readers  of  light  productions. 

57-  Early  metrical  Tales;  including  the 
History  of  Sir  Egeir,  Sir  Gryme,  and  Sir 
Gray-Steill.  Edlnbargh,  18S6,  Laing. 
8vo. 

THE  early  Muse  of  Scotland  was 
a  virgin  so  chary  of  her  smiles  as  to 
have  few  votaries  that  left  a  memento 
to  perpetuate  a  knowledge  of  her  fa- 
vouritism. The  welUknown  industry 
of  the  Editor  of  the  present  volume, 
who  we  conclude  is  the  intelligent 
secretary  of  the  Bannatyne  Club,  and 
whose  research  has  explored  the  most 
ancient  repositories  of  England  as  well 
as  Scotland,  has  not  been  able  to  col- 
lect more  than  fourteen  piecas  as  early 
metrical  effusions  of  the  national  cha- 
racter of  the  latter  country,  after  can- 
didly acknowledging  some  as  already 
printed  by  recent  editors. 

The  present  volume  forms  a  coveta- 
ble  companion  to  the  miscellaneous 
collections  formed  by  W^atson,  liamsay, 
Pinkerton,  and  Lord  Hailes,  whidi 
were  scarcely  to  be  considered  as  ex* 
hausting  the  outlays  of  Scotia's  fugitive 
Muse.  Its  contents  are  early  metrical 
tales,  which  appear  to  have  been  col- 
lected, when  first^iven  to  the  press,  with 
all  the  imperfections  consequent  on  a 
traditionary  recital.  The  first  and  long-- 
est  poem,  £he  Bislory  of  Sir  Oray-^ 
Sieil,  ia  taken  from  the  earliest  cditkNi- 


.1827.] 


Rev  I  Bw.— Johnston  on  Education  in  France, 


337 


<ib(ainable,  ih  17  n>  and  bears  strong 
proofof  some  defect  in  tbe  story,  upon 
vrhich  the  ancient  minstrel  is  usually 
ibund  tediously  and  elaborately  minute 
and  dull.  The  reprint  may  aid  the 
Editor  in  his  *  chief  object,'  — *  of 
bringing  some  of  these  productions  to 
light  in  a  more  antique  garb,'  and  we 
refer  the  Editor  to  tbe  Newcastle  edi- 
tion (n.  d.)  of  Roswall  and  Lillian,  as 
materially  correcting  the  present  edi- 
tion (which  appears  amended  from  that 
of  1822  by  the  same  Editor).     For 

**  In  Naples  lived  a  worthy  king, 
Had  all  the  lands  in  governing  ; 
He  had  a  lady,  fair  and  young. 
Whose  name  was  called  Ldllian." 

As  the  story  does  nut  run  upcm  the  in- 
cestuous love  of  Roswall  to  his  mother, 
read 

<*  In  Naples  dwelt  a  worthy  king. 
Had  all  the  land  in  governing : 
He  had  a  son  both  young  and  tall, 
And  his  name  w^s  called 
A  fairer  was  there  none 

There  are  several  more  lines  in  the 
copy  referred  to  than  in  those  seen  by 
the  Editor ;  at  the  same  time  we  trust 
our  observation  will  not  damp  his  pur- 
suit, still  entertaining  the  opinion  that 
his  forerunner  o(  Select  Remains  of  the 
ancient  popular  Poetry  of  Scotland, 
1822  jfalready  it  is  said  become  scarce), 
and  tne  present  volume,  demand  our 
confidence  to  cheer   him  with  *' Go 


;rning : 
ig  and  tall,  ") 
1  Roswal,      > 
at  all."       J 


w 


on. 


&9.  j4  General  View  of  the  present  System 
of  Public  Education  in  France,  and  of  the 
LawSf  Regulations,  and  Courses  of  Study 
in  the  different  Faculties,  Colleges,  and 
inferior  Schools,  which  now  compose  the 
Royal  University  of  that  Kingdom;  pre- 
ceded ly  a  short  History  qf  the  Univer- 
sity of  Paris  before  the  Revolution.  By 
David  Johnston,  M.D.  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  College  of  Surgeons  of  Edinburgh, 
^c,     8vo.  pp.  944. 

UNIVERSITY  Education,  in  our 
view  of  Jt,  is  that  which  sends  out  .a 
youth  perfect  in  sciences  not  forming 
part  of  his  school  education.  The  best 
modes  of  facilitating  this  object  ar^ 
unquestionably  of  the  first  moment, 
but  these  modes  must  vary  according 
to  the  respective  sciences.  \r  Lan* 
guages,  for  instance.  Composition ;  in 
Mathematics,  working  Problems,  and 
so  forth  ;  but  in  Medicine  we  think 
(for  this  fofiDS  the  le^vfjing  poiqt  of 
.    GfiVT.  Mao,  jfpril,  J89[7,    , 


Dr.  Johnstoo's  work)  the  Hospitalf 
and  Anatomical  Schools  effect  tho 
chief  improvement  of  a  Student.  It 
is  plain,  we  think,  that  Ship-buildios 
should  be  learned  in  a  Dock-yard,  ^na 
that  theory  should  only  be  deemed  a 
Ruide  to  aid  practice.  The  view  of  tfaj^ 
English  Universities  is  plainly,  by  thlB 
previous  school-education  which  thcnr 
exact,  to  make  perfect  scholars ;  that 
of  others  to  bestow  superficial  acquire^ 
ments,  which  may  be  applied  to  th'^ 
purposes  of  business  in  life;  and  the 
result  of  such  a  system  is  that  the  ma- 
jority of  the  students  turn  out  only  re- 
spectable amateurs.  Their  loose  and 
general  mode  of  writing  betrays  the 
utter  absence  of  classical  taste  and  pre- 
cision ;  but  they  acquire,  by  practice, 
the  pen  of  a  ready  writer,  ana  though 
they  often  make  sad  blunders,  and 
dole  out  bad  logic,  yet  through  de- 
riving their  ideas  from  life,  and  thb 
world  at  large,  they  write  in  a  form 
often  more  interesting  than  scholars; 
and  though  they  have  not  the  Wool- 
wich qualifications  requisite  for  the 
management  of  ordnance,  yet  they 
may  be  good  fire-work  makers.  In 
this  view  of  the  subject,  we  consider 
our  National  Universities  to  have  had 
two  distinct  characters  ;  one,  (as  the 
English)  to  make  complete  scholars, 
and  therefore  requiriiig  previous  school 
exercise ;  the  other  (as  the  Scotcji)  to 
give  a  superficial  plating  and  prompti- 
tude for  business.  Such  institutions, 
however,  are  very  useful  for  person^ 
who  have  not  had  the  benefit  ot  a  long 
and  elaborate  school  education. 

Dr.  Johnston's  work  is  full  of  long 
details,  into  which  we  cannot  enter. 
The  best  mode  in  our  judgment  of  es- 
timating French  Education,  is  French 
Writing.  We  have  good  specimen^ 
of  it  in  Hume,  Chesterfield,  and  WaK 
pole.  It  is  not  scientific,  but  it  ^ 
often  acute ;  and  if  it  shuns  argumen- 
tative deduction,  it  often  lays  down  ac- 
curate positions.  Its  chief  character 
is,  however,  that  of  superficial,  and  the 
impression  is  therefore  fugitive ;  an 
impression  which  may  do  for  a  reader, 
certainly  not  for  a  student.  ] 

They  who  read  this  work  will  de- 
rive from  it  two  pieces  of  information 
worthy  particular  notice ;  one,  that  a 
military  country  will  drain  off  the 
young  men  before  they  have  tithe  tb 
be  educated  (p.  232) ;  the  other,  that 
education  in  France  is  nearly  in  the 


..•k 


7 


Sd8                           RBViBw.-*-Belfrage*8  DUcounet*  [^prit, 

ratio  of  one  to  twenty-five.    Dr.  John-  not  make  dramatic  soliloquies  in  the* 

stnn    h.\s  ct-rtiinly   collected    a    large  ntr^'s ;   ;ind   he  who  cannot  listen  for 

quaniity  ofinaiter,  which  may  be  read  half  an  hour  to  sober  divinity,  is  luiher 

with  edification  ;  but  here  we  slop,  be-  a  play*goer  than  a  Christian,  one  wlio 

cause  we  think  our  own  systems  to  be  desires  to  hear  a  speech,  rather  than  to 

already   far   better  than  those  of  the  be  edified.     However,   there  was  an 

French,  and  we  do  not,  like  Dr.  John-  evil  arising  out  of  an  intended  good. 

8ton,  think  that  everi^  thing  musi  be  Blair's  beautiful  and  inestimable  Essays 

good  because  it  is  foreign.  are  not  sermons;  still  it  would  be  dif- 

^  ficuli  to  equal  them,  and  more  difficult 

69.    Discourses  on  the  Duties  and  Consnla-  !»  8*'^'<=  Z*^*^'"  f   theological  character. 

Hons  of  the  Jged.    Bij  Henry  Belfrage,  B"»  8"<^"  »  »ask  has  Dr.  Belfrape  exe- 

D,D.  Minister  qf  the  Gospel  a/ Falkirk,  cuted  in  the  truly  excellfUl  work   be- 

Bvo,pp,47i''  ^<>re  us.     It  has  in   most   parts  equal 

IN  our  early  days,  the  rule  among  ?"^'!^  *°  ^^«''''  ^^'^  ^^'  "'«'*^  "^''Vy.— 

Divines  was  to  take  all  the  texts  of  '^  f^'"  "^.  encouraRemeni  to  yilla.ns 

Scripture   bearing   upon   a    particular  and  hypocrites  to  profess  faith  in  Christ, 

point  of  morality^  enlarge  u|i)n  them,  f  "^  annihilate  all   the   moral    consii- 

Jmd  thus  show  what  waf  thrmoraliiy  l?^"^',  ^*^  civilization -it  makes  not 

which  Scripture  taught.     It  was  alsb  V^^  '^'^  *"^*'";  of  sin  and   foily-.i 

.  no.nt    thnt  ih*.ri.  Th«..M  K*  n«  .^r.  ^ocs  uot  say,  ihcy  that  havc  not  done 


•indispensable conjunction  witn  Works.  ,P     :    '.«-..--»».... ..5*.  s»"».-..»-a 

This  is  not  now  the  vogue.    The  in-  «  O"  all  noints.     He  makes  Christ 

flammatory    declamations    about    the  recommend  wisdom  and  mora  iiy,  as 

Atonement,  the  use  of  the  name  of  ^"  r«  ^^  ^ll'  favour-and  we  solemnly 

Jesus,  as  in  a  love-poem,  and  various  *^''J''*''  that  he  speaks  the  real  mind 

other  absurdities  (not  lo  say  worse  of  ^^  ^^"^^  celestial  Instructor. 

them)  have  drawn  us  into  an  opposite  ^ 

extreme,  and  the /rtfi(]^,  the  ^orf(]^,  the  ^^     r  i      i>   i   •   .-        .r    r.    ,     /.   , 

lomtoit.  and  the  hyp^bolic,  &c  &c.  ^"cf^  5'^'T'      J'",\fr"" 

^1.      ...,,^bi'\r            i_^  Churchf  or  beelesuuttcus :  translated  from 

(as  discriininated  by  Blair),  form  what  <^,  ^^  ^„,    ,,.    ^    L„,,^  ^J^. 

IS  now  called  pulpit  oratory.  pus.    Royal  Bvo,  pp.  126, 

Ihere  was  a  Catholic  preacher,  who  r^r\t%i\i  a  t  r  v 

got  into  disgrace  for  life,  because  In  a  .u         .     •    It^^  ?  '''^  V?'Z\.''^ 

sermon,  he  made  Christ  say  to   the  <l^e  authorized  translation  of  the  Bible, 

devil  (when   the  latter   recommended  a»fitt«t  for  general  use,  we  are  certain, 

him  to  throw  himself  down),  "  Mu  ^"aithereareiiumerous  passages  which. 

fnend,  1  have  a  much  easier  staircase  "r^'  ^f'!."^!^^  translation   in   modern 

to  go  down  by*;''  and  the  French,  «'^8ant  diction,  would,  especially  in 

with  their  usual  tact  for  humour,  were  ^"^  poetical  parts,  exhibit  a  sublimity 

not  a  little  amused  with  our  Saviour's  «"«*.  ancient  grandeur,  highly  calcu- 

callipg  the  deviUw/rienrf.    Absurdities  '^*^^  *^  ^""1  \^^  feeling,  and  produce 

Mgrow^characierixcour  modern  pulpit  ^'*^"  ?"  ""^r*  impression,  that  such 

oratory,  even  in  the  Chtorchof  Eng-  Ti"*'-  ^;»^«.  P««" /*»e  language  of  the 

land,  in  order  to  acquire  popularity.  Almighty  himself. 

But    mow   solemnly   do    we    protest  .^"^  P«»>j>c  purposes,  such  a  frecdoin 

against  it ;  bitcause  we  believe  Revela-  oy^anslation  would  be  of  illegitimate 

tion  to  be  only  a  higher  display  of  «^»*P""?'  ^'"^  ^e  have  seen  paraphraset 

jcason  (so  far  as  concerns  human  con-  ''I  ''^"^•"  P^^"'  ?^'^^^  ^"'"7  Tindicatc 

duct),  and   because  we  believe  (and  IV*    character    of   the  real   sublime, 

fear  even  to  horror)  that  ridicule  will  "*^^'  however  we  consider  the  Bible 

be  the  final  result  of  such  childish  and  "  *  ""^"^^  ^^^'  *°  *  '"«^*7  P°»"^  ^^ 

^^:i^  :^,i_^».*:^~.       o^  :*    -.i-_»  -l  View. 


anile  innovations*     Be  it,  that  the  ser-  a\    .u    i.    i     r  ^    i    •     • 

mons  which  we  Orthodox  Church-  ,   ^»/^^7*  ^  9^  Ecclesiasticns,  it 

men  hear,  have  the  form  of  a  lecture  x  **  palpably  an  imitation  (and  a  very 

^i-r«,  ar.  PrAfi^./^ra    ^^,  i>K..^  SHCccssful  ooc)  of  thc  Provcrbs.    Mr. 

.  [0 

•  Thii  anecdote  we  h«ve  firomom  of  our  We  think  that  it  was  a  poem,  for  the 

t»rl;f  vohuHM,  we  do  not  reeolltct  vhieh.  paralleliioM  art  tdif-eTiUent.    W«  do 


men  liear,  have  the  form  of  a  lecture;  i— i'-*'y  «»  ""'\"'"iV  v""V  *  Vi- 

ihe  Clergy  are  Professors,  not  Playerl  »y<^«»i«^  one)  of  the  Proverbs.    Mi 

—they  celebrate  holy  rites  in  Churches,  **'>!r«"'  has  done  it  great  justice.     H. 

1_ i *  prefers  the  Vul^te  to  the  Septuagint 


n^T.l 


Rbviaw. — Howard's  Libtr  Ecclaioiticut. 


S89 


not  ihink,  howerer,  wilh  Mr.  Howard, 
(Pref.  viii.),  ihat  it  was  |>eiiiud  at  dif- 
fert-iit  times,  and  on  various  occasions, 
merely  because  it  is  divided  into  thir- 
teen section^.  It  was  anciently  cus- 
tomary to  sing  things  of  this  kind,  in 
order  to  infix  them  in  the  mentory ; 
that  was  evin  the  case  (odd  as  it  may 
see«n)  with  Laws  themselves,  whence 
i>erlKi|)5  these  thirteen  dixisions.  This 
IS  a  fact  well  known  to  antiquaries. 

As,  hovyever,  there  has  been  much 
discussion  lately  on  the  subject  of  in- 
corporating the  Apocrypha  with  the 
Canon  of"  Scripture,  we  think  that  Mr. 
Howard's  sentiments  on  the  subject 
will  not  be  unacct-ptable ;  for,  though 
the  book  ofEcclesiasticus  may  harmo- 
nize with  Scripture,  we  uiust  own, 
that  the  Apocrypha  having  no  prophe* 
tic  chafacter  (as  we  recollect),  cannot 
have  the  awful  holiness  and  grand  dis* 
tinction  of  the  Bible.  With  re;{ard  to 
our  own  feelin>i^s,  we  should  like  it 
better  if  wholly  separated;  but  the 
Apocrypha  was  perused  by  the  early 
Christians;  and,  Jerom  says,  was  read 
by  them  in  Churches.  But  we  do  not 
like  thin<cs,  not  essentially  parts  of  the 
Holy  Bible,  to  be  connected  with  it, 
for  It  savours  much  more  of  concu- 
binaice  than  lawful  matrimony ;  and 
according  to  Jerome's  reasoning,  the 
Homilies  also  might  be  bound  up  wilh 
the  modern  Bible,  because  they  also 
were  read  in  Churches.  However,  to 
repeat  our  opinion  in  somewhat  like  a 
syllogistic  form — the  Bible  is  the  Bible ; 
ought  to  he  the  Bible,  and  nothing  but 
the  Bible. 

Now  to  Mr.  Howard.  He  says, 
concerning  his  motives  for  this  Trans- 
lation, 

**  I  have  thought  the  publication  of  it  at 
the  present  time  not  unseasonable,  as  it 
may  serve  to  divert  the  controversy  from 
the  merits  or  demerits  of  those  who  have, 
of  later  years,  l)eea  concerned  in  circulatinf* 
the  Apocryphal  along  with  the  Canonicd 
Scriptures,  towards  that  part  of  the  subject 
to  which  we  might  as  well  have  sat  down  at 
first  more  deliberately  —  the  comparative 
value  of  the  Apocryphal  books,  as  parts  of 
Jewish  Scripture — together  with  the  de- 
cree of  evidence  which  might  lie  obtained 
nrom  the  Bible  itself,  or  from  other  sources, 
in  proof  of  the  authenticity  of  several,  of 
them,  and  of  their  intimate  and  useful  con- 
nection with  other  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and 
New  Testaments.*'     Pref.  vi. 

£\,  A  Fiew  of  the  fyartd,  from  the  Creation, 
io  the  present  timtj  wilh  an  Art  tfMe" 


moryt  ^c.  By  the  Author  of  the  Frinch 
Genders  taught  in  Six  Fables,  1 6*ino,  pp, 
310. 

THERE  is  no  doubt  of  the  utility 
of  artificial  miKles  of  assisting  memory. 
It  is  almost  instinctively  practised  in 
the  custom  of  nutting  particular  things 
in  particular  places,  becau<ie  an  associa- 
tion of  ideas  is  connected  with  tho^e 
places  and  things;  and  therefore,  such 
an  act  seems  to  grow  naturally  out  of 
that  grand  faculty  of  the  miiKJ.  But 
then  the  mode  of*  forming  iliat  art  of 
memory  is  the  difficulty.  There  is  an 
old  Joe  Miller,  that  Oliver  Cromwell, 
or  s«»me  hucli  celebrated  person,  when 
a  farmer  threaiencd  to  pound  his  father's 
pigs,  ordered  the  pigs  to  be  driven  to 
the  pound,  abut  up,  and  severely  whipi« 
When  the  farmer  drove  the  pigs  a  fe*v 
days  after  to  the  pound,  the  pigs  asso- 
ciated the  ideas  of  whipping  wilh  the 
)>o>ind,  and  no  effort  of  the  farmer 
could  present  a  retreat  home,  at  sight 
of  the  pound,  with  the  speed  of  light. 
It  is  plain,  that  this  was  a  most  efl'ec- 
tual  mode  of  leaching  them  artificial 
memory.  This,  however,  we  merely, 
show  as  a  proof  of  the  praciicability  of 
the  process,  not  as  a  mode  of  teaching 
it.  That  must  be  a  far  more  agreeable 
one;  and  that  of  Hoyle,  with  regard 
to  whist,  is  in  most  poinis  far  from  a 
bad  one.  Grey  (our  author  has  ob- 
served, pref.  ii.)  has  adopted  hexameter 
lines,  of  which  we  shall  give  one,  as 
perhaps  exhibiting  the  finest  and  most 
unrivalled  specimen  of  (what  schooU 
boys  QdiW) gibberish  and  cacophony  ever 
known  in  the  world.    It  is  as  follows: 

"  Creppaz  Delpetsau,  Deroasus,  Abmezkiy 
Apepni."  .  » 

The  first  syllable  Rives  the  epoch  as 
Cre  the  Creation,  />f/the  Deluge,  &c. 
Frinagle's  plan  was  easier,  but  cramps 
ed,  by  excluding  the  vowels.  Our 
Author's  plan  is  to  make  initial  letters 
only  to  represent  figures;  and  he  gives 
US  short  proverbs  to  get  by  heart,  which 
by  the  initials  of  the  words  teach  us 
the  date  also.    Thus  he  says, 

**  In  the  fifth  epoch,  the  taking  of 
Babylon,  and  destruction  of  the  impiQua 
Belshazzar  by  Cynu,  in  the  year  346*8,  can 
any  words  be  more  appropriate  than  these : 
'  (iod  ends  Belshazzar  a  power,'  which  fix 
the  date,  O  standing  for  3,  £  for  4,  B  for  6, 
and  P  for  8." 

For  our  parts,  we  conceive  that  the 
only  method  to  be  accurate  in  dates,  is 
to  keep  a  table  of  them  for  reference, 
or  make  memorandums ;  and  as  la 


Uo 


Bbvi£W.— Pellet's  Saered  Musk. 


EAfMfl; 


fecoHectioh  of  fignres,  the  best  method 
is  that  of  Bankers,  who,  in  calling 
over  the  numbers  of  notes  (suppose 
5145),  do  not  say,  five  thousand  one 
hundred  and  fony-five,  but  five,  one, 
four,  five ;  and  this  to  us  is  a  shorter 
process  than  that  of  getting  by  heart 
either  a  jargon,  or  four  or  five  hundred 
mottoes,  which  are  full  as  likely  to  be 
forgotten  as  the  figures.  A  man  who 
can  make  a  memorandum,  will  never 
like  that  trouble ;  and  if  he  be  either 
i  creditor  or  debtor,  the  situation  itself 
k  a  sufficient  artificial  memory  for  cor- 
lect  recollection.  We  have  seen  pic- 
iwes,  however,  of  birds,  beasts,  &c. 
excellently  used,  for  getting  up  quickly 
terminations  of  nouns;  but  it  must  be 
evident,  that  every  man  who  has  much 
iHJsiness  will  form  an  artificial  me- 
inory  for  himself  better  than  any  one 
which  professes  a  system  like  this  or 
Any  other,  because  the  sole  foundation 
•f  all  such  things  ought  to  be  the  as- 
sociation of  ideas ;  but  as  to  figures, 
there  is  no  association  between  them 
and  words  or  things — memorandums, 
•  or  getting  them  by  heart  in  the  Banker's 
jl^u,  is  full  as  easy,  or  more  easy  than 
<my  other. — Our  author,  however,  is 
Certainly  ingenious;  and  his  Chrono- 
logy is  most  useful  by  itself,  for  it  is  an 
excellent  compendium  of  the  leading 
Acts  in  biblical  and  profane,  as  well  as 
English  history.  The  rest  must  be 
left  to  ihose  who  do  not  grudge  the 
trouble  of  learning  the  process ;  but 
our  judgment  is,  that  it  is  only  learn- 
ing two  things,  when  one  only  is 
Hvanted — for  instance,  we  have  in  p. 

The  Deluge  |  |grg     all  lost  from  blindness. 

The  initials  of  the  motto  A,  L,  F,  B, 
mark  the  date;  but  is  it  not  full  as 
easy  to  learn  <'  Deluge,  \656,*'  as  *'all 
lost  from  blindness?" 


^i.  Original  Sacred  MusiCf  with  Original 
Poetry  fby  various   Contribulor^.     Tht 

.  whole  compiled  and  arranged,  by  Alfred 
Pettet.     Printed  for  the  Editor, 

,  THERE  belongs  an  interest  to  this 
publication,  independent  of  its  me- 
rits, great  and  excellent  as  they  are. 
Its  highly-gifted  compiler,  confined  for 
nine  years  daily  and  nightly  to  his 
eouch,  has  sought  a  solace  and  a  re- 
fiige  from  the  dejection  that  belongs 
tp  disease,  and  urom  the  unavailing 
ngiets  and  yviahei  thai  will  ever  at« 


tach  to  a  state  of  inactivity,  in  the  ar- 
rangement of  this  volume.  And  it 
has  pleased  that  Providence,  whose 
"hand  has  touched  him,*'  to  lighten 
the  affliction  and  to  sooth  his  solitude, 
not  only  by  the  resources  of  his  own 
intellectual  powers,  but  by  the  labours 
of  congenial  spirits — filling,  as  it  were, 
the  chamber  of  his  sickness  with  me- 
lody and  song.  To  his  honour  be  it 
recorded,  that  the  talents  so  bestowed 
have  been  consecrated  to  the  best  pur- 
poses. Under  circumstances  of  trying 
depression,  he  has  not  **  kung  his  harp 
on  the  willow^**  but  adopting  a  nobler 
sentiment,  he  has  exclaimed,  *' As  long 
as  I  have  any  being  I  will  sing  praises 
unto  my  God.*' 

The  first  part  of  this  Volume  con- 
tains original  Melodies  attached  to  se- 
lect portions  of  the  New  Version  of 
the  Psalms.  The  second  consists  of 
Miscellaneous  Hymns,  the  words  of 
Which  have  been  contributed  by  many 
of  our  popular  Poets,  among  others, 
Joanna  Haillie,  Mrs.  Opie,  Barton, 
Montgomery,  Milman,  Souihey,  &c. 
and  it  is  this  department  of  the  work 
which  more  properly  falls  within  our 
own  province ;  but  as  we  have  men- 
tionea  this  publication,  not  less  from 
its  own  merits  than  from  a  kindly 
feel  ins  towards  its  author,  our  rend- 
ers will  excuse  us  if,  after  a  word  or 
two  on  its  literary  qualities,  we  of- 
fer a  few  general  observations  on  its 
musical  beauties.  They  will  conclude 
from  the  names  we  have  mentioned 
that  the  poetical  portion  of  the  volume 
has  been  ably  sustained,  and  they  will 
not  be  disappointed.  The  following 
sweet  lines  on  Resignation  are  by  Mrs* 
Opie : 

**  My  path,  oh  Lord,  is  clouded  o'er. 
Lone,  drear  J,  dark,  appears  my  lot. 

Bat  while  to  me  life  smiles  no  more, 
Altho*  I  'mourn,  I  murmur  not. 

For,  oil,  this  broken  contrite  heart 
Must  in  thy  wrath  thy  justice  own ; 

And  tho'  my  tears  in  anguish  start, 
They  flow  from  conscious  sin  alone. 

Then  tho'  my  path  is  clouded  o'er, 
And  gkx>ro  u'erhangs  my  future  lot, 

I  bless  and  love  thee  more  and  more. 
And  tho*  I  mourn,  I  murmur  not." 

The  following  by  Joanna  Baillie 
breathes  an  elevation  of  thought  and 
feeling  beautifully  expressed : 

"  Oh,  Lord  supreme,  whose  works  so  £sir, 
Sabltrae  and  varied  every  where, 
Tbe'gtaiagejv  del%ht> 


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Thj  witdom,  power,  tnd  lofe»  the  dtj 
Doth  in  iu  splendid  course  display, 
As  doth  the  glorious  night, 

"  We  look  upo»  the  ocean  wide. 
Where  vessels  on  the  bright  wave  ride. 

And  sea-birds  wing  the  air, 
And  feel,  as  o'er  the  blue  expanse 
Soft  shadows  pass,  and  sunbeams  glance. 

Thy  power  and  love  are  there/'  &c. 

But  a  further  selection  would  be  as 
invidious  as  it  is  unnecessary.  There 
is  not  a  hymn  in  the  selection  of  in- 
ferior merit ;  and  Mr.  Petiet  has  been 
singularly  happy  in  the  taste,  the  feel- 
ing, and  the  piety  of  these  contribu<k 
tions. 

Of  the  musical  department,  we  must 
of  course  speak  not  as  critics,  bat  as 
amateurs.  In  the  first  part  we  were 
much  pleased  with  the  compositions 
of  Shield ;  they  are  in  the  good  old 
style,  and  sustain  the  former  fame  of 
this  veteran  musician.  We  would  par- 
ticularly notice  the  psalm  beginning 
"  How  vast  must  their  advantage  be,*' 
and  his  **0  praise  the  I-,ord.''  Sir 
Wm.  Hcrschell's  melodies  unite  most 
of  the  requisites  of  a  psalm  tune  ;  they 
are  solemn,  plaintive,  and  extremely 
touching. 

In  the  second  part,  uniting  the  con- 
tributions of  the  sister  arts,  there  is  a 
considerable  display  of  musical  talent. 
To  the  high  reputation  so  well  de- 
served, and  so  well  worn  by  such  per- 
fect musicians  as  Attwood,  Liuley, 
Cramer,  Crotch,  Walmisley,  &c.  our 
praise  can  add  nothing.  We  must  Dot, 
nowever,  omit,  in  our  general  appro- 
bation, the  particular  notice  of  a  com- 
position of  W.  H.  Callcoti,  a  young 
man  of  great  promise ;  the  words  by 
W.  Knox,  esq.  It  is  a  composition  of 
great  feeling  and  solemnity ;  and  to  this 
we  mast  beg  to  add  a  hymn  of  Mout- 

fomery's,  entitled  **  Exhortations  to 
'raise  ;'*  and  another  by  Barton,  *•  Give 
Praises  to  God,'*  two  very  elegant  com- 
positions by  J.  Goss.  He  hascaught  the 
divine  spirit  of  the  poetry,  and  united 
it  to  most  appropriate  harmony.  He 
has  poetical  feeling  sufficient  to  illus- 
trate the  beautiful  idea, 

"  Of  music  married  to  immortal  verse." 

It  is  delightful  to  contemplate,  |hat 
these  are  among  the  early  productions 
of  a  scientific  and  amiable  young  man. 
Our  general  opinion  of  this  volume 
may,  we  hope,  be  collected  from  this 
brief  notice  of  its  contents.  It  is  ele- 
gantly got  op,  apd  appropriately  dedU 


cated  to  the  King— a  patrbn  as  qoaln 
fied  to  judge  of  its  merits  as  he  is  to 

1>romote  its  success.    Mr.  Pettet's  own 
a  hours  are  worthy  of  his  great  repa- 
tation. 

A  publication  of  this  value,  pro- 
duced under  circumstances  so  unto- 
ward, has  a  moral  lesson  appertaining 
to  it  which  ou^ht  not  to  pass  unirtH 
jMToved  :  it  is  this — that  there  is  hardfy 
a  situation  of  trial  and  of  difficulty 
which  may  not  be  overruled,  if  not 
conquered,  by  a  stedfast  reliance  on  Che 
blessing  of  Providence  on  our  endeA« 
vours,  and  that  a  pious  mind  will  to 
purify  temporal  sufferings,  as  to  dil* 
cover  the  means  of  converting  them 
into  blessings.  Perhaps  under  no  other 
circumstances  than  those  of  afflictioil 
could  Mr.  Pet  let,  esteemed  as  he  it» 
have  rallied  round  him  a  combination 
of  talent  of  such  great  and  varied  ex* 
cellence.  His  work  is  an  honour  to 
the  age  iu  which  we  live,  and  is  at* 
suredly  destined  to  an  abiding  repu* 
tation. 

63.  Memoir  o/* Augustine  Vincent,  Wiadtol 
Herald.  By  Nicholas  Harris  Nicolat^ 
Ksq.  FeUow  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries, 
Small  octavo,  pp.  190.  Pickering. 
AGAIN  we  are  required  to  notiet 
a  publication  bearing  the  name  of  Mr. 
Nicolas,  and  we  really  feel  it  would  be 
dangerous  to  allow  ourselves  any  delay 
in  so  doinjz,  lest  that  indefatigable  au- 
thor, in  the  rapidity  of  his  industry, 
should  outstrip  our  opportunities  ofgiv- 
Ing  him  that  encourageltient  which  he 
so  highly  deserves  for  his  exertions  in 
the  field  of  historical  and  antiquarian 
research.  The  present,  indeed,  is  merely 
the  production  of  a  few  intervals  of 
leisure ;  but  other  and  highly  laborioos 
undertakings  are  now,  we  knOW,  oecn* 
pying  onr  author's  principal  attention. 
Augustine  Vincent,  a  herald  in  the 
reign  of  James  the  First,  was  a  kin- 
dred spirit  to  his  biographer.  His  career 
was  short,  comprising  from  the  time 
at  which  he  first  commenced  his  gene- 
alogical studies  a  period  of  only  twenty- 
five  years,  during  ten  only  of  which  he 
held  office  in  the  College  of  Arms; 
but  he  was  "  one  of  the  most  able  and 
iridefatigable  Officers  of  Arms  that  hatte 
eter  been  created." 

«This  feeble  sketch/*  says  Mr.  Nicolas, 
"  cannot  add  to  the  high  opinion  entertained 
of  his  professional  talent,  his  varied  inlbr- 
xnition,  and  profound  research,  by  thdse  who 
ard  acquainted  With  th«  solii  fMr-'^'''^— 


94S 


RiviKw. — Cooke*8  Southern  Coast  of  England.  [Aprili 


whioh  support  bk  frme ;  but  it  nay  potti- 
bW  iucrease  the  nunaljer  of  hit  admirers,  by 
extending  a  knowled^  nf  liis  extraordinary 
merits,  tor  who  can  reflect  that,  besides 
bis  published  work,  which  alnue  displays 
very  great  industry  and  skill,  he  compiled 
above  two  hundred  and  thirty  volumes  of  pe- 
digrees or  extracts  from  records  illustrative 
of.  subjects  connected  with  his  profession, 
though  he  was  removed  to  another  world 
before  he  bad  completed  his  furty-fifth  year, 
■ad  withhold  from  him  his  respect  and  ad* 
miration  ?"     P.  80. 

The  part  which  Vincent  took  with 
Camden  in  the  controversy  of  that  im- 
inortal  writer  with  his  principal  rival 
Ralph  Brooke,  occasions  Mr.  Nicolas 
to  investigate  at  length  the  feuds  which 
at  that  time  agitated  the  Corporation  of 
Heralds,  and  to  take  "  a  brief  view  of 
those  transactions  connected  with  the 
College  of  Arms  at  that  period,  that 
were  likely  to  influence  the  feelings  of 
its  members.'*  This  investigation  na- 
tvrally  increases  the  interest  of  the 
memoir,  which  may,  indeed,  be  fairly 
considered  rather  as  a  biographical  re- 
view of  the  leading  Heralds  of  the  aera, 
than  merely  a  detail  of  Vincent's  per* 
sonai  history. 


64.  Picturesque  Fieu's  of  the  Southern  Coast 
qf  £ogland,./rom  Draunngs  made  frinci- 
pally  by  J,  M»W,  Turner,  R.A.  and  en- 
graved by  W.  B.  Cooke,  George  Cooke, 
and  other  eminent  Engravers,  9  vols,  Ato. 
With  48  Plates  and  32  Fignettes,  J.  and 
W.  Arch. 

HOW  luxuriously  a  man  may  now 
be  entertained!  With  all  our  anti- 
<fuarian  feeling,  we  would  far  rather 
live  in  the  nmeteenth  century  than 
any  which  preceded.  How  superior 
it  England  now  to  what  she  was  at 
any  former  period  ;  and  let  us  journey, 
which  we  may  do  by  various  modes, 
and  with  a  velocity  conformable  to  our 
wishes,  to  any  part  of  the  island,  how 
are  we  gratiBed  in  meeting  with  taste, 
comfort,  and  prosperity,  where  but 
fifty  years  ago  no  accommodation  was 
to  be  found !  Foreign  travel  may,  and 
does  certainly  enlaree  the  mind,  and 
intercourse  with  the  world  gives  a 
polish  to.  that  ease  of  manners  which 
renders  well-bred  society  so  delight- 
ful. Bat  who,  notwithstanding  our 
variable  climate  and  often  damp  at? 
mosphere,  when*  he  contemplates  the 
powerful  influence  of  public  opinion, 
which  makes  all  in  authority  mind- 
ful of  their  duty,  the  beneficial  laws 


which  protect  property  and  the  liberty 
of  the  subject,  and  that  he  can  at  his 
own  free-will,  without  the  degrading 
necessity  and  haias&ingdelay  of  a  pass- 
port, visit  when  and  how  he  pleases 
every  part  of  this  island,  does  not  feel 
a  conscious  suj>eriority  in  being  an 
Englishman.  Uich  in  specimens  of 
the  arts,  both  antient  and  modern,  as 
well  as  in  the  results  of  commerce, 
and  containing  within  itself  greater 
variety  of  scenery,  of  that  noble  ani- 
mal the  horse,  uf  shipping  and  anti- 
quities, who  would  not  exclaim? 

**  This  happy  breed  of  noen,  this  little  world. 
This  precious  stone  att  in  the  silver  sea, 
— ^-^— — — —  this  dear,  dear  land, 
Pear  for  her  reputation  thro'  the  world."  , 

Nor  is  this  ail.  We  may,  by  the  ta- 
lismanic  effects  of  the  work  before  us, 
be  transported  from  place  to  place 
along  our  Southern  Coast,  and  have 
an  accurate  idea  of  its  principal  towns 
and  harbours,  without  even  Quitting 
our  homes.  If  we  have  any  feeling  for 
the  arts,  our  delight  will  be  tenfold ; 
for  the  Messrs.  Cooke  have  proved  to 
what  an  aatonishinsr  degree  eflect  may 
be  produced,  tn  simple  black  and  white, 
hj  the  extraordioaiV  skill  and  judicious 
discrimination  with  which  they  use 
the  graver.  Are  they  really  engrav- 
ings? Can  any  thing  parallel  be 
found  ?  Such  must  be  our  first  sensa- 
tions, and  it  is  only  by  an  eflbrt  to 
calm  them  that  we  can  coolly  under- 
take to  describe  them  to  our  readers. 
What  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  the 
incomparable  Turner,  who,  without 
disparagement  to  those  painters  who 
have  chosen  as  their  branch  landscape 
scenery,  is  undoubtedly  at  tbeir  head, 
to  find  the  very  sentiment  of  his  pic- 
tures so  strikingly  preserved  by  such 
coadjutors,  and  what  a  gratification  to 
them  to  copy  from  such  a  master !  An 
union  of  talents,  like  this,  could  not 
fail  to  produce  bewitching  effects,  and 
these  are  paramount  in  **  the  Coast 
Scenery.*'  Need  we  particularize?  If 
so,  we  will  mention  what  have  more 
especially  pleased  us,  without  by  any 
means  saying  they  are  pre-eminent,  as 
all  are  excellent.  Of  the  Views.  Whits- 
table,  Deal,  Dover  from  Shakspeare't 
cliflF,  Weymouth,  Plymouth  from  Lord 
Mount  Edgecuinbes,  Pendenn is  Cas- 
tle, and  St.  Michael  Mount;  of  the 
Vignettes,  those  from  the  easels  of 
Prout,  Dewint,  Collins,  Clonmell, 
Owen,  and  Blore^  have  more  irresist** 


18^70  Rbviiw. — Jdveniuret  of  Naufraguu  348 

ibiy  fixrcl  our  attention.  In  the  view  course  of  Hiodoot  who  were  tokinff  •  wet^ 
of  VVhiistubie,  engraved  by  Horsbo*  erlj  direction.  I  soon  found  that  the  ohjeet 
rough,  the  skilful  sclcciion  of  fore-  ofaur»ction  was  a  Suttee,  and  although  I 
ground,  the  correct  perspective,  parii-  ^»^  \ief6Te  witnessed  two  exhihitious  of  the 
cularly  of  the  figures  in  size  and  co-  K'"^' *  determined  to  proceed.  On  reach- 
lour,  and  the  transparency  of  the  wa-  '°8  ^^^  T'  ^  ""^"^^  tV'  **^?  P«P*«»»o«» 
ter,  are  what  we  principally  admire.  J«'««">-Iy  complete.  The  pde  was  raised 
I  .u  .  ^r  1^  I  I  u  \>  I  rfl*  nve  feet  above  the  irround,  mt«  which  some 
In  th,a  of  Deal,  engraved  by  ttadc hffe,  ^j,oo  suck,  had  been  driven  for  the  pur- 
the  illumined  horizon  produced  bjr  p„^  of  supporting  the  Uvers  of  dry  fire- 
lightning.  Dover  from  bhaksjiearcs  wood,  and  other  combustibles,  such  as  straw, 
cliflf,  engraved  by  G.Cooke,  the  ge-  rotln,  ghee,  or  butter,  and  pitch.  On  the 
neral  effect.  NA^ey mouth,  engraved  by  pile  Uy  stretched  the  corpse  of  the  deceased 
W.  B.  Cooke,  the  beauty  of  the  fore-  Hindoo,  dressed  as  when  he  was  alive,  and 

f round  and  transparency  of  the  water,  covered  with  a  piece  of  white  calico.    The 

lymouth,    from    Lord    Mount    Edg-  crowd  was  immense;  but  in  compliment  to 

cumbc's,    engraved   by   W.B.Cooke,  my  nation,  the  Chokedars  obligingly  cleared 

for  the  very  picturesque  point  of  view ;  »  p*««8c  for  me,  and  I  bad  a  distinct  view 

Pendennis     Castle,    engraved     by    G.  of  the  whole  ceremony.     The  victim  was  in 

Cooke,  for  the  comixwition  ;  and  St.  •  P«»"q"';  ««  the  opposite  side  of  the  pUe 

Michael's  Mount,  engraved  by  W.  B.  •"PP"'^  »>>  ^^-^  fr'«°*l»  J  ^^\  relations,  who 

,<.     ,       g-       .       I  •II      -.1       1*1.  were  armed  with  muskets,  sabres,  and  other 

Cooke,  for  the  skill  with  which  so  cii-  ^^  j^j  ,j^^    i,^  .  ^^j  ^^„,^^^ 

nous  an  object  ^'»»J^<^^«^  represented.  „„\  be^,*  ^^^.^^^/^  .„d  other  noisy  in- 
One  word  to  Mr.  Turner:  as  we  are  itruments,  were  standing  round.  Even  thua 
sincere  friends  to  his  reputation  we  e^ly  the  impression  on  my  mind,  as  I  stood 
offer  it ;  and,  admiring  his  wonderful  among  the  abettors  of  this  revolting  cere- 
talents  as  we  do  enthusiastically,  he  mony,  was  awful  in  the  extreme.  The  vic- 
will  pardon  us;  we  caution  him  to  tim  being  apprized,  by  a  gnra  or  priest,  that 
avoid  allegory.  He  has  done  so  in  the  it  was  time  to  begin  the  rites,  numbers  of 
present  instance,  but  in  the  vignette  Brahmans.with  lighted  torches  in  their  hands, 
titles  to  the  **  Provincial  Antiquities  of  »nd  earthen  pou  of  oil  and  ghee,  took  their 
Scotland."  why  did  he  condescend  so  •^''°'»»  '*»"°^  ^^"^  P''^«»  ,^^»"«  ".^*»«"  ^f'^ 

degradingly  to  borrow  ideas  from  the  '"•°'^"  "I  P'»y«"' »°  •  l°"|^«»?*'  •«;?  «*»«»■ 

d^-        p/,     11       I  •     u      J  I  «^^  secratcd  the  pile,  by  sprinkling  it  with  pure 

ev.ce  of  the  Hand-m-Hand  Insurance  ^^^    The  crowd  having  gi.eS  w.y,  mv  «- 

*^™^^  •  pectation  of  seeing  the  victim,  whom  1  ob- 
served to  be  advancing  with  a  slow,  but  firm 

65.     Adrfnturf,  of  ti»«fneo,,  u.riUm  by  '"p,  'upported  by  .ome  Bnihn,«.  .nd  her 

himself.  800.  pp.  89S.    ?mirfl  and  Elder,  ^""^'  '»  '"{f  ''"*««"'  "^  "»* 'P?*  "  "^'•'' 

P      i<i|  ^'^  1    was   standing,   was   now  at  its   height. 

She  was  of  the  age  of  about  forty-five,  a 

THIS  small  volume  possesses  const-  well-made   woman,  rather  handsome;    her 

derable  interest.    It  contains  a  sprightly  seek,  fingers,  arms,  and  legs,  were  loaded 

narrative  of  real  adventures  in  the  Asi-  with  a  profusion  of  omamenu,  chiefly  of 

atic   dependencies    of   Great   Britain,  gold,  and  her  whole  attire  was  as  gay  as  if 

Many   of  the    incidents   are  striking,  the  occasion  were  festive,  and  so  indeed  in 

and  penned  with  a  minuteness  of  de-  ^«'  estimation  it  appeared  to  be;  '  n  coun- 

scriplion  and  apparent  accur^icy,  that  tenance  was  in  keeping  with  hor  general  ap- 

will  not  fail  lo  make  them  acceptable,  Pff?**"'  P^*"'°S'  "?/''~  cheerfuU  nor 

•  ,1    .  I  fj4.  '  did  It  express  other  trait  of  concern  than  a 

especially  to  younger  readers.   The  au-  ^^ness,  and  a  slight  quivering  of  the  under 

thor  records  his  acknowledgnricnt  of  a  C     As  she  approached  the  pile,  the  spec- 

special  providence  bv  a  quotation  from  ^^^ors,  particularly  the  women,  went  np  to 

Shakspeare's  play  of  Hamlet  in  the  title-  >jer  to  wish  her  joy,  and  to  implore  a  bless- 

page ;  and  his  whole  story  is  a  com-  jng  from  her  before  her  departure  to  the 

ment  on  that  text.     It  would  afford  us  mansions  ofj)aradi8e.     To  all  she  made  an- 

pleasure  to  transcribe  several  peculiarly  swer — to  some  she  gave  rice;  such  as  were 

iiiteresting  passages  from  his  work,  but  not  near  enough  to  receive  any  from  her. 

We  must  content  ourselves  with  one  caught,  with  eagerness,  the  grains  whieh 

extract,  from  page  202,  upon  a  subject  'he  scattered  around,  and  in  the  air,  and 

which  now  occupies  a  large  share  of  which  seemed  to  be  prixed  as  a  relic.    AU 

public  attention.  The  scene  is  in  Ben-  ^»  V^  ^*'*7  ™  •  ^""  of  adoration  from 

„»i  ^.^  tk..  u.»L.^r.u«  .:..-.  u««^,ki.>„  *he  mfatuated  multitude,  wno  beheld  i»«r 

gA.  on  the  bank,  of  the  river  Hooghley.  ^.^^  ,  ^^^^^  ^^  ,,^  .^i^  ^^  ,^^  ^,.^f 

**  It  was  about  noon,  on  a  sultry  day,  when  that  she  was  a  divinity,  and  some  even  proa- 

cario^ty  prompced  me  to  follow  a  vast  Mm*  ttated  themselvea  at  net  €etU   TSaA«%  <\xa.^\ 


Si4 


Revisw. — Stratford  on  the  Court  of  Chancery.         [Apri^ 

iiience  attending  the  Goiirt  would  at 
once  be  removed. 

The  great  cause  of  complaint,  Mr. 
Stratford  thinks,  is  occasioned  by  the 
additional  weight  of  business  thrown 
upon  the  Court  by  new  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  that  the  effectual  remedy  is, 
either  to  diminish  the  burthen  of  the 
business,  or  la  increase  the  number  of 
Judges,  appropriating  to  each  certain 
parts  of  the  ousiness  of  the  Court. 
The  Report  of  the  Commissioners 
seems  to  have  been  influenced  by  the 
opinion  of  Mr.  Courtenay;  to  him, 
therefore,  Mr.  Stratford  more  particu- 
larly addresses  himself.  The  discus- 
sion cannot  fail,  we  trust,  of  being 
useful  to  the  public. 


•rfie  walked  round  tiM  pile,  scattering  rica 
iDond  and  above  her,  the  Brahmaos  uttering 
their  mantras,  and  the  people  adoring  her. 
£very  thing  being  now  rndy,  the  took  a 
farewell  of  her  nearest  relations,  distribut- 
ing among  them  her  ormgmentsi  She  then 
BouBted  the  pil«  with  astonishing  coolness, 
seated  htrselt  next  the  corpse,  which  she 
ftrvently  embraced  with  both  her  arms,  put 
tome  rice  in  its  mouth,  and  for  the  last  time 
aeattered  some  among  the  spectators.  She 
was  then  bound  to  the  dead  body  with  two 
easy  bandages,  and  a  quantity  of  straw,  ro- 
•hi»  butter,  and  oil,  was  strewed  over  her, 
•ad  the  corpse.  A  lighted  torch  was  then 
banded  ta  her,  which  she  held  in  one  hand, 
white  with  the  other  she  emptied  a  pot  of 
<^  over  her  bead ;  this  done,  she  threw  the 
torch  on  the  pile.  In  an  instant  the  pile 
was  set  on  fire  in  ten  or  twelve  different 
places,  and  the  flames  arose  with  a  rapidity 
•nd  intensity  of  heat  which  must  have  con- 
•umed  the  victim  almost  immediately ;  in- 
deed she  was  not  seen  to  move  a  limb  after 
•he  had  laid  herself  down.  The  noise  of 
the  tum-turos,  the  shrieks  of  the  women, 
and  the  shouts  of  the  spectators,  were  such 
as  to  defy  description,  and  even  exceed  con- 
iwpcion :  so  that  had  her  resolution  failed, 
her  loudest  cries  for  succour  would  have 
been  unavailing.  The  flames  towered  into 
the  atmosphere,  to  an  immense  height,  and 
IB  a  few  minutes  not  a  vestige  of  fire  re- 
mained— not  even  embers ;  ashes,  dust,  and 
•  column  of  smoke,  were  tlje  only  indica- 
tions of  ^M  rite  which  had  been  performed. 
Such  was  the  end  of  a  woman,  who  instead 
of  living,  to  serve  and  adorn  society,  thus 
iiecame  the  victim  of  a  cruel  and  barbarous 
superstition.'* 


€$,  The  Sovereignty  of  the  Great  Seal,  main" 
iained  against  the  One  Hundred  and 
Eighty-eight  Prapodiions  qf  the  C/uineery 
Commissioners  f  in  a  Letter  to  the  Lord 
High  Chancellor.  By  Francis  Paul  Strat- 
ford, Esq,  Senior  Master  in  Ordinary  of 
the  Court  of  Chancery,  9vo,  pp.  50. 
Clarke»  j-c 

.  THIS  is  a  very  ably-written  and 
well-timed  Pamphlet;  it  is  couched  in 
an  argumentative,  dispassionate  style, 
and  evidently  proceeds  on  a  thorough 
itnowledge  of  every  branch  of  the  sub- 
ject on  which  it  treats.  But  this  is 
only  what  might  be  expected  from  so 
able  and  long-experienced  an  officer  of 
the  Court  of  Chancery  as  Master  Strat- 
ford. 

The  author  differs  on  most  points 
from  the  Report  of  the  Commissioners^ 
and  thinks  tnat  if  many  of  the  old  re- 
gulations were  more  rigidly  adhered 
to^  much  of  the  delay  and  inconvo- 


67.  Robson's  Views  qf  Cities,  No.  IL 

HAVING  noticed  with  great  com- 
mendation the  first  of  this  splendid 
series  of  engraved  pictures,  we  scarcely 
know  how  to  express  our  enthusiastic 
admiration  of  what  is  now  presented  to 
us  in  the  second  number ;  being,  if  pos- 
sible, far  superior  as  well  in  execution, 
as  effect  ana  beauty  of  scenery.  I  f  the 
two  forthcoming  numbers  increase  in 
excellence  in  the  same  proportion— 
and  Mr.  Brittou  pledges  his  intention 
of  making  the  remainder  still  superior 
—we  s^hall  have  the  pleasing  task  of 
declaring  them  the  most  finished  en- 
gravings of  the  day,  and  consequently 
most  deserving  of  encouragement. 

The  views  are  Winchester  from  the 
north-east;  Hereford,  Salisbury,  and 
Carlisle  from  south-west;  Chester  and 
Lincoln,  from  south-east ;  Norwich 
from  south  ;  and  Wells  from  north- 
west. In  our  former  notice  we  ven- 
tnred  to  declare  our  favourites.  Here 
it  would  be  impossible,  as  they  grace- 
fully present  such  ail  unblemislved  va- 
riety of  attractions  to  our  feelings,  as 
to  preclude  the  possibility  of  our  ad- 
judging the  prize. 

The  following  observation  from  the 
well-written  aodress  we  cannot  help 
quoting  : 

'*  It  is  the  province  and  character  of 
^nius  to  aim  at  supreme  Excellence ;  but  It 
u  notorious  that  not  one  of  the  highly- 
gifted  Artists  of  the  world  has  ever  attained 
that  acme,  nor  is  it  likely  that  it  can  ever 
be  reached  by  human  talents;  fur  in  pro- 
portion as  study  and  skill  advance  towards 
this  imaginary  point,  it  is  found  that  the 
standard  always  recedes..  Whenever  one 
grade  or  degree  in  Excellence  is  acquired* 


ist;.] 


Rbvibw— iitf^ory  of  Clerkenwell. 


S4& 


•nothar  n  tetn  Id  th«  iiiatanc*,  And  thut 
emulation  and  enterprise  are  ever  kept  upon 
the  alert. 

'*  The  series  of  Topographical  Prints 
which  now  courts  puhlic  attention,  found 
their  claims  to  patronage  on  the  union  of 
two  points,  viz.  Fidelity  of  general  por- 
traiture, and  Artist-like  effects.  In  deli- 
neating the  forms,  proportions,  and  relative 
situations  of  different  objects,  the  drafts- 
man has  been  very  scrupulous  :  and  he  has 
been  equally  desirous  of  adopting  and  exe- 
cuting such  effects, — such  accidental  inci- 
dents of  sun-shiue  and  cloud— of  light  and 
dark,  as  seemed  to  him  best  calculated  to 
produra  picturesque  combinations,  without 
injuring  or  deteriorating  the  correctness  of 
the  respective  scenes.  It  must  be  home 
ia  mind  th^  buildings,  in  distance,  can  only 
be  seen  in  masses ;  and  that  every  attempt 
to  detail  their  minute  parts  must  be  erro- 
neous I  as  likely  to  misrepresent,  rather 
than  to  portray  the  true  fcatnres  of  such 
objects.  The  Editor  is  too  well  acquainted 
w^th  Topography  to  sanction  the  omission 
of  any  essential,  characteristic,  natural  form; 
and  he  has  also  been  sufficiently  initiated  in 
the  principles  of  Art  to  know  that  distant 
and  general  views  of  buildings  and  of  scenery 
are  most  faithful  and  effective  when  they  re- 
present general  masses,  and  not  particular 


parts ;  wlien  they  convey  ta  the  eye  9aid. 
mind  a  concentrated  whole,  and  not  a  coUee* 
tion  of  subijrdinate  detaila." 


68 .  r^  History  and  Descriplionqfthe  Parith 
of  Cleikenwell.  fVtth  Engravings  by  J. 
and  H.  S.  Storer,  representing  its  ancient 
Monastic  Buildings,  Mansions  of  the  No^ 
bUity  and  Gentry,  and  other  interesting 
sul^ects.  No.  /.  to  III,  limo  and  8vo. 
Sherwood  and  Co. 

THE  disirici  intended  to  be  de- 
scribed ill  this  work,  was  once  the  re- 
sidence of  the  Court,  and  was  at  aa 
earlier  period  rendered  important  by  its 
large  Monastic  estublishroents.  There 
is  no  deficiency  of  matter,  therefore,  to 
furnish  an  entertaining  volume;  and 
from  the  well-known  industry  and  ac- 
curacy of  Messrs^  Storer,  the  numerous 
Embellishments  it  will  contain  will 
alone  be  worth  the  cost  of  the  volume. 

We  shall  reserve  anv  opinion  of  the 
descriptive  part,  till  the- work  is  com- 
pleted ;  ancl  in  the  mean  time,  from 
the  specimens  of  the  three  Numbers, 
now  Defore  us,  can  safely  recommend 
Messrs.  Storers'  labours  to  public  pa- 
tronage. 


LITERARY    AND    SCIENTIFIC    INTELLIGENCE. 


Cambridge,  March  95. 

The  Chancellor's  gold  medals  for  the  two 
best  'proficients  in  classical  learning  among 
the  commencing  Bachelors  of  Arts  were  on 


thronged,  and  much  confusion  ensued,  ib 
consequence  of  some  persons  obtruding 
themselves  into  the  seats  appropriated  to  the 
Latin  and  Greek  classes.    The  Greek  pro- 


Wednesday  adjudged  to  Mr.  B.  Kennedy,  of     lessor  was  greatly  annoyed,  and  even  insult- 
St.  John's,  and  Mr.  V.  F.  Hovenden,  of     «<*» .  by  *ome  strangers,   which,  of  course, 


Trinity  College. 

The  subject  of  the  Seatonian  prize  poem 
for  the  present  year,  is  ^  The  Marriage  at 
Cana  m  Gallilee.^' 

Trinity  Colleoe^  Dublin. 

The  subject  for  the  Vice-Chancellor's 
prizes  at  the  next  commencement,  is — for 
all  the  students,  both  graduates  and  under- 
graduates, in  Greek,  Latin,  or  English  verses, 

•*  In  olrttum  Frederici  Princitns   Iltustris-i- 

•  *t 
simt, 

Glasgow  University,  jipril  12. 

The  inauguration  of  Mr.  Thos.  Campbell, 
as  Rector,  took  place.  He  addressed  the 
company  present  at  great  length,  and  hts 
discourse  was  firequently  iatemipted  by  shouts 
of  approbation ;  he  spoke  witn  much  fisel- 
ing  and  gravity,  but  at  times  appeared  to  la- 
bour und^r  some  embarrassment.  The  com- 
mon hall,  which,  by  the  liberality  «f  the 
professors,  was  thrown  open  to  the  publie 


enkindled  the  indignation  of  the  students^ 
and  at  one  time,  from  the  spreading  of  the 
flame  to  the  stndenu  of  Natural  Philosophy, 
and  the  apparent  determination  to  clear  tne 
hall  of  strangers,  amid  the  clamour  of  the 
college  officers  endeavouring  to  restore  peace^ 
and  a  general  rush  of  the  students  towards 
the  centre  of  the  conflict,  every  thing  seem- 
ed preparing  for  a  rbw  between  toum  and  gaum* 
Order  was,  however,  speedily  restored,  and 
the  procession  having  entered,  the  ceremony 
of  taking  the  oaths,  &c.  was  performed 
amidst  the  tumultuous  applause  of  the  as- 
sembly. 


Ready  for  PubUeation, 

Whittemore*s  Historical  and  TopographI* 
cal  Fictxire  of  Brighton  and  its  £nviroas,  mrI 
Visitor's  Guide,  with  1 8  engravings. 

A  History  of  the  Right  Hon.  WiUiam 

Pitt,   Earl  of    Chatham;    containing    his 

Speeches  in  Parliament,  and  his  Correspond'* 

at  three  o'clock,  soon  became  fzcestively     ence  when  Secretary  of  State.    By  the  R^. 

Gent.  Mao.  jprU,  1827.  F.  Thackeray. 


6 


U6 


Literarff  JnttHtgtnce. 


[Aptnl, 


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DangYiter. 

Mpmoirioftlie  Life  of  Mr.  Roht.  Spence, 
Ute  bookseller,  of  York.   By  Richard  Bur- 

BKKIN. 

A  D«w  EdU'ion  of  Biiliop  Walitm's  Prole- 
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Sus-similet  in  iithograph>  &c.  By  Aicbdea* 
<OB  Wranoham. 

.  The  Apocalypse  of  St.  John,  or  a  Pro- 
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Church  of  Rome;  the  French  Revolution; 
the  Uuh'ersal  War,  and  the  final  Triumph  of 
Christianity.  Bein^anew  loterpetation.  By 
die  Rev.  Georgi  Croly,  M.A.  H.R.S.L. 

A  Vindidition  of  the  Sentiments  contain- 
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Bramibt  Cooper,  Esq.  M.P. 

Original  Bstays,  on  Hieological  Subjecta. 
By  James  Beckwith. 

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.  Meditations  on  the  Sufferings  of  Christ, 
ftooi  the  German  of  John  J.  RambacM; 
■bridged  and  improved,  by  the  Rev.  Sa- 
muel Beksoh. 

'  Pletas  Privata,  or  Book  of  Private  Devo- 
tion ;  a  Serips  of  Morning  and  Evening 
Prayers  and  Meditations  fur  every  day  in  the 
week,  and  on  various  occasions ;  with  intro- 
ductory Remarks  on  Prayer.  By  Mrs.  Ran- 
^       KAH  More. 

Sixteen  Serroona,  Doetrinal  and  Practical, 
elucidating  the  study  of  prophecvj  with  il- 
liAtrattve  notes  and  authorities.  By  the  Rev. 
John  Noble  Coleman. 

Sermons,  chiefly  Practical.  By  the  Rev. 
£ow.  Batheh,  M-A.  Vicar  of  Meole  Brace, 
Salop. 

pavidica  :  TwcKe  PrActlcai  Sermons,  on 
the  Lif<p  and  Character  of  David,  King  of 
Israel.     By  Henwy  Thompson,  M.A. 

Some  Account  of  ihe  Science  of  Botany, 
being  the  substance  of  an  Intnductory  JUec- 
tilre»  delivered  iji  the  Theatre  ef  the  Royal 
Imt'tu'.ioo  of  Great  Britain.  ByJoHN  Tro^t^ 
F.A  S.^nd  Lf.S*  of  EiDmiinuel  i^ollege,  CaJD- 
bridgc,  ike.  &c. 

|nu9trntioos  of  the  Geuloey  of  Sussex, 
emitainin^  n  general  view  of  the  Geological 
relation  of  the  Snuth  eastern  part  of  £i1e- 
.  land  with  6gures  and  descrij>ti(ms  nf  fossils 
of  Tilgate  forest.  By  Gideon  Mantell, 
F  R  S.,  &c  &c. 

A  H  istory  of  Ipventionn  ami  Discoveries, 
alabftbutically  arraqged*  By  F.  Su.lon 
Wmite,  F-A.S. 

Common  Senat  09  Col«itial  Slavery.  A 
Rf  view  of  tb#  ebi^  ofajecti^ms  urged  tgtioet 
tKt  tpeedy  iii«iuunis«it|»  of  Britiah  Slaveii. 
By  **  Ocu?.ut." 

^^x^unioMof  » Village  Curate;  or,  tk* 
Friilta  •nd.Gleaaii^  of  a  moa(b*4  f«n>Ut  J« 
^oMt  of  kaalth. 


No.  I.  of  §4  Views  in  SoutK  Wales. 
Taken  on  the  spot  and  drawn  on  stone.  By 
W.  Eloridge.  Seven  more  Parts  will  com- 
plete the  Seiies. 

I^rd  Hilland*s  Letter  to  Rev.  Dr.  Shnt- 
tleworth,  of  New  College,  Oxford. 

An  Inquiry  into  the  Operation  of  Tithes 
npon  Rent.  By  John  Buckle,  Esq.,  of 
Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

A  Letter  to  the  Earl  of  Lauderdale*  to 
serve  as  an  Index  to  his  Lordship's  Legisla- 
tive Chart. 

Absurdities,  in  Prose  and  Verse,  with  many 
humourous  Plates.     By  A.  Clowqutll! 

Stories  from  ScriptuYe  History  of  the  Old 
Te<t.tmeot,  on  an  improved  plan  By  the 
Rev.  B  H.  Draper;  with  94  Engravings. 
Also,  of  the  New  Testament,  on  the  same 
plan. 

No  IX.,  commeucing  the  third  volume, 
of  the '  Zoological  Journal ;  containing  a 
Memoir  of  the  Life  and  Writings,  and  Con- 
tributions to  Science,  of  the  late  Sir  T.  1 
Sta.mforo  Rappxcs  ;  with  other  original  ar- 
ticles in  every  branch  of  Zoology,  Reviews 
of  Books,  8ic. 

A  new  Treatise,  entitled  **  The  Stfhool  of 
Architecture  and  Engineering."  By  Peter 
Nicholson,  Author  of  "The  Canienter'a 
New  Guide." 

Prqparingfur  Publication. 

General  Compendium  of  the  County  His- 
tories of  Eugland ;  comprehending  the  His- 
tory, Antiquities,  Topography,  &c.  of  every 
county  in  England.  It  will  be  systematically 
arranged  under  the  five  following  heads  : — 
1.  Ancient  State  and  Remains. — 3.  Present 
State  and  Appearance. — ^3.  History. — 4.  Na- 
tives.—  5.  Miscellaaeoua  Obaervatioos.-^ 
Tliese  again  will  be  subdivided  into  numer- 
ous heads,  explaining  the  antiquities — aaci- 
eut  government  of  eaub  couutry — the  dates 
of  religious  and  civil  foundations,  with  the ' 
foundi'rs*  na.iies — the  most  prominent  fea- 
tures of  the  country  and  picturesque  scenery 
— the  present  public  edifices,  &c.  «  vols. 
Syo. 

The  HisMH-y  of  the  City  and  Coi|r.ty  Pala- 
tine of  Chester,  fr(»m  the  remotest  period  to 
the  presoni  tinM.  By  J.  H.  Hanshall, 
sixteen  years  Editor  of  the  Chester  Chroni- 
cle, &c.     2  vols.  8vo. 

Original  Correspondenoe  between  the  Rt. 
Hon.  Edmund  Burke  and  French  LaurencCj 
Esq.  LLD. 

A  Personal  Narrative  of  Travels  in  the 

.  United  Stales,  with  some  important  Remarks 

oa  the  stete  of  the  American  Marftiro    Re- 

ioacces.  By  the  Htm.  Freo  De  Boos,  R.N. 

An  AeeouQt  of  tlie  Deaths  of  Men  who 
have  been  eraioeot  for  titeir  attalnriients  in 
Tkeulogy,  Philosophy,  and  general  Litera- 
tuM.     vj  the  Rev.  H.  Clissold. 

^  Ser«t  af  Reprkitt,  accompanred  by  H- 
liistrative  and  bibliogfaphical  Neltices  of  tho 
note  onrious  old  Prose  RooMOces.  I^  monthlj 


ift^rj 


L'Utrary  InltlUgence, 


^7 


.  partf  •  the  first  eoataimog  the  proee  "  Lift 
of  RoberCe  tlie  D«uyll,"  from  tne  Editlun  b/ 
Wynkyn  de  Wo/de.     By  N.  I.Thoms. 

A  Coijcise  History  of  the  TraosiuUsioo  of 
Ancient  Hooks  to  Modern  Times ;  or  an  Ac- 
, count  of  the  means  by  which  tlie  genuine- 
ness and  authentici^ly  of  Historical  Works, 
•fpeciaily  of  Ancient  Literature  in  general* 
are  ascertained.  By  Isa^c  1'aylor,  jun., 
Author  of  "  Elenienu  of  Thought." 

Memoira  ;  including  Correspondence  and 
other  Remains  of  Mr.  John  Urquhart,  late 
of  the  University  of  St.  Andrews.  By  Wm. 
Ormb«  Author  (>f  "The  Memoirs  of  0*irea.'* 

A  Natural  History  of  the  BihL'  ;  or,  a 
.descriptive  Account  of  the  Zoology,  Botany, 
and  Mineralogy  of  the  Holy  Scriptures: 
oom|)iled  from  the  most  autlientic  sources, 
British  and  Foreign,  and  afUpte<i  t(»  the  use 
of  £nglish  readers.     By  Wm.  Carpf.vtkr. 

A  Translation  from  the  German  of  Hirsch's 
Geometry.     By  the  Rev.  J.  A.  Koss. 

i  he  ."ea-side  :  a  Series  of  short  Kssoys 
and  Poems,  suggested  by  a  temporary  resi- 
ileoce  at  a  Watering-place.  Bv  the  Ucv.  J. 
La^t. 

The  Florist's  Guide  and  Cultivutor's  Die- 
tionary.     By  Mr.  Sweet. 

A  Translaticm  fiouillie  German  of  Connc 

Von  Bis'iiark's  celebrated  **  Lectures  on  the 

Tactics  of  (  avalry."  By  Major  F.  Johnston. 

The  Memoirs  and  Correspondence  of  the 

late  Adm.  L4ird  Colliogwood.  By  G.  Newh 

HAM  Coi  LINGWOOD,  £sq. 

One  Hundred  Fables,  in  Prose  and  Verse, 
original  and  selected.  By  Jameb  North- 
cote,  R  A.,  embellished  with  270  Engrav- 
ings ou  wood,  from  original  designs  by  the 
Author  and  Wm.  Hcrvey. 

A  >eries  of  Practical  Instructions  in  Land- 
•ca|>e  Painting  in  Water-colours.  By  Mr. 
Clark. 

Part  VI.  of  Skeltoa*s  Specimens  of  Arms 
and  Armour. 


-  Thf  reading  wu  beguo  of  a  paper  oo-  e&* 
parinMOtals  for  determiotog  the  depsitj  of 
the  earth,  made  with  invariable  pendulums^ 
at  the  mine  of  Dolcouth,  in  Cornwall )  by 
W.  Whewcll,  M.A.  F.R.S. 

lyfarch  22.  The  reading  of  Mr.  WHe- 
well's  paper  was  finished,  and  an  Appendix 
to  it,  by  G.  B.  Airy*  esq.  Prof,  of  Mathe- 
ntatica,ia  the  University  of  Cambridge,  was 
also  read. 

March  2.9.  Davies  Gilbert,  esq.  V.P.  la 
the  chair  :  the  reading  was  commenced  of 
a  oaper  '*  On  certain  compounds  of  Chro- 
mium ;"  by  Thomas  'Hioroson,  M.D.  F.R.S. 
Regius  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  (he  Uni* 
versity  of  Gla$^ow. 

yiprilS.  Mr  Gilbert  in  the  chair.  The 
readmg  of  Dr.  Thompson's  pape/  was  con- 
cluded, an  I  the  Society  then  adjourned  to 
Thursday  April  20*. 


RovAL  Society. 
March  1.  A  paper  was  read,  entitled, 
**0n  the  Structure  and  Use  of  the  Suboiix- 
niary  Odoriferous  Gland  of  the  Crocodile  ; 
by  Thimiaa  Bell,  Esq.  F.L.S.:  commnni- 
cated  by  Sir  E.  Home,  hart.  V  P.R.S. 

The  j^ading  was  commenced  of  a  paper 
'*  On  the  disinfecting  liquor  of  Labarraque  ; 
by  A.  B.  Granville,  M.D.  F.R.S. 

March  8.  A  letter  fr*MU  M.  RQnker 
was  read,  announcing  his  discovery  of  a 
Comet  in  the  Southern  Hemisphere;  the 
l^eading  of  Dr.  Granville's  paper  was  con- 
cluded ;  and  a  paper  was  also  read,  **  On 
.  the  permeability  of  traqsparent  screens  of 
extreme  tenuity  by  radiant  heat ;  by  W. 
Ritchie,  A.M.'  communicated  by  J.  F.  W. 
Itercshel,  esq.  Sec.  R  S. 

Ma*ck  16.     A  paper  was  r^d,  entitled, 
'*  Correction  of  an  error  in  the  reduction 
Mif  the  ob&erVAtioas  of  atroospberi^l  refrac- 
tion at  Port  Bo  wen  ;  by  Lieut.  H.  FontoTi 


0'«  fAe  Cotmecfion  o^Bath  wkh  the'Lit^O' 

lure  and  Science  ttf  Kftglatul  f  abUracitd 

from  a  Pajter  read  before  the  LUtrary  and 

Philosophical  Asinciation  of  Auih,    By  tk^ 

Rev.  Joseph  Hunter,  F.A.S, 

Soon   as  the  Romans  beeanoe  possessed 
of  the  soutliern   part  of  this  Tsland,  there 
arose  around  these  springs  what   may   truly 
be  called  a  beautiful  and  splendid  city.     We 
know  it,  because  its   r9mains  are  with  us. 
When  some  ooe,  walkini;  with  au  Italian  in 
the  streets  of  modern  Rome,  enquired  for 
its   antiquities,  the   Roman  stooped  down, 
and  presented  him  with  a  handfuF  of  dust, 
.And  we,  whenever  we  descend  a  few  feet  I>e- 
low  the  surface,  I  speak  of  what  constitutes 
the  City  of  Hath,  not  of  that  new  and  beau- 
tiful suburb  m  which,  within  the  memory  of 
man,  she  bath  renewed  her  youth,  we  never 
fiiil  to  meet  with  some  relic  of  that  all-con- 
quering,  refined,   and  ever-to-be- honoured 
people.     Two  centuries  ago  there  was  such 
a  cidlection  of  the  sculpture  of  Roman  art- 
ists as  no  city  in  this  kingdom  could  boast. 
Within  the  menfory  of  man  a  portion  of  one 
c^  their  temples  was  still  standing,  making  a 
part  of  a  Christian  Church,  known  as  the 
Chnrch  of  St.  Mary  at  Stalls.     Those  have 
perished.     But  enough  of  the  works  of  that 
people  still  remains  to  shew  that  the  City  of 
tlie  Sua  was  adorned  with  obelisks  and  sta- 
tues ;  that  the  sculptured  tombs, of  its  inha- 
bitants were  placed  along  the  sides  of  the 
roads  which  pointed  towards  it ;  that  it  h^ 
numerous  altars;   and  that  there  arose  at 
least  two  Temples,  of  one  of  which  enough 
remains  to  exhibit  its  form,  its  extent,  and 
its  <;randeur ;   and  to  shew  that  the  antient 
architects  of  Bath  had,  at  least,  one  model 
of  jiist  proportion  and  beautiful  design. 

This  then  must  lie  classic  ground.  It  is 
remarkable,  that  there  is  no  Romano- British 
Ltteratcrre.  Bid  soch  exist,  we  sh«HiM  assu- 
redly have  found  the  name  of  Aquse  Solis, 
the  city,  of  Apollo,  the  city  in  which  a  Tem- 
ple was  dedicated  to  the  Goddess  of  Wisdoia,. 


343               Cofineclwn  of  Bath  wUh  Literature  and  Science,          [April, 

At  it^ty  we  must  oontont  onnelTM  with  the  Idngi  of  Wettex  and  Mercie,  there  arose  an 
proofs  that  the  arts  in  those  ages  had  a  do*  eitensive  Mnd  richly-endowed  Monastery, 
micile  at  Bath.  The  remains  of  the  Portico  within  whose  precincts  we  are  at  this  mo- 
of  the  Temple  of  Minerra*  are  sufficient  to  ment  assembled.  In  the  tenth  century  its 
shew  that  tnere  were  those  who  could  design  constitation  was  reformed  by  Elf^ge,  a  na- 
and  execute  according  to  the  chastest  mo-  tire  of  this  district,  for  he  was  bom  at  the 
dels  of  Grecian  art.  Some  of  our  inscribed  little  rillage  of  Weston  under  Lansdown. 
marbles  are  cut  with  peculiar  delicacy  and  In  theeariierput  ofbtslife  he  HvedatGlas- 
beauty.  The  bronze  head  t  which  is  among  tonbury  and  Bath.  Here  he  presided  over 
the  ornaments  of  the  Guildhall,  part  of  a  the  monastery,  the  rule  of  which  he  had 
statue,  the  nmainder  of  which  one  day  misy  refonned.  From  hence  he  was  called  to 
he  discoTcred,  is  the  work  of  oo  ordinary  preside  over  the  See  of  Caoterbury.  The 
hand.  It  may  be  qnestioned,  indeed,  whe-  history  of  his  life  is  the  suhjec^  of  a  parti- 
ther  it  were  the  performance  of  anv  resident  cnlar  memoir  by  one  of  his  contemporaries, 
artist./  But  that  it  was  so  is  rendered  pro-  He  appears  to  have  possessed  some  great  and 
hable  by  the  discovery  that  the  processes  of  cood  qualities.  He  perished  at  last  by  the 
metallurgy  must  have  been  carried  on  in  this  hands  of  the  Danes; 

e ice  to  a  considerable  extent,  because  that  The  Monasteries  were,  in  those  ages,  ai- 
re was  a  maoulkctory  of  the  instruments  most  the  only  seats  of  learning  and  science, 
used  by  the  Romans  io  war.  Hence  it  b  We  are  not  oualiiied  to  judge  how  hi  the 
inferred  that  here  were  the  fiirnaces  neces-  institution  of  Elfege  went  to  form  the  mere 
sary  for  the  casting  of  the  bronze  in  question,  devotee,  or  the  fu  nobler  character  of  the 
ana  some  of  the,  skill  which  such  a  work  re-  religious  man  who  endeavours  to  gain  know- 
quired  in  those  who  had  to  shape  the  en-  ledgle  for  himself,  and  to  impart  it  willingly 
signs,  or  to  form  the  devices  on  the  shields,  to  others.  But  soon  after  the  Conquest 
of  the  Roman  warriors.           .  another  chance  took  place  in  the  constitu- 

With  attention  to  the  Arts  a  literary  spi-  tion  of  the  Monastery,  which  was  highly 

rit  is  generally  united.     But  the  dawn  of  the  favourable  to  the  introduction  of  the  light 

literature  of  England  is  to  he  fixed  at  a  pe-  of  literature  and  science  among  us.    To  one 

riod  afier  the  retreat  of  the  Romans  from  member  of  its  body,  soon  to  be  mentioned, 

Britain,  and  when  the  anarchy  which  pre-  Western  Science  has,  perhaps,  greater  ob- 

vailed  during  the  fifih  and  sixth  ceotories  ligations  than  to  any  individual  firom  the  fall 

had  given  place  to  settled  and  regular  go-  to  the  revival  of  learning  s  and  from  this 

vemments.     Before  Eugland  scknowledged  time  to  the  Dissolution  there  appears  never 

only  one  sovereign,  it  had  begun  to  have  its  to  have  been  wanting  those  who  upheld  the 

national  literature.     Alcuin  and  Bede  were  united  lights  of  literature  and  science  in  the 

writers,  of  whom  no  age  need  to  be  ashamed,  midst  of  the'population  of  this  city. 

A  little  before  their  time  lived  GaoAS,  aman  And  here  I  wish  that  we  could  recall  the 

inferior  to  them  indeed,  but  who  is  regarded  spirit  of  John  Chandler,  who  was  Warden 

as  the  father  of  English  History,  havmg  of  New  College  in  Oxford,  and  Arthdeacon 

composed,  in  his  monastery  at  Bangor,  an  of  Wells,  in  the  reign  of  King  Edward  IV.: 

account  of  the  wars  of  the  sixth  century,  or  that  we  could  recover  a  work  of  his  which 

with  a  long  and  tedious  lamentation  over  the  existed  in  the  time  of  Leland,  **  De  laudibns 

sufferings  of  bis  country.    This  was  the  first  Baiarum  et  Fonticulorum  Civitatum.*'  How 

attempt  at  historical  composition  amongst  much   of  the   writings  of  the  schoolmen 

us.     it  is  here  that  we  read  of  Arthur,  and  would  we  give  for  this  curious  and  interest- 

the  great  battle   of  the  Mons  Badonicus,  ing  tract.     How  agreeable  a  picture  it  in 

These  continue  to  this  day  to  attract  to  Bath  all  probability  presented  of  the  sute  of  the 

the  attention  of  everr  critical  enquirer  into  sister  cities,  at  a  period  of  which  we  have 

our  early  history.     With  the  name  of  Gil-  so  few  memorials :  not  inferior  perhaps  in 

4as  has  descended  the  addition  of  Badoni-  true  and  livelv  colouring  to  the  description 

cus.     It  is  hence  reasonably  inferred  that  he  of  London  a  few  centuries  earlier  by  Stepha- 

was  a  native,  or  at  least,  at  one  period  of  his  nides.  How  many  of  the  more  distinguished 

life,  a  resident  of  Bath.  inhabitants  of  the  Monastery  of  Bath  may 

Immediately  after  the  second  introduction  it  have  recorded :  for  Chandler  was  one  who 

of  Christianity  into  Britain,  a  company  of  delighted  to  employ  himself  in  maiutainmg 

Religious  became  seated  near  our  healing  the  memory  or  the  wise  and  good.     But 

Springs.    There  are  traces  of  a  society  of  since  his  spirit  will  not  come,  even  thoii^h 

religious  women  in  the  earliest  ages,  doubt-  we  invoke  it,  to  these  wl^ich  were  once  dm 

less  collected  for  the  purpose  of  administer-  favourite  haunts,  and  since  his  work  is  lost, 

ing  assistapce  to  the  multitudes  of  the  sick  it  is  to  be  feared  irrecoverably,  we  must  be 

and  the  infirm  who  sought  the  benefit  of  the  content  with  such  imperfect  hints  as  are  to 

waters.    But  under  tne  patronage  of  the  be  collected  firom  other  quarters. 

The  chanp  in  the  character  of  the  In- 

"  mates  of  this  monastery  was  produced  by 

•  Engraved  in  Arehieologia.  that  remarkable  person  called   sometimes 

t  Engnved  in  Vetusu  Monuments.  John  de  ViLLULi,  and  sdmetimes  Joannes 


18^70  Cifnnectian  of  Both  with  Literature  and  Science. 


S4» 


Turoneiuis,  from  Tcrart  the  place  of  his  birth. 
This  person  came  to  England  in  the  train 
of  the  G>nqueror,  and  seated  himself  at 
Bath,  for  the  purpose  of  practising  ihe  heal- 
ing art.  William  of  Malmesbury,  who  has 
written  his  life,  speaks  of  him  as  being  me- 
dieus  prc^tus  usu  rum  Uteris*  But  he  also 
•peaks  of  him  as  a  great  encourager  of  lite- 
rature, as  possessed  of  great  skill  in  his 
art,  and  as  surpassing  all  the  physicians  of 
his  age  in  profit  and  honour.  He  purchased 
the  aotient  royal  &rm  of  the  city :  and  such 
was  his  influence,  he  prevailed  with  the 
King  to  consent  that  the  seat  of  the  Bishop- 
rick  of  Somersetshire  should  be  removed 
from  Wells  to  Bath,  and  that  he  himself 
should  be  made  the  Bishop.  The  Church 
of  the  Monastery  then  became  the  Cathe- 
dral of  the  diocese.  He  presided  over  the 
See  with  great  dignity  for  four  and  thirty 
years.  At  his  death  in  11 32  he  was  buried 
in  the  Church  of  the  monastery,  where  his 
tomb  was  still  to  be  seen  in  the  time  of  Le- 
land.  It  was  then  however  going  fast  to  de- 
cay. Weeds  were  springing  about  it,  and 
the  Church  was  unroofed.  It  was  the  old 
Church  built  by  himself,  superseded  by  the 
present  fiibriek. 

The  reigns  of  Rufus  and  Henry  I.  form  a 
brilliant  era  in  the  history  of  Bath.  Malmes- 
bury  expressly  informs  us  that  Viliula  col- 
lected about  him  a  society  of  religious  who 
were  eminently  distinguished  for  their  learn- 
ing. An^ongscthem  was  Ao&lard,  a  name 
which  deserves  to  be  held  in  everlasting  ho- 
nour. 

It  is  well  known  that  while  learning  and 
science  were  nearly  extinct  iu  Europe,  they 
were  cultivated  under  the  Caliphs  to  a  great 
extent,  and  with  much  success.  Adelard 
having  acquired  what  could  be  learned  at 
home,  visited  Egypt  and  Arabia.  He  made 
himself  master  of  the  language  of  Arabia, 
and  possessed  himself  of  much  of  the  science 
of  that  country.  He  brought  from  it  trea- 
tises in  natUrad  philosophy  ;  and  is,  in  fact, 
the  link  which  connects  western  sdience  with 
that  of  the  east.  But  he  brought  home  a 
more  precious  volume  than  any  oi  the  wri- 
tings of  the  Arabian  philosophers.  This 
was  the  Elements  of  Euclid,  not  in  its  ori- 
ginal form,  but  in  an  Arabic  translation,  of 
which  Adelard  made  a  Latin  version,  which 
continued  to  be  used  all  over  Europe  till, 
some  centuries  after,  the  Greek  original  was 
discovered.  This  was  a  service  such  as  few 
are  able  to  render  for  science ;  and  who  shall 
attempt  to  calculate  how  much  is  on  this 
account  due  from  all  who  love  science,  and 
venerate  those  who  advance  it,  to  this  Athel- 
ardus  Bathoniensis,  who  must  a  thousand 
times  have  crossed  the  very  ground  on  which 
in  these  latter  days  we  have  raised  this  Tem- 
ple to  Science.  But  beside  having  made 
nimself  master  of  Arabian  science,  and  in 
some  measure  of  the  science  of  a  still  more 
eolighteDcd  people^  be  appears  to  have  been 


himself  an  en<{airer  into  naturcy  and  an  ori« 

S'nal  discoverer.  His  writings  are  probably 
lown  to  very  few,  as  they  are  to  me,  but 
by  their  titles.  He  wrote  on  the  Abacus 
and  the  Astrolabe,  which  were  the  first  at- 
tempt) at  making  the  skill  of  the  mechanic 
minister  to  the  views  of  the  philosopher :  on 
the  causes  of  Natural  Compositions,  In 
Wjhich  it  may  be  supposed  that  some  of  the 
principles  of  chemical  affinities  are  to  be 
found  :  and  Seventy-Six  Problems  in  Natu- 
ral Philosophy,  which  Leland,  no  incompe- 
tent judge,  pronounces  to  be  highly  valua- 
ble. An  account  of  his  travels  was  onoe  to 
be  read  in  a  manuscript  preserved  in. the  li- 
brary of  Corpus  Christ!  College  in  Oxford. 
Who  bnt  must  join  with  Dr.  Wallis  in  the 
sincere  regret  which  he  expresses  in.  the 
preface  to  his  Algebra,  that  some  wicked 
hand  has  torn  away  the  precious  leaves  ? 

In  the  next  century  there  was  one  Regi- 
nald OP  Bath,  a  physician,  who  may  be  pre- 
sumed to  have  been  eminent,  as  he  was  sent 
by  King  Henry  III.  to  attend  a  Queen  of 
Scotland  at  Edinburgh.  Contemporary  with 
him  was  Hbnry  op  Bath,  a  lawyer,  who  m 
described  by  Pitz  as  U^m  terra  periHssirmu, 
And  to  about  the  same  period  is  to  be  re- 
ferred a  William  op  Bath,  a  divine,  some  of 
whose  homilies  were  collected,  and  th^  vo- 
lume was  still  in  existence  in  the  time  of 
Leland. 

The  Inhabitants  of  the  Monastery  of  Bath 
had  the  benefit  of  a  library  which  was  richly 
stored  with  works  relating  to  the  science  of 
the  middle  ages.  John  de  Viliula  was  a  great 
benefiictor  to  it.  This  library  excited  tha 
admiration  of  Leland,  who  was  acquainted 
with  all  the  great  libraries  in  the  kingdom. 
There  were  books  in  it,  which  must  have 
been  precious  volumes,  the  gift  of  King 
Athelstan.  There  were  translations  from 
the  Arabic,  perhaps  the  work  of  Adelard 
himself.  There  were  poems  of  the  middle 
ages  ;  the  Roman  Classics ;  and  the  writings 
of  the  more  eminent  physicians. 

There  has  been  a  time  at  Bath,  when  men 
conspired  to  abolish  the  memory  of  the 
things  that  had  been.  One  book  remains. 
It  Is  known  as  the  Red- Book  op  Bath, 
and  is  now  deposited  in  the  library  of  that 
noble  family  who  derive  their  principal  title 
of  honour  from  this  place.  It  relates  to 
the  possessions  of  the  Abbey. 

The  Dissolution  of  the  Monasteries  forms 
a  grand  epoch  in  the  political,  the  religious, 
and  the  literary  history  of  our  country. 
From  that  event,  rather  than  firom  the  be- 
ginning of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  I  should 
be  disposed  to  date  what  is  called  our  mo- 
dem history. 

It  will  be  found  that  here  has  been  a  suc- 
cession of  persons  in  the  various  deiwrt* 
ments  of  our  literature, — in  Natural  Phila- 
sophy,  in  Morals,  in  History,  in  Criticism, 
and  Poetry, — some  of  whom  may  with  truth 
be  said  to  have  been  of  tht  first  order  of 


MO 


Lileraiure  wki  SoMce. 


[April, 


jMiodt^  mad  naby  of  Umih  euiiMoty  ati4  wor* 
thy  of  a  lastiag  reapemhraDCf . 

Early  in  (he  Mventteoth  century,  the 
names  of  JoNKa»  aotl  Venner,  and  Jordkn, 
and  Johnson,  and  Piebcb,  all  retideot^phy- 
•icians  of  Bath,  who,  with  others,  attempted 
to  clear  away  the  mystery  which  hangs  over 
our  springs,  and  by  thc'ir  writings  to  ad- 
vance our  botanical  knowledge,  or  our  me- 
dical science.  There  was  also  a  Dr.  Mayow, 
who  communicated, to  the  world  the  result 
.of  his  chemical  researches  in  a  treatise  upon 
aitrous  salts  :.and  Dr.  Guidot,  a  nuin  of  va- 
rious learning*  who  lived  in  close  corre- 
apoodence  with  the  must  eminent  physi- 
cians, naturalists,  and  philosophers  of  his 
.1^1  and  who  himself  contributed  to  the 
advancement  of  science  and  philosophy. 
That  all  or  any  of  them  were  great  original 
diseovereM  can  hardly  be  maintained :  but 
t^y  were  men  who  fully  came  up  to  the 
ataodard  of  philosophical  knowledge  in  their 
osm  age,  who  maintained  in  their  day  the 
Pi putation  of  Bath  for  acience,  and  who 
l^pared  the  way  for  their  more  able  suc- 
flBfsors. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  next  century  were 
Chbyns  and  the  elderOLivER,  both  Fellows 
of  the  Royal  Society,  and  both  contributing 
by  their  writings  to  the  advancement  of 
knowledge  in  the  profession  to  prataice  of 
which  they  were  devoted.  A  second  Oliver 
aucceeded,  not  inferior  to  the  first;  and 
during  the  whole  of  that  century,  among  the 
medical  practitioners  of  Bath  were  many, 
who,  through  different  channels,  oommuni- 
Cnted  to  the  public  curious  resulu  of  their 
professional  enquiries,  increasing  in  a  greater 
or  lesa  degree  the  medical  information  of  the 
eoontry,  and  supporting  through  that  cen- 
tury tlie  reputation  of  our  city  for  medical 
l^nce ;  till  at  the  close  of  it  we  arrive  at  the 
fft^mes  of  Falconer  and  Parry,  who  will, 
proiiably,  be  allowed  to  have  surpassed  all 
their  pre<lece8sors  as  well  in  medical  science 
M  in  polite  and  elegant  literature. 

The  name  of  Sir  William  Watson  be- 
comes honourably  connected  with  the  sci- 
ence of  the  country,  and  through  him  Bath 
with  tliat  science,  by  another  tie.  In  the 
baud  of  musicians  who  once  performed  at 
our  evenibg  Concerts  was  a  young  Ger- 
llian  who  possessed  considerable  skill  in  hia 
own  art,  but  who  was  observrd  often  to  leave 
the  room,  and  employ  himself  during  the 
interval  of  his  performances  in  the  study  of 
the  heavens.  This  excited  the  curitwity  of 
SU  William  Watson,  who  soon  discovered 
that  he  was  no  ordinary  character,  and  who 
from  that  moment  extended  his  patronage  to 
him,  assisting  him  in  his  studies,  and  intro- 
ducing him  to  tlie  a(*quaintance  of  other 
pfrsona  engaged  in  the  same  pursuit.  I 
nfed  not  add  that  this  was  Herschel*  who 
continued  to  reside  for  many  years  at  Bath, 
1^,  ]  JMlieve,  through  means  of  his  first 
iJfUrpn,  he  wis  introduced  to  his  late  Ma- 


Jefty,  and  placed  in  a  situation  more  favour- 
^le  for  the  prosecution  of  those  obserra- 
tions  which  nn-  lly  produced  such  splendid 
results.  While  still  a  resident  of  Bath, 
many  of  his  most  important  observations 
were  made.  Here,  it  is  said,  he  obtained 
the  first  glimpse  of  the  planet  which  bears 
his  name  ;  and  here  he  constructed  h;i  first 
telescope,  having  been  led  to  consider  the 
structure  oi  that  instniment,  by  haviqg  ec- 
cidentally  broken  one  of  the  lenses  of  an 
old  telescope  which  he  had  borrowed  in  this 
city. 

in  the  department  of  Botany,  our  old 
physician  Dr.  Johnson  is  to  be  remembered, 
as  having  published  the  Herbal  of  Gerard, 
which  long  continued  to  be  the  most  popu- 
lar and  roost  complete  wuik  in  that  depart- 
ment of  natural  history.  Ito  later  and  bet- 
ter times  the  work  of  Mr.  Sole  on  the 
plants  belonging  to  the  genus  Mentha  is 
aupposed  to  have  exhausted  his  subject. 
But  the  name  of  Stack  house  xtands  emi- 
nent among  the  cultivators  of  this  attractive 
branch  of  natural  history,  the  translator  of 
Theopbrastus,  and  the  able  delineator  of  the 
Fuci  and  other  marine  [ilaots  found  npon 
our  shores,  in  the  work  to  which  he  gave  the 
appropriate  and  classical  title  of  Nereis  Bri- 
tannica. 

(To  l*e  concluded  in  our  next  J 


Polar  Expbditiok. 

On  Sunday  the  95th  of  March,  the  Hecla, 
under  the  command  of  Captain  Parry,  lefb 
her  moorings  at  Deptfbrd,  towed   by  the 
Lightning  steamer,  to  proceed  on  her  in- 
tended expedition  to  the  North  Pole,  uo- 
ticed  in  vol.  xcvi.  ii.  61.     From  Sheerness 
the  was  towed  by  the  Comet  steam-vessel, 
which  was  to  accompany  her  aa  far  as  Or- 
fordnesa.   The  navigators  were  not  to  stop  at 
the  Orkneys^  as  in  previous  voyages,  but 
proceed  to  Uammerfest  in  Norway,  where 
some  rein-deer  will  be  provided  for  thera,  to 
assist  in  drawing  the  boats  on  the  ice  when 
they  are  used  as  sledges.     Upon  the  arrival 
of  the  Hecla  at  Spitzl>ergen,  after  securing 
her  firmly  in  as  good  a  situation  as  can  lie 
found,  she  will  be  left  in  charge  of  a  lieu- 
tenant.    The  two  expeditions,  into  which 
the  rest  of  the  officers  and  crew  are  to  be 
divided  (after  leaving  a  few  hands  with  the 
vessel)  will  then  start  on  their  adventurous 
routes.     The  first,  which  is  to  proceed  di- 
rect for  the  North  Pole,  is  to  consist,  of  two 
partic%  of  ten  men  each  and  two  officers,  in 
two  boats,  which  may  be  used  on  the  ice 
with  wheels,  or  as  sledges.     The  provisions 
consist  of  fine  h|s.cuit  powdered,  and  meat 
preser^ied  in  a  peculiar  manner.     For  fuel 
there  is  highly  rectified  spirits  of  wioe,  one 
pint  of  which  will  make  four  gallons  of  water 
from  ice  (by  an  ingenious  apparatus),  and  at 
the  same  time  boil  the  water  into  aovp't 


Tbej  will  take  provbioDS  for  ninety  dajs,  th« 
time  thry  expect  to  be  absent ;  but  will  be 
able  to  subsist  upon  the  stock  for  110  and . 
120  days,  should  difficulties  arise  to  detain 
them  so  long.  Tlie  second  division  U  un- 
der Lieutenant  Foster,  R  N.  an  officer  of 
great  scientific  attainments,  and  who  acted 
al  astronomer  in  the  last  expedition  with 
Captain  Parry :  it  is  his  intention,  if  pos- 
sible, to  sail*  round  Spitzbergen.  It  hav- 
ing been  correctly  ascertained  to  be  au 
island,  he  will  correctly  lay  down  the  ex- 
act portions  of  the  different  bearings,  and 
make  many  astronomical  observations  and 
experiments  on  magnetism — the  Board  of 
Longitude  having  furnished  the  exp  'dititin 
with  many  excellent  and  curious  instruroeuts 
fur  those  purp<»8es. 

The  perils  incident  to  this  undertaking 
are  probably  magnified  beyond  reality ;  for 
the  vuyag*'  iuelf  by  sea,  as  for  as  Spitzber- 
gen, is  dot  subject  to  any^extraordinary  de- 
gree of  danger  ;  and  the  impervious  barrier 
which  the  insurmountable  accumulations  of 
icebergs  and  fixed  masses,  as  well  as  ava- 
lanches of  snow,  present  farther  to  the 
northward,  will  probably  soon  compel  the 
adventurers  to  fetrace  their  step. 

FossiiL,  Remains. 

In  the  summer  of  1 836,  as  some  work- 
men were  quarrying  stones  in  Uphill  Hilt, 
^  Somerset,  they  crossed  a  fissure  containing 
a  quantity  of  bones.  In  the  course  of  fur  • 
ther  search  were  discovered  bones  of  the 
elephant,  rhinoceros,  ox,  horse,  bear,  hog, 
byasna,  fox^  polecat,  water-rat,  minise,  and 
birds.  Nearly  all  the  bones  of  the  larger 
species  were  so  gnawed  and  splintered,  and 
evidently  of  such  ancient  fracture,  that  little 
doubt  can  exist  that  it  was  a  hyaena's  den, 
similar  to  Kirkdale,  and  Kent's  Hole.  The 
bones  and  teeth  of  the  extinct  species  of  hy- 
fiona  were  very  abundant.  The  more  antient 
bones  were  found  in  the  upper  region  of  the 
fis^kure,  firmly  iinl)edded  j  furiher  down,  in 
a  wet  loam,  there  was  an  innumerable  quan* 
tity  of  birds'  bones  only,  principally  of  the 
gull  tril)e.  These  Professor  fiuckland  sup- 
poses to  have  been  introduced  by  foxes.  Th« 
Cavern  extends  about  40  feet  from  North  to 
South,  varying  from  14  to  6  feet,  from  East 
to  West. — At  its  entrance  the  floor  was 
found  covered  with  sheep- bones,  and  on  dig-  , 
giog  into  the  mud  and  sand  of  which  it  con- 
sisted, several  bones  of  the  cuttie  fish  were 
found,  and  the  pelvis  and  a  few  bones  of  the 
fox.  I'he  fissuie  is  vertical,  about  SO  feet 
deep  from  the  surface  to  the  month  of  the 
eave,  and  is  situated  at  the  western  extre- 
mity of  Meodip,  in  a  bold  mural  front  of 
liiuestune  strata.  The  greater  part  of  the 
bones  have  been  presented  to  the  Bristol 
Institution  ;  Mr.  Buckland  has  a  few  spect- 
roent,  and  the  Geological  Sooiatw  in  Lomlo* 
a  few  mora* 


Lileroture  and  Science. 


S5l 


The  Rf  v.  T.  Willia.nis*s  Ljbrart. 
A  Latin  MS.  of  the  Gospels  in  this  splen- 
did collection  was  sold  April  II.  It  is  th; 
one  that  was  presented  by  the  Countess  Ma- 
tilda of  Tuscany  (the  great  patroness  of  the 
church  in  the  eleventh  century),  to  the  ce- 
lebrated inouastery  of  Sc  Benedict  de  Pado* 
lirone,  near  Modena.  Ii  appears,  by  a  MS. 
note  of  Recanati  on  the  margin,  to  hava 
been  written  previous  to  the  year  10*17.  One 
of  its  most  distinguishing  features  is,  tha 
spirited  desiens  at  the  beginuing  and  end  of 
tiie  text  of  the  scriptures,  which  are  highly 
interesting  specimens  of  early  art  The  sub* 
jects  treated,  are  Joseph's  Dream,  the  Wise 
Men's  Offering,  the  Flight  into  Kgypt,  and 
various  other  pas- ages  in  tlte  Life  of  Our 
Saviour.  This  valuable  Codex,  which  Mr. 
Dibdin  says  is  the  finest  in  existence,  is  in 
folio,  written  upon  vellum.  It  was  put  nip 
at  fifty  guineas,  and,  after  much  competition, 
was  knocked  down  at  179/*  to  Mr.  Singar» 
the  librarian  to  the  Royal  Institution,  who 
was  understou<l  to  have  purchssed  it  fur  Sir 
Thomas  Phillips.  The  Duke  of  Sussex,  wa 
believe,  was  vety  desirous  of  possessing  thia 
MS.,  and  Mr.  Pettigrew  bid  for  it  very  spi-  . 
ritedly  up  ta  17t/.  Evangeiia  Quaiuor,  a 
fine  Greek  MS.  upon  vellum,  bearing  tht 
date  of  the  tenth  century,  aUd  apparently 
copied  from  an  earlier  MS.f  was  s<^  for 
69/.  lOj. 

Sale  of  the  celebrated  Breviarium  Ho- 
ld an  um,  PRESENTED  TO  ISABELLA,  QuBEM 

OF  Spain. 

The  celebrated  Missal  which  was  preiant- 
ed  by  Francisco  de  Rtiias  to  Isaliella*  Queen 
of  S|>ain,  wife  of  King  Ferdinand,,  and  tba 
munificent  patroness  of  Columbus,  was  lately 
brought  to  the  hammer,  by  Mr.  Evana,  oJP 
Pall  Mall,  and  knocked  down  to  Mr.  Hard> 
of  the  Temple,  at  S'iO  guineaa.  This  was 
one  of  the  most  interesting  and  important  ar- 
ticles in  the  very  splendid  Ubranr  of  tba  lata 
John  Dent,  Esq  F.R.S.  and  F.S.A.,  whicb 
was  on  sale  by  Mr.  Evans.  It  waa  purchased 
by  Mr.  Dent  at  800  guioeaa.  In  iatrodue- 
ing  this  splendid  work  to  the  notice  of  tba 
company,  Mr.  Evans  passed  \i}Kin  it  an  ele- 
gant eulogium  This  magnificent  MS.  upoa 
vellum,  is  illuminated  by  Flemish  painteri, 
in  Spain,  about  the  close  of  the  I5tb  cea-^ 
tury,  containing  523  leaves,  interspersed 
witn  a  variety  of  beautiful  miniature  paint- 
ings. The  pot  traits  of  De  Roais  and  tha 
Queen  of  Spain  are  introduced  in  the  minia- 
tures. De  Roais  is  supposed  to  have  \ietm 
of  the  noble  family  of  R(»ccas  ;  the  name  ba- 
ing  written  iodifforently  Roias,  R<ijas,  and 
Rocoaa,  in  Spain.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Dibdta  haa 
given,  in  his  Bibliographical  Dtoaineroa,  aa 
elaborate  and  adtoiral)le  description  of  thia 
splendid  Breviary,  which  conteins  some  spa- 
ciinens  of  art  of  a  bigiier  character  than 
ara^to  ba  funndavaftln  the  Heai^ful  fiadfaid 
Missal. 


£     35?     ] 


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ANTIQUARIAN   RESEARCHES. 


Society  op  Antiquariu. 

March  9f .  Hvory  HAlUm*  esq.  F.  R.  S. 
V.P.  in  the  Chair. 

The  report  of  the  Auditors  appointed  to 
eiamine  ,the  Society's  accounts,  was  read 
hf  Dr.  MeTfick ;  from  wliich  it  appeared 
that  the  halance  of  the  last  accounts,  and 
the  receipts  for  the  past  year,  together 
amonnted  to  9850/. ;  and  that  the  disburse- 
ments dnring  the  same  period  had  been 
909SL  leaving  a  balance  now  in  the  Trea- 
surer's hands  of  757/. 

'  A  Letter  was  read,  addressed  to  Mr.  El- 
lis by  S.  R.  Meyrick,  LL.D.  F.S.A. ;  con- 
taining a  minute  description  of  some  le- 
gends of  saints  and  devices,  engraved  on  a 
•ait  of  steel  armour  for  man  and  horse,  in 
the  horse  armoury  in  the  Tower,  the  armour 
and  arms  in  which  Dr,  Meyrick  is  re-arrang- 
tng,  by  the  direction  of  the  Master-general 
and  the  Hob.  Board  of  Ordnance.  The  en- 
gravings on  this  suit,  which  has  alwavs  been 
atated  to  have  belonged  to  Henry  VH.  were 
eoncealed  by  a  coat  of  black  paint,  which 
after  his  discovery  of  them,  Dr.  M.  caused 
to  be  removed.  They  evince  the  suit  to 
have  been  really  made  for  Henry  VHI.  on 
his  marriage  to  Catherine  of  Arragon. 

The  legends  engraved  on  this  suit  of 
armour  are  various  portions  of  the  life  of  St. 
C^orge,  the  tutelar  military  saint  of  Eng- 
land ;  of  that  of  St.  Agatha,  &c.  Sec. ;  and 
the  devices  comprise  the  Basilisk,  the  Dra- 
gon of  Cadwallader,  and  many  others.  Trac- 
ings of  the  whole,  on  fifteen  sheets,  made 
by  Mr.  Lovell,  accompanied  the  paper,  and 
w«re  exhibited  to  the  Society. 

March  89.    The  President  in  the  Chair. 
A  P«per  by  Mr.  Blore  was  read,  descrip- 
tiTe  of  tne  specimen  of  ancient  art  recently 
discovered  by  him  in  Westminster  Aiibey, 
•ad  noticed  in  our  last  number,  p.  251. 

The  reading  of  Dr.  Meyrick  s  notices  of 
military  writers  concerning  Hand  Fire-arms 
WBf  also  continued. 

April  5.  Thomas  AmyoW  esq.  F.R.S. 
TVeasurer  S.  A.  in  the  Chair. 

The  reading  of  Dr.  Meyrick*s  paper  was 
fiirther  continued.    The  weapons  described 
io  this  portion  of  Dr.  M.'s  interesting  com- 
munication, were  the  following  :  the  Petro- 
nel  or  Poitrinall,  so  called  from  its  being 
applied  to  the  breast  when  fixed,  and  dis- 
tiMuished  from  the  Long  Dag  only  by  its 
wi£h  at  the  but ;  the  Blunderbuss,  invented 
in  Germany ;  the  Hand-mortar,  for  throw- 
ing grenades ;  the  Draeon,  a  piece  shorter 
than  the  Carbine,  and  carrying  a  musket- 
ball,  from  which  the  troops  who  carried  it 
were  successively  termed  Diasonniers  and 
Dragoons ;  the  Dagy  of  whicn  there  were 
diraa  kinds,  the  Iong»  tba  short,  and  the 


pocket;   and  the  Pistol,   invented   in  the 
time  of  Henry  VHL 

The  ensuing  weeks  being  those  of  Pas- 
sion and  Easter,  the  Society  then  adjourned 
to  the  3dd  of  April,  when  the  Anniversary 
Meeting  for  the  election  of  officers,  &c. 
xtook  place. 

Egyptian  Mummy. 
The  operation  of  opening  an  Egyptian 
mummy  was  lately  performed  in  the  gallery 
•f  Egyptian  Antiquities  at  Paris ;  and  her 
Roval  Highness  the  Dauphiness,  together 
with  a  number  of  scientific  persons,  attended 
to  witness  the  process.     The  linen  bands 
encircling  the  body  from  head  to  foot  being 
unrolled,  the  mummy  was  found  to  be  in 
wonderful   preservation.    The  nails  on  the 
hands  were  remarkably  long ;  the  hair  was 
quite  perfect,  and  had  preserved  its  flaxen 
colour  untarnished ;    eyes    of  enamel  had 
been  substituted  for  the  original,  a  eingu- 
larity  which  has  been  observed  only  once 
before.      The  most  curious  circumstance, 
however,  was  the  discovery  of  two  papyrus 
manuscripts,  one  rolled  round  the  head,  the 
other  round  the  breast ;  they  were  in  such 
preservation  as  to  allow  of  being  deciphered, 
by  M.  ChampoUion,  jun. ;  the  body  by  this 
means  was  found  to  be  that  of  Tet«  Muthis, 
daughter  to  the  keeper  of  the  Temple  of 
•Isis,  at  Thebes ;  dimrent  marks  and  orna- 
ments also  denoted  she  had  been  one  of 
high  consideration  among  the  Egyptians. 
It  is  supposed  that  the  mummy  cannot  be 
less  than  SOOO  years  old,  notwithsUnding 
which  the  skin  has  preserved  in   a  great 
measure  its  elasticity,  and  even  iu  humidity 
in  some  parts.    An  attentive  perusal ^of  the 
manuscripts  will  no  doubt  bring  to  light 
some    curious    hcu.    The  operation    was 
managed  by  Doctors  Delatre  and  de  Ver- 
neuil. 

Ancient  Burial  Place,  Carlsruhb. 
Very  remarkable  antique  graves,   137  in 
number,  have  been  discovered  on  the  moun- 
tain Schonberg,  near  Freiberg,  on  the  Bris- 
gau.     Skulls,   ornaments,  defers,  spears, 
swords,  &c.  of  very  ancient  appearance,  have 
been  found  in  them.     The  arrows  and  spears 
are  of  iron,  the  swords  half  iron,  half  steel, 
the  daggers  of  the  finest  steel,  which  resisU 
the  file.    The  most  remarkable,  however,  is 
the  coloured  glass,  which  is  frequently  set 
in  silver,  especially  a  sky  blue,  such  as,'per- 
huM,  was  never  before  seen.     There  are  also 
red  and  purple  beads,  and  large  pieces  of 
amber.    .All  the  graves  are  turned  towards 
the  East.     It  is  estimated  that  these  bury- 
ing grounds  contain  500  tombs  formed  of 
large  flat  stones.    An  account  of  these  curi- 
osities, with  lithographic  plates,  will  be  pub- 
lished by  Mr.  Schneiber  of  Freiburg. 


issrj 


Antiquarian  Retearchet.'-^Select  Poetry. 


Sb3 


Sales  op  Coins  and  Medals. 
Some  unique  specimens  of  £ogIiah  coins, 
in  ^old  and  silver,  were  Istelj  put  up  for  sale 
•t  Mr.  Sotheby's   rooms,    in  Wellington- 
stieet.     Among  them  were   the   following 
English  coins,  from  the   conquest: — Ste- 
phen, with  liurseman's  Mace,  sold  for  ISl. 
£dward  the  First's  Groat,  **  Civitas  Lon- 
dU>n,"  weighing  84  grains,  and  in  good  pre- 
servation, 5l.   15s.    6d.     These  two   were 
said  to  have  been  formerly  in  the  collection 
of  Tliomas  Hollis.      Richard   the  Third's 
Half  Groat,  inscribed  **  Ricardus,"  &c. — 
**  Civiias  Cantor,"  a  unique  specimen,  weigh- 
ing 23  strains,  sold  for  ?!•  10s.     Richard  the 
Third's  Penny,  struck  at  Durham  by  Bishop 
Sherwood,  well  preserved,  4l.  48.     Henry 
the    Seventh's    Penny,   with    the    Arched 
Crown,  the  first  coinage  struck  at  Canter- 
iMry,  A  very  fine  sjiecimen,  and  said  to  be 
of  grest  rarity,  6l.  8s.  6d.  Perkin  Warbeck's 
Oroat,  said  to  have  been  struck  by  the  Du- 
chess of  Burgundy,  sister  to  Edward   the 
Fourth,  dated  1494,  sold  for  91 1.     Henry 
the  Stventh's  Shilling,  with  numerals,  3l. 
1 1  s.  Henry  the  Seventh's  Groat,  inscribed, 
**  Henri  Septim."  &c.  a  unique  specimen, 
lOl.  5s.    'There  were  also  some  beautiful 
specimens  of  gold  coins,  msny  of  which  pro- 
duced very  large  sums ;  as  did  also  some  cu- 
rious and  interesting  coins  of  Charles  I., 
said  to  have  been  struck  during  his  troubles. 
Among  these  latter  were  the  Half  Groat, 
struck  at   Aberystwith,   with   the  date  of 
16*46,  and  the  £xeter  Half  Crown,  type  of 
the  Oxford  money,  1 644  ;  the  latter  of  great, 
rarity  and  interest,  as  proving  that  all  the 
Kxurgat  money  was  not  coined  at  Oxford, 
lliere  were,  besides,  about  two  dozen  speci- 
luens  of  the  siege  money  of  Charles  i.  and 
H.,  including  Blondeau's  Half  Crown,  and 
the  famous  petition  Crown  of  Charles  H.,  by 
Thomas   Simon.    The  Broad,  or  Twenty 


Shilling  Fiece  of  Charles  I.,  wm  knocked 
down  at  1 7  guineas  and  a  half,  to  Mr.  Bol- 
land,  the  barrister,  who  also  bought,  besides, 
many  other  lots,  the  Proof  Guinea  of  Geo. 
in.,  by  Pingo,  of  the  date  of  1774,  •«- 
31.  16s. 

The  collection  of  curious  coins,  &c.,  be- 
longing to  the  late  John  Terwin,  Esq  was 
lately  sold  by  Mr.  Southgate,  of  Fleet-street. 
It  included  the  following: — Queen  Eliza- 
beth's Twenty-five  Shilling  Piece,  which  was 
knocked  down  at  3l. ;  the  Ten  Shilling  Piece 
of  Charles  I.,  struck  during  his  residence  at 
Oxford,  ll.  1  Is.  6d. ;  the  Pontefract  Shilling 
of  Charles  I.,  date  1643,  ll.  14s.;  theShil- 
ling  of  the  Commonwealth,  by  filondeau, 
dl. ;  the  Crown  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  3l.  1 5s. ; 
and  the  Half-crown  and  Shilling  of  Oliver 
Cromwell,  ll.  Ms.  There,  was  great  compe- 
tition for  many  of  these  lots^  and  particularly 
fur  the  four  last. 

Pompeii. 

A  beautiful  fountain  has  lately  been  disco- 
vered in  this  city,  the  interior  ornamented 
with  mosaic,  and  with  shells  arranged  in 
somewhat  a  whimsical  manner.  Four  Co- 
rinthian columns  are  introduced  as  ornaments, 
and  the  whole  is  so  beautiful,  that  the  Kine 
of  Naples  has  paid  a  personal  visit  to  Pompeii 
to  see  the  fountain.  In  the  immediate  neigh- 
bourhood of  this  fountain  have  since  been 
discovered  five  glass  bottles,  which  have  been 
deposited  in  the  BorbonicoMusenm.  .Upon 
clearing  them,  one  was  found  to  contun  a 
sort  of  butterv  or  oily  substance,  which  ap- 
pears originallv  to  have  been  olive  oil.  In 
another  were  found  a  quantity  of  olivespre- 
served  in  a  species  of  buttery  sUme.-^Tbese 
olives,  whicn  must  have  been  plucked  in  the. 
reign  of  Titus,  are  in  as  perfect  a  state  of 
preservation,  as  if  they  had  been  taken  from 
the  tree  in  the  reign  of  Francis  I. 


SELECT    POETRY. 


ODE, 

Presented  to  John  Martin,   Esq.  on  his 
Illustrations  of  «*  Paradise  Lost.** 

By  John  Abraham  Hbrauo. 

C\(  Genius  the  creative  eye. 

Sees  visions  not  in  sleep. 
Air-drawn  by  waking  phantasy. 

In  day-dreams  wild  and  deep. 
In  silence  and  in  solitude. 

In  long  procession,  pass 
The  shadows  of  the  Great  and  Good, 

He  formed  the  formless,  and  the  mass, 
Such  as  the  mind,  and  mighty  as  its  mood. 

Gent,  Mao.  jpril,  1837. 

9 


Sublime — unfitthomable — vast — 
Creation — Chaos — Hell — 

Life — Death — the  Future — and  the  Past- 
Power — Passion — and  Fate's  spell ! 

The  Poet  weeps ;  he  strikes  the  shell ; 
And  both  in  eztacy  ; 

And  paints  the  thought  invisible. 
In  words  and  tones  of  harmony 

Sublimely  picturesque,  and  musical  as  well. 

Tliat  apt  Imagination  may 

Each  lofty  form  conceive. 
The  wondrous  scene,  the  bright  array >. 

The  elegance  of  Eve, 


5ft4 


Selici  Potifff. 


[April, 


Tbt  majettr  of  Mab,  Um  prld« 

Of  primal  Panuiise, 
Hm  Aog«1s  that  on  erery  side 

Watch'd  o'er  it  fSrom  the  crystal  tkiet ; 
The  Warriors  of  Heaven,  defying  and  defied ! 

Bot  words  are  wtok,  and  sounds  are  slow. 

To  realize  the  dream. 
That,  in  the  hues  of  Iris'  how, 
[  Si^ested  first  the  theme  ; 
Vainly  they  struggle  to  pourtray 
/Inie  air-drawn  vision  wild, 
(So  that  inteDse  perception  may 

Make  a  prompt  Puet  of  a  Child,) 
In  language,  like  the  surs%  for  all  lands  to 
survey. 

Aad  vead,  and  understand,  and  feel. 

And  worship  as  tl»ey  gaxe — 
Oh  1  Language  hath  the  warmth  of  zeal. 

But  Painting  boasts  the  blaze ; 
Her  blazon  spreads  a  gorgeous  book, 

Lake  a  wide  firmament. 
Wherein  the  Man — the  Child— may  look, 

*  The  learned  and  the  i^uorant 
Know  with  a  glance,  r»pt  like  the  Seer  at 
the  brook ; 

Inspired  like  him,  when  suddenly 

"The  heavens  were  opened  broad, 
And  he  saw  with  the  purged  eye 

Tlie  visions  of  his  God- 
Such  visions  shadowy  vast  and  dim> 

Were  those  by  Milton  told ; 
Such  as  in  spirit  seen  by  him, 

Martin  I  dn  thou  to  sense  unfuld 
And  to  the  fleshy  eye>  in  lineament  and 
limb ; 

Till  this  gross  frame  that  thralls  us  hers 

Become  all  spirit,  bathed 
In  the  celestial  atmosphere. 

By  plastic  genius  breathed 
About  its  revelations  thus^ 

So  realizing  Faith  ; 
The  beatific  scene,  for  us, 

Prepared  by  Man's  best  lover.  Death, 
Great  as  the  human  Soul,  divinely  glorious. 

Martin  \  On  heaven's  exalted  verge, 

Thou  stand'st,  and  to  the  ^byss, 
Wherein  the  fierce  infernal  surge 

Doth  burn  and  sweat  and  hiss, 
Throuch  chasm  and  from  high  battlement, 

With,  hideoua  ruin  down, 
Hurl'st  the  Arch-rebel,  shamed  and  shent, 

And  shattered  with  the  thunder-stone. 
His    flaming     #pear    half  -  quenched  —  his 
strength  and  courage  spent. 

I 

Martin  !  thou  treadest  the  floors  of  hell 
Mighty  as  Thalaba, 

Who  in  the  power  of  Faith  did  well- 
Such  power  hath  Genius — ah  ! 

Mighty  in  &ith  is  it,  and  brave 
To  dare — Audacioiu  One ! 

The  Image  of  the  Voice, — whioh  elave 
Hell's  hollow  deep,  and  from  the  swoon 

Of  Death  roused  op  the  Fallen  upon  the 
sulphorous .  wa?e^«^ 


Made  vlBibla  through  the  chinned  eye. 

Resounds  on  the  ear  of  mind  s 
So  krodly  from  the  eViff  on  high 

Doth  call  the  imperial  Fiend  ! 
Let  Mammon  yield  ; — From  Hell's  terrene 

Doth  Pandemonium  rise, 
Aa  rorgeously  grand,  I  ween. 

With  pillar,  architrave,  and  frize, 
Scidpture  and  golden  roof,  as  by  the  pott 
seen. 

Hu^  on  his  throne  of  royal  state 

Doth  the  Arch-Demon  sit. 
And  the  thronged  theatre  dilate. 

His  pride  enlarging  it-— 
Thy  soul,  bold  Artist,  soars  beyond. 

Far  into  Chaos  dares. 
And  sees  God's  spirit  brooding  routil. 

O'er  the  calm  deep  that  heart 
The  Omnific  Voice  divine,  and  qitickent  at 
the  sound. 

The  fiat  of  his  strong  right  hand 

Creates  the  light  full-soon — 
The  sun  lea()s  forth  at  his  command. 

His  left  begets  the  moon — 
The  stars  are  kindled  by  his  speed, 

The  Word  Omnipotent ! 
Intensely  I  gaze,  till  I,  indeed. 

Reel  drunken  with  astonishment- 
Milton  of  Painters  !  on. — ^Wbo  dare  most, 
best  succeed !  * 


On  two  Infants  in  PUuter  of  Paris. 

By  John  Taylor,  Esq. 

pHETTY  studious  Infant  pair, 

Happy  in  their  busy  care. 
This  who  cons  th'  instmctive  page, 
That  whom  graphic  toils  engage.      • 
Well  in  either  cherub  fiice 
We  their  difTrent  feelings  trace  t 
This  we  see,  delighted  reads. 
Sketching  that  what  Fancy  breeds. 
If  from  vivid  Nature  caught. 
Or  the  skilful  Sculptor's  thought. 
Offspring  of  a  gentle  mind. 
Taste  and  tenderness  combin'd. 
Surely  by  a  Parent  plann'd, 
Fashion 'd  by  a  Parent's  hand. 
Artist,  if  tM  babes  are  tliine. 
Who  suggested  this  design. 
May  they,  in  their  future  scope, 
Giatify  thy  proudest  hope ; 
Ne'er  fi'om  Virtue's  precincts  stray. 
But  her  dictates  still  obey ; 
Thb  advance  to  letter'd'nme. 
That  high  crraphic  honours  claim. 
Models  both  of  duty  prove, 
To  reward  thy  skill  and  love. 


'  The  above  Ode  does  not  include  aJI  Mr. 
Martin's  II  lustration*,  hanring  been  written 
while  the  work  was  in  the  courte  of  publi- 
cation. 


•i8«r.] 


[    355    ] 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS    IN    PARLIAMENT. 


House  of  Commons,  March  20. 

On  the  Duke  of  Devonshire  presenting  a 

Ktition  from  the  Roman  Catholics  of  Ab- 
y  Leix,  the  Lord  Chancellor  gave  a  short 
history  of  the  Roman  Catholic  question  dur- 
ing the  last  20  years,  and  showed  from  the 
failure  of  all  the  arrangements  proposed  (a 
failure  arising  out  of  the  incompatihility  of 
political  power  in  the  hands  of  the  Roman 
Catholics,  with  the  safety  of  the  Church  and 
Constitution)  that  to  pretend  to  uke  the 
subject  into  consideration  would  he  but  a 
vain  delusion,  exciting  nnfonndcd  hopes  in 
the  Roman  Catholics,  and  well-grounded 
fears  in  the  Protestants. 

March  23.  On  the  re-committal  of  the 
Corn  Trade  Bill,  Mr.  Grajit  .explained 
that  the  resolutions  had  been  made  to  cor- 
respond with  the  difference  between  the 
Winchester  and  Imperial  measures.  They 
had  been  oow  altered  according  to  the  scale 
of  the  Imperial  measure.  According  to  Uie 
calculations  he  had  made,  it  would  be  proper 
to  have  a  scale,  tlie  basis  of  which  would  be, 
that  when  Wheat  was  at  SQs.  the  quarter  of 
Winchester  measure,  the  Imperial  quarter 
would  be  61s.  10^  ;  but  which  he  took  at 
€%s.  The  corresponding  duty  would  be  20i. 
7  jdL ;  but  whicn»  for  obvious  reasons  of 
convenience,  he  took  at  205.  8d.  Thus  the 
price  of  the  Imperial  quarter  being  69s. t  the 
duty  would  be  20s.  8c/.,  rising  or  decreasing 
2i.  by  each  variation  of  \s,  in  price. 

j4prU  2.  On  the  order  of  the  d%y  for  the 
second  reading  of  the  Com  Duties  Bill  being 
moved,  Sir  T.  Lethbridge  rose  to  oppose 
it,  and  stated  that,  instead  of  being  called  a 
bill  for  the  protection  of  corn,  It  ought  ra- 
ther to  be  entitled  « A  Bill  for  the  more 
effectual  encouragement  of  speculation — the 
more  rapid  discouragement  of  producing 
grain  in  Great  Britun,  and  for  the  more  cer- 
tain promotion  of  com  production  in  all  fo- 
reign countries.*'  The  Hon.  Baronet  moved, 
as  an  amendment,  that  the  Bill  be  read  a 
second  time  that  day  six  months. — Mr.  C. 
Grant  vindicated  the  Bill.  He  contended 
that  an  alteration  was  imperativelv  called  for 
in  the  high  prohibitory  system  of  the  Bills 
of  1815  and  1822.  In  fact  those  Bills  had 
utterly  failed  in  practice,  beeanse  they  were 
erroneous  in  principle ;  and,  in  their  result 
on  British  manufacture,  they  might  be  con- 
sidered a  kind  of  premium  on  the  manufac- 
tures of  foreign  countries.  As  a  proof  of 
the  futility  of  the  Bill  pf  1 822,  he  might  re- 
mind the  Housci  that  the  Legislature  had 


since  been  obliged  to  interpose  to  allow  of 
the  importation  of  grain.     Much  had  been 
said  of  agricultural  distress ;  but  in  tnidk« 
agriculture  was  not  such  a  ruinous  occupa- 
tion as  many  asserted.     A  stronger  proof 
could  not  bis   given  that  agriculture  wai 
worth  following  at  the  present  time,  than, 
that  much  cajutal  was  investing  in  it.     A 
great  deal  of  money  had  lately  been  laid  oot 
in  the  improvement  of  under-draining ;  and 
the  importations  of  manure  were  increaaiog 
every  year.     The  Hon.  Oentleman  conclo^ 
ded  with  stating  the  prices  of  corn  in  various 
foreign  countries,  in  order  to  shew  that  fb- 
reign  grain  could  not  be  imported  into  thia 
country  in  such  quantities,  and  at  such  ratett 
as  injuriously  to  interfere  with  our  agricul- 
ture.— Mr.    fFeslem  objected  to  the   Bill» 
and  thought  It  would  be  better  to  encourage 
agriculture  at  home. — Mr.  fVhitrAore  spoke 
in  &vour  of  the  Bill. — Mr.  Bankes  thought 
that  it  would  be  much  better  fbr  the  landed 
Interest  and  the  country  at  large,  to  stand 
by  the  law  of  1822,  than  to  accept  the 
present  Bill. — Mr.  Portman  was  of  opinion 
that,  with  a  few  alterations  respecting  the 
averages,  the  present  Bill  would  be  highly 
useful. — Sir  T.  Gooch  said,  that  his  chief  ob- 
jection to  the  Bill  was,  that,  whenever  it 
passed  into  a  law.  It  would  have  the  effect  of 
stimulating  foreigners   to  bring  poor  laadi 
into  cultivation. 

The  House  then  divided,  when  there 
appeared— for  the  second  reading,  243 ;  for 
the  amendment,  78  ;  majority >  165. 

Aprils.    Sir  John  Newport  called  the 
attention  of  the  House  to  the  state  of  the 
Church     Establishment    in     Ireland,    and 
moved,  <<That  it  appearliig  from  an  Irish 
Statute  of  12  George  I.  cap.  9.,  that  roaoj 
of  the  Parish  Churches  in  that  kingdom  (Ire- 
land) were  then  (172(>)  in  a  state  of  such 
great  decay  that  Divine  Service  could  not 
be  performed  in  them — and  that  it  having 
been  stated,  that  the  necessary  repairs  could 
not  he  effected.  In  consequence  of  the  oppo- 
sition of  the  Popish  Inhabitants  out-voting 
the  Protestants  in  vestry — the  Act  went  oh 
to  declare,  that  no  Popish  Inhabitants  should 
have  a  right  to  vote  at  such  a  vestry ;  that 
although  the  power  under  that  Statute  was 
vested    in    Protestants    only,    nevertheless 
many  churches  and  steeples  continued  to  be 
in  a  state  of  the  most  ruinous  decay,  until 
they  had  become  absolutely  dangerous ;  that 
it  appeared  in  the  highest  degree  unjust^ 
that  those  churches  should  be  rescued  from 
dilapidation  only  at  the  expense  of  thote* 
who>  eonstitiiting  the  great  majority  of  the 


366  fnee»di»p  'm  tht  pruatt  Settlon  of  ParUtmenl. 


EAVit 


^  population  In  most  of  ih*  puithot  of  Irc- 
Uad,  were,  by  the  Act  of  the  Legiskture* 
excluded  firom  voting  for  the  levying  of  the 
sams  necetsary  for  such  purposes  ;  and  that 
leave  be  ffiven  to  bring  in  a  Bill  to  provide 
fat  the  buildios  and  repairing  the  Parish 
Churches  in  Ireland  in  a  manner  more 
•quiuble.'* 

Mr.  OouWum  opposed  the  motion,  ob- 
serving that  it  was  very  true,  the  Protestant 
Parishoners  only  had  the  right  of  votliyg  the 
rates  for  the  building -and  the  repair  of 
Churches ;  but  it  ought  to  be  recollected^ 
that,  in  exercising  that  power  of  imposing  a 
tax  on  the  Catholics,  they  at  the  same  time 
must  lay  a  tax  on  themselves  to  a  similar 
•mount.  Was  it  not  reasonable,  therefore, 
to  suppose,  that  the  Protestant  would  avoid 
taxing  himself  rather  than  rejoice  in  the 
power  of  taxing  the  Catholic  ?  He  begged 
to  inform  the  House,  that  since  he  had  com- 
menced his  connexion  with  Ireland,  he  had 
done  much  to  mitigate  the  pressure  arising 
firom  the  building  of  Churches.  Much  had 
been  done  in  the  way  of  mitigation  within 
the  last  five  years — Parliament  had  lent 
much  money  for  the  purpose,  and  without 
demanding  interest.  In  consequence  of  the 
Parliamentary  grants,  six  handred  and  sixty- 
four  Churches  had  been  built,  and  five 
hundred  and  twenty  five  glebe  houses. 
Thus,  instead  of  parishes  destitute  of 
Churches  and  residences  for  the  Ministers, 
IreUnd  had  places  of  Protestant  worship, 
that  were  weekly  filled  with  still  increasing 
congregations,  and  a  respectable  clergy,  who 
brought,  among  other  benefits,  the  advan- 
tage of  1^  residence  .among  their  parishoners. 
Mr.  Plunkett  and  Mr..  Peel  strongly 
opposed  the  resolution. 

Sir  J.  Newport  heving  replied,  and  obr 
tained  leave  to  withdraw  his  resolution, 
moved  for  leave  to  bring  in  a  Bill,  for  amend- 
ing the  laws  for  building,  re-build'mg,  and 
repairing  Churches,  and  for  relieving  the 
occupying  tenants  of  land  in  Ireland  firom 
the  burtnen  of  Church  Rates,  in  certain 
eases. 


House  of  'Lords,  Jpril  6. 

The  ^  report  of  the  Spring  Guns  Bill 
was  brought  up.  Some  conversation  occurred 
relative  to  the  propriety  of  permitting 
the  useof  spring  guns  in  houses,  hot-houses, 
walled-gardens,  &c.  Two  divisions  took 
place ; .  the  first,  on  a  clause  proposed  by 
Lord  EUenborottgh,  permitting  the  uae  of 
spring  guns  in  gardens ;  this  was  rejected  by 
a  majority  of  39  to  17 ;  the  other,  upon  a 
clause  proposed  by  the  Marquis  of  tajtsdcnvn, 
allowing  of  the  use  of  these  engines  in  dwel- 
ling-houses ;  this  was  carried  by  a  majority 
of  29  to  37. 

April  n.  The  third  reading  of  the 
SriuNO  Giws  prohUntion  Bill  ww  proposed 


by  Lord  fFhamcliffe  j  vad,  after  a  slight 
opposition  firom  Lord  ElUriorough,  carried 
1^  a  majority  of  98  to  19. 

The  Gamb  Laws  reform  Bill  was  theo 
re-committed ;  and  the  House  continued 
occupied  with  die  discussion  of  its  several 
clauses  fur  nearly  three  hours,  ,in  the  course 
of  which  no  less  than  five  divisions  took 
place:  the  result  of  the  divisions  was 
generally  fiivourable  to  the  Bill ;  the  Mar- 
quis of  Londonderry  was  its  most  decided 
opponent,  and  he  succeeded  so  far  as  to 
have  the  further  discussion  of  the  measure 
put  off  to  the  7th  of  May. 


In  the  House  op  Commons,  the  same 
day,  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  moved 
to  postpone  the  Committee  of  Supply  ;  and, 
in  answer  to  a  question  proposed  by  Mr.  A» 
Ellis,  he  admitted  that  it  is  designed  by 
Ministers  to  appropriate  the  house  recently 
erected  for  the  lamented  Duke  of  York,  to 
the  Royal  Society,  the  Antiquarian  Society, 
and  the  National  Gallery. 


House  of  CaMMONS,  AprU  10. 

-  Mr.  Hobhouse  presented  a  petition  firom 
the  Shareholders  in  the  County  Fire  Office, 
complaining,  in  the  first  place,  of  various 
defiimatory  statements  published  by  the 
Commissioners  of  Revenue  Inquiry,  particu- 
larly in  their  fourteenth  report ;  —  and 
secondly,  of  the  obstructions  which  those 
Commissioners  had  thrown  in  the  way  of  the 
legal  proceedings  by  which  the  Director  of 
the  County  Pire  Office  had  sought  to  vindi- 
cate, tlieir  character.  The  Hon.  Gentleman 
spoke  at  some  length   in  support  of  the 

getition.  Sir  R,  frilsony  Mr.  Hume,  and 
ir  F*  Burdett,  spoke  in  support  of  the 
petition. — Mr.  ffTtUaee,  the  Attorrtey  and 
Solicitor  General,  and  Col.  Dames,  de- 
fended the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry. — ^Tlia 
petition  was  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Mr.  Hume  moved  for,  and  abtained  leave 
to  bring  in  a  Bill  to  abolish  imprisonment 
for  debt  upon  mesne  process, 

Mr.  H.  Grattan  also  obtained  leave  to 
bring  in  a  Bill  to  prevent  the  destruction  of 
Roman  Catholic  Chapels  in  Ireland. 


April  12.  Mr.  C,  JV.  ffymt  moved  that 
that  the  Speaker  do  issue  his  Warrant  for  a 
new  Writ  for  the  election  of  a  Member  for 
the  Borough  of  Newport,  in  the  room  of 
the  Right  Hon.  George  Canning,  who  has 
accepted  the  situation  of  Chief  Commis- 
sioner of  his  Majesty's  Treasury. — This 
announcement  was  received  with  cheers; 
and  a  new  Writ  was  accordingly  ordered. 

The  two  Hpuses  this  day  adjourned ; 
the  House  of  Lords  to  the  2d  of  May>  amjL 
the  CoiumoDS  to  the  1st  of  May. 


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FOREIGN   NEWS. 


SPAIN. 


An  extensive  plot  has  been  dbcovered  in 
General  RodU's  division  of  the  Army  of 
Observation,  assembled  on  the  SpanisK 
frontiers.  They  were,  on  a  given  signal,  to 
disband,  and  part  to  go  over  to  the  Portu- 
guese, and  part  into  the  interior,  to  join 
confederates.  But  before  the  time  fixed  for 
the  execution  of  this  plot,  the  ramifications 
of  which  were  very  extensive  throughout 
the  whole  army,  40  common  soldiers  were 
arrested  and  immediately  shot,  together 
with  eleven  inferior  officers,  and  five  officers 
of  different  ranks.  Gen.  Rodil,  as  well  as 
the  Comuiander*in-Chief,  Gen.  Sarsfield, 
sent  an  express  to  the  King,  to  inform  him 
that  they  could  not  answer  for  the  army  ; 
they  requested  their  dismissal,  as  they  saw 
it  was  impossible  to  kteep  the  troops  to  their 
duty. 

From  Madrid  we  have  an  account  of  one 
of  those  disgusting  scenes  of  religious  fool- 
ery which  King  Ferdinand  has  so  frequently 
exhibited.  Ou  84  th  March,  his  Majesty 
washed  the  feet  of  some  poor  people,  and 
afterwards  waited  upon  them  at  tneir  repast, 
in  the  presence  of  a  number  of  Grandees. 

PORTUGAL. 

According  to  the  late  convention  between 
Great  fiiitain  and  Portugal,  her  Royal 
Highness  the  Infanta  engages  to  provide 
the  necessary  buildings  for  hospitals,  bar- 
racks, stores,  magazines,  &c.  for  the  British 
Auxiliary  Army,  according  to  .the  regula- 
tions of  the  British  service.  Provisions  and 
forage  are  to  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
British  Commissariat,  at  a  distance  not 
greater  than  six  leagues  T  Portuguese)  firom 
the  head  quarters  of  eacn  British  detach- 
ment, except  in  cases  where  a  different 
arrangement  shall  be  made.  The  British 
Commissary-General  is,  for  the  present,  to 
provide  these  supplies,  charging  the  same  to 
the  Portuguese  Government.  'Fhebe  charges 
being  duly  verified,  the  Portuguese  Govern- 
ment is  to  pay  the  amount  thereof  forth- 
with, every  three  months,  or  let  the  same 
be  carried  over  to  the  credit  of  the  British 
Government,  as  may  be  codsidered  most 
convenient  by  the  contracting  parties.  The 
charge  of  provisions  and  forage  to  commence 
from  the  day  of  the  landing  of  the  British 
troops  in  Portugal ;  and  shall  cease,  from 
the  day  af  their  departure,  or  of  their  passing 
the  frontiers  of  Portugal.     The  furts  of  St. 


Julien  and  Bugio  to  be  occupied  by  Brttisli 
troops. 

NORTH  AMERICA. 

The  refractory  and  factious  spirit  of  tfa« 
House  of  Assembly  of  Lower  Canada  haa 
been  such,  as  to  render  it  an  indispensably 
necessary  duty  on  the  part  of  the  Governor- 
in-Chief^  (Lord  Dalhousie}  abruptly  to  pro- 
rogue the  parliament.  Whilst  the  conduct 
of  the  Legislative  Council  has  httn  charac- 
terised by  loyalty  and  wisdom,  that  of  the 
House  of  Assembly  lias  displayed  only  the 
rankest  spirit  of  unjustifiable  opposition  to 
the  measures  of  Government.  Their  refusal 
to  comply  with  the  wishes  of  the  Governor 
is  not  confined  merely  to  the  necessary  sup- 
plies fbr  the  service  of  the  State,  but  ex- 
tends even  to  those  which  are  oonfessedlj 
indispensable  to  the  establishments  of  edu- 
cation and  charity,  and  the  local  public  im- 
provements of  the  province. 

A  Columbus  (Ohio)  paper  states  that  a 
boat  had  arrived  at  Steubeoville,  which  had 
on  board  the  bones  of  a  non-descript  animal» 
one  of  which  was  90  f«et  in  length,  8  ia 
width,  and  weighed  upwards  of  1200  pounds; 
the  back  bone  was  16  inches  in  diameter^ 
and  the  ribs  9  feet  in  length  !  It  is  calcu- 
lated from  the  size  of  the  bones,  that  the 
animal,  when  living,  must  liave  been  about 
50  feet  in  length,  20  to  96  in  width,  and 
about  30  feet  in  height ;  and  it  must  hava 
weighed  at  least  90  tons !  These  booM 
were  found  near  the  Mississippi  BhftTt  in 
Louisiana,  and  form  the  greatest  natural 
curiosity  ev6r  beheld.  This  animal,  sm 
the  American  Editor,  must  have  so  ni 
transcended  the  mammoth  in  size,  as  tha  ■ 
mammoth  a  dog ! 

SOUTH  AMERICA. 

A  letter,  dated  La  Guayra,  Feb.  98,  says, 
"  We  have  had  serious  disputes  since  the  ar- 
rival of  Bolivar.  The  finances  are  in  adreadfut 
state  of  confusion.  In  the  mean  time  B^ota 
is  in  a  state  of  revolution,  calling  out  ror  a 
federation,  and  opposed  to  Bolivar,  who  has 
resigned  his  situation  as  President  of  the 
Republic.  This  is,  no  doubt,  preparatory  t» 
his  being  elected  President  for  life,  with  the 
Bolivian  Constitution,  which  his  firienda 
appear  to  be  preparing  the  way  for  here. 
There  is,  however,  a  good  deal  of  opposition 
to  it,  but  Bolivar  will  carry  his  point." 


DOMESTIC   OCCURRENCES. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY.  attack),  and  the  certamty  that  his  Lordship 

— ~.  would  be  wholly  incapacitated  frony  resuming 

The    Newt   Ministry.  the  high  office  which  he  had  so  long  and  so 

Tlie  continued  indisposition  of  the  Earl  of  honorably  filled,  rendered  it  evident  that  a. 

Liverpool  (resulting  from  a  sudden  ptnlytio  new  Minister  mufti  be  aYB^M&te^  \  iBJ^.>X''««» 


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Domeitic  Occurr0nces. — Change  of  Minittry, 


[April 


oAtunlly  expected  thmt  •  saccettor  would  be 
•elected  from  among  hts  coUetgaet  in  office. 
The  lapse  of  a  fortnight  was  suffered  to 
Mtervene,  after  the  tubject  had  been 
mentioned  in  Parliament,  beifore  an  j  arrange- 
nent  appeared  to  have  been  formed.  On 
Wednesdav,  the  1 1th  of  April,  however^ 
Mr.  Cannmg  received  the  final  and  decided 
commands  of  h^  Majesty  to  form  an  Ad- 
ianlnistration,  of  which  he,  as  the  first  Lord 
df  the  Treasury,  was  of  course  to  be  the 
bead.  Mr.  Gmning,  after  having  received 
the  full  and  complete  authority  of  the 
Sovereign,  immediately  wrote  a  letter  to  each 
of  his  colleagues  to  apprise  them  of  the 
£ict,  and  to  express  his  anxious  wish  that 
^he  public  service  of  the  country  might  still 
continue  to  enjoy  the  important  advantages 
It  had  so  long  derived  from  their  talents,  ex- 
JMrience,  and  zeal.  The  first  answer  to  this 
^  communication  which  Mr.  Canning  received 
was  from  Lord  Bexley,  and  it  expressed  the 
direct  adhesion  of  that  Noble  Lord  to  the 
new  .\dministration.  The  reply  of  the  Earl 
of  Westmoreland  came  next,  stating  his 
inability  to  eive  a  decided  answer  to  the  pro- 
|x»al,  until  he  was  Informed  who  was  to  he 
the  Prime  Minister.  This  naturally  excited 
tome  surprise,  which  was  considerably  in- 
creased when  the  replies  of  the  Duke  of 
Wellington,  of  the  Earl  of  Eldon^  of  Earl 
Bathurst,  of  Lord  Melville,  and  of  Mr. 
Peel  arrived  in  succession,  each  expressing 
tile  same  want  of  information,  and  nearly  in 
the  same  terms.  Mr.  Canning,  on  tnis, 
Immediately  wrote  again  to  each  of  the 
above  distinguished  persons,  informing  them 
that  the  Kins  had  been  graciously  pleased 
to  appoint  liim  to  the  situation  of  first 
Minister  of  the  Crown,  and  excusing  the 
omission  in  his  first  letter,  on  the  ground 
that  he  had  imagined  the  information  to 
liate  been  in  effect  conveyed  ky  the  con- 
tents of  that  letter  in  a  manner  which  could 
scarcely  be  misunderstood.  To  this  com- 
munication the  general  reply  was — on  ex- 
pression of  apprehension  that  In  the  adminis- 
tration of  affairs,  questions  would  arise 
which  might  produce  in  a  Cabinet  consti- 
tuted, as  was  proposed,  collisions  painful  to 
the  feelings  of  the  individuals  immediately 
concerned,  and  likely  to  be  injurious  to  the 
public  service;  and  annoimcing  upon  this 
ground  an  intention  to  resign.  Mr.  Peel's 
reply  differed  from  those  of  his  colleagues, 
inasmuch  as  be  confined  himself  to  the 
simple  announcement  of  his  intention  to 
retire  from  office.  He,  however,  soon  after, 
waited  personally  on  Mr.  Canning,  in  whose 
mind  he  fully  succeeded  in  removing  any 
suspicion  that  personal  dislike  towards  him- 
self formed  any  part  of  the  motives  by  which 
he,  individually,  was  actuated.  Lord  Bexley's 
final  reply  was  also  of  course  distinguished 
firom  the  others.  He  had  acceded  In  the 
first  instance,  as  we  have  already  stated,  to 
die  proposed  arraageinent*  Ht  now  ascribed 


the  change  of  his  intentions  to  the  determi- 
nation adopted  by  so  important  and  nu- 
merous a  body  of  the  friends  wi^h  whom  ha 
had  already  acted.  On  Thursday,  the  12th, 
the  seven  distinguished  individuals  just 
mentioned,  sent  their  formal  r^ignations  to 
his  Majesty. 

The  following  official  personages  have 
also  sent  in  their  resignations : — The  Duke 
of  Montrose,  Lord  Chamberlain  ;  the  Mar- 
quis of  Graham,  (his  son,)  Vice^Chamber- 
lain ;  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Dorset,  Master 
of  the  Horse  ;  the  Marquis  of  Londonderry, 
a  Lord  of  the  Bed  Chamber ;  Lord  Lowtber, 
one  of  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury ;  Sir  John 
Beckett,  Judge  Advocate  General ;  Sir 
Charles  Wetherell,  Attorney-General ;  the 
Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittees of  the  House  of  Lords ;  the  Right 
Hon.  C.  Arhuthnot,  Chief  Commissioner  of 
Woods  and  Forests ;  George,  Dawson,  esq.. 
Under  Secretary  of  State  for  the  Home  De- 
partment ;  Lord  Downes,  Surveyor-General, 
Ordnance  De^tment ;  Sir  H.  Hardinge, 
Clerk  of  the  Ordnance ;  Lord  F.  Somerset, 
SecreUry  to  the  Master- General ;  and  Mr. 
Wallace,  Master  of  the  Mint. 

Who  are  to  supply  the  above  appoint- 
ments has  been  the  chief  subject  of  conver- 
sation for  the  past  month ;  and  every  day 
has  brought  a  fresh  report.  In  the  mean 
time  the  Duke  of  Clarence  lias  been 
appointed  Lord  High  Admiral,  with  a 
Council,  but  without  a  seat  in  the  Cabinet ; 
Sir  John  Copley  is  to  be  the  new  Lord 
Chancellor,  and  has  been  created  Baron 
Lyndhurst ;  and  the  publick  are  anxiously 
expecting  the  announcement  of  the  other 
appointments. 

We  have  never  known  a  change  of  Miuis- 
^y,  which  has  excited  stronger  and  more 
general  feelings  of  regret.  What  the  result 
may  be  on  political  measures.  It  is  at  present 
impossible  to  say.  Mr.  PeeFs  retirement  is 
deeply  lamented.  Lord  Eldon  has  received 
^  large  portion  of  abuse,  both  from  die 
'^Liberal*'  and  Tory  Press;  but  few  men 
have  ever  retired  from  that  high  office,  who 
justly  deserved  a  higher  character  for  the 
ability,  the  diligence,  and  the  incorruptible 
integrity,  with  which  its  duties  have  been 
discharged. 


Sales  of  the  Dukb  of  York's  Property. 

The  third  Sale  of  the  Duke  of  York's 
effects,  by  Mr.  Christie,  took  place  March 
87—30.  The  property  sold,  consisted  of 
jewellery,  fire-arms,  &c. 

A  beautiful  ink-stand  silver-gilt,  manufac- 
tured by  Mr.  Lewis,  the  cover  formed  of  a 
figure  of  a  bagpiper  with  his  dog,  and  other 
animals,  finely  chased,  sold,  afier  much 
competition,  for  17/. 

A  Coronation  spoon,  of  curious  design, 
and  eaquisita  chasing,  set  with  pearK,  and 
ioutations  of  coIounBd  stones,  obtained  83  gs. 


1W7.1 


Sale  of  the  Duke  of  York's  Ejects. 


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A  fmnale  figure  in  a  Court  dresi,  finely 
eh«se<i,  bearing  a  cup  apon  her  bead,  the 
HMide  gilt,  the  draperj  of  the  figure  forming 
a  drinking  vessel  ^knocked  down  at  30s.  an 
ounce. 

A  pair  of  snuff  or  patch  boxes,  with  com- 
bats of  cavalry,  in  high  relief,  upon  the  lide, 
and  other  chtsings.  Thb  lot  fetched  the 
high  price  of  9/.  55.  an  ounce !  It  was 
originally  purchased,  we  understand,  from 
Mr.  Lewis,  by  his  late  Royal  Highness,  at 
865.  i>er  ounce. 

A  magnificent  gold  seal,  the  handle  com- 
posed of  a  block  of  lapis  laxuli,  with  the 
Royal  arras  engraved  upon  a  Brazil  pink 
topaz,  of  unparalleled  size  sod  beauty,  was 
purchased  fur  his  Majesty,  at  1 02  gs. 

An  extremely  curious  massive  gold  ring, 
with  the  arras  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots, 
having  also  the  monogram  of  Queen  Mary, 
and  the  crown,  engraved  on  the  back  of  the 
gold  setting — sold  at  14  gs. 

A  crystal  cup,  beautifully  engraved  with 
foliage,  mounted  upon  a  stem  and  foot  of 
copper,  covered  with  curious  enamelling: 
underneath,  with  a  coat  of  arn.s  engraved,  is 
the  following  inscription  :  •—  *<  ce  petit 
reliquier  a  it4  restore  par  J.  Pierre  de  Caen, 
Commandeur  de  Chevreu  ;'  within  the  cup 
is  a  gold  coin  of  Louis  Xin.-— It  brought 
bl  155. 

A  beautiful  shield  of  semi-transparent 
buffalo's  bide,  with  a  device  and  six  bosses 
of  silver  gilt,  and  a  cushion  within,  with  sil- 
ver rings.  It  formerly  belonged  to  Vizir 
Ali — sold  for  6  gs. 

A  most  interesting  oriental  suit  of  ar- 
mour, formed  of  four  plates  of  buffalo'a 
hide,  covered  with  Arabic  inscriptions  in 
gold  characters,  connected  by  a  thick 
quilting  of  black  velvet  ornamented  with 
gilt  studs,  and  lined  with  splendid  furniture, 
was  purchased  by  Dr.  Meyrick.  It  was 
erroneously  called  Japanese,  and  obtained  a 
price  trifling  in  comparbon  with  its  curiosity. 

A  lap-dog,  formed  of  a  pearl ;  — the  head, 
legs,  and  tail,  of  enamel,  set  with  coloured 
stones,  I  <?  gs. 

A  silver-mounted  double  gun,  by  Boulet, 
which  formerly  belonged  to  the  £mperor 
Napoleon,  was  knocked  down  to  Mr.  Bridge^ 
believed  fur  his  Majesty,  for  the  sum  of 
100  gs. 

A  single  stone  brilliant  pin,  the  weight  of 
the  diamonds  18  grains,  135  gs. 

A  brilliant  clasp  for  a  sword-belt,  com-* 
posed  of  two  clusters  of  brilliants,  each  sur- 
rounded by  a  detached  circle  of  the  sanM, 
and  with  double  diamond  hook ;  weight  10 
carats,  100  gs. 

A  mahogany  travelling  dressing-case, 
with  silver  *i(ilt  implements,  containing  a  pot 
for  hot  water,  with  finely  chased  frieze,  and 
a  beautiful  goblet,  with  a  vast  variety  of 
splendid  sihrer-gUt  artidea  i  ««ight  of  silver,: 
86  oz.  1 13  gs. 
.  On  the  flth  ^y  of  Aprlly  was  told  the 


Poke's  **  Parisian  fumiiare  and  poroekan,^ 
a  few  drawings  and  miniatores,  three  caUr 
nets  of  eonchology,  &c 

A  Dresden  table-service,  painted  with 
houquets  and  sprigs  of  flowers,  was  pop- 
chased  for  Lord  Rolle,  at  5 1  gs. 

On  the  7th  of  April,  his  Royal  Highnets't 
pictures  were  dispcned  of. 

The  principal  picture  In  the  collectioa 
was  the  Infiint  Christ  and  St.  John,  by 
Leonardo  da  Vinci ;  Uie  figures  are  repre^ 
sented  sitting  on  cushions  beneath  a  canopy, 
embracing  each  other.  It  cost  his  Royal 
Highness  850  gs.,  and  was  sold  to  a  gentle- 
man named  Johnson  for  101  gs. — A  very 
fine  painting  of  groups  of  Bacchanals  and 
Nyraphs,  some  reposing,  and  others  dancing, 
and  infiint  Bacchanals  leading  a  Goat,  exe« 
cuted  by  W.  Mieris,  was  sold  fiir  101  gs. — • 
An  original  whole-length  Portrait  of  £ari 
Moira,  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  was  pur- 
chased for  his  Majesty  for  69  gs. — A  ror- 
trait  of  Mr.  Pitt,  by  Hoppner,  was  pni^ 
chased  by  a  gentleman  named  Bayley,  for 
70  gs. — A  R«past  Champ^tre,  by  WatteaOy 
S2  gs. — A  Field  of  Battle  after  an  Engage* 
ment,  hy  Burgonone,  was  purchased  for  Uio 
King  for  48  gs. — The  Virgin,  7i  gs. — Boota 
in  a  Calm,  painted  with  transparent  effect^ 
by  V.  der  Capelia— was  purchased  for  the 
King  for  38 j  gs.— >A  View  of  the  Horee 
Guards,  with  Soldiers  Exercising,  was  sold 
for  50j  gs. — Henry  VIII.  small  pioture,  by 
Holbein,  was  purchased  for  his  Majesty  for 
sot  §•• — ^  snaall  whole-length  Portrait  of 
King  William,  was  purchased  for  the  King 
for  1 2§  gs. — Portrait  of  her  Majesty  Queen 
Anne  proceeding  in  her  State  Coach  to  the 
House  of  Parliament,  was  purchased  for  the 
King  for  61.  105. — A  View  of  the  House  of 
Lords,  with  a  Portrait  of  her  Majesty  Queen 
Anne,  with  the  Peers  and  other  Personagea 
assembled,  in  proper  costume,  was  purchsMd 
for  his  Maiestv  for  95  gs. — A  View  of  tho 
Battle  of  the  Boyne,  was  purchased  for  hb 
Majesty  for  1 7  gs. — An  ancient  View  of  St. 
James's  Palace,  the  Pleasure-Garden,  and 
Mail,  was  likewiae  porcbased  for  his  Majesty 
for  5^  gs. 

The  other  pictures  which  were  sokl  pro- 
duced equally  good  prices. 

INTELLIGENCE  FROM  VARIOUS 
PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY. 

Burning  Cliff » — A  very  remarkable  ap- 
pearance of  nature,  well  deserving  the  atten- 
tion of  tlie  curious  or  the  philosophic,  may 
now  be  seen  at  a  place  called  Ringstead,  si- 
tuate on  the  shore  opposite  to  Weymouth ; 
it  is  a  volcano  in  miniature,  and  has  appear- 
ed for  more  than  a  week,  the  rocks  on  the 
cliff,  to  the  extent  of  some  feet,  exhibiting  a 
smoking  appearance,  and  on  being  stirred 
with  a  stick,  which  became  charred,  flames  ^ 
issued  forth  of  sufficient  maeuitude  to  allow 
of  the  toastins  of  a  piece  of  bread.  So  un« 
tsnal  A  fight  hM  attractod  a  great  number 


360 


Domeiiie  Occurrences. 


'of  penoDS  to  the  spot»  though  sonw  of  the 
tieighboun  state  tnat  the  smoking  appear- 
ance has  been  partially  visible  at  intenralsy 
for  the  last  three  yearf .  On  the  shore  un- 
derneath, a  great  ponderous  stone,  having 
the  metallic  appearance,  is  found,  which  is 
used  for  ehips  ballast,  and  is  commonly 
called  Iron  stone,  having  much  the  appear- 
•nee  of  that  metal.  This  phenomenon  is  no 
^oubt  the  result  of  martial  pyrites,  a  species 
of  coal  composed  of  sulphur  and  iron,  which, 
becoming  decomposed  by  the  late  rains, 
combustion  (its  natural  characteristic)  has 
taken  place.  The  Dorset  County  Chronicle 
states,  that  on  the  99th  of  March,  smoke 
was  observed  to  issue  from  four  apertures, 
besides  those  already  mentioned.  On  the 
<81st  a  considerable  quantity  of  the  cliff  fell 
^into  the  crater  i  the  smoke  thus  received  a 
temporary  check;  but  on  the  Sd  inst.  it 
burst  forth  with  renewed  vigour.  Hutchins 
nenUons  a  like  smoking  appearance  of  the 
difis  at  Charmouth,  about  three  himdred 
years  ago,  and  supposed  from  a  similar  cause 
M  the  above,  pyrites  being  found  on  the 
jipot.  Near  the  town  of  Wednesbury,  in 
Staffordshire,  and  Dudley,  in  Worcestershire 
(Ays  Parkes)  there  are  masses  of  coal  on 
£re,  which  have  been  burning  for  aces,  ow- 
ing probably  to  the  decomposition  of  pyrites. 
We  read  also  of  a  combustible  ground  of  this 
kind  near  Baku,  in  Persia,  where  the  follow- 
«rs  of  Zoroaster  perform  their  devotions. 
The  carbonated  hydrogen  gas  that  arises 
lirom  this  ground  is  so  abundant,  that  the 
priests  have  conducted  it  by  hollow  canes 
into  one  of  their  temples,  where  it  burns 
continually,  and  is  looked  upon  to  be  the  sa« 
Cfed  flame  of  universal  power. 

March  43. — A  tibial,  which  had  long  pre- 
viously excited  much  public  interest,  on  ac- 
count of  the  respectability  of  the  parties,  and 
the  peculiar  circumstances  of  the  case,  came 
on  at  the  Lancaster  Assizes.  The  three  de- 
fendants, Edward-Gibbon,  William,  and  Mrs. 
Wakefield,  with  Edward  Thevenot,  a  French- 
man, were  indicted  for  a  conspiracy  in  un- 
lawfully carrying  off  Ellen  Turner,  (an 
heiress  to  considerable  propierty,)  and  with 
causing  the  said  Ellen  to  contract  matrimony 
with  Edward  Gibbon  Wakefield,  against  the 
eonseUt  of  her  father,  &c.  Witnesses  were 
called  to  prove  that  the  defendant!*,  by  stat- 
ing Miss  Turner's  mother  to  be  extremely  ill, 
had  induced  the  Misses  Daulby,  of  Liver- 
pool, where  she  was  at  school,  to  suffer  her 
.  to  accompany  Thevenot  (representing  him- 
self as  the  servant  of  a  Dr.  Armstrong)  for 
the  purpose  of  going  home ;  that  the  two 
Wakefields  met  them  at  Manchester,  and 
there  Edward  represented  to  Miss  Turner 
that  her  father  was  ruined  by  the  failure  of 
hanks,  at  the  same  time  offering  to  advance 
^0,0001.  to  relieve  him  from  his  embarrass- 
ments if  she  would  marry  him  ;  it  appeared 
that  before  she  would  decide^  she  desired  to 
•ee  her  fiither,  whi«h  was  agreed  to,  tnd 


[April, 

they  proceeded  to  Carlisle,  where  a  letter 
was  shewn  her  as  from  Mr.  Grimsditch,  the 
family  solicitor,  desiring  her  <'to  shew  the 
same  fortitude  that  her  father  had  evinced 
on  the  occasion  of  his  losses  ;'*  that  she  was 
thus  induced,  under  the  influence  of  terror 
at  the  impending  destruction  of  her  family, 
to  accompany  Edward  to  Scotland,  and  in 
the  hope  of  preserving  them  from  ruin  the 
marriage  at  Gretna  took  place.  Mr.  R. 
Turner  and  Mr.  Crichley,  two  uncles  of  Miss 
Turner,  and'Mr.  Grimsditch,  proved  follow  • 
ing  the  parties  to  Calais,  and  bringing  ber 
home.  Mrs.  Wakefield  was  implicated  in 
the  conspiracy,  by  advancing  money  to  her 
sons-in-law  to  carry  tlieir  objects  into  ef- 
fect, and  by  gaining  information  as  to  the 
absence  of  Mr.  Turner  from  home. — When 
Miss  Turner  was  called  on  to  give  her  evi- 
dence, Mr.  Scarlett  objected,  as  she  was 
*<  legally  the  wife  of  one  of  the  defendants ;  ** 
but  Mr.  Baron  Hultock  decided  tliat  he 
should  admit  her  evidence,  even  if  this  was 
a  valid  marriage,  as  there  were  cases  where 
the  evidence  of  wives  against  their  husbands 
was  admissible,  and  to  reject  her  evidence 
here  (said  the  learned  Judge)  would  involve 
an  incongruity,  of  which  the  law  cannot  cer- 
tainly admit :  the  young  lady  was  then  ex- 
amined, and  proved  the  facts  as  stated }  she 
admitted  that  she  repeated  her  consent  to 
the  marriage  before  several  persons,  and  that 
she  believed  herself  the  lawful  wife  of  Ed-  ' 
ward-Gtbbon  Wakefield,  till  Informed  to  the 
contrary  by  her  uncles  and  Mr.  Grimsditch 
at  Calais. — For  the  defence,  the  principal 
reliance  was,  that  by  the  law  of  Scotland  the 
marriage  was  legal;  and  several  witnesses 
were  called  to  prove  that  Miss  Turner  ap- 
peared throughout  the  journey  as  a  free 
agent,  that  she  had  acted  from  inclination, 
and  had  had  no  restraint  put  upon  her. — 
The  trial  lasted  till  eizht  in  the  evening, 
when  Mr.  Baron  Hullock  proceeded  to  charge 
the  Jury.  In  adverting  to  the  separate  cases 
of  these  defendants,  ne  thought  the  Jury 
could  entertain  little  doubt  of  the  guilt  of 
the  two  Wakefields ;  but  the  case  as  re- 
garded Mrs.  Wakefield  stood  on  a  different 
ground,  as  she  might  not  have  known  pre- 
cisely the  arrangements  and  full  intentions 
of  all  the  other  parties,  when  she  advanced 
the  money,  and  mode  the  inquiries  as  to  Mr. 
Turner's  absence.  His  Ix>rdship  was  pro- 
ceeding to  sum  up  the  evidence  in  detail, 
when  he  was  informed  by  the  Jury  that  they 
had  made  up  their  minds  upon  the  facts.-— 
After  a  conference  among  Counsel,  it  was 
agreed  to  take  a  verdict  of  Not  Guilty  upon 
the  third  count  of  the  indictment,  which  in- 
sinuated the  use  of  force,  there  being  no 
evidence  to  sustain  that  part  of  the  charge. 
The  Jury  retired  for  twenty  minutes,  and 
ceturned.with  a  verdict  of  Gur/<y  against  the 
three  Wakefields.  (Thevenot  has  absconded.) 
The  two  male  prisoners  were  then  committed 
to  Lanoaster  gaol,  td  be  brought  up  for  judg<* 
ment  on  a  futuie  day. 


iStrJ  t    361     ) 

PROMOTIONS    AND    PREFERMENTS. 


Oazetts  Promotions. 

fVar-Offiee^  March  96.— Staff. —BreT«t- 
najor  J.  Gurwood,  19th  Foot,  to  be  Dep. 
Adj.-GeD.  to  the  Forces  in  the  Windward  and 
Leeward  Islands  (with  the  rank  of  Ueut.-col.) 
— April  9.  4Sth  Foot,  Capt.  J.  Cole,  to  be 
Miyor. — 56th  ditto,  Mijor  J.  Peddie,  to  be  * 
Major. — Unattached:  Major  John  Elliot 
Giimes,  S6th  Foot»  to  be  Lieut.-col  of  Inf. : 
R.  W.  St.  John,  Esq.  to  be  Agent  and  Con* 
sul-geo.  at  Algiers ;  Major-gen.  Wulf,  of 
the  Artillery,  to  be  Coi.-Cutnroandant. 

fVhiUhaltt  April  17.  His  Royal  Highness 
William  Henry,  Duke  of  Clarence,  to  be 
High  Admiral  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland^ 
and  the  Dominions  thereunto  belonging. 

Members  retumtd  to  $eme  in  Parliaments 
Berwick-upon-Tweed. — Sir   Francis    Blake» 

Bart,  vice  Gladstone,  whose  election  has 

been  determined  to  be  void. 
fFest  Looe. — Sir  C.  Hulse,  vice  Buller,  who 

has  accepted  the  Chiltern  Hundreds. 

Ecclesiastical  Preferments. 
Rev.  W.  Adamson,  Kilkishem  R.  co  Clare. 
Rev.  C.  L.  Band,  Sheldtm  P.  C.  with  Com- 

brawleigh  R.  Devon. 
Rev.  A.  Bay  ley,  Edgcott  R.  Northampton. 
Rev.  A.  Beckwith,  Collipeham  R«  York. 
Rev.  £.  R.  Benyon,  Downnam  R.  Essex. 
Rev.  T.  Bradhurne,  ToftR.  with  Caldecott 

V.  annexed,  co.  Cambridge. 


R«v.  C.  Hall,  Routh  R.  YorL 
Rev.  C.  Johnston,  Feliskirk  V.  York. 
Rev.  G.  W.  Jordan,  WaterstockR.  Oxon. 
Rev.  M.  Keating,   Ventry  R.  co.  Kerry, 

Ireland 
Rev.  J.  Kempthorae,  Wedmore  V.  co.  Som. 
Rev.  W.  Lloyd,  LUlingsione  Lovell  R.  oo. 

Oxford. 
Rev.  M.  Lowther,  Maker  R.  York. 
Rev.  A.  M*Laine,  to  the  Parish  of  Ardna- 

murchan,  Scotland. 
Rev.  W.  Mayd,  Wethersfield  R.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  G.  Montagu,    South  Pickenham  R. 

Norfolk. 
Rev.  C.  Musgrove,  Halifax  V.  co.  York. 
Rev.  H.  J.  Ridley,  Kirbv  Underdale  R.  co. 

York. 
Rev.  W.  H.  Roberts,  Clewer  R.  co.  Berks* 
Rev.  P.  Saumarez,  Great  Easton  R.  Essei(, 
Rev.  T.  Shepherd,  Cruxeaston  R.  Hants. 
Rev.  C.  R.  Smith,  Withiel-Florey  P.  C.  oo. 

Somerset. 
Rev.  T.  Stacey,  Gelligaer  R.  Glaraorgansh. 
Rev.   G.  F,  Tavel,    Great    Fakenham  R. 

Suffolk. 
Rev.  T.  Westropp,  Bruree  V.  co.  Limeriok. 
Rev.  W.  B.  Wmning,  Keyshoe  V.  Bedfurdsb. 

Chaplains. 
Rev  S.  Burder,  Cliaplain   to  the  Earl  of 

Bridge  water. 
Rev.  E.  Burton,  Esaminmg  Chaplalo  to  ih« 

Bishop  of  Oxford. 


BIRTHS. 


March  1 1 .  At  Lel)eck  Home,  Hotwells, 
0O.  Glouc.   the  wife  of  Daniel  Farley,  of 

Montreal,  esa.  a  son. 19.  In  London,  th« 

wife  of  the  He  v.  Francis  North,  a  son  and 

heir. 14.  At  Woodleigh  Parsonage^  the 

wife  of  the  Rev.  R.  Edmunds,  a  dau. 

19.  The  wife  of  Robert  P.  Tyrwhitt,  esq.  of 

the  Middle  Temple,  a  son. 22.  At  his 

house,   Hyde- park-corner,  the  lady  of  Sir 

Edmund  Antroljus,  Bart,  a  dau. 24.  The 

wife  of  Capt.  £dw.  Purvis,   a  dau. ^At 

Chertsey,  the  wife  of  Capt.  Dixie,  R.  N,  a 

son. 25.  At  the  Rectory,   Ikxted,  the 

wife  of  the  Rev.  A.C.  Lawrence,  a  son,- 
At  Dover,  the  wife  of  Peter  Hesketh,  esq.  of 
Rossall  Hall,  Lancashire,  a  dau.— —-At  Flo- 
rence, the  lady  of  Sir  Hedworth  Williamson, 
Bart,  a  son  and  heir. 27.  At  Livermcre, 


Suffolk,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Nat.  Colville, 

a  dau. 29.  At  Etton,  the  wife  of  this 

Rev.  S.  Creyke,  a  dau.  In  Mansfield-st. 
London,  the  Right  Hon.  Lady  Petre,  a  son. 
—30.  At  Mrs.  Gapper's,  College-gre^n, 
Bristol,  the  wife  of  Capt.  ^mund  Gapper» 

R.  A.  a  dau. Lately.  At  SouthamptoQt 

the  wife  of  Capt.  Fred.  J.  Thomas,  R.  N.  ^ 
a  son. 

Jpril  I ,  In  Gower-street,  the  wife  of  John 

Patteson,  esq.  barrister  at  Uw,  a  son. 

3.  The   wife   of  the   Rev.  John  Davisotty 

Preb.  of  Worcester  and  St,  Paul's,  a  dka. 

4.  At  Campsall  Park,  near  Ferrybridge» 

CO.  York,  Lady  Radcliffe,  a  dau*-^ 5.  At 

Sneed  Park,  the  wife  of  Thos.  Daniel,  esq. 

jun.  a  dau. II.  At  G.  Byng's,  esq.  M.r. 

St.  James's-sq.  the  Lady  J.  Thynne,  a  sen. 


MARRIAGES. 


Oct.  10, 1 826.  At  Hertford,  the  Rev.  Rob. 
Ridsdale,  Rector  of  Knockin,  co.  Salop,  and 
Vicar  o^  Kerdford  in  Sussex,  to  Audrey 
Harriet,  eldest  daa.  of  the  Right  Hon.  Lord 
John  Townshendyof  Balls  Park,  Herts.— 
S4.  At  Poonah,  Robert  J.  Luard,  esq«  Bom* 
Gkst,  Mao,  Afril,  1 8^7. 


10 


bay  service,  to  Mary  Anne,  dau.  of  Mijoif* 
gen.  Sir  Lionel  Smith,  K.C.B. 

Feb.  22,  1 897.  At  Malu,  Lieot.-gen.  St. 
Vincent  Whitmore,  to  IsahelU  Maxwell,  el- 
dest dau.  of  Sir  John  Stoddart,  President  of 
th«  Hieh  Court  of  Appeal,  and  Jndgc  of  the 
Vica  AdminJty  Conrt,  Malt»« 


3^ 


Births.'T^MarTiaga, 


[Aprilj 


March  S.  At  Friem  Btniet,  Oeo.  Raw- 
liBsoQ,  esq.  Doughty-st.  to  Eliza  Hall,  niece 
of  Wm  Morgan,  esq.  of  Coloey  Hatch.—- 
5.  At  Fareham,  John  Theoph.  Kelsall,  esq. 
R.  N.  to  Eliz.  Ann,  dau.  of  the  late  Vice- 
Adm.  Stephens.—*—^.  At  Leyton,  Essex, 
Benedict  John,  eldest  son  of  0.  J.  Angell, 
•tq.  of  Rorosey  House,  Wilts,  to  Emma, 
second  dau.  of  John  Gore,  esq.  of  Etloe 

House,  Essex. 13.   J.  Dauncey,  esq.  to 

Lucy,  third  da.  of  J.  Harvey  Thurs by,  esq. 

of  Ahingdon  Abbey,  co.  North'ton. At 

SCreathara  Castle,  A.  Macduff  Baxter,  esq. 
Attorney-general  N.  S.  Wales,  tb  Maria  del 
Koeario  uordon,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Robert 

Gordon,  esq.  of  Xcrcs  de  la  Frontera. 

17.  At  Jersey,  G.  Hans  Blake,  esq.  RN.  to 
Harriette,  second  dau.  of  the  late  Wm.  Leake, 
caq.  and  gd.-da.  of  the  late  Rear-Adm.  Isaac 

VaiUant. W.  Willson  Yeates,  esq.  Dep. 

Assist^  Comm.-Gen.  to  Miss  Knight,  of  Up. 
.  Harley-st.  only  dau.  of  the  late  Jos.  Knight, 
esq.  17.  At  Langtoft,  near  Driffield, 
Hudson  Brown,  esq.  of  Bridlington,  to  Miss 
LampIough,dau.  ot  B.  Lam  plough,  of  Lang- 
toh  House,  CO.  York.— 19.  Capt.  W.  ft. 
Beat,  to  Frances,  second  dau.  of  T.  Sibley, 

eao.  of  Luton,  Bedfords. At  Canterbury 

e^edral,  Lieut.  A.  Warlock,  69th  Reg.  to 
Harriett,  third  dau.  of  Capt.  N.  H.  Hol- 

nortby,  R.N. 20.   At  Dagenbam,   in 

Essex,  Henry  Shaw  Lefevre,  esq.  to  Helen, 

fourth  dan.  of  late  Gen.  Le  Mardhant. 

f  4.  At  St.  Peter's,  Dublin,  J.  Shelley,  esq. 
■on  of  Sir  Tim.  Shelley,  Bart,  of  Field-place, 
Suasex,  to  Eliz.  eldest  dau.  of  Chas.  Brown, 
ttq.  of  Kilna-court,  Ireland. At  Don- 
taster,  the  Rev.  Jas.  Dransfield,  to  Eliza 
Robinsoq,  eldest  dau.  of  Mr.  Alderm.  Shear- 
down. f  7.  At  Preston,  Paris  Dick,  esq. 

M.  D.  of  Clifton,  son  of  Gen.  G.  Dick,  to 
Jane,  widow  of  T.  Monkhnuse,  esq.  and  dau. 
of  S.  Horrocks,  esq.  of  Lark-hill,  Preston. 

At  Weston-super-Mare,  Som.  Edward 
Bernard,  esq.  to  Caroline  Eloisa,  dau.  of  the 
late  R.  Bowen,  Esq.  and  erand-dau.  of  the 

^te  Mwor-gen.  Grizell,  of  Jamaica. At 

JiBwer  Tooting,  Surrey,  Re?.  Thos.  Pitman, 
of  Brightwell,  Oxfordsh.  to  Fanny  Jane, 
il^rU  (Uu.  of  Jas.  Bird,. esq.  of  Lower  Toot- 
ing.—'At  St.  Mary's,  Stoke,  Ipswich, 
Capt.  Chas.  Steward,  of  the  Lord  Lowther, 
E.1.C  to  Harriet,  eldest  dau.  of  A.  H. 

Steward,  esq.  of  Stoke  Park. At  Clewer, 

Berks,  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Edward  Moore, 
brother  to  the  Earl  of  Mount  Cosbel,  to  the 
Hon.  Matilda  Trefusis,  sister  to  Lord  Clin- 
ton.—— '88.  AtSboreditch,  the  Rev.  W.E.  L. 
Faulkener,  Rector  of  St.  John's,  Clerken- 
well,  to  Mary  Ann,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
Joiin  Crawford,  Esq.  of  Hoxton,  Middlesex. 

99.  At  Hackney,  Wm.  Clark  Boyd,  esq. 
'to  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  W.  Steinmetz,  esq. 
of  Upper  Homerton.— — ^  1 .  At  the  dowmr 
Lady  be  Clifford's,  South  Aadley-st.  Edw. 
SiMtMe  Hill,  esq.  toLedrOeomioaKeppely 
dau,  ef  the  Earl  of  Albemarii.-^-— Henry 


Geo.  FolhergiU,  esq.  only  son  of  the  late  Rev. 
Dr.  Fothergill,  Riector  of  Drewsteignton, 
Devon,  and  Twivertou,  Somerset,  to  Lydia, 
second  dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  Hole,  Woolfar- 

dbworthy,  Devon. At  Clif^n,    Alfred 

George  Kerr,  esq.  youngest  son  of  the  late 
ldeut.-gen.  James  Kerr,  E.LC.,  to  Frances, 
dan.  of  the  late  T.  Freeman,  esq.  E.I.C. 
gd.-d.  of  late  Hon.  and  Rev.  Hamilton  Cuffe. 

Lately,  At  Southampton,  Rich.  Wood- 
ward, esq.  Bengal  service,  to  Lucy,  eldest 
dau.  of  Major-gen.  Gubbins.— -At  Ham- 
bledon,  Edw.  Hale,  esq.  to  Caroline,  dan.  of 

Retr-Adm.  Downham. ^At  Warblington, 

Hants,, John  Evans,  esq.  of  Gn^'s-Inn,  to 
Miss  Frances  Knight,  niece  of  John  South 
Lane,  esq. 

Aprils,  At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sq. 
Lieut. -Cul.  Macdonald,  late  of  the  19th  Reg. 
to  Emma,  only  dan.  of  G.  Vamham,  esq.  of 
Wilton-pla. 8.  At  St.  George's,  Blooms- 
bury,  T.  Waldron  Hombuckle,  President  and 
Tutor  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Cam.  to  Eliz.  only 
dau.  of  Robert  Whincop,  esq.  of  Lynn. 
4.  At  Portsmouth,  Cant.  Fred.  Jas.  George 
Mathews,  to  Augusta  Martin,  dau.  of  Tho. 

Mottley,  esq.  of  the  Customs. 5.  At  St. 

George's,  Hanover-sq.  the  Rev.  G.  Henry 
Curtois,  Rector  of  East  Bkrkwitb,  co.  Line, 
to  Susannah,  eldest  dau*  of  late  John  Tebbs, 

esq.  of  Bolton-st. ^At  Hackney,  William 

Westbrook  Burton,  esq.  barrister  at  law,  to 
Margaret,  dau.  of  Leny  Smith,  esq.  of  Ho- 

merton. At  St.  James's,  Sir  W.  Salton- 

»tall  Wiseman,  Bart.  Post-Capt.  R.N.  to 
Eliza,' eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  G.  Davies, 

Rector  of  Cranfield,   Bedfordshire. At 

Christ's  church,  Sculcoates,  the  Rev.  Chas. 
Dodgson,  son  of  the  late  Capt.  Dodg^on, 
4th  Drag.  Guards,  to  Frances  Jane,  second 
dau.  of  C.  Lutwidge,  esq.  collector  of  the 

Customs. At  Clifton,  the  Rev.  Hennr 

Mair,  to  Eliz.  Matravers,  eldest  dau.  of  T, 

White,  esq. At  Wixoe,  Suffolk,  the  Rev. 

W.  Mayd,  Vicar  of  Ewell,  Surrey,  to  Emily 
MaUlda,  eldest  dau.  of  J.  R.  Jar  line,  esq. 
At  Islington,  John  Cleveland  Green, 
esq.  of  Highbury  Park,  to  Eliz.  Umfireville, 
only  dau.  of  late  Jas.  Janson,  esq.  Darling- 
ton, Durham. 6,  At  St.  Paul's,  Covent 

Garden,  M.  P.  Wiltens  Andr^,  esq.  of  Su- 
rinam, to  Martha  Maria,  only  dau.  of  Geo. 
Emery,  esq.  of  the  Grange,  Banwell,  Som. 

April  7 .  At  Mitcham,  Ed.  Geo.  Barnard, 
esq.  of  Deptfoid-green,  Kent,  to  Eliza,  dau. 
of  Thomas  Millward,  esq.  of  Ravensbury- 

House,  Mitcham. At  St.  Mary's,  Mary- 

lebone,  Capt.  John  Gray,  SSd  Reg.  to  Mary, 
third  dau.  of  the  late  Wm.  Crutchley,  esq. 
-- — 10.  At  Manchester,  Thos.  Cave  Browne 
Cave,  esq.  third  son  of  Sir  Wm.  Cave  B. 
iCave,  to  Anne,  eldest  da.  of  J.  Walker,  esq. 
of  Brooqihouse,  Levenshulme,  Lancashire. 
—At  SuAct  Damerel,  Harry,  only  son  of 
John  Tonkin,  esq.  of  Pamfleet,  Devon,  to 
CiVoliM,  eldcft  dau.  of  late  Rev.  Robert 
Serfill  Wood,  of  Osmington,  Donet. 


istr.]  t  S6»  ) 

OBITUARY. 


Empress  of  thp.  Brazils.  followini^  year  commaDded  the  Spbini  of 

Early  in  December,  at  Rio  de  Janeiro,  84  guns,  on  the  Mediteranean  station, 

her  Majesty  Leopoldina  Carolina,  Em-  At  the  eoromencement  of  the  war  with 

press  of  the  Brazils.  the  French  republic,  he  was  appointed  to 

She  was  born  Jan.  22, 1797>  the  second  the  Blonde  fri|^ate,  and  served  in  her 
daughter  of  Francis  the  Second,  the  pre-  during  the  West  India  campaign.  On 
sent  Emperor  of  Austria,  by  his  second  his  return  from  the  Leeward  Islands  he 
*  Empress,  Maria  Theresa,  daughter  of  cruized  sometime  in  the  channel,  and 
Ferdinand  the  Fourth,  King  of  Sweden,  then  removed  into  the  Hannibal  of  74 
She  lost  her  mother  in  1807,  and  was  guns,  in  which  ship  he  joined  the  squa-. 
married  May  13th,  1817*  to  Pedro  d*AI-  dron  on  the  Jamaica  station,  where  he 
cantara,  then  Prince  Royal  of  Portugal,  captured  la  Gentille,  a  French  frigate  Of 
and  declared  in  1822  Emperor  of  the  40  guns,  and  several  privateers.  ■ 
Brazils.  She  gave  birth,  April  4,  181dt  On  the  17th  Nov.  1796,  Capt.  Mark- 
to  Maria  da  Gloria,  the  present  Queen  ham  married  the  Hon.  Maria  Rice,  third 
of  Portugal,  who  acceded  to  that  throne  and  youngest  daughter  of  George  Rice, 
on  the  abdication  of  her  father,  May  2,  Esq.  and  Cecil,  late  Baroness  Dynevor^ 
1826  i  and  to  three  other  children.  The  and  sister  to  the  present  Lord  Dyoevor. 
Empress  died  in  childbed.  By  that  lady  he  bad  several  children,  and 

Mrs.  Markham  died  in  childbed  Dec.  92, 

Sir  J.  Li8ter-Kaye,  Bart.  1810.    (See  vol.  lxxx.  ii.  BBS.) 

Feb.  28.      At    Denby  Grange,    near  In  1798  we  find  Capt.  Markham  com« 

.  Wakefield,  after  a  short  but  very  severe  roanding  the  Centaur,  74,  on  the  coast  of 

illness,  aged  64,  Sir  John  Lister-Kaye,  Ireland,  under  the  orders  of  Commodore 

Bart.  Duckworth,  whom,  towards  the  latter 

This  family  was  first  honoured  with  end  of  that  year,  he  accompanied  to  the 

a  Baronetcy  in  1641,  which  expired  in  Mediterranean,  and  assisted  at  the  reduc« 

the  person  of  Sir  Richard  Lister-Kaye,  tion  of  Minorca. 

D.Ty,  Dean  of  Lincoln^  the  sixth  who  en-.  Early  in  1799t  the  deceased  was  en- 
joyed it,  in  1809.  The  Baronet  now  de-  tmsted  by  his  friend  Earl  St.  Vincent 
ceased,  having  been  appointed  sole  heir  with  the  command  of  a  flying  squadron, 
to  the  estates  of  Lister  and  Kaye,  under  with  which  h«  attacked  the  town  of 
the  will  of  Sir  John  Lister-Kaye,  elder  Cambrelies,  on  the  coast  of  Catalonia; 
brother  of  the  Dean,  was  advanced  to  and,  after  driving  the  Spaniards  fron 
the  dignity  which  the  family  had  enjoyed  their  battery,  landed  a  party  of  men  un* 
through  so  many  generations,  Dec.  28th,  der  Lieut  Grossett,  who  dismounted  the 
1812.  guns,  burnt  five  settees,  and  took  five 

He  married  at  Bowden,  in  Cheshire,  othersladen  with  staves,  wine,  and  wheat. 
Oct.  1 8th,  1 800,  Lady  Amelia  Grey,  sixth  About  the  same  period  the  Centaur  cap- 
daughter  of  Geurge-Harry,  late  Earl  of  turcd  la  Vierga  de  Rosario  of  14  guns, 
Stamford  and  Warrington,  and  sister  to  and  90  men. 

the  present  Peer.     By  this  lady  he  had  On  the  I6th  March,  the  Centaur,  in 

four  sons  and  seven  daughters  t  John-  company  with  the  Cormorant,  drove  £1 

Lister,  born  in  1801,  who  has  succeed-  Guadaloupe,  Spanish  frigate  of  40  guns, 

ed  to  the  title;  Amelia-Mary;  George-  on  shore  near  Cape  Oropesa,  where  she 

Lister;  Arthur-Lister;  Sophia  (who died  was  totally  wrecked.     In  the  month  of 

young)  ;    Sophia  >  Charlotte  ;    Louisa  ;  June  following,  the  squadron  under  Cmpt. 

Henrietta  ;   Maria  ;  Henry- Lister  ;  and  Markham  captured  the  following  French 

Georgiana.  men  of  war,  on  their  return  to  Touloa 

from  the  coast  of  Syria:  la  J unon,  bear- 

AdHiiral  Markham.  ing  the   flag  of    Rear-Admiral    Per^e, 

Feb.  \X    At  Naples,  John  Markham,  mounting  40  guns,  400  men  ;  TAlceste, 

Esq.  Admiral  of  the  Blue,  and  late  M.  P.  86  guns, 300  men;  leCourageux,  22  guns, 

lor  Portsmouth.  300  men ;  laSalamine,  J 8,  and  rAlerte, 

This  oflicer  was  a  younger  son  of  the  14  guns,  each  carrying  120  men. 
late  venerable  and  learned  Abp.  Mark-  The  Centaur  returned  to  England  soon 
ham.  He  was  educated  at  Westminster  after  the  above  capture,  and  Capt.  Mark- 
School,  while  his  father  presided  over  ham  continued  to  command  her  until 
that  institution ;  and  entered  the  service  the  early  part  of  1801,  when  he  waa 
at  an  early  age.  He  obtained  the  rank  nominated  one  of  the  Lo^  Comnis- 
of  Post-Captain  Jan.  3,  1783>  tnd  in  the  sioners  of  the  Admiralty^  «nd  at  tbe  c«- 


S64                Obituary.— ^dntiral  Dilkh.'^General  Twisi.  lAprHL, 

nvral  election  in  the  samcvyear*  was  in(  the  flag  of  the  Port  Admiral  at 

chosen  M.P.  for  Portsmouth.  In  the  same  Plfmouib»  where    he    continued   until 

year,  Dec.  13tb,  he  bfoq^bt  in  a  Bill  fur  autumn  of  the  following  year,  when  he 

appointing  Cummisfiiouers  to  inquire  int^  waa-  numinaled  Resident  Cttmmi&sioner 

the   abuses,  frauds,  and    irregularities  at  Jamaica,    which   we  believe  to  have 

fractisad  in  several  of  the  Naval  Depart*  been  bis  last  public  eropluyroent. 

mantft,  and  in  the  business  of  prize  agenta»  He  was  appointed  to  the  rank  of  Rear- 

Ae.     During  the  progress  of  the  above  Admiral,  April  28,  1808  ;  Vice-Admiral, 

BUI  through  its  usual  stages,  it  encouti-  August  18,  1812  ;  Admiral  of  the  Blue, 

t«red  much  opposition ;  however,  it  final-  May  87,  1 825. 

ly  passed  butb  Houses,  and  received  the  Admiral   Dilkes   married  in    1804,  a 

Royal  Aasent  on  the  S9tb  of  the  same  daughter  of  the  late  Rfar-Adrairal  £p- 

month.  worth,  and  sister  to  tbe  present  Farmery 

In  1804,  when  Earl  St.  Vincent  left  the  Predam  Epwortb,  esq.  Capt.  R.N. 
Admiralty,  ourofiicer  accompanied  that  — 
Nobleman  in  his  retirement.    He  was  Gbn£Ral  Twiss. 
Hdvanced  to  the  rank  of  Rear-Admiral,  March  14.     At  Harden  Grange,  York- 
April  23,  in  the  tame  year ;  and  on  tha  shire,  aged  82,  General  William  I'wiss, 
ehange  of  ministry  occasioned   by  the  Colonel     Commandant    of    the    Ruyal 
Jaatb  of  Mr.  Pitt,  in  1806,  be  became  a  Engineers. 

Commissioner  of  tbe  new  Board  of  Ad-  This  officer  entered  the  military  de- 

miralty,  under  Mr.T.Grtnville,  but  again  partment  of  the  Ordnance,  in  July  1760 ; 

rKlred  from  office  with  his  friends   in  b*  obtained  a  commission  in  tlie  corps 

\Wf»  of  Engineers  in  November   1763;    and 

>   With  ihe  eiceptlon  of  the  short  in-  was  promoted  to  a  lieutenancy  in  April 

tcrval  that  ensued  between  tbe  general  1771*    From   J768  to   1771  lie  did  duty 

•laetion  in  1818,  and  the  dissolution  of  as  an  Engineer  in  the  garrison  at  Gihral- 

Parliament  occasioned  by  tbe  demise  of  tar,  and  from   1778  to  tbe  end  of   1775 

bit  late  Majesty, in  1820,  Admiral  Mark-  was  employed  on  the  new  fortifications 

barn  continued  to  represent  the  borough  constructing  fur  the  defence  of  the  dock- 

'ofPortsmouth  till  the  dissolution  In  1826.  yard  at  Purismoatb.    Early  in   1776  he 

His  pfHirootion  to  the  rank  of  Admiral  of  embarked  with  Gen.  Burgoyne,  and  the 

tbe  Blue  took  place  Aug.  12,  1819.  army  he  con/manded,  for  Canada,  and 

-    <                         ■  landed  at  Quebec  in  June,  wben  he  was 

•   Admirai.  DitKES.  nominated  Aide-de-camp  to  Major-Gen. 

Rh,  35.    At  bis  house  In  Eieter,  aged  Phillips.    He  was  with  the  army  in  pur- 

|f ,  John  DHkeSy  esq.  Admiral  Of  the  suing  the  Americans  up  the  river  St. 

Btoe.                                                  "  Lawrence,  and  was  in  the  affair  at  tbe 

This  officer  was  made  a  commander  Three  Rivers  on  tbe  8th   of  June,  and 

daring  tbe  war  with  our  trans-Atlantio  proceeded  with  tbe  army  until  the  Arae- 

aolonies ;  subsequently  to  which,  in  eon-  ricans  were  driven  out  of  Canada,  and 

Sequence  of  some  temporary  disgust,  be  embarked  io  their  fleet  and  boats  on 

entered  into  the  Portuguese  service,  and  Lake  Champlain  in  July.     He  was  then 

obtiined    the   rank  of    Rear-Admiral ;  appointed  by  Sir  Guy  Carleton^  tbe  Com- 

hlit)  brighter  prospects  opening,  he  re-  mander  in-cbief,   to  be  Comptroller  of 

turned  to  that  of  his  native  country,  and  Works,  and  to  superintend  the  con«truc- 

ft«came  a  Post  Captain,  Sept.  21,  1790.  tion  of  a  fleet  for  Lake  Champlain,  with 

in  1795,  Captain  Dilkes  commanded  gun-boats  and  batteaux,  fbr  conveying 
tlie  Madras  of  54  guns,  stationed  in  tbe  tbe  army  over  tbe  lake,  and  with  tbe 
North  Sea.  He  afterwards  proceeded  to  able  assistance  of  the  naval  depart ment, 
the  West  Indies,  and  was  present  at  the  over  which  the  late  Admiral  Scbank  was 
reduction  of  St.  Lueia,  by  tbe  forces  on-  made  Commissioner,  they  began  in 
dM*  Sir  Hugh  Christian  and  Sir  Ralph  the  middle  of  July  the  necessary  pre- 
Abercromby.  The  Madras  continued  parationsforsosrduousan  undertaking, 
shont  two  years  on  the  Leeward  Island  and  at  a  time  -that  Government  had 
station,  and  on  her  arrival  in  England,'  neither  vessel  nor  boat  on  Lake  Champ- 
vas  again  ordered  to  join  the  North  Sea  lain,  nor  the  smallest  building  for  bar- 
feet.  About  the  Istter  end  of  1799,  racks,  store-houses,  or  work-shops. 
Captain  Dilkes  sailed  with  the  trade  fbr  Notwithstanding  all  which,  a  numerous 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  and  the  East  fleet  was  constructed,  which  fought  and 
Indies;  and  in  the  spring  of  ISOl^  we  defeated  the  enemy  at  Valcour  Island 
And  him  commanding  thb  Raisonable  of  on  the  1 1th  and  12th  of  October,  and 
64guns,  in  the  expedition  against  Copen<'  obtained  tbe  naval  su(>eriority  dnring 
kagen,  under  Sir  Hvde  Parker.  On  the  tbe  whole  war.  He  then  proceeded  with 
rvnewal  of  tbe  war  in  1803,  be  was  ap-  the  army  to  Crown  Point,  and  with  it 
pototed  to  the  Salvador  dtl  Mandoi  btat^  retvAied  and  wintered  in  Canada. 


In  tbe  sprinf  of  1777  he  was  appointed  engineers  sent  to  report  liow  far  the 

Commandinf^  Engineer  onder  Geo.  Bar-  same  system  was  applicable  to  the  easw 

foyne;  and  in  July  was  with  the  amy  ern  coast.    In  1810,  after  an  active  ser*< 

at  the  investmentofTiconderogay  where  vice  of  fifty  years,  be  obtained  leare  to 

the    Americans  .  bad    employed   many  remain  unemployed,  and  retired  into  tbo 

thousand  men,  during  eight  months,  in  eountry.     He  bad  been  appointed  Brf* 

fortifying  Mount  Independence;    but,  gadier-General  in  1804 1  and  Major-Go^ 

from  the  position  wbich  the  army  took,  neral  in  1805  ;  and  he  acquired  the  ranli 

these    works   were   immediately  aban-  of  Lieut^eneral  in  1813;  and  General, 

doned.    He  served  with  the  army  the  1836. 

whole  of  the  campaign,  and  was  present  .— . 

at  all  the  geiieml  actions,  and  was  in-  Lieut.-Colonbl  Radcliffe. 

duded  in   tbe  convention  of  Saratof^a,  Feb,  34.     In  Coiiiiaught-iquartt^  aged 

but  wa<,  with  other  officers,  exchanged  53,  Lieut. -Colonel  Charles -Eld  ward  Rad* 

a  few  days  afterwards,  and  returned  to  cliffe,  Major  of  Brigade  to  tbe  cavalry  in 

Ticonderoga,  when   be  assisted  in  the  Great  Britain. 

evacuation  of  that  port  in  November,  This  distinguished  officer  was  appoint^ 

1777.  ed  Adjutant  of  the  first  Dragoons,  June 

In  1778,  lie  was  sent  by  Gen.  Sir  F.  35,  1796  ;  Cornet,  April  13,  1799  ;  Lieu- 

Haldimand  to  Lake  Ontario,  to  form  a  tenant, May  4,  1800  ;  and  Captain,  Dec. 

naval  establishment  on  the  east  side  of  1,  1804.     He  served  under  tbe  Duke  of 

that  lake;  and  in  December  that  year  York  in  Flanders,  and  in  Sept.  1809,  he 

he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain,  embarked   with   bis   regiment    for    tbe 

He  was  afterwards  employed  in  different  Peninsula.     On  taking  the  field  in  the 

parts   of  Canada  as   Commanding  £n-  ensuing  spring,  he  was  selected  by  Lord 

gineer,  until  the  peace  in  1783,  when  he  Hill  to  occupy  with-hts  troop  a  post  of 

obtained  leave  to  return  to  England.  some  difficulty  and  haaard,  near  Klvas  | 

In  1785  he  was  employed  as  Secretary  and  thence  io  make  a  reconnoisanco 
to  the  Board  of  Land  and  Sea  Officers  4oro6s  the  Quad ianai  and  he  was  subse* 
apfKiinted  under  the  King's  sign  manual,  qqently  employed  on  similar  duties  under 
to  report  upon  tbe  defences  of  the  dock*  the  Quarter- matter-general  of  tbe  army. 
yanis  at  Portsmouth  and  Plymouth.  In  June  1810,  be  was  appointed  Major  of 
From  1785  to  1793  he  was  employed  at  Brigade  to  tbe  brigade  formed  of  tli« 
an  engineer  at  Portsmouth,  where  many  Royals  and  14th  Dragoons,  under  Major* 
new  works  were  being  constructed,  par-  General  Slade,  in  whieb  situation  ba 
ticularly  Cumberland  Fort,  at  tbe  en-*  continued  during  the  campaigns  in  Spain, 
trance  of  Langston  Harbour.  In  June,  to  the  battle  of  Toulouse  inclusive^ 
1794,  he  obtained  the  rank  of  Lieut.-  without  a  day's  absence,  eacept  on  twtt 
Colonel,  and  in  tbe  same  year  he  was  occasions  of  dangeroos  attacks  of  fever^ 
appointed  Lieut.  Governor  of  the  Royal  brought  on  by  tbe  fatigue  incident  to 
Academy  at  Woolwich,  which  station  be  the  duties  of  his  situation.  After  th« 
held  until  he  succeeded  to  be  Colonel-  battle  of  Toulouse,  he  was  appointed 
Commandant  of  Royal  Engineers  in  Assistant-adjutant-general  to  tbe  cavalry* 
1810,  when,  by  the  rules  of  the  service,  and  in  that  situation  he  accompanied  it 
be  was  removed.  During  this  period,  on  the  march  through  Prance,  and  at^ 
however,  he  was  employed  on  variouy  tended  the  reviews  of  tbe  several  bri- 
services.  Between  1793  and  1799,  he  gades  and  regiments  before  bis  present 
was  engaged  in  augmenting  the  defences  Msjesty,  on  their  return  to  Eivgland. 
on  the  coasts  of  Kent  and  Sussex,  parti*  During  his  services  in  tbe  Peninsula,  be 
cularly  at  Dover  Castle.  In  1799,  upon  was  present  at  the  battles  of  Salamanca, 
Col.  Hay,  of  the  Engineers,  being  killed  Vlttoria,  Busaco,  Fuentes  d'Onor>  tbe 
in  Holland,  he  was  sent  as  commanding  blockade  of  Pamplona,  and  the  attack 
Royal  Engineer,  under  tbe  late  Duke  ot  of  Bayonne,  besides  numerous  engage^ 
York,  and  remained  there  till  the  evacu*  ments  of  minor  note,  in  which  the 
ation  of  that  country  was  completed.  In  cavalry  was  concerned  ;  and  he  acted 
1800  be  was  sent  to  visit  tbe  islands  of  twice  as  Deputy  Judge-advocate  to  Gene- 
Guernsey  and  Jersey.  Jn  1803  he  wai  ral  Courts  Martial  in  tbe  cavalry.  Wbihi 
ordered  to  make  tbe  tour  of  Ireland,  and  serving  with  his  corps,  be  submitted  to 
report  respecting  its  defences.  In  1803  its  commander  the  result  of  bisobserva- 
he  was  again  sent  to  the  coasts  of  Kent  tion  aitd  experience  on  the  use  of  the 
and  Sussex;  and  in  1805  was  directed  sword  in  the  band  of  tbe  heavy  cavalry 
to  carry  into  execution  the  system  of  soldier,  urging  the  necessity  of  the  appli^ 
detached  redoubts  and  towers  which  Go-  .  cation  of  tiie  poiiK  as  roucb  more  efficl- 
vernment  had  adopted  for  tbe  defence  of  ent  than  any  cot  however  powerfully 
that  sea-coast,  and  was  finished  about  giv^nt  and  under  his  direction  give  Id'* 
the  year  1809t  be  was  also  one  of  tbe  ttruction  to  tbe  men    ui    the  thnut% 


S€$                           Obitvaey.— Jo/m  SmUh,,E$q.  [April, 

qaarte  and  tierce}  be  bid  afterwards  tbe  biffblj  dittinguisbed  himself  by  bis  ge- 

Miitfaction  to  see  tbis  idea  taken  up  and  neral  abilities  and  classical  knowledge, 

enforced  by  the  highest  cavalry  authori-  He  bad  tbe  happiness  early  to  attach 

ties ;  and  tbe  tremendous  execution  of  himself   to    many    and    distinguished 

ibis  arm  so  applied  at  Waterloo,  fully  friends,  who  remained  such  to  the  period 

Justified  tbe  adoption  of  tbe  principle,  of  bis  death.     In  conjunction  with  three 

tie  published  a  small  work  on  the  sub-  of  these,  the  Right  Hon.  George  Can- 

^t.  Ding;  the  Right  Hon.  John  Hookham 

He    received  the    brevet   of    Major,  Frcre,  and  Robert  Smith,  esq.  late  Judge 

June  4,  1814.    Tbe  staflf  of  the  army  in  Advocate  at  Bengal,  and  with  occasional 

France  ceased  Sept.  S4th  following,  and  assistance  from  other  able  colleagues, 

on  tbe  85tb  of  the  same  month,  Sir  H.  he,  in  1786  and  1787t  produced  '*  The 

Fane  was  appointed  inspector  of  cavalry.  Microcosm  ;*'    bis  papers  in  which  are 

and  this  officer  was  named  bis  Brigade-  marked  A.    His  removal  from  Eton  to 

BU^or.  King's  College,  Cambridge,  in  1787)  and 

Oh  the   renewal  of  tbe  war  in  181 5,  tbe  departure  of  the  other  contributors. 

Major  RadclifFe's  regiment  was  ordered  for  the  same,  or  Sister  University,  put 

to  France;    he  therefore  gave  up  his  a  period  to  the  publication. 

•taff  appointment,  and  accompanied  it.  Being  intended  for  the  bar,  Mr.  Smith, 

On  the  17tb  June,  his  troop  formed  the  on  leaving  tbe  University,  for  some  time 

veai^gisard    of   the  column  under  the  studied  the  law,  under  a  then  eminent 

ooromandof  the  late  Sir  Wm.  Ponspnby,  special  pleader,  Mr.  Giles,  but  disliking 

and     covered    its     retreat    from    near  tbe  profession,  be,  in  172^3,  entered  the 

Ganappe,  to  its  position.    It  was  singly  army,  and  in  October  of  the  same  year 

opposed  to  two  squadrons  of  chasseurs  was  ordered  with  part  of  bis  regiment 

^  cheval,  and  some  light  infantry ;  its  (the  Queen's  own)  on  board  the  Royal 

conduct  was   highly  approved,  and  our  George,  Sir  Alexander  Hood,  to  act  as 

officer  received  the  thanks  of  the  Major-  Marines  ;  in  which  service  he  was  pre- 

General  for  the   manner  in  which   he  sent  at  tbe  victory  of  the   1st  of  June 

oonducted  it.  1794,  as  well  as  the  previous  actions. 

At  tbe  immortal    field  of    Waterloo  In  1795,  his  regiment  (the  14th,  in  which 

tbe  deceased  received   a  severe   wound  be  was  then  Captain)  formed  part  of  the 

from  a  musket-ball,  which  lodged  in  his  unfortunate  eapedition  against  the  West 

knee,  and  the  constant  pain  and  irrita-  India  Islands,  which  was  sent  out  under 

tlon  of  which,  as  it  could  not  be  extract-  Sir  Ralph   Abercrombie    and    Admiral 

ed,  led  to  the  premature  conclusion  of  Christian.;   in  all  the  disasters  and  at- 
bis  life.    His  brevet  of  Lieut.-Colonel  ^  tacks  of  which  he  was  a  sufferer  and 

took  date  from  the  day,  and  on  bis  re-  a  sharer. 

turn  home  be  was  appointed  a  Brigade-  In    1797  Mr.  Smith    left   tbe   army, 

major  on  the  Home  Staff.    So  entirely  and  in  May  1799  was  elected  M.P.  for 

was  bis  mind  devoted  to  his  profession.  East  Looe;  but  two  months  afcer  he  re- 

tbat  almost  the  last  w6rds  be  spoke  signed  his  seat,  on  being  appointed  Pust- 

(only  two   hours  before   his  death),  in  master-,general    of     Jamaica    and    the 

answer  to  a  question  from  his  physicians  neig)ibouring   Islands.     He   resided   in 

at  to  how  he  felt,  were  '*  I  am  retreat-  the  former  Island,  discharging  his  official 

ing,  retreating,  retreating ;  I  cannot  ad<^  duties,  with  benefit  to  every  body  except 

▼auoe."     He  was  a  sincere  and  ardent  himself,  until   1803  or  3,  when  he  re- 

finendy  a  conscientious  Christian^  and  a  turned  to  England  (owing  to  ill-heal ih), 

l^ave  and  good  man.  and  was  shortly  afterwards  appointed  by 

Lt.'Col.  Radcliffe  married  Mary,  eldest  bis  early  and  steady  friend,  Mr.  Canning 

daughter  of  the  late   IJenry  Crockett,  (on  Mr.  C.'s  accepting  the  Treasurership 

esq;  of  Shusions,  in  Staffordshire,    and  of  the  Navy)    the  Pay-master    of    tbe 

sister  to  the  present  gentleman  of  that  Navy,  an  office  which  he  has  continued 

name,  reiident  at  Little  Onn  Hall  in  tbe  to  bold,  under  all  the  since*  successive 

same  county.    This  lady,  by  a  lament  a-  Treasurers,   with   the  exception  of  the 

ble  fatality,  died  on  the  same  day  in  the  short  interval,  during  which  the  Right 

wtek  previous  to  her  husband's  decease.  Hon.'  R.  B.  Sheridan  was  at  tbe  head  of 

—  this  department  of  our  Naval  affairs. 
John  Smith,  Esg.  Mr.  Smith's  abilities,  and  his  tried 
March  10,    At  his  brothers',  Kelsey  and  proved  integrity  in  this  station,  were 
Park,  Beekenham,  of  apoplexy,  John  felt,  and  acknowledged  by  all  his  supe- 
Smith,  esq.  of  Seagrove,  in  the  Isle  of  riors  in  office,  Mr.  Canning,  the  late  Mr. 
Wight;  for  many  years  Pay-master  of  Rose,  and  Mr.  Robinson;  and  no  Inng 
his  Majesty's  Navy,  and  one  of  tbe  Com-  time  has  elapsed  since  Mr.  Huskisson, 
■lissioners  of  the  Alienation  Office.  the  present  Treasurer  of  the  Navy,  paid- 
He  was  educated  at  Eten^  where  |ie-  inPkrlianent  amottbigh  and  justeulo-' 


i8«r.] 


Obituary.— C.  W.  Le  Geyi,  Esq. 


36T 


gium  to  him.  In  answer  to  lome  rfaarget 
which  were  volunteered  af^ainst  bioi. 

In  1813,  Mr.  Smith  publithed  anony- 
mouBly,  an  Essay  on  Architecture,  en- 
titled '*  Metncak  Remarks  on  Modem 
Castles,  and  Cottages,  and  Architecture 
in  general  ;"  and  in  I819>  he  produced 
an  8vo  volume  (with  a  Preface  <'on  the 
structure  and  moral  principles  of  the 
ancient  Greek  Tragedy,")  entitled  "  The 
House  of  Atreus  and  the  House  of 
Lalus,"  selected  from  the  Greek  Tra- 
gedians, and  freely  translated  intu 
English  verse.  He  has  left  behind  hifb 
a  very  numerous  collection  of  M8S.  on 
various  and  widely  differing  subjects, 
some  of  which,  especially  those  on  Clas- 
sic Literature,  will  probably  be  published 
hereafter.  Amiable  and  estimable  in 
private  life,  and  equally  so  in  all  his 
public  functions,  he  has  been  called  to 
bis  Maker  suddenly  and  awfully,  leaving 
behind  him  few  who  are  his  equals  or 
superiors  in  every  duty  that  devolves  to 
our  lot  in  our  present  state. 

C.  W.  Le  Gcyt,  Esq. 

March  12.  At  St.  Helier's,  in  Jersey, 
aged  93,  Charles  William  Le  Geyt,  esq. 
chief  of  the  ancient  and  distinguished 
family  of  that  name. 

He  was  born  May  12,  1733,  the  eldest 
son  of  Charles  Le  Geyt,  esq.,  eldest  son 
of  Philip  Le  Geyt,  esq.,  who  for  a  long 
series  of  years  filled  the  office  of  Attorney- 
general,  and  afterwards  of  Jurat  and 
Lieutenant  Bailly  of  Jersey,  and  who 
was  the  nephew  and  heir  of  the  celebrated 
Philip  Le  Geyt,  esq.,  also  Lieutenant 
Bailly,  and  author  of  those  commentaries 
on  the  laws  and  customs  of  that  Island, 
whirh  are  reckoned  a  master  piece  on 
this  subject,*  and  often  acted  upon  as 
law  before  the  Royal  Court.  The  manu- 
scripts of  that  great  man  have  been  kept 
by  the  family  as  a  precious  treasure, 
which  the  worthy  gentleman  whose  death 
we  now  announce,  carefully  preserved. 

Charles  William  Le  Geyt,  esq.  hap- 
pened to  be  at  Bristol,  when  yet  very 
young,  at  a  time  when  a  disturbance 
broke  out  at  that  city,  and  being  natu- 

*  In  saying  this,  it  is  not  meant  to 
depreciate  those  of  the  learned  Lieute- 
ant  Bailly  Pningdestre,  which  have  also 
great  merit,  but  as  be  was  fifty-eight  or 
fifty-nine  years  of  age  before  he  was 
elected  Jurat  and  appointed  Lieuten- 
ant Bailly,  and  then  took  to  the  law,  it 
cannot  be  supposed  that  he  could  obtain 
so  profound  a  knowledge  of  the  laws  and 
customs  of  the  Island,  as  Mr.  Le  Geyt, 
who  bad  studied  them  from  his  youth 
throughout  the  whole  of  his.  protraetcd 
life. 


rally  of  a  brave  and  gallant  disposition, 
he  put  himself  at  the  head  of  a  band  of 
volunteers,  and  succeeded  in   quelUuf 
the  riot ;  for  which  service  the  Corpom- 
tion  voted  him  their  thanks  and  freedom. 
Finding,  moreover,  that  he  was  martially 
inclined,  they  procured  him  a  commit* 
sion  of  ensign  in  the  army,  in  which  ba 
afterwards  rose  by  purchase  to  the  rank 
of  captain  in  the  35tb  foot.    He  cpn- 
manded  the  grenadier  company  of  that 
regiment,  at   the  battle  of  Minden   In 
1759,  and  much  distinguished  himself  in 
the  engngement.     When  in  the  prime  of 
life.  Captain  Le  Geyt  was  considered  tb« 
most    accomplished  gentleman,  and  aa 
such  gave  the  ton,  in  the  Island  of  Jersey. 
He  was  uniformly  a  strenuous  supporter 
and  defenderof  the  liberties  and  francbitet 
of  his  fellow  citizens,  and  ready  at  all  timea 
to  oppose  any  who  would  dare  to  infringe 
them.     In  the  year    177S  or  1773,  tb« 
States  passed  some  Acts  to  raise  certain 
duties  upon  such  wines  and  liquori  ai 
were  not  included  in  the  royal  patent  of 
King  Charles  H.,  which   caused   great 
and  general  dissatisfaction,  especially  in 
the  town  of  St.  Helier.      A  memorial 
from  the  merchants  and  other  inhabit- 
ants, to  his  Majesty  in  Council,  waa  in 
consequence  prepared,  humbly  praying 
that  the  execution  of  the  said  Acta  might 
be  prohibited.    On  this  occasion  Captain 
Le  Geyt  was  considered,  from  his  zeal  and' 
devotion  to  the  welfare  to  his  country, 
his  great  abilities,  and  his  interest  witik 
several  members  of  his  Majesty's  Govern- 
ment, as  the  fittest  person  to  support 
and  prosecute  the   petition;  and  when 
applied  to,  he  most  readily  and  cordiaUly 
yielded  to  bis  country's  call,  and  went  to 
London,  where  be  succeeded  in  obtainin|f 
the  desired  order  to  annul  those  oppres- 
sive Acts,  and  to  direct  them  to  be  erased 
from  the  Records  of  the  Island.    On  the 
news  of  t4iis  successful  issue.  Captain  Le 
Geyt  was  hailed  as  the  champion,  pro- 
tector,   and   defender  of  his   country'f 
rights ;  bonfires  were  made  on  the  town- 
hill,  on  the  sands,  and  in  different  other 
parts   round  the  town ;  and  the  cry  of 
•«  Vive  Le  Geyt,"  "Le  Geyt  for  everl" 
resounded  everywhere    throughout  the 
country.      During    the    party  troublet, 
headed  by  the  late  Sir  John  Dumaresq, 
from  1779  to  1794  Mr.  LeGeyt  stedfaatly 
supported  the  patriots  of  those  days,  and 
during  the  last  struggle  about  elective 
franchise  in  1811,  he  again  adhered  to, 
and  stood  up  as  the  friend,  thesupportcr^ 
and  defender  of  that  franchise.    He  was 
truly  a  warm  and  loyal  subject,  sincerely, 
attached  to  the  British  Constitution  in 
Church  and  State,  a  tender  busbai>d,  an 
affectionate  father,  and  a  nott  sincere 
friend. . 


S68     Obituart.— 7.  W.  Tation,  Eiq.'^mUiam  MUford,  Eiq.     iAptH, 


T.  W.  Tattoh,  £•«. 
.  March  2,  At  the  house  of  bit  sitter, 
ilie  widow  of  Sir  MMterniaD  Mark  Sykes, 
Bart,  in  St.  James's-Place,  aged  48, 
Thomas  William  Tattoo,  esq.  of  Witheii- 
shaw,  CO.  Chester. 

He  was  the  second  soii  of  William 
E^erton,  of  Tat  ton  and  Withenshaw, 
«sq.  M.  P.  for  Cheshire  from  1809  till 
his  4eath  in  1806,  by  his  second  wife 
Mary,  serond  daughter  of  Richard  Wil- 
braham  Buotle,  of  Latham  in  Lancashire, 
'esq.  The  deceased  was  consequently 
youni^r  brother  to  Wilbraham  Ef^erton, 
of  Tatton  Park,  esq.,  the  present  Kni^t 
of  the  Shire  for  the  County  of  Chester, 
and  nephew  to  Edward  Bootl^  Wil> 
braham,  esq.  the  present  Baron  for  the 
Cinque  Port  of  Dover. 

The  family  of  Tatton,  from  which  tha 
late  Mr.  E|certon  was  paternally  de- 
'Seciided, '  bein|(  one  of  ancient  repute 
amunf  the  (gentry  of  Cheshire,  he  se- 
lected his  second  survivini^  son,  the 
■ub)ect  of  the  present  notice,  to  repre- 


inf  the  Middle  Tenipl^,  eommenced  the 
study  of  the  law  ;  but  bis  brother  was 
the  member  of  the  family  that  was  des- 
tined to  acquire  eminence  in  that  pro* 
fession,  and  Mr.  Mitford  early  quitted  it, 
on obtainini; a  commission  in  theSuuth- 
Hampshire  Militia,  in  which  he  was  after- 
ward Lt.-Colonel*.  His  father  died  in 
1761,  when  he  succeeded  to  the  family 
estate  at  Esbury,  and  May  18,  1766,  he 
married  Frances,  daughter  of  James 
Molloy,  esq.  of  Dublin,  and,  through  her 
maternal  grandmother,  serond  cousin  to 
Henry,  present  Earl, Bath urst. 

Mr.  Mitford'a  first  publication  ap- 
peared anonymously  in  1774.  It  was 
"  An  Essay  on  the  Harmony  of  Language, 
intended  principally  to  illustrate  that  of 
the  English  Ljinguage."  It  was  much 
admired  ;  and  Home  Tooke  is  stated  to 
have  frequently  expressed  a  wish,  that 
be  had  been  its  author.  A  second  edition 
was  published  in  1804. 

The  first  volume  of  his  History  of 
Greece  appeared  in  1784,  in  quarto.  The 


•ant  it  at  the  family  seat  of  Withenshaw,     favourable  manner  in  which  it  was  re- 


The  latter,  accordingly,  by  royal  sign- 
manual,  dated  Jan.  9,  1806,  re-assumed 
the  name  of  Tatton,  which  had  heen 
resigned  by  bis  grandmother  in  1780, 
on  her  acceding  (after  her  husband's 
skcease)  to  the  estates  of  her  own  family 
•of  Egerton. 

Mr.  Tatton  married,  Oct.  90,  1807, 
Emma,  third  daughter  of  the  Hon.  John 
■Grey  (third  son  of  Harry,  fourth  Earl 
of  Stamford),  and  first  cousin  to  the 
present  Earl  of  Stamford  jsnd  Warring- 
ton. By  this  lady  be  had  ixsue,  five 
daughters  :  Emma,  Mary  •  Eliiabeth, 
'Henrietta,  Frani^es,  and  Louisa ;  and  a 
•on,  Thomas-William,  born  in  1816. 

Mr.  Tatton  served  the  office  of  High 
Sheriff  of  Cheshire  in  1809. 


William  Mitford,  Esq. 
#  Feb,  10.  At  EKbury,  near  Southamp- 
ton,aged  83,  William  Mitford, esq.  F.8.A. 
Pro^^or  of  Ancient  History  to  the  Royal 
Academy,  and  Author  of  the  History  of 
Greece. 

This  sound  scholar,  useful  citizen,  and 
l^ood  man,  was  brother  to  Lord  Redesdale, 
being  the  eld<>st  son  of  John  Mitford, 
esq.  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  by  Philadelphia, 
4laughtt>r  of  Wm.  Revely,  of  New  by  in 
York^hir**,  esq.,  which  lady  was  first  cou- 
sin to  Hugh,  first  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land. He  was  bom  in  London,  Feb.  10, 
1743-4;  and  was  educated  at  CheAm 
School  in  Surrey,  under  the  vcnerableand 
excellent  William  Gilpin,  on  whom  he 
bestowed  the  living  where  he  resided  and 
•died.  From  Chaam  Mr.  M.  went  to 
jjueen's  Coll.  Oxford. .  Ho  kft^bo  Univer- 
sity without  taking  a  degree,  and^onttr* 


ceived  by  the  ablest  and  soundest  critics, 
encoui^ged  him  to  proceed.  The  second 
volume  was  published  in  1790,  the  third 
in  1797,  but  the  work  was  not  com- 
pleted till  1810.  It  has  been  erroneously 
asserted,  that  Mr.  Mitford  spent  a  Ivng 
time  at  Athens  ;  but  the  fact  is,  that  he 
never  travelled  beyond  Naples. 

Whilst  in  the  Militia,  Mr.  Mitford 
published  a  «  Treatise  on  the  Military 
Force,  and  particularly  the  Militia  of  this 
kingdom;"  and,  in  1791,  when,  as  ro- 
cently,  the  public  mind  was  agitated  on 
the  grand  national  question,  relative  to 
the  means  of  supplying  the  country  with 
bread,  he  published  another  pamphlet, 
entitled,  «  Considerations  on  the  Opinion 
stated  by  the  Ltirds  of  the  Committee  of 
Com,  in  a  representation  to  the  King 
upon  the  Corn  Laws,  that  Great  Britain 
is  unable  to  produce  Corn  sufficient  for 
its  own  consumption,'*  &c.  It  wae  Mr. 
Mitford's  opinion,  that  it  was  not  only 
possible,  but  ea^y,  for  our  Island  to  sup- 
ply a  quantity  of  wheat  sufficientior  the 
use  of  it^  inhabitants. 

In  1796,  Mr.  Mitford,  through  the 
interest  ol  the  Duke  of  Northumberland, 
was  returned  to  the  House  of  Commons 
as  Member  for  Beeralston,  of  which 
thorough,  his  brother  John  (now  Lord 
Redesdale)  had  been  one  of  the  repre- 
sentatives during  the  two  preceding 
Parliaments.     He  did  not   deliver   his 

*  It  has  been  remarked  as  a  singular 
coincidence,  that  the  author  ol  the  De- 
cline and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire  was 
.also  a  M(ilitia  oiBecr,  being  Captain  ia 
the  Hampshire  Grenadiers. 


im.] 


ObituaryI— jR».  John  Effam,  LL.t). 


sentiment!  in  tbe  Hoaie  on  many  sub- 
jects  ;  but  be  gained  great  credit  by  bit 
exertions  in  upbolding  tbe  Militia  syS' 
tero.  On  the  proposition  brought  forward 
in  17.98,  by  Mr.  Secretary  Dundai  (the 
late  Viscount  Melville)  for  increasing 
the  number  of  field-officers  in  the  Mi- 
litia, MrMitford  opposed  the  measure 
in  its  various  stages,  contending  that 
the  Militia  should  be  governed  by  tbe 
Militia  Laws,  and  not  by  those  of  the 
regular  army  ;  and  entered  into  a  brief 
history  of  the  Militia  in  this  Country, 
commenting  on  tbe  salutary  jealousy  of 
a  military  despotism  with  which  it  was 
established.  On  subsequent  occasions, 
Mr.  Mitford  always  arrayed  himself 
against  any  innovation  of  those  princi- 
ples on  which  the 'Militia  was  originally 
founded.  He  sat  in  three  Parliaments 
for  Bferalston,  from  1796  to  1806;  and 
afterwards  represented  New  Romney 
from  1813  till  1818. 

In  1802  Mr.  Mitford  acquired  a  large 
addition  to  his  property  in  the  Revely 
estates  in  Yorkshire,  belonging  to  bis 
mother's  family.  He  continued,  how- 
ever, to  his  death,  to  make  Exbury  in 
Hampshire  his  country  residence,  having 
only  a  year  or  two  previously  to  the  date 
last-mentioned,  rebuilt  his  paternal 
mansion  there.  It  is  situated  on  the 
shoro  between  Lymington  and  South-* 
ampton,  nearly  opposite  Yarmouth  in 
the  Isle  of  Wight.  The  beauties  of  the 
place  have  been  illustrated  by  the  pen 
and  pencil  of  tbe  picturesque  Gilpin. 
Mr.  Mitford  was  appointed  Verdurer  of 
the  New  Forest  in  1778. 

A  few  years  since,  Mr.  Mitford  pub- 
lished '*  Observations  on  the  History  of 
Christianity  ;*'  and  last  year  be  adver- 
tised a  work  on  tbe  Religions  of  tbe 
Antient  World. 

Mr.  Mitford  had  six  sons  and  a  daugh- 
ter: William,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Royal 
Fusjieers,  who  died  In  17dO  unmarried; 
Bertram,  who  died  young;  Henry,'  a 
Captain  R.  N.,  lost  at  sea  in  180 J,  leav> 
ing  a  son,  who  died  shortly  alter,  and 
two  daughters  ;  John,  now  a  Commis- 
sioner  of  Bankrupts  ;  Bertram,  an  Irish 
Commissioner  of  Et-.quiry ;  Charles,  who 
died  young  ;  and  Frances. 

Rev.  John  Evans,  LL.D. 

Jan.  25.  At  Islington,  in  his  60th 
year,  the  Rev.  John  Evans,  LL.D.  author 
of  the  '*  Sketch  of  tbe  Denominations 
of  the  Christian  World/'  and  numerous 
other  works. 

TbU  voluroinoas   and    highly   useful 

writer  was  born  at  Usk,  in  Monmouth- 

ibire,  Oct.  2,  I767>  and  traced  bis  de- 

icerit,  through  an  almost  unbroken  Hut 

Gent.  Mao.  Jtprily  18?7. 

11 


of  Baptist  ministers,  from  a  TbonriM 
Evans,  one  of  tbe  mitiisters  ejected  bjr 
tbe  Act  of  Uniformity.  He  acquired  jtt 
Bristol  the  elementary  parts  of  his  edu* 
^cation,  and  in  November,  1783,  became 
a  student  in  the  Bristol  Baptist  Academy^ 
over  which  his  relative  Dr.  C.  Evaiit 
then  presided  as  Theological  Tutor, 
Having  remained  there  some  time,  ha 
went  to  Scotland  In  1787,  and  passed 
three  winters  as  a  student  at  the  College 
at  Aberdeen,  then  adorned  by  the  talentt 
of  Drs.  Campbell  and  Gerard.  A  fourth 
winter  was  spent  at  the  University  of 
Edinburgh  ;  and  having  attained  the  de- 
gree of  A.M.,  he  returned  from  Scotland 
in  June,  1791.  Entertaining  serious 
doubts  respecting  the  truth  of  several  of 
the  Calvinistic  doctrines,  he  in  1791  ac- 
cepted an  invitation  from  the  morning 
Congregation  of  GeneraC  Baptists  at 
Worship  Street  in  London,  where,  after 
officiating  a  few  months,  he  was  chosen 
pastor,  and  ordained  May  31,  1792.  This 
h\%  first  proved  his  only  pastoral  engage* 
ment,  and,  after  thirty-five  years  of  un- 
interrupted harmony,  terminated  but 
with  his  existence. 

Dr.  Evanses  first  publications  were, 
*'  An  Address,  designed  to  promote  s 
revival  among  the  General  Baptists;" 
and  ''Juvenile  Pieces  designed  for  Youth 
of  both  Sexes;"  both  printed  in  12m0y 
1793. 

Tbe  Sketch  of  the  Denominations  of 
tbe  Christian  World,  by  whieh  the  name 
of  Dr.  Evans,  to  adopt  the  words  of  tbe 
preacher  of  his  funeral  discourse,  *'  hai 
become  identified  with  the  history  of 
religious  opinion,"  first  appeared  in  the 
beginning  of  1795,  in  the*  form  of  s 
shilling  pamphlet.  The  circumstances 
that  gave  rise  to  this  production  are  cu- 
rious, and  are  narrated  tn  the  later  edi** 
tions  of  the  work.  The  rapid  sale  of 
the  first  impression  called  for  a  second 
edition  in  July  of  the  same  year,^  and 
during  a  period  of  about  thirty  years,  ' 
fourteen  successive  editions,  comprisinf^ 
in  all  100,000  copies,  have  been  circu- 
lated: and  a  fifteenth  edition,  now  iif 
the  course  of  publication,  had  been  com* 
pleted  by  the  author  immediately  before 
bis  last  illness.  Tbe  book  has  been 
translated  into  Welsh,  and  various  con- 
tinental languages,  and  several  editions 
have  appeared  in  the  United  States  of 
America.  In  his  dedication  of  the  four- 
teenth edition  to  bis  friend  the  late  Lord 
Erskine,  the  author,  after  noticing  the 
extensive  circulation  of  his  work,  \\kuk 
adverts  to  tbe  impartiality  by  which  it  is 
so  singularly  drstinguisbed,  and'  to  the 
inconsiderable  sum  for  which  he  parted 
with  the  copyright  t  **  Its  impartiaKtj 
has  been  the  baus  joi   its  porptilarity^ 


$r# 


Obituaat.-^JI«0«  /.  fitonff  LL.D. 


That  it  It  altoctther  fftt  frooi  reli|^ou« 
bias  the  author  do^t  not  aver — but  he 
hat  ttroFe  to  divest  hiinielf  of  prepot* 
lattion.  The  sealot  hat  complaioed  that 
lo  the  perusal  of  the  Sketch  the  opiniont 
of  the  writer  cannot  be  developed.  Tbit 
it  a  flattering  thou^  involuntary  testi- 
mony to  the  accuracy  of  the  work.  Were 
vamtty*  my  Lord,  the  object  of  the  writeri 
H  hat  been  satiated;  but  a  philosophy 
inferior  to  that  of  bis  Divine  Master 
voukl  have  taught  him  to  suppress  so 
Ignoble  a  passion,  when  desirous  of  in- 
forming and  improving  mankind.  Were 
filthy  lucre  the  end  in  view,  then  indeed 
ba  has  been  disappointed.  Unfortu- 
satelyy  the  author  sold  the  copyright  of 
the  Sketch  for  ten  pounds ;  but  his 
friends  have  administered  to  him  a  ne- 
gative consolation,  by  reminding  him  that 
a  similar  sum  was  paid  for  the  copyright 
«f  Watts's  Hymns,  as  well  as  of  that 

antic  product  of  human  genius.  Para- 
Lott." 
,  In  August,  17 dS,  Dr.  Evans  married 
Hary,  one  of  the  daughters  of  the  late 
Rev.  John  Wiche,  for  nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury Genera]  Baptist  Minister  at  Maid- 
atone,  and  the  friend  and  associate  of 
t^oster  and  Larduer.  Of  this  union, 
Iprodttctive  to  both  parties  of  the  most  so- 
lid and  lasting  domestic  happiness,  three 
tons  now  live  to  cherish  the  remembrance 
and  emulate  the  virtues  of  their  father. 
Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  opened  a 
aeminary,  whieb,  after  conducting  it  first 
at  Hoxtun  Square,  and  subsequently  at 
Islington,  with  continued  respectability 
and  success  for  about  thirty  years,  he 
ultimately  relinquished  in  1825,  to  enjoy 
Uiat  honourable  leisure  to  which  his  pre- 
^ous  exertions  had  so  justly  entitled  him. 
We  shall  now  enumerate,  as  perfectly 
at  we  are  able,  Dr.  Evans's  publications : 
'  A  Sermon  on  the  death  of  Drs.  Sten- 
■att,  Kippis,  and  Harris ;  with  afew  par- 
tieulart  of  their  lives  and  writings.   8vo. 

U95. 

Sermon  on  the  decease  of  the  Rer. 
Cbaries  Bulkeley,  with  a  Sketch  of  bis 
Ufe,  character,  and  writings.  8vo.  1797* 
(See  vol.  Lxxvii,  p.  589.) 
'  An  Apology  for  Human  Nature,  by 
%ht  late  Charles  Bulkeley,  with  a  prefa- 
tory address,  ISmo,  1797* 

An  attempt  to  account  for  the  infi- 
itlity  of  the  late  Mr.  Gibbon,  founded 
on  bis  own  Memoirs,  8vo,  1797* 

Moral  Rafieetions,  suggested  by  a  view 
of  London  from  the  Monument,  ISmo. 
)i798. 

,  An  Essay  on  the  Education  of  Yooth, 
ISmo.  1798,  6th  td.  18.. . 

An  Epitome  of  Geography,  ISmo. 
|8pl.  ^d  ed.  I80S. 

An  Address  to  young  people  on  tho 


oaeeMlty  and  Importanea  of  Religion. 
iSmow  1801. 

Sermon  on  the  Peace  of  Amiens,  8vo. 
1808. 

Sermon  on  the  threatened  invasion, 
entitled,  **  The  Duty  o£  every  Briton  at 
this  perilous  Moment,''  8vo.  1803.  (Re- 
viewed in  LXXiv.  534.) 

The  Juvenile  Tourist,  or  excursions 
through  various  parts  of  Great  Britain, 
8vo.  1803. 

The  unhappy  effects  of  enthusiasm 
and  superstition,  a  sermon,  8vo.  1804. 
(See  vol.  LXxiv.  852.) 

The  destruction  of  the  combined  fleets 
of  France  and  Spain,  a  sermon  on  the 
victory  of  Trafalgar/ 8vo.  1805. 

Picture  of  Worthing,  ISmo.  1805.  (See 
vol.  Lxxv.  353  :  Lxxkviii.  i.  613.) 

The  Poetic  Garland,  ISmo.  1806. 

The  Parnassian  Garland,  or  Beauties 
of  Modern  Poetry,  24mo.  1807. 

Flowers  of  Poetry,  $14mo. 

The  Prosaic  Garland,  24mo. 

A  Sermon  at  the  opening  of  a  new 
place  of  worship,  Cranbrook,  8vo.  1808. 

Sermon  on  behalf  of  the  Lancasterian 
system  of  educating  the  poor,  8vo.  1808. 

An  Address  on  the  baptism  of  Isaac 
Littleton,  a  converted  Jew,  8vo.  1808. 

A  Letter  to  Robert  Hawker,  DX>.  sug^ 
gested  by  bis  defence  of  the  London  Fe- 
male Penitentiary,  8vo.  1809* 

A  New  Geographical  Grammar,  3  vols. 
8vo.  1809. 

The  Jubilee  rendered  a  source  of  religi- 
ous improvement,  a  sermon,  8vo.  1809. 

An  Address  on  the  interment  of  Ste- 
phen Lowdell,  Esq.  8vo.  1809. 

A  Sermon  on  the  death  of  the  Princess 
Amelia,  8vo.  1810. 

Religious  liberty  the  offspring  of  Chris- 
tianity, a  Sermon  on  the  rejection  of 
Lord  Sidmouth's  Bill,  8vo.  1811. 

The  Christian  Minister's  Retrospect, 
a  Sermon  preached  at  Worship  Street, 
on  the  SOth  anniversary  of  his  Ministry, 
Nisv.  3,  1811,  8vo. 

The  Superior  Glory  of  the  second 
Temple,  a  Sermon  preached  at  the  open- 
ing of  Salem  Chapel,  King's  Lynn,  Jan. 
5*  1812.    8vo. 

Protestantism  and  Popery,  illustrated 
in  two  letters  from  a  Catholic  Priest, 
with  remarks,  8vo.  1812.    Sd  ed. 

A  Sermon  on  the  decease  of  J.  Brent, 
Esq.  8vo.  1813.    (See  vol.  LXXiii.i.  44.) 

A  Sermon  on  the  decease  of  the  Rev. 
Hugh  Wortbington,  8vo.  1813.  (Ibid, 
ii.  455.) 

Complete  religious  liberty  vindie|ited, 
in  a  letter  respecting  the  petition  for 
the  abolition  of  all  penal  statutes  in 
matters  of  religion,  8vo.  1813. 

A  Sermon  on  the  deAth  of  Thomas 
Mnllett,  Esq.  merchant.    9ro,  iai5. 


1887J                        CtetTVA&T.-— Dr. /o/bi  Jone««  A7i 

Ad  Eicunion  to  Windsor ;  to  which  from  the  family  circle,  and  retire  to  the 

is  added,  a  Joomal  of  a  Trip  to  Paris,  baolis  of  a  tedaded  rivalet,  aboot  a  mlfa 

by  bis  son  John  Evans,  Jun.  M.A.  (Re-  from  the  house,  and  there  pMrtue  bis  sto-' 

▼iewed  in  vol.  Lxxxvii.  ii.  333—335).  dies  till  hunger  compelled  bim  to  return. 

The  Vanity  of  Human  Expectations;  His  memory  was  at  this  time  remarlM.W 

Sermon  on  the  Death  of  the  Princess  for  its  streugih  and  tenacity. 

Charlotte  (Vide  ibid.  p.  610).  His  father  finding  that  it  would  be  vain 

Memoirs  of  the  Rev.  William  Richard,  to  attempt  to  consign  bim  to  the  drudgery 
LL.D.  including  a  Slietch  of  bis  cbarac-  <>'  ^be  farm,  resolved  to  educate  h?m  for  the 
ter  i^nd  writings;  with  an  AppeniHx,  Christian  ministry.  Abonitheage  of  four- 
containing  some  account  of  the  Rev.  *«cn  or  fifteen,  be  wss  sent  to  the  Gram- 
Roger  Williams,  founder  of  the  State  of  "*«"  School  at  Brecon,  then  under  the  cara 
Rhode  Island.    8vo.  1819.  **^  ****^  ^^'  William  Orilllths,  where  be 

The  Christianity  of  the  New  Testa-  remained  three  years,  uatil  the  death  of 

ment,  impregnable  and  imperishable,  an  **"  father  in  1785. 

Address  occasioned  by  the  trial  of  Car-  About  this  period,  his  neighbour  and 

lile.   8vo.  1819.  (See  vol.  LXXXix- ii.  54.)  «"c>*tion  Mr.  David  Jones.  aft<frward  tha^ 

Death  the  inevitable  lot  of  man  j  Re-  colleagae  of  Dr.  Priestley,  and  Icnown  in 

flections  on  the  decease  of  George  the  •***  comroversy  with  Dr.  Horsley  as  the 

Third  and  the  Duke  of  Kent.     (Sec  voL  "  ^*i^*>  Freeholder,"  was  a  student  at  tb« 

XC.  i.  344.)  '***  College,  Hackney.    Through  his  ra- 

Recreation  for  the  young  and  old ;  an  c^moMJndatiun.  the  managers  of  that  in- 

Excorsion  to  Brighton,  a  visit  to  Tun-  •t'tutton  admitted  Mr.  Jones  a  student  oq 

bridge  Wells,  and  a  Trip  to  Southend,  the  foundation.   Here  he  soon  acquired  th« 

with  an  alphabet  cal  list  of  all  t  he  Water-  ["*^?^:*VP  "^  Patronage  of  the  late  oele. 

ing  Places  in  the  liingdom.     1821.  ^!*^'i  ^''  Abraham  Rees,  who  then  held 

Richmond  and  its  Vicinity  ;    with  a  ^^e  office  of  resident  tutor.    He  remamed 

glance  at  T»*ickenham,  Siraiberry  Hill,  l\  "f^J'^  f «  ^•'"'•"^77  '•^o«"t« 

5nd  Hampton  Court.   ISmo.  1824.    (Re^  "^  f  ^*;Qa  ,1*.%  'l^^^^                       ^ 

Tiered  in  vol.  xciy.  ii.  443.)  «c  ii  I?  Mr  Tho« '  n    aI  *'*""*'*  ^'l 

Discourses  ou  the  Chrisiian  Temper,  !V:"  °  w^!^^^^^ 

.go4  a  vscancy  in  the  office  of  classical  and  ma« 

Jr      *      e                      J    17       -«i   rfc—  themaiical  tui Or  in  the  Welah  academy  at 

ti  V''''''\f^\!^V\  •"''   i-^o".  f  .?«■  8-"«-*.  Mr.  Jones  was  appointed  by^tba 

tions,  published  between  h95  At     825,  Pre,byter.an  Board  to  be  hJ,  successor.-. 

and   Six  New   Discourses.     8vo.    1826.  ^f^,  ^^  ^ad  held  this  office  about  threo 

(Reviewed    in  vol.   xcvi.   i.   33^—339.)  years,  some  unhappy  differeow  arose  be- 

This  was  accompanied  by  an  eact-Uent  ^^^„  ^im  and  bis.coileagQe.  in  which  tbt 

portrait  of  Dr.  Evans,  by  Woodman.  students  rashly  embarked  as  partizans.— 

Some  Papers  on  Death,  by  Mason,  the  jh^  ^^^,^^  fi„jj„g  „o  p,ofpect  of  an  ami- 

author  of   "  Self-Know  ledge."      12mo.  cable  adjos.ment.  and  not  wishing  to  ttdt 

1826.     (Reviewed  in  vol.  xcvi.  ii.  489)  with  eiiher  party  ia  a  matter  which  was 

Dr.  Evans's  character  exhibited  a  rare  entirely  personal,  adopted  the  resolution 
assemblage  of  the  nobler  qualities  that  of  dismissing  both  tutors,  and  reiiioving  tbt 
adorn  humanity.  His  piety  was  without  iostituiion  to  Carmarthen.  On  quitting 
a  tinge  of  bigotry,  his  charity  without  the  Swansea,  Mr.  Jones  settled  at  Plymouth 
shadow  of  ostentation.  He  was  manly.  Dock,  as  the  pastor  of  the  Unitarian  con- 
generous, and  frank;  and  his  amiable  gregatioo  in  that  place.  He  remained  there 
virtue^  can  be  fully  and  adequately  ap-  two  years,  and  then  accepted  an  invita- 
preciated  by  those  alone  who  were  united  tioo  to  become  the  minister  of  the  Unitarian 
to  him  by  the  ties  of  conjugal  and  lilial  congregation  at  H.ilifax,  in  Yoiksbire 
affection.  Here  he  resided  for  three  years,  joining  to 

"—  his  ministerial  labours  the  instruction  of 

Dr.  J  OH  a  Jonas.  youih,  an  employment  for  which  he  was 

Jan,  10.  In  Great  Ct>ram-Bt.  John  Jones,  singularly  well  qualified  by  his  high  elassi 

LUD.  M.  R.S.  &c.,  author  of  the  £nglish  cal  attainments,  and  the  peculiar  bent  of 

Lexicon  and  other  works.  his  mind.      From  Halifax  he  removed  bis 

This  accomplished  scholar  #as  born  at  residence  to  London,  where  be  continued 

ILonilingate,  in  Carmartheanbire.     His  fa-  till  the  end  of  his  life, 

ther  was  a  reipectable  farmer;  and  the  Not  long  after  his  settlement  in  London, 

son  bad  been  destined  for  agricultural  pur-  he  married  the  only  dauahter  of  bis  friend 

suits,  till  it  was  discovered  that  he  had  and   former  tutor  Dr.  Rees.     This   lady 

■either  taste  oor  inclination  for  such  occu-  died,  without  is«ue,  in  the  year  1815.     In 

potions.     From  bis  earliest  childhood  be  '  1817  be  married  Anna,  the  only  daughter 

had  evinced  ao  unusual  predilection  fer  of  the  late  Oeorge  Dyer,  esq.  of  Sawbridge* 

books.     H  was  his  frequent  practice,  im-  worth,  whOjWith  two  ohildrtsn,  sorvtres  bim. 

madiately  after  braakAwt,  to  disappear  After  his  rsnora.  t»  tbt  OMlropolts, 


n^ 


Oaituaiy. — Dr.  John  Jonei. 


[Apra, 


If  r.  Jooet  occaiionally  preaobed  for  his 
bretbreo*  but  never  had  the  charge  of  a 
eoiigregation.  Under  some  momentary 
feeling  of  disgust,  be  destroyed  all  bis 
manuscript  sermons,  and,  from  that  lime, 
never  could  be  persuaded  to  appear  in  the 
pulpit.  He  still,  however,  adhered  to  his 
profession  ;  was  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian body  of  London  Dissenting  Minis- 
tersy  and,  for  some  years,  oqe  of  the  cle- 
rical trustees  of  the  esiatesand  endowments 
of  Dr.  Daniel  Williams. 

A  few  years  ago,  the  University  of  Aber- 
deen conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Laws,  and  within  a 
year  or  two  of  bis  death,  be  was  elected 
%  fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Literature. 

Dr.  Jones  maintained  a  high  reputation 
at  a  teacher  of  the  classical  languages. 
He  superintended  for  a  considerable  time 
the  education  of  the  sons  of  the  late 
distinguished  lawyer  and  phila»thropii>t, 
8ir  Samuel  Rx>milly^  and  to  the  last  he 
had  undtrr  his  care  some  young  persons 
of  opulent  families.  But  it  must  be  ob- 
served, to  the  honour  of  Dr.  Jones,  that, 
while  thus  courted  by  the  rich  ar>d  noble, 
be  was  ever  ready  to  afford  encourage- 
ment and  gratuitous  instruction  to  young 
men  in  humble  circumstances. 

As  an  author,  Dr.  Jones  acquired  no 
tmall   degree  of  celebrity.     In  the  year 
1800,  while  resident  at  Halifax,  he  pub- 
Ii»b<d  his  firtt  work,  in  two  volumes  8vo. 
under  the  title  of  *'  A  Developement  of 
Remarkable  Events,  calculated  to  restore 
the  Christian  Religion  to  its  original  Pu- 
rity, and  to  repel  the  Objections  of  Un- 
believers."    His   original   design  was  to 
embody   in  these  volumes' all    the  facts 
which  he  meant  to  adduce  to  elucidate  the 
meaning,  and  establish  the  credibility  of 
the  historical  and  epistolary  writings  of 
the  New  Testament.     But  his   materials 
having  unexpectedly  accumulated  as  he 
Advanced,   he   was  able  to  carry  on   his 
plan  no  further  than  the  end  of  the  Acts 
of  the  Apostles.     These  volumes  contain 
A  vindication  of  the  authenticity  of  the 
disputed  passage  in  Josephus  \    and  the 
work  is  remarkable,  as  conveying  the  first 
intimation  of  the  hypothesis,  for  which  he 
was  afterwards  so  greatiy  distinguished, 
of  Josephus  and  Philo  being  converts  to 
the  Christian  faith.      In  1801  followed  a 
.jecond  part  of  this  work,  entitled  **The 
Epistle  of  Paul  to  the  Romans  analysed, 
from  a  Developement  of  those  Circum- 
stances in  the  Roman  Church  by  which  it 
was  occasioned,"     lu  the  former  volumes 
the  author  had  intimated  his  doubts  as  to 
the  success  of  his  undertaking ;  and  be 
now  became  convinced  that  he  bad  failed 
to  excite  interest  in  his  speculations.     He 


period  of  life, — **  When,"  be  writes,  *<  the 
fashionable  levity  and  scepticism  of  the 
times  should,  in  some  degree,  subside, 
and  the  spirit  of  party  give  way  to  a 
rational  inquiry  and  a  zeal  for  the  truth." 
In  1803,  Dr.  Jones  published  "  Illugtra* 
tions  of  the  four  Got'pels,  founded  on 
Circumstances  pecaliar  to  our  Lord  and 
bis  Evangelists  i*'  and  in  1812.  <*  Eccle- 
siastical Researches,  or  Philo  and  Josephus 
proved  to  be  Historians  and  Apologists  of 
Christ,  of  his  Followers,  and  of  bis  Gospel." 
The  author  here  msintains  at  length,  the 
hypothesis  at  which  he  had  only  glanced 
in  preceding  publication*".  A  sequel  to 
this  work  was  published  in  1813,  in  which 
the  author  proposed  to  trace  the  origin  of 
the  introductory  chapters  in  Matthew  and 
Luke's  Gospels  from  Josephus,  and  to  de- 
duce the  peculiar  articles  of  the  orthodox 
faiih  from  the  Gnostics,  who  opposed  the 
Gospel  in  the  days  of  Christ  and  his 
Apostle!*. 

Under  the  name  of  Essenus,  Dr.  Jones 
published,  in  1819,  a  New  Version  of  the 
first  three  Chapters  of  Genesis.  The  work 
was  occasioned  by  Mr.  BeUamy'straOtla- 
tion  that  had  then  just  appeared. 

In  the  following  year,  the  appearance  of 
numerous  Deistical  works  induced  Dr. 
Jones  to  print,  in  one  volume,  Svo,  **  A 
Series  of  important  Facts,  demonstrating 
the  Truth  of  the  Christian  Religion,  drawn 
from  the  Writings  of  its  Friends  and  Ene- 
mies in  the  first  and  second  Centuries." 
Dr.  Jones's  next  publication  was  *'  A  Reply 
to  two  Deistical  works,  entitled,  A  New 
Trial  of  the  Witnesses,  &c.,  and  Gamaliel 
Smith's  Not  Paul  but  Jesus."  In  the  title 
of  this  work  he  assumed  the  name  of  Ben 
David.  His  last  publication  of  a  theological 
character,  which  appeared  in  1825,  was 
entitled,  **  Three  Letters  addressed  to  the 
Editor  of  the  Quarterly  Review,  in  which  is 
demonstrated  the  Genuineness  of  the  three 
Heavenly  Witnesses,  1  John,  v.  7,  by  Ben 
David." 

Dr.  Jones  ranked  deservedly  high  as  a 
scholar  and  philologij>t,  and  his  writings  on 
the  classical  languages  are  numerous.  ~  la 
1813  he  published  a  short  Latin  Grammar 
for  the  use  of  schools,  which  was  reprinted 
in  1816.  In  1804  he  published  a  Greek 
Grammar,  on  an  improved  plan.  This  work 
was  repeatedly  reprinted  i  but  io  the  last 
year  he  re-modelled  and  nearly  re-wrote 
the  work,  and  published  it  under  the  title 
of  *'  Etymologia  Graeca,  or  a  Grammar  of 
the  Greek  Language,"  &c.  The  intention 
of  the  alterations  in  this  edition,  was  to 
render  the  Grammar  more  generally  useful 
to  young  learners. 

In  1812  Dr.  Jones  published  «  A  Latin 
and  English  Vocabulary,  on  a  simple,  yet 


therefore  discontinued  the  prosecution'  of  philo^sophical  principle,  for  the  Use  of 
his  original  plan,  meaning,  however,  to  Schools."  This  work  be  afterwards  greatly 
retume  the  subject  at  a  more>  advanced     improTed,and  re-poblithad,  in  1835|  under 


IBSttl 


Obituaey. — B^jamin  SHrutt,  Esq, 


sr^ 


the  title  of  *'  AnalogiB  Latio»,*or  a  Deve- 
lopement  of  those  Analogies  by  which  the 
Parts  of  Speech  in  Latin  are  deriTcd  from 
each  othf  r,''  &c. 

fiut  Dr,  Joneti's  great  work  on  language, 
to  which  he  had  devoted  a  very  large  por- 
tionof  his  active  life,  and  the  best  energies 
of  hit  mind,  was  his  Greek  and  English 
Lexicon,  which  appeared  in  1823,  in  one 
▼olume  octavo.  The  success^f  this  work 
equalled  his  most  sanguine  wishes.  A 
large  impresvion  was  rapidly  sold.  It  was 
not  to  be  expected  that  a  work  of.  this 
nature  and  extent  could  be  sent  forth 
wholly  free  from  defects,  or  that  the  author, 
whatever  might  be  his  learning  and  critical 
skiilf  shQuld  be  able  in  every  instance  to 
secure  the  cuncuirence  of  scholars  in  his 
derivations  and  explanations ,  but,  though 
the  work  may  possibly  be  liable  to  some 
objections,  the  author  has  executed  his 
task  in  a  manner  highly  creditable  to  bis 
industry,  his  erudition^  bit  taste,  and  criti- 
cal acumen.  He  has  been  rewarded  by 
the  approving  verdict  of  some  of  the  first 
scholars  and  critics  of  the  age,  and,  among 
others,  by  the  late  Dr.  Parr. 

Wlfen  the  impression  of  this  work  was 
nearly  sold.  Dr.  Jones  printed  another  of 
a  similar  kind,  but  designed  for  a  different 
class  of  persons.  This  he  entitled  *'  The 
Tyro's  Greek  and  Englifh  Lexicon,"  which 
IS  a  very  excellent  and  useful  publication. 
Dr.  Jones  had  intended  to  revise  the  first 
Lexicon,  and  to  re-publish  it  at  some  future 
period  ;  but  he  had,  however,  at  the  time 
of  his  death  made  very  little  progress,  and 
the  author's  copy  remains  nearly  in  the 
same  state  in  which  it  was  printed. — Not 
loug  after  the  publication  of  the  first  Greek 
Lexicon,  some  severe  animadversions  in  a. 
critical  journal,  drew  from  Dr.  Jones  **  An 
.  Answer  to  a  Pseudo-Criticism  of  the  Greek- 
English  Lexicon,  which  appeared  in  the 
Second  Number  of  the  Westminster  Re- 


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In  the  course  of  the  last  year  Dr.  Jones 
published  an  able  pamphlet,  entitled,  **  An 
Exposure  of  the  Hamiltonian  System  of 
Teaching  Languages,  in  a  Letter  addressed 
to  the  Author  of  an  Article  recommending 
that  System*  in  No.  87  of  the  Edinburgh 
Review." 

Dr.  Jones's  last  work  was  entitled,  *<  An 
Explanation  of  the  Greek  Article,  in  Three 
Parts.  L  Analysis  and  Refutation  of  Dr. 
Middleton's  Theory.  2.  An  Analysis  of 
MatthisB's  Dissertation.  3.  An  Applica- 
tion of  the  Article  to  obscure  Passages  of 
the  New  TesUment."  This  work  was 
printed  during  the  author's  life- time,  but 
he  died  before  it  was  published. 

The  characteristics  of  Dr.  Joneses  mind 
were  an  irrepressible  ardour  and  enthu- 
siasm in  the  prosecution  of  whatever  he 
undertook;  great  confidence  io  the  cor- 
ectness' of  bit  own  views,  arising  from  a 


conscientiousness  of  superior  intellectual 
powers  ;  an  utter  disdain  of  the  authority 
of  great  names  when  he  failed  to  be  con* 
vinced  by  their  arguments';  a  devoted  a^ 
tachmeot  to  truth,  and  a  faithful  adhe- 
rence to  what  he  deemed  such,  united  with 
a  fearless  disregard  of  personal  conse^ 
qoences.  He  has  left  his  literary  property 
iu  the  charge  of  trustees,  providing  that 
bis  classical  works  should  be  re-prioted 
under  the  editorial  care  of  bis  nephew, 
Mr.  James  Chervet,  of  Croydon,  who  had 
been  educated  by  him,  and  of  whose  claa- 
sical  attainments  and  judgment  he  enter- 
tained a  high  opinion. 

Dr.  Jones's  remaius  were  interred  in  \h% 
burying  ground  of  St.  George's,  Blooma- 
bury. 


BbnjXmin  Strutt,  Esq. 

Feb»^4,  In  Higb^street,  Colcbester« 
Benjamin  Strutt,  esq.  in  whose  death 
the  town  and  borough  have  sustained  a 
loss  not  easily  to  be  repaired. 

As  Chamberlain  to  the  borough^  in 
particular,  be  has  rendered  it  many  im- 
portant services,  and  as  an  antiquary  bat 
deeply  investigated  its  history  and  itt 
rights.  Whilst  bis  extraordinary  talents 
and  multifarious  information  command- 
ed the  respect  of  the  rich,  his  benero- 
lence  secured  him  the  love  of  the  poor^ 
of  whom  his  principles  invariably  ren- 
dered biro  the  general  adviser  and  stead- 
fast friend.  Had  he  coveted  wealth  or 
power,  the  avenues  to  both  lay  open  be- 
fore him,  for  the  grasp  p(  his  mind  was 
capacious  enough  to  have  enabled  him  to 
become  one  of  the  most  influential  pub^ 
lie  cbaracterg  of  the  county ;  but  the 
artificial  distinctions  of  society  present- 
ed no  attractions  to  one  already  inde- 
pendent in  his  own  resources ;  utility 
was  the  sole  aim  of  his  occupations,  and 
whenever  a  duty  was  to  be  performed  to 
a  friend,  or  a  service  rendered  to  bit 
townsmen,  or  to  society  at  large,  then 
he  stood  forward,  foremost  and  fearlessly; 
but  for  the  employment  of  his  more  lei- 
sure hours  he  was  contented  to  be  in- 
debted solely  to  his  luve  of  science  and 
the  fine  arts,  as  cultivated  by  him  in  the 
interrupted  seclusion  of  his  study. 

A  long  and  painful  illness  brought  into 
more  immediate  view  those  most  pre- 
cious attributes  of  the  mind,  which  hit 
total  indifference  to  the  praise  of  man 
would  have  otherwise  led  him  to  conceal 
rather  than  display,  even  firom  his  near- 
est and  dearest  ties ;  and  it  is  now  the 
consolation  of  his  sorrowing  family  to 
reflect,  that  his  acute  sufferings  were 
home  with  iol^plicit  resignation  to  the 
will  of  God,  and  his  existence  surrender- 
ed with  pious  tranquillity. 


m 


QMTSAftT.— 'An.  T.  S.  CobhoU,  tie. 


lAfia, 


Kb?.  T.  S.  Cobbou>. 
Bgkrch  S8.  Afed  98,  after  a  loog  pro* 
tirtcted  affliction,  borne  with  ex«mplanf 
•nbmiftion,  the  Ktw,  Hiomat  Speoeer 
C«bbotd,  ooly  ion  of  the  Rev.  Sp«Doer 
CobboM,  of  Woolpit.  He  received  bit  a«a» 
demieal  edacatioo  at  Clare  Hall,  CaoH 
bridge,  where  be  proceeded  to  ibe  degfree 
of  B.  A.  in  18S9,  and  to  that  of  M.  A.  in 
189  . .  He  was  a  character  of  oo  common 
mould  or  ordinary  merit,  though  onbap- 
pily  thrown  into  shade  by  a  retiring  amia- 
Me  modesty.  Not  many  knew  him ;  but 
BODC  knew  him  but  loved  him.  In  talent 
and  genius  he  was  surpassed  by  few  of  hit 
eootemporaries  J  in  qualities  of  a  higher 
and  holier  cast,  perhaps,  by  none.  He 
was  pre-eminently  distinguished  by  since- 
rity and  integrity^  and  an  abhorrence  of 
all  manner  of  deception.  To  vanity  bis 
heart  was  an  utter  stranger*  His  piety 
was  deep,  eameit,  active*— yet  silent,  un- 
#btrosive,  and  charitable.  His  highest 
4iitioation  was  his  haUowed  xeal  in  the 
tfiicbarge  of  his  professional  dutiea.  Few 
Men  have  had  a  more  awful  feeiing  of  the 
4rMpoa»ibiUty  of  a  Christian  minister,  and 
•one  ever  acquitted  themselves  more  con- 
flOientiously.  Hit  public  iitotructioM  bora 
bnt  a  small  proportion  to  bis  private  and 
frcporatory  lal>ours  in  the  study  and  the 
olotet ;  and  to  tbe  iafluence  of  both  united 
•o  aconstitutioB  naturally  delicate,  it  may 
Ibe  feared  be  sacrificed  hit  health^  if  not 
aUimately  bis  life. 

Bnt  Ihon  art  gone,  where  wait  at  bis  com- 
mand^ ^  [band 
Ifl^om,  living,  then  didst  love,  an  Angel 
To  greet  thy  kindred  Spirit,  in  wflwse 

etrain 
Of  converse  from  the  dregs  of  earth  re- 
fined [pain, 
ffongbt  will  be  found  thy  chastened  ear  to 
Iffor  wound  thy  sensitively  pious  mind ; 
Where  too  thy  darling  Poesy,  whose  power 
Charmed  wasting  aickoess  in  a  lonely  hour. 
To  hsrmn  thy  Ood  shall  re-attnae  ita  lays, 
iknd  ever  find  freah  matter  for  its  endless 
praise  I 

-tteek  Child  of  Poetry— a  flower 
Too  tender  in  thine  opening  prime 

*Tor  Fife's  xude  winds ->had  I  the  power 
By  wishing  from  congenial  clime 

'To  summon  thee-^l  ^^uestion  if  I  would— 

Tliou  wast  so  pure,  so  simple,  and  so  good ! 

Allbough  the  silent  prayer  and  frequent 
tear 

Jletpoke  thee,  living,  exquisitely  dear. 

Ma.  Roasar  Nviw. 

JUareh  11.  At  Eye,  aged  62,  Mr.  Ho- 
liert  Nnnn,  for  many  years  Master  of  the 
Grammar  School  in,  and  one  of  the  Com- 
Boo  Council  of  that  Borough*  Born  fn 
aa  hambk  rank  of  life,  Mr.  Hmm*i  ft* 


nins  for  mathematioal  j^imltt  developed 
itself  at  a  very  early  pefiod  of  life,  and 
deservedly  attracted  notice,  by  means  of 
which,  and  his  own  assiduous  ezeviioos^ 
he  rose  to  the  highly  respecuble  station 
which  he  filled  in  society.  He  exhibited 
a  rare  combination  of  worth  and  talent, 
was  mild  and  unassuming  in  'bis  manners, 
possessed  of  universal  benevolence,  and 
anwearied  in  his  efforts  to  promute  peace 
and  happiness  amongst  h^s  fellow-crea« 
teres  ;  whilst,  as  a  preceptor,  he  secured 
equally  the  esteeo)  of  parents,  and  the 
affection  of  children  entrusted  to  bis  care^ 
and  men,  who  have  since  obtained  emi- 
nent academical  rank,  have  been  proud  to 
acknowledge  their  obligations  to  his  ex- 
cellent system  of  instruction.  He  died 
with  the  respect  and  regret  of  all  bis 
fellow-townsmen,  which  was  evinced,  in 
tbe  strongest  manner,  by  the  concourse  of 
attendants  at  his  funeral,  and  the  unva- 
ried expression  of  the  deepest  sympathy 
for  his  toss. 


Mas.  RoGsas. 

Murch  8.  At  the  G  lebe- house,  Sprongh- 
ton,  Suffolk,  advanced  in  life,  and  most 
highly  and  deservedly  lamented,  Eliza- 
beth, wife  of  tbe  Rev.  George  Rogers, 
M.A.  Rector  of  that  parish,  whose  mild 
and  unassuming  manners  will  long  render 
her  memory  esteemed.  In  every  relation 
of  life,  the  whole  course  of  this  venerable 
person  was  truly  exemplary,  inasmuch 
as  she  exhibited  a  bright  pattern  of  con- 
jugal affection,  parental  love,  and  bene- 
volence of  heart  \  whilst  her  death  was  in 
perfect  unison,  being  marked  by  that 
placid  serenity,  which  is  tbe  sure  and  oer- 
tain  criterion  of  tbe  expiring  Chiistian. 

'Tf s  past — dear  venerabid  shade,  farewell ! 
Thy  blameless  life  thy  peaceful  death  shall 

tell; 
Clear  to  the  last  thy  setting  orb  has  run. 
Pure,  bright,  and  healthy, like  a  frosty  son : 
And  late  old  age,  with  hand   indulgent, 

shed 
Its  mildest  winter  oo  thy  fiivenred  head; 
Vbr  Heaven  prolonged  her  life  to  spread 

its  praise. 
And  blessed  her  with  O  patriarch's  length 

of  days.  [heart. 

The  truest  praise  was  her*!,  a  cbeerfhl 
Prone  to  enjoy,  and  ready  to  impart ; 
An  Israelite  indeed,  and  free  from  goile, 
Sbe  shewed  that  piety  and  age  eoold'smil^. 
Religion  had  her  heart,  her  cares,  her  votce, 
Twas  her  last  refuge,  as  herearliest  choice. 
Matured  at  length  for  sonfe  mere  perfect 

scene,  {serene ; 

Her  hopes  all  bright,  her  prospects  ill 
Bach  part  of  lifo  sustamed  with  equal 

worth, 
Attd  not  a  wish  left  anfiilftlod  «n -ettUi^ 


for  MUr.—Mr.  J.  Gtfktr.'-'CUrgjf  Deeetuei 


WW.) 


Like  a  tired  traveller,  with  sleep  opprest, 
Witbin  her  childreo's  arms  the  dropped 

torrent. 
Farefrefl!— >Tby  cherished  image  ever  dear 
Shall  many  a  heart  with  pious  love  revere. 
Her  remains  were  interred  in  the  chao* 
eel  of  the  church  of  Sproughion  i  and  on 
a  6at  stone  has  been  sculptured  the  fol- 
lowing inscriptioa  to  her  memory  : 
Hicjacet  quicquid  mortale«st 
Elisabethse.  chariisimse  uxorii 
et  ouoquam  satis  deflends 
Viri  Reverendi  Oeorgii  Rogers.  A.M. 
hajusce  Ecclesiae  Rectoris, 
qusB  «x  hie  vitA  migravit 

8  id.  Meosis  Martii 
Aono  Cbristi  m.dccc.xxtii. 
et  statis  pusb  lxxxii. 
lu  memoriam  tam  cari  capitis 

hoc  posuit  marmor 
mosrens  et  orbams  Maritus. 
iptwick,  Mar.  U,  1827.  J.  F. 

MAJoa-FuLLia. 

April  9,  At  Windsor  Castle,  aged  95, 
Major  Edward  Fuller,  one  of  his  Majesty's 
Poor  Knights  of  Windsor. 

This  worthy  Veteran  served  as  an  En- 
sign in  the  5 1st  Regiment  at  the  battle  of 
Minden,  and  in  every  memorable  adioa  in 
Oe^many  in  which  the  British  troops  were 
engaged  during  the  seven  years  war.  He 
waa  a  roan  of  the  htrictest  honour  and  in- 
tegrity, pos9essed  of  a  gentlemanly  deport- 
meot,  and  honoured  by  the  intimate  frieod- 
thip  and  confidence  of  many  of  the  highest 
eaak  both  ai  borne  and  abroad. 

Ma.  John  GooLAa. 

•Ian.  21.  Mr.  John  Ooglar,  grooer  and 
draper,  of  Whaplade  Drove,  Liocokisbire. 

He  bad  long  been  celebrated  for  an  ee- 
oeairicity  of  cbaract^,  which  eouiinued  to 
predomiuate  to  the  last  momeotf  of  hie  ex* 
aitevce.  More  than  tweaty  yeavt  back  he 
iNHBed  a  stooej  called  Old  Kata*f  Stott«» 
•a  the  one  he  wiahcd  te  placa  over  hM 
fiftva;  bis  coffia  he  purchaaed  about 
tbree  months  before  his  dbsath.  Some  of  hia 
beqacata  are  ia  onisoo  with  the  eccentric!- 


«rs 


Ma.  Wm.  Joifii. 
Dec.  8.  At  Holkham,  Norfolk,  of  a  de« 
cay  of  nature,  in  his  90th  year,  Mr.  Wm. 
Jones,  who  for  upwards  of  fifty  years  filled 
the  aituatioii  of  huntsman  and  principal 
stable-servant  in  the  estabUthment  of 
Thomas  William  Coke,  ^sq.,  with  credit  lo 
himself,  and  much  to  the  satisfaction  of  hli 
employer,  by  whom  he  was  greatlv  re* 
spected,  and  who  consoled  him  od  his  ap^ 
pruaching  departure  from  this  life,  by  re- 
peatedly visiting  him  on  his  death-bed, 
and  administering  to  his  comfort.  On  one 
of  these  occafioos,  Mr.  Coke  took  with  him 
the  young  heir  of  Hotkham,  to  shake  hia 
old  servant  by  the  hand.  Lady  Ann  Coke, 
Lady  Anson,  and  all  the  family  at  Hoik- 
nam,  shewed  every  possible  kindness  and 
attention  to  the  venerable  and  much -re- 
spected old  man.  His  bed  was  surrounded 
by  different  branches  of  his  family  in  three 
generations,  to  alt  of  whom  he  had  ever 
been  kind,  and  who  revered  and  honoured 
him  as  a  father  and  a  patriarch.  He  re* 
tained  his  mental  faculties  to  the  last,  and 
died  perfectly  composed  and  resigned. 


CLERGY   DECEASED. 

Jtme  9'  At  Newhaven,  In  Conneeticut'y 
aged  65,  the  Rev.  Jeclidiah  Marse^  D.D.  fof 
many  years  Pastor  of  the  first  Church  in 
Charlestown,  and  author  of  the  Amerieaa 
Geography,  and  many  other  valuable  works 
\n  that  science. 

Feb,  13.  The  VLtv,John  Till,  for  SO  years 
Rectlnr  of  Hayes,  and  of  Orptneton  in  Kent. 
He  was  of  Caius  Coll.  Camb.  LL.B.  174% 
was  presented  to  Hayes  in  1777  by  the  then 
Rector  of  Orpington ;  to  Orpincton  (a  sine- 
cure) in  1881  by  the  Abp.  of  Canteibniy. 

Feb.  19,  At  Vis  lodgings  in  Woreester, 
ased  7d,  the  Rev.  Matuiew  Surteet,  Rector 
c?Kirkby  Lfnderdale,  Yorkshire,  and  Pre- 
bendanr  of  Canterbtiry.  He  was  son  of  An* 
bone  surtees,  esq.  of  Newcastle  noon  Tyne^ 
and  brother  to  the  gentleman  of  that  name 
recently  deceased  (see  p.  886),  ebd  to  the 
Countess  of  Eldon.  He  was  formerly  FeHow 
of  University  College,  Oxford,  where  he  took 
the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1780,  and  bv  whiell 
Society  he  was  presented  in  1 793  to  the  Ree* 


ties  ol  bis  life  5  for,  after  bequeathing  an     ^     ^J  j^^^h  Cemey,  Glouc.     He 


sbiUiogs  to  be  speat  in  plom  cakea,  to  be 
narked,  "  J.  G.  W.  D."  and  twenty  shil- 
Ksgps  for  ale  to  be  given  to  the  poor  of 
Whftplade  Drove  on  ChKsunas  eve  for. 
ever.  Upwards  of  400  persons,  after  fok- 
Wwing  him  to  the  grave,  assembled  at  the 
aohool-rooiD,  whnre  about  SOO  cakea  and  n 
^■fslMad  of  alo  were  by  hia  desire, 

Dealtovt  in  HialnM^MhieB*d  measure 
Which  once  hit  cheerful  heart  celled 
pleaanre. 


tory  of  Kirkby  XJnderdale  on  the  death  of  Dr. 
Ridley  in  1 885  also  by  the  Crown. 

Feb,  19.  At  Yarmouth,  the  Rev.  J.  T, 
Davies,  M.  A.  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  Oxford. 

Feb,  80.  Aged  68,  ^e  Rev.  Charles  Fred. 
Bend,  Vkar  of  Marsarettlng,  Essex.  He 
was  of  St.  John's  €oll.  Camb.  B.A.  178», 
M.A.  1791«  and  was  presented  to  his  Chnrch 
in  1799  by  R.  M.  Fbtfips,  esq.  and  others. 
Mr.  Bood  lost  hit  wife  on  Christmei-days 
1886. 


3r« 


Clergy  Deceased, 


[April, 


Feb,  90.  At  Cardiff,  after  a  long  and  pain- 
ful illaesi,  the  Rev.  Archer  John  LangUyt 
M.A.  Fellow  of  Balliol  Colle»»,  Oxford. 

'Feb,i\.  At  Moreby,  near  York,  advanced 
in  age,  the  Rev.  Thos.  Preston,  Vicar  of  Scal- 
bj  cum  Clooghton,  to  which  he  was  present- 
ed hy  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  York  in  1 77S, 
and  formerly  an  active  Magistrate  for  the 
East  Riding.  Ke  was  of  Trin.  Coll.  Camh. 
B^.  1771. 
•  F«*.29.  Tlie  Rev.  Rich.  Hawkin  Hit- 
ekins,  Rector  of  Baverstock,  Wilts.  He  was 
formerly  Fellow  of  Exeter  College,  where  he 
proceeded  M.A.  1789,  B.D.  179.9,  and  by 
Ulrbich  Society  he  was  presented  to  his  living. 

Feb.  23.  At  Newton,  near  Wisbech,  aged 
91,  the  Rev.  PFnh,  Mair,  M.A. 

Feb.  93.  At.  his  lodgings  in  York,  aged 
8S,  the  Rev.  Jos,  Rudd,  D.D.  Rector  of 
Full  Sutton,  and  Minister  of  Walton,  in 
Yorkshire.  He  was  educated  at  St.  John's 
Coll.  Camb.  where  he  took  the  degree  of 
B.A.  in  1765.  On  the  5th  of  December, 
1779,  being  then  Minister  of  St.  Paul's 
Chapel,  Edinburgh,  he  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Eric,  commonly  called  Lord 
Duffus,  and  sister  of  the  late  Liord  Duffus 
(of  whom  we  lost  month  gave  a  short  me- 
moir in  page  271 )»  then  the  widow  of  Mr. 
Sinclair.  By  this  lady  he  was  father  to  the 
Rev.  Eric  Rudd,  Vicar  of  Appleby  in  Lin- 
colnshire, and  Perpetual  Curate  of  Thome 
in  the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire.  Dr. 
Rudd  was  presented  to  Walton  by  the  im- 
propriators of  that  chapelry  in  1774,  and  to 
Full  Sutton  in  1789  by  John  Simpson, 
esq. 

Feb.iS,  At  Middleton  in  Teesdale,  aged 
76,  the  Rev.  fFm.  Mark,  incumbent  of 
Egglestone,  and  for  nearly  half  a  century 
Curate  of  Middleton,  a  character  universally 
esteemed. 

Feb.  90.  At  St.  Alban's,  aged  72,  the 
Rev.  James  Carpenter  Gape,  Vicar  of  St. 
Michaers  in  that  town,  Rector  of  Crowden 
cum  Clttpton,  Camb.  and  one  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's Chaplains  ;  cousin  to  E^rl  Verulam. 
Pescended  frpm  a  family  of  some  antiquity 
at  St.  Albau's,  he  was  the  sixth  but  only 
iurviviog  son  and  heir  of  Thomas  Gape,  esq. 
of  that  place,  by  the  Hon.  Jane  Grimston, 
eldest  daughter  of  Wm.  first  Vise.  Grimston. 
He  was  educated  at  Trinity  College,  Camb. 
where  he  proceeded  B.  A.  1777,  M.A.  1780; 
and  was  presented  to  his  Church  in  St. 
Alban's  in  1776,  by  his  cousin  James,  third 
and  late  Vise.  Grimston,  on  the  cession  of 
bis  UDcle  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Harbottle 
Grimston.  He  married  Feb.  9, 1786,  ,Eliz. 
Vernon,  dau.  of  John  Fothergill,  of  Soho, 
near  Birmingham,  esq.  by  whom  he  had 
five  sons  and  three  daughters.  In  1788  his 
cousin  Viscount  Grimston  presented  him  to 
another  living,  the  vicarage  of  Redbum,  in 
the  neighbonrbood  of  St.  Alban's ;  this  be 
resigned  in  1 896,  on  being  instituted,  on  bis 
vwn  /vesentation,  ta  the  Rectory  of  Crowden 


cum  Clopton.  Mr.  Gape  was  appointed  a 
King's  Chaplain  in  1794,  and  served  the 
office  of  Mayor  of  St.  Alban's  in  1^9. 

Feb.  27.  At  Aylesbury,  aged  81,  the  Rev. 
fFm,  StocfdnSf  fur  more  than  half  a  century 
Master  of  dhe  Latin  School  there,  and  for 
some  time  Curate  of  the  parish.  He  was  of 
Jesus  Coll.  Oxford,  M.A.  1780. 

Lately.  In  Madeira,  whither  he  had  re- 
paired for  his  health,  the  Rev.  Charles 
Mein  Deighton,  Vicar  of  Longhope,  Glouc. 
to  which  he  was  presented  in  1S25. 

At  the  residence  attached  to  St.  James's 
Chapel,  Hampstead  Road,  aged  38,  the  Rev. 
ff^m.  Gilbank.  He  was  of  Clare  Hall, 
Cambridge,  B.A.  1811. 

At  Liverpool,  aged  78,  the  Rev.  James 
PagCt  formerly  Curate  of  St.  Peter's  and 
St.  Paul's,  Bath. 

At  Great  Torrington,  Devon,  aged  74, 
the  Rev,  John  Palmer,  Prebendary  of  Lin- 
coln, Rector  of  Claudborough,  Devon,  and 
of  South  Benfleet,  Essex.  The  first-men- 
tioned preferment  he  acquired  in  1807,  the 
Rectory  of  South  Benfleet  in  1811,  on  the 
presentation  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of 
Westminster,  and  Claudborough  recently, 
presented  to  it  by  the  King. 

At  Settle,  Yorkshire,  the  Rev^  ff^m.  Peart, 
only  surviving  son  of  John  Peart,  esq.  He 
was  of  Clare  Hall,  Cambridge,  B.  A.  1818, 
M.A.  1891. 

At  Horrock  Hall,  Lane,  aged  76,  the  Rev. 
Rigbye  Rigbye. 

March  3,  At  Charlbury  Vicarage,  Oxf. 
aged  89,  the  Rev.  John  Cobb,  D.D.  Vicar 
of  that  Parish,  and  for  many  years  a  Ma- 

flstrate  for  the  county.  He  was  formerly 
ellow  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Oxford,  which  he 
entered  as  a  scholar  in  1764  ;  and  proceeded 
M.A.  1779,  B.A.  1.777,  D.D.  1781.  He 
published  in  1783  in  8vo.  Eight  Sermons 
preached  that  year  at  Bampton's  Lectures  ; 
and  was  presented  to  Charlbury  by  his  Col« 
lege  in  1790. 

March  4.  At  Middleton  Rectory,  near 
Beverley,  aged  67,  the  Rev.  John  BUmchard, 
for  nineteen  years  Rector  of  that  parish, 
a  Magistrate  and  Deputy  Lieutenant  tor  the 
East  Riding  of  Yorkshire.  From  his  un- 
affected simplicity  and  urbanity  of  manners, 
he  drew  around  him  a  large  circle  of  ac- 
quaintance, whom  he  soon  converted  into 
warm  friends.  He  was 'humane,  charitable, 
benevolent,  and  hospitable  ;  and  exemplary 
as  a  clergyman,  husband,  father,  and  mas- 
ter. He  had  recently  lost  his  ynutagestson, 
the  Rev.  Alrraham  BUmchard,  B.  A.  late  of 
Jesus  Coll.  Camb.  who  died  at  Sidmooth  on 
the  loth  of  January. 

March  1 1 .  Aged  64,  the  Rev.  Robert  Cary 
Barnard,  Rector  of  Withersfield,  Suffolk, 
and  a  Magistrate  of  tliat  county.  He  was 
formerly  Fellow  of  Sci  John's  Coll.  Camb. 
where  be  proceeded  B.A.  1779^  M.A.  1799t 
B.D.  1791.  He  «ras  presented  to  bis  Rec- 
tory in  1 789  by  the  Countess  of  Aylesford. 


1827.]                                      Obituary.  377 

T^i7ATcjo  ^"  ^PP*'  B'«A-«*-  Tlieodo»«>  wife  of 

DEATHS.  Cha«.  Tyndale,  esq. 

LONDOK  AND   ITS  EllVlROIft.  ,  ^*  ^!ll^"°"* '^^  ?'"•  ^^*  *"  Portlwd. 

place*   MiM  £lizA  Law,  niece  of  the  lata 

Mrs.  Parker,  widow  of  Cant.  Robert  Par*  James  Law,  esq. 

leer,  R.  N.  and  sister  of  Sir   W.  Parker*  Aprils*  In  Gnwer-street,  aged 84,  Mary, 

bart.  relict  of  Edward  fiunce,  esq. 

March  1<?.    In  Rromptnn-crescent,  aged  At  Pentonville,  aged  79y  Mr.  John  Ken* 

67)  Anne,  widow  of  Thomas  Baillie,  esq.  nion,  senior. 

March  19.    Aged  34,  Maria,  the  wife  of  James  Pidding,  esq.  of  Blackheath  and 

Wm.  Draper,  esq.  of  Compton- terrace.  Comhill. 

March  21.    At  Knighubridge,  aged  57,  At  Twickenham,  82,  Jos.  Hickej,  esq. 

the  Hon.  George  ViHicrs^  next  brother  and  April  4.    In  Devonshire-place,  aged  ii4f 

lieir  presumptive  to  the  Earl  of  Clarendon.  Wm.  Walter,  esq. 

He  was  the  third  son  of  Tliomas  the  first  Aged  72,'Chas.  Noble,  esq.  of  Old' Bur- 
Earl,  by  Lady  Charlotte  Ca[>cl,  eldest  dau.  liogton -street. 

of  Wm.  Sd  Earl  of  Essex.     He  held  the  At  the  residence  of  Lord  Rivers,  Groa- 

offices  of  Registrar  at  Gibraltar,  Clerk  of  venor-place,  aged  65,  Mr.  Chas.  Seal,  hit 

the  Council  and  Registrar  of  the  Duchy  of  Lordship's  steward. 

Lancaster,  and  Ranger  of  Cranborne  Chase.  In  Devonshire-place,  aged  65,  Wm.  Wal- 

He  married,  April  17,  1798,  Lady  Theresa  ter,  esq. 

Parker,  only  dau.  of  John  1st  Lord  Boring-  April  6.  At  her  mother's,  in  Mansfield- 
don,  and  brother  to  the  present  Earl  of  street,  aged  16,  the  Lady  Susan- Henrietta- 
Morley.  By  that  lady  he  had  a  nomerous  Beresford,  second  dau.  of  the  late  Marq.  of 
family,  ofle  of  whom  is  Chas.  Pelham  Vil-  Waterford. 

tiers,  esq.  candidate  for  Hull  at  the   last  Aged  72,   Mrs.r  Emery,  mother  of  tha 

Election.  late  .lohn  Emery,  of  Covent  Garden  Theatre. 

March  22.  In  the  Wcstroinster-road,  aged  Aprils.  In  Surrey-place,  Old  Kent-road, 

n7f  Wm.  Manners,  esq.  fifth  son  of  the  late  aged  67,  Mr.  LaKcelles. 

Lord  Wm.  Manners,  of  Old  Burlington-str.  At  Westmoreland  House,  Walworth-com- 

and  Grantham,  Line. ;  uncle  to  Sir  Wm.  mon,  aged  70,  Mr.  John  Littlewood. 

Manners,  of  Hanby-Hall,  Line.  hart. ;  se-  Aprii  8.  A^ed  34,  Francis  Skelton,  esq. 

cond  cousin  twice  removed  to  the  Duke  of  M.  D.  of  Rcf^eot-strcet. 

Rutland.  In  Milbank-sir.  Sara.  Hasell  Newell,  esq. 

March  22.  At  lAie  Grange,  Bermondsey,  son  of  late  Dr.  Newell,  of  Colchester, 

aged  76,  Joshua  Butterworth,  esq.  Sybella,  wifie  of  John  Daniel,  esq.  of  Par* 

March  24.   Aged  75,  Benj.  Elias,  esq.  of  son's-green. 

the  Fier-head,  Lcmdon  Docks.  Aged  78,  Henry  Child,  esq.  of  Rood- 

March  25.  In  Addington-pl.  Camberwell,  Une,  winc-merchsnt. 

Sarah,  relict  of  Joseph  Hall,  esq.  of  North-  April  9.  In  Hunter-street,  aged  72»  Rich. 

ampton.  Keys,    esq.    of  the    Charoberlain't-officey 

March  27.    Aged  84,  Noah  Brocklcsby,  Gu'ildhall. 
esq.  of  Newman-str.  Oxford-str.  At  Kennington- terrace,  aged  89^  the  ra- 
in Lark- hall- lane,  Clapham,  aged  80,  M.  lict  of  John  M.  Grafton,  esq.  of  Romibrd. 
Foott,  esq.  In  Wiropole-str.  Emma,  youngest  dau.  of 

March  98,    At  West  End,  Hampstead,  Lady  Bridget  Bouverie ;  niece  to  the  Earl  of 

aged  75,  Joseph  Lesoher,  esq.  Radnor,  and  cousin  to  the  Earl  of  Morton. 

In  Regent- St.  Laura  Abbot,  wife  of  tha  Aged  81,  Mrs.  Comport,  of  Sloaue-^st. 

Rev.  Dr.  Brereton,  of  Bedford.  In  Chapel-tt.    Grosvenor-so.    aged   78, 

.    Aged  84,  Maria,  the  wife  of  James  Boy-  Mary,  widow  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Richard 

ton,  esq.  of  Augusta-place,  Clapham-road.  Byron,  Rector  of  Haughton,  Durham.  Sha 

March  29.    At  his  son-in-1aw*s,  in  Marl-  was  dau.  of  Richard  Farmer,  esq.  of  Leicei- 

borough-place.  Old  Kent-road,   aged   769  ter ;  and  sister  of  the  celebrated  Master  of 

W.  Barnes,  esq.  Emanuel.     $he  was  married  in  1 768,  and 

March  SO.  At  Upper  Holloway,  aged  95,  lost  her  husband  in  1811  (see  vol.  Lxxxi. 

Sarah-Maria-Anne,    wife    of    Mr.   Joseph  ii.  491). 

RawlingB.  April  10.    Aged  78,  Mr.  Grasswell,   of 

At  Park  cottage,  Camlierwell-grove,  aged  Craven-st.  Strand,  Secretary  to  the  Society 

73,  Robert  Chapmsn,  esq.  architect.  for  the  Discharge  and  Relief  of  Persons  im- 

MarehSl,  Aged  40,  Mary,  wife  of  Henry  prisoned  for  Small  Debts — an  office  he  had 

Corbould,  esq.  of  Crescent-place.  filled  for  upwards  of  forty  years. 

April  1.    At  Kennington,  aged  81 ,  John  April  11.    In  Park-lane,  Lady  Hyacintha 

Austin,  esq.  Vane,  infant  dau.  of  the  Marq.  and  March. 

April  2.  At  Gapham,  Surrev,  ai  her  son-  of  Londonderry, 

in-law's,  aged  90,  the  relict  of  Wm.  John-  In  Waterloo-place,  aged  80,  Esther,  ra- 

•00,  esq.  of  Knebworth.  lict  of  John  Binna,  esq.  Banker^  of  Leeds. 

Gent.  Mao.  ^priZ,  1827. 

12 


878 


Obxtuart. 


^pril  12.  In  Chirlot(e*8t.  Fitzroy-aq. 
■ged  41 ,  John  Robt.  Loneden^  etq. 

At  Church-temce,  St.  ranoras*  aged  99» 
Mr.  £.  Jones,  of  Frtth-tt.  Soho,  Solicitor. 

At  Kensington  Gore,  aged  89,  Mary, 
vidow  of  Wm.  Morris,  esq.  of  fiermondsey. 

jipril  14.  In  Jermyn-st.  atfed  27,  Mary, 
only  remainug  dau.  of  Geo.  Joad,  esq.  of 
Blackheath. 

jlprU  15.  In  £nston-pl.  agtfd  73,  Robert 
Woodifield,  esq.  late  of  Lyodhurst. 

Aged  88,  Mary-Anne,  wife  of  G.  J.  Fa- 
bian, esq.  R.N. 

At  the  house  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Owen, 
Highgate,  Elizabeth-Sarah,  wife  of  his  se- 
cond son,  the  Rev.  C.  G.  Owen,  of  Power- 
atock  Vicarage,  Dorsetshire. 

jlpril  16.  Amelia,  wife  of  Ligonler  Tho- 
mas, esq.  of  Mabledon-place. 

jipril  30.  InTorrington-sq.  aged  S4,  Mr. 
Ralph-Henry  Dunkin,  sur^on,  only  son  of 
J.  W«  Dunkin,  esq.  late  of  Demerara. 

jipril  S4.  Letitia,  io&nt  dau.  of  John 
Davison,  esq.  of  the  East  India  House,  and 
of  Tavistock-place. 

Berks.— Jf arc  A  l.  At  Reading,  R.  W. 
Bampfield,  esq.  of  Bedford-street,  Govent- 
garden,  -Surgeon,  R.N. 

March  3.  At  Reading,  aged  77,  the  relict 
of  Alex.  Hume,  esq.  of  Wimpole-street,  and 
Clay-hill,  Enfield.  This  lady  was  run  over 
bv  a  stage  coach,  and  killed  on  the  spot. 
She  was  very  deaf,  and  a  Coroner's  inquest 
declared  the  catastrophe  to  be  purely  acci- 
dental 

March  1 7.  At  Newbury,  Mr  John  Barnes, 
upwards  of  SO  years  Postmaster  of  that  town. 

March  SO.  Mary,  wife  of  Wm.  Warwick, 
esq.  of  Friar-street,  Reading. 

AprilXA.  IntheCloisters,  Windsor  Castle, 
wed  18,  Marianne,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Rich. 
Webb,  Minor  Canon  of  Windsor,  St.  Paul's, 
and  Westminster  Abbev. 

Bucks. — ATov.  96.  In  Wimpole-st.  aged 
86y  Matthew  Raper,  esq.of  Wendover  Dean, 
Bocks,  F.R.S.  and  V.P.S.A.  ThU  gentle- 
man succeeded  the  late  Daniel  Lysons,  esq. 
■a  Director  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries ; 
on  relinou'ishing  which  office,  he  was  elected 
one  of  tne  Vice-Presidents  of  that  learned 
body.  Mr.  Raper's  library  has  been  sold 
by  Mi;  Sotheby,  March  1 8,  and  two  follow- 
iagdaya. 

March  84.  At  the  honse  of  Philip  Box, 
oaq.  in  Buckingham,  Leigh  Smith,  esq. 

Cambridokshirb. — March  SO.  Ai  Wis- 
bech, aged  77,  the  widow  of  Rev.  Paol- 
Eiers  ScoU,  eldest  dau.  of  late  Edm.  Elsden, 
esq.  of  Lynn. 

CoRNW. — Feb,  19.  At  the  house  of  J. 
Kins  Lathbridge,  Laonceston,  Wm«  Baron, 
of  Tregear,  esq. 

CuMBBBLAMD. — F^.  S,  Isabella,  wife  vt 
Thomas  Wybergh,  esq.  of  Isell  Hal),  and 
Clerk  of  the  Peaco  for  the  West  Riding  of 
Yorkshire. 


[April, 

March  1 S,  At  Wl^itehaven,  aged  98,  Mrs. 
Margaret  Adamson.  She  was  present  at  the 
execution  of  the  rebels  at  Carlisle  in  1745. 

Latdy,  In  WhitersUck,  aged  100,  Mrs. 
KainctlL  In  1745  she  lived  with  her  father, 
Ralph  Burton,  at  Forrest  Hall,  being  then 
about  1 8  years  of  age,  and  the  rebels  in 
moving  southward  paid  them  a  visit,  and 
regaled  themselves  with  what  they  found 
Qpon  the  premises.  On  their  return  after 
being  defeated  at  Preston,  being  closely 
pressed  by  the  English  troops,  on  this  side 
o(  Forrest  Hall,  at  the  bottom  of  a  sharp 
hill,  they  left  a  baggage-cart,  which  fell  into 
the  hands  of  Ralph  Burton  and  others.  In 
this  was  found  a  niece  of  stout  ticking, 
spun  from  the  finest  flax  ;  it  was  made  into 
a  bed,  on  which  Mrs.  Raingill  had  slept 
ever  since. 

April  u.  Aged  SS,  Wm.  Richardson 
Granam,  esq.  eldest  son  of  late  Jas.  Graham, 
eso.  of  Richardby,  near  Carlisle. 

Dbrbysh. — Feb,  93.  Mary,  wife  of  Rich. 
Arkwright,  esq.  of  Willersley. 

Feb.  S5.  In  her  80th  year,  Margaretta, 
wife  of  Thos.  Lowe,  esq.  of  Derby. 

Feb,  S7.  At  Rislev  Hall,  a^ed  31,  Mary- 
Roberts,  eld.  dau.  of  Rev.  J.  Hancock  Hall. 

At  Derby,  aged.  56,  Mary-Catheriue, 
widow  of  late  Thos.  Coxhead  Stevens,  esq. 
of  Stamford-hill,  Middlesex. 

Dbvon. — Lately  at  Exeter,,  aged  85, 
Mrs.  Borrow,  aunt  of  the  late  Rii;ht  Hon. 
Lord  Gifford. 

March  4.  At  Sidmouth,  in  her  31st 
year.  Lady  Maria  Caulfield,  eldest  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Charlemont,  and  niece  of  the 
Countess  of  Leitrim. 

Marcif,  1 1.  At  Creedy,  Frances,  youngest 
sistijBr  of  Sir  Humphrey  rhineas  Davie,  hart, 
of  that  place. 

March  85.  At  Newton  St.  Petrock's 
parsonage,  Mrs.  Foulkes  of  Dawl'ish,  widow 
of  John  Davv  Foulkes,  esq.  of  E.  I,  C.'s 
service,  and  of  MedUnd ;  and  on  the  89Ui, 
her  grandson,  Uenry-Fortescue,  eldest  son 
of  the  Rev.  Chas.  Osmond,  of  Tiverton,  and 
a  schokr  of  Balliol  College,  Oxford. 

March  si.  At  S^neheuse,  aged  46, 
Ann,  wife  of  Capt.  H.  M.  Ommanney, 
K.  N. 

April  8.  At  Woodhayne,  Honiton,  Amelia 
S.  Petty. 

April  1,  At  Exeter,  aged  68,  John  Brut- 
ton,  esq.  an  eminent  solicitor. 

April  lO.  At  Sidmouth,  Mrs.  Hannah 
Boniface,  late  of  Kennington,  Surrey,  and 
relict  of  John  Bonifitce,  esq.  of  CUmping, 
Sussex. 

DoRaBT. — FWr.  87.  At  her  son-in-law's, 
at  Ceme-Abbaa,  .aged  75,  Mary,  relict  of 
Walter  Swayne,  esq.  of  Bristol. 

Fe&.  88.  AtPuncknowleRootory,  thewi& 
of  the  Rev.  George  Frome. 

March.  14.  At  Poole,  aged  78,  W.  Yoa^ 
aaq.  one  of  the  oldeat  membeiB  of  the  cor* 

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March  so,  Mn.Btagn,  of  Wimboniey 
relici  of  Lieut.  Baoger. 

Durham. — Fdf,  ^.  At  Lomlej  Thiclu, 
•ged  52,  ThoiDM  Croudaee,  ecq.  colliery 
•gent  to  John  Oeorge  L*inbtoni  esq.  M.P. 
Few  men  have  died  more  sincerelj  regretted 
and  respected ;  hit  reroaidt  were  interred  in 
the  church  at  Chester-le-street»  on  the  98th» 
attended  by  the  greatest  number  of  peophs 
ever  known  there  on  a  similar  occasion. 

March  15.  At  Sedgefield,  adrauced  in 
age,  the  widow  of  Ralph  Ord,  esq.  of  Sands. 

^pnl  4.  At  Wynyard  Park,  William 
Hawkes,  esq.  agent  to  the  Marquis  of  Lon- 
donderry, and  eldest  son  of  John  Hawkes, 
esq.  of  Norton  Hall,  Stafford. 

Essex. — Aged  78,  the  widow  of  Hum- 
phrey Repton,  esq«  of  Hare-street. 

jlpril  4.  At  Walthamstow,  aged  78,  Mrs. 
Bignell. 

Gloucester. — Feb,  97*  At  Bristol,  aged 
84,  Mr.  Tho.  Milton,  the  celebrated  en- 
graver. His  grand&ther  was  brother  to  John 
Milton,  the  author  of  *<  Paradise  Lost." 

March  3.  At  Ibberton,  aged  103,  David 
Plnmb.  In  the  early  part  of  his  life  he  was 
a  farmer,  but  not  being  successful,  he  had 
for  the  last  forty  years  supported  himself 
as  a  shepherd,  by  tending  flocks  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  the  Malvern-hills.  About 
two  years  ago  he  walked  to  London  and 
back  agab.  He  enjoye^  an  uninterrupted 
•tate  of  good  health  till  about  three  weeks 
before  his  death.  He  had  an  elder  brother^ 
Alexander,  who  died  in  1818,  aged  105. 

LaUly,  Robert  Pleydell  Wilton,  esq. 
town-clerk  of  Gloucester.  He  is  succeeded 
by  bis  nephew,  Henry  Hooper  Wilton,  esq. 

March  7»  Sophia,  sister  of  the  late  Rev. 
Dr.  Estlin,  of  Bristol. 

March  1 S.  At  Kingsdown,  Mary,  relict 
of  George  Gay,  esq.  of  Bristol. 

March  IS.  At  the  Hotwells,  Bristol,  the 
wife  of  Lieut,  CUweo,  R.  N.  widow  of  Jamea 
Down,  esq. 

March  14.  At  Clifton,  Ellen,  wile  of 
John  Gilbert  Royds,  esq.  of  Clementstown, 
Glamorgan. 

March  18.  At  Ham  Green,  Bristol^  the 
Wife  of  Rich.  Bright,  esq. 

March  90.  Aged  50,  Mrs.  £.  Harford* 
felict  of  Edw.  Lloyd  Harford,  esq.  of  Qif^. 

Lately,  at  Vine-cottage,  Thombury,  aged 
89,  the  relict  of  John  Bally,  esq.  oi  Kea- 
•ington-plaoe,  Brislington. 

At  Clifton,  Miss  E.  E.  Smith  Barry,  daq. 
of  J.  S.  Barry,  esq.  of  Marburv-hall,  Chesh. 

Jpril  1 .  At  Ebrington,  in  her  70th  vear> 
Sarah,  eldest  and  only  survlvmg  dao.  of  (h« 
late  Rev.  Jacob  Mould,  Rector. 

Jpril  4.  At  Clifton,  aged  94,  Chaa.  Wm. 
Heniy,  youngest  son  of  the  late  Chas.  Ran- 
ken,  esq.  £.  1.  C. 

At  CheUenham,  aged  40,  Henry  Osborne* 
#8q.  of  the  Templs,  London,  barrister* 
voim^Bst  SOD  of  (be  late  Mr.  Jeremiah  Osr 
borne*  of  Briftolt  lolicilor* 


At  Bristol,  in  his  17th  year,  John*  aon 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Swete. 

JprU  6.  At  Tetbury,  Ellen*  yoongesl 
dau.  of  John  Stone,  esq. 

April  8.  At  Southsea,  aged  71*  Elis.  el- 
dest dau.  of  Goodson  Vines*  esq,  of  Wot- 
ton-under-Edge. 

April  16.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  40,  Mary 
Isabella,  wife  of  Thos.  Christie,  esq.  M.  D. 

Hants. — ^At  Basingstoke,  the  widow  of 
J.  Goodman,  esq.  of  Barton,  near  Win* 
Chester. 

At  Portsmouth,  Eliz.  wife  of  Lieut.  Foe* 
ter,  of  the  Victory,  and  youngest  dau.  of 
James  Kane,  esq. 

Feb,  14.  At  Southampton,  Harriet,  se* 
cond  dau.  of  the  late  R.  H.^ Young,  esq.  of 
Polamiotto. 

Feb.  15.  At  Southampton,  aged  74*  Mrt* 
E.  Sotheby. 

Feb.  16.  At  Lymiogton,  aged  51*  Mary 
Frances,  widow  of  the  late  Major  De  w 
Moussaye,  and  niece  of  Lord  Harru. 

Feb.  16.  Caroline  Mary,  wife  of  Wm* 
Geo.  Jennings,  esq.  of  Braishfield  House. 

Feb.  31.  At  Cowes,  the  wifis  of  Ishaoi 
Chapman,  esq.  Comptroller  of  the  Custome* 

Feb.  99.  At  Rorosey,  the  wife  of  Thomaa 
Tittertoo,  esq.  R.  N. 

March  \B.  At  Christchurch,  in  his  84th 
year,  John  Fidge,  esq.  formerly  a  surgeoo 
of  the  Royal  Navy,  and  afterwards  in  the 
Dock-yarcl  at  Portsmouth.  He  was  ooosin 
to  the  Hon.  Mr.  Justice  Gaselee. 

March  93.  At  Lymington,  John  Vassally 
esq. 

Apr.  8.  At  Adbury  House*  aged  90*  Wm. 
Fellows,  M.  D. 

Herefordshire. —Jicrn.  13.  Aged  68^ 
Mallett,  wife  of  Rev.  Jes.  Colt*  of  Leomin- 
ster, and  dau.  of  late  James  Bowman  Qaric* 
esa.  of  Wharton. 

Herts. — ^Aged  68,  the  wife  of  Colonel 
Brown,  of  AmFcH  Bury,  only  dau.  and  heir- 
ess of  Bibye  Lake,  esq.  of  that  place. 

Lately.  At  Ware  Side,  aged  70*  Mr. 
Cambridge  Oakman.  He  (as  reported)* 
was  found*  wheu  an  infimt,  under  an  oak  tree* 
Ld  the  parish  of  Wood  Ditton*  and  from 
that  circumstance  received  lus  name.  Mr. 
Oakman  began  life  without  a  fsrthing,  but* 
by  industry  and  frugality,  amassed  e  fortune 
of  more  than  90,000Z. 

Kent.— AforcA  5.  At  Dover*  aged  65^ 
the  wife  of  Sam.  Latham,  esq. 

March  10.  AtEmmotts,  near  Sevenoeki* 
aged  77*  Mary,  relict  of  Duncan  Campbell* 
esq.  of  Mount  Pleasant*  Wilmington*  andpC 
Robert-st.  Adelphi. 

March  94.  A^  56,  Eliz.  wife  of  Col. 
M*ClevertT*  Commandant  of  the  Royal  Me* 
rines  at  Woolwich. 

April  4.  Aged  79*  Geo.  Ansten*  esq.  ef 
Fairfield  Cottle,  St.  Peter's,  ThaneL 

Lancashire.  — Fe6.  91.  At  Liverpool* 
aged  79,  Marr*  reliet  of  Sam.  ManKien*esq. 
formerly  of  Cu^hem*  Sorrej. 


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March  31 .  At  Lioacrei  near  Liverpool, 
Mr.  Sam.  Lowe,  solicitor,  in  liis  54th  year. 
Leicbstsrshire. — March 'iS.  At  Melton 
Mowbray^  Edward  Maior  Stokes,  esq. 

March  98.  At  Soinerby,  aged  75 >  the 
wi£e  of  Isa^  Taylor,  ^ent. 

Lincolnshire. — March S.  Sarah,  wife 
of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Bollaod,  Vicar  of  Swines- 
head. 

March  24.  At  Lincoln,  a^red  65,  Mr.  H. 
6.  Beard,  merchant,  in  Newland. 

March  25.  Aged  50,  Mrs.  Rapcr,  second 
dau.  of  the  late  Benj.  Wetherall,  esq.  of 
linooln. 

April  2.  At  Kermington  House,  near 
Brockelsby,  aged  72,  Franc.  Hudson,  esq. 

Middlesex. — Feb.  \S.  At  Hillingdon, 
aeed  78,  Henrietta,  surviving  dau.  of  Capel 
Hanbury,  esq.  of  Pontypool  Park,  Monm. 

March  25.  At  Enfield,  aged  79,  Sir  Nat. 
Dance,  Knt.  formerly  a  Commander  in  the 
East  India  Company's  service. 

April  f).  Henry  Hare  Towoshend,  esq.  of 
Downhills,  and  Walpole,  Norfolk. 

April  1 1.  At  her  son-iu-law's,  C.F.  John- 
ton,  esq.  of  Heiierton,  near  Henley,  aged  70, 
Mrs.  Ann  Roberts. 

Norfolk. — Jan.  .S-0.  Aged  6*5,  Ann,  relict 

of  Randall  Burroiighes,  esq.  of  Barfield-hall. 

NoRTHUMBKiRLANo. — Morch  22.  At  New- 

efstle,' William,  second  son  of  John  Beck- 

inton,  esq. 

March  26.— At  Clifford's  Fort,  North 
Shields,  aged  .97,  Mr.  John  Sipple,  who,  for 
85  years,  held  the  situation  of  master-gun- 
ner of  Tynemouth  Castle  and  Clifford's  Fort. 
Th'n  veteran  had  nearly  completed  72  years, 
in  the  service,  having  entered  the  royal  ar- 
tillery as  aMatross,  May  1,  1755. 

April  3.  At  Wallsend,  aged  80,  the  widow 
of  John  Buddie,  esq. 

April  4.  Aged  41,  the  wife  of  Nicholas 
Bird,  esq.  of  Dockwray-sq.  North  Shields. 

OzPORO. — Feb,  2 1 .  At  Launton,  aged  9 1 , 
John  Ashby,  esq.  many  years  a  respected 
inhabitant  of  Newgate-street,  London. 

March  26'.'  At  Oxford,  Christian  W.  wife 
of  Stephen  Peter  Rigaud,  esq.  M.  A.  Rad- 
diffe  Observer,  and  Professor  of  Astronomy 
in  the  University,  dan.  of  the  late  Mr.  Jordan, 
of  Portland-place,  and  of  Barbadoet. 

Lately.  Aged  50,  T.  Roberts,  esq.  of  Crab- 
hall,  Mollin^n.  He  was  originally  butler 
to  Miss  Leche,  of  Chester,  (of  the  ancient 
family  of  the  Leches,  of  Carden,)  who  married 
hem,  and  he  immediately  came  into  posses- 
aion  of  an  ample  fortune,  which  he  did  not 
aboae,  l>Qt  proved  himself  wortliy  of  such  an 
unexpected  elevation.     > 

April  1 4 .  £liz.  Pope,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Ed. 
Tomer,  Rector  of  Noke,  Oxford. 

'At  Worton>  aged  8,  Frederick- William, 
eldest  son  of  Joe.  Wilton,  esq.  High  Sheriff 
of  Oxford. 

Salop. — March  98.  Aged  70,  Mrs.  Evans, 
.of  Llwynygroes,  near  Oswestry. 

doM£RSBT.<^Late/jr*  At  Ciath>  Fraocesy 


wife  of  J.  Harding,  esq.  and  youngest  dau.  of 
6.  'Iliombill,  esq.  of  Diddington,  Hunts. 

At  Castle  Cary,  aged  87 >  Anne,  widow 
of  George  Beal,  esq.  of  Shepton  Mallet. 

Feb.  21.  At  Bath,  ^ed  54,  Amelia,  wife 
of  Major  Chas.  Stewart,  late  Professor  of 
Oriental  Literature  in  the  East  India  Col- 
lege, and  sister  of  SirOrford  Gordon,  Bart, 
of  Embo,  N.  B. 

Feb.  25.  At  Bath,  the  relict  of  Alexander 

Cnthbert,  esq.  of  Chandos-st.  Cavendish-sq. 

At  Crewkeme,  in  her  80th  year,  Mrs.  Cox, 

relict  of  John  Cox,  esq-  and  mother  of  the 

Rev.  John  Cox,  of  Stocklaud,  Dorset. 

March  2.  At  Bath,  aged  22,  Emily  Wil- 
helmina,  eldest  dau.  of  Major-gen.  Baynes. 

March  1.9.  At  Ilmioster,  aged  76*,  the 
widow  of  the  late  Rev.  Samuel  Alford,  Dean 
of  St.  Burtan,  Cornwall,  and  Vicar  of  Curry 
Rivell,  Somerset. 

March  29.  At  Bath,  in  his  75th  year,  W. 
Clark,  esq.  many  years  a  Deputy  Lieut,  and 
Magistrate  for  the  county. 

At  Henford,  Yeovil,  Martha,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Ja.  Hooper,  Rector  of  Stowell,  Som. 

Aprils.  At  Bath,  aged  18,  Ixiura  Ma- 
tilda, dau.  of  late  Philip  Fred.  Muntz,  esq. 
of  Selly  Wick,  Worcestershire. 

Aprils.  At  Bath,  aged  65,  Thos.  Wil- 
kinson, esq. 

Staff. — March  2.  At  Lichfield,  aged  8 1 , 
Mary,  widow  of  the  Right  Rev.  Spencer 
Madan,  Bp.  of  Peterborough.  She  was  the 
second  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Wro.  Vyse,  Archd. 
of  Salop,  by  Catharine,  dau.  of  the  Right 
Rev.  Richard  Smallbroke,  Bp.  of  Lincoln ; 
and  was  consequently  sister  to  the  late  Dr. 
Wm.  Vyse,  Archd.  of  Coventry,  and  Rector 
of  Lambeth,  and  to  the  late  Gen.  Vyse  (of 
whom  we  gave  a  memoir  in  vol.  xcv.  ii.  1 80)  ; 
and  aunt  to  R.  W.  Howard  Vyse,  esq.  the 
late  M.P.  for  Beverley.  The  deceased  be- 
came the  wife  of  Bp.  Madan,  Jnly  15,  1796, 
and  they  were  married  at  Lambeth  Palace,  by 
the  Archbp.  of  Canterbury,  Dr.  Moore.  The 
Bisliop  died  in  1 613,  having  had  no  children 
by  the  lady  now  deceased.  (See  Memoirs  of 
him  in  vol.  Ixxxiii.  pp.  509,  70S.) 

Suffolk. — March  6.  At  l^\vn[  St.  Ed- 
mund's, aged  80,  Joseph  Manikin,  gent,  one 
of  the  capital  Burgesses.  He  had  just  re- 
turned from  an  evening  party,  and  had  seated 
himself  while  supper  was  preparing,  when  he 
was  seixedwith  a -fit,  fell  from  bis  chair,  and 
immediately  expired.  He  was  a  nan  highly 
esteemed  in  every  station  of  life,  and  was 
Alderman  of  the  Borough  in  1795. 

At  Sheberton  Hall,  Harriet,  w2e  of  P.  V. 
Onslow,  esq. 

Surrey. — Feb.  \S.  At  Richmond,  aged 
76,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Allcock. 

Feb.  34.  At  Bedford-hill,  Rosa,  dau.  of 
Henry  J.  Rucker,  esq. 

March  17.  At  Fairfield  Lodge,  Croydon* 

aged  85,  Eliz.  relict  of 'Sam.  RobintOn,  ^sq. 

Aforc/tSO.  At  East  Mvulsey  Park,  agrd 

61 ,  the  Dowager  Lady  Crewe.    Her  maiden 


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mme  wu  Uawkioft,  aiid  she  was  mftiried  to  Port  Ejoon,  Qtamorganfliire.    Sho  wm  tho 

Sir  Henry.  Harper,  the  Kventh  and  late  Da-  dan,  of  Cradock  Nowell,  esq.  niece  of  Dr.-' 

ronet  (who  in   180R  assumed  the  name  of  Nowell,  Principal  of  St.  Mary  Hall*  Oxford^- 

Crewe)  June  4,  1793.     She  was  mother  to  and  sister  of  the  present  Admiral  Nowell. 

Sir  George  the  present  and  eighth  Baronet,  Lately,  At  Cerundell  Farm,  Gr(tt1eton9' 

four  other  sons,  and  three-  daughters.    Sir  near  Chippenham,  aged  46,   Mr.  J.  Sealy, 

Henrj  died  in  1 8 19.  second  son  of  Mr.  Thos.  Sealy,  of  Seagrj. 

March  93.   At  Beddington  House,  aged  Yorkshirb. — Feb.  18.    At  Thirsk,  aged 

75,  Mary,  relict  of  Alex.  Bridges,  esq.  of  83,  Mrs.  Ann  Ainsley;  and  on  the  follow- 

Ewell.  ing  day,  aged  81,  Mrs.  Elix.  Ainsley,  two 

March  15,  Aged  17,  Ann,  eldest  dau.  of  maiden  ladies,  and  sisters,  who  have  always 

the  Hev.  P.  Aubertio,  of  Cbipstead.  lired  in  the  same  house,  and  are  buried  in 

Aprils.  At  Guildford,  Surrey,  aged  71»  one  grave.   They  had  two  brothers  who  lived 

Mr.  White.  with  them  several  years,  and  died  in  a  slmi« 

April  4.  .\t  Richmond*  aged  78,  £linor,  lar  manner. 

widow  of  Simon  Kendall,  Esq.  Feb.  J  5.    At  Harden  Gmnge*  Kath.  M*- 

April  b.  At  Chdhharo,  Eliz.  wife  of  Tlio.  rta,  wife  of  Walker  Ferraud,  esq.  and  only 

Bainl>riHge,  esq.  of  Guildford-st.  child  of  Gen.  Twiss,  of  Myrtle  Grrove;  whose 

April  7.  At  East  Moulsey,  aged  58,  W.  own  death  is  recorded  in  this  Magazine,  p, 

G.  Martin,  e^q.  86*4. 

Sussex. — March  19.  At  Brighton,  aged  Feb.  16.  Aged  94,  Frances,  youngest  dan* 

IS  mnntlis,  Fred,  son  of  Hon.  J.  Stewart.  of  Henry  Tennant,  esq.  of  Kirk  Hammerton. 

March  19.  At  Brighton,  Marianne,  wift  Feb.  91.  In  her  4 1st  year,  Maria,  wife  ol 

of  Edw.  Archer  Wilde,  esq.  of  College-hill.-  Mr.  J.  P.  Pritchett,  of  York,  architect. 

March  95.    At  Petworth,  Sarah,  relict  of  March  1 .  At  East  Cottingwith,  aged  64, 

Wm.  Johnson,  esq.  Sarah,  wife  of  Mr.  W.  Martin,  and  dau.  df 

April  9.  At  Brighton,  in  her  50th  year,  the  late  Thos.  Weddall,  esq.  of  Selby. 

Lsetitia,  wife  of  James  Pycroft,  esq.  late  of  March  6.    At  Beverley,  in  her  70th  year, 

Oak  Hall,  East  Ham.  Frances  widow  of  Tho.  Grimston,  eso.  ^ 

April  1 1 .  At  Hastings,  Levison,  youngest  Grimston  and  Kilnwick,  and  sister  of  Sir 

son  of  Robert  Smith,  esq.  of  Cheam.  Thomas  Lcgard,  Bart,  of  Ganton.     She  was 

Warwick. — Lately,    At  Rugbyj  Louisa  second  dau.  of  Sir  Digby,  the  fifth  Bart,  by 

Purefoy  Jaques,  wife  of  R.T.  Scarborough^  Jane,  dau.  of  Geo.  Cartwright,  esq.  of  Not* 

esq.  tinghamshire  ;  and  was  married  Feb.  1780. 

Feb.  90.  At  Prior's  Hardwicke,  aged  16,  March  6.    At  Hull,  aged  88,  John  Breo- 

Henrietta  Maria^  youngest  dau.  of  Rev.  Wm.  ken,  esq.  late  of  Prince  Edward's  IsUmL 

Corbett  Wilson.  March  B.   Aj^ed  nearly  104,  Mr.  Joshua 

Feb.  95.  At  Dunchurch,  advanced  in  age.  Whitehead,  of  Addlecroft,  near  Huddersfield. 

Mary,  relict  of  Rev.  Hen.  Bromfield,  Vicar  He  had  never  had  a  day's  serioas  illness  t  and 

of  Dunchurch,  and  Grandborough,  and  Pre*  retained  his  health  and  £iicuities  till  within  a 

bendary  of  Lincoln.  Her  hand  and  heart  were  short  time  of  his  death, 

ever  open  to  the  calls  of  charity,  and  she  was  March  II,    At  Scarborough,   aged  70t 

never  more  happy  than  when  stie  could  con-  John  Travis,  esq.  solicitor,  one  of  the  senior 

tribute  to  the  happiness  of  others.     She  was  meml>er8  of  the  Corporati<m.    In  Oct.  1789, 

descended  from  the  branch  of  the  family  of  he  was  elected  one  of  that  body,  and  in  Aug. 

Downing,  of  Gamlingay  Park,  in  Cambridgsb.  1 791 ,  was  appointed  town-clerk^  which  situ- 

whose  estates,  after  many  years'  litigation  of  aticm  he  has  holden  ever  since,  except  in  the 

the  validity  of  Sir  George  Downiog's  will,  three  different  years  during  which  he  served 

were,  in  1 800,  appropriated  to  the  founda-  in  the  capacity  of  Magistrate.     He  also  held 

tion  of  Downing  College,  Cambridge.  the  office  of  Deputy  Recorder,  under  the 

March  19.  Aged  79,  Wm.  Russel,  esq.  of  successive  nominations  of  theDukes  of  Bean- 

the  firm  of  Tomes,  Russel^  &  Co.  bankeniy  fort  and  Rutland,  Recorders. 

Warwick.  AforcA  13.  Aged  79,  Ann,  fourth  dau.  of 

WEST.MORELAND. — ^At  the  Gill,  In  Hut-  the  Rev.  Christ.  Atkinson,  fb^roerly  vicar  of 

toh-o'-the-Hay,  near   Kendal^    aged  100>  Thorpe  Arch. 

Jaae  Braithwaite.  March  14.  Sodden1y»  Mr.  Joseph  Stoney> 

Wilts. — March  6,    At  Salisbury,  Miss  of  Huddersfield,  merchant. 

Kerrich,  dau.  of  the  Ute  Rev.WalterKerrich,  hfareh  1 8.  At  Hull,  aged  85,  Wm.  Wray, 

Canon  Residentiary.  esq. 

March  13,  At  Salisbury,  Mrs.  Robinson,  At  Riccall  Hall,  in  his  79d  year.  Toft 

dau.  of  the  late  Dr.  Hancock.  Richardson,  esq. 

March  94.  In  his  yistyear^  John  Rayter,  March  19.  At  Hull,  Joseph  Denton,  esq. 

esq.  of  Winterbom  Stoke.  March  99.     Suddenly,  at  Bradford,  the 

Lately.  Aged  $%  Ftmath  Gifturd>  esq.  ef  Rev.  W.  Hill,  Weateyan  Mioiater,  York. 

Uphaven.  March  98.  At  Wakefield,  Charies,  eldiet 

AtHl  6.  At  Salisbury,  aeed  77,  the  widow  son  of  Geo.  North,  esq. 

of  tAe  hoe  Re?.  Wm.  Wetkiiii,  Rector  of  Lately.  AtThorae^Capt.  J.Ma^lea>iU^« 


36S 


Obitvaet. 


[April, 


AprU  5.  Aged  84 1  Mn.  P«i1,  of  Setton, 
rtUct  of  the  Ute  IUy.  Mr.  PmiI,  ticut  of  Cat- 
wick,  ia  Holdernait. 

jtpril  6.  At  the  house  of  her  son-in-law, 
the  Rev.  T.  B.  Clarkson,  of  Knottinglej, 
Mn.  Bedford*  the  widow  of  Henry  Bedford, 
esq.  of  Hull,  benlcer. 

AprU  8.  At  North  Cave,  aged  98,  Mrs. 
EliE.  Foster,  a  maiden  lady*  and  aunt  to  the 
late  Mr.  Clias.  Foster,  of  null,  merchant. 

Wales.»F«/>.  38.  At  her  seat,  B^ys- 
galloo,  near  Conway,  Mrs.  Frances  Mostyn, 
mmt  to  Sir  Thos.  Mostyn,  of  Mostyn,  Bart, 
and  to  the  ladies  of  Sir  Thomas  Swymmer 
Champneys,  Sir  £dw.  Price  Lloyd,  and  Sir 
Robt.  Williames  Vaughan,  Barts.  She  was 
daughter  of  Sir  Thos.  the  fourth  Baronet*  l^ 
Anne,  eldest  dau.  and  coh.  of  Sir  £dw.  Shir- 
lay,  of  Preston  in  Sussex,  Bart.  Her  only 
sister  was  the  wife  of  Thos.  Pennant,  esq.  the 
eelebrated  naturalist  and  tourist. 

Feb.  S3.  At  Kinnerton  Lodge,  Flintshire, 
Mrs.  Richards,  sister  of  the  late  Lord  Chief 
Baron. 

March  96.  At  Tenhy,  aced  66,  Henrietta, 
wife  of  Sir  W.  Strickland,  ^rt.  ofBoyn- 
ton,  Yorksliire,  dau.  and  coh.  of  the  late 
NaUi.  Cholmley,  of  Howsham  and  Whitby, 
Yorkshire,  esq.  by  Henrietta  Catherine,  dau. 
of  Stephen  Croft,  of  Stillington,  esq. 

ScoTLAKD. — Pdf,  14.  AtJSast  Anstruther, 
Fifeshire,  at  a  very  advanced  w,  Mrs.  Klix. 
Chalmers,  mother  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Chalmers. 


Iri LAND.— Afore^  9.  At  the  house  of  her 
son-in-law,  John  Blennerhassett,  esq.  in 
Mount-st.  Merrion-sq.  Dublin,  th^  widow  of 
Dean  Gorges,  sister-in-law  to  Lady  Charle- 
ville,  and  aunt  to  the  Marchioness  of  Tho- 
mond. 

March  19.  In  Leeson-st.  Dublin,  after  a 
painful  illness  of  eight  years,  Frances  Maria, 
tnird  daughter  of  Lady  Cicelia  and  the  late 
Col.  Latouche,  many  years  M.P.  for  the 
county  Carlow. 

April  1 1.  At  Rahcen,  near  Qonroel,  aged 
79,  Lady  Frances,  widow  of  Gen.  Sir  Wm. 
Meadows,  K.B. 

Abroad. — Sept.  16,  1836.  At  Kaira, 
East  Indies*  Lieut.  Cha.  Roos  Babington, 
Sd  reg.  of  Bombay  Native  Cavalry,  and 
youngest  son  of  Thos.  Babington,  of  Roth- 
ley  Temple,  Leicestershire. 

Jan,  35, 1 837.  In  Jamaica,  aged 49,  Geo. 
Reid,  esq.  late  of  Brightlingsea  Lodge*  £ssex. 

Feb,  3.  At  Naples,  in  her  31st  year. 
Lady  Emily  Montagu,  youngest  dau.  of  the 
Duke  of  Manchester,  a  lady  of  great 
accomplishments  and  amiable  manners.  Her 
remains  were  interred  at  Genoat  by  the  side 
of  those  of  her  eldest  sister.  Lady  Jane  Mon- 
tagu, who  died  at  that  city  in  18ISr 

Feb.  31.  At  Rome,  Miss  de  Montmo- 
renmr,  only  dau.  of  Col.  de  Montmorency, 
H.  P.  Royal  York  Hussars. 

Feb.  34.  At  Rome^  Col.  Thos.  Dalton, 
of  Parrocks,  Kent. 


BILL  OF  MORTALITY,  from  March  88,  to  April  34,  1837. 


Christened. 
Males      -  11981 
Females  -  1309/ 


3407 


Buried: 
Males    -    998 

Females-    98 


Whereof  have  died  under  two  years  old 
Salt  5s.  pe^  bushel ;  1  ^d.  per  pound. 


3  and    5  145 

50  and 

60  310 

6  and  10    73 

60  and 

70  18a 

10  and  30    59 

70  and 

80  159 

30«nd80  141 

80  and 

90    66 

80  and  40  157 

1  90  and  100     7 

40  and  60  808 

108 

I 

AGGREGATE  AVERAGE  of  BRITISH  CORN  which  governs  Importation, 

from  ^e  Returns  ending  April  18. 


IVheat. 

Barley. 

Oats. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

«.     d. 

S.       (f. 

$.     d. 

s.     d. 

s.     d. 

66     4 

98     8 

30     4 

89     5 

47     8 

Peas. 
s.     d, 
47     4 


PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW. 

St.  James's,  Hay  6U  Bs.    Straw  3Z.  8s«    Clover  6L  1 5s.— Whitechapel,  Hay  5t.  16s. 
Straw  8i.  8s.     Clover  6L  15s — SmithfieU,  Hay  SL  15s.    Straw  it  6s.    Clover  72. 


SMITUFIELD,  AprU  88. 

Beef 4s.  Od.  to  5s. 

Mutton 4s.  4d.  to  6s. 

Veal 6s.  Od.  to  6s» 

Pork 4s.  Od.  to  6s. 


To  sink  the  Offal — per  stone  of  Slbs. 


4d. 
Od. 
Od. 
4d. 


Lamb 6s.  Od.  to  7s.  6d. 

Head  of  Cattle  at  Market  April  88  : 

Beasto 8089      Cahrea  134 

SheepaodLambsl5,l00      Pigs     141 


COAL  MARKET,  AprH  11|  81s.  Sd,  to  89s.  Od. 
TALLOWi  pe^Cwt.  Town  Tallow  ifis.  Od.    Yellow  Russia  40s.  Od. 
SOAP»  Ydknr  76i.  Moltlad 84«.  Od;  Copd  86fc— CANPUSS»  9s.  per  DocMoakb  lOs.  «d> 


C    383     ] 

PRICES  OP  SHARES,  April  16,  1927, 

At tbt  Offin of  WOU'E,  Brothiu,  Stadi& Sbua Broksn,  as,  'Chtrng* MUj, C 


Gnad  Sutny  . 
Grud  Union  . 
Gnnd  WcitcrD 


Lougliborough 

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EegMt-.  .  .  . 
Rochdda     .     .     . 


Shnwabui 
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Severn  udWre   . 

n»IM1  ud  Modwo; 


W»rwiek  ud  N»pHjo 
Wilu  ud  BeiLi  .  . 
Wore  ud  Birming. 

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LmdoD  (Stflck) 
W«.t  lndi>  (Suck) 
£ut  ladlii  (Stock) 
Caiamtteiil  (Stock) 
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BRIDGES. 


AiiQ.or9I,   .     . 

Aon.  of  71.   .     . 

RAILWAYS. 
MaochMtai  fcLitcig, 


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Oiv.pji<m. 

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Eut  London    . 
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W«94iddl«MI    . 
INSURANCES. 

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lopcridPira  . 
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Norwich  Union 


RnckUR)    .      . 

RLEichuge  (Sloc^) 

MINES. 
Anglo  Metinn 


TUIpuiihu  .  .  . 
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GAS  LIGHTS. 
WcitminttM  th«t-. 
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Ditto,  New      .    .    . 
IcnMriil      .    .    .    . 

Phsni.  ..... 

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Brighton      .... 

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IilaofThuut.     .     . 


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fUicliff  .  .  .  , 
MISCELLANEOUS 

Au.tr.li.o  (Agiicull'J 
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Bulc,  Irifh  Pr«inci>l 
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Fnmt  Afrit  I,  In  Jpril  39,  1U7,  Mk  iMbaiw. 


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Sottth  Sn  Stncfc,  April  19,  91f. 

Old  Smith  Sea  Ado.  Apf'Js.Sli.    Aprillt.si}.    April  S4,  89. 

RICHARDSON,  GOODLUCK,  ud  Ca.  104,  Coratr  uf  fiuk-buildiogi,  CDnihill. 

h ».  MKHOU,  M,  MRUIMUIT  mitT. 


GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


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N  WHki.MlRlHIDp 
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Sfrnfordt^lgelpgr 

W.I.(i(:ld.WK»icL 
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OifBinal  aammunicRtton^. 

MlMO«    CotinEIFOKDENCI 38(7 

OrigiD»1  Letter  of  Dr.  DavUi— Etnn  School  387 

Defenn  of  tlie  Eaf;\is]i  Unirenitin  ..^ 888 

Sul  Minerva  (ho  Patron  Ooddesi  of  Buh  ...39t 
New  Cfiurcku. — St.  John'i,  Lambeth.  ...3S8 

St.  Luke's,  Norwood 894 

Obaervationa  on  Holworth  Cliff,  Doriet .  ...395 

Un  EpiUpha  id  CharchTaida 399 

■-"-   «  Months  in  Irelaad "  leriewed il: 

Fotheringhij  Church  fcCutle,  CO.  Northun. 401 
Ctjpt  und«  St.  Jriho'iChareh,Clerkeaw(ll4Dl 

On  the  Sceattas  of  the  Anglo-Saiou 403 

On  the  Etymolo^  of  Stonehenge 40e 

Custfim  ohiemd  an  the  Ere  orSt.Nicholu407 

On  the  Cremation  of  Hindoo  Widowi 409 

ModerateReform  in  Parliament  recommeodBikl! 

On  the  Decalogue  in  Churchti 413 

"     on  InicripCion  in  Leominiter  Chnrch  ...414 
Custom  of  Collecdug  AuCogrtpha  ncom- 

ntbittD  of  jSra  publicattnntf. 

A  ChroDicle  of  London 417 

Howlea  on  Wansdike  and  Arebury 419 

Croly  on  the  ApocalTpH 410 

Horsiield't  Hiatory  ofLeim 4S4 


MAY,   1827. 

[PUBLISHED  JUNE  i,] 

Napol. 


Monde 4ie 

du  Maris^  •}•!!  I'tHra  ta  Fnaet 

BritisL  Poetesses— The  Tor  Hill 4B9 

Soamea'a  History  of  tlic  Refc 

Cooper's  Vindication 

ShaAon's  Vagi 


White 


Hist 


^soflnv. 


>,  &c... 


..  436 


Eldridge's  Views  in  Wales.— Rolla's  Poem* 

The  lavlne  and  the  Dead 

Home  on  Aomanism ............... 

LiTEBARr  *SD  Scientific  Inti 

— New Publicatioai.  &c.... 

AHTiaU'iniAN  Rlsbabciies ....447 

Select  PoETRV 

Viftntical  'Sbtanitlt. 

Proceeding!  in  preseotSessionof  Parliam«Dt4Sa 
Foreign  News,  454,-DomeiticOcciuTanoea..4SS 


I,  &G.— BInhi 


.dMtr 


i*g«M...46D 


ith  Mei 

Cholmondeleyi  E..I  of  Shre-.butj'j    Sir 
Geoi«  Beaumont;  Adm. Williams  ;  Oen. 
JiulaineDurti  M.  Peat.- 
iberg  ;    Dr.  KlCchinar; 

Mr.  Flaiman  ;  Mn.  Po^lett,  &c.  &c. 41 

Mwieu.— BillDfMortality,478 — Shares  ..4! 
Meteoiologicaj  Diary. — Prices  of  Stocks.. ..41 


Juhoiton : 


By    SYLVANUS    URBAN,    Gent. 


I    386    ] 

MINOR    CORRESPONDENCE. 


A  CORRSSPONDINT  uys,  /'  I  hare  had 
much  pleasure  in  examining  the  restored 
eide  of  the  Temple  Church,  and  pronounce 
it  to  be  a  most  mlthful  imitation  of  the  an- 
cient architecture.     Some  few  members  of 
the  design    hare    been    supplied   by  Mr. 
Smirke,  but  the  north  side  still  furnishes 
sufficient  authority  for  the  beautiful  mould- 
ings which  enrich  the  adminbly  prooortion- 
ed  triple  windows.    If  -it  were  not  vfpereri- 
tical,  I  would  oblect  to  the  crosses  on  th« 
gables  as  not  in  character  with  the  building, 
and  not  lofty  enough,  but  I  will  not  dwell 
on  imperfections  where  there  is  so'  much  to 
admire.    The  removal  of  a  curious  and  rery 
«ncient  Chapel  from  the  south  side  of  the 
Round  Church,  has  brought  the  aile  of  the 
Norman  edifice  Into  view,  and  the  windows, 
^sencombered  of  their  heavy  Doric  dressings, 
appear  in  their  original  simplicity ;  they  are 
narrow  and  lofty,  and  approaimate  to  the 
^hape  of  the  lancet  pointed  windows,  which 
were  of  a  period  not  &r  subsequent  to  the 
ace  of  the  Norman  work.    It  may  be  doubted 
whether  the  buttresses  (I  am  still  speaking 
df  UieRa|und  Church)  are  coeval  with  the 
walk ;  oertainly  they  were  grotesque  and  un- 
sightly till  the  architect  gave  them  their 
present  form.    The  whole  of  this  restora- 
taoo  is  in  stone,  and  the  skilful  masonry  of 
the  Temple'  Church  will  be  admired  when 
such  plastered  buildings  as  Lichfield  Cathe- 
dral will  have  lost  all  traces  of  the  splendid 
architecture  which  once  adorned  them." 

In  reference  to  a  passage  in  our  Memoir 
of  Mr,  Mitfbrd  (p.  3M],  we  have  been  in- 
formed that  that  Eentleman  was  not  only 
Lieut.-Colonel  in  tne  South  Hampshire  Mi- 
litia, but  for  upwards  of  a  year  Colonel  af 
the  regiment.    He  first  joined  it  as  Captain, 
May  99,  1769;  was  appointed  Lieut.-Col. 
Nov.  99,  1779;  and  from  Aug.  9,  1805,  to 
the  date  of  his  resignation,  Oct  15,  1806, 
held  the  Colonelcy.    It  was  In  the  same 
reeiment  that  Gibbon  was  Lieut.-Colonel. 
When  Mr.  Mitfbrd  first  had  a  compauy, 
that  distinguished  writer  was  his  command- 
'  bg  officer,  audit  was  to  the  Lieut. -Colonelcy 
that  had  been  held  by  the  Historian  of 
Home,  that  the  Historian  of  Greece  suc- 
ceeded in  1779. — Mr.  Mitford  first  sat  in 
the  House  of  Commons  as  Member  for 
.  "Newport  in  Cornwall.     He  was  returned  in 
1785*  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the 
death  of  Sir  John  Coghlll,  bart.,  and  repre- 
sented that  borough  till  the  close  of  the 
Parliament  in  1790.    From  1790  to  1706 
he  was  not  a  Member  of  the  House. — We 
feel  great  pleaeortf  in  adding  a  fiict  much  to 
the  credit  of  Mr.  Mitford's  memory,  that  a 
Bill  is  now  passing  through  the  Houaa  of 
Commons    *'  for    sobstituting   a   building 
lately  built  by  him  as  the  future  Church  of 
Eabury  and  Leap,  in  lieu  of  th«  preaeat 
43&ai«h  or  Chapel." 


M.  A.  observes,  **  It  appears  that  at 
length  two  respectable  friends  of  Bishop 
Heber,  at  Oaford,  have  started  a  design  for 
a  monument  to  the  memory  of  that  model 
of  meekness,  goodness,  and  pietv.  It  is, 
perhaps,  not  very  creditable  to  those  who 
profess  to  have  his  name  so  highly  in  honour, 
not  to  have  come  forward  more  generally 
and  with  greater  enthusiasm.  I  trust,  how- 
aver,  that  the  design  will* now  proceed,  aud 
that  his  venerated  name  will  add  lustre  to 
the  eminent  memorials  that  adorn  the  Ca- 
thedral of  Str  Paul's.  It  has  been  suggest- 
ed, that  some  memorial  may  be  erected  at 
Oxford.  Venerating,  as  I  do,  that  seat  of 
learning,  no  one  will  pretend  to  say  that 
Oxford  is  the  place  for  a  monument  to  Re- 
ginald Heber.  His  mind,  character,  and 
services,  were  the  property  of  the  Universal 
Church  of  ChrisU  The  Church  of  Eng- 
land may  have  produced  greater,  but  never  a 
more  diligent,  devoted,  sobermlnded  Chris- 
tian. Short  as  was  his  career,  it  spread 
a  lustre  over  every  state  in  which  he  was 
placed;  whether  as  student  or  preacher, 
parish  priest  or  prelate.  I  trust  nothing 
more  is  required  tnan  merely  to  direct  atten- 
tion to  the  subject." 

L.  observes,  *'  On  looking  into  Wren's 
Parentalia,  I  find  that  no  nkention  is  made  of 
one  of  the  sisters  of  Sir  Christopher ;  vis. 
Anne.  She  was  bom  (as  appears  from  the 
Register.of  Knoyle,  in  the  Couu^  of  Wilts, 
of  which  place  ner  &ther  was  Rector,)  in 
the  year  1634.  She  married  Dr.  H^ry 
Bnmsell  (son  of  the  Rev.  Oliver  Brunsell, 
Vicar  of  Wroughton,  ce.  Wilts),  Prebendary 
of  Ely,  and  lUctor  of  Stretham  in  the  Isle 
of  Ely,  where  he  was  buried  in  167i9.  She 
died  m  1667,  and  was  buried  (as  I  presume 
from  the  followmg  inscription  in  Le  Neve) 
at  Stretham  Church  in  ths  Isle  of  Ely  : 

"AnnafiTiaChrlstopheriWren,  Dec.  Wind- 
sor et  Wolverhampton,  uxor  Henr.  Broun- 
tell,  LL.D.  et  mater  Henr.  Christopheri- 
que,  hie  sepultor:  et  Annse  adhuc  super- 
stitis,  exiguse  quidem  molis;  sed  gemmarum 
instar  magni  pretii  et  virtutis,  vitam  egit 
aliis  jucundissimam,  sibi  autem  acerbam  ^ 
propter  varies  corporis  dolores,  quos  admir 
rabill  patientil  et  seqoanimitate  perpessa* 
«aimam  placidissimi  Deo  reddidit)  S7  die 
Feb.  A.  D*ni  1667,  »t.  suae  38." 

B.  enquires  where  he  can  find  the  ofile- 
brated  hymn  of  St.  Hilary,  beginning,  Lucii 
largUor  splendidtt,  as  he  has  searched  in 
vain  all  books  of  the  Latinity  of  the  middle 
ages  fSer  it. 

If  the  proposed  Historian  of  Bedfordshire 
would  &vour  us  with  his  name  and  address^ 
.  we  conld,  through  the  kindness  of  a  veteran 
Antiquary,  matwially  assist  his  views. 

Eriuta^-P.  99,  b.  9  from  bottom,  /or 
Thrasher  read  Treacbir;  170,  a.  41,  fir 
Lsi^h  nad  Logh. 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S     MAGAZINE. 


MAY,    1827. 


ORIOZNAXi   COMMUinCATIONS 


ORIGINAL  LBTTBR  OF  OR.  DAVII8. 


Mr.  Urban,  May  12. 

I  INCLOSE  an  orrginal  Lctlcr, 
written  in  Dec.  1787f  by  Doctor 
Daviesy  then  Master  of  Eton  School, 
to  Sir  John  Riggs  Miller,  the  first  Ba- 
ronet, respecting  his  son,  the  late  wor- 
thy and  lamented  Sir  John  Edward 
Riggs  Miller,  bart.  on  whose  death  in 
August  1825,  the  title  became  extinct. 
It  notices,  as  you  will  remark,  an  aU 
teration  in  the  system  at  Eton. 

A  Constant  Reader. 


London,  at  Mr,  Faulders,  Book" 
seller.  New  Btmd-street. 

Dear  Sir,  Dec,  24,  178?. 

I  MUST  first  make  an  apology  for 
xny  long  silence,  at  which  ^ou  must 
have  been  much  surprised,  if  not,  at 
I  fear,  somewhat  displeased ;  but  when 
I  first  received  your  letter,  I  determin- 
ed not  to  answer  it  till  the  holidays, 
that  during  the  interval  I  might  have 
an  opportunity  of  making  more  parti- 
cular observations  on  him  who  was  the 
subject  of  it ;  then  I  intended  to  have 
seen  you  in  town,  but  I  did  not  come 
so  early  as  I  thought  I  should.  After 
4hat  I  went  down  aRain  to  Windsor  to 
instal  Dr.  Langford  Canon  of  Wind- 
sor. Upon  mv  return,  your  House  ad- 
journed, and  1  did  not  endeavour  to 
find  you  in  town,  supposing  that  jou 
immediately  went  down  to  your  villa^ 
where  I  hope  this  will  find  you. 

If  I  had  sat  down  to  write  a  letter 
to  you  without  any  previous  inquiries 
on  your  part  concerning  your  son,  I 
should  have  inform*d  yoii  how  happy 
he  bad  made  me  by  his  ^reat  dilisencc 
and  improvement,  ^y  his  good  beha- 
viour and  regularity,  after  his  beins 
put  into  the  shtth  mrm ;  that  he  had 
added  much  to  the  credit  he  had  gained 
at  the  last  speeches  before  their  Ma« 


jesties,  as  well  as  to  my  good  opinion 
of  his  abilities  and  dis|K>sition.     In  his 
prose  compositions  his  siyle  of  Latin  is 
very  good,  his  sentiments  strong  and 
clear,  with  much  good  sense,  and  il- 
lustrations  of  the  subject  by  examples 
from  his  own  reading  and  observation, 
improving  upon  those  which  1  have 
suggested  in  giving  the  theme.     In 
his  verses  there  is  an  originality  of 
poetical  fancy  and  invention  peculiarly 
his  own,  his  expression  neat  and  ele- 
gant, with  a  rylhm  of  verse  that  shews 
his  good  ear ;  but  still  he  must  conti- 
nue to  cultivate  both  specie8  of  com- 
position with  the  same  if  not  more  dili- 
gence and  accuracy,  before  I  shall  be 
able  to  call  them  exactit  minimum  dis^ 
tanlice,  and  this  is  the  great  mean  of 
improvement  while  he  continues  with, 
roe ;   this  the  foundation  of  his  fame 
as  an  Eton  scholar.     In  all  other  parts, 
his  repuution  is  as  high  as  it  can  well 
be ;  but  elegance  of  writing  is  the  fi- 
nishing here ;  therefore  I  beg'you  will 
inculcate  this  to  him.    Constant  pains 
in  all  his  exercises ;  and  in  some  parti- 
cular subjects  which  suit  his  fancy, 
still  greater  exertions  to  produce  a  ca- 
pital piece.    The  longer  he  continues 
(and  I  hope  at  present  his  own  incli- 
nation accords  with  your  intentions), 
the  greater  will  be  his  improvement. 
In  regard  to  his  moral  character,  his 
inclination,  temper,  and  other  quali- 
ties (points  of  the  greatest  consequence, 
and  which  you  enquire  after  with  an 
hishly  commendable  and  truly  paren- 
tal anxiety  and  affection),  the  result 
of  my  enquiries,  confirmed  by  his  tu- 
tor and  his  dame,  still  tends  more  to  en- 
hance my  good  opinion.     I  can  disco- 
ver no  evil  propensi^,  but  all  tending 
the  contrary  wav.    He  is  beloved  by 
all  his  schoolfellows,  but  among  his 
peers  in  class,  age,  &c.  his  intimates 
are  of  the  best   sort,  like   himself. 


388 


Original  Letter  of  Dr.  Daviet. 


[May, 


Therefore  I  moti  sincerely  congrata- 
late  you, 

**  e%  lando  fortaou  toas, 
Qui  Datum  haberes  tali  iogenio  pneditum." 

And  I  have  the  greatest  confidence 
that  he  will  not  hereafter  disappoint 
our  expectations  at  the  University ;  and 
when  he  comes  to  a  mor^  enlarged  in- 
tercourse with  mankind,  tlie  disposal 
of  him  when  he  leaves  me  must  be 
the  subject  of  another  letter  or  of  con- 
versation when  we  meet.  If  you  send 
him  to  Cambridge,  I  recommend  Tri- 
nity College  ;  if  to  Oxford,  Christ 
Church,  and  I  rather  prefer  the  latter. 
I  am,  dear  Sir,  with  the  greatest  re- 
spect and  esteem,  your  most  obedient, 
obliged,  and  faithful  humble  servant, 

J.  Davies. 

P.  S.  I  must  now  inform  you  that 
an  alteration  has  been  maac  these 
holidays  in  our  system.  That  instead 
of  what  were  called  .  the  "  Bacchus 
Versss,"  shewn  up  on  ShrcJve  Tues- 
day, a  composition  is  scft,  to  be  done  in 
the  holidays,  and  brought  by  the  boys 
at  their  coming, — ^an  120  or  130  good 
verses,  I  hope ;  whereas  before,  they 
used  to  make  3,  4,  or  600  indifferent 
ones.  I  muayt  also  in  a  more  authori- 
tative tone,  as  master,  represent  to  you 
(as  I  have  done  to  the  parents  of^  all 
iny  upper  boys  and  others),  the  great 
^  hindrance  to  their  improvement,  occa- 
sioned by  their  long  stay  af\er  the  ho- 
lidays. I  therefore  must  desire  that 
your  son  may  come  the  middle  of  the 
2d  week  at  farthest.  The  school  opens 
the  7th  of  January.  The  assistant 
masters  have  been  desired  by  me  to 
write  on  this  point  to  their  respective 
pupils,  but  to  a  great  many,  as  I  now 
do  to  you,  I  have  written  myself. — 
The  composition  mentioned  above,  is 
very  reasonably  required  to  be  done  in 
the  holidays,  as  there  is  now  no  repeti- 
tion task. 

Mr.  Urban,    Kellington,  May  9. 

NO  depravity  of  the  mind  has  been 
more  frequently  or  more  justly 
censured  than  Ingratitude.  There  is, 
indeed,  sufEcient  reason  for  looking  on 
those  that  can  return  evil  for  good, 
and  repay  kindness  and  assistance  with 
hatred  or  neglect,  as  corrupted  beyond 
the  common  deeree  of  wickedneas: 
nor  will  he,  who  nas  once  been  clearly 
detected  in  acts  of  injury  to  his  bene- 
factor, deserve  to  be  numbered  among 
aoeial  beings — he  has  endeavoured  to 


destroy  confidence,  to  intercept  sym- 
pathy, and  to  turn  every  man  s  atten- 
tion wholly  on  himself.-— Such  are 
the  remarks  -of  our  great  national  Mo- 
ralist upon  the  subject  of  ingratitude. 
By  the  way  of  amelioration,  he  further 
continues,  **  there  is  always  danger, 
lest  the  honest  abhorrence  of  crime 
should  raise  the  passions  with  too  much 
violence  against  the  man  to  whom  it 
is  imputed.  In  proportion  as  guilt  is 
more  enormous,  it  ought  to  be  ascer- 
tained by  stronger  evidence.'* 

If  ingratitude,  then,  from  one  man 
to  another  who,  perhaps,  is  almost  in- 
different to  him  in  otner  respects,  ex- 
cept on  account  of  some  small  favour 
bestowed,  is  to  be  thus  stigmatised, 
what  ought  our  sentiments  of  his  guilt 
to  be  who  can  coolly  and  deliberately 
set  down  to  vilify,  by  every  possible 
means,  the  character  and  worth  of  an- 
other, to  whom,  perhaps,  he  is  entirely 
indebted   for  nearly  nis  all,  nay,   to 
whom  he  owes  the  very  weapons  which 
he  now  so  basely  and  cowardly  makes 
use  of  against  his  greatest  benefactor  t 
'  Charges,  illiberal  as  they  are  unjust, 
have    not    unfrequently    been    made 
against  the  ^stem  of  education  pursued 
in  our  Universities.     These  accusa- 
tions very  often  originate,   too,  from 
their    own    members;    from   persons 
who,  brought  up  and  cherished  in  the 
fostering  bosom  of  Alma  Mater,  have 
derived  from  her,  almost  solely,  all  the 
powers  which  they  possess  to  traduce 
and    vilify  her.     Their    insinuations 
against  her  gain  more  ground,  and  are 
more  readily  credited,  as  coming  from 
men   who,  long  resident  within  her 
sacred  walls,  have  had  sufRcient  op- 
portunities to  become  acquainted  with, 
and  (sufficient  leisure  and  abilities  X6 
investigate  and  describe  to  the  world 
her  learning  and  her  morals.     What, 
then,  can  we  predicate  of  those  men 
who,  in  their  juvenile  years,  have  en- 
joyed every  benefit  arising   from  her 
extensive  libraries,  her  learned  profes- 
sors ;  and  who  have  not  unfrequently 
been  large  partakers,  also,  of  her  im- 
mense incomes  and  emoluments ;  be- 
sides,  have   imbibed    from   her  pure 
fountains  the  first  draughts  of  every 
species  as  well  of  literary  as  of  scientific 
knowledge  ;   but  who,  in  more  ad- 
vanced life,  have  dared  to  shoot  the 
most  envenomed  arrows  from  the  very 
bows  with  which  she  herself  had  fur- 
nished them ;  who,  from  her  favourite 
aona,  ob  whom  she  had  deigned  to 


latr.]  DeftncM  of  ih€  Engli»h  UnwenUm.  389 

shower  down  her  choicest   hvomt,  and  which  seems  to  have  attracted 
have  become,  in  return,  the  severest  much  notice,  issued  from  the  juvenile 
traducers  and  calumniators  of   their  pen  of  an  Oxonian,  who,  though  in 
kindly- fostering  mother?    What  can  after  •life  not  much  distinguished  for 
we  possibly  say  of  such  men  as  these  ?  his  depth  of  erudition  or  critical  r«^ 
Should  we  not  necessarily  accuse  them,  search,  certainly  claims,  with  justice^ 
and  accuse  them  with  justice  too,  of  a  very  respectable  rank  as  a  pleasins 
the  blackest  ingratitude,  and  that  em-  and  rastructive  writer  on  moral  and 
ployed  against  their  kindest  benefac-  literary  subjects.     He  describes  with 
tor,  who,  in  their  tender  years,  amply  minute  exactness,  several  of  the  trifliOK 
supplied  them  with  every  means  by  circumstances  which  he  asserts  tome 
wnich,  had  they  been  used  with  com-  place  in  his  parent  University,  in  the 
mon  prudence  and  discretion,    their  arduous  examination  for  Bachelor's  and 
future  lives  might  have  been  rendered  Master  of  Arts'  degree.    He  holds  oot 
good,   perhaps  eminent,   and,   at  all  all  these,  as  far  as  his  abilities  permit 
events,  some  way  or  other  useful  to  him,  to  what  he  conceives  to  oe  the 
society  ?    Have  not  the  first  rudiments  just  contempt  and  ridicule  of  the  world, 
of  Theology,  of  Law,  and  of  Physic  Ife  forbears,  he  tells  us,  to  enter  into  a 
been,  in  nine  instances  out  of  ten,  more  minute  description  of  such  con- 
imbibed  in  those  distinguished  seats  of  teroptible  roinutise.    In  consequence 
learning?     Is  not  the  State  indebted  of  this  neglect  in  having  these  exercises 
to  one  or  other  of  these  seminaries,  for  properly  and  rigorously  performed  ac- 
her  most  sagacious  ministers,  and  her  cording  to  the  intention  of  their  first 
most  distinguished  legislators  and  law-  founders,  and  suffering  them  thus  to 
yers,  who  have  excelled  either  in  eru-  be  slurred  over  by  boasted  pretence 
dition  or  elotjuence  ?    To  what,  then,  and  form,  he  insinuates  that  all  good 
are  we  originally  indebted  for  those  and  sound  learning  has  nearly  ceased 
noble  institutions  ?— to  the  best,  cer-  to  exist  in  this  once-celebrated  seat  of 
tainly,  of  all  human  causes— to  the  the  muses.    He  concludes,  also,  that 
propagation  of  the  Christian  religion,  indolence  and  dissipation  have  in  a 
"  It  is  to  the  piety  of  Christians  that  great  measure  usurped  the  place  of  vi- 
we  owe  the  venerable  foundations  of  gorous  discipline  and  useful  knowledge, 
schools  and  colleges.     It  was  the  love  He    observes,    "  that    after    all    the 
of  Christ  which  taoaht  those  towers  to  pompous  cstentation  and  profuse  ex- 
rise  on  the  banks  of  the  Cam  and  the  pense  which  takes  place  here,  the  pub- 
Isis,  which  have  preserved  learning  and  lie  has  not,  of  late  at  least,  been  in-- 
learned  works  through  the  ignorance  debted  for  the  great  improvements  in 
of  the  darkest  ages  of  superstition  and  science  and  learning  to  all  the  Doctors, 
bigotry,  and  to  them  we  perhaps  ore  both  the  Proctors,  nor  to  all  the  heads 
also  indebted,  in  a  great  measure,  for  of  Colleges  and  Halls  laid  together, 
the  learning  which  at  present  exists  in  That  populous  university,  London,  and 
the  world,"  as  well  as  for  the  first  that  region  of  literary  labour,  Scotland, 
principles  and  tenets  which  have  so  have  seized  almost  every  palm  of  scho- 
much  tended  to  increase  the  knowledge  lastic  honour,  and  left  the  sons  of  Ox- 
of  the  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  which  ford  and  Cambridge  to  enjoy  substan- 
have  led  the  way  to  the  application  of  tial  comforts  in  the  smoke  of  the  com- 
them  to  some  of  the  most  extensive  mon  or  combination  room.    The  bur- 
and  useful  improvements  in  manufac-  sar*8  books  are  the  only  manuscripts  of 
tures,  |and  in  the  arts  connected  with  any  value  produced  in  many  Colleges: 
them,  for  which  the  present  age  is  so  and  the  sweets  of  pensions,  exhibitions, 
much  distinguished.    It  has  been  ob-  fines,   fellowships,  and  petty  ofiieeis, 
served,    that  "  infidels,   educated   in  are  the  chief  objects  of  academical 
Christian  countries,  owe  what  learn-  pursuit*'    The  author  of  these  asper- 
ing  they  have  to  Christianity,  and  act  sions  no  longer  exists.    Peace  to  bis 
the  part  of  those  brutes  which,  when  ashes.    But  1  would  seriously  ask  anj 
thej  have  sucked  the  dam,  turn  about  impartial  observer,  and  who  is  suAE!- 
and  strike  her.''    Such  is  nearly  the  ciently  acquainted  with  the  politics 
case  with  the  vilifiers  and  accusers  of    and  pursuits  of  the  University  of  Ox- 
our  Universities.  ford,  to  whom  those  pensions,  exhibi- 
The  first  attack  directed  against  the     tions,  fines,  fellowships,  and  petty  ofli- 
mode  of  discipline  and  manner  of  edu-    ccs  are  usually  awanM  ?    Are  they, 
cation  pursoei  in  these  cstablishmeDtii    not  aasigoed,  as  thdr  origiiiil  foondai 


990 

no  doubt  intended,  as  rewards  for  lite- 
rary exertion,  for  scientific  knowledge, 
for  regular  moral  conduct,  and  assi- 
duous applictftion  ?    The  allotment  of 
these  emoluments   may,  I  hope,  in 
most  Colleges  (I  know  that  it  necessa- 
rily must  io  several)  be  regulated  upon 
■  this  principle.    What  can  possibly  add 
more  vigour  and  energy  to  an  mge- 
nuous  mind  in  the  pursuit  of  know- 
ledge of  any  kind,  than  the  immediate 
prospect  of  honour  and  emolument, 
certainly  consequent  upon  their  suc- 
cessful labours?    The  efficacy  of  the 
cause  is,  for  the  most  part,  in  some 
degree  at  least,  commensurate  with 
the  effect.    That  mode  of  education 
then  is  certainly  by  no  means  to  be 
indiscriminately  censured  which  has 
reared  a  Bacon,  a  Locke,  a  Halley,  a 
Boyle,  a  Tickel,    and    an    Addison. 
That  abuses  should  imperceptibly  creep 
in,  and  through  a  lapse  ot  ages  dete- 
rforate  the  best  regulated  establishments, 
must  necessarily  be  the  lot  of  all  hu- 
man institutions.    Wbat  errors  exist- 
ed, and  to  what  extent  they  tended  to 
vitiate  the  system  of  education  pursued 
in  the  University  of  Oxford  at  tne  time 
the  above  writer  was  resident  within 
her  walls,  I  pretend  not  to  say.    That 
they  were  not  many,  or  such  as  to  in- 
fluence materially  the  juvenile  pur- 
suits, or  retard  the  future  progress  of 
any  of  the  sons  of  Isis,  we  may  safely 
conclude  from  the  number  of  still  ex- 
isting characters  (who  were  most  pro- 
bably contemporaries  with  him,  and 
subject  to  the  same  mode  of  discipline;, 
who  are  at  present  an  ornament  and 
honour  to  themselves,  to  their  profes- 
sions, to  their  parent  University,  and 
to  the  State  in  general. 

Amid  all  the  din  of  obloquy  on 
jK^ademical  establishments  with  which 
we  have  of  late  been  so  forcibly  stunned, 
—though  Oxford  may,  perhaps,  have 
had  the  greatest  cause  of  complaint, 
yet  the  Univenity  of  Cambridge  has 
not  been  less  assailed  by  the  coarse  and 
deafening  clamour  of  illiterate  malij^ 
nity,  than  by  tones  which,  it  is  no  dif- 
ficult matter  to  perceive,  can  only  be 
the  effect  of  cultivation  and  refinement. 
It  has  been  insinuated  in  a  well-known 
periodical  publication,  not  more  cele- 
brated for  Its  extensive  circulation  than 
for  the  ability  and  talent  with  which 
it  is  conducted,  that  in  the  system  of 
education  established  at  Cambridge, 
*'  the  invention  finds  no  exercise ;  tne 
stodent  is  confined  within  narrow  li- 


Defence  of  the  English  UniversUiet. 


[M«7, 


mits ;  his  curiosity  is  not  roused,  the 

Eirit  of  discovery  is  not  awakened.** 
jttle  must  that  man  be  acquainted 
with  the  nature  and  extent  of  a  Senate- 
house  examination  in  that  University, 
who  does  not  feelingly  know  that  every 
nerve  of  invention,  and  every  spirit  of 
discovery  must  be  awakened  and  ex« 
erted  to  its  highest  pitch  by  every  com- 
petitor for  academic  honours,  and  that, 
too,  on  almost  every  subject  of  scien- 
tific investigation.   The  examinations, 
also,  are  real,  and  the  respective  me- 
rits of  each  individual  candidate  are  as- 
certained and  rewarded,  as  far  as  hu- 
man imperfections  will   allow,  with 
the    utmost   accuracy   and    precision. 
Having  mjrself  been  a  resident  mem- 
ber of  that  ancient  seminary  for  many 
years,  the  truth  of  this  statement,  I  am, 
from  experience,  sufficiently  enabled 
to  confirm  and  establiith.    The  ques- 
tions pro|x>sed,    also,   in    these  exa- 
minations being  annually  published, 
furnish  ample  means  for  establishing 
the  just  censure,  or  approbation,  of  a 
discerning  public. 

This  last  charge,  we  have  every 
reason  to  believe,  emanated  from  a 
Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy  in  a 
celebrated  seminary  of  learning  and 
science,  situated  in  an  adjoining  coun- 
try, and  who  was  not,  most  probably, 
very  accurately  acquainted  with  the 
pursuits,  or  the  method  of  forwarding 
these  pursuiu,  generally  used  in  our 
English  Universities.  On  that  ac- 
count, therefore,  he  is  certainly  not 
chargeable  with  ingratitude  in  the 
same  degree  as  the  former  calumniator. 
He,  pernaps,  too  vainly  thought  that 
by  exalting  the  younger,  he  should  be 
enabled  more  effectually  to  depress  the 
older  sister. 

A  recept  and  perhaps  still  more  vi- 
rulent and  illiberal  attack  has  lately 
been  directed  against  the  University  of 
Cambridge  by  one  of  her  own  off- 
spring—by a  favourite  son  whom  she 
had  dignified  with  her  highest  ho- 
nours. What  a  return  for  all  her  in- 
dulgences!— what  a  scene  of  ingrati- 
tude is  here  displayed !  But  let  us 
still  be  cool,  and  enquire  a  little  further 
whether  any  probable  existing  circum- 
stances can  be  found  which  may,  in 
any  measure^  palliate  such  a  torrent  of 
invective.  The  charge  alluded  to,  made 
its  appearance  in  a  late  number  of  the 
London  Magazine,  under  the  signature 
of  **  Senior  Wrangler.**  This,  as  every 
one  in  the  least -acquainted  with  the 


i84ro 


Defence  of  the  Eingluh  Uniterriik$, 


S91 


University  must  necetsariljr  know,  is 
the  most  distinguished  scientific  ho- 
Dour,  and  generally  leads  to  the  most 
responsible  literary  and  lucrative  situa- 
tions which  Alma  Mater  has  in  her 
power  to  bestow.  This  writer,  we 
have  every  reason  to  believe,  was  really 
honoured  with  that  pre-eminent  de- 
gree, upon  his  taking  his  Bachelor's. 
With  the  brightest  prospects,  then,  for 
his  future  life  full  in  liis  view,  and 
which  were  confirmed  nearly  to  cer- 
tainty by  the  earnest  which  his  kind, 
fostering  mother  had  already  given 
him,  he  spurns  with  the  utmost  peevish- 
ness the  almost  offered  boon,  kicks  his 
dam,  leaves  the  University,  and  arro- 

fantly  throws  himself  upon  the  world, 
n  this  busy  and  active  scene,  so  far 
different  in  its  pursuits,  its  mannero 
and  customs,  to  what  he  had  been 
for  some  time  habituated  in  academic 
retirement,  he  meets,  as  might  have 
been  naturally  expected,  with  nothing 
but  disappointment.  He  turns  away 
from  it  with  disgust,  and  unjustly  lays 
the  sole  blame  of  his  failure  upon  tne 
place,  and  the  imperfect  mode  of  edu- 
cation used  there,  and  by  which  he 
had  been  previously  instructed.  Let 
us  take  a  snort  view  of  his  life,  as  he 
relates  it  himself,  and  then  enquire 
whether  such  important  and  gross 
charges  can  possibly  be  substantiated. 
Our  "  Senior  Wrangler,"  we  have 
every  reason  to  believe,  is  a  native  of  a 
distant  northern  count3r.  In  those  re- 
mote parts,  public  seminaries  abound. 
In  one  or  other  of  these  establish- 
ments—though certainly  none  of  them 
are  eminent  for  classical  versification 
or  critical  minutiae— several  have  re- 
ceived the  first  rudiments  of  their  edu- 
cation, who,  in  after-life,  have  shone 
forth  as  the  brightest  luminaries  of 
theology,  of  law,  of  physic,  of  litera- 
ture, and  of  the  sciences ;  though 
perhaps,  not  so  well  calculated  to  form 
elegant,  yet  they  have  certainly  ushered 
into  the  world,  and  sent  for  the  par- 
pose  of  more  mature  improvements  to 
each  of  our  Universities^  many  solid, 
substantial,  and  useful  classical  scholars. 
Our  writer,  we  shrewdly  suspect,  was 
not  educated  within  the  walls  of  any 
of  those  ancient  foundations,  and  con- 
sequently became  an  inmate  of  Cam- 
bridge, labouring  under  many  heavy 
and  serious  disadvantages.  His  scien- 
tific knowledge  at  that  time  seems  also 
not  to  have  been  very  exteniivey  if  we 
may  be  allowed  to  credit  the  accoMn^ 


«rhich  he  himself  eivet  ns,  of  hts  pri- 
mary examination  Dy  the  late  Dean  of 
Carlisle.    Thus  prepared,  then,  and 
by  the  recommendation  of  that  worthy 
dignitary,  he  becomes  a  member  of 
Queen's.     He  is  hospitably  received 
within  her  walls  under  the  care  of  a 
tutor  not  more  known  and  admired 
for  the  elegance  of  his  taste  in  ancient 
geometry,  than  for  the  kindness  and 
urbanity  of  his  manners,  and  whose 
many  acts  of  candid  advice  for  the  re- 
gulation of  his  conduct  in  College, 
and  whose  gratuitous  instructions  on 
many  literary  subjects    more  immc- 
diatelv  connected  with  the  studies  of 
the  place,  the  writer  of  this,  though 
not  his  pupil,  still  remembers  with 
heartfelt  sentiments  of  gratitude  and 
respect.    How  long  he  remained  a  re- 
sident   of   this    hospitable    mansion, 
where  every  opportunity  was  amply 
afforded  him  ot  improvine  his  moral 
and  religious,  as  well  as  his  intellec- 
tual and  literary  powers,  1  do  not  re- 
collect that  he  tells  us.     However, 
through  some  unaccountable  freak  (and 
to  such  he  seems  to  have  been  very 
subject  during  his  earlier  part  of  his 
life),  and  before  he  took  his  Bachelor's 
degree,  he  removes  to  Trinity.    His* 
finances  were  already  by   no  means 
adequate  to  his  expenses  j  yet  led  by  a 
mistaken  ambition,  he  quits  a  respect- 
able, for  a  certainly  more  arduous  and 
expensive  situation.    He  might  have 
been  comfortably  settled  in  either  of 
these  establishments;  in  each,  his  re- 
sources were  more  than  sufficient,  had 
they  been  used  with  common  prudence 
and  moderation,  to  meet  every  neces- 
sary expenditure  i    in   each,    though 
pernaps  nis  "  beau-ideal"  of  a  lecture 
was  not  fully  realised— he  had  tutors 
both  able  and  willing  to  remind  him 
of  the  proper  subjecu  of  study,  whether 
literary  or  scientific;  he  had  the  best 
authors  at  hand  to  further  his  improve- 
ment in  those  studies;  and  he  had 
every  thing  to  prevent  his  reading  from 
becoming  rambling   and   inefitective. 
Surrounded  with  those  advantages,  and 
imbued  with  very  little  of  classical  or 
historical  learning,    he  dedicates  his 
time  and  his  attention,  in  a  great  mea- 
sure, if  not  exclusively,  to  the  acquire- 
ment of  the  mathematical  sciences. 
In  these  he  finally  succeeds ;  and  upon 
taking  his  degree,  obtains  the  most 
distinsuished  honours.    Here  then,  in 
a  small  College,  was  a  certain  earnest 
pf  future  success.   P^rbapt,  at  Trinity, 


50« 


5m/  Minerva  the  Patron  Goddess  of  Bath, 


[May, 


other  attaiDinentSy  and  such  as  he 
aeems  now  to  regret  the  neglect  of, 
might  have  been  found  necessary  to 
ensare  his  future  advancement.  He 
never  ventured  to  present  himself  at  a 
fellowship  examination  in  that  Col- 
lege, in  which  due  resard  would  have 
been  paid  to  his  knowledge  in  his  fa- 
vourites Reid  and  Stewart.  Indeed, 
we  have  been  informed  upon  creditable 
authority,  that  had  he  submitted  to 
that  ordeal,  the  result  mkht  have  been 
more  than  doubtful.  Something  or 
other,  however  (not  the  most  pruden- 
tial motives  we  may  well  conceive), 
induces  him  to  leave  the  University, 
and  with  it  all  the  prospects  and  emo- 
luments of  his  future  life. 

Entering  upon  the  busy  scenes  of 
life,  though  amply  stored  with  all  the 
resources  of  mathematical  learning,  but, 
we  very  much  fear,  with  those  alone, 
he,  with  astonishment,  finds  himself 
inferior,  very  far  inferior  indeed,  to 
many  literary  characters  who  had  never 
enjoyed  the  privileges  of  an  academic 
education.  On  this  account,  his  views 
and  expectations  are  frustrated,  and  he 
loudly  complains  against  his  foster- 
motht;r  as  the  real  cause  of  all  his  dis- 
appointments. "  Was  it  for  this,*'  he 
exclaims,  *'  that  I  have  submitted  to 
your  discipline,— only  to  find  myself 
more  ienorant  than  my  fellow-men! 
Have  I  struggled  up  the  rude  and 
rough  paths  of  science,  only  to  fiud 
that  they  lead  to  knowledge,  which  is 
useless,  and  to  prejudices  which  are 
penurious.  I,  an  honoured  son  of 
Grauta,  have  been  involved  in  all  these 
difficulties  solely  on  account  of  the  in- 
efficiency of  her  established  system  of 
education  ;*'  therefore,  he  concludes, 
every  Cambridge  man,  who  applies 
himself  to  mathematical  studies,  must, 
upon  his  entrance  into  the  world,  ne- 
cessarily experience  the  same  fate.  To 
little  purpose  has  our  "  Senior  Wrang- 
ler "jiored  over  and  digested  the  works 
of  Newton  and  Locke,  if  they  have 
only  taught  him  to  reason  in  this  man- 
ner. (To  be  continued.) 

Mr.  Urban,         Bath,  May  17- 

1WISH  to  be  permitted  to  put  on 
record,  in  your  pages,  a  concise 
fiew  of  the  evidence  which  our  in- 
scriptions present  to  the  existence  of  a 
local  Deity  worshipped  at  this  place, 
named  SvL,  and  from  whom,  rather 
than  from  SOL,  the  name  of  AQ VAE 
SOLISy  by.  which  Bath  is  known  in 


the  Itineraries,  is  in  all  probability  de- 
rived. 

1.  In  the  first  place,  there  are  two 
altars,  both  erected  pro  taluie  et  in 
columitate  MarA  Aufidii  Maximi^  de- 
dicated Deae  Suli.  In  a  published  en- 
graving of  one  of  these  altars,  the  word 
Suli  appears  Sulin.  But  this  is  an 
error.  There  is  no  sign  of  any  thing 
after  Suli,  nor  any  appearance  of  any 
other  letter  baring  ever  appeared  there. 

2.  A  sepulchral  stone,  found  in  179^» 
commemorates  Cains  Calpurnius  re- 
ceptus  sacerdos  Dea;  Sulis,  a  recognised 
priest  of  the  goddess  Sul.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-five,  and  it  was 
placed  to  his  memory  by  Calpurnia 
Trifosa  Threpte,  his  wife. 

3.  It  appears  that  this  British  god- 
dess Sul  became  united  with  Minerva, 
forming  a  hybrid  Divinity,  who  ap- 
pears as  Sulminerva  in  two  of  our  in- 
scriptions. They  are  both  on  votive 
altars :  in  the  first  of  which  she  ap- 
pears alone:  Dex  Suliminervae  Sulinus 
Maturi  Filius  V.  S.  L.  M.  The  other 
is  inscribed  Dese  Suli  Min.  et  Numin. 
Aug^.,  and  was  erected  by  C.  Curia- 
tius  Saturninus. 

4.  There  is  the  fragment  of  an  in- 
scription which  formerly  appeared  in 
the  front  of  some  edifice 

C  PROTACI 

DEAESVLIS  M.  ..... 

which  Mr.  Lysons  reads  as  indicating 
that  C.  Protacius  restored  some  temple 
which  was  sacred  to  the  Sul  Minerva. 

5.  Lastly,  there  is  an  altar  dedicated 
to  the  Sulevie:  Sulevis  Sulinus  Scultor 
Bruceti  filius  sacrum  F.  L.  M.  Then 
Suleve  may  be  presumed  to  be  the 
nymph,  and  the  vicinity  of  those  springs 
peculiarly  placed  under  the  presidency 
of  Sul. 

It  may  be  noticed,  that  ihe  name  of  a 
hill  in  the  neighbourhood,  called  Little 
Salisbury,  appears  to  be  connected  ety- 
mologically  with  this  British  Divinity. 

I  shall  only  add  that  the  numerous 
altars  and  inscriptions,  the  sculptures, 
and  especially  the  fine  remains  of  the 
portico  of  the  Temple  of  Minerva, 
which  have  been  preserved  for  many 
years  with  a  laudable  care,  by  the  Cor- 
poration of  this  City,  in  a  depository 
appropriated  to  the  purpose,  have  lately 
been  removed  to  the  Literary  and 
Scientific  Institution.  The  more  re- 
markable of  these  remains  may  now 
be  seen  in  the  vestibule  and  passages  of 
that  edifice^  and  the  rest  in  a  room 

below.  JOBBPH  HUNTBR. 


\ 


18«7.]  Hew  CuvRCiiES.— St.  John's,  Lambeth.  393 

NEW  CHURCHES.— No.  XII.  tico,  i9..guarded  by  anlx  at  the  side*. 

St.  John's  Church.  »"<!  '»  ''ivided  into  two  .torie.  by  a 

Waterloo  Road,  Lambeth.  P!*.'".  ~''"«  »/  »'»"'= '   "»  '^'^  J""*' 

T*AlJ.nu^/^/  ,  divisiOD   BFC   fivc    (looFways :    m   the 

Architect,  Bedford.  upper,  corresponding  with  them,  arc 

THE  site  of  this  Church   having  (ive  windows,   four  of  which  arc  ia 

been  a  swamp  and  horsepend,  an  blank,  the  central  being  the  only  one 

artificial  foundation  of  piles  was  neces-  that  is  gluzed. 

sary  to  be  formed  before  any  part  of        The  steeple  is  a  redeeming  feature 

the  superstructure  could  be  commenced,  in  this  view  of  the  building ;  it  diflera 

This  operation  took   up  about  three  from  the  other  designs  of  Mr.  Bedford 

months,  and  attracted  great  notice  at  most  essentially,  and  it  is  unnecessary 

the  time.  ,  '^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^'^^  difference  is  for  the 

After  the  description  of  St.  George's  better,  your  readers  being  capable  of 

Church,  Camberwell,  which  has  al-  forming  a  judgment  by  comparison  of 

ready  appeared  in  this  vol.  page  Q,  it  the  subjects  in  the  engravings  which 

will  be  unnecessary  to  go  into  a^nii-  have    been    previously    juiven    of   Sl 

nute  detail  of  the  present  edifice.    The  George's  and  Trinity  Church.     The 

monotony  of   Mr.   Bedford's  designs  spectator  cannot  help  lamenting  that 

has  already  been  noticed   under  the  a  want  of  funds  hat  deprived  the  steeple 

head    of    that  building,  as    well    a*  of  proportions  adequate  lo  the  siee  of 

Trinity  Church,   Newingion  * ;   that  ihc  building  to  which  it  in  attached, 

the  censure  is  not  altogether  misap-  Xhe  elevation,  it  will  be  leen,  conaifela 

pliedy  will  be  seen,  by  comparing  tne  of  a  tower  and  spire*  both  of  whiob 

accompanyini^  engraving,  which  com-  are  square  in  their  ^lan ;  the  stoiy 

prises  two  of  Mr.  Bedford's  de8i||ns,  above  the  clock  dial  is  of  the  lopio. 

with  those  of  the  two  Churches  before  order,  and  in  each  face  is  a  circnlar 

referred  to.  headed  window,  filled  in  with  weather 

The  present  structure   is  bnilt  of  boards;  the  other  story  is  opeD,  the. 

brick,  with  stone  dressings ;  the  plan  columns  are  of  no  de6otte  order.  Tho» 

of  the  basement  comprehends  not  only  angles  of  each  story  are  ornamented 

the  Church,  but  a  terrace  in  the  front  ^ith   Grecian   tiles,   and  the  obelisk 

of  it — the  former  is  a  parallellogram,  which  crowns  the  whole,  properly  tcr- 

the  latter  forms  a  transept  at  the  wc«t  minated  with  a  stone  ball  and  cross. 

end,  the  whole  of  the  area  being  laid  Viewing  it,  on  the  whole,  as  an  excep- 

out  in   catacombs.    The  terrace  was  tion  to  the  almost  universal  designs  of 

rendered  necessary  to  fill  up  the  space  the  present  day,  in  which  a  square 

between   the  Church  aiid   the  road,  story,  sustaining  a  circular  one,  and 

which  is  considerably  raised  to  meet  finished  with  a  dome,  are  the  leading 

the  level  of  Waterloo  bridge.  features,  and  as  approaching  nearer  to 

Theviewofthe  superstructure  shewn  the  ancient  models,  which  can  never 
in  Fig.  J.  of  the  engraving,  displays  be  surpassed,  it  must  be  regarded  as  a 
the  western  front  and  steeple,  ana  the  pleasing  specimen  of  this  sort  of  build- 
north  side  of  the  Church.    To  begin  mg ;  whoever  sees  it  will  ajgree  with 
with  the  former :    the  whole  of  the  me  that  it  is  much  to  be  wished  that 
desi;^n   is  occnjued  with  a   hexastyle  modern  church  architects  would  in 
portico  of  the  Greek  Doric  order,  sus-  more  instances   adopt  the  spire,  the 
tainiug  an   entablature,   cornice,  and  more  so  when  it  is  recollected  how 
pediment,  of  the   same  architectural  admirably  it  was  adopted  to  modem 
character,  and  with  the  same  defects  Churches  and  Italian  architecture  by. 
as  have  already  been  noticed  at  Catn-  Sir  C;  Wren.  .  . 
berwell ;    a   glance   at  the  two  en-        The  south  and  north  floats  of  the- 
gravings  will    be  sufficient  to  shew  Church  : are  uniform;  they  are  both: 
that  the  designs  are  copies  of  each  divided  in  height  into  two  stories,  by- 
other^  the  onlv  difference  being  in  the  a  plain  course  of  stone,  and  each  story, 
dimensions,   (which    in   the   present  contains  sis  windows ;  the  lower  are; 
Church  are  greater  then  the  former  small,  with  low  arched  beads  i  the: 
one,)  and  the  steeples.    Tbe  western  upper  range  are  high,  pnd.ane  in  ihe. 
wall  of  the  Church,  within  the  por-  form  of  a  praUelk>gnun.    The  an^lw: 

^ i — : —  are  guarded  by  antae,  and  that  jportwa. 

•  Vol.  xcv.  ii.  ssa.  of  the  bnildiog  which  conlaiDf  tha 

Giyr.  Mao.  jtfirqfi  1897.  l-v  


394 


New  Churches.'^S/.  Lukes,  Norwood. 


[May, 


staircases  and  lobbies,  is  divided  from 
the  rest,  by  antae.  The  entabla- 
turt  is  continued  round  the  Church, 
the  chaplels  of  myrtle  being  retained 
in  the  frieze.  The  east  front  is  made 
by  antae  into  three  divisions,  and  is 
also  divided  into  two  stories.  The 
centre  contains  a  window,  and  the 
elevation  is  finished  with  an  entabla- 
ture and  pediment.  The  liberties 
taken  with  the  architecture  of  this 
Church  are  of  the  same  cliaractcr  as 
have  already  been  noticed  at  Camber- 
well.  They  are  the  oflspring  of  the 
same  taste  which  has  given  birth  to 
the  favourite  style  of  the  day,  **  Car- 
pcnter'sGothic  ;'*  and  from  them  it  will 
oe  seen  that  the  pointed  style  has  not 
been  th«  only  sunerer  under  the  hands 
of  the  professional  geniuses  of  the  pre- 
sent times. 

Thb  Interior. 

In  this  Church  we  6nd  the  same 
meeting-house  character  as  at  Camber- 
weH  and  Trinity  Churches,  and,  ex- 
cepting a  very  few  particulars,  the 
internal  features  so  exactly  resemble 
those  buildings,  that  it  would  be  un- 
necessary to  enter  into  a  particular 
description.  The  altar  screen,  how- 
ever, IS  more  ornamented  than  at  Cam- 
berwell,  though  it  falls  far  short  of 
what  it  ought  to  be.  It  consists  of  a 
pediment  sustained  upon  ants  of  white 
marble,  the  space  between  them  be- 
ing BUed  with  panels  of  black  marble, 
on  which  are  inscribed  the  decalogue, 
&c.  It  closely  resembles,  if  it  is  not  a 
copy  of,  that  at  Trinity  Church.  The 
same  per\'ersion  of  ornament,  as  at 
Camberwell,  appears  in  the  organ-case, 
which  is  richly  ornamented,  and  of  a 
similar  design.  The  instrument  was 
the  gift  of  Mr.  Lett,  a  magistrate  of 
the  county,  and  an  inhabitant  of  the 
district,  who  was  also  the  donor  of  the 
site  of  the  Church. 

There  are  few  architects  of  the  mo- 
dern school  who  appear  to  compre- 
hend the  nature  of  the  ornaments  of 
the  altar ;  it  would  be  well  for  them 
to  visit  the  Churches  of  St.  Bride  and 
St.  Andrew  in  the  City,  from  which 
they  might  learn  what  ousht  to  be  done. 
In  the  centre  aile,  and  immediately 
beneath  the  front  of  the  gallery,  is  a 
beautiful  font  of  white  marble,  brought 
from  Italy  and  presented  to  the  Church 
by  the  Rer.  Dr.  Barrett,  the  first  in- 
cumbent. It  is,  with  its  cover,  about 
four  feet  in  height,  and  in  the  form  of 
an  antique  urn.   Two  cherubims  form 


the  handles,  and  each  side  is  adorned 
with  a  bas-relief  of  a  female  saint  or 
genius;  the  attribute  of  one  is  a  lamb, 
the  other  has  a  chaplet  and  palm 
branch.  A  large  chandelier  of  brass  is 
suspended  from  the  centre  of  the  ceil- 
ing,, a  mode  of  lighting,  however, 
which  is  far  from  desirable,  the  chan- 
delier obstructing  the  sight  at  all  times, 
and  more  especially  when  the  lights 
are  not  wanted. 

The  first  stone  was  laid  by  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury  on  the  30ih 
June,  1823;  and  on  the  3d  Nov.  1824, 
the  Church  was  consecrated  by  the 
Bishop  of  Winchester.  A  peal  of  8 
bells  are  hung  in  the  tower,  the  tenor 
weighing  ig  cwt.  The  estimated  ex- 
pence  of  the  building  was  18,191/.  bs. 
and  the  congregation  accomcnodated 
jfre  2032  persons. 

St.  Luke's  Chorch, 
Norwood,  Lambeth. 

Architect,  Bedford, 

This  Church,  like  the  former,  is 
principally  built  of  brick,  and  being 
the  fourth  Church  erected  by  the  same 
architect,  which  it  has  fallen  to  my 
lot  to  describe,  your  readers  will  not, 
1  hope,  be  disappointed  at  not  receiv- 
ing a  minute  aescriptinn,  which  the 
uniform  sameness  of  Mr.  Bedford's 
designs  renders  it  difficult  to  give 
without  repeating  what  has  before  been 
said.  All  that  will  therefore  remain 
for  me  to  do,  will  be  to  point  out  in 
what  particular  the  present  building 
differs  from  those  before  described  ; 
and  then  by  referring  your  readers  to 
the  three  former  descriptions,  my  task 
of  describing  the  Church  which  forms 
the  second  subject  in  the  present  en- 
graving, will  be  rendered  comparatively 
easy. 

The  west  front*  and  north  side  of 
the  Church  are  shewn  in  the  view. 
With  a  very  slight  variation  in  the 
roof  of  the  upper  story  of  the  tower, 
the  portico  and  steeple  are  copies  of 
those  existing  at  Trinity  Church.   This 

*  When  I  make  use  of  the  term  <*  west 
front,"  &c.  I  would  wish  to  be  understood 
that  part  of  the  building  which  in  a  Church 
usually  faces  such  quarter  of  the  horizon. 
In  this  and  many  other  Churches,  the  build- 
ing does  not  stand  due  east  or  west.  I  prefer, 
however,  to  make  use  of  the  accustomed 
terms  to  avoid  the  confusion  which  would 
ensue  firom  particularizing  the  exact  situa- 
tion of  them* 


1837.] 


Nbw  Churches/— 5^.  Luke't,  Norwood. 


395 


variation  consists  of  a  square  pedestal, 
formed  on  the  apex  of  the  conical 
roof  of  the  tower,  and  which  sustains 
the  ball  and  cross,  as  in  the  other  in- 
stances. The  south  and  north  fronts 
of  this  Church  have  each  a  single  range 
of  windows,  whh  arched  heads.  The 
east  front  is  made  into  three  divisions 
by  antse,  and  has  an  attached  staircase, 
built  against  the  centre  division,  one 
of  the  alterations  which  took  place  in 
consequence  of  the  erection  of  s^alleries 
to  be  noticed  subsequently.  The  en- 
tablature is  continued  from  the  west 
front  round  the  whole  of  the  building, 
and  the  eastern  elevation  is  finished 
with  a  pediment. 

The  Interior 
would  have  more  exactly  resembled 
the  Churches  before  alluded  to,  if  it  had 
been  originally  fitted  up  with  galleries 
in  the  manner  in  which  they  are;  in 
the  present  it  was  only  intencled  that  a 
gallery  should  be  erected  across  the 
western  end  of  the  Church.  Since 
the  building  was  finished,  it  was  deter- 
mined to  make  further  accommoda- 
tion, the  western  gallery  was  in  conse** 
quence  enlarged,  and  an  additional  one 
to  correspond  built  at  the  east  end. 
In  consequence  of  which,  an  attached 
vestry  was  heightened  and  converted 
into  a  staircase,  and  the  window  which 
would  have  been  over  the  altar,  if  the 
original  plan  had  been  adhered  to,  is 
now  made  into  a  doorway.  No  ar- 
rangement could  possibly  have  effected 
so  great  an  injury  to  tne  building  as 
the  |)tesent  has  done.  The  altar  being 
displaced  by  the  new  gallery,  has  been 
sei  against  the  centre  of  the  south  wall, 
and  the  pulpit  and  reading-desk  against 
the  opposite  one,  so  that  the  internal 
arrangement  of  the  building  is  quite 
contrary  to  the  usual  mode.  On  enter- 
ing from  the  west,  instead  of  the  altar 
facing  the  spectator,  he  finds  it  on  his 
left  hand,  and  the  pulpit  on  his  right, 
an  arrangement  which  it  is  obvious  must 
have  greatly  defaced  the  building.  It 
would  be  unfair  to  charge  thesie  injudi- 
cious alterations  upon  the  architect,  but 
it  is  difficult  to  account  for  the  making' 
of  them,  from  whatever  quarter  they 
proceeded.  It  is  obvious  that  north  and 
south  galleries  might  have  been  erected 
ivithoat  any  disparagement  to  *the 
'building;  the  altar  and  pulpit  would 
then  have  retained  their  stations,  and 
not  have  appeared  in  such  awkward 
situations  as  they  do  at  present,  and 
the  windows  would  have  aflforded  no 


objection  to  this  plan  being  effected, 
as  many  Churches  have  galleries  in 
which  a  single  range  of  wmdows  art 
ample  for  the  purposes  of  lighting  the 
spaces  below  and  above  the  galleriet. 
Whoever  sees  Norwood  Church  in  its 
present  state,  will  lament  that  these 
alterations  have  been  effected,  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  tlie  parish  will  do 
away  with  the  effect  of  them,  bytakine 
down  the  present  eastern  gallery,  and 
building  others  in  the  usual  way. 

An  organ  is  situated  in  the  western 
gallery,  and  the  decalogue,  &c.  are  in- 
scribed against  slabs  of  marble  on  the 
wall,  where  the  altar  is  placed,  and 
which  are  the  only  indications  of  it. 

Xlpon  concluding  the  description  of 
the  last  of  Mr.  Bedford's  Churches,  I 
cannot  help  noticing  the  bad  taste 
which  has  induced  that  gentleman  to 
assimilate  so  closelv  his  designs  to  each 
other,  and  in  the  present  instance  it  is 
the  more  to  be  regretted,  as  the  Church 
now  under  consideration  stands  in 
what  may  be  called  the  country,  where  . 
a  spire  would  have  been  a  far  more  ap- 

Kropriate  ornament  to  the  neighbour- 
ood  than  a  pepper-box  tower  and  a 
Corinthian  portico.  What  could  in- 
duce the  parish  to  select  such  a  design, 
in  preference  to  the  pointed  style,  it 
difficult  to  imagine,  nor  can  1  help 
lamenting  the  want  of  taste,  or  what- 
ever other  cause  it  was,  which  has  led 
to  the  preference. 

Norwood  Church  was  commenced 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1822,  and 
was  consecrated  on  the  Idth  July,  1825. 
The  building  affords  accommodation 
for  1412  persons,  and  the  estimate  was 
12,387/.  8*.  3d. 

Yours,  &c.  £.  I.  C. 

Mr.  Urban,  May  10. 

THE  following  observations  onHol- 
worth  Cliff  (noticed  in  p.  359), 
illustrate,  in  some  degree,  the  extraor- 
dinary phenomenon  of  Subterraneous 
Fire  existing  within  its  interior  re- 
cesses, &c. 

Hoi  worth  Cliff  forms  the  southern 
b9undary  of  a  farm  called  South  Hol- 
worth  (anciently  written  Ole worth. 
Hole  worth,  and  Holwerde),  the  pro- 
perty of  J.  J.  Lambert,  Esq.  of  Dor- 
chester; it  is  situate  about  two  miles 
eastward  of  Osmington,  and  forms  a 
very  prominent  object  from  Weymouth 
Bai. 

This  Cliff  is  composed  of  a  blue 
slaty  lime  stone>  sonxtviW.  \vcsv^aa  Nsi. 


396 


ObterMumi  oh  Hblworih  Cliff,  Donet. 


[M«4r, 


the  Channoath  Ciifr»  bnt  exhibiting  a 
more  advanced  state  of  decoipposttion ; 
yet  bearing  a  much  stronger  and  closer 
affinity  to  the  Kimeridge  Coal,  and 
indeed  may  be  fairly  considered  as  the 
oonnectins  link  between  them.  This 
stone,  which  is  used  as  an  article  of 
fuel  by  the  neigbouring  poor,  is  in- 
flammable, and  of  a  strong  bituminous 
and  sulphureous  nature ;  it  burns  free, 
and  produces  a  very  brilliant  light,  but 
emits  at  first,  and  until  the  gaseous 
particles  are  all  evaporated,  a  very 
offensive  smell; — it  afterwards  conti- 
nues to  born  for  a  long  time  pleasantly, 
and  notwithstanding  the  disagreeable 
effluvia  arising  from  its  first  igniting, 
it  does  not  appear  that  any  injurious 
effect  has  ever  attended  the  use  of  it. 
It  does  not  burn  entirely  to  ashes,  but 
leaves  a  substance  like  burnt  slate, 
which  is,  after  a  time,  reduced  to 
powder,  on  being  subjected  to  the  action 
of  the  atmosphere.  It  is  worthy  of 
remark,  that  blocks  of  this  6tone,  which 
have  been  exposed  to,  and  washed  by, 
the  salt  water,  burn  better  than  what 
it  recently  taken  from  the  Cliff. 

The  soil  conuius  Pyriles,  Marca^ 
$Ue,  Comu  Ammonis,  with  remains  of 
other  shells  and  Belemnites,  These 
substances  are  not  found  in  regular 
strata,  bot  are  interspersed  in  masses, 
through  the  soil,  which  is  impreg- 
nated, more  or  less,  with  bitumen,  to 
an  uncertain  depth.  There  are  occa- 
sionally found  pieces  of  a  darker  sub- 
stance of  stone,  resembling  charcoal, 
bat  much  harder. 

About  twelve  years  since,  that  por- 
tion of  the  Cliff  which  has  lately  at- 
tracted so  much  of  public  curiosity, 
was  observed  to  change  its  appearance, 
and  a  quantity  of  ground,  about  an 
acre  and  half  in  extent,  gradually  Sunk 
about  thirty  feet  below  its  former  level, 
in  a  direction  towards  the  sea,  and  re- 
mained there  for  a  short  period;  on 
this  detached  piece  of  ground  there 
was  a  cottage,  inhabited  by  a  fisher- 
man (named  Ba^)  and  his  family, 
who  prudently  left  it  afler  perceiving 
the  first  symptom  of  an  alteration; 
however  the  cottage  remained,  with 
the  exception  of  a  slight  crack  in  one 
of  the  walls,  perfectly  entire.  Some- 
time afterwards  this  piece  of  ground 
made  a  further  gradual  slide  in  the 
tame  direction,  carrying;  the  cottage 
with  it,  without  any  additional  injury; 
and  during  a  period  of  nearly  three, 
/ears  from  its  first  removal^  it  occa- 


sionally continued  its  sinking  progress 
down%vards,  to  the  extent  of  nearly 
five  hundred  feet,  when  it  made  a  stand ; 
exhibiting  the  entire  cottage,  with  its 
accompanying  garden,  well  stocked 
with  gooseberry  and  currant  trees,  and 
various  vegetables,  all  in  the  most 
flourishing  condition,  and  still  retain- 
ing its  |)osition.  The  cottage  has  been 
lately  taken  down,  the  materials  being 
removed  by  its  former  occupier,  to 
build  him  another  habitation  on  a  spot 
near,  but  presumed  more  secure  and 
apparently  less  liable  to  a  similar  dis- 
aster. The  fruit  trees  and  vegetables 
continued  in  an  equally  thriving  con- 
dition, unul  the  late  eruption,  but 
now  the  numerous  trespassing  visitors 
have  nearly  obliterated  every  veslige  of 
so  remarkable  ^n  occurrence. 

As  portions  of  the  Cliff  along  the 
whole  extent  of  this  coast  are  con- 
stantly falling  down,  particularly  after 
heavy  rains  and  breaking  up  of"^  frost, 
this  slide,  as  it  is  called,  did  not  at  the 
time  excite  any  particular  notice,  al- 
though so  extensive,  but  was  looked 
on  as  merely  an  incident  natural  to  the 
peculiarity  of  the  soil ; — nor  was  there 
any  thing,  for  some  time,  after  this 
detached  portion  of  Cliff  had  become 
stationary,  which  caused  any  remark, 
until  about  five  years  ago,  a  vapour 
was  observed  (o  exhale  from  that  side 
of  it,  facing  the  sea,  and  the  same  ap- 
pearance has  occurred  occasionally 
since,  at  irregular  intervals,  particularly 
after  heavy  rains,  varying  materially  in 
extent  and  also  as  to  locality.  It  has 
been  noticed,  that  the  vapour  has  been 
more  offensive,  and  has  issued  from  the 
interstices  in  much  larger  quantities,  at 
the  spring  tides*,  than  at  other  times: 
-—but  that  the  greatest  effusion  of 
smoke  has  occurrra  about  the  Vernal 
and  Autumnal  Equinoxes. 

In  the  months  of  September  and 
October  18^6,  a  very  considerable  por- 
tion of  vapour  was,  for  the  first  time, 
observed  to  rise  from  two  or  three 
apertures.  On  the  summit  of  this  Cliff, 
and  continued  to  issue  therefrom  for 
some  time,  until  fissures  were  opened 

*  To  persons  UQacquainted  with  the  na- 
ture of  the  tides,  and  unaccuitomed  to  nau- 
tical terms,  it  is  necessary  to  explain  the 
meaning  of  spring  tides : — it  is  toe  flux  of 
the  ocean,  wnicli  regularly  occurs  at  the 
New  and  Full  Moon,  when  the  attractive 
power  of  that  planet  causes  the  tide  td  rise 
or  spring  to  a.  much  greater  height  thaiB  at 
other  periods. 


1827.] 


ObarvationM  on  Holmorth  CUff,  Dan^. 


397 


by  its  contending  strength,  in  the  tide 
of  it,  large  enough  to  permit  its  escap- 
ing in  that  direction.  The  quantity 
exhaling  from  the  summit,  was  (to  use 
the  language  of  an  eye-witness)  as 
much,  as  is  usually  cau5ed,  and  psscs 
out  of  a  chimney,  at  the  first  lighting 
of  a  common  Bre.  On  a  calm  day  it 
has  heen  seen  to  rise  in  a  majestic  co- 
lumn to  the  height  of  twenty  feet,  and 
had  a  very  curious  and  imposing  effect, 
in  such  a  situation :  since  the  vapour 
has  forced  down  a  portion  of  the  Cliflf, 
and  found  an  uninterrupted  passage 
through  the  Bssures  thus  opened,  it 
has,  with  scarce  any  intermission,  con- 
tinued to  exhale,  only  varying  as  be- 
fore mentioned,  in  the  number  of 
apertures,  from  four  to  ten,  and  in  the 
space  of  ground  over  which  they  are 
extended. 

On  the  I5th  of 'March,  1827,  Ni- 
cholas Baggs  observed  the  vapour  aris- 
ing from  the  side  of  the  Cliff,  to  be  in 
lar<;er  quantities  than  usual  at  that 
spot,  and  having  occasion  for  fuel, 
curiosity  urged  him  to  direct  the  per- 
sons he  employed  for  the  purpose,  to 
dig  at  that  part ;  after  removing  a 
small  portion  of  the  sprface,  they  were 
very  much  surprised  at  seeing  fire, 
and  what  at  first  sight  seemed  to  them 
a  small  flame.  Toe  appearance  of 
fliime  was  momentary — it  died  away 
almost  as  soon  as  it  became  visible, 
and  there  has  not  been  the  least  sem- 
blance of  flame  since,  except  on  the 
application  of  some  combustible  ma- 
terial, to  either  of  the  fissures  in  the 
rock,  in  which  the  fire  was  percep- 
tible, which  immediately  ignitecl.  Dry 
sticks,  or  any  inflamable  substance, 
would,  on  being  thrust  into  any  of 
the  apertures  from  whence  smoke 
issued,  instantly  kindle  and  produce 
flame,  and  remain  burning  as  long  at 
M  with  such  matter;  but  as  soon  as 
the  substance  so  applied  was  consumed, 
the  flame  would  mvariably  die  away 
instantly.  It  is  necessary  to  state,  in 
consequence  of  the  multiplicity  of  idle 
reports  of  a  contrary  tendency,  that 
there  never  has  been  the  least  flame 
issuing  spontaneously  from  any  part  of 
the  Clifi*,  since  the  first  appearance  of 
fire. 

The  apertures  from  whence  the  va- 
pour or  smoke  issue,  are  about  forty 
feet  above  high  water  mark ;  the  ap- 
pearances within  the  interstices  of  the 
•rocky  at  the  depth  of  five  or  six  feet, 
were  v«ry  similtr  to  that  of  the  lower 


part  of  a  lime  kiln,  in  its  most  active 
progress  of  operation.  The  many 
blocks  of  stone  on  fire,  displayed  at 
first  sight  a  most  vivid  and  sottiewhat 
awful  appearance;  throwing  out  a  veiy 
intense  heat,  accompanied  with  a  pow- 
erful sulphureous  effluvia,  highly  op- 
pressive, so  much  so,  as  to  cause  a 
visible  effect  on  the  respiration  of  thole 
persons  who  remained  any  length  of 
time  within  its  influence. 

This  interesting  appearance  Was  vi- 
sible five  or  six  da3rs,  and  would  pro- 
bably have  remained  so  much  longer, 
but  the  unadvised  curiosity  of  the  learn- 
ed as  well  as  the  unlearned,  eager  to' 
dive  into  the  secret  workings  of  nature, 
induced  them  to  apply  crow-bars,  pick- 
axes, and  other  powerful  implements, 
for  removing  the  surface,  as  well  at 
portions  of  the  rock,  any  way  offering 
on  obstacle,  in  order  to  ascertain  (as 
they  imagined)  the  cause  of  this  won- 
derful phenomenon ;  which,  af\er  all 
•their  efforts,  proved  fruitless ^  Niitore, 
in  her  operations,  being  too  iubtle  atld 
impenetrable  for  human  ingenuity  to 
develope  her  designs.  The  consequeu^e 
is  that,  owing  to  the  quantity  of  rodk 
and  soil  removed  froni  the  principal 
apertures,  a  very  large  portion  of  the 
upper  part  of  the  Cliff,  oeing  partially 
undermined,  has  fallen  down,  ana 
buried  the  precise  spot  that  first  et- 
cited  so  large  a  share  of  curiosity;  and, 
although  the  quantity  of  vapoar  now 
issuing  is  not  so  profuse  as  orfflrinally» 
still  the  exhalation  is  considieraoie,  atkl 
emits  a  very  powerful  effluvia  from 
three  apertures,  which  proves  how  vaht 
a  mast  of  fire  exists,  mouldering  be- 
neath this  heap,  feeding  on  the  pensh- 
able  mementos  of  a  former  world.  The 
outward  surface  of  the  rock,  at  this 
part  of  the  Cliff,  is  very  hot,  as  well 
the  soil  around  the  apertures,  and 
small  fragments  of  the  stone  retain  a 
very  considerable  degree  of  heat  for  a 
long  time,  af\er  being  detached  froAi 
the  larger  blocks. 

The  ground  shakes  with  a  trifling 
and  sudden  pressure  of  the  foot,  ana 
even  by  a  blow  with  a  stjck,  which 
evidently  proves  the  internal  recesses 
of  this  mass  of  earth  to  be  hollow,  add 
of  course  dangerous  to  a  certain  degree. 
It  is  very  probable,  that  at  some  future 
period,  perhaps  not  very  distant,  after 
the  partial  consumption  of  the  mate- 
rials feeding  this  immense  body  of  fire, 
the  present  crost  or  surface  may  sink 
down,  and  exhibit  all  the  inqUeoMl 


398 


ObiervaiUms  on  Holwarth  Cliff,  Darstt, 


[May, 


peculiarities  of  an  extiDct  volcano ;  or 
possibly  astonish  us,   with  the   more 
•awful  characteristics    of  an  existing 
one,  in  active  operation. 

Previous  to  the  disruption  of  this 
portion  of  Cliff  from  its  neighbouring 
toil,  there  was  a  spring  of  excellent 
water,  constantly  bubbling  out  a  co- 
pious chrystalline  stream,  but  which 
'  this  convulsion  entirely  sup}^ressed.  A 
little  water  now  oozes  out  from  another 
part  of  the  adjoining  cliff,  and  imme- 
diately hides  itself  amongst  the  soil, 
being  as  it  were  ashamed  of  its  insig- 
nificance. About  one  hundred  feet 
from  the  summit  of  this  disjointed 
Cliff,  where  the  exhalation  issued  last 
August,  there  is  in  a  hollow  formed 
by  Its  separation  from  its  former  site,  a 
pond  ot  stagnant  water,  abounding 
with  the  common  Water  Lizard. 

There  are  not  at  this  time  any  in- 
dications that  will  warrant  the  expec- 
tation of  a  violent  eruption,  nor  are 
the  peculiar  local  properties  of  the  soil 
of  such  a  description  as  to  excite  any 
alarming  apprehension.  After  a  time, 
it  is  very  probable  the  vapour  may  par- 
tially subside,  till  another  convulsive 
effort  of  nature  may  shew  the  wonder- 
ing visitor  the  astonishing  working  of 
her  hidden  and  inexplicable  machinery. 
That  there  is  an  extensive  body  of  sub- 
terraneous fire  accumulated  here,  is  too 
evident  to  be  doubted ;  the  least  casual 
observer  cannot  justly  draw  any  other 
conclusion  from  even  a  superficial  view, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  mighty 
operations  in  constant  progress  under- 
neath will  never  meet  a  resisting  im- 
pediment to  a  ready  vent  upwards, 
for  the  free  discharge  of  its  increasing 
and  superabundant  efHuvia. 

The  Slide  before  alluded  to,  which 
happened  in  the  year  I816,  was  un- 
questionably caused  by  the  operation 
of  subterraneous  fire,  being  the  first 
visible  effeet  of  the  impulse  upwards, 
produced  in  consequence  of  its  having 
met  with  an  obstruction  to  a  free  con- 
ducting channel  beneath,  and  which 
proportionably  increased  the  force  of 
that  dreadful  element. 

It  being  ascertained  that  the  Cliff 
contains  a  mixture  of  pyrites,  sulphur, 
and  iron-ore,  the  effect  to  be  proauced 
on  such  a  combination  of  materials  by 
the  action  of  salt  water,  must  be  pre- 
cisely that  which  has  happened.  There 
are  mstances  on  record  of  similar  oc- 
carrences  from  the  like  causes,  viz. 
in  the  month  of  August  17^1^  at  Char- 


mouth  in  this  county;  and  at  the 
mouth  of  the  river  Shannon  in  Ire- 
land, in  the  year  1753:  and  in  the 
Philosophical  Transactions  mention  is 
made  of  a  like  circumstance  in  Caer- 
narvonshire. 

There  is  no  doubt  of  the  communi- 
cation of  salt  water  with  the  interior 
part  of  this  Cliff,  perforating  through 
the  loose  pebbles  at  its  base,  and  which 
communication  originally  effected  the 
separation  and  removal  of  thist  mass  of 
earth  from  its  former  situation  ;  as  a 
proof  of  it^  if  proof  was  wanting,  it 
It  has  been  observed  that  the  spring 
tides,  and  more  particularly  the  equi- 
noctial tides  (owing  to  their  increasing 
fluxes  coming  more  immediately  in 
contact  with  these  active  internal 
agents),  have  invariably  produced  very 
visible  effects  on  the  discharge  of  va- 
pour from  this  cavern  ;  as  at  these  pe- 
riods a  much  larger  quantity  issues 
out,  and  a  far  stronger  efiiuvia  is 
emitted  than  at  any  other  times. 

The  whole  line  of  coast  exhibits  in 
the  various  strata,  and  numerous  allu- 
vial deposits  contained  in  them,  very 
remarkable  features  of  violent  convul- 
sions; and  although  no  record  exists 
to  inform  us  of  the  precise  period  of 
their  occurrence,  it.  is  not  less  certain 
and  demonstrable,  that  they  have  hap- 
pened ;  leaving  us  incontestible  proofs 
of  their  amazmg  effects  in  the  many 
varied  contortions  of  the  soil,  inter- 
mixed with  such  a  vast  profusion  of 
organic  remains*,  with  other  strong 
concurring  testimonies.  Viator. 


Mr.  Urban,  Ma^  5. 

YOUR  Correspondent  '*  Sexage- 
NARXUS,*'  in  p.  215,  might  have 
mentioned  another  instance  in  which 
the  epitaph  he  cites  is  in  part  copied ; 
for  he  has  brought  it  to  my  memory. 
It  will  be  found  in  the  church-yard  of 
Bishop  Stortford,  where  I  copied  it  on 
24  May,  1823 :  on  "  Mary  the  daugh- 
ter pf  J.  and  £.  Clifford,  aged  4  years." 
It  has  only  the  last  stanza  of  the  epi- 
taph given  by  your  Correspondent, 
much  altered,  thus : 


*  In  Holworth  and  the  neighbouring 
cWih,  the  Nautilui ,  Comu  Anunonis,  Pec- 
ten,  .  Pinna,  Nomia,  Trigonia  with  verte- 
bre,  and  other  fragments  of  the  Icthyoaau- 
ruf,  &c.  &c.  are  frequently  found.  This 
coast  presents  a  wide  and  interestine  field 
fin  the  ge61ogi8t  aod  natural  philosopoec* 


1827.] 


On  Epitaphs  in  Churchyards, — Ireland. 


**  When  the  Archangel's  trump  ihall  lound^ 

And  souls  to  bodies  join, 
Thousands  will  wish  their  'lives  on  earth  ' 

Had  been  as  short  as  thine." 

There  is  more  plagiarism  and  adapt- 
ation in  sepulchral  writings  than  in 
any  other  ;  and  many  a  parish  clerk  is 
furnished  with  a  collection  from  which 
for  some  small  fee  he  deals  out  to  the 
afHicied  widow  and  to  filial  concern, 
some  of  those  "  uncouth  rhymes/* 
which  yet  *•  implore  the  passing  tri- 
bute of  a  sigh  !'  A  serene  gratifica- 
tion is  always  afforded  to  a  contem- 
plative traveller  in  every  church-yard, 
far  from  melancholy,  and  as  wholly 
distinct  from  distress  as  it  is  from  le- 
vity;  and  it  is  calculated  to  give  him  a 
moral  lesson  for  his  study,  not  unduly 
intermingled  with  the  opportunities 
presented  to  him  in  his  day's  journey 
of  contemplating  the  glory  of  Divine 
Beneficence  in  the  dawn  which  awa- 
kens him  from  refreshing  sleep,  and 
grants  him  the  blessinz  of  another  glo- 
rious Sun  to  direct  his  way !  While 
he  feels  renovated  for  his  journey,  he 
receives  the  purity  of  the  reviving 
morn,  and  considers  that  he  has  ano- 
ther da}r  allowed  him  for  pursuing  his 
course,  in  order  to  obtain  his  temporal 
object,  and  at  the  same  time  for  reflect- 
ing that  it  will  be  perhaps  but  a  short 
distance  before  his  own  steps  may  be 
arrested,  and  his  vigour  and  strength 
be  mingled  in  the  same  silence  which 
shrowds  the  spirits  of  those  whose  hal- 
lowed turf  he  had  so  lately  reviewed  ! 

In  fact,  death  is  so  certain^  that  it 
admits  of  very  little  variation  in  the 
study  of  it,  and  most  mortals  neces- 
sarily think  of  it  with  similar  senti- 
ments. Thus  it  is  that  the  beauties  of 
expression  may  vary  the  representation, 
but  they  can  add  little  or  nothing  to 
the  experience  of  which  we  are  pos- 
sessed. The  green  turf  that  covers  the 
remains  of  the  humble  cottager,  differs 
.  but  in  quality  and  ornament  from  the 
splendour  of  masonry  which  enshrine 
tne  great ;  for  the  same  bell  has  tolled 
the  knell,  and  the  same  dust  has  quail* 
fied  them  both  for  the  same  grave ! 

Mors  aquo  pulsat  pede  ! — The 

church-yard  of  Sittingbourne  will  fur- 
nish the  lesson  in  common  language 
which  all  ranks  can  comprehend : 


"  As  once  we  were  so  you  must  he, 
Therefore  prepare  to  follow  we." 


Yours,  &c. 


A.  H, 


899 

Mr.  Urban,  May  1.    • 

THE  deterioration  of  English  poetry 
since  the  days  of  Pope,  Gray,  and 
Goldsmith,  has  been  observed  and  la- 
mented. Lord  Byron's  "  English 
Bgrds  and  Scotch  Reviewers"  has  left 
the  circumstance  on  melancholy  re- 
cord ;  but  it  was  reserved  for  the  year 
1827  to  exhibit  from  one  of  the  first 
publishing  houses  in  London  a  speci- 
men of  tbe  pilch  to  which  the  art  of 
l^inking  in  poetry  has  arrived^  and  to 
offer  to  an  enlightened  community  a 
farrago  under  the  imposing  title  of 
*•  Three  Months  in  Ireland,  by  an 
English  Protestant,"  which  would  in 
other  days  have  been  considered  dis- 
graceful to  Grub-street.  A  preface  of 
thrice-quoted  quotations  occupies  an 
hundred  and  fifty  pages  of  this  little 
book.  The  poetry,  if  such  it  may  be 
called,  a  small  kernel  in  a  capacious 
nut-shell,  fills  but  forty  pages,  and  an 
appendix  of  ninety  pa^es  of  garbled 
extracts  from  the  Parliamentary  evi- 
dence on  the  state  of  Ireland  in  1825, 
brin^  up  the  rear. 

The  learned  Selden  has  observed, 
that  verses  prove  nothing  but  the 
quantity  of  syllables.  These  prove 
more,  the  folly  of  the  write/'s  attacks 
upon  the  characters  of  the  lords  spiri- 
tual and  temporal,  the  judges,  juries, 
maeistrates,  clergy,  corporations,  and 
landed  proprietors  of  Ireland.  They 
moreover  prove  the  author's  intellec- 
tual capacity,  and  the  lowness  of  the 
sphere  in  which  he  has  been  educated, 
if  we  may  judge  from  the  following 
and  many  other  such  lines  of  his  crude 
performance : 

**  Such  Is  the  present  Bishop,  let  him  paiiy 
And  notice  what  his  predecessor  was. 
Fortune  on  him  a  double  rank  conferred. 
Of  Derry  Bishop,  and  of  Bristol  Lord." 

The  author's  pronunciation  of  the 
words  "  was**  ana  **  lord,**  may  be  as- 
certained from  these  lines,  and  with 
many  other  such,  may  indicate  that  his 
conversation  would  be  little  less  dis- 
gusting than  his  verses.  In  fact  the 
"Three  Months  in  Ireland,*'  which 
is  neither  a  tour  nor  a  diary,  nor  a  pht- 
losonhical  tract,  might  be  safely  suf- 
ferea  to  descend  into  the  tomb  of  all 
the  Capulets,  and  migrate  quietly  to 
the  trunk-liners  and  other  purchasers 
of  waste  paper,  were  it  not  that  the 
repetition  of^such  calumnies  as  it  con- 
tains requires  that  they  should  be  as 
repeatedly  contradicted,  situated  as  the 


400                              ''  Three  Months  in  Ireland:'  [May, 

aftairt  of  Ireland  are  at  the  present  not  hope  from  verse,  the  native  land 
erisisy  and  likely  as  we  are  to  be  over-  of  the  pseudo  Enfi^lish  Protestant, 
whelmed  by  the  united  aggressions  of  To  defend  the  Bishops  of  the  Church 
force  and  traud.-— "  Ca/ummare  ybr/t*  established  in  Ireland  from  such  an 
ter  ei  aliquid  adhttrehif*  seems  to  be  assailant,  would  be  an  idle  task,  al- 
the  appropriate  motto  of  these  slander-  though  an  easy  one;  it  would  at  once 
ous  scribblers,  and  if  calumny  is  like  incur  the  displeasure  of  the  prelates, 
the  dirt  of  Paris,  more  or  less  indeli-  and  the  imputation  of  flattery;  but  no 
bie,  it  behoves  the  friends  of  truth  and  such  objection  lies  a<^ainst  shielding 
liberty  to  be  vigilant  in  contradicting  the  defenceless  from  the  cowardly,  or 
and  exposing  it.  covering  the  grave  of  the  dead  lion 
Ireland  and  the  Christian  cause  con-  from  the  claw  of  the  living  jackal  , 
nected  with  the  British  interest  in  it  and  therefore  it  is  impossible  to  refrain 
have  indeed  suffered  severely  for  much  from  expressing  the  most  decided  re- 
more  than  a  century  back  from  the  probationof  the  vile  attack  made  upon 
misrepresentation  of  mterested  persons  the  memory  of  the  late  Earl  of  Bristol 
in  Great  Britain.  During  Lord  Tyr-  and  Bishop  of  Derry  in  this  volume, 
eonnel's  intolerant  administration  in  It  suits  not  the  design  of  this  brief  ar- 
1687  ancl  1688,  the  people  of  England  tide  to  enter  into  any  vindication  of 
were  grossly  deceived  by  reports  every  the  departed  nobleman's  character ; — 
where  circulated  among  them  of  the  like  that  of  most  men,  it  had  its  bright 
great  mildness  of  that  ^croel  Viceroy *s  side  and  dark  shades ;  but  it  may  be 
government,  and  to  such  a  pitch  was  right  to  observe,  that  there  was  a  day. 
this  wicked  delusion  carried  in  Scot«  and  that  not  very  distant  from  the  pre- 
land  in  1 689,  that  Sir  Daniel  M'Da-  sent  day,  when  the  author  or  the  vender 
niel,  who  arrived  in  Dublin  towards  of  such  a  book  as  this  would  have  been 
the  end  of  that  year  with  several  gen-  shut  out  from  society,  and  perhaps 
tiemen  of  the  episcopal  church  from  hunted  like  a  mad  dog  out  of  the  pro- 
the  Isles  of  Orkney,  declared  that  vince  of  Ulster.  With  regard  to  the 
their  ministers  had  assured  them  that  late  Earl  of  Bristol, 
the  Protestants  of  Ireland  enjoyed  un-  •-,  ,  i.,  .  i.  , 
der    Kina  James's    Government   the  We  seek  not  now  his  ment.  to  d..claw, 

greatest  ffeedom,  auiet,  and  security,  ^  ^^^"^  ^''^  ^  '^'''  ^'^ 

both  as  U)  their  refigion  and  property,  j^^  ^  ^  .„  ^^^y     1,^  „ 

Similar  delusions   have   been  effected  The  bosom  of  his  Father  and  hU  God. 

from  time  to  time  respecting  the  state 

of  Ireland  within  the  last  fifty  years,  in  Such  is  "  Three  Months  in  Ireland  !** 

the  course  of  which  an  alternation  of  I9  the  cause  strong  which  must  be 

concession  and  repulsion  has  produced  maintained  by  such  instruments?     Is 

one  rebelliori  and  several  insurrections,  the  Protestant  interest  in  Ireland  to  be 

leaving  this  island,  as  to  its  connexion  put  down  by  such  wretched  men  and 

with  the  rest  of  the  realm,  ia  as  prcca-  his  savage  employers  ? 

rious  state,  as  it  was  in  the  commence-  The  Appendix  consists  of  garbled 

mentof  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  portions  of  the  evidence  on  Irish  af- 

This  may  serve  as  the  only  apology  fairs  eiven  before  the  Legislature.     In 

which  can  be  offered  for  thus  noticing  this  Mr,  O'Connell  is  reported  to  have 

a  publication  in  which  such  lines  as  sworn  ihBi  *' ihe  members  qf  the  Church 

the  following  appear :  of  Rome  would  revolt  extremely  at  the 

i'To  her  charm'd  eyes  all  honours  deck  ber  idea  qf  their  Clergy  getting  any  share 

sons,  qf  the  tithes   in  Ireland ; '  and   Dr. 

Enrich  the  poor  and  consecrate  the  dunce.**  Doyle  is  stated  to  have  deposed  upon 

«•  With  few  ideas  he  clings,  like  every  dunee,  ^q/^^  that  "  when  he  was  obliged  to 

The  more  to  those  he  hat  admitted  once."  ,p^„^  ^j,  /^^  shilling  in  support  of  the 

It  is  observable  that  this  promising  famiihing  neighbourhood,  he  was  made 

candidate  for  a  niche  in  the  temple  oT  to  pay  tithe  !  !  !*'    The  Doctor,  gene- 

DUNCES,  pronounces  the  word  "  idea**  rous  soul,    is  one  of  those  who,  it 

as  consisting  of  two  instead  of  three  seems, 

syllables,  calling  it  "idey,"  precisely  ujy^  good  by  stealth,  and  blush  to  find  it 

as   his  countrymen  do  on   the  Con-  fame, 
naueht  side  of  the  Shannon ;  so  that 

this  line  ascertains,  what  Selden  could  Yours,  &c.        John  Graham. 


< 


1S!27*]         Foiheringhay  Church  and  Castle,  Northamptonshire.  401 

Mr.  Urban,  May  12.         ornamented  nt  the  anpjles  with  ocla- 

TIIE  late  amiable  and  venerable  gonal  embattled  turrets,  on  which  were 
Historian  of  Leicestershire,  in  his  formerly  the  symbols  of  the  four  Evan- 
History  of  Fotheringhav,  has  justly  ob-  gelists  j  two,  those  of  St.  Matthew  and 
served,  that  this  place  has  been  dis-  AJark,  the  Lion  and  the  Angel,  still 
tinguishcd  beyond  any  other  in  Britain,  remain.  The  sides  of  this  story  are 
except  the  capital,  by  the  aggravated  pierced  with  three  small  and  four  larger 
misfortunes  of  royalty.  "Had  this  windows,  under  obtuse  angled  arches; 
ancient  town  (savs  he)  been  known  the  latter  divided  into  two  stories  of  four 
only  by  the  splen  Jid  foundatioD  of  that     bayi  by  plain  tracery.   The  upper  story 

great    prince,    Edmimd  of  Langley,  of  the  tower,  having  the  appearance  of 

whose  grandson  aspired  to  the  throne  a  lanthorn,   is  octagonal,  surmounted 

of  this  kingdom,  and  which  his  great-  ^ilh  an  embattled  jxirapet,  ornamented 

grandson  Edward   the  Fourth,   by  a  at  the  angles  with  crocketed  liinnacles. 

more  fortunate  turn  of  afTairs,  actually  Each  face'  is  occupied  by  a  lofty  win- 

n.<)Cen(!i'd,  it  would  have  claimed  the  dow  of  two  stories  of  three  bays,  with 

regard  of  ihc  Historian.**  elegant  tracer)'.     From  the  buttrcs.^es. 

The  accompanying  view  represents  surmoonted  with  crockctcd  pinnacles, 

the  collegiate  Church,  and  some  ad-  which  adorn  the  ailes,  spring  ten  scg- 

joiitinir  buildings;  the  Castle-hill  ap-  mcntsof  arches,  which,  resting  against 

mars  on  the  right  side,  while  the  river  ^he  wall  of  the  nave  immediately  under 

Neil  (uliich  served  for  the  outer  moat  ^^^^  embattled  parapet,  strenginen  the 

of  that  princely  edifice)  laves  its  banks  clerestory.     These  are   very  minutely 

on    the    left.  '  Across    this    beautiful  shewn  in  the  annexed  engraving, 
water,    which   produces  pike^  perch,        To  the  right  of  the  view  is  the  Castle 

tench,  bream,  ruff,  roach,  dace,  gud*  Hill,  which  stands  at  the  eastern  extre- 

gioii,    bleak,   minnow,  the  red  and  mity  of  the  town,  on  which,  in  June 

silver  eel,  and  sometimes  the  salmon  1820, 'some  of  the  remains  of  the  an- 

and  trout,  is  thrown  a  handsome  stone  cient  fortification  were  discovered  on 

bridge   lending  directly  Co  the  town,  the  removal  of  some  of  the  earth. 

which  is  formed  of  oneorincipalstreet.  .««Lo!  on  that  raoundln  days  of  feudal  pride, 

1  he  pre^cnl  edifice  repkccd  one  of  •  Thy  tow'ring  Casile  frownM  above  the  tidei 

much   older  date  in  I729»  under  the  fhug  wide  her  gate h,  where  truui)s  uf  vat- 
direction  of  Mr.  George  Port  wood,  of  wis  met 

Stamford;    the    stone  being   brought  Witli  awe  the  bruw  of  high  Plan  tagenet.'* 
from  tlic  quarry  at  Kings  Cliffe.  •  •  •  • 

Tlie  former  bridge  owed  its  erection  "  ^^^^^  •'^  ****  ^®*'"  ^^'^'^  ^'^^^  "P**"  ***** 

to  the  munificence  of  Qnecn Elizabeth  ^     u  T"°'l'i  ■  •  u      i      .,.  ,     ^ 

in  1373,  and  consisted  pf  fonr  picii  of  ^°   ''"^   «lubrious   yields    the    bl.ghted 

stone  covered  with  wodd,  and  fenced  n^.,   ?"^,    '    ^i.u.       *i  •  *i 

,,,.  ,  „„i        1  _A  I  II  Beside  the  thorn  the  barren  thistle  sprinet; 

on  eacli  s  do ;  .n  one  p«t  by  a  wall,  jh,  ^,^  t,,„,  ,,(.  pj^^.j  „„;„„  bVi„^ 

am    III    the   other,  by   •railing.      A  To  glut  in  .ecrct ;  or.  impreMea  with  fe^, 

«al)let  recording  its  erection,  was  in-  Cro.k.  his  hoarie  song  to  desolatiun's  e«r." 
sorted  in  the  wall  on  the  left  hand.        »ru    r>    .i  •  •     n    i     i.  u 

after  having  passed  the  bridge  on  the  c-^^'  ?"'«    T"  »"P"»"y '»"■">, 

Mv  nearest  the  College-yaid!  §!"'<*°  ^^  ^'-  ^'\  '*'^  ***''*?''.  ^'"■'  f 

During  the  great  re^firon.  the  par-  Northan.,..ion  at  the  close  of  the  1 1  th 

lin.n.ntary  troSps.  in  their  barbar'uus  *" »»eginnin"  of  the  12th  cent»ry.     It 

zeal  ..(.aiiVst  monarchy,  at  ibey  |»ssed  ""Jf  '"'?, »'"'  I**"'"""  n*^  ^^""X^* 

this  ,,bee.  ernscd  with  their  iw^ill.  the  *>'• «'»»  .  »ar"ne»s  de  Vo.mu,  da„j;htcr 

wonls  "  God  save  the  Queen."  »/    G"«'<>  f«=  fhat.ilon     tnarr.ed   to 

The  most  intere.ling%l,ject  existing  A"do.i.are  de  Va  enec,  harl  of  I  em- 

■  •      ■  .     .  .  e     J       ^  ,^^^,^  broke,  who  fell  in  a  tournament  on 

she 


mora 


two  stories,   may  be  seen   to  rear  its  Tliat  wept  her  bleeding  love.' 

highly   ornamented    head    abf)vc    the  It  was  the  birth-place  of  Richard 

west  end  of  the  nave,  and  is  calculated  the  Third,  whose  character  has  been 

to  command  respect.     The  lower  story  so  assailed   by    historians    and    poets, 

is  square,  finished  with  a  plain  parapet  as  scarcely  ever  to  be  mentioned  but 
ViLST.  Mag.  Af«y,  1827. 
(J 


4M 


Crypt  under  St.  Johns  Church,  ClerkenweU. 


[May, 


with  feelings  of  horror.  A  voury  of 
the  muse  thus  alludes  to  the  place  : 

*'  When  from  thy  lap  the  ruthless  Richard 

sprung, 
A  hoding  sound  through  all  thy  borders  rung, 
It  spoke  a  tale  of  blood — fair  Neville's  .vroe, 
York's  mnrd'rous  hand,  and  Edward's  fu- 
ture foe." 

But  as  the  clouds  of  prejudice  pass 
away,  we  are  enabled  to  discern  some 
interesting  traits  of  character  worthy 
of  commendation. 

From  the  residence  of  a  prince,  Fo- 
theringay  Castle  became  a  prison  for 
the  unfortunate  victims  of  royal  justice 
or  tyranny.  The  last  who  entered 
withm  its  walls  as  a  prisoner,  was 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  whose  beauty 
and  amiable  manners  appears  to  have 
secured  for  her,  from  our  gallant  coun- 
trymen, more  pity  than  her  conduct 
ought  to  have  inspired.  Here  she  re- 
ceived that  punishment  which  her 
crimes  had  long  rendered  iust,  but  the 
circumstances  attending  its  execution 
Vrerc  of  loo  extraordinary  a  character 
to  meet  with  praise,  though  they 
might  admit  of  defence. 

The  ground-plan  of  the  keep  was 
"  in  the  form  of  Si  fetter  lock,**  I  need 
not  inform  your  readers  that  this  was  a 
favourite  device  of  the  House  of  York. 
Whilst  the  contention  for  the  crown 
cxjsted,  the  falcon  was  represented  as 
endeavouring  to  expand  its  wings  and 
force  open  the  lock ;  but  when  the 
Lords  of  this  badge  had  attained  the 
summit  of  their  ambition,  the  falcon 
was  represented  as  free,  and  the  lock 
open.  L.  S. 

Mr.  Urban,  Pentonviile,  April  12. 

IN  the  course  of  makins  drawings, 
to  be  engraved  for  the  History  and 
Description  of  Clerkenwell,  which  I 
am  now  publishing,  I  proceeded  to 
the  crypt,  under  the  ancient  church  of 
St.  Jonn,  hut  not  without  some  mis- 
givings as  to  the  possibility  of  entering 
a  nlace  which  has  been  described  by 
Malcolm  as  most  dangerous  and  pes- 
tiferous :  his  words  are,  (see  Londinium 
Redivivum,)  "  Having  heard  of  the 
vaults,  or  rather  crypt,  beneath  the 
church,  I  wished  to  explore  them, 
and  accordingly  was  accompanied  by 
the  sexton ;  but  the  horrid  sight  that 
lay  before  me  hanished  all  curiosity: 
besides,  the  decaying  effluvia  of  my 
fellow  creatures  issued  in  such  deadly 
streams   towards  the  dry  air,   that   I 


was  glad  to  have  recourse  to  a  phial  of 
lavender  water  which  the  sexton  held*. 
Mr.  Mitchell's  vault  is  near  the  door, 
and  several  of  the  men  were  employed 
on  it:  how  they  bore  without  injury 
the  unwholesome  damps,  I  am  at  a 
loss  to  conceive,  as  it  was  in  July. 
The  coffins  are  immersed  in  dews,  and 
are  piled  and  wedged  into  the  shape  of 
the  arches ;  whether  these  have  been 
windows  originally,  or  whether  these 
have  always  been  vaults  for  the  dead, 
I  did  not  stay  long  enough  to  examine. 
The  arches  and  groins  are  similar  to 
those  of  other  groined  crypts,"  Not- 
withstanding this  appalling  account, 
upon  entering  I  found  that  the  vault 
had  assumed  a  diaracter  much  more 
favourable  to  investigation,  as  the  prac-  . 
tice  of  burying  in  mere  wooden  coffins, 
which  prevailed  in  Malcolm's  time,  has 
long  been  discontinued.  There  are, 
however,  many  circumstances  which  ^ 
demand  the  attention  of  the  officers  of 
this  district  of  Clerkenwell ;  the  damp- 
ness formerly  complained  of  does  not 
exist  in  any  f^reat  degree  at  present, 
hot  decay  being  always  in  progress, 
the  bodies  are  occasionally  exposed  in 
an  unseemly  manner;  in  short  the 
whole  of  the  vault,  which  is  extensive, 
reouires  to  be  cleansed;  the  ruins  of 
comns  are  in  some  places  piled  to  the 
very  roof,  the  middle  aisle  is  com- 
pletely blocked  up  at  its  entrance,  and 
far  beyond,  the  only  way  left  to  it 
being  by  a  narrow  passage  through  the 
north  aisle  between  two  piles  of  cof- 
fins ;  not  a  gleam  of  day-light  is  to  be 
seen  throughout  this  dreary  cavern  ;  it 
is  equally  impervious  to  the  air,  ex- 
cepting what  ii  afforded  at  the  en- 
trance. Some  yeai^  ago,  upon  an  oc- 
casion of  repairing  the  church,  a  party 
explored  these  vaults,  and  discovered, 
near  its  western  extremity,  a  cobweb 
hanging  from  the  upper  coffins  which 
stretched  across  the  aisle,  and  is  de- 
scribed to  have  been  as  large  as  a 
funeral  pall,  and  of  most  extraordinary 
thickness.  It  is  admitted  that  the  pre- 
sent church  of  St.  John  is  the  choir  of 
the  church  demolished  by  Somerset, 
in  the  3rd  of  Edward  Vl.,  the  nave 
having  been  blown  up  by  gunpowder ; 
the  materials  were  employed  to  build 
the  magniBcent  palace  in  the  Strand. 
The  vaults  are  immediately  beneath 
this  ancient  choir;  the  eroining,  espe- 
cially in  the  middle  aisle,  is  very  per- 
fect, supported  by  clustered  columns 
richly  moulded;  the  capitals  are  about 


UMIt.']                   On  the  SeetUtoi  a/  the  JnglO'Saxontm  408. 

^  feet  from  the  ground,  which  appetr  ters  seldom  capable  of  fbrmtng  a  k- 

to  be  composed  of  rubbish  and  clay,  gular  legend. 

Being  anxious  to  ascertain  the  length  Those  of  the  Danes  were  all  proba- 

of  the  columns,  and  Iirc wise  to  know  biy  struck  after  the  year  870,  when 

if  a  pavement   existed,   the  church-  the  Danes  first  formed  anv  consider*' 

warden  very  obligingly  directed    the  able  settlements  in  England,  and  seem 

sexton  to  excavate  the  ground,  when  to  have  been  in  imitation  of  the  coins 

we  found  about  a  foot  from  the  surface  ofBerhtulf,Burgred,£admund,JEthel- 

thV  basement  of  the  columns,  and  a  ward,  Ethelstan,  and  other  princes  of- 

flooring  of  stone,  but  the  water  pre-  the  middle  of  the  9th  century.  Many 

sently  rising  prevented  further  research,  of  them  are  executed  with  considerable 

Opportunity,   however,,  was  given  to  ele^nce,  but  the  legends  totally  unin- 

make  a  correct  drawing.    The  pillars  telligible ;  whilst  thme  of  the  Saxont, 

were  found  te  be  4  ft.  2^  inches  hish.  whenever  they  present  any  legends,  are. 

According  to  Stow,  "  St.  John's  almost  always  easy  of  interpretatioo. 
Church  was  dedicated  by  Heraclius,  as  we  find  with  respect  to  the  sbeattat 
patriarch  of  the  holy  resurrection  of  bearing  the  names  of  Egberht,  Ed- 
Christ  at  Jerusalem,  in  the  year  1 185,  berhc,  Alcred,  Aihnoth,Beorna,£thel- 
and  was  the  chief  seat  in  England  of  red,  and  perhaps  some  others.  The 
the  religious  knights  of  St.  John  of  arrangement  of  these  two  classes  seemt 
Jerusalem,  whose  profession  was,  be-  to  have  been  attended  to  by  Dr.  Combe, 
sides  their  daily  service  to  Grod,  to  de-  who  has  in  his  two  plates,  with  the 
fend  Christians  against  Pagans,  and  to  exception  of  No.  17,  PI.  1,  which  ie 
fight  for  the  Church.''  H.  S.  Storbr.  evidently  Danish,   and  Nos.  18  and 

^  21,  PI.  2,  which  are  perhaps  Saxon, 

Mr.  UAban,            Cork,  April  25.  put  down  those  probably  Saxon  befo(e 

THE  coins  I  am  now  about  to  no-  those  which  appear  to  be  Danish;  hot 
tice  are  unquestionably  the  moat  perhaps  Dr.  Combe's  object  was  only 
difficult  to  class  of  all  the  Anglo-  to  exhibit  them  in  chronological  order, 
Saxon  coins;  nor  has  any  attempt,  that  and  therefore  the  Saxon  have  for  the 
I  am  aware  of,  been  made  to  assign  most  fxirt  been  put  down  first,  as  they 
them  to  any  particular  Kings,  or  even  are  evidently  of  earlier  date  than  the 
Kin^oms  of  the  Heptarchy.  I  can-  Danish.  Attending  to  the  above  di»» 
not  indeed  entertain  any  very  sanguine  tinctions  we  may,  I  think,  consider  the 
hopes  of  being  able  to  throw  much  entire  of  the  sceattas  in  Rudii\g*s  Itl 
light  on  a  subject  involved  in  so  much  Plate,  except  No.  17»  to  be  Saxon ;  the 
obscurity;  but  as  every  step  may  lead  first  seven  Nos.  and  Nos.  18  and  91, • 
to  further  discoveries,  I  shall  not  he-  PI.  2,  are  also,  I  believe,  Saxon  1  and 
sitate  to  submit  to  thejudgment  of  you  also  the  entire  \6  Nos.  in  PI.  26,  and 
and  your  learned  readers  such  ideas  aa  the  sceatta  in  Plate  29 ;  the  remainder 
have  occurred  to  me.  of  PI.  2,  viz.  from  Nos.  8  to  37  in- 
The  first  idea  that  naturally  suggests  elusive,  with  the  exception  of  Nos.  18 
itself  is,  that  the  sceattas  were  minted  and  21,  will,  I  think,  be  found  to  be 
at  different  periods,  commencing  pro-»  Danish,  having  every  appearance  o£ 
bably  about  the  latter  end  of  the  6th  being  a^ruck  since  the  middle  of  the 
century,  and  ending  about  the  latter  ninth  century,  and  many  of  them,  par- 
part  of  the  gth;  it  will  also,  1  think,  be  ticularly  Nos.  8  to  17*  having  lettera 
readily  admitted  that  some  of  them  some  of  them  not  unlike  the  Runic, 
were  struck  by  the  Saxons,  and  some  and  such  as  we  do  not  find  on  any  of 
by  the  Danes.  To  enable  us,  there-  the  ruder  and  more  early  sceattas. 
fore,  to  form  a  better  judgment  of  these  Thus  far  we  have  proceeded  on 
coins,  it  will  be  necessary  to  distin-  '  grounds  which,  if  not  certain,. may  at 
^uish  them  into  the  above  two  classes,  least  he  considered  highly  probable; 
into  which  I  think  it  will  not  be  dif*  when,  however,  we  come  to  distio- 
ficult  to  reduce  at  least  a  great  part  of  guish  them  into  Kingdoms,  and  at- 
them.  The  former  were  most  of^ them,  tempt  to  appropriate  them  to  any  par- 
if  not  all,  struck  before  the  year  800|  ticular  princes,  our  progress  becomes  of 
for  we  do  not  find  any  which  bear  the  a  far  more  unsatisfactory  nature ;  al- 
namesof  princes  of  later  date;  they  are  most  the  only  guides  we  have  to  dU 

generally  of  rude  workmanship,  and  rect  us  being  a  comparison  with  tKe , 

ear  for  the  raoat  part  rude  heads,  and  sceattas,  whose  legends  are   intdligi- 

the  fignrei  of  animals,  with  a  few  let-  ble,  and  an  attention  to  the  few  letten 


404  •  Oil  the  Sceattas  of  the  Anglo-Saxons*  [Maf, 

appearing  on  them,  and  to  the  animals     No.  2,  PI.  26,  will  afford,  m  I  hare 
qn  them,  which  may  perhaps  have  de-     above  said,   some  confirmation    that 
noted  the  ensign  or  arms  ot  the  king-     Speed   was  right  as    to    the  ensigns 
dom.    This  last  mode  of  distinguish-    which  he  has  attributed  to  Wessex 
ins  them  indeed  we  cannot  place  mucl\    and  Sussex.    All  these  nambers  have 
rehance  on,  nut  only  from  the  rude-    everv  appearance  of  having  been  coin- , 
ness  of  the  coins  and  consequeni  un-    ed   ny  tne  same  people,  and  perhaps 
certainty  as  to  what  animals  were  in-    nearly  at  the  same  period ;  and  the  en- 
tended  to  be  represented,  but  also  be-    signs  we  find  on  them  are  a  dragon  or 
cause  we  cannot  be  certain  that  Speedy    dragon's  head,  a  bird,  and  a  cross.    If 
and«  those  other  authors  who  have  ft-    we  examine  Speed  we  shall  find  that 
tributed  particular  ensigns  to  the  dif-    a  dragon  was  the  ensign  of  Wessex, 
ferent  kingdoms,  had  sufficient  autho-    that  the  cross  was  also  assumed  by  se- 
rity  for  so  doing.    On  the  coins  attri-    veral  of  its  princes,  and  that  the  mart- 
bated  to  Ethelbert  of  Kent,  and  on  se-    let  was  the  ensign  of  Sussex*   We  shall 
▼eral  of  the  other  sceattas,  we  find  a    also  find,  in  all  historical  accounts,  that 
figure,  which,  on  account  of  the  re-    Sussex  was  conquered  by  Wessex  in 
semblance  of  part  of  it  to  the  obverse    290 ;  and  ever  after,  with  the  excep- 
of  No.  18,  PI.  1,  has  been  supposed  to    tion  of  two  or  three  short  periods  of 
be  a  bird,  but  on  a  close  examination     independence,  and  a  few  years  that  it 
v.  and  comparison  of  these  figures,  many    was  under  the  dominion  of  Wulfliere, 
'  of  them  will  be  found  to  have  been  in-     King  of  Mercia,  remained  under  the 
tended  for  a  human  face,  and  many    power  of  that  Kingdom.    The  only 
for  a  four-footed  beast.  Nos.  10  to  14,     other  sceattas  in  Ruding,  except  those 
PI.  1,  appear  intended  for  the  former,     which  appear  to    be    struck  by  the 
and  15  and  16  for  the  latter,  and  the    Danes,  that  bear  the  figure  of  a  bird, 
coin  attributed  to  Eihelbert,  and  Nos.    are  Nos.  18  and  25,  PI.  1,  and  15,  PI. 
5  to  9,  bear  so  strong  a  resemblance  to    26,  which  may  have  been  struck  when 
No.  11,  that  1  think  it  probable  they     Sussex  was  an  independent  Kingdom, 
also  were  intended  for  heads.  The  ol>-    Nos.  19,  28,  and  29,  PI.  I,  from  their 
verses  of  No.  1,  PI.  26,  and  No.  11,    strong  resemblance  to  Nos.  32,  33, 
PI.  29,  which  are  evidently  heads,  are    34,  seem  also  to  belong  to  Wessex,  al- 
aisrrounded    with    the  same   kind  of    though  they  may  perhaps  belong  to 
lines  which  were  intended  for  hair.     Mercia,  as  the  cross  was  said  to  be  the 
From  what  I  have  above  said  we  can     badge  of  that  Kinzdom.    Nos.  1,  3,  4, 
therefore,  I  th'mk,  place  little  farther     PI.  2,  may  also  belong  to  Wessex,  and 
dependence  on  these  badges  ihan  as     it  is  possible  Nos.  5  and  6  may  belong 
they  may  help  to  confirm  other  and     to  Sussex.     Before  I   proceed  to  the 
more  important  evidence,  but  a  com-    sceattas  of  the  other  Kingdoms,  it  is 
parison  of  Nos.  23,  24,  27,  and  30  to     right  I  should  notice  two  remarkable 
36,Pl.l,No.2,  PI. 2,  and  No.  2,  PI.  26,     coins  of  OfTa,  Nos.  16  and  17,  PL  4, 
would  incline  one  to  think  Speed  was     which   bear   the  figures   of  serpents, 
right,  as  I  shall  presently  attempt  to     and  which  would  seem  to  weaken  the 
shew.  ^  force  of  the  above  remarks ;  but  I  think 

To  begin,  then,  with  Kent:  I  do  not  it  likely  the  serpents  on  these  coins 
find  any  of  the  sceattas  which  can  were  only  intended  for  ornaments,  as 
with  any  degree  of  probability  be  as-  we  do  not  find  any  similar  on  any 
signed  to  that  Kingdom ;  a  few  of  others  of  the  very  numerous  coins  of 
.  them  indeed  bear  the  figure  of  an  ani-  Mercia. 
mal  which  may  have  oeen  intended  I  cannot  find  any  evidence  which 
for  a  horse,  said  to  be  the  ensign  of  would  warrant  us  in  assigning  any  of 
Kent,  particularly  Nos.  23,  24,  20,  PI.  the  sceattas  to  Mercia,  although  it  is 
1,  and  No.  2,  PI.  2;  but  so  far  from  its  probable  that  some  were  struck  by 
being  probable  that  they  belong  to  that  them  previous  to  the  introduction  of 
kingdom,  I  think  there  is  some  proba-  the  pennies,  which  commenced  at 
bility  that  ihey  all,  except  No.  26,  be-  least  as  early  as  the  beginning  of  the 
long  to  Wessex.  8th  century,  nor  can  we  say  any  thing 

ijet  us  now  consider  whether  there    more  satisfactory  of  the  sceattas  of  the 
'are  grounds  for  assigning  any  of  the     East  Saxons. 

sceattas  to  Wessex  $  and  nere  I  think  We  now  come  to  East  Anglia,  to 
a  comparison  of  Nos.  23,  24,  27,  which  it  is  probable  several  of  the 
aod  30  to  36,  PI.  I,  No.  2,  PI.  2,  and    sceattas   belong,  and  as  to  some  of 


1627.] 


Oti  the  Sceaittu  of  the  jingh^Saxdm. 


405 


them  we  may  I  think  arrive  at  a  con- 
ijderable  degree  of  certainty.    Many 
of  them  have  on  the  reverse  a  square 
not  unlike  that  on  the  coins  of  Beorna ; 
many  also  bear  the  letter  A,  cither  be- 
hind the  head,  or  on  some  other  part 
of  the  coin  distinct  from  any  of  the 
letters  of  the  legend.  This  A  we  find 
on  almost  all  the  coins  of  Eadmund 
and  Ethelstan,  Kings  of  East  Anglia, 
and  on  the  coins  of  ^ihclward,  who, 
I  have  no  doubt,  was  also  King  of  that 
Kingdom,  and  I  believe  it  was  adopted 
exclusively  by   the  East  Angles,  and 
intended  to  denote  the  word  Angles. 
The  Mercians  were  certainly  Angles, 
but  "we  always  find  the  letter  M  on 
their  coins,  and  never  A,  except  on 
the  corns  of  Ciolwulfl.  and  Berhtulf, 
who  were  also  Kings  of  East  Anglia. 
The  only  other  HepUrchic  penny,  on 
which  the  A  occurs,  is  that  ofBeorih- 
ric  King  of  Wessex  ;  but  it  is  possible 
in    that   instance  it   may  have  been 
adopted  bv  the  moneyer,  who  was  ig- 
norant ot   its   real  signification,  and 
only  copied  it  from  other  coins  to  fill 
up  the  centre  of  the  reverse  ;  I  am  in- 
cuncd  therefore  to   consider  the  first 
14  Nos.  of  PI.  1,  and  No.  l6,  PI.  26, 
as  belonging  to  this  Kingdom,  as  many 


on  one  side,  and  half  on  the  othei* ;  fot 
it  does  not  appear  probable  that,  ex- 
cept the  A   Dehind  the  head,   there 
were  ever  more  than  the  six  letters  on 
it ;  it  is  also  possible  that  the  letters 
A  LF  may  be  repeated  on  the  reverse, 
and  that  the  clipped  letter  may  be  an 
F,  in  which  case  it  is  still  more  likely 
that  it  belongs  to  Alfwald,  as  the  name 
of  no  other  King  of  East  Anglia  com- 
menced with  ALF;  and  that  it  belongs 
to  that  Kingdom  there  is  great  proba- 
bility, both  from  the  letter  A  behind 
the  head,  and  its  similitude  to  Nos. 
13  and  14  above  noticed.     A  farther 
proof  that  these  coins  belong  to  East 
Anglia  may  be  deduced  from  the  fol- 
lowing comparison.    Nos.   5  and  6, 
13,    14,   and  mine,   all  seem  of  the 
same  Kingdom,  and  a  progressive  im- 
provement in   the  coinage  seems  vi- 
sible.    Nos.  5  and  6  appear  to  have 
the  letters  EO,  for  the  letter  A  is  de- 
tached.   No.   13,  EADL.     No.   14, 
ALDVL;  and  mine  ALFVA,   and 
if  we  refer  to  the  annals  of  East  An- 

flia  we  shall  find  the  following  kings, 
Jorpwald  624,  Ethel  here  654,  Ethel- 
wald  655,  Aldulf  664,  and  Alfwald 
683;  we  thus  find  that  the  order  of 
succession  of  these  princes,  and  the 


^of  them  bear  the  A,  and  almost  all  of    progressive  improvement  in  the  coin- 
them  the  square,  and  they  seem  all  to     age  of  the  above  sceattas,  present  a  re- 
have  been  coined  by  the  same  King-     markable  coincidence.  The  proof  of  the 
dom.    The  figures  on  the  obverses  of    appropriation  of  each  individual  coin 
No.  10  to  14,  I  think  were  intended     seems  indeed  to  rest  on  av 
for  heads,  and  the  reverse  of  No.  13 
appears   to  bear   the  letters  LGflS 
read  backwards,  and  may  have  belong- 
ed to  Ethelhcre,  654,  or  Ethclwald, 
655.    No.  14  seems  to  read  IVGIAt 
and  may  have  belonged  to  Aldulf,  664. 
I  have  in  my  own  collection  a  sceatta 
very  rare,  and  I  believe  unpublished, 
which  was  evidently  struck  about  the 
same  time  as  Nos.  13  and  14,  and  I 
think  belongs  also  to  East  Anglia  ;  it 
is  in  very  good  preservation,  and  bears 
a  head  on  each  side.   One  of  them,  al- 
though rather  better  delineated,  bears 
a  strong  resemblance  to  those  figures 
on  the  obverses  of  Nos.  13  and  14,  and 
I  think  clearly  shews  that  at  least  on 
those  two  coins  the  ?ude  figures  were 
intended  for  heads ;  the  letters  ou  one 
side  appear  to  be  ALF,  and' those  on 
the  other  VL.;   the  third  letter,  the 
greater  part  of  which  was  clipped  off, 
was  perhaps  D,  and  I  think  it  likely 
it  may  belong  to  Alfwald,  King  of  the 
East  Angles,  683,  half  the  name  being 


very  slender 
foundation ;   but    wheii   we   compare 
them  and  take  them  together,  the  evi- 
dence becomes  much  stronger.    Many 
of  the  Danish  sceattas  belong  also  to 
East  Anglia,  as  we  shall  presently  see. 
The  only  other  Kingdom  whose  sce- 
attas remain  to  |}e  noticed  is  North'* 
umberland.    In  a  former  letter  I  con- 
sidered the  coins  of  Edbert,  Egbert, 
Alcred,  and  Alhnoth,  and  I  have  lit- 
tle more  to  say  in  this  place  than  to 
notice  such  coins  as  resemble  them  in 
type.    Nos.  15  and  l6,  PI.  1,  and  No, 
o,   PI.  26,  appear  also  to  belong  to 
Alhnoth,  and  No.  9,   PI.  25,  is  evi- 
dently similar  in  tyj)e  to  those  of  Eg- 
bert and  Edbert ;  it  is  also  very  likely 
No.  7,  PI.  2,  Nos.  1,  5,  8,  and  10  to 
14,  PI.  26,  and  No.  11,  PI.  29,  also 
belong  to  Northumberland,  but  per- 
haps some  of  these  last  were  struck  by 
the  Danes.     Nos.  21  and  22,   PI.  1, 
are  perhaps  British,  the  figure  on  the 
obverses  appears  to  be  the  Ceres  of  the 
Britons.  At  to  Nos.  20,  PL  1, 18,  and 


406^ 


Danish  Sceattos, — Stonehmige. 


[May, 


jtl  PI.  2,  3  and  4  PI.  S6,  and  the 
sceattas  attributed  to  Ethelbert  of 
Kent,  I  am  unable  to  offer  any  con- 
jecture. 

I  shall  now  consider  the  sceattas 
which  appear  to  be  struck  by  the 
Danes,  on  which  I  have  not  many 
remarks  to  make.  Only  three  types 
are  observable  on  them ;  the  first  is 
found  on  Nos.  8  to  17>  ^nd  Nos.  22 
to  25 f  PI.  2 ;  the  second  on  Nos. 
19  and  20,  and  the  third  on  No. 
17,  PI.  1,  and  Nos.  26  to  37,  PI.  2 ; 
those  with  the  two  first  types  seem  to 
belone  to  East  Anglia,  as  they  have 
both  m  roost  instances  the  A  behind 
the  head,  and  square  on  the  reverse. 
Many  of  them  bear  letters  totally  dif- 
ferent from  any  of  those  to  be  found 
on  the  coins  Struck  by  the  Saxons. 
Nos.  19  and  20  were,  1  think,  struck 
by  Ethelstan,  the  Danish  King  of 
£jMt  Angiia.  No.  19  seems  to  read  on 
the  reverse  -^VDCI>*  and  was  pro- 
bably struck  at  Norwich.  No.  20 
soems  to  read  3<DZTA«  Those  of 
the  third  type  were  perhaps  struck  by 
the  Danes  of  Northumberland,  as 
they  have  on  the  reverse  a  bird,  which 
was  probably  intended  for  the  raven. 
Used  as  an  ensign  by  the  Danes,  and 
particularly  by  Anlal  King  of  North- 
umberland)  the  letters  on  these  are 
very  plain  and  legible,  but  w6  can 
make  out  of  them  no  intelligible  le- 

§end ;  indeed  it  is  possible  the  moneyers 
id  not  intend  to  form  any,  although 
the  coins  themselves  are  remarkably 
well  executed,  but  put  down  any  let- 
ters at  random,  as  was  evidently  done 
^  with  many  of  the  Danish  coins  minted 
in  Ireland. 

There  must  be  many  unpublished 
Sceattas  in  different  cabmets  in  Eng- 
land which  would  throw  light  on  this 
subject,  and  by  comparing  them  one 
with  another,  and  with  those  already 
^      published,  great  discoveries  inight  be 
obtained ;  others    also  are  discovered 
'        almost  every  year,  a  single    one    of 
which  may  determine  a  whole  series. 
Yours,  &c.  John  Lindsay. 

Mr.  Urban,  May  8. 

FULLY  impressed  with  the  force  of 
Plato's  remark,  o(  ay  ra  ovo^ares 
dhi  ilatTM  Koi  T»  Tp«7jMiTa,  "that 
the  knowledge  of  the  etymology  of 
words  leads  to  the  knowledge  of 
things,**  I  have  ventured  to  ramble 
iu  that  alluring  but  danserous  field, 
where  to  many  nave  lost  tnemielves. 


If  I  aspire  to  so  difEcult  a  theme 
as  Stonehenge,  a  subject  which  has 
racked  the  brain  of  many  an  Anti- 
quary, let  me  add,  in  extenuation  of 
my  ambition,  that  my  remarks  arebv 
no  means  pertinaciously  offered,  smo, 
unlike  many  who  handle  the  subject, 
1  shall  feel  a  pleasure  in  correction,  if 
myopinions  be  erroneous. 

Thanlks  to  the  investigation  of  re- 
cent Antiquaries,  Stonehenge  has  beea 
divested  of  the  monkish  legends—- 
Geoffrey  of  Monmouth  is  exploded, 
and  the  honour  of  its  construction  it 
snatched  from  the  Saxon  period*  Dr. 
Stukeley,  followed  by  Mr.  Grose,  has 
established  it  to  have  been  a  British 
Temple,  while  the  subsequent  minute 
and  laborious  researches  of  Sir  Richard 
Colt  Hoare  have  proved  the  high  an- 
tiquity of  this  celebrated  relic. 

I  cannot  accede  to  the  common  opi- 
nion, that  the  Saxons  gave  this  vener- 
able pile  a  name  so  disgraceful  as  the 
** Stone  Gallows"  Stonehenge.  It  has 
occurred  to  me  that  Stonehenge  is  a 
corrupted  compound  of  two  words  of 
a  far  different  import  to  that  which 
has  been  generally  ascribed  to  it,  viz. 
Sian,  the  site  or  temple,  Onga  of  Mi- 
nerva. 

It  may  be  advanced,  that  the  British 
Dame  for  this  temple  was  Choir  Gaun 
but  is  it  not  possible  that  the  term 
Choir  Gaur  might  have  referred  to 
Abury  i  a  temple  of  vast  extent,  and 
undistinguishea  by  any  name  equal  to 
its  high  importance.  The  Chorea 
might  allude  to  Abury,  and  Stone- 
henge have  been  the  original  and  not 
Saxon  name  of  this  spl^idid  relic  of 
the  west. 

Every  scholar  must  be  aware  of  the 
extraordinary  §inalogy  of  various  lan- 
guages. There  exists  a  similarity  be- 
tween the  Sanscrit,  Hebrew,  Ara- 
bic, and  Celtic,  too  close  to  have  been 
the  result  of  acccident.  Many  He- 
brew words  are  in  ancient  Irish;  (a 
paragraph  has  lately  appeared  in  a  pe- 
riodical, stating  that  tne  Irish  learn 
Hebrew  with  greater  facility  than  the 
English) ;  and  many  Sanscrit  words 
are  in  the  Hebrew.  There  are  cer- 
tain words. which  are  found  in  all  dia- 
lects, and  appear  the  wreck  of  some 
universal  language  now  lost. 

The  two  letters  st  form  an  ele- 
ment or  root  which  spring  in  the 
Sanscrit,  and  can  be  traced  in  various 
modifi(5!aitions  through  various  lan- 
guagesH-Sitan  or  Stan  implies  a  re- 


18970      On  thi  Etymology  of  Stonehenge.-^Eve  of  St.  NichoUu.       4f^ 


gioQ  or  place.  Thus  in  Persian, 
GooHstan,  the  place  of  roses,  a  rose* 
bed ;  durukht  Mian,  the  place  of  trees, 
an  orchard  ;  boo  stan,  the  place  of  fra- 
grance, a  garden.  We  Rnd  Stan  con^^ 
iinually  in  composition,  as  Indo5/an, 
MogqU-sian,  Ph^r'i-sian,  Chusi-5/an« 
TheGreeJjs,  noted  for  their  arbitrary 
alteration,  preserve  it  in  T»;;  hence 
we  6nd  Opnel^ti,  Al/tJ,  Baal/t5,  Aban- 
/f},  Absys/tf  *.  It  was  in  use  among' 
the  ancient  Hetrurians  and  other  na- 
tions, and  we  trace  it  in  Aventinus, 
Paiaiinus,  Numantinus,  Pakestine, 
Ton,  Town,  Station. 

Hence  it  appears  to  me  that  the 
word  Sione  is  a  corruption  of  Sian, 
implying  the  site,  spot,  or  temple. 

The  word  Hen^el  will  endeavour  to 
trace  to  the  Deity  Onga,  a  name  of 
Minerva,  by  which  title  she  was 
known  to  tne  Lacedemonians,  and 
probably  to  the  Druids.  An  altar  has 
been  discovered  in  Greece  bearing  an 
inscription  in  very  ancient  characters, 
stating  it  to  have  been  consecrated  to 
Onga  (v.  Memoires  de  1' Academic  des 
Belles  Lettres,  torn.  15,  402).  This  al- 
tar is  adorned  with  sculptured  knives, 
feet,  hands,  thighs,  and  regs,  and  other 
parts  of  the  human  body,  favouring 
the  idea  that  human  victims  were  im- 
molated to  this  Deity  Onga,  or  Minerva. 

It  is  by  no  means  difficult  to  sup- 
pose this  Deity  to  have  been  known  to 
the  Druids,  as  under  the  title  of  Onga 
she  vvas  adored  by  the  Phoenicians 
(v.  Count  Caylus ;  v.  I.  p.  64)  and  my 
remarks  upon  the  Kimmeridge  Coal- 
money  will  bring  those  people  not 
very  distant  from  Sionehenge. 

While  on  the  one  hand  it  is  allowed 
that  the  Druids  offered  human  vic- 
tims, it  must  be  remembered  that  Cae- 
sar states  Minerva  to  have  been  a  Dru- 
idical  Deity,  "  Post  hunc  (Mercurium) 
Apollinem,  Martem,  et  Jovem,  et  3ft- 
nervam  (colunt).  De  his  eandem  fer^ 
quam  reliouae  gentes  habent  opinio- 
nem — Apollinem  morbos  depellere ; 
Minervam  operum  et  artiBciorum  rai- 
tia  transdere;  Cses.  Bel.  Gal.  lib.  vi. 
l6 ;  and  as  if  in  compliment  to  this 
Deity,  the  finest  temple  in  Britain,  re- 
quiring strong  mechanical  powers  and 
hi^h  mathematical  knowledge,  was 
raised  to  such  an  extent,  even  that  its 
construction  has  ever  remained  a 
stumbling-block  to  subsequent  ages. 

I  do  not  see  any  objecttOn  to  the 
possibility  of  Onga  having  been  the 

*  Fab«r'i  Andyib,  vol.  I.  p.  94. 


oame  by  which  the  Druids  worshipped 
Minerva,  especially  since  she  was  a 
Phcenician  Deity,  and  the  fact  bears 
nearer  to  conviction  when  we  see,  on 
immutable  stone,  parts  of  the  human 
body  as  allusive  to  those  bIood*staioed 
rites  which  we  are  informed  were 
common  also  to  the  Druids. 

Thus  I  venture  to  suggest  that  Stone- 
henge  i^  not  a  Saxon,  but  a  term  of 
higher  antiquity,  implying  the  Temple 
of  Minerva — Stan-Onga,  Stonehenge. 

Had  the  priests  of  the  Cimbri  com- 
mitted their  tenets  to  writing — (**  ne- 
que  fas  est  ea  litteris  mandare,*'  Caes. 
Bel.  Gal.  vi.  13,)  the  nances  of  their 
divinities  might  have  reached  us ;  and 
it  is  evident  that  Caesar  gave  to  the 
deities  of  these  regions  not  the  namet 
by  which  they  were  adored,  but  the 
names  of  the  Roman  gods,  according 
to  their  corresponding  attributes;  since 
Baal  is  termed  Apollo,  Hcesus  or  By- 
gus.  Mars  or  Hercules  j  and  Onga 
might  have  been  the  Minerva  in  these 
latitudes,  as  well  as  among  the  Lace- 
demonians. W.'  A.  Miles. 

Mr.  Urbak,  May  10. 

AMONG  the  various  reprints  of  our 
old  literature,  which  nave  appear- 
ed during  the  last  twenty  years,  it  it 
rather  surprising  that  the  curious  poeti* 
cal  translation  of  the  Popish  Kingdom^ 
by  Barnaby  Googe,  has  not  found  a 
place.  I  have  never  had  the  good  for- 
tune to  look  over  the  whole  poem,  but 
from  the  different  extracts  which  have 
fallen  in  my  way,  the  work»  as  illus- 
trative of  our  ancient  customs  and  su- 
perstitions, is  highly  interesting. 

Many  of  the  observances  alluded  to 
are  no  doubt  attended  with  obscurity, 
and  cannot  readily  be  explained,  not 
only  from  their  long  disuse,  but  from 
the  circumstance  possibly  of  their 
never  having  been  adopted  in  this 
kingdom.  The  original  author  being 
a  German,  had  the  ceremonies  of  his 
own  country  more  particulajly  in  view. 
One  of  the  customs  mentioned  in  the 
work,  connected  with  the  Eve  of  St. 
Nicholas,  has  ever  struck  me  as  one 
most  pleasing  and  attractive,  and 
which,  as  tending  to  make  young 
faces  merrier,  and  young  hearts  lighter^ 
it  is  a  pity  we  have  abandoned.  It  is 
thus  described  in  the  words  of  Googe : 

*<The  mothers  all  their  children  on  the 

Eeve  do  cause  to  fast, 
And  when  they  every  one  at  night  in  sense* 

leiie  sleepe  are  cast« 


408 


Custom  observed  on  the  Eve  of  St,  Nicholas. 


[May, 


Both  apples,  nuttei»  and  peares  they  hfingf 

aod  other  things  beside. 
As  caps  and  shooes,  and  petticotes,  which 

secretly  they  hide ; 
And  in  the  morning  found,  they  say,  that 

this  St.  Nicholas  brought : 
Th6s  tender  middes  to  worship  saints  and 

wicked  things  are  taught." 

Hospinian,  in  his  Origin  of  Chris- 
tian Festivals,  notices  the  same : 

'<  It  is  the  custom  (says  he),  in  many 
pUces,  on  the  Eve  of  St.  Nicholas)  to  con- 
rey  secretly  to  children  small  gifts  of  va- 
rious kinds,  which  they  imagine  are  brought 
by  the  saint  himself,  who  in  his  passage 
through  the  towns  and  villages,  enters  In  at 
the  closed  windows  and  distributes  them."  * 

Although  unknown  with  us,  the 
custom  is  still  retained  in  some  parts 
of  the  Continent  and  in  America  to 
the  present  day.  Mad.  de  Genlis,  in 
her  Memoirs,  thus  mentions  its  ocour- 
rencc  during  her  residence  at  Brem- 
garten  in  Switzerland  : 

«  On  St.  Nicholas's  Day,  on  getting  up, 
they  all  (the  children^  find  little  presents 
put  in  their  shoes,  which  generally  makes 
them  waken  before  daylight. ' 

-Mr.  Blunt,  in  his  Vestiges  of  An- 
cient Manners  in  Italy,  informs  us, 
that  on  New  Year's  Eve  the  stockings 
'of  children  are  filled  with  cakes,  com- 
fits, &c.  by  a  sprite  or  supernatural 
"being,  to  whom  the  name  of  Belfana 
-is  given. 

Of  its   celebration   in   America,   a 
friend  has  favoured  me  with  the  fol- 
lowing account.    The   similarity  be- 
tween, the    Italian   Beflana   and   the 
ideal   Sandy  Claus   of  the   American 
children   is  curious.      "The  custom 
alluded  to  in  the  verses  of  Barnaby 
"Googe,  is  still  kept  up  among  the  de- 
scendants of  the  old  Dutch   settlers, 
and  those  who  have  fallen  insensibly 
into  their  habits,  but  they  have  trans- 
ferred the  observance  from  the  Eve  of 
St.  Nicholas,  who  you  know  is    the 
especial   patron  of  little  children,  to 
that  of  the  New  Year.     Long  before 
the  important  uight  arrives,  numerous 
conjectures  and  inquiries  are  made  by 
the  young  urchins  respecting  the  per- 
son and  being  of  Saudy  Claus  (evi- 
dently  a  corruption  of  St.  Nicholas), 
who,  in  the  opmion  of  the  majority, 
is  represented  as   a  little  old   negro, 
\vho  descenda  the  chimney  at  night, 

and   distributes  a  variety  of  rewards 

>  '  ■ '       '  '  ■  ■ '        ■  ■ 

*  Brand's  Popular  Antiquities,  vol.  I. 
p.  327. 


with  impartial- justice,  according  to* 
the  degree  of  good  behaviour  in  the 
candidates.    But  woe  to  the  bad  and 
the  incorrigible;  a  bunch  of  rods,  an 
old  shoe,  or  some  worthless  article,  is 
sure  to  be  their  portion.     At  length, 
upon  the  appointed  night,  each  child 
with  a  face  beaming  with  hope  and 
gaiety,  as  the  last  act  before  retiring  to 
bed,  hangs  up  a  clean  stocking  near 
the  chimney,  which  fails   not  to  be 
filled,  as  soon  as  the  little  ones  are  fast 
asleep,  by  the  parents  or  some  good 
aunt  or  grandmother,  with  all  sorts  of 
bon  bons,  toys,  picture-books,  &c.  and 
especially  with  the  much-admired  eat- 
able  of  the   season,   the  New   Year 
cookie.    As   may  be  well   imagfned, 
day-light  has  scarcely  appeared  i>efore 
all  are  alert,  and  even  while  it  is  yet 
dark,  a  bold   boy  is   now  and  then 
found  who  will  creep  out  of  bed  to 
feel  if  his  stocking  be  well  swelled  or 
not.    The  treasures  are  emptied  out 
and  spread  upon  the  bed-clothes  with 
all  the  joy  and  exultation  natural  to 
childhood,  and  their  good  or  bad  for- 
tune, with   the   little  incidents   con- 
nected with  the  ceremony,  serves  for 
the  busy  chat  of  the  breakfast  table, 
and  for  the  following  week  or   two. 
You  will  agree  with  me,  1   am  per- 
suaded, that  this  is  a  most  pleasing 
custom,  filling  the  heart  of  the  child 
with  delight,. recalling  to  mind  in  the 
older  members  the  joyous  moments  of 
their  younger  days,  and  affording  the 
parents    an    opportunity    of   creating 
many  an  hour  of  happiness,  in  which 
their  fond  affection  participates  equally 
with  their  o^pring." 

The  New  Year  Cookie  mentioned 
above  is  a  particular  sort  of  cake  made 
at  this  season  of  the  year,  and  is  fanci* 
fully  stamped  and  shaped,  and  distri? 
buted  along  with  liqueurs  to  visitors 
on  the  first  of  January.     It  may  pos- 
sibly be  the  remains  of  an  ancient  Ca- 
tholic custom  common  in  the  seventh 
century,  and  which  was  prohibited  by 
a  canon  of  the  Council  of  Constan- 
tinople,  held    in    692,    of   preparing 
cakes  at  Christmas,  to  be  eaten  in  ho- 
nour of  the  Virgin's  lying  in.     It  is 
still  usual  with  our  ladies,  when  con- 
fined, to  distribute  cakes,  &c.  to  vi- 
sitors.    Cakes,    however,    may    have 
been  included  in  the  Roman  JSirenee, 
or  New  Year's  Gifts;  and    thus   the 
custom,  united  with  the  observance  in 
honour  of  the  Virgin,  may  have  de- 
scended to  the  present  time.  H. 


18i70*                 ^  '^  Cremation  of  Indian  H^ows.                      400 

Hfp  TTaitAw         Summerlands,  near  barous  murders  are  contrary  to  Hindoo 

jnr.  URBAn,          Exeter,  May  2.  law.     Ramahun  Ruya,    an    eminent 

THE  revolting  and  horrid  practice  scholar,  proves,  that  the  HinJioo  Skat- 
of  burning  annually  in  India  irds  are  opposed  to  the  custom.  Un- 
above  a  ihouumd  weak  Mid  deluded  geera,  Harecia,  Purasura,  add  Fayasa, 
Hindoo  widows,  has  justly  excited,  in  are  public  writers  who  only  recommend 
this  country,  strong  feelings  of  dbgust,  the  practice;  promising  the  widow  a 
unalleviated  by  any-well  founded  hope  connubial  happiness  of  thirty-five  miU 
of  terminating  so  cruel  and  atrocious  a  lions  of  years  in  heaven,  forgiveness 
custom.  Restrictive  means  have  been  for  the  most  licentious  life,  and  the 
deemed  ineligible,  as  this  dreadful  act  purification  of  all  her  family.  A  cele- 
c»f  self-immolation  is  pretended  to  be  orated  writer,  Vishnoo  Resee,  directs  a 
committed  under  the  sanction  of  reli-  widow  to  dedicate  herself  to  Brtim- 
gton;  though  it  is  well  known,  that  in  hachuya,  that  is,  to  lead  a  life  of  self- 
general,  the  obtaining  of  a  share  of  the  denial  and  austerity  of  so  severe  a  na- 
property  of  the  infatuated  victim  is  the  ture,  that  few  can  conform  to  it,  in 
actuating  motive  of  tfiiie^totiijBraAiNfnf,  which  case,  it  is  recommended  to  the 
and  intereited  relatives,  A  tax  on  widow  to  ascend,  of  her  own  accord, 
cremation  would,  as  theprtc^  of  blood,  the  funeral  pile  in  flames,  with  some 
be  equally  disgraceful  and  nugatory,  article  which  belonged  to  her  hu^nd. 
Rewards  and  bribes  would  involve  a  He  exempts  the  widows  of  Brah- 
loss  of  character,  and  cut  off  a  souroic  mins,  afterwards  included.  Munoo,  the 
of  greater  profit.  During  my  survcjrs  greatest  of  their  legislators,  doei  not 
on  Sumatra,  I  saw  a  man  of  tneBatta-  recommend  burning,  but  prescribes  a 
anthropophagi,  confined  in  a  cage,  life  of  mortification  and  austerity.  He 
where  he  was  well  fed,  in  order  to  be  says,  that  widows  ought  to  pass  their 
publicly  devoured;  and  on  two  poles  lives  in  J^rumacAtiya,  or  strict  austerity, 
contiguous,  were  the  sculls  of  persons  The  Hindoos  believe,  "  that  any  moral 
recently  feasted  on.  The  servants  of  precepts  contrary  to  the  doctrine  of 
the  Company  had  frequently  bought  Munoo,  are  unworthy  of  praise." 
off  such  unfortunate  creatures,  till  this  The  artful  Brahmins  attempt  to  dp 
very  humanity  was  converted  by  these  away  the  clear  and  decided,  positive 
savages  into  a  bounty  on  cannibalism,  precept  of  Munoo,  the  acknowledged 
Avarice,  fanaticism,  and  delusion,  are  Chief  of  Hindoo  literature,  by  urging, 
opposed  to  every  inadequate  remedy  that  the  recommendations  of  more  than 
hitnerto  proposed,  to  remove  an  evil  of  one  ought  to  outweigh  the  injunction 
the  most  distressing  description.  of  Munoo,  which  amounts  to  begging 
The  law  of  the  case  is  little  known  ;  the  question.  The  words  of  the  V  bda 
end  as  this  shocking  wickedness  is  fre-  confirm    Munoo's    rational    doctrine, 

Cently  brought  to  the  notice  of  the  "  as  by  means  of  livingi,  still  the  duties 

gislature,  it  may  be  well  to  state  it,  usual  and  occasional,  can  be  performed 

as  It  may  appear  that  a  remedy  may  to  purify  the  mind  ;  and  as  by  hearing 

arise  out  ot  the  transgression  of  the  of,  and  fixing  our  minds,  and  devoting 

l^w  itself;  and  paradoxical  as  it  may  our  souls  to  Brumah,  or  the  supreme 

seem,  by  the  enforcement  of  the  law  of  spirit,  we  can  attain  it  [final  beatitude  • 

burning,  in  its  very  letter.    The  rest-  or  absorption  in  Brumah'] ;  no  woman 

dent  servant  of  the  Company  is  called  should  tnerefore  spend  her  life  [that  is, 

on  to  authorize  the  cruel  sacrifice;  and  suffer  death]]   in   hopes  of  attaining 

all  he  can  do  is  to  try  dissuasives,  to  Surga,  or  bliss  In  heaven.*'   The  Hin* 

see -that  the  wretched  female  has  not  doo    religion    supposes    rewards    and 

been  stupefied  by  intoxicating  drugs ;  punishments  proportioned  in  duration 

and  to  hear  from  herself  a  feeble  assent  to  sublunary  conduct,  after  which,  ac- 

of  her  destruction,  often  the  effect  of  cording  to  their  Metempsychosis,  the 

terror,  or  a  disturbed  and  phrensied  soul  is  to  undergo  multiplied  and  va- 

mind.    Let  us  then  see  whether  death,  rious  transmigrations,  till  it  becomes 

in  so  tremendous  a  form,  is  sanctioned  so  pure  as  to  attain  **  absorption  into, 

by,  or  inHicied  according  to  Hindoo  Brumah^**  or  as  the  Romans  had  it, 

law.  "  Est  Deus  in  nopis,  agitante  calesci" 

The  most  celebrated  Pundits  and  mus  illo**    The  woman  who  burns 

Hindoo  scholars  have  proved  in  a  clear  herself,  is  not  exempt  from  these  trans* 

and  conclusive  manner  that  these  bar*  migrations  ;    and   tnerefore,  the  best 

GiHT.  Mao.  May,  1897* 

4 


410 


On  the  Cremation  of  Indian  Widows. 


[May, 


Hindoo  writers  recommend  to  her  a  life 
of  abstinence  and  correctness,  in  pre- 
ference to  burning. 

The  advocates  for  burning  say,  that 
women  ^re  so  constituted  as  to  be  un- 
able to  go  through  the  prescribed  ri^d 
>  course  of  required  austerity  for  attain- 
ing beatitude  in  heaven ;  and  that  by 
burning  they  at  once  secure  thirty- 
five  millions  of  years  of  happiness. 
The  writers  on  the  oiher  side  argue, 
that  women  would  act  thus  from  nn- 
proper  motives  of  cupidity  and  selfish- 
ness, whereas  they  ou^ht  to  place 
their  glory  in  leading  a  life  of  purity, 
self-denial,  and  penance,  according  to 
the  Veda,  and  tne  sacred  tenets  of  the 
great  lawgiver  Munoo.  Harieta  lays  it 
down,  that  "  unless  a  widow  burns  in 
the  fire,  she  cannot  get  rid  of  her  femi- 
nii^e  body,*'  in  order  that  after  her  long 
term  of  married  happiness  in  heaven, 
she  might  go  through  numberless  trans- 
migrations, and  be  ultimately  assimi- 
lated to  Brumah,  or  the  great  Deity. 
The  sacred  lawgiver  Munoo  says,  that 
1^  life  of  abstinence  and  virtue  is  alone 
sufficient  tci  lead  the  widow  to  this 
final  happiness :  anjd  that  to  prevent  a 
life  of  misconduct  and  impurity,  bum- 
ins  cannot  be  indispensably  necessary. 
Tnere  cannot  be  a  more  striking  proof 
of  a  low  state  of  civilization,  than  that 
women,  the  mothers  of  families,  should 
be  reckoned  so  totally  devoid  of  every 
sense  of  honour  and  shame,  that  a 
dreadful  and  cruel  death  can  alone 
confer  a  posthumous  character;  and 
that  they  are  enticed  to  this,  by  a  pro- 
mise of  a  long  course  of  sensuality, 
after  which  they  are  liable  to  be  burnt 
over  again,  by  an  unavoidable  return  to 
an  earthly  condition.  The  Brahmins 
who  made  these  absurd  laws,  are  ex- 
tremely immoral  and  licentious;  and 
if  we  are  to  judge  from  among  our- 
selves, the  law,  as  a  punishment  of 
vice,  might  be  more  applicable  to  the 
widower,  than  to  his  %nfortunate  and 
murdered  relict. 

This  distressing  subject  is  freouently 
brought  before  the  British  Legislature; 
and  it  must  be  evident,  that  there  is 
DO  law  which  prescribes  suicide  in  the 
shape  of  burning  on  a  funeral  pile. 
If  the  widow,  unintoxicated,  declares 
to  the  English  magistrate  her  deter- 
mined resolution  io  be  burnt  with  the 
body  of  her  deceased  husband,  or  with 
some  article  which  (this  was  an  artful 
contrivance  to  secure  posthumous  s»- 
criBces)  belonged  to  him,    the  civil 


power  in' India  can  no  more  prevent 
the  crime  than  they  can  human  sa- 
crifices in  Temples,  and  the  multiplied 
gross  and  immoral  acts  of  the  oeep- 
rooted  and  degrading  systematic  super- 
stition, which  in  a  course  of  centuries 
will  yield  to  civilization,  followed, by 
Christianity. 

Let  us  now  consider  whether,  in  a 
violation  of  the  legal  mode  of  burning, 
a  remedy  against  a  cruel  death  can  be 
found.  The  advocates  on  both  sides 
of  the  question,  admit  that  the  Shastras 
direct  "  that  the  woman  shall  mount 
the  BURNING  PILE.*'  Humau  nature 
was  found  to  shrink  from  so  dreadful 
a  resolution,  and  the  Brahmins  to  se- 
cure their  victim,  though  unauthorized 
by  the  Hindoo  law,  always  have  the 
living  tied  to  the  dead  body,  and  order 
that  the  pile  shall  not  be  lighted  till 
this  precaution  renders  escape  from 
agony  and  suffering  utterly  impossible. 
Previously  to  the  introduction  of  this 
diabolical  contrivance,  when  the  poor 
female,  amidst  flames  and  torture,  at- 
tempted esca|)e,  she  was  held  down  in 
the  fire  by  the  inhuman  monsters 
around  her,  by  means  of  bamboos  and 
long  poles.  This  is  any  thing  but  "  a 
voluntary  ascent  to  a  burning  pile." 
It  having  been  found  that  feelings  of 
horror  arose  in  the  minds  of  the  more 
humane  spectators,  on  seeing  the  half- 
burnt  sufierer  escape  from  the  Rames, 
by  the  consumption  of  the  ligatures ; 
and  that  she  was  driven  back  into  the 
fire,  a  cunning  expedient,  preventing 
the  possibility  of  escape,  was  had  re- 
course to.  A  frame  surcharged  with 
weights,  was  suspended  over  the  pile. 
W|ien  the  miserable  victim  began  to 
writhe  in  agonies,  four  rufBans  cut  the 
ropes  holding  the  frame  in  suspension, 
and  it  descended,  so  contrived  as  to 
secure  the  continuation  of  the  burning 
sacrifice  on  an  unhallowed  altar^  while 
the  yells  of  surrounding  savages,  and 
the  noise  of  drums  and  discordant  in- 
struments, drowned  the  shrieks  of  the 
dying  victim.  All  this  process  is 
utterly  unsanctioned  by  law ;  and  it 
repeatedly  prescribes,  that  the  widow 
shall,  **  of  her  own  free  will  and  ac- 
cord, mount  A  BURNING  PILE.*'  She  is 
required  by  law,  to  pronounce  the 
Sunkulpa  in  these  words,   "I  will 

MOUNT  THE  BURNING  PILE.**      To  be 

within  the  scope  of  the  words,  the  Brah- 
mins direct  the  pile  to  be  a  little  light- 
ed at  one  corne^just  before  the  widow 
is  laid  on  it.    The  Ftsknoo  Moonshee 


1897]  On  the  Cremaiion  of  Indian  mdows.  411 

has  it,  '^  lei  the  wife  embrace  either  a  ofchasthyandabstinencearepreferable* 

lif e of  dbiiinence and  chastity, or  MOVHT  The  Sankya  states   this   alone  to  be 

THB  BURNING  PILE."    The  Noryuya  lawful,  while  the  Meermanoska  allows 

Sindhoo    positively    directs,    that   no  the  choice  of  either.    The  laws  declare 

bandages,  bamboos,  or  wood,  shall  be  that  "  no  blame  whatever  is  attached 

used  in  any  shape  to  prevent  escape,  to  those  who  prevent  a  woman^s  bunt' 

To  prove  that   the   pile  must  be   in  ing ;**  and  a\so,  ihsit  "  all  who  dissuade 

^amts  round  the  dead  body,  btfoTe  the  her  from   burning  act   laudably.'*    If 

devoted  widow  mounts  it,  the  Soodhee-  the  widow  recoils  at  the  sight  of  the 

koumoode  ftays,  *'  Let  the  mother  enter  raging  pile,  the  fine  is  only  a  kahuna 

the  fire,  after  the  son  has  kindled  it  of   conries^   or  about  half  a   crown. 

around  his  fathers  corpse-,  but  to  the  The  law  prescribes  in  this  case,  that 

father  s  corpse,  and  to  the  mother,  let  "  the  widow  should  be  treated  by  her 

him  not  set  fire.     If  the  son  set  fire  to  neighbours  precisely  as  before.** 
the  LIVING  mother,  he  has  on  htm  the         Vishnoo  Moonoo    forbids    burnine, 

guilt  of  murdering  both  a  woman,  and  and  the  learned  Pundits  say,  tliat  his 

ajnothcr.**  precept  "  be  thou  a  companion  of  thy 

In  the  page  of  history,  we  see  what  husband  in  life  and  in  death,**  means  a 

human   nature,    under  very  different  regular  life,  which  may  ensure  future 

circumstances,  and  from  exalted  mo-  hap|nness  with  her  husband.     Mrity^ 

tives,  is  capable  of  enduring.  .Though  ooiy'uya  says,   thai  all  writers  against , 

an  excellent  Bishop,  from  a  sense  of  the  practice  incur  no  blame,  because 

remorse,  and  the  heroic  Mutius,  from  preventing  the  destruction  of  life  is  the 

excited  feelings,  voluntarily  burnt  off  a  strongest  of  the  Hindoo  tenets.    Out 

hand,  we  are  not  to  conclude  that  a  of  a  population  of  a  hundred  niillionf, 

weak  female,  actuated  only  by  cupidity  forty  millions,  at  least,  must  be  Hin- 

and  ambition,  will  ascend  a  fune-  doo  women ;   and   the  comparatively 

RAL  PILE  IN  flames,  as  positively  re-  few  who  immolate  theinselves,  must 

?|uired  by  law.  The  original  lawgivers  be  a  proof  that  the  law  is  understood 
ounded  their  hopes  on  the  effects  of  as  it  ought,  and  that  the  victims  who 
fanaticism  and  religious  enthusiasm,  suffer,  are  induced  to  sacrifice  ihem- 
Their  successors,  finding  human  na-  selves,  by  artful  Brahmins,  and  ava- 
ture  unequal  to  encounter,  voluntarily,  ricious  relations.  The  English,  on 
a  fiery  trial,  and  death  amidst  fierce  their  part,  will  assuredly  prevent  nearly  ' 
flames,  perverted  the  law,  so  as  to  ren-  all  of  these  self-murders,  by  seeing 
der  it  subservient  to  their  atrocious  that  the  deceived  and  infatuated  object, 
purposes.  We  thus  see,  that  the  in  her  sober  senses,  and  without  inter'" 
prevention  of  a  dreatfful  crime,  lies  in  ference,  mounts  the  raging  funb- 
the  very  enforcement  of  the  rigour  of  ral  pile;  and  that  as  this  is  the 
the  law ;  for  by  acting  thus,  where  we  strict  law,  such  conduct  cannot- be  ob« 
cftinnot  do  better,  we  shall  experience  jected  to.  This  requisite  procedure 
what  the  Brahmins  did,  which  is,  that  will  save  thousands  ;  and  increases  not 
not  071^  woman  out  of  a  hundred  de*  the  sufferings  of  the  victim. 
stroyed  illegally  at  present,  will  be  The  first  Bishop  of  Calcutta  sensibly- 
found  to  sacrifice  herself,  as  must  be  proposed,  '*  to  afford  to  native  children 
required,  according  to  the  express  let-  instruction  in  useful  knowledge,  and 
ter  of  the  original  law.  This  proce-  especially  in  the  English  language^ 
dure  will  save  thousands;  and  is  the  without  any  immediate  view  of  their 
only  efificient  remedy,  till  civilization  becoming  Christians.  If  this  were  ge- 
and  Christianity  shall  totally  abolish  a  nerally  understood  through  the  coun- 
barbarous  usage.  It  is  supposed  that  try,  it  would,  I  doubt  not,  entirely 
the  unnatural  practice  of  burning  arose  alter  the  condition  of  the  people.  It 
from  the  frequent  poisoning  of  Brah-  would  give  them  access  to  our  litera* 
mins  by  their  neglected  and  ill-treated  ture  and  habits  of  thinking;  and  the  ' 
wives.  The  law  whs  founded  on  a  familiar  use  of  it  would  tend  very 
principle  of  revenge;  and  even  the  much  to  dissipate  the  prejudices  and 
recommmela/toM  of  a  life  of  unnecessary  the  indifference  which  now  stand  in 
austerity,  deprived  the  widow,  in  this  the  way  of  conversion.'*  This  sound 
world,  of  all  chance  of  happiness,  reasoning  is,  a?/m«part2^ii«,  applicable 
Tweilty  further  authorities  might  be  to  the  state  of  Ireland,  where  the 
adduced,  to  shew  that  the  motives  for  teaching  of  the  English  lanaua»&  ^- 
burning  arc  unworthy,  vnd  that  a  life  neraUy>  \%  xVvt  one  iWin^  twtijuV  \  «A 


t 

9 


4Vi              Moderaft  Reform  %  Parliameni  recommended.  [Maj, 

in  ^ch  a  msinntt  u  to  prevent  the  in^  the  situation  of  a  memtier  becainc  «tt 
tetference  of  the  Priest  under  religious  object  of  value  and  calculation ;  it  rest- 
pretences.  The  stability  of  Roman  ing  with  him,  according  to  hi»  prin'> 
conquests  arose  from  imparting  to  con-  clples,  how  he  would  act,  in  orcler  lb 
^  quered  provinces  a  knowledge  of  tlieir  reimburse  himself  for  the  sum  paid 
language^  arts^  and  literature.  We  down  for  his  seat.  Hence  arose  the 
hold  India,  the  brightestjewel  in  the  actual  sale  of  what  are  very  property 
crown,  by,  as  it  were,  a  standing  mi-  termed  the  Rottbit  Boroughs. 
racle.  While  the  Politician  is  alarmed  Whether  a  sum  be  illegally  paid 
at  the  fearful  progr^  of  conquest,  the  down,  or  whether  the  member  oe  sent 
Theologian  contemplates  vast  moral  1x1,  fettered  illegally ^  the  corrupt  pril^• 
copseauences.  Our  Government  of  cipTe  of  the  case  is  precisely  the  same: 
India  IS  "darkly  wise, and  rudely  great.'*  It  has  been  declared  by  hign  authority 
The  hand  of  Frovidbncb  is  visible,  in  the  House  of  Commons,  that  the 
We  see  the  "  Sons  qf  Japheth  dwelling  corruption  is  as  manifest  as  the  sun  in 


in  the  tents  qfShem.**  the  firmament.    Formerly,  money 

John  Macdonalo.  given  openly  and  avowraly.     At  pre* 

^  sent  the  same  effect  is  produced  bj 

Ma.  Urban,    Summerlands,May3'  more  cautious  management.   The  Mi- 

GO  where  you  will,  we  are  sure  to  nister  of  the  day  roust  carry  on  the 

6nd^the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  Government  of  the  country,  by  an* 

recommended   by  near  one  hundred  avoidably  taking  human  nature  as  be 

years  of  age,  and  repute  deservedly  in-  finds  it ;   and  says,   '*  video  meUora, 

creasing.    Impartial  it  certainly  is;  for  proboque t  deteriora  sequor," 
instance,  in  it  some  of  my  papers  (im-        The  simple  plan  sketched  m  yow 

Sirfect  no  doubt)  have  been  attacked,  useful  work,  will  at  least  put  an  end 

ow,  I  like  literary  opposition  1  as  it  to    the  gross  and  corrupt  tenure  of 

tends  to  elicit. truth.    One  of  my  op-  rotten  boroughs ;  and  will,  at  the  same 

ponents  threw  little  light  on  the  sub-  time,  admit  members  to  support  the 

jeet;  and  the  other,  who  seems  to  moneyed  and  nuinufacturing  interests^ 

write  '*.de  omnibus  rebus,  et  quibus-  without  submitting  to  the  degrading 

dmn  alust\.  shewed  an  inclination  to  conditions  now  reouired,  and  so  dia* 

depress,  without  elucidation,  or  shew-  tressing  to  just  and  nonoorable  feelings, 

ingcause  for  mere  objurgatory  remarks.  The  principle  of  doing  away  a  dan« 

The  very  desirable  plan  of  moderate  {;erou8  and  disgraceful  stale  of  thin^^ 

and  temperate  Parliamentary  Reform,  is  fulljr  admitted,  in  the  occasional  dis- 

staled  in  some  of  your  former  Numbers,  franchisement  of  some  guilty  borough^ 

appears  in  the  public  prints  to  be  ^-  while    the   only   difference    between 

nerally  approved  of  1  and  the  passing  such  and  the  others  is,  that  the  delki^ 

scene  sufficiently  evinces,  that  the  un-  quent  has  been  found  out,  and  detected 

constitutional   influence  of  borough-  tn  the  guilt  qf  bribery  and  corruption. 

holders,  embarrasses  even  the  throne  It  might  be  a  fit  subject  of  inquiry,  by 

itself,  much  to  the  detriment  and  se-  what  means  those  boroughs  became 

rioos  injury  of  the  general  interests  the  property  of  a  few  Peersj  rich  Com^ 

and  public  j^ood.    A  great  Borough-  moners,  or  of  a  few  individuak ;  bat 

man  sends  his  many  members  into  the  as  such  investigation  might  prove  a 

House,  to  support  his  party  or  views,  little  too  mticA.  it  may  be  refrained 

If  be  be  unambitious,  he  receives  a  from ;  having  them  considered  as  pr4* 

K ice  for  each  seat.    The  few  or  more  petty..  When  they  were  bought  off 

tlders  of  boroughs,  make  a  money  or  in  Ireland  and  Scotland,  as  a  necessary 

other  barjrain  with  the  member  re-  measure  previously  to  the  formation  of 

tamed.    Thus,  in  both  instances,  the  an  Union,  it  was  found  expedient  to 

corruption  is  apparent,  while  the  re-  treat  them  as  property,  to  ht  valned  at 

presentation  of  the  people  is  quite  out  so  many  years  porchase.    I  agrc«  with 

of  the  question.    The  right  ofsending  your  Correspondent,  that  fifty-eisht  of 

members  was  originally  granted  for  the  obviously  worst  description,  shooM 

services  rendered,   or  on  account  of  bfe  bought,  and  abolished,  Imving  the 

money  advanced  to  needy  Princes)  or  House  to  consist  of  the  roaiMl  and  soffi- 

to  Governments  requiring  pecuniary  cient  number  of  six  hundred  membfcn  I 

aid.-   The  members  were  paia  for  their  and  for  good  hearings  no  room  should 

attendance.    When  it  became  neces-^  contain  more. 
BJtrj  to  manage  a  House  of  Commons,        It  appeart  to  be  a  general  opmioii 


18t70  Bneft^—Tlte  Decahgue  iii  Chitrchei.  403 

now»  ihat  at  least  two  hundred  of  tbe  men,  I  have  freqaently  given  mf  milt 

Mosi  clpt€t  or  most  corrupt  boroughs  in  such  cases»  tdi  I  asceitaintd  tfiat 

ought,  atafairvaluation,  to  be  purchased  owing  to  imfropbr  fb98»  deducted 

with  the  public  money,  and  sold,  as  for  persons  in  stations  110^  r^qmrmg 

often  as  they  became  vacant,  to  qoali-  them,  little  or  nothing  remaintd  for  thn 

fied  persons  possessing  an  income  of  inteiided  sacred  purpose.'*    Were  tbt 

fifteen  hbndred  pounds  a  year,  or  one  public  not  too  sensible  of  such  aboM^ 

thousand  pounds  a  year  if  in  the  army,  contributions  woold  be  ample,  which 

The  purchase  would  be  publicly  made,  never  can  be  the  case,  till  we  abo  have 

and  the  amount  would  always  go  into  a  rtform  in  this  line,  being  a  crvinf 

the  public  Treasury.    This  would  let  evil.    Were  every  parish  in  £ittnaad 

into  the  House  what  is  much  wanting,  and  Wales  to  give  only  one  sbiUtng^ 

viz.  Members  to  represent  the  mo-  five  hundred  pounds  would  be  raiaadi 

neyed  and  manufacturing  interest.  but  the  fees  and  drawbacks   a^iorll 

The  granting  of  additional  Members  nearly  all  that  is  collected  from  okl 

to  Counties,  appears  to  be  generally  ladies  who  mean  well>  and  have  noC 

disapproved  of,  as  the  landed  interest  is  heard  of  the  fees, 
reckoned  sufficiently  strong,  as  lately  John  Macdoit^ld. 

apparent.     It  seems  to  be  generally  ^ 

tiKfught,    that  very  populous    towns        Mr.  Urbait,  Maif  5.  ' 

might  have  Members,  on  repaying  to     IT  is  perfectly  amusing  to  see  the 

Government  theoriginal  price-purchase  Jl   zeal    which    has    been   displayed 

of  a  borough.    Under  these  requisite  about  affixing  the  Decalogue  to  an 

and  highly  approved-of  arrangements.  Altar-screen.    Until,  however,  it  be 

the  Minister  woold  have  his  majority  admitted,  that  the  exceetion  it  thi  ' 

on  the  same  principle  which  now  in-  rule,  the  almost  universal  eomplimci 


sures  it,  while  a  great  mass  of  positive  with  the  Canon  in  that  respect, 

corruption  woula  be    removed.     To  the  idea  of  its  having  become  obeoieie^ 

prevent  corrupt  practices  in  the  re-  But  the  necessity  which  caused  ili 

mainins  boroughs,  more  strict  laws,  enactment  having  ceased,  affords,  in 

attendeo  with  high  penalties,  such  as  my  view,  •  ronCh  sqfhr  and  more  d§^ 

fine  and  expatriation,  might  be  esti-  corous  ground  of  arguing  a^inst  ita 

blished.    It  is  hoped  that  (tiere  is  suC-  enforcement,  when  inconveoient^  thuv 

fieient  patriotism  and  morality  in  the  any  attack  upon  the  good  and  HoIt 

Country,  to  carry  into  effect  a  plan  of  Fathers  of  our  Church,  who  enacted 

reform,  against  which  no  valid  ob^ec-  it.    The  time  of  its  enactment  showt' 

tion  can  be  urged ;  and  short  of  which,  that  it  was  as  much  direeled  againit 

the  Constitution  must  remain  not  Puritanism  as  axainst  Popery.    Tbe 

only  defective,  but  dangerously  situated,  keeping  constantly  before  the  ptopld 

It  has  been  well  said  by  eminent  men,  the  Ten  Commandments,  was  theOi^ 

that,  unless  this  reform  takes  place  from  and  still  is,  an  admirable  way  of  goefd* 

within t  it  must  from  wiihout,  attended  ing  against  all  enthusiasm,  b?  leaching 

with  certain  calamities  too  fearful  to  that  "  Faith  without  works  is  deadb" 
contemplate.    Hie  greatest  men  and        E.  I.  C.  calls  Bishop  Hooper  jfma^ 

Coliticians,  however  otherwise  ouposed,  tical.    His  fanaticism  probabTy  only 

ave  Uniformly  recommended  trtts  effi-  consisted  in  the  use  of  this  argmntnt; 

cient  description  of  indispensable  Par-  which  is  founded  in  eonnnoD  sense  f 

liamentary  Reform.    If  they  did  not  that  an  altar  implies  a  sacrifice^  and 

carry  it  into  effect,  when  in  power,  that  where  there  was  no  sacrifice,  there 

the  weakness  of  human  nature,  and  the  needed  no  altar.    £.  I.  C.  seems  highly 

fear  of  the  loss  of  place,  opposed  their  gratified,  that  lately  stone  altars  m¥€ 

better  feelings  and  principles.    A  Mi-  been  erected,  and  the  covering  di^ 

nister  who  possessed  courage  to  carry  pensed  with,  and  that  too  under  thm 

jthroush  so  nohle  a  measure,  would  sanction  of  authority.     I  feallv  feel 

justly  be  thought  the  greatest  that  ever  very  inquisitive  for  the  knowleage  of 

England  saw.    Bacon  justly  said,  that  tbe  parties  who  have  been  such  eon- 

*'  a  stubborn  retention  of  customs,  is  a  sistent  Protestants ;  and  1  think  they 

torbulent  thing.*^  ^  would  be  rather  puzsled,    if  iked^ 

Just  as  I  was  finishing  this  letter,  *'  what  possible  use  they  eouU  mikm 

Mr.  Urban,  the  Clergyman  and  Chuich«  of  these  altars  P'    The  three  idei^ 

wardens  called  on  me  with  briefs  for  altar,  sacrifice,  transubstaQtiation«  •?• 

building  Churcha.    I  said,  *•  Gentle-  so  closely  allied,  that  tibt  edofiRie^  ^ 


*u 


StaoH  Jiltcription  in  Ijtomimler  Cfiwch. 


[May, 


Mi/v  one  is  a  most  extravagant  act  of 
baa  reasoning;  and- accoraingljr  the 
ritual  of  our  Church,  which  rejected 
the  latter  two»  carefully  excludes  the 
word  altar.  I  fear,  if  there  had  been 
that  marvellous  affection  for  altars, 
wood  and  stone,  screens,  crosses,  &c. 
which  £.  I.e.  seems  to  entertain,  in 
onr  first  Reformers,  we  should  never 
have  been  Protestants.  They  knew 
tlve  age  in  which  they  lived  better 
than  we  do,  and  when  we  condemn 
'  ihem  merely  for  matters  of  iasie,  I 
ftar  we  are  too  often  unjust,  both  to 
their  wisdom  and  disinterestedness;  a 
Icn  unsparing  rigour  against  every  ten- 


dency to  Popery,  would  never  have 
suited  the  desperate  disease  they  under- 
took to  cure.  And  after  all,  further 
than  the  destruction  of  images,  the 
Reformers,  ns  such,  are  not  answer- 
able ;  and  perhaps  a  very  few  of  the 
images  destroyed  by  their  orders,  were 
worth  preservation.  They  were  not 
Venus  de  Mediris,  but  good  substan- 
tial dolls  (like  "Our  Lady  of  Lorretto*') 
in  frizzled  wigs  and  embroidered  petti- 
coats, such  as  would  have  done  credit 
to  that  Royal  milliner,  the  dear  "  Fer- 
nando Settimo.** 

Yours,  &c.  G.  C. 


**  Cnppie  of  an  inscription  found  by  me 
John  Hackluyte  of  Eaton  *  in  Hereford- 
shire, uppon  a  brass  plate  on  the  wall  of 
the  South  side  of  the  churche  of  Leominster 
in  the  said  countie  of  Hereford,  A.D.  1592. 
All  the  letters  were  cutt  oute  in  brass,  and 
trussed  upon  a  brasse  plate,  and  fastened 
upon  a  timbere  lette  into  the  wall,  and  had 
been  washed  over  with  white,  at  suche  time 
the  said  churche  had  been  amended  and 
cleaned." 


Mr.  Urban,  May  9. 

IN  the  quarto  edition  of  Weaver's 
Funeral  Monuments,  the  follow- 
ing inscription  is  given,  as  communi- 
cated by  Sir  John  Hartopp,  bart.  to 
Warburton,  Somerset  Herald,  in  Hack- 
luyt's  hand-writing,  but  having  a  few 
blanks  supplied  by  a  friend  of  War- 
Imrton. 

.  It  is  introduced  in  Weaver  with  the 
iirilowing  preface  by  Hackluyt : 

.   GDync  fvpmej-te  jSEbopej*  bybe  bythan  uppan  ^ij*  myne  bypig  3  esc 

My         foremost        fathers       did         build        upon      this      my       town,   &    at 

Ejnshelmcfiropb  +,  3  GOebej^elhamftebe  J,   3  Lycetpelb,    3    Leaceajrep, 
Kenelmsford,  and     Meadswellhamstede,        and     Lichfield,    and     Leicester, 

-}  DynjhelmefpeoprlSe,   3  Dynt,   3  Lynselmefhame,    3  pyncelcombe,  3 

Mid        Kfioilworth,  and  Clint      and       Kenilsham,  and    Winchcombe,   and 

peop^jropbbypij,  3  8u^aij,  3  Emjefceappc,  3  Donnymynjrep,   3  pen- 
Hereford,  and  Sutton,  and      Kenchester,      and       Westminster,       and     Ve- 

l^TMnceajtjep,   3    Snotynghame,  3    panygpic,   3  Elaepceaftpe,    3  Stpanj- 

ruUm,  and     Nottingham,      and    Warwick,    and     Gloucester,      and     Stan- 

FOpbhypij.  3  Beopcleaj,  3  Deotij-bypj,  3  Runcopaen,  3  Tonaeain>eop8e, 

lord,       and     Berkeley,     and  Tewkesbury,  and     Runcorn,      and      Tamworth, 

-}  eabej-bypij,  3   Semppingahame,    3    Lyncyleiiebypij,    3    Epychelmcl- 

•od  fadeabury,    and      Sempringham,        and  Lincoln,  and     Cwichelmes- 

^ley,  3  Ofpuj^elafiSunje. — Epift  hipobe  myner  jylj:,  3  paef  myne  pybc 

ley,    and        Offchurch.  Christ    loved  me,         and  was      my        most 

jufSfta  helme,  aelc  ic  hebbe  ;^lupobe  Epip;,  3  pitoblice  hij-  lupan  myne 

nghteooa  defence, always  I     have  loved      Christ,  and        for       his      love        my 


Selanbif  ic      jronpecan, 
landis       1    forsook  [or gave], 


fcfiSlic  myne  Eynsefce  Ian*d  3   aelc  myne 

but        mj  Kingland  §       and  also         my 


•  Eaton  IS  a  hamlet  of  Leominster,  where  the  Hackluyt  family  were  seated,  and  had 
oonaiderable  estates.    See  Price's  Hist,  of  Leominster,  p.  U«.    This  John  was  the  author 
lof  the  Voyages.  ^ 

t  Chelmsford,  I  presume,  where  waa  »  Britinh  station,  which  Plaatius  took.    Sir  R.  C 
•Hoare's  OinUdus,  L  zcL 

}  Paterbohnigh.  §  Adjacent  tp  Leominster. 


18270 


Saxon  Inscription, — On  collecting  Autographi. 


415 


Kyn^elmefpeoji^   ic  ne  pop^xpin      nij-       ic  earn  Epiftij-.      Ijnelme 

Ke^elwoIth  I    do  not  forgive   [i.e.  give],  I     am     Xhritt*s.  Kynelm. 


3   Reynelmebalb  b^  yj-  myne  ma^opine  aet  Elynton. 

l&cl    Rejmelmbald  is       my         kinsmaa       at     Cljnton. 


Against  this  inscription  two  objec- 
tions have  been  made ;  First,  That 
inscriptions  on  brass  plates  are  ana- 
chronical.* To  this  oDJectioii  one  re- 
ply only  is  necessary.  "  Habetur  et 
nodie  Welliae  in  aedibus  D.  Thorns 
Hugonis  equitis  aurati,  tabula  cenea, 
columnae  Glastoniensis  ecclesiae  olim 
affixa;  cui  incisum  legitur:  Anno  post 
passionem  Domini  xxxi.  duodecim  sancti 
(ex  quihus  Joseph  ah  Anmathia  primus 
erat)  hue  venerunl,  qui  ecclesiam  hujus 
regni  primum  in  hoc  loco  construxerunt, 
^c.  Sfc. — Usserii  Britannicarum  Eccle- 
siarum  Antiquitales,  p.  Q,  edit.  fol. 
1698. 

The  second  objection  is,  that  the 
inscription  is  a  forgery  by  Warburton; 
but  Renebald  it  made  ancestor  of  the 
Clinton  family  by  Tince'nt,  who  died 
before  Warburton  was  born ;  and  Re- 
nebald is  further  named  as  such  in  a 
pedigree  written  in  the  end  of  the  17th 
century,  and  to  be  foond  in  the  Har- 
leian  MS.  Na  4029,  fol.  65, 

The  object  of  this  communication  is 
to  solicit  from  your  learned  Corre- 
spondents the  most  probable  emenda- 


tions of  errors,  which  I  conceive  to 
have  been  committed  by  Warburton's   < 
friend    in    supplying    the    lacuna  of 
Hackluyl'^copy, 

The  errors  appear  to  me  to  be  these, 
which  follow: 

Ic  poppcan — This  is  an  inftnittve 
mood,  made  to  follow  the  nominative 
Ic.  The  same  objection  applies  to  Ic 
ne  popgypan. 

Nij*,  which  follows  pop5yjan,  is 
non  est;  find  is  apparently  a  wrong 
word  introduced. 

Reynelmebalb  by^  yy  (i.  c.  Rey- 
nelmbaldf  be  is)  is  a  pleonasm,  and 
by%  is  apparently  some  word  connect- 
ed with  Reynelmebald  ; — possibly^; 
for  GitKa^  or  Gith,  was  the  name  of  a 
brother  of  King  Harold. — We  have  hi 
Domesday  a  Wido  de  Reynbudonrt ; 
but  this  is  out  of  the  question,  Rrvn- 
budcurt  implying  only  Reinbafd't 
court,  and  the  name  of  Reynelm^ 
bald's  residence  could  not  be  that  by 
which  he  himself  was  designated. 

Yours,  &c.  S.  Y.  Ew 


Mr.  Urban,  May  8. 

THE  elegant  writer  on  Autographs, 
in  •*  Za  BeHe  Assemble**  for 
March  last,  appears  to  be  a  lady,  for 
she  talks  of  '*  spinning  thread  for 
table-cloths  and  napkins,  and  knitting 
stockings  and  d'oyleys.'*  Not  hav- 
ing a  specimen  of  her  autography  im- 
mediately before  me,  1  am  obliged  to 
judge  by  the  printed  article  mentioD** 
ed,  and  should  say,  comparing  its  good 
style,  and  concise  quaint  manner,  that 
she  is  not  unknown  in  the  literary 
world. 

This  lady,  it  would  seem,  dedicates 
part  of  her  leisure  hours  to  the  recrea- 
tion of  studying  and  examining  the 
autographs  which  adorn  her  collection. 
I  must  agree  with  her  conclusions  on 
the  subject,  that  it  is  difficult  to  judge 
of  literary  characters  by  the  P*s  and 


the  Q*s  of  their  private  correspondeoce^ 
much  more  so  than  when  a  manor  a 
woman  writes  a  paper  which  is  in* 
tended  for  publication,  or  to  suifer  the 
torments  of  a  critical  examination. 

In  some  letters  which  are  inmj 
possession,  for  I  am  one  of  the  junior 
class  of  collectors,  I  read  some  wtry  \or 
teresting  conjugal  prattle  in  matrimo- 
nial scenes,  and  animated  uxorious 
effusions,  written  by  a  very  learned 
Divine,  and  almost  feel  my  boaom 
flutter  with  a  sympathetic  rapture :  but 
if  this  theologian  had  dreamt  that  these 
letters  were  to  be  preserved  as  an  au- 
tograph in  future  days,  would  he  have 
so  expressed  himself?  I  boldly  an« 
swer.  No!  He  would  sooner  have 
written  a  treatise  on  the  duties  of  hus- 
bands and  wives,  however  difficult  the 
task  might  be,  and  thus  notexposethie 


*  It  is  a  mistake  of  Mr.  Letheullier. 

f  Price  (108)  has  converted  Rynelmbald  into  Kjnclmbald,  because  there  is  an  adjacent 
village  called  Kimbolton ;  but  be  knew  of  no  other  copy  of  the  inscription  than  Weaver's, 
and  the  adjunct  at  ClinUnte  removes  all  application  to  KtmboUmu 


416 


The  cuiiom  of  Collecting  Juiograpia  recommended,         [May, 


:|4ayfolDess  of  amoiotii  youth  againit 
tke  dogmatictl  preaching  of  the  other 
roan.     A^ain,  1   6nd  in  an  original 
letter,  written  by  a  Kinj;  of  England, 
some  very  minute  directions  given  to  a 
roaeaial  attendant,  that  he  should  exa- 
jBioe  a  certain  leaden  pipe  at  the  back 
W  the  Royal  residence  at  Weymouth, 
which  his  Majesty  remembers,  during 
bis  hte  Tisit  to  that  favourite  spot,  was 
^  Tery  much  out  of  repair.    This  seems 
'jcarcely  to  be  a  fit  subject  for  the  con- 
sideration of  a  Royal  head,  engaged  in 
jWtlling  the  affairs  of  one  half  the  world, 
in  a  political  point  of  view ;  but  yet  it 
b  interesting  and  consoling  to  Jearn, 
tinder  the  sign  manual,  that  we  once 
liad  a  King  who  looked  after  his  own 
pipes !    Surveyors-General,  beware ! 

It  is  an  old  saying,  but  not  the  less 
tnie  for  being  a  trite  one,  that  two 
fnen  vary  not  more  from  each  other, 
than  one  man  does  from  himself  at 
di&rent  times.  Of  the  truth  of  this 
apboritmy  wv«  have  nothing  more  to  do 
i|itti  to  read  a  few  parliamentary 
speeches,  or  to  take  a  peep  into  a  col- 
Itotion  of  autographs,  where  we  shall 
And  the  motions  of  men*t  souls  as  irre- 
Mhlar  as  a  weathercock.  This  irregula- 
rity, however,  amuses  me,  and  perhaps 
may  do  so  to  others,  particularly  when 
^e  examine  a  series  of  letters  written 
by  some  ci-devant  public  character, 
perhaps  too,  a  man  of  learning.  How 
0hea  do  we  experience  great  difficulty 
in  beliefving  that  two  letters  are  written 
by  the  same  person  within  a  very  short 

Sriod.  In  the  one,  he  is  the  jolly 
ccbanal  or  a  iovial  Freemason,  and 
in  tbe  other,  the  fond  lover  or  the 
pioiM  husband.  What  various  and 
what  opposite  lights,  and  how  changed 
tbe  characters  in  which  he  appears! 
(Some  may  reprobate  the  College  Club, 
6r  «aU  the  mystical  Lodge  a  prepos- 
tamia  jargon,  and  even  ridicule  attach- 
tneint;  but  I  contend,  that  to  search 
a^r  and  collect  origiiiaL  letters  of  dis- 
uOgaished  and  literary  men,  dated 
hma  wherever  they  may  be,  and  therein 
read  the  various  humours,  opinions, 
bieiibrations,  and  thoughts  expressed 
vcvy  often  in  the  strongest  and  most 
•kftant  language,  because  they  were 
mrritten  in  moments  of  hilarity,  and 
without  the  precaution  so  often  adopt- 
ed of  weigning  each  word  in  the 
trembling  scale  of  criticism,  and  con- 
•QC|uently  more  naturally  expressed,  is, 
ini  my  humble  opinion,  a  most  inno- 


cent,  amusing,   and  recreative  plea- 
sure. 

Letters  such  as  these,  flowing  from 
the  heart,  are  the  letters  which  give  the 
highest  entertainment,  and  are  as  much 
superior  to  the  elaborate  soueezings 
and  distillations  of  a  nervous  orain,  as 
the  naivet^  of  an  innocent  villager  is 
to  the  meretricious  deportment  of  an 
a(>andoned  woman  of  fashion.  How 
much  more  beautiful  are  the  trees 
which  throw  out  their  branches,  and 
spread  away  in  all  the  luxuriance  of 
nature,  than  those  which  are  checked 
in  their  growth,  and  tortured  into  re- 
gularity by  the  clippers  of  art,  or  the 
pruning  cavillers  of  criticism.  The 
result  of  tbe  latter  style  must  be  many 
stiff  sentences,  pompous  periods,  And 
cold  deceits:  while  m  the  former,  we 
find  masculine  thoughts  musically  de- 
livered, which  on  being  repeated  are 
as  a  concert  to  the  ear,  and  leave  a 
lasting  impression  on  the  mind. 

I  trust,  however,  that  the  fact  being 
known,  that  such  collections  are  now 
very  much  in  vogue,  will  not  operate' 
to  abridge  the  humorous  tenor  of  future 
epistolary  writers,  or  drive  from  their 
pages  the  natural  wit  and  humour, 
satire,  and  other  pre-eminent  qualities 
that  adorn  the  letters  of  a  Garrick  and 
a  Sheridan  ;  or  lessen  the  more  useful 
labours  of  our  future  Humes,  Robert- 
sons, and  Johnsons :  sed  ubi  suni  f 

Let  us,  however,  hope  that  the  spirit 
of  collecting  autographs  will  continue, 
notwithstanding  the  threats  of  the 
**  death-dealing  Laureat  ;*'  let  us  rescoe 
from  dark  and  dusty  garrets  all  tbe 
treasures  that  lie  there  concealed,  and 
preserve  them  from  the  rapacious 
mouse,  who,  like  the  glutton,  only 
devours  to  gratify  an  unceasing  appe- 
tite, without  either  taste  or  judgment. 
Let  us  thus  save  from  inevitable  decay 
tbe  most  precious  morsels;  and  we 
•hall  continue  to  be  enriched,  as  we'of 
late  years  have  been,  by  the  indefa- 
tigable discoverer  of  the  Letters  of  an 
Evelyn,  a  Thoresby,  a  Clarendon,  and 
a  Gakrick.  S. 


**  An  Old  Subscriber  "  is  informed,  that 
pawdwen*s  transUtion  of  Domesday  Book 
eomprises  only  tbe  County  of  York,  Amoun- 
dtrness,  Lonsdale,  and  Fomess  in  LAnca- 
sliire,  parts  of  Westmoreland  and  Cumber- 
land, the  Counties  of  Derby,  Nottingham, 
Rutland,  Lincoln,  Middlesex,  flertford, 
Buckingham,  Oxford,  and  Gloucester. 


w 


l«7.]  [    417    3 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS, 


69.  A  Chronicle  of  London,  from  1089  to  vince    of    iht    Antiquary.     Powerful 

1483,  written  in  the  Fifteenth  Century,  mind  alone  will  not  do;   for  Warbur- 

andfor  the  first  time  printed  from  MSS,  ton  and  Johnson  neither  did  nor  could 

in  the  British  Museum.     To  which  are  understand   Shakspeare,   nor  was  pny 

added,   numerous  contemporary   Uhtstra-  ^ji^er  mode  practised  by  Grey,  when 

tioy,  ccmsisting  of  Royal  Letters,  Poems,  he  explained  Hudibras.     There    is  a 

and  other   Articles  descnpttve  of  puMic  ^^^^^  f^j,^^  ^^  ^^„  ^^  tt //ra  crepidaill, 

fri^'^^S     Jf^'^'TZ      ^         ^^  an^  Allies  determined  correctly;  (oi 

the  Metropolis,   4to.    pp.  274.  ^,       e  \.  -     .u*u             *-j''r 

'^                        .  ^"*  "i^ct  IS,  that  he  must  judge  of  a 

'E    arc    not   unacquainted   with  horse  who  undersUnds  a  horse. 

City   and    Town    Chronicle*.  But  the  misfortune  of  philosophical 

They  contain    in    general    niemoran-  history  is,  that  it  applies  the  elevated 

dums  of  public   events   (which,  from  opinions  of  the  writer  to  times  which 

being    thus    noticed,   were    evidently  could  not  entertain  such  opinions,  and 

subjects    of  national   attention),   and  thus  misconstrues  actions.     It  makes 

also  give  good  representations  of  the  fools  or  rogues  of  those  who  were  nci- 

state   of   public    feeling    and   habits,  ther  the  one  nor  the  other;  whereas 

which  were  very  different   from    the  Antiquaries    know    that   there    were 

modern.    To  any  one   not  an  Anti-  many,  very  many  thines  in  the  con- 

quary    these   distmctions   of   opinion  duct  of  our  ancestors  which  were  good 

never  occur;  but  it  is  self-evident,  that  and  wise;  and  more  especially  a  gene- 

to  the  philosophical  illustration  of  par-  ral  philanthropic  feeling  in  regard  to' 

ticular  states  of  society,  it  is  necessary  the  state  of  society  at  large,  at  present 

to  know  their  modes  of  thinking.     It  unknown;   and  tney  also  know  that 

is  evident  that  in  the  present  day,  the  many  of   the   extraordinary   chan^ 

nobility,    the  clerey,    the   army,  the  produced  in  society  arc  purely  oWing 

navy,  and  the  professions  of  law  and  to  the  effects  produced  by  the  pressure 

physic,  have  their  distinct  modes  both  of  population, — a  cause  not  estimated 

of  opinion  and  action ;  that  miscon^  before  the  existence  of  Mr.  MaltlioSf 

struction   in  dealings  with  either  of  but  of  the  first  operation  in  producine 

these  respective  professions  creates  at  particular  modes  of  social  and  evm 

least  great  inconvenience,  often  serious  action. 

quarrels;  and  that  they  who  do  not  Contemporary  Chronicles  of  course^ 

know     these    distinctions,    judge    of  therefore,  illustrate  contemporary  ha- 

others  by  their  own  particular  codes,  bits ;  and  humble  as  is  the  literary  eh»- 

But  these  particular  a)de8  often  show  racter  ofsuch  Chronicles,  they  ^enc^lf 

the  power  of  public  opinion  ;  aud  let  have  the  fortunate  results  which  Sel- 

an  individual  arise  with  the  most  pre-  den  ascribes  to  monkish  Latin.    It  is 

dominant  mind,  he  finds  it  impossible  English  in  Latin  words,  and  therefore 

to  improve  the  age  by  abstract  reason  ;  intelligible,  wheh  the  phrases  of  the 

and  he  therefore  succumbs  to  prudence  fine  classics  would  have  involved  all  in 

and  the  necessary  care  of  his  o^n  com-  obscurity.    The  present,  however,  is 

fortable  existence.    But  there  is  ano-  in  English.                                      . 

ther  philosophical  e\\\,  that  these  Chro-  By  making  a  harmony  (as  it  is  called) 

nicies  were  either  compiled  by  eccle-  bf  the  various  Chronicles,  Holipshed 

siastics,  or  persons  under  their  itiilu-  formed  a  real  History  of  Englaiid.  He 

eYice, — we  say  philosophical,  as  to  mo-  has    narrated  events   with    every  re- 

dern  inferences  from  actions ;  but  in  quisite  detail ;  and  we  are  sure  that 

r«&l  historical  truth,  surveys  of  human  Southey,  the  clearest  and  most  satit- 

natore  c^n  only  be  accurate  in  propor-  factory  narrator  rtC  -the  -pFssent  day, 

tion  as  reference  is  made  to  con  tempo-  could  not  in  some  places  exceed/him ; 

rar^  habits,  and  those  accordthg  to  the  for  it  is  only  by  collation  that  siieh 

^'aridus  situations  in  life.     Steevens,  results  can  be  at  all  effected.    There 

Warton,  or  some  df  those  excfellent  ar^  many  things  in  law  which  cabaot 

commentators,  introduced  this  mode  of  be  accurately  decided  without  tlie  most 

judging,  and  it  is  evidehtly  the  pro-  ample  evidence ;  and  the  same  remark 

GiVT.  Mao.  May»  1897. 


418                          Review. — Chronicle  of  London.  L^iay, 

attaches  to  History,  because  actions  clitions  which  Mr.  Htitton  obtained 

and  events  cannot  be  determined  by  from  elderly  people  born  on  the  pre- 

opinions.     As  soon  as  these  interfere^  mises,  and -firmly  believed   by  them, 

they  become,  where  there  is  ignorance  are  these.     While  Owen  with  others 

of    archaeology,    prejudices,    and    of  was  dancing  with   Queen  Catharine, 

course  are  unjust  modes  of  ratiocina-  his  knee  happened  to  touch  her.     He 

lion.     At  the  same  lime,  a  knowledge  tied  a  ribbon  about  his  knee.     "  Why 

of  the  history  of  man  is,   in  certain  do  you  use  that  ribbon,  Sir?**  "Please 

points,  indispensable,  and  there  Anti-  your  Grace,  to  avoid  touching  you.** 

iuaries  fail  j  for  instance.  Sir  William  **  Perhaps  yon  may  touch  mc  m  ano- 

)ugdale  never  considered  superstition,  ther.**     Tradition  does  not  say  that  her 

popery,   and   folly,   but  as   matter  of  eyes  spoke  in   plainer  language  than 

praise,    and   had    no    enlarged   views  her  tongue,  language  which  could  not 

whatever.  be  mistaken.     Here  we  shall  suspend 

The  work  before  us,  edited  anony-  our  narrative  to  notice  a  curious  coin- 

monsly,  but  excellently,  by  Mr.  Nico-  cidcnce.     Henry*s  courtship  of  Queen 

las,  partakes  both  of  the  philosophical  Catharine  is  among  the  most  indeli- 

inferences  and  archaeological  informa-  caie  parts  of  Shakspcare,  and  these  ad- 

tiOD,  to  which  we  have  alluded  in  our  vances  of  the  Queen  herself  are  of  no 

preceding  remarks,  and  which  will  be  better   character.     That  courtship  in 

duly  appreciated   by  those  who  read  those  days  was  conducted  in  a  very 

sucn  works  as  history  ought  to  be  read,  coarse  manner  we   believe    (see  En- 

namely,  for  instruction  m  the  know-  cyclopedia  of  Antiauities,  ii.  p.  530); 

ledge  of  men  and  manners.    We  shall  but  our  readers  ,will  see  the  oddity  of 

enoeavour  to  notice,  according  to  our  the  coincidence,  that  Henry  should  be 

limits,  some  curious  historical  matters,  made   in   Shakspeare   to  woo  indeli- 

The  following  passage  occurs  con-  /Cately,  and  his  Queen  to  do  the  same 

cerning  Owen  Tudor ;  in  Welch  traditions,  where  our  great 

«'Thifi*meyere(l436).onOweTn,  no  Poet  was  unknown.     To  resume.  The 

man  of  birthe  nother  of  lyflode,  brak  out  9"^:"  ^^nt  privately  into  Anglesea   to 

of  Neugate  ajens  nyght  at  serchynge  tyme,  »nqu»re  into  particulars.    Owen  bnbeil 

thorugh  belpe  of  his  prest,  an()  wente  hii  l^e  messengers,  and  apprised  his  mo- 

wey,  hurtynge  foule  his  kepere ;  but  at  the  ther  of  their  errand.     Arriving  at  Plas 

latte,  blessyd  be  God,  he  was  taken  ayeyn ;  Penmynidd,   they    found   the   mother 

the  whiche  Oweyn  badde  prevyly  wedded  dining  on  a  dish  of  potatoes  upon  her 

the  queue  Katerine>  and  hadde  iij  or  iiijo'  knee.     To  their  interrogatories  she  rc- 

chyldren  be  here,  unwetyng  the  comoun  plied,  "She  fed  upon  roasted  and  boil- 

peple  tyl  that  sche  were  ded  and  bcryed.*'  ed  (potatoes   cooked  two  ways),   that 

^'  **S'  she  would  not  uke  a  100/.  for  her  la- 

As  this  affair  of  Owen  Tudor  and  ble  (her  knees),  and  that  she  kept  six 

Queen  Catharine   is  an    entertaining  male  and  six  female  servants  constantly 

piece  of  gossip  in  English  history,  we  under  arms  for  her  defence  (goats  wita 

shall,  for    the    enteruinment  of   our  horns).'*  Potatoes  were  then  unknown, 

readers,  give  some  curious  traditions  and  this  tradition  may  be  ascribed  to 

concerning  it,  collected  by  Mr.  Hut-  Welch  wit.    Catharine  married  Owen 

ton  on  the  spot  of  Owen*s  residence,  in  1428,  and  the  Chronicle  before  us 

Penmynidd  in  Anglesea.     The  chief  states  that  the  marriage  was  kept  se- 

that  is  said  of  Owen  in  history  is,  that  cret  (at  least  as  to  the  public)  till  after 

he  was  an  accomplished  and  handsome  the  Queen's  death,  wnen  Owen  was 

Welsh  gentleman.     His  private  estate  persecuted  for  his  presumption.     We 

was  not  quite  400  acres,  which  he  oc-  nave  seen  a  petition  by  her,  complain- 

cupied  himself.    It   must  have   been  ing  of  neglect  in  the  payment  o(  her 

then  about  t3/.  a  year  in  value ;  now  dower,  and  it  is  very  probable  that  her 

160/.     The  house  is  stone  unhewn,  character,  perhaps  from  its  levity,  was 

the  walls  of  which  are  three  feet  thick,  held  in  great  disrespect,  because,  when 

and  consists  of  only  two  stories,  four  Henry  VII.  her  grandson,   built  his 

rooms  on  a  floor,  all  low  and  little,  chapel,  her  body  was  taken  up  (for  she 

By  what  means  Owen  found  his  way  had  been  buried  at  Bermonchey),  and 

to  court  is  unceruin,  but  at  his  first  never  interred  after,  bat  lay  neglected 

introduction,  being  unacquainted  with  in  a  shabby  coffin  near  her  husband's 

the   English    tongue,   he  was   called  monument  in  Westminster. 

••The  Dumb  Welshman."    The  tra-  Concerning  the    interment   of  Sir 


18170  RiriBW. — Bowles  on  fVamdikt  and  Avebunf. 


Henry  Percy  (Hoispur),  there  have 
been  conflicting  accounts.  The  Chro- 
nicle before  us,  under  the  year  1402 — 
1403,  says, 

"  Forasmoche  u  som  peple  seyde  that  S' 
Herry  Percy  wts  alyve,  he  was  taken  up 
agen  out  of  his  grave,  and  bounded  upriffbt 
bet  wen  to  mill  stones,  that  alle  men  royghte 
se  that  he  was  ded."     P.  88. 

There  have  been  various  representa- 
tions made  of  the  number  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Towton.  In  this  work  *it  is 
said  of  the  battle  of^ginco^irt, 

"On  oure  sjde  were  sclayn  the  Duke  of 
York,  the  Erie  of  Suffolk,  and  S'  Richard 
of  Kjghle,  and  David  Gamme,  squyer,  with 
a  fewe  mo  othere  persones,  to  the  noumbre 
ofxviii/'     P.  101. 

That  the  batile  of  Agincourt  was 
won  with  the  loss  of  only  eighteen 
men  is  absurd,  and  it  may  be  supposed 
that  our  ancestors  thus  spoke  from 
boasting ;  but  a  passage  soon  to  be 
quoted  will  show  now  important  it  is  ' 
to  judge  by  contemporary  manners. 
Our  ancestors  did  not  always  reckon 
those  below  the  rank  of  esauire.  The 
Chronicle,  speaking  of  tne  siege  of 
Harfleur,  says,  that  there  died 

«Tbe  Erie  of  Suffolk,  the  Bysshnp  of 
Norwych,  Courtenay,  S'  John  Philip,  and 
manye  othere  knyghtes  and  squyers,  and 
olhere  commoun  peple  whiche  were  nought 
nombred,**     P.  100. 

When  the  English  held  Calais,  the 
Cinque  Ports  were  of  the  first  utility 
in  preserving  the  communication.  At 
the  Parliament  of  1440 — 1441,  it  was 
ordered  that  "  the  town  of  Caleys  be 
made  ageyn,  and  the  see  be  kept  with 
the  V  porlus  of  Engelond,'*    P.  127. 

The  assertion  tnat  pennies  were 
broken  into  halves  and  Quarters  for 
currency  as  halfpence  ana  farthings, 
has  been  disputea.  But  besides  a  pas* 
sage  in  Wnitaker's  Richmondshire, 
corroborating  the  opinion,  the  follow- 
ing paragraph,  because  it  uses  the 
words  "  alle  round,'*  is  a  further  at- 
testation. 

«  In  this  yere  (8  Ed.  I.)  the  Kyng  made 
newe  money  of  silver,  called  halfpenyt  and 
Ikrthynges,  alle  rounde,  of  whiche  wert  non 
sen  biefore."    P.  99. 

According  to  one  of  the  Chronicles 
here  quoted,  the  battle  of  Agincourt 
was  won  by  breaking  the  centre. 

**  And  the  Kyng  seyng  wele  that  ihei 
woldc  not  sufire  hym  to  passe  withonten 
bataile,  seid  to  his  title  mayny,  *  Sires  and 
felawes,  the  yonder  men  letten  as  of  owe 


419 

wey ;  and  if  the!  wol  com  to  us;  let  tveiy 
man  preve  hymself  a  eood  man  this  day, 
and  avaont  banere  in  the  best  tyme  of  tbtt 
yeie.'  And  he  rode  furth  %nth  his  basnet 
upon  his  hedde,  «nd  all  other  men  of  armM 
went  upon  theire  fete  a  fast  paas  in  hdle 
arraie,  an  Englysshe  myle  er  the!  assemblid. 
And  thnigh  the  grace  of  God  the  Kyng 
made  his  heigh  wey  thrush  the  thikkett 
prees  of  alle  the  bataile."     P.  159. 

The  notes  and  illustrations  are  valu- 
able accessions  to  the  Chronicle,  and 
the  whole  work  does  the  Editor  great 
credit. 

70.  Some  Observations  on  those  singular 
MomtmenU  of  Antiquity,  Wansdike  and 
Avebury,  in  th^  County  q^Wilu.  By  Ike 
Rev,  W.  L.  Bowles.  (PrivaUiy  prinled, 
in  anticipation  qfMr,  Bowles's  History  ^ 
Bremhill.)     8uo.    pp,  19. 

Mr.  BOWLES  presumes  that 
Stonehenge  is  the  round  temple  of 
the  Sun  mentioned  by  Diodorus ;  and 
that  Ahuru  was  the  Tan  fana,  the  ce- 
lebrated Belgic  temple  mentioned  by 
Tacitus,  to  which  the  elevation  now 
called  Tan  Hill  alludes.     He  says, 

«  What  is  the  Tanfana  of  Tacitus  ?  wi- 
dently  in  Latin  Tanaris  Famum!  Tha 
temple  of  Avebury,  then,  was  the  Tanftna, 
the  temple  of  Celtic  Tanaris.  SUbury  wn 
might  suppose  to  be  the  hill  on  which  thn 
priests  of  Tanaris  after  sacrifice  appearad, 
whilst  the  people  below  assembled  round  it. 
The  Britbh  Trackway  led  directly  to  the  hill 
which  in  a  straight  line  over  Marden  (ano- 
ther Celtic  temple]  looks  on  to  Stonehenge. 
To  this  extraordinary  spot  the  whole  af 
sembly  annually  proceeded,  headed  by  the 
Priests,  as  to  the  locus  consecratus  of  Cm* 
sar ;  and  Tan  Hill  Fair  is  the  remains  of 
this  annual  assemblage,  with  the  altered 
character  of  modem  tmies."    P.  is. 

We  are  not  inclined  to  dispute  the 
application  of  Tan  Hill  to  Tanaris,  for 
we  think  it  as  felicitous  as  it  is  an  in- 
genious hypothesis ;  but  we  hetitaie 
as  to  Abuiy  being  dedicated  to  Ta- 
naris. We  say  hesitate  only,  becatise' 
Tanaris  was  only  a  subordinate  god. 
Taran^  in  the  Celtic,  signifies  thunder. 
The  Celtic  god  Tanaris  or  Tarxnii  an- 
swered to  the  Roman  Jupiter  Tonans, 
but  among  the  Gauls  he  was  not  the 
chief  god.  He  was  inferior  to  Hesoa; 
human  victims  were,  however,  oflTerecl 
to  him.  Nevertheless,  thoueh  the 
magnificence  of  Abury,  in  applicatfon 
to  an  inferior  deity,  has  made  us  hesi- 
tate, yet  we  admit  the  force  of  the 
argument  drawn  from  the  Tan  Fana 
of  Tacittis,  as  a  celebrated  tem^^e.  <^< 


480             R^vuiy.«^Bow)cf  09  Wamdikn  and  Jvebitfy.  [May,- 

Ae  Belga^.    Bat  the  Belgie  tver«  set-  ^e  Church  of  Rome,  th  Inquuilvm^  tht 

lien  in  Bfltain  far  jmbsequent  to  the  Retolutum  of  Vxuxet,  the  universal  War^ 

Aboriiriaes,  and  the  construction  of  andthf  real  THumphqf  Christianity  .be- 

Avcbury  is  much  earlier  than  Stone-  ^  ""  "^  Interpretation,    By  th,  ^. 

1^          ^  George  Croly,  M,A.  H,R.S,L,     Sue* 

Mr.  Bowles  very  happily  coniectiircs  ^  ^^^' 

that  Silbury  Hill  was  originally  Sul-  IT  was  the  observation  of  a  moft 

BUi^T,  from  the  British jroddess  Sul,  reputable  philosopher,  that  the  Apoca- 

the  Minenra  of  Caesar.    Here  we  shall  lypse  was  the  sealed  book  of  Daniel» 

make  some  observations.    Mr.  Bowles-  written  in  hieroglyph icsy  upon  which 

rtes  Mr.  Lysons's  splendid  plates  of  (says  Bishop  Kurd)  the  prophetic  style 

Antiquities  at  Batn,  one  of  which  was  fashioned,  and  communicated  to 

was  a  temple  to  Sol  Minerva,  the  Bri-  St.  John    in    an    uudeciphered   state 

tish  Minerva  Medica.     The  etymon  fTilloch    on    the  Apocalypse).     Mr. 

of  Sul  is  utterly  unknown.    But  in  Harmer,  in  hi^  useful  work  on  Orien- 

Mr.  Lysons's  Bath,  besides  several  in-  tal  Customs,  says,  **  St.  John  evidently 

scriptions  to  the  Dece  Suli,   we  6nd  supposes  paintings,  or  drawings,  in  that 

(p.  11)  some  to  the  Suleva,  rustic  dei>  volume  which  he  saw  in  the  visions  of 

ties,  three  in  number,  who  are  found  God,  and  which  was  scaled  with  seven 

upon  an  ancient  marble,  seated,  hold-  seals.'*     It  is,  therefore,  our  opinion, 

ing  fruit  and  wheat-ears.   Montfaucon  upon  the  strength  of  such  respectable 

(Supplem.  II.  6,  8,  c.  7)  has  an  in-  authorities,  ana  the  internal  evidence 

tcription  to  the  Suljfes,  tutelar  Gaulish  derived  from  the  construction  of  the 

gods,  whence  some  nave  derived  Sylphs.  Apocalyse  (where  depicted  objects  are 

Sapposing  then  Sul  to  have  a  sense  only  changed  into  verbal  descriptions). 


similar  to  the  Sulevee  of  Fabretti  (de     that  this  is  a  just  and  true  account  of 


iSiii,  whence  or  where  derived,  seems  written  be  understood,  no  exposition 

to  iM  in  all  the  instances  to  be  of  tute-  that  can  be  pronounced  authoritative, 

lar  meaning.     All  the  inscriptions  re-  ex  caihedrA^   is  to  be  received.    But 

fer  to  this  sense.  though  no  interpretation  in  its  present 

At  to  Tan- Hill  being  now  called  state  may  be  susceptible  of  such  so- 

St   Ann's  Hill,    Mr.  Bowles  showa  lemn  decisive  adjudication,  yet  there 

ihat  the  Boman  Catholict  are  strong  circumstances,  preponderat- 

««Trusktedtheo1dh«itheB  names  into  '"g   prc^bilities,— for  surely  a  man 

the  names  of  their  own  sainu,  and  adopted  «nay  undersUnd  the  representation  of  a 

those  names  from  their  own  calendar,  which  horse  or  a  oow,  though  he  may  not  be 

ajpp»Nu$hed  nearest  m  sound  to  the  names  of  able  to  give  a  description  of  it  in  the 

iiioie  heathen  deities  which  were  thus  sup-  Linnaean  nomenclature.   Certainly  we 

akuited.    The  Ferias  of  Tanarb  became  tbe  think   the  Apocalypse  must  refer  to 

Fair  of  St.  Ann;  but  I  produce  from  indis-  prominent  historicalevents  in  church 

potable  authority  a  case  in  point.    The  history ;  nor  do  we  conceive  that  it ' 

!?"I'*^b5?7"^^'  S"  ''q*°^  .*^  S?  ^^\  leqmtes  any  knowledge  of  ancient  hie- 

of  St.  Michael.     See  Bruckers  Hut.  of  ™i„«k;^«i    i«m«».«»«    *^   .^    »u:»i. 

Countrv  compositors  so  dreadfully  who  was  the  mistress  of  that  enormoua 

disfigure  learned  terms,  that  we  shall  brothel. 

bc^in  from  hence  to  notice  such  ble-  Taking,     therefore,     hypothetical 

muhes.    In  p.  jg  we  have  Keis/er  for  gronnd   as    fair,   under    the  circum- 

K^sler ;  and  Arc  Laiense  for  Arclor  sUnces,  and  the  obvious  reference,  as 

^fV'e.  we  think,  to  prominent  events,  wa 

The  name  of  Mr.  Bowles  is  loo  well  doobt  not  but  our  readers  will  admil 

known  to  require  praise  from  us.    A  the  interpreution  of  Mr.  Croly  to  be 

pretty  girl  has  only  to  show  herself  to  .ingenious.    It  is  from  striking  coinci- 

be  accounted  pretty ;   and  ingcnioui  deocca  that  Mr.  Croly  deduces  his  pre* 

works,  like  ''good    wine,    need   no  mises,  stated  in  the  manner  heieafief 

bosh.*'  mentioned. 

♦  Thieve  premisies  form  a  curious  in-: 

7\*ThejhoettiypeofSt.Joiin;&raPro^  troduction,    via.  the   coijp^idence   of 

.    pAfcy  ^  the  Rise,  Progrtu,  wtd  JBkU  qT  fWOipartt}}  «ii4  ProteataBlisma  in  ooi 


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lUvi|iw.-*-Cro)y.  pit.  ih£  JipocalyjttM, 


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national  history,  since  ihe  Reforma- 
tion ;  and  the  infliction  of  disaster  and 
ill-success  by  Providence,  whenever 
Popery  was  directly  or  indirectly  en- 
couraged. The  truth  is  unquestion- 
able, that  where%'er  Popery  is  sincerely 
professed,  political  well-beitig  withers 
away ;  and  whoever  has  had  the  mi- 
sery of  living  with  devotees,  well 
knows  that  reason  never  enters  into 
their  consideration.  That  Popery 
has  the  essence  of  devoteeism  vested 
in  its  nature,  is  self-evident ;  and  how 
it  has  succeeded  is  plain,  from  the 
troops  of  the  Papal  states  and  Italy; 
and  the  utter  want  of  political  conse- 
quence wherever  it  is  sincerely  profess- 
ed. In  short,  success  in  worldly  af- 
fairs depends  upon  reason  (i.  e.  under 
Providence  of  course)  ;  and  it  being 
utterly  impossible  that  reason  and  re- 
velation, if  correctly  understood,  cap 
be  at  variance,  we  know  that  Protes- 
tantism does  not  impede,  like  Popery, 
the  action  of  common  sense.  But  Mr. 
Croly  ukes  higher  ground.  He  shows 
that  the  hand  of  Providence  visibly 
interfered  in  making  political  good  or 
political  evil  follow  respectively  the 
adoption  of  Protestantism  or  Popery. 


« 


A  glance  at  the  British  history  since 
the  Reformation  is  enough  to  shoir  hoir 
closely  thii  Providential  iystem  has  been 
exemplified  in  £ngland.  Every  reign  which 
attempted  to  bring  back  Popery,  or  even  to 
give  it  that  share  of  power  which  couU  in 
any  degree  prejudice  Protestantism,  has 
been  marked  by  signal  misfortune.  It  is  i^ 
striking  circumstance  that  almost  every 
reign  of  this  Popish  tendency  has  been  fol- 
lowed by  one  purely  Protestant ;  and,  as  if 
to  make  the  source  of  the  national  peril 
plain  to  all  eyes,  those  alternate  reigns  nave 
not  offered  a  stronger  contrast  ia  their  prin- 
ciples than  in  their  public  fortaoes.  LeC 
the  rank  of  England  be  what  it  might  under 
the  Protestant  Sovereign,  it  always  sunk 
under  the  Popish ;  let  its  loss  of  boooar,  or 
of  power,  be  what  it  might  under  the  Popish 
Sovereign,  it  always  recovered  under  the 
Protestant,  and  more  than  recovered ;  was 
distinguished  by  sudden  success,  public  re- 
novation, and  increased  stability  to  the  free- 
dom and  fortunes  of  the  empire. 

**  Protestantism  was  first  thoroughly  e*-; 
laUished  in  England  in  the  reign  of  Eliza- 
beth. 

*'  Mary  had  lef^  »  dilapidated  kingdmn  > 
the  nattoD  worn  out  with  disaster  and  debfe ; 
the  national  arms  diseraced ;  nothing  in  vi^ 

Sour  but  Popery.  lUizabeth,  at  twenty- 
ve,  found  her  first  steps  surrounded  with 
the  Bost  cxtraordinaiy  embasaiauenli  s  at 
hone,  tha  whole  stfea^th  of  a  party>  in? 


eluding  the  dkief  vaa^s  of  tha  kiqgdtMiiy 
hostile  to  her  succession  and  religion  i  is 
Scotland,  a  rival  title,  supported  by  FVancai 
in  Irelandi  a  perpetual  rebeJUoQ,  "*^**it* 
by  Rome  i  on  the  Continent,  the  force  «f 
Spain  roused  against  her  by  the  double  sti* 
mulant  of  ambition  and  bigotry,  at  a  tima 
when  Spain  commanded  almost  the  whala 
strenrth  of  Europe. 

"But  the  cause  of  Elizabeth  was  Pfo- 
tesianlinn :  and  in  that  sign  she  oonquered. 
She  shivered  the  Spanish  swords  she  par%-- 
lyzed  the  power  of  Rome ;  she  gave  freedom 
to  the  Dutch ;  she  fought  the  battle  of  tha 
French  Protestants ;  every  eye  of  religious 
suffering  through  Europe  was  fixed  on  this 
magnanimous  woman.  At  home  she  ela-. 
vated  the  habits  and  the  heart  of  her  peo- 
ple. She  even  drained  off  the  bitter  waters, 
of  religious  feud,  and  sowed  in  the  vigorous 
soil,  which  they  had  so  long  made  unwhola- 
some,  the  seeds  of  every  prmciple  and  insti- 
tution that  has  since  grown  up  into  tha 
strength  of  the  empire.  But  her  great 
work  was  the  establishment  of  Protestant" 
ism.  Like  the  Jewish  King,  she  found  thf 
Ark  of  God  without  a  shelter;  and  sba 
built  for  it  the  noblest  temple  in  tha  wQrld  {, 
she  consecrated  her  country  into  Its  templa. 
She  died  in  the  fulness  of  years  and  ho- 
nour; the  great  Queen  of  Protestantism 
throughout  the  nations ;  in  the  memory  of 
England  her  name  and  her  rt ign  alike  im* 
mortal. 

<*  Charles  I.  ascended  a  prosperous  tkrona^ 
England  iu  peace,  fsotion  feeble  or  eztinot» 
the  nation  prospering  in  the  full  spiril  of 
commerce  and  manly  adventure.  No  reiga 
of  an  English  King  ever  opened  out  a  loogar 
or  more  undisturbed  view  of  prospen^^ 
But  Charles  betrayed  the  sacred  trust  of 
Protestantism.  He  had  formed  a  Popish 
alliance,  with  the  full  knowladce  that  it  et-* 
tablished  a  Popish  dynasW.  Ha  bi^  leol 
himself  to  the  intrigues  of  the  French  Mi- ' 
nuter  stained  with  Protestant  blood ;  for  bia 
first  armament  was  a  fleet  against  the  Hu- 
guenots. If  not  a  friend  to  Popery,  he  was 
madly  regardless  of  its  hazards  to  the  Coi^ 
stitution. 

"  IlUfortune  suddenly  gathered  upon 
him.  Distracted  councils,  popular  ffoja 
met  by  alternate  weakness  and  violence,  the 
loss  of  the  national  respect,  finaNy  deepen- 
ing into  civil  bloodshed,  were  the  punish- 
ments of  his  betrayal  of  Protestantism.  Tlia 
sorrows  and  late  repentance  of  his  prison 
hours  painfully  redeemed  his  memory. 

'*  Cromwell's  was  the  sceptre  of  a  broken 
kingdom.  He  found  the  reputation  and  in** 
flnence  of  England  crushed ;  utter  humlliar 
tion  abroad ;  at  home,  the  exhaustion  of  the 
civil  war ;  and  furious  partizanship  still  tear- 
ing the  public  strength  in  sunder. 

*<  Cromwell  was  a  murderer;  but,  in  tha 
high  deaicBs  of  Providsnae,  tha  personal 
purity  of  m  iastnuaaot  ia  aoi  alisys  »• 


422                       Kbview.— Croly  on  the  Jpocalypge.  [U^« 

gtrde^  The  Jewi  were  panisfaed  for  their  .  «  But  the  principle  of  Willbm's  gtiveftt- 
idolatrybT  idoiaters,  and  restored  bj  idola-  ment  was  Protestantism ;  he  fought  and  le- 
tert.  whatever  was  in  the  heart  of  the  gislated  for  it  through  life ;  and  |t  was  l» 
Protector,  the  policy  of  his  government  was  him,  as  it  beei^  to  all  before  bin,  atrength 
Protestantism.  His  treasures  and  his  arms  and  victory.  Hi  silenced  Engliah  (actioa; 
were  openly  devoted  to  the  Protestant  cause  he  crushed  th^  Irish  war ;  he  thea  attacked 
in  France,  in  Italy,  throughout  the  world,  the  colossal  sl{^ngth  of  France  on  its  own 
He  was  tlie  first  who  raised  a  public  fund  shore.  This  was  the  direct  collision,  not 
for  the  support  of  the  Vaudois  churches,  so  much  of  the  two  kingdoms  as  of  the  two 
He  sternly  repelled  the  advances  which  faiths;  the  Protestant  champion  >stood  in 
Popery  made  to  seduce  him  into  the  path  the  field  against  the  Popish  persecutor.  Be- 
ef the  late  King.  fore  that  war  closed,  the  fune  of  Louu 

«  England  was  instantly  lifted  on  her  feet  was  undone.  England  rose  to  the  highest 
at^y  the  power  of  miracle.  All  her  battles  military  name.  In  a  train  of  immortal  vie- 
were  victories ;  France  and  Spain  bowed  tories,  she  defended  Protestantism  throv^h- 
before  her.  All  her  adventures  were  con-  out  Europe,  drove  the  enemy  to  his  pi£ce 
quests ;  she  laid  the  foundation  of  her  colo-  gates,  and  before  she  sheathed  the  iword, 
nial  empire,  and  of  that  still  more  illustrious  broke  the  power  of  France  for  «  hundred 
commercial  empire  to  which  the  only  limits  years."  pp.  ii. — ix. 
in  either  space  or  time  may  be  those  of  man-  rru  •  •  t  i 
kind.  She  was  the  most  conspicuous  power  / "»"  U  appears  certain  that  the 
of  Europe;  growing  year  by  year  in  opu-  reigns  Of  Jilizabcth,  James,  Crooi- 
Fence,  public  knowledge,  and  foreign  re-  well,  William  HI.  Anne,  &c.  were 
Bown;  until  Cromwell  could  almost  realize  prosperous;  and  it  is  equally  certain 
the  splendid  improbability,  that,  <  Before  that  the  Charleses,  one  conniving  at 
he  died,  he  would  make  the  name  of  an  Popery,  the  other  secretly  professing 
Englishman  as  much  feared  and  honoured  it,  and  James  the  Second,  were  poll- 
as  ever  was  that  of  an  ancient  Roman.'  tically  unfortunate. 

"Charles  the  lid.  came  to  an  eminently  Mr.   Croly   brings  up    the   inquiry 

prosperous    throne.    Abroad   it   held  the  Jq^^    to    more    recent    events.     He 

toremost  rank,  Ae  fruit  of  the  vigour  of  the  g^^^^^  ^j^^^  ^^e  Administration  pledged 

Protectorate.    At  home  all  fiu:tion  bad  been  ,^   «.,,,^«....    »u.»   n^^u^}'^    ^« 

forgotten  in  the  general  joy  of  the  Restora-  '°   W^"  i-^^   ^V  i*"  "^    ^T'     T 

tbn.    But  Charlf.  was  i  ioncealed  Roman  ^'f'^^,  ^7  djfgraceful  events  (viz.  the 

Catholic •.    He  attempted  to  introduce  his  retreat  from  Sweden;  Egvpt  evacuat- 

religion.  The  Sur  of  England  was  instantly  ^i  White  lock  pulverized  at  Buenos 

darkened ;  the  Country  and  the  King  alike  Ayr«,    and    Duckworth    repulsed    at 

became  the  scorn  of  the  foreign  courts;  Constantinople  (all  in  180?);  but  that 

the  national  honour  was  scandalized  by  mer-  on  the  succession  of  the  '*  No  Popery 

Cenary  subserviency  to  France ;  the  national  Administration,*'  things  again  revived, 

arms  were  humiliated  by  a  disastrous  war  Providence  having  crowned  our  arms 

with  Holland ;  the  capital  was  swept  by  the  with   success   ever  since.     These  arc 

memorable  inflictions  of  pest'dence  and  con-  facts  ;  and  while  the  troops  and  inter- 

**P**'°°*  nal  government  of  the  Papal  states  re- 

<«  James  the  lid.  stni  more  opeqly  vio-  ^ain  what  they  are,  we  shaU  think 

lated  the  nauonal  trust.    He  publicly  be-  ^^^^  circumstances   actu^ly  vindicate 

came  a  Roman  Catholic.    This  filled  the  ^^^  hypothesis  of  Mr.  Ctoly  in  a  cool, 

cup.    The  Stuarts  were  cast  out,  they  and  •         •''^.u        *•     i    •          r.u* 

thiir  dynasty  for  ever ;  that  proud  line  of  dry   mathematicalview  of  thin-s. 

Kings  was  sentenced  to  wither  down  into  '    ^^«  "^Y  proceed  to  the  sulbsiancc 

a  monk,  and  that  monk  living  on  the  alma  «>»  the  work  itself;  the  application  hi- 

of  England,  a  stipendiary  and  an  exile.  therto  unreaarded  of  cerUm  prophe- 

«  William  was  caUed  to  the  throne.     He  c>«8  to  the  French  Revolution  and  iu 

found  it,  as  it  was  always  found  at  the  close  results.     Here  Mr.  Croly  shall  again, 

of  a  Popish  reign,  surrounded  by  a  host  of  speak  for  himself: 

difficulties ;  at  Eome  the  kingdom  in  a  fer-  ,,  gome  years  since,  in  a  cuual  reading  of 

mentl    Popery,  and    lU   ally  J»coJ?'t;»">.  the  Apocalypse,  I  was  struck  with  the  appa- 

girding  themselves  for  battle ;  fierce  disturb-  ^^^  ^^^,^^  J^  ^f  ^^  ^,^^^^^j^  ^j^         ^^^ 

ance  m   ScoUand ;  open  war    m  Ireland,  ^^  ^^^  .  ^^^  witnesses,'  to  one  of  the  most 

with  the  late  King  at  ,ts  head  J  abroad  the  extraordinary  evenU   if  our  time,  or  any 

French  Km^  domineering  over  Europe,  and  ^^^      ^^^  abjuration  of  Religion  by  a  GiA 

threatening  invasion.     In  the  scale  of  na-  ^emment  and  People!  a  circumstance  per- 

tious  England  nothuig  t ^^^,y  ^^^^  j^  ^j^^  \^.^^^^  ^^  ^^  ^^^^  ^^^ 

"  I  further  found  that  this  event  was  declared 

*  *'  He  had  solemnly  professed  Popery  to  mark  the  conclusion  of  an  sera,  in  which' 

on  the  eve  of  the  Restoration.  the  whole  chronology  of  the  Apocalypec 


18970                   Rkvibw.— Croly  on  the  Apocalypit.                      423 

WM   fixed,  the  well-knowii  <  twelve  hun-  the  genermi  conception  of  the  propheer.'*'— 

dred  and  sixty  jeart/  which  in  iheir  tarn  (Introd.  41,  4S.) 

were  declared  to  mark  the  Papal  supremacy  _^ 

from  the  time  of  iu  commencement  until  ^^  trumpets  and  vials,  Mr.  Croly 

the  cessation  of  <  its  power  over  the  saints,'  ^y^,  begin  a/let  the  date  of  the  In« 

its  power  of  persecution.'  quisition  j  and  by  the  fifth  trumpet,  he 

"This  ahjuration  occurred  in  1793,  the  says,  is  predicted  the  French  Revolu* 

first  year  of  the  French  Republic;  reckon-  lion.     But  a  very  curious  part  is,  the 

ing  1«6*0  years  back,  led  to  tlieir  commence-  famous   number  of  the    Beast,    666 

ment  in  A.D.  633.    On  referring  to  Bishop  which  in  fact  has  been  made  to  sienifv 

?rr^M    '  ^  T\T  Tf'Tn^'"  ^"y  'h'"g-     Mf-  Croly  shows  that  the 

date  bad  been  noticed,  I  found  (vol.  lip.  j^j^  ^^^„j          ^  ^     ^  •   .      j  ^             « 

305)  a  note  contammg  the  opmion  of  Dr.  fl-  ,„l^„      .u   .   •.    i        ©'"*"  "*"  "'^f" 

Mann  of  the  Charter-house,  tLn  deceased,  J^'^'^^^n  ;  that  it  does  not  mean  the 

that  the  year  533  was  to  be  consideied  as  ""^ber  of  a  man,    but  "a  number 

the  true  epoch  of  the  Papal  supremacy.  On  ^*  "™^"'  ^  number,  such  as  are  in  hu- 

reference  to  Baronius,  the  established  au-  Jjan  use,orsmiply  a  number."  (p.226.) 

thority  among  the    Roman    Catholic   an-  "^  says,  therefore,  that  "  the  problem 

nalists,  I  found  (cent.  6)  the  whole  detail  is  to  be  solved  by  the  discovery  of  that 

of  Justinian's  grant  of  supremacy  to  the  peculiar  number,  which  is  at  once**  the 

Pope  formally  given.  number  of  the  name  of  the  beast,''  and 

**  Baronius  has  been  a  suspected  autho-  equivalent  to  666."  (p.  227.)  Mr.  Croly 

rity,  where  the  honour  of  the  Popedom  is  then  says                                           * 
concerned.     But  his  statement  was  at  least 

proof  of  the  Romish  opinion  of  the  original  "  ^^  '*  ^^  ^  remarked  that  dates  and  num- 

ep>ch  of  the  supremacy ;  and  it  received  an  ^^^*  ^^   ^be  frequent  instrumenta   of  the 

unanswerable  support  from  the  books  of  the  Apocalypse;    obviously  firora  their  use   in 

I,  in  which  the  irrant  df  '  pri-  ^^'^S  f^^-     'The  1960  years*  is  so  ha- 


transaction  was  of  the  most  authentic  and  *  °®  °°**  *•  "^'  '"*  '*»°>*  o'  *  ™^>  not  con* 

r<»ular  kind,  and  suitable  to  the  importance  ^^ned  in  a  name  of  any  kind :  it  is  a  AUcp 

of  the  transfer.    The  grant  of  Phocas  was  ■°**  ^  *.  <^rtain  decree  a  description ;  iU 

found  to  be  a  confused  and  imperfect  trana-  P"'po»e  w  to  mUrk  the  birth  of  the  Inquisi- 

action,  scarcely  noticed  by  the  early  wri-  '*°°»  ""^  ^  connect  tliat  birth   with  the 

ters,  and,  even  iu  its  fullest  sense,  amount-  P&p^cy. 

ing  to  nothing  beyond  a  confirmation  of  the  "The   liatural  paraphrase  of  the  verse 

crant  of  Justinian.     The  chief  cause  of  its  (*®)  **  ^^V"*     ^®  Inquisition  has  been  in 

frequent  adoption  as  an  epoch  by  the  com-  '^®  preceding  verses  described  and  denounc- 

mentators,    seemed   to    be    its   convenient  **J^  ^7  *^®  ^P*"*  ^^  ^^ »  hut  to  remove 

coincidence  with  the  rise  of  Mahometanism.  whatever  doubt  might  arise  firom  mere  de* 

"  From  this  point  I  laid  aside  all  com-  fcription,  and  to  prove  to  oosterity  that  it 

mcntators,  and  determined  to  make  my  way  **  ^"*  Inquisition  which  is  here  denounced 

alone,  to  form  my  opinions  without  bias,  "***  beld  up  to  the  abhorrence  of  Christians 

and  discover  whether  the  difficulties  of  the  by  *he  Divine  Spirit;  the  exact  date  of  its 

prophecy  could  not  be  cleared  off  by  an  in-  origin  shall  be  given.    That  origm  shall  be 

quiry  iu  the  common  principles  of  inter-  ^^^   *be    title    of   Head    of    all    the 

pretation.     The  difficulties  were  less  stub-  Churches,  the  unpious  name  of  the  Beasts 

born  than  I  had  conceived;  and  the  present  "^^  *»»v«   reached  ita  666th  year,  'shall 

arrangement  and  interpretation  were  soon  n«°>h«r  6<»6.' That  name  was  given  in  633 ; 

decided  upon,"— (Introd.  pp.  1  i— 14.)  *be  Inquisition  shall  be  bom  in  1 198. 

Mr.Crolythen  proceeds  to  give  us  u[:^U';^7?:^  CZo^.^T^^ 

the  substance  of  the   new  inlerprcU-  fi^st  year  of  the  compliu^  supremacy,  when 

tion  m  the  following  words  :  the  Papacy  was  enthroned  spiritual  and  tern- 

"The  Greek  Church  and  Empire;  the  poral  lord  of  the  civilized  world-— in  the 

Mahometan  Invasion;  and  the  late  extiuc-  year  1198  was  the  portentous  offspring  of 

tion  of  the  Germanic  Empire,  are  usually  its  nature  and  ita  crimes,  the  Inquisition^ 

presumed  to  be  among  the  principal  subi-  issued  to  mankind  V*     pp.  S87^  928. 

Seutit  e^xSffi'hin.'ij:  T^r  ..^^  ^^'X  ?»■"'  '"  J>-. 450.  th-t  the 

diflfcrs  ftom  ita  predecessors  in  the  whoU  ^"'^  temptations  of  Chnst  also  denote 

explanation  of  the  trumpeto  and  vials;   in  l**^"^  THREE  GREAT  iERAS  of  CRiMB 

the  solution  of  the  number  6BG ;  in  that  of  *"  ^^^  Church  of  Rome." 

the  very  remarkable  chapter,  <the  vision  of  Our  readers  will  plainly  see  that  this 

the  locusta  ;*  and,  as  may  be  supposed,  in  18  a  very  curious  and  ingenious  book^ 


494 


RftvrBw,— Horsfield'itf  History  of  Lewet. 


[May, 


•nd  that  its  b^ttieaes  are  supported 
by  remarkable  coincidences.  To  the 
ditoovery  of  these  coincidences  Mr. 
Croly  is  justly  entitled.  The  subject 
ef  his  work  b  one  which  like  inhala^ 
lion  of  certain  gases,  is  suited  to  excite 
extraordinary  dreams,  but  Mr.  Croly 
has  certainly  brought  historical  evi- 
deace  to  bear  upon  it,  which  may,  in 
arguing  ^  priori,  be  presumed  com- 
prehensible in  the  meaning  of  the  Pro- 
phecy. For  Prophecy  is  by  no  means 
limited  to  single  interpretation ;  cer- 
tain psalms,  for  instance,  being  >known 
to  refer  both  to  David  and  to  Christ. 


a  ' 

for  Its  object  the  ancient  and  moderm* 
state  of  places,  aa  connected  with  per- 
sons and  events,  and  assimilates  a  pic- 
ture gallery  of  ancient  portraits,  land* 
scapes,  and  historical  subjects.  Owi 
improvement  we  should  like  to  see 
adopted,  viz.  the  descriptive  pert. 
It  is  now  in  general  vague  and  inde* 
finite;  but  Mr.  Fosbroke's  Tourist's 
Gramtrar,  a  cheap  work,  and  contain- 
ing all  the  marrow  of  the  great  writers 
of  the  picturesque,  would  with  only 
common  attention  enable  every  topo- 
grapher to  be  tasteful,  and  discrimina- 
tive in   his  accounts  of  places.     We 


Indeed  it  is  the  peculiar  distinction  of    could  mention  the  warm  approbation 


the  Bible  from  oiher  books  (as  we  have 
before  had  occasion  to  notice),  that 
matters  apparently  indifferent  are  in 
Mality  propnetic.  This  is  implied,  as 
we  think,  in  the  Scripture  being  the 
dictate  of  inspiration ;  for  why  should 
it  interfere  to  dictate  what  was  natu- 
rally matter  of  course.  Indeed  Provi- 
dence, in  even  profane  views  of  things, 
acts  in  a  most  extraordinary  prophetic 
manner.    Who,  for  example,  can  look 


which  it  has  received  from  professional 
landscape  gardeners,  but  we  deem  it 
unnecessary,  and  only  regret  that  any 
gentleman  should  engage  in  local  de- 
scription without  first  getting-np  the 
principles  of  the  picturesque,  ana  Mr. 
Fosbroke  has  made  it  easy  of  ac- 
quisition at  no  expence.  The  study 
is  not  only  easy,  but  delightful ;  and  as 
no  man  would  attempt  to  paint  a  land- 
scape who  had  never  learned  to  draw. 


upott  the  reverse  of  a  Roman  coin  of    so  neither  ought  he  to  describe  a  place 


Britannia,  and  behold  her  sitting  upon 
s  globe  with  the  ocean  at  her  feet,  and 
not  see  that  human  invention  could 
not  give  a  more  extraordinary  prophecy 
^  of  the  extent  of  her  future  naval  supre- 
macy? It  certainly  is  singular,  that 
dates  should  be  found  to  tally  so  mi- 
nutely with  the  prophecies ;  and,  as  it 
is  not  to  be  disputed  that  Popery  is 
roost  distinctly  recognized  in  the  Apo- 
calypse, it  is  perfectly  within  the  jus- 
tifiable limits  of  ratiocination,  to  make 
particular  applications  to  that  point. 
The  book  is,  however,  one  evioently 


without  being  able  to  give  its  distinct 
character;  fbr  the  words  hilly,  fiat, 
and  woody,  have  as  little  precise  mean* 
ing,  as  would  be  two  eyes,  a  nose,  and 
a  month,  for  the  specification  of  a  por- 
trait. 

The  places  nnder  notice  do  not  pre- 
sent many  subjects  of  curiosity;  but 
there  is  one  certainly  of  a  very  extra- 
ordinary kind,  which  we  pfpprehend 
is  an  unique,  viz.  a  biblionMiaiac 
farmer, — a  collector  of  ^lendid  edi- 
tions. So  odd  a  circumstance  may  be 
explained  by  craniologists ;  as  to  oor- 


of  study,  of  profound  meditation.  Of  selves,  we  should  be  rash  to  offer  an 
htgenuity  it  bears  evident  characteris-  opinion ;  indeed  we  should  be  afraid, 
tics,  and  very  probably  has  many  more     for  it  mi|^t  sanction  the  Pythagorean 


favourable  points  of  view,  than  we  are 
able  to  suggest,  because  we  cannot  af- 
ford the  time  and  room  recjui^ite  for 
piinuta  and  particular  investigations. 

7*.  The  Histury  and  AnHquilies  qf  Lewes 
flwf  its  yieinily.  By  the  Rev.  T.  W. 
ikortfidd,  F.S.A.  FbL  IT.  containing  a 
Destripiion  of  the  Bnvirqns,  ^c.  4to; 
JM.  S6B-.     Plates, 

w£  had>  occasion  justly  to  com- 
mend Mr.  Horsfield's  former  volume, 
and  we  willingly  allow  the  same  praise 
to  the  present.  It  is  written  upon 
correct  topographical  principles ;  for  it 
is  to  be  remembered  tnat  local  history 
belongs  to  the  literature  of  record ;  has 


metempsychosis,  viz.  that  print-cot- 
lectors  had  and  might  again  ne-inhabk 
the  earth  in  the  incongruous  form  of 
sturdy  husbandmen. 

Mr.  Horsfield's  account  of  this  non- 
descript is  as  follows : 

<'Mr.  John  Kimber  of  Chail^  near 
Lewes  wu  a  farmer  of  the  old  schooVplaia 
in  his  dress,  and  unassuming  in  hia  maonersi 
aad< though  his  unostentatious  af^Maranoe, 
united  with  bis  many  peculiarities^  ^gained 
him  the  character  of  a  misery  jfit  bis  tasti 
for  scarce  and  expensive  books  proppled 
bim  to  spend  considerable  sums  of  money 
in  its  gratification.  Whilst  some  of  bis 
neighbours  regarded  biro  aa  the  slave  of 
avaiice ;  others,  not  more  justly^/xihsidered 
him  as  one  of  those  whom  much  leamiag 


IM7.3 


RiTiBV.— Hoa6eld'«  Bittwp  ofLafm. 


m 


hmd  HBsdeM  m$A*  Hit  Umiag,  howtvfr, 
WM  very  tupei^ciAli  wad  though,  llkt  maoj 
olhar  ooUectoKBy  he  wu  mora  gratified  l^ 
potieMiDg  than  hy  using  his  literarr  wealth, 
the  books  thet  he  most  sopght  aner  wera 
luch  as  wera  highly  embellished;  scarce 
editions  he  valued  less  than  splendid  co- 
pies, and  what  was  showy  pleased  him  more 
than  what  was  useful 

*'A  gentleman,  to  whom  Kimber  was 
previously  uuknown,  informed  me  that  on 
one  occasion,  entering  his  bookseller's  shop, 
he  was  surprised  to  hear  a  plain  and  meanly 
dressed  farmer,  whose  conversation  indicat- 
ed a  mind  scarcely  superior  to  that  of  the 
humblest  peasant,  bargaining  with  the  book- 
seller for  a  copy  of  MackLia*s  Bible,  pub- 
iished  at  about  80  guineas.  With  asto- 
nishment he  soon  beheld  him  pay  down  the 
stipulated  sum,  and  place  the  six  ponderous 
volumes  in  a  sack,  with  which  he  had  come 
furnished,  and  staggering  under  his  load, 
carry  them  to  the  door,  where  an  old  cart- 
horse stood  ready  to  receive  the  burden. 
With  some  assistance,  the  well-tied  sack 
was  hoisted  on  the  baok  of  the  animal,  the 
ttirrup  leather  listened  around  it  with  coiJs, 
and  the  happy  purahaser,  balancing  the 
load  with  his  hand,  trudged  along  by  the 
side  of  his  old  servant,  apparently  antici- 
pating the  Joy  4hat  awaited  him,  when  the 
treasure  he  had  amassed  should  be  safely  de- 
posited amongst  his  bulky  tomes  at  Chs[dley. 
'*  On  entering  the  house  of  Mr.  Kimber, 
the  visitor  would  perceive  no  trace  of  the 
owner's  taste.  Not  a  volume  displayed  its 
gay  covering,  not  a  shelf  bent  nnder  the 
weight  of  literary  laboun ;  all  h*is  books 
were  neatly  parked  in  boxes,  which,  piled 
one  upon  the  other,  formed  no  inconsider- 
able part  of  the  fimiiture  of  -fais  bed-room ; 
on  tnese  he  gazed  with  pleasure,  when  the 
morning  beamed,  and  to  them  he  had  jw- 
coune,  when  the  evening  twilight  came, 
to  while  away  the  houES  till  bed. time. 
Seated  in  his  chimney  corner  he, again  aqd 
•gain  turned  over  the  leaves  of  his  oostly  vo- 

-lomes ,  exulting  in  the  embellishments,  f#r 
which  they  were  valued,  and  on  account  of 

.which  they  were  bought,  and  though  he 
could  be  said  to  be  intimate  with  the  letter 
preN  of  the  volumes  which  he  possessed,  he 
was  certainly  not  i|nacquainted  with  the  en- 
gravings by  which  diey  were  illustrated. 
'  But  it  was  not  on  books  alone  that 

(Mr.  Kimber  expended  large  sums :  lie  was 
equally  the  natron  of  science.  .Costly  maps 
decorated  toe  boxes,  in  which  thsy  were 
vndosed ;  magnificent  globes  were  sa£ely 
peeked  in  cases,  which  warned  the  CMmer 
to  be  wary  of  his  charge ;  theodolites  and 
telescopes,  protneton  and  *  quadrants,  p)a' 
oetariums,  lunariums,  and  portable  orreries, 
were  sheltered  in  boxes  from  the  dust  oi 
the  cbamber-m^d,  «nd  tver  ready  for  tve 
as  soon  as  unpadded* 
Qmnt.  Mao.  May,  1827. 


**  On  the  deatli  of  this  literaij  and  tei- 
entifio  farmer,  his  property,  whicn  was  left 
|o  his  brothera  and  nephews  (and  wbiek 
did  not  amount  to  more  than  4000/.),  wip 
disposed  of.  His  books  and  philosophical 
apparatus  were  disposed  of  by  auction  in 
Lewes  I  and  the  competition  was  sudi  as 
to  turn  to  good  account  the  taste  o{  ihe 
wortliy  Bibliomaniac."     P.  57. 

The  Downs  are  full  of  the  ear4h» 
works  of  British  villages;  and  the 
fullowioff  account  of  the  fortiBcatjoni 
about  the  Harbour  of  Newhaven, 
shows  that  they  were  very  similar  lo 
those  on  the  Avon,  near  Clifton  and 
Bristol : 

*'  The  parish  of  Iford  is  in  the  hundred 
of  Swanborough  in  the  rape  of  Lewes. 
This  hundred  is  called  in  Domesday,  So- 
neberge,  Soanelierg,  and  SuaneWge.  It 
probably  derived  its  name  from  an  ancient 
tort  or  berg,  situated  on  the  side  of  the 
road,  leading  from  the  harbour  of  New- 
haven  to  the  town  of  Lewes.  The  fos^ 
and  vallum,  of  a  square  or  Roman  font, 
were  till  lately  visible  on  the  manor  fiiLrm, 
which  takes  the  name  of  the  hundred. 
The  fort  w^  probably  designed  as  a  pro- 
tection for  the  country  people  (called  Suatm 
by  the  Saxons)  in  the  event  of  any  suflden 
invasion  or  surprise,  till  the  strength  of  the 
country  could  be  collected  together  at 
Lewes  Castle.  A  similar  berg  or  fort  was 
constructed  on  an  elevated  piece  of  ground, 
called  the  Castle  field,  between  Deans  tad 
Piddtnghoe.  At  the  mouth  of  the  an- 
cient harbour  of  Newhaven,  which  ihen 
extended  from  headland  to  headland,  'fitn 
two  other  castles  or  camps,  intended  doubt- 
less for  the  protection  of  the  harbour, 
of  a  circnlar  form,  and  supposed  to  be  of 
British  construction  ;  the  ohi,  on  the  point 
of  Castle-hill,  overlooks  the  nejv  haroovr, 
the  other  at  the  end  is  between  Cnekmere 
haven  and  Seaford.  Both  are  at  present 
of  a  semicireular  form,  having  lost  thnir 
original  shape  by  the  reiterated  action  of  t^ 
sea  and  air  on  the  crumbling  cliff."   P.  186. 

We  must  notice  some  few  uniip- 
portant  mistakes.  Mr.  Fosbroke  hav- 
ing said  that  from  the  Waatail  beiqg 
mentioned  by-  PlaMtus,  aojd  JcQOVvm 
also  in  France,  it  could  not  originate 
in  a  meeting  of  Vortigern  and  Kow- 
ena  (Encycl.  of  Antiq.),  Mr.  Horsfieid 
aays  he  does  not  see  this,  because  it 
may  have  been  known  to  the  Romans 
and  Gauls,  and  yet  the  Brttons  be  ig. 
norant  of  it  (p.  89).  Does  not  Mr. 
Horsdeld  recollect  the  Romanized  Bri- 
tons, and  that  they  were  not  ignorant 
of  the  manners  and  customs  prevalept 
in  Italy  and  France  I    ^yei^x^Kk^  "^^ 


4%S  Rbvibw.— 2V«7K)i^  dan$  V autre  Monde.  [Mftjr, 

'originate  among  those  who  happened  Britain,  but  the  contrary.  Even  ud« 
on^  to  exhibit  a  coincidence.  der  success,  the  scheme  would  be  on 
in  p.  156  we  have,  among  Church  far  too  large  a  scale  for  the  nation  to 
furniture,  cunells  for  cruel,  and  sactimq  support ;  and  so  it  proved  to  Napo> 
hell  for  sacring  lelL  leon  with  much  greater  military  meant. 
In  p.  224  is  the  following  passage  s  The  event  has  proved  that  the  empire 
"  An  undoubted  Roman  road  passed  ?^  ^^'^  ^"ge  Usurper  only  terminated 
through  the  neighbouring  parish  of  Clay-  >«  a  "sclcss  waste  of  blood  and  tret- 
ton.  The  direction  of  that  road,  as  traced  sure,  and  an  enormous  increase  of  on- 
by  Mr.  Vine,  is  nearlv  parallel  with  the  one  necessary  misery, 
supposed  by  Mr.  Elliot  to  pass  through  To  a  prejudiced  Frenchman,  how- 
Street;  but  as  It  does  not  seem  probable  ever,  anu  numerous  admirers  of  Na- 
that  the  labour  of  forming  two  parallel  poleon,  the  work  will  bear  a  very  dif- 
roads  at  the  disUnce  of  not  more  than  three  ferent  aspect, — that  of  the  homage  of 
jniles  from  each  other,  and  that  too  through  the  world  to  a  hero,  and  it  would  be 
Uie  impervious  Sylva  Anderida,  could  have  jj^j.^^  ^^  ^  ^^  ^^^  ^^^hor  the  praise 
been  compensaud  by  any  advantages  which  ^f  talent.  Of  many  French  characlen 
miffbt  be  reaped  from  them,  we  must  ques-  .u^£.^i>  .  .i. 

tii  tb.  «!cS™cy  of  Mr.  EUiof.  hyp^the-  S''°  ,«§"'«•  »«'*?   "   »"»»   '«  ^^^ 

P  «24  Kevolutionary  tragedy,  accounts  may 


au." 


.^  .  .  „ ,  1  .  «  ^  >^c"»  hitherto  unknown  to  English- 
Now  it  18  well  known,  that  the  Ro-  „en ;  and  though  there  is  something 
mans  threw  out  roads  oarallel  to  those  ^^  ;„  calling  the  "immortai  Fax^ 
of  the  Bntons.  In  Mess.  Lyjonss  the  flambeau  of  Great  Briuin.  and 
Britannia,  vol.  I.  IS  an  etchmg  of  two  making  Buonapartd  say,  that  had  he 
8i2ch  roads  running  thus  in  the  vici-  n^^d  in  the  barbarous  ages  he  would 
nity  of  each  other ;  and  to  show  this  have  been  calumniated  as  Antichrist 
Mrallelism  is  the  specific  object  of  the  (p.  333.    y^t  no  man,  though   weU- 

P  Sit*    T-                   •       !_•    L     1  disposed  to  Government  (and  we  can 

The  Engravings  in  this  book  are  g^feiy  ,3y  this  concerning  ourselves), 

veiy  good;  and  upon  the  whole  great  ^m  aver  that  Lord  Castlefeagh  did  in 

credit  IS  due  to  Mr.  Horsfield.  his  diplomacy  consult  the  interest  of 

♦  his  country,  or  give  to  England  the 

73.  Napoleon  dans  T  autre  Monde:  ritation  character  of  a  benefactor,  which  would 

ierUepar  tui'-mhjIiefettrimviehSte.l^k'  have  showered   down    upon    her  the 

Mkntf  au  pied  de  son  tombeau,  par  Zongo-  blessings  of  the  Continent.    Napoleon 

Tae-Foh-Tchi,  Mandarin  de  Sme  elatse.  is  made  to  say  justly  to  Lord  Castle- 

Bvo.  pp.  899.  reaghy 

WHEN  Wilkes  (we  believe)  was  "J*ai  souffert,  et  ce    n'est  plus  cp'un 

asked  whether  he  had  committed  some  songfl ;  mais  il  n*en  est  pas  de  m^me,  lors- 

trifling  Jaux-pcu,  he   made  answer —  qve  Je  passt   en  revue    les  traces  effimy- 

•*  No  !    I   never  commit  small   sins,  •»*«•  qo«  ▼<>*'«  syst^me  a  laiss^s  snr  la 

only  great  ones."     In  thfc  same  man-  t«rre....Ange    tzterminateur   vous    n'avez 

ner  we  perfectly  acquit  Buonaparte  of  ^pwgn^  personnel  pas  m«me  votre  propre 

the  mean  vices,  connected  with  little-  RV**  •  u  .  .***  /Tr**"*   ^  .J!   '^P^l*^  '^ 

ness  of  mind,  but  consider  his  ambi-  |>«*"*^hel       Gines  «crifi^  au    despo- 

tion  to  have  been  only  short  of  that  ^^  Sful^L  !*  "[^'Ti'^r^ 

-»      .|.             j»u.cj'j        *  — *^  Uelgique  reunie  "maladroitement  a  la 

of  Lucifer  ;  and  that  he  did  not  re-  Hollands  !!^U  France  divis^e  en  mille  par- 

gurd,  more  than  the  fallen  Archangel,  tj. ,  esclave  du  Jesuitisme ! !    U  Pmsse, 

ow  many  peaceable  happy  beings  he  toapirant,  aprb  une   constitution   qu^elle 

converted  into  devils.  n'obtiendrm  jamais  !  !  La  Pologne  assujettie 

The  book  before  us  is,  however,  a  i  sa  pers^cntrice  de  tous  les  sidles,  I'loez- 

funeral  oration  in  honou£  of  Napoleon,  orable  Riusie  ! !    L*£spagne  dechir^e  par 

whom  our  author  places  in  a  heaven  Tanarchie  et  la  mis^re — U  Russie  pr^te  i 

of  his  own  (the  author*s)  making,  be-  fo«t  engloutir,  et  TAngleterre  specutrice 

cause    he    consulted,    as    our   author  i«P«iw»nte  de  tout  ce  qu'il  pUira  auz  olt- 

maintains  (not  we)    the  good  of  his  f"^"««    d'entreprendre   pour   le    malhenr 


liHo  aoldierB,  for  the  purpose  of  roak-    d^muWfea,  ywu  Vi.  ^^iim  «iom«  qn'ttle 
Mag  a  cfiuade  against  other  naliont,    •.vtit  au^pt^wtibA  *.  VViaAa  ^  c«%  t«Mrat««i« 
woaid  be  at  all  a  benefactor  to  Gtcai    %\\%iMena\  ^  m  tAvMt  ^  YmrnKM^Vvt- 


i8sr.] 


Vt^}ii%w»f^NapoUon^dang.V4utreM(Me. 


4«7 


4miv  qui  VtiecMt,  tt  Itot  oaOa  tent  ptot- 
<ire  tn  ce  moment  lit  fuoct tn  const- , 
qntnctt ! ! !  .  6i  Tons  am  pr^fS^  I'tnUr^t , 
dt  Totrt  jptyi  k  qutli|iiti  rnbtnt  lutpendity 
k  Totrt  ntbit;  k  qotlquti  ttrrement  de 
main  de  la  part  dt  tonTerains ;  vout 
etutiez  laisi  la  seult  oeaaaion  qni  tt  soit  - 
offeite,  et  qni  ne  te  prttfnttra  Jamais  plos 
— les  sonvtmins,  en  voos  iattant  tous  ont 
dup^;  ils  savaient  qae  plot 'Us  enflerutnt 
votre  amoor  propre,  plot  ils  diminutraitDt 
— les  pretentions  de  la  puissance  lib^ra- 
ratrice,  confier  k  Totre  administration.  lb 
J  ont  r^ssi !  !  #e  peut-il  que  TAngleterre 
ait  tout  joue,  tout  gagne,  et  qu*elie  n'ait 
rien  f    P.  357. 

In  candour,  we  are  bound  to  con- 
fess ihat  Lord  Castlereagh  could  not 
have  carried  all  these  points,  but  he 
might  have  done  much  good.  Inter 
alia,  he  might  have  saved  the  Vau- 
dois  and  French  Protestants  from  op- 
pression and  persccottbn ;  but  his  greet 
and  ^rand  error  was  permission  to  the 
Contmental  powers  of  possessing  Su- 
gar Islands.  The  loss  nas  been  esti- 
mated in  the  Shipping  Interest  alone 
at  an  enormous  annual  sum. 

*'  During  the  war,  says  Mr.  Torrtns  (on 
the  Production  of  Wealth,  p.  tS9)»  the 
United  Kingdom  was  the  entrepU  fat  the 
colonial  trade  of  Europe.  The  consign- 
ments from  all  the  colonies  of  produce  for 
the  purchase  of  foreign  goods,  and  from  all 
the  countries  of  Europe  of  foreign  goods 
for  the  purchase  of  colonial  producCf  con- 
stituted an  immense  mercantile  capital,  cir- 
culating throughout  the  ports  of  the  United 
Kingdom,  paymg  a  regular  commission  to 
the  British  merchant,  with  dues,  profits, 
and  rents  for  the  use  of  docks,  wharfs,  and 
warehouses.  When  peace  returned,  and 
England  resigned  her  colonial  conanests, 
this  immense  floating  capital  was  no  longer 
attracted  to  her  ports.  The  Brituh  mer- 
chant ceased  to  receive  his  accustomed  com- 
mission, and  the  proprietor  of  docks  and 
warehouses  the  dues  and  rents  paid  bj  the 
colonial  and  continental  consumer ;  and  the 
cessation  of  hostilitie^  instead  of  giving,  as 
some  persons  seemed  to  expect,  a  new  im- 
pulse to  commercial  prosperity,  was  followed 
by  a  diminution  of  trade  and  a  loss  of 
wealth." 

•  The  fact  is,  that  Lord  Castlereagh 
was  not  «  statesman,  only  a  House  of 
Commons  minister. 

Buonaparte,  however,  had  his  errors 
also.  Our  author  enumerates  among 
these  bis  omission  to  extinguish  Po- 
pery. 

«  La  conservation  da  Papisme  a  entre- 
tenu  chez  les  peuples  d'Espa^ne,  db  France, 
tt  d'ltalic,  un  tel  germe  d'lgnorance  et  de 
scrvilisme,    que   Its  siicoesstiixs .  du  grand 


4 

homme  ayant  tnmv^  le  b6eher  pr£t«  ils  n'qbt . 
en  qu'  k  y  jtttr  unt  itincelle  pour  en  em- 
braser  leurs  itats."    P.  1 16. 

Our  author  either  forgot  or  did  not 
know,  that  Pjopery    is   favourable  to; 
despotism  ;  and  that  such  a  knowledge , 
no  doubt  greatly  contributed  to  its  pre- 
servation by  Buonaparte,  as  it  has  in 
other  countries. 

Our  author  does  great  justice  to  the 
liberty,  and  consequent  ckilitical  |>ower, 
which  will  ever  attend  Great  Britain. 

He  says,  in  a  pretended  vision, 
'<Deux  aigles  gigantesque  (monstres  k 
donble  t^te  et  k  quadruples  serres)  sembleat 
destiner  k  leur  p4ture  les  legions  victo- 
rieuses  de I'antique  Britannia*... .La  Liberty 
s'avanoe,  elle  montre  sa  redoutaUe  igide !. 
les  monst^  effray^s  s'envolent  vers  U  ca- 
pitale  du  Danube." 

This  work  will,wciindetstand,sooEi: 
appear  io  an  English  dress. 

74.    IHstoire    du    Manage  da  Preires  en 
Fn.nce,parUettlUrementdepuisl799»  Par 
M.   Or^ire,   ancien  Evique  de   Bhit,' 
Paris,  1836.     8eo.  pp,  x'l,  166. 

FEW  Ecclesiastics  of  the  present 
day  will  bequeath  to  posterity  so  en* 
viable  a  uattem  as  the  Constitutional 
Bishop  ot  Blois.  His  letter  to  the  In- 
quisitor De  Arce,  exhorting  him  to 
abolish  the  holy  office,  is  written  in 
the  purest  strain  of  philanthropy :  and 
its  only  blemish  is  the  dream  of  poli- 
tical fraternity,  in  which  his  country- 
men then  indulged.  At  the  same 
time,  he  was  the  first  person  to  pro- 
pose openly  the  emancipation  of  the  . 
Jews,  which,  under  the  Imperial  go- 
vernment, vras  carried  into  effect.  His 
share  in  the  Revolution  is  more  equi- 
vocal ;  but  it  is  one  thing  to  embark 
in  schemes  with  the  ardour  of  convic« 
tion  that  they  are  beneficial,  and  ano- 
ther to  decide  in  the  closet  upon  the 
prudence  of  their  supporters.  If  in 
the  heat  of  that  feeling  ne  pronounced 
England  the  tyrant  of  the  sea  (for 
England  he  may  be  presumed  to  have 
meant),  the  society  of  the  patron  of 
Cowper  taught  him  otherwise,  and  h^ 
made  our  land  ample  amends,  by  styl- 
ing her  the  country  in  which,  of  all 
Europe,  the  most  religion  is  to  be 
found. 

At  the  Restoration,  M.Gr^oirewas 
removed  from  the  see  which  he  had 
held  under  the  Constitutional  and  Im- 
perial Grovernments.    He  wbhed   to 

*  A  curious  ¥it3&«Vu&cfiAA»tL^Mk  ^^^^N^ 
Eiigluid.**— Reo. 


/■ 


4M         Rb viBW.-«-^lfiiioir«  dd  Marriage  des  Pr^es  en  France.      [May, 

re^me  the  patd  of  poHlics,  and,  we  notinced   ceTibairy  a^  a  criftie^,  ati4 

Mitvt,  was  actuatly  returned  as  a  de-  their  proceedings,  as  detailed  iik  Mt 

futy,  but  his  session  was  not  allowed,  tfact,  were  as  strange  as    they  were 

^ernaps,  on  a  review  of  his  literary  cruel.     But  what  is  unjust  towards  ao- 

labours,  he  may  congratulate  himself  ciety,  when    originating    in  caprice, 

on  the  prohibition.  must  bear  another  character  when  its 

The  present  work  is  less  of  an  ela-  intention  is  beneficial.    The  posterity 

borate  discussion  of  the  question  of  of  an  individual  cannot  be  balanced 

Ecclesiastical     Marriages,     than    one  with  the  good  which  a  virtuous  and 

growing  out  of  the  consec^uences  of  ardent  mind  may  produce,  when  re- 

the  Revolution.     But  it  will  inform  le.ised  from  domestic  society ;  not  that 

those  who  do  not  wish  to  study  deeper,  we  forget  Howard  to  have  been  a  hu8« 

and  we  should  be  ungrateful,  were  we  band  and  a  father,  but  his  case  is  air 

not  to  say  that  we  consider  this  tract  exception ;  afid   those  whose  benevo* 

as    being    all   (controversy  excepted)  lence   must   make  home  its   6rst  >ol>- 

that  it  is  necessary  to  rend.  ject,  will  have  proportionably  little  to 

The  question  is  one  of  uncertainty, '  bestow   on  those  around.     There  is 

because  the  Scriptures  give  no  rules  danger,  that  celibacy  may  produce  the 

concerning  it,  unless  a  permission  be  most    exclusive  selfishness  ||,    and   to 

implied  from  the  absence  of  prohibi-  counteract  this  tendency  it  requires  a 

tlOn,  and  the  lineal  succession  of  (he  constant  succession   of  active   duties. 

Aaronical   priesthood.      St.  Paul   for-  The  monks  of  JCa  Trappe,  observes 

bids  polygamy  to  the  Clergy*,  and  as-  M.  Chenien,  are  useless  to  the  world, 

scrts  nb  right  of  marriage,  and  of  tra-  while  those   of  Si.  Bernard  merit  its 

▼dling  with  a  wifef.     M.  Gr^oire  gratitude. 

observes,  that  St.  Peter  is  perhaps  the  As  a  specimen  of  our  author's  man- 
only  one  of  the  Apostles,  whose  mar-  ner,  we  give  the  following  extract^, 
riage  is  proved.^  But  the  words  of  the  which  may  serve  as  an  answer  to  two 
Apostle  refer  also  to  the  brothers  ^or  qtlestions  naturally  growing  out  of  this 
eousins)  of  (he  Lord  ;  and  the  posterity  argument: 

of  St.  Jude  are  mentioned  in   subse-  ..  />     .        j               j    .      • 

^  u*  » *      u    au         1              II  ''On  demsndera  lant  doate  si  ces  as- 

fluent  history  t.     He  then  asks,  would  ^.         ^^^  ^^^  ^^           ^.  ,^  ^^^^^^^^     . 

Ac  Apostles  have  praised  the  virtue  of  ,^„^^  ,.,  ^^^  ^^„j„.^^  ^g^^^  ^  ^^^  J^ 

chastity,  without  setlmg  an  example  ^^  ,j  ^-^^  j^  ,^„,  „„i^„,    Qudques  uas 

of  It?    To   this  we  answer,  that  the  ^^^  offert  ce  resultatj    mats  beaucoup  de 

precept  must  be  considered  as  being  ces  manages,    mal  Msortis,    out   en   des 

c^>posed,  not  to  matrimony,  but  to  li-  suites  facheuses.    La  disparity  d*^ucatioBy 

centiousness.  d'opinions   et    de  moeurs,    saffisait     poar 

In  fact,  the  question  is  one. of  ex-  troubler  rharmonie,  et  souvent  le  joug  dii 

pediency.     Does   celibacy  conduce  to  manage  a  veog^  le  c^libat.    Au  milieu  des 

the  better  performance  ot  ecclesiastical  vicissitudes  et  des  reactions  politiques,  des 

duties  ?  and  the  decrees  of  Councils,  P'^tres  devenus  ^poux,  out  it4  d6voT€»  de 

and  the  writings  of  the  Fathers,  do  but  *^^*S"°'  P?*"°°  f **7°*'^  qui  aum  sans  doute 

evince    the    current    opinion    of   the  •J>r^gf  l*v,edeplusieurs...QuoiquenFnuice 

•;».«•       AH  n<.r»<.i.:»n»«   :«  »»..:,«.»  ««  I  opinion  soit  versatile  et  souvent  erron^, 

times.     i\il  experience  is  aeainst  ce-  .   '^ .     n      *    ^  t**  .    ^*      j    ^ . 

i-i          ^    •    .       \'        ^1         u      u  jamais  elle  neut  I  injustice   de  faire  peser 

ibacy  as  injunctive,  though  when  vo-  \^^^^^  ^^.^^^^^  ,^^  {^      ^^^^.^^        J^^. 

luntarily  practised,  it  is  In  many  re-  breuse  des  prfttres  mrti^s.    D'ailleurs,  par- 

IpecU  beneficial.     But  every  mind  is  milesjeunes  gens  issus  de  ces  unions  on 

not  so  tempered  as  to  endure  it ;  and,  pcut  en  citcr  qui,  par  Tint^grit^  de  leurs 

instead  of  forbidding  marriage  to  the  mceurs  et  T^clat  des  ulens,  parcourent  avec 

clergy,  it  would  be  desirable  to  make  tucc^s  la  double  carri^re  du  barreau  et  de 

ihe  priesthood  an  asylum  to  those  who,  U  litt^rature."  C.  x.  pp.  122, 123. 

ftom  whatever  reawn.  are  unlikely  to  ^Te  have  said  nothing  of  the  local" 

^i?'"  -D 1  •■     •  .      r   u            J  argument,  because  it  has  only  a  local 

The  Revol»t.on.sU  of   France  de-  .^%^^^    ^e  doubt  whether  the  no- 

♦  1  Tim.  iii.  2.  — — _^_______ 

f  1  Cor.  ix.  5.     As  this  verse  is  in  the  §  In  Scripture,   we  may  observe,  that 

form  of  an  answer,   we  may  suppose  the  voluntary  ccfibacy  is   recognised  in  Matt. 

Apostle  to  be  refuting  the  vexatious  ques-  xix.  12,  and  compulsory  celibacy  is  con- 

tionS  of  others,  who  forbade  wedlock  to  the  soled  in  Isaiah  Ivi.  4,  5. 

itoijijstiy.        .  II  S*e  the  affscting  story  of  St.  Donstan, 

*  EuBeh.  Ecckt.  nisi,  iii.  ll>  19,  io.  Iii  Turiicr^s  An^lo-Saxons,  rel^n  of  Edwin. 


IIW.] 


IUTiBw.<ifMH8j^iiiaN 


PoeteiSii, 


4a» 


ioridus  priest,  J^kn  BaH,  was  hmt- 
iM,  iud  must  itiforin  the  author,  thai 
felhwskipi  and  Uy'ingi  are  nol  conrerf^ 
ibie  terms.  If  there  be  any  other  mis« 
takes,  they  have  escaped  our  notice. 


75.  SpecimensqfBntith  Poetesses;  teUcted 
and  OtnnohgicaUy  Arranged  by  the  Rep, 
Alexaoder  Dyca,  B.A.  Oxod. 

HOWEVER  high  and  lofty  a  claim 
may  be  exuitingly  advanced  for  our 
fair  band  of  lyrists  of  the  present  day, 
and  however  their  fugitive  scatterings 
may  be  lauded  by  the  periodical  press, 
we  of  a  graver  age  cannot  erase  from 
memory  *  things  that  were.'     We  still 
feel  a  veneration  for  the  Muse  when 
her  handmaids  enrobed  her  with  the 
siifl'and  rich  brocade,  and  doubt  whe- 
ther the  gympe  and  cumbrous  finery 
•he  then  wore  has  dot  yet  more  of  the 
imagery  and  lasting  attributes  of  poe- 
try, than  the  tinsel  and  fringe  so  la- 
vishly manufactured  to  adorn  her  now. 
With  these  impressions  we  felt  a  ma- 
nifold obligation  to  the  industry  of  the 
Editor  of  this  volume  in  again  calling 
to  meniory  the  casual  and  unlaboured 
productions  of  the  early  •  British  Poet- 
esses,' too  long  neglected  and  dispersed, 
fugitives  that   needed    some   friendly 
hand  to  gather  them  into  the  garner. 
The  task  is  now  6tly  and  judiciously 
performed.     To  each  article  is  affixed 
a  brief  and  useful  notice,  but  of  ninety 
specimens,   commencing   with  Dame 
Juliana  Berners,  and  ending  with  Le- 
titia  Eliza  Landon,  sixty  the  flickerinz 
of  fancy   may   term   'old-fashioned/ 
This  objection,  if  it  is  one,  the  Editor 
has  attempted  to  obviate  by  devoting  a 
moiety  of  the  volume  to  Mary  Robin- 
son, and  her  contemporaries  and  succes- 
tors,  the  ardent  founders  of  (borrowing 
a  hackneyed  phrase)  the  new  schools. 
Jane  Barker  and  some  lesser  lights  of 
the  seventeenth  century  are  omitted, 
probably  to   form  a   corps  of  reserve 
for  another  edition.     Favouritism  also 
appears  in   rejecting   among  the  mo- 
derns, for  we  can  hardly  believe  the 
Editor  unacquainted  with  the  produc- 
tions of  Lady  Manners,   Maria  Rid- 
dell,  Anne  Bannezman,  &c.  certainly 
names     of    omniparity     with    some 
that  swell  his  list  of  poetesses.    Ad- 
mitting   specimens    of   living    writ- 
ers,   however    '  the   female   mind    is 
making  a  rapid  advance,'  had  better 
have  been  avoided.     We  are  costive 
enough  to  believe  the  '  Indiffereace ' 


of  *itng|le  piece  Greville'  wiH  bean» 
a  star  of  fame  when  ume  has  diort- 
wished  the  galaxy  of  modem  brillianee 
into  a  thousandth  ray.  In  other  re« 
spects  the  Editor's  votame, '  one  of  the 
first  that  has  been  entirely  consecrated 
to  women,'  is  excellent,  forming  a  va- 
kiaUe  Apperkiix  to  the  'Specimens' 
of  Ellis,  Southcy,  and  Campbell,  and 
must  be  considered,  like  those,  u 
standard  work. 

76.      The  Tor  HilL      By  the  Author  tf 
"  Brambletye  House,'*  ifc,    Jn  three  vob. 
Bvo.     Col  burn. 

THE  author  of  this  work  stands 
much  in  the  same  relation  to  his 
••great  Exemplar,"  as  the  ordinaiy 
novel  writers  of  the  day  stand  towards 
him — there  is  a  great  gulph  between 
each,  through  which  it  seems  impose 
sible  for  either  to  |>ass.  There  is  a 
steady  and  pleasing  course,  very  far 
above  mediocrity,  very  much  below 
the  standard  of  excellence,  in  which 
he  moves ;  and  layihg  aside  all  invi- 
dious comparisons,  to  which  we  have 
been  formerly  forced  by  the  injudi- 
cious praise  of  interested  parties,  we 
are  most  willing  to  award  him  the 
merit  that  belongs  to  a  lively  and  in- 
genious writer.  Such  are  our  honest 
impressions.  We  hail  him  thcrefoie 
as  a  powerful  auxiliary  in  the  ranks  of 
imaginative  writers,  with  strength  ana 
resources  sufficient  to  interest  and 
amuse  during  the  absence  of  ^^Tke 
Master,'*  anuwith  an  ease  and  a  greet 
that  belong  only  to  genius  and  a  cul- 
tivated taste. 

The  subject  of  the  present  story  be- 
longs to  the  times  of  the  Eighth 
Henry,  a  period  the  most  pregnant 
with  moral  consequences  to  us  and  to 
our  posterity  of  any  that  history  nm- 
brnces.  For,  as  Mr.  Smith  has  well 
and  beautifully  observed  in  allusion  to 
the  rices  and  depravities  of  this  Mo- 
narch and  his  Court :  **  from  these  poi- 
sonous elements  did  Heaven,  by  a 
beautiful  moral  alchemy  that  merits 
our  admiration  not  less  than  our  gra- 
titude, extract  that  inestimable  elixir 
of  Reformed  Christianity,  which  ef- 
fected more  in  a  few  years  towards 
ennobling  and  advancing  the  humau 
race  than  all  that  had  been  accom- 
plished since  the  birth  of  Christ.*' 

The  references  to  this  important 
event  are  therefore  among  the  most 
interesting  occurrences  of  the  vqIu«c<c;<« 
and  xht'j  wt.  xwixA  Vpj  ts^x  ^wj^irr.  v^ 


430                             HtriBw,— r^e  Tor  UilL  [Majr^ 

a  manner  most  creditable  to  his  talents,  land    in    the   immediate  vicinity  <^ 

and  most  honourable  to  the  estimate  Wells  in  Somersetshire,  and  in   the. 

he  has  formed  of  the  value  of  this  neighbourhood    of    Sir  Lionel  Fitz- 

great  blessing.    A  benefit  which  sub-  maurice. 

serves  in  his  hand  to  exalt  a  feeble  in-  We  must  pass  oftx  a  capital  descrip-. 

tellect  to  the  heroic  daring  of  a  Chris-  tion  of  the  Hostelry  of  "  The  Tables/' 

tian  martyr,  and  to  subdue  a  fiery  and  the  Landlady  **  Sib  Fawcett,*'  and  the 

impatient  spirit  to  th^  meekness  and  adventures  of  Dudley   and    his   man. 

angelic  temperament  of   the  Gospel  in  the  cavern  of  "  \Vokey  hole,*'  as 

of  Peace.     We  will  endeavour  to  give  contributing  litUe  to  the  progress  of  the 

a  broad  outline  of  the  story  itself.  story.     But  we  will  bring  the  travel- 

The  work  opens    at    Calais,    and  lers  at  once  into  the  presence  of  the 

S'ves  a  portrait  of  Sir  Giles  Hunger-  hero  of  the  piece.  Sir  Lionel  himself, 
rd,  who,  impatient  of  his  appomt-  merely  premising  that  during  a  thun- 
ment  as  Governor  of  the  L'jntern  der  storm,  which  interrupted  their 
Gate,  is  anxious  to  exhibit  his  prow-  journey  to  the  Tor  House, .  the  tra- 
ess  in  some  more  active  service,  and  vellers  had  seen  their  host  in  the  ha- 
from  his  fiery  temperament  is  willing  biliments  of  a  necromancer  stalking 
to  engage  in  an^  warfare  rather  than  on  the  ramparts  of  his  castle,  the  pre- 
wear  out  his  spirit  in  rest  and  inac-  siding  genius  of  the  storm,  and  di- 
tion.  The  opportunity  is  soon  afford-  rectiug  the  wrath  of  the  angry  de- 
ed him.  A  party  of  adventurers  from  ments.  Dudley  is  here  it^vited  to  take 
Calais  having  been  surprised,  had  sur-  up  his  abode,  and  is  introduced  to 
rendered  to  the  French  troops,  and  the  wife  and  daughter  of  Sir  Lionel, 
were  murdered  by  the  peasantry  in  the  former  a  strange  com)>ound  of  the 
cold  blood.  Sir  Giles  proceeds  at  the  domestic  oeconomist  and  heroic  devo- 
head  of  a  small  body  of  regulars,  but  tee,  now  prating  in  the  antiquated 
followed  by  a  banc!  of  adventurers  jargon  of  an  ancient  housewife,  and 
(a'  description  of  persons  little  better  not  unfrequently  displaying  an  energy 
than  roboers)  to  take  signal  vengeance  of  character  worthy  of  the  best  ages  of 
on  the  murderers.  He  effects  his  pur-  romance. 
pose,   but  is  afterwards   himself  sur-  The  daughter  Beatrice  is  a  stately 

Sris^  by  a  larger  force,  and  after  a  high-souled  beauty,  with  all  her  fa- 
es^rate  battle,  is  mortally  wounded,  ther's  haughtiness,  but  without  any 
He  IS  conveyed  into  the  French  camp,  of  his  dissimulation.  This  character 
where  he  dies,  after  having  given  his  has  been  beautifully  and  elaborately 
nephew  Dudley  the  necessary  direc-  wrought,  and  she  will  doubtless  prove 
tions  respecting  his  only  child,  Cecil  a  general  favourite. 
Hungerford,  then  under  the  care  of  In  this  mansion  is  imprisoned  the 
Sir  Lionel  Fitzmaurice  in  England,  unfortunate  Cecil  Hungerford,  the 
providing,  that  if  his  sou  should  die  heir  of  the  possessions  surrounding  the 
without  issue,  his  estates  should  de-  Tor  House,  and  in  whose  fate  a  me- 
volve  upon  Sir  Lionel.  lancholy  interest  is  excited.  The  in- 
The  Duke  ofVendome  having  learnt  tention  of  Sir  Lionel  has  been  long 
the  death  of  his  prisoner,  directed  that  numifest.  In  his  communications  with 
the  body  shoula  be  escorted  to  the  Sir  Giles  Hungerford  on  the  aubject  of 
frontiers  of  the  English  pie  with  mi-  this  unhappy  youth,  he  had  represented 
litary  honours;  and  a  truce  having  him  as  of  feeble  frame  and  of  weaker  in- 
subsequently  been  concluded,  Dudlej  tellect,  utterly  unfit  for  knightlv  enter- 
proceeds  to  England  to  fulfil  his  prize,  craven,  and  effeminate.  His  real 
uncle's  injunctions,  and  to  decide  upon  character  is,  however,  very  different,  and 
a  measure  in  which  he  is  more  nearly  isablydrawn.  Upon  this'sensitive being 
concerned,  having  been  affianced  (as  the  most  devilish  arts  and  diabolical 
was  the  practice  of  the  age)  when  a  contrivances  had  been  practised.  Op- 
child,  to  the  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  tical  illusions  were  superadded  to  per- 
Eustace  Poyns.  He  is  attended  on  sonal  chastisements,  until  he  was 
his  journey  by  an  Anglo-Gaulish  ser-  goaded  into  such  aberrations  as  would 
vant  named  Pierre,  who  is  destined  to  almost  justify  a.  charge  of  temporary 
whistle  and  sing  through  all  the  ad-  lunacv.  It  is  under  these  influences 
ventures  of  his  master  after  the  most  that  Dudley  has  an  accidental  sight  of 
approved  fashion  in  such  cases  made  the  son  of  his  own  relative  Sir  Giles, 
ana  provided.  Dadley  arrives  in  Eng-  and  his  first  impression  is  that  of  com- 


1827.] 


KEyhw.-^Tht  Tor  HUL 


431 


passion   for  his  fatuity,  until  a  fur-  la  the  mean  time  the  threat  of  the 

tber  acquaintance  during   his   stolen  Cardinal  was  not  inoperative.   A  com- 

inteniews  exhibits   the    practices  of  mission  was  appointed  to  examine  into 

Sir  Lionel  and  his  infernal  agents  in  the  state  of  the  supposed  lunatic  Ce- 


their  true  light.  He  obtains  an  in- 
terview, and  taxes  him  with  his  crimes 
towards  his  ward,  a  Berce  rencontre 
ensues,  Dudley's  sword  is  wrested 
from  his  grasp  by  some  unexplained 
contrivance,  and  he  owes  his  life  to 


cil,  and  the  diabolical  machinery  of 
Sir  Lionel  was  again  employed  to  un- 
hinge the  mind  and  bewilder  the  in- 
tellect of  his  unhappy  charge.  The 
detail  of  these  practices  is  painfully 
distressing,  and  we  should  have  ima- 


the  interposition  of  Beatrice.    This  is  gined  them  sufficient,  on  a  spirit  so 

one  of  the  most  animated  scenes  in  nnely  touched  and  a   frame  so  deii- 

the  story,  and  is  as  fine  as  it  is  highly  cately  organised,  to  have  effected  their 

wrought.  intended  purpose.     Of  the  scene  that 

Dudley  escapes  to   the    Abbey    of  follows,  we  cannot  speak  in  terms  of 

Glastonbury,   with    whose  venerable  approbation,  highly  wrought  as  it  is. 


abbot  Sir  Lionel  has  had  a  lon^  and 
rancorous  feud,  and  by  the  advice  of 
this  able  counsellor  he  proceeds  to 
London  to  solicit  the  aid  of  Wolsey, 
then  in  power.  **Yes,  my  son,"  says 
the  abbot,  "  even  though  he  be  leagued 
with  thie  spirits  of  darkness,  they  shall 
fall  prostrate  before  the  spirit  of  light 
and  of  the  law,  even  as  the  magicians 
of  Pharaoh  sank  down  before  the  su- 
perior power  of  Moses.'* 

Dudley  digresses  ou  the  road  to  pay 
'a  visit  to  the  father  of  his  betrothed, 
.and  to  take  a  view  of  his  jntended, 
now  no  longer  interesting,  since  iiis 
ftcquaintance  with   Beatrice    had    ri- 
pened into  a  mutual  attachment.    The 
whole  family  of  Sir  Eustace  Poyos  in 
clteir  stately  formality  are  but  the  bores 
of  the  novel,  and  as  they  assist  nothing 
in  the  devclopement,  we  may  dismiss 
•  them  all,  with   the  exception  of  the 
intended  wife  of  Dudley,  with  whom 


*'  Nee  Deas  interti%  nisi  dlgnut  vindlce 
nodus 

Incederit.*' 
It  was  a  most  hazardous  attempt,  and 
we  think  cannot  be  approveu  by  a 
sound  taste.  Under  the  influence  of 
feelings  more  than  usually  excited  by 
the  increased  horrors  that  had  been 
practised  in  the  night,  he  hurrier  into 
the  fields,  and  after  a'melancholy  apot* 
trophe  to  his  desolate  condition,  he 
addresses  a  prayer  to  the  deity,  typi- 
fied by  the  sun.  Concluding  "Thoa 
wilt  not  refuse  to  see  me  when  1  kneel 
before  thee ;  thou  wilt  not  draw  down 
those  eye-lids  in  anger  when  I  hum- 
bly*'  «  He  broke  off  with  an  abrupt 

horror,  for  a  gtist  of  wind  suddenly 
springing  up,  dispersed  the  mist,  and 
discovers  to  him  the  object  which 
he  had  just  addressed  as  the  central  eve 
qf  God  with  its  lid  drawn  down.  So 
l^t  least  it  appeared  to  his  disturbed 


in  the  sequel  we  are  again  concern-  and  terrified  perception."  It  was  the 
ed.  Dudley  reaches  London,  but  his  great  solar  eclipse.  Of  course  his  in- 
enemy  has  been  at  work  before  his  sanity  is  confirmed,  and  Sir  Lionel  ob- 
arrival.    By  the  assistance  of  a  rela-  taius  a  momentary  triumph. 


tive  (Sir  John  Dudley)  he  gains  an 
interview  with  the  Lord  Cardinal. 
Some  charges  are  brought  forward  by 
the  Cardinal  which  are   vehemently 


We  have  brought  our  readers  thus 
far  into  the  plot,  and  we  feel  that  it 
would  tend  to  weaken  the  interest 
they  would  feel  in  the  perusal  of  the 


denied  by  Dudley,  being,  as  the  reader  story,  were  we  to  pursue  it  to  its  dit- 
wiil  suspect,  the  malicious  reports  of  entanglement.  Here,  therefore,  we 
Sir  Lionel.    In  addition  to  this,  his     shall  leave  them ;  after  hinting  that  we 


enemy  had  denounced  him  as  trea- 
sonable and  disaffected,  and  the  emis- 
saries of  the  Star  Chamber  were  in 
pursuit  of  him.  By  the  advice  of  his 
attorney,  he  "  ukes  sanctuary"  in 
Westminster,  a  place  privileged  from 
arrest,  and  consequently  abused  to  the 
▼ikst  purposes.  Here  resorted  untried 
malefactors,  runaway  spendthrifts,  the 
dregs  of  the  city,  and  all  whom  vice 


have  not  even  adverted  to  a  very  im- 
portant Royal  Personage,  who  is  made 
to  act  a  very  characteristic  pa'rt. 

There  are  many  pages  in  these  vo- 
lumes in  which  the  general  reader  will 
feel  no  sympathy.  We  mean  that  ac- 
cumulation of  antiquarian  lore  under 
which  the  author  has  buried  heroes  and 


heroines,  to  the  sad  interruption  of  the 
interest  we  feel  mv\M\x^*^v^^  >Xv^Vfc- 
or  misfortune  Kad  compelled  to  ba-    lutti  oti  ^%ViotiOtK<)  N«wiX^\ww^\«K^ 
iiif/iiDent /fom  focieiy  were  here  coil-    aiowuf^  fXKtsvVwi^*    V5  ^\v«t^  "^^  ^^ 
grrgated. 


4n 


RiviBW.— Soames'a  HiHorjf  tf  tki  Beformalion. 


[M■^ 


petite  to  discuss  the  daindes  at  the 
Swan,  scarody  to  feel  any  pieasure 
in  the  banquet  of  the  Cfardinal. 
Our  thou^hu  are  in  the  Tor  House, 
in  the  prison-room  of  the  unhappy 
Cecil,  or  awaiting  the  result  of  that 
complicated  machinery  by  which 
fiir  Lionel,  the  necromancer — the 
alchyinist  — the  demon  — works  his 
impious  purposes.  Not  but  that  the 
researches  of  the  author  into  the  cus- 
ioros  of  the  age  of  which  he  wrote, 
are  highly  ereditalile  io  his  industry, 
and  his  correct  synchronical  skill ;  but 
there  is,  if  we  may  say  so,  a  too  af- 
fected display  of  the  treasures  he  has 
gleaned,  and  too  ^cong  a  savour  of  ire- 
cent  acquisition — he  has  read  that  he 
may  write,  a  very  natural  process 
doubtless,  but  it  seems  too  apparent. 

Upon  the  whole,  then,  we  assert 
Mr.  Smith  has  written  a  clever  and 
entertaining  romance,  hurried  perhaps 
(00  abruptly  and  unnaturally  to  a  close, 
Tet  CKcitin^  throughout  a  deep  interest, 
and  main  taming  a  steady  course  through 
many  high  and  perilous  flights.  There 
•is  much  skill  in  the  individual  por- 
traits introduced,  nor  is  any  oBeiKe 
given  to  historical  accuracy. 

The  references  to  that  great  Work  to 
•which  we  have  before  alluded,  are  in 
«  strain  of  grateful  piety,  and  redeem 
«ome  of  the  earlier  blemishes.  We 
aHude  to  the  profane  rhapsodies  of 
iFriar  Francis,  whether  delivered  in 
monkish  Latin,  or  in  the  very  words 
of  our  ritual.  Mr.  Smith  has  oom- 
menced  a  successful  career;  and  though 
-we  dare  not  say, 

**  Cheer'd  by  his  promise  we  the  less  de- 
plore 
Thefiital  time  when  Scott  shall  be  nomoreV' 

he  has  our  best  wishes,  that  health 
and  leisure  be  given  to  him  to  enjoy 
bis  merited  honours,  and  to  enlarge 
hu  interesting  contributions  to  the 
joint  stock  of  harmless  pleasure  and 
innocent  amusement. 


76.  The  History  rf  the  Reformat  ion  tf  the 
Church  ^Eaglsod.  By  Henry  Soeraes, 
M.A.  Rector  ^Shelley  tn  EMeic.  r^.UI. 
(Reign  of  King  Edw.  HJ   8tw.  pp.  768. 

TO  a  despotic  Prince,  Popery  is  a 
most  useful  State  machine,  because  its 
doetrinca  tend  to  slavery  of  mind  and 
person,  and,  like  the  Inquisition  in 
Spain,  the  plea  of  trreligion  may  be 
mdKk  to  cover  the  imprisonment  and 


murder  of  those  whom  the  Sovcnigii 
wishes  to  destroy.  Bat  in  Engkod 
it  mutt,  except  in  a  Tery  few  tnttaneei^ 
have  been  a  veiy  serious  incumbrance. 
For  there  the  King  had  only  to  conci- 
liate the  Parliament,  and,  except  in 
the  case  of  a  quarrel  between  them, 
the  intrusion  of  the  Papal  usurpation 
must  have  been  under  the  best  cir« 
cumstances  a  ^reat  inconvenience; 
and  if  a  quarrel  did  ensue,  then  the 
King  or  ihe  Barons  respectively  tried 
to  win  the  Pope  over  to  their  party, 
and  the   unnatural   contest   was  only 

C>tracted.  The  wars  of  York  and 
n^ter  had  sickened  the  people  of 
civil  war;  and  Hen ry,  who,  with  re- 
gard to  the  country  at  large,  was  averse 
-to  inciting  rebellion,  managed  his  Par- 
Jiament  with  ease.  Indeed  England 
could  get  nothing  by  the  Pope.  It 
could  acquire  no  accession  of  liberty, 
Jaw,  or  wealth.  For  every  want  of 
this  kind,  the  people  resorted  to  their 
Parliaments.  To  these,  not  to  the 
Pope,  they  looked  for  controul  of  the 
King;  and  lone  Itefbre  the  Reforma- 
tion they  felt  only  the  wretched  conse- 
Juences  resulting  from  an  excess  of 
evotees,  that  is,  an  excess  of  petty, 
aiinoving,  domestic  tyrants;  for  in  pri- 
vate life,  devotees  always  act  the  past 
of  persecutors,  spies,  pedagogues,  and 
inlormers.  They  will  be  masters  over 
every  bo<ly.  Whatever  were  the  mo- 
tives of  Henry,  and  they  were  several, 
his  tyrannical  disposition  was  a  provi- 
dential good ;  for  a  man  who  had  so 
much  of  the  Devil  in  him  as  not  to 
give  way  to  God,  woold  not  be  likely 
to  succumb  to  the  Pope;  and  when 
Cranmer  suggested  that  the  papal  au- 
thority was  itself  amenable  to  that  of 
Scripture,  Henry  seized  the  powerful 
weapon  with  avidity,  and  slashed  away 
as  he  liked.  It  was  evident  tliat  the 
Pope  could  have  no  ciianoc  of  resist- 
ance, unless  he  could  «xcite  a  rebel- 
lion. This  he  could  not  do,  and  .was 
therefore  obliged  to  submit  to  exile. 
During  his  secession,  i.  e.  till  the 
reign  of  Mary,  Cranmer  was  fortu- 
nately the  ruling  ecclesiastical  autho- 
rity ;  and  the  work  before  us,  the  pro- 
gress of  the  Reformation  in  the  reien 
of  Edward  VI.  sho^vs  that  the  archi- 
tect of  it  was  that  admirable  (we  could 
almost  in  our  enthusiasm  say)  inspired^ 
Reformer ;  for  of  him  it  might  be  said' 
as  of  David,  *'  He  overcame  the  lion 
and  the  bear  (Gardiner  and  Bonnev), 
and  made  the  uncircumcited  Phil  is- 


I89T0         Kbvibw. — Soames's  Hut(^y  of  the  Refonnaiion, 


433 


tine  (the    papal  Goliath)  as  one  of 
iheoi." 

To  show  in  what  manner  he  effect- 
ed this  wonderful. victory,  is  the  strik- 
ing feature  of  the  work  before  us.  It 
enters  into  the  most  luminous  details 
of  the  circumstances,  and  exhibits  by 
the  clearest  logic  the  wisdom  and  po- 
licy of  the  measures  adopted.  Sophis- 
try indeed  advanced  to  the  coin  bat, 
but  it  was  shot  dead  in  the  very  in- 
stant that  it  came  within  the  line  of 
fire.  The  doctrinal  troops  of  the  Pope 
proved  like  his  military  ones,  mere 
men  of  straw,  when  they  had  to  com- 
bat with  Scripture,  the, doctrines  and 
practices  of  the  primitive  church,  com- 
mon sense,  and  fair  dealing.  In  truth 
our  author  very  justly  says, 

"It  is  often  %  matter  of  astonishment 
with  Protestants,  that  any  serious  men  of 
sound  sense  and  good  information  can  con- 
tinue in  the  profession  of  Popery,  but  when 
it  is  knourn  that  such  pains  have  been  taken 
to  prevent  even  learned  Romanlsta  from 
finding  in  libraries  complete  information 
upon  their  own  religion,  this  circumstance 
may  bo  accounted  for  easily  enough."  p.  160. 

The  temper  of  Cranmer,  which  was 
exceedingly  amiable,  was  exactly  of 
the  kind  fitted  to  conciliate  an  impe- 
rious King  and  haughty  nobles.  To 
the  former  he  had  proved  a  most  use- 
ful counsellor  and  auxiliary;  and  as 
the  History  of  the  Reformation,  thougli 
excellently  told  by  Mr.  Soanies,  is  a 
topic  far  too  copious  for  our  limits, 
and  as  we  have.no  idea  tiiat  wc  can 
give  the  portrait  of  a  man  by  exhibit- 
ing only  his  nose,  we  shall  make  our 
extract  from  a  passage  containing  a 
conversation  of  Henry  concerning 
Cranmer.  It  will  bhow,  inter  alia, 
how  closely  Elizabeth  copied  the  style 
and  manner  of  her  father. 

*'An  attack  was  made  upon  Cranmer's 
^reputation  during  King  Henry's  reign.  Sir 
Thomas  Seymour,  then  one  of  the  gentle- 
men of  the  privy  chamber,  stood  ftiremost  in 
the  work  of  mischief.  His  first  measure  was  to 
circulate  a  whisper  about  the  court  that  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  although  selling 
woods  and  taking  fines  to  an  unusual  extent, 
had  greatly  departed  from  the  hospitality  of 
bis  predecessors,  being  intent  only  upon 
realizing  a  fortune  for  hit  family.  These 
reports  were  so  notoriously  false,  that  some 
members  of  the  Royal  household  quarrelled 
with  Seymour  for  spreading  them  abroad. 
The  knight,  however,  persisted  in  hb  tales, 
and  one  day  he  contrived  to  make  the  King 

Gent.  Mao.  Maijy^  1397. 


acquainted  with.them.-  Henry  obaerved,  *  I 
do  marvel  that  it  is  said  iny  Lord  of  Canter- 
bury doth,  keep  no  good  hospitality ;  for  I 
have  heard  the  contrary.'  Tlien,  uttering 
some  high  commendations  of  the  Arch- 
bishop, he  abruptly  broke  off  the  diacoursei 
Withm  a  month  aftert^ards,  as  the  King 
was  dressing  for  dinner,  he  said  to  Sir  Tho- 
mas, then  attending  with  the  ewer ;  *  Go 
ye  straightways  unto  Lambeth,  and  bid  my 
Lord  ofCanterbury  come  and  speak  to  me 
at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.'  The  mes- 
senger immediately  crossed  the  water,  and 
enquiring  for  the  Archbishop,  was  led  by 
the  porter  towards  the  hall.  No  sooner 
had  he  reached  the  screen,  than,  stricken  by 
the  manifest  fitlsehood  of  tiie  tales  to  which 
he  had  lent  himself,  he  started  back.  With- 
in the  spacious  room  were  ranged  three 
principal  tables  handsomely  provided,  be- 
sides inferior  ones,  liberally  supplied.  *  Can- 
not I  go  to  my  Lord's  apartment  through 
the  chapel?'  asked  the  Knight.  <That 
way.  Sir,'  said  Mr.  Neville,  the  Archbi- 
shop's steward,  who  now  came  forward,  ia 
not  open  at  dinner  time,  the  door  being 
locked.  You  must  therefore  let  me  lead 
you  into  his  Grace's  presence  through  the 
hall.'  On  hearing  this,  Seymour  followed 
hia  conductor,  and  soon  found  himself  in  an 
apartment  where  the  Archbishop  was  dining 
in  a  manner  suited  to  his  station,  llie 
King's  message  being  delivered,  Cranmei; 
insisted  that  his  visitor  should  share  hia  re- 
past. Sir  Thomas  remained  but  a  short 
time  at  table  ;  being  anxious,  as  he  said,  to 
return  and  wait  upon  his  Majesty.  He 
reached  the  Royal  presence  before  dinner 
was  removed,  and  Henry  said  immediately, 
<  Will  my  Lord  of  Canterbury  cume  to  us  ?' 
The  reply  was,  <  He  will  wait  upon  your 
Majesty  at  two  o'elock.'  The  King  asked 
again,  *  Had  my  Lord  dined  before  you 
came?*  *  No,  forsooth,  I  found  him  at 
dinner.'  '  Well,'  rejoined  the  King,  <  what 
ckeer  made  he  you?'  Sir  Thomas  then 
fell  upon  his  l^nees,  and  said,  '  I  hope  that 
your  '  Majesty  will  pardon  me.'  *  Why, 
what  is  tne  matter  ?  asked  Henry.  '  I  do 
remember,*  replied  the  supplicant,  '  having 
told  your  Highness,  that  my  Lord  of  Can- 
jterbury  kept  no  hospitality  correspondent 
unto  his  dignity.  I  now  perceive  that  I  did 
abuse  your  Highness  with  an  untruth.  For 
besides  your  Grace's  house,  I  thinly  he  be 
not  in  the  real  me  of  none  estate  or  degree, 
that  hath  such  a  hall  furnished,  or  that 
fareth  more  honourably  at  his  own  table.' 
The  King  then  said,  *  Ah !  have  you  spied 
your  own  fault  now  ?  I  knew  your  purpt^e 
well  enough ;  you  have  had  among  you  the 
commodities  of  the  abbeys  which  you  have 
consumed;  some  with  superfluous  apparel, 
some  at  dice  and  cards,  and  other  ungra- 
cious rule.  And  now  you  would  have  the 
Bishop's  lands'  and  revenues  to  abuse  like- 


7 


434                    RkviBtr.-^Braosby  Cddper*8  Vindirnf'wn.  iMaf, 

Wise.    It  my  Lord  of  Ctnterburylceep  luch  tii^hest  clyss,  Dr.  Wheeler  (Theologi- 

4  hatl  as  you  say,  being  tieither  Term  nor  cal  Lectures,  I.  133),  ihe  moral  sense 

'  ParKament,    he  "is  metely  weM  visited   at  remained  after  the  Fall,  but  with  cn- 

those  times,  I  warrant  you.    And  if  th«  fecMed  physical  powers  ;  and  that  this 

other  Bishops  kept  the  like  for  their  de-  jg  correct,  is  proved  by  Si.  Paul's  doc- 

grce,  they  need  not  to  have  any  thing  taken  ^^jj,^^    couched    in    the    weH-known 

from  them,  but  rather  to  he  added  to  and  ^          ^^j^^j^^  ^^  ^^^  ,^^  ^P  ^^^  ^^^^_ 

h?:"k,u:th"^^^^^^  ^.- ---g  ^^^r,''- »--  ^f  the 

f  i:„-  '•    «.,  -rof    -on  mmd.     Now  Dr.  Johnson  says,  that 

J  live.       pp.727 — /29.  u         .u          •       u             *u         "^    - 

'^'^  where  there  is  shame,  there  may  yet 

The  plan  of  the  mercenary  courtiers  be  virtue  ;  and  if  a  man  be  open  to 
was  to  deprive  the  prelates  of  their  shame,  he  is  open  of  course  to  repent- 
landed  properties,  and  to  assign  them  ance,  which  the  Scripture  never  de- 
pensions  for  their  maintenance.  nies,  and  would  -be  utterly  impractica- 

^^  ble  under  completedcpravity.   nut  such 

^  a  form  of  animation  is  not  lo  be  found. 

77.  A  Vindication  of  the  Sentimaits  co7»-  No  animal  exists,  with  whose  being 

(ained  in  **  J  Letter  to  a  CUrgyman  on  some  providential  good  or  other  is  un- 

the  peculiar  Tenets  qf  the  jtrcsent  Day,  in  connected.  Natural  philosophy  and  che- 

answer  to  the  Letters  of  the  Rev.  Mr,  mical  experiment  show  that  Gotl  can- 

Whish,  which  icere  intemlcd  as  a  Reply  to  pot  be  the  author  of  undefecated  evil 


.        ..          ,  .  .          r.    D        II  makes  others    in   correction  feel  and 

Appendix,  containing  a  few  Remarks  ail^         .  ,  f«»  i,      i«i 

dressed  to  another  AnUigo^iist,      By   R.  "[ge  the  value  of  virtue  ;  but  philoso- 

Bninsby  Cooper,   Esq.  M.  P.    Siw.  pp.  P"^^^  know  that  it   i^  impossible  for 

450.  any  o»an  to  be  without  some  good  nua- 

__,„        ,                ,  lities.     In  truth,  the  Calvinistic  aoc- 

WLare  happy  to  have  an  opportu-  trine  of  Mr.  VVhish,    which   consists 

nitvof  yindicaling  a  man  so  univer-  of  cavils  only,  is  completely  confutetl 

sally  and  deservedly  respected  as  Mr.  by  Bishop  Tomline,  whom  we  shall 

Cooper.                                    .  .     ,    ,  quote  from  Mr,  Cooper  (p.  73).     His 

Every  bodv  knows  that  original  sin  Lordship  says  (Refutation  of  Calvin- 

has  been  a  leading  topic  with  divines  \^t^   c.  i.  p.  3) 

of  a  certain  class  (why  we  know  not),  ' 

and  that  it  has  brought  the  Church  ,  " The  gcnwal  approbation  of  virtue  and 

into  discredit  by  the  affixation  of  the  **«^^*'on  ^^  ^'c®'  '^l^jc*^  have  universally 

soubriquet  original-sin  men  to  pariicu-  P^'^''^^;  P'°7  ^^^^  ,^f  moral  sense  w» 

lar  persons.     We  think  that  such  per-  °°'  ««nil^'lated.  and  tluit  man  did  not  be- 

'  .                ,         I      .      1     L         I  .'  corao  by  the  fall  an  unmixed,  tncorrisible 

sons  have  not  understood  the  sub.ect,  „,^  afpoUution  and  depravity,  absolutely 

for  they  have  made  of  it  a  physicaf  nb-  iacapble  of  amendment,  or  of  knowing  ci 

surdity,  in  that  they  have  alhrmed,  that  discharging  by  his  natural  powers  any  part 

what  IS  utterly  spoiled  is  capable  of  re-  of  the  duty  of  a  dependent  being." 

sumijig    its    original   properties;   i.e.  *..... 

that  a  putrid  carcase  be  phvsicallv  sus-  ^"°  '"  "'^  observations  on  the  10th 

ccplible  of  living  functions.     We  are  ^^^^^^"^  ^^'  '•  P-  ^^)»  ^e  says, 

satisfied    that    Reason    and    Religion  "  We  cau  by  no  means  allow  the  Infer- 

(God  being  the  author  of  both)  can  ences  attempted  to  be  drawn  from  them, 

never  be  at   variance;  for  things   in-  [i.e.  the^rords  of  the  article]  by  modem  Cal- 

comprehensible  are  only  such,  because  vinistical  writers,  namely,  *that  of  our  owa 

it  is  impossible  for  man  to  understand  nature  *«  «w  without  any  spark  ofgoodjiess 

them.    The  original-sin  men  h.iving,  ***  "^»*  *°^  '^^  ^^^  ^^  ^^  ability  or  dispo- 

however,  affirmed    that   the    fall    has'  '^^^^  ^j^^tever  with  respect  to  faith  or  good 

made   of   human   nature  a   complete  *^"^*** 

mass  of  corroDtion,  a  mere  roiten  egg.  Now  a  more  bare-faced,  impudent, 

it  is  so  palpable  an  absurdity,  that  Mr.  un philosophical    absurdity    than    the 

Cooper  has  very  justly  and  philosophi-  last    position  was   never    maintained, 

cally  said  that,  if  so,  man  must  have  for,  was  it  the  fact,  there  could  not 

been  physically  inca|jab!e  of  good  ac-  nor  would  not  exist  any  religion  at  all 

lions  in  any  way.    The  truth  rs  that,  among  mankind,  nor  civilization,  for 

according  to  a  theologian  of  the  very  religion  implies  faith  in  God,  and  civil 


1827.]              ,          Revxew, — SMton*5  Fagaries.  435 

assocbtion  laws,   which  imply  again  rible  idea,  and  even  the  avowal  of  it^ 

good  works.    But  wc  are  truly  ^osry  it  is  not  worse  than  the  murder  of 

that  Mr.  Cooper  has   been   troubled^  millions,  which  Calrin  has  laid  to  His 

like  another  Eneas,  to  descend  Into  a  charge.    He  has  afBrmed  that  God  ha? 

Tartarus  of  wretched  logic,  and  disperse  voluntarily  sent  men  inio  the  world 

mere  ghosts  of  arguments  with  a  sub-  for  no  other   purpose,    but   to   incur 

siantial  sword.     Of  the  beautiful  and  eternal  misery,  without  any  power  on 

conclusive    ratiocination     of    Bishop  their  ])aris  to  prevent  it.     To  such  a 

Tnuilinc  wc  have  liad  occasion  more  madman  (so  fur  as  regards  that  horri* 

than  once  to  speak  ;  and  also  it  has  bie  position),  and  to  the  followers  of 

been  our  lot  to  reprobate  the  system  of  such    insanity,   Mr.  Cooper  addresses 

Calvin,    because   it   makes  God   tV/a-  the  following  paragraph : 

tional    Xhc    ouihoT   of  evil.     Wc   see  ^i  ^^  ..^.fi^j^  ^     ^be  aiguments  of 

that    Mr.  Whibh    never    presses    .Mr.  many  very  respectable  authors  of  the  pre- 

Cooper  but,  so  far  as  we  can  judge  (jom  g^nt  day,  that  cnir  Articles  are  not  CaJvinia- 

so    p()lyg«)nal    a    controxcrsiaiist,   from  tic;  but  surely  it  would  be  moat  sattsiac- 

some  error  or  other  of  Calvin;    and  tory  to  the  orthodox  members  of  the  Church 

that  Mr.  Cooper  rebuts  him  with  Bp.  of  England,  and  most  useful  to  the  junior 

Tomliiic,  and  not  only  hin^,  but  ano-  Cler«]jy  of  the  Esublishment,  who  are  just 

ther  antagonist,  who,  having  got  tipsy  ent«"ng  on  their  course  of  teaching,  to  be 

with   Cdvinism,  talks  like  a  man   in  assured  from  the  hi;;hcst  source  of  sp'iritual 

such  a  condition.  To  him  Mr.  Cooper  **<*^"^"^  ^,?  ^**'^^  '^  ^'i'^'J*?*  can  bow,  that 

has  administered  an  emetic  in  his  Ap-  T?  ^""a       Janets  of  Calv.n,  so  far  from 

pendix.     Mr.  Cooper,  in  short,  defies  J*'°g.»clopted  or  admitted  by  our  Churc^^ 

I,  ,  .    .              ,       '      '         I            r     •  are  rejected  by  her  as  contrary  to  theattri- 

C..;ilv.,.is.n   and  very  l)ro|.er  y  so.  for  u  b„t.,,\i„  ^iji    ^  ^,  ,„i  „f  G^  „_ 

no  more  follows  that  a   biblical  scho-  p.  417. 

lar  is  a  man  of  judgment,  and  com-  n  .  .t  •    •                   r            .11 

1.1          I     .     J     I  •         I  •     .    *u  "ut  this  IS  an  ace  of  mountebanks 

plelely  understands   his   subject,  than  •       n         r     •         °      1   '*'^""^'^"**"7' 

lu  .              .-I        r.*        f.u    n-ui  ^1  »'*ll  prolcssions:   and  not  one  only 

that  one  particular  edition  of  the  Bible  /»  1  •     '      •  i    u-               •  "*  ""^  ^*"/ 

is  to  have  the  exclusive  character  of  "'^'"if  7           "  "  ''T'  ^"''"'^' 

being  the  only  text  of  it.     Bm  Calvin  '"f  f.^  °[  " ,  "'"'y  °"«0  »PP^"  "»"' 

could  not  in^lic  nature  of  lhin»  be  »■"!  ""i"  .""l.^^  "?''  '^V'  •"•'  *}*'', 


•    '     ,        ,.  •         .            I    .•     .•  '^     r  terwovcn  With  l^cgislation  and  nubhc 

live  absurdities,  the  predestination  of  „    •       •     ,^       t,  i°-              .       l^«ujiv* 

,,             7  ^'       7    .,1.  f        I       .    •.!  a""  private  well- l)eme ;  and  positions 

ail   men    before  hiTlh .'  and   notwith-  .  •  \       •„        .    ,      ,® '.      .    pwinuua 

r      .1  •     /^u  •  .»                 •   .    .1  which  will  not  stand  the  test  of  rea- 

standin;;  this,  Christ's  coming  into  the  i    •   .    j          ..   .     .         ,.    '^ , 

M.              ;/              ^^^,-           i  son, jonly  introduce  contagious  diseases 

world  to  save  all  men.  ^  1  he  very  doc-  '^^  I     .     ,  .  ^    r^.^^  ^^^T^Zl 


1       1         1  .1         /"«  I   *  Qucuiauic  IIUI.IUII9,  aiiu  wc  arc  sure  ii 

more  monstrously  absurd  than  Calvin,  »        -n  i  -j      j  *    i.         j 

•  11    /i  ..I  ^ru:    r^i  "*i  will  be  considered  to  have  done  so 

unless  indeed  it  be  several  of  his  fol-  r  n    u  r  •     j    r 

I  rp.        ,        ,      c  ^  n  \  '  '  ^'^ry  successfully  by  every  friend  of  ra- 

lowcrs.      ihe  advocates  for  Calvinism  »•    -^  i    •  .        y     ^  a       ^ 

,         .    r     •    •     «     I    4  tional  piety  and  good  sense, 
no  iu)t  discriniinatc   between   miracu-  •      •'  ^ 

lous  interference  and  physical  impossi-  ▼ 

bility.     For  instance,  a  part  can  nevcf  78.    Vagaries  in  qwst  qf  the  TFild  and  (he 
be    greater   than   a   whole;    and   the         JVhimsical    By  Pierce  Shaftop,  G«ir, 
wliole  knnwledj^e  which  we  possess  of         l2mo.  pp.  239.    Andrews. 
God's  attributes,  arc  founded  upon  the        A  FEW  of  these  miscellanies  Me 

physical    impossibilities  of  his   being  old  friends,  whom  we  are  glad  ^ipp 

otherwise  than  omnisqjent,  omnipre-  in  a  more  durable  shape,  nor  are  iljie 

sent,    &c.  &c.      No  presumption  of  o.thers  inferior  in  point  of  merit  or  iu- 

power  can  make   him  otherwise,  for  tercst.     If  the  "Introductory  EpisU^" 

(with  good  intention  only)  we  ask  a  be  the  old  device  of  a  lod^er*^  papfitfi, 

schoolman's  question,  —  would   it  be  lye  can  excuse  the  repetition,  fpf  the 

possible  for  the  Almighty  to  commit  sake  of  those  papers :  indeed,  we  have 

suicide,   to  destroy   his   own    being?  learned  to  pay  littijc  attention  to  pre- 

Cold  as  our  blood  runs  at  such  a  hor-  faces,  but  to  consider  thMi  capidour  a» 


436     RBViEW.^White's  History  of  Inventiom  and  Disc&veries,    [May, 


instdioDS,  and  their  confessions  as  an 
additional  tax  npon  our  credulity. 

We  perfectly  agree  with  the  senti- 
ments contained  m  "Characier-hunt- 
ing."  The  pper  entitled  **  My  first 
Appearance  on  the  Stage,*'  is  amus- 
ing, as  is  **  The  Templar's  Story.*' 
"The  wandering  Jew'*  is  written  in  a 
higher  strain.  *'The  unknown  Re- 
gion" is  a  good  jeu  iTesprii  on  a  cer- 
tain square  situated  rather  to  the  north- 
ward of  the  Metropolis,  which  would 
have  been  better,  we  think,  had  it 
been  longer ;  too  much  time  is  taken 
up  in  the  voyage,  and  too  little  is  al- 
lotted to  the  newly-discovered  territory. 
The  sketches  of  low  life  are,  perhaps, 
too  accurate,  and  this  is  a  fault  which 
all  readers  of  taste  will  wish  amended. 

With  the  poetry  we  have  been 
much  pleased.  "  The  Rapture  of  Be- 
neficence" is  our  favourite.  **  My 
Birth-day;"  "Tell  me  now  that  thou 
art  mine  ;**  **  A  new  Arion  ;"  may 
also  be  recommended.  "The  Crumbs 
for  the  Critics'*  is  a  disarming  title, 
but  we  li^e  that  division  the  least,  un- 
less "Oh  come,  the  Window"  be  an 
exception. 

We  know  too  much  of  authorship 
not  to  congi^tulate  any  young  man  on 
his  preference  for  professional  labours, 
but  many  readers  will  doubtless  regret 
that  Mr.  Becke  has  resigned  the  pur- 
suit of  literature. 


79.  The  History  of  Lweniions  and  DUoo' 
verie$t  alphahetieaUy  arranged.  By  Fran- 
cis Selloo  White,  Esq.  F.S.j4,  Svo,  pp. 
547. 

THIS  work  (Mr.  White  says)  was 
^lely  undertaken  at  first  for  amuse- 
ment, but  having  assumed  a  magni- 
tude beyond  his  expectations,  he  has 
given  it  to  the  public,  under  a  hope  of 
Its  utility.  (Prcf.  iv.)  It  is  evidently 
compiled  from  Encyclopedias,  as  to 
the  chief  sources,  but  occasionally  im- 
proved and  (as  it  seems  to  us)  aug- 
mented by  the  author,  in  good  taste. 
On  a  subject  of  such  latitude,  and,  we 
may  add,  extreme  difficulty  and  un- 
certainty, it  is  impossible,  given  points 
excepted,  to  state  the  real  history  of 
veiy  numerous  discoveries  and  inven- 
tions ;  and  it  is,  as  a  general  rule,  bet- 
ter simply  to  state  what  ancient  au- 
thors say,  than  to  give  to  any  the  crc- 
dit  of'  knowing  particular  inventions, 
where  the  penocu  are  very  Aislanl.'ot 
the  touneg  of  intelligence  yery  VimUtd. 


The  arts  in  Asia  and  Egypt  were  the 
prototypes  of  nearly  all  those  in  Eu- 
rope; yet  Pliny,  having  no  oriental 
knowledge,  finds  the  authors  of  them 
among  the  Greeks ;  and  Beckman 
woulahave  told  us,  if  he  could  have 
done  so  without  ridicule,  that  Thebes 
and  the  Pyramids  were  built  by  the 
Germans  in  the  sixteenth  century.  If 
a  German  had  to  do  with  an  inven- 
tion, it  was  certainly  modern,  but  if 
he  had  not,  it  might  meet  with  a  fair 
chance.  At  the  same  time,  it  is  both 
amusing  and  useful  to  know  what  au- 
thors have  said  upon  such  topics,  as  it 
is  good  to  have  moons  and  twiliglit, 
for  were  there  a  total  silence  upon  the 
subject,  wc  should  be  for  several  hours 
in  complete  midnight.  Mr.  White  has 
also  gi'eat  merit  for  having  condensed 
this  copious  store  of  matter  into  a  very 
eligible  form  ;  and  we  only  speak  con- 
cerning an  absurdity  of  principle,  ex- 
tended to  impossible  points  of  know- 
ledge. For  instance,  in  p  \Q,  we  are 
tola  that  the  first  volcanic  eruptions 
from  Mount  iEtna  is  that  mentioned 
by  Drodorus  Siculus,  as  if  any  man 
who  ever  lived,  even  Cuvier  himself, 
could  be  competent  to  make  such  an  af-  , 
firmation.  There  are,  however,  subjects 
of  mathematical,  philosophical,  che- 
mical, and  mechanical  science,  of 
which  the  modern  origin  is  unques- 
tionable; and  in  these  disquisitions 
Mr.  White  is  excellent.  Vve  need^, 
only  mention  the  article  clock  (one 
very  difficult),  where  a  world  of  in- 
formation is  condensed;  and  though 
we  cannot  as  Antiquaries  admit  all 
the  facts  stated  by  Mr.  White  or  any 
other  author  whatever,  because  it  is 
impossible  that  their  originals,  whom 
they  quote,  could  have  pretensions  to 
ceruinty, yet  even  a  hypothetical  know- 
ledge of  discoveries  and  inventions, 
prevents  oblivion  of  them,  and  sug- 
gests improvement.  We  shall,  there- 
fore, only  say,  that  Mr.  White's  book 
is  useful,  instructive,  and  entertaining. 
We  extract  a  very  curious  paragraph 
from  the  article  Parliament  : 

"It  is  rather  singular  that  Speakers,  like 
Bishops,  always  affect  reluctance  to  under- 
take the  office,  which  cannot  be  easily  ad' 
counted  for,  unless  it  be  true  that  it  was  for- 
merly the  custom  to  buffet  them  when  elect- 
ed."    P.  460. 

We  cannot  now  refer  to  the  ancient 
liturgisu  in  the  Bibliotheca  Patrum, 
Cot  a  inxe  origin  of  the  nolo  episcopari, 
01  speakeran,  \»3X  n«^  tajcv  ^^xv^d^^ily 


18^70        REviBWw—rtetrs  in  South  ^rate/.— Rulle's  Poems. 


437 


avow  that  we  never  remember  that  it 
was  owing  to  fear  of  a  threshing  4^. 
Odd  things  were,  however,  done  by 
our  ancestors,  so  odd  as  to  be  perfectly 
childish ;  hut  custom  and  circum- 
stances make  things  abstractedly  fool- 
ish perfectly  rational.  Brand's  Popu- 
lar Antiquities  abound  with  instances  ; 
and  Englishmen  see  folly  in  foreign 
customs,  and  foreigners  in  ours.  The 
Hig-endians  and  Little  endians  of 
Gulliver  are  all  reasonable  men,  when 
consequences  and  interests  are  attach- 
ed to  their  respective  principles. 


80.  TwoUy-four  Views  in  South  Wales, 
from  original  Sketches  taken  on  the  Spot, 
and  drawn  upon  Stone  by  W.  Eldridge. 
DickiotoD. 

WE  have  been  very  considerably 
praiihed  with  the  first  number  of  this 
series,  which  we  may  truly  affirm  to 
be  some  of  the  most  beautiful  epeei- 
mens  of  the  lithographic  press  which 
have  ever  come  under  our  notice ;  be* 
ing  even  superior  in  picturesque  eflfect 
and  cleverness  of  execution  to  those 
views  in  New  South  Wales,  which  we 
noticed  vyith  so  much  commendation 
at  the  time  of  their  appearance.  As 
an  accompaniment  to  this  series,  the 
one  now  in  course  of  publication  will 
be  very  appropriate.  They  are  free 
from  that  smeary  ap|)earance  and  care- 
lessness of  manner  which  till  lately 
distinguished  the  productions  from 
chalk  drawings  on  stone;  and  repre- 
sent, 1.  Pont  y  Coch  near  Llonelly, 
Hrecknockshire.  2.  Falls  of  the  Rhei- 
(liol  near  Pont-ar-Fynacli,  Cacdisan- 
bhire.  3.  Pont-ar-Lleche  near  Llan- 
gadock,  Brecknockshire.  Of  these  the 
si'cond  exhibits  the  boldest  outline, 
and  produces  the  srandest  effect, 
while  the  last  has  all  the  soft  and 
quiet  feelings  which  a  more  homely 
and  rustic  scenery  presents  on  a  still 
summer's  mom.  Pont  y  Coch  is; 
however,  the  most  romantic,  possess- 
ing the  srahdeur  of  the  falls  ot  Rhei- 
diol  with  the  more  woody  scenery 
of  Pont-ar-Lleche.  The  gracefully 
overhanging  boughs, — bending  in  si- 
lent majesty, — and  the  dashing  of  the 
water's  foam  over  the  masses  which 
arrest  its  course,  prodace  a  beautiful 
picture. 

*  If  it  lie  the  fact,  thcte  might  have 
been  an  allosion  to  the  buffsting  of  Christ 
by  the  Komao  foldierf . 


81.    The  Heart f  uith  Odes  and  other  Poemu 
//y  Percy  Rolle.     19mo.   pp,  1^6,     . 

THIS  is  a  little  volume  of  consider- 
able promise,  containing  many  |>oeti- 
cal  thoughts  very  sweetly  expressed, 
and  it  is  precisely  on  this  account  that 
we  are  tempted  to  regret  its  publica- 
tion. We  must  explain  this  seeming 
paradox.  It  has  been  our  lot  to  see 
the  children  of  promise  generally  die 
an  early  and  premature  deatii.  The 
public  taste  in  poetry  is  fastidious;  it 
stops  not  to  inquire  mto  the. age  and 
the  circumstances  of  him  who  presents 
a  volume  to  its  inspection.  *'  No 
book,"  says  an  elegant  writer  with  a 
profound  knowledge  of  human  nature, 
*'  was  ever  spared  in  tenderness  to  its 
author."  General  readers  have  neither 
leisure  nor  inclination  to  hunt  for  heaa- 
ties;  a  feeble  line,  a  common-place 
expression  disgusts  them,  and  they  pro- 
nounce a  hasty  censure  on  the  whole. 
If  the  volume  of  Mr.  Rolle  had  been 
presented  to  us-  in  manuscript,  we 
should  have  returned  it  with  this  jkI- 
vice;  —  "Your  poetry  evinces  talentiL 
which,  if  cultivated  with  care,  and 
brought  to  the  standard  of  a  severer 
taste  and  a  sounder  judgment  than 
you  have  yet  applied  to  them,  will  one 
day  do  you  honour ;  but  hazard  not 
premature  publication.  Be  not  known 
to  ihe  Jew  as  the  author  of  a  volume, 
of  which  your  own  afier-improvement 
will  cause  you  to  think  lightly.  To 
write  smooth  verse,  is  in  the  present 
advanced  age  a  very  common  accom- 
plishment ;  you  have  higher  gifts,  have 
also  a  higher  ambition.  He  never  yet 
won  an  abiding  fame,  who  was  too 
impatient  to  wait." 

The  volume,  however,  is  before  us  ; 
and  we  will  only  repeat,  that  it  is  full 
of  those  indications  which  belong  to  a 
genuine  poetical  temperament,  but  it 
wants  revision  and  correction. 
-  The  following  is  a  specimen  in 
proof  of  each : 

Tears, 

Woman,  I  envy  thee  the  tears 

With  which  thy  griefs  are  wash*d  away. 
And  quench'd  the  deadly  fire  that  sear* 

Tlie  heart,  and  goads  it  to  decay ; 
.\,i  mists  are  melted  into  rain 

And  lost,  earth's  bosom  scattered  o'er. 
So  sighs  that  rend  the  heart  with  pain. 

Melt  into  tears,  and  are  no  more  : 
Liffht  is  the  grief  that  thus  can  pour 

Itself  from  the  o'erflowing  eyes, 
To  that  which  cicka  thA  VkakscdT  v  ^^\«.> 

Kxid  lUK)  tklQH  "ttiQiUVMk  «%<aso)it»  \ 


438  RbVibw.—- TAe  thing  and  the  Dead.  IMay, 

• 

•8  I  heard  the  little  oDet  joyfully  reUte, 
'  the  Mvines  of  our  pocket-money  towards 
gFand-p«pat  Church/  Tlie  pUte  for  the 
commuoton  was  presented  hy  the  Archdea- 
con ;  and  there  is  a  fact  connected  with  it 
so  emblematic  of  his  simplicity  of  hearty 
and  to  my  mind  so  expressive  of  his  charac- 
ter, that  I  cannot  forbear  recording  it. 
Some  months  previous  to  the  completion  of 
Rode  Church,  its  indefatigalilc  supporter 
was  so  severely  attacked  with  illoess,  that 
his  recovery  was  deemed  hnpeleas.  Ac- 
quainted with  the  opinion  of  his  medical 
men,  and  perfectly  coinciding  in  it,  he  calmly 
and  steadily  bet'iok  himself  to  settle  his 
a£Fiiirs,  and  es))cci;illy  every  particular  relat- 
ing to  his  Church.  '  Let  the  Communion 
vessels,'  said  he,  to  his  old  friend  Mr.  Hey, 
'  be  as  handsome  as  can  be  made — but 
B  correct  understanding  of  the  inten-  plated.  I  have  always  condemned  those 
tions  of  Christ  in  the  reformation  of     who  have  placed  unoecossary  temptations  in 


Often*  alas !  'tis  mine  Co  mourn 
Without  a  hope  to  which  to  fly» 

By  torture**  UxUh  ny  heart  is  torn, 
And  yet  each  burning  lid  is  dry ! 


99.  The  Living  and  the  Dead,     By  a  Coun- 
try Curate.     8vo,  fp,  379. 

WHEN  we  first  looked  at  this  book, 
we  were  afraid  that  it  had  issued  from 
the  manufactory  of  Mr. ,  the  Ori- 
ginal Sin  man,  and  other  charlatans, 
who  propose  to  introduce  the  golden 
agetnto  Great  Britain,  by  stuffing  it  full 
of  blind  devotees,  like  Italy,  Spain,  and 
Portugal.  But  we  have  been  agreeably 
disappointed  — practicul  Christianity^ 
aod  tne  qualities  usrful  to  society  (i.  e. 


the  world)  is  its  sole  object,  and  it  is 
not  a  book  which  makes  Christianity 
a  mere  lucrative  trade  for  preaching 
auctioneers ;  or,  in  the  words  of  our 
author  (p.  75),  a  svstcm  of  all  others 
the  best  calculatea  for  disseminating 
doctrines  fatal  to  raoralitjr,  and  en- 
couraging confident  hypocrites. 

In  short,  it  is  a  cnarming  miscel- 
lany, full  of  sweet  sentiment  and  the 
"  beauty  of  holiness,"  as  beautiful  in 
description  as  an  angel  of  Guido  upon 
canvas. — But  we  have  no  room  for 
praises,  not  even  for  numerous  fine 
passages,  because  one  long  one  we 
must  give — viz.  the  following  account 
of  ArchdeacoK  Daubkny — a  man 
whom  hawkers  and  pedlars  in  religion 
have  represented  to  the  vulgar  as  a 
Vicar-general  of  the  devil  himself,  be- 
cause he  has  justly  thought  that  schism 
is  only  one  roguish  mode  of  selling  bad 
wares. 

^e  shall  not  copy  their  slander,  but 
commence  our  account  with  the  build- 
ing of  the  Church  of  Rode,  co.  Wills. 


the  path  of  their  fellow  mortals  ;  and  I  am 
earnest  that  the  last  act  of  my  life  should 
hold  out  to  others  no  inducement  to  sin.* 

«  Nor  is  the  beautiful  Church  at  Rodo 
the  only  substantial  proof  which  the  Arch- 
deacon has  given  of  his  zeal  fur  the  £sta- 
blifhment.  The  inhabitants  of  Bath  well 
know  how  unwearied  and  how  liberal  an 
advocate  he  proved  himself  to  be  for  the 
building  of  Christchurch  in  that  city ;  the 
money,  the  pains,  the  time,  and  the  exertion 
which  he  brought  to  the  cause.  Such  is 
the  man  who  has  been  styled,  forsooth,  <  a 
hypocrite.'  Well;  there  are,  to  be  sure, 
various  shades  of  hypocrisy,  and  different 
modes  of  evincing  it,  but  tliat  which  the 
Archdeacon  has  sdopted  ap|)ears  to  be  the 
most  extraordinary  of  all.  One  has  heard 
of  men  giving  to  a  cause  their  breath,  in  the 
way  of  eulogy — or  sanctioning  a  charity  by 
their  name,  and  a  nominal  subscription ; 
but  to  devote  a  handsome  private  fortune  to 
the  support  of  the  Established  Religion  of 
the  country,  and  this,  year  after  year,  in  the 
most  liberal  manner,  and  at  every  opportu- 
nity, and  as  it  will  be  seen  in  the  sequel,  by 

If- 


the  exercise  of  the  most  undeviatin^  sell 

denial — is  one  of  the  most  extraordinary 

speoimcns  of  hypocrisy  I  have  ever  chanced 

«  The  Church  is  a  perfect  picture.    Built     to  meet  with. 


ia  the  most  beautiful  style  of  Gothic  archi- 
tecture, on  the  summit  of  a  hill — in  the 
midst  of  the  most  enchanting  landscape — 
looking  down  with  an  air  of  protection  upon 
the  hamlet,  that  is  scattered  at  irregular 
intervals  below  it — and  completely  isolated 
from  every  other  object — it  forms  a  ^mture 
on  which  the  «ye  of  the  most  fiutidious 
critic  may  repose  with  transport.  Its  cost 
u  reputed  to  have  exceeded  ten  thousand 
pounds,  of  which  the  Archdeacon  alone 
Vontributed  three.  <  It  is  my  legacy,'  he 
said  to  me  at  Bradley,  after  the  consecra- 
tion was  over,  <  to  the  Church  of  England.' 
The  books  for  the  reading-desk  are  the  gift 
f^  the  ArcIide*coa'$  graodchildren  ;  being, 


«  So  much  fiir  his  public  character.  We 
will  now  look  at  hin)  in  another  light,  as  a 
parish  priest.  The  peasant  of  sixty  years 
ago  would  hardly  recognise,  in  its  present 
state,  the  village  of  North  Bradley.  It  was 
once  apoor,  straggling,  miserable  liandet — 
had  a  Giurchhalf  in  ruins — and,  surrounded 
with  a  few  stunted  shrubs,  a  vicarage  appa- 
rently in  a  state  of  dilapidation  :  it  is  now 
the  very  picture  of  thriving  industry.  Its 
Church  and  Church-y^rd  in  admirable  order, 
tell  the  passing  stranger  that  tliere  is  a 
watchful  eye  over  both  ;  while  the  vicarage, 
tmbosomed  in  trees,  with  its  verdant  lawn 
and  Bwee|iiDg  shrubbery,  says  as  plainly, 
iYmlI  \>o\}^  \Aa\A  aii^  ^«n^\Q&\v^  Vvswe  Iteeu 


18^.] 


RsviBW.-^TAe  Living  and  the  Dead. 


43D 


tried  hers.     In  the  centre  of  the  villag», 
the  heart  of  the  philanthropist  is  gladdened 
by  a  noble  structure,  entitled,  the  '  Vicar's 
Ahnsliouse;' — it  is  built  of  Bath  free-stone, 
in  a  style  at  once  handsome  and  substantial, 
and  is  devoted  to  the  reception  of  twelve 
poor  people,  wlio,  from  the  experience  of 
better  days,  an4  the  education  and  habits  of 
former  years,  are  far  too  goo<l  for  the  pollu- 
tion of  the  common  poor-house,  and  yet  are 
obliged,  by  sorrow  and  misfortune,  to  seek 
ariy  shelter,   however  dreary,   where   they 
may  hide  their  head  and  die.     I  have  of^en 
drcamerl  in  theory  of  what  a  blessing  snch 
an    institution   a.H   this   might  [irove   to  a 
parish ;  I  never  till  now  saw  it  realised — and 
yet  in  a  commercial  country  lilcc  our  own, 
and  where  wealth  is  in  stich  a  constant  state 
of  fluctuation,  what  a  circle  does  not  suchift 
scheme  embrace.     F'or  what  country  Cler- 
gyman, at  all  conversant  with  the  state  of 
his   flock,  cannot  say  that  he   has  found 
many  children  of  sorrow,  far  superior  to  the 
indiscriminate  mixture  of  the  village  work- 
house,  but  who,  aged,  helpless,  diseased, 
ami  stricken,  have  no  longer  the  power  or 
the  means  of  assisting  themselves.     A  little 
further  on. is  the  Asylum,  endowed  in  the 
same  liberal  manner  as  the  former — built  in 
the  same   handsome   style— and   furnished 
with  the  same  comforts;  here  four  blind 
and  aged  people  pass  the  little  remnant  o{ 
their  life  in  continual  prayers  and  praise ;  — 
prayer,  that  God  would  shower  down  hit 
choicest  blessings  upon  their  generous  bene- 
factor ;  and  praise,  for  having  their  lot  cast 
in  a  parish  wiiere  there  is  one  who  has  the 
means  and  the  inclination  to  cherish  and 
protect  the  helpless  blind. 

*'  Nor  has  the  rising  generation  been 
forgotten.  The  Vicar*s  school,  a  room 
well  designed,  and  admirably. adapted  to  its 
object,  is  filled  with  healthy  and  happy 
faces;  while  a  school-manter  and  school- 
mistress are  paid,  with  a  comfortable  resi- 
dence, from  the  same  ever  open  hand. 
'*  It  is  hardly  possible  for  the  stranger  to 
ass  through  North  Bradley  withoat  having 
is  curiosity  excited  by  tlie  appearance  of 
one  or  other  of  these  striking  buildings ; 
and  it  is  still  more  impossible,  on  becoming 
acquainted  with  its  object,  to  check  the 
enquiry  'who  built  it?*  The  same  answer 
will  applv  to  all — the  Arc1;deacon.  Or,  as 
a  farmer  s  wife,  with  her  bright  good-hu- 
moured face,  answered  my  incrednlous  query 
on  the  subject — *  At,  you  may  stare  ;  but 
'tis  all  the  old  gentleman's  doinc — all  hit 
doing.  Ah !  it  was  a  fine  day  for  the  parish, 
when  parson  Daubeny  came  to  Bradley.' 
It  has  been  calculated,  that  the  sum  of  fif- 
teen thousand  pounds  would  barely  cover 
the  past  and  present  charities  of  its  venerable 
incumbent ;  nor  do  I  think  this  by  any 
means  an  extravagant  computation.  I  well 
know  in  what  an  overBowlng  stream  his 
'  Winter  charity'  anouMlly  flows.     Flannel 


I 


and  warm  clothing  for  the  aged  and  infirai  t 
hats  and  bonnets  by  the  score,  for  the  in- 
dastrious  poor  ;  coals  by  the  chaldron  t 
potatoes  by  the  cart-load ;  and  cheese  by 
the  ton; — snch  is  the  princely  manner  in 
which  the  Archdeacon's  bounty  arrives  Bt 
Bradley.  And  the  liberality  with  which  it 
is  distributed,  does  not  disgrace  the  donmr. 
His  own  chaplain — whom,  I  believe,  I  may 
safely  term  his  almoner  —  told  me,  *  the 
Archdeacon's  directions  to  me  are,  ask  no 
questions  of  the  applicant,  whether  he  goes 
to  Church  or  Cha]>el ;  if  he  can  look  you  in 
the  face  as  an  honest  man,  and  say  I  am  In 
want,  and  yon  have  ho  reason,  prima  facie^ 
to  disbelieve  his  statement,  give  without 
enquiry,  and  at  onoe.*  These  are  the  ac- 
tions, pursuits,  and  plans  of  a  man  who  is 

<  in  his  second  childhood.'  Thc50  are  the 
•  circumscribed  *  charities  of  a  Bigot  I  -~ 
This  is  the  manner  in  which,  month  afker 
month,  and  year  after  year,  the  fortune, 
time,  and  talents  of  that  man  are  employed, 
whom  the  Catholic  Bishop,  Dr.  Baincs,  has 
the  hardihood  to  insinuate  is  a  hypocrite. 

*<  But  perhaps  it  may  be  urged  in  reply^ 

<  all  this  display  of  charity  is  very  Christian 
and  very  praiseworthy ;  but  the  Archdea- 
con's foitune  is  handsome,  and  he  can  afford 
it.  Beyond  doubt,  there  is  no  gratificatioii 
which  he  denies  to  himself.'  The  reverse  is 
the  fact.  Tlie  pervading  feature  of  every 
object  at  the  Vicarage,  is  its  extreme  sim- 
plicity ;  every  thing  is  good,  but  singularly 
plain.  His  ubie  is  frugality  itself;  tlie  epi- 
cure or  the  fanciful  eater  must  not  trait 
himself  "there :  Puge  UUhs  imqttum.  Ales ! 
for  thenif  not  a  trace  of  self-indulgenoe, 
personal  extravagance,  or  private  gratifiet- 
tion  is  perceptible.  In  conversation,  the 
Archdeacon  is  reserved ;  and  there  may  h& 
some  truth  in  the  remark,  that  '  he  does 
not  possess  the  knack  of  talking  ;*  but  the 
few  observations  which  fall  from  hifn  ere 
those  of  a  men  who  has  read  much,  end 
thought  more.  He  is  cautious  and  rather 
unwilling  to  form  fresh  acquaintances  ;  aad  ^ 
is  accused,  I  think,  most  unjustly,  of  hea^ 

ing  back  from  the  younger  Clergy.  I  sey 
■  Unjustly,  because  I  have  heard  those  whoni 
distance  had  placed  beyond  the  sphere  of  hie 
action,  and  others  whom  fiinaticism  had 
blinded  to  his  worth,  term  him  <  a  haughty 
dignitary,'  and  *  a  high  priest,'  &c.  .but 
during  a  residence  in  his  own  immediate 
neighbourhood,  I  had  reiterated  proo&  of 
the  kindness  and  courtesy  of  his  manner  to 
his  younger  brethren  in  the  ministry ;  how 
ready  he  was  at  all  times  to  a£Ford  them  not 
only  his  advice,  but  his  able  and  unwearied 
assistance,  and,  if  oircumsUnces  required  it» 
his  personal  support.  His  circle  of  private 
friends  is  small.  I  remember  his  once  say- 
ing to  me,  *  there  \*  tiot  \tL  ^tv'^^tA  v  ^^a^ 
dcaV  o?  aoQveVj  \tv  N^\Ocv^C\«^Twwv»^ia»x 

is,  \  mean,  «l  e\eTfeT«««^  ^^^^''^  ^^t'x  ^t^^S. 
of  Via  tioVv   c^Vvtk" ,  15..^  xwxie&^  oX  w 


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Hbvibw.-— Home  on  Romajium, 


[May, 


ncredness  and  separation  of  hit  professiou, 
^  can  with  propriety  mingle.'  He  holds  iu 
dignified  and  just  contempt  that  vilest  of  all 
expedients  for  killing  time — taking  up,  and 
laying  down,  scraps  of  painted  paper ;  but 
•s  particalariy  fond  of  sacred  music.  Like 
acme  other  able  men,  he  has  lived  too  much 
la  his  study,  and  too  little  in  the  world; 
and  is  occasionally  the  dupe  of  the  most 
bare&ced  "imposition.  Of  this  I  heard  an 
instance  from  his  own  lips.  We  had  been 
talking  of  the  London  Society  for  the  Con- 
version of  the  Jews.  *  Not  long  ago,'  said 
the  Archdeacon,  '  a  most  secular  looking 
individual,  miserably  clad,  and  the  very  pic- 
ture of  poverty,  came  to  Bradley,  and  re- 
quested to  see  me.  After  a  short  preface, 
he  told  me  he  was  a  converted  Jew.  My 
mind  misgave  me  about  the  man ;  but  as  I 
ftlt  reluctant  to  turn  him  empty  away,  I 
entered  into  conversation  with  him  at  some 
'  length,  and  questioned  him  pretty  closely. 
His  answers  were  so  singularly  well  expresj- 
cdf  i^nd  evinced  such  an  intimate  acquaintance 
wiUi  3oripture — his  account  of  himself  so 
plausible — and  the  change,  which  gradually 
took  place  in  his  mind,  was  so  extremely 
natural,  and  so  ingeniously  described —  that 
I  felt  convinced  I  had  done  him  injustice. 
I  kept  him  ten  days,  clothed  him,  and  gave 
him  a  draft  for  ten  guineas.  Forty -eight 
hours  afterwards  I  heard  of  his  getting  drunk 
at  the  Ring  of  Bells  in  the  next  village, 
and  boasting  how  gloriously  he  had  gulled 
old  Daubeny  !  I  must  confess,  I  felt  ^rather 
diagrined  at  the  moment;  though  to  be 
sure,  after  the  expeKence  I  have  had,  I 
ought  to  know  better  by  this  time.  Well, 
well,  after  all,  I  had  better  be  the  checUee 
than  the  cheater,' 

*<  Reserved,  and  at  times  austere,  as  he 
appears,  he  abounds  in  kindly  feeling.  It 
was  delightful  to  see  him  come  out  in  his 
grey  reading  gown,  and  romp  with  his  little 
grandchildren  on  the  lawn,  the  most  noisy 
and  riotous  of  the  party ;  and  there  is  no 
^  instance  I  remember,  of  my  ever  having 
•pent  a  day  with  him,  in  which  he  did  not 
mention  the  late  Mrs.  Daubeny,  coupled 
with  some  brief  but  most  aflPectionate 
apostrophe  to  her  memory."    Pp.  366-370'. 

*•  Such  Caaysourauihor)  18  the  Arch- 
deacon oFSarum  —  the  Hypocrite 
and  the  Bigot.  How  far  the  portrait 
is  correct,  let  those  who  know  him 
best  deiennine.  1  have  sketched  him 
as  he  is  —  in  alight  far  more  subdued 
than  my  own  respect  for  his  worth, 
and  admiration  for  his  talenla  would 
prompt  me.  If  the  portrait,  then,  ap- 
pears highly  coloured,  blajnc  not  the 
painter,  but  the  original." 

Who,  we  add,  will  be  mean  enough 
to  asperse  such  an  apostolical,  philan- 
ihroplcal  character?  no  abstract  con- 


icientious  dissenters,  we  are  sure;  only 
iho^Q fripons  who  live  by  schism.  Let 
such  men  call  him  hard  names,  and 
expunge  his  book  (as  they  do)  from 
those  6t  to  be  read,  bebause  it  shows 
that  their  own  wretched  works  are 
only  bills  of  mortality,  accounts  of  the 
diseases  which  they  propa^te,  and  of 
the  numbers  that  die  of  them,  still 
Daubeny  on  Schism  is  founded  u|x>n 
the  uncorrupted  doctrine  of  the  Gospel, 
and  his  venerable  name  we  fondly 
trust,  registered  in  the  last  volume  of 
that  Gospel — the  Book  of  Life. 


83.  Romanism  contradictory  to  the  Bible; 
or  the  peculiar  Tenets  of  tli£  Church  of 
Rome,  as  exhibited  in  her  accredited 
Formularies,  contrasted  with  the  Holy 
Scriptures,  By  Thomas  Hartwell  Home, 
Af.^.     127no.  8 DO.    pp.  60. 

EVERY  body  knows  that  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  religion  was  no  more  in 
its  origin  than  Heathenism  plated  over 
with  Christianity,  and  that,  after  plain 
brass  Paganism  was  subdued,  the  old 
Romanism  was  improved  into  a  mere 
engine  of  power  and  profit  for  the  be- 
nefit of  the  Bishops  of  Rome.  All 
this  is  perfectly  plain;  but  now-a-days, 
forsooth,  the  lady  of  Babylon  is  afiSmi* 
ed  never  to  have  been  a  naughty  wo- 
man, always  a  chaste,  venerable  ma- 
tron, and  so  forth.  However,  Pro- 
testants maintain  that  Christianity 
should  be  tested  by  the  Bible ;  and 
Mr.  Home  shows  that  the  Papists  reck- 
on Christianity  to  be  vested  in  the 
person  of  the  Pope.  Thus  virtually 
they  exalt  him  to  the  rank  of  the  Holy 
bpirit. 

Mr.  Home  shows  the  errors  of  Ro- 
manism, by  contrasting  the  Scriptures 
with    their    tenets.       We     shall    go" 
through  his  sections  seriatim. 

1.  The  Holy  Scriptures  arc  a  com' 
plete  rule  of  faith,  (2  Tim.  iii.  15,  1 7, 
Rev.  XX ii.  8,  &c.  &c.)  The  Council 
of  Trent,  however,  says,  **  All  saving 
truth  is  not  contained  in  the  Holy 
Scripture."  pp.  8,  9. 

2.  Canon  of  Scripture.  The  Romish 
Church  makes  the  Apocrypha  to  be  of 
equal  authority. 

3.  //  is  the  duly  of  all  to  read  the 
Scriptures.  The  Church  of  Rome  pro- 
hibits the  reading  of  them. 

4.  The  Holy  Scriptures  invite  and 
command  inquiry, — the  Pope  cannot 
bfc  \T\^a\\\ViW,— \  TKcss.  v.  21,  x.  I. 


18^7.] 


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441 


it  disproved  by  the  bad  Ihres,  various 
doctrines,  &c.  &c.  of  Popes. 

5.  The  Romish  Church  is  noi  the 
mother  and  mistress  of  all  churches,-— 
those  of  Jerusalem,  Samaria,  Cyprus, 
Phenice,  and  Antioch^  being  much 
older. 

6.  God  alone  is  to  be  worshipped 
(Matt.  iv.  10.  Acts  iv.  IS);  but  the 
Romish  Church  admits  the  merits  and 
intercession  of  the  Virgin  Mary  and 
the  Saints,  &c. 

7.  The  Romish  Church  errs  in  its 
manner  of  wor;ihip,  by  celebrating 
service  in  an  unknown  language,  con- 
trary to  1  Cor.  xiv.  3,  6,  14,  10,  \g. 

8.  The  complete  atonement  of 
Christ  is  contradicted  by  the  Qiurch 
of  Rome, —  but  the  Romanists  make 
this  atonement  dependent  upon  cele- 
bration of  Mass,  and  destroy  all  the 
arguments  contained  in  chapters  7»  8f 
9,  of  the  Hebrews. 

Q.  The  Romanists  affirm  that  good 
works  alone  are  meritorious,  and  wor- 
thy of  eternal  life ;  that  there  was  no 
original  sin  in  the  Virgin  Mary,  &c. 

10.  The  Romish  Cfhurch  makes  ##- 
ven  sacraments,  whereas  Christ  has 
only  founded  two. 

11.  The  Romish  Church  forbids 
the  cup  to  the  laity,  contrary  to  Matt. 
xxvi.  26 — 28.  1  Cor.  x.  \6,  It  prohi- 
bits marriage  to  the  Clergy,  contrary 
to  well-known  texts. 

17.  Purgatory  and  Indulgences.  The 
first  is  contrary  to  Heb.  ix.  87*  1  Sam. 
XXV.  2g.  Matt.  vii.  13,  14.  viii.  11,  12. 
The  second  to  Ps.  cxxx.  4.  Isa.  xliii. 
25.  xliv.  22.  Jer.  i.  20.  MaYk  ii.  7- 
Luke  V.  21,  Eph.  iv.  32,  18.  Auricu- 
lar confession  is  contrary  to  Scripture 
and  reason. 

19.  Deposing  power  of  the  Pope. 
Here  we  shall  give  an  extract  from 
page  4 1 . 

«  la  1600  the  Ute  Pope  Pius  VII.  an- 
nounced his  election  to  tlic  pontificate  to 
Loait  XVIII.  M  the  Uwlul  King  of  FrMuae ; 


■od  in  the  following  year  h«  exhibited  a 
most  edifying  instmnce  of  utpol  duplieiijff 
when  it  suited  hb  interest,  by  entering  into 
-a  concordat  with  Buonaparte  (who  had  njpC 
lone  before  profetied  himself  a  Alussolnuni 
in  Egypt),  in  which,  betides  suppressiBg 
146  episcopal  and  metropolitan  sees,  and 
diimiaaing  their  Bishopa  and  metropolitans 
without  any  form  of  indicaSure,  he  absohftd 
all  Fren^men  from  toeir  ontht  of  allegianoa 
to  ibeir  lentimate  Sovereign,  and  autho- 
rized an  oMi  of  allegiance  to  the  first  Con- 
sul ;  and  when  Louis  XVI IL  sent  his  am- 
bassador to  Rome  to  present  bis  credentials, 
the  Pontiff  refused  to  receive  him.  With 
marvellous  inftdlibility,  however,  not  q^ite 
eight  years  afier,  the  same  pontiff  issued  a 
bull  (in  June  1 809), excommunicating  Buo- 
naparte and  all  who  adhered  to  him  in  his 
invasion  of  the  Papal  states }  in  which  boU 
lie  makes  the  same  extravagant  pretensions 
to  supreme  power,  which  had  been  put  forth 
by  Saint  Gresory  VIL  Innocent  ill.  and 
other  pontiffii. ' 

Mischievous  as  is  to  the  world  sach 
nonsense  as  Romanrsro,  yet  by  aliow- 
ine  no  system  of  education  wnaterer, 
which  is  not  incorporated  with  the 
support  of  that  system,  and  masterly 
policy,  supported  by  the  secular  arm. 
It  continues  to  dupe  thousands;  and 
those  who  do  not  adopt  it  sincerely, 
continue  in  k  nominally,  because  it  it 
against  the  point  of  honour  to  chan^ 
a  political  or  religious  creed  ;  as  m 
France,  such  persons  turn  infideu* 
The  demoralizing  consequences  of  up« 
holding  a  religion  which  men  cannot 
think  to  be  worthy  of  God  are  mani- 
fest, and  thus  such  a  religion  becomei 
a  serious  public  evil,  and,  we  are  sare^ 
contributed  in  a  great  degree  to  that 
wickedness  which  obtained  and  (re- 
cording to  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  '*  Paol'a 
Letters")  still  obtains  in  France,  and 
will  do  so,  as  long  as  religion  is  deem- 
ed a  mere  matter  of  form, — an  evil 
which  forsooth  is  now  to  be  cured  by 
the  Jesuits,  in  th€  pretent  ttalc  qf 
knowledge  J 


LITERARY    AND    SCIENTIFIC    INTELLIGENCE. 


Ready  for  Publication. 

A  Po[»u)ar  Commentary  on  the  Bible,  in 
a  Series  of  Sermons,  following  in  the  Old 
Testament  the  Course  of  the  First  I^essons 
at  Morning  and  Evening  Service.  By  the 
Rev  .J.  Plumtre,  B.D. 

A  Review  and  Analysis  of  Bishop  Bull's 

Gent.  Mao.  May,  18S7* 

8 


Exposition  of  the  Doctrme  of  Justification. 
By  Robert  Nelson,  Esq. 

A  Tour  in  France,  Savoy,  Northern  Italy, 
and  Switzerland,  in  the  Summer  of  18S5«- 
By  S.  W.  Stevenson. 

Sermons,  chiefly  Practical,  preaehed  in 
the  Parish  Cbureh  of  Clapliam,  Sutxev  B'\ 


442 


lAlerary  Intelligence. 


[May, 


tbs  Rot.  William  Dealtrt,  BJ).  F.R.8. 
Rector  of  CUpham,  and  of  Watton,  Herts. 

Morning  Tnouchts,  in  Prose  and  Verve, 
OB  Portions  of  toe  successive  Chapters  in 
(he  Gospel  of  St.  Mark.  By  the  Rev.  J. 
W.  CuNNiMOHAM,  Vicar  of  Harrow. 

Human  Sacrifices  in  India.  Substance  of 
the  Speech  of  J.  Poynder,  esq.  at  the  Courts 
of  Proprietors  of  £ast  India  Stock,  held  on 
the  81st  and  98th  days  of  March,  1897. 

Sermons,  preached  in  the  Parish  Church 
of  Richmond,  Surrey.  By  the  Hon.  and 
RtT.  G.T.Noel. 

Views  in  Rome.  Printed  in  Gold,  drawn 
•nd  engraved  by  PSnelli  of  Rome. 

A  Solemn  Appeal  to  the  Common  Sense 
of  England,  against  the  Priociples  of  the 
Right  Hon.  George  Canning,  and  his  As- 
fociates. 

Amongst  the  Novels  announced  for  pub- 
lication, are,  Blue-Stocking  Hall ;  Flirta- 
tion ;  O'Neale,  or  the  Reljel ;  a  third  scries 
of  Highways  and  Byways,  and  also  of  Say- 
ings and  Doings ;  Hyde  Nugent  ;  The 
Opera ;  The  Guards ;  &c.  &c. 

Observations  on  the  necessity  of  esta- 
blishing a  different  System  of  affording 
Medical  Relief  to  the  Sick  Poor  :  than  by 
the  Practice  of  Contracting  with  Medicsd 
Men,  or  the  Farming  of  Parishes.  By  J. 
F.  Hulbert,  Member  of  the  Royal  College 
<^  Surgeons,  8cc. 

Register  of  the  Arts  and  Sciences.  Con- 
taining an  Account  of  several  hundred  of 
the  most  important  and  interesting  Inven- 
tionsy  Discoveries,  and  Processes. 

The  Elements  of  Plane  Trigonometry. 
Bj  John  Hind,  M.A. 

Preparing  far  Publication, 

History  of  the  Town  and  Collegiate 
Church  of  Beverly,  the  adjacent  Villages, 
and  Meaux  Abbey.  By  the  Rev.  Gkorob 
Olitbr,  Vicar  of  Clee,  and  author  of  the 
**  Monumental  Antiquities  of  Grimsby," 
Sie.  &c. 

Some  Account  of  Llangollen  and  its  Vi- 
cinity, CO.  Denbigh,  including  a  circuit  of 
about  seven  miles. 

The  Book-Collector's  Manual ;  or,  a 
Guide  to  the  knowledge  of  rare,  curious, 
and  useful  Books,  either  printed  in  or  re- 
latins  to  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  from 
the  Invention  of  Printing  to  the  present 
time;  with  Biographical  and  Critical  No- 
tices, Collations  of  the  more  valuable  Arti- 
cles, both  as  to  text  and  plates;  likewise 
Prices  firom  the  principd  sales  during  the 
present  century.    By  W.  T.  Lowndes. 

The  Theol<^ical  Encyclopaedia. 

The  Newtonian  System  of  Philosophy 
explained  by  (krailiar  objects  in  an  enter- 
tuning  manner  for  the,  use  of  voung  peo- 
ple. By  Jambs  Mitchell,  author  of  the 
"  First  Lines  of  Science,"  &c. 

The  Visions  of  Patmos,  a  Prophetic 
Podm,  iJJustrBttr§  of  the  Apocalypse^  with 


an  Introduction  and  Notes.  By  the  R«r. 
Thos.  Grinpield,  Rector  of  Shirland,  Der- 
byshire. 

Tales  of  all  Nations,  comprising  prosa 
fictions  firom  the  pens  of  the  author  of 
London  in  the  Oldrn  Time — the  Author 
of  Mansie  Wauck's  Autobiography — ^Mrs. 
Charles  Gore  —  Mr.  Alaric  Watu  —  Mr. 
Emerson,  8cc.  &c. 

A  new  novel,  entitled  Reuben  Apstej. 
The  scene  is  laid  in  England  during  the 
short  reign  of  James  the  Second,  and  the 
most  prominent  of  the  historical  characters 
is  Judge  Jeffreys.     By  Mr.  Horace  Smith. 

That  very  rare  and  curious  fiction,  which 
treats  of  the  **  Lyfe  uf  Virgilius  and  of  his 
Death,  and  of  the  many  marvayles  that 
he  did  by  whyche-crafte  and  negroraancy 
through  the  help  of  the  Devils  of  Hell," 
will  form  the  second  in  Mr.  W.  J.  Thoms* 
series  of  early  prose  romances. 

The  first  Number  of  a  series  of  Litho- 
graphic Views  in  the  Brazils ;  together  with 
Scenes  of  the  Manners,  Customs,  and  Cos- 
tume of  the  Inhabitants,  firom  Drawings  by 
Maurice  Ruguedas,  a  German  Artist,  under 
the  superintendance  of  Baron  Humboldt. 

A  Selection  of  Architectural  and  other 
Ornaments,  Greek,  Roman,  and  Italian, 
drawn  on  Stone  from  the  Originals  in  va- 
fious  Museums  and  Buildings  in  Italy.  By 
Messrs.  Jenkins  and  Hoskins. 

On  Comparative  Physiognomy.  By  Lb 
Brun  ;  consisting  of  thirty-seven  large  de- 
sigms  in  Lithography. 

Views  in  the  madeiras,  in  90  drawings 
on  stone. 

No.  II.  of  Views  in  South  Wales,  taken 
on  the  spot,  and  drawn  on  stone.  By  W. 
Eldridob. 

Rambles  in  Madeira  and  Portugal,  in 
189$.  With  an  Appendix  illustrative  of 
the  Civil  History,  Ike,  of  the  Island. 

History  of  the  Steam  Engine,  from  its 
earliest  Invention  to  the  present  Time.  By 
Elijah  GALtowAY,  Engineer. 

It  may  be  curious  hereafter  to  refer  to 
the  price  and  progress  of  the  magnificent 
edition  rf^"  Livy"  upon  vellum,  recently  sold 
by  Mr.  Evans.  After  having  l)een  purchased 
by  Mr.  Edwards  in  Italy,  it  was  subsequently 
sold  in  his  sale  by  Mr.  Evans,  for  about  nine 
hundred  pounds,  to  Sir  Mark  Sykes ;  at  the 
dispersion  of  whose  library  it  was  again  sold 
by  Evans  for  three  hundred  and  sixty  pounds 
to  Payne  and  Foss,  who  transferred  it  to  Mr. 
Dent  for  five  hundred  pounds  or  guineas.— 
Messrs.  Payue  and  Fuss  have  again  become 
possessed  of  this  most  valuable  treasure  for 
two  hundred  and  fif^y  pounds. 

The  assignees  of  Hurst,  Robinson,  and 
Co.  have  sold,  in  one  lot,  for  two  thousand 
euineas,  the  remaining  copies  of  the  Staf- 
ford Gallery  (originally  engraved  at  an  ex- 
pence  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousaml 
pounds].    Th<e  f)la(es  have  been  destroyed 


IS^.^  Liieraiwrg  and  Science.  445 

under  an  especial  Act  of  Parliament.    They  hart  received  that  presented  to  Sir  Walter 

have  hkewiM  sold,  by  private  contract,  in  Scott,  which  the  President  delivered  to  him 

Ode  lot,  the  whole  of  their  remaining  va-  with  a  suiuble  address.     The  Officers  and 

luable  stock  of  ancient  and  modern  engrav-  Council  for  the  ensuing  year  were  next  bal- 

ings,  of  every  description,  together  with  the  lotted  for ;  and  thanks  being  voted  to  tha 

origmal  plates,  to  Messrs.  Grave  and  Boys,  chaur,  the  meeting  dissolved, 
for  fifteen  thousand  pounds.    This  is  con-  „ 

sidered  the  most  extensive  purchase,  rela*  Zoological  Society. 

tive  to  this  department  of  the  arts,  that  ever         May  I7.  The  anniversary  meeting  of  this 

was  effected.  society  took  place  May  17,  the  Marqnis  of 

Royal  Society.  Lansdowne,  President,  in  the  chair.    Th« 

jlpril  26.  Davies  Gilbert,  Esq.  Treasurer,  Oicetmg  was  very  numerously  attended ;  Earla 

in  the  Chair.  Sjiencer,  Malroesbury,  and  Carnarvon,  Lotd 

At  this  meeting,  H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  Auckland,  Marquis  of  Carmarthen,  Bbhop 

Clarence,  Lord  High  Admiral  of  England/  of  Bath  and  Wells,  Sir  Everard  Home,  Sir 

was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Society ;  and  a  Robert  Heron,  M.  P.,  Sir  T.  D.  Aclaady 

paper  was  read,  **  On  the  derangements  of  Bart.,  Sir  John  de  Beau  voir,   Mr.  Baring 

certain  Transit  instruments  by  the  effects  of  Wall,    M.  P.,    &c.    bemg    present.     The 

temperature."     By  Professor  WoodhousOy  President  informed  the  meeting,  that  the 

F.  R.  S.  works  in  the  Regent's-park  are  rapidly  ad- 

May  3.  Mr.  Gilbert  in  the  Chair.  vancing  :  the  walks  have  been  laid  out  and 

A  paper  was  read,  entitled,  **  Rules  and  p<urtly  exeeuted  :  and  pheasantries  and  avia- 

Principles    fur   determioing   the   dispersive  ries,  with  sheds  and  enclosures  for  some  of 

ratio  of  Glass,  and  for  computing  the  Radii  the  rarer  animals  belonging  to  the  societyy 

of    Curvsture    for     Achron(uitic    Object-  ^^^^  1°  active  progress.     It  was  expectsd 

glasses;"  submitted  to  the  test  of  experi-  that  the  gardens  would  possess  sufficient  in- 

ment.     By  Professor  Barlow,  F.R.S.  terest  to  authorize  the  opening  of  them 

May  10.  Mr.  Gilbert  in  the  Chair.  during  the  ensuing  autumn.    The  President 

A  paper  was  read,  entitled,  «  Some  Ob-  ^^^^  announced  tliat  the  number  of  sub- 

servations  on  the  EffecU  of  Dividing  the  scribers  exceeded  500,  and  that  the  lift  was 

Nerves  of  the  Lungs,  and  subjecting  the  ^ily  increasing. 

latter  to  the  influence  of  Voltaic  Electricity."  t  t^         o 

By  Dr.  Wilson  Philip,  F.R.S.  Literary  Fund  Society. 

A  paper  was  also  read,  *<  On  the  Change  The  friends  and  supporters  of  this  exeeU 
in  the  Plumage  of  some  Hen-plieasants."  l*Qt  institution  celebrated  their  Anniversary 
By  W.  Yarrell,  Esq.  F.L.S. ;  communicated  on  Wednesday  the  9th  of  May,  at  the  Ff«e- 
by  W.  Morgan,  Esq.  F.R.S.  masons*  Tavern. 

May  1 7.  Mr.  Gilbert  in  the  Chair.  Lord  John  Russell  presided,  in  the  ab- 

*  A  communication  was  read,  **  On  the  sence  of  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Somerset, 
Secondary  Reflection  produced  in  a  Magnetic  ^^o  ^**  stated  to  be  disabled  from  attend- 
Needle  by  an  Iron  Shell,  in  consequence  of    ing  by  indisposition.    After  dinner  the  nobla 

an  unequal  distribution  of  Magnetism  in  its  chairman  gave  the  usual   toasts—"  Tha 

two  branches;"  discovered   by  Capt.  Wil-  munificent  Patron  of  the  Society,  the  King," 

son,  R.  N. ;  by  Professor  Barlow,  F.II.S.  three  times  three,  &c.    Lord  John  Russell^ 

Papers  were  also  read,   "  On  the  Dif*  having  apologised  for  the  absence  of  the 

ference  of  the  Meridians  of  the  Royal  Ob-  Duke  of  Somerset,  said,  I  am  eager  to  men- 

servatories  of  Greenwich  and  Paris."     By  tion  a  circumstance  which  must  add  much 

T.  Henderson,  Esq. ;  and  "  On  Astronomi-  to  the  prosperi^  of  our  Society,  namely^ 

cal  Observations  at  the  Paramatta  Observa-  that  the  gentleman  who  has  consented  to 

tory ;"  by  C.  Runcker,  Esq.  .  fill  the  ch^ir  of  our  President,  at  our  next 

May  S4.  Mr.  Gilbert  in  the  Chair.  anniversary    festival,    is    the    Right   Hon. 

Papers  were  read,  "  On  the  Destruction  George  Canning,  First  Lord  of  the  Treasury. 

of  the  Fire-damp  in  Coal-mines."     By  Mr.  (EnthusiasHe  cheering.J 

Fmchem ;  and  **  On  the  Radiation  of  Heat,"         Mr.  Fitzgerald  recited  a  poem  on  the  oc- 

by  Mr.  R.  W.  Fox.  casion ;  and  the  Chairman's  health  was  pro- 

n  o  .  posed,  in  an  eloquent  address,  by  Mr.  Daw- 

Royal  Society  of  Literature.  |;„^  jyj.P.  for  Liuth. 

April  28.  The  annual  meeting  of  this  So-         The  Rev.  George  Croly,  one  of  the  Re- 

ciety  took  place  at  its  chambers  in  Parlia-  gistrars,  read  an  able  address,  composed  liy 

ment-street,  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  Presi-  himself,  sUting  the  objects  of  the  Society, 

dent,  in  the  chair.     After  the  preliminary  and  the  benefits  resulting  from  it.    The  fol- 

businoss,  his  Lordship  read  an  address  to  an  lowing  extracts  from  this  eloquent  nroduc- 

auditory  of  from  forty  to  fifty  individuals,  ti<m  cannot  fail  of  being  read  with  pica- 

mostly  men  eminent  for  learning  and  talents,  gure  : 

The  gold  medals  adjudged  this  year  by  the         "  The  ymncNvV  <A  i^\%  Vtis^^XNCCvw^vk  ^» 

Council  were  then  delivered.    Mr.  Look-  adminUt^T  a&«V^«Ktvc«XQVAV&t«r)  v>&x«Q!t^%^»- 


4411 


Aniiquarian  Researches. 


iWmf. 


Thb  Bruci  Manuscripts. 


The  fine  collectioa  of  ^thiopic,  Arabic, 
tad  other  Oriental  manuscripts  obtained  by 
Bruce,  the  celebrated  traveller  in  Egypt  and 
Abyssinia,  (an  account  of  which  was  given 
in  vol.  xcv.  ii.  p.  66)  have  been  brought  to 
the  hammer,  by  Mr.  Christie.     They  con- 
sisted of  nearly  100  volumes.     Among  the 
BiUical  manuscripts  was  an  .Ethiopian  ver- 
sion of  the  Old  Testament,  in  5  vols,  con- 
taining the  whole  of  the  sacred  books,  except 
the  Psalms,  made  from  manuscripts  used  by 
the  Greek  church  at  Alexandria,  at  a  remote, 
but  unknown  period.    This  copy  is  consi- 
dered unique.     £ach  page  is  divided   into 
three  columns,  and  the  manuscript  has  a 
considerable  number  of  marginal  variations. 
It  is  written  on  vellum,  in  very  clear  and 
beautiful  characters.     It  includes  the  book 
of  Enoch,   which  was  first  brought  into 
Europe  by  Mr.  Bruce.     The  three  co[>ies 
of  it,  originally  belonging  to  him  (one  of 
which  is  at  Paris,  and  another  at  Oxford), 
are  all  that  are  known  to  exist  of  it  on  our 
Continent.    There  are  also  in  this  collec- 
tion two  copies   of  the   four  Gospels,  in 
^thiopic ;  and  the  Epistles  and  Acts  of  the 
Apostles,  in  two  volumes,  on  vellum.     The 
Constitution  of  the  Apostles,  or  a  Collec- 
tion of  the  Canons  made  by  the  first  Gene- 
ral Council  (which  is  the  Statute  Book  of 
the  Church  of  Abyssinia),  in  one  volume  ; 
and  the  Synaxar,  or  History  of  the  Saints 
venerated  in  Abyssinia,  in  four  large  vo- 
Ihmes.     Among  the  historical  manuscripts 
is  the  celebrated  Chronicle  of  Axum,  on 
vellum,    in  double   columns.     It  professes 
to  have  been  compiled  from  materials  or  re- 
cords found  by  Damatious  (Damascus),  Bi- 
shop of  Rome,  in  the  Church  of  St.  So- 
phia, and  read  at  the  first  council  of  Nice 
to  the  818  Fathers  assembled  there. — ^There 
were  also  a  variety  of  Arabic  MSS.  relating 
to  the  histories  of  Syria  and  Egypt,  and  the 
conquest  of  Spain  by  the  Saracens ;  a  Topo- 
graphical Description  of  Egypt,  the  Course 
of  the  Nile>  8cc. ;  several  works  on  Medicine 


and  Natural  History ;  and  an  unique  Cop- 
tic MS.  on  papyrus,  said  to  have  been  found 
in  the  ruins  near  Thebes,  in  the  former  re- 
sidence of  some  Egyptian  monks.     It  con- 
tains 76  leaves,  in  small  folio,  of  papyrus,  of 
a  dun  colour,  and  exceedingly  brittle.     The 
character  is  nea£,  of  the  uncial  kind,  and, 
consequently  all  in  capitals,  without  points 
or  spaces.   .  This  manuscript  is  supposed  to 
have  beeiLComposed  in  the  Sd,  or  the  be- 
ginning or  the  dd,  century.     It  was  brought 
from  Scotland  by  Mr.  Bruce,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  its  being  inspected  by  Dr.  Woide, 
whom  he  permitted  to  copy  it.  Mr.  Christie, 
on  introducing  this  extraordinary  collectiou 
to  t!ie  notice  of  the  company,  olwerved,  that 
if  Europe  derived  no  other  benefit  firon  the 
travels  of  Bruce,  she  had  been  greatly  en- 
riched by  his  labours  in  obtaining  these  va- 
luable MSS.  which  ought  to  be  purchased 
by  the  nation.    There  were  several  book- 
sellers and  literary  men  present,  but  no  ad- 
vance was  made  upon  the  sum  at  which  the 
collection  was  put  up  on  behalf  of  the  pro- 
prietor— viz,  5,500/. 

German  Literature. 

In  Germany,  among  the  unaccountable 
naml>er  of  non-political  journals,  there  ap* 
pear  at  this  time — a  morning — a  mid-day — an 
evening— and  a  mid-night  Gazette.  The  latter, 
so  far  from  being  sleepy,  is  the  most  lively  and 
spirited  of  them  all;  being  edited  by  the 
celebrated  poet  Mullner.  There  is  also  an- 
nounced as  nearly  ready  for  publication,  at 
Beriin,  the  Fool's  Gazette  (die  Narreuzcit- 
ung),  to  appear  three  times  a  week,  for  the 
benefit  of  every  description  of  fools. — Pro- 
fessor Beck  sutes,  from  an  authentic  ac- 
count lately  published,  that  from  1814  to 
18S6  there  nave  been  printed  in  France 
83,774  books,  and  in  Germany,  within  the 
same  period,  50,303.  The  University  of 
Gottingen  counts  at  present  1460  students, 
of  whom  35f  study  theology,  652  the  law, 
284  medicine,  and  178  the  philosophical 
sciences.  The  University  of  Munich  had  on 
the  9Sd  of  December  last  1342  students. 


ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


Society  op  AmtiqiUaries. 

jlprU  93.  The  annual  Election  of  Officers 
took  place,  when  the  Earl  of  Aberdeen  was 
le-elected  President;  and  James  Heywood 
Markland,  Esq.  F.R.S.  was  elected  Director', 
in  the  room  of  W.  R.  Hamilton,  Esq.  F.R.S. 
promoted  to  be  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents. 
The  Society  afterwards  dined  together  at  the 
Freemasons'  Tavern,  tike  President  in  the 
Qiair. 

May  3.  The  President  in  the  Chair. 

The  President's  ap))ointment  of  William 
MMwUtoa,  Etq,  F.H,S,  ai  his  Deputy »  was 


A  communicati(m  wss  read  from  the  Rev. 
J.  Hunter,  F.S.A.,  addressed  to  Mr.  Ellis, 
enclosing  an  original  letter  from  Lenthall, 
the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  to 
Sir  Thomas  Fairfax,  respecting  Col.  Ham- 
mond's government  of  the  Isle  of  Wight, 
and  charge  of  Charles  I.  in  Carisbrook 
Castle.  It  was  formerly  in  the  hands  of  the 
historian  Rushworth,  and  is  adlluded  to  in 
his  **  Collections." 

The  reading  of  Dr.  Meyrick's  notices 
from  Military  writers  on  Hand  Fire-arms 
was  continued.  The  portion  of  this  paper 
now  read)  related  to  the  Tricker-lock,  the 


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■rroir,  tbs  Mtteh-box,  the  Fuoy-gmiy  and 
•ome  other  tubjects.  Mtuket-arrowt  were 
arrows  discharged  from  mosketSy  especially 
used  in  naval  warfare.  The  Match-box  was 
invented  by  one  of  the  Princes  of  Orange  : 
it  consisted  of  a  metallic  tabc)  in  which  the 
burning  match  was  placed,  perforated  with 
small  holes  so  as  to  adroit  the  air,  but  pre- 
vent the  light  of  the  match  from  lictraying 
the  troops  to  the  enemy,  in  the  nisht. 

May  10.  Henry  Hallam,  Esq.  V.P.  in  the 
Chair. 

Mr.  Konig,  through  the  hands  of  Mr. 
Ellis,  exhibited  drawings  of  three  ancient 
buildings  on  the  Continent;  viz.  the  Ca- 
thedral of  Beauvais,  the  Hotel  de  Ville  at 
Brussels,  and  the  Hotel  de  Ville  at  Lou- 
vaine.  Hie  reading  was  concluded  of  Dr. 
Meyrick's  Notices  from  Military  Writers  on 
Hand  Fire-arms. 

May  17.  Hudson  Gumey,  Esq.  V.P.  in 
the  Chair. 

A  communication  was  read  from  the  Rev. 
Thos.  Rackett,  F.  R.  S.  and  S.  A.  accompa- 
nying the  exhibition  of  five  pieces  of  ancient 
.  sculpture  in  stone  recently  purchased  in 
France.  Three  of  these  relics  of  antiquity 
were  bought  at  a  village  in  France,  on  the 
borders  of  Flanders,  to  the  Church  of  which 
they  are  supposed  formerly  to  have  belonged. 
They  are  superior  in  execution,  however,  to 
the  dry  style  of  the  Flemish  sculptors,  and 
were  probably  the  work  of  an  Italian  artist. 
One  of  them,  representing  Christ  bearing 
the  Cross,  strongly  resembles  in  the  ar- 
rangement of  the  subject,  the  celebrated 
altar-piece  at  Magdalen  College,  Oxford, 
though  it  was  ceruioly  executed  anterior  to 
that  picture.  The  other  two  of  this  seriea 
k  represent,  respectively,  the  Resurrection  of 
Jesus,  and  the  Adoration  of  the  Shepherds. ' 
They  were  formerly  painted  in  oil-colours 
and  gilt,  and  furnish  an  additional  proof 
that  the  art  of  painting  in  oil  was  known 
before  the  time  of  Van  byck.  The  subjects 
of  the  remaining  two  sculptures,  are,  Moses 
striking  the  ruck,  and  the  Presentation  in 
the  Temple.  They  once  formed  part  of  the 
Abbey  of  St.  Bertha  at  St.  Omers,  and 
were  obtained  at  Dunkirk. 
*  Mr.  Ellis,  in  a  letter  addressed  to  the 
President,  communicated  a  transcript  of  a 
manuscript  by  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  Master  of 


the  Jewel-house  in  the  reign  of  Chtilet  IL 

giving  a  detailed  account  of  the  duties,  pri- 
vileges, fses,  and  perqubitet  of  that  office. 

May  24.  Henry  Hallam,  Esq.  V.P.  in 
the  Chair. 

A  communication  was  read  on  the  Pro- 
gresses of  King  John. 

Opening  of  a  Mummt. 

Paris,  April  26. — ^The  opening  of  the 
mummy  which  makes  part  of  the  collec- 
tion of  Elgyptian  antiquities  which  M.  Pas- 
salacqua  has  just  sold  to  the  King  of  Prus- 
sia, took  place  to-day  in  the  grand  hall  of 
the  Sorbonne.  After  the  removal  of  the 
outer  envelope,  coinposed  of  linen,  hardened 
with  animal  glue,  the  whole  of  the  body  was 
found  wrapped  with  bandages,  which  had 
completely  kept  their  forms ;  these  band- 
ages unrolled,  laid  open  a  second  set  of  en- 
velopes of  brown  linen,  impregnated  with  a 
strong  aromatic  bituminous  odour,  and  ad- 
hering, in  a  great  degree,  -one  to  another. 
At  length,  on  the  removal  of  these,  the 
body  wes  discovered,  with  the  handi  ioinedy 
the  position  ordinarily  observed  in  the  em- 
balming of  young  females.  Between  the 
knees  were  two  small  rolls  of  papyrus,  in 
perfect  preservation.  Beside  these  rolls  waa 
a  kind  of  little  bag,  wrapped  up  in  bandagesy 
like  the  mummy  itself,  in  which  it  was 
hoped  that  something  curious  and  iroportani 
would  he  discovered ;  but  it  contained  no- 
thing but  grains  of  wheat,  a  number  of 
which  had  germinated.  The  chest  was  co- 
vered with  an  inscription  on  papyrus,  which 
could  neither  be  removed  nor  read,  which 
is  so  much  the  more  to  be  regretted,  as  it 
was  from  that  papyrus  that  the  most  im- 
portant discoveries  were  expected.  The  last 
thing  examined  was  the  cranium,  which  it 
was  thought  would  be  filled  with  bits  of 
linen  and  bitumen,  as  in  other  mummies^ 
but  it  was  empty.  The  head  was  furnished 
with  flaxen-coloured  hair,  in  perfect  preser- 
vation;, apd  as  the  whole  of  tne  teetn  were 
found  complete  and  very  small,  it  was  natn- 
rally  concluded  that  the  person  roust  have 
been  a  young  man.  The  inscriptions  found 
on  the  envelope,  and  the  circumstances  ob- 
served in  tlie  oj)ening,  prove  that  Uiia 
mummy  was  one  of  a  priest  of  Isis,  who  had 
died  in  his  30th  year. 


SELECT    POETRY. 


THE  DUKE  OF  YORK'S  MONUMENT. 

By  W.  Hkrsee. 

**  Tliere  never  was  a  character,  in  this  or  any 
other  country,  that  merited  better  than 
that  of  his  Royal  Highness,  that  his  me- 
mory should  be  conveyed  to  posterity  with 
respect." — Duke  of  Wellington. 

'll^H  Y  would  ye  raise  a  monumental  fame  ? 
Is  love  the  ofbpriog  of  the  iculptor'i 
hand.' 


Can  silent  stone  give  honour  to  his  name 
Beyond  the  praises  of  his  native  land  ? 

A  grateful  people  knew  his  living  worth, 
Prov'd  and  regarded  through  a  length  of 
years— 

And  when  he  clos*d  his  eyes  upon  the  earthy 
They  freely  gave  their  tributary  tears. 

And    what  more   pow'rful   elo<s^«t»Ra   «». 
WViU  mote  CfcviSL  \:tCvi  ^wJA  «<«^  ^»»^- 


448 


SeUci  Pofitnf. 


[Hif, 


What  mon  would  Hoaoor  or  wovld  Virtut 

•eeka 
Than  love  in  life,  aod  tMis  upon  the  gnive  ? 

Yet  fiiM  ihe  moBvment — tad  that  record 
Troth's  noblett  lesson  for  all  future  days— 

That,  of  all  gifts,  a  Prince's  best  reirard — 
Living  or  dying,  is — a  Nation's  praise ! 

X«t  not  the  marble's  purity  be  tai^ht 
To  speak  in  flattery  of  the  royal  dead : 

Tell  not  of  battles  that  be  never  fought — 
Nor  place  the  crown  of  fidsehood  on  his 
liead! 

Where  was  his  greatness  ?  Has  there  never 
been 
A  nobler  prince  beneath  the  smiling  sun  ? 
In  ages  past  has  England  never  seen 

A  Chief  who  more  resplendent  honours 
won? 

Was  he  renown'd  for  eloquence  of  speech — 
And  did  the  senate  echo  with  his  voice  ? 

Did  his  mind  soar  beyond  the  common  reach  ? 
Did  raptur'd  hearers  listen  and  rejoice  ? 

Are  there  not  living  princes,  chiefv,  and  men, 
With^preater  {>ow'rs  than  Fi^edbrick  e'er 
poesess'd  ? 
Yes — and  the  country  knows  it ! — Aim  not, 
then, 
^o  make  his  monument  a  nation's  jest ! 

Yet  raise  the  marble  to  an  honour'd  name — 
And  let  the  artist  all  his  aid  impart ; 

Hiat  future  ages  may  behold  ihe  fame 
A   Prince,  may  gain   by   virtues    of  the 
heart ! 

Let  sculptur'd  Truth  and  Friendship  inter- 
twine [praise, — 

O'er  the  Um  tablet  that  shall  speak  hli 
And  there,  with  Justice,  gracefully  combine 

To  crown  the  statue  with  unfading  bays. 

Beneath  where  this  exalted  group  appears. 
There  let  a  meek  assemblage  lowly  bend, 

Paying  the  tribute  of  their  grateful  tears 
To  him — the  Widow's  and  the  Orphan's 
friend ! 

What  nobler  tribute,  if  it  be  bat  just  ? 

Can  laurels  give  more  honour  to  the  brave  ? 
When  princes  mingle  with  their  kindred 
dust, 

What  purer  incense  for  the  royal  grave  ? 

With  all  the  candour  of  a  soldier's  heart, 
Well  did  the  Chief  his  dignity  maintain  ; 

And,  when  his  pow'r  a  blessing  could  im- 
port, 
To  him  did  merit  never  plead  in  vain ! 

Then  let  this  simple  record  mark  the  spot : 
<*  His  country  dedicates  this  sacred  stone 

To  him  whose  virtues  ne'er  can  be  foigot 
While  truth  shall  speak  in  Nature's  ge- 
nuine tone." 


MODERN  COURTSHIP.     ' 
A  TALKATIVE  Parrot,  both  spruce  and 
•larV  [flirt ; 

Paid  a  whit  one  mom  to  Miss  Jay  »-|[;ceU 


Ha  thfought  her  so  flippant,  wHli  plmnap 

so  bright,  «   [first  aagli^ 

That  Poll  who  had  once  kaaffd.  of  lava  m 
As  soon  as  tha  first  salutationa  were  over, 
Imagin'd  of  course  he  must  now  toonflkaaoa 

lover. 
He  flatter'd  her  beauty,  which  caoa'd  her  to 

blush. 
For  as  to  her  mind,  he  car'd  not  a  rash. 
She  chatter'd  so  sweetly,  and  hopp'd  with 

•uch  grace»  [place. 

He  was  certain  all  bipeds  to  her  must  give 
He  ask'd  as  a  favour  she'd  give  him  a  tune. 
And  mentlon'd  his  fev'rite  air,   *'  Bomua 

Doon." 
She  greatly  regretted  her  Toioe   was   too 

hoarse,  [were  eoarsai 

And  acknowledg'd  her  tones  like  a  Raven's 
But  flatter'd  at  length  by  his  earnest  re- 
quest. 
Conceitedly  answer'd  she  would  trr  her  best. 
«  Bonnie  Doon  "  was  so  old,  with  its  tune 

she  was  tir'd. 
But  she'd  warble  a  song  which  was  now 

much  admir'd. 
Then  flying  with  speed  to  a  neighbouring 

rill. 
To  dip  in  its  waters  so  limpid,  her  bill. 
After  coughing  ami  hemming  ahe  took  up 

her  fan 
To  screen  her  sweet  face,  aod  politely  began. 

«  Fly  to  the  forests,  fly  with  me. 
Our  English  woods  are  rude  for  thee. 
But  oh  \  the  choice  what  heart  can  doubt 
Of  glens  with  love  or  meads  without." 

She  ceas'd,  with  a  look  of  such  confident 

grace,  [face. 

And  display'd  to  her  beau  so  liewitching  a 
He  with  rapture  confeis'd  all  her  notes 

rich  and  rare, 
And  declar'd  that  no  Songstress  with  h^r 

could  compare. 
Which  vastly  delighted  the  artful  young 

Fair. 
Thus  secure  of  her  conquest  in  acting  her 

Eart, 
astily  ofler'd  his  juvenile  heart ; 
And  she  promis'd  her  beau  should  no  erils 
betide,  p>ride. 

That  a  very  short  time  should  make  her  his 

Bright  Phoebus  at  length  usher'd  in  the 
fitir  day,  [<^nmy ; 

And  the  couple  appear'd  deck'd  in  splendid 

A  pair  of  sweet  Doves  too,  as  bridenuiids 
were  seen. 

Who  gsily  were  winging  it  over  the  green. 

Yet  amidst  all  their  smiles  some  were  in- 
wardly vex'd. 

But  each  ardently  hop'd  that  her  turn  would 
be  next. 

Lord  and  Lady  Cock  Robin  attended  instate. 

And  many  a  soocster  arriv'd  with  his  mate. 

In  an  oak's  hollow  trunk  in  a  neighb'ring 
glen, 

Awa^  firom  all  fowlers  or  mischievoos  men, 


W7.] 


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449 


They  plighted  their  rows,  thought  with  joy 

OD  the  pasty 
And  promit'd  fidelity  e'eo  to  the  iMt. 
To  their  numeroas  friends,  they  sent  favours 

and  cakes, 
And  ;^iiy  set  ofF  for  six  weeks  to  the  Lakes. 
Alas  !  wnen  a  short  idle  month  past  away, 
Entiui  they  found  sadly  clouded  each  day. 
To  tliat  sf>oa  succeeded  indifference  too. 
And  his  fate  poor  Sir  Parrot  indeed  had  t«i  rue. 
With  this  nympii  who  pretended  to  he  so 

attach*d,  [not  match*d. 

To  his  sorrow  lie  found  he  was  pair*d,  but 
( he  could  warble  most  sweetly,  but  oh,  to 

her  sliame, 
Of  domestic  economy  knew  not  the  name. 
Her  showy  outside  had  bewilder*d  his  brain. 
He  felt  it  and  moum'd,  but  too  late  to  com*- 

plain. 
He  finds  the  gay  flirt  he  has  chosen  for  life, 
Is  deficient  in  qualities  wishM  in  a  wife  ; 
So  trifling  her  manners,  so  vacant  her  mind. 
Her  converse  as  thoughtless,  and  quite  un- 

refln'd ! 
He  oft  more  than  once  in  the  course  of  the 

Disgustingly  tum*d  from  her  presence  away. 

Displeas'd  with  himself,  even  more  than  hit 
mate,  [too  late  j 

That  he  saw  not  these  follies  before  'twas 

That  with  all  his  discernment  he  was  not 
aware  [snare ; 

A  Syren  could  catch  him  so  soon  in  her 

Like  others  whose  dioughts  seek  fot  no- 
thing but  pleasure. 

He  marries  in  haste,  to  rtperU  at  his  leisure, 

Z. 

Certaines  Conditions  el  qvalitez  principate^ 
ment  requises  en  gens  de  plusieurs  cstatz, 

Lansdowne  MS.  SSO.  Fol.  verso,  133. 

TrN  prince  loyault^ 

£n  clere  humility 
En  prelat  sapience 
£n  advocat  loqueooe 
£o  chevalier  proesse 
£n  riche  horn  me  largesse 
A  roarchant  foy  tenir 
A  sergent  ol)eyr 
A  herault  congnoissaocc 
A  femme  contenance 
A  drap  belle  couleur 
£n  vin  bonne  saveur 
A  mestier  graqt  gaing 
A  laboureur  bepuin 
A  flateur  mentir 
A  larron  cler  ayer 
A  accremissenr^  appertie^ 
A  lucteur'  gaigner  pris 
A  Ribault  compte  et  gay 
Et  potain  sans  effray 


Qo. 


from  achr^me  **  vleillorU  que 
touase.*'  2  Qu. 

3  Qu.  from  locquet,  a  lock  locquetetir 
-    •   .Wf? 

Gent.  Mao.  May,  1 8t7.  • 


€t 


A  prescheur  estre  clerc 
A  cuisinier  estre  Jiett  * 
A  prestre  chastely 
A  escuier  habillete 
A  povre  espe ranee 
A  roessagier  diligence 
A  juge  actrempance^ 
A  koilier^  decevance 
A  nmllade  paicience 
A  pecheur  repentance. 

SONNET  ON  INDEPENDENCE. 
By  John  Taylor,  Esq, 

J  CARE  not   Fortune  what    you    me 

deny  •,"  [state. 

Said    Thomson,   who    enjoy*d  a  happy 

Admir'd,   caress'd,  and  fo5ter*d    by  toe 

•  Great, 

Anxious  the  Poet's  wishes  to  supply, 
Aud  hence  he  well  might  Fortuue's  frowae 
defy. 
Ah !  happy  Bard,  who  knew  'twould  be- 

his  fate, 
To  bear  a  name  of  high  poetic  rate, 
I^ng  as  the  Seasons  roll  beneatl^the  sky. 
Alas  !  I  scorn  not  Fortune,  but  in  vain, 
Through  life,  to  court  her  favour  have 
essa)'d, 
Toil'd  on.my  rugged  path  with  grief  and  pain. 
Nor  one  advance  toward  iNDEPENUKNci 
made : 
Let  me  no  more  then  after  Fortune  strain, 
Nor  fear  how  soon  the  turf  be  o'er  me  laid. 

LINES, 

By  a  Mother  in  IS  15. 

AS  the  sweet  flower  which  scents  the  mom, 

But  withers  in  the  rising  day ; 
Thus  lovely  was  my  Henry's  dawn. 
Thus  swiftly  fled  his  life  away. 

And  as  the  flower  thst  early  dies 
Escapes  from  many  a  coming  woe. 

No  lustre  lends  to  guilty  eyes, 
Nor  blushes  ou  a  guilty  brow. 

So  th^  sad  hour  that  took  my  boy. 

Perhaps  has  spar'd  some  heavier  doom  s- 

Snatch'd  him  from  scones  of  guilty  joy, 
Or  from  the  pangs  of  Ul  to  come. 

He  died  before  his  in&nt  soul 
Had  ever  burnt  with  wrong  desires  i 

Had  ever  spuni'd  et  heaven's  controuly 
Or  ever  quench'd  its  sacred  fires. 

He  died  to  sin,  he  died  to  care. 

But  for  a  moment  felt  the  rod  ; 
Then  springing  on  the  viewless  air. 

Spread  his  light  wings  and  soar'd  to  God. 

This — the  blest  theme  that  cheers  my  voice. 
The  grave  is  not  my  darling's  prison ; 

The  Stone  that  cover'd  half  my  joys 
Is  roU'd  away,  and  he  is  risen. 


*  Necty  or  neat. 
6  Pimp. 


*  i.  e.  modecation. 


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t    450    J  [May, 

HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 

PROCEEDINGS    IN    PARLIAMENT. 

House  op  Commons,  May  1.  attention  of  the  House  to  the  relative  situs- 
The  House  met  this  day,  and  owiog  to  ^^^^  ^  Prime  Minister  and  Secretary  of 
the  recent  changes  4d  the  Admioistration,  S**«  ^of  th«  Home  Department.  The 
the  moet  intense  interest  was  excited.  Every  church  preferments  laid  with  the  former, 
Avenue  was  crowded,  and  the  attendance  of  *nd  the  latter  had  to  attach  his  signature 
Members  was  unusually  great.  On  the  Mi-  ^  them.  Here,  (hen,  was  one  plain  reason 
nisterial  lienches  sat  Mr.  Tiemey,  Sir  Fran-  ^^y  *he  persons  who  filled  these  two  situa- 
CEs  Burdett,  Mr.  Calcraft,  Sir  John  New-  tions  ought  uot  to  differ  on  either  political 
port.  Lord  Sunley,  Mr.  Brougham,  Mr.  <>'  religious  questions.  He  embraced  that 
Spriug  Rice,  Sir  Robert  Wilson,  Mr,  opportunity  of  repelling  with  indignation 
Fowell  Buxton,  and  several  other  gentlemen  ^®  accusation,  that  himself  and  his  col- 
who  formerly  sat  on  the  Opposition  benches.  iMgues'had  formed  a  cabal.  The  course 
Mr.  Peel  and  his  brethren  took  their  seats  which  the  individuals  to  whom  he  alluded 
on  the  lower  benches  near  the  spot  oc-  pursued,  was  a  course  founded  on  the  ho- 
cupied  by  Mr.  Canning,  when  out  of  ^^  opinion  which  «ach  individual  enter- 
office,  tained,  and  which  ought  to  be  hold  up  as  an 
On  th«  motion  for  a  new  writ  for  Ash-  ««»n»ple  to  every  other  officer  of  the  Crown, 
burton,  in  the  room  of  the  Right  Hon.  W.  With  respect  to  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  a 
S.  Bourne,  who  had  become  Home  Secre-  distio^tuished  individual  (the  Duke  of  Wel- 
tary,  Mr.  Petl  rose,  and  explained  the  cir-  ^  lington),  whose  name  was  stamped  with  the 
cumstances  which  had  induced  him  to  retire  gmtitude  of  his  country, — when  he  found 
from  the  public  service.  He  said,  that  in  '^^^  ^^^7  ^«<^  attacked  by  the  most  shame- 
withdrawing  from  the  service  of  the  Crown,  ^^  accusations,  he  felt  the  indignation  which 
he  was  actuated  by  no  motives  that  could  be  f^^T.  honest  mind  must  feel  at  such  revolt- 
coostmed  into  levity,  jealousy,  or -disrespect  '^  ingratitude.  His  separation  from  his 
towards  any  one.  No  private  pique,  nor  '^8^^  ^o°*  f''iend,  with  whom  he  had  acted 
personal  feeling,  had  swayed  his  actions ;  be  *ith  so  much  cordiality,  had  been  to  him  a 
retired  upon  principle,  and  had  he  done  source  of  great  regret.  He  retired  from  the 
otherwise,  he  should  have  felt  unworthy  the  public  service  without  enteruining  any  per- 
eonfidence  of  the  House.  *<  Tlie  House  "<^Pf ^  feeling  either  as  regarded  party  or 
and  the  country  are  well  aware,  *<  said  the  'pint. 

Right  Hon.  Gent.  «  that  there  is  a  great  ^i>'  F,  Burdett  sa'id,  the  ground  on  which 

constitutional  question,   to   one   particular  "^  ^^^  his  friends  thought  it  incumbent  to 

side  of  which  I  profess  myself  fervently  at-  support  the  present  Administration  was,  the 

tached.     For  1 8  years  I  have  pursued  an  ^ope  o(  advancing  that  principle  which  b- 

undeviating  course  of  opposition — have  al-  duced  the  Right  Hon.  Gent,  to  withdraw^ 

ways  offered  the  most  uncompromising  hos-  *ud  which  the  whole  civilized  world  acknow- 

tility — against  any  measure  for  granting  fur-  Icdged,  with  the  exception  of  England, 

ther  concessions  to  the  Roman  Catholics.  Sir  Thus,  Lelhbridge  expressed  himself  aa 

During  14  of  those  1 8  years,  I  have  held  strongly  opposed  to  the  present  Admmis- 

office  under  the  Crown,  and  during  11  of  tration,  and  called  for  a  trial  of  strength  a( 

those  14  years,  that  office  has  been  closely  once  on  the  Catholic  question, 

and  intimately  connected   with  the  affairs  Mr.  Dawson   (late  Under  Secretary  for 

and  interests  of  Ireland.     I  still  retain,  and  the  Home  Department)  denouncrd  the  coa- 

without  the  slightest  variation,  the  opinions  litiun  between  Mr.  Canning  and  the  Whigs, 

I  have  so  long  advocated ;  and,  having  so  as  the  basest,  most  unnatural,  and  unprece- 

doue,  I  felt  that  it  would  not  be  consistent  dented  that  had  ever  taken  place.     He  at- 

with  the  maintenance  of  my  character  as  a  tacked  the  press,  which  was  in  favour  of  the 

public  man,  to  acquiesce   in  any  arrange-  new  arrangements,  as  corrupted  to  the  very 

ment,  which,  while  it  conferred  benefit  on  heart's  core,  for  hardly  a  portion  of  it  gave 

me,  and  enabled  me  to  retain  office,  was  expression  to  the  real  opinions  of  the  coun- 

calculated  materially  to  promote  the  success  try ;  and  he  contended  that  the  parties  who 

of  the  question,  to  which,  under  other  cir-  had  recently  joined  the  new  Ministers  were 

cumstances,  I  had  offered  the  strongest  re-  only  anxious  to  participate  in  the  sweets  of 

aistance."    The    Right    Hon.    Gentleman  office. 

said,  he  lost  no  time  in  making  up  his  mind  Mr.  Brougham  replied  with  much  sar- 

to  retire  from  tlie  puUie  service,  when  he  oaam  to  the  preceding  speaker,  and  said  that 

£imad  thMt  hk  colleagues  would  di&r  upon  he  gave  the  present  Administration  his  sup- 

ShJ§  swbject.     He  pMrticokrly  diiected  t^e  f«c\  «m»\  «ndM)iVj  UMiV«Mtv\^  •,  but  he  had 


18^70         Proceedmgt  w  the  present  Seuion  of  ParUament.  451 


filom  tbe  first  Tolimurily  refiwed  office,  be- 
cattte  he  would  not  throw  any  obttaclet  in 
the  way  of  such  an  armMpment  being  per- 
fected as  would  be  conducive  to .  the  happi- 
ness of  benighted  Irekad. 

Mr.  Canning  then  addressed  the  Houae  in 
a  most  powerful  and  impressive  speech.    He 
entered  into  a  history  of  his  couduct  with 
reference  to  the  Catholic  question  and  the 
Ute  Ministerial  transactions.     He  spoke  in 
the  highest  terms  of  Mr.  Peel's  candour  and 
sincerity,  and  hoped  their  separation  would 
be  only  for  a  time.     He  intimated  that  his 
Majesty's  opinions  were  Anti-Catholic ;  and 
stated,  that  when  first  applied  to  for  advice, 
he  recommended  a  Government  confomw- 
ble  to  these  opinions,  which  of  course  in- 
volved his  own  retirement.     For  a  time,  he 
knew  not  whether  this  advice  would  be  acted 
upon ;  at  len^h   it  was  distinctly  stated, 
that  such  a  Government  could  not  be  form- 
ed, and  he  received  his  Majesty's  commands 
to  model  one  on  the  principles  of  Lord  Li- 
verpool.   To  have  placed  at  the  head  of  this 
Government,  as  had  been  required  of  him, 
another  person  holding  Lord   Liverpool's 
sentiments  on  the  Catholic  question,  would 
have  been  virtually  to  admit,  that  he  was 
himself  disqualified  from  that  high  office  by 
his  peculiar  opinions;—- and  sooner  than 
disgrace  himself  by  sanctioning  such  a  prin- 
ciple, he  would  retire  for  ever  from  public 
life,  be  proscribed  and  persecuted,  and  be- 
take himself  to  perpetual  banishment.     If 
the  new  Cabinet  did  not  embrace  an  equal 
proportion  of  the  supporters  of  both  sides  of 
the  question,  it  was  not  because  he  had 
been  fuilty  of  any  breach  of  fiuth.    "  When 
(continued  the  Right  Honourable  Gentle- 
man), upon  the  19th  of  April,  1  went  to 
the  chamber  of  my  Sovereign,  intending  to 
propose    a    plan  and  arrangement,   which 
should  comprise  all  the  Members  of  Lord 
Liverpool's    Government,     and    embrace, 
therefore,    an    equality  of  Protestant   and 
Catholic  votes,  or  rather,  I  should  say,  a 
preponderancy  of  Protestant  voices — a  cir- 
cumstance occurred  which  prevented  that 
intention  from  taking  effect.     Was  it  my 
fault,  Sir,  that — by  any  sort  of  concert  I 
certainly  will  not  venture  to  say,  hut  by  a 
singular  coincidence,  undoubtedly — at  that 
very  time,  on  that  very  day,  and  in  that 
very  charoljer,  five  Protestant  resignations 
(I  call  them  Protestant  only  in  the  parlance 
()f  this  House)  were  put  into  my  hands  ? 
Five  Protestant  resignations  came  into  the 
King's  hands,   within  twenty-four  hours; 
and  thus,  five  of  tbe  membe>s  on  whom  I 
had  reckoned  for  the  new  Cabinet,  were  at 
once  withdrawn  :  and,  upon  this  statement, 
I  ask,  whether  it  is  fiiir  to  impute  to  me  a 
wilful  non-execution  of  the  orders  of  my 
Sovereign,  in  the  formation  of  that  Cabi- 
net.    fHear.J    But   did    the    matter  rest 
here.  Sir?     I  received  these  resi^uations 
about  tbe  middle  of  lliursday,  and  within 


some  two  honrs  of  the  meetbg  of  tbil 
House.  1  had  already  given  directions  for 
the  moving  of  the  new  writ — (for  the  bo- 
rough of  Newport,  we  presume]— when  I 
received  these  resignations.  Upon  receiv- 
ing them,  I  said  to  my  Sovereign,  *  Here, 
Sire,  is  that  which  disables  me  from  exe- 
cuting the  orders  I  have  received  from  yov, 
respecting  the  formation  of  a  new  Adminis- 
tration. It  is  now  open  to  your  Majesty  to 
adopt  a  new  course,  for  no  step  has  yet 
been  taken  in  the  execution  of  those  orders 
that  is  irrevocable  ;  but  I  must  fairly  state 
to  your  Majesty,  that  if  I  am  to  go  on  the 
same  position  where  you  have  been  pleased 
to  place  me,  my  writ  must  be  moved  for  to- 
day, for  if  we  wait  until  tbe  holidays  with- 
out adopting  any  definitive  steps,  I  see  that 
it  is  quite  hopeless  for  me  to  attempt  to 

rtrsevere  in  the  objects  I  have  undertaken/ 
need  not  repeat  to  the  House,  the  words 
in  which  my  Sovereign  eraciously  replied  to 
this  representation,  but  I  may  state  that  he 
gave  me  his  hand  to  kiss,  and  confirmed  me 
in  the  office  to  which  I  had  been  named. 
(Zoud  cheers  J  These,  then,  Sir,  are  the 
steps  which  I  really  have  taken  ;  these  are 
the  means  by  whicu  I  have  been  placed  lo 
the  station  I  at  present  fill.  I  have  meddled 
not  with  the  conduct  or  the  opinions  of  any 
other  man.  What  have  been  the  principles 
of  conduct  of  others  among  my  late  col- 
leagues, for  the  best  of  reasons  and  the 
wisest,  I  do  not  pretend  to  say ;  for  really  I 
do  not  know  them. — (Heat. J  I  had  never 
offended  them  intentionally,  nor  did  I  know 
that  I  had  ever  excited  among  them  iinwit- 
^  tingly  any  feeling  so  hostile  or  personal  to 
me,  as  to  be  at  all  likely  to  lead  to  this  re- 
sult."— (HeaTf  hear.J  The  Right  Hon, 
Gent,  then  stated  that  with  the  new  Go- 
vernment the  Catholic  Question  was  not  to 
he  a  Cabinet  question,  but  stood  exactly  as 
it  did  in  181S.  Much  as  he  estimated  the 
importance  of  the  measure,  he  knew  there 
was  a  strong  feeling  in  the  countnr  against 
it,  and  no  consideration  should  inauce  him 
to  run  hostile  to  that,  for  he  valued  a  week 
of  peace  in  England,  above  the  accomplish- 
ment of  almost  any  theoretical  or  practical 
good.  He  had  no  doubt,  however,  the  time 
was  ripening,  and  the  measure  would  finally 
triumph. 

Housi  or  Lords,  May  S. 

On  the  opening  of  the  House,  the  newly- 
created  Peers,  Lord  Lyndhurst^  Viscount 
Goderichf  Lord  Plunket,  and  Lord  Tender^ 
den,  took  their  seats. 

Lord  Elknbanmgh  (from  the  Opposition 
side)  said,  that  since  the  adioumment  of 
the  House,  an  entirely  new  Ministry  had 
been  formed  on  different  principles  from  the 
last,  or  on  no  principle  at  all,  and  noble 
persons  who  had  seceded  frou.  tbaX  fiAacs&r 
nuUaXiou  \>aA  V»eii  ao  tgttas^.^%aMK^«^^^« 


4!y$              ProteidHngi  in  the  present  Seuian  of  farUament.  (Msy; 

hoped  they  woald  take  the  very  fint  oppor-  tion,  he  stated,  that  on  the  10th  of  April 
tunity  afforded  to  them  of  rebutting  tuese  he  received  a  letter  from  the  Right  Hoii. 
charges.  Gent,  who  now  filled  the  oCBce  of  Prime 
The  JBarl  of  Eldonuld,  that  he  teamed  Minister,  which  stated  that  the  Kin^  had 
for  the  ^t  moment  that  he  and  the  noble  desired  the  writer  to  lay  before  him.  With  ••' 
Lords  who  had  resigned  their  offices,  had  little  delay  as  possible,  a  plan  for  the  tt- 
been  charged  with  concert  in  resigning  construction  of  an  Administration; — an^ 
those  offices,  and  with  the  unpardonable  that  it  was  his  Majesty's  wish,  as  well  as 
offiiDce  of  dictating  to  their  Sovereign,  his  own,  that  the  new  Administratioii 
That  he  himself  should  be  supposed  to  have  should  adhere  to  the  line  of  policy  pursued 
been  guil^ — after  having  sustained  all  the  hy  Lord  Liverpool :  he  then  hoped  toat  hit 
principles  he  had  so  undeviatlngly  sustained,  Grace  had  no  objection  to  form  t  part  in 
through  evil  and  through  good  report — of  such  new  Administration.  Now  their  Lord> 
yielding  to  a  doctrine  so  unconstitutional  as  ships  would  observe,  that  the  letter  did  not 
to  affect  to  dictate  to  his  Sovereign — who  itiforra  him  as  to  the  persons  of  whom  the 
should  have  the  government  of  the  country,  new  Cabinet  was  to  consist,  nor  as  to  those 
subject  to  that  contruul  which  belonged  to  members  of  the  old  Cabinet,  who  either  had 
the  two  Houses  of  Parliament,  constituted  resigned,  or  were  expected  to  resign ;  and  aa 
as  the  Parliament  of  this  country  was,  was  a  these  explanations  had,  he  understood,  been 
thing  that  he  would  never  hear  stated,  as  given  to  his  other  colleagues,  he  was  father 
£sr  as  regarded  himself,  without  declaring  astonished  at  the  omission  in  his  case.  On 
that  it  was  a  base  and  scandalous  falsehood,  the  I  Ith  of  April,  he  wrote  to  acknowledge 
—  fChcersJ  On  the  other  hand,  he  would  the  receipt  of  Mr.  Canning's  letter,  and  ex- 
take  the  liberty  of  saying,  that  be  had  a  pressed  his  anxiety  to  serve  in  the  Councila 
rii;ht,  for  the  sake  of  his  Sovereign's  safety,  of  his  Maiesty,  with  tlie  same  colleagues 
whom  he  had  so  long  served,  in  dutiful  at-  that  formed  the  Administration  of  Lord  Li- 
tcntion  to  him,  and  in  dutiful  attention  to  vernool,  but,  Ixffore  he  gave  his  answer,  he 
the  memory  of  his  father,  whom  he  had  so  wished  to  know  from  Mr.  Canning,  who  was 
long  served,  to  state  in  that  House,  and  to  to  be  placed  at  the  head  of  the  New  Adrai- 
his  Majesty,  that  he  never  disguised  from  nistratioo.  On  the  same  evening,  he  re- 
him  any  opiuton  he  ever  entertained  on  any  ceived  a  reply  from  Mr.  Canning,  stating 
subject  submitted  to  his  consideration.-^  that  he  felt  it  his  duty  to  submit  his  (the 
He  spoke  in  the  presence  of  many  who  Duke's)  letter,  with  his  answer  to  it,  to  his 
knew  that  for  years  past  it  had  been  a  ques-  Majesty.  Mr.  Canning  tlicu  added,  that  it 
tion  with  him  whether  he  ought  to  resign  was  a  well-understood  arrangement  that> 
or  not.  And  when  the  circumstance  of  whenever  his  Majesty  entrusted  to  any  indi- 
this  change  took  place,  the  question  with  vidual  the  formation  of  an  Administratiott» 

'  him  was,  not  whether  he  should  maintain  a  that  individual  was  to  he  at  the  head  of  the 
purpose  of  resignation,  but  whether  he  Government :  he  concluded  by  stating,  that 
should  fulBl  that  purpose  of  resignation  he  had  no  reason  to  believe  tbat  his  Mijestjf 
which,  for  some  years  |)ast,  he  had  express-  intended  in  this  case  to  depart  firom  the 
ed.  Meaning  to  resign,  if  an  Administra-  ufiual  arrangements,  and  that  he  (Mr.  Cau- 
tion of  principles  simiiiir  to  his  own  had  ning)  was  appointed  at  the  head  of  the  new 
been  formed,  could  it  he  supposed  that  he  Administration.  He  (the  Duke)  wrote  an 
ought  uot  to  have  resigned  when  an  Admi-  answer  to  this  letter,  in  v/liich  he  stated,  that 
nistration  had  been  formed — as  they  had  he  had  understood  from  Mr.  Canning,  tluit 
iieen  told,  thoiigh  he  tiid  not  know  whether  he  had  had  a  different  arrangement  in  con- 
it  had  or  not — of  perfectly  different  princi-  templatioo  from  that  which  he  was  then 
pies?  With  respect  to  the  Catholic  Ques-  fiilfilling; — that  he  had  not  felt  himself 
tion,  his  opinion  was,  that  the  decision  of  warranted  in  collecting  from  the  comn!iuni- 
a  question  so  important,  should  not  be  de-  cation  of  the  Kight  Hon.  Geut.  that  he 
ftrred.  He  had  certainly',  hitherto,  been  himself  was  to  be  at  the  head  of  the  Admi- 
ono  of  those  most  anxious  to  oppose  the  nistratioo ; — that  he  had  diligently  turned 
bringing  forward  of  this  question,  but  he  the  subject  in  his  mind,  with  a  view  of  see- 
now  was  clearly  of  opinion,  that  the  time  ing  how  far  he  could,  consistently  with  his 
had  come  when  it  sh<mld  and  ought  to  he  ])rinciples,  take  a  share  in  the  new  Admi- 
brought  forward.  His  Lordship  denied  nistration ; — that  he  sincerely  wished  he 
most  solemnly  before  his  God,  that  he  had  could  bring  himself  to  a  coaviction,  that  the 
acted  in  ctmcert  with  any  man,  and  declared  new  Government  was  to  adhere  to  the  line 
that  he  had  not  even  seen  their  communica-  of  policy  pursued  by  Lord  Liverpool,  but  he 
tions."  was  afraid  that  it  would  not ; — that  he  con- 
The  Duke  of  ffeUirigton  stated  tluit  he  ceived  the  principles  of  Lord  Liverpool's 
had  been  most  unjustifia))ly  and  calum-  policy  luid  been  already  abandoned; — that 
aiously  treated.  He  had  been  abused  day  the  measures  of  a  Government,  constituted 
after  day,  by  a  press,  which  if  not  in  The  on  the  principles  of  Mr.  Canning,  would  be 

pM/,  wuM  under  the  direct  influence  of  Go-  viewed  with  suspicion  by  foreign  Govern- 

^ernincnt.     Ih  refereace  to  lib  late  leMgna*  \ueut&,  0:11^  v)^J^xV^  ^wc.  \xv)  a^v&CocUua  to  the 


1 MT J]         J^^HMngt  in  the  pranu  SmUm  tf  ParUameia.  4M 

peoph  it  honl*  i^^maA  thtt  uadtt  these  lelvet,  and  trta  hit  right  hott.  fri«b<}  to  Uf 

eircuiDftatices,  hm  reqoetted  Mr.  Guwlog  to  his  Majesty,   **  I  will  run  airtj  aAd  leate 

to  comnmnlcate  to  his  MMesty  thtt  he  joa  in  such  a  prBdieament  m  no  Sovereign ' 

wished  to  he  excused  firom  forming  t  perl  wes  ever  phced  in  before  ?  "    He  should 

(jf  the  new  Cabinet.    He  was  bound  to  avow  throw  hhiMelf  upon  the  indulgeaee  of  their 

to  their  Lordships,  that  the  present  Cabinet  lordships,  declaring  that  he  aimed  at  no- 

materUJW  differed  from  that  of  which  Lord  thing  but  the  honour  of  his  Kiog,  and  the 

Liverpool  had  been  the  head ;  and  the  chief  good  of  his  country.     {Cheers,) 
difference  between  them  was  this — ^that  the         Earl  Bathurst  observed,  that  he  retired 

Cabinet  of  Lord  Liverpool  was  founded  on  because,  when  the  Duke  of  Wellineton» 

the  principle  of  maintaining  the  laws  as  they  Lord  £ldoo,  Lord  Liverpool,  and  Mr.  reel,' 

were  ;  whilst  that  of  the  Hight  Hon.  Geo-  were  no  longer  in  office,  there  was  such  h 

tieroan  was  founded  on  the  principle  of  sttb-  blank  formed,  as  would  not  justify   him  in 

verting  them.     (Hear,  hear. J    The  princi-  retaining  office.     He  denied  that  there  had 

pies  of  the  noble  £arl  were  principles  by  been  any  concert  in  the  resignations, 
which  any  man  might    safely  abide:  the         The  £arl  of  ^f^s/moreidnrf  said,  that /it 

principles  of  the  Right  Hon.  Gentleman  was  the  invariable  practice  of  publie  men  to 

fluctuated  every  day,   and  depended  upon  decline  office  when  differences  of  opiiion 

transitory  reasons  of  temporary  expedience,  arose  between  them.     He  had  served  hia 

As  to  the  charge  of  conspiracy  between  him  Majesty  many  and  many  a  year,  and  no  man 

and  his  colleagues,  it  was  a  foul  falsehood,  was  more  jiroud  of  it  than  he  was,  while 

and  he  cared  not  who  said  It.    The  office  of  under  the  guidance  of  the  late  Administra- 

Commander-in-Chief  of  necessity  placed  the  tion;  but  he  resigned  office  when  he  could 

holder  of  it  in  a  constant  confidential  rela-  not  longer  be  of  any  use  to  his  King  and 

tion  with  the  Prime  Minister,  who  had  in  country. 

(kc%  the  chief  controul  in  his  own  hands,  -  Lord  Melville  said,  it  could  not  be  ex- 

and  from  all  the  communication  he  had  had  pected  that  he  waS  to  embark  in  a  new 

with  the  Right  Hon.  Gent,  he  saw  that  it  government,  without  knowing  the  mem(>ers 

would  be  impossible  to  consider  the  conti-  of  which  it  was  to  be  composed.    It  was 

nuance  of  his  relation  with  him  either  ser-.  precisely  upon  that  ground  ne  stood.     Ha 

vioeable  to  the  Country,   or  creditable  to  estimated  highly  the  talents  of  his  Right 

himself.     He  then   referred  to  ministerial  Hon.  friend,  Mr.  Canning,  but  he  confessed 

negociations  which  had  taken  place  at  for-  he  did  not  thiuk  he  could  form  an  efficient 

mer  periods,  in  tome  of  which  Mr.  Canning  government,  such  as  the  exigency  of  the 

uras  a  party,  to  show  that  the  person  era-  country  required.  If  stripped   of  his  old* 

ployed  to  ucgociate  was  not  expected,  as  a  associates. 

matter  of  course,  to  be  at  the  head  of  an         Lords  Londonderry  and  EUenbofough  con- 
Administration,  curred  in  one  common  sentiment  of   un- 

Lord  Bexley  said,  that  a(Wr  having  ten-  compromising  hostility  to  the  Govemment» 

dcred  his  resignation,  he  wm  induced  again  as  it  was  then  composed, 
to  resume  office  by  the  assurance  he  had  re-        The  Earl  of  fPmchehea  said,  that  no 

ceived  that  tlte  line  of  policy  adopted  in  the  period  of   the  political  history  since  the 

Administration  of  Lord  Liverpool  would  not  Revolution  of   this  country,   could  at  all 

be  abandoned.  He  acquitted  the  noble  Duke,  compare  with  the   present  era.     He  con- 

aud  those  of  the  late  Administration  who  trasted  the  characters  of  the  ex-ministera 

had  resigned,  of  any  thing  like  a  consjpiracy.  with  those  who  retained  their  places,  and 

As  to  the  question  of  making  one  ot  a  di-  those  individuals  who  had  succeeded  to  new 

vided  Administration,  the  noble  Lord  oh-  appointments ;  and,  with  reference  to  Mr. 

served,  that  in  this  respect  there  was  no  de-  Canning,  he  concluded  by  observing,  that 

parture  from  the  principle  of  Lord  Liver-,  consistency  in  him  was  never   observable. 

pooKs  Administration.  Ambition    and  the  love  of  place  were  tho 

Viscount  Ooderich  (late  Mr.  Robinson)  jnvots  of  his  whole  political  life, 
•aid,  he  had  witnessed  the  late  separations  a 

in  his  Majesty's  Councils  with  the  deepest  „  ^ 

regret.    He  disavowed  all  participation  in  Houst  or  Oimmohs,  May  4. 

the  calumnies  which  had  been  cast  upcm  the         The  changes  in  the  Adminiitration  were 

noble  Lords,  and  said,  that,  from  what  he  the  principal  subject  of  discussion.     The 

knew  of  the  character  of  the  public  press,  debate  wu  lung,  interesting,  and  animated, 

and  the  connexion  subsisting  between  it  and  Mr.   Dawson   spoke  with   great  acrimony, 

tlie  Government,  he  had  no  besiutiun  in  when  he  asked  Mr.  Canning  if  any  arrange- 

expressing  his  opinion,  that  the  press  was  ments  were  in  progress  to  fill  up  the  offiioes 

an  engine  too  powerful  and  independent  to  of  Master  of  the  Mint,  Judge  Advocifte, 

be  made  uie  of  in  tlie  way  alluded  to.     The  &c.  Mr.  Canning  arose  and  loudly  replied 

changes  which  liad  taken  place  were  to  be  with  the  monosy liable  "  Ye*,**  which  oc- 

ascribed,  not  to  the  Ministers  who  remain-  casioned  great,  shouting  and  laughter.— Mc. . 

ed,  but  to  those  who  had  fallen  off.    Tliey  Peel  wished  ta  Vuao«>  M^vu^^^a^oKv  %^>sa. 

refused  to  form  an  AdminisiratioA  tbem-  of  GovetncMiiA>'«(Vkc)2o)tt^v^tta»»o»Ml^^* 


464 


Proceedingi  in  thepreseni  Sesiion  of  ParUametiin 


l¥V' 


form  wM  to  be  an  open  queition  like  that 
regarding  the  Catholica^  and  be  supported 
by  part  of  the  Mioiitry. — Sir  Fronds  But' 
dett  declared  that  nothing  of  the  kind,  had 
been  sought. — Sir  E,  KnatchJbuU  said,  that, , 
seeing  by  whom  the  Ministers  were  sur- 
rounded, he  must  withdraw  his  supoort 
firom  Mr.  Canning's  Administration. — ^Mr. 
Cannhig  declared  he  should  oppose  Parlia- 
mentary Reform,  and  also  the  Test  Act 
Repeal. — Sir  Gtorge  fVarrmder  said,  tha£ 
he  would  give  the  Government  his  inde- 
pendent support,  and  he  was  convinced  it 
had  the  support  of  the  country. — Lord  John 
Russell  said,  he  was  too  well  pleased  at  the 
resignation  of  the  seceders  to  wish  to  see 
(hem  restored  now  at  the  price  of  Parlia- 
mentary Reform. 

May  1,  General  Gascoyne  brought  for- 
ward his  motion  for  a  Committee  to  inquire 
into  the  present  distressed  state  of  the  Sbip- 
]Mng  interest.— Mr.  Hushisson  rose  to  op- 
pose the  motion,  and  expose  the  fallacy  of 
the  gallant  General's  statements.  He  de- 
clared the  allegations  of  the  Ship-owners, 
ibft  British  trade  had  declined,  to  be  un- 
^e.  The  Hon.  Gentleman  then  stated 
that  in  1814,  our  trade  with  other  ports  in 
Burope  amounted  to  540,000  tons,  and  iu 
1896'  it  came  up  to  878,000.  In  the  last 
year,  eggs,  to  the  astonuhing  number  of 
65,000,000,  ■  were  imported  from  Franccj 
the  dnty  on  which  amounted  to  S3 ,000/. 
As  fespeets  the  trade  to  th6  West  Indies, 
one  fiict  is  certain,  that,  in  the  last  year, 
and  while  that  trade  was  open  to  others,  the 
Amount  of  British  shipping  engaged  tliere, 
has  been  greater  than  in  any  of  the  six  pre- 
ceding years.  (Hear,  hear.)  Thea  as  to 
our  trade  with  North  AmerieSy  m  place  of 
151j000  tons,  it  now  amounts  to  S.9 1,000 
tons  i  and  in  the  last  year,  it  exceeded  that 
that  of  every  other,  except  1825.  With 
the  East  Indies  our  trade  has  increased  from 
50,000  to  73,000  tons.  With  respect  to 
the  Afriqan  trade,  which  is  one  of  a  roost 
valuable  descriptifm  to  England,  the  increase 
has  been  from  9,000  to  36,000  tons.  As 
to  Ireland,  in  that  country  there  has  been  a 
great  increase  in  trade,  not  only  to  the 
Baltic,  but  to  the  Colonies,  and  at  that  I 
exceedingly  rejoice.  In  the  year  1784,  the 
quantity  of  timber  which  camelrom  British 
North  America^  was  784  loads ;  from  the 


Baltic,  1 05,000.    In  tbt  jitr  1  Sft5»  vt  im- 
ported from  America,  407>000  loads*  and 
from  the  Baltic,  370,000.    (Hear,  Amt.) 
The  coasting  trade,  so  impoiirtant  to  Uua, 
country,  amounted   in  the  year   1888,  to. 
7,399,000   tons;  in   1884,  8,110,000 1  in 
1835,  8,340,080  ;  and  in  1836,  8,806,000 
tons.    Thus,  this  trade  has  grown  with  oar 
growth,  and  is  of  the  greatest  advaatag*  to. 
the  towns  along  onr  coasts.    Can,  Uiea,  mnj 
one  say,  after  all  this,   that  our  maritime 
interest  is  diminbhed  ?     He  had  beard  no 
one  fact  laid  down  in  the  reasoning  adduced 
to  support  the  motion  which  could  prove 
the  case  that  it  was  necessary  to  establish  s 
consequently  he  would  give  to  the  motion 
his  most  decided  negative. 

After  some  remarks  from  Mr.  Pee/,  the 
motion  was  withdrawn. 


[Both  Houses  have  been  occupied  night 
after  night,  with  acrimonious  discussions  on 
the  new  Administration,  resulting  from  ques- 
tions put  to  the  Members  of  Gtivemment  by 
the  new  Tory  opposition  ;  but  the  debates 
thence  arising  would  be  little  more  than  a 
recapitulation  of  sentiments  expressed  in  the 
meetings  of  the  two  Houses,  which,  firom 
the  importance  of  the  subjects,  we  have 
just  given  at  considerable  length.] 

House  op  Lords,  May  17. 
On  the  Petition  of  W.  Turner,  esq.  of 
Shrigley  Park,  Cheshire,  leave  was  given  to 
bring  in  a  bill  to  annul  the  marriage  of  Miss 
Turner  with  E.  G.  Wakefield,  who  was  then 
a  prisoner  in  Newgate,  and  from  whom 
Lord  Eldon  presented  a  petition,  praying  to 
be  heard  at  the  bar  of  the  House  against 
the  Bill. 

.  On  ]>resenting  an  Anti-Catliolic  petition, 
a  discussion  arose,  in^which  Lord  Holland 
and  the  Marquis  of  Lansdown  opened  their 
Ministerial  campaign  in  support  of  the  new 
order  of  things.  In  this  discussion.  Lord 
Abingdon  spoke  as  follows  : — *<  All  my  life  1 
have  been  a  supporter  of  regular  Govern- 
ments, and  have  possessed  feelings  of  loyalty 
and  attachment  to  the  Constitution  in 
Church  and  State,  as  by  law  established : 
believing  that  to  such  principles  the  country 
owed  its  greatness,  iu  jieace,  and  prosperity*; 
I  cannot,  therefore,  with  these  feelings. 
Join  or  support  a  Government,  of  whose 
principles  I  never  can  approve." 


FOREIGN   NEWS. 


FRANCE. 


A  Royal  Ordinance  has  dissolved  the 
National  Guard    of  Paris.     That .  Guard, 

.  (says  the  Journal  des  DebatSy)  was  com- 
posed of  the  select  inhabitants  of  the  capi- 
ISc/.    It  huM  existed  for  a  series  of  years,  and 

feadered  immeDM  services  to  order  andio 


royalty.  Its  lines  have  twice  protected 
peace  within  and  without,  against  the  move- 
ments of  foreign  invasion  and  anarchy*- 
Twice  has  the  restoration  appeared  amidstf 
its  ranks,  protected  by  its  acclamations,  sup- 
ported by  its  devotion,  and  sometimes  ac 
nnded1)y  its  arms.    This  Guard,  truly  na- 


1887.^ 


Foreign  News. 


455 


It  wit  ni  the  first  place,  io  the  midit  uf 
the  secoml  legion*  immedietelr  efter  hU 
Majesty  he«l  pMted»  (lavt  the  Quotidiemte,) 
thet  ODC  of  the  grenedien  of  the  fid  bet- 
talion  mhiffled  with  the  s^oenil  cry  of 
«V;ve  leRoS!*'  that  of  <«  A  has  let 
Ministres  I "  The  Dake  of  Reggio  ordered 
him  to  be  arretted,  bat  he  escaped  among 
the  linet.-  Pitting  in  front  of  the  7th  le- 
gion, the  King't  •  ears  were  again  aatailed 
with  the  criet  of  a  National  Guard,  who 
could  not  rettrain  hit  animadvenions  on  the 
Ministers.  Hit  Mijetiy  stopped,  and  said 
in  a  noble  and  firm  tone, — **  1  came  here  to 
receive  the  homage  of  my  people,  and  not 
remonstrances.*'  The  King  ordered  this 
National  Guard  to  be  broken  and  degraded. 
To  palliate  his  irreverence,  several  of  hit 
comrades  exclumed,  '*  Vive  le  Roi !  *'  and 
taking  advantage  of  thb  circumstance,  he 
made  off.  One  man  belonging  to  the  8th 
regiment  was  particularly  remarked  for  hit 
disrespectful  conduct.  Coont  St.  Roman 
ordered  him  imder  arrest ;  and  on  his  pro- 
mise to  surrender  himself,  he  wat  allowed  to 
remain  free  in  the  Knee.  The  clamour  ap- 
peared to  be  roost  violent  in  the  Sd,  5tD, 
■and  8th  regiments.  The  80di  Legion  on 
Ht  return  from  the  Champ-de-Mare,  in  patt- 
ing through  the  nie  de  Rivoli,  mingled 
with  cries  of  '*  Vive  (e  Roi !  "  the  exclama- 
tion, a  thousand  timet  repeated,  o£  *<  A  bat 
Villelf." 

During  a  debate  in  the  Chamber  of  Depu- 
tiet  on  the  Budget  for  the  year  1898,  M. 
Lafitte  made  an  allusion  tu  the  late  disband- 
ing of  the  National  Guard,  which  produced 
ereat  agitation,  and  a  cry  of  **  Impeach  the 
Ministers"  was  raised  by  several  voicet. 
M.  Lafitte  said,  if  four  Deputies  would 
bring  the  act  of  impeachment,  he  would 
sign  it.  Immediately  several  other  membert 
declared  they  would  tign  it.  Order  being 
restored,  M.  de>  Villele  observed,  that  he 
thould  have  had  reason  to  fear  impeachment 
had  he  not  advised  the  ditbanding  of  the 
Guard.  «I  thall  never  dread,"  taid  he, 
**  an  impeachment  for  a  measure  necessary 
for  the  public  interest  and  the  tafety  of  the 
country,  which  wat  not  to  be  replunged  into 
revolution  by  want  of  firmness  on  the  part 
of  the  advisers  of  the  crown." 

A  must  lamentable  accident  lately  took 
place  at  the  commune  of  St.  Jean  Io  Vieux, 
in  the  department  of  Basses  Pyrenees.  Just 
at  the  worthy  priest  of  the  Commune  had 
finished  mass,  the  vault  of  the  church  gave 
way,  and  the  roof  fell  in  with  a  tremendous 
crash.  A  great  number  of  persont  were 
buried  in  the  ruins,  and  eight  or  ten  hist 
their  lives.  Several  females  were  most 
shockingly  mutilated,  and  it  wat  with  diffi* 
cnlty  that  they  were  extricated  from  the 
mass  of  stones  heaped  on  every  side.  The 
charch  was  in  a  very  dilapidated  state ;  but 
people  resosted  to  it,  at  there  wat  no  other 
ia  the  vianitjr,  ■ 


SPAIN  AND  PORTUGAL. 


Orders  have  been  iuued  from  the  War 
Office,  for  a  retrograde  movement  of  the 
Army  of  Observation,  to  the  same  distance 
firom  the  frontiers  as  the  English  and  Porta- 
guese  corps.  These  orders  are  the  conse- 
quence of  representations  made  by  Mr. 
Lamb  and  M.  Lima,  on  the  advance  of  the 
Spanish  army,  which  appeared  to  have  no 
object  but  to  tupport  the  insurrection  of 
Elvat,  and  to  endeavour  to  extend  it  to 
other  frontier  fortretses  of  Portugal. 

The  measures  of  the  present  Minittrr 
become  daily  more  and  more  violent.  A 
circular  from  the  Ministrr  of  Grace  and 
Justice,  addretted  to  the  Pretldentt  pf  all 
the  superior  tribunals  of  the  kingdom,  con- 
tains the  following  passage : — '<  His  Majesty, 
after  haviug  heard  his  Council  of  Sute,  and 
Ministers,  orders  that  the  members  of  se- 
cret societies,  who  may  not  he  voluntarily 
denounced,  shall  be  immediately  arrested, 
tried,  and  condemned  to  death,  conformably 
to  what  4s  prescribed  by  the  decree  patted  to 
that  effect  in  1824." 

Intelligence  from  Madrid  announcea  an 
engagement  on  the  frontiert  of  Gallicia, 
between  the  Spaniardt  and  Portnguete. 
The  latter,  it  it  taid,  contrary  to  the  £sith 
of  treatiet,  bad  penetrated  into  teveral  Spa- 
nith  villages,  wnich  they  pillaged.  Some 
toldiers  of  the  regiment  of  militia  of  Mon- 
treacy  marched  against  the  Portuguese,  and, 
notwithstanding  their  inferiority  in  point  of 
numbers,  charged  them,  and  compelled  them 
to  recross  the  frontier.  The  militis,  carried 
away  by  their  ardour,  penetrated,  on  their 
return,  into  the  Portuguese  territory,  where 
a  number  of  them  were  made  prisoners. 

On  Sunday  the  S9th  of  April,  four  com- 
panies of  the  8th  regiment  or  foot  revolted, 
and  attempted  to  proclaim  Don  Miguel. 
They  expected  to  be  joined  by  the  artilleryi^ 
but  were  oppoted  by  them  iu  Praca.  They 
were  tnrrounded  by  the  5tli  foot,  Sd  cavalry, 
and  part  of  the  artillery,  with  three  field- 
pieces.  They  fired  blank  cartridget  over 
their  headt,  when  they  were  pertuaded  by 
their  colonel  to  'retire  to  their  barrackt. 
After  thit,  all  wat  quiet  till  about  day-light, 
ilrhen  we  were  disturbed  by  the  firing  of  ar- 
tniery.  They  had  risen  to  get  poseessioa 
of  the  £sqnina-gate.  In  the  night  a  rein- 
forcement had  arrived  from  the  1st  Ca^a- 
dores,  and  the  5th  and  8th  cavalry,  from 
different  parts.  The  Ca^adores  dislodged 
them  from  the  fort.  After  pretty  smart 
firing,  they  got  in  front  of  the  Royal  arse- 
nal and  artillery,  where  commenced  a  con- 
siderable firing  for  about  an  hour  and  n 
half,  lliey  had  possettion  of  the  convent 
of  Paulittes.  One  friar  was  killed ;  another 
made  prisoner.  The  peatanu  were  more 
determined  than  the  troo^  \  wo«D«a\crabK^^ 


H6 


Domutk  Oc^urnnces. 


XMar. 


•tnnefltT  for  (he  rebek^  esclu4uig  from  par- 
don aJloffictrs  who  deserted,  all  chiefs  of 
the  revolted  peasantry,  the  ,magittfates  and 
veclesiasticSy  who  joined  them*  and  the  re- 
bellious junta  denominate  the  Siipreme 
Government  of  the  kingdom.  Her  MMesty 
has  been  labouring  under  a  severe  Ulpess 
for  lome  time  past* 

AFRICA. 

Mijor  Laing  has  fidlen  a  victim  to  his 
perseverance  in  endeavouring  to  explore  the 
interior  of  Africa,  after  reaching  Tombuc- 
ioo.  On  his  arrival,  the  FelUns,  to  the 
fiumber  of  30,000,  demanded  him,  in  order 
lo  put  him  to  death,  **  and  to  prevent 
thereby,"  they  said,  '**  christian  nations 
from  profiting  by  his  information  to  pene- 
trate some  day  into  these  distant  countries 
for  the  purpose  of  enslaving  them."  The 
Prince  who  commanded  at  Tombuetoo,  re- 
fosed  to  give  him  up,  and  sent  him  out  pri- 
vately under  an  escort  of  fifteen  of  his  owo 


guard.  The  Fellahs»  however,  ^ucovcfcd 
this,  pnrsued,  and  murdered  Minor  {Aioffy 
and  those  who  guarded  him.  Meanwhira 
the  Fellahs,  whose  ambition  is  equal  to  their 
ferocity,  availing  themselves  of  M^qr 
Laipg's  arrival  at  Tombuetoo,  and  of  the 
speoics  of  protection  which  he  had  received 
tnere,  seized  upon  tliat  city,  and  imposed  an 
annual  tribute,  which  the  inhabitants,  un- 
able to  offer  resistance,  are  in  future  to  pay, 
/or  having,  as  it  is  said,  made  themselves 
accomplices  in  a  project  of  invasion  medi- 
tated by  the  infidels.  Tliis  information  is 
coromnnicated  by  a  Scheik  of  Tripoli,  who 
has  long  resided  at  Tombuetoo.  He  de- 
clared that  there  exists  a  very  interesting 
history  of  this  town,  which  traces  the  foun- 
dation of  it  to  510  of  the  Hegira  (l  1 16  of 
J.  C),  written  by  Sidi  Ahmed  Baba,  a  na- 
tive of  Arawau,  a  small  town  of  the  county 
of  the  Keotes,  a  considerable  people  oif 
Soudan. 


DOMESTIC   OCCURRENCES. 


INTELLIGENCE  FROM  VARIOUS 
PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY. 

jlpril  8.  A  numerous  and  respectable 
<  meeting  of  members  of  the  London  Royal 
College  of  Surgeons  was  held  at  the  Bath 
Hospital,  when  It  appeared  to  be  the  gene- 
ral opinion  that  the  powers  entrusted  to  the 
Royal  College  called  for  tlie  interference  of 
the  Legislature,  and  a  resolution  was  adopt- 
ed to  the  following  effect*.— That  the  testi- 
monials of  hospital  attendance  required  bv 
the  present  system  of  the  College  are  both 
inadequate    and  unjust;    privileges    being 

Cted  to  one  year's  walking  through  an 
,>ital  in  London,  Dublin,  Edinburgh, 
Glasgow,  and  Aberdeen,  which  are  denied 
to  several  years'  attendance  and  dressing  in 
the  provincial  hospitals  of  this  country,  al- 
though the  latter  afford,  in  many  instances, 
more  ample  opportunities  of  acquiring  surgi- 
cal knowledge.  It  wm  agreed  to  petition 
Parliament. 

jiprU  98.    The  Shale  speariaa  Jubilee,  at 
Stratford  on  Avon,  was  celebrated,  in  com- 
jnemoration  of  the  natal  day  of  Shakspeare. 
During  the  whole  of  Sunday,  the  fitd,  the 
•everal  stage  coaches  from  London  and  the 
aeigbbouring  towns,    were    crowded    with 
passengers,   and  vdiicles  of  every  descrip- 
tion were  put  in  requisition  at  Birmingham, 
Warwick,   Leamington,  and    the  adjacent 
villages,  to  convey  the  immense  number  of 
Individuals  who  were  anxious  to  witness  this 
jqfdendid  Mgeant,  the  first  upon  any  scale  of 
aagnitude  that  has  taken  place  since  the 
4Sanriok  jubilee,  on  the  6th,  7th,  and  8th 
oi   Sejatember,    1769.      The  festival  was 
eoodvcted  by  the  Shakspewiao  Club  ealft- 
hMsbedBt  Stmtibid-iipoiHAToiiy  who,  •Bxiou* 


to  do  honour  to  their  illustrious  townsnutfi 
(Shakspeare),  and  to  show  their  loyalty  |o 
their  Sovereign,  have  proposed  holding  a 
Triennial  Commemorative  Festival  ou  St. 
George's  day,  the  33  d  of  April,  and  to  con- 
tinue the  same  on  the  two  following  days. 
The  subscriptious  have  been  most  liberal. 
Soon  after  six,  the  inhabitants  were  sere- 
naded by  the  various  bands  of  instrumental 
performers  parading  the  town,  and  aubsf- 
quently  by  the  ringing  of  beUs,  firing  of 
cannon,  &c.  The  arrangements  in  the  line 
of  procession  were  very  judicious,  and  con- 
trolled bv  the  committee,  wearing  sashea 
and  medals,  assisted  by  about  60  constables. 
The  procession,  which  had  a  most  brilliiot 
effect  from  the  splendor  of  the  armoor, 
dresses,  banners,  chariots,  and  other  deco- 
rntioos  by  Mr.  Palmer,  passed  through  the 
principal  streets,  amidst  the  plaudits  of  aa 
immense  congregation,  tu  the  birtb-plaee 
of  Shakspeare,  which  still  remains  in  its 
former  state.  In  front  of  the  house  a  tem- 
porary hustings  had  been  ereoted,  and  upon 
the  cavalcade  arriving  at  the  spot,  the  ofi- 
oiating  gentlemen  having  taken  their  places* 
the  bust  of  Shakspeare  was  crowned  by  Tha- 
lia and  Melpomene,  and  an  appropriate  ad- 
dress was  delivered.  At  the  conclusion,  the 
procession  moved  on  to  the  church,  and  at 
the  termination  of  divine  service,  returned 
to  the  site  of  the  intended  new  Theatre, 
which  is  partly  erected,  where  the  Mavor, 
assisted  by  the  Corporation,  laid  the  chief 
corner-stone  in  due  form. 

The  Gloucester  and  Berkeley  ship  eaaal 
which  commenced  in  1799,  has  been  open- 
ed; and  at  high  water  the  ship  Anne,  of 
thc«a  hundred  tone*  Philipe,  master,  hs^ 
^ -^nexBf^  Vol\t.  \nxM)  '^t\a\iQV«  'wta  ^aeikd 


^897..]  Domestic  Occvrffuces.*— ATaf  Miniitry.  45^ 

■aCo  the  entniioc  lock,  amUUt  th«  ezultiiig         itfio^  8.    At  a  public  dinner  of  tbe  Clergy 

•hottU  and  congmtuletUNie  of  thetpectetoriy  of  Londooy  where  the  Bishope  of  London^ 

•nd  the  firing  of  guns.  Chester,  end  Lendeff,  end  about  150  Cler- 

A  gymen,  were  present,  the  toast  of  "  Chtuik 

'^  and  King  "  was  given  (with  great  applauen]  : 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY.  the  BUhop  of  London  then  addreised  tb« 

New  Ministry.  Meeting,   and  told  them  that  on  the  oc- 

T\    e  u     •      •    ..u     I-  .    f  ^  ail*  casion  of  tbe  Ute  Alinistenal  chanm,  hit 

The  following  »  th.  ]..t  of  tiM  MW  M.-.  m.j«»  )ud  gtMsiou.!,  MDt  to  th«  llrdiW- 

hunt;  iorrfP««*n<,  E«l  of  H«Towb,,.  .c^rdlnrfy  did  «,.  .nd' io  th.  inte^jew  »i2 

Bexlej;     Secretary    of  State  for  Foreign 
Jjffairt,  Viscount   Dudley  ;  *    Secretary  ^ 

State  for   the    Cohmies,    Vise.  Goderich.*  r~*"r~'*ir '•'"''  ""..""">'/  -——o- •-«—?•• 

Id  theC.binet,  Without  office,  th.  Marqai.  r^'fV'^?/  "g'T*  m'^'^"    *^*  ""t 

of  Lansd       e  •  ^  lie  at  Uree,  what  hu  Majesty  s  sentHneats 

own  .  r  Ci  #    z:^  «!.  were  with  respect  to  the  much-agitated  Ca- 

CoMMOSERs.^Seerelary  of  State  for  the  *i:^i-    «.,..».  IT    u-- n/r  •    *   j  t      j    ^ 

rr       r»^    *       «D»uwoii— ^«  tholic  question.     His  Majesty  declared  most 

I/omeDepar<mm<,  Rt.  Hon.  W.  S.  Bunme;*  ,v«-uuJi«     ♦k-»  v«.  ^-*JL  •    j    *k 

EL.     J    J     r  *L     D      J   r  a*    J     t>.  u  J  positively,    that  he  entertained    the  samo 

Fres^ent  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Rt.  Hon.  ^^.^^^^^    „   ^h^,  „f  hi.    ,,^  J^ 

W   Huskisjon;*    President  of  the  Board  tf  ^^^^       ^^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^ 

an/ro/,  Rt.  Hon.  C  W    Wynnj*    W  ^„^^„  ^  ^„^^.„  ^^en  Prince^  Rjgwit 

"fTr       '  Vise.  Palmer,U»n  **  f  "^I^  ^j,  j^^.        ^^j^„  ^  ^  re.«,i^r 

oZ-Me  Treamry  and  Chanceitor  if  the  Exch^  .^ose  sentimenU,  tbi^  be  took  precisely  tb« 

quer,  Rt.  Hon.  G.  Cannmg.'  same  view  of  the  Coronation  Oath  whiob 

T  r  n  I    Tcr  M   t  rt  >>"  '^^"J  Father  and  hU  Rented  hrothet 

Tf  n  5  ^    •  M^  •'•;*1*  ^    '^"f^  *»»•  »»»'«  o^  York  had  taken ;  and  that  hit 

tu     3!i    "^'V  ,^    1i°^^^5  •t?^^  Majesty  felt  convinced  that  nothmg  conU 

l"::^::::^ ^^t^^T^'u^^^^^  L'sHuJiiro^'-Hrz^^^^ 

f  Vt/z.S^bfS^nV'L*^^'  r deSTbeXchbX  oi'^U^^^^^^ 

£.«//.  0/  /retouf,  tbe  Hon^tV.  Lamb.*  .^e  Bishop  of  London,  to  make  tWe  hi. 

La  w  Appointments.  ^Master  qfth^RMi,  ^„ti„enU  known  to  their  respective  Clergy, 

Sir  John  Leach ;♦  rtce^ChaneeUar,  Sii  An^  ^^  ^^d„  ^^at  no  mUconceptfon  might, ^ 

tn!!K'Ju  ^"^'y"^*^i^/'ril7  "y  possibility,  exist,  as  to  his  5f.jesty^ 

Scarlett i*Sohcttor-General,Sir  N.CTmdal.  ^/^^^  ^^^ ^^^  Ministerial  arrangement^ 

^pril  7.     At  the  Kingston  Assizes,  Dar  the  result  of  circumstances  equally  onfiin- 

luel  Buckley,  Jeremiah  Andrews,  and  Dan.  seen  and  unpleasant  to  hu  Maj^ty. 
Pjcroft,  were  severally  indicted  for  feloni-         A  seneral  Meeting  of  tbe  rrotestant  S^^ 

mislv  and  traitorously  coining  at  Lambeth,  ciety  for  the  protection  of  Religious  Liberty, 

adjoining  the  Vauxhall  Road,  four  counter-  was  lately  heUat  the  City  of  Londoo  tavern  } 


feit  sovereigns,    one    hundred  counterfeit  Lord  Milton  in  the  chair.    It  was  sui 

lialf-sovereigns,     one    hundred    counterfeit  more  than  SOOO  persons  were  present. '  Thc- 

half- crowns,  one  hundred  counterfeit  shil-  great  object  which  occupied  the  attention  fl£ 

Ibgs,    and  one   hundred    counterfeit    sia-  the  Meeting  was*  the  measures  now  in  pro-' 

pences.     It  was  proved  on  the  trial  that  this  grass  for  procuring  the  abolition  of  th*. 

illegal  traffic  was  carried  on  to  a  most  extra-  Corporation  and  Test  Acts.     Mr.  WUka 

ordinary  extent.      Buckley    and    Andrews  react  the  report,  which  stated  that  in  every 

were  convicted,  and  Pycroh  acquitted.    On  part  of  England  and  Wales;  in  every  oiinr^ 

the  3Sd  of  April  Buckley  and  Andrews  on-  town,  and  village,  petitions  upon  the  sn^ 

derwent  the  sentence  of  the  law  at  Hone-  ject  were  in  preparation,  and  were  in  im- 

roonger-laoe  Craol.    As  is  usual  in  cases  of  merous  instaneas  signed  by  CleigyoMn  oC 

high  treason,  the  men  were  drawn  across  the  Church  of  England  and  Magistiataa. 

the  yard  on  a  hurdle,  the  executioner  stand-  The  various  resolutions  having  been  pro*- 

ing  behind  them  with  a  drawn  sword  to  the  poeed  and  carried.  Lord  Milton,  in  concls- 

scaffold. — ^The  last  execution  at  this  prison  sion,  exhorted  the  Society  to  persevere,  for 

for  high  treason  was  that  of  Colonel  Des-  that,    <<  among  the  persons  wno  were  now 

pard  and  his  associates ;  but  since  that  time  entrusted  with  the  administration  of  tho. 

the    infliction  of   the  mutilation    of   the  affairs  of  the  country,  there  was  so  mueh- 

bodies,  prescribed  by  the  old  law,  has  been  liberality  and  talent,  that  he  fslt  assuiod  it 

repealed.  was  impossible  for  the  statute  book  to  b*. 

much  longer  disgraced  by  the  continaaaoo 


*  The  noblemen  and  gendemen  whoso  of  any  religious  teaU."— S\u^>2^\&m9ii- 

titles  or  names  are  marlssd  widi  to  aetariik,  ius«  namaioiQa  ^c3taSAuna.^vnL^&A\v>N^MBX 

have  rated  for  the  tloman  Catholic  qoestbn.  DiiiwiUn  Vwe  \««a  Y«*«eSft^  ^»  ^^*»r 

Gent.  Mmg.  May,  1 827.  > 

10 


458                                 Domestic  Oceurreneei,  {MajTy 

meat,  pnjiae;  tcft  th«  repeal  of  tb*  Test  fiM  #ftk4M  msm  oonpoiitkMi  haift  wMi 

and  Corporation  Aets.  the  help  of  loii|^  spikm,  been  lowered  into 

May  14.    In  the  Court  of  King*!  Bfencfi,  the  river,  and  laid  in  such  a  position  aa  woaU 

Kdw.  Gibbon  Wakefield  (whoie  trial  and  best  answer  the  purpose  intended.     Messii. 

eoiiTlction  for  the  abduction  of  Miss  Turner,  Bninell  descended   principally  to  ascortain 

was  given  in  p.  860)  was  sentenced  to  three  whether  these  bags  had  been  properly  pbcod. 

gars  imprisonment  in  Newgate ;  and  Wm.  ^     ^^^     ^          numerous  and  reapee- 

Waiefield,  his  brother,  for  the  same  penod  ^^^  ''MtttUng  of  ^rseos  friendly  to  the 

in  Uncaster  Castle.     A  bill  is  in  progress  esublishmenTof  a  Society  for  the  b.ffttioo 

throogh  the  House  of  Lords  for  the  an-  ^  ^^^  Principles  of  the  ReformaUon,  was 

Bulment  of  the  marriage.     Sec  p.  454.  ^^y^  ^  Fr««na8ons'-Hall.    The  committee. 

May  IS,     About  20  mm.  before  7  p.  m.  ^        ^^^  ^^^  ^^^  3.^,,      ^f  Lichfield 

the  water  broke  into  the  Thames  lunnsl  with  ^^   goventrv,    the   Bishop   of   Salisbury, 

lolence,  forcing  its  Wty  through  p.    .    WinehiWa  and  Roden.   Lords   Man- 


Irresutible  violence,  forcing  »t»  wty  through  g^,,  yVinchilsea  and  Roden,  Lords  Man- 

Uiat  part  of  the  work  which  U>*  labourers  ^^^.^      F.mham,  Carbery,   and  ^Barham, 

liad  been  empUyed  during  the  d«;  m  exca-  ^  j,^   ^  j^  Gerard  Noel,  the  Hon. 

mating,  and  .n  A  short  t.me  the  whole  of  the  j^  j^  g  ^j,^  H^^^  j^^^  King,  the 


ed  that  the  river  had  broken  in.    Tallat,  aistinction,   were  preset     LorTlVIande- 

the   under  engineer,  and  Messra.  Brunei,  ^|,^  ^„  ^^^.^  ^  5^^  ^l^.,^     j^, .  Gordon 

jun.  and  Gravatt,  the  principal  eogmeen,  ^^^^     ^y^^  ^^^    ^.^^j,    ^f   ^^^  ^^ 

Itoamed  for  sereral  mmutes,  using  every  ^ere-firat,  to  assUt  the  resident  gemiV 

endeavour,  at  the  imminent  perH  of  their  ^  elergy  of  Ireland,  and  other  societies, 

BiTM,  to  stop  up  ^  cayitv  thrc^gh  which  j^  ^^^  distribution  of  the  Scriptures;  and 

the  water  oozed  j  but  all  their  efforts  prov-  ,,^j,      ^               ^,^^    ^^^^j    ^    ^^^ 

mg  unavailing  against  themcreas.ng  rush  of  p^tn^i^^  ^f  ,J'i    „d  endeavourt^  to 

^J^!^''  I  /  ""^    ^'T^  .  .K  •^'^    .  ^iw^-^***  «l«»o«  ionrucUon   among^the 

w«rdjUie  shaft.    The  insUnttbe  accident  ^^^y^    ^^J     .^    Lo^j^             JJ     ^ 

occurred,  a  general  consternatmn  prevai  ed  ,3           ^^  ^j^^^  ^^^^  ^  ^  ^J^^  j^  ^^ 

ad- 

the 

Lords 

Mt  of  beuig  propel Wforw«drt  the  «<l  of  ^  ,^,            ,'    ,j^  ,^  ^j  „^  ^ 

A.tniinel,U,en.bIotheworfanento«-  coUecUd  in  the  hJl. 

cavate  more  securely ;  and  at  that  trase  the  *  ^  . .       «        .1         «  • . 

ttmnel  exteflded  680  feet  under  the  Thames.  ^^«y  ??•    ^  Cabinet  Council  was  held  at 

The  workm.«i  employed  in  propelling  No.  «•   residence  of  Mr.  Canning,  at  which 

n  and  19  shields,  observed  the  soil  to  give  ™  "^"  newlv^ppointed  Cabmet  MinU- 

way  between  these  shields,  and  in  a  few  se*  S"»  ''»»•  ™  Marquis  of  Lansdowna,  the 

.  ooodsafterwards,  the  water  poured  in  through  ™*  «>f  Carlisle,  and  Mr.  Tiemey,  attended, 

an  aperture  about  six  inches  in  diameter,  ^^r  the  first  time ;  the  other  Cabinet  MinU- 

TalUt,  the  engineer,  screwed  up  three  door-  ^"  present  were— the    Lord  Chaneellor, 

ways  as  he  retreated  towwds  the  shaft,  and  J»«"*  *^o«»-    ^^rgt  Canning,    Duke    of 

ho  was  obliged  to  swim  a  coosldmble  dis-  Portland,  Marquis  of  Anglesea,  Earl  Har- 

tanee.    The  eng'meers  are  quite  confident  ST^f '  ^'*  ^""•»  Viscount  Dudley  and 

that  they  shall  be  able  to  repair  the  injury,  ™»™»  Lord  Bexley,  Right  Hon.  W.  Hus- 

and  that  the  onlv  consequence  which  will  ln«*on,  and  Right  Hon.  C  Wynn. 

'  arise  from  it,  will  be  the  retarding  of  the  May  9i.  The  Duke  of  Clarence  presided 

work. — The  greatest  exertions  have  since  at  the  anniversary  d'mner  of  the  Society  for 

been  made,  and  with  some  success,  to  stop  Plromotinff  Christian  Knowledge.      In  ad- 

Ae  leak,  and  the  men  employed  in  throwing  dressing  tcie  company  after  dinner^  his  Royal 

clay  into  the  river  over  the  spot  from  whence  Highness  said,    *'  Whether  the  declaration 

the  damage  has  arisen.    The  steam-engine  I  am  about  to  make  be  popular  or  unpopu- 

has  been  in  fiill  work,  and  Mr.  Brunei  nels  lar,  I  think  it  right,  in  reference  to  th« 

eonfident,  from  the  means  he  has  adopted,  peculiar  character  of  this  Meeting,  to  de- 

that  the  work  will  in  a  short  time  be  re-  dare,  at  this  time,  that  to  the  sound  and 

earned,  and  proceed  as  usual.    On  Monday,  rigid  principles  of  the  Church  of  England  I 

the  91st  inst.  at  low  tide,  Mr.  Brunei,  sen.,  am  unalterably  attached — and  that  it  will 

Mr.  Brunei,  jun.,  and  Mr.  Gravatt,  descend-  be,  at  all  times,  and  under  all  circumstances, 

ed  in  the  diving-bell  to  the  bed  of  the  river,  my  fint  desire  and  duty  to  maintain  those 

In  order  to  asceruin  the  efficacy  of  the  mea-  principles.'* — ^These  sentiments,  delivered  by 

»ure»  which  liad  been  adopted.     In  addition  tlie  next  heir  to  the  Throne  of  these  Realms, 

io  iBTige  qvmntiucM  of  atrong  clay,  tome  ba^s  wU\  be  a^^taciated,  as  they  ought  to  l>e,  by 


1«W.) 


Domtstic  Occmtmuset.^^Promoiions,  Ac. 


459 


every  man  in  tht  country  who  fetit  an  afr? 
uchment  to  the  Etteblished  Church.^ 

The  new  Labiary  at  the  T^hhh  Mu- 
•eum  haa  been  opened  to  the  public.  The 
central  position  w  the  Museum  recommends 
it  a«  a  site  for  a  £reat  public  Library,  and 
the  convenience  of  a  large  class  of  students 
Is  consulted  by  the  £M;i]ities  afforded  of  re- 
ferring at  the  same  time  to  the  collections 
io  the  Museum,  and  to  publications  in  Na- 
tural History  and  Science.  The  LSbrary  at 
present  consists  of  Ib'S, 000  printed  Tolumes^ 
and  S0,000  volumes  of  MSS. 

Transparent  duck  dials,  intended  to  shew 
the  hour  at  any  time  of  the  night,  have 
been  recently  exhibited  at  St.  Gi'es's  Church, 
St.  Bride's,  and  other  places.  The  charac- 
ters are  bold,  and  correctly  formed  in  cast 
iron,  and  filled  in  with  stained  glass,  behind 
which  lights  are  introduced,  so  that  the 
hands,  as  they  traverse  in  the  front,  are 
distinctly  seen,  aod  the  time  may  be  ascer* 
tained  to  the  greatest  nicety  both  night  and 
day ;  and  such  is  the  mechanical  ingenuiqf 
displayed  on  this  occasion,  that  the  clocks, 
by  their  own  revolution,  light  themselves  as 
soon  as  the  sun  sets  at  night,  and  extin- 
guish the  same  when  the  sun  rises  in  the 
morning,  and  this  throughout  the  yoUTy 
whether  the  days  are  long  or  short. 


THEATRICAL  REGISTER. 
Drury  Lanb. 

jipril  16.  Tfu  Boy  of  SaniiUane,  or  ih$ 
Robber  qf  ^itwrias,  a  splendid  piece  fbandpd. 
on  Le  Sage's  celebrated  novel  of  Gil  HIm  | 
it  was  well  eot  up,  and  received  with  great 
applause.  We  are  surprised  that  Mjr.  Web- 
ster, who  '  so  inimitably  personated  QM 
Domingo,  the  black  servant,  does  not  hav« 
characters  of  more  importance  to  sustain. 

y^pril  18.  A  three  act  comedy  called 
Fast  and  Slaw,  was  produced  from  the  pea 
of  Mr.  Lunn,  which,  notwithstanding  Lia- 
ton*s  talenu,  was  indifferently  received. 
The  author  spoiled  it. 

May  91.  A  new  tragedy  by  Mr.  Gni^ 
tan,  author  of  Higkicays  and  Byways 
was  produced,  entitled  Ben  Nazvr  the  Surf 
cen^  in  which  Kean  acted  the  hero,  and  bf 
being  unable  to  repeat  his  part,  caused  ifb 
death. 

CovENT  Garden. 
/Ipfil  16.     Peter  fTilkins,  or  the  Ftywn 
IndtanSf  was  well  received,  having  bcantiliil 
scenery,    admirable  machinery,    ana   good 
actbg  to  ensure  applause. 
.  May  22.     A  new  comedy  called  Lom 
and  jReoson,    wae  produced,   and   received 
with  great  ^lat.     It  still  continues  a  poiNH> 
kr  piece. 


PROMOTIONS    AND    PREFERMENTS. 

Gazette  PROMonoNt.  of  Inf.  Omt.  W.  Mills,  9th  Light  Draft 

fVhiuJiall,  JprU  24.— The  Hight  Hon.  Capt.  G.  t.  Colomb,  99th  Foot^— To  ba 

Geo.  Canning,  the  Earl   of  Moonteharles,  Majors  of  Inf.  on  half  par.     Brevet  Mdor 

Lord   Francis  Leveson  Gower,  Lord  Eliot,  G.  Bunce,  67th  Foot ;    Brevet  Major  W. 

aod    Edm.    Alexander    M<Naghten,    esq.  Morris,  97th  Foot. —  Staff.  Lieut.-Col.  J. 

to   be  Commissioners   for   executing    the  H.  Mair,  to  be  Deputy  Judge  Adv.  to  tht 

offices  of  Treasurer  of  the  Exchequer,  and  Forces  serving  in  Portugal. 

Lord  High  Treasurer  of  Ireland.  The  Right  JprU  80.     Gen.  the  Marq.  of  Aufle- 

Hon.  G.  Canning  to  be    Chaneellor  and  sey,  K.  G.  to  be  Master-gen.  of  the  Ortf- 


Under  Treasurer  of  the  Exchequer. 

^/M^  24. —Sir  J.  S.  Conley,  knt  to  be 
Baron  Lyndhurst,  of  Lyndnurst,  co.  South- 
ampton. 


nance.  The  Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Leach* 
knt.  to  be  Master  or  Keeper  of  the  Rolls, 
and  the  Riffht  Hon.  Sir  John  Singleton 
Copley  (Lord  Lyndhurst),  to  be  Lord  High 


Lord  Forbes,  to  be  High  Commissioner  Chancellor.    Anth.  Hart,  esq.  Knighted  oa 

to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Church  of  beingappointedVice-Chancelfor  of  England }  [ 

Scotland.  James  Scarlett,  esq.  Knighted  on  being  ap*. ' 

April  25. — ^The  Right  Hon.  Fred.  John  pointed  Attorney-general.     The  Dukes  o^ 

R«>binBon,  to  be  Vise.  Goderieh,  of  Nocton,  Devonshire  and  Portland,  the  Marq.  of  Anc- ' 

CO.  Lincoln.   James  Earl  of  Fife,  to  be  Baron  lesey.  Vise.  Dudley  and  Ward,  the  Ri^t 

Fife,  CO.  Fife.     The  Right  Hon.  Sir  Cha.  Hon.  Anth.   Hart,    the    Right    Hon.  W. 

Abbott,  knt.  to  be  Baron  Tenderden,  of  Hen-  LamS,  and  the  Right  Hon.  Qeo,  Cockbum, 

don,  CO.  Middlesex.    The  Right  Hon.  Wm.  swomof  His  Majesty's  Privy  Council.    The 

Conyngham  Plunkett,  to  he  Baron  Plunkett,  Duke  of  Portland  to  be  Keeper  of  the  Privy 

of  Newtown,  co.  Cork.  Seal. 

fPar-Offiee,  April  27.     1st  Foot  Gusrds,         May  1.  Lieut.-Gen.  Sir  Herbert  Tavlor, 

Lieut.-Col.  E.  P.  Buckley,  to  be  Lieut. -Col.  G.  C.  H.  to  be  one  of  the  Deputies  ot  tb* 

13th  Foot.   Brevet  Lieut.-Col.  M.  Everard,  Secretary  at  War. 

1 4th  Foot,  to  be  Major.     1 4th  ditto.  Major         May  2.    Sir  W.  Johnstone  Hope,  G.C  &  . 

G.  Thomhill,  1  Sth  Foot,  to  be  Major.  4 1  st  the  Right  Hon.  Sir  Geo.  Cockburn,  G.  C.  B,  . 

ditto,   Lieut.-Col.  P.  L.  Chambers,    87th  W.  Robert  Keith  Douglas,  esq.  and  Joltt . 

Foot,  to  be  Lieut.-Col.     67th  ditto.  Major  Evelyn  Dentson,  esq.  to  form  thft  Cwsusfik  ^ 

Hon.  H.  R.  Molyneaux,  to  be  Major.  87tli  the  Unkib  c^  CW^ikce  «a  Vat^  ^v^  K^oBa^ . 

ditto,  Lieut.-Col.  H.  Godwin,  4 1  st  Foot,  to  The  l^Af^Vit  Hon.  SVt  fwo^t^ots)  '^**V>>s»x.  V^ 
be  LleuL-CoJ^UnMtUched,   TobeMaJoia     btViM-OMnfistXVn  f)l'SAilgA&^ 


460 


Promotions  and  PrrfermenU. 


imf. 


May  4«  The  Dukt  of  Leeds  to  be  Master 
of  tbe  Hone.  Retr  Adm.  Sir  Edw.  W. 
Cempbell  Rich  Owen,  K.  C.  B.  to  be  Mester 

Sarreyor-gen.  of  the  Ordoaoce.  Sir  Geo. 
CWiltf  bart.  to  be  Clerk  of  the  Ordoance. 

Mi^  7.  Lieat.-Gen.  Sir  Herbert  Taylor, 
O.C.H.  to  be  First  Aide-de-Caitip  to  his 
Majesty. 

May  11.  The  Duke  of  Leeds,  and  Lord 
Plonkett,  to  be  Members  of  the  Priry 
Cottaeil. 

May  K.  The  Dukes  of  Leeds  and  De* 
TODshire,  and  the  Marq.  of  Exeter,  to  be 
K.O. 

May  14.  doth  Foot,  to  bear  the  words 
M  Peninsula"  and  «  Waterloo." — 6th Drag. 
Onaids,  Brev.  Lieut.-Col.  Jackson,  to  be 
Major.  1st  or  Gren.  Foot  Guards  :  Lieut.- 
GdL  Oswald,  1st  Greek  Light  Inf.  and  Capt. 
F.  J.  Davies,  to  be  Captains  and  Lient.- 
Colonels.  1st  Foot :  Lieut.-Col.  J.  Carter, 
8d  W.  Rec.  to  be  Lieut. -Col.  91st  ditto  ; 
Lieut.-Cof  R.  Dalyell,  to  be  Lieut.-Col.  2d 
ditto.  Col.  N.  M'Leod,  1st  Foot,  to  be 
Lieiit.-Col.  —  Unattached.  Brevet  Lieut.- 
ool.  H.  Earl  of  Uxbridge,  1st  Life  Guards,  to 
be  Lieut.-Col.  of  Inf. — ^To  be  Majors  of  Inf.. 
on  half  pay.  Brevet  Major  C.  C.  Dixon, 
9(Hh  Foot  J  Brevet  Major  J.  Thompson,  6th 
Foot. 

Mav  15.  The  Duke  of  Devonshire  to  be 
Lord  Chamb.  and  Gen.  Sir  S.  Hulse  Vice- 
Chamb.  Earl  of  Stamford  and  Warrington 
to  be  Chamberlain  of  the  county  palatine  of 
Cnester. 

May  16.  Fred.  Beilby  Watson,  esq. 
Master  of  the  Household,  Knighted. 

May  17.  The  Right  Hon.  Chas.  Watkin 
Williams  Wynn,  Vise.  Dudley  and  Ward, 
Vise.  Goderich,  and  the  Right  Hon.  W. 
Sturges  Bourne,  the  three  principal  Secre- 
taries of  State ;  the  Right  Hon.  Geo. 
Canning,  First  Commissioner  of  His  Ma- 
jesty's Treasury  and  Chancellor  of  His  Ma- 
jesty's Exchequer ;  John  Baron  Teign- 
mouth ;  the  Richt  Hon.  John  Sullivan ; 
and  Sir  George  Warrender,  bart. ;  Joseph 
Phillimore,  LL.D. ;  and  Sir  James  Macdo- 
ludd,  bart. ;  to  be  His  Majesty's  Commis- 
aioners  for  the  affsin  of  India.  The  Hon. 
James  Abercromby,  to  be  Adv.-gen.  or 
Judge-martial  of  His  Majesty's  Forces. 

May  18.  Geo.  Earl  of  Carlisle,  W.  Da- 
cres  Adams,  and  Henry  Dawkins,  esquires,  to 
ha  Commissioners  of  His  Majesty's  Woods, 
Forests,  and  Land  Revenues.  The  Rishr 
Hon.  Geo.  Tiemey  to  be  Master  and  Worker 
of  the  Mint. 


Members  returned  to  serve  in  Parliament, 
Aldeburgh, — Wyndham  Lewis,  esq. 
Askburton. — Right  Hon.  S.  Bourne. 
BUehingly. — Right  Hon.  Wm.  Lamb,  vice 

Russell,  Chiltem  Hundreds. 
CtiMe.^-Rt,  Hod.  Jtm*  Abereromby  and  Sic 
Jm»  MtodgnM,  bU 


Cambridge  University,^rS\t  N.  C.  Tindai, 
vice  Copley,  now  Baron  L^ndhnrst. 

Dublin  University. — J.  W.  Croker,  esq.  vice 
Plunkett,  now  Baron  Plunkett. 

Edinburgh  (Shire) . — Sir  Geo.  Clerk. 

Harwich, — Sir  Wm.  Rae,  bart. 

Hastings. —  loseph  Planta,  esq.  vice  Ln&h- 
ingtoo,  Chiltem  Hundreds. 

Liskeard, — Lord  Eliot. 

Newport  fSouthamptonJ . — ^The  Hon.  W4 
Lamb,  vice  Canning,  First  Commissioner 
of  the  Treasury. 

Peterborough. — Sir  James  Scarlett. 

Ripon. — Louis  Hayes  Petit,  esq.  vice  Ro- 
binson, now  Vise.  Goderich. 

5onrfM;ic^.-.SirE.  W.  C.  R,  Owen. 

Sea/ord, — Right  Hon.  Geo.  Canning,  vice 
Ellis,   Chiltem  Hundreds, 

Ecclesiastical  Preferments. 

Rev.  Dr.  Jenkinson,  to  be  Dean  of  Durham. 

Rev.  Dr.  J.  Kaye,  to  be  Bp.  of  Lincoln. 

Rev.  J.  T.  James,  to  be  Bp.  of  Calcutta. 

Rev.  T.  Baker,  Canon  of  Chichester  Cath. 

Rev.  W.  Harrison,  Minor  Canon  of  Chester 
Cath. 

Rev.  Mr.  Keene,  Preb.  in  Wells  Cath. 

Rev.  J.  Allgood,  Felton  V.  co.  Northumb. 

Rev.  J.  Came,  Charles  V.  Plymouth. 

Rev.  J.  G.  Copleston,  Kingsev  V.  Bucks, 

Rev.  G.  Deane,  Bighton  R.  Hants. 

Rev.  P.  G'ubb,  Clanoaborouzh  R.  Devon. 

Rev.  G.  Hall,  Tenbury  V.  Worcestershire, 
with  Rochford  R.  Herefordshire. 

Rev.  R.  Holberton,  St.  Mary's  R.  Bridge- 
town, Barbadoes. 

Rev.  J.  F.  Hone,  Tirby  V.  co.  Gloucester. 

Rev.  W.  Hutchinson,  Ubley  R.  Somerset. 

Rev.  J.  Hemptborne,  Wedmore  V.  Somerset. 

Rev.  S.  Lane,  Holme  V.  Devon. 

Rev.  W.  Mayd,  Wethers6eld  R.  Suffolk. 

Rev.  T.  Mercer,  Arthing worth  R.  co.  North- 
ampton. 

Rev.  W.  A,  Musgrave,  Emmington  R.  co. 
Oxford. 

Rev.  J.  Nance,  Hope  R.  with  Old  Romney 
R.  Kent. 

Rev.  G.  D.  St.  Quinton,  Broughton  R. 
Hants. 

Rev.  W.  P.  Spencer,  Starston  R.  Norfolk. 

Rev.  G.  S.  Weidemann,  St.  Paul's  P.  C. 
Preston. 

Rev.  G.  Wilkins,  Wing  R.  co.  Rutland. 

Chaplains. 
Rev.  N.  Barnes,  to  the  Countess  Dow.  of 

Chichester. 
Rev.  J.  Morris,  to  Lord  -Lynedoch. 

Civil  Preferments. 

May  96.  Wm.  Robinson,  LL.D.  au- 
thor of  the  "  Magistrates'  Pocket-Book," 
&c. ;  J.  L.  Lucena,  J.  Rudell,  W.  L.  Wig- 
gett,  A.  K.  WaUon,  J,  N.  Mahon,  J.  £. 
KimiUotk^t  ^ad  Chas,  Aoitio,  etqaires>  to 


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[    461    5 
BIRTHS. 


Jpril  12.  At  hit  hnate  ia  Stntton- 
-street,  London,  the  wife  of  Crea  Carr  Glyn, 

«sq.  a  son. 16.     At  Cheltenham ,  the 

wife  of  J.  Fosbroke,  esq.  a  dau. 1 8.     At 

llfrncombe,  Devon,  the  wife  of  Capt.  W.  H. 

Milles,  a  dan. «l.     At  Farley,   Wilts, 

the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Chas.  Fred.  WatVins,  a 

d»u. 22.      At  Audley   House,    Saffron 

Walden,  Lady  Braybrookc,  a  son. «9. 

At  Hythe,  the  wife  of  Capt.  Daries  Smith, 

R.  Eng.  a  son. At  EgliBgham  Vicarage, 

Northumb.  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  H.  B.  Tris- 
tram, a  dau.  In  Bentirick-street,  Lon- 
don, the  Lady  of  Sir  Rich.  Paul  Jodrell, 
hart,  a  son. 

May  5.  At  Wood  Stanway,  Gloueester- 
ehire,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  F.  Aston,  a  son. 
19.     At  Clifton,  the  wife  of  H.  Met- 


calf,   esq.  a  son.     '     15.     Ia    New^stratly 

Spring-^rdens,  the  wife  of  J.  H.  IVniMiyiie, 
esq.  a  son. At  St.  Leonard's,  near  Hors- 
ham, Sussex,  the  wife  of  G.  Barttelut  Smyth, 

esq.  a  dau. At  Blackheath,  the  wire  of 

Simeon  Warner,  esq.  a  son. ^lu  Great 

Cumberland-place,  the  wife  of  P.  MacEvoy, 
esa.    twins.     '     16.      At    Wheatiield,    toe 
wire  of  the  Rev.  Chas.  Snencer,  a  son.     > 
At  Grosvenor  House,  Sbaftsbury,  the  wife 

of  the  Rev.  T.  Evans,  a  dau. 17.     At 

Wm.  Sotheby,  esq's.  Grosvenor-street,  th« 
widow  of  Hans  Sotheby,  esq.  late  of  the 
Bengal  Civil  Service,  a  son.-— -The  wife  of 
Robert  Hamilton,  esq.  Bloomfield  Lodgv, 
Norwood,  Surrey,  a  son.  91.  At  Chel- 
tenham, the  wife  of  the  Rev.  James  Hayea 
Sadler,  a  son  and  heir. 


MARRIAGES. 


April  16.  At  the  house  of  the  Right 
Hon.  Wm.  Hill,  his  Majesty's  Minuter  at 
Naples,  the  Chevalier  de  Dupont,  Inspector 
geu.  of  the  Customs  and  Revenue  Depart^ 
ments  of  his  Sicilian  Majesty,  to  Misa 
DougUs,  second  dau.  of  the  late  Sir  A.  S. 

Douglas,  knt.  Capt.  RJ  N. At  Paris,  T. 

W.  ronsonby  Molesworth,  esq.  to  Anne, 
youngest  daur  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Fawcett, 
Hector  of  Aynho  and  Greens  Norton,  North- 
amptonshire.——At  St.  George's,  Hanover- 
sq.  the  Rev.  J.  P.  Carpenter,  Rector  of  South 
Sydenham,  Devon,  to  Harriet  Eliz.  eldest 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  W.  Garoier,of  Rookesbury, 

Hants. At  Whitby  Church, Wells, 

esq.  Lieut.  £.  I.  C.  to  Miss  Simpson,  dau.  of 
the  late  Mr.  Henry  Simpson,  Banker. 
17.  At  Islbgton,  Captain  Henry  Delafosse, 
Bengal  Art.  to  Miss  Shield,  of  Homsey- 
lane,  Highgate^ ^The  Rev.  W.  Hutch- 
inson, eldest  son  of  Thos.  Hutchinson,'  escf. 
Bury,  Lancashire,  to  Sarah,  eldest  dau.  of 
£dw.  Mitchell,  esq.  of  Castle  Strange,  Ire- 
land, and  grand -dau.  of  the  late  Aid.  Wray, 

of  Hull. Charles   Hotham  Wells,  esq. 

E.I.C.  to  Isabella,  dau.  of  the  late  Henry 
Simpson,  esq.  of  Meadowfield  House,  Whit- 
by, Yorkshire.— ^18.  At  St.  George's, 
Hanover-sq.  W.  H.  Cooper,  esq.  only  son  of 
the  Rev.  Sir  William  Cooper,  hart,  to 
Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  C.  K.  K.  Tynte,  esq. 
M.  P.  of  Halswell  House,  Somerset.^—- 
At  Swaffham,  in  Norfolk,  John  Pyke,  esq. 
R.  N.  of  Stoddon,  in  DevoQshire,  to  Caro- 
line-Sarah, dau.  of  the  Rev.  Chancellor 
Yonge,  of  the  former  place.  At  Dod- 
dington  House,  Gloucestenhire^  the  seat  of 
Sir  Bethel  Codrington,  hart.  Henry  Peyton* 
esq.  only  son  of  Sir  Henry  Peyton,  bsrt.  of 
Tusmore  House,  near  Bicester,  Oxfordsbtre, 
to  Georgiana,  third  dau.  of  Sir  B.  Codring- 


toa. ^At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sqnare, 

the  Marquis  de  Merv^,  to  Isabella-Selin^, 

dau.  of  Lady  Morres  Gore. At  Dittos* 

Rev.  J.  £.  Tvler,  Rector  of  St.  GUes  in  the 
Fields,  to  Eliz.  Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  tha 
late  Geo.  Griffin,  esq.  of  Newton  House, 
Monmouthshire.— —19.  Chas.  John  Blox- 
aro,  esq.  of  Lincoln's-inn-fields,  to  Eliz. 
dau.  of  Joseph  Tucker,  esq.  of  John-street^ 
Bedford-row,  Cotnmbsiooer  of  the  Navy. 
■  90.  CHas.  Johnston,  esq.  of  Bruns- 
wick-square, son  of  Wm.  Johnston,  esq.  of 
Muswell-hill,  Middlesex,  to  Caroline,  only 
dau.  of  John  Roebuck,  esq.  of  Cheltenham. 

91.  At  Chelsea,  the  Rev.  G.  D.  St. 

Quintin,  Reetor  of  Broughtoii,  Wilts,  16 
Geoi^Ana-Hcnfietta-Louisa,  second  dau.  of 
the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Gerald  Wellesley,  D.D. 

At  Heavitree,  Exeter,  Lieut.  Charles 

Roe,  R.M.  son  of  the  Rev.  James  Roe* 
Rector  of  Newbury,  Berks,  to  Anne,  eldest 
dau.  of  the  late  Peter  Goullett,  esq.  of  Sum- 

merland -place,  Exeter. 93.  At  Dublin* 

James  M'Cullagh,  esq.  to  Anne,  only  dau. 

of  the  late  Rev.  Richard  Dillon. 94.  At 

St.  John's,  Westminster,  Capt.  Chas.  Jas. 
Hope  Johnstone,  R.N.  to  Eliza,  third  dao. 
of  Joseph  Wood,  esq.  of  St.  Micbael's-ter^ 
race,  and  Manadon  Park,  Devon. — '• — At 
Barnes,  John  Forbes,  esq.  son  of  Gen.  Gor- 
don Forbes,  of  Ham,  Surrey,  to  Eliz.  Mary, 
second  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Joon  Jeffrey,  Rec- 
tor of  Barnes. ^The  Rev.  Thos.  Taylor 

Lewie,  of  Aymestry,  co.  Hereford,  to  EUza, 
eldest  dau.  of  James  Penfold,  esq.  of  Cheam, 

Surrey. 95.  At  Cheltenham,  Thos.  In- 

gledew,  esq.  of  Clapham-road,  Surrev,  to 
Sophia,  widow  of  the  late  Col.  Little,  of 

Kemsey,  Worcestershire. At  XjSMxxCvas^ 

tonPrioTa,Gcofiie?i  ^>MJk«^^»«w\j^«s«si>!ea*» 
son  ot  CVna.  'WaXVm.  ^\«S«s^k\>  «wN:  ^'^ 


469                                           Manuigu,  [iftif^ 

Shakerlej,  Lancashire,  and  SoiMiford  Park,  ^Jnilji  eldest  dau.  of  Geo.  Sir  John  Marraj^ 

Chethtre,  to  Ellen-Maria,  YOunge«t  dau.  of  hart.— -^At  St.  Martin's,  Chaa.  Edw.  Baeon^ 

the  late  Rev.  Jas.  Acnew  Webster,  of  Ash-  esq.  M  J),  of  Guildford,  to  Miss  IsabeOii 

feild,  CO.  Longford,  Ireland. 26.  At  St.  Rowe, .  of   Neivcastle-on-Tjrne.^— '9.    At 

Giles's,  Camberwell,  the  Rev.  Gilbert  Alder,  Ealing,  S.  Printix,  esq.  B.  A.  of  Christ  Col- 

of  Little  Hampton,  Sussex,  to  Eliz.  third  lege,  Gimbridge,  to  Cath.  dau.  of  the  ]at« 

da«u  of  Peter  Davey,  esq.  of  Champion- hill.  Mr.  Jos.  Knevett,  of  Cold  Hall,  Little  Eal- 

At  St.  Mary's  Church,  JLeicester,  John  ing,  a  descendant  of  the  ancient  House  of 

Stockdale  Hardy,  esq.  F.S.  A.  of  Leicester,     Knevett,  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk. At  St. 

to  Eliza,  dau.  of  xhe  late  Thos.  Leach,  esq.  George's,  Hanover-square,  Caesar  Hawkina, 

of  the    Newark. At  York,    the    Rev.  esq.  of  Halfmoon-street,  to  Caroline,  dfui* 

Chas.  Wasteneys,  only  son  of  A^chd.  Evre,     of  the  late  John  Dnlbel,  esq.  of  Jersey. - 

to  Lucy-Dorothea,  youngest  dau.  uf  the  late  At  St.  George's,  Bloomsbury,  John-Luclua 

John-Robinson  Foolis,   esq.  of  Heslerton,  Dampier,  esq.  to  Margaret-Sarah,  only  sur* 

Yorkshire. Geo.  fiover,  esq.  of  Stock-  viviog  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Christ.  Erie,  of 

ton  Lodge,   near  Warrington,  to  Isabella,  Gillingbam,  Dorset.         8.  At  Effinghsm, 

voQOgest  dau.  of  Christ.  Mortimer,  eso.  of  Surrey,  the  Rev.  Geo.  Farley,  of  Woking, 

Warrington^ At  Brussels,  George,  third  to  Maria,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Richard  Tho- 

aon  of  Wm.  Wyndham,   esq.  of  Dinton,  mas,  esq.  of  the  Strand,  and  Chester-place^ 

-Wilts,  to  Margaret,  seconds  dau.  of  John     Lambeth. At  St.  George'a,  Norwich, 

Jay,   esq.  of   Brussels. 38.   At  North  James,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev.  J  warn 

Stooeham,  HanU,  Capt  St.  Leger,  to  Eliz.  Wright,  Rector  of  East  Harliog,  Norfolk* 

youngest  dau.  of  Sir  Joho-Dashwood  Kincy  to  Eliz.  third  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Mord^n 

jJ[rt.M.P. At  St.  Luke's  Church,  Al-     Cartliew. At  North  Cray,  David- Howard 

bert  ^.  Beetham,  esq.  of  Stoke  Newington,  Morgan,   esq.  o^  the  Rookery,   St.   Mary 

to  Caroline,  third  dau.-  of  John  Capron,  Cray,  Kent,  to  Frances- Jane,  third  dao.  or 

wq.ofFmsbury-square. At  St. George's,  J.  Harrison,  esq.  of  Honeyden,  Keatw       • 

Hanover-square,  Henry  Dawes,  esq.  Bengal  At  Christrhurch,  Surrey,  Capt.  Matthew 

Service,  to  Maria,  only  child   of  tlie  late  Lidton,  R.  N.  of  Taunton,   Somerset,  to 

Wm.  Noble,   esq.  of  Foley- place. 9D.  Anne,  only  dau.  of  the  late  S.  Bilke,  esq.  dP 

At  St.  George's,  Hanover-square,  John  Stamford-street.— -5.  At  Totnes,  Devon- 
Livingston  Callander,  esq.  7th  Hussars,  to  shire,  James  Gay, .  esq.  of  ChamDion-hHl, 
Saiah,  eldest  dau.  of  Wm  A.  Becket,esq.  Surrey,  to  Anna,  second  dau.  of  Wm.Searlt 
of  Golden-square.  Rental  I,  esq.  '       8.    At  Acrise,   the   Rev. 

Lately.  At  Broadwater,  the  Rev.  E.  El-  Henry  Thursby,  to  Eliz.  Mary,  fifth  dau.  of 

liott.  Vicar  of  Tuxford,  Nottinghamshire,  Thoa.  Papillon,  esq.  of  Acrise-place,  Hanta. 

to  Mary,  dau.  of  John  King,  esq.  of  Lox-  — »— At  Bishopscate  Church,  Edw.  Dawson, 

wood,  Sussex. At  Cheltenham,  H.  B.  esq.  of  Aldclitte  Hall,  Lancashire,  to  Mary, 

Maxwell,  esq.  son   of  Gen.   Maxwell,   to  eldiest  dan.  of  Robert  Bousfield,  esq.  of  the 

Mary-Anne-Barbara,  dau.  of  the  late  John     Manor  House,  Walworth,  Surrey. 9.  At 

Hunter,  esq.  Feltham,  Middlesex,  Heu.-T.  Curtis,  esq.  of 

Afoy  1.   At  Stonehouse,  Devon,  E.  W.  Gower-stBedford-sq.  to  Emily,  eldest dao.  of 

ChurcDill,  Lieut.  R.M.  to  Mary,  eldest  dan.     Thoa.  Bornell,  esq.  of  Feltham -hill. 10. 

of  Geo.  Palliser,  esq. At  Eaton  Socon,  Robert  Helme,  jun.  esq.  of  Walthamstow, 

Bedfordshire,  the  Rev.  John  F.  Dawson,  to  Essex,  to  Maria,  dau.  of  the  late  Robert 

Hester,  eldest  dau.  of  the  R^v.  Hugh- Wade  Ingram,  esq  of  JVIosford  Lodge,  Middlesex* 

Gery,   of  Bushmead  Priory,    Beds. At  16.   At  St.  Marylebone,   the  Rev.  H.  K* 

Firbright,  Surrey,  Chas.  Stirling,  esq.  to  Bonney,  Archdeacon  of  Bedford,  and  Rector 
Char.  Dorothea,  only  dau.  of  Vice-Admlral  ofKing'aCIiffe,  Northamptonshire,  to  Char- 
Stirling,    of    Wobum    Farm. At    St.  lotte,  dau.  of  the  late  John  Perry,  esq.  of 

George's,  Hanover-square,  John  Sam.  Wan-  Moor  Hall,  Essex.         At  St.  Marylebone, 

ley  Sawbridge,  esq.  of  OUntigh,  Kent,  to  Major  Alex.  Dashwood,  to  Marian,  dan.  of 

Miss    Drax    Grosveoor,    of   Charborough     Peter  Still,  esq.  of  Devonshire-place. 

Park,  CO.  Dorset. At  Reading,  the  Rev.  At  St.  Marylebone,  Chas.  Lennox  Grenvilla 

H.  L  Barton,  to  Emma  Eliz.  only  dau.  of  Berkeley,  esq.  to  Augusta  Eliz.  dau.  of  the 


Whitmore  Lodge,  Sunning  Hill,  Berks,  to     nell,  esq.  of  Langlevs,  Essex. 17.  At 

Selina-Theresa,  widow  of  the  late  Capt.     Newington,  Lieut.  G.  Hales,  R.N.  to  Ca* 


Athill,  R.  N.  and  third  dau.  of  the  late  Chas.  roline,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late'  Bartholomew 

Bishop,  esq.  his  Majesty's  Procurator^gene-  Churchill  Carter,  esq.  of  the  Grove,  Cam- 

ni. At  Gloucester,  Henrv-Hooper-Wil-  berwell,  and  Tadmerton,  Oxfordshire.-*— -• 

ton,  esq.  to  Harriet,  dau.  or  the  iste  Rev.  At  Mathon,  Worcestershire,  Thomas  Best, 

JohnJonetpOiFoj^ AtWalbrook,  E.S.  esq.  to  Manr-Catharine,  eldest  dau.  of  Uie 

'ffowdl,  e§q.  of  Biicklenbary»   to  Caldi.  Uu  Rev.  Allen  Cliffie,  of  Mathon  Honst . 


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OBITUARY. 


The  Maiqumi  Oy  CiOLMOMDBiit.     . 

A^l  9.  At  hit  aaotioB  in  Piccadilly, 
aged  nearly  78.  the  Mo»t  Honourable 
George  James  Cholmottde1ey»  first  Mar- 
quess of  Cbolnaondeley  and  Earl  of  Rock- 
tavage,  fourth  Earl  of  Cholmondeley,  Vis- 
count Malj^s,  and  Bsron  Cholmoodeley 
of  Nsmptwich,  third  Baron  Ntwborgh  in 
the  hie  of  Anglesey,  all  in  Ihc  Pelage  of 
England;  fifih  Viscount  Chotnioiideley, 
of  KelU,  CO.  Meath.  and  third  Baron  New. 
burgh,  cu.  Wexford,  in  the  Peerage  of 
Ireland;  K.6..  and  K.G.  H.;  a  PriYjT- 
councillor  ;  Chamberlain,  and  Vioe->dfBl* 
ral  of  the  Palatinate  of  Chester. 

This  Nobleman  was  born  at  Hardia^ 
stone  in  Northamptonshire,  April  30, 17M^ 
the  eldest  son  of  George  Viicount  Malpai^ 
by  Hester,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sit 
Francis  Edwardes,  fourth  Baronet,  of 
Shrewsbury.  The  Marquess  lost  his  fa- 
ther in  1764,  but  his  mother  survived  till 
1805,  when  fhe  died  at  the  advanced  age 
of  ninety-eight.  His  Lordship  had  just 
passed  his  minority,  when,  in  1770,  he  in- 
herited the  Earldom,  on  the  death  of  his 
grandfather ;  whom  he  was  also  appointed 
to  succeed  as  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Gus- 
tos Rotulorum  of  Cheshire,  a  post  which 
had  become  almost  hereditary  in  the  fa- 
mily, having  been  previously  filled^  by 
the  first  and  second  Earls.  He  resigned 
it,  however,  in  1783,  when  made  Captain 
of  the  Yeoman  of  the  Guard,  and  it  hat 
ever  since  been  occupied  by  the  Earls  of 
Stamford  and  Warrington.  In  1782  the 
deceased  acted  at  Envoy  Eatraordinary 
and  Plenipotentiary  to  the  Court  of  Ber- 
lin ;  and  on  the  S5th  of  April,  1783,  be 
was  appointed  to  the  Captaincy  of  the 
Yeomen  of  the  Guard,  and  at  the  same 
time  sworn  a  Privy  Councillor.  He  re- 
tained the  Captaincy  only  a  few  months, 
and  was  succeeded  in  the  following  Ja- 
nuary by  the  late  Earl  of  Aylc'sford. 

On  the  25th  of  April,  1791,  the  Earl 
of  Cholmondeley  was  married  to  Lady 
Georgiaoa-Charlotte  Bertie,  3d  dan.  of 
Perefrioe,  3d  Duke  of  Ancaater.  Thit 
Lady,  who,  on  the  death  of  her  brother 
Robert  the  4th  Duke  in  1779,  became, 
with  her  sister  Priscilla  Baroness  Wil- 
lougbby  de  Kresby,  joint  hereditary  Great 
Chamberlain  of  England,  survives  the 
Marquets.         * 

On  the  marriage  of  the  Prince  of  Wales 
in  1795,  the  Earl  of  Cholmoodeley  was 
appointed  Chamberlain  of  His  Highnest't 
Huuiehold,  and  the  Countess  a  Lady  of 
the  Priiicesfe^s  Bedchamber.  They  con- 
tinued iu  ihuBv  p}ac€i  until  about  1805. 


On  the  death  of  Horatio,  4ih  Earl  of 
Orford,  in  1797,  the  Earl  of  Cholmonde- 
ley acquired,  after  a  litigation  with  the 
present  Earl  of  Orford's  grandfather,  a 
very  large  accession  of  property,  and  the 
magnificent  mansion  of  Houghion  in  Nor- 
folk, built  by  his  greatgrandfather  Sir 
Robert  Walpole,  the  first  Earl  and  cele- 
brated Minister.  His  Lordship  before 
possessed  the  best  estate  in  Cheshire. 

In  1818  the  Earl  of  Cholmoodeley  wat 
appointed  by  the  Prince  Regent  Lord 
Steward  of  the  Household,  which  oflSce 
he  retained  till  succeeded  by  the  Mar- 
quess of  Conyngham,  the  present  Lord 
Steward,  in  1821.  He  was  during  the 
»»la  period  Judge  of  the  Marshalsea  and 
Palace  Court.  By  patent  dated  Nov.  22, 
1815,  be  was  created  Marquess  of  ChoU 
ntondday  and  Earl  of  Rocksavage. 

Hit  Lordship  is  succeeded  in  his  titlet 
and  ettatet  by  his  son  George-Jamet- Ho- 
ratio, (hitherto  styled  Earl  of  Rocksavage,) 
bom  in  1792,  and  called  to  the  Uouie  of 
Peers  in  hit  father's  Barony  of  Newburgh 
in  1821.  The  Marquess  has  left  two  othef 
children.  Lady  Charlotte,  widow  of  tbe 
late  Col.  Hugh  Seymour,  first  cousin  of 
the  Marquets  of  Hertford,  and  M.P.  for 
CO.  Anirim  (who  died  in  1821);  and  Lord 
William- Henry. 

The  remain*  of  the  Marqoest  were  con- 
veyed to  Cheshire  for  interment.  There 
are,  at  Cholmoodeley  Cattle,  two  por- 
traits of  hit  Lordship,  one  by  Hoppner, 
and  the  other,  iu  which  he  is  represent- 
ed at  conversing  with  his  steward  Mr. 
Stephens,  by  Pinlater. 

Tax  Earl  op  SuaawsBURr. 

April  6.  At  his  bouse  in  Stanhope-tt» 
aged  74,  after  a  long  illnef  s,  the  Right 
Honourable  Charles  Talbot,  fifteenth  Earl 
of  Shrewsbury  in  England,  and  Wexford 
and  Waterford  in  Ireland,  F.S.A. 

Hit  Lordship  was  born  March  8,  1755, 
the  eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  Charles  Talbot 
(second  ton  of  George  the  l3th  Earl), 
and  his  second  wife  Mary,  whose  father 
wat  l*homas,  fourth  ton  of  Sir  George 
Mostyu,  fourth  Baronet  of  Talacre,  and 
her  mother  Mary-Catharine,  eldevt  dan. 
of  Henry  tenth  Lord  Teyoham.  Tbe  Earl 
succeeded  his  uncle  in  his  titles  July  27, 
1787;  and  he  married  Sept.  12,  1792, 
Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  James  Hoey, 
esq.  of  Dublin.  He  met  with  this  ladjr 
when  on  her  way  to  Bourdeaux  to  take 
the  veil.     She  had  no  children. 

cwtioa  lo  V\iax  VvWtt  \ik  \^\b»  >X»'«*s\^V 


464         Obituary. — Earl qf Shrefoihiry.^Sir  G.Beaumont.        CH4> 


Shrewsbury  was  considered  as  the  head 
of  the  Roman  Catholics  in  England,  but 
bis  Lordship  conducted  himself  with  great 
moderation.  He  was  of  a  very  retired 
temper,  and  much  addicted  to  music  and 
to  mechanics. 

The  Earl  died  possessed  of  nearly  half 
a  million  of  money»  independent  of  land- 
ed and  other  .property.  All  his  estates, 
plate,  furniture,  fcc.  are  bequeathed  to 
his  nephew  and  successor  John,  who  is 
alio  residuary  legatee  to  upwards  of 
400.000/.  The  legacies  amount  to  about 
I  30,000/.  the  annu  it  ies  to  5400/.  per  annum, 
tfnd  the  charitable  bequests  to  3000/.  The 
Earl's  remains  lay  in  state  at  the  Bava- 
rian Ambassador's  chapel  in  Warwick- 
street;  and  on  the  18ih,  the  funeral  ob- 
sequies were  there  celebrated  in  a  style 
of  extraordinary  pomp  and  splendour.- 
After  the  performance  of  high  mass  an<^ 
of  a  solemn  dirge,  the  funeral  procession 
moved  forward  towards  the  family  chapel 
at  Heythorp  in  Oxfordshire.  It  was  in 
the  following  order : 

Two  mules  on  horseback. 
,Six  bearers  on  horseback,  two  and  two. 
The  chief  domestics  of  the  deceased  No- 
bleman, in  a  mourning  coach  and  four. 
Another  mourning  coach  and  four,  with 
the  deceased's  medical  attendants. 
Dr.  Nelson  and  Mr.  Boorne. 
A  third  mourning  coach  and  four,  with  the 

deceased's  chaplains  Dr.  Fryer^  thcr 
Rev.  Mr.  Wild,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stanley. 

State  plume  of  feathers. 
Grand  Banner  of  the  full  arms  and  crest 
of  the  Earl  quartered  and  emblazoned, 
borne  by  a  page  on  horseback. 
Eight  pages  walking  two  by  two,  and  each 
bearing  a  banner,  with  some  portion  bf 
the  fiarl's  coat  of  arms  emblazoned 
thereon. 
Two  mutes  on  horseback. 
Another  banner  of  the  armorial  bearings 
of  the  Earl,  differently  quartered  from 
the  preceding,  and  borne  by  a 
page  on  foot. 
Two  mutes  on  horseback. 
The  Coronet,  resting  on  a  cushion  of  crim- 
son velvet,  richly  trimmed  with  gold, 
lace,  and  borne  on  a  state  horse, 
fully  caparisoned. 
THE  BODY,  in  a  hearse  drawn  by  six 
horses,  the  uorses  and  hearse  being  se- 
verally covered  with  heraldic  achieve- 
ments emblazoned. 
A  mourning  coach  and  six,  in  which  the 
present  Earl  of  Shrewsbury  sat  by  him- 
self, as  Chief  Mourner. 
Two  other  piourning  coaches  and  six,  each 
containing  four  relatives  of  the  deceased. 
A  fourth  mourning  coach  and  six,   with 

the  three  executors. 

#7r6  other  moumiog  coaches  drawn  each 

bjr  four  horses,  and  coutaining  the 

friends  of  the  deceased  Earl. 


The  Earl's  state  coach,  drawn  by  six 
horses,  and  richly  ornamented  with  he- 
raldic achievements,  emblazoned  on  a 
ground  of  crimson  velvet. 

The  procession  was  closed  by  upwards 
of  twenty  private  carriages;  among  which 
were  those  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  Lords 
Petre,  Fingal,  and  Ponsonby  ;  Lady  Peue, 
and  the  Countess  De  Front.  The  banners 
were  of  a  most  splendid  description,  and 
were  executed  .under  the  superintendance 
of  Mr.  Cathrow  Disney,  Somerset  Herald. 


Sib  Obo.  U.  Bbaumokt,  Babt. 

Feb.  7.  At  his  seat.  Cole  Ortoo  Hall, 
Leicestershire,  of  erysipelas  in  the  head, 
aged  73,  Sir  George*  Howland  Beaumont, 
seventh  Baronet  of  Stougbton  Grange  in 
'  the  same  county,  D.C.L.  P.R.S.'and  S.A.  * 
and  a  trustee  of  the  Btiiish  Museum. 

rie  was  bom  at  Duomow  in  Essex 
(where  bis  father  then  resided)  in  Nov. 
l753,  the  only  child  of  Sir  George,  the 
sixth  Baronet,  by  Rachel,  dan.  of  Mat- 
thew Howland  of  Stonehall,  Dunmow,  esq. 
He  succeeded  to  the  title,  in  1769,  losing 
his  father  at  the  early  age  of  ten,  but  his 
mother  survived  till  1814.  Having  re- 
ceived his  education  at  Eton,  he  entered 
of  New  College,  Oxford,  in  1772.  In 
1778  he  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
John  Willes  of  Astrop  in  Northampton- 
shire, esq.  the  eldest  son  of  Lord  Chief 
Justice  Willes.     They  had  no  children. 

In  i7tt8  Sir  George  Beaumont  went  te 
the  Continent,  and  visited  the  most  dis- 
tinguished parts  of  France,  Switzerland, 
and  Italy.  At  the  general  election  in 
1790  he  was  returned  M.P.  for  Beeralstoa, 
but  be  sat  in  the  House  of  Commons  only 
during  one  Parliament,  to  the  dissolution 
in  1796.  It  was  not  \tt  the  arena  of  po* 
liticsthat  Sir  George  Beaumont  distiugnish- 
ed  himself ;  but  as  a  patron  of  art  and 
amateur  practitioner  of  painting  bis  ce- 
lebrity is  deservedly  great,  and  many  ad- 
mirable specimens  of  his  skill  have  been 
exhibited  at  the  Royal  Academy.  A  con- 
genial taste  introduced  him  to  the  friend- 
ship of  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  who  be- 
queathed him  his  Return  of  the  Aik,  by 
Sebastian  Boordon,  as  a  memorial  of  his 
e«teem.  This  is  one  of  the  sixteen  pictures 
which  Sir  George,  a  year  or  two  before 
his  death,  presented  to  the  National  Gal- 
lery, where,  inscribed  as  they  are  (and 
we  trust  always  will  be  in  legible  cha- 
racters) with  the  munificent  donor's  name, 
they  constitute  his  most  appropriate  and 
most  public  monument. 

In  private  life  Sir  George  Beaumont 
was  a  most  amiable  and  excellent  man, 
his  manners  and  accomplishments  render- 
ing him  an  ornament  of  the  circles  *  in 
wVi'vcY^Y^e  ino^%<\.     A  portrait  of  him,  en- 


I 


1337.1  Obituary. — Rear'Adm.  ffilUams.  41^5 

Hoppaer,  in  the  poflteition  of  Lord  Mai-  Lieut.  Winiami  an  opportunity  qf  Tisitin; 

^rave.  was  published  io  1819   in  Cadell't  the  capital  uf  that  kiDgdom. 

Brilith  Gallery  of  Conteoaporary^  Portraits.         At  the  period  of  the  Spaniih  armament 

Sir  George  Beaumont  it  succeeded  io  in  1790.  tlie  deceased  obtained  an  a ppoinu 

hit  title  and  estates    by  his  first  couiiu  ment  to. tl^e  Elt-phant,  74,  commanded  by 

once  removed,  now  Sir  George- How  land-  Sir  Charles  Tbompbon,  bart.  j  and  on  the 

Willoughby  Beaumont,  who  has  married  a  breaking  out  of  the  war  with  rerolutiooary 

•daughter  of  the  Bishop  of  London.  Frauce,  he  accompanied  the  same  offlcer 

_^____  in  the  Vengeance,  another  third-rate,  to 

the  West  Indies ;  from  whence  he  returned 

Rbae-Adm.  Williams,  ^^^^^  ^^  ^j^j,^^^  ^f  ,„  ^^^  ^^^^  „p^^ 

AforcA  1.     lu  Queen-square,  Bath,  Il«-  Martinique  by  the   forces   under  Rear* 

hen  Williams,  esq.  Rear-Admiral  of  the  xdok  Gardner  and  Msjor-Geo.  Bruce,  in 

Blue.  irnie  1793. 

This  oiBcer  entered  the  naval  service        Towards  the  latter  end   of  the  samft 

4inder  the  auspices  of  Lord  Mulgrave,  in  year,  Capt.  Thompson  hoisted  a  brosui 

1777,  as    a  Midshipman    on   board  the  pendant  as   second  in  command  of  tbt 

Ardent,  a  64  gun  ship   stationed  in  the  squadron  sent  under  Sir  John  Jervit  to 

Bay  of  Biscay  to  intercept  ihe  trade  be-  attack  the  French  seitlemenis  in  the  West 

longing  to  our  revolted  colonies,  and  cut  fudies.    On  the  arrival  of  the  armament 

off  any  succours  that  might  be  seut  thi-  Iq  port  Royal  Bpy,  Lieut.  Williams  was 

ther  from  France.     From  that  ship  he  re-  selected  to  command    a  division  of  the 

moved  into  the  America,  64,  which,  com-  gun  and  guard-boats  to  be  employed  in 

maoded  by  Lord  Longford,  formed  part  the    approaching    siege    of    Martinique, 

of  Adm.  KeppePs  fleet  in  the  action  with  While  on  that  service  and  under  ihe  or- 

M.  d'Orvillierv,  July  27,    1778.     Sub«e-  ders  of  Lieut.  Bowen,  of  the  Boyne,  he    ' 

queotly  to  that  event,  Mr.  Williams  join-  distinguished  himself  by  his  galtamry  in 

ed  the  London,  a  second-rate,  bearing  the  boarding  the  Bienveuu,  a  French  frigate^ 

flag  of  Lord  Graves,  under  whom  he  pro-  lying  in  the  Carenage  close  to  Fort  Louis, 

ceeded  to  Norih  America,  and  continued  YhU  enierprize  was  undertaken-  for  the 

to  serve  till  Aug.  1781,  when  he  was  pro-  purpose  of  rescuing  a  number  of  Englbh 

moted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  in  the  prisoners  said  to   be  confined  on  board 

Royal  Oak,  of  74  gnus.     In  this  ship,  Mr.  b^r,  and  consequently  exposed  to  the  fire 

Williams,  who  had  >previously  shared  in  of  the  British  batteries  on  Point  Carriere. 

the  action  between  Vice- Adm.  Arbuihnot  ff^e  attack  was  made  mt  noon,  March  17, 

and  the  Chev.  de  Ternay,  bore  a  part  in  1794,  in  the  presence,  and  to  the  aito- 

the  battles  with  Count  de  Grasse,  Sept.  5,  nisbment  of  the  whole  fleet  and  army  ;  the 

1781,  and  April  9  and  12, 1782,  insUnt  the  boats  appeared  at  the  entrance 

His  next  appointment  was  to  the  Argo,  of  the  Carenage,  the  enemy  prepared  to 

44,  Capt.  Bulchert,  which  vessel,  being  on  give  them  a  warm  reception.'   The  walla 

her  return  from  Tertola  to  Aniigua,  was  of  Fort  Louis  were  covered  in  an  iuktant 

compelled,  after  a  warm  action  of  five  i^ith  troops,  who  kept  up  an  incessant  ftie 

houri,  during  which  period  it  blew  so  fresh  of  musketry  on  the  assailants ;  at  the  sane 

that  she  could  not  open  her  lower  deck  time>  the  frigate  endeavoured  to  keep  them 

ports,  to  surrender  to  the  French  Irigales  off,   by   plying  both  her  great  guns  mnd 

la  Nyniphe  audi' Amphitride,  each  mount-  ^mall  arms;  but  at  length,  intimidated 

ing46  gunii.  She  was,  however,  recaptured  ^y  the  boldness  of  the  attempt,  her  crew 

about  36  hours  after,  by  the  Invincible,  §ed  from  their  quarters,  the  greater  part 

74 ;  and  Adm.  Pigot,  the  Commander-in-  retreating  to  the  shore.    The  British  now 

Chief  on  that  station,  was  so  well  pleased  boarded  the  frigate,  and  turned  her  gnnt 

with  the  gallantry  displayed  by  her  ofll-  upon  the  Fort,  but  was  prevented  biiog- 

cers,    that,  immediately   after  they  had  iog  her  out  of  the  harbour  in  conseqnence 

passed  the  usual  ordeal  of  a  Court  Mar-  of  the  wind  blowing  directly  in,  her  tails 

tial,  and  obtained  an  hononrable  acquittal,  being  unbent,  and  the  impracticability  of 

Ibe  offered  to  reappoint  the  whole  of  them  sending  men  aloft  to  bring  them  to  the 

to  her.    This  proposal  being  accepted  by  yards,  exposed  as  she  was  to  the  enemy's 

Mr.  Williams,  he  became  first  Lieutenant  gre.     Lieut.  Bowen,  therefore,  after  as- 

of  the  Argo,  and  continued  in  the  same  cerlaiuing  that  the  English  prisoners  were 

ship  till  the  peace  of  1783,  when  she  re  in  another  vessel  further  up,  from  whence 

turned  to  England,  and  wa«  put  out  of  \i  iras  impossible  to  release  them,  con* 

cummisstun.     We  subsequently  fiud  him  tented  himself  with  bringing  off  the  French 

io  the  Myrmidon,  of  20  guns,  whose  Cap-  Captain,  a  Liet)teoant,  and  about  20  inen, 

Uin,  the  present  Adm.  Drury,  was  ordered  whom  Lieut.  Williams  had  discovered  on 

to  escort  a  beautiful  yacht  sent  from  Bug-  the  lower  deck,  and  forced  into  his  boat 

land  as  a  present,  to  the  Crown  Prince  of  through  the-  bow  port  of  the  fri^ate^  ^^ 

D^iumark;   which   circumstauce  afforded  «htch  he  iDkH^  e^V««^«    ^^\\k%^vl^x^'Q^K>^ 

Gent.  Mao.  May,  1 9%7* 

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EV»7. 


amooy  the  other  boatt,  ihejr  were  convey- 
ed in  triumph  to  Sir  John  Jervif,  who,  in 
hit  official  (etler  to  the  Admiralty,  de- 
clared that  **  The  lucceis  of  this  gallant 
action  determined  the  General  and  him- 
self to  attempt  the  fort  and  town  of  Port 
BU>yal  by  assault."  Throughout  the  siege, 
the  gun  boats,  which  by  the  French  were 
called  **  Les  petits  diables,"  were  of  infi- 
nite service,  and  gained  the  officers  com- 
manding them  immortal  credit,  by  the 
steady  and  well-directed  fire  they  con- 
•tantly  kept  up,  both  day  and  night;  and 
tbongh  continually  exposed  to  a  heavy, 
/discharge  both  of  round  and  grape,  their 
loss  did  not  exceed  four  mep  killed  and 
wannded. 

After  the  conquest  of  Martinique,  Lieut« 
Williams  removed  with  his  patron,  who 
bad  by  this  time  become  a  Rear-Admiral, 
Into  the  Vanguard,  '74.  He  subsequently 
commanded  the  flat-boats  employed  in 
landing  the  liecood  battalion  of  light  in- 
A|ntry,  (under  Lt.-Col.  Blundell)  at  Ana 
do  Chocque  in  the  island  of  Stl  Lucia  ; 
a  service  which  he  performed  without  any 
loss,  although  exposed  to  a  very  heavy 
fire  from  the  enemy's,  batteries.  On  the 
reduction  of  that  colony,  he  returned  to 
Mertinique  in  the  Vanguard,  and  during 
th/B  absence  of  the  fleet  at  Guadaloupe, 
wa^  sent  in  a  sloop  to  inspect  the  dif- 
fef^nt  posts  and  fortifications  along  the 
coast.  We  next  find  our  officer  serving 
with  a  brigade  of  seamen  landed  under 
the  orders  of  Captains  Robertson  and  Saw* 
yer  to  co-operate  with,  the  army  in  an  at- 
tempt to  recover  Ouadaloupe  from  the 
bands  of  the  Republicans;  and  receiving 
a  severe  wound  whilst  employed  in  the 
erection  of  a  masked  battery  on  the  heights 
near  Fort  Fleur  d'Ep^e^  he  soon  after 
left  the  Vanguard  and  returned  to  Eng- 
land in  the  Minotaur,  another  ship  of  the 
•am^  force. 

On  his  arrival  he  was  appointed  First 
Lieutenant  of  the  Prince  George,  a  second 
fm^,  which  bore  the  flag  of  Rear-Adm. 
Parker  at  the  battle  of  St.  Vincent.  Lieut. 
Williams,  for  his  conduct  on  this  memor- 
able.ocpasion,  was  immediately  promoted 
tu  the  rank  of  Commander,  and  appointed 
tp  the  Dolphin,  a  44-gun  ship  armed  tnflute, 
but  previous  to  his  joining  her  he  acted 
for  some  time  as  Flag-captain  to  Rear- 
Adm.  Parker,  in  the  Blenheim  98,  and 
served  pro  tempore  in  the  Kingfisher  sloop 
of  war.  From  the  Dolphin  he  was  posted 
into  the  San  Vridro,  a  Spanish  74,  which 
be  conducted  to  England  in  Sept.  1197. 
His  post  commission,  however,  wasnotcon- 
firmed  by  the  Admiralty  till  Nov.  10  that 
year,  when  he  received  an  appointment 
to  the  Formidable  of  98  guns,  the  com- 
mand of  which  he  retained  till  Jan.  1798. 

From  thl»  period  .we  fiad  no  mention  of 


Gapt.  Williams  till  May  1809,  when  be 
obtained  the  command  of  the  Dryad  fri- 
gate stationed  off  Portland  for  the  sup- 
pression of  smuggling.  In  Feb.  1 803,  he 
was  removed  into  the  Ruisel  74,  and  sooa 
after  ordered  to  escort  the  outward-bound 
trade  to  the  East  Indies,  from  whence  be 
was  obliged  to  return  home  through  ill- 
health  in  1805.  His  subsequent  appoint- 
ments were  to  the  Ruby  64,  Dictator  of 
the  same  force,  and  Gloucester  74.  In 
these  ships  he  served  on  the  Baltic  sta- 
tion during  five  successive  seasons,  and 
was  principally  employed  in  affording 
protection  to  the  diffierent  convoys  pas- 
sing through  the  Great  Belt,  a  service  of 
the  most  harassing  nature,  owing  to  the 
difficulty  of  the  navigation,  and  the  an- 
noyance of  the  enemy,  whose  gun- boats 
were  ever  on  the  alert.  Returning  to 
England  each  winter,  he  was  occasionally 
sent  to  Leiih  with  French  prisoners  ;  tuid 
on  one  occasion  attached  to  the  fleet 
blockading  the  Scheldt,  under  Adm.  Wm. 
Young. 

In  1814,  the  Gloucester  convoyed  a 
fleet  to  the  Leeward  Islands,  and  thence 
escorted  the  90th  regiment  to  Quebec 
She  returned  to  England  with  the  trade 
from  Barbadoes  in  September  of  that 
year,  and  was  soon  after  paid- off  at  , 
Sheemess. 

CapU  Williams  was  advanced  to  tbe 
rank  of  Rear-Admiral  April  9,  1833.  He 
had  latterly  resided  in  Bath,  where  his 
wife  died  early  in  1825. 


Lieut.-Gen.  Johnstok. 

March  17,  Near  Hythe,  in  Kent,  lieut.- 
General  William  Johnston,  Colonel-com- 
mandant of  Royal  Engineers. 

This  officer  was  appointed  Practitioner 
Engineer  and  second  Lieutenant  in  the 
Royal  Engineers,  Oct  20,  1775;  first 
Lieutenant,  Jan.  1,1783;  Captain,  May  22, 
1790 ;  Major  in  the  army,  Jan.  26, 1797 ; 
Brevet  Lieut.-Colonel,  April  29,  1809; 
Lieut.- Colonel  Royal  Engineers,  July  13, 
that  year ;  Colonel  of  tbe  same  force,  June 
24,  1809;  Major-General,  Jan.  1,  1812; 
and  Lieut.-General  1825. 

He  served  seven  years  in  tbe  Mediter- 
ranean and  twenty-seven  in  the  West 
Indies.  He  assisted  during  the  blockade 
and  siege  of  Minorca  under  Gen.  Murray 
in  1781-2,  and  was  wounded;  he  served 
at  Gibraltar  during  the  latter  part  of  the 
siege  in  1782-3 ;  assisted  twice  at  the  cap- 
ture of  Minorca,  under  Sir  C.  Grey  and 
Sir  G.  fieckwith ;  directed  and  superin- 
tended the  demolition  of  Fort  Bourbon, 
Martinico;  assisted  thrice  at  the  reduc- 
tion of  Guadeloupe,  under  Sir  C.  Grey, 
Sir  G.  Beckwith,  and  Sir  J.  Leith,  tbe  last 
time  as  Commanding  Engineer,  and  was 
present  twice  at  the  reduction  of  St.  Lu« 


idsr.] 


Obituary.^— Gm.  CaulaincourL 


4€T 


city  and  ooca  at  the  reduction  of  Tobago, 
where  he  remained  Go?enior  and  Miiitaiy 
Commandant  after  Geu.  Picton'i  removaL 


Gbh.  Caulaivcoubt. 

Feb.  SO.  At  hit  hotel,  57,  Roe  St.  La- 
zare,  Paris,  aged  54,  Lieut.-Geoeral  Ar- 
maud  Angustioe  Louis  Caulaiiicourt,  cre- 
ated by  BuonapaKe  Duke  of  Viceosa, 
and  formerly  Grand  Ecuyer  of  the  Em- 
pire  of  France  and  Minister  for  Foreign 
Affairs. 

Descended  from  an  ancient  family*  M. 
Canlaincourt  was  bom  in  Picardy  in  1779. 
Devoted  to  the  profession  of  arms,  he 
was  at  the  commencement  of  the  Revo- 
lution an  officer  of  cavalry.  He  did  not 
emigrate,  but  served  under  the  revolu- 
tionary standard  $  and,  after  making  le- 
veral  campaigns  as  a  Colonel  of  Dra- 
goons, he  bacame  Ald-de-camp  to  Buo- 
naparte when  First  Consul.  Having  ob- 
tained the  confidence  of  his  aspiring  mat- 
ter, he  was  regarded  as  a  suitable  agent 
for  the  arrest  of  the  Due  d'Eoghien.  In 
the  course  of  the  same  year,  be  was 
named  Grand  Ecuyer  of  Prance,  made 
General  of  Division,  and  presented  with 
the  Grand  Cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honoor. 
He  subsequently  received  various  orders 
of  Knighthood,  from  Bavaria,  Saxony, 
Prussia,  Russia,  and  Austria.  At  the  time 
when  Buonaparte  was  carrying  on  bis 
plans  against  Austria,  Canlaincourt  was 
sent  as  Ambassador  to  Sr.  Petersburg, 
He  was  four  years  resident  at  the  Rus- 
sian Court,  and  received  from  the  Em- 
peror Alexander  the  cross  of  the  order  of 
St.  Ann  of  the  first  class.  Regarded,  how- 
ever, with  dislike  by  the  Russian  nobility, 
he  was  subjected  to  various  mortifications; 
and  at  length,  under  the  well-understood 
pretext  of  ill  health,  he  solicited  and  ob- 
tained his  recall,  and  returned  to  Franon 
in  1811.  In  Buonaparte's  infismoos  ex« 
peditioii  against  Russia  in  1813,  Caulain- 
court  was  his  chosen  Aid-de-camp  and 
companion ;  and,  after  a  narrow  escape 
from  fire,  sword,  and  frost,  be  returned 
with  his  crest-fallen  Master  in  a  sledge. 

After  the  desperate  battles  of  Zutien 
and  fiautien  in  1815,  the  deceased  was 
appointed  to  negociate  with  the  Russiaa 
and  Prussian  plenipotentiaries.  The  ar- 
mistice, to  which  he  was  a  party,  was 
soon  broken ;  and  the  defeat  of  finooa- 
parte,  at  Leipsic,  ensued.  After  hosti- 
lities had  been  removed  from  Germany 
to  France,  Caulaincourt,  who  had  been 
elevated  to  the  post  of  Minister  for  Fo- 
reign affairs,  was  sent  to  negociate  with 
the  allies  at  Chatillou,  but,  on  some  tem- 
porary success  achieved  by  Buonaparte, 
he  was  instructed  to  raise  his  claims;  the 
coasequence  of  which  was,  that  the  alliea 


broke  off  tbe  conferences,  and  marched 
to  Paris. 

On  the  abdication  of  Buonaparte  al. 
Fontainbleao,  Caulaincourt,  then  Duke  of 
Vicensa,  was  Ihe  abdicator's  chief  nego- 
ciator ;  and  he  signed  the  treaty  of  the 
1  Itb  of  April  between  the  ex-Emperor  a^d 
tbe  Allies. 

On  tbe  restoration  of  the  Bourbons, 
Caulaincourt  became  a  private  man ;  and, 
before  a  month  was  at  an  end,  he  made 
an  attempt  to  justify  himself  respecting- 
the  arrest  of  the  Duke  d'Enghien.  On 
this  subject  he  published  a  letter  from 
tbe  Emperor  Alexander;  bis  object  ia 
this  was  to  shew  that  when  the  arrest  took 
place,  he  was  employed  at  Strasburgh  on 
other  business — that  General  Ordonner  was 
tbe  officer  who  arrested  the  prince, — and 
that  Ordonner  alone  was  employed  in 
that  affair.  Soon,  afterwards,  however, 
a  pamphlet  appeared,  with  the  title— "On 
the  Aissasiination  of  Monseigneur  tbe 
Duke  d'Enghien,  and  of  the  justification 
of  M.  da  Caulaincourt.*'  The  pamphlet 
was  anonymous ;  but  it  was  forcibly  writ- 
ten, and,  by  references  to  diplomatic  do- 
cuments, it  formed  a  decisive  refotatioB 
of  Caulaincourt's  assertions. 

Caulaincourt  about  the  same  time  nar* 
ried  Madame  de  Canisy,  a  lady  who  had 
been  divorced ;  and  with  her  he  retlredl 
into  the  country  till  Buonaparte  returned 
from  Elba.  He  was  then  (March  SI)  made 
Mibister  for  Foreign  Affairs.  He  was  ex- 
tremely active  in  his  endeaYoors  to  ra« 
establish  the  Corsican  dynasty ;  and  be 
was  incessant  in  bis  assurances  to  all  the 
Foreign  ministers— whose  missions  ward 
in  fact,  at  an  end— that  Buonaparte  had 
renounced  all  projects  of  conquest,  and 
that  his  only  desire  was  peace.  He  ad- 
dressed circular  letters,  of  the  same  tea* 
dency,  to  all  foreign  courts,  but  equalljr 
without  effect.  One  of  these  circolatfl 
came  afterwards,  with  a  letter  from  Bfio* 
na parte,  to  hte  present  Majesty,  thea 
Prince  Regent.  These  curious  docnmeols 
were  both  laid  before  Parliament.  A  oob^ 
oiliating  and  even  humble  letter  was  seat 
by  Caulaincourt  to  the  Emperor  of  Ana- 
trta ;  but,  like  the  others,  it  received  oo 
answer.  On  the  3d  of  June,  Caulaincoort 
was  named  by  Buonaparte  a  Member  of 
the  Chamber  of  Peers.  Oo  the  I7tb,  b« 
announced  to  that  body,  that  hostilities 
were  on  the  point  of  commencing.  Ha 
was  again  employed  as  one  of  the  Com- 
missioners  on  the  final  deposition  of  bii 
master. 

When  Louis  XVIH.  wasreinsUted,Cat- 
laincourt  quitted  France,  and  for  sooM 
time  resideid  in  England.  He  endared 
a  long  illness  with  great  fortitude,  and  hit 
funeral  took  place  on  the  fiSth  of  C^^'Vir* 
ary ,  m  €ht  C^Bosfteitl  0%t  \aV|  ^i^\i»««»»% 


46S                            Obituary.— A/.  res<a2az2i.  £Mb^ 

'    M.  PisTALOSEZi.  from  every  word,  action,  and  look,  tlial  I 
Feb,  17.     At  Neubof,  in  Switzerland,  loved  them  with  all  my  heart,  that  their 
aged  82/ M.  Pestalozzi,  a  *' benefactor  of  pleasures  were  my   pleasures,  and   that 
the  human  race."  their  happiness  constituted  mine.*'     After 
P^fialozzi  was  bom  at  Zurich,  in  1746.  strugKling  wKh  the  difficulties  of  hit  posi- 
Having  lost  his  father  at  as  early  a^^e,  he  tion  for  seteral  months,  Pettalozzi  was 
wa»  brought  op  by  his  mother,  who  pro*  enabled  to  discern  the  fruits  of  his  labouri. 
cured  for  him  the  advantages  of  a  good  Many  of  his  pupils  announced  good  abi- 
education.     His  intention  was  to  have  de-  lilies,  and  in  a  short  tione  were  seen  above 
voted  himself  to  the  bar  ^  but  becoming  seventy  children,  taken  almost  all  from  a 
deeply   interested   in   the   various  plans  state  of  poverty,  living  together  in  peace 
which  were  agitated  in  Zurich  for  better-  and  friendship,  full  of  affection .  for  one 
ing  the  coiMlition  of  the  lower  orders,  he  another,  and  with  the  cordiality  qf  bro- 
abandoned  the  study  of  the  law ;  and  was  thers  and  sister?.    He  had  just  succeeded 
•forwards  induced  to  undertake  a  manu-  in' introducing  some  manual  employment 
factoring  speculation,  with  a  view  of  enter-  into  his  school,  when  the  thread  of  bis  la> 
iDg  into  closer  contact  with  the  poor.    His  hours  was  rudely  snapped   by  political 
plan  seems  to  have  been  somewhat  similar  changes ;  and  eshausted  in  mind  and  body, 
to  that  pursued  by  Mr.  Owen  at  Lanark;  he  sought  to  recruit  his  powers  by  retire- 
so  far,  at  least,  as  connecting  the  instruc-  ment  and  relaxation.     Alter  an  interval 
tion  of  the  young  with  the  labours  of  their  of  repose,  Pestalozzi,  under  the  patronage 
parents.  of  the  Swiss  government,  resumed  his  la- 
But  a  series  of  unfortunate  circnm-  hours  at  Burgdorf,  in  the  canton  of  Berne, 
stances  ruined  bis  establishment.     In  the  At  this  period  he  was  joined  by  several 
retirement  that  ensued  on  his  failure,  he  men  of  various  degrees  of  talent  and  at- 
composed  his  Tale  of  Leonard  and  Ger-  tainment ;  and  the  patronage  of  the  Swisa 
trude,  a  work  which  may  vie  in  popularity  government  augmented  his  pecuniary  re- 
with  the  Pilgrim's  Progress,  or  Robinson  sources,  and  furnished  him  with  a  locale 
Crusoe.     It  became  popular  in  Germany  for  his  exertions.    But  political  changes 
as  well  as  in  Switzerland,  and  the  author  once  more  broke  up  the  rising  institotioB. 
was  encouraged  to  renew  his  exertions.  ,  The  next  period  of  Pestalozzi*s  career 
Between  the   years  1781    and    1797,  he  commences  with  the  formation  of  two  se- 
published  his  Weekly  Jonrnal  for  Country  parate  establishments,  consisting,  for  the 
Folks,  Letters  on  the  Education  of  the  most   part,  of  his  former   pupils,    /file 
Children  of  indigent  Parents,  Reflections  children  of  the  poorer  class  took  op  theit 
on  the  March  of  Nature  in  the  Education  abode  at  Munch  Buchsee,  a  little  village 
of  the  Human  Race,  &c.  aboot  five  miles  distant  from  Berne.  Here 
•  After  the  abolition  of  the  ancient  Swiss  Pestalozzi  was  much  aided  by  M.  de  Fel- 
.  Governments,   and   the  meeting    of   the  lenberg,  who  has  since  applied  his  princi* 
Helvetic  Legislative  Council  at  Aran,  M.  pies  of  edocatioo,  with  some  important 
Pestalozzi   addressed    to  the  Council  a  modifications,  to  the  instruction  of  both 
tract,  entitled  '*  ReArctions  on  the  Wants  rich  and  poor.    At  Yverdun,  in  the  canton 
of  the  Country,  and   principally  on  the  de  Vaud,  Pestalozzi  resumed  his  labour* 
Sducation  and  Relief  of  the  Poor.''     He  for  the  instruction  of  the  higher  and  middle 
was  appointed  principal  editor  of  the  Hel-  ranks  of  society.    The  fame  of  his  method 
vetic  Journal,  a   psper  devoted  to  the  was  now  very  generally  spread  through 
moral  and  religious  interests  of  the  people.  Switzerland  and  Germany.     Many  young 
In  1799  he  was  nominated  director  of  an  men  assembled  under  bis  paternal  roof  to 
orphan  institution,  which  the  Government  act  as  instructors,  and  pupils  from  every 
had  established  at  Stantz.    This  appoinu  part  of   Europe  constituted  one   happy 
meet  enabled  him  to  reduce  some  of  his  family  around  him.    Each  class  had  at  iu 
theories  to  practice;  at  Sums,  he  became  bead   an  instructor,  who  lived  with   his 
at  once  the  teacher,  steward,  and  father  scholars,  and  joined  in  their  amusements 
of  the  institution ;  and  there  he  formed  as  well  as  their  studies ;  and  thus,  con- 
the  plan  of  interrogative  education,  which  nectiog  himself  not  only  with  their  duties, 
has  since  been  known  throughout  Europe  bat  with  their  pleasures,  was  enabled  to 
by  his  4iame.   **  I  wished  to  prove,"  writes  win  their  affections,    and  gently  mould 
he  to  his  friend  Gessner,  '<  by  the  essay  I  them  to  his  purpose.    The  character  of 
was  about  to  make,  that  public  education  Pestalozzi  was  the  bond  that  united  them ; 
IS  of  value,  only  as  far  as  it  resembles  the  kindness  with   which    their    masters 
private.  Every  system  of  education,  which  treated  them,  and  which  overflowed  in 
is  not  carried  on  in  the  spirit  of  domestic  every  word  and  action  of  Pestalozzi  him- 
relations,  tends  to  demoralize  man.    The  self,  contributed  to  impart  a  character  of 
jnftructor  should  live  among  his  pupils,  good  humour  and  benevolence  to  the  whole 
as  in  the  bosom  of  bis  own  family.     This  groupe.     At  Yverdun   the  principles  of 
tarn  of  miod  I  fell  wilhiD  myself,  and  I  the  method  were  applied  to  other  branches 
wished  that  my  pupils   should  diicover  o^  iniViucWuti,  %a^  V\\«  ^ounci  ^lans  were 


1S«7.] 


OsiTUAay.— ilf.  Puialoxzi  and  M.  Fellenberg, 


469 


materially  iiDproved.  A  oommittee  of 
masters  watched  over  the  moral  and  iotel- 
lectual  welfare  of  the  inttitution,  and 
drew  up  essays,  or  arranged  exerciief,  for 
the  approbation  of  the  whole  body.  This 
may  be  dated  as  the  most  flourishing 
period  of  Pestaloi»i's  undertaking,  though 
his  pecuniary  resources  were  by  no  means 
free  from  embarrassment.  This  circum- 
stance co-operated  with  other  causes  to 
introduce  divisions  among  the  masters;  a 
separation  took  place ;  and  from  that  mo- 
ment the  insUtulion  at  Yverduo  declined. 
Disputes  and  dissensions  between  some  of 
the  individnals  who  had  been  connected 
with  his  establishment,  much  erobittereil 
Pestalozzi'a  declining  years ;  and,  by 
withdrawing  his  attention  from  the  school 
itself,  diminished  '  its  usefulness,  and 
hastened  its  dissolution.  In  1825  Pesta- 
lozzi  left  the  canton  de  Vaud,  and  retired 
lb  his  little  estate  at  Neuhof,  in  the  canton 
of  Argau,  where  he  occupied  himself  till 
his  death  in  preparing  elementary  works. 
His  last  production  was  entitled  :  "  Adfice 
to  my  Contemporaries." 

In  1803  M.  Peitalozzi  was  one  of  the 
deputation  which  Buonaparte  summooed 
from  the  Swiss  Cantons,  to  deliberate  on 
the  means  of  restoring  tranqoillity  to 
Switzerland ;  hot  be  returned  home  be- 
fore any  arrangement  could  be  effected. 

Benevolence  was  the  prevailing  feature 
in  Pestaloszi's  character.  It  burned  in 
him  with  the  intensity  of  a  passion,  and 
needed  sometimes  the  sober  restraints  of 
judgment.  It  was  as  discernible  in  the 
affectionate  simplicity  of  his  ordinary  man- 
ners, as  in  the  persevering  exertions,  and 
disinterested  sacrifices,  which  marked  his 
long  life  of  trial,  and  suffering.  His  genius 
was  original,  profound,  and  fertile,  rising 
superior  to  the  most  overwhelming  difll- 
culties,  but  too  frequently  negligent  of 
ordinary  .resources.  The  style  of  hit  writ- 
ings is  vigorous,  pathetic,  and  piquant, 
but  unpolished  and  irregular  ;  in  his  phi- 
losophical works  heavy,  involved,  and  ob- 
scure. His  conversation  was  particularly 
animated,  playful,  and  entertaining, 
abounding  in  unexpected  turns  of  thought, 
with  an  occasional  felicity  of  expression 
that  made  an  indelible  impression  on  the 
bearer's  mind. 

M.  FXLLENBERG. 

Early  in  the  present  year,  M.  Fellen- 
berg, the  countryman  and  friend  of  Pesta- 
loazi,  who  has  been  the  subject  of  our  pre- 
ceding article. 

M.  Fellenberg  was  born  at  Berne  in 
1771.  His  mother,  a  great*granddaughter 
of  the  celebrated  Dutch  admiral, .  Van 
Tromp,  was  accustomed  to  repeat  to  him, 
in  his  early  youth,  this  excellent  advice: 
'*  The  great  have  friends  in  abundaoce  ; 
be  you,  my  sod,  the  friend  of  the  poor* 


the  support  of  the  unfortunate  and  op«i 
pressed.*'  The  early  part  of  his  educatioD 
was  conducted  with  great  care  at  home  f 
subsequently  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
establishment  at  Colmar,  hn  Ab«ce  in 
France;  but  his  ill  health  obliged  him  to 
return,  some  years  afterwards,  into  Swit- 
zerland. There  he  accustomed  himself  to 
live  upon  bread  and  water;  and,  in  all 
respects,  to  adhere  tothe  severest  regimen. 
In  his  travels  through  Switzerland,  France, 
and  Germany,  commenced  soon  after  bii 
return,  it  was  asual  for  him  to  stop  soae 
time  in  the  villages,  assuming  the  app^ttr^ 
a  nee  of  an  artizan,  or  of  a  labourer,  tiMit* 
he  might  with  more  facility  be  enabled  to 
study  the  characters  of  men  and  the  nature 
of  their  wants;  Once  he  was  solicited  by  a 
young  woman  to  undertake  the  religioua 
instruction  of  her  uncle,  who  was  deaf. 
M.  Fellenberg,  by  means  of  gestures,  suc- 
ceeded in  making  himself  understood  ;  but 
his  zeal  produced  no  other  effect  than 
that  of  gaining  his  pupil's  good-will,  al- 
though he  actually  resided  with  him. in 
solitude  for  a  whole  year,  near  the  lake  of 
Zurich.  From  that  period  forming  an  in- 
timacy with  Pestalozzi,  he  devoted  Ilis 
time  and  attention  to  the  education  of 
youth.  Submitting  to  the  new  order  of 
things  in  Switzerland,  in  1798,  M.  Fellen- 
berg exerted  his  influenee  amongst  tk/t 
peasants  with  the  happiest  effects.  Hov« 
ever,  as  the  Government  refused  to  per- 
form what  he  had  promised  in  their  name, 
he  withdrew  his  interference  in  public 
affairs. 

Of  an  exceedingly  speculative  turn,  M. ' 
Fellenberg  now  purchased  the  estate  of 
Hofwyl,  of  which  all  the  world  hat  beard, 
two  leagues  northward  from  Berne ;.  and 
then  he  formed, — first,  a  farm,  which  fsat 
intended  to  serve  as  a  model  to  the  neigh- 
bourhood, in  all  that  might  be  uaefol  in 
agriculture,  cultivating  it  under  his  own 
care,  and  actually  increasing  its  customarj 
produce  five-fold; — secondly,  an  expte'i- 
mental  farm^  fur  the  instruction  of  pupils 
who  resorted  to  it  from  various  parts  of 
Europe ;  -thirdly,  a  manufactory  of  aglri- 
cultural  implements^  farming  utensils^  &c. 
with  which  was  connected  a  school  of  in- 
dustry for  the  poor,  who  were  taught  the 
business  of  the  various  handicrafts';—- 
fourthly,,  a  boarding-school  for  young 
gentlemen ;— and,  fifthly,  an  .  institution 
for  instruction  in  agriculture,  theoretical 
and  practical.  He  also  established  a 
school  for  the  instruction  of  teachers  be- 
longing to  the  surrounding  country  ;  but 
that  scheme  was,  after  some  years,  aban- 
doned. 

Of  M.  Fellenberg*s  establishment  at 
Hofwyl,  the  entire  business  of  which  was 
conductied  by  the  foooder  and  thl(VK«>Ok 
assislaiita— (u\\  %ocn^tiV%  VK««.\yt«ci  yc^c^^ 


470 


Obituaiy.— Dr.  KUdimer* 


[Miqrt 


mnd  oihcr  cpntinenUl  worki.  To  coabla 
Imn  to  ezamine  every  pert  of  the  tnetitQ* 
lioD,  ao4  to  observe  what  was  going  for- 
ward, eteo  in  the  remotett  comera,  M. 
Felienberg  constrocted  a  lofty  tower  in  the 
centre,  from  which,  by  means  of  a  glast^ 
aad  a  speaking  trampet,  he  conducted  the 
several  operations*  It  must  be  admiUed, 
however,  that  the  establishment  has  not 
bees  productive  of  all  the  advantage  that 
was  mnticipated. 

Amongst  the  pupils  who  were  seat  to 
si«dy  at  Hofwyl,  where  several  young 
neo  of  the  first  i«nk  in  Germany.  The 
laid  Emperor  Aleaander  of  Russia  em- 
ployed a  confidential  person  to  eiamint, 
aad  to  report  on  the  institution ;  and  bis 
inperial  Majesty  was  pleased  to  accom- 
paoy  the  insignia  «f  an  order  of  Knight- 
hood to  M.  Felienberg,  with  a  handsome 
ifOtter  in  autograph.  M»  Felienberg  has 
l«ft  a  standing  Committee  entrusted  with 
tha  execution  of  bis  testansentary  regula- 
tions, with  regard  to  the  schools  for  the 
poor. 

Da.  KiTCBINEK. 

'  Feb,  27.  In  Warren-st.  Fitsroy-sq. 
aged  50,  Wm.  Kltchioer,  esq.  M.D.  the 
celebrated  writer  oa  a  variety  of  subjects. 

He  was  son  of  an  eminent  ooaUmer- 
dmnt  in  Beaufort- baildiogs.  Strand,  who 
aoqaired  a  considerable  property  in  houses 
and  premises  adjacent  to  the  Thames,  and 
waa  a  Magistrate  for  Middlesex.  This 
getttleman  had  a  strong  taste  for  musio^ 
which  was  imbibed  by  the  son.  Dr» 
Kitcbiner  was  educated  at  Eton.  His 
degree  was  merely  from  Glasgow,  and 
therefore  be  coald  not  practice  as  a  phy- 
sician in  London;  but  having  inherited 
a  handsome  eorapetenee,  be  was  enabled 
to  live  independant  of  his  profession,  to 
devete  himself  to  science,  and  to  open  his 
hoopitable  doors  to  a  vast  circle  of  friends 
distinguished  for  genius  and  learning. 

Or*  Kitebioer's  love  of  music  accom- 
panied him  through  life  ;  and^  to  the  last,, 
ha  played  and  sang  with  considerable 
taste  and  feeling.  Though  always  an  epU 
csM— fond  of  experiments  in  cookery,  and 
eaoeedingly  particular  in  the  choice  of  bis 
viands,  and  in  their  mode  of  preparation 
for  the  table,  he  was  regular,  and  even 
abstemious  in  his  general  habiu.  There 
were  times,  indeed,  when,  according  to. 
Ilia  own  statement,,  bis  consomptioQ  of 
animal  food  was  extraordinary.  The  crav- 
ing was  not  to  be  repressed,  nor  easily  to 
be  satisfied.  It  had  nothing  to  do  with 
tka  bve  of  eating,  abstractedly  consider- 
ed, but  was  the  result  of  some  organic 
and  incuhible  diseiise.  Dr.  Kitebiner's 
iKMira  of  risiog—of  eating— of  retiring  t^ 
rest— were  all  regulated  by  syitefp.  He 
•tee  Mccnwlfnoed  Co  make  a  good  break- 
ai  eigbi  or  niiie.    Hit  ItndMs,  to 


which  only  the  favoured  few  had  the  pri-* 
vilege  of  entree,  were  superb.  They  oon- 
siated,  of  potted  meats  of  various  kinds«. 
firied  fish,  savoury  pAt^,  rich  liquevrs. 
Ice  &c.  in  great  variety  and  abundance* 
Hit  dinners,  unless  when  he  had  parties, 
were  comparatively  plain  and  simple* 
served  in  an  orderly  manner— cooked  ac« 
cording  to  h\«  own  maxims— -and  placed 
•pou  the  table  invariably  withio  five  mi- 
nutet  of  the  time  announced.  His  usual 
hour  was  five.  His  supper  was  served  at 
half-past  nine ;  and  at  eleven  he  was  ac- 
customed to  retire.  His  public  dinners, 
as  they  may  be  termed,  were  things  of 
more  pomp,  ceremony,  and  Etiquette. 
They  were  announced  by  notes  of  pre- 
paration, which  could  not  fail  of  exciting 
the  liveliest  sensations  in  the  epigastric 
region  of  the  "  thorough -bred  grand- 
gourmands  of  the  first  magnitude"  who 
were  honoured  with  an  invitation.  One 
of  these  notes  is  well  entitled  to  preser- 
vation as  a  curiosity : 

**  Dear  Sir,  The  honour  of  your  com- 
pany is  requested  to  dine  with  the  Com- 
mittee of  Taste,  on  Wednesday  next,  the 
10th  instant. 

^'The  specimens  will  be  placed  npois 
the  table  at  five  o'clock  precisely,  when 
the  business  of  the  day  will  immediately 
commence.  I  have  the  honour  to  be^ 
yonr  most  obedient  servant, 

W.  KtTCHiNSR,  Secretary. 
August,  1825.— 43,  Warren-street, 
Fitzroy- square. 

"At  the  last  general  meeting,  it  waa 
unauimouily  resolved,  that  t 

"IsU  An  InviUtion  to  Eta  Beta  Pi, 
must  be  answered  in  writings  as  soon  a» 
possible  after  it  is  received,  within  twenty- 
fours  at  latest  reckoning  from  that  en 
which  it  is  dated  ^  otherwise  the  Secretary 
will  have  the  profound  regret  to  feel  that 
the  invitation  has  been  definitely  declined. 

*'  Snd.  The  Secretary  having  represent- 
ed that  the  perfection  of  several  of  the 
preparationa  is  so  exquisitely  evanescent, 
that  the  delay  of  one  minute  after  their 
arrival  at  the  meridian  of  concoction^ 
will  render  them  no  longer  worthy  of  men 
of  taste, 

**  Therefore,  to  ensure  the  punctual  at^  ' 
tendance  of  those  illustrious  gastrophi- 
lists,  who  on  grand  occasions  are  invited 
to  join  this  high  tribunal  of  taste  for  their 
own  pleasure  and  the  benefit  of  their 
country,  it  is  irrevocably  resolved, '  That 
the  janitor  be  ordered  not  to  admit  any 
visitor,  of  whatever  eminence  of  appetite^ 
after  the  hour  which  the  Secretary  shall 
have  anooanoed  that  the  apecimens  aie 
ready.    By  order  of  the  Committee, 

'<  William  KrrcBiNxa,  Sec." 

Latterly  Dr.  Kitcbiner  was  in  the  habit 
of  hafving  a  small  and  select  party  to  dine 
wWk  \Mn  vm Woui^l  ^  V^TuAxdaY  even- 


la^M 


OBiTUARY.-y^Dr.  KUchiner, 


*7l 


iogt  coDTerMsioiie.  The  last  of  theM  de- 
lightful meeiingfl  wsf  od  tbt  fiOih  of  Feb- 
ruary* The  dinner  was,  as  usual,  ao- 
iiO([inced  at  fire  minutes  after  fi^.  As 
the  first  three  that  had  been  invited  en* 
tered  hit  drawing-room,  he  received  them 
seated  at  his  grand  piano -forte,  and  sirnok 
up,  **  See  the  Conquering  Hero  comes  I" 
accompanying  the  air,  by  placing  his  feet 
OD  the  pedals,  with  a  peal  on  the  kettle 
drums  beneath  the  initrument.  This  to- 
be  sure,  waa  droll ;  but,  at  all  events,  it 
was  harmless. 

For  the  regulation  of  the  Tuesday  even- 
ings' conversazione  alluded  to,  Dr.  K. 
used  to  fix  a  placard  over  his  chimney- 
piece,  inscribed  :  •—  **  At  seven  come,— 
at  eleven  go."  It  is  said  that,  upon  one 
of  these  occasions,  the  facetious  George 
Colman,  on  observing  this  admonition, 
availed  himself  of  an  opportunity  to  add 
the  word  '*  it,"  making  the  last  line  run— - 
*'  at  eleven  go  it!'*  At  these  little  social 
meetings,  a  signal  for  supper  was  invari- 
ably given  at  balf-past  nine.  All  who 
were  not  desirous  of  further  refreshment 
would  then  retire  ;  and  those  who  remain- 
ed descended  to  the  parlour  to  partake  of 
the  friendly  fare,  according  to  the  season 
of  the  year.  As  these  parties  were  com- 
posed of  the  professors  and  amateurs  of 
all  the  liberal  arts,  it  will  readily  be  ima- 
gined that  the  mind  as  well  as  the  body 
was  abundantly  regaled— that  **  the  feast 
of  rieason  and  the  flow  of  soul "  were  never 
wanting.  So  well  were  the  orderly  habiti 
of  the  Doctor  understood,  that,  at  the 
appointed  time,  some  considerate  goest 
would  observe  **  'tis  on  the  strike  of  ele- 
ven." Hats  and  cloaks,  coats  and  um- 
brellas, were  then  brought  in  |  the  Doc- 
tor attended  his  friends  to  the  street-door, 
looked  up  at  the  «(ar«— if  there  were  any 
visible — gave  each  of  his  friends  a  cordial 
shake  of  the  hand,  wished  him  a  hearty 
good-night,  and  so  the  evening  was  closed. 

We  must  now  speak  of  Dr.  Kitchiner't 
books.  Op(io«^music,  and  cookery,  were 
his  three  priaoipal  subjects.  His  first  pob- 
licatien,  entitled  "  Practical  Observatimit 
on  Telescopes,"  8vo.  appeared  aneoy- 
mously  in  1815,  and  was  reviewed  in  our 
vol.  Lxxxv.  ii.  55.  The  third  edition  was 
published  in  1819  (see  vol.  lxxxix.  ii. 
614).  In  the  mean  while  he  had  commu- 
nicated to  the  Philosophical  Magazine  an 
Essay  on  the  size  best  adapted  for 
Achromatic  Glasses;  with  hints  to  Op- 
ticians and  Amateurs  of  Astronomical 
Studies  on  the  Construction  and  Use  of 
I'elescopes  iu  General  (Phil.  Mag.  vol. 
XLvi.  p.  183).  These  established  his  fame 
as  an  amateur  optician  ;  and  the  f  Api- 
cius  Redivivus  ;  or  Cook's  Oracle,"  12mo, 
1817,  signalized  him  as  an  amsteur  gas- 
tronomist. In  1822  he  published  "The 
Art  of  Invigorating  and  Prolonging  Life 


by  Food,  Clothes,  Air,  Exercise,  Wine, 
Sleep,  &c. ;  and  Peptic  Precepts.  To 
which  is  added  the  Pleasure  of  making 
a  Will,"  13mo. 

In  1822  he  issued  a  small  octavo  vo- 
lume of  '*  Observations  on  Vocal  Music*' 
(reviewed  in  vol.  zcii.  i.  55)  ;  and  in  the 
same  year  a  handsome  folio  of  '*  The 
Loyal  and  National  Songs  of  England, 
selected  from  original  manuscripts  and 
early  printed  copies"  in  his  own  library. 
Next  followed  *'  The  Housekeeper's  Ledg- 
er;" and  in  1825  he  revised  his  former 
work  on  optics,  and  published  it  under 
the  title  of  <'  The  Economy  of  the  Eyes," 
in  two  Parts,  the  first  on  the  subject  ii| 
general,  and  on  spectacles,  opera- glastea* 
&c.  (reviewed  in  vol.  xcv.  ii..  160);;  and 
"Part  II.  Of  Telescopes/'  (reviewed  is 
voL  xcvi.  i.  155).  A  new  work  entitled 
"The  Traveller's  Oracle,"  was  in  great 
measure  printed  at  the  period  of  his  de- 
cease. 

Dr.  Kitchiner  was  married  many  yearf 
ago,  but  a  separation  soon  ensued.  Hit 
wife,  by  whom  he  had  no  family,  is  stiU 
living.  A  natural  son,  who  has  been  edu- 
cated at  Cambridge,  inherits  the  bulk  of 
his  property.  The  Doctor's  will,  made 
about  sixteen  years  since,  is  as  remark- 
able for  its  eccentricity  as  any  of  the  prpr 
ductions  of  the  testator ;  and  it  is  faid 
that  another,  making  some  serions  altera^ 
tions  in  the  disposal  of  his  property^  was 
intended  for  signature  on  the  Weduesdaj^ 
following  the  night  on  which  he  died. 

On  the  26th  of  February  Dr.  Kitchiner 
dined  at  his  friend  Braham's  in  Baker- 
street  ;  and  was  in  better  spirits  tluut 
usual,  as,  for  some  time  past,- in  conse- 
quence of  a  spasmodic  affection  and  pal- 
pitation of  the  heart,  he  had  been  occa- 
sionally observed  in  a  diisponding  state. 
He  had  ordered  his  carriage  at  half-paiC 
eight,  hot  the  pleasure  he  experienced  ia 
the  company  induced  him  to  stay  tilt 
eleven.  On  his  way  home,  he  was  seised 
with  one  of  those  violent  fits  of  palpita- 
tion which  he  had  of  late  frequently  ex- 
perienced; and  on  reaching  home,  as- 
cended the  stairs  with  a  hurried  step» 
and  threw  himself  on  a  sofa,  ^very  as-i 
sistance  was  immediately  afforded,  but 
in  less  than  an  hour  he  expired,  without 
consciousness  and  without  a  pang. 

His  remains  were  interred  in  the  family 
vault  at  the  Church  of  St.  Clement  Danes, 
but  it  has  been  announced  that  a  monu- 
ment will  be  erected  to  his  memory  in  the^ 
new  church  of  SL  Psncras,  hi  which  pa- 
rish he  had  long  resided. 

This  amiable  and  useful  man  possessed 
the  estimable  virtue  of  never  speaking  ill 
of  any  one :  on  the  contrary,  he  was  a 
great  lover  of  conciliation^  a$i<^  V^  ibaw)  . 
be  proved  a  nalXxisXA^  %.dV\%tx  ^w^  ^t\». 
friend.   In  mva\k«x%  \i^  '•^^  ^v^!fe\^  %^^  ^V 


472 


OBiTifARY.— Mr.  Flaxman.'^Mri,  PowleU. 


[May, 


parently  lifni<i.  At  we  have  laid,  how- 
erer,-  he  had  three  grand  hobbies. — cook- 
ery, music,  and  optics,  and  whenever  he 
entered  upon  either  of  them  he  was  full, 
clieerfal,  and  even  eloquent. 

JoBM  Flaxman,  Esq.  P.S.R.A. 

At  the  time  of  printing  our  memoir  of 
the  late  Professor  of  Sculpture,  in  p.  873, 
-we  had  uot  met  with  the  following  elo- 
quent eulogy  on  him,  pronounced  by  Sir 
Thomas  Lawrence  at  the  Royal  Academy 
on  the  day  of  hi»  death  : 

<*Mr.  Flaxman*s  genius,  in  the  strict- 
est  sense  of  the  words,  was  original  and 
inventive.  His  parity  of  taste  led  him,  in 
early  life,  to  the  sindy  of  the  noblest  re- 
lics of  antiquity  ;  and  a  mind*  though  not 
of  ctatsical  educatiou,  of  clauic  bias, 
urged  him  to  the  perusal  of  the  best  trans- 
latibnt  of  the  Greek  philosophers  and 
poets,  till  it  became  deeply  imbued  with 
those  simple  and  grand  sentiments  which 
distinguish  the  productions  of  that  favour- 
ed people.  When  immersed  in  these  ming- 
ling studies,  A  fortunate  circumstance — 
the  patronage  of-  a  lady  of  high  rank 
[Countess  Spencer],  whose  uste  will  ever 
be  remembered  with  her  known  goodness 
•-^ave  birth  to  those  unequalled  compo- 
•itions  from  Homer  and  the  Greek  trage- 
dians, which  have  to  long  been  the  admi- 
ration of  Europe.  These,  indeed,  from 
their  accuracy  in  costume,  and  the  singu- 
lar felicity  of  the  union  between  iheir  cha- 
racters and  subjects,  may  have  naturally 
conveyed,  to  minds  unaccustomed  to  nice 
discriminatioo,tbe  idea  of  too  close  an  imita- 
Cation  of  Grecian  art.  Undoubtedly  thee/e- 
menis  of  his  style  were  founded  on  it ;  bot 
only  on  its  noblest  principles,  on  its  deeper 
intellectual  power,  and  uot  on  the  mere 
surface  of  its  style.  Though  master  of  its 
purest  lines,  he  was  rather  the  sculptor  of 

'  sentiment,  than  of  form ;  and  whilst  the 
philosopher,  the  statesman,  and  the  hero, 
were  treated  by  him  with  appropriate  dig- 

'  nity)  not  even  in  Raffaele  have  the  gentler 
feelings  and  sorrows  of  human  nature  been 
traced  with  more  touching  pathos,  than  in 
the  various  designs  and  models  of  this  es- 


timable man.  The  ret^t  of  Europe  know 
only  the  productions  of  the  earlier  period 
of  his  fame,  but  these,  which  form  the 
highest  efforts  of  his  geniuf,  had  their  ori- 
gin in  nature  only,  and  the  sensibility  and 
Virtues  of  his  mind.  Like  the  greatest  mo- 
dern painters,  he  delighted  to  trace,  from 
the  actions  of  familiar  li/e,  the  lines  of  sen- 
timent aud  passion ;  and  from  the  popu- 
lous haunts  and  momentary  peacefulness 
of  poverty  and  want,  to  form  those  un- 
equalled groups  of  maternal  tenderness, 
of  listening  infancy,  and  filial  love! 

'**  The  sources  and  habits  of  composition 
in  Michael  Angelo  and  Plavman  were  the 
lame ;  and,  sanctified  as  the  memory  of 
the  former  is  by  time  and  glory,  it  receives 
no  slight  addition  from  the  homage  of  this 
modest  but  great  man,-  whose  shield  or 
ACHILLES,  that  matchless  onion  of  beauty, 
energy,  and  grandeur,  his  genius  only 
could  surpass." 

To  our  list  of  monuments  by  Flasman 
in  Chichester  Cathedral,  may  be  added  the 
names  of  Mr.  Pranklaod,  Mr.  Udney,  and 
Mr.  Quaotock. 

Mas.    POWLETT. 

May  1.  At  Great  Dunmow,  Essex,  in 
her  55th  year,  Anne,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
Charles  PowleU. 

She  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  the  late 
learned  Rev.  Wm.  Johnson  Temple,  Vi- 
car of  St.  Qluvias  in  Cornwall.  That  gen- 
tleman was  previously  Rector  of  Mam- 
bead  in  Devonshire  (to  which  be  was  pre- 
sented by  his  relation  the  first  Earl  of 
Lisburne,  whose  seat  was  in  the  parish  *), 
and  there  Mrs.  Powlett  was  born.  Her 
mother  was  of  the  highly  respectable 
house  of  Stowe  in  Northumberland,  and 
nearly  connected  with  the  family  of  Sir 
Francis  Blake.  Being  employed  by  her 
father  as  his  amanuensis  in  writing  several 
of  his  publications,  Mrs.  Powlett  had  ac- 
quired a  more  than  usual  fund  of  know- 
ledge ;  and  she  had  imbibed  from  her  pa- 
rents a  deep  but  unaffected  sense  of  reli- 
gion. She  was  the  mother  often  children, 
four  of  whom,  with  her  partner  during 
more  than  thirty  "years,  survive  to  la- 
ment her  loss. 


*  Mr.  Temple  was  recommended  by  Lord  Lisbourue  to  the  Hon.  Dr.  Keppell,  Bi- 
shop of  Exeter,  who  appointed  him  his  Chaplain,  and  presented  him  to  the  Vicarage  uf 
8i.  Oluvias.  Had  not  the  Bishop  soon  after  prematurely  died,  it  was  expected  that  he 
would  have  given  Mr.  Temple  the  living  of  Milor  adjoining  to  St.  Qluvias,  and  have 
appointed  him  Archdeacon  of  Cornwall.  Mr.  Temple's  **  Essay  on  the  Clergy  "  was 
universally  admired,  and  was  particularly  noticed  by  that  pious  prelate,  Bishop  Home. 
His  other  pamphlets  were  also  well  received  ;  but  he  is  best  known  by  his  character  of 
Gray,  adopted  both  by  Mason  and  Johnson.  Mr.  Temple  left  unfinished  a  work  on 
**  The  Rise  and  DecUue  of  Modern  Rome."  He  died  in  l196.  These  particulars  are 
chiefly  additional  to  those  which  may  be  found  in  vol.  lxvi.  791,  963,  and  Nichols's 
"Literary  Anecdeles,"  vol.  in.  pp.  190,  756. 


18W.] 


Ckrgy  Deceased. 


47S 


CUERGY  DECEASED. 

At  bii  mideaee  in  Fblaoe  Yaidv  Gioucef 
ter,  iMd  84,  the  R«t.  Martin  Barry,  Per- 
petoaJ  Cunte  of  St.  NicboUt  io  thmt  citj, 
«Bd  Vicar  of  Dowb  Hatherley,  in  the  mom 
•eooDty-  He  was  of  Jeaut  Coll.  Camb.  M  A. 
1782 ;  waf  presented  to  bb  cborcb  (that  of 
tbe  largest  parisk  in  Gloucester)  br  tbe 
Corporation  in  1776,  and  to  Down  Hatherlej 
by  tne  King.  He  was  venerated  for  the  con- 
scientious and  unostentatioas  discharge  of 
his  various  duties. 

At  Newenty  Glouc.  af^r  a  painful  illnessy 
the  Rev.  ff^m,  BetUe,  for  39  years  Curate  of 
that  parish,  and  Vicar  of  Dymock,  to  which 
he  had  been  presented  within  these  few 
years. 

Aged  74,  the  Rev.  Charles  CoUhurtt, 
Rector  of  Desertmartin,  co  Londondernr. 
He  was  of  Corpus  Christi  ColL  Camb.  B.  A. 
1774,  and  was  Cbapbin  to  the  ku  Earl  of 
Bristol,  Bp.  of  Derry. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Haie,  Rector  of  Orobea- 
ton  St.  Mary,  Wilts,  and  Perpetual  Curate  of 
King's  Waiden,  Herts.  He  was  formerly 
Fellow  of  Clare  Hall,  Camb.  where  he  pro- 
ceeded B.A.  1779,  M.A.  1783,  and  by  which 
society  he  was  presented  to  OrchMton  in 
1796*.  To  King\  Waiden  he  waa  instituted 
at  the  presentation  of  his  cousin  P^gen 
Hale,  esq. 

Advanced  iu  ace,  the  Rev.  James  Hartley ^ 
Rector  of  Staveley  near  Knareaborougb,  to 
which  he  was  presented  in  1776  by  the  Rev. 
G.  Astley, 

At  Lkndinabo,  Heref.  aged  88,  the  Rer. 
t/.  Hoskins,  nearly  sixty  years  Rector  of  that 
parish,  to  which  he  was  presented  by  hia 
tether,  the  Rev.  Charles  Hoakins,  in  1768, 
and  Lecturer  of  Uxbridge. 

Tbe  Rev.  Joseph  Ogden,  Minister  of 
Sowerby,  in  the  parish  of  Halifax.  He  was 
of  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1786,  M.A.  1788» 
and  waa  presented  to  his  church  in  1796  by 
the  Vicar  of  Halifax. 

The  Rev.  ff^m.  Salmon,  Vicar  of  Tudely 
cum  Capell,  Kent.  He  waa  of  W.adham 
Coll.  Oxf.  M.A.  1791,  and  was  presented 
to  his  living  in  1818  by  Lord  le  Despenser. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Trevor  Trevor,  Preben- 
dary of  Chester,  Rector  of  West  Kirby,  and 
Vicar  of  Enstham,  both  in  Cheshire.  He 
was  of  Christ  Church,  Oxf.  B.  and  D.C.L. 
1816,  obuioed  a  Prebend  in  Chester  Cathe- 
dral in  1796,  and  was  presented  to  both  hia 
Ijvmgs  by  that  Dean  and  Chapter,  to  East- 
ham  in  1 797,  and  West  Kirby  in  1808. 

March  S.  At  the  seat  of  Lord  Staffordy 
Costeasy,  Norfolk,  aged  88,  the  Rev.  Law- 
rence StrongUharm,  laU  pastor  of  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  Chapel,  St.  John's  Madder- 
market,  Norwich. 

March  13.  At  the  White  Houses,  near 
East  Retford,  aged  83,  the  Rev.  Joshua 
Flint,  Vicar  of  Ckreborough,  NotU.  to 

GncT.  Mao.  May,  1837. 


which  choreK  be  waa  presented  t»  1800  by 
the  Ute  Duke  of  Devonshire. 

March  14.  Aged  73,  the  Rev.  Riehemi 
Johnson,  Rector  of  the  united  parishes  W 
St.  Antbolin  and  St.  John  Baptist,  in  Lob* 
don,  and  Incumbent  of  Ingham,  in  Norfolk* 
He  waa  of  Magd.  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1784 1 
waa  presented  to  his  London  parishes  in 
1810  by  the  King,  and  was  instituted  to 
Ingham,  held  by  scquestoation,  in  1817* 
The  presentation  to  St.  Antholin's  being 
alternate,  the  present  turn  belongs  to  thm 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  St.  Paul's. 

March  16  In  Prince's-st.  Hanover-a^ 
aged  70,  tbe  Rev.  Jlex.  ThisUelhwaytt, 
Rector  of  West  Tytherley  and  BromrbtoBt 
Wilts.  He  was  son  of  the  Rev.  Kobtrk 
Thistlethwayte,  D.D.  of  Norman  Court* 
Wilts,  and  grandson  of  another  individual  of 
the  name  name,  who  was  also  D.p.  and  both 
of  Wadbam  ColL  Oxford.  The  deceaaed 
was  a  student  of  Queen's,  in  the  same  Uni- 
versity, BX).  L.  1780.  He  was  preaentai 
to  both  his  churches  in  1781  by  hia  father. 

March  1 7.  Advanced  in  age,  the  Rer. 
Uoger  WHson,  Vicar  of  Brodsworth,  near 
Doncaster.  He  was  of  Eman.  ColL  Camb» 
B.A.  1786,  M.A.  1789,  and  naa  presented 
to  his  church  in  1808,  by  the  Dean  and 
Chapter  of  York. 

March  88.  At  his  house  in  OkstlegaUt 
York,  in  his  80th  year,  the  Rev.  fVattan 
Dennison,  Vicar  of  Feliskirk,  in  the  N. 
Ridinff  of  Yorkshire,  and  formerly  of  Trim* 
don  Hall,  Durham.  He  was  presented  to 
Feliskirk  in  1776,  by  the  Archbishop  U- 
York. 

March  36.  At  Wottoo  -  under  -  Edge^ 
Gloucester,  the  Rev.  John  Taylor,  Rector  oC 
Newington  Bagpath,  to  which  he  waa  pff 
sented  in  1 81 1 ,  by  David  Taylor,  eao. 

March  37.  Advanced  in  years,  toe  R«r« 
Thos.  Bromley,  late  Rector  of  Bbhopatoat 
St.  Mary,  Vfilu.  and  Bighton,  Hants.  H0 
was  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  I771> 
M.A.  1774,  and  was  for  many  years  one  oC 
the  masters  of  Harrow  School.  He  waa 
presented  to  Bishopstone  in  1810,  by  thm 
Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Montgomery,  and  to 
Bighton  in  1814  by  J.  and  E.  Evre,  escja. 
Mr.  Bromley  was  universally  beloved  and 
ecteemed  aa  a  gentleman  and  a  scholar. 

March  SO.  Aged  66,  the  Rev.  John 
James  Jonef,  late  of  Caer-Cady  House,  and 
Rector  of  Gellygare,  Glam.  to  which  ho 
was  presented  in  1794,  by  the  late  Maiqoia* 
(then  Earl)  of  Bute. 

March  81.  At  Wortham,  Suffolk,  acad 
76,  the  Rev.  Janus  Merait,  nearly  mf 
vears  Curate  of  that  parish,  and  Vicar  oi 
Wroughton,  Wilta,  to  which  he  was  pro- 
sented  by  the  Rector,  the  Ute  Rev.  Edau 
Ferrers. 

Ajiril  4.  At  Walthamstow,  the  Rer. 
Henry  Foster  Barham,  lata  Fellow  of  Queen'a 
Coll.  Camb.  where  he  proceeded  B.A.  191 7» 
M^.  1830. 


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Clergy  Deceased. 


[May. 


.  4ipril  5.  Aged  7»,  th«  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooke,  for  newly  filtr  yews  View  of  Ten- 
bury,  Wora.  and  lUctor  of  SUvingtoo, 
Salop.  He  wu  presented  to  both  tiiose 
livings  in  1785  by  Mrs.  HLU. 

jipfU  11.  At  East-Bomet  Rectory,  aged 
45,  the  Rev.  DaM  tVm,  Garrow,  DJ). 
Rector  of  that  place.  He  was  of  Christ- 
church  Coll.  O&L  M.A.  1807,  BD.  1814, 
P.D.  18 . .  ;  and  was  presented  to  his  Rec- 
tory in  1815  by  the  King. 

April  13.  At  Sulgrave  vicarage,  Nor- 
thamptonsh.  eged  64,  the  Rev.  H^m,  Hardr 
iagy  inotunbent  of  that  parish.  He  was  of 
Wadham  Coli.  Qzf. ;  and  was  formerly 
Vicar  of  Freeston  cum  Buttervorth  in  Lin- 
edbshire;  which  having  resigned,  he  was 
instituted  to  Sulgrave  on  his  own  petition  in 
1805. 

April  IS.  Aged  66,  the  Rev,  ffm. 
Moiiifi  of  Bathampton  House,  Somersetsh. 
Rector  of  Little  Langford,  Wilu.  He  was 
of  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  BJl.  1788,  M.A. 
1287,  and  was  presented  to  Little  Langford 
in  1798,  by  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  and 
Montgomery. 

A^U  18.  At  Much  Hadham,  HerU,  aged 
90,  the  Rev.  Francis  Stanley,  for  63  years 
Vicar  of  North  Weald,  Essex,  and  Ute  for 
more  than  forty  years  Rector  of  Eastwick, 
Herts.  He  was  descended  firum  the  Very 
Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  Stanley,  Dean  of  St.  Asaph, 
Master  of  Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Camb.  and 
Rector  of  Muon  Hadham,  who  died  in  1731, 
having  left  by  his  wife  Mary,  dau.  of  Lord 
Chief  Justice  Pemberton,  a  sou  Francis, 
who  succeeded  him  in  his  Rectory  of  Had- 
ham.' The  gentleman  now  deceased  was 
preiented  to  North  Weald  in  1764,  by  Wm. 
rlumer,  esq.  of  Gilston,  and  to  Eastwick  in 
1 78 1 ,  by  the  son  of  the  same  patron.  The 
Utter  he  resigned  about  three  years  before 
his  death.  He  was  very  regular  and  strict 
In  his  habits,  dividing  his  time  between  hia 
rectory -house  at  Eastwick  and  his  fiunily  re- 
sidence at  Hadham. 

May  5.  Aged  74,  the  Rev.  Richard 
fFaUis,  Vicar  of  Seaham,  and  Perpetual 
Curate  of  South  Shieldaand  of  Blanchland, 
in  the  Diocese  of  Darham.  To  the  first 
Qbar(^  he  was  pi^aented  in  1783  by  Mrs. 
Robinson,  to  South  Shields  by  the  Dean- 
mud  Chapter  of  Durham,  and  to  Blanch- 
land  in  1 804  by  Bishop  Crewe's  trustees. 
The  last  had  been  the  subject  of  a  poem 
which  Mr.  Wallis  published  in  1802,  entitl- 
ed **  The  Happy  Village."  (see  vol.  lxxii. 
536.)  Mr.  Wallia  lost  his  only  son,  the 
Rev.  John  Robinson  Wallis,  just  a  year  pre- 
tjottffy  to  his  own  decease.  May  4,  1826 
(see  vol.  xc¥i.  ii  382)  ;  he  has  \th  daugh* 
^irs,.  the  youngest  of  whom  is  recently 
married  to  Thos.  Surtees  Raioe,  esq.  of 
Croft  in  Yorkshire.. 

Mcry  15.  At  Penegoes  Rectory,  Mont- 
gom.  aged  62,  the  Rev.  Hugh  Thimbu,  Rec- 
tor of  that  parish.     He  was  of  Jesus  Colk 


Oxf.  M.A.  1 79 1 .  He  ^ed  the  Chaplaincy 
of  the  Raroallles,  Capt.  Montague  Harvey, 
4t  the  Ciipe  of  Lord  Howe's  signal  irielory 
over  th9  French  fleet,  June  L,  1794»  and 
afterwards  sailed  with  die  forces  under  Gan. 
Vangban,  to  the  Windward  Islands,  and  was 
Itppoioted  Chaplain  to  a  West  India  i«g>- 
ment  and  to  the  Garrison  of  St.  Pierre, 
Martinique.  He  ofliciated  there  during  the 
command  of  Sir  Wm.  Keppel,  who  present^ 
ed  him  to  a  benefice  in  Antigua.  Upon  his 
return  to  England,  the  kindness  of  Sir 
William  procured  for  him,  during  the  var 
oancy  of  the  see  of  St.  Asaph,  occasioned  by 
the  death  of  Dr.  Horsley  in  1806,  the  Rec^ 
tory  of  Llysfsen  in  Denbighshire,  which  he 
resigned  in  1809,  on  heiqg  presented  by 
the  succeeding  Bishop,  Dr.  Cleaver,  to  the 
Rectory  of  Penegoes,  where  his  memory 
will  be  long  cherished. 


DEATHS. 

London  and  its  Vicinity. 

March  19.  At  the  Hon.  Thos.  Wind- 
sor's, Gore-House,  aged  75,  Jane,  relict 
of  the  Hon.  and  Rev,  Wm.  Bromley  Cede* 

Sn,  Vicar  of  Chelsea,  and  brother  of  Earl 
dogan.  She  was  a  widow  lady,  named 
Bradsbaw,  before  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Ck- 
do&an  in  1782  ;  Mr.  C.  died  in  1797.  See 
a  short  memoir  of  him  in  vol  lxtii.  1 67. 

March  23.  In  Sloane> street,  aged  7S, 
Elisabeth  dowager  Lady  Blake.  She  vm 
the  only  dau.  of  Alex.  Douglas,  esq.  of  the 
British  settlement  at  Bussorah,  in  Persia, 
and  widow  of  Sir  Francis  Bl^,  the  lata 
and  jseoond  Baronet  of  Twisel  Castle,  in 
Northumberland.  By  that  gentleman,  who 
died  in  1818,  she  was  mother  to  Sir  Franciay 
Ihe  present  Baronet,  and  M.P.  fyr  Berwick ; 
to  LL-Gen.  Robert  Dudley  Blake,  one  other 
son,  and  four  daughters  the  youngnst,  of 
whom  was  married  in  1805  to  Betheli 
Eamshaw  Stag,  of  Holmforth  in  York* 
shire,  esq.  Only  ten  days  after  this  lady's 
death,  AprU  8,  her  daughter-in-law,  the 
wife  of  the  present  Baronet,  died  in  Sloane- 
street.  Their  remains  were  conveyed  toge« 
ther  to  be  interred  in  the  fiunily  vault  in 
Northumberland. 

April  3.  At  Windsor,  aged  1 8,  Richard, 
second  son  of  late  Edw.  Bullook,  esq.  of 
Upper  Bedford*stroet,  and  formerly  of  Ja« 
naioa. 

AprU  10.  Mr.  J.  S.  Hughes,  printer. 
Paternoster-row,  son  of  the  Rev.  J.  Hoghea, 
Battersea,  Surrey. 

AprU  15.  Aged  70,  Charles  Hundley, 
esq.  of  Clayton-place,  Ne«^ngton. 

AprU  1 6.  At  Garlick-hill,  aged  72,  Mrs« 
S.  Downes. 

AprU  18.  In  consequence  of  falling 
accidentally  firom  Lord  Harborough's  yacht, 
lyiog  off  Deptford  Creek,  aged  37,  Henr^iL 


Bray,  esq.  of  firyanston'St. 


iwr.] 


ObituarvV 


476 


4ifHl  18.     In  Sobo^oHTVy    aged  96^     diu.  qf  Wm.  HonM^  etq.  one  ofhh  Nf»« 
W.  Y«niold>  esq.  Jestv's  Counsel 

April  18.     At  Keniiagtoorgore^  Ainie^         May9>    In  Brompton-tq.  aged  64,  the 


infn  of  Edmund  Mason,  esq. 

April  19.  In  Pnrk-st.  aged  81,  Edward 
Baber,  esq. 

April  90.  In  Goawell-st.  road,  aged  67, 
Wm.  Thombur^h  Brown,  esq^late  of  Chc»p<^ 
aide. 

April  80.  Aged  40,  Wm.  Norris,  etq. 
of  John-st.  Bedn>rd-row. 

AprHiO.    Aged  65,  Edmund  Antrobus, 
esq.  of  No.  480,  Strand,  and  King's  P^« 
udbi  Chelsen. 
.  April  fil.     In  Great  Coram-st.  William 


re]iot  of  John  Mills,  esq. 

May  9.  In  Hertfbrd-str.  Georgimna,  fan- 
fant  dau.  of  Col.  nnd  Ladj  Susan  Ljgon. 

May  9.  In  Gower-st.  Sarah,  eldest  dau. 
•f  late  Wm.  Walton,  esq.  of  Girdlers'  Hall. 

May  10.  At  Barnsbury  Pari,  Islingtony- 
•fled  44,  Ann,  wife  of  Her,  Dan.  Wilson, 
Vicar  of  that  parish. 

May  18.  In  Somerset^st.  aged  84,  the. 
relict  of  Harlinge  Stracey,  esq.  of  Donne* 
hill,  Kent. 

May  13.    At  Stoke  Newington,  Snrah, 


Smith,  esq.  Deputy  Receirer-gen.  of  the     relict  of  Her.  Rob.  Welton,  late  Vicar  of 


Excise. 

.  April  81,      In  Charlotte-st.  Fitarojr-sq. 
Wm.  Saunders,  esq.  solicitor. 
.  April   fil.      Aged   87,    Jas.    Hamilton, 
M.D.  of  Artillery-pl. 

April  29.  Cath.  Eling,  eldest  dau.  of  the 
late  Rev.  John  Vemi,  R^^r  of  Cinpbam. 

April  98.  In  Edw.-tfe.  Portman-aq.  Ame- 
lia Fianoei,  dan.  of  Fttar  Moore,  esq.  95 
years  M.P.  for  Coventry. 

April  99.  In  Gilta^-st.  a^ed  79,  John 
Stracey,  esq.  formerly  of  Smithneld  Bar*. 

April  99.     Of  apoplexy,  aged  96,  Chas. 


Sandridge,  near  St.  Alban's. 

May  14.  Aged  81,  Eleanoiv  wife  of 
John  Lane,  esq.  of  Petkham.  She  was 
polished  in  her  manners,  and  blessed  with' 
great  strength  and  energy  of  mind.  ' 

May  14.  In  Grafton-st.  East,  aged  77| 
Benj.  Hardy,  esq. 

May  14.  Julia,  second  dan.  of  John 
Leach,  esq.  of  George-etreet',  Euston-* 
square. 

May\6.  In  Old-street  road,  aged  66  f 
Thos.  Taylor,  esq. 

May  16.     Aged  81,   Wm.  Keene',  esq. 


Anth.  Brown,  esq.  eUest  son  of  the  Right     of  Vale-place,  Hammersmith. 


Hon.  the  Lord  Mayor. 

April  94.  At  Hammersmith,  aged  88, 
Mary,  wife  of  J.  Cranden,  esq.  surveyor,  of 
Hereford- St. 

April  97.  In  Park-place,  Regent's  Park, 
Hans,  second  son  of  Wm.  Sotheby,  etq.  of 
Sewardstone,  Essex* 

April  iS,  Aged  61,  Jane,  wifis  of  Jaik 
Xionsdale,  esq.  of  Bemers-st. 

April  99.  At  Manor«^laee,  €helsea> 
aged  77,  Robert  Marris,  esq. 

April  29.  At  Walworth)  aged  70,  Mary, 
selict  of  Mr.  John  Browne,  senior  Associate 
Engraver,  R.A. 

May  1. 


May  17.    At  Blackheath,  aged  15,  Ca- 
roline, youngest  dan.  of  Capt.  Alex.  Greig. 


Berks. — March  1 1.  At  Windsor,  Itahcllay 
widow  of  Sir  Pavid  Dundas,  hart.  Sit 
David  died  Jan.  10,  last  year,  and  we 
gave  a  short  memoir  of  him  in  vol.  xcvb 
1.  177. 

April  SO.  At  Reading,  aged  67,  Dr* 
Salmon. 

Bucks. — April  98;  At  Buckingham* 
aged  77,  Thos.  Heme,  esq.  solicitor. 


Cheshire. -^  Afa^   18.      At  Edge-hill^ 
At  Lambeth,   aged  97,  Han-     aged  79,  Thos,  Crewe  Dod,  esq.  a  true  old 
aah,  wife  of  G.  W.  Dyson,  esq.  of  the  House     English  patriot,  and  representative  of  one  of 
of  Commons.  the  most  ancient  and  respectable  £unilies  i& 

May  9.    In  Bedford-sq.  aged  90,  Eleanor,     Cheshire.     He  married  Anne,  fourth  dad. 
only  dau.  of  John  Bell,  one  ef  his  Mijetty't     of  Ralph  Sneyd,  of  Keel,  in  Staffordshire^ 


Conaeel. 

May  3.  In  Great  G^rge-st.  aged  19, 
Geor^ana,  fourth  dan.  of  John  Fane,  esq. 
MP. 

May  8.  Aged  67,  Anae^  wife  of  Tbot. 
Barnard,  etq*  of  Sloane-st. 

May  4.  At  Clapton,  Henrietta  Bridget, 
wife  <^  John  Bradock,  esq. 

Mtty  4.  In  Jermyn-st.  Philip  Dennbs, 
esq.  late  Capt.  41st  Foot. 


esq.  by  whom  he  had  a  son  and  five  daos. 

CoRKWALL. — April  1 6.  Aged  eight  yean, 
Caroline  Mary,  eldest  dau.  ofWUliam  lUifa>- 
leigh,  esq  of  Menabilly. 

CuMBKRLANa — Mou  7.  lu  Caldewgattf, 
Carlisle,  Mr.  Joseph  Thompton,  aced  100.   . 

Lately,  At  Bossenthwalte,  in  ner  80th 
year,  ^fre.  Jane  Hiompton.  It  is  worthy 
of  remark,  that  this  is  the  first  death  that 
had  occurred  in  that  parish,  consisting  of 


May  6.     At  his  son's,   on  Camberwetl-     650  inhabitants,  for  14  months. 


^^en,  aged  89,  Fred.  Thos.'  Walsh,  Esq. 
late  Comptroller  of  the  Customs  in  the  Port 
of  London. 

May  7.  Aged  64,  Robert  Steven,  eeq. 
••f  Upper  Thames'St. 

May  7.    Aged  99,  Ffaacet  Marisi  eMatt 


Devon. — Aprils.  At  Sidmouth,  affed- 
17,  Wm.  Matthews,  son  of  William  Fiar* 
ington,  esq.  of  Shaw  Hall>  XAncashire. 

Lately,  At  Torquayt  Miss  Womll,  dau. 
of  Samuel  Worrall,  es<\.  focto«iV^  cJlCX'ferttk* 


476 


Obitvakt. 


Aagkiita  £mUj  Flower,  dtu.  of  Vise.  Asb« 
^rook. 

DoM^T^^j^ril  IS,  MiM  Bnrer,  eldest 
sister  of  Rev  Edmond  Brjer,  of  Dorchester. 

Lately.  At  Poole,  Eltzebeth  Oood- 
win,  aged  103 ;  she  retained  her  faculties 
iiotil  within  a  few  dajs  of  her  death,  and 
could  see  to  read  without  glasses  till  within 
the  last  two  years. 

jiprU  99.  At  Lyme  Regis,  aged  S7> 
l^ary,  wife  of  Rev.  Michael  mbbs. 

jijtril  SO.  At  his  seat,  Heffleton,  Dr. 
Biun,  MD. 

May  1 9.  At  Weymouth,  aged  90,  Rich. 
Prior,  esq.  late  of  Clapham,  Surrey. 

Durham. — JIfay  19.  At  Durham,  Peter 
Bowlby  Marsden,  esq.  senior  Proctor  oi  the 
piooese. 

Es9Rx,--JprU  19.  At  Waltham  Abbey» 
aged  68,  Theodosia,  widow  of  the  Rev.  Wm. 
Jones,  late  of  Broxboum,  Herts. 

May  IS,  Aged  77,  Jane,  relict  of  John 
Halfhide,  esq.  of  Waltham  Abbey. 

Oloucbstershirx* — ^prills.  Aged 43, 
Mr.  John  Emdin,  of  Bristol.  He  was, 
perhi^,  the  most  successful  amateur  com- 
poser of  the  day,  and  the  author  of  a  long 
catalogue  of  elegant  and  attractive  ballads. 

^pril  90.  At  Glifbon,  Anna  Maria,  widow 
of  Charles  Clement  Adderley,  esq.  of  Hams 
Hall,  Warw.  and  eld.  dau.  of  £dm.  Cradock 
Hartopp,  hart,  by  Anne,  only  child  of  Joseph 
Hurloclc,  esq. 

Ayril  99.  At  Berkeley,  aged  93,  James 
Lftughame,  esq.  of  Gray's  Inn,  a  student  of 
liucoln's  Inn. 

jlpril  98.  At  Cheltenham,  in  his  69th 
Tear,  Fnincis  Twiss,  esq.  fitther  of  Horace 
Twiss,  esq.  M.P.  for  Wootton-Bassett.  He 
was  a  gentleman  possessed  of  great  talents, 
with  a  pleasing  urbanity  of  manners.  He 
was  contemporary  at  Cambridge  with  Mr. 
Pitt,  with  whom  he  studied  at  Pembroke 
College  under  Dr.  Tomline,  now  Bishop  of 
Winchester. 

May  18.  At  Clieltenham,  aged  50, 
Joseph  Marsden,  esq.  many  years  Inspector 
of  Kmg's  Taxes. 

Hants. — j^pril  95.  At  Lymington,  Elix. 
Srife  of  John  Richman,  esq. 

Lately,  Aged  89,  Ann,  widow  of  Henry 
Adams,  esq.  of  Bucklershard. 

At  North  Wootton,  near  Sherborne,  104^ 
Mr.  Trowbridge. 

May  9.  At  Southampton,  Eliza  Louisa^ 
daughter  of  Colonel  Grove. 

May  1 4.  At  Winchester^  the  rsliot  of  Rev. 
T.  Scott,  Rector  of  King's  Stanley,  Glouc. 

Herts.— 4prtZ  93.  At  Totteri^ge  Park, 
aged  85,  Edw.  Arrowsmith,  esq. 

Mtm  10.  At  Great  Berkbamstead,  aged 
78,  Mr.  Robert  Jenks,  late  of  Fleet-4treet, 
Loadon. 

May  4.  At  his  house  on  Btishey-heath, 
'  t^ed  6S,  Colonel  Mark  Beaufoy,  F.R.S. 

JUay  6,    At  Wormley  liodge,  Haanih, 


widow  of  JaoMt  Han^  esq.  M.P.  and  abler 
to  Sir  Abraham  Hume,  ban.  She  waa  the 
only  dau.  of  the  late  Sir  Abraham,  the  fbst 
and  late  Baronet,  by  Hannah,  youngest  dais, 
of  Sir  Thos.  Frederick,  kut.  Mr.  Hare  died 
in  1 804,  leaving  one  daughter,  Susanna. 

A/oy  8.  At  Rick  mans  worth,  aged  98, 
John,  fourth  son  of  the  late  Aid.  Magnay. 

May  11.  At  Pollen's-spit,  Rickmans* 
worth,  Hen.  Timberlake,  esq. 

Hunts. — Aprils.  At  Huntingdon, '^aged 
99,  Eliz.-Sarah,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
Lieut.-Colonel  Farquhiur. 

Kkkt. — ^^1^  18.  At  Bromley,  aged  77» 
Mr.  Daniel  Taylor,  fonnerly  of  High-street, 
Southwark. 

jlpril  99.  At  Kevington,  aged  78,  Eliz. 
relict  of  Joseph  Berens,  esq.,  who  died 
Dec.  19,  1895. 

May  4.  At  Deal,  aged  49^  Mary  Ann, 
wife  of  Edward  Spencer  Curling,  esq. 

May  8.  At  Sundridge,  aged  24,  Hemy 
Dyson,  esq. 

Leickstrrshirb. — jfprU  90.  Ana,  aged 
85,  widow  of  Mr.  Hall,  Leicester. 

May  14.  At  Appleby,  aged  31,  AMoe, 
Wife  of  Mr.  John  Mavon,  surgeon,  ind  only 
dau.  of  Mr.  John  Webster,  of  Wiloecots, 
Warwickshire. 

Lancashire. — April  99.  At  Liverpool, 
aged  75,  Cath.  widow  ef  Dr.  Brandicth. 

Lately.  In  Lancaster  Castle,  aged  80, 
W.  Green,  who  had  been  con£ned  for  a  debt 
of  1,100/.  about  eleven  years,  and  is  said  to 
have  bequeathed  property  to  the  amount 
of  40,000^ 

May  16.  Aged  43,  Anne,  wife  of  Robert 
Peel,  esq.  of  Hyndburn,  near  Blackburn. 

Middlesex.— ^pri/ 14.  At  WilIingdoa» 
i^d  80,  William  Perry,  esq.  M.D. 

May  1.  At  Enfield,  aged  85»  Thomas» 
son  of  Thomas  Martin^  esq« 

May  4.  Susanna,  wife  of  Thos.  Aston,  asq. 
of  Ealing,  in  her  71st  year. 

No  KTOhiL^^jfyrU  9.  At  Runham  House, 
Mary  Eaton,  wife  of  Cha.  Symonds,  esq.  and 
only  dau.  of  late  Eli  Morcan  Price,  DJ). 

jiprilil,  Aged7S,  W.  Withers,  esq. 
solicitor,  of  Holt.  . 

Lalelyy  in  her  80th  T^*^'  ^^  widow  of 
Shelford  Bidwell,  esq.  of  Thetlbrd. 

NoATHAMPTOIfSHlRR.  —  ^4"^'    I^*        ^^ 

Peterborough,  and  83,  John  Benson,  esq. 
one  of  the  prinapal  committee  clerks  t>f  the 
House  of  Commons,  and  its  oldest  officer. 

April  14*  Aged  96^  Ann,  wife  of  Mr* 
John  Ekins  Palmer  Chambers,  ofNorthamp. 

Lately.  ArWicken,  in  her  90th  year, 
Emily  Eliz.  youngest  dau.  of  Lord  Charles 
Jitz  Roy. 

May  7*  At  Northampton,  aged  79,  Al- 
derman Osbome,-fether  of  the  Corporation. 

May  19.  Aged  73,  Rev.  John  Horsey^ 
5S  years  Pastor  of  the  congregation  at 
Northampton,  which  was  formerly  under  tlw 
tnt  of  Dr.  Doddridge. 


1W.1 


Obituait. 


47T 


NoiiTfiUiffBiiiLA]fD.F^Miy  H.  InMtSOth 
y«v,  Thos.  SlMdforth,  cmi.  of  lUd  Bmm, 
tht  tenior  elder  brother  of  toe  Trmtty  Houae 
of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

Matf  16.  At  his  MsiHence,  in  Newcatlle- 
npon-Tyoe,  Ralph  Atkinson,  esq.  the  last 
male  descendant  of  an  ancient  &inilj  in 
Northumberland,  and  cousin  to  the  Earl  c£ 
Eldon  and  Lord  Stoirell.  Mr.  A.  was  pos- 
sessed of  great  wealth,  and  notwithstanding 
an  apparent  austerity  in  his  manner,  was  dis- 
tinguished by  a  kind  and  feelmg  heart.  To 
the  several  charitable  institutions  in  his 
neighbourhood  he  was  a  most  liberal  bene* 
fiictor,  whilst  his  private  charities  were  still 
more  extensive,  though  frequently  distri- 
buted so  secretly,  that  the  objects  of  hit 
bounty  were  ignorant  of  the  source  ftoni 
whence  they  came. 

OzpoRDSHiRB. — 'April  fiS.  Aged  69» 
Mary,  the  wife  of  Wm.  Folker,  esq.  of 
Oxford. 

Sk\jOT.^Feb.  Aged  81,  Thoi.  Howell, 
esq.  senior  alderman  of  Oswestry. 

Somersetshire.- — Lately,  Aged  88^ 
Mary,  widow  of  Jas.  Cole«,  esq.  of  Taunton 
Lodge,  a  magistrate  and  receiver-general  of 
taxes  for  that  county. 

April  1 7.  At  Bath,  Marv  Jane,  widow 
of  Edw.  Home,  esq.  of  Bcvis  Mount,  Hants. 

May  5.  At  Taunton,  in  the  prime  of 
life,  Nir.  Henry  Jas.  Townsend,  seventh  son 
of  the  late  Rev.  Geo.  Towusend. 

SuppoLK.— ^/>n7  13.  At  Bungar,  Mat- 
thias Kerrison,  esq.  fkther  of  Major-Gen. 
Sir  £dw.  Kerrison,  Bart.  He  was  son  of 
Roger  Kerrison,  of  Broke»  in  Norfolk,  by 
Mary,  dau.  of  John  Osbom,  of  Kirsted,  in 
the  same  coimty.  Born  in  an  infisrior  sta- 
tion of  lif^,  and  enjoying  few  of  the  advan- 
tages of  education,  Mr.  Kerrison  had  acoi- 
muUted  by  trade,  and  good  management, 
property  of  little  less  vidue  than  a  million 
sterling,  which  is  much  of  it  invested  in  the 
fine  estates  of  Lord  Maynard  uid  the 
Marq.  Comwallis.  His  own  habits  of  Ilfii 
were  of  a  rery  plain  kind.  Ha  married  in 
1773  Maiy,  dau.  of  John  Barnes,  esq.  of 
Barsham,  in  Suffolk,  and  br  that  lady,  who 
■died  in  1815,  had  other  cmldmiy  besidat 
Sir  Edward. 

April  15.  At  Blofield,  aged  99,  Marg»- 
retta  Maria^  wife  of  Thos.  Cay,  esq.  of 
Botesdale. 

April  90.  At  Ipswich,  at  an  advanced 
4ige,  Matthew  Howell,  esq. 

May  7.  Ann,  wife  of  Rev.  Thoa.  Milby 
Rector  of  Sutton,  and  one  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's Chaplains.  She  was  the  youngest 
and  only  surviving  dau.  of  Nath.  Barnar* 
diston,  esq.  of  the  Ryes,  near  Sudbuiy,  and 
of  Hertfbrd-st.  May-Fair. 

Surrey Apnl    3.       At     DunstaUe 

House,  Richmond,  aged  79>  Benj.  Hodgts, 
esq. 


Apnl  %$.  At  Bybm-hm,  aged  68, 
Edw.  Moberl^f  esq.  of  St.  Pbtenbo^ 

May  18.  At  Cheam,  aged  64,  Wa. 
Neale,  esq. 

Jlloy  14.  Aged  99,  John-Robsoo,  aoa 
of -John  Blades,  esq.  of  Brookwell-halL 

SossBX. — Mays*  At  Brighton,  aged  7f# 
James  Hawkes,  esq.  one  of  the  oldest  in- 
habitants of  Reading. 

Warwickshire. — May  8.  At  BagiMP- 
ton  Hall,  Carolme,  wife  of  Rev.  Walter  K- 
renport  Bromley. 

WiLTi^— Afoy  19.    At  Sarisburr,  in  hte 
83d  year,  James  Wickens,  esq.  author  of  n 
'l^^lain  Pirefaoe  to  the  Bible,  1809,  8vo. 
•Yorkshire.— ^prtZ  7.  At  Thome,  Cant 
John  Maples,  R.  N. 

April  18.  At  Bridpyrt,  aged  83,  tbt 
Rev.  G.  B.  Wawne,  Unitarian  Miniater  oT 
that  place. 

At  Hull,  aged  97,  Ensign  S.  Nichollsy 
40th  reg. 

AprU  91.  Aged  45,  P.  Aeklom,  eM|.  of 
Beverley. 

At  Scaibro',  aged  71,  Mrs.  Jane,  wift  of 
Df  .  Oldfield. 

April  99.  At  Swanland,  aged  64,  Nicho- 
Us  Sykes,  esq.  lata  Alderman  of  Hull,  and 
brother  of  Daniel  Sykes,  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  that  town. 

May  5.  At  Womersley  Vicarage,  aged 
9  months,  Savile  Thos.  only  child  of  Rtr* 
Hkos.  Cator. 

May  11.  ^  At  Churchbarton,  near  Lynn, 
aged  80,  Sir  C.  Browne,  for  many  yean 
physician  to  his  Majesty  the  King  of  Prus- 
sia, and  Knight  of  the  Prussian  Order  of 
the  Red  Eagle. 

Wales. — Mays,  At  Knighton,  co.  Rad- 
nor, Margaret,  widow  of  Qtorge  Ghreeo,  eso. 

May  14 .  A t Crickhowell,  Georgiana  Hood, 
w]£e  of  Chas.  Edw.  O'Neill,  esq.  Capt.  44th 

Scotland^— ^/Mi/ 18.  At  Fort  William, 
Mrs.  Aignes  Ross,  aced  1 06. 

April  19.  At  Dundee,  Janet  Fmdlay, 
aged  104. 

AprU  99.  At  Baijarg  Tower,  Dumfirieah. 
Wm.  F.  Hunter  Arundell,  esq.  eldest  son  of 
late  Rev.  A.  Hunter,  Professor  of  Divinity 
hi  the  Unirersity  of  Edinburgh. 

May  4.  Jane,  widow  of  Dr.  John  Walfcar, 
Profesaor  ef  Natnial  Histoiy  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Edinburgh,  and  ddnt  dau.  of  And. 
Wanchope,  esq.  of  Niddrie  MamishalL 

InKLAVD.—LalOy,  At  langhame,  aMd 
61,  Jane,  only  dan.  of  the  lata  Hon  Jofan 
Browne,  many  yean  Praiident  of  the  bland 
of  Nevis,  and  sbter  to  Col.  J.  F.  Browne. 

Sir  Edw.  BeUew,  of  Barmeath,  co.  Louth, 
hart.;  a  person  of  courteous  mannen  and 
good  talents,  and  an  influential  member  of 
9ie  Popish  communion. 

AMMkD.^Sept.  19.  At  Allahabad,  India, 
Edw.  Taylpr  Bradby,  esq,  Capt.  EJXI. 


47S 


Obitvaat. 


W»w 


Stapi§lQii»  9^  MQ  of  Lord  1a«  DwpeoMr«. 
uii;«id-/d*'Ctmpio  tlio  Ceinigwiider4n-chjtf, 
Lord  Combermere. 

Meb,  4.  DrowB^^t  PorMaibuco,  acad  flO, 
John-Henry,  oldiMtson  ofMr.Jolm  Wigfat, 
g|  York-ttreei,  Covent-nrden. 

F$k  9.  At  RidgeUad  Ettote,  Jameic*,  tht 
Hon.  Samuel  Vaughan,  one  of  the  Aatietant 
Jvdgea  of  the  Cornwall  Aatize  Conrty  and 
litfOMrly  one  of  the  Repreaentatlvea  of  the 
pariih  of  St.  James,  in  the  Houte  of  Ae- 
wmMji  and  ht  nmy  yean  CuaUw  of  ^t 
■nrtih*  Dnring  58  yean  reaidence  in  the 
ldand»  hit  tine  and  talento  vera  alwayi  de- 
vatod  to  the  puUio,  whenever  they  were  re- 
qoired.  Those  who  knew  him  in  private  li£f 
vll  regret  a  warm  and  sincere  tiriend,  and 
Ike.  Colonial  oavse'  b  deprived  of  an  able, 
lealous,  and  indefatigable  advocate. 
.  FA,  to.  In  Barbadoes,  whither  she  had 
gooe  for  the  recovery  of  her  health,  Fannys 
^ipma^^st  dan.  of  Pr.  Gmy,  Bp.  of  Bristol. 

March  10.  At  Malta,  Caroline,  wife  oC 


Cbpli  RoU  Gambfii«  RJ«ir«uidaa.of  U.- 
Gmu  Browne. 

March  II.    At  Fisa,  aged  86,  Maiy, 
of  the  Rev.  John  Rogers,  Canon 
tiaty  of  £seter,  and  dan.  of  the  Rev.  John 
Jope. 

j^frU  1 .  At  Nantes,  in  France,  Euphro- 
qrne,  wifs  of  Stapylton  Stapylton,  esq.  eldaat 
son  of  Martin  Stapylton,  eso.  of  Mytoa 
Hall,  ca  York. 

April  6,  At  Madeira,  Thos.  Lottrell^ 
esq.  British  Consul  at  Parahibo  de.  Norte. 

April  11.  At  Rome,  aged  i8,  L^miask 
Fraaoes,  wi£s  of  Philip  Z.  Cox,  esq.  oC 
Horwood  Hall,  Upminster,  Essex. 

LaUly*  At  Vixapatam,  East  Xndiee* 
John  Digbv,  esq.  eldest  son  of  the  late  Sir 
Jphn  Newbolt,  Chief  Justice  of  Madras. 

Lately,  At  Paris,  aged  31,  ^farin^ 
Dnchess  -De  Croij,  eldest  dsu.  of  the  Hon. 
Gen.  Dillon,  and  of  Frances,  eldest  daa.  of 
Dominic  Henry  Trent,  of 
Yorkshire. 


BILL  OF  MORTALITY,  from  April  95,  to  May  «9,  1897. 


Christened. 

Malee      -  1066  \.,.. 

rtnales  -  1107/*'^* 


Boried. 
Bifales    -    99Sl 
Females-    908  J 


Whereof  have  died  under  two  years  old 
-Salt  5f.  per  busheli  \\d.  per  pound* 


9  and    5  164 

50  and  -60  909 

5  and  10    64 

60  and    70  16S 

10mMl90    75 

70  and    80  it8 

90  and  80  119 

80snd    90    50 

80  and  40  157 

90  and  100     4 

40«nd50  167 

AOGREOATB  AVERAQE  of  BRITISH  CORN  which  governs  Importation, 


Wheat, 
t.     d. 

66     8 


from  the  Returns  encfing  May  11< 


I^tfley. 

Oats. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

s.     </. 

f.     d. 

1.     d. 

s.     d. 

89     4 

SO     3 

89     9 

49     0 

Peas, 
s.     d. 
47     9 


PRICE  OF  HAY' AND  STRAW. 
'    St»  James's,  Hay  QL  68.    Straw  9/.  6s.  Od.   Clover  7L  Oi«-— Whitechapel,  Hay  6L  Of. 
Straw  9/.  9«.     Cfover  6Z.  15<.-^mttbfield,  Hi^  5<.  16#.    Straw  9i.  5i.    Clover  €l.  15*. 

SMTIHnELD,  Majtl.    To  sink  the  OffiO—per  eloM  of  albs. 

Lamb.. ». &s^  Od.  to  7«.  Oif. 

Head  of  Cattle  at  Market  May  91  : 

Beasu 9014      Caltea  15i 

Sheep  and  Lambs  1 9,780      Figt     1 1^0 


Beei.M«»»««..««. a. .••«••  44.  Od*  to  5e*  9a. 

Mitfeoii 4«w  Od.  to  51.  9d. 

>V«d .•....•«  49,  %d,  to  U*  Ad, 

'jnont  ...».••..••••*••••«  44*  ttf.  to  5e«  9a. 


COAL  MARKET,  14a>  ia*  9ar.  od.  to  49«.  od. 

» 

TALLpW,  per  Cwl,  Town  TaQow  46f .  €d,    YeUow  Rtmria  40f.  Od. 

t  k 

80AP,Y«nofr  764.  Mo»lM64«.Od.  C«kI«8iv->4:ANDLS5,  9s.  per  Doi.  Moulds  10s.  «d. 


t    479    1 

■  FRK£S  OF  SHARES,  Itby  91,  tS>ir.     ' 
At  th*  0%«  of  WOLffl,  BuOTHtM,  StoA  &  Shtre  Bwlnn,  M,  TliMig*  All^, 


ftOTdon 
DudJcf   . 


Giud  JuKtioa  . 
Crud  SwT*]p  , 

GrudUakia   .  . 

Qnnd  Wniero  . 

GnnthiUD    .     .  . 

Huddenfidd     .  . 
KeauLuidAvDu. 

Lfltdi  and  LiverpDul 

LeJC.  uid  NoTth'n 
Lough barauch 
MeritynDdlrwell 

Monmoatbihin    . 
'N.Wd.bun&DitliUB 

N«ili    .    . 

Oifoid    .     . 

Pe>k  Fomt  . 

H«b'«iil'.      .  . 

Rochdale     .  . 


Suff.  .J 
Stistfoi 


1117       . 
>d  War. 


Severn  iod  Wje  , 
Tli»<Hsi  %od  Med..) 
Tb>iD«S.SeTeiD,Bei 

Dictu,  Blick    .    . 
Tint  uid  Menej 
Wuw.  ud  BimiiDg. 
Wmick  ind  Nipioa 
WiluudB«Hu    .     . 
Wore,  wid  BirmiDg. 

DOCKS. 

Su  K>lh>riiie'l  .  . 
London  (Stock) 

Wtsi  iDdik  (Stock) 
Eut  India  (Stuck) 
Comraanjiat     (Stock) 

BRIDGES. 
Soutbnrk  .    .    .    . 


AnB.of7i.   . 

RMLWAY3. 
tHuBchaur  &  Lirerp. 


Prut. 

oa^.™. 

£.e  10 

98S   0 

14S  0 

9  10 

44  &U. 

IS  0 

170 

T  0 

100  0 

690  0 

tso  0 

13  19  6d. 

SOS  0 

10  &  a  bi 

8   0 

9  0 

asjo 

1   1 

36  0 

as7io 

IS  0 

ssg  0 

17  0 

4S00 

197  0 

!00  0 

10  0 

S30   0 

1&~  0 

680  □ 

SJStU. 

4  0 

S6J0 

91  0 

10  0 

soo  0 

40   0 

89  0 

1  0 

93  0 

175  0 

30   0 

86  0 

1  10 

16  6 

TS&b*. 

sso  0 

S  7  « 

46  0 

1  10 

SdB. 

«   pet. 

4  10  do. 

199  0 

ID  Odo. 

M  I 

8  oaa. 

Hi  Odo. 

ea   0 

4   IS 

3i  0 

_ 

ai  0 

; '° 

s  n 
s«  0 

1   J   8 

*■'  " 

0  19  10 

*pm. 

■- 

WATER-WORKS. 

EutlAHC 

Grand  Jul 

Mancbatiar  b  &lford 
South  Loudi 
We,t 
INSURANCES. 


Atlaa  .... 
Biitiah  CotnmaTcial 
CounCY  Fin      ,     . 

E^l 

Globo  .... 
Guudiaa  .  .  . 
HopcUa  .  .  . 
Imperial  Fin  .  . 
Dittn  lib  .     .     . 


RookUb    .     .     .     _ 
RLEichaoge  (Slock) 

MINES. 
Angto  Mnioa     .     . 

Braiilian  (in.USpai) 
Britiihlroa      .     .     . 

Colomh,(iu.aiSptti) 


Rul  Del  Moate   .     . 

TUIpuobna  .  .  , 
UnlKdMaucan  .  . 
Welch  Iron  and  CmI 

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t  View  of  tha  H>LC  of  CHiDL>|Niti.T  Flice,  SuiMI. 

And  Repmeiitetkin]  uf  two  SuiMX  Foim. 

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re  t»t\u«».\  V..V*  »»«.,'iov\-'e  k\«. 


[  .  482     ] 

MINOR    CORRESPONDENCE. 


S.  R*  M.  uyty  "  Your  reTiewer  Msertt  tion  the  fact.     Let  others  bestow  the  praise 

at  P.48O9  of  jovr  lMtM«gazme»  on  the  au-  where  praise  is  due.    Maoy,  indeed*  have 

thoritjofthe  late  Mr.  Lysous,  that  *<the  been  partial  enough  to  attribute  the   late 

etymon  of  Sul  is  utterly  unknown  ;'*  now  I  reform  at  Oxford  in  some  degree  to   thb 

beg  leave  to  inform  him  that  it  is  the  British  paper,  and  to  others  on  similar  topics,  in  a 

wofd  for  the  Sun,  and  is  always  pronounced  book  entitled  '  Liberal  Education/     I  re- 

SUt  so  that  Silbury  and  Silchester  would  jolce  at  the  reform,  though  it  is  by  no 

have  been  originally  called  Dinas-Sikl  and  means  complete.     As  to  the  praise— Deo 

Caer-S{il.    Every  Welshman  still  calls  Sun-  Optimo  maximo  sit  omnis  laus  £T  olo- 

day  Lydd'StU.  It  was  a  part  of  antient  my-  ria." 

ihology  not  to  pay  a  scrupulous  attention  Mr.  F.  Gibson  will  be  obliged  by  any 

to  Uie  sex  of  a  divinity,  and  hence  the  Ro-  information  on  the  subject  of  a  gold  medal 

UMuis,  finding  that  the  ceremonies  and  offer-  struck  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  on  oc* 

ingi  to  SAl  resembled  those  by  themselves  easion  of  the  pawing  of  that  most  import- 

iwodered  to  Minerva,  gave  this  conjoined  ant  statute  the  Act  of  Succesion,  which  was 

appellation  to  the  presidhig  deity  at  Bath,  carried  bv  a  majority  of  one  vote  only,  in 

Tlie  serpent  is  a  well-known  attribute  of  favour  of  the  present  illustrious  House  of 

the  worshipped  luminary  in  Britain;  and  in  Brunswick,  to  the  exclusion  of  the  Catholic 

Mr.Lysons's  10th  Plate  it  will  be  found  fiunilyofthe  Stuarts.    The  medal  is  about 

■ecompanying  the  head  of  Sulroinerva."  the  sixe  of  a  half  crown ;  on  the  obverse  la 

The  Rev.  W.  L.  Bowles  observes,  **  In  a  bust  of  Queen  Anne;  on  the  reverse  is  the 

consequence  of  some  very  sensible  observa-  figure  of  Britannia  with  her  shield  and  spear, 

tions  of  your  Reviewer  (p.  419),  on  a  small  standing  on  the  shore,  repulsbg  two  sea 

,tradt  of  mine,  on  our  Wiltshire  Antiquities,  monsters,  one  of  whom  has  in  his  hand  a 

I  am  induced  to  request  an  insertion  of  a  fragment  of  rock  uplifted,  and  the  other  a 

few  words  in  explanation.     Having  come  to  large  club.    The  motto  is,  *<  Vicem  gerit 

a  conclusion  that  Tanhill^.  in  the  neigh-  ilia  tonantis.  —  (she  bears  the  part  of  the 

bourhood  of  Avebury,  was  so  called  from  thunderer.)  Inaugurat.  Apr.  93,  170S."     It 

Tanaris,  the  Celtic  god  of  thunder,  not  is  tiot  exactly  ascertained  whether  a  medal 

ftom  St.  Anne  of  the  Roman  Calendar,  I  was  presented  to  each  of  the  members  who 

hastily  conceived  that   Avebury   was    the  had  voted  in  fiivour  of  the  Protestant  As- 

temple  of  Tanaris.      Your  Correspondent  cendancy,  or  whether  only  one  was  struck 

remarks  very  justly,  that  in  Britain  Tanaris  and  presented  to  the  individual  who  occa- 

was  a  secondary  deity,  and  that  it  u  un-  sioned  the  majority.     It  is  a  fact  that  the 

likely  the  greatest  temple  should  be  erected  subject  had  been  so  frequently  agitated  in 

to  a  second  deity.     In  ikct,  the  least  atten-  Parliament,  and  each  party  so  perfectly  aware 

tion  to  the  subject  convinced  me  this  could  that  tlie  balance  was  nearly  equal,  that  the 

Bot  be  the  case,  as  in  perusing  the  invest!-  discussion  was  shrunk  from,  day  after  day, 

gation  printed  before  1  read  toe  remarks  of  and  at  length  approached  with  all  those 

your  judicious  and  candid  Reviewer,  I  was  feelings  which  characterize  an   important 

Md  by  a  series  of  singular  demonstrative  ar-  struggle,  or  trial  of  strength.     It  b  not  a 

guments,  to  the  conviction  that  Avebury  little  singular,  that  the  original  possessor 

was  the  temple  of  Teuutes  (Mercury),  the  of  this  medal  has  in  his  Diary  a  memormn- 

greatest  god  of  the  Celts,  the  messenger  of  dum  to  the  effect,  that  he  had  previously  in 

the  Ztvf  B^oyrsjor,  whose  altar  was  near,  his  own  mind  determined  not  to  go  down  to 


jS8k.  supposes  that  our  Correspondent,  but  a  few  minutes  previous  to  the  division, 

p'.  389,  in  noticing  Vicesimus  Knox's  De-  Had  he  not  done  so,  the  Speaker  would 

seription  of  the  Method  b]r  which  certain  have  been  called  on  to  exercise  his  privileso 

Degrees  were  Jarmerh/  acquired  at  Oxford,  of  giving  the  casting  vote;  and  it  is  a  well- 

has  not  seen  the  note  affixed  to  No.  79^,  in  aotnenticated  fact,  that  he  was  decidedly  in 

the  last  editions  of  hie  Essays,  which  is  as  fiivour  of  the  Stuarte.     It  would  be  doing  a 

follows  t   ^It  is  justice  to  add|  that  since  vabable  service,  were  the  records  of  the 

the  .above  essay  was  written  in  the  warm  House  of  Commons  searched  into  for  the 

aeal  which  a  voung  mind  felt  for  the  ho-  ofiicial  details  of  that  memorable  evening, 

sour  of^e  Universities,  several  important  the  elucidation  of  which  would  form  one  of 

reforms  have  taken  place  at  Oxford.    I  claim  the  most  interesting  facts  in  the  pages  of 

no  merit  in  the  alteratioa  j  I  merely  men-  English  history. 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S     MAGAZINE, 


JUNE,    1827. 


ORXOZNAI.   COMMUNZCATZONS. 


ON  TUB  SUPPOSED   DRUIDICAL   MONUMEVTS    IM  WILTSHIRX. 


IT  was  with  much  interest  I  pe- 
rused the  observations  of  your 
Reviewer  on  the  pamphlet  recently 
published  by  the  Rer.  Wm.  Bowles, 
as  the  Avant  Courier  of  the  Historv 
of  the  Parish  of  Brerohill,  in  which 
those  sineular  Monuments  of  Anti- 
quity, Wansdyke,  A  bury,  Silbury, 
and  Stonehenge  pass  under  his  con- 
sideration,— monuments  which  hate 
so  repeatedly  engrosse<l  the  attention 
of  the  learned  inquirer,  and  which, 
in  conjunction  with  other  circum- 
stances, render  the  county  of  Wilts 
perhaps  the  most  interestmg  in  the 
Kingdom. 

Previously  to  the  remarks  of  the 
Reviewer,  I  had  perused  the  Pamph- 
let itself,  and  laid  it  down  with  the 
full  impression  on  my  mind,  that  its 
author  had  been  advocating  the  hy- 
pothesis that  Abury  was  a  Celtic 
temple  dedicated  to  the  god  TeulaUs, 
the  British  Mercury,  and  I  was  in- 
deed surprised,  when  I  observed,  that 
your  Reviewer,  after  making  a  quo- 
tation from  it,  proceeded  with  this 
declaration :  "  We  hesitate  as  to  Abary 
being  dedicated  to  TanariSf''  thus  lead- 
ing your  readers  to  suppose  it  to  be 
the  object  of  Mr.  Bowles  to  prove, 
that  Abury  was  a  Celtic  temple  of  the 
god  Tanaris,  or  Jupiter  Tonans.* 

I  was  so  much  struck  with  this  va- 
riance between  the  remarks  pf  your 
Reviewer,  and  my  pre-conceived  opi- 
nion of  the  intent  of  the  pamphlet, 
that  I  was  induced  immediately  to 
compare  the  quotation  in.  your  Ma- 
gazine with  the  original,  when  I  pre- 
sently discovered,  that  the  words  abbve 
quoted  appear  in  the  first  or  private 
raition  oi  the  pamphlet  (a  copy  of 
which  must  have  been  in  the  hands 


*  See  Mr.  BoirlesV  explftoation  in  our 
Minor  Correfpoadence^  p.  481. 


of  your  Reviewer),  and  not  in  the  le* 
cond,  or  published  edition;  thus  the 
main  scope  of  the  hypothesis  became 
unintentionally  missuted,  and  your 
readers  may  rest  assured,  that  it  is  the 
purpose  of^Mr.  Bowles  to'  prove,  thkt 
Abury  was  a  temple  of  the  god  TVii- 
tates,  or  Mercury,  not  that  of  TViiM- 
ris,  or  Jupiter.  In  the  ouotatioo 
above  alluded  to,  the  autnor  was 
not  speaking  of  Abury,  but  discte- 
ing  the  etymology  of  St.  Anne's  Hill; 
and  I  hope.  Sir,  you  will  allow  me 
to  recite  the  portion  of  it  alluded  to,  - 
placing  within  a  parenthesis  the  words 
impro|)erly  introduced  in  the  earlier 
copies,  and  which  led  to  the  erroneous 
inference. 

"  What  it  the  Tan/ana  of  Tacitut  ?  evi- 
deotly  in  Latin  Tanarit  Fanum  I  (The  tem- 
ple of  Abury  then  was  the  Tan6uia,  the  tem- 
ple of  Celtic  Tanaris.)  Silbary  we  might 
•ttppoae  to  be  the  hill  on  which  the  prieata 
of  Tanarif  after  sacrifice  appeared,  whilafi 
the  people  below  assembled  around  it.  Hie 
British  trackway  led  directly  to  the  kiilp 
which  In  a  ttraight  line  over  Marden  (ano- 
ther Celtic  temple)  looks  on  to  Stonehenge. 
To  this  extraordinary  spot  the  whole  at- 
sembly  generally  proceeded,  beaded  by  tlfs 
prieita,  as  to  the  locus  consecratus  of 
Caesar ;  and  Tkn-hill  Fair  is  the  remains  of 
this  annual  assemblage  with  the  altered  cha- 
racter of  modern  times.'* 

From  the  previous  context,  and  from 
the  circumstance  that  Marden  can 
neither  be  seen  from  Abury  nor  Sil- 
bury, but  is  overlooked  by  St.  Anne's^ 
or  Tan- hill,  it  is  evident  be  is  point- 
ing out  the  etymology  of  the  latter, 
and  assigning  to  ii  the  site  of  the^Tt- 
naris  Fanum. 

.  There  is  no  doubt,  Mr.  Urban,  but 
that  the  literary  world  will  hail  with 
delight  the  contemplated  History  of 
Bremhill  by  its  worthy  and  learned 
Incumbent,  and  it  were  Uxbje  wbhed» 
that  the  parochial  Clergy  would  more 
frequently  undertakft  t.&.  ^eio»7\  ^ 


N 


4S6 


Oii'Mury,  Stonehenge,  and  Druidkm. 


[Junc^ 


appropriation  of  the  numerous  stone 
temples  to  the  Druids,  I  am  still  as 
mucl^  as  ever  in  doubt.  The  obser- 
vations of  Mr.  Bowles  have  not  at 
all  reconciled  my  mind  to  the  one  or 
the  other.  If  my  hypothesis  as  to  the 
Druids  be  really  correct,  Caesar,  Ta- 
citus, Pliny,  and  Strabo,  probably 
knew  little  about  them,  and  their 
accounts  of  them  may  be  very  incor- 
rect. Their  alleged  connection  with 
oaken  groves,  as  I  said  before,  arose 
most  likely  from  the  analogy  in  sound 
of  the  word  Druid  with  the  Greek 
word  Apvs*  The  appropriation  of  the 
temples  of  Stonehenge  and  A  bury  to 
ihem,  is  not  to  be  relied  on.  All  the 
stone  temples  throughout  the  world 
are  obtipusly  de  eodem  genere,  are 
ever  situate  in  the  most  open  and  cam^ 
paign  parts,  are  ever  accompanied  by 
sepulchral  tumuli,  and  never  connected 
with  oaken  groves.  Stone  temples  are 
found  in  the  Isles  of  Sl  Mary  and  St. 
Martin,  two  of  the  Scilly  Islands ; 
in  the  Isles  of  Lewis  and  Arran,  two 
of  the  Hebrides ;  in  Pomona,  one  of 
the  Orkneys,  and  in  Iceland ;  but. 
Sir,  can  we  for  a  moment,  imagine 
in  these  instances  the  existence  at  any 
time  of  oaken  groves. 

Before  1  conclude  this  letter,  I  beg 
leave  to  quote  the  following  passaee 
from  a  note  appended  to  the  pamph- 
let of  Mr.  Bowles,  and  referring  to 
the  Temples  of  Stonehenge  and  Abury. 

"  We  are  told  these  could  not  be  Drii- 
Idicai  Temples,  as  the  Draids  worshipped 
in  woods !  now  Stonehenge  was  within  two 
hour's  walk  of  Woodford,  Buscombe,  the 
immense  sweep  of  forest  extending  from 
Clarendon  to  the  sea,  and  Abury  was  nearly 
at  the  same  distance  firom  the  vast  woody 
tract  of  Pewsham,  Melksham,  and  Chip- 
penham forettSu  all  abouiiding  with  mis- 
teltoe.  The  woods  were  for  secret  rites, 
the  Temples  for  public  assemblies  i  and  a 
Temple  to  the  Sun  would  hardly  be  built, 
where  the  sun  never  shone/  How  many 
learned  objections  would  a  little  reflection 
and  common  obserration  obviate  V* 

On  the  most  mature  reflection.  Sir, 
I  sincerely  assure  you  that  the  difficul- 
ties which  have  arisen  to  my  mind  are 
as  great  as  ever*  From  my  local  know- 
ledge of  Stonehenge  ana  Abury,  and 
of  their  respective  neighbourhoods,  I 
confidently  assert,  they  are  placed  "  in 
the  most  open  and  campaign  parts  of 
the  country."  I  speak  neither  without 
"/eflcciion^*' nor  "observation.**  From 


my  geological  knowledge  of  the  pa* 
rishes  of  Woodford  and  Boscombe»  I 
feel  assured  that  they  never  at  aoj 
time  contained  withm  their  linnitt 
groves  of  oak.  Stonehenge  and  Abury 
are  each  some  miles  distant  from  any 
forest  or  wood,  which  either  now  or 
(judging  geologically)  ever  did  exist. 
1  readily  accord  with  Mr.  Bowles,  that 
''a  temple  to  the  Sun  would  hardly 
be  built,  where  the  Sun  never  shone. 

Whether  the  woods  alluded  to  by 
the  author  then  abounded  with  mis- 
sel toe  no  man  can  say.  From  local 
knowledge  again,  I  aver,  that  the 
woods  of  Clarendon  do  no/  now  abound 
with  misseltoe.  That  curious  parasitic 
is  by  no  means  a  common  plant,  al- 
though, where  it  is  found,  it  is  gene- 
rally plentiful.  On  the  oak,  however, 
it  is  very  rarely  found.  I  never  saw 
the  misseltoe  on  the  oak,  and  it  is  ob- 
served by  Dr.  Hunter,  in  his  notes  on 
Evelyn's  Sylva,  "  the  misseltoe  is  com- 
monly found  on  the  white-thorn,  the 
apple,  tbe  crab,  the  ash,  and  the  ma- 
ple, but  is  rarely  seen  on  the  oak.'* 

With  the  feeling  that  I  ought  not 
longer  to  trespass  on  the  patience  of 
your  readers,  I  must  now  take  my 
leave  of  the  subject  at  present,  with 
the  declaration  (Gent.  Mag.  April, 
1824,  p.  3J5)  reiterated,  *'iterum  ite* 
rumque,"  that  'Mhe  ancient  authors 
certainly  represent  the  Druids  as  re« 
sorting  to  woods  and  groves,  and  I  must 
confess  I  know  not  how  to  reconcile 
such  representations  with  the  fact, 
that  the  structures  of  stone  usually  de- 
nominated Druidical  Temples  are  ever 
found  in  the  most  open  and  campaign 
countries,*'  £dw.  Dluke. 

Mr.  Urban,  JuneS, 

I  BEG  to  present  you  with  a  table 
of  the  early  linease  of  the  family 
of  De  la  Zouche,  of  Ashby,  and  a 
note  descriptive  of  their  estates,  ex- 
changed with  the  house  of  Rohan. 
The  line  of  descent  here  deduced  ift 
not  known  to  your  readers^  though 
there  are  parts,  requisite  to  connect  the 
whole,  familiar  to  some  of  them.  It 
concludes  with  the  3d  Baron,  by  whose 
influence  the  inhabitants  of  Ashby  de 
la  Zouch  obtained  their  charter. 
Scarcely  any  vestige  of  the  old  baronial 
hall  now  remains.  The  owners  of  the 
manor  are  the  family  of  Hastings,  King 
Edward  IV.  having  granted  it  to  Wil« 


1827.] 


Family  of  De  la  Zouch»-^Plania'genlita, 


4sr 


liain  Lord  HasiiQgs»  bis  chamberlain, 
wlio  erected  the  castle.  Under  the 
auspices  of  the  late  Marquis  tbe 
town  is  rising  into  distinction^  as  a 
toatering  place  of  fashionable  resort. 
A  novel  of  Sir  Walter  Scott*s  portrays 
some  beautiful  and  imaginary  scenes 
here ;  hence  part  of  the  town  is  called 


''Ivanhoe  Place."  A  description  of 
Ashby  de  la  Zouch  is  to  be  found  iq 
Nichols's  History  of  Leicestershire, 
vol.  in.  p.  635  ;  and  in  the  same  vo- 
lume the  interesting  ruins  of  its  mag- 
nificent castle  are  finely  delineated. 

Yours,  &c.    Henrt  W.  Whattoit. 


Descent  of  the  Baronial  Family  of  De  la  Zouche. 
Armi :  Gules,  10  besontty  4,  3»  9,  1. 


Eadon  I.  Viscount  d^  PorrhoSC,  >od=T=Einme 


de  Kenoes,  1 066* ;  he  was  at  the  bat- 
tle of  Hastings,  and  acquired  various 
fiefs  from  tbe  Conqueror.  (Archives 
de  la  Maison  de  Rohan.) 


de 
L^n. 


Alun  Fergent,  Coant  o: 
Bretagne,  Marit.  3.  ob. 
1130.  (Hist,  de  Bret. 
Lobinean.  Ord.  Vit.  p. 
544.  c.) 


Alain  I.  Viscount  de  Rohan,  Sd  son ;  his 
grandson,  Alun  III.  Lord  of  Swavesey, 
CO.  Camb.  &c.  married  Constance,  dau.  of 
Bertbe,  Countess  of  Bretagne.  (Acte  de 
Fond,  de  TAbb.  de  Bonrepos,  1 184.) 


^Emengtrde, 

dau.  of 

FouIquesIV. 

Count  of 

Anjou. 

Geofroi,  Viscount  de  Porr-^Havoise,  da 


ho€t  and  de  Rennes,  la 
Sonche,  Sd  son  ond  heir, 
his  eld.  bro.  Joscius,  ob.s.p. 
Geof.  ob.  1 149.  (Cartul.  de 
I'abb.  de  Lantenac.) 


Bretagne, 

Sd  dau. 

sister 

of 

Cooanlll. 


Alain  de  Porrbo^t,  la  Soucbe,  Sd  son.  Viscount  de 
Lord  of  Ashby  (Ascebi) ,  co.  Leic. Jure  ux.  (Rcg< 
hull  Abb.  Roper  MS.  ex  Col.  R.  Cot.  Mil.) 


Bretagne,=j=Adeliza,  dau.  and  heu-eu 
of  LUles-  I    of  Philip    de    Belmeis, 


Amicia.  William  la  or  le  Zoucbe,  Belmeis,  1st 
Baron  of  Ashby,  ob.  X  Job.  s.  p. 
Cbarte  de  Savigni.  (Nicolas's  Sy- 
nopsis of  tbe  Peerage.) 


fj-nvLcutrnj   OKU.    ax 

-  I    of  Philip    de 
I    temp.  Hen.  H. 


Roger*  la  Zouche^  3d=y=Marga- 
Baron,  Lord  of  Swa- 
Vesey,  &c.  14  HeD.lIL 
(Reg.  of  the  Priory.) 


William 
Zoucbe. 

(DugdBar. 

vol.  i, 

p.  688.) 


Sir  Wm.  Har-=FAlioe. 
court,  knt.  Ld. 
of  Ayleston,  CO. 
Leic!&c.(Dugd. 
Mon.  Ang.  vol. 
IIL  p.  54.)        ^ 


ret. 


Alan  Lord  de  la  Zouche,^Helen,  dau.  and 


8d  Baron,  Constable  of 
the  Tower,  &c.  (Claus. 
51,  H.3.  m.  lS.ob.54, 
H.8.) 


coh.  of  Roger 
de  Qnincy, 
Earl  of  Win-' 
Chester. 


v^- 


Mr.  Urban,  June  8. 

HAVING  noticed,  in  vol.xcvi.  ii. 
p.  203  of  your  Ma^zine,  an  en- 
graving of  the  Planta-genista,  or  Broom 
Plant,  I  request  perniission  to  offer  a 
few  remarks  upon  a  subject  which  has 
occupied  the  attention  of  many  critics 
and  antiauaries.  It  should  be  observed 
that  in  tne  10th  century  one  appella- 
tion was  often  substituted  for  another, 
as  warlike  habits  or  other  propensities 
prescribed.  Geoffrey,  Count  of  An- 
jou, who  married  the  Empress  Ma- 
tilda, was  called  Geoffrey  Pianiagenet 
(not  by  Bourdigne  or  Man^e),  and 


likewise  Geoffrey  le  Bel.  The  origin 
is  certainly  to  be  attributed  to  the  An- 
gevine  family,  though  much  more  re- 
mote ;  it  arose  with  Fulco  the  third 
Count  of  Anjou,  a  warrior  of  high 
reputation  and  impetuous  passions, 
which  may  be  well  imagined  from  the 
tragic  rencontre  expressed,  by  an  emi- 
nent historian,  in  these  words:  ''Foul- 
quesf  III.  Comte  D' Anjou,  d^fit  Co- 
nan  I.  Comte  de  Bretagne,  son  beau- 
fr^re,  au  combat  de  conquereux,  et  le 
tna  de  sa  main  le  27  Juin  Pan  992." 
The  Count  made  several  penitential 
journies  to  Jerusalem,  for  the  effusion 


*  He  ceded  to  Alain  IV.  Viscount  de  Rohan  the  parish  of  Plemieuc  and  the  priory  of 
Bodieuc,  in  the  diocese  of  St.  Brieu,  in  Bretagne,  for  the  manor  of  Swavesey  and  lands  in 
Fulboum,  CO.  Cambridge,  &c.  con6rmed  by  King  John  and  his  snceessor.  (Pat.  14 
H.  3,  1,  m.  9.) 

t  JSrmengarde,  the  sister  of  Foulqufs  III.  married  Conan  !• 


of  WMd  he  had  shed  in  this  and  the  thit  oft  fomtkx^  wh^  after  bmg  edo* 
Many  other  battles  in  which  he  had  ealed  in  tneir  School^  waa  by  the  icn^ 
been  en^ged ;  and  as  the  symbol  of  ]^deiKe  of  his  Cither  driven  to  ibt 
his  huoliHty,  wore  in  his  cap  or  bon>-  lieeessitv  of  going  to  India  as  a  com*i ' 
net  a  sprig  of  the  brooro  |ylant*  fge-  Aion  soldier.  The  knowledge  of  Hm^ 
nisla,  •^*'  pittiUum  depnmem  eari'-  brew  which  he  had  acquired,  so  faci^ 
nam)^*'  a  decoration  adopted  by  sere-  taled  the  acquisition  of  the  other  ea^t* 
ral  of  his  descendants.  The  penance,  em  lanevages,  that  by  this  means  he 
however,  ascribed  to  him  upon  that  attracted  notice,  obtained  his  first  ste|)s 
occasion  is  a  sort  Of  monnstic  disci-  of  preferment,  and  ulthiiately  died  a 
pline  unworthy  of  belief.  In  such  es-  Major-general  in  the  British  Army.** 
teem  )vas  it  to  wear  a  sprig  of  broom,  »-Thus  far  the  Courier.  The  notice 
that  an  order  of  knightnood  was  insti-  is  indeed  most  interesting,  and  may  it 
toted  by  St.  Louis  King  of  France,  speak  forcibly  to  the  numerous  scno- 
The  hanit  of  the  order,  though  k#iown  lars,  not  oufy  of  one,  but  of  other 
to  many  of  your  readers,  may  perhaps  Grammar  Scnools  in  the  country,  in 
be  amusing  to  some.  It  was  a  cloak  which  the  Hebrew  language  is  taught. 
Awhile  damask,  with  a  violet  coloar-  At  Westminster  it  has  been  taught  for 
ed  bood;  the  collar,  a  oold  chain  of  many  years;  and  I  hope  that  some 
broom  flowers  enamelled  proper,  in-  one  of  that  "  i/tf6r7l7a  dotnus**  w\\{  in- 
terlaced With  lozenges  of  gold,  (leurs  form  us,  when  the  instruction  of  it 
de  lis  pendent ;  a  cross  flory  with  this  commenced. 

iMeription :  *•  Exaltat  hnmiles."   The        At  St.  Paul's  School  the  late  worthy 

order,   it  is  said,  Continued  tilt  the  High  Master,  Dr.  Roberts,  introduced 

kleath  of  Charles  V.  it  more  than  half  a  centory  ago ;  and 

Yours,  &c  Henry  W.  Whattoh.  when  he  used  to  return  from  his  an- 

A  nual  examination  of  the   icholars  of 

^    ^.  ,.  the    neighbouring    establishment    of 

J4r.  UaBAlr/  Glamorganshire,  Christ's  Hospiial.lie  used  to  reproach 

K«.Tr-.i««**ib,t^  ik#'  "fi  his  own  boys  with  the  superior  promp- 
NOWING  your  Miscellany  to  titude  and  ixaclness  wiul  which  thc^e 
be  a  vehiple  for  the  promouon  of  he  had  been  examining  went  Uirough 
useful  learning,  I  would  wish  to  give,  ^he  paradigms  of  the  Hebrew  veibe.— 
pot  pabhcuy  tnerely,  but  permanency  i  ^^y  ^  ^^j  ^^  ^his  too  long,  and 
10  your  pages,  40  a  most  luteresUng  perhaps  too  late,  communtcaUon,  ex- 
anecdote,   mentiooed  .m  the  Courier  ^^pt  by  addressing  Hebrew  st.idents  in 

^'^•^^J.^^*^  ^^  ^^^^  »"«^  r  ^\m  well-known  words,  altered  but  in  one, 
usual  Dinnor  ^t  the  Hall  of  the  Mer- 
chant Tailors*  Company,  after  the  an-  "  Vos  exempUria  &acra 

nual  examination  of  the  scholars  be-  Noctumi  versate  maou,  versate  diunii." 
loosine  to  their  School,  the  Master  of  v^        «  ^  _ 

the  Company,  Mr.  Dixon,  very  laud-  Yours  &c.  xm  Oi. 

ably  enumerated  the  nnmbers  of  dis-  ^ 

tinguished    persons    sent    from    that        .    „  ,  »,      .      *    . 

tchooi  who  had  filled,  and  were  then  .,  ^;  »'  /?T^''.**°  T.«  *?''*'.?',  ^J* 

filling,  elevated  stations  upon  the  cpis-  ^^.f  ^^^^  hJhh'  t^t  lit^ 

copaf  and  judicial  benches.     He  also  jj^.   f    Po*?  .•«?  year,  befo"?*  hU  delS  ha 

mentioned  that  "  theira   was,  he   be-  h^h  conttantly  at  his  seat  at  WestClandoa, 

lieved,  the  only  Grammar  School  in  ^here  the  poer  of  that  place  waa  most  libc- 

the  eoontry  in  which  the  Hebrew  Ian-  ral,  Dor  was  it  confiued  to  them.    On  re- 

guage    was    taught.      By    many   this  preseoution  of  distreu  his  hand  was  alwavs 

might  be  thought  a  useless  acquisition,  open.     His  tradesmen  were  paid  with  the 

except  for  youths  intended   for   the  most  regnltr  punctuality." 

Church.     One  instance,  had,  how.  i_    ui-  ^  w    

ever,  come  to  their  knowledge,  which       J^*  ^'^,^^  ^.  «W'S«<1  by  commmn- 

*mmM  to  corraet  thia  ooinion      It  waa  ca'>o»»'  informing  him  who  are  the  present 

tended  lo  correet  tnis  opinion,    it  was  „p„^ntativei  of  Sir  Rich.  Ltreson  of  LHi- 

' ' — **■* ' ' hull,  w.  Salop,  K.  B.  anno  l6S8  ;  FmcU 

•  Tha  sMMstfty  or  broom-plaot,  was  at-  Blyth,asq.o£Allesley,oo.  Warw.eodLanno.; 

ways  eonsidvrtdaaaa  embleoi of  bvmUity  by  JUk  Afden,  mq, i  Hao.  Ferrais,  eso. ;  Dig- 

the  classical  ancienU :  Virgil  says :  ^ics  of  Colesbill  5  all  of  Wafwiobhins,  ia 

"  Salices  AumOei^e  geaiSltt.*'  the  I7th  ctatary. 


-e. 


I 


1827.]  Jlfbeif  Church  of  St.  Dinia.  489 

Mr.  Urbav,  Shooter* S'hili,  Feb.  8.  ttr  was  raised,  in  front  of  the  ceno* 

THE  following  is  a  brief  history  taph,  made  of  gilded  wood,  bordered 

and  description  of  the   Abbey  wjth  richly  carved  foliage,  intermingled 

Church    of  St.  Denis,    accompanied  with  small  golden  apples  and  pearls, 
with  the  view  of  an  elevation  of  its         About  130  years  afterwards.  King 

western   front,   measured    and   drawn  Pepin  began  to  build  the  Church  of 

by   myself   in  the  autumn  of    1825.  St.  Denis   of   stone,  which    was    fi- 

(See  Plate  I.)  nished    in  the  year  776   by  his  son 

St.  Denis,  and  his  companions  Charlemagne,  under  the  conduct  of 
St.  Rustique  and  Eleuihere,  came  a  monk  of  the  abbey  natned  Airaud. 
from  Rome  to  Paris,  as  Christian  The  lower  part  of  the  present  western 
missionaries,  alK)ut  the  year  250 ;  and  facade  is  generally  considered  to  be 
after  converting  numbers  to  Chris-  that  of  the  Churcn  of  Charlemagne, 
tianity,  and  establishing  a  Church  ut  but  surely  it  is  not  possible  for  the  * 
Paris,  suffered  martyrJoni  upon  the  minutely  sculptured  borderings  and 
heights  of  Mont  AJartre.  One  of  other  carvings  about  the  doors  to  have 
their  disciples,  a  pious  woman,  named  continued  so  sharp  as  they  are  for  so 
Catulle,  with  the  assistance  of  her  many  centuries  ;  it  is  more  likely  to  be 
servants,  conveyed  the  bodies  of  these  that  of  the  great  Abbot  Soger,  and  of 
martyrs,  during  the  darkness  of  the  same  age  as  the  first  arcade  of  the 
night,  about  four  miles,  and  interred  nave,  and  the  chapels  of  the  choir, 
them,  marking  their  erave  with  a  which  are  incontestably  of  his  time } 
small  heap  of  stones.  The  heat  of  per-  but  it  is  very  possible  that  the  vaults 
sccution  being  past,  a  small  Church  beneath  the  choir  and  choir  chapels, 
was  built  over  their  remains,  which  which  have  been  nted  as  the  royal  se- 
was  destroyed  during  the  incursions  of  pnlchre  for  ages,  once  formed  part  of 
the  Goths  under  Honorius.  That  fine  the  edifice  erected  by  Charlemagne; 
spirited  woman,  St.  Genevieve,  in-  and  William,  the  secretary  of  Suger, 
cited  King  Clevis  the  ¥irH  .to  ce-  says,  that  the  foundatrons  and  subter- 
build  the  Church,  which  was  done  ranean  Chapels  of  the  Church  of 
about  the  ytar  500,  and  St.  Gregory  Charlemagne,  Were  preserved,  but 
meniions  in  several  places  in  his  ntt-  does  not  mention  the  facade,  which 
lory,  that  this  Church  became  very  if  that  had  been  sutfeired  to  remain^ 
celebrated  under  the  reigni  of  the  miC"  he  surely  would  'not  have  omitted, 
cessors  of  Cloviu,  and  that  it  wa»  Betides,  Felibien,  tlie  historian  of  the 
again  rebuilt  magnificently  bv  Da^o-  abbey,  expressly  states,  that  the  in- 
bcrt  the  First,  who  was  there  in-  habitants  of  St.  Denis  furnished  two 
terred  in  the  year  633.  The  anony-  hundred  francs 't6  the  Abbot  Suger, 
mous  monk,  author  of  the  life  of.Dat  towards  the  completion  of  the  |)or- 
Qobert,  says  that  nothio';  was. -spared  tal ;  and  its  architecture  is  an  hiehly- 
by  that  king  in  the  building,  and  or-  interesting  specimen  of  the  style  of 
namenting  of  this  Church,  that  he  that  age,  when  the  taste  was  vibrat- 
decoratcd  it  with  a  marble  pavement  in^;  between  the  circular  and  the 
and  columns,  enriched  with  gold,  pointed  arch,  and  they  were  both  in- 
silver,  and  precious  stones,  ^od.with:  discriminaleJy  used  in  the  same  build* 
"toutes  les  especes  d'erobellisbm^nt  ing;  indeed  so  much  so  in  this  fa- 
connus  dans  I'univers.*'  The  walls  9ade,  that  its  three  doors,  and  nearly 
were  not  jiainted  as  was  usual  with  all  its  windows^  are  of  different  dimea* 
most  of  the  wooden  Churches  of  that  tioos  and  differently  formed  arches, 
period,  but  were  more  magnificeotlv  The  great  Su^r,  (foir  he  rose  from  « 
covered  with  stuflfs  tissued  with  gola.  simple Benedictme monk  of  St.  Denis, 
A  door  of  bronze  gave  entrance  to  thi*  to  ioe  dignihr  of  Abbot  of  its  rich  mo« 
Church,  then  the  largest  and  most  aastery^  to  fill  the  high  posts  of  mi- 
handsome  in  France.  Withio,  a  rich  oister  to  Louisole-Gros*  and  Regent  of 
tomb  was  constructed  by  St.  Eioy»  tbe  the  Empire  under  Lo«ti-ie-Jeune  dur- 
goldsmith,  and  treasurer  of  Dagobert  i  ing  that  King's  abseiioe  in  the  second 
which  consisted  of  a  domt  sustained,  crusade,  which  high  stations  he  filled 
by  pillars  covered  with  plates  o(  liU  with  glory  Co  himself  and  vast  advant* 
ver,  ornamented  with  precious  stooes,'  Age  to  the  nation,)  seeing  his  Abbff: 
and  the  busts  of  St.  Denia  and  hia  Church  in  a  ruinous  state*  detennlnea 
two  friends,  to  whose  honour  an  al-  upon   its   re-erection,   himself  suqcc* 

GsNT.  Mao.  June,  18i7* 

2 


490                                 Abbey  Church  of  St,  Denis.                           [Jotie; 

intending  the  work,  and  selecting  jhe  is  but  28  feet  wide,  while  the  riavc 

trees  necessary   from    a  neighbouring  is   40  ;    and    this  singularity   obligecf 

foresv.     In  1137  he  had  complett-d  the  the  artist  (whose  name  is  unknown, 

great  reparation,  or  more  probably  the  but  which   may  be  supposed  to  have 

entire  re-building  of  the  western  towers  been  Jean  de  Chellcs,  from  ihe  great 

and  nave,    and  invited    his  sovereign  similarity  of  style  observable  in    this 

Louisthe  Seventh  and  the  neighbouring  Church,  and  that  part  of  the  Caihe- 

Bishops  of  Paris,  Charlres,   Orleans,  dral  of  Paris  built  by  that  archiiecl), 

&c.  to  lay  the  first  stone  of  the  choir,  to  place  the  first  arch  on  either  side 

which  was  done   by  die   King  with  the  choir   diagonally  ;    this    arrange- 

great  pomp  and  solemnity  ;  who  when  ment  is  extremely  awlut^ard,  perhaps 

arrived  at  that  part  of  the  service,  in  unparalleled,    and    could    only    have 

which  the  words   **  All  thy  walls,  O  been  tolerated   but  upon  the    ground 

Jerusalem,    are  of  precious    stones,'*  of  some  insuperable  obstacle  or  impe- 

"  occur,  took  from  his  finger  a  valuable  rious  superstition.    It  is   said  to  have 

ring  and  threw  it  into  the  foundation ;  been  the  latter,  and  that  a  tradition 

the  other  dignified  Prelates  and  No-  was  universally  believed  by  the  peo- 

bles  throwing  in  other  ornaments  more  pie  in  the   I3th  century  that  each  ar« 

or  less  rich,  according  to  their  own  in-  chitect  had  devoutly    preserved   some 

dividual   wcalih   or  pride.     4'he  sub-  p:iri  of  each  of  the  ancient  Churches 

sjtantial  parts  of  his  edifice  being  com-  of  St.  Denis,  supposing   that  the  first 

pleted,  Suger  ordered  the   most   able  Church  built  there  had  been  conse- 

artists  from  diflferent  parts  of  the  king-  crated  by  Jesus  Christ  himself.     The 

dom  to  ornament  it,  and  painters  of  expences  incurred   in  raising  the  pre* 

glass  from  foreign  countries^  who  filled  sent  edifice  were  chiefly  defrayed  by 

the   windows   (of  ihc  small  Norman  St.  Louis  and  his  mother  Blanche  uf 

form)  with  coloured  glass,  represent-  Castile,  which  is  the  reason  the  arms 

ing  different  subjects  from  the  Scrip-  of  France,   quartered    with    those   of 

tures,  and  the  principal  events  of  the  Castile,  were  so  often  repealed  in  the 

.  first  crusade ;  several  of  these  windows  windows    and    other     parts    of    the 

in  the  chapels  round  the  choir  were  Church,  but  which  were  destroyed  by 

remaining  before  the  year  1799,  ^f^d  the  agents  of  the  Revolution, 

one  in  the  Lady  Chapel  had  a  figure  The  bottom   part   of    the  western 

of  the  great  Abbot  with  a  cross  in  his  front  (see  the  Plate)  is  composed  of 

hand,  prostrating  himself  at   the  feet  three  doors;  that  in  the  middle,  11^ ft. 

of  the  Virgin;  beneath  was  inscribed  wide,  by  1 4^  ft.  high,  is  ornamented 

"Sugerius  Abbas."  beneath  the  arch  with  a  has  relief  of 

In  the  course  of  the  following  cen-  Jesus  Christ  in  glory,  surrounded  by 

tury,  ecclesiastical  architecture  expe-  angels  and  saints  holding -musical  in* 

rienced  thit  wonderful  alteration  from  struments;  above  the  figure  of  Christ 

the    heaviest   gr-indeur    to    the    most  is  seen  the  Father,  the  Lamb,  Cross, 

aerial    lightness;    which  effect   is   so  &c.  and  beneath  the  Saviour  are  hu- 

forcibly  felt    by  the  commonest  ob-  merous  figures  representing  the  resur- 

server,  who  contrasts  the  Church  of  rection.     The  stone  side   forming  of 

St.   Cross    in    Hanipshire,    with    the  this  door  is  charged  with   eight   me- 

Lady  Chapel  in  Wells  Cathedral,  or  dallions,  representing  the  parable  of 

the     Cathedral    of    Rochester    with  the   wise  and   foolish    virgins.      The 

that  of  Lichfield.    The  Abbot  of  St.  mouldings  of  the  arch  are  filled  with 

Denis,  Eudes  Clement,  desirous  that  four  lines  of  figures  of  saints,  having 

his  Church  should  not  be  out  of  the  harps,  trumpets,  violin^,  &c.  in  theic 

"  march  of  improvement,'^    and    in-  hands. 

cited  probably  also  by  St.  Louis  and  The  span  of  the  arch  of  the  south- 

the  great  architects  who  were  in  the  em  door  represents  Jesus  Christ  ap- 

empToy    of    that    extraordinary    Mo-  pearing  with  several  angels  to  St.  De- 

narch,  commenced  the  present  nave,  nis  and   his    two    friends   in   prison. 

-   transepts,  and  upper  part  of  the  choir  The  sides  are  sculptured   with  rustic 

in  the  year  1231,  according  to  Guil-  occupations  for  the  J2  months  of  the 

laume  de  Hangis,  author  of  the  life  year;  the  first  medallion  shows  a  pea- 

of  St.  Louis.     The  round    pillars   of  sant  reaping;  2.  another  peasant thresh- 

the  choir  and    surrounding   chapels,  ing ;   3.  two  men   filling  a   Cask  ;  4. 

of   Suger*8    edifice,    were    preserved,  another  man  beating  a  tree,  beneath 

whicti  is  the  reason  that  the  choir  which  are  pi^s  eating  the  fruit;   5. 


i8S70 


^bbey  Church 


fi 


a  batcher  killing  pigs;  6.  an  old  man 
sitting  with  a  table  before  him,  upon 
w'hieh  are  three  loaves  pC  bread,  his 
folded  hands  repose  upon  a  vase,  a  ser- 
vant appears  behind  bringing  in  a 
plate  of  food,  and  in  a  corner  of  the 
apartment  is  a  conical-shaped  chim- 
ney; 7.  a  man  mowing  grass;  8.  a 
traveller  on  horseback  with  a  staff  in 
his  hand  ;  9.  a  peasant  planting  vines; 
10.  ooe  person  in  the  dress  of  a  monk 
is  assisted  by  another  in  felling  trees ; 
n.  a  man  and  woman  sitting,  the 
woman  reads  from  a  book,  the  man 
^vith  tongs  in  his  hand  stirs  the  fire  ; 
12.  James  with  game,  which  he  is 
lacing  in  two  houses  of  a  round  form 
ike  those  of  the  ancient  Gauls. 

The  has  relief  of  the  north  door 
shows  St.  Denis  and  the  other  two 
missionaries  led  to  the  scaffold,  and 
its  sides  have  medallions  sculnturcd 
with  the  signs  of  the  Zodiac.  These 
three  doorways  are  also  further  orna- 
mented with  numerous  small  border- 
ings,  of  very  elegant  designs,  but  their 
most  prominent  decoration,  prior  to 
the  year  1770,  consisted  of  the  twenty 
large  statues  of  kings  and  queens  whicn 
stood  upon  pedestals  beneath  their 
arches.  In  that  year  the  facade  was 
repaired,  and,  to  the  disgrace  of  the 
monks  be  it  spoken,  the  statues  were 
displaced,  which  is  extraordinary,  as 
they  were  of  im)X>rtance  to  the  his- 
tory of  the  abbey,  and  much  to  be  la- 
mented as  historical  portraits  of  the 
kings  of  the  second  race,  which  we 
may  reasonably  suppose  them  to  have 
been ;  for  we  find  in  the  doorway  of 
the  north  transept,  the  statues  of  the 
six  kings  of  the  third  race,  which  fol- 
lowed ;  namely,  Hugues  Capet,  Ro- 
bert-le  Pieux,  Henri  the  First,  Phil- 
lip the  First,  Louis-Ie-Gros,  and  Louis- 
Je-Jeune.  In  the  reign  of  this  last 
prince,  the  Abbot  Su;^cr  finished  his 
Church.  These,  however,  are  not  the 
•originals,  as  those  were  destroyed  aL 
the  Revolution,  but  having  been  pre- 
viously drawn  and  engraved,  have 
since  been  restored  from  those  en- 
gravings, and  the  transept-door  has 
thus  refrained  its  ancient  beauty. 

It  will  be  seen  from  the  print,  that 
the  facade  is  finished  with  two  lofty 
towers,  that  of  the  north  crowned 
with  an  elegant  stone  spire,  which 
from  its  lightness  and  strength  is'wor- 
thy  a  minute  examination.  Although 
more  than  one  hundred  feet  high,  its 
shies  arc  onljr  ten  inches  thick ,  but 


of  SL  Denis.  491 

it  is  strengthened  at  its  base  by  tMrenty* 
four  pillars,  each  14  ft.  high,  and  di- 
ameter 10  inches,  placed  in  the  in- 
terior A  verjr  singular  appearance 
is  gi\:en  to  this  spire  by  the  seven 
(the  eighth  has  lon^  ago  fallen)  pyu  ' 
ramids,  or  small  spires,  whose  base 
forms  a  triangle,  elevated  upon  pil- 
lars placed  at  the  sides  of  the  great 
spire,  and  seemingly  nodding  destruc- 
tion to  the  mortals  wandering  below. 
The  south  tower  contains  the  great 
Charles,  the  only  bell  left  by  the  re- 
volution to  the  abbey  (except  the  throe 
small  clock  bells  seen  at  the  top  of  the 
tower) ;  it  was  given  in  1072  by  'Charles 
the  Fifth,  and  has  been  twice  since 
recast,  is  of  a  finely  deep  and  solemn 
tone.  Its  diameter  is  7  feet ;  it  weighs 
14,000  lbs.  and  bears  this  inscription, 
••  Ludovicus  vocor,  Carolus  V.  me  fe- 
cit, Ludovicus  XV.  refecii,  175»/' 

The  height  of  this  front  is  as  fol- 
lows : 

feet. 
From  the  cround  to  the  platform...  90  ' 

Platform  to  top  of  each  tower 90 

Spire no 

Iron  cross  and  cock 12  ' 

Total sOSf 

In  1792  the  Abbey  of  St.  Denis 
was,  in  common  with  all  other  reli- 
gious establishments,  suppressed :  its 
immense  collection  of  rich  treasures, 
consisting  of  crowns,  cceptres,  mitres,  • 
crosses,  cups,  vases,  dishes,  &c.  of 
gold  and  silver  of  beautiful  workman- 
ship, and  enriched  with  precious 
stones,  was  seized  upon  by  the  law- 
less agents  of  the  Revolution ;  its  monks 
dispersed,  and  its  estates  secularized. 
Yet  this  was  nothing  compnred  with 
what  followed ;  for,  continuing,  «tf 
usual,  to  attract  crowds  of  the  curious 
or  devout,  beneath  its  venerable  roof, 
the  obliteration  of  iis  rich  stores  of 
antiquity  was  decreed  in  the  follow- 
ing year.  Then  began  the  work  of 
destruction,  and  the  demolition  of  its 
altars,  its  sepulchres  ravaged,  and  the 
ashes  of  twelve  hundred  years  succA- . 
sion  of  Kings  and  Princes  scattered  to 
the  winds,  or  their  bones  indiscrimi- 
nately shovelled  into  a  hole  in  the 
church-yard.  Not  a  piece  of  glass  lef^ 
in  its  windows;  that  interesting  col- 
lection of  paintings,  mostly  of  the  age 
of  Suger,  were  taken  down  in  the 
most  careless  manner^  aivd  c'^wv^  v^ 
tV\e  M\x?i4ii  Aw  \\\otiv\Wi^^%  '^^"ww^ivfc* 


A99                              Mkty  Ckuf^K  €f  SU  fhhk.                         XJliil^, 

knows  whither.    Its  grand  series  of  tec  Abbej  and  Cathedral  Chorcbcat 

magnificent  tombs   and  » monuments  its  dimensions  are  as  follow : 

were  broken  to  pieces ;  a  few  were  feet. 

certainly   preserve^   in  the   Museum,  From  western  door  to  the  transept  906 

but  by  far  the  most  valuable,  that  is,     .    Breadth  of  transept 40 

the  most  antient,  were  so  irreparably        Leijgth  of  choir. 86 

injured  as  not  to  be  recognizable  ;  but  ^ile  and  LadyChspeleast  of  do....    as 

we  may  judge  from  some  of  their  re-  t  *  i .  .   •     i    _*i            -^^ 

.^..:^.  .«>.«:«>  •u.    »kk^»  ««.^    tk^.:.  Total  interior  length 860 

mams  uow  m  the  abbey^yarci,  tneir  ^ 

alabaster  decorated  with  coloured  glass         Heightof  nave 96 

io  Mosaic,  the  gold,  the  blue,  the  ver-        „I>o-   of  aifes 40 

roilion,  and  the  violet,  how  delight-        Breadth  of  nave ,    40 

ful  they  were.    Not  even  the  renown  ^''-    ^^'^'^ ^^ 

of  Turenne,  or  of  the  great  Henri  The  repairs  begun  by  Buonaparte 

'  himself,  could  preserve  their  remains  .have  been   continued    by   Louis  the 

from   profanation,    and    their    bodies  Ei^hteenjih  and  Charles  the  Tenth  at 

-  were  found  to  be  in  so  perfect  a  state,  an  immense  ex  pence;  a  large  *'chapellc 

that  the  features  were  unaltered  I  from  expiatoire'*  has  been  erected  on  the 

.th^  beard  of  the  Monarch  a  soldier  cut  south  side  of  the  nave,  in  perfect  con- 

a  lock  of  hair;  with  which  forming  a  formity  with  that  part  of  the  edifice, 

.pair  of  mustachios,  he  exclaimed,  "I  which  does  great  credit  to  the  archi- 

ani  the  conqueror  of  the  enemies  of  tectural  taste  and  skill  of  the  builders 

France  i  I  fly  to  victory  I"  The  monuments  which  were  preserved 

But  the  rifling  of  its  treasures  was  are  fast   regaining  their   ancient  sta- 

not  the  only  injury  sustained  by  this  tions ;  the  tomb  of  Dagobert  (in  the 

venerable  fabric,  for  its  roof  was  torn  1 3th   century  style)   and   that  of  his 

off,  its  ailes  were  converted  to  granaries.  Queen  directly  opposite,  we  see  im- 

a  market  was  held  in  its  nave,and  horses,  mediately  upon  entering.     In  Chapels 

cows,  sheep,  and  pigs,  profaned  for  on  the  sides  of  the  nave,  are  the  su- 

years   its  hallowed   precincts,  till  the  perb    marble    tombs     of    Louis    the 

policy  of  Napoleon  put  a  stop  to  these  Twelfth,    Henri    the     Second,    and 

norrors,    ordainins   that    a  thorough  Francis  the  Firsthand  above  the  shrine 

reparation     should     forthwith     com-  containing  what  are  said  to  be   the 

mence,  and  in  1806  he  issued  the  foU  relics  of  St.  Denis,   is  suspended   the 

lowing  decree :    *' The  Church  of  St.  renowned    Oriflamme,    ihe    military 

Denis  is  .consecrated  to  become   the  banner  of  the  abbey,  when  its  Abh* 

sepulchre  of  Emperors.      A   chapter  bot  armed  its  %'assals  in  defence  of  its 

composed  of  ten  canons  is  charged  to  estates,  on  which  occasions  the  Lord 

officiate   in  that  Church.    These  ca-  of  the  Manor  of  Vexin  was  standard 

nons  are  to  be  chosen  from  among  the  bearer   in    right  of   his  Manor.     In 

. Bishops,  aged  more  than  sixty  years,  1088,  Vexin    becoming  the  property, 

and  who  are  not  able  to  fulfil  their  of  the  Crown,  Philippe  the  First,  in 

episcopal  functions.     They  shall  en-  his  right  as  Count  of^  Vexin,  and  to 

jpy  in  that  retreat  the  honours,  pre-  show  his  veneration   for  the  Apostle 

rogatives,.  and  treatment,  appertaining  of  France,   on  commencing  the  first 

to  the  episcopal  dignity.    The  Grand  trrusade,    went   in    procession    to  St. 

Almoner  of  his  Majesty  is  chief  of  Denis,  and   received   the   Oriflamme 

the  Chapter*'*    The  same  decree  also  from  the  hands  of  the  Abbot,  when 

ordered,  that  four  Chapels  should  be  from  that  time  it  became  the  banner 

made  in  the  Church,  three  destined  to  of  France,  till  the  reign  of  Charles 

contain  tables  of  marble'inscribed  with  the  Seventh,  when  it  fled  so    of^ten 

the  names  of  the  kings  of  the  three  before  the  armies  of  England    that 

.races,  and  the  fourth   chapel  to  be-  it    lost    iu    dignity   as    the    national 

come  the  sepulchre  of  •*  the  Empe-  standard,  and  resigned  its  place  to  the 

jrors.**  white  flag  of  the  heroic  Joan  of  Arc. 

The  interior  of  the  Church  receives  These,  Sir,  are  a  few  notes  I  have 

considerably  too  much  light  from  its  put  together  to  accompany  the    en- 

vasjt  windows,  now,  alas  !    shorn   of  graving,  and  such  of  your  readers  as 

.  their  gloriously  coloured  glass,  which  wish  for  a   further  account  of   this 

also  adds  to  its  appearance  of  being  interesting  edifice,  may  sec  some  welj- 

^  shorter  thaa  tve   arc   acciulomed  to  viivv.^«n  \^a^is  u^ion  the  subject,  which 


18*7.3 


BrmAitf  Jleeiory'.— Crait/manl  at  iTyeomW. 


4SB 


1  remember  reading  in  one  of  jfioor 
volumes  for  the  early  part  of  the  pre^ 
sent  century,  while  upon  a  visit  to 
my  good  friend  the  Rev.  W.  Dakins^ 
in  Essex.  W.  Bardwbll. 


Mr.  Urban,  May  Q, 

IN  Sept.  1814  I  communicated  a 
short  account  of  Bremhill  in 
Wilts,  the  residence  of  the  Rev.  W; 
L.  Bc^wles,  which  you  inserted  in  the 
Magazine  for  that  month,  p.  S03.  A 
subsequent  visit  to  the  same  favoured 
spot  has  given  me  the  opportunity  of  Poet, 
transcribing  two  or  three  inscriptions; 
added  since  my  former  account,  which 
for  their  elegance  will  deserve  preser- 
vation. 

Near  Ihe  Cascade,  mentioned  in  the 
former  account,  p.  204,  are  the  fol- 
lowing lines: 

'*  As  the  rill  that  gushing  near 
Soothes  with  murmuring  lapse  the  ear^ 
Be  thine  confiu'd  to  tranquil  joys, 
A  life  that  makes  no  ruder  noise." 


mation  wai  to  be  gained;  and  iIm 
stranger  left  the  country,  imprdtad 
with  the  notion  that  the  common 
peasants  of  that  village  wrote  exeel- 
lent  verses.  Whoever  reads  them, 
knowing  that  the  carpenter  ivas  onl^ 
employed  to  place  on  the  board  th« 
thoughts  and  expressions  of  the  gifkc4 
Rector  of  Bremhill,  will  not  wonder 
at  the  merit  of  the  lines,  but  will 
doubtless  wish,  with  us,  that  ihe.  boor 
may  be  far  distant,  which  the  dial 
shall  point  for  the  departure  of^th* 

A.N. 


At  the  HermiCt  Seal, 

"Dost  thou  lament  the  dead,  and  mourn 

the  loss 
Of  many  friends,  O  think  upon  the  Cross.'-' 

In   a   corner  of   the  Church-yard, 


Mr.  Urbait,  Jnn»  1. 

ELEVEN  gold  British  coins  wer^ 
lately  found  by  a  shepherd  boy, 
in  the  parish  of  Wycombe,  Bucks  i 
whilst  trying  to  catch  a  mole,  he  took 
up  an  oblong  flint,  and  began  to  dig^ 
when  two  of  the  coins  dropt  from  an 
aperture  at  the  least  end,  ana  on  break- 
ing  the  stone  nine  more  were  found* 
The  stone  in  siae  and  shape  resembled 
a  swan's  egg,  though  rather  flatter. 
The  whole  of  the  coins  weighed  about 
two  ounces.  There  was  an  uniformity 
of  execution  in  them  all,  and  a  great 
similarity  in  the  impressions,  espect* 


which  commands  a  beautiful  view  of    ally  on  the  reverse,  yet  in  some  dep 
the  country,  to  a  considerable  distance,     gree  they  varied  from  each  other.    Si- 


the  follow mg  elegant  lines  are  inscrib- 
ed upon  a  small  tablet : 

"  Here  rest  the  village  dead,  and  here 

too-f, 
When  yonder  dial  points  the  hour,  must  lie. 
Look  round,   the  distant  prospect  it  dia- 

play'd 
Like  life's  fair  landscape,  mark'd  with  light 

and  shade. 
Stranger,  in  peace  pursue  thy  onward  road, 
But  ne'er  forget  thy  long  and  last  abode." 

An  anecdote  is  connected  with  this 
inscription,  which  I  record  with  plea- 


milar  coins  are  ensraved  in  Ruding'a 
Coinage,  British  Series,  PI.  IL  No. 
37  and  38.  On  one  side  were  a  horse, 
the  sun,  &c.  Mr.  Rudin^  says,  thes^ 
coins  are  usually  denommated  Bri- 
tish ;  though  he  acknowledges  that 
we  have  no  positive  evidence  to  jpa- 
tify  their  appropriation  to  this  Island. 
They  are  tounu  chiefly,  but  not  ex- 
clusively, in  Britain. 

The  situation  of  the  hill,  on  which 
the  coins  were  found,  has  a  claim  to 
public  notice ;  not  only  as  it  presents 


sure,  as  aflbrdiog  a  genuine  trait  of    from   its  summit  one  of  the  richest 
rural  simplicity.     A  stranger  passing     and   most  varied    landscapes    in   the 


by  the  pbce,  after  reading  the  inscrip- 
tion, was  naturally  desirous  to  know 
the  author  of  lines  so  unexpectedly 
good  in  so  retired  a  spot.  The  only 
person  in  view  being  the  Sexton,  who 
was  digging  a  grave,  he  was  called, 
and  greeted  with  the  question,  '*  Pray 
who  wrote  those  beautiful  lines?' 
The  ansvyer  was,  "  the  Carpenter.'' 
"Carpenter?  what  a  carpenter  of  litis 
village."  "  Yes,  our.  Carpenter.'* 
Stranger !  "  But  are  you  sure  he  wrote 
them.''  **  Aye,  Sir,  quite  sure.  I 
)iDows  he  did."    No  further  infot- 


county  (the  details  of  which  it  may  not 
be  necessary  to  give),  but  as  it  bears 
evident  traces  of  having  been  a  Bri- 
tish or  Roman  station.  The  vestige  of 
an  outwork  remains.  There  are  two 
fosses  on  the  north  and  east  sides,  where 
the  hill  is  very  sloping,  each  formingthe 
segment  of  a  circle;  aqd  the  south  and 
west  sides  of  the  station,  on  one  con^ 
tinned  level,  was  flanked  by  a  l^rge 
beech  wood,  a  part  of  which  is  itill 
standing.  ^  ^ 

A  ?ew  ^^ax%  ^^o  ^  ^"^SJ^  vvx  '^^^ 


.494                   On  the  Cremaiidn  ofH'mdoq  iVidowi.  [June, 

^ 

near  the  bottom,  and   when  a  few  Taking  it  be  correct  to  state  these 

yards  into  it  was  cleared  away,  a  stra-  victims  at  1000  yearly,  this  is  to  us  an 

tujM  of  flint  was  discovered  in  a  solid  alarming  number,  yet  it  bears  a  small 

bed  of  chalk  (for  the  hill  chieHy  con-  proportion  to  the  40  millions  of  female 

aists  of  that  material),  and  running  for  population  in  India ;  and  it  is  also  well 

aeveral  yards  in  an  horizontal  direc-  known  that  there  is  a  viil.ige  on  the 

lion,  about   three  or   four  feet  from  G^n^es  where  such  widows  have  found 

the  surface,  and  a  foot  below  it  ano-  a  retired  asylum,  and  where  they  enjoy 

«her  layer  of  flint  in  a  parallel  line  the    restricted    consolations    of    eacn 

with    tne  upper  one.     The  whole  of  others'  society ;  by  all  which,  and  by 

the   flints  were  completely  flat,  and  the  reports  of  the  Missionary  Societies, 

about  the  thickness  of  a   house  tile,  we  learn  that  the  number  of  these  vfc- 

Some  of  your  intelligent  readers,  Mr.  tims  have  of  late  years  much  decreased. 

Urban,  may  be  able  to  assign  a  pro-  I  have  noticed  these  points  with  a 

"  bable  cause  for  the  regularity  of  the  view  to  advance   the   principle,   that 

position  of  the  flints,  and  their  polish-  any  effectual  measure  of  our  Lcgisia* 

ed  and  smooth  flatness,  where  no  evi-  ture,  (ever  carefully  and  wisely  regard- 

dent  marks  appear  of  the  bed  of  chalk  ing  the  religious  feelings  of  others,)  for 

having  been  before  disturbed.    VV.  S.  wholly  subverting  by  gradual  means 

^  this    unjust    and   inhuman    practice, 

Mr.  Urban",                       Junt>  12.  would   not  be  contrary  to  their  ctcn 

YOUR  Correspondent  Col.  Mac-  laws — that  any  examination  whether 
DONALD,  p.  409,  ^'11  accept  she  be  in  her  sober  senses,  is  but  ex- 
the  acknowledgments  of  most  of  torting  from  her  an  unwilling  consent 
your  readers  for  his  very  interesting  — and  that  the  interest  of  the  parties 
communication  on  the  "  Cremation  exciting  it,  should  be  exposed  and  pro- 
of Hindoo  Widows,"  in  which  he  gives  secuted.  This  would  perhaps  be  a 
us  a  concise  view  of  the  Indian  Laws,  just  ground  for  the  interference  of  our 
shewing  that  this  practice  has  no  legal  Legislature,  either  in  the  way  of  a 
authority,  but  has  arisen  rather  from  Statute,  or  of  instructions  to  the  Board 
the  felf-interest  of  parties,  benefited  by  of  Control,  and  from  them  to  the  Di- 
the  female's  death,  and  by  the  sinister  rectors,  and  thence  to  the  Indian  Pre- 
persecutions  of  the  jiriesthood.  If  these  siden&ies. 

laws  recommend  to  a  widow  an  auste-  Another    motive  would    also    give 

rity  of  life,  they  could  never  so  incon-  sanction  to  such  a  measure,  if  it  can 

tistently  ordain   her   self-immolation,  be  found  that  the  practice  is  forbidden 

and   therefore  the   persuasion  of  any  by  the  Law  of  God  :  for  as  the  ancient 

priest  that  she  should  enjoj  millions  of  law  was  promulgated  in  the  East,  and 

years  of  future  bliss  for  this  act,  which  as  the  children  of  Shem  are  dwelling 

IS  a  violation  of  their  law,  must  be  an  under  the  dispensation  given  to  their 

offence  which/  like  the  sacri6ce  itself,  patriarch  Noah,  and  have  respect  to 

should  be  abolished.     If  their  laws  do  the  subsequent  institutions  of  the  Mo- 

not    ordain    it,    and    the  Soodheekou  saic   Law,   it  would   render  essential 

moode  declares  it'*'  murder  for  a  son  to  service  to  the  cause  in  view,  if  the  at- 

set  fire  to  his  living  mother,"  then  tention  of  the  native  population,  and 

every  son,  and  impliedly  every  other  of  the  scholars  in  the  College  at  Cal- 

person  assisting,  is  guilty  of  being  an  cutta,  were  particularly  drawn  to  the 

accessary  and  party  in  the  crime,  which  following  passages  of  Holy  Writ, 

extends  to  every  one  who  either  per-  At   the  hand  of  man,  and  at  the 

suades  or  prepares  her  for  the  sacrifice,  hand  of  every  man's  brother,  will  I  re- 

or  adds  fuel  or  flame  to  the  fatal  pile !  quire  the  life  of  man  :  whoso  sheddeth 

But  Mr.  Macdonald  also  tells  us  that  man's  blood,  by  man  shall  his  blood 

**  if  she  shrinks  from  it,  she  incurs  a  be  ^hed,  fur  in  the  image  of  God  made 

penalty  of  the  value  of  25. 6d. ;  but  it  is,  he  man.     Gen.  ix.  6. 

directed  that  her  neiglibours  should  Thou  shalt  not  kill.     Exod.  xx.  13. 

treat  her  as  before  ;'*   therefore  their  But  more  particularly  human  sacrifices 

laws  merely  in  this  recognise  the  cus-  are  forbidden  in  strong  and  unequivocal 

torn,  but  afford  it  no  sanction  ;  on  the  terms;  for  it  was  the  practice  in  Canaan, 

^  ^contrary,  the  prejudice  is  compromised  and  it  was  foreseen  by  Moses,  that  the 

by  a  5mall  penait^,  and  by  protecting  Israelites  would  be  ensnared  to  adopt 

'the  reluctant  victim  froai  fulare  cou-  u.    TVvou  ^A\.  xvq\.  di^  ^  unto  the 

tempt.  ViOT^  \3t\^  l3^\  Kt^I  ^NW'^  ^Q\\!AW^\SStW 


1S27*}    '                On  the  Oremation  of  Hindoo  Widows.                      49)1 

to  the  Lord  which  he  hateth,  have  the  air,  most  likeW  with  n  view  that 

they  doue  unto  their  gods  ;    for  even  where  any  of  the  oust  were  wafted,  b 

their  sons  and   their  daughters  they  blessing  might  be  entertained  :  bpt  by' 

have   burnt  in  the  fire  to  iheir  gods,  a  just  retribution,  the  same  thing  was 

Deut.  xii.  31.     See  Lev.  xvii.  1,  7;  done  in  Egypt  for  a  punishment,  that 

xviii.  21,30,  andxx.  2;  Deut.  xviii.  10.  where  any  the  smallest  portion  alieht- 

JDavid,  in  lamenting  the  sins  of  their  ed,   it   might   prove  a   plague  and  a 

ancestors,    says,    that   they   sacrificed  curse  to  the  ungrateful,  cruel,  and  io*. 

their  sons  and  daughters  unto  devils,  fatuated  Egyptians.    These  were  as  ft 

and  shed  their  innocent  blood  to  the  designed  contrast  in  the  workings  of 

idols  of  Canaan.     Ps.  cvi.   38.    The  Providence,  and  an  apparent  opposi- 

abhorrence  of  it,  which  God  was  thus  tion  to  the  superstition  of  those  times. 

f  leased  to  express,  was  taught  to  the  See  Bryant's  Plagues,  p.  116.     Preva-* 

sraelites,  in  order  that  it  might  be  lence  of  Sacr.  pt.  i.  c.   i.  s.  4.    H^ 

equally  condemned   to  all  subsequent  Home,  iii.  3()5. 

nations  (see  Hewlett,  i.  492);  and  it  For  a  description  of  the  sacrifices  to 

has   therefore  been   repeatedly  repro-  Moloch,  I  feusi  refer  to  Calmet.    And 

bated  by  their  prophets  in  the  most  the  further  records  of  the  sacred  his* 

pointed  manner.    Thou  shalt  not  let  tory,  1  Kings,  xi.  7,  33;  2K.  xi.  ISf 

any  of  thy  seed  pass  through  the  fire  xxi.  3,  4  ;  and  the  reproof  of  them 

to  Moloch -^eyen  the  souls  that  com-  bjr  the   first   Christian   Martyr,  Acts 

mil  them  shall  be  cut  off  from  among  vii.  43. 

their  people,  &c.     See  H.  Home,  iii.  There  seems  to  us  no  idolatry  so  nn> 

)2S.  accountable    as    that  which   requires 

To  their  sacrifices  is  added  dancing  personal  sacrifices  accompanied  by  lifer 

and   music  before  the   idol,   at  e\'ery  for  the  surviving  children  are  left  to 

Hindoo  feast,  and  also  when  human  the  mere  chance  of  protection  —  their 

victims  are  oftered ;  so  among  the  Am-'  mother*s  care  is   wholly  tpken  from 

monites   and   Phenicians   they    were  them,   and  they  are  left  comfortless 

immolated   to  propitiate  Moloch  and  orphans    without    any    protector  '  oil 

Baal,   and  some  to  pass  through   the  earth ;  even  if  the  victim  is  willing  to 

fire,  denoting  some  rite  of  dedication  yield  up  her  life  in  the  beginning  of 

and  purification  expressly  forbidden  by  her  days,  yet  she  is  suf&red  thus  to  de- 

the  Levitical  Law ;  how  much  more  sert  her  own  offspring,  upon  a  fanatt* 

must    the    prohibition    be    manifest,  cal  and  uncertain  expectation  of  bliss 

when   the  ceremony  is   extended    to  — instcadof  living  to  instruct  and  form 

cruel  and   undeserved   death   by   this  them  for  the  welfare  of  the' State,  shtt 

fiery  torture  ;  as  is  above  stated !  yields  them  to  perhaps  very  incapablo 

It  was  one  of  the  crimes  of  Ahaz,  or  unworthy  guardians!    Itseemslittle 

that  he  had  done  this  thing  to  his  own  else  than  a  continuation  of  the  sam^ 

son !     2  K.  xvi.  3.     Ezekiel  made  it  frenzy,   which    deceived   the  ancient 

also  the  subject  of  one  of  his  strongest  Zidonians,  Ammonites,  and  Moabiies, 

denunciations  against  Jerusalem,  that*  the  children  of  incest  and  ignorance  of 

they  had  delivered  their  sons  and  daugh-  God!     Frantic  idolatry,   rejection  of 

ters  to  be  thus  sacrificed.     Ez.  xvr;  20.  God,  and  self-destruction,  seem  to  have 

Ez.  XX.  2G-3 1 .  constituted  the  ancient  pedigree  of  their 

The  Egyptians  also  had  several  cities  incestuous  root ! 

termed  Tt/phonian,  where  at  particular  It  may  be 'humbly  lamented  that  Ta 

seasons  sunilar  sacrifices  were  offered,  so  long  a  period  in  human  affairs,  the 

at  Heliopolis,  at  Idithya,  Abarci,  and  advancing  light  of  truth  should  not  yet 

Busiris.    That  objects  thus  devoted,  have  eradicated  from  its  deep  recesses 

were  burnt  alive  upon  a  high  altar,  in  Hindoostan,  the  same  abominations; 

and  thus  sacrificed  for  the  good  of  the  but  it  has  probably  been  reserved  for 

people ;  but  even  this  pretence  is  not  the    approaching   accomplishment  of 

avowed  in  India — and  it  has  never  ap-  that  light,  to  put  down  all  obscurities! 

C eared   that  the  offering  is   proposed  It  is  tor  legislative  wisdom  to  adopt 

ut  as  a  devotedness  of  the  widow  to  with  caution  measures  which,  while 

her  husband   alone ;  and   his  selfish  they  defeat  idolatry  of  its  artifice  and 

pride  learns  to  expect  this   until  his  splendour,  and  selfishiiess  and  avarice 

death  I     At  the  conclusion  of  these  of  their  secret  designs,  shall  forbear  a      , 

Canaanitish  sacrifices,  the  priests  col-  too    hasty  attack  u^cvx:^  tw'^Vw^v^^  ^^fCK«r 

lected  the  ashes  and  scattered  them  ia  judice,  \vVv\cYi.Y<Wj\^\a\3bi^?i\«^««-'^»^ 


496 


Ofiginai  Letter  of  Abp,  TtUotioru 


[June; 


benevolent  design,  ^  and  convert  the 
Uboure  of  Christian  love  into  a  deluge 
of  blood.  A.  H. 


Mr.  Urban,  . 

I  SEND  you  a  copy  of  an  original 
letter  from  Dr.  afterwards  Abp. 
Tillotson ;  but  I  am  unacquainted 
•with  the  name  of  the  Lad)r  to  whom 
it  ii  addressed.  The  letter  is  interest- 
ingf  as  containing  the  characters  of  se- 
veral eminent  Divines  of  the  latter 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
Yours,  &c.  D.  R.  S. 


Bond  Madam.  Sepl^2i^'l"&]89- 
Just  now  I  received  your  LaP*  letter ; 
since  my  last  and  not  before,  I  under- 
ftand  y*  great  averseness  of  y*  parish 
from  D'  Horneck,  so  y'  if  my  Lord  of 
Bedford  had  liked  him,  I  could  not 
have  thought  it  (it,  knowing  how  ne- 
cessary it  is  to  y«  good  effect  of  a 
man's  ministry,  y*  he  do  not  lye  under 
any  great  prejudices  w*^  \«  people. 
The  two  wnom  >'  Bp  of  Chichester 
hath  named  are,  I  think,  ofy*  worthiest 
of  >"*  City  min'",  since  Mr.  Kidder  de- 
clines it,  for  y  reason  given  by  y«  Bp, 
and  if  he  did  not,  could  not  have  it, 
not  because  of  any  inconsistency  in  y« 
preferments,  but  because  y*  King,  hav- 
ing so  many  obligations  yet  to  answer, 
cannot  at  y«  same  time'give  two  such 
preferments  to  one  man.  For  y*  two 
persons  mentioned,  if  comparison  must 
DC  made  between  two  very  good  men, 
I  will  tell  your  LaP  my  free  thoughts 
of  them..  Mr.  Williams*  is  realy  one 
of  y*  best  men  I  know,  and  most  un- 
wearied in  doing  good,  and  his  preach- 
ing is  very  weighty  and  judicious. 
The  other  is  a  truly  pious  man,  and  of 
a  winning  conversation ;  he  preaches 
well,  ana  has  much  y*  more  plausible 
delivery,  and  I  think  a  stronger  voice. 


Both  of  them,  w*^  I  had  alniost  forgot, 
have  been  steady  in  all  changes   of 
of  times!    This  is  y*  plain  truth ;  and 
yet  I  roust  not  conceal  one  narticular 
and  present  advantage  on  Dr.  Free- 
man'sf  side.    On  Sunday  night  last 
y*  King  ask*d  me  concerning  a  City 
min'  whose  name  he  had  forgot ;  but 
said  he  had  a  very  kind  remembrance 
of  him,  having  had  much  conversation 
w«^   him,   w»   his  Majesty  was   very 
young  in  Holland,  and  wonder'd  he 
had  never  seen  him  since  he  came  into 
England;   I  could  not   imagine  who 
he  should  be,  till  his  Ma'^  told  me  he 
was  y*  English  Embassador's  Chaplain 
above  20  years  ago,  meaning  S'  W" 
Temple's ;  upon  y*  I  presently  knew  it 
was  1>  Freeman ;  y*  King  said  y*  was 
his  name,  and  desired  me  to  find  him 
out  and  tell  him  he  had  not  forgotten 
him,  but  remember'd  w^*^  pleasure  y* 
acquaintance  he  had  w^   him  many 
years  ago,  and   had  charged   me,    w" 
there  was  an  opportunity,  to  put  him 
inmindofhim.    This  l' thought  both 
^reat  goodness  in  y*  King,  and  modesty 
m  M'  Freeman,  never  to  shew  himself 
to  y*  King  all  y*  while.     By  y*  your 
LaP  will  judge  who  is  like  to  be  most 
acceptable  to  y*  King,  whose  satisfac- 
tion ai  well  as  service  I  am  obliged  to 
regard,  especialy  in  }*  disp/osal  of  his 
own   preferments ;  though  Mr.  Wil- 
liams be  much  more  m^  friend,  I  men- 
tioned M'  Johnson  again,  but  his  Ma*r 
put  on  other  discourse :  arid  my  Lord 
Frivy  Seal  told  me  yesterday  morning 
y*  y*  Kin^  thought  it  a  little  hard  to 
^ive  pensions  out  of  his  own  purse, 
mstcad  of  Ch.  preferments,  and  tells 
me  M' Johnson  J  is  very  sharp  upon 
me,  his  Lop  called  it  railing,  but  it 
shall  not  move  me  in  y*  least.     His 
LqP  ask*d  me  if  it  would  not  be  well 
to  move  y  King  to  give  him  a  good 
B*****  In  Ireland,  there  being  several 
void ;  I  thought  it  very  well  itit  would 


*  Dr.*  John  WUUams,  afterwards  Bd.  of  Chichetter.  Dunton't  character  of  him  is  as 
IbllowBt  «  This  pious  and  learned  Prelate  was  formerly  Rector  of  St.  Mildred's,  Poultry, 
where  I  had  the  happiness  to  be  personally  known  to  him ;  and  I  have  had  the  honoar  to 
wab  on  his  Lordship  since  hb  deserved  advancement.  I  call  it  deserved,  as  Bp.  Williams 
was  one  whom  no  Friends,  but  his  own  merits ;  no  Party,  bat  that  of  Virtue  ;  no  mean 
adulation,  but  solid  worth  and  distinguishing  goodness,  raised  to  that  place ;  and  this  «d- 

.  vancement  was  with  so  uncontested  a  desert,  that  it  would  have  ai'gued  nesligenee  in  King 
William  (whose  care  was  to  promote  men  of  his  moiderate  principles)  to  have  suffered  hia 
continuing  among  the  crowd  of  the  world.  And.  may  his  Lordship  go  on  as  he  has  begun, 
to  preside  over  his  Province  with  a  gravity  of  admonition,  exemplariness  of  conversation* 
and  integrity  6(  dudpline,  till  the  Great  Bishop  of  Souls  shall  remove  him  from  his  Palace 
at  Chichester  to  the  New  Jerusalem  '.*' 
•f  Dr.  Freeman  and  Mr.  Johnson  are  commended  by  Dunton>  among  nnpaerous  other 

maiaent  coaiotmaXs,  in  his  *<  Life  and  Errors,*'  isi 8,  p.  675. 


iMT,  m.  f/.ii.4n. 


1897.] 


Chiddiiigtjf  Ptaee. — Denton  Fmt,  Suuex. 


49t 


be  acceptable.  His  Lo*  Mid  y>  wu  all 
one,  y  oSti  would  (top  many  mouth* 
as  well  Bi  hi),  w^  I  think  wa*  well 
coiiiider'd-  I  will  uy  do  more  of  n^ 
self,  but  only  thaok  your  La'  for  your 
good  adTice,  w''  1  have  always  a  great 
disposition  to  follow,  and  a  great  deal 
of  leaion,  knowing  it  10  be  sincere  ai 
well  ai  wise.  The  King  has  set  upon 
me  again  h<^  greater  earneitneis  of 
persuasion  than  is  Rl  for  one  who  may 
command.  I  heiij'd  as  earnestly  to  he 
considet'd  in  y*  thing,  and  so  we  parted 
upon  good  terras.  1  hope  somtrthlng 
will  happen  lo  hinder  it.  1  put  it  out 
iif  my  mind  as  much  as  I  c.in,  and  leave 


it  to  y*  good  proiidence  of  God  for  y* 
thing  to  finu  its  own  issue;  to  y*  f 
commend  you  and  yours,  and  am, 
fsad",  yours  by  all  ponible  ohligaliocM, 

J.  TlLLOTSOV. 

<  I  f  M'  Johnson  refuse  y*  offer,  aixl  it 
should  be  my  hard  fortune  not  to  be 
able  to  KCt  out  of  V*  difficulty,  w*^  1 
will,  if  It  he  posaible  to  do  it  withoat 

EniTOCation,  I  know  one  will  do  more 
)r  M'  Johnson  y  was  desired  of  j* 
.King,  for  any  thing  <>■  heshall  know, 
but  still  Of  fruiu  y*  King,  hut  I  hope 
•ome  much  better  way  will  be  found 
y'  there  will  be  neither  opportunity  ncr 
for  this. 


Font  in  DtNTiiN  Cuv"<;if,  Susiix. 


CHIDDINGLY  PLACE;  in  the 
parish  of  Chiddinaly,  Sussex, 
was  in  1574,  and  probably  many 
years  before,  in  the  possession  of  the 
family  of  JeHeray,  as  appears  from  a 
painting  upon  glass,  which  was  a 
few  years  ago  preserved  in  one  of  the 
windows  of  the  present  residence. 
Beneath  the  arms  and  crest  of  Jef- 
feray  was  the  followiug  inscription ; 
"  1674. 
"Jtfferay  ipuATay" 
It  would  seem  that  the  house  waa 
te.buill  at  this  time,  for  over  the  porch 
there  were  remaining,  within  the  me- 
mory of  Mr.  Lashman  of  Chtddingly, 
some  Latin  veisei,  of  which  that  gen. 
tieman   has   preserved    the    followiiig 

On  ike  mt  ndt : 
"  This  intient  house  Mill  dourishing, 

la  Dune  of  Jeff*i*]>, 
Thro'  IcDgth  of  tima  ns  flrutur'il  mueli, ' 

And  io^  ID  ruins  lay. 

GtUT.Mia.Junt,  Ilt7. 


Until  ihst  ieStttj  m*  boni 

Who  built.Ll  mor*  itaely. 
Always  obeyiag  the  comnuNSik- 

Oftba  tjuMo'i  Msjnty."  ~ 
On  Ihe  other  tide : 
"  If  Christ,  who  does  the  stars  Bph<JJ, 

Hia  splendid  nils  lopport, 
There  n»j  tlis  bu'riderbuilJ  hit'lioDse, 

Id  large  snd  smpfs  (6Tt ; 
An  everluting  houia,  in  which. 

The  jnst  sad  godly  iw 
Their  prusee  of  their  Odd  set  fbrth. 

For  aver  aad  for  ays." 

Tliia  mansion  is  rilDated  about  a 
quarterof  a  mile  west  aflht  Chuich  ; 
but  ii  now  reduced  lo  a  oioderaicly 
sited  farm-house,  and  in  the  oecnpa- 
tlon  of  its  rUpeclabIc  proprietor,  Mr. 
Thomas  Gray.  Within  the  memoiy 
ofmany  now  living,  the  building  was 
tnuth  more  cxtenitve  than  at  present, 
and  some  of  iha  rooms  eshibited  tc- 
maius  of  cotisideMble  macnificenee. 
Th#  Hall,  wh\Qln  ^nA«A.'BS\«%V^  > 
cewttirs  agp,  ani  "soi  ftv«v 'wv  ■»  ^»*« 


498 


Ohtetvations  on  Double  Negatives, 


t^une> 


able' state  of  preservation,  was  very 
capacious,  having  at  one  end  a  deep 
gallery,  and  enriched  with  carved  work 
^admirably  executed.  The  view  in 
Plate  II.  was  copied  for  Mr.  Hors- 
field's  •*  History  of  l^ives  and  its  Vi- 
cinity," from  a  drawing  by  Grimm. 

Adjoining  the  house  is  a  lofty  build- 
ing, now  used  as  a  barn.  Tradition 
reports  it  to  have  been  the  private 
chapel  of  the  JefTeray  family,  and  the 
.jianie  it  has  long  borne.  Chapel  Barn, 
seems  to  give  countenance  to  the  re- 


vour  to  lay  them  before  the  pnblic  ia 
your  columns ;  I  am  desiroas  of  excit- 
ing* the  attention  of  our  literati  to  the 
subject.  ^ 

.  Whatever  may  be  the  custom  in  oor 
polished  idiom,  it  is  indubitably  true 
that  two  negatives  in  our  western  dia- 
lect are  used  almost  invariably  to 
strengthen  the  negation.  /  sholi  tdver 
zee  na  moor — 1  shall  never  see  you 
more.  So  much  docs  this  kind  of  ne- 
gation seem  to  be  fundamental,  that  I 
really  wonder  so  many  pains  have  been 


port ;  as  do  also  the  peculiar  form  of    taken  to  weed  it  out  of  our  refined  lan- 
the  large  windows  that  are  still  pre-    guage.     It  appears  to  me  one  of  those 


served,  and  the  traces  o,f  a  gallery 
which  was  taken  down  some  years 
ago*. 

The  most  curious  object  in  the  vil- 
lage Church  of  Denton,  Sussex,  is  a 
fine  old  barrel-shaped  Font,  which 
stands  at  the  western  extremity  of  the 
building,  raised  upon  a  half-decayed 
slab,  about  eight  inches  in  thickness. 
It  is  large  and  circular.  The  inside 
is  lined  with  lead  ;  the. outside  carved 
with  fret-work,  between  an  upper  and 
two  lower  bands  of  roundlets.     It  very 


unfortunate  affectations  introduced  by 
those  who  have  been  more  anxious  to 
latinize  our  language,  than  to  polish 
it  consistently  with  its  actual  structure. 
The  effect  too  has  been  occasionally 
bad ;  as  our  gnmmarians  have  taught 
us  that  two  negatives  destroy  the  ne- 
^tion,  or  are  equivalent  to  an  afBrma- 
tive,  some  of  our  more  fastidious  wri- 
ters occasional W  attempt  an  affirmative 
by  the  use  of'^  two  negatives ;  hence 
they  are  often  understood  to  say  the 
reverse  of    what    they  intend;    thus 


much    resembles  one   in  St.  Anne's  Mason: 

Church,  Lewes,  noticed   in   the   first  « ^^  jja  he  not  employ  the  siren  power. 

volume  of  Mr.  Horsfield's  "  Lewes, '  of  music  and  of  song ;  or,  paintlngrthine 

p.  207;   and   in   our   review   of  that  Sweet  source  of  pure  delight." 

Work,  in  vol.  xciv.   ii.  p.  340.     By  English  Garden, 

favour  of  Mr.  Horsfield.  we  are  en-        t?      1 1_       u       i     •    #  • 

abled  to  give  representations  of  both         For  although  a  c/aWenrancI  taste 

these  early  fonts!     (See  Plate  II.  and  °i'«^^  P^T''-  ^""l' n'^•^u  '"'"'"'?!! 

theFignetteinp.497.)  L^*   unsophisticated    Englishman   will 

°   ,  Z  be  very  likely  to  misunderstand  it. 


9,    'Daily  Terrace^ 


That 


I   AM  greatly  obliged  to  your  Ke- 
vicwer  for  the  handsome  notice  he     .,  «r.  .    ,     .    .  , 

ha.  Uken  of  n,y  work  on  the  Somerset    l^„^!°:r:ir '! ^^  "'^^ 


double  negatives  were  com- 
monly used  to  strengthen  the  negation 
in  the  time  of  Shakspeare,  the  follow- 
ing passages  prove : 


Dialect  in  your  last  Supplement,  a 
work  to  me  of  no  profit  whatever,  al- 
though of  considerable  labour.  When- 
ever it  shall  please  the  public  to  call 
for  a  second  edition  of  it,  I  shall  take 
care  that  it  shall  undergo  a  complete 
revision ;  and  I  have  many  additions 
which,  to  the  philologist,  will,  I  dare 
say,  prove  accepuble.  As,  however,  it 


No  squire  in  debt,  nor  no  poor  knight. 
When  slanders  do  not  live  in.  tongues. 
Nor  cut-purses  come  noMo  throogs.*' 

King  Lear,  Act  3,  Scene  S. 

It  is  true  Shakspeare  puts  these 
words  into  the  mouth  of  a  fool ;  but 
this  proves,  it  appears  to  me,  what  our 
unadulterated  language  in  regard  to 
negatives  then  was,  and  I  may  add 
DOW  also  is. 


is  not  very  probable  that  a  second  edi-        rp.       ^  ,,      .  -  . 

tion  will  be  very  soon  calle*  for,  and  jj^?    following    passage    from    the 

as  some  observations   which   I   have  f'^'su"    f/^"'^^  »*  given  to  the 

made  on  double  negatives,  appear  td  •'^^^"y'ocK. 

me  important,  will' you  do  me  the  fa-  "  So  I  can  give  no  reason,  nor.  will  I  not, 

'_^ More  than  a  lodg'd  hate,  and  a  certain  loatU- 

.  •  Horsfield's  "  Lewes,"  vol.  II.  pp.  64—  \  ^"  Antonio,  that  I  foUow  thus         [ing, 

S0i  nfitwed  io  our  number  for  May,  p.  A  losing  smt  against  him.; 
4i4,  T\\txe  ?c[^  ^\^o   Vat^vde^^  sir  other 


18270        Double  Negatives.^Beauiiei  of  iJtt  Jneieni  Poets.  499' 

in  modern  English*  wri ten  for  an  af- 
firmation, an  affectation  at  once  pe- 
dantic and  intolerable. 

Yours,  &c.        James  Jennings. 


passages  in  the  same  play,  with  double 
negatives. 

Again,  in  As  You  Like  it : 

**  Nor  shall  not  till  necessity  be  serv'd.*' 

Act  2,  Scene?, 
See  also  Henry  the  Fifth,  &c.  &c. 

I  very  well  remember,  more  than 
thirty  years  ago,  that  I  had  a  conversa- 
tion with  one  of  our  most  eminenit 
poets  about  the  meaning  of  the  double 
negative,  in  the  followmg  passage  of 
Milton's  Paradise  Lost,  Book  I. 

'*  They  beard  and  wese  al)atb'd,  and  up  they 

sprung 
Upon  the  wing,  as  when  men  wont  to  watch 
On   duty,  aleepin;;   found  by  whom  they 

dread. 
Rouse  and  bestir  themselves  ere  well  awake. 
Nor  did  they  not  perceive  the  evil  plight 
In  which  they  were,  or  the  fierce  pains  not 

feel." 

And  it  was  contended  that  thetwo 
negatives  here  used,  were  designed  as 
an  aHirmative.  To  me,  however,  they 
appear  most  decidedly  to  strengthen 
the  negation  ;  and  I  have  no  doubt 
that  Milton  so  intended  them.  If  we 
can  for  a  moment  suppose  the  mean- 
ing to  be  affirmative,  that  the  demons 
suddenly  roused  from  sleep,  and  over- 
come by  the  dread  of  being  discovered 
sleeping,  perceived  the  evil  plight  in 
which  they  were,  the  simile  is  point- 
less, not  to  say  nonsensical,  as  applied 
to  them  :  on  (he  other  hand,  the  dread 
at  beine  so  discovered,  absorbed  in 
their  minds  evciy  other  consideration, 
so  that  they  did  not  even  perceive  the 
evil  plight  in  which  they  were,  nor 
did  they  feel  the  fierce  pams.  Surely, 
therefore,  the  two  negatives  here  used 
by  Milton  are  still  negative,  and  tend 
to  strengthen  the  negation ;  although 
it  must  be  admitted  that  sometimes 
these  double  negatives  are  merely 
pleonastic. 

J  t  may  be  said  in  answer  to  all  this, 
•*  These  double  negatives  are  very  vul- 
gar and  often  inelegant.'*  I  reply, 
tl)ey  sometimes  are  eo,  but  we  can 
hardly  expect  to  refine  any  language 
by  proscribing  a  fundamental  itSiom ; 
it  is  better  to  adopt  such  idiom,  and 
endeavour  if  possible  to  find  out  and 
establish  some  rule  by  which  it  may 
be  used  with  force  and  elegance ;  that 
double  negatives  may  be  occasionally 
thus  used  in  our  language,  there  can 
be,  1  think,  no  question.  I  trust, 
therefore,  we  shall  never  again  see,  as 
in  Mason>  above  quoted,  two  neg^tivti 


Beauties  of  the  Ancient  Poets. 

No.  I. 

Translated  from  Sophocles,  CEdip,  Tyr: 
beginning  at 

A(X^i$  tWt  Vfrpa 
A^pfjT*  cbf^nrm  rtXto'avrot 

Strophe  f. 

Who  is  he  whose  fated  name 

Pealed  through  Delphi's  rocka  sublime? 
Who  is  he  whose  deeds  of  shame 

Stain'd  his  purple  hands  with  crime  ? 
Swift  the  tempest-footed  steed 

Flies  from  threatening  fate  above, 
Bid  him  urge  a  swifter  speed, 

Bid  fdm  fiv  the  son  of  Jove. 
Arm'd  in  lightuing,  rob'd  in  fire* 

Mounts  he  now  the  winged  wind« 
Onward  leaps  the  god  with  ire. 

Wildly  stalk  the  fates  behind ! 

Antistrophb  I. 

From  Pamastut'  crest  of  snow 

PeaVd  the  fatal  voice  on  high,  - 
Trace  him  through  the  realms  belaw. 

Who  from  day  and  man  would  fly. 
Speeds  he  through  the  tangled  groves. 

Hides  he  in  the  caves  unknown^ 
Like  the  wandering  bull  he  roves. 

Wretched  y  fugitive,  alone. 
What,  though  flies  he  from  the  sound. 

Thundering  from  earth's  central  bed. 
Still  the  voice  of  Fate  around 

Hovers  deathless  o'er  his  head. 

Strophe  H. 

Oh  !  what  doubts  the  fateful  word 

Wakes  tumultuous  through  my  brain ! 
Shall  the  prophet's  voice  be  heard  ? 

Shall  his  voice  be  heard  in  vain  ? 
Through  my  breast  now  hope  flits  fast. 

Now  alternate  doubts  and  fears, 
Dubious  darkness  veils  the  past. 

Dark  the  present  hour  appears. 
Ne'er  knew  I  what  mortal  hate 

Shook  the  Theban  tyrant's  throne  ; 
Why  then  strain  the  words  of  Fate  .' 
•  Why  doom  CEdipus  alone  ? 

Antistro^he  n. 

Though  almighty  Jove  be  wise. 

Though  Apollo's  eye  be-keen« 
Yet  trace  not  prophetic  eyes 

More  than  mortal  sight  hath  seen. 
Man  might  merit  Wisdom's  wreath> 

Yet  'tis  not  like  Fate  uatn!QN*d.\ 
Truat  not  tSd«ti  0\«  i^»a!$t^'>»\tt«AS^ 


^oa  Col.  MMcdotmld  on  Magntiic  Vwriainm.  [June, 

He  who  «rtt  ihe  citjik  fireed    ,  of  the  needb  mores  towtrds  the   west,  •( 

From  the  winged  vlrgia'B  pow«r»  Fort  Marlborough  and  St.  Helena,  whieh 

Charge  him  not  with  such  a  ilted,  are  titoated  to  the  sooth  of  the  equatar, 

Doom'd  to  iVfiseiy's  joyley  hour.  the  movement  b  direetiy  opposite,  namdy, 

♦  to  the  east."—"  It  is  evident  that  tho  ob- 

Mr.  Urban,    Sttmmerlandt,June2.  •«»▼»*««»  «»de  to  the  north  of  the  line, 

NO  science  can  be  more  intimately  TtLT^i^uS^  JT^  '  "^  "^  ^?? 

connected  with  national  proi  ll^  orAr  M^^^S    a  ^;::!^^^ 

peritv,  than  that  on  which  Navigation  opposite  movement."        '  *  "      ^ 

and  Commerce  indtspensabt^  depend  ; 

and,  therefore,  soch  facilities  as  the         1  ascribed  these  effects  on  the  needle 
extensive  circulation  of  a  work  of  re-  to  the  action  of  solar  heat  on  the  mag- 
pute  like  yours  must  give  to  the  form-  netic  poles,  rendered  weaker  or  stronger 
ation  of  a  true  Theory  qf  Magnetic  Va^  at  dinerent  times  within  the  twenty- 
riation,  are  manifestly  subservient  to  ^ou^  hours,  accordiug  to  the  presence 
so  essential  an  object.     Further  obser-  s  or  absence  of  the  Sun  :  but  recent  ex- 
vations  and  experience  enable  us   to  periments  evince  that  the  direct  heat 
rectify  and  improve  this  great  subject,  of  this  glorious  luminary  is  the  more 
in  the  rapid  progress  it  is  making;  and  efficient  cause.     Professor  Morichini 
with  this  view  1  furnished  my  esteem-  ^^  discovered  that,  when  unmagne- 
ed  friend  and  the  intrepid  navigator,  tised  needles  were  placed  for  a  abort 
Captain  Parry,  with   my  conceptbns  time  in  the  violet  rays  of  the  spectrum 
of  this  infant  science,  in  order  that  this  formed    by   passing    the   Sun's     rays 
intelligent  character,  and  the  able  men  through  a  prism,  polarity  was  acquired, 
about  him,  might  consider  my  posi-  ConsiTiachi  and  Beard  tried  this  expe- 
tions,  and  suggest  what  might  be  cal-  finptcm  without  succeeding ;  while  the 
cuiated  to  advance  it  to  its  much  wish-  ingenious  Mrs.  Somerville  has  render- 
ed and  ultimate  stage.  ed  her  name  famous  by  the  manner  in 
Some  important  discoveries  recently  which  she  succeeded,  which  was  by 
made  relative  to  the  magnetic  eflfects  covering  the  half  of  her  needles  with 
of  solar  heat,  elucidate  clearly  one  cu-  p?pci"f  and  by  placing  them  in  the 
rioixs  department  of  the  science  of  Va-  violet  rays  of  the  spectrum  given  by 
riation,  first  noticed   by  Graham   in  the  prism,  the  uncovered  part  became 
1722,  and  by  Canton  m  1 756,  who  ^  nonh  pole,  and  more  readily  than 
marked   the  daily  variation,  without  when  the  needles  were  situated  in  the 
being  enabled  to  account  for  it  on  le-  green,  blue^  or  indigo  rays.    This  phi- 

Sitimate  grounds.  I  first  observed  this  ">sophical  lady  covered  one  half  of  a 
escription  of  variation  in  the  south-  needle  with  pa|)er,  and  enveloped  the 
ern  hemisphere  in  17945,  at  Ben-  other  in  green  ribbon.  Thus  prepared, 
coolen,  and  in  179^  at  St.  Helena  ;  and  exposed  to  a  strong  Sun,  it  became 
asceruining  that  it  moved  eastward  at  magnetic,  and  still  more  readily,  when 
the  very  time  when  it  moved  westward  the  Sun's  rays  were  concentrated.  She 
in  the  other  hemisphere.  If  I  had  found  that  a  needle  half  covered  with 
made  these  observations  as  far  south  paper,  and  placed  under  a  blue  glass, 
as  London  is  north,  I  should  have  exposed  for  some  time  to  a  strong  Sun, 
found  the  quantum  of  diurnal  varia-  acouircd  polarity, 
tion  'similar;  and  as  I  stated  at  the  ^^r-  Baumgartner of  Vienna  polish- 
time,  it  would  have  been  found  greater  ^^  zones  on  an  oxidised  or  rusty  needle; 
with  a  needle  on  the  more  delicate  sus-  a^d  after  having  been  placed  for  some 
pended  princinle.  My  account  of  this  time  in  the  Sun,  the  polished  zones  bc- 
interesting  phenomenon,  printed  in  came  north  poles,  and  the  oxidated  or 
our  Philosophical  Transactions,  is  re-  rusty  paru  sou^h  poles.  On  trying  lon- 
ferred  to  as  follows,  in  the  proceedings  gitudinal  polished  stripes,  no  effect  was 
of  the  French  Academy  of  Science.  obtained. 

"  Mr.  MacdoDftld's  Uboars  led  to  two  T®  ^!'  ^*^"»tic  of  Cambridge,  maff- 

Important  result*.    The  first  (which  every  j^^tic  science  is  much  indebted.     He 

philosopher  appears  to  have  adopted)  ia,  l^as  discovered  that  the  oscillations  of 

that  the  daily  variations  between  the  tro-  a  magnetic  needle  stop  sooner  in  the 

pica  have  a  sensibly  lets  extent  thaa  in  £u-  ^^n,  than  .in  the  «hade.     He  found 

rope.    The  second  (to  which  less  attention  that  the,  oscillations  in  the  same  time 

baa  beeuyaid)  is,  that  at  the  sane  huun  at  were  fewpr  in  l,he  Sun,  than  under  co- 

irA/cA  la  our  dunate  the  oorthenaxuamity  ^«-    Vl^  ;vw«U\\«A,  vV^^  vK^  higher 


Ifi^r.}  (X.  MaedoMdd  on  UttgnHk  VarkHUm.  >  501 

ihe  temperature  of  the  air^  the  more  |>roceta.    Suppodng  that  the  infervto<« 

the    magnetic    intensity  diminished!  tiou  of  icemightprefentacrifingatthfi 

and  by  a  Kfies  of  well-cond acted  ex*  actual  site  of  the  South-east  Pole,  the 

perimeots,  he  makes  it  clearly  appear  oscillations  of  the  needle  where  pr»> 

that  the  solar  rays  have  a  magnetic  ef-  gress  might  be  interrupted,  compared 

feet,  independent  of  their  heat.    The  with  the  same  number  of  oscilbtiont 

oscilbtions  may  be  rendered  slower  or  in  the  same  time  on  the  line  of  no  va« 

fewer  in  ihe  Sun,  by  the  expansion  of  nation  in  ihe  other  hemisphere,  woyld 

the  needle  by  direct  heat;  but  from  leave  the  distance  between  the  place  of 

the  other  experiments,  it  would  ap-  observation  and  the  supposed  knowa 

pear  that  the  diurnal  variation  is  occa-  place  of  the  come^at'Oote  Nortlvweai 

sioned  principally  by  the  direct  mag-  role,  equal  to  the  distance  between 

hetic  action  of  solar  heat.     At  Port  the  place  where  the  ice  stopped  pro- 

Bowen,  the  sreatest  west  variation  was  gress,  and  the  real  place  of  tne  South* 

when   the  Sun    was   west  from   ihe  east   Pole.     For    reasons    stated,    the 

filace;  and  at  Bencoolen  and  St.  He-  needle  would  be  shaded  in  both  plaoea 

ena,  the  maximum  of  east  diurnal  va-  of  observation,  and  the  similarity  of 

nation  happened  when  the  Sun  was  atmospheric  temperature  would  be  at- 

situated  east  from  these  places.    The  tended  to. 

needle  returned  slowly  to  the  opposite  It  appears  that  the  annual  increase 
position,  when  the  Sun  ceased  to  be  or  deciease  of  the  variation  is  uneqiud. 
on  the  attracting  side.  This  may  arise  from  the  effect  of  mag- 
There  can  be  no  doubt  now,  but  neiic  strata,  and  more  apparently  from 
that  the  Sun  is  the  great  source  of  the  situation  of  the  two  magnetic  poles, 
magnetic  power,  communicated  to  the  relative  to  the  place  of  observation, 
magnetic  poles  through  the  two  points  From  a  medium  of  3o6  observatioua 
on  the  earth,  where  the  dipping  needle  taken  by  me  at  Bencoolen  tn  1794,  on 
will  stand  perpendicular.  The  mi^*  a  true  meridian,  the  variation  was 
netic  fluid  issues  in  all  directions  from  1*  8'  east.  In  1822,  the  Survevor-ge- 
these  primary  points;  and  thus  the  neral  found  there  a  variation  oi  ]«  IV 
nearest  extremity  of  the  needle  is  at-  east.  Thus,  in  28  years  the  annual  in- 
iracted  towards  them  in  the  inverse  ra-  crease  has  been  there  onlv  fifteen  se- 
tioof  the  square  of  the  distance.  conds.  In  1794  the  North-west  Pole 
It  is  earnestly  hoped  that  his  Royal  was  about  3?  degrees  to  the  east  of  the 
Highness  ihe  Lord  High  Admiral  will  meridian  of  Bencoolen ;  and  the  south- 
direct  the  highly  important  discovery  east  was  31  degrees  to  the  east  of'  it; 
to  be  made,  without  which  no  theory  and  conseoueiitly  they  neutraliied. 
can  be  established,  viz.  the  real  posi-  nearly  the  effect  of  each  other,  which 
tion  of  each  magnetic  pole.  Suppoa-  will  be  the  case  for  a  long  period  to 
ing  the  approximated  position  near  the  come ;  and  this  accounts  also  for  the 
truth,  we  have  a  spherical  triangle,  of  very  small  and  slow  alteration  obsenr- 
which  two  sides,  the  colatitude  of  the  able  in  the  variation  all  over  the  east- 
.pole,  the  colatitude  of  London,  and  ern  seas  and  islands  during  a  lon^  past 
the  intercepted  angle  of  100^,  being  period.  A  most  important  science 
the  difference  of  longitude,  are  given,  must  continue  to  float  in  uncertainty 
to  And  the  angles  at  the  base,  one  of  and  coniecture,  till  the  rate  of  move- 
which  ought  to  be  the  variation  there,  ment,  the  nature  of  the  path,  and  the 
This  gives  the  calculated  variation  positive  site  of  both  magnetic  Poles 
equal  to  23*^  17',  less  by  i^  13'  than  shall  have  been  ascertained.  1  men- 
24®  30",  the  observed  variation.  Now  tion  both  Poles,  because  some  eminent 
the  calculated  ought  to  exceed  the  ob-  {philosophers,  seeing  anomalies  of  varia- 
served  variation,  because  this  last  it  tion  in  several  places,  have  placed 
diminished  by  ihe  action  of  the  distant  poles  in  various  situations,  in  order  to 
south-east  pole  on  the  south  extremity  ascribe  to  them  such  irregularities  of 
of  the  needle  at  London.  All  this  variation.  This  anomaly  of  variation 
proves  that  we  have  not  as  yet  got  the  occurs  in  the  East  Indies,  in  Hudson's 
true  position  of  the  North-west  Pole«  Bay,  about  Cape  Horn,  among  the 
It  lies  not  far  from  Coppermine  River;  South  Zetland  Islands,  and  remarka- 
and  by  obuining  experimentally  its*  bly  about  the  Falkland  Islands,  where- 
position,  and  the  same  ten  years  hence,.  Captain  Basil  Hall,  in  1824,  found  an 
Its  path  and  real  rate  of  movement  will  east  variation  of  twenty-4wo  de^eet  v 
be  clearly  ascertained,  and  only  by  tucb  wVnW  OQ»»n&oi^  ^^sbd^^  >a^  v\^A^ 


Col.  Macionald  ■  on  'Magnetic  Fariaiion. 


50^ 

made  it  S3o  30'  ia  that  very  place; 
giving  only  a  degree  and  a  half  of  dif- 
ference  during  60 years.  In  1824,  the 
"North-west  Pole  was  ten  degrees  west 
from  Port  Egmont  at  these  islands; 
and  supposing  no  Sooth-east  Pole  to 
exist.  Captain  Hall  ou^ht  to  have 
found  a  small  west  variation.  Again, 
in  18S4,  the  South-east  Pole  was  nearly 
under  the  meridian  of  Port  Egmont, 
and  being  much  nearer  than  the  other, 
consequently  the  west  variation  due  to 
.the  pinef  Pole  ought  to  appear  reduced 
or 'neutralized  to  nearly  nothing.  To 
account  for  this  anomaly  of  22^  east, 
where  in  Commodore  Byron's  time 
also  it  ought  to  have  been  still  farther 
west.  Dr.  Halley  and  Professor  Hans- 
teen  situate  a  magnetic  pole  in  the 
south-west  quarter.  Captain  Cook, 
in  1774,  went  within  a  few  degrees  of 
the  assigned  sites  of  these  poles,  and 
found  no  indications  of  their  existence. 
Supposing  them,  however,  to  be  ac- 
tually as  placed,  and  to  attract  the 
south  end  of  the  needle  so  as  to  incline 
the  nojth  end  into  the  east  variatiun  at 
Port  Egmont,  what  nmsi  become  of 
the  undoubted  and  known  attraction 
of  the  two  poles  actually  operating? 
These  poles  acting  as  they  do,  con- 
jointly, would  counteract  the  attrac- 
tion of  the  poles  of  Halley  and  Hans- 
teen,  and,  as  before,  neutralize  the 
twenty-two  degrees  of  east  variation 
10  nearly  nothing.  But  still  this  va- 
riation actually  appears,  and  how  are 
we  to  account  for  it  among  such  dis' 
trading  allractionsf  It  is  well  known 
that  the  magnetic  poles  within  the 
earth  impart  magnetism  to  masses  of 
iron,  iron  ore,  iron  bars,  &c. ;  and  that 
such  magnetism  in  each  hemisphere 
is  of  an  opposite  quality  or  name.  At 
Port  Egmont  die  south  end  of  the 
needle  would  point  to  the  upper  part 
of  a  common  fire-grate ;  and  the  north, 
to  the  hoUom;  while  its  action  would 
be  neutralized  at  the  middle  or  mag- 
netic equator  of  the  mass  of  iron. 
Supposing  these  islands  to  be  based  or 
founded  on  metallic  ore,  or  on  mag- 
netic strata,  it  may  be  consistent  with 
well-known  facts  to  suppose  that  the 
magnetic  needle  is  attracted  as  above ; 
and  according  as  one  end  may  be  re- 
pelled, or  the  reverse,  on  established 
principles,  the  local  attraction,  unac- 
countable by  polar  action,  as  stated, 
may  be  accounted  for  in  the  manner 
iy»ecified.  Navi^rators  call  this  the  at- 
■ifactiou  of  the  hxid,  but  the  dcsctip^ 


[Jufie, 


tion  which  takes  place  on  the  pliior* 
met  of  a  quadrant  is  not  of  a  magnetic 
nature ;  but  is  referred  to  matter  act' 
ing  on  matter.  The  shell  of  the  earth 
is  richly  stored  with  metals  for  the  use 
of  man{  and  of  these  iron  is  the  most 
useful.  The  needle  is  acted  on  by 
metallic  substances  unequally  situatecf. 
Where  they  abound,  they  acquire  po- 
larity ;  and  philosophers  imagine  poles 
where  the  observed  effect  is  due  to 
magnetic  strata  in  many  instances. 
These  8up(X)sed  poles  are  placed  in  si- 
tuations not  sanctioned  by  experience, 
or  any  convincing  rationale.  With 
the  two  KNOWN  magnetic  poles,  and 
with  a  knowledge  of  their  effect  on 
metallic  strata,  the  variation  can  be 
rationally  accounted  fur.  It  appears 
that  more  poles  than  two  would  de- 
stroy each  other's  effects,  and  would 
embarrus  calculation,  and  render  k 
uncertain,  if  not  impossibFe. 

As  many  have  sup(>osed  that  each 
magnetic  pole  has  its  peculiar  mag- 
netFc  equator,  it  is  necessary  to  state 
the  real  fact  of  ihe  case,  as  a  compo^ 
nent  part  of  the  theory  as  now  under- 
stood. The  true  magnetic  primary 
meridian  is  a  circle  on  the  globe,  pass- 
ing through  both  magnetic  poles ;  and 
it  crosses  the  terrestrial  equator  in  Qi* 
30'  west,  and  86°  east  longitude.  The 
east  and  west  divisions  of  this  circle 
will  be  unequal,  because  the  magnetic 
poles  are  not  at  present  at  equal  dis- 
tances from  the  poles  of  the  earth.- 
Frora  the  North-west  Pole  lay  off  the 
half  of  the  west  division  of  this  primary 
magnetic  meridian,  and  it  will  extend 
to  l()^  south  latitude,  in  9I"  west  lon- 
gitude. From  the  north-west  or  south- 
east pole  lay  off  the  half  of  the  east  di- 
vision, and  it  will  terminate  in  16^  30' 
north  latitude,  and  nearly  under  the 
meridian  of  8(^0  east  longitude.  The 
first  of  these  latitudes  will  give  the 
farthest  south,  and  the  second  the  far- 
thest north  point  of  the  magnetic 
equator,  common  to  both  magnetic 
poles.  The  needle  in  every  part  of 
ihe  primary  magnetic  meridian  will* 
lie  in  the  plane  of  both  magnetic  poles, 
and  will  have  no  dip  in  the  above  lati- 
tudes, being  rendered  horizontal  by 
the  equal  attraction  of  the  magnetic 
poles  at  eoual  distances.  In  every 
other  part  of^  the  circle,  it  will  dip  to- 
wards the  nearest  pole  magnetic.  In 
no  other  situation,  excepting  on  this 
magnetic  circle,  will  the  needle  point, 
al  lV\e-  «;iu\e.  v\wi^  vo  VxaVv  \xk»^u^ti<c 


1827.1  On  the  Saxon  Imcriplian  m  Leomimier  Church.  50S 

poles.     When  the  nearest  magnetic  as  also  the  extreme  points  of  northing 
pole   is    between .  any  place  and    the  and  soothing  of  the  magnetic  equator, 
nearest  terrestrial  pole,   the  meridian  The  position  of  these  two  places  far- 
passing  over  that  place  and  these  poles,  thest  north  and  south,  will  be  found 
is  cskWcd  the  line  of  no  variation  to  such  always  by  halving  the  west  and  cast 
place;    and   this   meridian  continued  unequal  divisions  of  the  primary  mag- 
oeyond  the  terrestrial  pole  to  the  niag-  nelic   meridian    passing    through  ,tbe 
neiic  equator  on  the  other  side,  will  two  magnetic  poles  round  the  globe.'- m 
be  a  line  of  no  variation  to  the  inha-        The  mgenious  galvanic  experiments 
bitants  living  under  it.    On  this  line  of  ^rsted»  Ampere,  and  Arago,  evince 
the  needle  will  not  point  exactly   to  the  existence  of  east  and  west  mag- 
the  nearest  magnetic  pole,  because  the  netic  currents  occasioned  by  the  Sun 
other  end  of  it  is  attracted  by  the  more  in  his  course ;  and  producing  by  the 
distant   magnetic  pole  in  the  inverse  action   of  magnetic  caloric  heat,  the 
ratio  of  the  square  of  the  distance ;  and  diurnal  variation,   always    greater   in 
therefore  the  observer   must   move  a  summer  than   in  winter.    The  main 
little  to  the  east  or  west  of  the  place  magnetic  current  flows  in  every  direci- 
(according  to  the  position  of  the  more  tion  from  pole  to  pole,  diminishing  in 
distant  magnetic  pole),  in  order  that  iritensity  inversely  as  the  square  of  the 
the-  needle,  acted  on  by  both  poles,  distance,  and  equal  in  strength  on  the 
may  be  in  the  true  line  of  no  variation  magnetic  eouator,  where  the  currents 
of  such  place.     Supposing  both  mag-  acting  equally  on  both  extremities  of 
netic  poles  of  equal  strength  or  inten-  the  needle,  renders  it  horizontal.         > 
sity,  two  conditions  are  requisite   to        This  useful  and  interesting  subject; - 
render  the  needle  horizontal,  or  devoid  Mr.  Urban,  is  attracting  much  atten- 
of  dip.     T^ie  first  is,  that  such  place  tion ;  and  in  order  to  elicit  discussion 
must   be   at  an  equal   distance   from  of  a  new  science  intimately  connected 
both  magnetic  poles ;  and  the  second  with  public  welfare,  I  state  from  time 
is,  that  a  line  drawn  from  each  mag-  to  time  vvhat*may  tcrid  to  advance  it 
netic  pole  to  such  place,  should  form  gradually  to  an  established  theory,  on 
nearly  an  equal  angle  with  its  nieri-  which  safety  in  "the  trackless  deep** 
dian,  or  with  the  parallel  of  latitude,  so  much  depends, 
as   these   angles  are  complements  to        Yours,  &c.      John  MACDoarALD. 
each  other,  to  ninety  degrees.    There  ^ 
are  only  two  places  on  the  terrestrial         Mr.  Ureant,  June  12. 
equator  that  will  include  these  condi-  'VT'OUR  Saxon  readers  are  much  ob- 
tions.    The  one  is  at  present  in  8®  east,       X    liged  to  you  and  your  Correspond- 
and  the  other  in  172®  west  lougitude.  ent  S.  Y.  E.  for  the  republication  of 
The   magnetic    crosses  the  terrestrial  the   Inscription    found  on   the  south 
equator  at  these  points,  where  also  of  wall  of  Leominster  Church.     Nothing 
course  the  needle  will  be  horizontal,  can  be  more  groundless  than  the  ol^ 
If  a  line    be  drawn    through   these  jections  raised  against  the  authenticity 
points,  it  will   be  nearly  the  present  of  this  Inscription ;  nor  does  it  require 
situation    of   the    magnetic    equator,  the  suuport  of  a  similar  tablet  of  brass 
which  is  constantly  altering,  on  ac-  formerly  affixed  to  a  column  of  the 
couru  of  the  perpetual  movement  of  Abbey  Church  at  Glastonbury,  as  no- 
the  magnetic   poles.     The  magnetic  ticed  by  Usher  (Antiquitates,  p.  9,  ed. 
equator,  as  at  present  situated,  passes  a  1698).    The  age  of  the  latter  is  oncer- 
little  to  the  north  of  Pharnambooco  in  tain  ;  and  it  records  an  event  which, 
Brazil;   near  to  Cape  Rocket,  to  th^   if  true,  has  been  so  blended  with  the 
south  of  the  entrance   into   the  Red  marvellous  and  the  superstitious,  as  to 
Sea ;  to  4he  south  of  Goa  on  the  coast  throw  an   air  of  suspicion   over   the 
of  Malabar;  10  the  south  of  Vizagapa-  whole  story.    The  facts  recorded  in 
tarn  ;  to  the  north  of  Cambodia;  over  the  Leominster  Inscription  are  not  of 
the  south  of  Manilla  ;  through  the  Ca-  this  nature;  and  whether  presened  in 
rolinas-Islands  ;   over  the  equator,  as  brass  or  stone,  or  in  any  other  way,  it 
mentioned  ;  and  over  the  north  of  the  a  point  of  no  great  importance;  but 
Marquesas  Islands.     In  proportion  as  the  probability  is,  that  tne  original  in- 
the  magnetic  poles  move  in  their  or-  scription  being  partly  decayed,  or  in 
bits  within  the  earth,  the  points  where  danger  of  destruction,  wa&  Ct^\Bv  Vu^ 
the  magnetic    crosses    the    terrestrial  historical  \mY^t\aLtic^  ^^kxca^  Hitst^cc^ 
i^qnator  will  be  hund  more  eastward  ;  of  be\rv|^  t^ii^yi«^  vcv  V^t^a*  ^\..%.\»s^'^ 


504  Deftnt€  of  the  EngUih  I/ntMrvkiet.  ['^ae, 

period.    The  value  of  the  information  Kenelwdrth,Clent,Kenilsham»Wioch*> 

contained  in  it  consists  in  this  :  that  it  combe,  Hereford,  Sutton,  Kenchester, 

is  toniemporary.    Of  this  there  is  in-  Thorney,    St.  Alban's,   Nottinirham* 

lemal  evidence.    The  writer,   if  we  Warwick,Glouce8ter,  Stamford,  Berke^ 

may  so  call  him,  speaks  in  the  first  ley,  Tutbury,    Runcorn,  Tamwoilh, 

g;rson,  and  gives  us  the  histor^f  of  his  £ddesbuiT»  Sempringham,  Ltncoln, 
mily  and  property.  That  family  was  Cuckamsley,  Oftchurch,  Krngsland, 
of  the  Royal  race  of  Mbrcia  ;  and  the  Kenelworth,  Clinton  (the  same  with 
property  comprised  most  of  the  ancient  Cleni  before  mentioned),  from  which 
fortresses  and  lands  of  tfoe  Mercian  place,  and  not  Glymptoo  in  Oxford- 
Kings.  How  much  of  this  property  is  shire,  the  noble  family  of  Newcastle 
still   vested   in  those  noble   families,  takes  its  name. 

who  are  the  representatives  and   de-        I  will  conclude  with  some  remarks 

tcendanu  of  the  Saxon  Kinss  of  Mer-  and  corrections.     For  aelc  read  aec, 

cia,  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  ,\  ^.  eac,  also,  eke;  hebbe  is  under- 

who  IS  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Rem-  ^^^^  ^^^^^  ronrecan ;  for  nir  read  ml, 

BALDS  of  Clinton,  may  perhaps  be  „^      .^^  fLt  fnver  &c.;  Vr  may  be 

capable  of  ascertaining  with  the  great-  ^„3ijered  an  Ste  polation  «  eTpfai«^ 

ei.t  facility,  by  tracing  it  either  to  the  ,         e  wtc     e      r"*"""  ••  «?»j»i«ii«- 

Kenelms   of  ^Leominster,  or   to  the  ^oryof  by«;  for  majopme  read  ma- 

Rembalds  of  Clinton,  now  Clent  in  lf>m^' 

Staffordshire.    With  a  view  to  the  elu-  Yours,  &c.     ^  J.I. 

cidation  of  these  points,  I  have  ven-  ♦ 

lured  to  give  you,  Mr.  Urban,  niv  in-  Dbfencb  of  the  English 

terpretation  of  the  topography  of  the  Uaivbrsities. 

inscription,  which  diners  in  some  in-  //^      /    >   *  ^ 

sunces  from  that  of  your  Correspond-  (Concluded from  p.  3g2.) 

ent  S.  Y.  E.     For  example,  Deotij--  HP  H  E    University     of    Cambridge 

byjuj  is  there  translated  Tewkesbury,  ,  *■ ,  can  certainly  with  no  degree  of 

as  if  the  reading  were  Deoaj-bjpij;  justice  be  considered   as  defective  in 

whereas  I  consider  Deowrbynir  to  be  "*^    [  '^^"'"S\     Mathematics    have 

the  correct  reading,  and  that  Tutbury  '°"8  been  considered  the  best  practical 

in    Staffordshire    is    intended,  —  not  fys^^m  of  logic.    The  art  of  reasoning 

Tcwksbury  in  Gloucestershire.     Here  "  «sentially  necessary  in  everydepart- 

we  may  remark,  Mr.  Urban,  by  the  mc"^  and  occurrence  of  hfe.    The  sys- 

way,  that  in  Suffordshire,  as  well  as  ^^^  ^J  education  also,  which  we  are 

in  Oxfordshire,  and   other  counties,  ^a»;nt>ngly  told  "is  no  suitable  prepa. 


Saxon  ancestors  also  before  their  con-  {jngu's^^^^^  members,  whose  lives  have 

version  to  Christianity,  which  was  not  °?*"  ^P*"^  I"   watchmi;  public  opi- 

cffeciually  and  generally  completed  at  °*.°"''  .*"°   *"  accelerating  or  stem- 

so  early  a  period  as  some  would  per-  °*'"J5  ^"^  progress  of  public  virtue  or 

suade  us.     Hence  Tutsbury  and  Tet-  P"^"5  ^^^'    The  present  component 

bury    or    TeutVBury,   Tetsworth  or  J™f ™*'C"  of  the  University  of  Cam- 

TeutV  Worth,  Great  and  Little  Tew,  ?"^«*^V  f^  «'«   ^"fther    told,    are  a 

&c.  &c.    But  the  further  illustration  ..""^re  pigmv  race,— mere algebraisU." 
of  this  curious  subject  I  leave  to  Mr.  ^^*"  r'^'^l?  ?  «Wer  sons  (I  forbear  to 

Bowles;  from  whom  we   may  soon  «»«n^'<>n    »'\'ng  characteis,  many  of 

expect  a  considerable  aildition  to  our  ^??'"  ^°"\^  ^®IL**^/    comprison 

topographical  stores,  in  the  Parochial  '^""    these,)  possibly    be    deemed   a 

History  of  Bremhill.     At  present  I  P*Pi?y  ^^^^  '?  literature  or  science, 

shall  confine  myself  to  the  Leominster  ,^"*''^  '[**  ranks  in  the  number  of  her 

Inscription,  where  the  places  recorded  ^^^^^  heroes  the  names  of  a  Bacon, 

1  conceive  to  be  these:  Chelmsford,  f  Newioi^aMilton,aDryden,  a  Benu 

Peterborough  •,  Lichfield,   Leicester,  ^^"f'J"'  f  P^"^*^,^    .     „,        ,    „ 

, :  Thai  our  ••  Senior  Wrangler"  was 

*     *  lo    the   original,    Medeswelhanutede,  not  much  more  than  a  mere  algebraist, 

the  aneieDt  oame  of  the  place ;    before  as  he  identifies  himself  with  the  Uoi- 

Burghp    Oiidmlmrght     and    Peterbonmgk,  ^^n\V^,  Yie  may,  upon  his  own  pre- 

ntns  lAtnidoetd  by  the  love  of  mnova^on.  ic\\«n,  c^tXaAtX^  <iiyci<\\i^^.     Vlv«\a%, 


1897.]                    D^€»c^  vf  th§  Bigiuh  Umoeritikt.  506 

•lioweTer,  di  the  advmnttgee  of  able  it  if  io  any  other  existing  Institntiony 
and  experienced  tators,  the  wDrestrain-  of  acquiring  a  solid  foundation  either 
«d  use  of  extensive  libraries  oirerfkivr-  in  literature  or  science.  The  expeoeiy 
ing  with  the  best  productions  in  every  too,  so  far  from  being  exorbitant,  does 
species  of  learning,  the  best  public  not  exceed,  and  in  many  cases  falls  far 
lectures  of  erety  description,  we  would  short  of,  what  would  necessarily  be  re» 
candidly  hope  that  all  these  were  not  quired  in  educating  any  young  man 
rejectee  when  they  were  daily  and  for  the  Pulpit,  the  Bar,  the  Senate,  or 
hourly  within  his  reach,  and  that  he  any  of  the  superior  walks  of  life.  The 
left  the  arms  of  Aima  Mai€r  something  truth  of  ^^is  statement  I  can  vouch  for 
more  than  a  "  mere  algebraist,"  a  do-  from  actual  experience.  For  the  va- 
tard  in  leaming,  or  a  driveller  in  r ions  opportunities  of  improvement  in 
science.  If  he  left  her,  indeed,  thus  all  the  different  arts  and  jMsiences,  some 
unprepared  to  enter  upon  the  world,  it  of  which  have  been  already  pointed 
was  undoubtedly  his  own  fault,  and  out,  daily  supplied  in  those  establish- 
the  blame  of  his  failures  no  more  at-  menta,  what  would  not  have  been  la* 
caches  to  the  system  of  education  esta-  crificed  by  an  Aristotle  and  a  Pliny? 
blished  in  his  parent  University,  than  Each  of  our  English  Universities, 
to  the  innoceac  hatchet,  sharpened  and  for  a  long  time,  laid  exclusive  claim  to 
{irepared  to  cut  down  the  ancient  te-  their  separate  and  distinct  provinces, 
nant  of  the  forest  for  the  protection  Polite  Literature  and  the  Muses  were 
and  use  of  man,  is  to  be  attributed  the  anxiously  wooed  upon  the  banks  of 
pain  which  it  causes  by  involuntarily  the  Isis,  whilst  Mathematics  and  the 
slipping  and  lacerating  the  foot  or  the  Sciences  were  not  less  assiduously  court- 
arm  of  an  imprudent  operating  me-  ed  amid  Granta's  academic  groves.  In 
chanic.  We  forbear  to  notice  his  sub-  consequence,  however,  of  some  late 
Mquent  struggles  and  disappointments,  improvements  in  each,  we  may  now 
They  invariably  emanateo  from  the  flatter,  ourselves  that  philology  and 
same  cause,— from  his  arrogance,  his  science  may  ^  hand  in  hand,  and  be 
indecision,  his  imprudence,  the  total  a  mutual  assistance  to  each  other  in 
neglect  of  the  many  advantages,  and  their  respective  districts.  This  is  cer- 
the  unskilful  management  of  those  in-  tainly  the  surest  method  of  securmg 
struments  which  his  mode  of  educa-  respectability  to  each.  Amid  all  those 
tion  had  kindly  furnished  him  with,  happy  emendations,  we  have  never- 
and  which,  had  they  been  prudently  theless  heard  that  it  is  the  hope  and 
used  in  after-life,  woukJ  have  undoubt-  wish  of  one  of  the  leading  mathenui- 
edly  conducted  him  to  honour,  toemo-  ticiansof  the  present  day,  and  a  pro-* 
lument,  and  to  happiness.  His  gross  fessor  of  natural  philosophy,  too,  in 
ingratitude,  however,  and  some  other  one  of  our  Universities,  that  he  may 
traits  in  his  character,  can  admit  of  no  live  to  see  the  day  wheu  abstract 


possible  excuse.  He  seems  to  have  sonin^  shall  supply  every  use  of  figures 
acted  much  in  the  same  manner  as  and  diagrams,  botn  in  pure  and  mixed 
another  Cantab,  also  a  member  of  the  mathematics.  Our  sincere  wish  wduld 
same  body,  and  well  known  to  the  be  the  direct  contrary  of  this;  we 
writer  of  this,  who,  when  a  mathema-  would  heartily  pray  "  that  there  never 
tical  examination  was  approaching,  in-  may  be  wanting  a  supply  of  6t  and 
variably  devoted  his  attention  to  the  able  men  to  serve  God  both  in  Church 
perusal  of  Homer,  of  Horace,  or  Vir-  and  State,*'  and  on  this  account  beg 
gil.  His  success  in  those  ordeals  may  "  a  blessing  upon  all  schools  and  semi- 
be  easily  conjectured.  naries  of  sound  learning  and  religious 
Exorbitancy  of  expense  has  also  education;**  but  we  would  devoutly 
been  frequently  and  confidently  urgped  J^J*  at  the  same  time,  that  that  pe- 
as an  argument  against  University  edu-  riod  may  never  arrive  when  the  pure 
cation.  It  has  been  arrogantly  asked,  ceometric  reasoning  of  a  Newton,  a 
for  all  the  loss  of  time  and  expenditure  MacFtiurin,  a  Cotes,  and  an  Atwood, 
of  money  necessarily  incurred,  what  may  be  superseded  by  a  skilful  mar- 
advantages  does  Alma  Maier  confer  sballingof  symbols,  the  doctrine  of  va- 
upon  her  sons?  I  would  positively  riations,  as  the  calculus  of  the  sines, 
ianswer,  that  every  opportunity  is  am-  From  all  those  combined  advantages, 
fh^  afforded  in  those  seminaries,  and  however,  from  this  happy  union  ofsi^ 
that  in  a  noch  superior  degree  to  what  lid  and  le^titAi  Vevcikvci^;^  v«%.  ^«s^i^> 

GxNT.  Mio.  c/tmr,  lit?. 

4  .  . 


500                      Imperftci  Edueaiiom  in  our  UtivcrtUiaf.  t<IVM, 

boldiv  venture  to  assert  that  nore  real  or  pilfering,  a  good  sehoo)  for  devdop- 

benehU  have  not  accrued  to  the  State,  ing  genius  or  mental   iroprovemeal* 

and  that  too  at  a  less  expenditure  of  The  general  iufluence  of  suob  habila 

time  and  money,  from  any  other  lite-  is,  to  brotifv  the  man,  lo  quench  mind, 

rary  establishment  of  any'  kind,  than  and  blunt  the  moral  sense.  Many  have 

what  have  been  derived  from  those  escaped  the  pollutions  of  Oxford,  ami 

pioas,  ancient,    and   learned  .  institu*  triumphed  over  all  the  disadvanti^gea 

tions.  of  a  perverted  or  defective  edueation  i 

We  cannot  better  close  this  paper,  but  the  fact  is  nevertheless  true,  thai 

which    has    already  been  j>rotracted  in  discipline  and  professional  ediiea* 

moch  beyond  its  first-intended  limits,  tkm  both  Oxford  and  Cambridge  are 

than  by  an  imperfect  quotation  of  a  still  defective. 

paragraph,  in  its  sentiments  not  alto-  This  is  all  that  Dr.  Knox  has  said ; 

gather  inapplicable  to  the  present  sub-  and  this  the  bitter  experience  of  too 

Ject,  and  which,  for  eupnonious  ca-  many  verifies.     It  is  perfectly  absurd 

dence  and   propriety  of  diction,  was  to  talk  of  ingratitude  u>  Aima  MaUr. 

perhaps  never  excelled  by  any  writer  Why  should  the  errors  and  vices  of 

Ml  any  age  or  in  any  language :  our  Universities  be  exempt  from  blame 

"  UtUe  are  that  man's  feeliags  to  be  en-  «nd  exposure  ?    They  are  puhlie  pso.. 

vied  (lays  Dr.  Johiuoo)  whose  emotions  of  pcrty,  are  supported    by    the  poblie, 

gmtitiidt  and  respect  are  not  forcibly  ex-  and  are  intended  for  public  usefulnese. 

eked  by  the  view  and,  we  may  add,  even  re-  The  praise  that  is  their  due,  will  never 

eoUeetion  of  any  place  once  consecrated  by  be  withheld  ;  but  to  make  that  praise 

wisdom  or  valoor ;  whose  patriotism  is  not  valuable,  it  must  be  separated   from 

roused  upon  the  plains  of  Marathon,  or  wholesale  fulsome  flattery.     Had  Dr. 

whose  piety  does  not  grow  warm  amid  the  Xnox  and  others  been  silent,  Oxford 

niiasof  lona."  would  not  be  even  what  that  Univer- 

Yours,  &c.                   Omicron.  gjjy  qq^^  j,,     p^\f  apj  public  iiMiuiry 

♦  is  fatal  only  to  abuses,  and  feared  only 

Mr,  Urban,                       June  15.  by  those  whose  interesc  it  may  be  to 

0  the  author  of  the  **  Defence  of  support  them.     But  truth  must  prevail, 

the  Enffltsh  Universities,'*  whose  Take  a  case  to  the  point.     Look  at 

ktter,  dated  from  **  Kellington,"  is  in-  the  Court  of  Chancery.    One  party 

•cried  in  your  last  Number,  I  would  says,  that  its  needless  delays  and  ex- 

4ak  the  foAowing  questions.  pensive   process   defeat   the  common 

Are  we  not  mainly  indebted  to  Dr,  ends  of  right  and  equity ;  while  ano- 

Knox  for  the  exposure  and  correction  ther  as  stoutly  maintains,  that  it  is  free 

of  those  absurdities  in  the  academical  from  error,  and  calls  for  no  reforsa- 

coorse  at  Oxford  which  formerly  pre-  tion, — that  the  hope  and  despair  and 

vailed,  and  if  so,  are  we  not  also  in-  ruin  of  individuals  are   unworthy  of 

debted  to  him  for  the  present  compa-  notice,  when  put  in  competition  with 

ntiyely   improved  education  of  that  the  blessings  it  confers  upon  the  co«ii» 

University?  try,  and  with  the  deference  du^  to  the 

We  have  quite  enough  of  flatterers  feelings  and  character  of  its  late  vener* 
to  pamper  indolence  and  perpetuate  able  and  spotless  Judge.  Such  b  the 
error  and  prejudice ;  but  he  is  tiie  true  conflict  of  rival  opinions,  both  in  ex- 
friend  who  warns  us  of  mischief,  and  tremes.  In  the  mean  while,  what  says 
points  out  to  parents  the  dangers  that  the  public  voice,  seldom  wrong  in  tu 
await  their  sons.  No  one  ever  pre-  decrees, — what  says  that  voice,  which, 
tended  to  deny  that  great  and  eminent  sooner  or  later,  will  be  heard,  and 
men  have  been  educated  at  Oxford;  must  be  obeyed?  While  it  allows 
but  what  has  that  to  do  with  the  gene-  every  credit  to  the  known  skill  and 
val  and  still  more  momentous  question  probity  of  the  late  Chancellor,  and  to 
of  national  and  professional  instruction?  the  fiats  of  his  legal  wisdom,  it  speaks 
'Talent,  we  all  know,  will  vanquish  loudly  and  imperatively  agaiiMt  the  de- 
•very  difiiculty,  and  eventually  obtain  lays,  mischieft,  and  chicanery  of  the 
distinction ;  but  the  mass  of  students  Court  of  Chancery.  In  the  face  of 
are  noi  highly  gifted ;  and  to  such  im-  every  opposition,  it  has  forced  a  Par- 
p0rfoct  education  is  fatal.  Mbod  was  liamentary  inquiry  into  its  evils,  antf 
J  fkve;  Burns  a  ploughbov  ;  Sliak-  will  yet  prevail  in  rendering  or  rasilo^ 
fptff^rm  a  c/eer-stealer ;  but  1  do  not  itijut  to  what  it  onght  to  be*-4i  GiKirt 
eohtider  either  slavery,  fann*dtndgerf ,  orE^i6t||. 


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SpecukttUm  ^  lAierarff  Plmum^. 


50r 


Apply  this  retsontng  to  th«  flattmn 
and  Galumntatort  of  our  Univertities. 
It  it  not  from  aspiring  candidates  for 
charch  patronage^  or  the  holders  of 
snug  sinecures  of  fellowships,  that  we 
must  expect  sound  and  nonest  opi- 
nions npon  such  a  subject.    Nor  is  it 
again  from  Westminster  or  Edinburgh 
Reviews,  or  other  radical  and  infidel 
oracles,  that  we  are  to  look  (or  a  fair 
and  candid  verdict.  Where  then  are  we 
to  seek  it  ?  From  a  criterion  that  cannot 
err.    Confining  our  attention  to  the 
defective  education  of  our  Universi- 
ties for  holy  orders,  1  would  answer : 
Look  at  the  conventicles  that  are  rising 
up  in  almost  every  parish  of  the  king- 
dom ;  look  at  -the  efforts  now  making 
in  Parliament  for  a  repeal  of  the  Test 
Laws;  look   at  the  friends,  whether 
real    or    pretended,    but    many    and 
powerful,    of    the    Roman    Catholic 
claims;  look   at  the  diminished   and 
diminishing  influence  of  the  Clergy  of 
the  Church  of  England ;  look  at  these 
signs  of  the  times,  and  you  will  find 
an  answer  portentous,  and  not  to  be 
slighted.    But  how,  it  may  be  asked, 
are  the  defects  of  an  University  educa- 
tion for  the  priesthood  made  responsi- 
ble for  all  or  any  of  these  infringe- 
ments upon  our  Establishment?  The 
reply  is  oirect  and  painful.  The  Clergy 
ofour  Church  are  not  educated  as  they 
ought  to  be.    They  have  not  that  zeal ; 
they  are  not  those  '*  burning  and  shin- 
ing lights ;"  they  have  not  those  pro- 
fessional talents  and  habits,  which  are 
needed   to    meet   and    conquer   these 
trials.    Their  ambition  is  too  worldly, 
— their  views  foo  secular, — their  time 
and   attention  at  collese  are'  wasted 
npon  studies  not  essential  to  their  holy, 
and,    if   rightly  considered,    arduous 
and    responsible  calling;— while  the 
grossest  neglect  of  what  is  essential  to 
qualify  them  for  the  pastoral  office,  is 
not  merely  known  to  prevail,  but  isjos- 
tified  and  lauded  by  tne  "  faithful  sons 
of  Alma  Mater,**  as  wise,  sacred,  and 
inviolable. 

Our  enemies  are  active,  though  we 
are  supine ;  and  however  the  pretended 
friends  of  the  Church,  in  the  ease  and 
dignity  of  apathy,  may  resist  inquiry, 
and  oppose  the  correction  of  errors  and 
defects,  the  time,  I  am  convinced,  is 
not  far  distant,  when  redress  may  be 
beyond  our  power.  I  am  no  alarmist; 
but  the  prophecy  of  events  is  rarely 
fkllacious.  rear  may  exasgerate  evils, 
-^facts  caaaot  (Sonievsis. 


Som  Speculations  on  Literakt 

PLEASURBi.— 'No.  I. 

WE  are  here,  perhaps,  only  en- 
teriujg  on  old  topics  of  dis« 
cussion,  ana  risking  the  frown  of 
readers  of  intelligence  in  thus  seeking 
to  amplify  a  subject  which  has  so  often 
invoked  the  speculations  of  powerfaf 
pens.  The  theme,  however,  may  yet 
admit  of. an  additional  illustration  or 
two  in  its  details,  which  are  nearly  it 
numerous  as  the  contingencies  andf  va- 
rieties of  life. 

It  may  possibly  be  suggested,  thil 
where  all  are  agreed  upon  the  point, 
further  discussion  is  needless.  This  is 
not,  however,  exactly  the  case.  There 
are  numerous  individuals  in  the  world 
who  think  that  tranquillity  and  con- 
tentment of  mind,  whether  enjoyed 
under  the  cares  of  business  or  in  the 
lap  of  indolent  recreation,  may  be  said 
to  impart  to  those  who  are  subjects  of 
it  as  high  a  satisfaction,  as  lively  a 
fruition  of  delight  in  their  several 
spheres  of  occupation,  as  the  philo- 
sopher at  his  desk,  or  as  the  poet 
luxuriating  amid  the  scenes  of  nature. 
Do  not  the  former,  indeed,  it  is  al- 
leged, feel  a  sort  of  pain  and  uneasi- 
ness when  debarred  from  their  cus- 
tomary spheres  of  action  or  sources  of 
enjoyment;  and  all  this  without  the 
intervention  of  a  single  intellectual 
perception  ? 

Those,  for  instance,  whose  minds 
are  unremittingly  devoted  to  commer- 
cial pursuits,  and  who,  from  their 
sole  ambition  ^inting  elsewhere,  even* 
if  they  had  leisure,  would  want  incli- 
nation for  these  pleasures, — thote 
whose  capacities,  whether  engendered 
by  nature  or  acquired  througn  educa- 
tion, (for  education  has  been  suffi- 
ciently proved  to  be  no  mean  instru- 
ment in  stimulating  capacity,)  never 
reach  them,— have  not  onfrequently 
aHeged  that  they  enjoy,  in  passing 
through  life,  as  high  a  sense  of  nlet- 
sure  or  happiness,  as  the  man  or  in- 
tellectual speculation. 

Well,  but  it  may  still  be  alleged 
that,  after  the  able  and  frequent  Il- 
lustrations which  this  subject  has  re- 
ceived, we  shall  leave  this  point  pre- 
cisely where  we  foun^  it.  In  spite  of 
these  and  other  possible  objections,  a 
few  further  illustrations  may  not  be 
entirely  without  their  interest  to  the 
readers  of  your  long-establU\M»l  \^ 
v^VoaVAe  ^wAxcaxvoxv.    **  K*  \  ^"^^^^SL 


508                         Sp0ada^tm9  on  LUer€arjf  PkOMwret*  [June/ 

page^  I  formed  the  fpllowiog  reYene,  under  toch  circumttancet,  few,  tt  is 

loo  wild  for  allegory,  and  too  regular  probable,  could  withstand  the  spoo- 

for  a  dream.*'    The  present  writer  will  taoeous  flow  of  impresstont  and  images 

also  fancy  himself  isolated  in  a  situ-  thus  excited. 

ation   where   he    recently  enjoyed  a  While  all  Nature  around,  animaled 

train  of  reflections  something  similar  by  the  resplendent  beams  of  a  morn- 

to  those  which  form  the  subject  of  ing  sun,  sports  each  in  his'bwn  in* 

the  following  sheets.  stinctive  sphere  of  recreation,  we  na- 

The  sun  had  attained  the  hiehest  turaily  diverge  into  speculations  con- 
verge of  Cancer,  and  was  already  on  nected  with  the  character  and  com- 
its  decline  towards  another  equinox,  plexion  of  our  intellectual  snscepti- 
when  the  "breezy  call''  of  a  morn-  oilities.  I  here  imagined  the  person 
ing  scattering  incense  from  a  thou-  who  had  long  been  in  the  habit  of 
sand  springs,  ordained  to  lure  mortals  close  mental  application,  whose  in- 
from  repose,  guided  my  footsteps  to  a  tellectual  energies  have  been  practi- 
sequestered  dell  of  trees,  where  I  was  cally  trained  to  investigation  and 
sometimes  wont  to  repair  in  order  lo  thought,  whose  susceptibilities  are 
enjoy  in  silence  those  moments  which  keen,  to  whom  the  world  opens  an 
the  busy  commerce  of  the  world  are  extensive,  rich,  and  illimitable  field  of 
not  always  calculated  to  afford.  The  inq^uiry.  What  a  universe  of  obser- 
domain  which  here  arrested  my  course  vation  and  of  thought  does  he  not  co- 
was  diversified  in  all  the  wildness  and  joy,  utterly  unknown  to  him  whose 
irregularky  of  nature.  A  river  skirted  sole  attention  is  engrossed  in  a  dull 
its  utmost  boundary,  whilst  the  um-  round  of  customary  duties,  almost  me- 
brageous  trees,  which  overhung  its  chanical  in  their  influence,  where  the 
dlear  and  murmuring  stream,  partially  grasp  of  mental  perception  involves 
shaded  the  scenery  of  the  more  dis-  no  original  reach  of  thought!  One 
tant  country,  afTordinK,  however,  at  of  those  individuals,  whose  tenor  of 
Intervals  a  peep  at  rich  pastures  and  mind,  unless  perturbed  by  the  c:on- 
wood lands  beyond,  undulating  in  pic-  tingencies  of  trade,  swim  down  the 
turesque  forms  of  acclivity  and  vales,  stream  of  life  with  tranquillity,  has  in- 
A  range  of  lofty  hills  crowned  with  deed  his  enjoyments, — he  feels  plea- 
Uieir  summits  the  back-ground  of  the  sures  and  gratifications  which  he  terms 
extended  prospect.  The  grailed  seat  substantial  in  the  customary  routine 
of  a  grotto,  formed  by  the  joint  hand  of  calculated  profits;  but  he  knows 
of  nature  and  art,  invited  me  to  a  do-  not  what  obstruction  means;  he  never 
niiclle  amidst  objects  of  more  than  experienced  the  ardour  and  the  pain 
\  ordinary  beauty.  of  intense  thinking, — is  awakened  to 

For  some  moments  I   inhaled  the  no  enthusiastic  perception  of  feeling, 

balmy  freshness  of  the  morning  air.  The  chain  of  thought  was  opened, 

mingled  with  the  fragrance  of  odori-  and  spontaneously  wandered  through 

(eroos  shrubs.     The  early  sun  beamed  a  succession  of  speculative  questions 

splendour  from  the  east,  the  feathered  connected  with  the  subject.    The  ci- 

tribes,  roused  from  their  cells  by  the  tizen,  for  example, — thus  flowed  the 

call  of  morning,  filled  the  ambient  air  course  of  my  speculations, — at  his  desk 

with  a  song  of  praise ;  and  whilst  some  calculating  his  gains,  or  pursuing  a 

winged  their  path  towards  the  blue  doll  round  of  customary  duties,  seloom 

ether,  others  fluttered  with  an  unceas-  bestows  his  meditations  upon  a  train 

ing  chorus  of  praise  among  the  spread-  of  thought  or  of  sentiment  which  he 

ing  foliage,  painted  in  matchless  vari-  deems  purely  visionary, 

ety  by  the  pencil  of  an  all-powerful  The  man    of  leisure  who  devotes 

and  unseen  artist.     The  dew-drops,  the  hours  of  his  life  to  the  mere  amuse- 

trembling  upon  the  slender  leaf,  spark-  ments  of  a  country  life,  who,  amidst 

led  like  crystals  with  a  thousand  trans-  objects  whose  intrinsic  beauty  can  ever 

lucent    rays,  vegetation   again   raised  animate  and  charm,  knows  no  plea- 

her  drooping  head,  and  displayed,  in  sures  but  tlie  sound  of  the  Vechoine 

rich  exuoerauce,  her  treasures ;  every  horn,*'  and  the  intense  anxiety  witn 

circumstance  combined  at  once  to  in-  which  the  sportsman,  heedless  of  all 

spire    pleasure,    and    to    excite   busy  besides,  pursues  the  keen  recreations 

tnousht.  which  urge  him  in  his  career,  laughs 

^  Soliloquies  naturally  intrude   upon  at  the  fine-drawn  speculations,  at  the 

ih0  solitude   o(  an   individual,  and,  k\;g,xi«d   ^\A  Vv^x^w^x^j   ^^vli&calioi^ 


1827.} 


SpecuUdUms  on  LUerarff  Pleamreii 


A09 


which  await  the  man  of  cultiiraied 
mental  refinement — knows  nothing, 
it  is  true,  of  the  pleasures  here  ima- 
gined. The  enjoyments  produced  by 
mental  abstraction  and  association, 
are,  to  him  **  like  a  tale  told  by  an 
idiot,'*  which,  if  it  **  signifies*'  any 
thing  but  folly,  ii  of  so  recondite  and 
equivocal  a  nature  as  to  be  unintelli- 
gible to  minds  unsophisticated  by  the 
dreams  of  absolute  enthusiasm.  These 
and  a  thousand  others,  all  differing  it 
may  chance  from  each  other  in  certain 
shades  of  temperament,  pass  through 
life,  who  never  framed  to  themselves 
the  possibility  of  the  enjoyments  here 
spoken  of. 

Multitudes  who  have  enjoyed  the 
benefit  of  education,  who  have  sus- 
tained a  character  of  hi^h  respectabi- 
lity in  the  several  ways  m  which  they 
have  shone,  would  yet,  it  is  more  than 
probable,  confess,  were  the  question 
asked,  that  "  the  noiseless  tenor  of 
their  way,*'  was  accompanied  with 
gratifications  as  high  as  those  which 
attended  the  hours  of  persons  who 
have  attained  high  eminence  in  lite- 
rature, and  who  are  famed  for  their 
intervals  of  abstraction.  "  The  Mi- 
ser himself,*'  says  Professor  Ferguson, 
in  his  Essay  on  the  History  of  Civil 
Society,  "  can  consider  his  wealth  as 
the  source  of  happiness,  and  has  chal- 
lenged his  heir  to  have  more  pleasure 
in  spending  than  he  in  amassing  his 
fortune.*' 

•*  Why,*'  says  the  Doctor,  whose 
speculations  "On  Happiness"  indi- 
cate a  deep  insight  into  human  nature, 
"  may  not  the  man  whose  object  is 
money,  be  understood  to  live  a  life  of 
pleasure,  not  only  more  entire  than 
that  of  the  spendthrift,  but  even  as 
much  as  the  virtuoso,  the  scholar,  or 
the  man  of  taste." 

What  is  there,  indeed,  it  will  be 
asked  by  the  calculating  individual, 
to  invalidate  the  hypothesis  that  a  per- 
son, whose  senses  are  utterly  deaf  to 
the  calls  of  literary  speculations,  may 
tread  the  journey  of  life,  may  de- 
scend into  the  vale  of  years,  and  ex- 
perience in  as  high  a  degree  the  emo- 
tions of  pleasure  and  of  happiness  as 
the  first?  The  sportsman  and  the 
tradesman  feel  the  keen  delights  of 
their  several  pursuits,  as  the  Poet  in  his 
•*  frenzied"  reveries,  or  as  the  Philo- 
sopher lost  in  a  train  of  favourite  ab- 
straction. 

The  question,  indeed,  is  one  which 


cannot,  from  its  very  natnre,  admit  ot- 
absolute  demonstration ;  >any  thing  in 
the  shape  of  mathematical  proof  i» 
here  entirely  out  of  the  (Question  ^ 
these  are  matters  in  which  it  is  agreed 
on  all  hknds  that  much  is  to  be  felt 
and  understood. 

A  mind  that,  by  a  course  of  reading 
and  reflection,  has  become  so  far  ini- 
tiated as  to  know  from  its  own  exer- 
cises, the  nature,  character,  and  com- 
plexion, and  can  consequently  appre- 
ciate these  pleasures,  will  easily  credit 
them  to  exist  amongst  certain  others  in 
a  degree  far  beyond  their  own  private 
experience.  While  he  judges  from 
analogies  of  the  intenseness  with  which 
they  may  exist,  he  is  sensible  that  it 
is  altogether  vain  to  endeavour  to  im- 
plant an  idea  of  their  reality  in  the 
breast  of  a  person  whose  imagination 
is  barren,  whose  energies  are  torpid 
and  cold,  and  whose  exckisions  of' 
thought  seldom,  unless  in  the  calcu- 
lations of  private  interest,  take  their 
flight  beyond  the  ephemeral  pursuits 
in  which  they  arc  actually  engaged. 

Surrounded,  for  instance,  with  the' 
circumstances,  or  with  the  objects 
which  originated  the  train  of  thought 
in  which  I  had  engaged, — when  all 
Nature  concurred  to  exhilarate  the 
soul  with  lively  gratitude,  and  raise  it 
to  inspiration, — when  earth  and  air 
teems  with  fragrance  and  animation, 
and  when  gladness  smiles  upon  the 
face  of  the  country,  variegated  in  the 
most  beautiful  forms,  one  of  the  class 
laiit  pointed  at  would  merely  observe 
that  It  was  a  fine  morning,  whilst  one 
of  the  former  would  probably  feel  the 
kindred  energies  of  his  soul  expand 
under  a  sense  of  beauty,'  and  his 
thoughts  drawn  forth  in  reverie.  The  . 
latter  would  indeed  discern  a  sort  of 
beauty,  so  far  as  the  colours,  forms, 
and  fragrance  of  the  objects  he  views 
strikes  upcm  his  senses,  but  he  re- 
mains wholly  dead  to  any  perception 
beyond :  no  ideas  of  harmony,  coii- 
gruity,  and  happiness,  which  rush 
through  the  imagination  and  awaken 
the  energies  of  the  former,  would  ever 
strike  him.  His  ideas  run,  habitually, 
in  another  channel;  no  conception  of 
any  affinity  between  the  sublime  and 
the  beautiful  in  nature,  and  the  sym- 
pathies or  the  meditations  of  genius, 
as  it  often  characterizes  the  human 
mind,  enters  for  a  moment  into  the 
calculations  of  a  bie^*,v^  >NViv2«v»\«w- 
e\et  waimcOi  vi\>>\  ^^  \«w:.>4^«ox^>»r 


ilO 


Bpteuiedimuf  OH  LU^arff  Pteanrm: 


9 


posftioni  of  oar  common  nature,  has 
eridently  no  comprehension  of  a  feel- 
ing which,  stimulated  from  without, 
can  people  the  mind  with  a  thousand 
firid  creations. 

The  lark,  if  such  similitudes  are  aU 
lowed  us,  which,  sporting  in  the  beams 
of  the  morning  sun,  rises  from  the 
neighbouring  enamelled  field,  and 
the  dull  ox,  unconscious  of  care, 
incapable  of  thought,  grazes  beneath 


one  urho    is  ikicapable  of  any  such 
mental  process. 

But  m  mentioning  D*Israe1i,  the 
author  alluded  to  (and  no  one  who 
is  acouainted  with  his  writings  wilt 
mentiort  him  without  respect),  a  few 
observations  may  be  premised  concern- 
ing his  book  **  On  the  Literary  Cha- 
racter.*' D'Israeli  i«,— as  every  man 
should  be  in  the  peculiar  line  or  walk 
of  literature  in  which   he  chiefly  at- 


fornuh,  perhaps,  no  inappropriate  em-    taches  himself, — an   enthusiast.     He 
blems  ofthe  two  classes  of  beings  here    throws    his    eyes   over   the  widened 


spoken  of.  The  feathered  chorister 
warbles  the  note  of  gladness,  as  from 
increasing  heights  it  surveys  an  ample 
domain  of  pastures,  hills,  vales,  and 
woods ;  "jcy  tunes  his  voice,  joy  ele- 
vates his  winss;"  his  little  frame  is 
doubtless  thrilled  with  a  full  sensa- 
tion of  delieht,  as  he  carols  amid  the 
the  widened  prospect.  He,  perhaps, 
'may  personify,  (as  far  as  such  a  pa- 
ralfel  shall  he  allowed  to  extend,)  the 
thouB^htless  and  the  gay,  whose  plea- 
sure 18  perfect  freedom  from  care,  and 


track  of  history,  which  teems  with 
the  memorials  of  the  sons  of  genius. 
He  views  their  private  experience, 
analyzes  their  hours  of  meditation,  and 
notes  the  confessions  and  acknowledg* 
ments  by  which  they  unite  their  caf- 
frage  in  favour  of  the  high  and  predo- 
minating enjoyments  attendant  upon 
literary  avocations. 

But  it  wilt  strike  every  attentive 
reader  of  the  interesting  pages  of  this 
writer,  that  he  often  pursues  his  hy- 
pothesis to  an  excess.    In  the  inten- 


whose  recklessness  of  things  beyond  iity  of  emotion,  in  the  vivid  nature 

the  present  moment  becomes  a  cha-  of  those  bright  ima^s  which  crowd 

racteristic    feature.    The    latter    may  bpon  the  mind,  habitually  disposed  to 

possibly  fornish  an  emblem  of  those  reverie,  all,  who  know  any  thing  of 

sons  of  care,  who,  although  opportu-  the  subject  under  consideration,  will 

iiities  of  mental  expansion  constantly  confess  that  he   interests  the  heart, 

present  themselves  aoove,  beneath,  and  because  he  speaks  the  language  of  na- 

on  every  side,  know  not  how  to  ap-  tare. 

prceiate  the  beauty  and  variety  which  But  the  Author  of  "Coriosities  of 

embeHish,  or  the  fitness,  expediency.  Literature/*  catching  the  ardour  of  his 

und  final  ends  of  all  or  any  part  of  this  theme  from  some  spirit  whose  genios 

"visible  diurnal   sphere/* — these  are  of  inspiration  soared  beyond  that  of 

questions   involving  pleasures   uttefly  his  compeers,  has  oflen  made  his  de- 

beyond  the  range  of  their  comprehen-  lineations  assume  a  character  of  hy- 

aion,  yet  both  the  one  and  the  other  perbole  and  extravagance,   calcolaited 

pass  their  davs  in  mere  trifles,  or  the  sometimes  to  defeat  his  end. 

'  aordid  calculations  of  interest.     But  When  an  historian  of  (renins,  in  its 

parallels  from  brute  life  may  not  strike  variety  of  complexion  and  philosophi- 

all  readers  as  amongst  the  most  feli-  cal  character,  as  it  has  developed  it- 


citoos. 

We  will,  therefore,  still  sdpposing 
the  author  to  be  fixed  in  the  persua- 
iive  attitude  of  recluse,  in  the  embo- 
somed  retreat  which   had  originated 


self  in  the  literary,  and  guided  the 
speculations  of  mankind,  throws  too 
high  a  colouring  over  his  narrative, 
we  cannot  resist  the  impression  that 
he  writes   for  efiect,  and    heightens 


his  subject,  glance  at  some  details  con-  the  lineaments  of  simple  nature.  In 

nected  in  the  History  of  Letters,  with  order  to  swell  the  graphic  interest  of 

the   testimony  of  private  experience,  his  pictures. 

Here  the    industry  of  a   contempo-  While  we  hail,  therefore,  with  km- 

rary  author  has  accumulated  a  mdss  dred  recognition,  the  interesting  de- 

of  evidence,  all  bearing  upon  the  point  tails  accumulated  by  his  industry,   t(- 

which  was  just  now  advocated, — that  self  directed  by  the  stimulations   of 

the  man  whose  organiaation  of  mind  genius,  the   mind  sometimes  feels  a 

habitually  inclines  him  to  high  spe-  sort  of  distrast  in  implicitly  crediting 

ealative    inqairies,    connected     with  the  extent  of  those  rha|Modies,  under 

ihingi  around    htm,  enjoys.  In  the  the  operation  of  which  he  has  some- 


lB9t^2 


D* 


on  th$  lAierary  (^€rachr. 


511 


us  heroet.  Yet  we,  for  the  moit  part, 
repose  with  fond  reciprocity  of  senti- 
ment upon  the  native  characteristics 
of  Genius  he  has  introduced  to  oar 
notice,  in  the  variety  of  examples  with 
which  he  has  crowded  his  canvass, 
and  are  beholden  to  him^for  the  addi- 
tional  insight  he  has  afforded  us  into 
the  habits  and  the  propensities  which 
characterize  the  higher  order  of  think- 
ing humanity.  He  speaks,  often,  the 
language  to  which  the  s^^mpathies 
which  reign  and  **  move  withm  us/' 
respond. 

"  Every  life  of  a  man  of  genius,''  ob* 
ser\'es  O' Israeli,  "  composed  by  him- 
self, presents  us  with  an  experimental 
philosophv  of  the  mind."  To  ex- 
amples of  the  meditations  of  Genius 
such  as  the  following  we  indeed  sub- 
scribe, because  imagination  whispers 
in  each  humbler  votary  of  literary  lei- 
sure,  that  a  similar  glow  and  expan- 
sion has  occasionally  peopled  his  own 
mind  with  airy  visions.  *'  In  the  still- 
ness of  meditation  the  mind  of  ge- 
nius must  be  frequently  thrown,  it  is 
a  kind  of  darkness  which  hides  from 
all  surrounding  objects,  even  in  the 
light  of  day. 

In  Cicero  on  '^Old  Aj5e,"  we  find 
Cato  admiring  Caius  Sulpitius  Gallus, 
who,  when  he  sat  down  to  write 
in  the  mornins,  was  surprised  by 
the  evening,  and  when  he  took  up  his 
pen  in  the  evening  was  surprised,  by 
the  morning.  Socrates  has  remained 
a  whole  day  in  immoveable  medita- 
tion, his  eyes  and  countenance  directed 
to  one  spot,  as  if  in  the  stillness  of 
death.  Archimedes,  involved  in  the 
investigation  of  mathematical  truth, 
Protogencs  and  Parmigiano  found 
their  senses  locked  up  as  it  were  in 
meditation,  so  as  to  be  incapable  of 
withdrawing  themselves  from  their 
work,  even  in  the  midst  of  a  city 
stormed  by  the  enemy.  Marino  was 
so  absorbed  in  the  composition  of  his 
**  Adonis,"  that  he  suffered  his  leg  to 
be  burnt  for  some  time  before  the 
pain  grew  stroneer  than  the  intellec- 
tual pleasure  of  his  imagination.  Buf- 
fon  has  declared  that  he  has  of\en 
spent  twelve  or  fourteen  hours  siKces- 
sively  at  his  writing-desk,  and  still 
been  in  a  state  of  pleasure.'* 

These  pleasurable  impulses,  these 
reveries  of  mutual  enjoyment,  have, 
doobtless,  been  felt  by  numerous  spi- 
rits whose  <*  capacious  powers*'  have 
nerer  met  with  a  faithnil  chrbntclei 


in  the  annals  of  fame.  We  can  appre- 
ciate them,  because  the  organisation  of 
our  own  internal  visions  of  fancy  sug- 
gest their  reality.  But  the  tumultuary 
feeling  of  agitated  excitement,  which 
D'Israeli  afterwards  delineates,  de- 
scribes a  state  or  the  system  not  so 
exactly  within  the  reach  of  either  col 
experience  or  our  comprehension. 

"  When  Malebranche,**  rejoins  our 
eloquent  memorialist,  "first  took  up 
Des  Cartes'  Treatise  on  Man,  the  germ 
of  his  own  subsequent  philosophical 
system,  such  was  his  intense  feeling, 
that  a  violent  palpitation  of  the  heart 
more  than  once  oblieed  him  to  lay 
down  the  volume.  When  the  first 
idea  of  the  Essay  on  the  Arts  and 
Sciences  rushed  on  the  mind  of  Rous- 
seau, a  feverish  symptom  in  his  nerr 
vous  system  approached  to  a  slight  de- 
lirium. When  we  are  farther  told  of 
Tasso,  in  the  paroxysms  which  wiU 
occasionally  entrance  the  votary  of  ge- 
nius, holding  imaginary  ''conversa- 
tions with  a  spirit  which  glided  to^ 
wards  him  on  the  beams  of  the  snn ;" 
of"  Malebranche,  listening  to  the  voice 
of  God  within  iiim,"  (alluding  to  hn 
hypothesis) ;  of  Lord  Herbert,  on  his 
knees  in  the  stillness  of  the  sky,*' (bar- 
ing reference  to  the  mjrsterious  sounds 
from  the  clear  empyrean,  which  en- 
joined him  to  publish  his  book  "  De 
Veritate") ;  ot  "  Pascal,  starting  at 
times  at  an  abyss  opening  by  his 
side ;"  of  Des  Cartes,  hearing  a  voice 
in  the  air  exhorting  him  to  the  par- 
suit  of  truth  ;"  of  "Ollins  and  Cow- 
per,  whose  illusions  were  as  strong 
as  those  of  Sweden borg  ;'^  we  are 
strongly  tempted  to  view  these  exces- 
sive affections  as  the  freaks  of  fancy  ^ 
not  so  much,  perhaps,  as  the  legiti* 
mate  excrescences  of  genius,  as  the 
feverish  flights  of  a  disordered  imasi- 
nation^  and  net  altogether  dissimilar 
to  those  of  the  mad  enthusiast  last- 
mentioned.  "Were  it  possible,** ob» 
serves  EVIsraeli,  "  to  collect  some 
thoughts  of  great  thinkers  which  were 
never  written,  we  should  discover  vi- 
vid conceptions,  and  an  originality 
they  never  dared  to  pursue  in  their 
works."  How  constantly  has  the  truth 
of  this  been  verified  in  the  history  and 
experience  of  men  of  letters!  Not 
only  in  our  hours  of  study,  9nd  in 
those  sensibilities  of  soul  which  sti- 
mulate with  unremitting  devotednest 
to  the  i^eastng  toil  q€  miK  ^moosv^- 
Ties,  YjuV  \ti  o\a  VciVcw^  ^Wonjoi^sx 


619 


'P'Uraili*s  Cumsiiia  a 


recreation,  the  complaint  of  Bouueao, 
noticed  in  the  lame  work,  has  been 
uttered  b^  multitndes. 

Such  IS  the  contexture  of  our  ab- 
atractins  powers,  such  the  capricious- 
ness  otour  faculties,  (now  slumber- 
4og  in  torpor,  now  roused  to  active 
energy,)  such  the  fleetmg  nature  of 
its  images,  that  the  life  of  almost  every 
thinking  individual  furnishes  periods 
.when  he  laments,  with  this  philoso- 
pher, the  temporary  oblivion  which  so 
toon  shades  his  brighest  visions.  "  He, 
we  are  told,  "  devoted  the  long  sleep- 
less intervals  of  his  nights  to  these  pur- 
suits, and  meditating  in  bed  with  his 
eyes  closed,  he  turned  over  his  periods 
in  a  tumult  of  ideas;  but  when  he 
rose  and  had  dressed,  all  was  vanished; 
and  when  he  sat  down  to  his  papers^ 
be  had  nothing  to  write/' 

I  would  finally  remark  of  the  book 
under  notice,  and  which  forms  a  de- 
lightful manual  for  the  student,  fond 
H>r  luxuriating  over  the  memorials  of 
intellectual  greatness,  that  in  opening 
his  subject,  its  author,  as,  perhaps,  in 
duty  bound,  from  the  high  universa- 
lity of  the  subject  he  so  well  illustrates, 
advocates  certain  positions  upon  ge- 
nius, which  have,  by  some,  been  con- 
troverted. He  takes  up  his  ground,  it 
is  to  be  presumed,  upon  a  view  of  those 
developements  of  character  which  his 
process  afforded.  But  when  he  teaches, 
as  may  be  collected  from  what  he  has 
said,  that  the  tiapU  of  his  speculations 
—Genius— is  an  intuitive  gift  from 
early  childhood,  how  can  he  reconcile 
witn  this  position  certain  phenomena 
connected  with  its  history  ? 

The  well-authenticated  fact,  that  its 
possessors  have  for  many  years  ap- 
peared destitute  of  a  single  spark,  un- 
til a  course  of  initiatory  discipline  has 
kindled  the  embers,  and  at  length 
blown  them  to  a  flame,  contradicu 
this,  and  favours  the  doctrine  taught 
(although  loo*  indiscriminately,)  by 
Reynolds,  and  by- the  philosophy  (and 
this  last  is  not  so  bad  but  that  much 
good  may  be  extracted  from  it,)  of  Hel- 
vetius.  "  Education,'*  says  he,  in  sup- 
port: of  his  dogma,  however  indispen- 
sable in  a  cultivated  mind,  produces 
nothingon  the  side  of  Genius,  for  where 
education  ends,  genius  often  begins. 
Indubitably  it  does,  and  *a  fair  casuist 
(we  should  ssy)  would  thence  argue 
that  education  had  much  more  than  a 
subordinate  share  in  producing  it. 


«.  [Jmie, 

D*Israeli  himself  may  be  cited  as  an 
example  of  this.  His  first  series  of 
"  Curiosities  of  Literature,"  (publish- 
ed 1793)  betrays  a  very  different  sund- 
ard  of  thought  and  sentiment  from 
that  which  characterizes  the  last  series 
of  that  work,  or  his  book  on  "The 
Literary  Character,**  which  alike  dis- 
play discriminating  genitis  and  vigour 
of  fancy. 

Upon  the  very  principles  so  well 
analyzed  and  classified  by  Dr.  Ge- 
rard, it  may  be  almost  assumed  with 
a  degree  of  certainty,  that  the  organi- 
zation of  a  mind  in  which  genius  has 
obtained  a  seat,  feels  enjoyments  and 
Ratifications,  which,  as  they  are  pecu- 
liar to  itself,  so  also  rank  very  high  in 
decree. 

While  we  dwell  with    responsive 
feelings  on  the  variety,  felicity,  and 
justness  of  the  sentimenu  and  imageiy 
which  he  has  adopted  in  his  analysis^ 
we  think  that  in  them  we  recog;nin 
the  warranted  position  that  those  who 
are  the  subjects  of  this  happy  associa- 
tion of  mind,  are,  likewise,  the  vott- 
ries  of  singularly  high  and  refined  plea- 
sures.    It  is  well  said  that  "genius is 
properly  the  faculty  of  invetUion,^^^ 
Hence  the  tumult  pf  ideas  which  rush 
through   the  mind  of  an   individual 
who  has  intensely  contemplated  a  sub- 
ject in  its  various  bearings,  comes  ac- 
companied with  a  sensation  of  plea^ 
sure  as  difficult  to  be  defined  as  it  is 
real  in  its  operation.  The  deep  thinker 
will,  it  is  true,  experience  an  uneasi- 
ness in  some  of  these  moments  of  ab- 
straction which  ill  accords  with  this 
alleged  pleasure,— as,  in  the  language 
of  Dr.  Gerard,  "  when  a  person  s^rts 
the  first  hint  of  a  new  invention,  and 
a  number  of  apposite  conceptions  art 
collected,  various  views  of  their  con- 
nexions open  to  him,  and  perplex  his 
choice."    "  But  by  degrees  the  pros- 
pect clears.*'    Then  succeeds  the  ex- 
citement of  soul  so  frequently  felt  and 
spoken  of,  so  difficult  to  be  reduced  to 
a  demonstrative  shape,  or  to  be  com- 
prehended  even   by   the  uninitiated; 
when    the    cloud  of  bright   visions, 
which  had  thrown  a  sort  of  ckaos  ovec 
the  imagination,  and  order  and  me* 
thod  unite  with  the  associating  prin- 
ciple,   in    marshalling    our    vagrant 
thoughts  into  a  more  sober  ana  co- 
herent shape. 

Melkiham.  Alcjphrov. 


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REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


M.  The  Lifih  Diary,  and  Cotrretpomdence  tj  humao   /i«ftf ,  like  such  ai  we   shall 

SirWUliaia  Dugdde,  Kni^,  wnttime  never  see^asain,  men  who  leaped  froin 

Garter  Principal  King  qf  Amu,  with  an  the  grouncT  into    the  saddle^  shc^Wd 

Jjfenduc,  amtaimng  an  Jceount  of  hi*  ever  with  nearly  a  hundred  weight  of 

published  mrks,  an  Index  to  1m  Manu-  i^n.    But  not  only  these  brawny  aona 

sayu  CoUecUoni,Coptes  ofMcmmti^  of  our  old  English  Herculean  nobUity 

grees.    Edited  in,  m\\\Mm  Hamper.  Esq.  ^^  ^'"^.f  »»/<>  their  firesides.    The 

F,  S.  A.  Ato,  /y?6«9.  aforesaid  taylonsm    set  off  by  town. 

'  manners,  has  brought  Frenc1me$t  and 

.  WHAT  King's  College  Chapel  ia  the  grievous  expense  of  frippery  and 

among  buildings,  Dugdale  is  among  show  into  the  wnok  system  of  gentle* 

authors ;  and  what  is  odd,  he  appears  man-living.     Country  esquires  now 

never  to  have  been  an  infant,  boy,  or  spend   wMt  Lords  did.  fifty  years  ajio. 

youth.    He  waa  seeminglv  bom  an  Allowing  that  the  money*  is  usefully 

old  roan;  and  whoever  reads  one  woik  dispersed  for  the  maintenanee  of  the 

only,  that    romantic  and    chivalroua  people,  yet  the  spenders  find  it  hard  to 

/ai0-2>ooi;,  (for  such  is  its  rf a /character)  get  water  enough  for  their    pumps« 

the  famous  "Warwickshire,"  will  find  Our  ancestors  felt   not    these    evilf* 

it  impossible  not  to  feel,  that  he  ia  in-  Thev  bought  estates,  if  they  could,  out 

sensioly  conveyed  into  an  old  gable-  of  their  savings,  wives'  fortunes  aiul 

ended     Manor  -  House,    among   okl  legacies,    fof   younger  children,   and 

chairs,  beds,  and  tables,  old  relatives  stocked  them  easily  from   their  enor- 

and  old  friends,  who  have  grown  old  mous  stores  of  cattle.    The  inierior 

in  the  country,  old  grey-headed  do*  gentry    and  opulent  yeomen  nlanttd 

niestics,  old  dogs  and  old  cats,  sprawU  tneir  children  (like  quicksets)  in  a 

ing   before   old    fire  places,  old  fat  rio^  fence  around  them,  i.  e.  set  them 

coach  horses,  and  old  shaggy  pads,  and  up  in  ac^acent  market  towns,  even  in 

old  aunts  fond  of  telling  old  saws  of  trades,  and  we  could  mention  daugh* 

old  ancestors.   Dugdale  was,  in  troth,  a  ters  of  High-sheriffs    apprenticed  to 

man  after  Sir  Roger  deCoverley's  own  milliners.     Such  were  the  times    in 

heart;  and  like  him  we  Antiquaries  which   Dugdale  lived;   and  we  find 

love  to  8ee,in  the  mind*seye,the  cap-a-  him,  in  pp.  396,  228,  making  interest 

Eie  Knight  riding  up  to  the  draw-  to  procure  the  situation  of^a  lady's 

ridse,  and  the  tunicked  Squire  sound-  maid  for  one  of  his  daughters.    For  iQ 

ing  his  bu^le ;  we  prefer  the  warlike  those    davs    lady's  maids  were    not 

statueofshining  steel  to  the  Frenchified  menials,  out  like  nymphs,  who  ao« 

haberdashery    of    modern  uniforms  i  companied  goddesses,  state  attendants 

we  prefer  the  lance  in  rest  to  those  iipoo  a  tilted  foster-mother.    Admit- 

great  popguns  on  wheels,  called  can-  ting  that  these  were  not  the  days  of 

non  ;  the  graceful  Ions-bow  to  long-  every  body  a  gentleman;  that  in  truth, 

handled  cricket  bats,  fitted  with  iron  no  persons  as  to  habits  and  manners 

tubes,  and   called    muskets,   and  the  were    Chesterfield    gentlefolks;    yet 

hero's  falchion  to  those  spoiled  swords  people  were  not  miserable  from   the 

without  hilts,  denominated  bayonets,  necessity  of  wearing  a  perpetual  blister 

War  is  no  longer  picturesque.    It  is  plaster,  endless  expence,  in  order  to 

tragedy,  attired  in   the    costume   of  keep  respectability  in  good  health,  and 

comedy,  or  improved  costume  of  show-  they  drank  no  spirits,  to  propagate  liver 

men  and  tumblers.     Taylorism  lords  complaints.    All  they  wanted  for  food 

it  supreme ;  and  well  it  may ;  for  the  and    common    raiment  was    drawn 

genius  of  the  shears  has  renaered  more  from   the  domain    and   stock;    holi- 

service  to  the  military  among  girls  of  day  best  clothes  were  boxed  op,  and 

beauty  and  wealth,  than  all  the  urdy  mothers  left  their  court  dresses  lo  their 

promotions  of  the  Crown.    Our  fore-  daughters.    In  truth,  there  were  very 

fathers  regarded  not  however  lady-like  many  excellent  habits  amotig  oar  an- 

men ;  and  Dugdale  introduces  us  to  eestors.     To  mfntion  only  t 
GtKT.  Mao.  Jttiitf,  1827. 


5 


514 


RjtTiEW.— Hamper's  Lift  of  Sir  fV.  Dugdale, 


[JuDe# 


edacation  and  provision  for  the  child- 
ren of  the  neighbouring    gentry   in 
their  faoiily— contribmioni    for  the 
marriage  portions  of  their  girls,  and  of 
humbler  females— almshouses  for  de- 
cayed servants — hospitality  towards  all 
dependants — ^uncorrupted  natural  sym* 
pathies,  the  source  of  their  sentiments 
—the  best  gift  of  the  Almighty,  divine 
charity — veneration  for  the  tombs  of 
ancestors,  and  the  good  condition  of 
that  holy  fabrick,  which  the  sublime 
Gray  did    not    despise,    the    village 
church ;-— benefactions   for  repairs  of 
roads  and  bridges  i — Christmas  meals 
and  happy  faces  among  the   poor — a 
desire  without  grudging  or  ostentation 
to  communicate  worldly  good  and  fe- 
licitv.     These  were  the  principles  and 
feehngs,  which  living  in   the  country 
and  ancient  habits  suggested.    How 
verily  we  love  the  patriarch  ism  of  our 
ancestors.    Our  political  economists 
'will  tell  us  indeed  of  the  far  superior 
state  of  things  at  present,  growing  out 
they  say  of  their  own  golden  age.   But 
the  idea  is  unfounded.    The  savings 
of  old  women  in   mob  caps,  and   of 
these    our  worsted-stockinged  ances- 
tors,^ furnished  the  cash  borrowed  by 
Government ;  and  from  the  vast  in- 
crease of  income  thus  ensuing;  re- 
sidence in  cities  and  towns,  and  ex- 
cessive population,  originally  at  least, 
^    proceeded  ;   those  phenomena   which 
political  economists  make   the  effects 
of  their  mythology.*     With  the  right 
or  wrong  of  these  matters   we   have 
however  nothing  to  do.     Dugdale  did 
not  live  in  our  times.     He  bought  no 
shares  in  joint  stock  companies;  he 
followed  no  charlatan   preachers,  or 
charlatan  philosophers;  ne  saw  their 
bubblies  scattered  to  the  winds  by  a 
character    composed  of  low  cunnmg 
^   and  military  ferocity,  lawyerism  and 
soldierism,  the  character  of  Cromwell, 
as  justly  given  by  Voltaire ;   but  he 
succumbed  to  none.    Confined  to  only 
King's  Bench  rules  of  a  mile  from  his 
own  country-house,  he  felt  no  other 
suiTerings  than  sorrow  that  it  should 
impede  his   ransacking  records,   and 
abstracting  charters.    That  any  thing 
could   be  wrong  in  ancient  manners, 
he  thought  not.    He  made  no  distinc- 
tion between  the  fraudulent  supersti- 
tion of  Popery  and  the  scriptural  cor- 


rectneasf  of  Protestantism,  not  from 
approving  the  former,  but  merely  be- 
cause it  was  the  oldest,and  had  most  to 
do  with  anti(}uities  and  heraldry.    But 
there  is  a  praise  due  to  Dugdale,which 
we  (only  we  perhaps)  see  in  his  writ- 
ings, and  which  if  it  had  more  folk>w- 
ers  in  the  present  day,  would  vve  think 
be  a  great  public  benefit.     Lying,  we 
do  not  mean  the  literal  and  basjc,   but 
the  moral  construction  of  the  term,  is 
the    rattle-snake  venom)  which  per- 
vades modern  thinking ;  facts,howeyer 
plain  they  may  be,  are  concealed  or 
distorted,  in  order  to  be  adapted  to 
some  artificial  conventional    system ; ' 
not  to  truth  or  nature.     Life  in    busi- 
ness it  has  made  speculative  and  game- 
sterlike;  happiness  it  has  placed  in 
money  and  sensualism  only ;    religion 
in  popular  quackery,   and  politics  in 
the  editorial  comments  of  newspapers; 
whereas  in   those  valuable    luxuries, 
without  which  liberty  would  have  no 
performance,  improvement  no  growth, 
and  public  opinion  no  concern  with 
government,  the  facts  only  are   to  be 
regarded,  not  the  opinions  of  men, who 
write  upon   mere  principles  of  advo- 
cacy, and  yet  ridiculously  claim  to  be 
treated  as  honest  uprightjudges.  -  Dug- 
dale was  impregnable  to  political  mis- 
chief, and  we  hold  up  (for  dearly  do 
we  cherish  his  memory)  to  public   es- 
teem, his  deeply-principled  veneration 
for  ancient  institutions  in  the  follow- 
ing words   from  an    excellent  :  little 
book,  recently  published.  J 

'*  Flexibility  towardj  publick  opinioii,aiul 
an  indulgence  tnwards  publick  folly,  mre 
in  this  our  day  cried  up  and  overloaded  with 
maoy  injudicious  commendations.  Never* 
thel^  [Dugdale]  kept  in  view  consistency. 
Thinking  one  u^y,  he  scorned  to  act 
another.  He.  would  not  listen  to  claoiouri 
He  would  not  yield  to  the  infiituation  of  his 
day — hut  in  times,  when  the  voice  of  the 
many  pretended  to  exact  the  pbedience.of 
the  few,  be  took  for  his.  moral  the  stern  ^d 
unyielding  virtues  of  those  great  men  tp 
whose  firmness  and  unhending  detennioation 
we  owe  the  basis  of  our  constitution.  Ha 
was,  strictly  speaking,  «*  a  church  and  kin^ 
man.*'  That  liberal  and  dangerous  policy 
which  admitted  into  the  bosom  of  govern- 
ment all  tHie  numberless  ramifications  of 
sectarianism,  never  had  his  approval.  Nor 
could  he  ever  suffer  himself  to  be  convlnoed, 
that  these  men  were  -the  true  friends  of  their 


*  We  do  not  deny  the  existence  of  a         t  See  this  work,  499. 
poUtel  eooBomys  only  the  empiikitm  to         J  The  Valliaa,  or  Scenes  and  Thougblt 
^enogimifaw*  from  sechided  life.    2  vols.  19  mo.  -     / 


1827] 


Review. — Ellis's  Letiers  on  English  Hiitorf. 


515 


ctniBtry,  and  leMt  of  all  tupporten  of  th« 
Protesunt  Asceadaacy,  who  thus  endan- 
gered that  sway  of  uniformity,  peace,  and 
good  order,  which  it  cost  some  of  the  best 
blood  of  oar  ancestors  to  secure.  The 
visionsof  these  liberalists  appeared  to  him 
to  be  futile ;  their  plans  full  of  plausibility, 
thinly  hiding  the  real  consequences;  and 
he  lived  to  see^  that  when  success  attended 
their  efforts,  the  people  had  speedily  to  la- 
ment the  overthrow  of  all  that  is  venerable 
and  national  amongst  us.  In  short,  he 
thought  that  a  false  liberality,  an  impru- 
dent indulgence  of  the  prejudices  of  others, 
and  a  weak  regard  to  intemperate  clamour, 
have  too  often  taken  place  of  that  unshaken 
firmness  and  manly  con6dence  in  their  own' 
judgments,  which  best  become  the  aristo- 
cracy of  a  nation  like  this.'* 

We  should  as  soon  think  of  making 
short  work  with  our  money,  as  making 
short  work  with  Dugdale,  and  having 
commenced  with  some  valuable  points 
in  his  character,  we  shall  next  proceed 
to  the  contents  of  the  work  before  iis. 


85.  Original  Letters  xlluslraHve  of  EttglisK 
History :  including  numerous  Rental  Let- 
ters, fiom  Autographs  in  the  British  Mu" 
seum,  and  one  or  tux)  other  Collections* 
fVith  Notes  and  lilustrations  by  Henry 
Ellis,  F.  R,S.9  Sec.  S.  ^,  Keeper  <fiht 
Mamucripts  in  the  British  Museum,  Se- 
cond Series,  in  four  Volumes, 

WE  are  inclined  to  think  that  the 
devil  coaxes  historians  as  he  did  Kve; 
aud  with  equal  success.  There  are  at 
least  strong  signs  in  historians  of  the 
ravages  of  origmalsin,  and  the  tempta- 
tions (according  to  Commentators  on 
the  Lord'a  Prayer)  peculiar  rf  Trovrip^, 
viz,  infidelity,  philosophical  presump- 
tion, and  other  intellectual  vices.  Have 
,  we  not  scriptural  authority  for  think- 
ing, that  Hume  and  Gibbon  are  mas- 
terly specimens  of  the  d^viPs  diplo- 
matic talents ;  while  others  of  a^meaner 
proficiency  in  corruption  exhibit  weak- 
ness, partiality,  prejudice,  and  various 
defects  of  learning,  judgment,  and 
taste,  indicative  likewise  of  a  fall  of 
roan  in  the  essentials  of  History?  But 
as  that  is  the  most  instructive  of  all 
sciences,  its  imperfection  is  the  more 
to  be  regretted.  Were  it  however  far 
more  perfect  than  it  really  is,  and 
was  written  more  often  by  literary 
Abels  than  Cains,  there  would  still  l)e 
many  things  so  unsatisfactory  or  con- 
fused as  to  require  miscroscopical  in- 
vestigation or  chemical  filtering.  In 
such  processes^  Mr.  Ellis  eroinenily 


excels,  for  he  conducts  them  with 
learning,  skill,  temper,  and  taste. 
Well  does  he  understand,  that  if 
things  grow  out  of  circumstances,  the  - 
antiquary  is  a  better  illustrator  than 
the  philosopher;  and  we  shall  her6 
give  an  extract,  which  confirms  our 
position,  and  may  hold  up  for  reforma- 
tion a  very  interesting  part  of  the 
kingdom.  Every  body  has  heard  of 
the  ravenous  appetite  of  the  Welch  for 
going  to  law,  for  superstition,  fanati- 
cism, hawking  begging  petitions,  en- 
deavours to  overreach,  corruption  in 
their  juries,  and  peijury  in  their  wit- 
nesses. Among  a  people,  so  warm 
hearted,  and  full  of^  numerous  good  . 
feelings,  the  occurrence  of  such  civil 
evils  is  a  problem,  which  baffles  phi- 
losophy, because  it  has  no  connexion 
with  the  moral  history  of  man,  as  man. 
It  grew  out  of  circumstances,  as  ap- 
pears by  the  following  extracts  from  a 
letter  of  *' Richard  Frise,  of  Breck- 
nock, to  Lord  Burghley,  upon  the 
abuse  of  the  Commortna,  and  the 
general  state  of  Wales,    (iii.  41.) 

**  Begging  Petitions,  Overreaching,  Sfe: 
Whear  of  ancient  time  it  hathe  been  accus- 
tomed in  Wales,  ivith  a  kinde  of  free  benevo^ 
knee,  called  Comortha,  to  relieve  such  as  by 
some  great  mitfvrtune  were  decaied  and  fatten 
into  povertie,  the  same  proceeding  (no 
dowte)  of  a  charitable  and  good  meaning  al 
the  first,  is  nowe,  in  the  generall  corrup- 
tion of  all  good  thinges,  growen  to  so  great 
abuse,  that  it  is  no  more  a  free  giving  unto 
the  poor  decaied,  hut  more  than  halfe  a 
constrained  exacting  of  lewd  oflicers,  as  un- 
dersheriffes,  baitifFes  of  lordships  and  their 
deputies,  with  such  like :  and  of  unruly  gen- 
tlemen} such  as  having  consumed  tneyr 
oirne  ryotoosly,  and  in  the  maiutening'  of 
light  and  disordered  persons,wiIl  seek  to  re- 
dresse  tbeir  fidl  and  meinteyne  their  ryott* 
by  this  colourable  spoile  of  the  poore  true 
subjects  ;  yea  and  of  murderers  and  errant 
theifes  also,  which  having  by  some  means 
escaped  the  law,  doo  retome  immediately 
(as  unto  a  last  refuge)  unto  these  outra- 
gious  Comorthaei." 

It  is  known,  that  not  ten  years  ago 
a  murderer  took  refuge  in  the  mines,      ^ 
and  has  escaped  justice  from  that  time    '  ^ 
to  the  present  day. 

The  fondness  for  litigation  ffrew 
out  of  another  archaism,  and  snows 
first,  that  Burke  was  correct,  when  he 
said  that  cheapness  of  law  was  no 
blessing ;  and  secondly,  that  com- 
monness of  oaths  and  frequency  ^^ 
going  to  lavi  \i\VtcA\xcft%\Ktv^v).  ^ 


616 


RtnBW.-^^-^ElKs^s  LaUn  oh  Engtkh  Huiory. 


Pane, 


lyi  aoiitfalj  high  ovkiiikie  ooortM  iln4  tuniet 
is  their  timet,  doth  erenr  dm  weekes  at 
the  Iceat  itt  eveiy  handred  ot  the  ihirey 
keep  a  oourte  ia  the  manoer  of  a  courte 
haron  for  that  whole  hundred,  and  whereas 
hesidet  that  every  hundred  is  either  a  lord- 
•hip  of  itself  or  hathe  divers  lordships  with 
In  it  (as  appereth  hereunder  written  for  the 
com.  of  Brecknock)  in  every  of  which  lord- 
ships hothe  iy  leet  courtes  yearly,  and 
eourtes  haron  every  thre  weekes  are  holden 
and  kept  for  determbiog  of  actione  under 
the  valew  of  xls.  by  verdict  of  vi  mea,orelse 
hy  w^er  of  hwe:  which  aotjons  are  al« 
Mosit  idliiute,  by  reason  that  the  people  are 
ovennooh  iacUoed  to  qoarrelles  and  fuU  of 
^gaining  {wbenee  the  habit  of  over*" 
reaching*]  ;  and  for  the  more  speedy  re- 
covery of  their  demandes  in  those  thre 
wekes  Courtes  doo  use  to  sever  one  entieiy 
dets  (as  for  example  of  yx  li  more  or  lesse, 
by  several  bills  of  xxxixs.  1  id.  Forasmoche 
ti  manye  inconvenyences,  especiallv  two* 
irhich  are  very  great,doo  growe  therby  first 
daily  and  (almost)  ir^fimiepeTJtmes,  through 
the  continual  use  of  wagers  of  lawe  \yccdiare 
i^imt  to  give  security  to  go  to  law  upon  a 
day  assigned — see  CoumU]  whereby  it  is  in 
Bian&er  growen  into  an  habite  amongst  the 
people  sind  reckoned  no  vice."  pp.  44.  45. 

.  He  therefore  recoaunends,  in  abate- 
neat  of  these  etiis,  longer  iotervali 
between  holding  the  courls;  and  theo 
proceeds  to  show  the  bad  effects  npon 
tke  morals  and  civilisation  of  the 
.  people,  resulting  from  an  insufficient 
e»aowment  of  the  Established  Clergy. 

''  In  this  whole  shire  of  Brecknock  there 
are  scarce  y  learned  and  sufficient  pastors, 
and  for  a  mate  parte  some  one  slender 
chaplain,  which  caa  but  read  the  divine 
service,  doth  serve  y,  some  iij  parishes,  and 
ihoee  two  or  thre  miles  asunder  at  the  least, 
srherby  the  comon  people  are  so  nide  and 
^orant  in  the  mdst  necessary  pointes  oi 
the  Christian  Faith,  that  over  many  of  them 
,  ^not  as  moche  as  saie  the  Lordes  Praier 
and  Articles  of  the  Belief  in  anie  language 
that  they  understand.  And  therefore  It  is 
BO  marvell,  that  they  are  very  injurious  one 
to  another,  and  live  in  contempt  both  of 
the  lawes  of  God  and  man,  as  in  keepi^ 
one  his  brother's  wief,  another  his  wiefs 
— — — — '      ''  I   I  ■  I.  — 

*  The  following  curious  instance  of  this 
IS  told.    Some  t9urists  to  Snowdon,  over- 
taken by  a  storm,  took  shelter  in  a  hovel, 
where  they  saw  three  peasants,  apparently 
eating  dry  bread,  who  begged  for  a  donation, 
because  the  times  were  so  bad,  they  could 
only  earn  mere  bread  and  water,    lae  tra- 
vellers relieted  them,  but  after  departure 
nturoiag  s iiddenljr,  foaod,  thai  the  other 
side  of  tat  dry  hrtad  was  for  ht¥  an  indh 
thick,  eotend  with  batter. 


dau^htec^aad  Itviag  and  dwalihif  witfathea 
ae  meaiedoth  most  abomiaably  [It  veeeatly 
prevailed  among  the  lead  miners  ait  Rbyd- 
fcngigaid.  Nichols,  Camp.  Trav.  67t.] 
seing  they  are  not  instructed  in  the  fear  of 
God.  But  this  lack  of  f^od  teachers  doth 
partly  growe  by  reason  the  churches  are,  io 
■MDoer  all  impropriate,  and  no  livingee  left 
to  Budntein  sufficient  curates  but  such  aa 
please  the  proprieuries  and  their  fermors 
^  gcve,  which  commonly  will  geveaa  Ustle 
ae  they  can."     iii.  48. 

How  much  Wales  was  behind  Eng- 
land in  civilization,  Mr.  Ellis  further 
instances  ta  the  retention  of  very 
ancient  superstitions,and  holding  fairs 
upon  Sundays.  Now  we  could  men- 
tion a  parish  church  ofa  market  town, 
or  populous  village,  where  the  sacra- 
ment had  not  been  administered  for 
years,  and  the  shops  kept  o|>en  on 
dundays,  which  evils  were  only  abo- 
*'Iished  four  or  five  years  ago,  by  a 
clerical  magistrate  wno  happened  tem- 
porarily to  perform  the  church  doty. 

We  speak  in  no  ill-will,  but  merely 
to  attract  attention  ;  for  Walei  i^  the 
most  beautiful  part  of  this  isbad«  smkI 
only  requires  greater  approximatioo  to 
English  habits  and  refineroeoca  to 
make  it  a  favourite  land  of  riehes  and 
eomfbrt. 

We  shall  now  revert  to  the  first  vo- 
lume, and  go  through  it  in  aeriei. 

The  firsi  fifteen  letters  relate  to  the 
rebellion  of  Owen  Olendower ;  and 
contain  many  important  historical  fitels. 
We  have  reaid  that  his  insurrection  de« 
stroyed  full  two  hondred  thoosand  in- 
habitants of  this  thinlypeopM  region. 
Now  as  uosuccessfttl  insorrectioas  al- 
ways strengthen  the  existing  goverp* 
ment,  this  depopulation  preveo^  the 
Welch  from  ever  rising  ^^n. 

The  aext  series  refers  to  the  gallant 
reign  of  Henry  the  Fifth ;  and  among 
the  letters  [No.  xul]  is  a  loiiff  aocount 
of  the  barbarism  of  Ireland,  which 
Mr.  Ellisjustlyobserves^  was  then  io 
the  same  wild  state,  as  it  had  been, 
when  first  conquered  by  Henry  the 
Second.  To  us,  they  appear  to  have 
been  mere  huonan  wolves.  ■  ■'■  .■ 
Henry  was  the  first  of  our  Kings  who 
established  a  permanent  navy.  The 
first  ship  cootraeted  for  at  bayonno 
was  186  feet  in  length,  (i.  C70"'  ■■ 
Henry  found  at  Harflear  in  "  gold 
coyned  xxx  m.  li.  in  sylver  ooyoed 
M.M  li."  (i.  83.)  an  enormous  aii4 
tery  umifioal  di6pro|X>rtioo. 

'vV\^  V«x\ct%  ^>»^^  \Saft  tet^ns  of 


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617 


Heory  VI.  and  Edward  the  IV.  are 
ioutxiuced  by  a  preface,  id  which  is 
^ven  the  iol lowing  account  of  the 
death  of  Maroarbt  op  Anjou» 
Queen  of  Henry  VI. 

"  Baudier  stetei,  that  this  uofbrtuoate 
heroine  died  of  grief  in  1489,  in  the  parish 
of  Dampierre  near  Saumur,  at  the  house  of 
Francis  de  la  VignolIe,Seigneur  de  Moraens, 
who  had  been  one  of  the  chief  officers  in 
the  household  of  her  father  King  Ren^. 
She  was  buried  in  the  magnificent  tomb  of 
her  father,  but  without  any  epiuph  or  in- 
scription peculiar  to  her;  but  what  was 
wanting  to  her  honour  in  this  respect,  he 
adds,  was  in  some  measure  supplied  in  a 
different  way  ;  for  every  year  upon  the  fSeast 
of  All  Saints,  the  Chapter  of  St.  Maurice 
made  a  semicircular  procession  aBont  the 
tomb,  and  sarig  a  stdnffiule  for  the  Queen. 
This  custom  the  £ditor  is  assured  was  con- 
tintied  till  the  breakingiont  of  the  French 
Revolution,    p.  90." 

In  her  age,  no  man  was  deemed  fit 
for  the  throne  who  was  not  competent 
to  military  duties ;  but  it  is  rtty  pro- 
bable, that  her  rorai  hosband.  Grab's 
**  meek   usurper,     would  have  died 
peaceably  in  a  cloister,  and  Edward 
the  Fourth  have  ascended  the  throne, 
almost  without  resistance,  had   it  not 
been  for  the  *'Consort's  faith,*' exhibit- 
ed by  Margaret.    Shakspeare  has  done 
justice  to  ner  Amazonian  spirit,  and 
£dward,  in  a  letter  dated   1462,   de- 
scends to  aspersion  of  her,  as  wishing 
to  extirpate    the  English,  and    place 
her  uncle  Charles  of  Anjou  upon  the 
throne,  (p.  128.)    Now  Margaret  had 
a  son  of  her  own,  and   for   him  she 
was  e^'idently  desirous  of  securing  the 
throne,    not    for    her    uncle.     She 
brought  him  with  her  to  the  last  fatal 
battle  at  Tewkesbury,  and  there  he 
was    assassinated.       Warwick,    who 
alone  was  capable  of  opposing  Edward 
ivith  success,  had  perished  at  Barnet. 
As  to  Edward  or  his  Father,  notwith- 
standing their  better  title  to  the  crown, 
they  would  only  have  been  chickens, 
nnable  to  break  the  shell,  had  they  at- 
tempted to  rise    aaainst   Henry    the 
Fifth.    That  Achilles  would  just  have 
stamped  upon  them  to  annihilate  them, 
and  laughed  at  their  callous  and  fetter- 
locks.   But  the  grave  had  its  victory, 
and  death  had  its  sting,  in  his  earthly 
history — his  infant  was  not  bred  up  to 
arms — rivals  took  the  advantage,  and 
all  that  was  left  to  the  **  meek  usurper*' 
was  public  esteem  for  the  only  son  of 
a  hero^  and  that  son's  holy  ctiaractcr. 
Tliat  this  esteem  had  |;reai  inAnetict 


upon  the  publick  mind  is  evident  from 
this  letter  of   Edward.     He  makea  ' 
a  woman,  Margaret  alone,  the  sub- 
ject of  his  slander,  and    alarms  iht 
country  with  the  projected  butcheries 
and  rapines  of  her  invading  foreigners. 
But  mark   how  Providence  avenged 
her.    Edward  was  instrumental  to  the 
assassination  of  the  son  of  Margaret. 
His  own  male  issue  were  likewise  aa- 
sassinated,  whether  in  the  Tower  by  ' 
Richard,  or  the  survivor  (if  he  was 
Perk  in  Warbeck)  by  Henry   the  Se- 
venth.     The  last  days  of  Margaret 
were  not  more  forlorn    than  those  of 
his  own  Queen,  Elizabeth  Grey ;   and 
bis  daughter  only  raised  on  the  throne» 
by  marriage   with    an  Atiotney    (aa 
Walpole   calls    Henry  the  Seventh) 
descendant  of  a  Welch  Commoner^ 
(Owen  Tudor)  "  Genuine  Kings,  Brir 
tannia's   Issue.'*    Thus  was  verified  a 
prophecy  of  Merlin,  whom  our  ances* 
tors  regarded  as  a  man  who  ought  tp 
have  had  a  prophet's  place  in  the  Bible» 
because,  in  their  judgment,  he  wrote 
"  an  apocalypse'*  about  the  future  for- 
^unes  of  Great  Britain  ;  but,rike  other 
fortune-tellers,  he  did  not  foresee  his 
own  future  compulsion  to  abdicate  in 
favour  of  Moore,  the  almanack  writer^ 
who  alone  is  Ief\  to    prophesy  about 
our  fortunes  to  come. 

We  have  spoken  thus,  under  a  feeU 
ing  of  sorrow  for  Margaret  of  A»- 
jou,  because  we  deeply  respect  *'  wo- 
man's   faith"    and  **  maternal  love,** 
the  first  and  best  of  all  human  aflec- 
tions;  and   because   we  know    that 
out    of  the  three  queens    who  ever 
reiffned  in  this  country,  /iro,  (Elisa- 
beth and  Anne,  the  patroness  of  Marl- 
borough,) brought  it  to  a  high  eleva- 
tion in  ^lory ;  and  therefore  that  Pro- 
vidence in  placing  a  queen  bee  in  the 
sovereignty  of  a  hive,  even  of  human 
beings,  has  given  a   better  authority 
for  the  possible  excellence  of  petticoat 
government,  than  we  dunghill  cocks 
(for  what  husband  would  desire  to, be 
ajighting  one  i)  are  prepared  to  admit, 
thoueh  it  often  is  the  case,  that  we  do    . 
not  dare  to  crow,   because  very  many 
Oame  Partlets  better  understand   the 
arts  of  government  and   victory  than 
ourselves. 

In  a  work  like  this,  where  ereiy 
letter  is  a  thesis  for  a  declamation,  we 
must,  through  our  narrow  limits,either 
take  points,  or  give   a   dry  catalQi^^<> 
Puffing  fCitt vv^  \tv  ^  ^"tiwiw  '«'«\v 


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of  goods  and  bones,  the  oratory  of 
dealers  and  chapmen.  We  have  there- 
fore to  take  points,  and  give  the  best 
interest  in  our  power  to  matters  sus- 
ceptible of  engaging  the  feelings  of  our 
general  readers, leaving  to  the  philoso- 
pher and  statesman,  the  work  at  large, 
tor  thai  vast  mass  of  valuable  historical 
•matter,  which  belongs  to  study.  For 
the  present  we  stop  here. 

(To  be  continued.) 


86.  Directions  for  the  Study  of  Theology  ; 
in  a  Series  of  Letters  ^rom  a  Bishop  to  his 
Son,  on  hi^  admission  into  Holy  Orders, 
By  the  Eight  Rev,  George  Gleig,  LL,D. 

FROM  the  pen  of  Bishop  Gleig, 
whose  talents  and  learning  are  so  well 
known  by  means  of  his  former  writ- 
ing, no  superficial  directions  for  study 
will  be  expected.     Nor  will  such  be 
fodnd  in  the  present  volume.    It  seems, 
indeed,  to  have  been  the  object  of  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Author  to  make  his  Son  as 
profound   a  divine  as    himself,   and 
equally  qualified  to  handle  every  diffi- 
cult point  of  theological    discussion: 
and  certainly,  if  a  careful  meditation 
on  these  Directions,  with  the  works 
recommended  in  ihcm,  did  not  pro- 
dupe,  in   any   student,   something  at 
least  approaching  to  that  effect,  we 
should  despair  ofits  being  produced  at 
all. 

A  competent  preparation  in  the  ele- 
ments of  Fheulogy,  is  supposed  to  have 
been  made  at  the  University,  which 
knowledge,  says  the  Bishop,    "  would 
be  sufficient  for  the  curate  of  a  parish, 
had  be  nothing  to  do,  but  illustrate  the 
cvsential  Articles  of  our  Holy  Faith, 
and  to  inculcate  upon  his  parishioners 
the  precepts  of  the  Gospel. — But  he 
has  to  guard  them  against  innumerable 
errors  that  are  circulated   auiong  all 
ranks  of  the  people,  from  the  highest 
to  the  lowest,    with   the  utmost    in- 
dustiy,  and  pressed  on  them  with  the 
greatest  art  and    earnestness.*'     The 
persons  who  so  corrupt  the  minds  of 
men  are  not  only  the  Deists  and  Atheists, 
bat  those  who  pervert  Scripture  by  mis- 
interpretation, the  Unitarians  and  the 
teachers  of  imputed  sin  and  righteous- 
ness.   The  youQg  Divine  is  warned 
however   against    introducing    these 
topics  into  his  discourses. 

''.  You  will  do  well"  says  Hiiliop  G\ei^, 
'*  to  Mvoid  all  appttautct  of  controversy  in 


voor  Sermons,  unless  on  points  wherein  you 
know  your  people  to  have  been  already 
mialed ;  for  you  could  not  controvert  the 
dangerous  doctriuea  of  Unitarianiim  on  tbs 
one  hand,  or  of  Fanaticism  on  the  other, 
without  previously  suting  these  doctrines ; 
and,  by  doine  this,  you  might  excite  the 
curiosity  of  the  illiterate  part  of  the  con- 
gregation to  inquire  further  about  erroneoxu 
opinions,  of  which,  but  for  your  information, 
tney  might  never  have  heard.  You  would 
thus  be  the  instrument  of  leading  yoar 
people  into  the  very  errors  against  which  it 
was  your  object  to  guard  them." 

After  this  introduction,  the  author 
proceeds  to  handle,  in  his  second  Let- 
ter, the  great  question,  '*  Is  there  such 
a  thing  as  Natural  Religion  ?*'  Having 
first  stated  the  opposite  opinions  on  the 
subject,  he  says, 

''  Had  these  disputants  commenced  their 
discussions  with  ascertaining  what  is  meant 
by  the  phrase  Natural  Religion,  V  think  it 
probable  that  there  would  have  been  no 
controversy  between  them ;  at  least  I  am 
convinced  that  there  ought  to  have  been 
none.  If  by  the  phrase  Natural  Religion 
be  meant,  a  system  either  innate  in  tlie 
mind  of  man,  or  discovered  by  human  rea- 
son from  the  phenomena  of  nature,  I  am 
persuaded  that  there  never  was,  nor  ever 
could  have  been,  such  a  religion  known  or 
practised  in  the  world.'* 

He  concludes,  therefore,  after  com- 
bating the  allegations  for  a  contrary 
opinion,  that  *'the  first  principles  of 
religion  must  have  beencpmmunicated 
to  the  progenitors  of  the  human   race 
by  inspiration  ;*'  and  this,   he  thinks 
"  must  be  readily  granted  by  every  qa- 
prejudiced  and  reflecting  Tneist.*'  But 
before  such  a  revelation  can  be  received 
true,  as  by  other  persons, /Aey  must  be 
convinced  by  other  means,  "not  only 
that  there  is  a  Creator  and  Governor  of 
the  world,  but  also  that  he  is   such  a 
Being  as,  in  a  matter  of  such  importance, 
will  neither  deceive  his  rational  crea- 
tures, nor  suffer  them  to  be  deceived, 
if  they  make  the  proper  use  of  the  in- 
tellectual powers  with  which  he  hath 
endowed  them."  —  Whatever    know- 
ledge, therefore,  of  the  Supreme  Being 
can  be  obtained,  by  arguments  drawn 
from  the  acknowledged  phenomena  of 
nature,  may  be  considered  as  Natural 
Theology  (  and  in  this  sense  the  Bishop 
acknowledges  the   propriety    of    the 
phrase. 

He  must,  however,  be  no  idle  or 
careless  student,  who,  for  the  discus- 


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519 


course  to  the  works  here  mentioned  in 
a  note:   which  are  no  less  than  the 
principal  writings  of  Bacon,   Locke, 
Berkelay,  Reid,  Stewart,  Law,  and  the 
Bi8hop*s  own  Compendium  of  Meta^ 
physical  Science,  published  in  the  Kn^ 
cyclopcedia  Briiannica, — But  it  is  evi« 
cfentthat  it  was  no  part  ofthe Author's 
design  to  encourage  or  allow  super- 
ficial studies.  •    ■' 
^    In  the  third  Letter,  the  Remarks  of 
Bishop  Gleig  on  some  of  the  most  ce- 
lebrated Systems  of  Natural  Theology, 
will   be  read  with  satisfaction   by  all 
who    are  qualified   to  estimate  their 
value.    Nor  will  such  readers  be  sur- 
prised to  find  the  preference  given  to 
Paley ;  even  after  the  mention  of  Bent- 
ley,    Clarke,    King   and    Wollaston. 
The  fourth  Letter  treaU  of  Natural 
Religion  i    that  is  of  the  obligations 
deducible   hv  reason  from   the  basis 
o{  Natural  Theology, or  the  mere  know- 
ledge of  a  God.    The  author  next  points 
out  (Letter  5,)  the  defects  of  Natural 
Religion,  and  the  consequent  necessity 
of  Revelation ;  which  leads  him  in  the 
6th,  to  recommend  the  study   of  the 
Scriptures,  and  the  fittest  method  of 
pursuing  it.     Here  an  ordinary  Student 
might  a^in  take  alarm,  at  the  number 
and  weight  ofthe  books  proposed  to 
be  read,  in  illustration  ofthe  Historical 
Scriptures;  but  the  Bishop  doubtless 
knew  that  he  was  addressing  a  person 
of  no  ordinal^  capacity,  and  one  whose 
studies  he   had  been  accustomed   to 
direct  to  the  best  sources.     He  aUo  re- 
commends that  the  Scripture  should 
be  read,  **  not  in  the  order  in  which 
they  are  commonly  published,  but  in 
the  order  of  time  in  which  they  were 
written  ;"  for  which  order  he  refers  to 
Mr,  Townsend*s  Historical    Arrange- 
ment ofthe  Bible:  and  we  may  add, 
of  the  New  Testament  also.    Both 
these  works  are  executed  in  the  most 
sattslactory  manner:  but- the  two  vo- 
lumes on  the  N.  T.  probably  had  not 
reached  the  Bishop  when  tnis  letter 
was  primed. 

The  Letters  on  the  three  first  Chap- 
ters of  Genesis,  and  on  the  State  of 
Man  before  and  after  the  Fall,  are  ex- 
tremely acute,  and  well  written ;  but 
contain  some  opinions  which  have 
been  controverted,  and  are  likely  again 
to  be  disputed.  *  Of  these  we  cannot 
here  enter  into  the  discussion  or  de- 
fence. But  the  Bishop  is  fully  com- 
petent to  defend  himself;  and  they 
.who  will  not  yield  to  the  authorities  and 


arguments  which  he  brings  forward, 
would  certainly  contend  against  ui, 
with  still  sieater  pertinacity. 

It  would  extend  this  article  much 
too  far,  to  complete  the  analysis  of 
these  Letters  in  the'way  we  have  begun. 
We  shall  therefore  only  state,  that, 
after  pursuing  the  History  of  Revealed 
Religion,  through  its  various  steps,  till 
its  full  developement  in  the  Gospel,  in 
which  four  Letters  are  emploved,  the 
author  proceeds,  in  seven  suosequent 
Letters,  to  treat  of  the  fundamental  ar- 
ticles of  the  Christian  Faith ;  on  the 
Atonement,  on  the  doctrines  of  JustU 
fication,  Sanctification,  and  Predesti- 
nation ;  on  the  Constitution  and 
Authority  ofthe  Christian  Church,  at 
a  Spiritual  Society ;  and  finally  on  the 
Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  at 
understood  by  the  Greek,  Roman,  and 
Lutheran  Churches,  and  by  the  Cal- 
vinists ;  concluding  with  a  vindication 
ofthe  Doctrine  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land. 

It  will  readily  be  seen,  by  any  per- 
son conversant  in  religious  enquiries; 
that  these  chapters  must  contain  no 
small  portion  of  nice  and  difficult  mat- 
ter- But  when  we  say  that  these  pro- 
found questions  are  nere  treated  by 
Bishop  Gleig  with  a  depth  of  judg- 
ment, and  a  clearness  of  reasoning,not 
often  to  be  met  with,  we  say  no  more 
than  what  mrght  easily  be  proved  in  m 
more  extended  examination  ;  and  what 
will  require  no  proof,  beyond  the  Let- 
ters themselves,  to  those  who  with 
ability  and  candour  sit  down  to  the 
perusal  of  them;  rejecting  such  pre- 
conceived opinions  as  will  not  stand 
the  test  of  argument. 

An  Appendix,  on  three  very  im- 
portant subjects,  is  added  to  the  Let- 
ters: 1.  On  the  credibility  of  the 
Scripture  Miracles,  in  answer  to  Hume 
and  his  followers'.  S.  On  the  origin 
of  the  three  first  Gospels.  3.  On  the 
Doctrine  of  Original  Sin.  On  the 
■latter  of  these  subjects,  the  author 
strongly  contends  against  the  notion 
of  either  sin  or  righteousness  being 
imputed  to  one  Being  from  another; 
an  opinion,  which,  though  it  has  had 
many  partisans,  and  probably  con- 
tinues to  have,  does  indeed  appear  to 
be  utterly  irreconcileable  with  any  ideu 
we  can  form  of  perfect  justice. 

Having  thus  informed  our  readera, 
in  a  general  way,  what  they  are  to  ex- 
pect in  this  very  able  worx,  we  «h»!i!L 


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•recertain  the  author  willjoin ;  namely, 
that  it  may  extend  the  influence  of 
sound  doctrine,  without  causing  or  re- 
▼hring  any  acrimonious  dbpuutions. 


•7.  Thi  Life  of  Cardinal  ffolsey,  by  George 
Careadiah,  his  OtnUenum  Usher,    Prom 

*  tht  wriginAL  Autograph  Mamueript ;  with 
Notes  and  other  iUuttratnm  by  Sunuel 

•  WdUr  Sioger,  F.  5.  A,  Bvo.  second  edit, 
fp.  64t. 

[  JOHNSON  has  remarked  that  the 
best  Biozrapher  of  anv  man  is  his 
bntler.  lie  means  only,  of  course, 
that  from  a  domestic  can  information 
concerning  private  life  be  most  accu- 
jately  obtamed.  But  however  cor- 
rect may  be  facts,  it  is  plain  that  the 
vast  difierence  in  the  interests,  man- 
pers,  and  opinions  of  masters  and  de- 
pendants, renders  it  utterly  essential, 
that  such  biography  should  be  written 
upon  Bible-society  principles,  "with- 
out note  or  comment,*' and  (it  may  be 
added)  "  without  an  apocrypha'*  an- 
nextd.  But  even  under  the  most  cor- 
rect and  impartial  statement  of  facts, 
there  will  inevitably  ensue,  in  such 
authorship,  the  most  important  de- 
sideratum, namely,  that  aelicate  de- 
lineation of  peculiarities,  which  makes 
of  the  man  an  individual  portrait. 
A  butler's  account  is  simply  at  the 
best  a  character  given  in  a  court  of 
Justice. 

With  rei^ard  to  ancient  biography, 
an  exception  may  be  made.    It  enters 
into  minute  description,  which  forms 
.ilie  very  essence  of  correct  biographi- 
&l\  taste,  in  the  judgment  of  that  man 
^f  supreme  taste,  Horace  Earl  of  Or- 
ford.    General  accounts  form  only  fu- 
neral   orations.     Chaucer,    Froissart, 
Holinshed,  and  the  Author  before  us, 
.wrote  the  descriptive  form,  and  to  that 
alone  they  owe  their  popularity ;  for 
.vague  generalities  do  not  hitch  them- 
•elves  upon  the  attention ;  and  when 
we  add  to  this  the  discrepancy  of  an«- 
-cient  manners,  habits,  and  thinking, 
the  interest  becomes  that  of  a  novel, 
which  is  bon4  fide  history.    These an- 
cieBt  writers  are  never  metaphysical. 
They  do  not,  like  the  modems,sort  out 
.the  incidents,and  oppose  them  in  scales, 
to  philosophical  weights,  which  pro- 
.cess  is,  in  fact,  only  making  of  them 
oases  for  the  opinions  of  philosophical 
/CQonsel,  according  to  their  statute  and 
iOQmioon  Uw,    Our  old  biogcapUeTi 
take    the   customary    manners    and 


[June, 


opinions  of  th«ir  ages  for  the  ttaiid* 
aid  of  their  reflectioDa»  and  the  reaull 
is,  thai  their  pictures  are  all  in  extei* 
Ictit  keeping,  and  have  not  only  tba 
interest  of  being  drawn  from  life,  but 
the  attraction  of  curiosity. 

In  our  review  of  Howard's  Li(e  of 
Wolsey,  we  were  thought  to  have  used 
him  with  ii^ustice,  and  to  have  under- 
valued his  merits.*  The  contemporary 
account  before  us,  shows  plain l]|f  that 
he  was  a  man  determinea  to  rise  by 
devoting  himself  completely  to  the  will 
of  his  l&vereign  ;  and  that  he  depend* 
ed.  entirely  upon  such  acquiescence 
for  the  permanency  of  hii  favour. 
But  that  not  chusing  (for  we  cannot 
avoid  a  strong  term)  to  throw  off  the 
Pope,  and  become  a  pander  to  the 
King,  in  regard  to  his  divorce  from 
Catherine,  and  even  going  so  far  as  to 
endeavour  an  alienation  of  his  af- 
fections from  AnneBoIeyn,  by  recom- 
mending a  marriage  with  the  French 
king's  sister,  (see  p.  437)  his  Majesty 
then  found,  that  his  sic  volo,  sicjubeo^ 
was  menaced ;  and  WoIsey,ihat  (to  use 
his  own  words)  his  royal  master,  "  ra- 
ther than  miss  or  want  any  part  of  his 
will  or  appetite,  would  put  the  loss  of 
one  half  of  his  realm  in  danger.'* 
(p.  3S8.)  The  character  in  substance, 
which  we  gave  of  Wolsey,  was,  that 
he  rose  by  obsequiousness,  and  fell  by 
resistance ;  and  without  the  smallest 
disrespect  to  the  gentleman  who  dif- 
fered from  us,  we  beg  to  observe  that, 
in  the  opinion  of  Henry,  otiice  did 
not  differ  from  servitude,  a  minister 
from  a  spaniel,  and  that  Henry  would 
have  regarded  independence  of  mind 
as  treason.  Henry  was  perfectly  ty- 
rannical, also  able  and  well  informeo^ 
and  no  one  could  obtain  an  influence 
over  him,  which  might  have  been 
feasible  with  a  man  of  inferior  head. 
Cavendish  givn  tis  the  following^  ac* 
count  of  Wolsey'i  mode  of  raising 
himself. 

*'  In  etpecid,  /or  that  he  vxu  most  eanteit 
and  readiest  among  all  the  council  to  advanie 
the  king's  only  will  and  pleasurep  tuithout 
any  respect  to  the  case :  toe  kiog  tbertfbre 
perceived  him  to  be  a  meet  instromeot  for 
the  accomplishment  of  bii  devised  will  mod 
pleasure,  called  him  more  near  unto  him, 
and  esteemed  him  so  highly,  that  his  esti- 
mation and  favour  put  all  other  ancient 
counsellors  out  of  their  accustomed  favour, 
that  they  were  in  before ;  insomuch  that 
the  kiog  committed  ail  his  will  and  plea- 
sure unto  bb  disposition  and  order.  Who 


1897.]         Rbv  II  w*— Cavendish's  Life  of  Cardinal  fFolsey. 


681 


.  wrought  lo  all.  bis  matttn,  that  ail  hitw 
^Mvour  WM  odIj  to  t^fy  the  king's  mind, 
.  knowinir  right  well  that  it  was  the  rerr 
vein  and  right  ooutm  to  hring  him  to  high 
promotion.  The  long  was  young  and  losty, 
disposed  all  to  mirth  and  pleasure,  and  to 
follow  his  desire  and  appetite,  nothing 
,  minding  to  travail  in  the  busy  affsirs  of  this 
realm.  The  which  the  almoner  perceiriog 
very  well,  took  upon  him  therefore  to  dis- 
burden the  king  of  so  weighty  a  charge  and 
troublesome  business,  putting  the  king  in 
comfort,  that  he  shall  not  need  to  spare  any 
time  of  his  pleasure,  for  any  business,  that 
should  necessarily  happen  in  the  council,  as 
as  long  as  he,  being  there  and  having  the 
king's  authority  and  commandment,  doubted 
.not  to  see  all  things  sufficiently  furnished 
and  perfected ;  t?ie  which  would  first  make 
the  king  privy  qfaUsuch  matters  as  shtmtd 
pass  through  their  hands  hrfore  he  tuauldffO" 
eetd  to  the  finishing  or  determining  qf  the 
Mmcy  whose  mind  andpleamre  he  would fuj/U 
andfoUowto  the  utlermostf  wherewith  the 
king  was  wonderfully  pleasod.  And  whereas 
the  other  ancient  counsellors  would,  aocoid- 
ing  to  the  office  of  good  counsellors,  diverse 
times  persuade  the  king  to  have  sometime 
an  intercourse  in  the  council,  there  to  hear 
what  was  done  in  weigh^  matters^  Uie 
which  pleased  the  king  noUting  at  allf  fir  he 
loved  nothing  worse  than  to  be  eonstrained  to 
do  qny  thing  contrary  to  his  royal  will  and 
pUasure;  and  that  he  knew  the  almoner  very 
well,  having  a  secret  inuUigence  of  the 
king's  natunl  inclination,  and  so  fast  as  the 
other  counsellors  advised  the  king  to  leave  his 
pleasure,  and  to  attend  to  the  cffain  ff  his 
realm,  s6  busily  did  the  almoner  persuade 
him  to  the  contrary ,  which  deliffhted  him 
much,  and  caused  him  to  have  the  greater 
affection  and  love  to  the  almoner.  Thus 
the  almoner  ruled  all  them,  that  hrfore  ruled 
him:*    pp.81.  Si. 

From  this  extract,  it  will  be  plain 
in  what  manner  Wolsey  obtained  bis 
high  power;  and,  of  course,  being  a 
mere  echo  ofHenry,  he  lost  no  favours, 
until  (as  we  observcxi  in  our  former  re- 
view) he  ventured  to  set  up  for  himself 
as  a  [)rincipal.  In  Wyatt's  account 
here  given  (p.  42?)  il  seems  "  that  the 
matter  of  the  Duchess  [the  king  of 
France's  sister]  cooling  every  day  more 
and  more,  his  ^the  Cardinal's]  credit 
also  waned  till  it  was  utterly  eclipsed ; 
and  that  so  busied  the  great  personages, 
that  they  marked  the  less  the  king's 
bent  [towards  Ann  Boleyn],  the  rathu 
for  that  some  way  it  seemed  helpful  to 
their  working  against  the  Cardinal, 
p.  427." 

These  passages  show  clearly  b^  what 
means  Wolsey  became  prime  minister, 
Gmnt»  Mao.  Jtme,  J6S7. 

6 


and  was  so  lon^  able  to  overcome  his 
powerful  enemies.  Henry  knew,  thai 
Wolsey,  was,  only  the  figure  of  him- 
self the  king  iu  a  looking-glass ;  and 
therefore  to  condemn  him  would  be  to 
condemn  himself.  But  when  the 
Cardinal  attempted  to  have  a  political 
existence  of  his  own,  Henry  thought 
that  a  convenience  was  likely  to  be- 
come an  obstruction ;  and  soon  \fl 
him  know  that  he  had  miscalculated, 
in  supposing  that  he  was  any  other 
than  a  parasitick  plant,  which  thrived, 
while  it  was  upheld  by  the  royal  oak, 
but  could  not  support  an  independent 
existence.  Wolsey  himself,  in  his  dit- 
tress,  was  recalled  to  that  recollection 
which  he  ought  never  to  have  forgot* 
ten,  and  instead  of  bravinff  his  ene- 
mies, appeals  to  the  king's  feelings  and 
honour,  which  he  thought  must  be 
interested  in  his  behalf,  because  with 
only  a  late  exception  he  had  been 
merely  a  passive  instrument  in  execo* 
ting  the  royal  will  and  pleastira. 
Speaking  of  his  yielding  himself  guilty 
in  the  premunire,  be  says 

"  It  was  the  best  way  for  me,  all  thta^ 
considered,  to  do  as  I  have  done  than  ta 
stand  in  trial  with  the  king,  for  he  wodd 
have  been  loath  to  have  been  noted  a  wroBC 
doer,  and  in  my  submission  the  king,  I 
doubt  not,  had  a  great  remorse  of  ooft- 
science,  wherein  he  would  rather  pity  at, 
than  malign  me.  And  also  there  was  a  ooa« 
tiuual  serpentine  enemy  about  the  Idstt 
[Ann  Boleyn]  that  would,  I  am  well  assoied, 
if  I  had  been  found  stiff-necked,  [havel  callad 


continually  upon  the  king  In  his 
the  niffht-crow)  with  such  vehemency,  thaft 
I  should  with  the  help  of  her  assistance,'  cb» 
tained  sooner  the  king's  iadignation."  P.81& 

We  are  fully  willing  to  admit  Wol« 
sey's  favour  towards  learning  and  lean- 
ed men,  but  that  was  also  approved  By 
Henry.  That  Wolsey  would  not  have 
assented  to  the  deposition  of  the  Papnl 
authority  is  evident  from  his  own  dyiqg 
words  (p.38g),  where  he  deprecates  to- 
leration of  Protestants ;  and  therefore,-  if 
the  King  wished  to  establish  the  Refer* 
mat  ion,  he  must  have  ^been  removed. 
In  the  production  of  this  happy  chan^ 
of  religion,  the  following  curious  ar* 
cumstance  occurred.  Anne  Boleyn 
was  possessed  of  **  Tvndal's  Obedienoe 
of^a  Christian  Man,*'  and  lent  it  to  an 
attendant,Mn.Gainsford,  toread.  Sha 
had  a  lover  named  Zouch,  and  at  lo* 
vers  and  kittens  are  fond  of  gamboling 
he  snatched  the  book  wvltj\V«t  '^■^^^ 
and  ViecMn^  «>  dt\\^\jA  ^v^^  '^■f*- 
he  ^a»  Aw»^  v^wvn%\v-    "vt*  vi»- 


5M  Rbvibw.^— Cavendish's  Lt/«  of  CardifMiJ  fFol^ejr.  QJune, 

dinal  had  given  orders  to  the  bishops, 
and  esnecially  to  Dr. .Sampson,  dean 
of  the  king's  chapel,  to  use  their  ut- 
most exertions,  in  impeding  the  circu- 
Ution  of  the  book,  and  more  particular- 
ly fn  preventing  its  coming  into  the 
king's  nands.  Dr.  Sampson  caught 
Mr.  Zouch  in  the  act  of  reading  it, 
seized  it,  and  delivered  it  to  the  Car- 
dinal. 

^  In  the  mean  time  the  Lady  Anne 
Hsketh  her  woman  for  the  book.  She 
OD  her  knees  told  all  the  circumstances. 
The  Lady  Anne  showed  herself  not 
Sony  nor  angry  with  either  of  the  two. 
Bnt  said  she,  '  well,  it  shall  be  the 
dearest  book  that  ever  the  dean  or  car- 
dinal took  away.'  The  noblewoman 
rto  the  king,  and  upon  her  knees 
desireth  the  kings  help  for  her 
book.  Upon  the  kmg's  token  the 
book  was  restored,  and  now  bringing 
the  book  to  him,  she  besought  his 
Grace  most  tenderly  to  read  it.  The 
Sing  did  so,and  delighted  in  the  book, 
^fbr  (said  he)  this  book  is  for  me  and 
all  kings  to  read,'  and  in  a  little  time, 

S'thenelpof  this  virtuous  lady,  by 
e  means  afore8aid,had  his  eyes  opened 
to  the  truth,  to  advance  God's  religion 
and  clory,to  abhor  the  Pope's  doctrme, 
htt  lies,  nis  pomp,  and  pride,  to  de- 
liTCr  his  Subjects  out  of  the  Egyptian 
darkness,  the  Babylonian  bonds,  that 
the  Pope  had  brought  his  subjects 
under.  And  so  contemning  the  threats 
of  all  the  world,  the  power  of  princes, 
lebellions  of  his  sul^ects  at  home,  and 
the  raging  of  so  many  and  mighty  po- 
tentates abroad  ^  set  forward  a  reforma- 
tion in  religion,  beginning  with  the 
triple-orown'd  head  at  first,  and.  so 
came  down  to  the  members,  bishops, 
abbots,  priors,  and  such  like.''  p.  440. 

•  Now  it  is  plain,  from  the  passaji^e 
just  ouoted,  and  Wolsey'sdyioz  words, 
that  ne  bad  been  long  apprised  of  the 
King's  anti-papal  prejects :  and  as  he 
'could  not  possibly  second  them,  he 
ahbold  hive  retired  from  office  before 
the  question  of  Catharine's  divorce 
was  agitated.  But  probably  he  thought 
that  his  personal  safety  depended  upon 
his  retaining  office.  But  whether  he 
thoopht  80  or  not,  the  king's  intentions 
leaoired  his  dismissal. 

•  We  have  gone  more  fully  into  this 
iubjeet,  because  the  leading  feature  of 
Henry's  reign  is  the  Reformation, with 
wbicn  Wolsef  had  no  concern ;  and 

ibm  excepted,  we  see  no  poUtical  mm- 
twe  of  great  moment  in  that  rtign. 


The  curious  circumstance  is,  that  a 
king  so  arbitrary  in  principle,  should 
be  the  efficient  means  of  bringing 
about  an  event,  the  mbst  favourable  to 
liberty.  Wolsey  saw  it  in  this  light, 
and  it  was  unquestionably  a  prophecy, 
which  came  to  pass  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  I.    On  his  death  bed,  he  says, 

*<  And  say  furthermore,  that  I  nquett 
hit  Grace,  in  God's  name,  that  be  hare  a 
vigilant  eye  to  depress  this  nevr  pernicious 
sect  of  Lntherans,  that  it  do  not  in- 
crease within  his  dominions,  through  his 
negligence,  in  such  a  sort  as  that  he  ehall 
be  fain  at  length  to  put  harness  upon  his 
back  to  subdue  them  ;  as  the  King  of  Bo- 
hemia did,  who  had  good  game,  to  see  his 
rudt  commons  (then  inflicted  with  Wick« 
Itffe's  heresies)  to  spoil  and  murder  tbe 
spiritual  men  and  religious  persons  of  his 
realm ;  the  which  fled  to  the  king  and  his 
nobles  for  succour,  against  their  frantiok 
race;  of  whom  they  could  get  no  help  of 
defence  or  refuge,  bnt  [they]  lauehed  tnem 
to  scorn,  having  good  game  at  their  spoil 
and  consumption,  not  regarding  their  dutiea, 
nor  their  own  defence.  And  when  these  er- 
.roneous  heretics  had  subdued  all  the  cAtrgf 
and  spiritual  persons,  taking  the  spoil  at 
thehr  riches,  both  of  churches,  monasteries, 
and  all  other  spiritual  things,  having  no 
more  to  spoil,  [they]  caught  such  a  courage 
of  their  former  liberty,  that  then  they  dis- 
dained their  prince  and  sovereign  lord,  with 
all  the  noble  personages,  and  the  bead  go- 
vernors of  the  country,  and  began  to  fall  in 
hand  with  the  temporal  lords  to  slay  and 
spoil  them,  without  pity  or  mercy,  roost 
cruelly.  Insomuch  that  the  king  and  other 
his  nobles  were  constraiued  to  put  harness 
upon  their  backs,  to  resist  the  nngodly 
powers  of  those  traitorous  hereticks,  and 
to  defend  their  lives  and  liberties,  who 
pitched  a  field  royal  against  them ;  in 
which  field  these  traitors  so  stoutly  en- 
countered the  party  of  them  was  so  cruel 
and  vehement,  that  in  fine  they  were  vic- 
tors, and  slew  the  IciuK*  the  lords,  and 
all  the  gentlemen  of  Uie  realm,  leaving 
not  one  person  that  bare  the  name  or 
part  of  a  gentleman  alive,    p.  S90." 

Wolsey  says,  that  this  insurrection, 
and  that  of  the  Wickliffites  in  the  reigns 
of  Rich.  II.  and  Hen.  V.  were  "plain 

grecedents,'*  and  most  certain  it  is,that 
lonarchy  cannot  subsist  without  an 
Established  Church,  acting  insubordi- 
'  nation,  and  that  tbe  multitude  have 
ever  made  reli^on  a  cloak  for  degrad- 
ing their  superiors. 

We  have  been  arraigned,  (as  we 
have  before  observed,)  for  having  been 
unjust  to  Wolsey ;  but  in  our  judg- 
TQOCil,  Yi«  %tft  xinxVvVxi.^  SKI  ^reat  as  to 


lasr.] 


KBViEw.—Senitr  on  PoUOcal  £coaoMy. 


cellence.  A  work  like  the  present^ 
fitted  to  show  t^ie  romantic  feature 
of  his  story,  his  extraordinary  eleva- 
tion, his  splendid  mode  of  living,  the 
peculiar  manners  of  his  age,  and  the 
interesting  tragedy  of  his  last  days,  is 
(we  think)  a  (nsplay  of  the  subject  in 
better  taste.  A  political  life  of  Lord 
Burleigh  would  be  a  very  proper  thing, 
and  one  merely  personal  a  ^reat  error 
of  judgment;  but  before  him,  we  do 
not  know,  that  there  ever  existed  in 
this  country  a  great  statesman  properly 
so  called. — Cardinal  Beaufort  has  in- 
deed been  so  named,  but  history  says 
very  little  of  him,  and  of  others  noth- 
ing at  all,  unless  it  be  of  their  misrule 
and  misfortunes.  Why  therefore  are 
we  expected  to  laud  political  merits 
of  which  history  is  silent  —  indeed 
of  which  it  brings  no  attestations  be- 
fore the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  In  the 
earlier  times,  ministers  were  estimated, 
at  the  highest,  only  as  judges  are  now 
— the  great  business  of  the  nation  was 
conducted  upon  military  principles; 
and  chieHy  by  the  king  himself  and 
military  men.  Wolscy  encouraged 
learning,  but  that  merit  he  only  shared 
with  Henry-  himself,  who  found  it  very 
useful  in  his  own  support  against  the 
Pope. 

We  repeat  then    that   the  life  of 
Wolsey  is,  in  our  judgment,  a  biogra- 
phical  romance.      Here  we   have   it 
written  by  a  confidential  attendant,  in 
a  most  picturesque  form — indeed  it  is  a 
dramatick  exhibition,  in  which  Wol- 
sey himself,  not  the  author  under  his 
name,  is  the  chief  actor.    For  when 
the  latter  ensues,  let  us  remember  the 
following  words  of  Blair:  *'  characters 
are  generally  considered,  as   professed 
exhibitions  of  6ne  writing;  and  an 
liistorian  who  seeks  to  shine  in  them, 
is  frequently  in  danger  of  carrying  re- 
finement to  excess,   from  a  desire  of 
appearing  very  profound  and  penetrat- 
ing.   He  brings  together  so  many  con- 
trasts, and  subtle  oppositions  of  quali- 
ties, that  we  are  rather  dazzled  with 
sparkling  expressions,  than  entertained 
with  any  clear  conception  of  a  humao 
character.     A  writer  who  would  cha- 
racterise in  an  instructive  and  masterly 
manner,  should  be  simple  in  his  style, 
and  should  avoid  all  quaintness  and 
affectation ;  at  the  same  time  not  con- 
tenting himself  with  giving  in  general 
outlines  only,  but  descending  into  pe^ 
culiaritics,  which  mark  a  character  in 
Its  mosisirong  and  distinctire  featurei.** 


033 

» 

We  have  therefore  to  observe,  in 
conclusion,  that  the  life  of  Wolsey  bei 
fore  us  has  the  first  of  claims  from  iti 
simplicity  and  genuineness.  Merely 
as  a  book  it  is  exceedingly  interesting. 
Mr.  Singer  has  both  edited  and  illut- 
trated  it  in  an  unexceptionable  form* 
from  references  often  to  vety  recondite 
black  letter  works,  so  that  it  is  a  good! 
picture  in  a  good  frame.  We  shall 
anxiously  exi>ect  Buck's  History  jof 
Richard  the  Tnird,  adnoupced  by  Mr. 
Singer  as  preparing  for  publication. 

87.  An  Introductory  Leciurt  on  PoHHaA 
Economy,  delivered  before  the  UnivenUy 
of  Oxford  on  the  6th  ^  December,  ISfi?. 
By  Nmmu  William  Senior,  ofMagdatm 
College  Oxford,  A.  M,  Prqfestor  of  Po^ 
litical  Economy,  8vo,pp.  39. 

THAT  there  is  a  political  economy 
we  are  willing  to  believe,    and  we 
think,  that  it  may  be  discovered  by 
means  of  Mr.  Malthus's  doctrine  of 
population,  and  that  he  may  have  the 
glory  of  founding  one ;  for  we  are  olf 
opinion,  that  the  operative  principlb 
upon  the  state  of  societ]^,  as  a  whole, 
is  established  bv    Providence    to  be 
that  of  the  population,  and  tha(  what 
is  now  called  political  economy  does 
not  include  numerous  phenomena,  caoH 
not  solve  others,  and  u  in  fact    little 
more    than    a  pedantic    grammar  of 
scholastic  disquisitions  about  labour, 
rent,  and   wages.      The  principle  of 
wealth  only  (our  readers  will  recollect 
the  well-being  of  Wales  and  the  poor 
agricbltural  counties)  may  be  made  iu- 
jurioiis  to  the  population,  if  only  ex« 
changed  for  foreign  luxuries.     For  in- 
siance,  when  Dean  Swift  put  the  fol- 
lowing case — let  a  landholder  in  Ire* 
land  export  several  head  of  cattle  to 
France,  and  receive  io  return  a  hog- 
shead of  claret.     It  is  drunk  out  - 
himself  and  his  friends;  and  the  peo|^__ 
are  impoverished  by  their  natural  re- 
source, the  product  of  the  soil,  being 
withheld  from  their  consumption.    A 
country  may  be  very  rich,  and  the 
people  be  very  poor,  merely  becauae 
Providence  goes  one  way,  and  arti- 
ficial circumstances  another ;  and  we 
do  not  call  that  a  valuable  political  ar^    - 
which  unlike  navigation,  mechanicks, 
and  many  other  arts.  Providence  stid- 
tifies  by  counter-action. — £velyn  sayt^ 
that  our  ancestors  always  k^i^t  a  Ux^ 
table,  \u  oid^i  >!ftaX^^W\\ftR\%  tkv™^ 
be  tua\Aed  IQ  v^l  ^«ct  xs-t^sk^  ^^V>^». 


fi«4 


REnBW/-^Senior  on  Political  Economy. 


f/une; 


people  be  tupported ;  and  Adam  Smith 
(not  aware  ot  the  consequences,  as  af- 
fectinff  his  own  system)  says,  that  fo- 
teign  luxuries  have  sadly  deteriorated 
the  comfortable  maintenance  of  the 
people — look  at  the  poor  agricuUurtu 
counties — the  labourer  is  stout  and 
healthy,  and  knows  not  want.  Is 
there  a  chapter  in  Adam  Smith  upon 
population  in  any  other  view,  tnan 
that  its  increase  is  a  blessing  ?  whereas 
it  may  and  does  (in  the  case  of  Ireland, 
and  many  parts  of  England)  amount 
to  an  absolute  curse.  We  repeat,  that 
the  bws  of  Providence  and  the  laws 
of  political  economy  (as  now  professed) 
-  are  diametrically  opposite  in  most  im- 
portant respects;  and  that  therefore 
the  latter  cannot,  nor  ought  not,  to  have 
any  more  than  an  empirical  character, 
because  it  is  not  a  science  supported 
by  experiment.  In  the  discussions 
aooot  lreland,political  economy  neither 
has  done,  nor  can  do  any  thing.  We 
very  well  know  the  imputations,  which 
^  Vfiii  be  ascribed  to  our  stupidity  for 
"  not  feeling  the  value  of  such  wonder- 
ful things,  as  political  economy  has 
discovered,  but  our  answer  is,  that  it  is 
no  more  than  the  old  scholastic  mode 
of  quibbling  disquisition,  applied  to 
rent,  value,  labour,  wages,  and  so 
forth ;  and  that,  not  being  the  system 
npon  which  Providence  acts,  Mr. 
Maltuus  alone  can  be  the  founder 
of  a  real  and  genuine  political  econo- 
my which,  when  understood,  will  be 
found  to  have  a  practical  benefit,  be- 
cause both  England  and  Ireland  actually 
ihow  that  production  may  increase, 
and  pauperism  increase  also.  The 
leason  is  obvious,  the  augmentation  of 
tlie  ohe  iwo-fo\d,  makes  the  other 
angment/our-fold ;  and  thus  political 
economv,upon  its  own  principle  of  in- 
definitely augmenting  productton.does, 
in  the  very  process,  generate  a  count- 
eraction .  ten  times  more  hurtful  than 
'  the  benefit  is  advantafl;eous.  Accord- 
ing to  the  laws  of  Providence,  wherever 
the  producu  of  the  soil  dre  exported 
for  foreign  luxuries,  the  population 
should  be  proportionably  diminished, 
according  to  the  greater  quantity  of  the 
thingsexported,  but  this  is  of  course 
impracticable.  Now  by  political  eco- 
nomy, as  at  present  professed,  we 
■ee  only  a  narrow  object;  and  more- 
over, we  think  that  the  said  political 
MDomy  has  actually  no  more  to  do 
wiib  the  grand  universal  Well-bemsof 


society  than  nouns,  pronouns,  and 
participles;  the  true  bearing  of  the 
thine  turns  {upon  the  number  of  the 
people  per  square  mile,  and  the  na- 
tural and  acquired  resources  of  the 
country  to  maintain  them.'  Suppose 
three  hundred  souls  upon  every  square 
mile,  and  the  income  of  the  country^ 
not  sixpence  annually  per  head — let  a 
gentleman  of  ample  property  live  to  see 
two  hundred  great  great  grandchildien 
descend  from  him — large  as  may  be 
his  wealth,  and  lofty  as  may  be  his 
pride,  some  of  those  great  grand  child- 
ren must  be  taylors  or  starve  ;  in  the 
same  manner,  the  increase  of  pauper- 
ism implies  merely  the  increase  of 
poor  people  who  cannot  support 
themselves,  the  poor  treading  upon  the 
heels  of  the  rich ;  and  why  does  that 
happen,  but  because  the  family  is  too 
lar^re  for  the  means — it  is  by  no  means 
a  difficult  thing  to  know  what  num- 
bers a  country  of  a  given  dimension 
ought  to  have,  taking  its  ability  to 
maintain  more  or  less,  according  to  its 
commerce,  into  the  calculation <  Rent 
will  rise  proportionably  to  the  demands 
of  the  population  for  food,  and  labour 
will  be  at  the  same  time  depreciatCMi 
by  competition.  Look  at  Ireland— > 
look  at  the  Northern  Counties,  the 
fACT  stares  us  in  the  face ;  and  under 
full  vision  of  it,  comes  the  present  po- 
litical economy,  neglecting  statistics, 
and  recommending,  as  a  core  for  all 
evils,  metaphysical  discussions  about 
rent  and  labour ;  whereas  there  is  no 
remedy  for  poverty  but  increase  of 
means.  Wretched  philosophers  we 
know  that  we  shall  be  deemed— be  it 
so — v^e  are  of  the  school  of  Bacon,  not 
of  Aristotle;  and  we  do  not  value  that 
philosophy  a  straw  which  is  not  sup- 
ported by  experiment. 

Differing  as  we  do  from  our  author 
in  respect  to  the  nominal  science 
(which  it  is  his  dutv  to  support),  we 
are  nevertheless  called  upon  to  say, 
that  he  is  master  of  his  subject,  ac- 
cording to  its  principles,  and  that  he 
is  logical  in  his  argument,  and  lumi- 
nous in  his  illustration. 


88.  Death's  Doings.    Second  Edition,  ioiA 
considerable  Additions, 

OUR  opinion  of  this  entertaining 
work,  in  its  original  state,  was  given  at 
some  length   in  a, previous  Number. 


18970  Rsy lEW.— Dea<A'i  Doings.-^MilUary  SkUeh  Book.  BW 


perhaps  wiih  lupeiior  ifierit  as  to  the 
etchings,  and  with  not  inferior  literary 
strength.  We  still  think  that  the  com- 
mentary was  unnecessarily  elaborate, 
and  that  some  illustrations  might  have 
been  well  spared  with  advantage  to 
the  volume.  Among  the  very  best 
contributions  to  the  present  edition, 
are  those  of  Mr.  Carnngton  and  Mis. 
Hemans ;  the  latter  certainly  the  most 
powerful  and  the  most  beautiful  fe- 
male writer  of  the  present  day.  *'  The 
Gamester,'*  and  ••  Childe  the  Hunter," 
by  the  Poet  of  Dartmoor,  are  tinecom- 
positions,  but  be  will  readily  excuse 
us,  if  in  the  limited  notice  we  can 
give  to  a  second  edition,  we  select  the 
poem  of  his  talented  contemporary. 

The  etching  it  illustrates  is  an  Angler 
intent  upon  his  sport,  while  Death, 
with  a  casting  net,  is  about  to  cut 
short  both  his  pastime  and  his  life. 

Thk  Anglsr. 

Thou  that  hast  lov*d  so  long  and  well 

The  vale's  deep  quiet  streams. 
Where  the  pure  water-lUies  dwell. 

Shedding  forth  tender  gleams; 
And  o'er  the  pool  the  May-fly't  wing 
Glances  in  golden  eves  of  sphng ; 

Oh !  lone  and  lovely  haunts  are  thine> 

Soft,  soft  the  river  flows, 
Wearing  the  shadow  of  thj  pine. 

The  gloom  of  alder- boughs ; 
And  in  the  midst,  a  richer  hue. 
One  gliding  vein  of  heaven's  own  Uue ! 

And  there  but  low  sweet  sounds  are  heard^- 

The  whisper  of  the  reed. 
The  plashing  trout,  the  rustling  bird. 

The  scythe  upon  the  mead; 
Yet  through  the  murmuring  osiers  near. 
There  steals  a  step  which  mortals  fear. 

Tis  not  the  stag  that  comes  to  lave, 

At  noon,  his  pantbg  breast ; 
Tis  not  the  bittern,  by  the  wave 

Seeking  her  sedgy  nest ; 
The  air  is  fill'd  with  summer's  breath, 
The  young  flowers  laugh — yet,  look!  'tis 
Death! 

But  if,  where  silvery  currents  rove. 
Thy  heart,  grown  still  and  sage. 

Hath  leam'd  to  read  the  words  of  love 
That  shine  o'er  nature's  page ; 

If  holy  thoughts  thy  guests  have  been 

Under  the  shade  of  wUIows  green ; 

Tlien,  lover  of  the  silent  hour. 

By  deep  lone  waters  pass'd. 
Thence  hast  thou  drawn  a  faith,  a  power* 

To  cheer  thee  through  the  last; 
And»  wont  on  brighter  worlds  to  dwell, 
Maytt  calmly  bid  thy  streams  farewell. 

F.H. 


89.   The  Military  SkeUh  Book.    Remimf 
eenees  of  Seventeen  Yean  in  the  Sendee, 
Abroad  and  at  Home.    By  an  Officer  tf 
the  Line.    2  vols  8vo.    Colbum. 

THERE  is  some  agreeable  reading 
in  these  volumes;  they  are  inferior, 
perhaps,  to  their  prototvpe,  the  Naval 
Sketcn  Book,  yet  still  evidently  the 
production  of  an  amiable  and  a  sen^ 
sible  man.  The]^  abound  with  sueh^ 
characteristic  traits  of  kind  proCes^ 
sional  feeling,  such  wholesome  and 
judicious  advice  to  young  officers  ad- 
ministered in  so  good  a  spirit,  that  they 
deserve  to  be  very  generally  popular, 
and  we  shall  be  much  mistaken  if 
they  do  not  become  so.  It  will  be 
evident  to  most  readers,  that  prqfgS' 
sional  men  are  the  only  proper  narntr 
tors  of  the  professional  events  that  in- 
terest us.  We  never  read,  for  instance, 
an  account  of  a  criminal  trial  from  m 
female  pen  (and  Miss  Edgeworth  vtni 
Mrs.  Opie  have  each  attempted  sach  a 
scene),  without  being  struck  by  the 
ignorance  of  the  most  common  terms 
and  usages  of  the  Court,  with  which 
they  abound.  Such  anomalies  in  Law, 
sucn  solecisms  in  practice,  such  a  want 
of  acquaintance  with  the  ordinary  for- 
malities observable  on  such  occasion!, 
that  all  the  illusion  to  which  we  had 
surrendered  ourselves  is  dissipated  and  . 
lost.  It  was  impossible  not  to  hare 
read  the  Naval  Sketch  Book  without 
feeling  the  charm  of  its  perfect  keep- 
ing— a  charm  which  enually  belongi 
to  the  present  work.  We  dislike  the 
mess-table  chat  the  most,  and  though 
we 'have  given  the  tribute  of  a  tear  to 
some  passages,  we  beg  to  vindicate  our 
womanly  practice,  by  stating  that  the 
sentimental  stories  had  no  part  nor  lot 
in  our  sensibilities,  for  we  like  them  ' 
the  least.  We  will  try  our  readers 
with  one  of  those  descriptions  which 
touched  us  to  the  quick — first  premia-"- 
ins  that  the  regiment  has  been  pa- 
raded to  witness  the  infliction  of  mi- 
litary punishment— -the  morning  cold 
and  foggy — the  men  sullen— >the  wo^ 
men  oftne  regiment  in  silent  groupes 
at  the  barrack  windows.  Two  soldien 
were  to  receive  three  hundred  lashes ! 
One  of  them,  a  Corporal  of  previous 

rl  character,  had  been  seduced  into 
commission  of  a  crime;  it  is  to 
him  that  we  would  confine  our  at- 
tention. The  Colonel  thus  addressed 
him : 

"  *  ^  ou  tstft  ^^  NasX.  xmwl  v^  'Saft  x^^aawo^ 


526 


RsYiBW.— Afiii/ary  Sketch  Book* 


yun^. 


ttOD.  I  made  you  a  Corporal,  Sir,  from  a 
belief  that  yoa  was  a  deservbg  man,  and 
you  had  before  you  every  hope  of  further 
promotion,  but  you  have  committed  such  a 
crime,  that  I  must,  though  unwillingly, 
permit  the  sentence  of  the  Court  which 
tried  you  to  take  ita  effect.'  Then  turning 
to  the  Sergeant  Major,  he  ordered  him  to 
cut  off  the  Corporal*!  stripes  from  his  jacket. 
The  prisoner  then  stripped  without  the 
tightest  change  in  bis  stern  but  penitent 
countenance." 

-  An  ofier  was  now  made  to  him  to 
▼olunteer  into  an  African  corps,  and 
thus  avoid  the  punishment. 

"  *  No,  Sir,*  replied  the  man,  '  I've 
been  a  long  time  in  the  regiment,  and  1*11 
not  give  it  up  for  three  hundred  lashes ;  not 
that  I  care  about  going  to  Afirica;  I  deserve 
»y  punishment,  and  I II  bear  it,  but  1*11  not 
quit  the  regiment  yet.  Colonel.'  This  sen- 
timent, uttered  in  a  subdued  and  manly 
tone,  was  applauded  by  a  smile  of  satisfac- 
tion from  botD  officers  and  men,  but  most 
of  all  by  the  old  Colonel,  who  took  the 
greatest  pains  to  show  the  contrary ;  but  all 
would  not  do,  he  felt  flattered  that  the  man 
preferred  a  flogging  to  quitting  him  and  his 
regiment." 

The  prisoner  is  tied  up — the  three 
drummers  stand  beside  the  triangle. 
The  first  taking  three  steps  forward, 
applied  the  lash  to  the  soldier's  back — 
"  one*' — again  he  struck — '*  two:'* — 

*<  Again  and  again,  until  twenty-five  were 
called.  Then  came  a  second  drummer,  and 
he  performed  bis  twenty-five.  Then  came 
a  third,  a  stronger  and  heavier  striker ;  he 
brought  the  blood  out  upon  the  right 
shoulder  blade,  which  perceiving,  he  struck 
lower,  but  the  Surgeon  ordered  him  to 
strike  again  upon  the  bleeding  part.  I 
thought  this  was  cruel,  but  I  learnt  after 
from  the  Surgeon  himself  that  it  gave  much 
less  pain  to  continue  the  blows  as  directed, 
than  to  strike  upon  the  untouched  skin. 

"  The  poor  fellow  bore  his  flagellation 
without  a  word.  At  the  first  ten  or  twelve 
blows  he  never  moved  a  muscle,  but  about 
the  twenW-fifih  he  clenched  his  teeth  and 
wbged  a  little  from  the  lash.  During  the 
second  twenty-five,  the  parts  became  blue 
and  thickened — and  before  the  fiftieth  blow 
waa  ttmck,  we  could  bear  a  smothered  groan 
from  the  poor  sufferer,  evidently  caused  by 
Ilia  efforts  to  stifle  the  natural  exclamations 
of  acute  pain.  The  third  striker,  as  I  said, 
brought  the  blood.  The  Colonel  directed  a 
look  at  the  Drummer,  which  augured  no- 
thing advantageous  to  his  interest,  and  on 
the  fifth  of  nis  twenty-five,  cried  out  to 
him,  '  Halt,  Sir,  you  know  as  much  about 
using  the  cat  as  you  do  of  your  sticks  *,"  &c 

We  will  aoi  prolong  the  scene — ^lYve 


man  is  now  taken  down,  and  wheo 
about  to  be  removed,  the  Colonel  ad* 
dressed  bim  thus : 

*'  Your  punishment.  Sir,  is  at  an  eod^ 
Tou  may  thank  the  Surgeon's  opinion  fat 
being  taken  down  so  soon  (every  body  knew 
this  was  only  a  pretext).  I  have  only  to  ob- 
serve to  you,  that  as  you  have  always  bee^ 
previous  to  this  fkult  a  good  man,  I  would 
recommend  you  to  conduct  yourself  well  for 
the  future,  and  I  promise  to  hold  your  pro- 
motion open  to  yon  as  before. 

**  The  poor  fellow  replied  that  he  would 
do  so,  and  bunt  into  tears,  which  he  strove 
in  vain  to  hide.  Wonder  not  that  the  hard 
cheek  of  a  Soldier  was  thus  moistened  witli 
a  tear — the  heart  was  within  hia  bosom, 
and  these  tears  came  from  it.  The  lasb 
could  not  force  one  from  his  bumiog  eyeUd, 
but  the  word  of  kindness,  the  breath  of 
tender  feeling  from  bis  respected  Colonel* 
dissolved  the  stern  Soldier  into  the  gratefid 
and  contrite  Penitent." 

It  is  thus  that  one  touch  of  nature  is 
worth  volumes  of  sentiment,  and  it  is 
in  these  beautiful  touches  that  the  ex- 
cellence of  these  volumes  consists ;  and 
by  these,  the  amiable  feelings  of  the 
writer  are  exhibited.  The  recollec- 
tions of  Walcheren  are  full  of  such, 
and  exhibit  in  most  pathetic  contrast 
the  gallantry  of  heroes,  and  the  tendeiy 
ness  of  women. 

We  have  said  enough  to  recommend 
the  Military  Sketch  Book  to  every  class 
of  readers.  The  young  Soldier  can- 
not read  it,  we  think,  without  im- 
provement^ nor  the  Citizen  without  a 
deep  feeling  of  gratitude  to  those  who 
bleed  and  suffer,  that  he  may  be  safe^ 

90.  Allen's  History  and  Antiquities  q/* Lam- 
beth. CConchided  from  our  volume  fm 
1825,  f.  148.) 

WHO  was  the  original  founder  of 
Lambeth  Palace,  is  lost  in  obscurity. 
The  proprietrix  in  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Confessor  was  the  Countess  Goda, 
sister  of  King  Edward  the  Confessor, 
and  the  archiepiscopal  residence  is  pre- 
sumed to  stand  upon  the  site  of  her 
palace.  But  here  are  difficulties.  The 
well-known  Royal  residence  at  Ken- 
nington  is  made  the  site  of  Hardica- 
nute's  palace;  but  in  Domesday  book» 
Kennington  and  Lambeth  are  distinct 
manors,  and  the  former  was  held  by 
Teodric  thfe  goldsmith  of  Edward  the 
Confessor  and  the  Conqueror.  This 
is  unfavourable  to  the  identity  of  Lam- 
beth and  Kennington,  as  to  appcUa- 
UocV)  ^ti^  >)^^C\v\QtiA!^<(.v&\\uae  Lam- 


I8S70  Ruwimw.^h\\en*6  Hiilory  of  LambHh.  5S7 

beth  only  as  the  site  of  the  palaces  of  at  dinner  or  rapper,  being  not  above  the 
the  two  Saxon  Kings;  bot  Lambeth  degree  of  a  knight,  might  there  be  enter- 
might  be  a  general  term,  including  ^^^  worthy  of  hii  quality,  either  at  the 
Kcnnington.  We  merely  state  the  StewMPd't  or  at  the  Almoner's  table.  And 
diflScuUies,  without  attempting  toeiu-  moreover,  it  wu  the  Archbiihop*.  com- 
cidate  them,  any  further  than  to  pre-  T^.**L  •^r'?^' }^^  •",  •H^g«» 
sume,  that  if  ihe^  Royal  palace  at/eit-  '^^±  ^,  ^f^  and  treated  with  J^ 
.  /  ^i.  T  f  jl  1  t  manner  of  civility  and  respect,  and  that 
mngton  was  the  Lamheth  palace  of  j^,  ^  ^,  uhle  should  be^igned  them 
Hardicanute  and  Harold,  it  was  also,  ;ccording  to  their  dignity  and  quality,  which 
in  our  judgment,  that  of  the  Countess  rebounded  much  to  die  praise  and  commen- 
Croda ;  but  that  Kennineton  was  the  dation  of  the  Archbishop,  The  discourse 
Lamheth  palace  of  these  oaxon  Princes  and  conversation  at  meals,  was  void  of  all 
is  again  questionable,  because  there  is  brawls  and  loud  talking,  sjid  for  the  most 
a  Church  mentioned  in  Domesday ;  part  consisted  in  framing  men's  manners  to 
and  Anglo-Saxon  Court-houses  stood  religion,  or  to  some  ottier  honest  and  be- 
near  the  Church,  or  Bell-house,  and  coming  subject.  There  was  a  monitor  •£ 
according  to  this  rule,  Lambeth  Church  the  HaU ;  and  if  it  happened  that  any  spoke 
being  adjacent  to  the  archiepiscopal  too  loud,  or  concerning  things  less  decent, 
residlnce,  the  Royal  palace  of  LamhVth  '\  ***  B«^«>^y  hushed  by  one  that  enad 
might  have  stood  where  the  Primate's  "'•°f  *  ,  V  **^- 
mansion  is  now  seated.  We  find  from  p.  2£8,  that  Archu 

In  our  ancient  Castles,   &c.  it  is  hishopTenison  thought  a  pint  of  wine 

well  known  that  the  Hall  was  the  to  each  person  not  too  much, 
place  of  assemblage  for  the  household,        ^"f  author,  speakine  of  the  Gate- 

Ihe  great  dining  chamber  for  the  fa-  »«"««»  mentions  a  small  room  adjoin- 

mily,  and  the  guard  chamber  in  gene-  ing  to  the  Porter's  lodge,  supposed  to 

ral  the  first  floor  of  the  old  keep,  or  of  ^av«  ^een  used  anciently  as  a  secondary 

the  gate  house,  if  there  was  one.     We  P"ao"  ^©f  confining  the  overflowings 

cannot,  therefore,  think  that  the  great  o^  the  Lollard's  tower.     P.  228. 
chamber  (the  alta  camera  major)  was        This  supposition  is  a  mistake.    The 

ever  the  guard^ihamber,  as  presumed.  P"«on  in  the  Porter's  lodge  was  for 

p,  ig<^.  oflending  servants,  and  low  delinquents. 

The  variations  of  modern  and  an-  Besides  Archdeacon  Nares's  Glossary, 

cient  opinion  are  strikingly  exemplified  the  Encyclopedia  of  Antiquities,  &c. 

in   two  particulars;  one  is.  that  the  &c-  Evelyn   says  (Miscellanies,  668) 

lowest  table  on  the  East  side  of  the  "  ^  am  told  that  our  Mahomed  having 

Archbishop's  hall   is  a  shovel-board  received  his  A^juda  de  Cotto,  from  the 

table ;  and  the  second,  that  the  size  of  bounty  and  charity  of  a  g:reat  person 

the  hall  was  adapted  to  hospitality,  and  of  more  easie  belief,  tt  shpt  astde  for 

that   a  Mr.  SeymOur  complained   to  /<?«''  of  the  Porters  lodge  J* 
Henry  VI n.  that  Archbishop  Cran-        «  A  room,  which  JuU  out  over  the  hall 

mer  did   not   keep   hospitality  corre-  door,  is  said  to  have  been  Arebbuhop  lU- 

spondent  to  his  dignity.     P.  222.  lotson's  stndv,  from  whence  he  had  peep> 

Thus  that  blundering  perversion  of  holes  into  the  hall,  the  court,  &c.  with 

Christianity,  the  taking  purity  in  prin-  gl«"  i"  'hem,  by  which  he  could  see  every 

ciple  and  action   to  mean  war   with  body  that  came  in  and  went  out  of  the 

the  innocent  pleasures  of  life,  did  not  ?**■*••      *^*  **^' 
then  exist.  This  is  an  allusion  to  a  very  ancient ' 

Archbishop  Parker's  mode  of  keep-  custom  of  checking  misbehaviour  by 

ing  hospitality  was  this :  having  windows,  which  looked  into 

"  In  the  daily  eating,  this  was  the  cos-  the  Hall,  which  windows  served  also 

torn :  the  Stewurd,  with  the  servnnts  that  for  gratifying  curiosity.     Queen  Eliza- 

were  gentlemen  of  the  better  rank,  sat  down  beth  was  often  invited  to  such  win- 

at  the  ubles  in  the  hall  on  the  right  handi  Jo^g^  ^hen  on  visits  in  progress,  "  to 

and  the  Almoner,  with  the  Cleigy  and  the  ^  t^^  ^jj^ner  parties  in  the  hall." 
other  senranu,  sat  on  the  other  side ,  where         p^„      ^3 ,  -j^  appears,  that  A  rch- 

Wh  ST  tT^  ""aa  'T  "*  CT?:  bishop  Anselm  in  the  year  1 100,  called 

^^LrLf--i?TJSS-  to  fill'fhJ  a  «ynSd  at  Lambeth,  ^t  should  the.^ 

bellies  of  a  great  number  of  poor  hungry  ft>«  seem  that  there  was  then  a  pala*e 

people,  that  waited  at  the  gate;  anTso  at  Lambeth.    ^^^^>^,^«*^^^^ 

constant  and  unking  was  this  provisUm  aft  to  thVuk,  xYtfJW^  nsvSx^^    ^^    ?^ 

Bojr  loid'§  table,  that  whcMoem  came,  cifthet  htti^xz  tSLYWtt^^  ^^  ^«!«tfe  -m^t^  viv*- 


^^                  .  Kbviiw.— ^Allen's  Hisiwry  of  Lambeih,  IJune^ 

the  Brst,  distinct  palaces  at  Kenning-  be  added,  that,  in  good  taste,  it  should 

ton  and  Lambeth.  be  the  finish  of  a  tower,  rising  from 

In  the  old  records  concerning  the  theground,atthe  west  end  of  a  Church, 

■manor  of  Vauxhall,  we  have  a  curious  and  that  it  does  not  look  well  in  the 

instance  of  the  manner  in  which  our  centre  of  a  transept,  nor  appertains  to 

ancestors  estimated  the  price  of  labour,  Churchesof  largedimensions.  Properly 

that  is  to  say,  they  thought  it  of  no  speaking,    it    belongs   to   the   village 

value  if  the  workman  was  to  be  main-  Church,  where,  rising  among  trees,  it 

tained,  or   if  they  received  more  in  has  a  very  happy  effect,   and   to  no 

.virtue  of  their  tenure  from  the  Lord,  other.      It    may    even    be    doubted, 

than  the  labour  was  worth.     For  in-  whether  it  is  a   fittini^  adjunct  to  a 

stance,  in  an  inquisition  taken  20  £d.  I.  Gothic  Church  of  the  florid  style,  dr 

.  it  was  found,  that  to  any  one  which  has  a  clere  story. 

«  The  works  of  cnstomury  tenants  were  In  our  judgment,  it  appertains  only  to 

of  no  value,  because  more  was  token  for  the  a  Church  of  unornamented  character, 

'   work  than  it  was  worth.'*    P.  266.  and  is  utterly  dependent  for  its  beauty. 

In  another    inquisition,    taken    12  upon  certain  proportions,  and  the  cha- 

Edw.  II.  the  customary  tenants  were  to  racter  of  its  tower. 

•*•  gather  and  carry  the  hay  from  the  In  p.  297  we  have  the  front  of  the 

meadows,  and  to  mow   two  days  in  Royal  Coburgh  Theatre;   a  thing  of 

.    harvest;  but  this  was  of  no  value,  for  tiers  of  windows,  and  a  fantastic  pedi* 

they  were  to  have  a  meal  (prandium)  ment. 

twice  a  day,  even  though  they  did  not  A  iShot  Manufactory  (p.  313)  rears 

work."    P.  268.  its    chimney.      Now  of   the  various 

From  this  last  record,  it  appears  that  nuisances  to  the  eye  which  annoy  us 

"  6  fowls  were  valued  at  2d.  a  piece,  in  the  entrance  of  cities,  these  wretched 

and  7  cocks  at  l^d.  each.'*    P.  268.  concerns  of  manufactories  are  among 

From  a  Reeve's  account,    taken    1  the  greatest.     We  would  bury  them 

Edw.III.  it  seems,  that,  estimating  the  all,  if  we  could,  in  a  deep  valley,  or 

difference  in  the  value  of  money,  cer-  excavate  them  under  ground,  and  felt 

Cain  modern  articles,  now  very  cheap,  them  in  with  a  broad  fringe  of  wood; 

were,   comparatively  speaking,  enor-  what  with  their  sheds  and  barns,  and 

•mously  dear.    The  items  to  which  we  plank  palings,  and  yards  full  of  puddles 

allude,  are  these,  "  Also  in  one  new  and  mud,  and  lumber  and  litter;  they 

•sack  bought,  6|^.** — Also  in  61b.  of  form  the  most  complete  specimens  of 

iron  bought  for  the  plough,  4(/. ;  in  the  ami -picturesque.    Everything  that 

manufacturing  the  same  iron,  ^d**   P.  can  be  abominable  is  studiously  made 

270.  such — sheds,  like  field-hovels,  red  with 

If  we  reckon  ten  times  the  ancient  pantiles  (things  which  are  too  restless 

amount  to  be  the  modern  worth  (as  is  to  continue  a  week  in  their  places), 

a  common  mode  of  calculation),  the  are  made  to  form  a  street-front,  or  an 

price  of  the  sack  was  6«.  bd. ;  the  iron  arcade  is  blocked  three  parts  up  with 

Atd.  per  lb.,  and  the  work  Ad.  per  lb.  plank;  a  smart  dwell ing-nouse,  too,  is 

also,  in  modern  money.  reared  among  heaps  orrubbish ;  add  to 

Formerly,  all  waste  ground  near  the  these,  a  prolusion  of  gawky  chimnies, 

metropolis,  was   appropriated  to  the  and  clouds  of  annoying  smoke,  faetid 

practice  of  archery.     P.  286.  smells,  and  stunning  or  creaking  noises. 

In  p.  294  we  c6me  to  one  of  those  That  these  are  very  vile  things,  every 

'monstrahorribilia,'«i  modern  Church.  Gilpinian    will    readily    admit;    and 

^  The  order  is  Doric,  made  as  light  as  the  only  so,  because  they  are  not  properly 

Corinthian;  the  entablature  is  narrow,  concealed;  and  mieht  be  so  cheaply, 

the  triglyphs  and  mutules  are  omitted,  by  a  belt  of  Lornbardy  poplars  and 

and  other  strange  things  attempted,  firs,  &c.  intermixed,  and  when  grown 

which  are  just  as  rational  as  making  a  up,  intended  to  succeed  the  pophrrs. 

Venus  out  of  a  Hercules.     Of  one  All  very  tall  buildings  unavoidably 

thing  we  are  satisfied,  that  a  spire  is  attract  the  eye  to  themselves ;  and  a 

inseparable  from  Gothic  architecture,  more  horrifying  object  to  the  pictu- 

and  that  no  art  or  ingenuity  can  make  resque  world*  could  not  possibly  ensue, 

it  harmonize  with  the  Grecian  style,  than   that  long  round   box,  set  up- 

'Jt  ia  in  ie(and  can  be  nothing  else)  a  right,  the  Shot  Manufactory,  at  the 

-piain  eooe.    Gilpin  noticeB  \U  m%u&-  «t\d  o^  Wa^Ailoo-bridge.    It  really  11 

ceptibility  of  ornament ;  and  il  .ma^  %\v\n^\vn^  ^t  «^^  uiVi  t.  \jii^vtR>  \.\\ai 


l^V*}         Rby lEW.^Britton's  flisldry  of  Etttier  Otihidral  5t29 

,4he  brid^  was  built  on  pnrpote  for  and  Boroogh  of  Soothwark,**  a  subject 

A  convenient  road  to  that  machine  for  which  promises  no  small  gratificatiop   , 

jatomizing  lead.    An  old  well,  suffi-  of  cnriositj  ;   and    is  also  editing  a 

ciently  deep,  to  which  a  descent  mi^ht  "  History  of  London/'  publishing  in 

be   made  from  above,  is  the   thmg  Numbers.  * 

which  we  should  substitute ;  but  alas!  ^ 

nobody  will  attend  to  us—the  sorrows  91.  7^^^  ffigiary  and  AntiquiUts  ^  ike  Cm- 

of  the  picturesc^ue  are,  like  those  of  i^^^o/  ckureh  ofExtitt.    lihuinUei  by 

vamty,  never  pitied  ;  and,  as  poor  Mrs.  a  Series  rf  Engravings  of  Fiewt^  Bleo^ 

Jordan  used  to  sing,  ttoru.  Sections,  and  Plan  qf  that  EdUim^ 

«  Nobody's  coming  to  marry  me,  Jifudmg  BiograMcal  Anecdotes  ^  Ou 

Ohi  dear,  what  wiU  become  of  me  ?"  ^*«P»  qf  the  See.    By  John  Bnttoa, 

.                    .     ,  ,  F,S,A,  q-c     4to,   pp,  158.     Longmaa 

so  the  envu'ons  of  towns  and  cities  and  Co, 

might  likewise  sing,  ^^  '^j^^^^^^^  ^^ ^  ^^          ^^  ^y^ 

"  Nobodjf's  coming  to  rescue  us,  embellishmenU,  combined  with  the  re- 

Oh !  dear  what  will  be  made  of  us."  gearch  and  Ulent  displayed  in  the  let- 

In  p.  346  our  author  acquaints  us,  ter- press,  and  the  elegance  of  printing, 

that  at  a  place  of  public  entertainment,  have   produced  a  volume   that  must 

called  Lambeth  Wells,  Erasmus  King,  give  satisfaction    to  its   patrons,  and 

who  had  been  coachman  to  Dr.  Desa-  which  will  not  a  little  contribute  to 

guliers,  read  lectures,  and  exhibited  sustain    topographical  works  on   the 

experiments   in   Natural   Philosophy,  high  eminence  to  which  Mr.  Brttton 

This  is  a  curious  illustration  of  '*  like  has  in  a  very  considerable  degree  con* 

master,  like  man.*'  tributed  to  elevate  them. 

That  this  world  was  made  for  the  To  the  investigator  of  the  remains 
habitation  of  mankind,  we  have  no  of  what  Mr.  Britton  appositely  desi^- 
dotibt ;  but  we  do  not  think  that  it  nates  Christian  Architecture  'in  this 
was  made  to  be  entirely  covered  with  country,  the  beautiful'  illustrations- 
houses.  If  we,  however,  do  not  think  twbmty-two  in  number,  and  those 
so,  the  Cocknies  do,  and  proceed  to  of  the  greatest  merit, — will  be  of  great 
extirpate  every  remain  of  field  and  imporUnce :  but  we  could  have  wish« 
verdure  with  incredible  alacrity.  What  ed  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  are  but 
wonderful  changes  they  have  made  in  tyros  in  the  science  of  architecture, 
a  short  space  of  time,  appears  from  the  that  the  accompanying  letter-press  had 
following  paragraph.  been  much  fuller  on  so  useful  and  in- 

«  Previous  to  the  road  being  made  from  teresting  a  portion  of  the  work.  De- 
Westminster  to  Kenninffton,  the  site  wm  scription  ought  to  be  an  anatomy  of 
fields,  with  a  bridle-way  frbm  Newington  to  the  complicated  structure  exhibited  in 
Lambeth- palace  and  suirs.  This  was  of  the  plates; — a  full  definition  of  the 
creat  antiquity,  and  some  old  people  in  parts  in  detail,  —  a  critique  on  the 
Lambeth  remember  their  fiitbers  mentioning  work,  elucidating  the  principles  of 
that  Geo.  IL  used  to  cross  the  water  and. go  construction,  and  pointing  out  the  ?•• 
along  this  path,  attended  by  his  Courtiers,  jjous  beauties  or  defects  in  parts  which 
to  Runt  in  Greenwich  Park  and  Black-  ^j^her  produce  a  discordant  or  harmo- 
iieath.      P,  349.  nj^g  ^j^^l^,^  ^  ^Yitir  distribution  may 

Here  our  limits  compel  us  to  leave  he  attended  to  with  more  or  less  taste, 

this  well-executed  and  interesting  com-  The  deficiency  in  the  present  volume 

pilation.    Mr.  Allen  is  entitled  to  great  in  this  respect  is  not,  however,  attri* 

praise,  for  the  very  satisfactory  manner  butable  to  any  ignorance  on  the  part  of 

in  which  he  has  compiled  it,  and  the  Mr.  Briiton, — for  we  know  and  ap* 

iudgment  with  whicn  he  has  embel-  preciate     his    intimate    acquaintance 

lisli^d  it.    Science  is  under  great  obli-  with  the  art, — but  to  the  too  prevalent 

gaiions  to  all   those  who  can  render  notion  that  things,  whether  m  reality 

Topography  cheap,  and  yet  not  spoil  or  in  picture,— speak  best  for  them- 

it ;    tor,   where  it   is   locked    up  in  selves.  Experience  nevertheless  teaches 

very  expensive  wOrks,  it  can  never  b^  that,  unless  the  one  is  an  exact  counter* 

come  a  science  of  general  reading,  and  part  of  the  other,  they  are  both  unin- 

thus  loses  much  encouragement.  telligible.    These  sentiments  we  feel 

Mr.  Allen    is,    we   see,   preparing  will  be  duly  acknowled^g»i  \s^  vcvm^ 

for  the  press,  a  "  History  of  iiie  Town  fioiw  out  ^kxAetW  ^leiw^  Vi  x'wA^  ^n«x^ 

Gent.  Mac.  June,  1 997. 

7 


ftSO 


'RmriMW^^Advici  on  making  WUh. 


tJant 


iisUtanee  to  the  oninitiated,  and  not 
Irom  any  wish  to  deteriorate  from  the 
aierit  oi  a  book,  which  we  regret  to 
hear  will  never  remonerete  the  author 
and  proprietors  for  their  liberality;  even 
when  tne  whole  impression  has  been 
disposed  of. 

We  could  not  hdp  feeling  consider- 
ably hurt  at  the  necessity  for  the  ob- 
aenrations  in  the  Preface  on  the  apathy 
•f  the  Clergy  of  this  Cathedral,  witn 
regard  to  Topography }  but  we,  as  well 
as  e? ery  intellectual  mind,  must  tender 
our  thanks  to  Mr.  Britton  for  having 
ao  spiritedly  stood  forward  in  defence 
of  Literature.  We  could  scarcely  have 
bdiered  that  gentlemen  reared  in  the 
bosom  of  Alma  Mater,  and  who  per- 
haps have  themselves  experienced  the 
pamfol  difficulties  attendant  upon  the 
•cqaisition  of  knowledge,  would  have 
considered  it  creditable  to  the  station 
in  which  they  move,  to  imitate  the 
unconcern  of  ignorance  and  the  mean- 
ness of  contumely. 

We  acquit  Mr.  Britton  of  any  thing 
like  personal  hostility  to  any  particular 
individuals,  but  attribute  nis  spirited 
conduct  to  the  enthusiasm  which  he 
displays  in  the  prosecution  of  his  lite- 
rary labours. 

"  Were  he  less  zealoas  sad  less  saxious 
in  the  cause,  he  eould  view  manj  things 
with  mdifference  which  now  operate  power- 
fiUl J  OD  hb  feelings.  It  is  true  that  eveiy 
mecessftil  relalt,^very  kind  and  approv- 
log  word  firom  the  discriminating  critic,  every 
new  discovery  m  history,  and  of  beaoty  in 
art,  tends  to  sweeten  his  Ubour,  and  brings 
with  it  new  sources  of  pleasure }  but  00  the 
reverse,  lie  is  proportiooably  depressed  and 
nortified  when  he  encounters  pride,  super- 
ciliousness, and  chilling  neglect." 

From  p.  108,  we  6nd  that  there  is 
this  remarkable  feature  in  the  windows 
of  this  Cathedral : — the  tracery,  which 
is  of  the  most  elegant  description,  of 
each  successive  window  on  either  side 
being  varied  in  design  from  all  the 
others,  while  the  one  on  the  opposite 
side  (with  but  one  exception)  exactly 
corresponds.  Specimens  of  these  win- 
dows are  gi\*en  in  pi.  viii.  xi. 

In  p.  1 14,  a  singular  example  of  an- 
cient art  called  the  "  Minstrels*  Gal- 
lery,*' is  described  and  represented  in 
pi.  viii.  xvii.  It  is  on  the  north  side 
of  the  nave,  projecting  from  the  clerea- 
tory,  and  supported  by  a  bracket  cor- 
nice. In  front  it  displays  a  series  of 
i^  9iiatre/bil-hcaaed  niches,  \q  wV\\cVi 


tiand  as  many  figures  of  angds  playiqg 
upon  musioal  instruments  of  difierwut 
kinds.  It  may  be  referred  to  the  reign 
of  Edward  III. 

The  clock  was  probably  erected 
temp.  Edw.  III.;  and  the  organ,  ex- 
cepting Haerlcm,  is  the  lariat  and 
finest  in  Europe.  It  was  built  l664^ 
and  rebuilt  18 19.  The  number  of 
pines  about  l6()0. 

The  literary  part  has  been  mostly 
compiled  by  E.  W.  Brayley,  F.S.A. 
whose  talents  are  well  known  to  have 
contributed  much  towards  perfecting 
the  local  History  of  England,  and  illoa- 
trating  its  architectural  remains. 


92.  Plain  Admce  to  the  Public  to  fmeUUaU 
the  Making  of  their  own  mUs.  tViik 
Ponns  of  WiUst  containing  abnoU  amy 
description  of  Betfutstf  ice.  Sfc.  Pp,  84. 
W.  R.  Goodluck. 

THIS  little  pmphlet  is  peculiarly 
valuable,  as  being  a  practical  piece  of 
advice  emanating  from  a  gentleman 
who,  we  understand,  held  for  some 
yeara  a  situation  in  the  Lcfgcy  Duty 
Office,  Somerset  House.  The  laws 
relative  to  the  disposal  by  will  of  per- 
sonal property  and  of  lands ;  to  the 
publication  and  republication  of  wilb; 
of  codicils ;  alterations  in,  and  witneaaes 
to  wills,  are  here  clearly  explained,  i« 
a  compendious  form,  and  in  a  style 
studiously  familiar.  But  it  appears  to 
us,  that  ny  far  the  most  valuable,  as 
well  as  the  most  original  part  of  thb 
little  work,  are  the  "  Forms  of  Wilb,*' 
which  occupy  nearly  one  half  of  the 
volume,  ana  which  have  never  before 
been  attempted  in  print.  The  object 
of  these  Formi,  in  which  will  be  found 
almost  every  possible  description  of 
bequest  of  personal  propertjf,  is  to 
enable  any  person  of  ordinary  capacity 
to  make  his  own  will  with  safety, 
without  any  other  assistance,  exceju, 
to  use  the  author's  own  words,  "  in 
cases  of  very  considerable  involvement 
and  intricacy." 

We  cannot,  ourselves,  pretend  to  be 
profoundly  acquainted  with  this  sob* 
ject,  but  as  far  as  we  arc  able  to  judge, 
we  do  not  hesitate  to  express  an  opi- 
nion, that  these  Forms  must  prove  of 
very  essential  service  to  a  numerous 
class,  whether  such  as  wish,  for  what- 
soever reason,  to  make  their  own  wills 
without  the  assistance  of  a  second  per- 
son, OT  such  as  are  constantly  resorted 


1887 J  R£T»w.-*Blaiico  White  on  B^wumim.  53 1 

to  (especially  in  country  placet)^  to  *'  Be  tbentfon  vpon  your  giiard»  and 

aasist    their    neishboure   in   the  per-  pnpm  younelva  agsmtt  tbe  Mduetion  of 

forauioceofthat  important  duty.  kiiidnetf.    Ifattimeayoathouldfeeldejeo- 

A  tion  mad  unhappiocM  ttealing  over  you,  do 

93.  i#  leUer  to  PnUttmnU  anwertedfrtm  "•*  "migine  thu,  h«l  you  continued  Ro- 
liMMRum.  By  the  Km.  Jom^  Blanco  ^bomumU  against  tho  raggettions  of  your 
White,  A  Af.    Pp,  48  conadence,  you  •hould  have  escaped  those 

AMONGtheartific«ofthatChurch  ^^^^IZl^::]  yVil^S^tTJ^^ple^So 

aaainst  which  the  powerful  arlillery  of  the  profeMion  of  your  ibnner  enorsVandU- 

Mr.  White  has  been  directed,  we  have  turbed  peace  of  niod  shouM  be  yoor  lot. 

heard  of  one  upon  unoucstiooable  au-  in  ,uob  a  ease,  believe  me,  you  could  oef* 

thorily,  which  decidedly  marks  its  true  •gain  take  up  the  word  ot  God  in  y«i^ 

character.     Unable  to  answer  his  ar-  hands.    You  would  dread  to  look  at  a  Nev 

guments,    and     for    the    purpose    of  Testament;  you  would  be  forced  by  your 

weakening  his  authority,  lor  perhaps  trembling  conscience  to  confine  yourselves 

the  testimony  of  such  a  convert  is  the  ^  ^be  detached  portions  of  Scripture  to 

most  powerful  that  can  be  adduc^,  ^^ch  Rome,  if  she  had  dared,  would  lov 

a  report   is  in  circulation  among  the  ■«<>  ^•!«  reduced  her  Bible.    You  couH 

Romanists,  that  Mr.  White  is  a  non-  S*T  *'»^  "P  *^«  7"  ?^  ^°^^  '"^^  ^.  S* 

existent  personage,  a  shadow,  a  mask    f^T^'^tl'"''  .^  "1'     "* 

,-,w%A^m  ...k:^u  -™1  u  -4'i     D    *    »     ..     *»*»*  loveth  father  or  mother  more  than  me. 
under  which  some  hostile  Protestant    ;,  „^,  ^^^.    ^f  ^      .„j  ^^  ^  ,^^^ 

levels   his  animosity   against  Popeiy.  ,^„  ^,  ^{^^^^  ^^„  than  me,  b  nol 

bo  absurd  a  falsehood  seems  hardly  to  worthy  of  me.'     (Matt.  x.  37.)     Nay,  yoor 

require  a  refutation,  and  we  have  no-  eyes  would  dose  away,  with  a  blush,  evea 

ticed  it  merely  to  exhibit  the  mode  by  from  the  face  of  those  whose  kindness  had 

which  the  effect  of  Mr.  White's  power-  seduced  you.    The  very  affection  for  whioh 

ful  reasoning  is  attempted  to  be  neu-  you   hid  thrown  away  your  soul,    would 

tralized.     He  is  asain  at  his  post,  and  dwindle  apace  between  lowered  esteem  on 

affording  the  beneht  of  his  experience,  the  tide  of  your  seducers,  and  a  growing 

and  the  consolations  of  his  example,  to  »««P'cion  on  your  part  that  selfishness  waa 

those  who,  like  him,  have  burst  the  ',**«  '™«  •P'*"S  "^  ^^'"  ^^'    ?*!?/'?**!*'^ 

fetters  of  mental  tyranny,  but  who,  in  *^'«°  7°"'  •°"**  *»°^*t*  V'**'  ^^^^^l'*^ 

their  infant  freedom,  and  in  the  blaze     'J^>  ^^  P^H'*  ^^  ^l  *^  '''^J'^  "^ 
»r  •!,..»  i:  k.      u'  u  u        •  •.  J  *u  Scriptures  in  the  spirit  of  prayer,    rersevere 

of  that  li^ht  which  has  nsited  them,     j„  J^^  ^.^  ^f  ^^^  „^  '^^  jo„l^  „^t 

may  require  guidance  and  support,  the  that           ^f  „i„d  ^j  Msuranoe  will  oome. 
guidance  of  one  who  has  trodden  the  it  i,  truth  alone  that  can  make  a  man  per- 
same  path,  the  support  of  one  who  manently  happy.    Whoever  trusts  any  other 
has  *  fought*   the  same  'good  fight,'  foundation,  builds  on  sand." 
and  has   been   exposed  to  the  same*  ^ 
painful   ordeal.     To  strengthen  them  94.  J  Summary  of  the  Laws  prindpaUy 
in  the  path  of  Christian  duty,  and  to  affecting  Protettani  Dissenters.    fFith  an 
comfort   them    under  many  affecting  Appendix,  containing  Acts  <f  ParUamentp 
trials,  are  the  aim  and  object  of  this  Trust   Deeds,   and  Legal   Forms.     By 
admirable  letter.     In  all  plainness  of  Joseph  Beldam,  qf  the  MiddU  TempU, 
speech,    and   with   arguments  drawn  Esq.  Barrister  ai  Law.     \%tno,fp.\96, 
from  the  only  true  source,  he  confirms  THE  recent  change  of  Administra- 
the  new  converts  in  the  purer  faith  tion  has  ^iven  hopes  to  the  various  de- 
which  they  have  adopted,  and  removes  nominations  of  Protestant  Dissenterty 
the  superincumbeut  rubbish  by  which  that  amidst  other  more  important  alte* 
Christianity  has  been  overlaid.  rations  in  our  religious  establishments. 
The  circulation  of  this  Letter,  print-  their  demands  for  the  abolition  of  the 
ed  as  it  is  in  a  cheap  form,  is  well  cal-  Corporation  and  Test  Acts,  and  the 
culated  for  distribution  in  a  country  Marriage  Act,  may  not  be  overlooked, 
where,  under  the  blessioR  of  God,  the  Very  numerous  Petitions  to  the  Legi** 
Reformation   is  now  going  on.     As  lature  to  that  effect,  have  been  present- 
such  an  auxiliary,  we  humbly  recom-  ed ;  and  the  subject  will  profaablybe 
mend  it  to  those  influential  persons  resumed  in  the  next  Session  of  Far« 
who  are  interested  in  this  pious  labour,  liament. 

Tlie  following  extract  will  amply  The  summary  of  the  subsisting  Laws, 
vindicate  our  praise,  and  serve  as  a  now  presented  to  the  public  by  Mr. 
specimen  of  the  spirit  in  which  the  Beldam,  is  therefore  at  least  well- 
Letter  has  been  wntten :  Uin«d  \  Vl  ittfM  ik^i  ^wsk^'^a^^  vs^ 


639 


Rbtibw.«— CktifcA  of  Rome. 


[June, 


not  the  less  acceptable  for  coudensing 
the  substance  ot  many  Statutes  into  a 
▼ery  small  cooopass.  A  concise  histo- 
'rical  sketch  of  the  progress  of  these 
laws  is  prefixed,  which  is  the  most  in- 
teresting portion  of  the  work.  The 
Appendiz  contains  the  most  important 
Acts  cited  in  the  volume. 

Assailed  on  one  side  by  the  Papists^ 
jmd  on  the  other  by  the  Dissenters,  it 
behoves  all  true  friends  of  oar  en- 
lightened and  tolerant  Established 
Church  to  be  particularly  on  their 
guard  ;  and  not  to  suffer  the  ramparts 
of  our  Establishment  to  be  undermined 
by  a  compliance  with  a  hollow  and 
dangerous  liberality.  Fortunately  the 
enemies  of  the  Church  of  England, 
whilst  they  all  unite  in  wishing  her 
destruction,  are  diametrically  opposed 
on  many  essential  points  ;  ana  we 
would  seriously  advise  our  Protestant 
Dissenting  brethren  to  rest  contented 
under  the  protection  they  are  afforded 
by  our  tolerant  Church,  lest,  should 
their  wishes  be  accomplished  in  the 
downfall  of  our  Church,  the  Papists 
should  eventually  make  them  bitterly 
repent  their  error,  when  it  is  too  late. 


•5.  Taxatio  PapaUs ;  being  an  Acamni  of 
the  Tax-Bookt  of  the  United  Church  and 
Cowrt  of  modern  Rome  i  or  t^f  the  Taxtp 
CanceliaruB  ApostoUe^  and  Taxte  Sacra 

•  PoemUenHaruB  ApostoUcw,  By  Enumd" 
patus.    Bvo.  pp.  68. 

THE  Taxof  Camerceseu  Cancellaria 
Apottolicoe  are  taxes  paid  to  the  Roman 
!^e  for  license  to  commit  all  kinds  of 
tin.  The  following  is  a  specimen ;  g. 
ftands  for  grotsL 

**  Abso.  pro  eo  qui  matrem,  sororexn,  aut 
•liun  consanguineam,  vel  affinem  tuam,  aut 
commatreaa  camaliter  cognovit."  g.  v. 

This  extraordinary  mode  of  finance 
may  with  certainty  be  traced  back  to 
John  XXII.  in  the  14th  century,  a 
Pope  notorious  for  extortion  and  riches. 

We  have  ever  been  of  opinion,  that 
many  of  the  prohibited  desrees  in 
niarrtage  are  absurd,  as  implying  no 
incestuous  connexion,  indeed  were  fa- 
bricated by  the  Popes  for  the  purpose 
of  obtaining  a  composition  in  money. 
It  appears  from  p.  40,  that  these  prohi- 
bited degrees  were  multiplied  infinitely, 
and  that  the  following  mtimation  ac- 
companied them»  "£t  debet  coiicor- 
dare  cum  earner^  apostolicL"   P.  40. 

We  doubt    whether  a  swlndkr^ 


steded  in  imposition,  would  practice 
such  horrific  wickedness,  at  thas  to 
accommodate  and  modi^  Rblioiov 
to  every  variety  and  degree  of  human 
"  vitiosity"  (the  phrase  of  our  author 
in  p.  52) ;  and  we  consider  attempts 
to  re-instate  such  a  Church  in  power, 
to  be  just  as  rational  as  it  would  be 
to  introduce  the  gentlemen  and  ladies 
of  the  Beggars*  Opera  into  our  draw- 
ing rooms. — ^To  tbis,  as  to  other  au- 
thors, who  have  seasonably  exposed 
the  abominations  of  Popery,  tbe  pul>- 
lic  is  greatly  obliged. 


96.  The  Episcopal  Oath  (f  Allegiance  to  the 
Pope  in  the  Church  of  Roma  ;  cmUaining 
the  Oath,  both  in  Us  origin/U  and  in  its 
latest  Fbrm;  the  latter  translated  into 
English  ;  with  some  Remarks  in  parHcu- 
lar  upon  what  is  called  the  persecuting 
Clause,    By  Catholicus.    6vo.   pp.  38. 

THE  persecuting  clause  (in  Eng- 
lish) is  tnis:  "Heretics,  schismatics, 
and  rebels  against  the  Pope,  I  wiii  to 
the  best  of  my  power  persecute  and 
fight  against."     P.  13. 

Are  persons  professing  such  senti- 
ments Dt  to  be  entrusted  with  politi- 
cal power  in  a  Protestant  country? 
We  think  not ;  for  we  must  recollect, 
that  if  the  Monarch  be  a  Protestant, 
the  oath  must  extend  to  the  King  him- 
self, and  every  class  of  magistracy  be- 
neath him^  not  papistical ;  and  this  in 
order  to  support  an  impostor  and  a  fo- 
reigner in  an  usurpation,  founded  upon 
a  physical  impossibility,  a  claim  to  a 
divine  authority  for  personal  dominion 
over  the  bodies  and  minds  of  men. — 
We  thank  our  author  for  aiding  the 
cause  of  common  sense  and  Protest- 
antism. 


97.  Instructions  in  reading  the  Liturgy  q/* 
the  United  Church  of  £agUnd  and  Ire- 
land, offered  to  the  attention  of  the  younger 
Clergy  and  Candidates  for  Holy  Orders  $ 
with  an  Appendix  on  Pronundatkm,  and 
a  Sdection  qf  Scripture  proper  Noma, 
most  liable  to  be  variously  pronounced.  By 
the  Rev.  John  Henry  Howlett,  Af.  A» 
Reading  Ch^lain  q^  his  Mqjestu's  Cha- 
pd  Royal,  fThitehaU,  Vicar  q/'Holliog- 
ton,  Sussex,  and  formerly  FUlow  <f  Pem- 
broke Hall,  Cambridge.     8vo.  pp,  810. 

THERE  is  a  peculiar  difEculty  at- 
tached to  church-reading  and  preach- 
ing.— It  cannot  be  dramatized,  for 
then  it  becomes  bombast,  and  yet  it 
mual  follow  the  principles  of  elocu- 


18S70                    Rbtiiw.— Howktt  on  lilt  Lilitrgy.  )^ 

tion.    The  general  rules  teem  to  be,  Mr.  Howlelt  has  added  a  most  use- 

slow  enunciation  and  emphasis  on  the  fal  appendix  concerning  the  ennncia- 

proper  words.    Inflections  of  the  voice  tion  of  Scripture  proper  names,  and 

when  a  phrase  requires  impression  to  many  other  things  off  great  utility.*- 

be  produced,  are  not  only  allowable.  We  warmly  recommend    the  work, 

but  useful.     It  is  a  necessary  caution,  for  the  study  of  Candidates  for  orders, 

not  to  elevate  the  particles,  as  fw^  by,  and    young  Clergymen,   who  cannot 

in,  who,  &c.  or  sink  the  epithets,  but  fail  to  improve  byit. 
to  let  them  have  their  full  force,  l^ 

giving  them  equal  tone  with  the  sub-  ♦ 

^re  should  Ik;  likewise  uken  not  to  By  Nathaniel  m^hmor^TDxT!  8w. 

tie  monotonous,  or  suddenly  to  drop  «m.  43. 

the  voice  at  the  close  of  a  sentence.  rrui?'             r-    ..  .j     1 

We  like  Mr.  Howlett's  book  un-  .    ^"E  errors  ofmdividuals  can  never 

commonly,  and  are   satisfied   that  it  ^^  "?^®  grounds  of  censure  agamat 

well  deserves  episcopal  recommenda-  ^^^  institution  whatever,  unless  such 

tion.  e"®"  grow  out  of  the  institution  iu 

The  Te  Deum,  in  p.  86,  we  men-  ^^^'  ^^'  '^'^f"  '"^^  *"  institution  is 

tion  as  an  excellent  exemplification  of  L"  *"  '°»Proving  state,  can  it  be  said  to 

his  plan.    But  in  this,  as  in  all  other  u     "".^f^  j«^f™P;«^-    Dr.  High  more 

systems,  we  think  that  the  epitheu  -^  picked  out  of  newspapers,  aberr*- 

have  often  been  degraded  below  their  l!°°'  ('™®  %  *;**'>  °^  ^/'"^  .'^^****"*" 

real    consequence,    more    particularly  ^}^'  ™1  ^*"^,Y  ''^•T  Church-Carrujh^ 

where  the  term    has    become    coIIch  ^T''    -      "^'iJ  ™'^^*  ^f  1*P.T®  ^^^^ 

quial ;  for  instance,  Mr.  Howlett  has  7'  ''^"®"?  offences   and  delinqucnU 

in  p.  99,  shown  up  m  the  Acts  and  the  Epistles, 

./.*,,     ,     ,      ,,  and  argued  from  thence,  that  the  holy 

"-  defend  ili  thy  humble  t^rvante  in  Aposdes  were  to  blame.    The  fact  b, 

all  uMulu  of  our  enemies.  that  there  never  was  an  age  when  the 

We  should  read  it  (placing  the  em-  Clergy,  as  a  body,  were  so  irreproach- 

phasis  in  Italics,   and    making  short  able  as  they  are  now.    "  Offences  most 

pauses),  needscome,'%aysChristhimself^Why? 

"  —  defend  us  thy  humbk  ser?ants  in  all  ^  school-boy  can  eive  the  answer, 

astaulu  of  oar  eiMTnief ."  Dr.  High  more  by  his  logic,  how- 

We  know  no  other  method  of  mak-  «/"'  «»''"  ^^w  '''"■  1""'**^  "'"  "^ 

ing  "  humble  serrants"  have  weight  »'"  "^  ^^*-  J''  ""t  %  *•?'  "• 

Ve  also  think  that  the  proper  way  S"*  "[  V^"  »"''J'=*=''    P""  S«>«ty  of 

of  uttering  the  Grace  is,  R'^u^u  ^"""*""  '«'^?»^  ">  «ccep* 

.,_               ,        I     .,        ^.  Ur.  Highmore  as  a  practising  advocate, 

"The  «ra«  of  our  Lord  Jnus  OoM,  because  be  had  Ukeo  Holy  Order*} 

V      ''  would  not  force  him  upon  the  Society. 

As  better  expressing  the  sense  than  Hinc  ilia  lachrynue.    If  Dr.  Highmore 

<*The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  had  taken  the  trouble  to  enc^uire  first, 

and  the  love  of  God,  and  the  feUowskip  of  whether  a  Clergyman  was  eligible  as  a 

the  Holy  Ghostr^*'  candidate  for  the  situation  in  question. 

But  custom  has  here  interfered,  and  all  .this  vexation   would    have   been 

almost  inevitably  influences  a  reader;  avoided.  But  because  it  was  no/ avoided, 

that,  however,  it  does  not  do  justice  to  ^^^  Clergy  are  to  be  calumniated*,  as 

the  meaning,  is  plain,  from  the  fol-  »f  '^fy  *>ad  any  ^hing  to  do  with  the 

lowing,  where  there  ought  to  be  only  appointment  of  Advocates  in  Doctors* 

three  points  of  emphasis.    The  usual  Commons, 

enunciation  is, • — 

"  At  it  was  in  the  beginmng,  is  now,  and  *  In  p.  8,   Dr.  Highmore  qaotes  the 

shall  be  evermore,**  Morning  Chronicle,  aa  stating,  that  a  highly 

Now  this  is  incorrect.   It  should  be,  ^^'^^st^v!^ 

in  our  judgment,  **"**"?,  ^Jl  ^u**  "^•.  u^  ?''  ""^^^ 

*'^          '  more  alludes  to  the  same  Bishop  (as  we  sus- 

<<  As  it  WAS  in  the  beginnbg,  is  now,  pect  he  does),  we  can  say,  npon  the  autho- 

and  SHALL  BE  •rermore."  rity  of  his  noble  nlativea^  thaiU  vV\x  ^i&m^ 


536             RBTXBWr^-CU>L  Trench  oil  iAtf  TAomet  Quay.              (June, 

ihe  lette  xxx  doketet  of  grates  and  grotsynet  ichal  ryde  to  flam  Jordsn  take  wyth  vow  out 
je  acbal  haTe  at  VenjM  xxTiij  of  new  gros-  of  Jerusalem  bred  wyne'  water  hard  chesa 
setes  and  di.  For  when  ye  passe  Venyse  ye  and  harde  eggys  and  such  vytellys  as  ve  may 
achal  have  in  sum  plase  xxtJ  grossetes  or  have  for  too  days  for  ther  nether  by  the 
xxviij.  And  take  also  inrth  yow  iij  other  liij  way  ys  none  to  sell.  85.  Also  kepe  on  of 
doketvs  of  soldys  thatgaly  halpanse  of  ver-  yowre  botell  other  gordys  wyth  wyne  and  ye 
ayse  uur  every  grosset  liU  soldys.  Take  also  may  when  ye  com  from  flum  Jordan  to 
wyth  yow  fro  venyse  a  doket  other  too  of  monte  ouarentyne.  And  yf  ye  go  up  to  the 
,t0meys  hyt  ys  bras  money  of  candi  hyt  wyll  plase  where  oure  lorde  Jhu  cryste  frstyde  al 
go  by  all  the  wey  ye  schal  have  viij  for  a  days  and  xl  nliyte  hyt  ys  passyng  bote  and 
aolde  at  Venyse,  at  Modyn  and  Cande  oftyn  ryght  hyee.  When  ye  com  down  ayen  for 
!tyme  but  iiij,  v  other  vj  at  the  most  for  a  no  thyng  drynk  no  water  but  rest  you  a  lytyl 
-aolde.  15.  Also  by  vow  a  cace  for  half  a  and  then  ette  bred  and  drynke  clene  wyne 
/dosen  of  hennys  or  cliekyn  to  nave  with  yow  wyth  oute  water  after  that  grete  hete  water 
.ID  the  galey.  For  ye  schal  have  nede  un  to  genderyth  a  gret  fluxe  other  a  fever,  other 
them  meny  tymes.  And  by  yow  halfe  a  bothe  than  a  man  may  haply  lete  his'lyfe 
^nschel  o/^myle  sede  of  venyse  for  them,  ther  by.  Kepe  all  thes  thynges  afor  wiyt 
.16.  Also  take  a  barel  wyth  yow  close  for  a  and  ye  shal  wyth  the  grace  of  God  apede  yn 
•«^^  for  yowre  chamber  in  the  galey.  hyt  yowre  journey  to  goo  and  com  to  the  plerar 
ys  ful  nessessary  yf  ye  be  syke  that  ye  com  of  God  and  encrese  of  yowre  blys  the  whyeha 
isot  in  the  eyre.  17.  Also  whan  ye  com  Jh*s  graunt  yow  Amen." 
to  havyn  townys  yf  ye  wyl  ye  may  by  eggys  (To  be  contmuedj 
jf  ye  com  by  tyme  to  londe  for  then  ye  may  a 
lave  goyde  chep  for  they  be  ful  nessessary  j^^  ^  CoUectim  of  Papers,  reiaiing  to  the 
ID  the  galey  sum  tyme  fryed  with  oyle  ^^^  q  ^^  ^^^  forsn^ejur- 
.olvfe  and  sum  tyme  for  a  caodel.  18.  ^^  Impnwemenls  in  the MetrapoUs,  By 
AW  when  ve  com  to  havyn  townya  yf  ye  Colonel  Trench.  M.  P.  WithZaiuii 
schal  ^  tbere  i.j  days  eo  by  tyme  to  explaiuUmy  Plates.  4to,pp.  176. 
londe  for  then  ye  may  have  logyng  by  -^  '  ^'^ 
fore  other.  For  hyt  wyl  be  uke  up  a  none.  EVERY  body  must  know,  that 
And  yf  eny  goyd  vytef  be.  bee  ye  speed  whenever  there  is  an  enormous  con- 
afore  other.  19.  Also  when  ye  com  to  course  of  all  kinds  of  people  for  all 
dy verse  havynnys  be  wel  ware  of  dy verse  sorts  of  purposes,  the  place  will  have 
frutys.  For  they  be  not  acordyng  to  yowre  as  much  the  character  of  a  jumble  as 
complexion.  And  they  gender  a  blody  the  inhabitants.  Oxford  and  Bath 
fliote.  And  yf  an  englyschman  have  that  ^^e  beautiful  cities,  because  they  have 
aykenesshytysa  marvel  and  scape  hyt  but  ^^  manufactories  or  ports;  but   were 

«L  ^nn^rt'Iff  Jv       It            L'  jl  ^^^V  ^isfigured  by  farW  sheds,  six. 

com  to  port  J  an  take  wyth  yow  oute  of  the  •    "^  j       °      u      "^                       i     u 

«aley  un  to  the  londe  too  gordys  one  wyth  '^^"^     warehouses,    or    work-shops 

wyne  another  wyth  water  eche  of  a  potel  at  g'ass-works,  steam  cngme  towers,  and 

the  lest,  for    je  schal  none  have   tyl  ye  ^!>  .msulated  chimnies,    it  is.    in  fe- 

fiom  ijo  raniys  and  that  ys  ryght  febyland  mjnme  phraseology,  the  nature  of  such 

dyre.      And  at  Jherusalero   hyt  ys   goyde  /rights  to   attract  attention    to  them- 

wyne   and   dere.     21.  Also   se    that  the  selves,  and  the  place  becomes  no  long- 

Ctron  of  the  galey  take  charge  of  yowre  er  a  fine  city,  but  only  one  which  con- 

meys  wyth   yn    the   galey   tyl   ye   com  tains    fine  buildings.     Such  a  one  is 

ayen  to  the  galey.   ye   schal  Ury   m    the  London.     It  is  an  enormous  mass  of 

holy  londe  xuj  other  xiiij  days.    22.  Also  great   boxes,   perforated   with    oblong 

take  goyde  heyde  of  yowre  knyves  and  other  K^les   for  windows    and     doors,    and 

amal  thynges  that  ye  her  upon  yow  for  the  gj^^j;       ^-.^  ^^e  narrow  end  upwards, 

sarsenes  wyl  go  talkynge  with  yow  and  make  p^.  .k-    •   -«f.    .u     i.    -ir       *^    r 

45oyde  chere  but  they  wyl  stele  fro  vow  that  ^^,  '^^  *'f  ?!  ''*  ^^«  buildings  of  ar- 

ye  have,  an  they  miy.    23.  Also  ihen  ye  chitectural  character  are  very  few     or 

schal  uke  yowre  asse  at  Port  Jaffe  be  not  to  "®**®  ?^^  sufficient  dimensions  to  form 

longe  behyude    yowre  felowys  for,  an  ye  prominent  objects.     If  they  have  good 

com  by  tym,  ye  may  chese  the  best  mule  pretensions,    they  are   only    splendid 

other  asse.  for  ye  scbalpay  no  more  for  the  things  concealed  by  cases,  as  may    be 

best  than  for  the  worst    And  ye  most  yeve  seen  by  taking  any  good  house  iu  one 

yowre  asman  curtesy  a  grot  other  a  grosset  of  the  squares,  and  showing  it  off  in 

of  venyse.    And  be  not  to  rooche  by  fore  the    country,'    with     accompaniment 

^tber  U>  fer  by  hynde  yowre  felowys  for  of  suitable   grounds.     However,  gold 

drede  of   strewys.*     24.    Also  whan    ye  watches  are  destined  to  be  worn  in 

•  In  the  Utin  version  it  is  *<  malorum."  ^®*?'  ^°^  ^^^  hf);*'"*^^'!;^?  ®^  London 

Q.  stTMggJers  ?  to  be  obscured,  like  well-dressed  men 

ia;imo\>.    To^dAitAtJKU  evil,  want 


1W7.] 


Rbvibw. — Col.  Treneh  on  the  Thames  Quay. 


537 


• 

Of  sufRcient  roadway  has  grown  into  a 
serious  nuisance.  The  Strand  is  a 
mere  gutter  for  the  |>as8a^e  of  a  river; 
and  the  grievance  is  recommended  by 
Colonel  Trench  to  be  cured  by  a  splen- 
did quay  from  Westminster  to  London 
Bridges  on  the  Middlesex  side.  He 
also  has  proposed  a  street  vista  from  St. 
Paul's  to  a  palace  for  the  Sovereign, 
which  last  he  wishes  to  place  in  a 
a  part  of  Hyde  Park  suited  to  such  a 
purpose.  With  regard  to  streets,  we 
consider  those  of  modern  houses  in- 
corrigibly dull.  No  streets  are  pic- 
turesque, but  such  as  those  described  in 
the  following  words  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott : — **  It  IS  in  the  streets  of  Ant- 
werp and  Brussels,  that  the  eye  still 
rests'  upon  the  forms  of  architecture, 
which  appear  in  the  pictures  of  the 
Flemish  School.  Those  fronts  richly 
decorated  with  various  ornaments,  and 
terminating  in  roofs,  the  slope  of  which 
is  concealed  from  the  eye  by  windows 
and  gables  still  more  highly  ornament- 
ed, the  whole  comprising  a  general  ef- 
fect, which,  from  its  grandeur  and  in- 
triciicy,  amuses  at  once  and  delights  the 
spectator.  In  fact  this  rude  intermix- 
ture of  towers  and  battlements,  and 
projecting  windows  highly  sculptured, 
joined  to  the  height  of  the  houses  and 
the  variety  of  ornaments  upon  their 
fronts,  produce  an  effect  as  superior  to 
those  of  the  tame  uniformity  of  a  mo* 
dern  street,  as  the  casque  of  the  war- 
rior exhibits  over  the  slouched  broad- 
brimmed  beaver  of  the  Quaker.  We 
insist  the  more  on  this  for  the  benefit 
"of  those  who  arc  accustomed  to  take 
their  ideas  of  a  fine  street  from  Port- 
land Place,  or  from  the  George  Street 
of  Edinburgh,  where  a  long  and  uni- 
form breadth  of  causeway  extends  1)C- 
tween  two  rows  of  ordinary  houses -of 
three  stories,  woose  appearance  is  ren- 
dered mean,  by  the  disproportioned 
S)>nc6  which  divides  them,  and  tame 
from  their  unadorned  uniformity." 

In  fact  the  Pointed  style  is  pictu- 
resque every  where ;  and  we  fasten 
with  particular  pleasure  u|X)n  Colonel's 
Trench's  proposed  alterations  of  the 
north,  east,  and  west  fronts  of  the 
Houses  of  Parliament,  Courts  of  Law, 
&c.  The  alterations  are  stated  to  be 
practicable  at  a  moderate  expcnce, 
and  tlic  incoogruous  opposition  of 
the  whole  of  these  buil(}iogSy  to  the 
correct  beauty  of  the  adjacent  Abbey, 

Oekt.  Mao.  "  Jane,  1 847. 

8 


causes   its   monstrosity  to    be  most 
hideous. 

It  would  be  impossible  for  ns  to  fo1<* 
low  Colonel  Trench  through  his  long 
but  important  explanatory  details ;  and 
it  jars  all  our  nerves  to  think  of  variont 
new  buildings  recently  erected  in  Lon- 
don. In  some  we  see  colonnades  seem- 
ingly ready  to  sink  into  the  earth  for 
want  of  elevation  upon  a  basement 
story,  which  basement  story  is,  as  it 
were  by  a  crane,  wound  up  to  the  top 
of  the  edifice,  and  there  squatted  down 
instead  of  a  garret ;  while  the  columns 
below  are  Corinthian,  of  a  light  order, 
the  Doric  only  admitting  of  a  heary 
entablature.  In  others  we  have  lump* 
ish  masses  for  flights  of  steps,  made 
the  stylobate  of  a  pediment,  whicA 
they  utterly  spoil  by  being  of  the  same 
elevation  as  tne  length  ofthecolumnt, 
so  that  the  pediment  looks  like  a  dog 
kennel  upon  ahorse  block — sometimes 
two  lofty  wings  overpower  a  diniinu^ 
tive  centre  of  spindled-shanked  co- 
lumns, and  too  sharp  angled  pediment^ 
—withers  have  no  character  as  a  whole, 
hut  look  like  pieces  only  of  a  fine 
building,  which  was  never  finished. 
Wecoutd  particularize  such  specimens, 
but  we  shall  not.  Prior  Jit  aias,  we 
shall  however  say,  and  boldly  affirm, 
that  there  is  neither  grandeur  of  e&ct 
nor  chastity  of  design  in  very  numer 
rous  modern  structures.  We  do  not 
attribute  these  errors  to  a  defect  of 
talent  or  skill,  but  to  erroneoosjndg^ 
ment,  to  the  foolish  idea'of  commixinr 
styles,  which  cannot  be  made  to  har- 
monize ;  an  idea  which  denotes  French- 
ness  ;  for  it  has  been  justly  observed  by 
Mr.  Dallaway,  that  this  vain  nation 
would  not  deem  the  Venus  de  Medici 
fit  to  be  regarded,  until  she  was  draped 
in  their  own  costume.  Now  Archi* 
tecture  more  than  any  thing  has  it# 
suum  cuiquc,  and  to  mix  the  distinct 
characters  of  the  styles  is  only  to  spoil 
it  of  course.  We  do  not  like  what  m 
called  the  Italian  style.  In  our  judg^ 
ment  it  fritters  away  all  the  ancient 
grandeurs  by  its  numerous  petty  parts;  . 
nor  do  we  approve  of  the  interior  df 
York  House  (as  given  by  Col.  Trench 
in  plate  12).  The  columns  are  thrown 
away  and  lost ;  incongruous  rounc(- 
heaoed  doorways  are  placed  between 
square  pannels ;  and  a  heavy  skylign^ 
like  an  unfrnished  pyramid,  crown* 
the  centre.    V*t.  cau  ^t^xxt^  ^^\s«^^ 


9i9  MiseeUaneouM^  Reviews.  [Juiie,' 

fo  Ui.a  bi^sar  or  fancy  ihina.  We  should  twelve  cantoi.    TrnuUtod  frpin  tha  luJlaa 

call  it  a  part  of  Persepolis  repaired  by  of  AleMaodro  TaMOol.     With  ooies  by 

ihcRomansin  their  own  bad  Usle-80  Jamm  Atkinson,    Eiq.    Whatever    may 

various   are  the  style*— and    as   soon  be  the  merit  of  the  Poem  among  the  Italiana, 

should  we  approve  of  the  statue  of  a  ^"^  ^$*'«^  «*°  °?  "«'•  ?^«  ^  i?^"*'  '~ 


faahion  to  be  fine  rather  than  grand—  ^^  ^\^  „^^  ^d  i„  the  style  of  Loid 

)G  be  fantastic  rather  than  |correct—  Bynrn's  Beppo.    Mr.  Atkinson  succeesftilly 

to  sacrifice  style  to  embellishment — to  imitates  him,  hot  being  merely  a  TruuUtor 

jprefer   millioery   to  grace.      We  arc  hud  not  the  same  advantages  of  expatiatioo 

however,  by  this  species  of  criticism,  to  embellish  the  Poem. 


104.  Chronologictd  Records  of  the  British 


walking  in  ordeal  over  burning  plough- 

shares,  while  we  mean   no  e«il,  only  .  _ 

desire  simplicity,  consistency,  and  bar-  '^'nf^  ^^  Commercial  Navy,  from  the  ear- 

mony  of  design.  liest  period  (a.  d.  8«7)  to  the  present  Ume, 

.    We  see  nothing  but  good   to  the  ^  C/esar  Moreau.  F.  R.  8.  P«jnch\lce. 

^.kiu   «.K««  -«.  A^^^^  Jff  »u.  .•.•lo.M  Consul  m  London,  concentres,  m  a  tabular 

public,  when  gendemen  of  the  stotion  form,  whole  voloiies  of  authentic  &ct.,  of 

«nd  Uste  of  Col.  Trench  study  archi*  ^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^  reference,  by  Membe»  of 

tecture  and  improvement,  provided  a  ^^^^^^^  ^^^^  of  Parliament,  HUtorians, 

due   regard  be  paid  to  economy ;  and  ,nd  Writers  on  Political  Subjects* 

jCfaasli^  of  design  implies  more  saving  

and  elegance  than  frippery  and  uw-         io5.  Mr.  Jackson's  5to/*  o/"/**  J«ot,  it 

driness,  both  of  which  we  think  have  *  liberal  appeal  on  behalf  of  many  unjustly 

crept  into  modern  Architecture.  suftiering  men.      We  certainly  think  it  (exe 

^  humamtit  that  it  shoul  t  be  written   on  the 

'  101.  Mr.MERRiDEw  of  Warwick  and  Lea-  jtumpike  gates  in  Germany,   *' Jews  and 

^ngton  has  republished  two  valuable  tracts  Pigs  pay  loll  here,**  (see  p.  7.)  but  if  Jews 

felative  to  *'  Kemlworth  Festivities ;  com-  insult  Jesus  Christ,  it  is  not  smgnlar  that 

^sing  I.aleham*s  Descrintion  of  the  Page-  Christians  should   retort    the  '  contumely, 

as'try,  and  Gascoigne's  Masques,  represent-  Civil  oppression,  however,  certainly  makes 

'ad  before  Queen  Elizabeth,  at  Kenilworth  rogues  and  bad  subjects  {  and  eveiy  liberal 

Gutle,  anno  1575 ;  with  introductory  Pre-  protection,  consistent  with  public  safety  and 

"flMies,  glossarial  and  explanatory  Notes."  morals,  b  politic  with  regard  to  all  daaies 

Havhig  fully  noticed  both   these  curious  of  a  state,  or  they  take  no  interest  in  its 

Tracts  when  they  were  recently  published,  well-being.  — >— <- 

in  consequence  of  the  interest  excited  by  the         106.  The  Country  Ficar,   the  Bride  of 

•admirable  historical  romance  of  <<  Kenil-  Thryberg^  and  other  Poenu,  is  a  raeritoriciua 

worth,"  (see  vol.  xcii.  i.  pp.  50, 1 5 1 .)  we  shall  book.    The  Doctor-Syntaxian  mode  of  de- 

eontent  ourselves  with  observjLof,  that  the  scribing  the  Vicar  and  his  various  Curates,  ie 

Cient  neat  reprint  is  embellished  with  a  very  the  best  part,  and  has  many  happy  passages. 

utiful  line-engraved  Frontispiece,  repre-  

'tenting  Queen  EUzabetb's  Entry  into  Kenil-         1 07.  The  OddMomentSt  or  Ttme  beguiled, 

worth  Castle,  by  torch-light,  accompanied  contains  very  pitaaing  instmctivQ  tales. 

by  the  Earl  of  Leicester  and  a  numerous  re-  

tinue.    It  is  well  designed  by  Mr.  Rider,       108.  MT,MircuKLL*sJirsl Lines ^Setenee, 

aad  engraved  by  Mr.  W.  Radclyffe.  is  one  of  those  books  which  lor  nihs^a  of 

— -—  information,  satbfiustory  diagrams,  and  |Hir- 

-     109.  Nine  very  neat  and  faithful  Engra-  spicuous  language,  merits  unqualifi«i  ap» 

vingsilhisircUive  qf  LeamingUm  Spa,  have  probation  and  warm  patronage, 
.been  Dublished  by  Mr.  MaRRioaw,  consist-  .^.-. 

ins  or  the  following  views;  Lord  Aylesford's         109.  Stories  fivm  Scripture  Hi*itry^  hf 

Well ;  Church  jmd  old  Cottages,  previous  to  the  Rev.  B.  H.  Draper,  contain  the  eub- 

- 1826 ;  the  Upper  Assembly  Room ;    Royal  stance  of  the  Old  aud  New  TestamenU,  de- 

JMis  and  Pomp  Room ;    Union  Parade,  taUed  in  simple  and  pleasing  narrative,  with 

IJpper  Union,  Bedford  Hotel,  and  Regent  neat  illustration's. 

'dote! :  Bath  Street,  Bath  Hotel,  Theatre,  

•ad  New  Assembly  R«oins ;  Clemens'  Street,         1 1 0.  The  CasUe  of  yiUeroy,  or  the  Bon- 

Blanhdm  Hotel,  &e. ;  Copoe's  Hotel,  High  dii  Chirf,  has  an  interesting  romantic  cha- 

•Stffeet,  the  Market,  and  Wise's  Bath  ;  aad  racter.    The  Lunatic  Mother  is  deKnsatad 

Church,  as  altered  in  1886.  ia  a  vary  padietio  form. 


JOS.  Za  ^SWsdUa /t^^itoy  Of  the  Rb^c  of        \\\.TVm  FUmmt  qf  (Ae  fbres/abowda 
A  Jhi^ka,  Sa  ao  Htroicomical  Poarn  a    iiV^^«Mai%iMwiaBik«^%  va^vdAv 


J827.]  [    M9    ) 

LITERARY.  AHD   SCIENTIFIC   INTBLUGBNCE. 


Oxford.  Epignmt,  mentiooed  bj  tbe  Vioe-Chiii- 

May  98.— ^The  Prize  Compotitioot  were  ceilor  'as  **  haviof  greet  merit,  end  to  the 

sdjudffed  es  follow : —  euUiort  of  which  permiMioo  it  ffiven  to 

Latin   Ferse  —  **  Mexicnm."     Cherles  trantcribe    their   e&ercieee  into  the  boel^ 

Wonbworthy  commoner  of  Chriit  Church.  containing  the  prir^  compositionty'*  were 

luUm   Essay,  —  **Lex    apud    Romaooe  wrij^ten  seyenJIy  bj  Wordsworth,  ten.  Tri- 

Agraria."   Wm.  John  Blake,  B.  A.  gentle-  nitv  College;  Selwjn,  St.  John's  College i 

man-commoner  of  Christ  Church. .  end  Haakioson,  Corpus  Cbristi  College. 

English  ^<say.— -"  The  Influence  of  the         The  Members'  prizes  of  fifteen  guintae 

Crusades  upon  the  Arts  and  Literature  of  each,  to  two  Bachelors  of  Arts,  for  the  ea* 

Europe."    Frederick  Oakelej,  B«A.  Fellow  couragiement  of  Latin  prose  compositioBy 

of  fialiol.  were  on  Tuesday  adjudged  to  Messrs.  Ri^ 

English  rerse  (Newdigate).— «  Pompeii."  chard  WiUiamson  and  W.  M.  Heald,  of  TH- 

Robert  Stephen  Hawker,  student  in  Qvil  nitr  College.— Sulject,  Homerus. 
Law,  of  Magda]en-hall.  The  Members'  prizes  to  Under-gvaAwlei 

June  9.— ^Iie  following  subjects  are  pro-  were  yesterday  adjudged  to  £.  H.  Tltihw 

ptMed  Car  the  Chancellor's  Prizes  for  the  eB<»  bert,  and  T.  W.  Feile,  of  Trinity  Coltak 

suing  year:  viz.  Subject, ' Gr«aa  a^^entrnvMlemiie^^ 

Far  Latin  Ferse,  —  *'  Machinss  in  rapo-  d  artet  Jniulit  agresli  LaUo, 
ris  impulse.'' 


»» 


For  an  English  Essay. — "The  domestic  u    .i    r     n.  !.*•    j* 

virtues  and  habiu  of  the  ancient  Greeks  and  Ready  for  Fublseatum. 

Romans  compared  with  those  of  the  more         ^'^^^  Union  of  Architecture,  Sculptures 

re6ned  nations  of  modem  Europe."  Bnd  Painting,  exemplified  by  a  series  of  II- 

For  a  Latin  Essay.^-*'  Unde  evenit  ut  in  lustrations,    with  descriptive  Accounts  of 

artium    liberalium  studiis    praestantissimus  the  House  and  Galleries  of  John  Soane^ 

<)uisque  apud  sioculas  chritates  eodem  fiere  Mq*  Architect,  &c.    By  John  Britton^ 

sseculo  floruerit  ?  F.S.A. 

Sir  Roger  Newdigate's  Prtze.-^For  tlie         The  History  and  Antiquities  of  Peter^ 

best. Composition  in  English  Verse,  "Ri-  borough  Cathedral.  By  J.  Britton.  No.  9l 
chard  Coeur  de  Lion."  No.  XIX.  of  Illustrations  of  the  Publa^ 

June  15.~The  Jui%es  appointed  to  de-  Buildincs  of  London, 
cide  Dr.  Ellerton's  Aeological  Prize,  es-        Part  III.  of  Architectural  Antiquities  of 

tablished    in   18S5,  viz.    the  Lord  Bishop  Great  Britain.     By  J.  Britton. 
ofOxford,  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity,  the         Robsgn's  Picturesque  Views  of  Englisl{ 

Lady  Margaret's  Professor  of  Divinity,  and  Cities  (No.  8),  containing  8  Enmviw  oC 

the  President  of  Magdalen  College,  have  Lincoln,  York,  Canterbury,  OjootdpEly^  ■ 

adjudged  the  prize  this  year  to*  Frederick  Gloucester,  Bath,  and  Peterborough. 
Oakeler,  B.A.  Fellow  of  Baliol  College.        The  Architectural  Antiquities  of  Nor- 

The  subject  is  as  follows : — "  What  was  £e  mandy.  No.  IV. 

object  of  the  Reformers  in  maintaining  the  The  Law  of  Municipal  Corporations ;  to- 
following  proposition,  and  by  what  argu-  gather  with  a  brief  Sketch  of  their  History^ 
roents  did  they  establish  it  ?  *  Holy  Scrip-  and  a  Treatise  on  Mandamus  and  Quo  War- 
ture  is  the  only  sure  foundation  of  any  arti-  ranto.  By  J.  W.  Willcock,  Esq.  Barrister 
cle  of  faith.' "    The  subject  for  the  present  at  Law. 

year  is — "  The  Faith  of  the  Apostles  in  the         A  Letter  to  tbe  Members  of  the  Nei^ 

Divine  Mission  of  our  Saviour  was  not  the  Parliament  on  the  Defects  in  the  General 

result  of  weakness  or  delusion,  but  of  rea-<  and  Statute  Law,  which  require  the  Revi- 

Bonable  conviction."  sion  of  the  Legislature,  such  as  relate  'to 

Cambbidoe.  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace.  By  Isaac 

June  8. — The  Person    Prize  (for  the  'Espinassb,  Esq.  Barrister  at  LaW,  and  an 

best  translation  of  a  passage  from  Shake-  Acting  Magistrate  for  the  County  of  Kent. 

{)eare  into  Greek  verse^   was    on    Friday         An  Essay  on  the  Doctrine  of  Remaiiir 

ast  adjudged  to  John  Wordsworth,  scholar  ders,  and,  as  collateral  and  .subordinate  tCK 

of  Trini^  College.    Subject,  jis  You  Like  pics,  of  executory  Limitations.    By  Wiu* 

//,  Act  III.  Scene  3.  liam  Fuiym  Cornish,  Esq. 

Sir  William  Browne's  gold  medals  were        The  pleasant  History  of  Thomas  of  Reed*^ 

on  Friday  adjudged — for  the  Greek  Ode,  to  ioc,  or  the  Six   worthy  Yeomen  of  the 

Wm.  Selwyn,  St.  John's  College;  for  the  West,    by    the    celebrated    BaUad - roalcer 

Latin  Ode  and  Epigrams,  to  Chnst.  Words*  Thomas  Dklony,  will  form  the  Thhd^E^^ 

worth.  Trinity  College.  in  Ms.  W.  J « 'Worni^^  wv«a ^V'^aa^^^^Tw^ 

The  Greek  Ode^  tbe  Latin  Ode^  and  ibe  KomiAC««. 


540                                   Literary  Inklligence.  piiae. 

Quinti  Horatii  Flacci  Opera:    with  an  fore  the  Cooquett,  and  in  &ct  tome  of  them 

£n|;Iifh  l>aqsUtiGn>  irerbfl  aqd  iaterIiMa|>  noqueationabljr    coeval,  with  St.  Citfl^rv 

on  the  plan  of  Locke,  Montanui,  and  Du  himself. 

Marsais.  fij  John  Stirling,  D.  D.  A  ThesecretTreaty  concluded  in  1670,  he- 
new  Edition,  revised,  corrected,  and  im-r  tw«en  Charles  H.  and  Louis  XIV.  will  be 
prov^ed,  hy  P.  A.  NuttaLL,  LL.  D.  Bdifeor  exhibited  by  Dr.  Lingard,  b  the  forth- 
of  <*  Stirling's  Juvenal,"  and  Translator  of  coming  volume  of  his  History  of  England. 
**  Virgil's  Bucolics."  To  which  is  prefix-  The  Reasons  of  the  Laws  of  Moses,  froin' 
td,  a  Comparative  View  of  the  Different  the  <<  More  Nevochim "  of  Maimonides. 
Methods  of  Translation  ;  a  new  Life  of  Ho-  With  Notes,  Dissertations,  and  a  Life  oF 
lice;  a  Dissertation  on  his  Writmgs;  an  the  Author.  By  James  Townliy,  D. D. 
Analysis  of  the  whole  of  his  Metres ;  and  a  The  Achievements  of  Prayer  ;  selected 
Chronology  of  his  Poetry.  exclusively  firom  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

A  new  Edition  of  Anacreon.     By  Dr.  Elements  of  Biblical  Criticism  and  Inter* 

Broderick  Roche,  with  copious  variorum  pretation,  with    special    reference  to    the 

Notes,  conuiniog  the  Greek  Text,  an  Eng-  New  Testament,  translated  from  the  Latin 

Cih  Metrical  Vcnion,  and  a  literal  Transla-  of  Ernesti,  &.c.  by  £.  Henderson,  D.D.' 

tidn  in  prose,  for  the  use  of  Students,  in  Theologicd  Tutor  of  the  Mission  College, 

which  tne  ellipses  of  the  original  are  sup-  and  Author  of  '*  Biblical  Researches,"  and 

plied,  and  the  points  of  difference  between  «  Travels  in  Russia,"  &c. 

the  idioms  of  the  two  langoages   puinte<i  The  Connexion   of  Sacred  and  Proftoe 

oii^;  accompanied  with  a  Lexicon  and  gram-  tiistnry,  from  the  Death  of  Joshua,  until 

toatical  Analysis.  the  Decline  of  the  Kingdoms  of  Israel  and 

Part  4,  of  Pompeii,  which  completes  this  Judah.     Intended  to  complete  the  works  of 

important  Work,  in  impetial  folio,  contain-  Shuckford  and  Prideaux.     By  the  Rar.  Dr. 

inc  nearly  one  hundred  PlaUs,  engraved  by  Russell. 

W.  B.  Cooke,  from  Drawings  by  Lieut.-  The  Early  Life  of  Christ  an  Example  to 

Col.  Cockburn,  R.A. ;  J.  Goldicutt,  Henry  Youth.    By  the  Rev.  Henry  March,   of 

Parke,  and  T.  L.  Donaldson,   Architecis.  Mill  Hill. 

With  descriptive  Letter-press.  An  Inquiry  into   the  History,  Authen- 

No.  7   of  River  Scenery,   by  J.  M.  W.  Cdity,    and  Characteristics,  of  the  Shak- 

Tamer,  R.  A.  and   the   late  Tho.   Girtin.  speare  Portraits,  in  which  the  Criticisms  of 

With    Letter-press    Descriptions    of    the  Malone,  Steevens,  Boaden,  and  others,  arc 

whole  of  the  Views,  by  Mr.  Hopland.  examined,  confirmed,  or  refuted  ;  embrac- 

'.  Ellmer  Castle,  a  Roman  Catliolic  Story  ing  the  Felton,  the  Chandos,  the  Duke  of 

of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  Somerset's  Pictures,  the  Drocshout  Print, 

'    The  Sea  Side ;  a  series  of  short  Essays  and  the  Monument  of  Shakspeore  at  Strat- 

and  Poems  on  various  subjects.     By   the  ford,  together  with  an  expo$6  of  the  spu- 

Rev.  John  East.  nous  Pictures  and  Prints. 

A  Review  of  the  Declaration  of  the  Ro-  A  Scries  of  Views  in  the  Isle  of  Wight, 

inan  Catholic  Bishops.     By  the  Rev.  James  Illustrative  of  its  picturesque  Scenery,  Cas^ 

Richardson,  one   of  the  Vicars  of  York  ties.  Fortresses,  and  Seats  of  Nobility  and 

Minster.  Gentry.     By  Mr.  F.  Calvert. 

A    Series   of    Practical   Instructions    in  A  Vocabulary  to  the  CEdipus  Tyrahnos  o  f 

Landscape  Painting  in  Wator-Colours.     By  Sophocles,  witii  the  derivation  and  compo- 

JoHN  Clark.  sition  of  the  words,  with  References  and 

'  The  Third  Volume  of  Walpole*s  Anec-  Ex))Ianations.    By  George  Hughes,  M.  A. 

^otes  of  Painting,  edited  by  Mr.  Dallaway.  A  Brief  Statement  of  the  Proctedlnijs  re- 

Tlie  Voice  of  Humanity  :  Observations  specting  the  New  Law  Courts  at  West- 
pn  ft  few  of  the  Instances  of  Cruelty  to  Ani-  minster,  and  the  New  Eotrance  fur  his  Ma^ 
■lals,  against  which  no  Legislative  provbion  jesty  into  the  House  of  Lords,  with  En- 
is  made,  &c.  gravings.     By  Mr.  Soane. 

Scholastic  Register,  Part  I.  The  Poetical  Works  of  Collins,  with  am- 
pie  Biographical  and  Critical   Notes.     Bv 

Prepnrwgfar  PulUcaihn.  ±  ^%  At«.  Dvce.-Also  the  Draowtic 

^       °'^  Works  of  John  Webster,  now  first  collected. 

Illustrated  by  numerous  Engravings,  an  with  Notes  by  the  same  Rev.  Gentleman. 

Account  of  what  appeared  upon   opening  Tlie  Every  Night  Book,   or  Life  after 

^he  Grave  of  St.  Cutlibert  in  Durham  Ca-  Dark.     By  the  Author  of  the  <<  Cigar." 

thedral,  on  Thursday,  May  17,  1827,  with  Ok'nithologia^  or  The  Birds,  a  Poem,  with 

^  brief  preliminary  Memoir  of  that  Saint,  an   (ntrtuluctiou  to  their  Natural  History, 

By  the  Rev.  James  Raine,  M.A.  and  F.A.  and    copious    Notes.     By  Mr.  Jennings. 

$.rl.  Librarian  of  Durham  Cathedral,  &c.  The  Lecture  given  at  the  Mechanics'  In- 

Wb  promise  the  Antiquarian  winrld  great  stituie,    by  the   same  Gentleman,    on   the 

gleaaure  fiom  this  brochure.     Within    the  Nature  and  Operatioui  of  the  Huaian  Mind, 

eofEa  of  the  saint  were  dl^coveied   tuWs,  \%  aW\u  \.U;^  i\c^^. 

relics,  aud  iu&cri]  lions  of  a  peil.VA  loi>g\jc-  '    K  T^k^voumn   \il  \jj.>Jva  ^\ja»\JX.'As,  or 


J8«7.] 


IMerary  InteUigeiiee., 


£41 


Proaodbn'i  Guide  to  the  diffbreat  Quanti- 
ties of  every  Syllable  in  the  Latin  Lan-' 
euage,  alphabetically  anaaged.  By  W. 
M0SBLET>  I4L.  D. 

Elements  of  Geometry.  By  J.  R.  YotrsOf 
Author  of  *'  An  Elemeotary  Treatise  on  Al- 
gtbra." 

Correspondence  on  the  Catholic 

DiSaBILITIES. 

Some  interesting  documents  have  recently 
been  published  by  Mr.  Murray  of  Albemarle* 
street,  in  a  pamphlet  edited  by  Dr.Philpotts. 
They  consist  of  a  correspondence  between 
his  late  Majesty  King  George  the  Thirds 
and  Lord  Kenyon,  in  17.95»  relative  to  the 
proper  construction  of  the  Coronation  Oath  ; 
and  another  correspondence  between  the 
same  patriot  kins  and  Mr.  Pitt>  in  1801^ 
upon  the  duties  of  a  British  sovereign  with 
respect  to  the  Popish  question.  Both  series 
of  letters  are  understood  to  have  been  pre-> 
served  and  given  for  publication  by  the  pre- 
sent Lord  KenyoB.  The  clause  of  the  Coro- 
nation Oath  to  which  the  doubts  of  the  King 
more  immediately  applied,  and  on  which  he 
sought  the  legal  opinitm  of  the  Chief  Jus- 
tice, Is  that  by  which  the  Monarch  is  called 
on  to  *'  maintain  the  laws  of  Gud,  the  true 
pMTofession  of  the  Gospel,  and  the  Protestant 
Reformed  Religion  established  by  law,  and 
to  preserve  unto  the  Bishops  and  Clergy  of 
the  realm,  and  to  the  Churches  committed 
to  their  charge,  all  such  rights  and  privileges 
as  by  law  do  or  shall  appertain  unto  them." 

The  King's  letter  to  Lord  Kenyon,  dated 
March  7tb,  1795,  1  elates  to  the  Coronation 
Ooth  t — 

*'  The  question  that  has  been  so  impro- 

fierly  patronized  by  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
reland  in  favour  of  the  Papists,  though 
very  properly  silenced  here,  yet  it  seems  not 
to  have  been  viewed  in  what  seems  to  me  the 
strongest  polntofview,  its  militating agaiuat 
the  Coronation  Oath  and  many  existing  sta- 
tutes. 1  have  therefore  stated  the  accom- 
panying queries  on  paper,  to  which  I  deeire 
the  Lord  Kenyon  will,  after  due  considera- 
tion, state  his  opinion  in  the  same  manner, 
and  should  be  glad  if  he  would  also  acquire 
the  sentiments  of  the  Attorney-general  on 
this  most  serious  subject.  George  R." 

.  Among  these  queries,  are  the  following : 
**  The  only  laws  which  now  affect  the 
Papists  in  Ireland  are  the  Acts  of  Supremacy 
i^nd  Uniformity,  the  Test  Act,  and  the  Bill 
of  Rights,  it  seems  to  require  very  serious 
investigation  how  hi  the  King  can  give  his 
assent  to  a  repeal  of  any  of  those  Acts,with- 
out  a  breach  of  his  Coronation  Oath,  and  of 
the  articles  of  union  with'  Scotland." 

"  Another  question  arises  from  the  pro> 
visions  of  the  Act  limiting  the  succession  to 
the  crown,  by  which  a  forfeiture  of  the 
crown  is  expressly  enacted,  if  the  King  upon 
the  throne  should  hold  comninqion  mih,  ot 


be  reconciled  to,  (he  Church  of  RoUMw 
MaT  not  the  repeal  of  the  Act  olSnpremacjy 
find  the  establishing  the  Popish  reUglofi  m 
aby  of  the  hereditary  dominionsi  be  comtraeA 
as  amounting  to  a  reconciliation  with  the 
Church  of  Rome  ?" 

"  Is  it  not  advisable,  therefore,  to  putaa 
end  at  once  to  a  claim  that  is  inconsbtent 
and  incompatible  with  the  terms  of  the  ori- 
ginal contract  between  the  King  and  tbft 
people,  and  subversive  of  that  port  of  the 
constitution  formed  for  the  preservation  of 
the  Protestant  religion  as  esublished  by 
law  ?  The  same  great  fundamental  statutes^ 
which  secure  the  rights  and  liberties  of  the 
people,  secure  also  the  Proteskmi  reformed 
religion  as  by  law  established ;  and  if  thut 
part  of  thera  which  secures  our  religion  ii 
to  be  repealed  now,  what  security  remaina 
for  the  preservation  of  our  civil  rights  and 
liberties  ?  Is  it  not  therefore  necessary  to 
extinguish  such  vain  expectations  by  an*  ex* 
plicit  declaration  —  that  they  cannot  be 
complied  with?" 

Lord  Kenyon,  after  consulting  with  the 
Attorney-general,  pursuant  to  his  Majesty's 
directions,  notices  the  different  statutes 
which  have  been  passed  in  support  of  th^ 
established  religion.  His  decision  is  (■• 
vourable  to  the  Roman  Catholics.  He  saytf 
that  "the  statute  of 42  Car.  11.  c.  l.for  prc^ 
venting  conventicles,  and  other  statutes  pt 
like  tendency,  existed  at  the  time  when  th^ 
coronation  oath  was  framed  and  enacted  by 
1  W.  and  M.  c.  S. ;  yet  in  the  same  sesaid^ 
of  parliament  the  law  called  the  toleration 
act  was  made.  Several  indulgencles  botn  in 
England  nnd  Ireland  have  been  since  granted 
to  several  denominations  of  persons  dissent* 
ing  from  the  Church  of  England.  Those  re^ 
gulations  have  been  supposed  by  the  makers 
of  them  not  to  he  hostile  to  the  Church  of 
England  as  by  law  established,  but  merely  tb 
repeal  or  lessen  the  rigour  of  penal  statutet^ 
which,  though  thought  necessary  at  one 
season,  were  deemed  inexpedient  at  another 
time  and  under  diffierent  circumstandes.  So 
long  as  the  King's  supremacy,  and  the  itnaht 
fabric  of  the  Act  of  Uniformity,the  doctrine^ 
discipline,  and  government  of  the  Church  of 
England,  are  preserved  as  the  national 
church,  and  the  pruvisiun  for  its  minbters 
kept  as  an  appropriated  fund,  it  seems  that 
any  ease  given  to  sectarlsts  would  not  mili- 
tate against  the  Coronation  Oath  or  the  Act 
of  Union." 

The  correspondence  with  Mr.  Pitt,  which 
took  place  before  the  dissolution  of  the  Mi- 
nistry in  1801,  exonerates  that  Minister 
from  the  wish  to  surrender  the  constitution 
absolutely  to  the  Roman  Catholics.  *'  The 
measures  I  propose,"  said  Mr.  Pitt,  '<  witti 
Ike  tiew  provisions  that  would  make  part  of 
the  plan,  could  never  give  such  weiglit  in 
office  or  in  parliament  either  to  Catholics 
01  D'\u%«nXfti^>ask  COV92A  ^\H^>\\t^sr'w»?\  -^^^ 


JS48  LUerary  InteUigence^  [June, 

jUfUM  (if  th«7warisoditpo«ed)  ofaltacViiiff         "  I  thonU  do(  dojiittic0  to  tht  warm  ia- 
jihe  EiUbHthmwit." .  The  "new  pnmsioM»      doIm  of  My  bearty  if  I  «ntered  on  tfao  nb» 


Jaa 
cvcred 


MhMlvrn  thtj  wntf  wen  to  weakerif  or  to  jeet  mott  uopleMaot  to  my  miad,  withost 
ittain  in  a  itate  of  uwoibnesfy  the  Popish  in*  first  expressioff,  that  the  cordial  aflfSsetMn  I 
terest ;  not  meielj  to  raise  a  harrier  against  have  for  Mr.  Jritt»  as  well  *as  high  opinion 
it,  or  to  affect  to  mitigate  its  hostility*  hot  of  talents  and  integrity,  greatly  add  to  my 
to  keep  it  |)rom  growing  formidable — it  was  uneasiness  on  this  occasion ;  but  a  sense  of 
to  preserve  the  principle  of  the  penal  laws  religions  as  well  as  political  doty  has  made 
.'— merely  substito^ng  an  indirect  for  a  direct  me,  from  the  moment  I  moonted  the  Throne, 
disqaslincation.  consider  the  oath  that  the  wisdom  of  our 
Mr.  Fitt,  in  hb  letter  to  the  King,  dated  ^rtht^enhu  enioined  the  Kings  of  thb 
in.  81,  1801,  states  that  «  he  has  con-  ^'m  to  take  »t  their  coronation,  and  en- 
enred  in  what  api«ared  to  be  the  prevailing  ?"?^.  **/ ^"«  obligaUon  of  instantly  follow- 
eentimenu  of  the  majority  of  the  Cabinet—  "°£**  V  ^^'"^  °'  "**  ceremony  with 
that  the  admission  of  the  Catholics  and  the  ^^  ^'J?  wrament,  as  so  binding  a  rdi- 
Dissenters  to  offices,  and  of  the  Catholics  to  f  ®"  obligation  on  me  to  maintain  the  fi»- 
Parliament  (from  which  latter  the  Dissen-  ?^^^}  «»»«»«•  on  which  our  Constitutioo 
tersare  not  excluded),  would,  under  certain  "f  »«»d»  nameljr,  the  Church  of  England 
conditions  to  be  specified,  be  highly  advisa*  T^  ,!  •"'•""'^^^  <»«»  '"^  '•>•'  ""•• 
ble,  with  a  view  to  the  tranqnUlity  and  im-  ^^^  J°"  employment  in  the  State  mnst  U 
provement  of  IreUnd,  and  to  the  general  »•»**"  «»»«»  wd  consequently  obliged  not 
interest  of  the  United  Kingdom.  For  him-  ^7.^  t»ke  oaths  against  Popery,  but  to 
•elf,  he  is»  on  foil  consideration,  convmced  »jc«»y«»  »he  Holy  Communion  agreeably  to 
that  the  measure  would  be  attended  with  no  ™  "«\»"  ?\«*»«  ^'n°«^  <»f  Endand.  This 
d«ger  to  the  EsUbl'ished  Church,  or  to  the  V^neiple  of  iluty,  must,  therefore,  prevent 
Protestant  interest  \n  Great  Britain  or  Ire-  »«/««>  ducussing  any  proposition  tea<Hng 
land:— That  now  the  Union  lias  taken  pUce,  J?****?^.  ''^»*  groundworit  of  our  happy 
piid  with  the  new  provisions  which  would  V®*"?*"'*??*  "S*c*»  ^^n  so  that  now  men- 
make  part  of  the  plan,  it  could  never  give  ^°°~  ^7  ^'-  f*^'»  '^'I'cb  i«  no  less  than  the 
anv  such  weight  in  office,  or  in  Parliament,  co»pl«te  overthrow  of  the  whole  &bric" 
either  to  Catholics  or  Dbsenters,  as  could  ^  ^  ^^^  published  correspondenee  if 
give  them  any  new  means  (if  they  were  so  p»**»f7>ng»  •■  »t  exalu  still  more  in  our  af- 
disposed)  of  attacking  the  EsUblishment :  section  and  veneration  the  character  of  the 
^-That  the  grounds,  on  which  the  laws  of  King,  whom  we  have  been  accustomed  to 
exclusion  now  remaining  were  founded,  have  '^^  ^^  reverence ;  and  as  it  vindicatee 
long  been  narrowed,  and  are  since  the  Union  ^'om  all  suspicion  the  Minister,  to  whom 
removed :— That  those  principles,  formeriy  ^^  country  owes  so  much,  and  whose  fiune, 
held  by  the  Catholics,  which  made  them  he  '^  ">»•<>  therefore,  wish  to  see  relieved  firon^ 
considered  as  politically   dangerous,    have  ^^J^  stain. 

been  for  a  course  of  time  gradually  dediniog,  We  shall  close  with  the  following  letter 

and  among  the  higher  orders  particularly  of  the  late  lamented  Duke  of  York  to  his 

they  have  ceased  to  prevail."  Father,  dated  Feb.  13,  1 801 ,  respecting  the 

"  With  respect  to  the  Dissenters,  who,  it  Catholic  Question  : 

is  feared,  entertain  principles  dangerous  to  '*  ^i*» — ^  have  the  honor  to  return  yonr 

the  Constitution,  a  distinct  political  Test,  Majesty  the  papers  which  you  were  gra- 

pointed  against  the  doctrine  of  modern  Ja-  cionsly  pleased  to  allow  me  to  peruse.     If 

cobinism,  would  be  a  much  more  just  and  ^7  Mntlments  upon  the  question  of  Catho- 

more  effectual   security,  than  that  which  **<^  Emancipation,  and  of  the  repeal  of  the 

DOW  exists,  which  msy  operate  to  the  exclu-  '^^^  ^^^9  had  not  been  already  immutably 

-aioo  of  conscientious  persons  well  affiected  to  fi^od,  the  aiguments  adduced  in  fiivour  of 

the  State,  and  is  no  guard  against  those  of  ^^^  measure  would  alone  have  been  sufficient 

an  opposite  description." — «<  Besides  these  ^  ^^^  convinced  me  of  the  danger,  if  not/ 

provisions,  the  general  interesU  of  the  £s*  of  the  absolute  certainty  of  tlie  dreadful 

taUished  Church,  and  the  secnritr  of  the  consequences,  of  iu  being  carried  into  exe- 

Constitution  and  Government,  mignt  be  ef-  cution. 

fectually  strengthened  by  requiring  the  po-  ^  ^^^  the  honour  to  be.  Sir, 

litical  Test,  before  referred   to,  from   the  Voor  Majesty's  most  dutifol  son  and  subject* 

preachers  of  all  Catholic  or  Dissenting  Con-  •                                           Frsoerick." 

gr^tions,  and  from  the  teachers  of  schools  m^.^^....^ 

of  eveiy  denomination."  Roxburohk  Club. 

The  firmness,  piety,  and  patriotism  of  the  May  81.      The    celebrated    Roxlmrghe 

late  King  have  always  ranked  high  in  pub-  Club  held  their  Anniversary  at  Freemason's 

lie  estimation;  and  the  sincerity  of  the  fol-  Tavern,  when  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  Earl 

lowmg  declaration  of  his  sentiments,  m  a  Spencer,  Lord  Althorpe,  with  nearly  all  the 

letter  dated  Feb.  1,  1 807,  will  not  be  ques-  members  now  in  England,  were  present.    G. 

f*'***''"-*  W.Ta^lor,Es<^.  presented  to  each  membe^ 


isw'.J 


Liumty  and  SvienHJie  Inielligence. 


k  volaRM  of  exquisite  typogimphical  bouitfy 
prioted  by  Mr.  Nicol,  coaiisttnff  of  the 
Amatory  Poetry  of  Charles  Duke  of  Orleans 
and  Milan,  nephew  of  Charles  tKe  6th  of 
France,  and  father  to  Louis  the  twelfth, who 
was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Agincourt 
on  25th  Oct.  14 1 5,  where  he  was  found  under 
4  heap  of  dead  bodies  almost  lifeless,  and  de- 
tained as  a  State  prisoner  in  England,  by 
the  mandate  of  Henry  the  5th,  95  years.  He 
was  confined  in  a  mansion,  surrounded  by  a 
DMMt,  at  Groombridge  in  Sussex,  where  he 
devoted  much  of  his  time  to  the  composition 
of  verses  in  English  and  French.  This 
treasure  is  copied  from  a  manuscript  in  the 
British  Museum,  which  seems  to  nave  been 
unknown  to  Lord  Orford,  who  only  mentions 
the  poems  preserved  in  the  Royal  Library  at 
Paris.  It  has  been  resolved  by  the  Members 
of  the  Club  that  all  their  future  publications 
iball  be  printed  at  their  joint  expense ;  and 
that  HavUocy  an  interesting  and  very  curious 
Romance,  from  a  Manuscript  which  has  re- 
iMntly  been  discovered  in  the  British  Mtt« 
Mriimy  is  to  be  sent  to  press  immediately. 

Royal  Society. 

May  ai.  Davies  Gilbert,  Esq.  M.  P. 
TViM.  R.  S.  in  the  Chair. 

A  paper  was  read,  entitled,  "  On  the  re- 
stslilce  of  fluids  to  bodies  passing  through 
4hem»  by  Jas.  Walker,  Esq.:*'  cpmmuni- 
caMd  by  Mr.  D.  Gilbert. 
'  A  pM^er  was  read,  entitled,  "  Corrections 
of  the  Pendulum,  depending  on  the  value  of 
the  divisions  of  the  level  of  the  small  repeat- 
ing clrele,  as  recently  ascertained  by  the  ex- 
Deriments  of  Capt.  Kater ;  by  Capt.  E.  Sa- 
bine, R.  A.  F.  R.  S.  The  Society  then  ad- 
journed over  Whitsun  week,  to 

June  14,  when  Mr.  Gilbert  again  took 
the  Chain  ^^^  *  paper  was  read, 

*'  On  the  ultimate  composition  of  simple 
alimentary  substances,  with  some  prelimina- 
ry remarks  00  the  analysis  of  organized  bodies 
in  general  t  by  W.  Prout,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  S.*' 

The  re^dbg  was  also  commenced  of  a 
paper,  entttledt  "Theory  of  the  Diurnal 
Variations  of  the  Magnetic  Needle,  illustra- 
ted by  experimenu  ;  by  S.  H.  Christie,Esq. 
MIA.,  F.R.S. 

June  91 .  Capt.  H.  Kater,  V.  P.  R.  S.  in 
the  Chair.  TKe  reading  of  Mr.  Christie's 
paper  was  concluded. 

A  paper  was  tead,  <'0n  the  variation  of 
the  Magnetic  Needle  at  London  and  Paris ; 
by  Capt,  E.  Sabiue,  R.  A.,  F.  R.  S."  ^ 

A  paper  was  alto  read,  *^  On  a  new  acrid 

grinciple  in  plii^;  by  John  Frost,  Esq. 
.  S.   A.":    coitoiliunicated  by  Sir  James 
M'Gre^r,  M.  D,,  F.  R.  S. 

The  Society  then  e^onmed  over  the  long 
vacation,  to  lliursday^  November  15. 

MxDico-BoTAlffCAL  Society^ 

Feb,  9.  The  Chaifttftn  announced  th«t 
H.  JR.  H.  the  Duke  ofuire&oe  hid 


54S 

his  name  as  Pktron  in  the  Siguatnre  Book;^ 
and  that  H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  Cambridge 
had  also  honoured  the  Society  bv  allowing 
his  n^me  to  be  added  to  the  list  of  Honorary 
Patrons.  A  new  Oil,  the  produce  of  an 
East  India  plant,  termed  «  Jaune,"  was  jprc- 
•ented  by  Henry  Thomas  Colebrooke,  Eiq. 
F.  R.  S.  Dr.  J.  Sigmond,  Profisssor  of 
Toxiology,  delivered  his  introductory  lec- 
ture. 

March  9.  H'ls  Grace  the  Duke  of  Wel- 
lington having  signified  the  pleasure  he 
would  feel  in  belonging  to  the  Society,  wae 
immediately  balloted  for  and  declared  unaai- 
mously  elected  an  Honorary  Fellow.  Dr; 
Sigmond  delivered  his  second  lecture  oa 
Poisons. 

-^^.4.  John  Frost,  Esq.  Director,  in 
the  Chair.  The  Chairman  announced  that 
he  bad  had  an  audience  of  the  Duke  of  Wel- 
lington, who  bad  inserted  his  name  in  the 
Signature  Book.  A  letter  from  the  Right 
Hon.  Robert  Peel  was  read,  announemgHb 
Majesty's  gracious  acceptance  of  theSociety'a 
Address,  on  the  death  of  their  lamented 
Patron,  his  late  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  York. 
TTie  Dukes  of  Somerset  and  St.  Alban's, 
Lords  Kenmure  and  Nugent,  and  the  Right 
Hon.  C  W.  W.  Wynn,  were  elected  into  the 
Society.  Gen.  Neville,  Sir  John  Scott  LU- 
lie,  B.  Hawes,  S.  Reed,  W.  Loddige,  and 
T.  B.  Mackay,  Esqrs.  with  several  others, 
were  proposed  as  Members.  A  Paper  on 
the  Materia  Medick  of  the  Chinese,  by 
John  Reeves,  Esq.  F.  R.  S.  of  Canton,  was 
read;  and  some  remarks  on  the  Materia 
Medica  of  Demarara,  communicated  verbally 
by  M.  C.  Friend,  Esq.  F.  R. S. 

Panorama  op  Rio  Javiiro,  in  Leicester 
.  Square. 

On  Monday  the  85th  of  June,  this  exhi- 
bibition  was  opened  to  the  public.  It  ccm- 
sists  of  a  view  of  the  City  of  St.  Sebastian, 
and  the  Bay  of  Rio.  Janeiro;  painted  by  the 
proprietor,  Mr.  R.  Burfbrd,  from  drawingi 
Ukenin  the  year  18S3.  The  view  taken 
from  the  harbour  about  a  mile  from  the  city 
is  the  finest  and  most  extensive  that  can  be 
obtained;  from  which  its  lofty  eminences^ 
crowned  with  convents,  &c.  and  the  beauti- 
tiful  hills  in  its  environs,  interspersed  with 
villas,  gardens,  &c.  have  a  rich  uid  nwgnifi- 
cent  appearance.  Every  part  of  the  view  is 
picturesquely  mountainous,  and  presents  an 
mfinite  variety  of  sublime  and  captivating 
scenery.  About  the  time  this  view  was  taken. 
Lord  Cochrane. bad  the  command  of  the 
Brazilian  navy ;  and  the  Artist  has  repre- 
sented his  Lordship's  vessel  with  seveiml 
others,  in  various  jMurts  of  the  bay.  This 
produces  a  wondernil  effect  in  affording  a 
bold  and  admirable  relief  to  the  fore-pertt 
of  the  picture.'  We  sincerely  hope  that  the 
talented  Artist  will  receive  vbA  ^uaoRBBuiQk- 


54^  Connection  of  Both  with  JLUiraiurt  and  Science.  ^tinei 

Mr*  Hunter  on  the  Connection  nf  Bath  b«  placed  lome  of  the  IttenU  fiuaUy  o€ 

•  %i3iiK  the  Literature  and  Science  qf  Eng^  Bowoler.   who  belong  peculiarly  to  ut, 

land,  and  hi  whom  somethiog  of  the  spirit  of 

(tkmcluded  from  p.  360  J  their   illustfious  aDceator,  the  founder,  of 

.    Bath  may  justly  be  regarded  as  the  cradle  the  Cottonian  Library,  might  reasonably  be 

•f  English  Geoloot.    This  new  science  expected  to  survive.    But  above  all  in  thb 

had  its  birth  in  our  city  within  our  own  class,  may  be  placed  the  honoured  name  of 

time.    The  honour  of  first  discovering  the  Hartley,  a  considerable  portion  of  whose 

peculiar  disposition  of  the  strata   in  this  life  was  spent  in  this  city, 
neighbourhood,  was  reserved  for  a  humble         Here  lived  tliat  somewhat  irregular,  but 

and  fery  mbdest  man,  an  engineer,  named  liighly*gifted  person,  the  real  writer  of  thu 

William  Smith,  who  had  been  brought  to  most  celebrated,  perhaps,  of  all  tbeSermona 

Bath  for  the  temporary  purpose  of  superin-  which  form  the  Baropton  course, 
tending  the  excavations  necessary  in  con-         Here,  too,  the  clear  and  vigorous  mind 

9tructing  the  Coal  Gmal.    This  was  the  of  Jaruine  was  directed  to  the  study  of 

first  spark — this,  an  original  and  grand  dis-  Theology  and  Morals.     Here  Maqlaihr 

covery.     The  whole  science  of  Euglish  geo-  ibund  refuge,  when  driven  by  an  invading 

kigy,  which  has  opened  so  many  new  and  enemy  from  the  country  of  his  choice, 
ouriuus  views,  is  the  magnificent  result.  With  these,  the  names  of  Cogan  and 

Smith  observed,  and  in  part  systematized.  Simpson,  I  shall  close  this  department,  and 

But  in  theorising,  he  was  indebted  to  two  the  next  that  may  be  opened  is  that  of 

gentlemen,  one  of  whom  is  still  living,  an  History. 

early  benefactor  to  this  Institution,  and  the         The  first  name  that  presents   itself  ip 

other  not  long  since  deceased,  and  talcing  a  History,  is  that  of  William  Prynne.    I 

conspicuous  place  in  the  science  and  litera-  look  Upon  him  as  the  great  Lawyer  of  his 

tore  of  Bath.     It  was  Mr.  Townsend  who  time,  as  acquainted,  perhaps  beyond  all  his 

jfirst  felt  the  ftiU  importance  of  Smith's  ob-  contemporaries,  with  the  Constitutional  Law 

tervations,  and  assisted  him  in  mcthodiziu<;  bf  England  ;  as  a  roan  of  immense  industry; 

his  remarks.     Mr.  Townsend  was  himself  as  the  devoted  investigator  of  our  Charter 

4ine  of  the  earliest  writers  In  this  science ;  Antiquities  ;    and  as  one  who  preferred  a 

wid  he  has  also  enriched  our  literature  in  dark  chamber  in  the  Tower  before  the  moic 

the  several  departments  of  Philology,  Tra-  sumptuous  apartment.     Prynne  we  may  pe- 

.vels,  and  Practical  Divinity.  culiarly  claim  as  our  own :  fur  he  was  bom 

The  catalogue  of  those  who  have  contri-  at  the   little   village  of  Swainswick  j    his 

buted  by  their  vrritlngt  to  enrich  Theolo-  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Sherston,  the 

OICAL  or  Moral  Science,  would  doubtless  first  mayor  of  Bath  under  the  charter  of 

admit  of  increase,  were  not  the  several  His-  Elizabeth ;  he  was  our  Recorder ;  he  was 

tories  of  Bath  deficient  in   presenting  us  twice  chosen  Member  nf  Parliament  for  the 

with  catalogues  of  the  incumbents  of  our  city ;  and  in  his  Brevia  Parliamenti  there  is, 

'several  Churches.     We  look  intb  them  also  |  am  told,  the  fullest  account  of  the  state 

in  vain  for  the  catalogue  of  Masters  of  the  of  the  question,  which  from  time  to  time 

Grammar  Schobl ;  for  Bath  has  had  the  be-  agitate^  this  city,  respecting  the  body  in 

nefit  of  one  of  these  foundations,  almost  whom  resides  the  high  privilege  of  returning 


.from  the  time  when  it  lost  the  advantage  of  the  citizens  to  Parliament,  and  the 

having  a  society  of  learned  religions  within  complete  demonstration  of  the  right  of  th 

its  walls.     There  have  been,  however,  some  who  have  sO  long  exercised  it. 

.names  in  those  walks,  which  well  deserve  to  If  Prynne  leaned  too  much  to  the  repub- 

be  remembered:   and  amongst  them  must  lican  part  of   our  Constitution,    we   nave 

jbe  placed  the  name  of  John  Hales.     He  Carte,  the  great  historical  advocate  of  the 

was  Ik  native  of  Bath :  and  was  justly  consi-  rights  of  the  Monarch.     Carte  was  the  Lec> 

dered  one  of  the  great  theological  lights  of  turer  at  the  Abbey.     He  wrote  his  history 

an  age  which  produced  Andrews,  Hooker,  while  residing  here ;  and  he  became  engaged 

and  Taylor.     The  yonth  of  Dr.  Samuel  while  here  in  an  historical  controtessy  wrth 

Chandler,  one  of  the  ablest  defenders  of  Chandler,  another  resident  of  Bath,  the 

Revelation  in  the  controversies  of  the  last  father  of  the  Chandler  before  mentioned, 

century,  was  spent  at  Bath:   and  It  was  respecting  the    Irish   Massacre.     Carte  is 

here,   or  rather  in  our  immediate  neigh-  supposed  to  have  been  principally  concerned 

iiourbood,  that  Warburton  produced  the  in  that  little  ebullition  of  feeling  in  favour 

great  wotk  to  which  he  chose  to  give  the  of  the  exiled  fitmily,  which  manifested  itacif 

title  -of  the  Divine  Legation  of  Moses  de-  at  Bath  in  1715. 

monstrated,  a  work  which  will  ever  command  As  if  the  muse  of  history  could  never 

admiration  for  its  Iten^iog  and  genius.  mak^  her  appearance  at  Bath  without  the 

Of  a  gentler  spirit  tlum  this  Goliah  of  ensigns  of  party,  we  have  next  to  speak  ef 

theologians  was  Melmoth  ;  whose  elecnat  Mrs.  Cathcrins  Macauley.    This  lady  re- 

'Mid  henatifiil.  TRANSLATIONS  will  gain  nim  sided  many  years  at  the  house  in  Alfred- 

tae  character  of  opp  ,^  ^  finest  c\aaiAin\  a\Ket>  wbAte  there  is  still  the  bostr  of  Ring 

Bcbolan  ofhii  time.    In  t^e  same  rauVma^  K\fc^  o^«t  ^<t  ^oot,  ^\niAn;Cv«»»iRA^ '«V;k  tier 


19S70  Cofmertion  of  Bath  vnth  Liieraiure  and  Science.  545 

friend  Dr*  WQton,  ion  to  the  trolj  amiable  \f\fnrf,  the  depotitory  o^  many  rolomet  of 
and  excellent  Biahop  of  Sodor  and  Man.  Oenealc^ieal  Collections  in  hl^  own  neat  and 
Hefe  the  prcsecnted  tier  historical  enqoineiy  beantifoThand,  and  many  scattered  bat  pie- 
wrote  much  of  her  History,  and  made  her-  eious  notices  of  various  £nglish  antiquities, 
self  the  centre  of  a  little  circle  of  politicians.  Few  are  the  works  in  English  topography 
to  whom  she  was  accustomed  to  .give  lee-v  that  have  appeared  in  his  time  that  have  not 
tures  on  general  PoFitics  and  English  Con-  owed  something  to  the  assistance,  ever  so 
stitutional  History.  kindly  rendered,  of  Mr.  Leman. 

Both  has  herself  sofficient  to  tempt  the         Bath,  from  the  earliest  period  to  which  «• 

curiosity  of  the  historical  enquirer.     Long  can  ascend  in  our  enquiries,  has  not  been 

before  Mr.  Warner  collected  together  most  without  those  who  could  minister  to  the 

of  what  could  be  learned  respecting  its  his-  amusement  of.  the  strangers  who  resorted 

tory,  one  of  its  citizens  named  CHA^MiV  hither.  It  has  ever  had  its  musicians,  from 

wrote  a  short  treatise  on  its  Antiquities  and  Lichfield,  the  lutanist  to  Queen  Elizabeth, 

History.    Several  of  the  writers  who  have  whose  monument  is  in  the  Abbey,  toRAUZ- 

treated  on  its  spriacs  as  a  subject  for  philo-  zini.     Among  its  artists  appear  the  namea 

sophical  research,  nave  also  spoken  of  the  of  Hoarb  and  Gainsborough.    It  had  ita 

Civil  Hutory  of  Bath.    Wood,  an  architect  Theatre  in  early  times,  in  which 'have  been 

to  whom  we  owe  much  of  tlie  beautiful  trained  some  of  the  most  eminent  in  the 

architecture  in  and  around  Bath,  aspired  to  histrionic  art,   including  Siddons  herself, 

the  character  of  its  historian.    Few  have  If  this  make  not  a  part  of  the  Literature  of 

touched  upon  any  point  in  the  Roman  An-  our  country,  it  will  at  least  be  allowed  to  be 

tiquities  of  Britain,  without  adverting  to  nearly   allied   to  it.     For  the  Theatre  at 

some  at  least  of  the  many  remains  of  the  Bath  late  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  or  early 

Roman  era  that  have  been  discovered  here,  in  that  of  James  I.,  Samuel  Daniel  wrote 

The  Britannia  Belgica  uf  Musgrave  relates  his  Tragedy  of  Phllotas,    which  gained  so 

esjiecially  to   those  antiquities ;   but  they  unfortunate  a  celebrity.     Daniel   we  may 

have  been  illustrated  most  fully  by  a  very  claim  as  one  of  our  own  poets,  fer  he  was 

eminent  antiquary  of  the  present  a^,  whom  born   in   this  neighbourhood,  spent  most 

we  may  claim  as  belonging  to   Bath,   as  part  of  his  life  in  rural  retirement  in  this  ' 

many  of  his  early  years  were  sjient  here,  and  part  of  the  kingdom ;  and  he  lies  buried  in 

he  was  trained  to  learning  in  oiur  Grammar  the  church  of  Beckington,  where  his  bust 

School.      I   mean    the  late  Mr.  Samuel  nuy  be  seen,    a  part  of  the  monument 

Ltsons,  who  projected,  and  in  part  accom-  erected  to  his  memory  bv  that  Countess  of 

plished,  one  of  the  most  magulncent  works  Dorset,  Pembroke,  and  Montgomery,  who 

to  be  found  in  the  literature  of  any  nation,  raised  the  monuments  to  Drayton  and  Spen- 

and  who  wad  prevented  from  completing  it  ser ;  a  great  critic  of  the  present  day  calls 

only  by  his  too  early  and  lamented  death,  him   *  one  of  the  golden   writers  of  our 

There  is  a  boldness  of  desicn  about  his  Re-  golden  Elizabethan  age/ 
liquise  Romanse  which  excites  the  utmost         Contemporary  with  Daniel  was  Sir  John 

respect  and  admiration;  a  carelessness  of  Harinoton:   himself  a  poet  of  no  moan 

expense;  a  devotedness  of  heart  to  a  project  rank,  but  one  to  whom  England  and  English 

worthy  of  a  great  mind  to  entertain ;  and  a  poetry  owe  nearly  as  much  as  England  and 

taste  and  felicity  in  the  execution,  which  English  science  to  Athelardus.    To  him  in 

mark  the  native  and  the  cultivated  elegance  a  great  measure  is  to  be  attributed  the  ia- 

of  his  mind.  troduction  of  that  taste  for  Italian  Poetry 

Among  the  names  by  which  Bath  becomes  and  Italian  Literature,  which  is  one  princi- 
connected  with  the  historical  literaturb  pal  cause  why  the  poetry  of  the  reign  of 
of  England,  must  not  be  forgotten  that  of  Elizabeth  is  of  so  different  a  cast  from  the- 
PowNALL.    The  curious  anc^  minute  enqui-  poetry  of  the  reign  of  her  father.     What  is 
ries.of  Mr.  Luders  into  points  of  our  na-  Skelton;  or  even  Surrey,  when  we  speak  of 
tional  history  and  the  origin  of  peculiar  po-  Spenser  and  Shakspeare  :   and  how  much 
Ktical  institutions,  place  his  name  in  an  no-  do  Spenser  and  Shakspeare,  and  even  Mil- 
nourable  rank  among  the  cultivators  of  our  ton,  owe  to  the  poetry  and  literature  of 
national  antiquities.     And   last,    only  be-  Italy.    Harington  translated  the  great  poem 
cause  he  was  the  last  who  ceased  to  pour  of  Ariosto  into  English,  and  did  every  thing 
upon  the  world  the  lights  of  hu  antiqua-  in  his  power  to  familiarise  the  English  with 
rian   and  historical   knowledge,    must    be  the  great  writers  of  Italv.    He  assisted  in 
named  that  carafiil  investigator  of  one  very  drawing  the  arts  from  thence,  for  he  em- 
important  branch  of  our  national  antiquities,  ployed  Barozzi  to  design  for  him  the  house 
the  early  roads  and  other  earth-works  which  which  he  built  at  Kelston. 
are  scattered  in  such  abundance  over  tlie         The  notices  of  Bath  in  the  poems  of  Syl- 
siirface  of  this  island,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Lbman,  vester  show  that  lie  bad  a  personal  ac- 
a  Founder  and  orl^nal  Trustee  of  this  I  nsti-  quaintance   with   the   country  around   us; 
tution,  and  who  has  marked  his  sense  of  its  and  it  was  here  that  a  ctvtvc^  twv\n.  \viiK<^  ^o 
useMness  anS  permanenee  by  making  ita  c^iAed)  ^ox«^Vva«>a\vas^\ovv^^^'»^^^ 

GiNT.  Mao,  Juw,  !8«7. 

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Connectum  of  Bath  with  Literature  and  iScienct. 


[June, 


writings  of  Sylvester,  neglected  as  they  now 
un,  were  much  studied  hy  Milton ;  that 
many  portions  of  them  dwelt  in  his  memory; 
And  tnat  he  has  interwoven  in  his  great 
works  many  compound  terms  and  poetical 
phrases,  which  he  had  found  in  Sylvester. 
The  little  river  Boyd,  which  flows  into  the 
Avon  at  Bitton,  is  peculiarly  celebrated  by 
'  another  poet  of  those  times,  now  as  it  seems 
undeservedly  falfen  into  oblivion,  John  Da- 
tors,  who,  in  I&IS,  published  a  didactic 
poem  on  the  Art  of  Angling.  Ho  speaks 
of  it  as  if  it  were  his  native  stream,  and  it 
ct;tainly  was  the  &voarite  scene  of  his 
pastime. 

It  is  pleasant  to  know,  and  to  remember, 
that  a  place  which  we  value,  has  been 
mingled  with  the  poetic  imaginings  of  the 
great  bards  of  our  country.  The  being,  half 
man,  half  daemon,  who  presents  himself 
under  the  name  of  Merlin  from  the  utmost 
depths  of  our  history,  and  whose  vaticina- 
tions, weak  and  foolish  as  they  are,  have  at 
different  periods  contributed  to  shake  the 
kingddm,  had  his  mind  directed  upon  our 
heated  springs,  and  he  foretells  that  under 
the  reign  of  the  Mouldiwarp  they  shall  be- 
come cold.  The  Wife  of  Bath  will  be 
known  to  the  latest  posterity  in  the  work  of 
Chaucer,  or  the  transversion  of  the  story  by 
Pope,  when  the  English  language  had  be- 
come more  settled.  The  lines  of  Dryden 
are  inscribed  upon  one  of  the  many  monu- 
ments in  our  Abbey  Church ;  and  the  little 
Village  of  Box  contains  a  slab  covered  with 
the  verses  of  Waller. 

In  the  early  part  of  the  last  century  arose 
aremarkable  character,  whose  name  is  never 
mentioned  in  this  place  but  with  respect 
and  honour — Ralpu  Allkn  :  who  was  ac- 
customed to  receive  all  the  more  eminent 
literary  men  of  his  time,  so  that  he  became 
a  centre  around  which  much  of  the  wit  and 
poetry  of  the  age  was  gathered.  Pope  espe- 
cially was  a  frequent  visitor  at  Prior  Park, 
and  there  was  laid  the  foundation  of  that  in- 
timacy which  has  connected  the  names  of 
Pope  and  Warburtoo,  so  that  they  never 
will  be  dissevered.  There  also  was  often  to 
be  found  Eleldino,  whose  residence  indeed 
for  many  years  was  at  Bath  and  in  its  vici- 
nity. And  there  too  SMftLLETT,  who  thus 
became  acquainted  with  th?  local  peculia- 
rities of  Bath,  which  he  has  so  successfully 


represented  in  one  of  hia   most  popular 
novels. 

When  Allen  was  gone,  Allen  the  kind 
and  the  good,  the  house  of  Sir  John  Miller 
became  the  centre  of  the  lighter  literature 
of  Bath.  But  Lady  Miller  lived  in  perhaps 
the  least  fortunate  age  of  English  poetry» 
and  the  contributions  to  the  Vase  are  now 
rather  sought  for  their  curiosity  and  rarity, 
than  for  any  high  and  sterling  merit. 

To  enumerate  all  the  inhabitants  of  thia 
gay  and  populous  city,  who  are  connected 
with  the  light  and  more  elegant  literature  of 
England,  would  be  a  vain  and  endlesa  task. 
The  SjiERit>ANs,  the  Linleys,  TmcKNiasB, 
Craves,  Harington,  Lee,  and  Piozzi,  all 
belong  to  us,  who  have  all  a  name  in  the 
literature  of  England,  and  through  whom 
Bath  becomes  connected  with  some  of  the 
greatest  names  and  most  interesting  cir- 
cumstances in  modem  English  Literature. 

TheChatterton  controversy  belongs  rather 
to  another  city,  but  it  was  here  that  Dr. 
Shbrwin  devoted  an  extensive  acquaintance 
with  early  English  literature  to  the  determi- 
uation  of  it. 

One  name  remains :  a  name  that  never 
vibrates  on  the  ear  of  one  acquainted  with 
Bath,  but  to  jproduce  pleasure:  tlie  name 
of  Anstey,  itt  whose  poem,  so  truly  origi- 
nal, so  truly  comic,  the  peculiarities  of  our 
ci^  will  descend  to  the  latest  posterity, 
'  which,  as  long  as  the  English  language  en- 
dures, will  be  valued  as  the  plays  of  Aris- 
tophanes are  valued. 

With  him  the  catalogue  may  be  closed. 
Are  there  many  cities  in  the  Empire  which 
can  boast  a  catalogue  like  this  ?  But  be- 
side those  whom  we  have  named,  how  many 
have  there  been  among  the  residents  of  this 
city,  men  adorned  by  various  learning,  and 
able  to  have  instructed  and  delighted  beyond 
the  limits  of  their  private  circle  ! 

In  offcrinj^  this  tribute  to  the  past  literary 
character  of  Bath,  I  have  not  been  swayed 
by  any  of  the  partiality  which  is  supposed 
to  attach  to  those  who-  speak  of  the  place 
of  their  nativity.  But  nearly  the  luilf  of 
my  lifis  haa  been  spent  here ;  for  I  fell  early 
into  her  lap.  I  We  been  treated  by  her 
with  maternal  kindness ;  and  I  rejoice  in 
the  opportunity  which  through  your  in- 
dulgence I  have  enjoyed,  of  rendering  thu 
tribute  of  filial  gratitude. 


ANTIQUARIAN 

Society  of  Antiquaries. 

MaySX,    The  President  in  the  Chair. 

Mr.  Ellis  exhibited  a  MS.  map,  dsted 
1690,  of  part  of  the  borders  of  Scotland, 
entitled  **  A  platt  of  the  marches  of  Scot- 
land overagainst  the  west  marches  of  Eng- 
Undi"  and  an  accompanying  transciipt  was 
nmi  of  •  met  affording  a  apeciraftn.  of  th« 


RESEARCHES. 

topography  of  the  Scottish  marches  in  the 
htter  part  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth. 

The  Society  then  adjourned,  over  Whit- 
sun  week,  to  June  14  ;  when  the  Qhair 
was  taken  by  Hudson  Gurney,  esq.  M.P. 
F.R.S.  V.P.S.A. 

W.  Capon,  eso.  exhibited  five  drawings 
of  portions  of  tne  ancient  paUoe  of  our 


1827.] 


AnHquariau  Researches.^^Sekct  Poeiry. 


647 


A  letter  to  the  Preiidont  from  J.  Log- 
gen,  esq.  Was  read»  incloting  an  acooont  vj 
his  brother,  Alexander  Loggen,  esq.  of  the 
interestiogy  supposed  Druidica),  serpenti- 
form  monument,  at  Camac,  in  Brittanji 
resembl'mg  that  of  Avebury  in  Wiltshire. 

June i  I .  Mr.  Hudson  Gumey  in  the  Chair. 

Mr.  Fountaioe  exhibited  to  the  Society, 
through  the  hands  of  Mr.  Amyot,  an  arm  and 
liand,  sculptured  in  metal,  and  having  in- 
scriptions in  Irish  characters  on  bands  round 
the  arm. 

A  paper  by  Mr.  Capon,  explanatory  of 
his  drawings,  further  exhibited  to  the  So- 
ciety at  this  meeting,  was  read  t  three  of 
tliese  drawings,  of  parts  of  the  palace  at 
Westminster,  were  made  in  1823,  prcviuus 
to  the  demolition  of  the  subjects.  The 
other  two,  representing  Guy  Fawl&es's  cel- 
lar, and  an  adjoining  apartment,  were  made 
iu  179.0. 

Mr.  S.  Woodward,  in   a  letter  to  Mr. 
Gumey,  communicated  an  account  of  some 
metal  celts,  fibulae,  and  ancient  jewels  with  , 
precious  stones,  found  in  Norfolk. 

Tlie  Rev.  J.  Hunter,  F.S.A.  in  a  letter 
to  J.  H.  Markland,  evq.  Director  S.A., 
communicated  transcripts  of  two  Roman 
inscriptions  recently  discovered  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  Bath. 

The  Society  then  adjourned,  over  the  long 
vacation,  to  meet  again  on  Thursday,  No- 
vember the  1 5th. 

Coins  akd  Medals. 

A  very  interesting  collection  of  coins  and 
medals  belonging  to  the  late  Rev.  William 
Ikuwne,  of  Saxmundliam,  has  been  disposed 
of  by  Mr.  Sotheby.  The  coins,  of  which 
there  were  a  great  variety,  consisted  prin- 
cipally o(  Roman  and  £nglish  in  gold  and 
silver.    Among  the  latter  of  these  were  two 


sovereij^s  of  Henry  VH.,  of  great  rarity* 
one  of  which  sold  for  25l.,  tne  other  for 
seventeen  guineas.    Richard  the  Second's 
noble,  Sl.  9s.    A  commonwealth  30s.  piece 
(1659),  a  10s.  piece  (1650\    and  a  6i.> 
piece  ( 1 65 1  ] ,  b'l.  1 9s.  Sd.    Charles  the  S«- .. 
cond*s  five  guinea  piece  (l  678),  5l.  10s.  The 
five  guinea  piece  of  James  H.  (1688),  5l« 
7s.  6d.    The  five  guinea  piece  of  WUliam 
IU.   (1701),  51.   19s.  6d..   Henry  VlU.'i 
sovereign,  5l.  19s.  6d.  Charles  I.  half  broad 
( 1 643) ,  of  th«  Oxford  Mint,  61.  5s.  Georg« 
the  Second's  two  guinea  piece  (1783),  6l. 
7s.  6<L    The  pound  sovereign  of  Edward 
VI.  (of  his  Sd  year),  8l.  10s.  6d.    Mary*a 
sovereign  (1553),  6l.  9s.  6d.    James  the* 
First's  sovereign,  6l.   8s.  6d.    James  the 
First's    ryal,    or  30$.  piece,   9l.   19s.   6d. 
James  the  First's  noble,  1  Ol.     Charles  the 
First's  3l.  piece  (1649),  struck  at  Oxford, 
7l.  1  Os.    Among  the  silver  eoins  were  Eli- 
zabeth's portcullis  half-crown,  which  sold 
for  three  guineas.     Tlie  1 1.  piece  of  Cluurles. 
I.  (1649),  3l.  lis.    Oliver's  Crown  (165S), 
9l.  10s.     Oliver's  uineppqce   (1658),    19i« 
There  were  a  few  gold  coins  of  Scotland, 
among    which,    were    the     bonnet    piece 
of  James  V.,  which  sold  for  3l.;  and  the 
unit  of  Charles  I.,  1 1.  7s.     A  set  of  trades- 
men's tokens  and  town  pieces,  in  copper, 
brought  9l.  3s.     A  fine  gold  medal  of  Oli- 
ver on  his  death,  six  guineas.     The  Coro- 
nation Medal  (in  goKl)  of  Mary,  Queen  of 
James  H.,  three  guineas.     A  gold  medal  of 
Louis  XV.,  4l.  19s.  A  set  of  Queen  Anne'a 
medals,  by  Croker  (in  copper),  3l.  lis.     A 
set  of  the  Roman  History,  eugruved  by  J. 
Dassier  and  Son,  two  guineas.     A  set  of 
the  K'mgs  of  England,  from  William  the 
Conqueror  to  €reori;e  H.,  including  Oliver 
Cromwell,  9l.  4s.     Maximian  (Roman  gold 
coin),  4l.  18s.     Licinius,  4l.  6s. 


SELECT 

SONNET 

To  the  Direelort  qfthe  Literary  Fund. 

QUARDIANS  of  Genius,  Pauons  of  Dis- 
tress, 
To  whom  the  friendless  ne'er  in  vain  apply, 
Ready  with  zeal  to  sooth  the  rising  sigh. 
When  Want  ia  known,  bounty  unask'd  to 

press. 
Rewarded  by  the  God-like  pow'r  to  bless. 
Alive  to  ev'ry  social  tender  tie. 
Bad  were  the  plea,  indeed,  when  ye  deny, 
As  if  ordain'd  misft>rtune  to  redress. — 
Alas  !  'tis  fit  your  Fund  should  Genius  aid, 

Genius  not  bom  to  study  gainfnl  ways, 
Too  prone  to  toil  in  the  seouester'd  shade. 
Careless  of  wealth,   and  seeking  barren 
bays. — 
May  Fame  forbid  your  honoor'd  wreaths  to 
fade. 
And  gen 'rouj  Patrons  ample  treasures  nite. 

JoBir  Taylok. 


POETRY. 

GLEE. 

IVriUen  by  J.  Britton,  Esq.  composed  by  J; 
PAKtiY,  Esq, and  sung  In/ him,  Afr.CoLLYER, 
and  Mr.  Parry,  jim.  at  the  Dinner  of  this 
Literary  Fund  Society,  June  90, 1 897. 

JNCITED  by  hope,  and  inspired  by  fiune,. 

Young  Genius  unfurls  every  sail. 
Braves  the  tempests  of  life  to  acquire  a  naoe^ 
And  trusts  to  a  favouring  gale. 

He  scarce  clears  the  land  when  a  **  pitileu 
storm"  [tress'd. 

Wrecks  his  all,  leaves  him  helpless,  dia- 
The  Angel  of  Mercy  extends  forth  her  am. 

And  dispensing  her  blessing  is  bless'd« 

SONNET  TQ  OLD  AGE. 

By  John  Taylor,  Esq. 

IXfELCdME  Old  Age«  the  ^aaskvcsogk -Mm 

^^      ax%d«aii  ^^^*?^\ 

TVwit  «^,  U»  olX^  «VkVw\J^  m^^KwSicSsJ^ 


548 


Select  Poetry, 


[June, 


Each  impulse  now  by  calm  reflection  bred, 
Wbich  draws  aside  the  niift  that  o*er  me 
spread. 
No  longer  on  the  world  with  hope  I  gaze. 
No  longer  dazzled  by  its  gaudy  rays, 
Content  with  leisure,  peace,  an  humble  shed. 
Ah  !  Youth,  what  pity  'tis  tha^  Wisdom's 
core 
Should  fail  to  regulate  thy  fervid  breast, 
That  still  thou  glitt'ring  follies  canst  adore, 
Follies  that  leave  thee  scarce  a  moment's 
rest, 
Yielding  thee  self-reproach,  and  nothing 
more,  [thee  blest. 

While  wisdom,  e'en  on  earth,  might  make 


UFE. 

AS  fleeting  as  the  morning  cloud 

That  moves  in  fearful  silence  by. 
As  changeful  as  the  hues  that  shroud 

The  Summer's  evening  sky, 
Shifiing  with  every  pulse  of  air. 
Just  such  is  life,  as  felse  and  fair. 

But  i(  has  joys  that  never  fail, 

As  deep,  and  pure,  and  boundless,  too— - 
When  not  a  cloud  unfurls  its  sail — 

As  heaven's  un£sding  hue. 
Pure  joys  which  like  their  native  sky, 
Are  gruidest  when  the  storm  rides  by. 

D.  A.  Briton. 


THE  SPRING  AND  THE  MORNING. 

Stanzas*  Inscribed  to  Miss  Foots. 
By  Sir  Lumley  Skbpfington,  Bart. 

'\^HEN  the  frosto  of  the  Wmter,  in  mild- 
ness, were  ending, 
To  April  I  gave  half  the  welcome  of  May  s 
While  the  Spring,  fresh  in  youth,  came  de- 
lightnally  blending       [that  are  gay ! 
The  buds  that  are  sweet,  and  the  songs 
As  the  eyes  fix'dthe  heart  on  a  vision  so  fair. 
Not  doubting,  but  trusting  what  magic  was 

there ; 
Aloud  I  ezclaim'd,  with  augmented  desire, 
I  thought  'twas  the  Spring,  when,  in  truth, 

'tis  M4RI4 ! 

When  the  feding  of  stars,  in  the  regions  of 
splendour,  [in  the  £ast, 

AuDouno'd  that  the  morning  was  young 
On  the  upland  I  rov'd,  admiratiou  to  render. 
Where  freshness,  and  beauty,  and  lustre 
inc^eas'd ! 
While  the  beams  of  the  Morning  new  plea- 
sures bestow'd,  [glow'd ; 
While  fondly  I  gazed,  wlule  with  rapture  I 
In  sweetness  commanding,  in  elegance  bright, 
Maria  arose !  a  more  Mautiful  light  I 
j1fril90. 

*  On   the  aibove   Stanzas,  Mr.  Robert 
Evans  has  composed  a  Mcloily,  pleasing  in 
Hs  simplirit^f,  and  happily  expressive  of  tlie 
tubject. 


FERDINAND'S  DREAM. 

By  W^  HtBitt. 

<<  Uneasy  lies  the  head  that  ween  a  Crowd." 

Smakspeare. 

][JNEASY  lies  the  royal  head. 

When  grim  Remorse,  and  fearful  Dread, 
Pour  through  the  soul  their  horrid  light 
Amid  the  silence  of  t)ie  night. 
The  Tyrant,  on  his  thorny  pillow. 
Was  restless  as  the  foaming  billow : — 
Ah !  vainly  was  he  pillowed  there — 
*'  A  wounded  spirit  who  can  bear  ?" 
Conscience,  in  crimson  clad,  arose 
To  break  the  stillness  of  repose. 
And  plunge  the  deeply-poison'd  dart 
Ev'n  in  the  stubborn  Tyrant's  heart-<- 
While  busy  Fancy  strew 'd  around 
His  bleeding  victims  on  the  ground. 
Hb  senses  would  oblivion  steep-~ 
But  Ferdinand  had  **  murdered  sleep !" 
At  length  weak  nature  was  oppress'd — 
His  wearied  body  sank  to  rest — 
When,  like  a  sunbeam  on  the  dew, 
A  vision  burst  upon  his  view ! 
He  saw  a  struggling  Nation  stand 
Amid  a  wild  rebellious  band — 
He  saw  that  rebel  band  increase— 
The  foes  of  Freedom  and  of  Peace ; 
Thro'  Superstition's  darken'd  cloud 
He  heard  that  Nation  cry  aloud — 
Heard  voices,  like  a  clap  of  thunder. 
Cry,  "  Burst  our  servile  chains  asunder !" 
Yet  still  appear'd  before  his  sight 
A  scene  that  charra'd  him  with  delight ; 
For  Hope  entic'd  him  to  behold 
A  treasure  of  monastic  gold ; — 
And  he  was  thirsting  with  desire 
To  spread  Rebellion  s  growing  fire. 
And  give  assistance  to  the  ban4 
Arrayed  aninst  their  native  laud. 
Deceitful  Taney  then  display'd 
lectures  of  light  without  a  shade : 
He  saw  a  powVful  Nation  rise 
Aud  laud  his  virtues  to  the  skies — 
He  saw  that  fevering  Nation  smile 
And  send  him  thousands,  "  rank  and  file," 
To  aid  him  in  the  glorious  cause 
Of  breaking  Nature  s  sacred  laws. 
Thus  his  desire  the  Dreamer  gains — 
And  Portugal  is  bound  in  chains  ! 
But  lo  !  the  Tyrant  wakes — a  sound 
Has  Tous'd  him  from  his  dream  profound : — 

Tib  the  sound  of  the  trumpet  from  Eng- 
land ascending ;  [slave — 
Her  Heroes  are  rising   to   rescue   the 
Their  aid  and  their  courage  thus  eagerly 
lending. 
To  punish  the  rebel  and  shelter  the  brave. 

The  threat  Is  enough — for  the  Dreamer 
astounded, 
Awaken'd  to  reason,  is  humbled  again  ; 
And  England,  brave  England,  by  nreedom 
surrounded. 
Has    rescued    a   nation   frOm  Slavery's 


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[    549    J 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS   IN    PAULIAMENT. 


House  op  Lobds,  May  91. 
T)ie  Marquis  of  Londonderry  said,  tbat 
being  anxious  to  elicit  every  thing  conjoected 
with  the  Foreign  Office,  for  the  purpose  of 
CQutrasting  its  present  state  witn  that  of 
1823,  he  was  now  going  to  move  for  further 
returns.     It  appeared  that  large  sums  had 
been  expended   in   building  mansions  and 
making  great  improvements  fur  the  accom- 
modation of  the  Foreign  Secretary ;  1 6,000l. 
he   understood  had  been  expended  in  the 
purchase  of  a  house.    This,  with  the  other 
sums   expended   within    the   last  eighteen 
months,  upon  Improvements  connected  with 
the  Foreign  Office  department  in  Downii^- 
street,   amoimted  in  all  to  60,000/.    Tne 
Noble  Lord  would  not  find  fault  with  this 
extravagance,  if  it  were  once  settled  that 
the  Foreign  Secretary  should  be  singled  out, 
and  provided  with  accommodations  in  every 
way  superior  to  the  Home  Secretary,  and 
those  of  the  Colonial  Secretary.    The  fiict 
of  the  expenditure  of  60,000/..  was,  he  be- 
lieved, not  generally  known  to  the  public. 
He  should,  therefore,  move  that  an  humble 
Address  be  presented  to  His  Majesty,  pray- 
ing that  be  might  direct  to  be  laid  before 
the  House  returns  of  all  sums  expended  on 
the  Foreign  Office  buildmgs,  since  January, 
18S4,  and  also  of  all  sums  expended  in  tne 
purchase  of  furniture  and  other  decorations, 
and  likewise  of  the  purchase  money  paid 
for  the  house   of  Sir  Robert  Preston,  in 
Duwning'Street. — Lord  Goderieh  said,  that 
there  was  no  objection  to  furnish  the  re- 
turns, but  the  Noble  Marquis  was   quite 
mistaken  in  supposing  that  tne  public  were 
not  acquainted  with  all  the  details  of  the 
expenditure.    The  fact  was  that  each  item 
had  been  voted  and  approved  of  in  the  other 
House.    The  returns  were  then  ordered. 


In  the  HousB  of  G)MMOiri  the  same 
day,  Mr.  Peel  moved  for  leave  to  bring  in  a 
Bill  for  the  better  administration  of  justice. 
He  said,  that  at  present,  when  a  person  was 
put  upon  trial,  and  pleaded  not  guilty,  he 
was  asked  how  he  wonld  be  tried.  The  only 
effect  of  it  was,  in  most  cases,  to  puzzle  and 
confuse  the  prisoner.  It  was  expected  that 
the  answer  should  be  "By  God  and  his 
country."  Was  there  anr  necessity  for  re- 
taining such  a  form  ?  When  the  prisoner 
entered  the  plea  of  not  guilty,  was  it  not 
better  that  the  trial  should  proceed  without 
asking  him  how  he  wished  to  be  tried  ? 
The  next  improvement  he  should  propose, 
i^as  one  of  somewhat  greater  importance. 
At  present,  if  a  person  stood  mute,  and  re- 


fused to  plead,  the  question  arose  whathcr 
he  was  mute  firom  obstinacy,  or  the  visil»» 
tion  of  God ;  and  if  mute  firom  obstinacjf 
he  was  then  considered  guilty,  and  Jndg'- 
ment  was  passed  accordingly.    He  tho^^ty 
in  a  case  of  this  kind,  it  would  be  better  to 
presume  tliat  the  prisoner  pleaded  not  guilty^ 
and  proceed  to  trial,  than  to  have  him  de- 
clared guilty,  and  sentence  PMsed  without 
any  disclosure  of  the  factk.    Formerly,  vtry 
severe  punishment  was  the  consequence  oif 
refusing  to  plead.    The  person  so  refoaiog 
was  exposed  to  what  was  called  Peine  fiirU 
et  dure.    The  third  alteration .  he   thooU 
propose  was  rather  of  a  technical  nature. 
At  present,  in  cases  of  treason,  if  the  pri- 
soner persisted  in  challen^ng  more  of  the 
Jury  tnan  the  law  allowed  nim  to  challenge^ 
he  exposed  himself  to  a  conviction.     It 
would  be  better  to  alter  the  law  so  that  all 
challenges,  beyond  the  numlier  allowed  hj    * 
law,  should  be  declared  null  and  void.    The 
fourth  alteration  he  should  propose  in  tho 
Bill  was,  that  no  former  attainder  should  be 
pleaded  in   bar  of   any  indictment.    Tbo 
sixth,  which  was  the  most  important  altem* 
tion,   would  have  the  effect  of  abolishing 
Benefit  of  Clergy.    It  seemed  to  be  nothing 
more  than  a  solemn  mockery  to  introduce 
into  every  Act  of  Parliament,  having  re- 
ference to  felonies,  the  words  declaring  that 
the  guilty  person  shall  suffer  death  without 
benefit  of  clergy.     He  should  not  trespass 
longer  on  the  time  of  the  House,  but  move 
for  leave  to  bring  in  a  Bill  for  further  im- 
proving the  administration  of  justice  in  cri- 
minal oases. 

The  Larceny  Laws  Amendment  Bill  went 
throueh  a  Committee,  when  several  veihal 
amendments  were  made. 

Mr.  Peel  then  brought  in  a  Bill  for  the* 
better  administration  of  Criminal  Justicos 
by  the  removal  of  Technicalities^  which 
was  read  a  first  and  second  time,  and  or- 
dered to  be  committed.  . 

House  of  Commons,  Mtty  38. 

The  SoUcUor  General  moved  for  leave  to 
brmg  in  a  Bill  for  preventing  arrests  npon 
mesne  process  when  the  debt  or  cause  of 
action  is  under  twenty  pounds.  « 

Leave  was  given  to  bring  in  the  Bill* 

HbusE  OF  LoRDi,  May  35. 
Viscount  Goderieh,  in  a  speech  of  gfwt 
length,  introduced  the  subject  of  the  Comt 
Laws  ;  and  on  the  question  of  tb*  HstBoi^ 
^Qvn^  \n\A  %  C<swBKM«ft  «a.  ^*  \ft»sBMfc%  '*' 


550 


Proceedings  in  the  present  Seaion  of  Parliament,         [June; 


debate  ensued,  when,  on  a  diTiiion,  there 
appeared,  Contents  190,  Non-dontents  68 — 
Majority  57. 

May  SO.  The  second  reading  of  Miia 
Tamer's  Divorce  Bill,  having  been  fixed 
for  this  morning,  at  half  past  ten  Counsel 
were  called  in ;  and  Wakefield,  who  had 
been  brought  from  Newgate,  made  his  ap- 
pearance, and  took  his  station  near  Mr. 
Adam.  Miss  Turner,  accompanied  by  her 
fiither  and  several  friends,  was  in  attendance 
in  one  of  the  private  rooms.  Mr.  Adam 
opened  the  case,  and  recapitulated  the  whole 
ot  the  transactions  connected  with  this  ex-  ' 
traordinary  afPair,  which  he  designated  as 
unprecedented  in  the  criminal  history  of  this 
country,  and  marked  only  by  atrocity  and 
baseness  totally  unredeemed  by  any  palliat- 
ing circumstance.  After  the  examination 
ofseveral  witnesses,  who  ^ave  the  same  de- 
positions as  at  the  trial.  Miss  Emma  Turner 
was  called  in,  attended  by  four  ladies,  and 
her  evidence  was  precisely  the  same  as  on 
ihe  trial  at  Lancaster.  \Vakefield  was  heard 
in  opposition  to  the  Bill ;  and  denied  that 
fraud  or  force  had  been  used ;  but  he  did  not 
call  any  evidence  to  support  his  statements. 
After  a  short  discussion,  the  Bill  was  read  a 
second  time,  and  ordered  to  be  committed. 

House  of  Commons,  May  S\, 
Mr.  Hume  moved  for  leave  to  bring  in  a 
Bill  to  repeal  one  of  the  Six  Acts,  namely, 
that  of  60  Geo.  III.  intituled,  *<  An 
Act  to  impose  Stamp  Duties  upon  certain. 
Publications,  and  to  check  the  circulation 
of  blasphemous  and  aeditious  libels."— 
The  Attorney  General  (Mr.  Scarlet)  and 
'  Mr.  Peel  objected  to  the  motion. — ^The 
Chancellor  of  the  Eacchequer  strongly  op- 
posed the  motion,  as  he  conceived  tlie  only 
persons  aggrieved  -by  this  Act  were  the 
dealers  in  blasphemy.  We  have  now,  said 
the  Right  Hon.  Gent.,  a  free  press  purged 
of  the  vices  which  had  formerly  belonged  to 
it,  and  valuing  the  press  as  he  did,  he  would 
not  consent  to  poison  the  wholesome  cur- 
rent, by  letting  out  the  stream  of  pollution 
which  had  been  happily  dammed  up. — Lord 
ly,  Russell  opposed  the  motion.  He  was 
not  in  Parliament  when  the  Sif  Acts  passed, 
but  he  thought  this  was  the  least  objection- 
able part  of  them.  The  House  then  divided 
—Ayes  10— Noes  ISO.  ' 

House  of  Lords,  June  1. 
The  House  went  into  a  Committee  on  the 
Bill  for  amending  the  Corn  Laws.  In  the 
course  of  the  debate  various  amendments 
were  moved  by  Lords  Stanhope,  Bathursl, 
EUenborough,  and  Rosslyn,  which  were  con- 
secutively negatived ;  but  several  clauses 
were  agreed  to  without  amendment.  After 
some  further  discussion,  in  which  Lord 
Ellenborough,  the  Earl  of  Harrowby,  the 
Earl  of  Lauderdale,  and  Lord  Redesdale 
took  pvt,  the  Duke  of  fFeUingUm  aaid  \ie 


would  feel  inclined  to  support  any  measure 
which  would  do  away  with  the  warehousing 
system.  The  noble  Duke  then  read  an 
amendment,  that  "  l)onded  Corn  should 
not  be  allowed  to  be  taken  out  of  bond  for 
home  consumption  uutil  the  average  should 
reach  66s.'* — Tlie  House  divided  on  this 
motion,  when  there  f4>peared  a  majority  of 
4  in  favour  of  the  Duke's  amendment ;  the 
announcement  of  which  was  received  with 
loud  cheers. 

The  House  then  adjourned  to  Wednes- 
day, June  6. 

In  the  House  of  Commons  the  same  day, 
the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  introduced 
the  BuoGtT.  llie  Right  Hon.  Gentleman 
stated,  that  in  order  to  avoid  perplexinc  de- 
tails, be  had  reduced  the  expose  of  the- 
aifairs  of  the  natiuu  to  this  proposition  : — 
That  as  there  was  a  deficiency  of  upwards  of 
two  millions  in  the  revenue,  it  was  Iiis  inten- 
tion to  take  a  loan  of  Exchequer  Bills  of 
three  milli<ms,  to  meet  the  exigency.  This, 
the  Right  Hun.  Gentleman  said,  appeared  to 
him  as  the  wisest  course.  The  country 
was  in  a  state  rather  to  be  left  to  itself  and : 
its  own  energies,  than  aided  by  any  extraor- 
dinary remedy.  Pursuing  such  a  course,  he 
entertained  a  confident  hope  that  before  a 
long  time  elapsed,  a  marked  improvement 
would  take  place.  This  hupe  he  founded 
rather  on  the  slow  but  certain  energies 
which  formed  a  leading  feature  in  the  cha- 
racter of  the  country,  than  upon  any  marked 
Indications  of  improvement  which  presented 
themselves  at  present.  After  son»e  discus- 
sion, the  usual  Ways  and  Means  Resolutions 
were  sever/dly  put  by  the  Chainnan,  and. 
agreed  to. 

The  House  then  adjourned  to  Wednesday, 
June  6. 

House  of  Lords,  June  6. 

The  Bill  declaring  void  Miss  Turner's 
pretended  marriage,  was  read  the  tlilrd  time 
andpassed. 

Tne  Bill  licensing  the  Sale  of  Game, 
was  read  a  second  time,  after  a  division,  in 
which  3 1  Noble  Lords  voted  for  the  Billy 
and  16  against  it. 

In  the  House  of  Commons  the  same 
day,  a  great  number  of  Petitions  from  va- 
rious bodies  of  Dissenters  were  presented 
against  the  Corporation  and  Test  Acts. 
'  Mr.  Jones  (Carmarthen),  in  presenting 
three  of  these  Petitions,  took  occasion  to 
impugn  the  statement  made  by  Lord  Milton 
upon  a  former  evening,  that  the  Dissenters 
are  generally  favourable  to  the  Roman  Ca- 
tholic demands.  The  Hon.  Member  then 
proceeded  to  arraign  the  whole  policy  of  the 
present  Cabinet,  when  he  was  c^led  to- 
order  by  Mr.  Baring,  and  interrupted  bj  the 
Speaker. 

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Select  Committee  to  Inquire  into  the  pre* 
seat  state  of  the  Irish  Gnuitl  Jury  Laws. 
The  Hon.  Gent,  detailed  at  length,  and 
with  great  force  and  clearness,  the  enormous 
list  of  the  flagrant  abuses  to  which  the  pre- 
sent constitution  of  Irish  Grand  Juries,  and 
the  powers  of  taxation  confided  to  them, 
opens  a  door.  The  motion  was  unanimously 
agreed  to. 

House  of  Lords,  June  7. 
Lord  Dudley  and  JVard  delivered  a  mes- 
sage from  the  King,  stating  that  his  Ma- 
jesty, deeming  it  expedient  to  provide  for 
the  expenditure  of  bis  forces  in  Portugal, 
relied  on  the  zeal  of  the  House  to  concur 
in  making  the  necessary  provision. — ^Lord 
EUcnborofugh  asked  ivhether  objections  ex- 
isted to  give  an  explanation  of  the  dispoaal 
of  the  secret  service  money,  which  amount- 
ed to  so  great  a  sum  last  year  ? — Lord  Dud' 
ley  and  tVard  said,  that  the  public  must 
content  itielf  with  the  honour  of  the  late 
foreign  Secretary  (Mr.  Canning),  as  at  the 
end  of  every  year,  and  upon  every  change  of 
in  the  office,  every  document  illustrative  of 
the  disposal  of  this  fund,  was  always  de- 
stroyed.    He  would  not  affect  to  conceal 
that  an  insinuation  had  been  circulated,  that 
his  Rieht  Hon.  friend  who  preceded  him  in 
office,  had  applied  a  great  part  of  the  money 
to  purchase  toe  support  of  the  press.     He 
solemnly  professed  to  believe  that  this  insi- 
nuation was  unjust. 

The  House  resolved  itself  into  a  Com- 
mittee on  the  Co<tN  ^ill,  when  several 
amendments  were  proposed. — Lord  Lauder^ 
dale  said,  that  if  this  BiU  passed,  the  farmer 
could  never  hope  for  a  price  beyond  55«.  It 
appeared  to  be  the  intention  of  His  Majes- 
ty's Government  to  make  this  country  de  * 
pendant  on  Foreign  States  for  subsistence. 
Such  a  principle  was  ruinous  to  any  country. 
It  was  that  wtiich  tended  to  the  overthrow 
of  the  Roman  EmpirCd — ^The  Earl  of  Dam- 
ley  adverted  to  the  amendment  adopted  on 
a  former  night ;  and  gave  notice,  that  on 
tlie  bringing  up  of  the  report  he  would 
move,  that  the  price  of  66s,  be  applicable 
only  to  the  com  actually  now  in  bond,  but 
not  to  the  wheat  to  be  imported  in  cohse- 
quence  of  the  present  Bill. — Lord  Redesdale 
contended  that  the  effect  of  the  Bill  would 
be,  year  after  year,  to  degrade  agriculture, 
until  it  was  finally  ruined. — ^The  various 
amendments  were  negatived,  and  the  further 
consideration  of  the  report  was  fixed  for 
Tuesday,  June  IS,  and  the  third  reading  of 
the  Bill  for  Friday,  the  15th. 

In  the  Houas  of  Commons,  the  same 
day,  Mr.  Herries,  in  answer  to  some  ques- 
tions put  by  Mr.  Hobhouse,  stated,  that  the 
Commissioners  had  purchased  839  houses 
which  stand  in  the  way  of  the  Improvements 
in  the  neighbourhood  6f  the  Strand,  and 
that  the  claiffls  of  the  ownen  of  188  oihen 


were  then  under  consideration  j  that  the 
Commissioners  were  doing  all  in  their 
pofTcr  to  expedite  these  transactions,  and 
hoped  that  the  work  of  demolition  would  be 
commenced  early  in  the  ensuing  Spring. 
With  respect  to  St.  James's  Ivk,  Mr. 
Herries  communicated  to  the  House  that 
His  Majesty  had  been  graciously  pleased  to 
allow  a  road  to  be  constructed  in  the  Greea 
Park,  so  as  to  connect  an  improving  part  of 
the  town  with  the  city  of  Westminster;  and 
that  the  interior  area  in  St.  James's  Park, 
where  the  grass  now  grew,  and  ¥|hich  was 
confined  by  a  paUng,  should  be  thrown  open 
to  the  public.  It  was  certainly  intended  to 
build  a  line  of  houses  at  the  back  of  the 
Bird-cage-walk  i  but  it  was  no  part  of  tlie 
plan  to  cut  down  the  trees. 

The  Penryn  Disfranchisement  Bill,  for 
Bribery  and  Corruption,  was  read  a  third 
time,  and  passed  by  a  majority  of  145  to  81. 

House  of  Lords,  Jutw  8. 
Lord  Dudley  and  JVard  moved  an  Address 
in  reply  to  his  Majesty's  Message  respect- 
ing tne  affurs  of  Portugal.  He  said  that 
Ministers  did  not  contemplate  the  scndine 
any  additional  force  to  that  kingdom. — ^Ean 
Grey  approved  generally  of  the  support 
given  to  the  liberal  party  in  Portugal, 
though  he  confessed  himself  still  imsatisfied 
of  the  actual  occurrence  of  a  casus  foederis^ 
or  of  the  necessity  of  voting  half  a  millioa 
for  the  support  of  6,000  men,  for  whom 
200,000/.  would  be  sufficient.  The  Ad-  ^ 
dress  was  agreed  to. 

The  same  day,  in  the  House,  of  Com- 
mons, Mr.  Canning  moved  an  Address  in 
reply  to  the  Message  from  the  Crown.  He 
announced  that  the  differences  between  Spain 
and  Portugal  were  in  progress  to  an  amicable 
adjustment;  he  then  moved  the  Address,  . 
and  a  vote  of  500,000Z.  for  the  support  of 
the  British  troops  in  Portugal.— Mr.  Banket 
opposed  the  motion.  The  rate  of  expendi- 
ture proposed  was,  he  said,  as  prodigal  at 
the  war  had  been  unnecessary. — Col.  Damet^ 
Col.  Lindsay,  and  Sir  J.  Macintosh,  sup- 
ported the  vote.  The  resolution  was  agreed  to. 

House  op  Lords,  June  12. 
Lord  Goderich  moved  the  bringing  up  of 
the  report  of  the  Committee  upon  the  Com 
Bill. — Lord  Colchester  objected  generally  to 
the  policy  of  the  measure,  as  likely  to  make 
the  country  dependant  on  foreigners  for  sub-^ 
sistence ;  as  injurioys  to  the  British  agri- 
culturist, and,  thr9ugh  him,  to  the  British 
manu&cturer ;  and  as  fiital  to  the  prospects 
of  Ireland.— Earl  Grey  proposed  an  amend- 
ment, as  to  the  mode  of  taking  the  averages^ 
which,  as  it  was  understood  not  to  amet 
the  principle  of  the  Bill,  or  materially  to 
alter  its  details,,  was  adopted  vi\xVs«q».  vBir\ 
ditcvAtvoii. — \iQt4  GwlentVv  -^xti^w^^^^^^ 
T«-eo«a\S«Te:4ock  <A  ^t  wmmAsmra  ^i^>r«x 


55^ 


Praemdkigt  in  Par/utiMMl. — Foreign  News, 


[June, 


bid  been  propoeed  bj  the  Duke  of  WeUiog- 
tOBy  and  adopted,  on  Friday,  tite  1st  Jane. 
He  began  by  eacphuning  that  neither  he  nor 
the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trade  had 
ever  (at  had  been  intimated)  given  consent 
to  I  the  clausey  vrfaieh  was,  ^e  said,  objec- 
tionable both  as  likely  to  ensure  the  rejec- 
tion of  the  Bill  by  the  Commons,  and  as 
imposing  a  permanent  restriction  upon 
bonded  Com'.  The  President  of  the  Board 
of  Trade  had,  indeed,  given  a  loose  general 
oensent ;  bnt  he  had  intended  it  oojy  for  an 
ioHnaterial  r^ulatton,  affecting  the  Corn 
now  in  bond.  The  Noble  Lord  then  argued 
ceoerally  against  the  clause,  as  likely  to 
meak  up  the  whole  warehousing  system.— 
The  Duke  of  Wellington  fclluded  to  the  diffi- 
culty in  which  he  was  placed  in  not  being  at 
liberty  to  read  a  letter  of  the  President  of 
the  Board  of  Trade  *,  which  he  and  his 
friends  had  interpreted  as  an  approbation  of 
his  clause.  The  clause  itself,  he  said,  he 
had  introduced  as  a  check  to  the  frauds  fur 
which  the  warehousing  system  a£Fnrded  too 
convenient  a  covers— Lord  Holland  spoke  at 
length  against  the  clause ;  and  charged  with 
gross  inconsistency  those  who  supported 
it  and  at  the  same  time  affected  to  support 
the  Bill  to  which  it  must  prove  fatal. — ^The 
Marquis  of  Lansdown  spoke  at  great  length 
against  the  clause,  and  Lord  RedetdaU  sup- 
ported it.  The  House  then  divided — Con- 
tents 18S — Non-Contents  ISS — ^Majority 
against  Ministers  11. 

June  13.  Lord  Goderich  announced  that 
in  consideration  of  the  repeated  votes  of  the 
House,  imposing  upon  the  Corn  Bill  a  clause 


repugnant  to  its  principle  and  subvenive  of 
its   purpose,  Ministers  had  determined  to 
abandon  that  measure  as  fiur  as  they  were 
concerned. — ^TheEarl  otAfalmesbury,  thouzh 
he  could  not  confess  much  sorrow  at  tne 
defeat  of  the  Bill,  declared  himself  prepared 
to  co-operate  with  Ministers  in  any  rational 
fheasure  of  regulation  upon  the  subject  of 
^  it.— The  Duke  oi  IVeUington  intimated  that, 
though  Mipisters  had  given  up  Uie  Com 
Bill,  it  was  competent  to  any  Noble  Lord 
to  proceed  with  it  if  he  thought  proper. — 
Earl  Grey  addressed  the  House  at  coiuider- 
able  length.     He  avowed  that  he  esteemed 
the  Bill  under  consideration  a  premature,  if 
not  an  unnecessary  measure;  and  that  he 
condemned  the  artificial  clamour  by  which 
it  had  been  contrived  to  force  it  forward. 
Still,  however,  he  sai4,  he  voted  for  the 
committal  of  the  measure,  and  was  not  in- 
disposed to  see  it  carried  through  Parlia- 
mtal  as  a  peace-offeriug,  as  it  might  hare 
been,  had  not  Ministers  thought  proper  to 
abandon  it,  on  account  of  a  clause  which 
very  slightly  affected  the  principle  of  the 
Bill,  and,  as  far  as  it  went,  produced  a  ma- 
nifest  improvement.      In   conclusion,    the 
Noble  Earl  observed  that,  if  the  abandon- 
ment of  the  Bill  by  Ministers  was  designed 
as  a  peevish  threat  tu  the  House,  it  was  ad- 
dressed to  a  body  who  knew  how  to  treat 
Such  menaces  with  firmness  and  with  con- 
tempt.— ^The  Marquis  of  Lansdown  corro- 
borated what  had   been  intimated  by  the 
Noble  Duke  (WcHin^^ton),  that  it  was  open 
to  any  Noble  Lord  U)  take  up  the  measure, 
and  to  endeavour  to  forward  it. 

(To  he  cont^iued  in  the  Supplement.) 


FOREIGN   NEWS. 


FRANCE. 


The  editors  of  the  Courier  Fran^  and 
the  Constitutionnel  have  been  tried  for 
the  accounts  which  they  lately  gave  of  the 
riots  at  the  School  of  Medicine,  and  have 
been  sentenced  to  a  fortnight's  imprison- 
ment; the  former  to  pay  a  fine  of  400 
Iraocsy  the  ConstUuHonnel  only  150  francs. 

On  the  top  of  the  hill  commanding  the 
city  of  Lyons  on  the  north,  a  tower  is  at 
this  time  oonstracting,  of-  800  feet  of 
elevation  above  the  plain.  This  edifice, 
which  is  already  raised  to  the  height  of  tha 
treea  surrounding  it,  will  be  finished  in  the 
Tear  1880.  Its  diameter  at  the  base  is  80 
net,  and  will  be  SO  at  the  summit.  It  will 
be  crowned  with  a  budding  in  the  form  of 

*  Mr.  Huskisson  read  this  letter  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  a  few  days  after,  when 
he  suted  that  iiis  meaning  nad  been  mis- 
uiuhntood. 


au  Egyptian  temple ;  and  be  ascended  by  a 
staircase  in  the  interior  12  feet  in  breadth. 
This  buildiug  will  appear  the  more  gigaottc, 
as  the  hill  on  which  it  is  built  is  800  feet 
above  the  level  of  the  Saone,  and  as  there 
is  not  a  building  in  Lyons  above  1 70  leet 


in  lieight. 


PORTUGAL. 


There  has  been  an  entire  change  of  Mi- 
nistry, and  the  change  is  considered  aa  fa- 
vourable to  the  cpnstitutional  system.  The- 
Liberals  have  gained  a  victory,  in  which 
they  rejoice  much.  Through  the  agency 
of  the  War  Minister,  Saldaaha,  they  suc- 
ceeded in  forming  a  Ministry,  which  they 
hope  to  render  instrumental  in  effecting 
their  views.  At  the  request  of  Generd 
Saldanha,  all  the  Ministers  were  lately  sum- 
moned to  meet  at  their  Foreign  Office,  and 
then  Genera]  Saldanha  presented  each  of 
them  with  a  copy  of  his  memorial.    Of- 


T8ST0 


Foreign  News. 


U9 


fended  at  liit  etminetf  iliey*  lo  their  toniy 
resolved  to  give  in  their  retignattons  Qn|cae 
Genera]  SsMMiha  wis  removed.  Their  o^ 
fen  of  resignttiom  were  aocepted^  end  a 
ne^  Miniitrj  nimed. 

ITALY. 

Rome,  May  16. — M.  Angelo  Mai  has 
just  diecovered  some  fragments  of  the  84  th 
and  85th  boolcs  of  Pliny's  Natural  Hisiary, 
whicht  oo  accoont  of  their  supposed  great 
antlquitj,  may  furnish  some  important  va> 
rious  readings,  and  solve  the  doubts  of  a 
great  number  of  learned  commentaton. 

SWEDEN. 

In  the  University  of  Upsala  are  two  cheats 
deposited  there  by  Gustavus  the  Third, 
King  of  Sweden,  with  orders  that  they  shall 
not  be  opened  until  fifty  years  have  el^wed 
from  the  time  of  his  death.  They  are 
double-loclced,  chained,  and  sealed,  and  are 
supposed  to  contain  his  foreign  correspond- 
ence, and  other  papers  relating  to  tkie  prin- 
cipal transactions  of  his  reign. 

GREECE. 

Disastrous  intelligence  of  the  Greelc  cause 
lias  arrived.  It  is  stated  that  the  Seras- 
kier  having  received  reinforcements  from 
CunsUntinople,  had  surrounded  the  Ghreek 
army,  assembled  for  the  relief  of  Athens,  on 
the  5th  of  May ;  and  that,  after  a  despe- 
rate conflict,  in  which  three  thousand  nve 
huudred  of  the  bravest  warriors  of  Greece, 
including  roost  of  the  Missolonghiots,  had 
fallen,  the  remainder  had  cut  their  way  and 
escaped.  The  gallant  and  experienced  Ka- 
raislcaki  was  among  the  dead,  and  the  gai'- 
rison  of  the  Acropolis  was  preparing,  ac- 
cording to  some  or  the  accounts,  to  blow 
itself  up;  though  some  other  reports  an- 
nounce that  it  was  negociating  a  capitula- 
tion, and  that  an  European  sauadron,  con- 
sisting of  a  French  and  Englisn  frigate,  and 
an  Austrian  corvette,  was  in  the  roads,  to 
endeavour  to  procure  better  terms  for  the 
besieged.  Lord  Cochrane^  who  had  assisted 
in  embarking  the  troops,  was  compelled  to 
swim  to  the  nearest  ship  to  save  his  life. 

The  RoUerdam  Caurant  of  the  19th  June, 
contains  a  detailed  account  of  the  defeat  of 
the  Greeks  on  the  5th  of  May.  They  ap- 
peared to  have  incurred  their  discomnture, 
by  the  most  irregular  conduct.  On  Ka- 
raiskaki*s  being  wounded,  which  happened 
on  the  4th,  in  a  petty  skirmish,  the  whole 
of  his  troops,  instead  of  standing  firm  to 
their  posts  and  co-opention»  as  nad  been 
previously  arranged  with  their  countrymen, 
abandoned  their  trenches  and  fled.  The 
forces  landed  amounted  to  above  3,000  men. 
They  were  attacked  by  800  Turkish  cavalry, 
and  800  infantry,  and,  afier  a  contest  of  not 
fiaore  than  a  couple  of  hourt|  wen  ofcteflj 

GtNT.  Mao.  Junt^  18t7, 


roMled.  It  if  Mippoaed  thai  moat,  if  not  ■!]» 
••f  their  General  offieera  havfe  fidlen  or  beta 
talno  prisoners  i  their  total  lots  is  nsfimttad 
at  8,000  men. 

EAST  INDIES. 

The  British  Government  In  India  hav* 
laid  the  foundations  of  a  new  town,  to  be 
called  Amlierst  Town,  at  the  mouth  of  di« 
river  Martaban.  A  proclamation  has  beea 
issued,  informing  the  neighbouring  p60|d6 
of  the  advantages  of  residing  there.  They 
will  be  five  from  all  oppression  i  their  trade 
will  be  exempt  from  duty  or  restraint ;.  the 
exercise  of  their  religion  will  be  unmolested. 
1800  Indian  families,  followed  by  8000  head 
of  cattle,  have  already  quitted  the .  Binnaa 
territory  in  order  to  establish  themselves  in 
this  new  town.  The  Chinese,  whose  pre- 
sence in  India  is  a  certain  proof  of  the  ad- 
vantages which  the  occupation  of  the  pItt* 
they  inhabit  promises,  are  hastening  to  take 
up  their  abode  in  the  quarter  reserved  for 
them. 

C^alcutta  papers  mention  the  receipt,  at 
that  Presidency,  of  tlve  new  act  of  Parlia- 
ment, allowing  the  natives  of  India  to  fit  as 
petty  jurora.  The  measure  had  not  been 
received  by  a  portion  of  the  Hindoos  with 
that  decree  of  ftat'isfaction  which  nakthtfctove 
been  wished.  Numerous  olistaclesliad  tlio 
been  pointed  out,  by  the  Calcutta  preset  10 
its  immediate  introduction ;  amongst  othcfiy 
that  of  the  natives  being  unable  to  serve  on 
petty  juries,  on  account  of  their  ignofaaeo  * 
of  the  English  language ;  but  it  ia  aiM 
they  might  serve  on  grand  juries  with  pfi^ 
vantage.  A  new  set  of  ndes  and  re^l^- 
tions  had  been  framed  in  January  by  tl^ 
Supreme  Court  for  carrying  the  act  into 
e£fect. 

AFRICA. 

The  Dey  of  Algien  has  unwisely  incurred 
the  anger  of  the  French  Government.  It 
appears  from  the  Mordtair,  that  his  conductp 
for  some  time  past,  has  given^  seripus  oanae 
of  discontent,  and  that  ou  a  veryrecast  oc- 
casion (the  SOlh  ApriH,  the  Dey  so  •6ir 
forgot  himself,  as  to  <<  msult  grossly  "  the 
Consul  General  and  Charg^  d*Affairei  q£ 
France.  These  transgressions  could  not  bo 
allowed  to  go  unpunished ;  and  therefore,  a 
naval  division  had  been  dispatched  from 
Toulon,  to  obtain  satisfaction  fur  thcniy  M 
well  as  for  other  causes  of  complaint. 

SOUTH  AMERICA. 

Advices  from  Buenos  Ayres  and  Rio 
Janeiro,  state  that  a  sanguinary  engagemoot 
had  taken  pkce  between  the  Buenos  Avraon 
and  Brazilian  armies,  in  the  province  <tf  Rio 
Grande,  on  the  8dd  of  February,  in  whicli 
the  latter  was  defeated.  When  the  action 
commenced,  the  Buenos  Ayrean  arxn.^  *«»!(&!> 
bered  ab<rat%)Q^^  'Ba%ti)  ^^ttf^^n^^  t&»«Q^ 
od,  tlhal^  ol  t^  ^taaa2M»>  iw&  N^>^'^ 


10 


554 


Dmneiiic  Ccaarences, 


TIm  Brazilian  General,  aware  of  the  power- 
ful charge  of  the  Buenot  Ayrean  ca?a)rj, 
nrotected  the  centre  and  flank  bj  a  Urge 
body  of  German  lancers.  The  encounter 
waa  /liirious  and  bloodyt  and  the  slaughter 
consequently  great  on  both  sides.  The  bat- 
tle lasted  without  intermission  till  night 
parted  the  combatants. 

Accounts  from  Coquimbo,  of  the  9th  of 
Febniaryy  state  that  a  revolution  had  taken 
place  in  the  Govemmeat  of  St.  Jago  de 
Chili ;  that  the  existing  Ministry,  when  in 
andiencCf  were  suddenly  arrested  from  their 
eonstitntional  chairs  by  a  guard  of  soldiers, 
and,  at  the  points  of  the  bayonets,  were 
placed  under  arrest.  Friere,  the  former 
Governor,  who  is  very  popular  with  the 
army,  immediately  came  forward,  threw  the 
whole  party  into  prison,  and  replaced  the 
former  constitutional  body.    Admiral  Guise, 


who  had  been  long  kept  in  confinciDent  by 
the  Peruvian  Government,  has  been  at 
length  tried,  and  honourably  acquitted  of 
all  charges  acainst  him,  and  .reinstated  in 
his  former  rank  as  Commander-in-Chief  of 
the  navy  of  Peru. 

The  Vera  Cruz  paper  of  the  1  Ith  April, 
states  that  the  Mexican  senate  on  the  7tli  of 
April  ap|)roved  of  the  treaties  latelv  con- 
cluded between  Great  Britain  and  Mexico. 
On  the  dd  April  there  was  a  warm  debate  in 
the  Mexican  Congress  oil  the  policy  of  tale- 
rating  Free  Masonry.  The  galleries  wero 
crowded  by  people  of  both  sexes,  and  all 
colours.  The  report  of  a  Committee  for  im- 
posing some  restraint  on  the  secret  proceed- 
ings of  Masonic  Lodges,  was  finally  adopted, 
in  the  Senate,  by  a  vote  of  24  to  7  ;  in  the 
House  of  Representatives,  40  to  94. 


DOMESTIC   OCCURRENCES. 


INTELLIGENCE  FROM  VARIOUS 

PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY. 

The  first  stone  of  a  new  Catholic  Cathe- 
'  dral  was  lately  laid  in  BeUlina,  in  Ireland. 
Hie  ceremonv  was  performed  by  the  Roman 
Catholic  Arcnbishop  of  Tuam,  assisted  by 
the  Roman  Catholic  Bishops  of  Elphin  and 
Maronia,  and  the  clergy  of  their  dioceses,  in 
the  presence  of  an  immense  concourse  of  spec- 
tators. The  Cathedral  is  to  be  of  the 
Monastic  Gothic  Order,  with  a  tower  and 
steeple,  170  feet  high,  cliastely  ornamented. 
The  body  of  the  Cathedral  is  to  be  isO  feet 
long  by  GO,  with  transepts  110  feet  by  40 
in  tne  clear.  The  interior  to  be  finished  in 
the  same  order  as  the  exterior. 

May  SO.      Report    of   the   proceedings 
under  a  Writ  of  Inquiry,  executed  at  Wool- 
luunpton: — Halton,  Cierk,  and  Harrirt,  his 
ffyi,  v.  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury  aiid  Cave, 
CUrk.    This   was  a  procedure  of  a  very 
unusual  nature,    arising  out  of  an  action 
brought  by  the  plaintiffs  acainst  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Cove,  late  Rector  of  Woolhampton,  in 
Wilts,  to  compel  him  to  vacate  that  rectory, 
on  account  of  his  having  accepted  the  Vica- 
rage of  Brimpton,  twenty-seven  years  ago, 
without  having  previously  obtained  a  dis- 
pensation.    It  appeared  from  the  statements 
of  Mr.  Rigby,  wno  was  for  the  defence,  that, 
in  the  year  1799,  Mrs.  Cove,  the  mother  of 
the    defendant,  purchased  of  trustees,  to 
whom  it  had  been  conveyed  for  the  purpose 
of  effecting  a  sale  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Dean  fiimily,  a  moiety  of  the  advowsons  of 
Woolhampton  and  Brimpton,  for  the  sum  of 
5,i51/.  and,   on  the  death  of  the  then  in- 
cumhent,  presented  her  son,  the  defendant. 
ThetelivlagB  being  under  vahie  in  the  King,*! 
boola,  hjr  m  caooo  iaw,  the  first  (]Woo\- 
hMmpton)  becMme  void  on  tbt  inatitution  and 


induction  of  the  defendant  into  the  second 
(Brimpton)  without  a  dispensation  from  the 
.  Archbbhop  first  procured.     Mr.  Cove   un^ 
fortunately  neglected  to  take  out  a  dispensa- 
tion, which  is  always  granted  as  a  matter  of 
course,  being  a  mere  technicality,  Bishop 
Douglas,  the  then  Diocesan,  having  advised 
him  that  it  was  totally  unnecessary,  and  that 
no  advantage  wss  ever  taken  of  those  who 
neglected  to  do  so.     In  the  mean  time  Mr. 
HaJton  married  into  the  Dean  family,  and 
having  a  son  just  Tipe  to  take  a  benefice,  he 
compels  the  defendant.  Cove,  to  submit  to 
the  reaignation  of  the  livin;^  of  Woolhamp- 
ton ;    and  doromenced  further  proceedinga 
against  hin\  to  recover  damages  during  his 
occupancy.     Mr.  Under-Sheriff  Roberts  ex- 
plained the  technicalities  to  the  Jury,  who, 
as  their  business  was  only  to  find  certain 
points  which  were  not  disputed  by  the  defisn- 
dant,  had   no  opportunity  judicially  to  give 
vent  to  tlie  feehngs  by  which  they  were 
influenced ;  Init  several  of  whom,  after  they 
had  delivered  their  verdict,   declared   that, 
had  they  been  summoned  to  assess  damages, 
and  had  it  been  in  their  power,  theywould 
have  given  the  damages  to  Mr.  Covey  fim 
defendant,  and  not  to  the  plaintiff. 

June     2.      The     magnificent   Devonport 
column,  erected  to  commemorate  the  altera- 
tion in  the  name  of  the  town  from  Plymouth 
DcKsk  to  Devonport,  is  completed.    The  last 
stone  of  the  capital,  with  four  of  the  work- 
men seated  on  it,  was,  on  the  2d  of  June, 
hoisted  into  its  situation  amidst  the  cheers 
of  a  vast  concourse  of  the  inhabitants,  the 
Royal  Standard  flying  at  the  top.      It  has 
"been  raised  by  public  subscription,  and  coat 
about  2,000/.  altogether.    The  foundation 
wia  Wd  on  iVva  I2th  August,  1 824.    The 
e<Auinti  XaA^'j  Ik  ^ne  tamX  ^noKowcwyM  f^^«% 
Vu^'wVo>«  uM^^k&»«eCttfmi^>xvkvck%\\v\iMX  ^ 


1897.}  Dontitk  Occurrences.  555 

abov«  the  brow  of  Windmill  hill,  which  it  the  skoll,  the  only  bones  remabing  onbro- 

itself  on  a  lerel  witli  the  pinnaclef  of  the  kea  were  those  of  the  thigla  and  legs,  bat 

Old  Church  tower  at  Plymouth.    It  presents  thes6  on  handlingt  were  soon  reduced  to 

one  of  the  finest  pieces  of  masonry  oT  the  pieces  also,  and   with  the  other  fragments 

kind  in  the  kingdom.  are  now  fast  mingling  with  their  mdthtr 

.    , .  , ,  , ,  ^arth.    The  name  of  thu  hill  is  Peaksoo.' 

June  10.     A  highly  respectable  meetug         a    i  •         . 

of  the  bmded  proprietors  and  yeomen  of  the       ,  ^  •*».<*'*  ,?"f  •*°*^«»  •ome  workmen,  em-. 
county  of  Dorset  was  held  at  the  county-     P^^^  »"  diggmg  stone  at  Bmitihton  Halt, 

liall,  Dorchester,  to  consider  the  propriety     **»«  ■«»*  *>f -Braddock.  esq.  near  Maid- 

of  petitioning  Parliament  for  protecUon  »tone,ducovered  bones  and  teeth  of  serenl 
against  the  imoorUtion  of  foreign  wool.  »n»«»»J»»  »o»«  of  which  the  proonetor  of 
The  chair  was  t^ken  by  J.  J.  Farquharson,  ''^« .  «*^*«  *'*''!?"*^**  .^  J^*  Geo logMSd 
esq. ;  and  the  Rc».  H.  F.  Yeatman  sUtcid,     Society.      Dr.  Buckland,   Mr.   Lycll.  and. 

tliat  the  present  depression  in  the  price  of  ^'.'r',  "'•n*™c  gent  emen,  in  consequence 

wool  was  owing  to  the  unlimited  importation  visited  Boughton,   when  it  was  discovered 

of  that  article.     If  (said  he),  we  must  enter  that  the  bones  had  been  found  in  a  fissure  in 

into  the  trial  of  free  trade  principles,  let  us  ^^  ^^\  V***    .  "^  ^^^^""1^^  been  fiHed  iip 

do  so  with  our  arms  unshackled  —let  the  ^^   ^^"^"^  f  ?*»»•    ^he  bones  of  at  leatt 

imposts  and  burthens  which  press  upon  the  ^^^^^  ^^«°^  (°^  ™  «**"*<;'  Kirkdale  species) 

agricultural     interest     exclusively    to    the  ^^^  fo«n<»>  together  with  bones  and  teeth 

amount  of  sfxty  per  cent.,  let  those  be  borne  ^^  f  5  '*°"«»  ,'»*!  ^''*  ^«*  '^«  fi"«"  •»• 

equally  by  the  merchants  and  the  manuikc-  tended  so  dwply  m  the  solid  rock,  that  it 

lurers,  and  by  those  who  enjoy  in  an  equal  ^^:^}^  °?'  ^  '"f*^  *®  ****  bottom,  and  it 

proportion  the  advantages  which  are  derived  !"^\  °°^  ^  P«>1"^^«  Y" .  ««ertain  whether  it 

from  the  system  to  Ae  support  of  which  Jc«^s  to  a  cave  formerly  inhabited  by  Hyenef, 

these  imposts  are  applied ,  let  the  poor-rates,  ^^ »»  merely  a  fissure  filled  up  by  the  effecto 

let  tlie  county  rates,  let  the  highways  and  **J /^«  ?«^"S?>  «ntilthe  quarry  Is  consider- 

the  land-tax,  be  paid  out  of  the  Consolidated  "^  V  cola'ged. 

Fund,  or  any  other  fund,  and  we  will  then        As  some  workmen  were  Utely  digging  a 

most  freely  consent  to  try  this  new  system  vault  at  the   burial  ground  on  St.  Uiles'a 

by  way  of  experiment.  Hill,  near  fFinchester,  they  discover^  an 

ancient  coffin  hewn    out  of   chalk,  quite' 
^June  13.     A  serious  riot  took  place  at  complete.    On  opening  it,  a  very  perfect 
Nmnnch    from    the    circumstance   of   the  skeleton  was  found,  with  sandals  on  the ' 
weavers  of  Ashwclthorpe  having  taken  work  feet ;  the  teeth  appeared   sound,  and   the 
under  price.     Tliis  occasioned  the  work  to  body  was  enveloped  with  some  kind  of  lineo» 
be  destroyed  by  some  persons  from  Wymond-  which  was  so  decomposed  as  not  to  allow 
ham.     A  few  witnesses  came  to  Norwich  to  of  removal.     The  bones  of  the  feet  were 
give  evidence  of  the  illegal  proceedings,  and,  standing  erect,  having  been  supported  by ' 
although  guarded,   the  mob  attempted  to  the  sandals;    but  on  the    slightest  tondh 
attack  them,  and  a  most  serious  riot  ensued,  they  mouldered  to  dust.    An  antique  nro. 
It  was  at  length  found  necessary  to  call  out  composed  of  metal,  was  taken  from  the  left 
the  aid  of  tlje  military,  who  were  pelted  by  s\de  of  the  coffin,  and  is^  now  in  the  poi- 
the  mob.     rhe   Riot  Act  was  read;    the  session  of  Mr.  Wm.  Coles,  builder,  of  Win- 
Lancers  and  Cavalry  chsrged  the  mob,  and  a  chester.    There  was  no  inscription  either  on 
conflict  ensued,    in    which  many    persons  ,he  urn  or  coffin, 
were  wounded,  as  well  as  some  of  the  mili- 
tary.    Several  of  the  offenders  were  taken        An  extraordinary  and  very  curious  fossil 
into  custody  and  lodged  in  prison,  bat  the  reptile,  a  singular  remain  of  the  antediln- 
ringleaders  escaped.  viui  world,  was  lately  (ound  by  Mr.  Shirley 

Woolmer,  of  Exeter,  who  now  has  it  in  his 
A  few  days  since  some  labourers  employed  possession.  The  antique  animal  u  three 
in  removing  the  soil  preparatory  to  digging  inehes  in  length,  from  the  month  to  the  - 
stones,  on  the  highest  part  of  a  hill,  about  tip  of  the  tail,  and  8§  inches  round  the 
midway  between  Osmington  and  Poxeweli,  body,  which  appears  like  three  distinct  pa- 
Dorset,  near  the  turnpike  road,  found,  about  rallel  bodies  united  in  one.  It  has  two 
a  foot  Ijeneath  the  surface,  a  human  skeleton,  legs,  two  short  or  stubbed  horns,  and  a 
doubtless  of  a  male,  from  the  leneth,  beinc  round  head,  exhibiting  four  prominent  eyes, 
six  feet  >  it  was  laid  perfectly  straight,  with  and  is  in  an  incunrated  position,  with  ita 
the  arms  close  on  each  side,  the  head  to  the  tail  under  it,  which  reaches  onlv  half  an 
Eastward,  but  Wing  on  its  fsce;  it  appeared  inch  from  ita  mouth.  It  is  in  a  high  state 
quite  perfect,  tne  teeth  in  the  npper  and  of  preservation,  and  is  not  described  in 
under  jaws  entire  and  all  sound ;  toe  bones  «  Argenville's  Fossils/'  or  '^Farkinson^  . 
on  removal,  mostly  fell  to  pieces,  as  well  u  Organic  Remains." 


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(June, 


PROMOTIONS   AND    PREFERMENTS. 


Gazbttb  PnoMonom. 

fFhilehaU,  May  ftl.^Sir  Heorj^HaUbrd, 
of  Wistow-hdl,  Leicester^  bart.  Pujraioiaii  in 
Ordinanr  to  HU  Majesty,  to  bear  and  use 
certain  honourable  augmentations  to  lits  ar* 
Borial  ensigns  allusive  to  his  distinguished 
merits. 

June  1.— The  Rev.  £d.  Marshall,  of  Iff- 
)eT  and  Church  Enstone,  co.  Oxford,  to 
tale  and  use  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Hacker  in  addition  to  those  of  Marshall. 

June  4. — 6th  Reg.  of  Foot  to  bear  on 
their  (^olours  and  appointments  the  words^ 
««  Rollca,"  "  Vimelra,"  "  Corunna,"  "Vit- 
tbria,"  and  <<  Nivelle."—  8Sd  Reg.  to  bear 
**  Busaco.*' — 1 2th  Reg.  Licht  Drag.  Lieut.- 
Col,  S.  Stawell,  to  be  Lieut.-Col.-^lst 
or  Gren.  Guards— Lieut,  and  Capt.  J. 
Holme  to  be  Capt.  and  Lieut.-Col. — 75th 
ditto.  Major  B.  C.  Brown  to  be  Major. — 
Unattached. — Capt.  J.  F.  Crewe,  3d  Guards, 
to  be  Lieut. -Col.  of  Int — ^To  be  Majors  of 
Inf.  Capt.  J.  H.  Slade,  19th  Foot,  and 
Capt.  Hon.  W.  L.  L.  Fitzgerald  De  Roos, 
1st  Life  Guards. — Staff.  Mdor  J.  Fraser, 
Ceylon  Reg.  to  be  Deputy  Quartermaster- 
Gen,  to  the  troops  serving  in  Ceylon  (with 
the  rank  of  Lieut.-Col.  in  the  Army). 

June  1 0. — James  Capman,  the  younger, 
of  Holt,  CO.  Wilts,  Gent,  to  be  Master  £x- 
tnpr.  of  Chancery. 

'  June  IS, — 1st  Life  Onards:  Capt.  H. 
R.  Wyatt,  to  be  Major  and  Lieut.-Col. 
—30th  ditto,  Lieut.-Col.  H.  Stacpoole,  45th 
Foot,  to  be  Lieut.-Col. 

By  recent  regulations  of  the  Lord  Hlgb 
Admiral,  Commanders  in  the  Royal  Navy 
afe  now  to  do  the  duty  on  board  ships  of 
the  line,  hitherto  performed  by  first  Lieu- 
tenants. All  first  Lieutenants  thus  dis- 
placed, have  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Commanders,  as  nave  also  all  the  oldest 
Lieutenants  of  foreign  stations. 

Members  returned  to  terve  in  Parliament, 
Buckingham, — Sir  T.  F.  Fremantle,  tnce 

W.  H.  Fremantle,  esq.  who  has  accepted 

the  Chiltern  Hundreds.    . 
JCnaresborough, — The    Right    Hon.    Geo* 

Tieiney, 


Newport  (HaniO' — Spencer  Peroevtl, 

Southampton, — Spencer  Perceval,  esq,  vice 
Lamb,  who  has  accepted  the  office  t>f 
Chief  Sectetary  to  the  L*rd  Lieut,  of 
Ireland. 

SL  Germain*s — James  Loch,  esq.  vice  thm 
Right  Hon.  C.  Arbtfthnot,  who  has  ac- 
cepted the  Chiltern  Hundreds. 

Sutherland  fShireJ, — Lord  Francis  Leretoa 
Gower. 

Ecclesiastical  Prepermenti. 

Dr.  Bankes  Jenkinson,  Bp.  of  Landaff,   t» 

be  Dean  of  Dorham. 
Rev.  J.  Russell,  D.D.  Preb.  oi  the  Metro- 
politan Church,  Canterbury. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Seymour,  Preb.  of  Lincohi  Catli. 
Rev.  Dr.  Wdlesley,  to  the  Golden  Preb.  of 

Durham. 
Rev.  L.  Vernon,  Chancellor  of  York  Cath. 
Rev.  J.  Blanchard,  Lund  V.  Beverley,  co. 

York. 
Rev.  E.  T.  Bidwell,  Orcheston  St.  Mary  R, 

Wilts. 
R«v.  T.  H.  Elwtn,  East  Bamet  R.  Herts. 
Rev.  G.  Evans,  Potterspury  V.  co.  North* 

ampton. 
Rev.  J.   Harries,   Newcastle  Emlyn  P.  C 

Carmar.        * 
Rev.  G.  Harris,  Letterston  R.  co.  Pembroke, 
Rev.  W.  Hewitt,  Ancroft  K.  co.  Durham. 
Rev.       .   Home,  Hotham  R.  co.  York. 
Rev.  J.  Hughes,  St.  Michael  P.  C.  Aberysi- 

with,  Wales. 
Rev.  J.  Leach,  Tweedmouth  R.  co.  Durhaa. 
Rev.  R.  Lucas,  Edith  Weston  R.  Rutland. 
Rev.  J.  C.  Matchett,  Catton  V.  Norfolk. 
Rev.  H.  Roberts,  Baxterley  R.oo.  Warwick. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Robertson,  Church  and  Parish  of 

Caldingham,  Presbytery   of   Chumside> 

CO.  Berwick. 

Cbakaiks. 

Rev.  J.  Blanchard,  to  the  Earl  Ferrers. 
Rev.  J.  Griffith,  to  the  Ld.  Chancellor. 
Rev.  J.  Morris,  to  Ld.  Lynedoch. 
Rev.  T.  Symonds,  to  Ld.  Colnbrook. 


BIRTHS. 


'May  15.    At  Aldenham,  Herts,  the  wife 

of  the  Rev.  Jon.  Wilkinson,  a  son. 18. 

At  Tor,  Devonshire,  the  wife  of  Capt.  Geo. 

Foot,  a  dan. 28.    The  wife  of^J.  An- 

nesley,  esq.  His  Majesty's  Consul  at  Barce- 
lona, a  son. '       88.     At   Fifehead  Mag- 
ds3en,  near  ShafUbory,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.' 
Mdw,  Peacock,  a  dan. — 9-^9.     In  Upper 

Pkfrthad  PUuse,  the  wiCb  of  H.  St.  Qeo. 

Tucker,  etq.  •  ion.      ■■8U    M  Donibi^- 


ter,  the  wife  of  G.  W}-att,  esq.  a  dau. 
The  wife  of  F.  Baring,  esq.  M.F.  a*dau.- 
At  the  Vicarage,  Godstone,  Surrey  Mrs,  C. 
J.  Hoare,  a  son.— <-*In  Upper  Gresvenor- 
street,  the  Lady  Jane  Laurence  Peel,  a  son. 
June  1 .  At  Camerton  House,  near  Baih, 

the  wife  of  the  Rev.  W.  Gooch,  a  daa. 

ft.  At  Wahon,  co  Leicester,  the  wife  of 
^e  '^^.  Kn^,  HoWrti  a.  son.'  3.  In 
TtBnaV>^-v^fait««V\x%%VAm\)^a^ 


latf  •}                             Births  gaud  Mmriages.  657 

4.    At  WradswDrth,  tbe  wife  of  F.  AtlM»  the  Rev.  E^  Liura,  •  daiu— — At  Wej- 

^.  A  cUow        <»    At    KeosingtoBy    the  mouth,  Mn.  Bos  veil  BeddoiDe»  a  dagj"  ■■> 

win  of  £.  W.  Blunt,  eeq.  of  Eahem  Houee,  16.    At  Crouch-Ena,  the  wife  of  Chrvl. 

a  800.^*^-6.    At  Beaufort  Cutle,  Inver-  Jts,  Magnav*  esq.  a  deu.         At  Nortk* 

ness,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Fnser,  of  Lovet>  •  wold,  NcNfolk,  the  wife  of  O.  B.  Hal],  ee^ 

dau. ^7.    At  Finchley,  the  wife  of  CM.  a  so&— 17.    At  MalesQiore,  aear  OIoih 


Ademsy  esq.  a  dau.-^— 8.    The  wife  of     eester,  the  wife  of  lU  F.  Onsbw,  esq.  • 
Chas.Tylee,esq.  of  Trevor  square,  Knighta-     dau. 18.    In  Bedfofd-squpre,  the  wife 


bridge,  a  son.-— — -At  Catfotd  Hill,  Lewie-     of  Dr,  Richaidsoo,  a  son. 19.  InLoi 

ham,  Mrs.  £.  Oswald,  a  son. 9.    At  Seyuiour-street,  Portnaii-square,  the  wife  ct 

Hadley,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  £.  Harden,  a  Lieot.-Col.  Chnrton,    a  dauw — --Mra.    F« 

son. 1 1.      In  Parliamenl-st.  the  wife  of  Marson,  of  the  Paragon,  a  dau.         go.     Ib 

F.  Palcrave,  esq.  a  son. 13.     In  Mon-  Gloucester-place,  the  wife  of  O.  &  Onley^ 

tagu-pUce,   Montagu- square^    the  wife  of  a  son. 

MARRIAGES. 

Dec.  14,    1826.    At  Poonah,  East  In-  Whltworth  Park,  Dorhero.— At  DaitSo^ 

dies,  John  Warden,  esq.  son  of  the  late  ton,  Tlio.  Boardman,  esq.  of  Totnees,  to 

Geo.  Wardeu,  esq.  of  Richmond,  in  Surrey,  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  W.  Braoferd» 

and  Member  of  the  Civil  Estoblishment  at  esq.— r-At  York,  the  Rev.  John  HopUoe 

the  Presidency  of  Bombay,  to  Ellen  Maria,  Bradney,  of  Hurcot,  Somerset,  to  Mary, 

eldest  dau.  of  Major-Gen.  Sir  Lionel  Smith,  third  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Prestos* 

K.  C.  B.  of  Flashy   Hall. Chas    Wm.  Harhmd, 

March  98.    At  St.  Vincent's,  Joaeph  esq.  of  iiutton  Hall,  Yorkshire,  to  Catk. 

Billineliurst,  esq.  of  Yapton,  in  Sussex,  to  only  dau.  of  Robert  Edon  Duncombe  Shaf- 

Miss  Margaret  Eliz.  eldest  dan.  of  Dr.  Ales,  to,  esq.  of  Whitwnrth  Park,  Durham. 

Melville,  sen.  M.D.  St.  Vincent's.  19.     At  Batb,  W.  Kay,  esq.  of  Cottiag<> 

April  24.    At  Edinburgh,  the  Rt.  Hon  ham,  Yorkshire,  to  Mrs.  Brackeobnry,  dan. 

Lord  Erskine,  to  MUs  Philidelphia  Stuart  of  the  late  E.  Cayley,  esq.  of  Whitby.—- 

Meoteath,  eldest  dau.  of  T.Clias.  Granville  At  St.  Mary's,   Bryanstone-sqiuu'e,   Ben). 

Stuart  Menteatb,  esq.  of  Closebura  Hall,  Manning  Vender  Gucht,  esq.  to  Mary  1^* 

Dumfries-shire.  dia,  third  dau.  of  John  Booth,    esq.  of 

May  I.    J.T.Wawn,  esq.  ofWest  Bol-     Wyndham-pUce. 80.     At    St.  Paul's, 

don,  to  Emma,  dau.  of  the  late  N.  Horn,  Covent-garden,  C.  Reynolds,  esq.  to  Elis. 

esq.   of  Bishop    Wearmouth.          8.     At  second  dan.  of  J.  Plowman,  esq.  of  Cofent* 

Atnol-cresceot,  Edinb.  Geo.  Dempster,  esq.  garden.-— —22   At  Islington,  Hen.  Perkiosy 

of  Skibo,  to  Joanna  Hamilton,  dau.  of  the  esq.  of  Reading,  Berks,  to  Eliza,  2d  dan.  of 

late  Rt.  Hun.  Robert  Dundas,  of  Aroiston,  Thoe.  Rich.  Read,  esq.  of  Claremont-ter- 

Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Excl>equer.  ■■■        race,  Pentonville. At  St.  James's,  ClorJJc* 

At  Bristol,   Donald  M*Millan,  esq.  Gre-  enwell,  John  Bashell,   esq.  to  Charlotte, 

nada,  to  Miss  Ann  Furze,  of  Southampton,  dau.  of  Peter  Bodkin,  esq.  of  Northampton* 

^At  Dublin,  Capt.  Chidley  Coote,  bro-     square.^ ^At  Bath,    Wm.     Rich.    &ktr 

ther  to  Sir  Chas.  Coote,  bart.M.P.  to  Jane,  Smith,  esq.  of  Castor,  co.  Northamp.  tv 

dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  S.  Close,  of  Elmpark,     Miss  Martha  Pybus. In  London,  £.  C. 

CO.  Armagh. 12.    At  St.  Mary's  Mary-  Whinyates,  esq.  Major  R.  A.  to  Sarah  JSii. 

le-bone,  Capt.  Tho.  Hastings,  R.  N.   to  onlv  dau.  of  the'  late  Sam.  Cromptoo,  eiq. 

Louisa  Eliz.  Jau.  of  the  Ute  Thos.  Hum-  of  Wood  End,  near  Thirsk,  Yorkshire.— 

phrey  Lowe,  esq.  of  Court  of  Hill,  co.  6a-  At  Bath,  the  Rev.  Chas.  Paul,   of  Whit« 

fop. ^At  Shepton  Mallett,  Edw.  Sher-  Laekmgton,  Somerset,  to  Frances  Keg!Mi» 

ring,  esq.  of  Milbome  Wiok,  to  Ann,  <d  third  dau.  of  the  late  John  Home,  esq.  of 

dau.of  Joseph  Hyatt,  esq.-— —17.     AtOa-  St.  Viucent's.  — At   Tunbridge,     JohM 

ford,  David  Vavasor  Durell,  esq.  Chairman  Green,  eso.  R.N.  to  Caroline,  dau.  of  tlw 

of  the  Oxford  Canal  Company,  to  Maria,  late  Edw.  Golding,  esq.  of  Maiden  Erfighy 

second  dau.  of  William  Le  Breton,  esq.  of  Berks.         23.    At  St.  George's,  Haoofvr- 

Jersey.         At  Chattisham,  the  Rev.  Fred,  square,  Chas.  Malpas,  barrister  at  law,  M 

Calvert,  Rector  of  Whatfield,   to  Sarah,  Isabella,  dau  of  the  Ute  John  Powell  Smith, 

eldest  dau.  of  the  late  John  Tayler  Hicks,  esq^      ■  At  Brixton,  the  Rev.  James  Deao, 

esq.  of  Chattisham-place.— At  Salisbury,  of  Norfolk-st.  to  Miss  Charlotte  Crooks,  of 

F.  W.  Ellis,  eso,  lAsut  R.N.  to  Charlotte,  Denmark-hill,     Camberwetl.  — 24.     At 

fourth  dau.  of  tbe  late  John  Lusford,  eso.  Cheltenham,  A.  H.  Hinuber,  eso.  son  of 

of  Salisbury ^At  York,  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Lieut.- Col.  Hinuber,  to  Susanna  Eliz.dMt. 

Bradney,  M.A.  of  Hurcot,  to  Mary,  third  of  the  late  Sir  Rupert  Geoige, 


dau.of  the  late  Rev.  John  Preston,  of  Flas-  Roger  Cocksedge,  esq.   of  Woolpit  HtlU 

by  Hall At  Whitwortb,  W.C.  Harland,  Suffolk,  to  An^Unsb^  t^viA  ^>\>A\y«r^»MA^ 

esq.  of  Sottoa  Hall,  Yorkshire,  to  Cnha-  Snc\Vm%^  «k\— ' — Kx  \>w«t«^x«M&a>  ^'»>- 

rlae,  oalj  dkv.  of  iCE.  P.  Shdfto,  w^  id  MlAl>aaMmdk»» %wv  v^  l«^%^^i6^^^ 


^58                                           Marriaget.  [Junej 

Mary  Therett*   only   ^a.   of   LieuC-Cot  fofd-row.          At    Bath,  W.  Tador, -esq. 

Woodroffe,  of  Poyle  Par^y  Surrey.         88.  to  Julia,   dau.    of   the    late    Wm.  Eyrr, 

At  St.  George's,  HaDorer-tq.  D.  W.  Gamier     esq.  of  New  House,  Wilts. 6.    At  Clat>- 

esq.  to  Selina,  eldest  dau.  of  Xbos.Thistieth-  ford,  Henry  Bosanqtiet,  esq.  barrister-at- 

«»ytey  esq.  of  Southwick  Park,  Hampshire,  kw,  to  Mary,   second  dau.  of  the  late  W. 

At  Esher,  Surrey,  Wm,  Ryves,  esq.     Richards,  esq.  of  Clatford. At  Chelsea, 

of  Ryves  Castle,  co.  Limerick,  to  Sarah,  J.Staines  Daniel,  esq.  ofBlandford,  Dor- 

ncond  dau.  of  John  Turner,   esq.— 29*  set,  to  Charlotte,  second  dau.  of  Lieut -Col. 

At    -St.     John's     Westminster,     George  Williamson,  Commandant  of  R    Military 

Scott,     youngest    son     of    John    Scott,  Asylum         7.    At  Cheltenham,  James  AK- 

esq.  o^  Parliaroent-sueet,   to   Miss  Phebe  lardyce,  M.D.  to  Charlotte  Georgiana,   se- 

Ditchell,  of  Vincent-square,  second  dau.  of  cond  dau.  of  the  late  John  Shakespear,  esq. 

the  late  Anth.  Ditchell,  esq.  of  Cromer,     7.   At  Kenible,  Wilts,  Capt.  BcaUuun, 

Norfolk. At    Bridgewater,    Rich.  An-  R.N.  to  Emma  Pellew,  dan.  of  the   Rev.* 

atice,  esq    Mayor  of  the  borough,  son  of  John  Parker,  and  nieotf  of  Lord  Exmoudi. 

Aid.  Anslice,  to  Marcia,  dau.  ofWm.  Boys,  At  Bathwick,  Thoa.  Allen,   esq.    of 

esq At  St.  Alphage,  London,  the  Rev.  Kingsdown,  to  Mary  Anne,  widow  of  £dw. 

Robt.  Watts,  jua:  to  Paulina,  dau.  of  the  Tolfrey,  esq.  and  only  dau.  of  the  lat<:Hugh 

lite  Thos.  Smith,    esq.    of  the  Chapter  Barrett,  esq.  of  Sportsman*s-hall,  Jamaica. 

House,  St.  Pauls.— ——At  Barton  Mills,  the  0.     At  St.  George's,  Hanover-square, 

Rev.  Chas.  Jenkin  Bve,  to  Emily  Martha,  John  Howel  Davies,  esq.  of  Sunning-hilt, 

eldest  dau.  of  Wm.  Walker,  esq.  of  Barton,  to  Marianne,  eldest  dau.  of  Francis  Laklog, 

Hall,  Suffolk. 31.     At  Tliombury,  T.     esq.  of  Wilton-place. At  Kennmgtoo, 

Hodsoll,  esq.  of  the  Excise,  to  Mary,  eldest  Opie  Smith,  esq.  of  Bath,   to  Eliza  Anne 

dau.  of  the  late  G.  Luce,  esq.  ofT^ombury.  Clarke,  of  Ketinington.— At  St.  James's, 

LaUiy.    At  Frome,  the  Kev.  Edw.  Wil-  Dr.  Bume,    of   Spring-gardens,   to  Anna 

ioo,  of  Kirby-hall,  Norfolk,  to  Miss  King,  'Louisa,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Henry 

eMMt  dau.  of  the  late  Mr.  John  King. Ford,  LL.D.  PriBcipal  of  Magdalen  Hall, 

At  Rome,  Count  Ranghtasci   Branodeoni,     Oxford,  and  Canon  Kesid.  of  Hereft>rd. 

to  Saiah  Matilda,  dau.  of  Sir  Benj.  Hob-  In    London,    Major    Edw.    Brackenlmry, 

bouse,    hart. .At    Bath,    John   Neale  K.T.S.  of  Aswardby,    Lincoln,   to  Maria, 

'  Nott,   R.N.  to  Elix.  Ann,  eldest  dau  of  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Edw.  Bromhead,  of  Rop- 

Thos.  Calley,  esq.  of  Burderop  Park,  Wilts,     ham,    near    Lincoln. 19.     The   Rev. 

June\.     At  York,  Chas.  Hale  Monro,  Rich.  Downes,  Rector  of  Berwick  St.  John, 

•  esq.    of  Ingsdon   House,    Devonshire,  to  to  Charlotte,  eldest  dau.  of  Tho.  Grove, 

Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  the  late  Patrick  Mac     esq.  of  Fern,  Wilts. At  Scrayingham, 

Dougall,    esq.    of    Mac    Dougall. At  the  Rev.  C.  A.  Binns,  of  Maltun,  to'Mar-• 
Clij!ton-Church,     Henry    Crewe,    esq.    of  garet,  onlv  child  of  Mr.  Wildon,  of  Farfield 

Stoke's-croft,  only  son  of  the  late  T.  K«     House,     Housham. IS.     At   Ipswich, 

Crewe,  esq.  Col.  E.  LC.  and  grandson  of  the  Chas.  Spooner  Lillingston,  esq.  to  Harriot, 

late  Very  Rev.   Christ.   Wells,   D.  D.   of  only  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Chas.  Tonnereau,  of 

Swansea,  to  Mary,  fldest  dau.  of  Mr.  J.  P.     Christ  Church  Park,  I})swlch. H.  M. 

Williams,  of  Bath -^—4.     At  Cheriton,  in  Leathes,  esq.  to  Charlotte,  second  dau.  of 

Kent,  the  Rev.  Fred.  Twlsleton,  Rector  of  Tho.  Fowler,  esq.  of  Gunton  Hall,  co.  Suf- 

Adtestrop,  co.  Glouc.  to  the  Hon.  Emily     folk 14.     At    St.  George's  Hanover- 

Wtngfield,  dau.  of  Vise.  Powerscourt. square,  John  Chas.  Bettesworth  Tiavanion, 

At  Sidbury,  Devon,  the  Rev.  Chas.  Edw.  esq.  to  Char.  Trelawney,  dau.  of  the  late 

Band,  Rector  of  Combrawleigh  and  Sheldon,  Chas.  T.  Brereton,  esq.  of  Shotwick  Park, 

toHenrietU  Mary  Bourke,  eldest  dau.  of     Cheshire. 16.  At  St.  George's,  Hanover- 

.    the  Rev.  Henry  Fell  owes,  Vicar  of  Sidbury.  square,  E.  B.  Portman,  esq.  M.P.  for  Dor- 

5.    The  Kev.    W.   Short,    Vicar   of  setshire,  to  the  Lady  Emma  Lascelles,  third* 

Chippenham,  to  Jane,  eldest  dau.  of  John  dau.  of  the  Earl  and  Countess  of  Harcwood. 

AwdrY,esq.  ofNotton,  co.Wilts. At  St.     In  Stratton-sL  by  special  licence,  the 

Marys,  Beverley,  Capt.  Tozer,  R.N.    of  Duke  of  St.  Alban's,  to  Mrs.  Coutts,  widoii»> 

Plymouth,  to  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  H.  Hut-  of  the  late  Thos  Coutts,  esq.  Banker.    The 

ton,  esq.  of  Lincoln. S.  W.  Savill,  esq.  ceremony  wasperformed  by  Lord  Frederick 

of  Rocking,  Essex,  to  Susanna,  third  dau.  BeaQclerk.     Tliere  were  present  tlie  Mar- 

of  J.  E.   fabor,    esq. At    Croydon,  qiiis  and  March,  of  Bute,  the  Countess  of 

Henry,  second  son  of  Tho.  Bainbridgc,  esq.  Guil/urd,    the  Earl   of  Bessborough,    the 

of  Queen-square,  to  Harriet  Anne,  eldest  Earl  and  Countess  of  Hfrrowby,  and  other 

dan.  of  Cluts.  F.Burnett,  esq.  of  Haling     members  of  the  respective  families. 18. 

Park. At  St.  Mary's  Marylebone,  Sa-  At  Westerham,  Kent,  John  Mackie  Leslie, 

innel  Miller,  esq.  to  Miss  Barry,  only  dau.  of  esq.  of  Huntingdon,  to  Anna  Sophia,  dau. 

the  late  Rev.  G.  A.  Barry,  of  Reading. of  Dr.  Mackie,   late  of  Southampton. 

,  Oilet  H'iltoa,  esq.  of  Ix>rds,  near  Favors-  19.     Mr.  W.  Druce,  of  Cheyne-walk,  to 

btUB,  Kent,  to  Mary,  second  dau..  of  B.\c\\.  CaiVi. 'Dtucft)  «Ue»x  di^L.  o<  ^,  Dvckeuaoo,' 

VMttbfijthuyMeD,  etq.  of  John-iUeet,  Bed-.  cs«v  ,^  V4\|5nM>\«-\U«ft\i« 


i8«7.]  t    559    ] 

OBITUARY. 


Ring  of  Saxony.  to  watcb,  If  not  to  over-awe  Austria. 

May  5.    At  Dresden,  af^ed  76,  Frede-  He  was  atoo  one  of  the  6rst  to  accede  to 

rick-Aufruttus,  King  of  Saxony.  the  alliance  of  Princes,  projected  by  tbe 

He  was  bom  Dec.  S3,  1750,  the  eldest  Kinff  of  Prassia,   ostensibly  to  support 

son  of  Frederick-Christian,   the  )ireced-  the  neutrality  of  the  secondary  states  of 

\\\%  Elector,  by  the  Princess  Maria- An-  the   empire,    bdt  virtually    tu  operate 

toinetta  of  Bavaria.    At  the  age  uf  thir-  against  the  schemes  of  Austria, 
teen  be  succeeded  his  father  as^  Elector  ;         in   1791,   Frederick   of  Saxony  maff- 

tbe  administration  bciii|^  intrusted,  dur-  nanimoosly  declined   the    offer  of   the 

\Vi%   his   minority,  to   his  eldest  uncle,  crown  of  Poland,  proffered  to  him  in  the 

Prince  Xavier.    In   1768,  when  be  as-  naipe  of  the  Polish  nation.     In  the  same 

suroed  the  government.  Saxony  was  still  year,   the   memorable    conferences   be- 

.  suffering  from  the  cunsequences  of  the  tween  the  Emperor    Leopold  and  the 

seven  years  war  t  but,  under  the  rule  of  Kin^  of  Prussia  were  held  at  Pilnitx,  one 

the  young  Prince,  directed  by  his  minb-  <»f   Frederick's    country    houses.     TIm 

ter  Gutschmidt,  it  soon  attained  a  com-  Elector  of  Saxony  was  unable  to  avert 

paratively    floarisbiti|^    state.      In   the  the  projected  war  against  France  \  but 

course  of  a  lew  days,  bank  paper,  which  he  entered  into  the    coalition   a^inst 

had  been  greatly  depreciated,  rose*  above  that   power  with  great  reluctance.    In 

its  nominal  value.  the    ensuing   year,   when    the    French 

In  1769,  Frederiek-Aagnstbs  married  troops  invaded  the  Netheriands,  and  tbe 

Mary- Amelia- Augesta,    sister  of   tbe  districts  in  the   Lower  Rhine,  he  was 

Elector,    afterwards  King,  of  Bavaria,  compelled  to  furnish^  for  his  own  pro- 

The  only  offspring  of  tbe  marriage  was  ti^ction,  as  a  Prince  of  the  Empire,  hia 

one  daughter,  Mary-Auc«sta«  bom  in  contingent  of   troops    of   the    general 

1782,  and  married  in  1819,  to  Ferdinand  army.     For  four  years  he  adhered  to  the 

Vli.  King  of  Spain.  allies;  but  when,    after  the  treaty  of 

In  the  early  part  of  Frederick's  Elec-  Basil,  between  Prussia  and  France,  the  ' 
toral  reign,  the  ancient  Saxon  code,  French  General  Jourdan,  in  1796,  pene- 
.  notorious  for  its  severity  in  criminal  trated  into  Franconis,  he  proposed  an 
oases,  was  greatly  meliorated,  and  tbe  armistice,  and  acted  on  the  principle  of 
torture  abolished.  In  1776,  a  pint  was  neutrality.  During  the  Congress  ^ 
formed  against  the  Elector's  person  ;  Rastadc,  from  1797  to  1799,  he  exerted 
hut,  through  the  information  of  the  himself  to  the  utmost  to  preserve  tbe 
King  of  Prussia,  it  was  discovered  in  integrity  of  tbe  Empire.  In  the  contest 
time  to  prevent  mischief,  and  Colonel  between  Pranee  and  Austria, Jn  1805»  he 
Agnolo,  a  Transalpine,  the  chief  con-  remained  neutral,  but,  from  his  con- 
spirator, was  arrested.  The  Electress  nexion  with  Prussia,  he  was  under  the 
dowager,  dissatisfied  with  her  political  necessity  of  granting  to  the  troops  of 
nullity  in  the  state,  was  supposed  to  be  that  power,  a  passage  through  Saxony; 
implicated  in  this  affair.  The  sincere  and  also,  to  furnish,  in  the  following 
attachment  to  the  Elector,  at  this  year,  a  body  of  29,000  auxiliaries.  The 
.  period,  evinced  by  Marcolina,  an  Italttn  victories  of  Jena  and  .Auenitadt  laid 
belonging  to  tbe  household,  subse-  open  his  territories  to  the  French:  the 
quently  procured  for  him  the  office  of  respect  due  to  his  personal  charseter 
Minister.  proved  serviceable  to  his  people  ;  bat, 

Maximilian,   Elector  of  Bavaria,  the  as  tb» price  of  the  Elector's  neutrality, 

last  male  branch  of  his  house,  died  in  Buonaparte  subjected  Saxony  to  heavy 

1777.    The  nearest  heir  to  his  personal  requisitions,  and  to  a  contribution  in 

property  was  the  mother  of  the  Elector  money  of  1,000,000/.  sterling,    fa  re- 

uf  Saxony  ;  and,  to  enforce  his  claims  as  lieve  his  subjects,  the  Elector  made  great 

her  representative,  that    Prince  allied  advances  to  France  out  of  his  own  per- 

hlmself  with  Frederick  II.  of  Prussia,  in  sonal  treasury,  and  from  his  own  per- 

opposition   to  Austria,  which,    after  a  sonal  estates. 

single  contest,  withdrew  her  claims,  and        In  consequence  of  the  treaty  signed  at 

Frederick  of  Saxony  became  possessed  of  Posen,  in  December  1806,  the  fortifica- 

half  a  million  sterling  of  tbe  personal  tions  of  Dresden  were  levelled  with  tbe 

effects  of  the  deceased  Elector.  ground.    Saxony,  however,  was  cohsti- 

By  locality  of  situation,  as  well  as  by  tuted  a  Kingdom  \  iL\i\  %!k  'k  ^\^%^^^a 

political     connexion,     tbe    Elector   of  EAeclot  ac^e4«4  \o  xXv*  ^v.VAkc*9:>«^  w 

SM%ony  was  iiiJueed  to  Join  with  Pmula  iVie  ^\ii«.   T^  \>a>Mi«0B»2«>2^  ^^^"^^  "^  . 


560 


Obituary.— l!>iic dela  ttachefaucauld. 


[June, 


4 

TiUit  conveyed  to  the  new  .Kin|;  certain 
provinces  detached  from  PniMia  in  vari- 
o«i8  quarters.  Frederick  was,  on  the 
other  hand,  bound  to  maintsrin  a  ho6y 
of  S0,000  men,  to  be  at  the  command  uf 
.Buonaparte  for  the  defence  of  France. 
.  Consequently  in  1809»  he  was  compelled 
to  march  bis  troops  against  Austria  ; 
but  it  was  evident  that  the  proclama- 
tions which  he  issued  from  Fnttikfort, 
whither  be  retired  whilst  hit  states  were 
occupied  by  the  Austrians,  were  dictated 
hy  bis  French  connexion. 

The  King  of  Saiony  was  obliged  to 
quit  Dresden  on  the  approach  of  the 
Russians,  in  the  beginning  of  1813; 
tnit  he  was  restored  by  France  after  the 
battles  of  Lutsen  and  Bautzen  {  and 
afterwards  his  country  became  the  seat 
of  war.  Numerous  were  the  disasters 
bv  which  its  utter  ruin  was  threatened. 
Ultimately,  the  King  of  Saxony  was  con- 
ducted to  Berlin,  while  a  Russian  Gene- 
ral commanded  in  Dresden.  In  October 
1814,  the  Russian  oflBcer  delivered  up 
bis  charge  to  the  Frustians,  a  transfer 
aupposed  to  have  been  long  previously 
arranged.  Against  this  arrangement, 
Frederick  made  a  ntost  energetic  protesf, 
|»ositive]y  refusing  his  consent  or  accep- 
tance of  any  indemnif)ration  whatsoever. 
At  length,  in  February  1815,  the  Empe- 
rors of  Russia  and  Austria,  and  the  King 
of  Prussia,  deiermiued  that  the  King  of 
Saxony  should  relinquish  to  Prussia  a 
tract  of  valuable  country,  containing 
164,000  inhabitants,  that  he  should  lose 
his  share  of  Poland ;  that  he  should 
cede  tracts  of  land  to  Saxe  Weimar  and 
to  Austria  ;  and  that  his  remaining  ter- 
-  ritory  should  be  reduced  to  an  extent  of 
country,  inhabited  by  only  1,138,000. 
Soon  afterwards,  Frederick  Augustus 
united  his  contingent  of  troops  to  the 
allied  armies,'  and  they  formed  a  part  of 
the  army  of  occupation  on  the  frontier 
of  France.  His  efforts  were  beiirefor- 
ward  sedulously  employed  in  healiiiii:  the 
deep  and  dangerous  wounds  of  his  King- 
dom. Through  tlie  influence  of  the 
,  King  of  Prussia,  he  on  the  Ist  of  May, 
J  817,  acceded  to  the  Holy  Alliat^ce. 

His  Mi\jesty's  successor  is  his  cousin, 
of  the  same  name,  the  son  of  his  uncle, 
ilaximillian,  and  Caroline-Mary-The- 
fcsa  of  Parma.  He  was  born  May  18, 
1797  ;  he  accompanied  the  Saxon  troops 
to  France  in  1815,  and  he  was  then 
contracted  with  a  daughter  of  the 
£mperor  of  Austria. 

Due  DE  LA  ROCHBFAUCAULD. 

March  S8.    At  Paris,  aged  81,  Fran- 
^18   Aiexandre  Frederic,   Due   de    U 
Rocbehuiouild'  Liancourt. 
Ttu   venerable    ndbfoin&n  ^ts  «t\Vl 


more  illustrious  for  bis  patriotism  and 
philanthropy,>than  from  his  splendid  de- 
scent from  one  of  the  most  ancient  fa- 
milies of  France.    As  a  member  of  the 
National  Assembly  he  was  xealoos   in 
promoting  reform  in  the  aidminist ration 
and  finances,  and  took  a  conspicuous 
part   in  the  debates  of  the  memorable 
4th  of  August,  when  the  feudal  system 
was  declared  to  be  abolished.     After  the 
iOth  of  August,  1792,   he  fled  to  Eng- 
land, whence  he  proceeded  to  America, 
in  which  country  he  remained  till   1799, 
travelling  through  various   parts,   and 
collecting   information   relative  to  the 
state   of  its  agriculture  and  manufac- 
tures, and  its  political  and  charitable  in- 
stitutions.   The  result  of  these  travels 
he  afterwards  gave  to  the  public,  in  six 
volumes.    On  his  return  to  France  be 
rejected  all  the  overtures  made  him   by 
Napoleon,  and  would  accept  of  no  other 
favour  than  the  order  of  the  Legion  of 
Honour.    From  this  period  be  applied 
himself  wholly  to  the  improvement   of 
bis  estates,  and  established  cotton  ma- 
nufactories on  the  plan  of  those  in  Eng- 
land.    He  founded  sobools  for  artisans 
at   Compiegne,   Chalons,  and   Anders  ^ 
and  was  instrumental  in   forming  the 
'  Conservatoire  des  Aks  et  Metiers,'  at 
Paris.     Every  institution   that  had  for 
its  object  either  the  relief  of  the  suffer- 
ing or  the  reform  of  tbe  guilty   shared 
his  zeal ;  hospitals  and  prisons,  the  asy- 
lums of  indigent  age,  or  deserted    in- 
fancy,  are   alike  indebted   to   him  for 
many  useful  regulations  and  improve- 
tneiits.     in  short,  bis  lessons,  his  ex- 
ample,   his   influence,   were  unifornsly 
employed  for  the  benefit  of  the  public ; 
nor  should  it  be  forgotten  that  it  is  to 
him  France  is  indebted  for  the  first  in- 
troduction   of    vaccination    into    that 
country,  an  object  to  which  he  conti- 
nued  to   devote    his  attention   during 
twenty  years  of  his  long  and  c»seful  life. 
Besides  bis  Travels  in  America,  be  pub- 
lished, anonymously,  a  small  but  valua- 
ble work.  La  St  at  ist  ique  du  Canton  de 
Creil,  which  supplies  much  important 
information  as  to  the  progress  of  agri- 
culture, trade,  manufactures,  and  pupa- 
lar  education   in  that  part  of  France 
where  he  had  fixed  his  residence. 

The  duke's  funeral  took  place  on  the 
30ih,  hut  his  patriotism  and  his  virtues 
could  not  shield  his  remains  from  insult 
while  being  conducted  to  the  grave.  A 
numerous  train  of  peers,  deputies,  and 
distinguished  individuals  of  every  rank 
followed,  on  this  mournful  occasion,  to 
the  Church  of  the  Assumption,  when  tiie 
solemnity  of  the  scene  was  suddenly 
couMntv^^  wx^  vsim%>x  «sA   dUofder. 


1687-]  Obituaiy. — Earl  Ferrer:  561 

Chalons  bid  obtaided  permission  to  tes-  Xhm  Urji^t  and  most  elegant  display  of 

tify  their  reipeet  for  their  benefactor  by  Grecian  architecture  in  that  county.    It 

bearing  bis  coffin  to  the  grave  {  but  a  is  a  light  and  elegant  structure ;  the 

commiuary  of  tbe  police  and  a  military  chief  front  after  Palladio,   and  backed 

officer  insisted  upon  this  ceremony  be-  by  a  fine  wood,  in  contrast  with  a  wild 

ing  dispensed  with,  and  recourse  Was  heath  at  a  due  distance,  and  a  variety  of 

actually   had  to  violence  to  wrest  the  beaatiful  scenery  surrounds  it.    Another 

tbe  coffin  from   its  bearers ;  the  coffin  seat  at  Rakedale   in  Leiccitersbire,  hb 

itseifwas  thrown  down,  and  a  number  Lordship    entirely  built,  about    1785; 

of  persons  seriously   injured.     At  tbe  and  at  present  it  is  possessed  by  Mr* 

Barrier  of  Clichy,  an  eloquent  harangue  Joliff^,  in  right  of  his  late  wife,-who  was 

in    honour  of   the  deceased    was  pro-  a  daughter  of  Earl  Ferrers  by  bis  second 

nounced  by  M.  C.  Dupin,  member  of  the  Lady.  ■         -^ 

Academy   of  Sciences.    The   following         **  The  family  of  Shirley,*'  says   Mr. 

day,  on  the  motion  of  tbe  Due  de  Choi-  Burton,  in  his  MS.  additions  to  the  Lei- 

seul,  the  Chamt>er  of  Peers  ordered  that  cestersfaire,  .'*  is   of  great  antiquity,  of 

a  specific  inquiry  should   be  made  into  an  aneient  Saxon  line  long  before  tbe     • 

the  cause  of  the  disturbance.  conquest,  which,  if  there  was  no  other 

■  proof,  the  very  Saxon  names  used   by 

Earl  Ferrers.  them  about  the  time  of  the  conquest  (as 

Map.,,     At   Hastings,    aged   70,  the  Sewal,  Fulcber,  Eldred,  and  the  like). 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Robert  Shirley,  seventh  would  fully  testify.    Their  matches  were 

Earl  Ferrers  and   Viscount  TamwoHb,  eminent,  as   with  .the  heirs  of  Walde- 

and  thirteenth  Baronet  of  Staunton  Har-  cheife,  Braose,  Basset,  Staunton,  Lovet, 

old  in  Leicestershire,  F.S.A.  Uevereux,  and  Ferrers,  all  families  of 

Hts  Lordship  was  burn  September  SI,  note."  In  the  library  ofStaunton,the:p«- 

1756,  the  eldest  son  of  Robert  the  late  digree  of  Shirley  measures  nearly  40  feet, 

tiarl,   by  Catherine,  daughter  of  Row-  and  on  it  are  richly  emblazoned  tbe  arms 

land  Cotton,  of  Etwall  in   Derbyshire,  and  several  monuments  and  portraits  of 

esq.     lie   is  said   to  have  received  his  this  noble  family,  with  copious  abstracts 

education  in    High-street,  Marylebone,  of  several  of   their  wills,    deeds,   Ac.  ^ 

where  bis  father,  then  a  younger  bro-  Over  the  porch  of  the  old   mansion  at  * 

ther,  resided  on   a  small  fortune.    He  Rakedale,  (built  about  1689,  and  now  a 

afterwards  went  abroad,  and  lived  for  farm-house,)    remains   a  large  coat   of 

some  years  in   foreign  countries.     His  arms  carved  in  stone,  with  nu  less  than 

L<irdship  succeeded   his  father  in    his  fifty  quarterings.     The  late  Lord  Fer- 

bonoursin  1787,  and  was  twice  manied,  rars  had  a  considerable  taste  for  genem- 

firstly,  March  13,  1778,  to  Miss  Eliaa-  logical  and  heraldic   pursuits;  and  was 

beih  Prentise,  by  whom  he  had  issue  an  particularly  well-skilled  in  the  history  of 

only    son,    Robert    Sewallis,   Viscount  his  own  family.    This  taste  led  bis  Lord- 

Tam worth,  who  married   in    1800,  the  ship  to  be  very  assistant  to  Mr.  Nichols, 

lion.  Sophia-Caroline  Curson,  daughter  when  compiling    the    account  of  tbe 

uf   Lord  Scarsdale,  but  died   s.   p.  1.  in  Shirley  Family  in  his  elaborate  *'  History 

1824   (see  vol,  xciv.  ii.).    Having   lost  of   Leicestershire."      To    Earl  Ferrers, 

his   first  Countess  September  14,  1799,  Mr.  Nichols  dedicated  one    of   his    Yo- 

the  Earl  married  on  that  day  fortnight,  lumes  ;  and  in  1795,  in  anticipation  of 

Elizabetb,youngestdaughter  of  Wright-  bis  Lordship's  assistance,  Mr.  Nichola 

son  Mundy,  of  Afarkeaton,  in  Derby-  thus   acknowledges  his    obligations  i— 

shire,  esq.  and  sister  to  Francis  l^undy,  <*  £arl  Ferrers  bar  personally  condescen- 

esq.  now  M.P.  for  that   county.    This  ded  to  alleviate  my  labours,  by  extracts 

lady  died  in  February  last  (see  p.  S83).^  from   the  original  registers  of  Bredon 

The  late  Earl  never  at  all  interfered  in  Priory,  by  copies  of  deeds  and  seals  in 

public  affairs  ;  but  was  veiy  expert  and  his  own   archives,    and   by   tbe    roost 

attentive  to  bis  private  concerns.    He  copious  pedigree  i  have  ever  yet  seen." 

was  his  own   manager,  and  in    conse-  Some  years  afterwards,  when  Mr.  Nieholf 

quence  his  fortune  prospered*    When  he  came  to  describe  the  Hundreds  of  East 

came  to  his  estates,  they  were,  we  be-  and  West  Goscote,   he  was  not  diiap- 

lieve,  very  much  disarranged.   His  Lord-  pointed  in  his  expectations  of  bis  Lord- 

sliip  soon  re-instated  them,  added  con-  ship's  effectual  assistance.    He  ebeefed 
siderably  to  bis  landed  property,  aud     bis  labours  by  his  personal  attentions  at 

died  extremely  rich  in   personals.    He  his  different  seats  in  the  county  of  Lti- 

bad  a  great  taste  for  building,  and  bad  cester,   opened    bis    stores   to   his    re- 
at  one  time  six  mansions  in  differettt     searches,  and  communicated  much  in- 

parts  of  the  country.     His  chief  seat  in  teresting  information,  as  the  reader  will 
Leicestershire  was  at  Staunton  Harold,     be  convinced    by  cou%^A<vK5^  >&qa.  "^vv^ 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Jsmei  I8t7. 


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5^      Obitu ART.- Lordt  Kirkcudbright^  Crtmwrm,  lr  Outleeoott.    [June, 

1815,  wIm  died  an  mfint,  and  aoathtr^ 
hit  aocecftor,  born  in  1817. 


Tolume  of  *'  Leiceitanbire,"  in  wbipb 
will  be  found  very  ample  pedigrees  and 
macb  curioui  matter  relative  to  all  tbe 
brancbes  of  tbe  Sbirley  family.  Hia 
Lordibip  also  contributed  several  en|i:rav» 
Ings  of  bis  seats,  curious  seals  in  bis 
possession,  &c.  to  tbe  embcllisbment  of 
tbe  work. 

His  brotber-in-law,  Mr.  Mandy,  and 
Mr.  Smedley,  are  left  bis  Lordsbip's 
executors.  Tbe  Earl  bas  left  a  lar|^ 
personal  property  to  a  favourite  youn|( 
lady,  one  of  several  ille^timate  cbildren 
of  his  son,  tbe  late  Viscount  Tamwortb. 

Tbe  Earl  is  succeeded  in  bis  titles  and 
estates  by  bis  only  brotbeiw  ^^  Hon. 
Wasbington  Sbirley,  now  eigbtb  Earl 
Ferrers. 

Lord  Kirkcudbright. 

April  16.  At  bis  residence,  Raeberry 
Lodge,  Soutbampton,  aged  55,  tbe  Right 
Hon.  Sbolto  Henry  Maclellan,  eighth 
Lord  Kirkcudbright. 

His  Lordship  was  bom  August  15, 
1771,  the  eldest  son  of  John  the  seventh 
Lord,  by  Miss  Bannister*  of  tbe  Isle  of 
Wight.  He  was  formerly  in  the  foot- 
guards,  and  married  March  S8,  Miss 
Cantei,  but  has  left  no  issue.  He  was 
short  in  stature,  and  somewhat  deform- 
ed  in  person.  With  some  eccentricities, 
be  possessed  many  good  qualities.  He 
is  succeeded  by  bis  only  brother,  Cai^- 
den-Grey,  an  officer  in  tbe  guards. 

Lord  Cremornb. 

March  31.  At  Dawson  Grove,  co. 
Monagban,  aged  38,  tbe  Right  Hon. 
Richard  Thomas  Dawson,  second  Baron 
Cremorne. 

This  nobleman  was  born  August  31, 
1788,  the  eldest  son  of  Richard  Dawson, 
esq.  M;P.  for  the  county  of  Monagban, 
by  Catherine,  fourth  daughter  of  Arthur 
Graham,  of  Hockley,  co.  Armagh,  esq. 
He  succeeded  his  grand-uncle  Thomas, 
)n  the  Barony  of  Cremorne,  March  1, 
1813.  That  personage  was  first  created 
a  Peer  in  1770,  as  Baron  Dartrey,  and 
advanced  to  the  Viscountcy  of  Cremorne 
in  1785.  Having  no  surviving  issue, 
and  anticipating  the  eatinction  of  these 
titles,  he  obtained,  in  1797,  the  dignity 
of  Baron  Cremorne  with  remainder  to 
bis  nephew,  Richard  Dawson,  who  dying 
in  1807,  left  bis  son,  tbe  Peer  now  de- 
ceased, to  inherit  it 

Lord  Cremorne  was  married  March 
10,  1815,  to  Anpe,  third  daughter  of 
John  VVhaley,  of  Whaley  Abbey,  co. 
Wicklow,  esq.  by  Anne,  eldest  daughter 
of  John,  first  Earl  of  Clanwilliam 
(which  latter  lady  died  in  last  April); 
By  LAdy  Cremorne^  who  survives  her 
buibMiid,  be  bad  isiae  r  son,  \Kitu\n 


Lord  Castlbcootb. 

"  Latefy,  At  Paris,  the  Right  Hon. 
Sir  Eyre  Coote,  third  Baron  Castlecoote, 
CO.  Roscommon,  and  tenth  Baronet  of 
Castle  Cuffe,  in  tbe  Queen's  County. 

His  Lordship  was  the  third  but  only 
surviving  son  of  Charles-Henry,  tlitt 
second  Lord  (who  succeeded  to  tbm 
title  by  a  special  remainder  on  the 
death  of  his  kinsman  tbe  Earl  of  Mount- 
rath),  by  Elizabeth  Anne>  eldest  dau. 
and  cob.  of  tbe  Rev.  Hen.  Tilson,  D.D. 
He  married,  in  July  18S9,  Barbara^ 
second  dau.  of  Sir  Joshua  Colles  Mer^ 
dith,  of  Madareen,  co.  Kilkenny,  hart, 
but  bas  left  no  issue.  He  succeeded  his 
father  Jan.  22,  1823.  He  bas  left  no 
successor  to  his  titles,  but  is  succeeded 
in  bis  estates  by  Eyre  Coote,  esq. 

Lt.-Col.  J.  B.  Wbmyss. 

May  IS.    At  his  seat,  Wemyss  Hall. 

Fifeshire,  Lieut.-Colonel  James  Ballbar. 
This  officer  purchased  an  Ensigncy  In 
the  65th  foot,  in  March  1776 ;  and  in 
September  following,  was  transferred 
with  the  additional  company  to  tbe  31st 
regiment.  In  Oct.  1779>  he  purchased  a 
Lieutenancy  in  the  87th  regiment,  and 
immediately  embarked  for  the  West 
Indies ;  be  was  appointed  Capt.-Lieo* 
tenant  in  that  regiment,  Feb.  2,  1780, 
and  Captain  of  a  company  in  Sept.  fol- 
lowing, for  bis  services  as  an  engineer  in 
fortifying  a  naval  post  at  St.  Lucla» 
under  Lord  Rodney.  He  continued  to  ' 
serve  in  the  West  Indies  and  in  North 
America  till  tbe  peace  of  1783  ;  and 
while  on  those  stations,  was  in  three 
general  engagements  on  board  Lord 
Rodney's  fleet  (where  the  regiment  waa 
serving  on  marine  duty) :  he  was  also  at 
tbe  attack  made  on  St.  Lucia,  and  on 
several  other  services  during  that  war. 
He  was  reduced  with  the  regiment  in 
1783,  and  while  on  half-pay,  viiited  moet 
of  tbe  armies  then  in  the  field  on  the 
continent,  being  anxious  to  gain  know- 
ledge in  his  profession  ;  and  particularly 
oflFered  bis  services  as  a  volunteer  to  tbe 
Prince  of  Orange  in  tbe  Dutcli  revolu- 
tion in  1787,  and  at  bis  own  eapence 
proposed  to  reform  a  regiment  of  the 
Scots  brigade  (disbanded  by  tbe  patriots), 
but  was  refused  permission  by  the  then 
British  minister  in  that  quarter.  He 
purchased  into  tbe  11th  foot  in  1789, 
and  8«*rved  with  it  at  Gibraltar  till  Its 
return  to  England  in  1792.  He  again- 
embarked  with  tbe  grenadier  company, 
of  which  be  was  captain,  on  board  Lord 
Hoodia  ^««l  l^i  vVftMadUAVcmneaOy  and 


1687.]  OhirvMMYj^Dr.  H<iU.-^P.  Rtrndell,  E$q,  56S 

was  pretent  at  the  'takin|^  of  Toukm,  MtaUitbiiMnt.  When  he  left  London 
and  had  several  commands  of  peat  eon-  be  fpenerally  took  up  hit  abode  with  n 
sequence  (dwing  to  the  want  of  field  married  niece  resident  at  Brompton  | 
offieete)  $  and  at  the  evacuation  be  bad  and  in  town  bis  happiest  hours  were 
the  honour  to  command  the  rear  guard,  sp^nt  with  the  fiimily  of  another  nieoey 
and  was  sent  borne  with  despatches  by  the  wife  of  Mr.  John  Bannister  the 
Lord  Hood  and  Sir  Darid  Dundas,  comedian.  When  one  of  Mr.  Bannister^ 
strongly  recommended  to  the  then  sons  (an  articled  clerk  to  Messrs.  Wit* 
Secretary  at  war,  and  Adjutant-general,  liams  and  Brooks,  of  Lincoln's-inn)  waa 
He  obtained  the  rank  of  Major  by  bre-  out  of  his  time,  Mr.  Rundell  called  aft 
vet,  March  1, 1794 ;  and  that  of  Lieut.-  the  office,  and  invited  him  to  bfeakfaat 
colonel,  January!,  1798.  From  priYate  on  the  following  day.  The  young  man 
reasons  of  an  urgent  nature,  he  went  on  went,  and  Mr.  R.,  after  putting  many 
half-pay  without  taking  any  difference,  interrogatories  as  to  bis  intended  pur- 
still  wishing  to  retain  bis  rank  in  the  suits  in  life,  on  dismissing  him,  put  into 
army,  and  to  return  to  active  service  in  bis  hand  a  piece  of  paper,  charging  him 
the  line  when  the  urgency  that  induced  not  to  examine  it  till  he  got  home  ;  it 
him  to  go  on  half-pay  should  terminate*  was  a  written  promise  for  ten  thousand 
He  accepted  of  the  Licut.-Colonelcy  of  pounds,  payable  at  bis  own  death,  or 
the  Fifesbire  militia,  and  commanded  upon  the  party's  marriage,  which  event 
that  regiment  till  June,  1606,  and  after-  shortly  afterwards  taking  place,  the  pro- 
wards  another  regiment  of  local  militia,  mise  was  faithfully  fulfilled* 

•^—  Mr.  RundelPs  will  was  proved  in  Doe- 
Da.  Hall,  Dean  op  Durham.  tors'    Commons  three   days   after  hia 

March  16.  At  an  hotel  in  Edinburgh,  death.    The  personal  effects  were  sworn 

whither  he  had  gone  to  consult  phyti-  at  upwards  of  1,000,0001.  the.  ut moat 

clans  on  a  sudden  attack  of  fever,  aged  limit  to  which  the  scale  of  the  probate- 

63,  the  Very  Rev.  Charles  Henry  Hall,  duty  extends.    The  amount  of  the  per- 

D<D.  Dean  of  Durham,  and  Vicar  of  sonal  property  is  said  to  be  larger  than 

Luton  in  Bedfordshire.  under  any  preceding  will  since  the  pro- 

Dr.  Hall  was  son  of  the  late  Dean  of  bate  duty  took  place,  which  in  this  eara 
Bockingi  he  was  educated  at  West-  amounts  to  1 5,0001.  The  first  legacy  ia 
minster,  and  from  thence,  in  1779,  was  S0,000^to  Mrs.  Maria  Rundell,  the  testa- 
elected  a  Student  of  Christ  Church,  Os-  tor's  sister-in-law.  The  testator  then 
ford.  In  1781,  he  gained  the  Chancel-  states  that,  wbere'as  he  bad  carried  on  the 
lor's  prise  for  Latin  verse  ;  took  the  business  of  a  goldsmith  on  Ludgate-hill 
degree  of  B.A.  178S  ;  and  in  the  follow-  for  fifty  years  previous  to  bis  quitting 
ing  year  obtained  the  English  Essay  business,  whereby  he  bad  acquired  bis 
*'  on  the  Use  of  Medals."  He  became  fortune,  and  whereas  be  had  given  to 
M.A.  1786$  B.D.  1794;  and  in  the  his  nephew,  Edmund  Waller  Rundelli  a 
latter  year  was  presented  by  bis  college  share  of  his  boiiness,  besides  an  estate 
to  the  Vicarage  of  Broogbton,  in  York-*  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  and  to  hIa 
shire.  In  1798  he  was  appointed  to  nephew  Thomas  Bigge  (the  correspond* 
preach  the  Bampton  Lecture ;  and  in  ing  partner  to  the  house)  a  share  in  hii 
1799  appointed  a  Canon  of  Christ  business,  and  a  bond  for  10,0001.  be 
Church.  He  took  the  degree  of  D.D.  leaves,  in  addition,  to  Edward  Waller 
1 800 1  and  waa  presented  to  the  vicarage  Rundell,  1 0,000t  and  to  bis  wife  1 0,0001. ; 
of  Luton  in  1804,  by  the  late  Marqueta  to  Thos.  Bigge,  in  addition,  the  sum  of 
of  Bote.  He  published  a  Sermon  5,000/.  and  to  bis  wife,  6,0001.  Veiy 
preached  before  the  House  of  Com-  numerous  legacies  follow,  of  5,0001. 
moBSon  the  Fast-day,  1805;  and  waa  3,000(.  8,000/.  besides  a  vast  number  ol 
appointed  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity  smaller  sums,  chiefly  to  persons  who  bad 
in  1807,  on  the  resignation  of  Bishop  been  servants  of  the  deceased,  to  most 
Randolph.  In  1809  be  succeeded  Dr.  of  whom  he  has  left  100/.  Among  the 
Cyril  Jackson,  as  Dean  of  Christ  legacies  of  5,000/.  is  one  in  trust  for  the 
Church ;  and  was  appointed  to  the  benefit  of  Mr.  John  Bannister  the  elder» 
Deanery  of  Durham  in  1 884.  for  his  life,  then  to  bis  daughter,  besidei 

—  a  legacy  to  John  Bannister  the  younger. 

PniLiF  RuNDBLL,  EsQ.  The  large  family  of  Mr.  Bigge  are  alao 

JFkb.  17.    Aged  81,  Philip  Rundell,  individual  legatees.    The  sum  of  5001, 

esq.  the  bead  of  the  firm  of  Rundell,  is  left  to  the  Bath  Hospital ;    and  to 

Bridge,  and  Rundell,  goldsmiths  to  hia  most  (if  not  all)   of  the  charitable  in<- 

Majesty,  on  Lodgate  Hill.  stitutions  in  London  there  is  a  bequeet 

Tbia  gentleman  amassed  a  vast  for-  of  SOO/.  each.    The  most  important  be- 

tune  by  habiu  of  eatrsme  frugality.    He  quest    is    contained  Vti   \^^  t«bmLx»x^ 

waa  never  mtrned,  and  never  kept  in  d%ufte>  ^>at«lV|  ^^a  vtaxsixvt  ig^^^  ^^ 


564 


Obituary.— rillf  Rawlandson. 


[Jane, 


>'  bit  esteemed  friend,  Joseph  Neeld  the 
younger,  (attorney)  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple," all  the  rest  and  residue  of  hit  real, 
personal,  and  mixed  estate,  which  it  is 
computed  will  amount  to  not  less  than 
890,000/.  A  codical  annexed  to  the 
^ill,  contains  a  legacy  of  10,000/.  to 
Mrs.  Wariidge,  and  5,000/.  to  another 
person,  besides  many  smaller  sums  to 
individuals  who  bad  been  formerly  in 
the  service  of  the  deceased.  The  will 
and  codicil  are  both  dated  the  4th  Fe^ 
bruary,  1827. 

Mr.  Rowlanoson. 

jfpril  33.  At  his  apartments  in  the 
Adelphi,  after  a  severe  illness  of  two 
years,  aged  70,  that  veteran  graphic 
humourist,  Mr.  Thomas  Rowlandspn. 

This  well-known  artist  was  born  in 
July  1756,  in  the  Old  Jewry,  where  his 
father  was  a  tradesman  of  respecta- 
bility. He  was  educated  at  the  school 
of  Dr.  Barvis  in  Sobo-square,  at  that 
time,  and  subsequently,  an  academy  of 
some  celebrity.  Richard  Burke,  son  of 
Edmund  Burke,  M.P.  was  his  schoolfel- 
low. Mr.  Holman,  the  celebrated  trage- 
dian, was  also  ^educated  there.  The 
academy  was  then  kept  by  Dr.  Barrew. 
At  a  very  early  period  of  bis  childhood, 
Rowlandson  gave  presage  of  his  future 
talent ;  and4)e  drew  humourous  charac- 
ters of  his  master  and  many  of  his  6cho« 
lars  before  he  was  ten  years  old.  The 
margins  of  his  school  books  were  cover- 
ed with  these  his  handy  works. 

In  his  sixteenth  year  be  was  sent  to 
Paris,  and  was  entered  a  student  in  one 
of  the  drawing  academies  there,  where  he 
made  rapid  advances  in  the  study  of  the 
human  figure  j  and  during  his  residence, 
which  was  nearly  two  years,  he  occasion- 
ally- indulged  that  satirical  talent,  in 
portraying  the  characteristics  of  that 
fantastic  people,  whose  ouirS  habits, 
perhaps,  scarcely  demanded  the  exagge- 
rations of  caricature. 

On  his  return  to  London,  he  resumed 
his  studies  at  the  Royal  Academy,  then 
held  in  some  apartments  at  old  Somerset 
House.  He  had  been  admitted  on  the 
list  of  students  before  his  visit  to  Paris. 
The  celebrated  Mr.  John  Bannister,  who 
had  evinced  an  equal  predilection  for 
the  graphic  art,  was  at  this  time  a  fel- 
low-student ;  and  it  was  here  that  their 
friendship  commenced. 

Tbn  elder  Rowlandson,  who  was  of  a 
speculative  turn,  lost  considerable  sums 
in  experimenting  upon  various  branches 
o£  manufactures,  which  were  tried  on 
too  large  a  scale  for  his  means  ;  hence 
bis  affaln  became  embarrassed,  and 
Us    $0n,    before  bt  bad  obtained   Vi\% 


manhood,    was     obliged     to     support 
himselfi 

He,  however,  derived  that  asaistanoe 
from  an  aunt  which  his  father's  reverse 
of  fortune  had  withheld.    This  lady,  who 
was  a  Mademoiselle  Chattelier,  married 
to  Thomas  Rowlandson,  his  uncle,  amply 
supplied  him  with  money  ;  and  to  this 
indulgence,  perhaps,  may  be  traced  those 
careless  habits  which  attended  bis  early 
career,  and   for  which  he  was  remark- 
able through   life.    At  her  decease,  she 
left  him  seven  thousand  pounds,  much 
plate,  trinkets,  and  other  valuable  pro- 
perty.    He  then  indulged  his  predUee- 
tion  for  a  joyous  life,  and  mixed  himself 
with  the  gayest  of  the  gay.     Whilst  at 
Paris,  being  of  a  social  spirit,  be  sought 
the  company  of  dashing  young   men; 
and,  among  other  evils,  iinbibed  a  love 
for  play.     He  was  known  in  London  at 
many  of  the  fashionable  gaming  bouses, 
alternately  won  and  lost   without  emo- 
tion, till  at  length  he  war  minus  several 
thousand  pounds.    He  thus  dissipated 
the  amount  of  more  than  one  valuable 
legacy.    It  was  said  to  his  honour,  how- 
ever, that  he  always  played   with  the 
feelings  of  a  gentleman,  and   bis  word 
passed  current,  even    when    with    an 
empty  purse.    He  assured  the  writer  of 
this  hasty  memoir,  who  knew  him  for 
more  than  forty  years,  that  he  had  fre- 
quently, played  throughout  a  night  and 
the  next  day  ;  and  that  once,  such  waa 
his  infatuation  for  the  dice,  he  continu- 
ed at  the  gaming  table  nearly  thirty-sia 
hours,  with  the  intervention  only  of  the 
time  fur  refreshment,   which  was  sup- 
plied by  a  Qold  collation. 

This  uncontrollable  passion  for  g^am- 
ing,  strange  to  ^ay,  subverted  not  bis 
principles.  He  was  scrupi>lously  upright 
in  all  his  pecuniary  transactions,  and 
ever  avoided  getting  into  debt.  He  has 
been  known,  after  having  lost  all  he 
possessed,  to  return  home  to  bis  profes- 
sional studies,  sit  down  cooly  to  fabri- 
cate a  series  of  new  designs,  and  to  ex-  . 
claim,  with  stoical  philosophy,  *'  1  have 
played  the  fool ;  but,"  holding  up  bis 
pencils,  <*  here  is  my  resource." 

It  is  not  generally  known,  that,  bow- 
ever  coarse  and  slight  may  be  the  gene- 
rality of  his  humurous  and  political 
etchings,  many  «)f  which  were  the  care- 
less effusions  of  a  few  hours,  bis  early 
works  were  wrought  with  care  ;  and  bis 
studies  from  the  human  figure,  at  the 
Royal  Academy,  were  scarcely  inferior 
to  those  of  the  justly  admired  Mortimer. 

From  the  versatility  of  his  talent,  the 
fecundity  of  his  imagination,  the  grace 
and  elegance  with  which  he  could  de- 
sign bis  groups,  added  to  the  almost  mi« 
Ta,c\x\uw%  ^«%v^\<«^^  ^\t.U  which  be  auf^ 


1627.]                           Obituabt.— Jiff.  C,  Dignum,  666 

plied  his  pttrons  with  compotitions  upon  voted  i  and,  hit  parent!  h^mg  of  thii 
every  subject,  it  bat  been  tbe  theme  of  Roman  Catholic  church,  he  son^  in  the 
regret  amongst  his  friends,  that  he  was  choir  when  a  hoy,  at  the  Sardinian  Am- 
tiot  more  careful  of  his  reputation.  Had  bauador's  chapel.  At  that  time  bis 
he  pursued  tbe  course  of  art  steadily,  be  voice  was  admired  by  the  frequenters  of 
might  have  become  one  of  tbe  greatest  the  chapel  for  its  melody  and  power; 
historical  painters  of  the  age.  His  style,  so  much  so,  that  Mr.  Samuel  Webbe,  a 
which  was  purely  his  own,  was  most  gentleman  well  known  in  the  musieal 
original.  He  drew  a  bold  ouMine  with  world,  remarked  bis  talents,  and  gave 
tbe  reed-pen,  in  a  tint  composed  of  ver-  him  instruction.  The  youth,  however* 
million  and  Indian-ink,  washed  in  the  though  he.  bad  a  soul  above  a  button, 
g*iiieral  effect  in  cbiaro  icuro,  and  tinted  entertained  no  idea  of  adopting  muiic 
tbe  whole  with  the  proper  colours.  This  as  a  profession ;  be  wished  rather  to  de* 
manner,  though  slight,  in  many  instan-  dicate  himself  to  tbe  service  of  religion* 
ces  was  moit  effective:  and  it  is  known,  and  importuned  his  father  to  send  bim 
on  indubitable  authority,  that  Sir  Jo*  to  the  college  at  Douay,  to  complete  his 
bhua  Reynolds  and  Mr.  West  have  each  education,  and  fit  bim  for  taking  holy 
declared,  that  some  of  his  drawings  orders.  This  plan  was  relini|oilhed,  in 
would  have  done  honour  to  Rubens,  or  consequence  of  tbe  pecuniary  embarrass- 
any  of  tbe  greatest  masters  of  design  of  ments.of  bis  father;  and  Charles  Dig^ 
ihe  old  schools.  num  was  placed  on  trial  under  the  care 

For  many  years,  for  he  was  too  idle  to  of  a  carver  and  gilder,  named  Eggleioei 

seek  new  employment,  his  kind  friend,  who  was  at  tbe  bead  of  that  branch  in 

and,  it  may  justly  be  added,  his  best  ad-  the  great  establishment  of  Messrs.  Sed- 

viser,    Mr.  Ackermaim,  %upplied  him  don  in  Aldersgate-street.    He  remained 

with  ample  subjects  for  the  eswrcise.of  nine  months  in  this  situation,  and  was 

his  talent.    The  many  works  which  his  on  tbe  point  of  being  regularly  articled, 

pencil  illustrated,  are  existing  evidence  when  a  quarrel  between  his  father  and 

of  this.   Many  suggestions  for  plates  for  Egglesoe     dissolved     tbe     connection, 

new  editions  of  those  jlopular  volumes.  Chance   now   operated  in   his  favour  ; 

"Tbe  Travels  of  Dr.  Syntax,"  "The  whilst   doubting    what    occupation    he 

Dance  of  Death,"  "  The  Dance  of  Life,"  should  follow,  be  was  introduced  to  tbe 

and  other  well-known  productions  of  tbe  celebrated    Mr.  Linley,  who  perceived 

versatile  pen  of  the  late  ingenious   Mr.  his   talents,  and   gave    him    flattering 

Coombe,  will  remain  tbe  mementos  of  hopes  of  becoming  an  acquisition  to  tbe 

his  grsphic  humour.  stage.      Dignum,    in   consequence,  ar* 

It  should  be  repeated,  that  his  reputa-  tided  himself  to  Linley  for  seven  years, 
lion  has  not  been  justly  appreciated.  Linley  bestowed  tbe  most  indefatiga- 
In  a  vast  collection  of  his  drawings  in  ble  attentions  on  his  pupil,  and  would 
the  possession  of  Mr.  Ackermann,  and  not  permit  bim  to  sing  in  public  till  his 
which  have  often  been  seen  with  admi*  judgment  was  sufficiently  matured.  It 
ration  and  delight  by  the  many  profes-  was  in  1784,  that  Charles  Dignum  made 
sional  artists  and  amatuers  who  fre-  his  ^6ti^  in  the  character  of  Young  Mea- 
quented  Mr.  Akermann's  coiiversaaioni,  dows,  in  the  comic  opera  of  Love  in  a 
at  his  library  at  the  old  bouse  in  tbe  Village.  His  figure  was  rather  unfa- 
Strand,  it  cannot  be  forgotten  that  some  vourable  for  the  part,  but  his  voice  was 
are  inimitable.  No  artist  of  the  past  or  so  clear  and  full  tuned,  and  his  manner 
present  school,  perhaps,  ever  expressed  of  singing  so  judicious,  that  be  was  re- 
so  much  as  Rowlandson  with  so  little  ceived  with  great  applause,  and  his  soe- 
effort,  or  with  so  evident  an  appearance  cess  was  such  as  to  give  the  opera  a  run 
of  the  atMCiice  of  labour.  of  several  nights.     He  next  appeared  in 

His   remains  were  followed  to    the  Cymon,  and  again  experienced  tbe  most 

grave  by  tbe  two  friends  of  his  youth,  flattering  a|»probation.    On  tbe  removal 

Mr.  Bannister  and    Mr.  Angelo  sen.,  of  the  elder  Bannister  to  tbe  Royalty 

and  by  bis  constant  friend  and  liberal  Theatre,  Dignum  succeeded  to  a  caste 

employer,  Mr.  Ackermann.  of  parts  more  suited  to  his  person  and 

■  his   voice,    which    was    a    fine    tenors 

Mr.  Charles  Dignum.  Amongst  other  characters  those  of  Haw* 

March  29.    At  bis  bouse  in  Glouces-  thorn  and  Giles  particularly  suited  himi 

ter-sr.  of  inflammation   in  tbe  lungs,  indeed  he  was  thought  superior  in  them 

aged  6S,  Mr.  Charles  Dignum.  to  any  actor  that  bad    had  appeared 

This  popular  singer  was  bom  at  Ro-  sincetbedaysof  Beard,  their  original 


therbithe,  where  and  subsequently  in  presentative.  His  histrionic  talents  were, 

Wild-st.  Lincoln'*  Inn  Fields,  his  father  however,  but  small ;  yet,  from  his  vocal 

was  a  respectable  master-tailor.  To  that  powers,  he  for  many  years  heVsi  vr«K^<i&.-- 

business  young  Dignum  wt^  at  fir^t  de-  \aVAt   %\V^^\\o\l   iX  ^Xsift  *\>aMfeXxft..    v». 


666 


O^iTUABY.— Z>r.  JaekML 


[Jon^ 


Vsuxball,  at  concerts,  and  at  pabHc  dta* 
sen,  he  was  alto  exceedingly  popular* 
Of  his  wit,  and  conversational  talents, 
nany  bighly  amosing  anecdotes  might 
ht  told. 

Dignum,  with  many  ludicrotis  eccen- 
tricities, was  an  amiable,  good-natnred, 
Jolly  fellow.  He  married,  many  years 
ago,  Miu  Rennett,  the  daughter  of  an 
attorney,  with  whom  be  received  a  con- 
•aderable  aecession  of  fortune.  After  her 
death,  so  greatly  did  her  loss  prey  upon 
his  mind,  that  for  some  time  he  was  in 
a  state  of  mental  derangement*  Ano« 
ther  family  misfortune  proved,  for  a  time, 
very  severe.  A  marri^  dauf^ter,  who 
lived  in  Canonbury  lane,  Islington, 
had  her  infant  son  carried  off  in  an  ex- 
traordinary manner  by  a  Mr.  Rennett,  a 
relation  by  her  mother's  side.  The 
child  was  ultimately  recovered  $  and 
Rennett  was  apprehended,  tried,  con- 
victed, and  transported  for  the  offence 
(see  our  volume  Lxxxix.  i.  p.  366,  573). 

Dignam  had  long  retired  from  the 
stage,  in  easy  circumstances.  He  was 
the  composer  of  several  pleasing  bal- 
lads ;  and  be  published,  by  subscription^ 
a  collection  of  popular  vocal  music. 

Robert  Jackson,  M.D. 

Jpril  6.  At  Tborsby,  near  Carlisle, 
aged  76,  Robert  Jackson,  M.D.,  Inspec- 
tor of  Military  Hospitals,  and  for  many 
3rear8  Chief  of  the  Medical  department 
ef  the  Army  in  the  West  Indies. 

This  gentleman  went  to  Jamaica  in 
§774,  and  there  he  practiced  cold  affu- 
sion in  fever,  with  success,  long  before 
that  method  was  adopted  by  Dr.  Currie. 
In  1778,  we  find  Dr.  Jackion  serving  in 
the  British  army  in  America,  as  regi- 
mental surgeon,  and  on  the  termination 
of  that  war  he  settled  at  Stockton-upon- 
Te^s  ;  but  when  the  contest  with 
France  broke  put  in  1793,  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  third  regiment  of  foot, 
as  the  only  road  by  which  he  could  ar- 
rive at  the  office  of  army  physician.  He 
was  on  the  continent  in  the  first  French 
war,  and  in  1796  was  employed  at  St. 
Domingo,  and  afterwards  with  the  Rus- 
sian auxiliary  army  in  1799  r  and  after 
several  years  retirement,  he  came  volun- 
tarily forward  and  took  the  charge  of  the 
department  in  the  Windward  and  Lice- 
ward  Islands  eommand,  where  his  ser- 
vices and  exertions  Justly  obtained  him 
the  highest  applause  from  the  govern- 
ment at  home.  In  his  various  reforms 
in  the  practice  of  hospitals,  and  in  bis 
improved  method  in  treating  the  Yel- 
low Fever  in  the  West  Indies,  now  ge- 
nerally adopted,  be  encountered  great 
diMcultieBf  and  made  many  enemies. 
Mod  but  for  the  powerful  indaenee  ol 


the  late  lamented  Commander>in-Cbief, 
he  would  never  have  eflbcted  tbenw 
Government  considered  his  services  In 
the  West  Indies  had  such  strong  claivM 
upon  them,  that  they,  in  addition  to  hit 
half-pay  as  Inspector  of  Hospitals,  for 
many  years  allowed  him  2001.  per  an- 
num, in  consideration  of  hia  age  and 
■ervicea. 

His  various  publications  at  once  evince 
the  scholar  and  the  gentleman  ;  display- 
ing deep  reflection  and  original!^  of 
thought,  and  justly  place  him,  as  a  me- 
dical writer,  in  the  first  class.  They 
were  as  follow :  On  the  fevers  of  Ja- 
maica, with  observations  on  the  iater- 
mittents  of  America,  and  an  appendix 
containing  hints  on  the  means  of  pte- 
serving  the  health  of  soldiers  in  hoc 
dimates,  179b,  8vo.  An  outline  of  the 
history  and  cure  of  Fever  endemic  and 
contagious  ;  more  particularly  the  con- 
tagious fever  of  gaols,  ships,  and  hoapi* 
Sate  I  with  an  explanation  of  the  princi- 
ples of  military  discipline  and  economy, 
and  a  scheme  of  oMfdical  arrangemeot 
tow  armies,  1798,  8vo.  Remarks  on  the 
Constitution  of  the  Medieal  Department 
•f  the  British  Army,  1803,  8vo.  A  sys- 
tematic view  of  the  discipline,  fonii»^ 
tion,  and  economy  of  Armies,  1804,  4to^ 
(feviewed  in  vol.  Lxxrv.  7^).  A  Letter 
to  the  editor  of  the  Edinburgh  Review, 
1^04,  8vo.  A  system  of  arrangement 
and  diicipliiie  for  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Armies,  1805,  8vo.  An  ex- 
position of  the  practice  of  effusing  culd 
water  on  the  body  as  a  cure  for  Fever, 
1808,  8vo.  A  Letter  to  the  Commis- 
sioners of  Military  Enquiry,  explaining 
the  true  constitution  of  a  Medical  Staffs 
1808,  8vo.  A  Second  Letter  to  the 
Commissioners  of  Military  Enquiry,  con- 
taining a  refutation  of  some  statements 
made  by  Mr.  Keate,  1 808,  8vo.  A  Let- 
ter to  Mr.  Keate,  Surgeon-general  to 
the  Forces,  1808,  8vo.  A  Letter  to  Sir 
David  Dundes,  commander-in*chief  of 
the  Forces,  1809,  8vo. 

If  superior  talent  unremittingly  de- 
voted, for  the  greater  part  of  half  a  cen- 
tury, to  relieve  the  miseries  of  suffering 
humanity,  can  entitle  a  man  to  f  he  gra- 
titude of  his  countrymen,  no  man  de- 
served it  more  than  Dr.  Jackson. 

LiEiJT.  Wm.  John  Snow,  R.  N. 

Latelp^  At  the  Semaphore  on  Putney 
Heatb,  aged  38,  Lieut.  William  John 
Snow,  R.  N. 

This  brave  officer  was  the  son  ef  Cap- 
tain William  Snow,  a  very  old  Comman- 
der in  the  Royal  Navy,  by  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  — —  Ewebanks,  esq.  formerly  a 
banker  at  Hull.  He  was  bom  at  Lon- 
dtw\  Yci  V\^^>  a?cA  Vci  V\9T  was  admitted 


18S7«]  Obituakt.— Litful.  Jhaw. 

into    Cbritt*!  Hc»apital ;   be  left  that  mend  Mr.  Snowy  Master^s  Mate»  who 
Mtablisbiiieat  in  1804  (tbea  io  the  six-  conmanded    the    foremost    maio-deek 
teenthyearof  his  age)  to  enter  as  a  mid-  guns  io  the  absence  of  Lieut.  Pulman^ 
sbipman  on  board  the  San  Nicholas  pri-  and  the  whole  of  chem»  after  the  fall  of 
son-ship^  at  that  time  commanded  by  hU  Lieut.  Ready,    to  your  protection,  h« 
'father.    His  stay  in  that  vessel  was  but  having  received  a  severe  contusion  fron^ 
short,  as  in  a  few  months  he  went  on  a  splinter."    This  recommendation  waa 
more  active  duty,  and  was  employed  sue-  appreciated  by  their  Lordships,  in  hit 
oessively  during  the  most  eventful  pe-  eventual  promotion  to  his  late  rank, 
riodi  of  the  Naval  war,  in  rAchille*  the  Although  often  « the  torrent  roared 
Egeria,  Forward,  Ruby,  Guerriere,  Poic-  and  be  did  buffet  it,"  no  ordeal  of  hif 
tiers.  Frolic,  Dolphin,  and  Manly.  strength  was  more  severe  than  that  con- 
In   rAchille,  when  in  his  seventeenth  nected  with  his  services  while  belonging 
jrear,  he  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  to  the  Egeria,  in  the  Baltic  and  Nortb 
Trafalgar,  and  received  a  bad  compound  Seas, — three  tiroes  wounded   within  a 
fracture  of  the  left  arm,  and  a  slight  short  period,— In  prison,  and  out  of  pri- 
wound  on  the  right  knee;    for  which  son,  bringing  his  very  prison-ship home» 
wounds  he  received  a  smart  ticket  and  with  him,  be  returned  to  the  Egeria 
gratuity.    In  the  Egeria,  still  a  young  only  to  be  cast  away,  in  February  IBIO^ 
man,  in  some  boat-work  with  a  priva-  in  another  Danish  priie,  on  the  coast  of 
teer,  he  received  a  cutlass  wound  on  the  Norway.    Dismantled,  and  water-logged 
right  knee.    In  an  attempt  to  save  a  for  five  days,  the  ship  was  at  last  strand- 
Danish  vessel,  in  which  he  was  prize-  ed  near  Scarborough,  and  be  was  wit)i 
master,  from  recapture,  he  received  two  the  greatest  difficulty  saved  from  tba 
other  wounds  ;  and  afterwards,  when  a  wreck  by  some  fishermen  of  that  place, 
prisoner  in  an  enemy's  ship,  on  his  way  when  his  extremities  ,had   become  se*^ 
from  one  prison  dep6t  to  another  in  the  verely  frostbitten ;  but  with  a  chest  na^ 
Baltic,  he  led  on  successfully  a  rescue  turally  strong,  his  lungs  remained  at 
under  a  most  extraordinary  dispropor-  good  as  his  heart  was  stout  i   nor  was  it 
tion  of  numbers  and  physical  strength,  until  after  a  period  of  nearly  three  yeart 
and  brought  the  whole  party  to  Eng-  from  this  time,  and  at  the  very  close  of 
land.  ,0n  this  occasion  he  received  a  the  Guerriere*s  action,  that  from  being 
wound  on  the  back  of  his  band,  leaving  struck  across  the  chest  by  a  splinter^ 
a  large  scar.    The  ship,  under  all  cir-  and  laid  senseless  on  the  deck,  he  ever 
cumstances,  was  given  up  by  Govern-  wanted  *<  large  breath  in  times    most 
ment,  but  he  recovered  bis  liberty,  and  needful." 

established,  by  the  transaction,  a  cha^  With  very  few  intervals   of  healthy 

racter  for  the  most  determined  bravery,  this  unfortunate  officer  had  been  living 

In  the  other  ships  of  war  enumerated,  with  his  family,  for  several  years,  at  Pu- 

he  saw  much  service.    In  six  months  sey,  in  Wiltshire,  on  his  half.pay,  when 

alone,  on  board  the  Guerriere,  as  ap-  tbe  Lords  of  the  Admiralty,  in  consider- 

pears  by  a  particular  register  of  names  ation  of  bis  wounds  and  services,  most 

and  dates,  he  bore  bb  part  in  capturing,  kindly  appointed  him  to  tbe  Semaphora* 

recapturing,  or  destroying  sixteen  vet-  on  Putney  Heath,  from  which  appoint- 

selsj   among  them  tbe  American  sloops  ment  he  vainly  anticipated  increased, 

of    war    the    Nautilus ;    and    between  comforts  for  his  wife  and  children,  and 

October  1813  and  February  1813,  whila  happiness  for  himself}   but,  emaciated' 

serving  on  board  tbe  Poictiers,  be  also-  and  worn  down  by  tbe  frequent  returot 

bore  his  part  in  capturing,  recapturing,  of  bemorrhage»  pain,  and  sopporation, 

or    destroying     twenty-tbree     vessels^  the  fatigues,  expences,  and  anxieties  at* 

among  which  was  the  American  sloop  of  tendant  on  a  journey  for  which  be  wat 

war  the  Wasp.  so  ill  prepared,  only  led  to  encreased' 

On  board  the  Guerriere,  in  the  action  disease  ;    and    on  the  eleventh    night 

with  tbe  American  frigate  the  Constitu-  *  after  his  arrival,  he  died,   leaving  bit 

tion,  be  received  his  fatal  wound,  which,  widow  and  children  altogether  amonr 

by  depressing  the  breast-bone  obliquely  strangers,  pennyless,  and  without  any 

on  the  right  side,  together  with  tbe  ends  relative  competent    to    give    that  aid 

of  four  of  his  ribs,  preternatnrally  con*  which  some  noble  and  other  kind  neigh- 

tracud  the  cavity  of  the  chest,  and  ren-  hours  were  prompt  in  affording.     On 

dered  him  liable,  on  any  increased  de-  an  examination  of  bis  body  after  hia 

termination  of  blood  to  the  lungs  from  death  as  to  the  particular  state  of 


cold,,  or  other  cause  of  excitement,  to  a  chest,  there  were  found  tbe  sears  of 

recurrence  of  inflamaiion.  Captain  Da-  sevm  distinct  wounds^  fully  eonfirmiaf. 

ores,  in  his  public  dispatch  to  the  Lords  his  own  modest  reeical  of  his  varioua- 

of  tbe  Admiralty  after  the.  action,  speak-  services  a  few  days  before  hi^  dvuV* 
ing  of  this  officer,  says,  <*  I  must  reisoA-        Ha  nia  Ynx\«^  Vci'^^a  fdoNit^dbr^^x^  ^ 


568 


OBituARY.— fi«?.  T.  JhiflmalL 


([June/ 


Putney,  on  the  4tb  of  May,  by  the  ready 
hand  of  public  sympathy.    'Hie  calami- 
ties of  bis  family  were  many,  for  nougbt 
had  be  to  bequeatb, 
"  Save  bit  scarred  body  to  the  ground,** 
and  to  bit  children,  a   medal,  comme- 
morative of  bis  '  Companionship  in  bat- 
tle' with  the  heroic  Nelson,  on  one  of 
Enfi^land's   proudest    days.      His  eldest 
child,    a  fine   boy  in  bis    tenth   year, 
already   a  sailor  in   spirit  and   intelli- 
gence,  has  been  favoured  with  a  pre- 
sentation to  the  Royal  Naval  School  at 
Greenwich,  while   the    widow   and  the 
three  younger  children  have  been  sup- 
plied by  a  committee  of  some  gentle- 
men at  Putney,  who  undertook  to  super- 
intend a  subscription   in  their  behalf, 
with  the  means  of  removing  from  the 
Semaphore  to  the  Island  of  Jersey,  where 
they   have    relatives    of   respectabiiityy 
although  not  of  opulence ;  and  also  with 
the  means  of  furnishing  a  cottage,  and 
of  support,  until  the  pension  allowed  to 
the   widow  of  a  Naval  Lieutenant  be- 
comes   payable — still    leaving    in    the 
banker's  hands  a  little  fund,  which,  to- 
l^eiber  with  any  further  donations  that 
nay  be  kindly  added  to  it,  will  he  allotted 
hereafter,  under  the  discretion  of  the 
committee,  as  an  outfit  for  the  children 
of  this  unfortunate  officer,  and  to  assist 
%hem  in  becoming  useful  members  of 
aociety.    Their  father  lived  for  his  coun- 
try, and  died  from  wounds  received  in 
his  country's  cause !     May  those   who 
live  not  altogether  for  themselves, 
;*<  The  arm  of  charity  extend 
<    To  aid  the  helpless  child  of  woe  !*' 

Rev.  Thos.  Thirlwall. 

March  17.  At  Bower's  GifFord  rec- 
tory, Essex,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Thirlwall, 
M.A.  Rector  of  that  parish,  and  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  for  the  county. 

This  gentleman  was  son  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Thirlwall,  Vicar  of  Cottingbam, 
near  Hull,  who  died  in  1606.  He  was, 
a«  bis  father  bad  been,  a  student  of  Bra- 
cenose  College,  Oxford,  where  he  took 
thedegree  of  M.A.in  l?86.  After  enter- 
ing into  holy  orders,  be  obtained  the 
curacy  of  Trinity  Cbiirch  in  the  Mino- 
ries  ;  and  afterwards  the  curacy  and 
lecturefibip  of  Stepney.  On  the  ]9tb  of 
June  1792>  be  married  Mrs.  Con  nop  of 
if  ile-end,  the  widow  of  an  apothecary, 
with  a  good  fortune,  by  whom  he  bad 
several  children.  He  was  formerly  a 
▼fry  active  man  in  public  life,  and  dis- 
tinguished himself  as  a  speaker  at  the 
East  India  House,  the  Middlesex  elec- 
tions, and  other  occasioivs.  He  was 
also  for  some-  years  a  Magistrate  for 
MiiddJaex, 
'  He  published,  in  179^  **The  aXatm- 


ing  situation  of  the  Times,  a  Fast  Ser- 
Vnon,  preached  at  Stepney,*'  (reviewed 
in  voL  Lxv.  p.  eiS) ;    in   1798,   "  The 
Dawn    of   National    Prosperity,  a  Ser- 
mon;"     in    1803,    another,    entiCTed, 
'<  The  Instability  of  Human  Power  and 
the  Insufficiency  of  Human  Means ;"  and 
in  the  following  year,  a  fourth,  *•  The 
Child  Jesus  a  pattern  of  Early  Piety;'* 
all  in  4to.    In   1803  be  published,  in 
13mo,  an  excellent  '*  Diatessaron,  seu 
Integra    Historia    Domini    nostri   Jesu 
Christi,  Latine,  exQuatuor£vangeliiSy" 
(see  vol.  Lxxiii.  253).    This  was  intend- 
ed for  the  use  of  schools,  and  an  Eng- 
lish translation  was  printed  in  the  same 
year.    There  was  a  second   edition   in 
1815.    In    1804    he  published    in    8vo, 
*<  A  solemn   Protest  against  the  Revival 
of  Scenic  Exhibitions  and  Interlude!  at 
the  Royalty  Theatre."    A   second  edi- 
tion of  this  pamphlet  is  reviewed  in  vol. 
Lxxiv.  251.     In  the  same  year  he  also 
issued    **  A  candid   and    dispasfionate 
Address   to   Sir  Francis   Burdett."     In 
1808    be   printed    a    Funeral    Sermon 
preached  at  Stratford  Bow,  on  the  death 
of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Jas.  French,  Rector  of 
Vange  in  Essex,  Chaplain  to  the  Trinity 
House,  and  Lecturer  of  Bow.  (see  vol. 
Lxxviii.  1614).    At  that  time  Mr  Thirl- 
wall was  Minister  of  Tavistock  Chapel, 
Lecturer  of  Stepney,  and  Chaplain  to 
Dr.  Percy,  the  Bishop  of  DromOre.     It 
was  probably  about  the  same  time  that 
Mr.   Thirlwall   was    favoured    with  the 
Bishop's  assistance  in  preparing  ati  edi- 
tion of  Bp.  Jeremy  Taylor's   Works,  as 
mentioned  in  Nichols's  Literary  Anec- 
dotes,  vol.  IX.  p.  €34,   but   which   war 
afterwards  abandoned.    In  1809  be  pub- 
lished some  specimens  of  the  early  ge> 
nius  of  his  second  son,  under  the  title 
of  "  Primitive  r  or  Essays  and  Poenn  on 
various  subjects,  religious,  moral,  and 
entertaining.  By  Connop  Thirlwall,  ele- 
ven years  of  age.     Dedicated   by   per-" 
mission   to  the   Lord   Bishop  of  Dro- 
more."  (reviewed  in  vol.  lxxix.  p.  834). 
In    1810  be  edited   « The  Theological 
Works  of  Sir  Matthew  Hale,  with  a  Life 
of  the  Author,"  2  vols.  8vo. 

In  1814  Mr.  Thirlwall  was  presented 
to  the  Rectory  of  Bower's  Gifford,  by 
John  Curtis,  esq.  In  1817  be  wai 
brought  before  the  notice  of  the  public 
by  producing  "  A  Vindication  of  the 
Magistrates  acting  in  and  for  the  Tower 
Division,  from  the  charges  contained  in 
a  printed  work,  entitled  *  The  Report  of 
the  Committee  on  the  State  of  the  Po- 
lice of  the  Metropolis ;  together  with  the 
minutes  of  evidence  taken  before  a  Com- 
mittee of  the  House  of  Commons.'" 
This  pamphlet,  which  was  reviewed  in 
\.ia.vf\V«\.  ^^1  ^  Nia.%  ^Qivtidered  a  breach 


18^70    Obituary, — Baifes  Cotton,  Esq.-^Mr.  ff'Uliam  Maxuell.      t6§ 


of  priYile^  .l>y  tb«  Police  Gin  mitt  e», 
and  being  complained  of  as  such  by  tbe 
Cliairmaii»  Mr.  Tbirlwali  was  oblijf^  to 
malce  bia  apolo^  before  the  Huu«e. 
{^ide  iUd.  pp.  445,  545.) 

Mr.  Thiriwall  also  contributed  many 
artidea  to  t1i&  Orthodox  Cburebman't 
Magazine.  Mr.  Tbirlwall'a  eldest  son, 
Thumas  Wigsell,  is  Fellow  of  St.  John's 
College,  Cambridge,  and  bis  second, 
Connop,  is  Fellow  of  Trinity,  in  tbe 
same  University. 

Bayes  Cotton,  Esq. 

Jufte  14.  At  bis  house  at  Keuilworth, 
aged  10,  Bayes  Cotton,  esq. 

He  was  formerly  a  solicitor  of  emi- 
nence in  Old  Betblem.  now  Liverpool- 
street  I  and  bad  retired  upwards  of 
twenty  years.  He  has  left  an  affection- 
ate widow  and  eleven  children  to  de- 
plore his  loss  !  For  he  was  an  amiable 
husband  and  parent,  of  a  Christian  and 
conscientious  spirit,  of  mild  and  forbe^- 
ing  temper;  conciliatory  to  all,  and 
liberal  in  his  estimation  of  mankind. 
His  cheerful  and  thankful  disposition 
was  manifested  in  the  urbanity  of  his 
customary  habits  and  deportment,  and 
and  in  the  hospitality  of  his  house  and 
table.  In  theology  he  was  well  lead, 
and  deeply  master  of  its  important 
truths;  and  although  a  dissenter  from 
the  Establiftbed  Church,  yet  no  man's 
differences  of  opinion  were  ever  known 
to  shake  the  honest  warmth  of  bis  friend- 
ship, or  to  lessen  his  esteem  :  he  may 
be  said  to  have  been  a  Christian  in 
faith,  in  wilU  and  in  deed.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Whig  of  the  old  school,  but 
not  the  slave  of  any  party  ;  attached  to 
the  Constitution  of  bis  Country,  which 
he  venerated,  and  in  the  principles  of 
which  he  was  deeply  conversant.  He 
was  the  intimate  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr. 
S.  Parr,  Rev.  Dr.  Recs,  &c.  &c.  Hjs 
whole  life  was  devoted  to  good;  tbe 
poor  kiiew  him  well  as  their  friend,  the 
more  fortunate  loved  bis  cheerful  man- 
ners, and  cherished  bis  intercourse* 
And  bis  family,  who  best  knew  bow  to 
value  tbem,  embraced  and  cherished  his 
kind  affections. 

Mr.  William  Maxwbll. 
.  May  13.    Aged  77,  Mr.  William  Max- 
well, late    Masttr  Rigger  of  Sheerness 
Dork  Yard. 

Bred  to  tbe  sea  in  his  earliest  years,  his 
services  can  be  traced  for  nearly  fifty 
years,  thirty  eight  of  which  he  warranted 
as  a  Boatswain,  and  S5  years  he  sailed 
under  a  pendant. .  He  had  tbe  honour 
to  serve  under  9  Admirals,  and  more 
particularly  under  Lord  Exmouth  at  |he 
G4NT..  Ma0.  June,  1897* 


1^ 


memorable  battle  off  Algiers.  The 
wound  which  he  then  received,  and  hU 
gallant  behaviour  at  that  time,  has  befii 
honourably  recorded.  He  was  alto- is 
several  engagements  from  the  time  of 
Rodney,  at  which  periud  bis  condoet 
was  distinctly  marked,  for  he  servtd 
under  37  different  Captains,  many  o| 
whom  were  the  most  eminent  and  die* 
tinguisbed  in  the  service,  and  he  parted 
from  tbem  all  with  signal  marks  of  re* 
spect,  and  from  many  with  feelings  of 
the  must  affectionate,  regard.  As  ail 
instance  of  such  regard,  the  late  Adnu* 
ral  Thompson,  at  their  separation,  after  ' 
paying  a  handsome  tribute  to  tbe  zeal 
and  ability  he  had  displayed  in  tbe 
right  discbarge  of  his  duties,  presented 
him  with  a  silver  ct  ffee-pot  and  stand, 
as  a  memorial  of  his  friendship.  His 
numerous  certificates  bear  full  testimony 
to  the  value  of  his  services,  to  his  indel»- 
tigteble  and  ardent  zeal,  in  the  fearlwe 
and  faithful  discbarge  of  his  important 
duties,  and  duties  which  in  hii  station 
have  been  seldom  eqifalled. 

Among  the  ships  in  which  he  sailed, 
may  be  selected  the  Princessa,  Enter- 
prise, Victorious,  Vengeaace,  MaM, 
Dragon,  Royal  George,  and  the  Queen 
Charlotte;  and  among  the  Captains 
may  be  selected— Capt.  Rodney,  Sh  '' 
Tbos.  Rich,  Capt.  Russell,  Sir  John  Jer- 
vis.  Captains  Boucbier,  Briggs,  Single^ 
ton,  and  Sir  Griffith  Colpoys. 

His  public  character  was  not  only 
eminent  and  praiseworthy,  but  bis  pri- 
vate and  domestic  conduct  was  in  eaaet 
proportion  ;  tender,  amiable,  and  indiil- 
gent ;  in  all  the  scenes  of  domestic  life, 
meek,  pious,  and  unobtrusive  as  a 
lamb;  but  in  public  duty,  bold,  per- 
severing, and  eourageous  as  a  lion. 

Tbe  immediate  cause  of  bis  deatfa  ' 
arose  from  a  cold,  which  be  caught  in 
tbe  care  of  the  Dutch  ship  in  distrett. 
off  tbe  Nore,  which  happened  about  tfvt» 
months  since,  and  through  his  great 
anxiety  and  leal  upon  that  occasiott. 
His  health  had  previously  continued  rf» 
markably  good,  and  his  duty  was  per- 
formed with  an  energy  more  like  that  ■ 
of  a  youth  than  of  an  aged  and  worn^ 
out  veteran.  The  situation  he  fiiloi 
often  required  peculiar  efforts  of  a  dtn- 
gerous  kind,  from  tbe  state  of  our  coast 
during  the  period  of  winter,  and  no  one 
was  ever  more  ready  to  assist  the  stran- 
ger in  his  peril  and  distress^— On  the 
Saturday  following  be  wns  interred  in 
Minster  Church  follutf  ed  by  some  of  tbt 
principal  officers  of  tbe  Dock  Yard,  m^ 
■testified  the  warmest  and  must  affeer 
tionate  regard  to  bis  memory ;  and  o<| 
the  Sunday  motnlfv^  v^<^  C}^v^^'Qk  ^ 
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570  Clergy  Deceased.  'd>^» 

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rive  a  Funeral  Disconrse  from  Numb,  dral  of  York  ip  1802,  by  Dr.  Markbam,  1^ 

53,  V.  10,  the  latter  clause.   The  preacher  Ute  ArchVuhop  ;  Rector  of  Gawtworth  in 

eive  honourable  testimony  to   bis  roe-  1803  by  the  same  patron;    Mid  Rector  ff 

niory,    by  stating  the  'soundness  of  hU  Emley  in  1804  by  the  Hon.  R.  L.  SaviOe. 
principles,  the   harmony  which  existed         May  9.      Aaed   66,   the  Rev.   Richard 

between  such  principles   and  the  prac-  Lucas,  Rural  Dean  of   Surofoid,   m  the 

tical  habits  of    bis  life,   and  the  spirit  Cathedral  of  Lincoln,  Rector  of  Great  Ca»- 

of  piety,  which  it  diffused  orer  the  lat-  terton  with  Pipltworth  in  Rutland,  and -a 

ter  moments  of  his  existence.  magistrate  for  that  county.     He  was  preaeiU- 

^  ed  to  his  united  churchei  in  1793  by  the 

"         . Marquess  of  Exeter. 

CLERGY   DECEASED.  j^^^^  15,    Aged  76,  the  Rev.  ffm.  Met- 

■  Jan,,,  In  Dublin,  Dr.  Spray,  Vicar  calfe.  Precentor,  Registrar,  and  a  Minor 
Choral  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  and  for-  Canon  of  Ely,  Rector  of  Fpulmire,  Camb. 
■Mrly  a  member  of  the  Choir  of  Lichfield,  uid  Barley,  Herts;  andduring^a  long  period, 
*.  April  14.  At  Milton  Rectory,  near  a  most  active  and  intelligent  magistrate  for 
iGraveseod,  aged  78,  the  Ven.  fFm.  Craw-  the  Isle  of  Ely,  He  was  of  Sidney  Coll. 
Jbrd,  D.D.  Archdeacon  of  Carmarthen,  and  Camb.  B.A.  1775,  M.A.  1778,  was  made 
{Rector  of  Milton  and  Trottescliff.  He  was  Minor  Cannn  of  Ely  in  the  latter  year,  and 
formerly  Fellow  of  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  where  was  presented  to  both  his  livings  in  1814  ; 
he  proceeded  B.A.  1772,  MA.  1775,  D.D.  to  Barley  by  Dr.  Dampier,  the  late  Bishop 
1801.  He  was  made  Archdeacon  of  Car-  of  Ely,  and  to  Foulraire  by  the  Earl  of 
•marthen  by  Bp.  Horsley,  in  1798  ;  and  the     Hardwicke. 

4ame  patron,  when  translated  to  Rochester,  May  \6.  In  London,  the  Rev.  fftn. 
pcesented  him  to  both  his  livings ;  to  Trot-  Boscatvertf  Vicar  of  South  Newton,  Wilts, 
itesdiff  in  1794,  and  Milton  in  1797.  The  He  was  of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxf.  M.A.  1810,  and 
two  next  turns  of  presentation  to  Milton  was  presented  to  his  living  by  the  Earl  of 
belong  to  the  King.  Pembroke  and  Montgomery. 

April  16.     In  consequence  of  an  apoplec-  May   19.      Aged    64,    the    Rev.    ffm. 

,tic  seizure  six  days  previously,  aged  6'8,  the  ^^tn/^(>Z</,Vicat  of  Ramsey,  and  Dovercoart 
*Rev.  Peter  Acklom  Reastan,  Hector  of  Barl-  cum  Harwich  in  Essex,  Chaplain  to  the 
borough,  Derbysh.  He  was  of  St.  John's  Duke  of  Manchester,  and  Chaplain  to  the 
Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1780,  M.A.  1784,  and  E.  1.  C.'s  factory  at  Fort  Marlboroiigh  in 
was  presented  to  his  living  in  1799  by  C.  H.  Sumatra.  He  was  of  Trin.  Coll.  Cam1». 
Rodea^esq.  B.  D   1800;  and  was  presented  to  his  Vi- 

April  18.  At  Marsk,  in  Cleveland,  deep«  carages  by  the  King  in  1810. 
ly  regretted,  aged  61 ,  the  Rev.  Joseph  WU-  May  92.  The  Rev.  Thomas  Lodge,  Per- 
kinson.  Perpetual  Curate  of  Up-Leatharo.  petnal  Curate  of  Middlesmoor,  in  the  parish 
AprU  21.  In  London,  aged  98,  the  Rev.  of  Kirkby  Malzeard,  Yorkshire.  He  was  of 
Thomas-Henty  Capeman,  late  of  St.  John's  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1790,  M.  A. 
Coll.  Camb.  B.A.   1891,  M.A.  1894.     He     1794. 

was  the  eldest  son  of  Robert  Copcman,  esq.         June  8.     Aged  60,  the  Rev.  Arthur  Love- 
of  Hemsby,  near  Yarmouth.  day.  Rector  of  Antingham  St.  Mary,  Nor* 

April  96.     The  Rev.   ffm,  Rawes,  late     folk,  and  Fellow  of  Magd.  Coll.  Oxf.  where 
Head    Master   of    the    Kepier    Grammar     he  proceeded  M.A.  1791,  BD.  1799*  D.D. 
School,  Houghton-le-Sprinc.     He  was  for-     181...     He  was  presented  to  hb  living  tn 
merly  Fellow  of  Eman.  ColT.  Camb.  where     1803,  by  the  Hon.  W.  Wyndham. 
he  took  the  degrees  of  B.A.   1788,  M.A.         June  A»     At  the  house  of  Wm.  Waldfnn, 
1791  ;  was  for  seven  years  Master  of  th6     esq.  in  Trowbridge,  while  on  the  road  to  bis 
School  at  Witton-le-Wear,  and  for  nearly     brother  at  Chard,  aged  37,  the  Rev.  Edw, 
.twenty-sevenof  that  at  Houghton- le-Spring.     fVhitehead,  Rector  of  Eastham,  Wore,  and 
As  an  instructor  he  was  incessant  in  his     a  Justice  of  the  Peace  fur  the  counties  of 
labours,  and  Indefatigable  in  his  zeal  to  pro-     Worcester  and  Hereford.     He  was  formeriy 
.mote  the  improvement  of  his  pupils.     As  a     Fellow  of  Corp.  Ch.  Coll.  Oxf.  where   he 
Minister  of  the  Gospel,   he  was  fervent,     took  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1819  ;  and  he 
charitable,  and  devout ;  as  a  husband,  irre-     was  presented  to  his  living  in  1805,  by  tlie 
f  roachable ;  as  a  &ther,   kind ;    and  as  a     Rev.  Christopher  Whitehead, 
nriend,  honourable,  firm,  and  sincere.    The    .     June  6.    At  Combhay  Rectory,    Som. 
los&  of  an  only  daughter  last  July,  was  too     aged  85,  the  Rev.  Edmund  Gardiner,  Ree- 
severe  a  blow  for    a  constitution  already     torof  Tintern,  Monm.     He  was  M.  A.  of 
impaired.  Trin.  Coll.  Dublin,  and  was  presented  to 

April  ^7»     In  Pulteney-st.  Bath,  aged  58.     Tintern  in  1819,  by  Edw.  Davles  and  ^hers. 
the  Rev.  Henry  Forster  MUh,  Chancellor  of     His  son,  the  Rev.  Fred.  Gardiner,  of  Line. 
York  Cathedra],  and  Rector  of  Gawsworth,     Coll.  Oxf.  M.  A.  is  Rector  of  Cembhay. 
in  Cheshire,  and  Emley,  in  Yorkshire.     He         June  7.    In  Stanhope-st.  aged  66,  the 
was  of  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.,  B.A.   1790,  M.A.     Ven.  Charles  Anson,  Archdeacon   of  Car- 

iTSSj  WM  made  Chancellor  of  the  CatibA-    Y\%\«,«xA  ^«c^ka  q{  L<^^  and  Manthy  in 

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18«r.]  '                                                      OaiTUARTT.  •  57V 

Norfblk;    ancle  of  Vifooimt  Aniooy  ud  May  94.'   John  BnUer  Ford,  esq.  latt 

Kalf-nephew  of  the  Archbp.  of  York.     He  Lieut.  9th  Foot. 

WM  the  third  ton  of  Qeorge  Anion  of  Sam-  At  Chiswick,  aged  85,  SybilU,  widow  of 

brook  in  Shropshire,  esq.  bv  Mary  dan.  of  Wm.  Smith,  esq.  of  the  War  Office. 

George- Venables  first  Lord  Vernon :  and  At  the  Excise  Office,  Tower-hill,  aged 

was  a  scholar  of  Christ  Churdi,  Oxford,  70,  Thos.  Groves,  esq.  late  lospector-ge- 

M.A.  1796.     He  was  presented  to  both  his  neral  of  Imports. 

livings  by  his  brother  the  late  Viscount,  to  May  26,  In  Bemers-st.  Mrs.  Goodenoogh, ' 

Ljng  in  1 794,  and  to  Mautby  in  1804,  and  wife  of  the  Bp.  of  Carlisle. 

tbthe  A  rohdeaooory  of  Carlisle  by  Vis  half-  In  Albemarle-st.  James   Reid,    eiq.   of 

uncle,  Dr.  Vernon,  then  Bishop  of  that  dio-  Paris,  a  native  of  Boston  in  America. 

oese,  in  1805.  May  97*  At  Heme-hill,  aged  51,  Wm. 

June  18.     At  Gosforth  parsonage,  Cum-  Prior,  esq.  late  of  Smyrna, 

beiland,  aged  49*  the  Rev.  Henry  Brags:,  Aged  88,  John,  second  son  of  John  Pea-' 

Rector  of  that  parish,  to  which  he  was  pre-  cock,  esq.  of  Bruton-st. 

sented  in  1808  by  Rich.  Sherwen.  May  28.  At  her  brother's,  Wm.Thomp- 

June  SO.     At  West  Hackney,  the  Rev.  son,  esq.    M.  P.   Gloucester-pl.   Aged  87a 

George  Paroissien,  Rector  of   that  parish,  Isabel,  wife  of  Wm.  Crawthay,  Jun.  esq.  of 

aud  for  36'  years  Curate  of  Hackn.  y.     He  Coyfurthfa  Castle,  Glam. 

was  of  Pemb.  Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1788,  M.A.  Aged  70,  Mr.  Colin  Sharp,  of  Fitzroy-st, 

1 800.  May  «9.  At  Highgate,  aj;ed  52,  W.  G. 

^  Wynen,  esq.  of  Bury-court,  St.  Mary  Axe. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY.  i.^K4!'^!';f"^rj*r:.:'Bidf 

May  3.     At   Islington,   Sarah,    wife   of  ford-row. 

Thos.  Gordon,  esq.  and  fourth  dau.  of  Wm.  May  31.   Aged  84,  Thomas  Taylor,  esq. 

Oakley,  esq.  Alderman  of  Weymouth.  Surgeon,  of  New  Bridge-street,  Blackfriara., 

May  -IS.  Aged  22,  John  Smith,  M.D.  of  He  was  the  senior  inhabitant  of  the  parish 

Edinh.  and  Memlier  of  the  Royal  College  of  of  St-.  Bride,  and  Chairmah  of  the  Commls- 

Surgeons,  London,   and  fifth  son   of  Dr.  sioners  of  the  Land  Tax  for  that  district*' 

Smith,  of  Newcastle- on-Tyne,  a  young  man  ^^f*  Taylor  was  much  attached  to  aquatic 

of  great  promise  and  amiable  disposition.  excursions  on  the  Thames,  and  was  welt* 

May  17.    At  Fulham,  aged  66,  Henry  known  by  the  designation  of  Commndore 

Bunnett,  esq.  Taylor,   and   highly  respected  by  all  who 

May  1 8.  Aged  67,  Mr.  Charles  Richard-  knew  him. 

son,   of  King-street,  Co  vent-garden.     He  Lately,  Henry,  eldest  son  of  Sir  R.  Wil- 

was  born  at  Coombe,  in  Oxfordshire,  and  son,  M.r.  after  a  long  illness,  contracted  on 

for  some  years  kept  the  Hotel  in  Covent-  service  in  the  East  Indies, 

garden,  called  by  his  name.    He  was  a  great  June   1 .    Wel>ster  Sylvanus  Heathcote^ 

ciollector  of  prints  and  papers  illustrative  of  only  son  of  Mr.  Chas.  Beaven,  Solicitor,  St. 

the  History  of  the  City  and  County  of  Ox-  Agnes-place. 

ford }   and  also  of  every  thing  relative  to  June  2.  In  York-st.  Baker- st.  aged  65j 

tike  parish  of  St.  Paul,  Covent  Garden.  £liz.  widow  of  R.  Fuller,  esq. 

May  19.  At  the  house  of  her  brother-in-  In  Pall-Mail,  aged  75,  Susanna,  relict  of 

law.  Sir  George  Warrender,  hart,  in  Sey-  Mr.  James  Carter,  of  Southwark,  Solicitor, 

roour-place,  aced  35,   the  Hon.  Lady  Ju-  Junes,  At  Streatham  Common,  aged  78a 

Kan- Jane,  wi£  of  Capt.  John  Warrender.  the  relict  of  Richard  Pinchbeck,  esq. 

She  was  the  fourth  and  youngest  surviving  June  4.     In   Upper    Wimpole-st.  John 

dau.  of  James  present  and  8th  Earl  of  Lau-  Boucher,  esq. 

derdalo,  by  Eleanor  only  dau.  of  Anthony  In  Gloucester-place,  Alex.  Apsley,  esq. 

Todd,  esq.  of  Banstead  Place; 

May   SO.     In  Bryanstone- sq.  aged  49,  In  Charles-st  Berkeley-sq.  aged  91,  the 

Henry  Sansom,  esq.  Right  Hon.  Henrietta-Cavendish,  dowager 

At  Highgate,  Frances,   wife   of  Henry  Countess    of   Stamford    and    Warrington^ 

Johnson,  esq.  E.  I.  House.  aunt  to  the  Duke  of  Portland,  and  sister  to 

May  21.   Aged  51,  Chas.  Woodd,  esq.  the  late  dowager  Marchioness  of  Bath,  who 

Surgeon,  Edgewarc-road.  died  Dec.  12,   1825,   having  lived  withinf 

May  22.  Frances,  wife  of  Errington  Pax-  one  year  of  the  age  of  the  Lady  now  de- 
ton,  esq.  of  Noble-st^  Aldersgate,  and  ceased.  The  Countess  was  bom  March  tf, 
Kiog's-row,  Pentonville.  1 7db',  the  second  daughter  of  William  second 

MaijiB.  After  a  protracted  illness,  Jane,  Duke  of  Portland,  and  K.G.  by  Lady  Mar- 
wife  of  Rich.  Bumell,  esq.  of  Upper  Clapton^  0aret-Cavendish  Harley,  only  dau.  and  soW 
2d  dau.  of  John  Cmtchley,  esq.  of  Totten-  heir  of  Edward  second  Earl  of  Oxford  ai^ 
ham.  Mortimer,  the  celebrated  founder  of  the 

At  his  uncle's,  inBaker-st.  Richard,  only  Harleian  Library.  She  was  married  to  Geotfte- 

son  of  Col.  E^n,  of  Bombay.  Harry,  the  late  EastV  fsK  ^Xmb&qsi^  vA^<vt-r 

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ol  the  preient  Earl,  of  tbretf  otW  tons, 
fltod  six  daughters.  The  Earl,  her  huibaiid, 
lived  to  the  age  of  89,  and  died  in  1819 
(iaa  vol.  Lxxxix.  i.  680. 

•  Jbif  6.  At  North  End,  Hampstead,  Capt. 
Percj  Earl,  of  the  £.  1.  ship  Aurora. 

June  6.   In  Bread-street,  aged  87,  Geo. 
Bainbridge,  esq. 
'  Juns  7.   In  Mansfield-st.  aged  nearly  48, 
the  Most  Hon.  Susan-Hussey,  Marchioness 
of  Waterford.    Her  Ladyship  was  bom  June 
1 5, 1 784,  the  only  dao.  and  heiress  of  George 
second  Earl  of  Tyrcoonel,  by  Sarah  youngest 
dan*  of  John  Hussey,  Lord  Delaval.    Her 
£ither  died  April  15,  1805,  when,  his  only 
spn  having  died  young,  the  title  devolved  on 
his  nephew,  tlie  brother  of  the  present  Karl, 
Lady  Susan  Girpentcr  was  married  Aug.  99 
following,  to  Henry  9d  and  late  Marquess  of 
Waterford,  by  whom  she  had  the  present 
Marquess  and  six  other  children.    .Death 
has  been  severe  upon  the  fiunily,  for  since 
her  noble  husband's  death  in  last  July  (see 
vol.  xcvi.  ii   86'),  she  had  lost  two  daugh- 
ters, one  in  August,  and  one  in  April  this  year. 
June  8.  In  Cadogan-place,  aged  61 ,  Lady 
Selina-Letitia  Bathurst,  sister  to  Earl  Ba- 
thurst,  K.G. 

In  Russell-sq.  aged  57,  Wm.  Campbell, 
6sq.  Comptroller  of  the  Legacy  Duty  New 
Department,  and  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Stamps  in  Ireland. 

At  Blackheath,  while  vlsitins  Mr.  Birch, 
surgeon,  Sarah,  wife  6f  Chas.  Roberts,  esq. 
of  Notley  Lodge,  near  Braintree,  and  for- 
merly of  Swaffham. 

.  June  10.  In  Park-lane,  aged  55,  her 
Grace,  Charlotte,  Duchess  of  Somerset, 
sister  to  the  Duke  of  Hamilton  and  to  the 
Countess  of  Dunmore.  She  was  bom  April 
6,  1779,  the  second  dau.  of  Archibald  late 
and  ninth  Duke  of  Hamilton,  by  Lady  Har- 
riet Stewart,  dau.  of  Alexander  seventh  Earl 
of  Galloway  ;  and  was  consequently  by  her 
father  first  cousin  to  the  Marquess  of  Done- 
gal, to  the  late  I^rd  Spencer  Chichester, 
«nd  to  the  late  Countess  of  Derby ;  and  by 
ber  mother  to  the  Duchesses  of  Beaufort 
and  Marlborough,  to  the  Marquess  of  Staf- 
^  ford,  the  Earls  of  Gallowav,  Ahoyne,  and 
Dunmore,  the  Countess  of  Harrowby,  the 
'late  ^untess  of  St.  Germans,  Ladv  Spen- 
cer Chichester,  Viscount  Granville,  and 
'  Lord  Crofbon.  Her  Graoc  was  married  to 
Edward  Adolphus,  present  and  eleventh 
Duke  of  Somerset,  June  94,  1800;  and 
had  issue,  Ed  ward- Adolphus  Lord  Seymour^ 
pne  other  son,  and  five  daughters.  Her 
natural  strength  of  mind  never  forsook  her 
during  her  long  protracted  and  pdnful  illness. 
At  Ulster  Terraoe,  Regent's  Park,  Fran- 
'    CIS  Edge  Barker,  esq.  of  Chester. 

In  North-crescent,  Bedford-sq.  aged  87, 
Clementina,  relict  of  John  Delane^  esq.  of 
the  C&stoms. 

•/une  II.    lu  Straftford-pUcc,  a^ed  91 « 
pkoM-Clenntdidf  only  child  of  Sir  Ot\!^ 


Wilton,  of  Woodbnni  House,  Bocks /Mas- 
ter in  Chancery. 

At  Wettboura-green,  Cath.  wifs  of  John 
Mynn,  esq. 

June  19.  In  Surrey-street,  Strand,  aged 
69,  John  Yates,  esq.  upwards  of  40  years 
Deputy  Philaser  of  the  Court  of  Kio^'a 
Bench.  « 

At  Hampstead,  Abraham  Pell,  esq. 

June  IS.  At  Bow,  aged  67,  Capt.  Richard 
Vaoghan. 

At  Fmsbury-place,  aged  77,  Mrs.  Jan* 
Grisewood. 

June  14.  After  a  loog  confinement,  occn- 
sioned  by  a  fall  from  his  hoise^  ThomM 
Mande,  esq.  bi^iker,  of  Great  George-street. 

Berks. — May  96.  Aged  75,  John  Neck, 
esq.  of  Wlnkfield,  Berks. 

Bucks.— .'May  30.  At  Wycombe,  ag»d 
74,  Andrews  Edward  Biddle,  esq.  of  iho 
firm  of  Biddle  and  Wheeler,  Bankers. 

Lately,  At  Newport  Pagnell,  aged  58^ 
C.  Hardy,  esq. 

June  9.  At  Aylesbury,  aged  99,  Mrs. 
Saxby. 

Cambridge. — May  16.  In  his  90th  year, 
Humphrey  Thelwall  Jones,  esq.  Fellow 
Commoner  of  Christ's  College. 

Cheshire. — Lately,  At  Runcorn,  aged 
10,  Rohert-Bla^rove,  eldest  son  of  Cant. 
Bradshaw,  R.N.  M  P.  and  grandson  of  R. 
H.  Bradshaw,  esq.  M.P.  of  Worsley  Hall. 

Cornwall. — At  Carines,  John  Furnisy 
eldest  son  of  R.  Hosk^n,  esq. 

Derbyshi  r  c. — May  9 1 .  Aged  SI,  £d». 
Worthington  Livesey,  esq.  of  the  Breck. 

Devon. — May  99.  At  Plymouth,  Capt. 
Rich.  John  Lewin,  R.N.  of  Caveodish-siq. 

May  31.  At  Sidroouth,  Henry  Manan^ 
esq.  late  of  Aslifield  Lodge,  near  Bury. 

At  Tiverton,  Margaret,  relict  of  Rob. 
Hunter,  esq.  an  eminent  merchant  of 
Bristol. 

Lately.  At  Exeter,  Mary,  widow  of  R«v. 
G.  Brian. 

At  Radstock,  Mr.  N.  Gandell,  land-sur- 
veyor, agent  to  Earl  Waldegrave. 

Dorset. — May  18.  In  Cranbonm,  the 
relict  of  Rev.  Wm.  Storey. 

May  90.  At  Dorchester,  sged  33,  Ueuk 
Bennett. 

May  95.  At  Beaininster,  ^ed  67,  JoKo 
Bangor  Russell,  esq.  an  eminent  solicitor. 
This  gentleman  afforded  the  Editors  of  the 
Second  Edition  of  Hutchins's^  '*  History  of 
Dorsetshire  '*  much  valuable  ass'tstance  ;  his 
profession  of  the  law  leading  him  into  an 
mtimate  acquaintance  with  the  propertv  and 
other  circumstances  of  his  neighbourhood, 
and  of  the  County  of  Dorset  at  large.  Mr. 
Russell  was  also  a  highly-esteemed  Corre- 
spondent on  antiquarian  subjects  to  ^ie 
Miscellany. 

.   Essex. — May  2.9.   At  Manniogtree,  aged 
53*  Qeo.  Rogent,  MS). 
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1897;!                                     Obituaht;  fifl^ 

Wood  Hall,  iiumy  jetrt  oat  of  die  Chair*  Dtc.  IS,  1774  $  and  W  itsnt  the  pretext  . 

incB  of  the  Qoarter  Setsions  for  the  Count j. .  Viaconat,  MMor-Gen.    Sir  Robert- Wm. 

'  Jwnt  9.    At  Leyton,    aged  4a>  Joha  O'Cailaghan,  KX.B.  one  other  son,  and 

Francis  Doxat^esq.  of  Clare,  Hantt.  three  dauehtere,  the  eldest  of  whomb  ih^^ 

Gloucestershire. — May  ri.  On  Marl-  widow  of  her  second  cousin  Wn.  Cai»wdlsh,  , 

horougb-hill,  Bristol,  aged  70,  the  wife  of  esq.  M.P.  for  Derby,  who  wis  killed  l^  a 

if .  Powell,  esq.  fall  from  liis  horse  in  18  IS.                            ^ 

Jlfay90.    At  Nailsworth,  Amy,  eldest  Kent.^ — May  \b.   Aged  si?,  John  AlIeo> " 

dau.  of  Rich.  Matthews^  esq.  of  Eiast  Ken-  esq.  of  Hailcs,  in  the  parish  of  T4orthflMt. 

net,  Wilts.  JwM  4.     Suddenly,  at  WaHhem  Vicar- 

Mtnj  25.    Suddenly,  at  his  sister  Mrs.  age,  aged  91,  £liz.  Csecelia,  dau.  of  £.  S. 

Wintle's,  on  Kingsdowo,  Berkeley  Conck-  Clarke,  D.D. 

)in,  esq.  Jwnit  5.    At  Lewisham,  aged  79,  Mel- 
Margaret,  wife  of  Rich.  Sandys^  esq.  of  moth  Guy,  esq. 

Slade-Iodge,  near  Stroud.  Jwnt  9.    At  Rowling  Hall,  his  raeently 

,  May  fib*.     At  Bristol,  Capt.  James  Vey-  erected    mansion,*  at    Goodnettone    n«st 

sey,  of  the  Pitt  schooner,  who  returned  but  Wingham,  James  Heritage,  esq.  eldest  son 

the  preceding  day  from  a  long  and  fatiguing  of  the  late  Mr.  Stephen  Heritage,  whoie 

voyage  to  the  coast  of  Africa.  death    was   rec6rded   in  our  Obituary  for 

Lately.      At     Cheltenham,    Charlotte,  April  1797.  He  will  be  long  remembered  Ibr 

youngest  dau.  of  Lieut.-Col.  Copyngfaam.  his  kindness,  benevolence,  and  old  English 

June  3.     Eliza,  youngest  dau.  of  John  hospitality  and  general  usefulness.     He  has 

Sayce,  esq.  of  DurHham-Down.  left  a  widow  and  eight  daughters. 

June  10,    In  Park-row,  Bristol,  aged  84,  June  19.     At  Chatham,  aged  76,   R. 

Ralph  Mouotague,  esq.  formerly  an  eminent  Newham,  esq.  late  of  Basinghall-s^reet. 

West-India  merchant.  June  1 8.    At  Greenwich,   in  his  80th 

Hants. — May  9\.    Chas.  Wm.  Michel,  year,  Mr.  H.  Harford. 

esq.  of  Notherwood,  near  Lyodhurst,  for  Leicestershire. — May  95.     Aged  SB, 

many  years  an  active  Magistrate  of  the  Mr.  George  Greenway,  of  Burbage. 

county.  June  5.     Aged  76,  Wm.  Wartnaby,  esq. 

Lately,    At  Sutton  Scotney,  Sarah,  wife  of  Kirby  House. 

of  J.  Wickham,  esq.                 ^  June  6,    At  Leicester,    aged   85,    N. 

At  Kingston,  Portsea,  Capt.'  G*  S.  Con-  Cooper,  esq. 

allv,  late  of  the  West  India  reg.  June  9.     At  Loughborough,  highly  re- 

,  tiERTS.— «/ane  19.  At  Gadesbridge,  aged  spected,  !Vfr.  Wellings,  solicitor. 

58,  Ann,  lady  of  Sir  Astley  Cooper,  hart.  Middlesex. — May  99.      At  Gunners- 
She  was  dau.  of  Thomas  Cock,  esq.  merchant,  bnry  Park^  Ealing,  aged  69,  Major  Alex, 
of  London,  and  was  married  Dec.  19, 1791,  Morison,  E.I.C. 
but  had  no  children.  Norfolk.— ilfay  96.   At  Boyland  Hal!,  • 

Lately,     At    Bishop's  Stortford,   Mrs.  a^ed  6,  Henrietta  Maria,  second  dau.  of  the 

Elizabeth  Jones,  Ul low-chandler.  This  iibe-  Hon.  Capt.  Fred.  Paul  Irby,  R.N.  by  hfs 

ral  benefactress  has  left  by  her  will  1 ,000^  second  wife  Frances,  second  <ku.  of  lehabod 

to  the  parish,  in  the  following  benevolent  Wright,  of  Mapperley  Hall,  esq. 

manner  : — ^The  interest  of  500/.  towards  the  Oxford. — May  99. — At  Ozleworth  Reo- 

repairs  of  the  church ;  950/.  towards  the  tory,  Fanny,  Sd  <kiu.  of  Rev.  Joseph  Mayo. 

NAtional  School;   and  the  interest  of  9. SO/.  May  99,     Aged    15    months,    Franclsy 

to  be  distributed  annually  in  coals  to  the  youngest  son  of  Dr.  Smith,  Dean  of  Chrit% 

poor.  Church. 

Keht. — May  25.    At  Tunbridge  WeIIs>  JunelO,   At  Coombe  Lodge,  Oxon,  aged 
aged  70,  the  Right.  Hon.  Frances  dowiger  79,  Samuel  Gardiner,  esq. 
Lady  Lismore,  sister  to  the  late  Countess  of  Lately.    Aged  14,  John,  eldest  son  of 
Shannon   (who  died  in  January  this  year,  Rev.  John  Hill,  Viee-Principal  of  St.  Ed- 
see  p.  985),  aunt  to  the  Countess  Grey  and  mund  Hall. 

Lord  Ponsonby  of  Imokilly,  and  cousin  to  SALOF.^-Jime  8.    Aged  58,  the  relict  of 

the  late  Catherine  Duchess  of  St.  Alban's  Mr.  J.  Tyler.    She  discharged  the  duties  of 

(grandmother  of  the  present  Duke],  the  Matron  of  the  House  of  Industry  at  Madelj 

late  Marquis  of  Drogheda,  the  late  Mar-  during  80  years. 

chionessof  Antrim,  the  Earl  of  Besborough,  .      Lately.      At  Bridgeoorth,  Sherrington 

the  late  Countess  Fitzwilliam,  the  Countess  Sparkes,  esq. 

of   WestmeaCh,    and    the    late    Viscount  Somerset.— Afay  91.     At  Frome,  the 

Mountmorres.    Her   Ladyship    was  .  born  eldest  dau.  of  late  Mr.  A.  Crocker. 

Feb.  18,1 757,  the  second  dau.  of  the  Right  May  SI,   At  Bath,  Laura  Clement,  dtiu 

Hon.  John  Ponsonby,  Speaker  of  the  Irish  of  Col.  Courtenay. 

House  of  Commons,  by  Lady  Elizabeth  June  8.    At  Middle  Hill  Spa,  near  Bath, 

Cavendish,  second  dau.  of  William,  third  aged  90,  Thoa.  Alex,  eldest  son  of  the  late 
Duke  of  Devonshire^  K.G.     Slie  married     James  Watt,  es<\.  oC  ^vt^aMk  >\^>Qai^^'W9^ 
Cornelius,  first  and    late  Lord  LAsmorei     Vfanvn^ti. 


5?4f 


Obituart; 


StAmiii>sHiAE.-^Af<iy  6.     Ch«^lbtt«-' 
fisfiber,  2d  dan.  of  T.  LiiiKer,  eeq.  of  Araii- 
tii^.Park,  couftia  to  hdtd.  Ribbletdftle  wd 
idler  to  JLady  R. 

Lately,  The  wife  of  B.  Higgt,  esq.  of 
Teltenhall,  sUter  to  Mr.  B.  Shaw,  of 
Bath. 

Surrey.— Mdy  1 1.  At  CketUden,  Charlee> 
iU  ion  of  the  Rer.  J.  Djke,  reotor  of  Bur- 
hach,  in  Leikseitenbire. 

May  17.  At  ChertMy,  aged  88,  the 
widow  of  John  (hff,  esq.  late  of  White- 
field,  -Cumberlaiid.        .    - 

May  17.  At  Croydon,  aged  74,  Sarah, 
iqlict  6f  John  Williamsoo. 

«/u7ie7.  At  Epeom,  aged  79,  Samuel 
K^jpe,  eaq. 

'  Jutte  8.  At  Reigate,  aged  78,  Mn.  Hoi- 
royd. 

SussBX.^Afay  92.  .  Eliza,  eldest  dan. 
.   of  Mr.  Geo.  Olliver,  Angroering  Park,  Sus- 
sex, late  of  Folke,  Dorsetshire. 


[ifune/ 

-  WoRCESTERSlHllB. — Mojf  tl.      At  VtoT' 

eester,  acad  82,  Anne,  ii4do»  of  UtBt^' 
Broome,  H.N.  .  '      ^ 

Yorkshire. — May  25.  In  Monkipite, 
York,  aged  70,  Matthew  Bottrill,  eeq. 

May  M.  Hannah,  wife  of  Tho.  Kirkhy^ 
esq.  merchant,  of  Leeds. 

May  80.  Aged  08,  Mr.  T.  RicHar^tonft 
of  York,  brother  of  the  bte  Toft  Ri^iud- 
son,  esq.  of  Riccall  Hall. 

iMlely:  At  Sawley  Hall,  Conyers  Nor- 
ton, esq. 

Wales. — May  18.  In  her  70th  TMr, 
Mary^Anne,  wife  of  James  Lnmsden  ohir- 
reff,  esq.  of  Stradmore,  Cardiganshire. 

June  8.  At  Neath,  Glara.  aged  89^  ^M 
widow  of  Natb.  Miers,  esq. 

Lately,  At  Swansea,  the  wido#  of  J« 
Wilklns,  esq.  of  Maesderwen,  Brecon. 

At  Naotyglo,  Monm.  Marian  wife  of  Jo- 
seph Bailey,  esq.  ' 

ScoTLAND^^^ay  9.    At  Edinburgh,  the 


May  23.    At,  Brighton,  Mary,  wife  of     widow  of  £dw.  Selby,  esq.  of  Earle,  North- 
Rob.  Clarke,  esq.  of  KUburnf  Middlesex.  umberland. 


Wilts. — May  26.  AtMelksbam,  the  wife 
of  Rer.  WyatCoUle,  Vioar  of  Chotiev,  Berks. 

June  7.    At  Farley,  the  wife  of  Rev.  C. 
F.  Watkins. 

'  June  8.     Fanny,  2d  dan.  of  Rev.  R.  El- 
liott, of  Devizes. 

June  10.     Aged  74,  Jas.  Swayne,  esq. 
of  Wilton,  who  for  many  years,  and  up  to 

the  year  1824,  filled  the  office  of  Clerk  of'    Butson,'Bp.  ^Clonfert. 
the  reace  of  the  county* 


•  June  4.  At  Elgin,  John  Robertson,  eat|. 
last  surviving  son  of  Wm.  R.  esq.  of  Aa- 
cbenroath. 

Ireland.— 3fay  29.  At  Enn'islallen,  As-' 
sistaat  Surgeon  1.  J.  Faweett,  62d  reg.  onhr 
surviving  son  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Fawoett,' 
D.D.  of  Queen's  Coll.  Otf. 

Lately.    Aged   82,   Susan,  wife   of  Dr* 


■& 


BILX.  OF  mortality;  £rom  May  28,  to  June  19,  1827. 


Christened.. 
Males  -  949 1 
Females  -     852  J 


1801 


Buried. 
Males     -    706 

Females  -     675 


Whereof  have  died  uqjder  two  years  old 
Salt  55.  per  bushel  j  1  ftf .  per  pound. 


} 


2  and    5  119 

50  and    60  127 

1881     § 
426    1  < 

r  6  and  10    52 
1    10  and  20    58 

60  and    70  114 
70  and    80     89 

\   20  and  80  108 

80  and    90    AV 

1   80  and  40  122 

90  and  100      3 

'40  and  60  126 

100                   \ 

AGGREGATE  AVERAGE  of  BRITISH  CORN  which  governs  ImporUtion, 

from  the  Returns  ending  Jun.e  15. 


Wheat. 

Barley. 

OaU. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

«.     d. 

«.     d. 

s.     d. 

«.     d. 

$,     d. 

58    .2 

41     6 

27  11 

45     0 

50     0 

Peas. 
t.     d, 

46     8 


.  PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW. 

St.  James's,  Hay  6L  105.     Straw  2/.  6i.  Od,   Clover  7L  Os. — ^Whitechapel>  Hay  5/.  16s. 
Straw  2/.  Os.       Clover  7/.  75. — Smithfield,  Hay  61.  Os.      Straw  2/.  25.      Clover  7L  Os. 

SMITHFLELD,  June  25.    To  sink  the  Offal— per  stone  of  8lbs. 


Be«f W.Ms.  Od.  to  55.  4d. 

Mutton .• 9s»  Sd.  to  55.  9d. 

Veal.... :.,i 45.  6(/.  to  55.  9d. 

Pork .•  45.  Od,  to  8s.  Ad. 


Lamb Ss.  Od.  to  65.  Od, 

Head  of  Cattle  at  Market  June  25  : 

Beasts 1948       Calves  989 

Sheep  aud  Lambs  24,380       Pi^s     r7l 


COAL  MARKET,  Juoe  97,  285.  6d.  to  855. 6<f. 
TALLOW,  per  Cut.  townTtSVow  4b«.  (^.    Y«\low  Eviaaia  405.  Od. 
SOAP,  Y€lhw  76s.  Mottled  82l.Od.Cv«A%6s--C^^\>\JBa>^&.Y*^T>^^.>^wi5Aa^*,%«L. 


[    575    ] 

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SUPPLEMENT 

TO 

VOL.  XCVII.  PART  I. 


fimbfllliihad  with  «  P«n|MctiTt  View  of  B^rkiwbll  Church,  ia  WArwiclahirc. 

M*  TT...«>-  Birmingham,  .by  the  Rev.  Thoinaft  Catlell^  the  pre- 

Mr.U»BA»,  May  97.  ieiit  incumbent. 

TOlheiiumerous  Views  of  Cnarches  -^    The  best  pa blished  account  •£  this 

given  in  the  Gentleman's  Mag«-  -Choreh  and  parish  may  -be  found  in 

ziue/permii  ine  to  add  that  of  Berib-  'Dr.  Thomas's  edition  of  "  Dugdale^s 

well,  avilh^  in  the  Hundred  of  Hem-  Antiquities  of  Warwickshire.''    I  am 

lingfoid^  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  riot  at  present  in  possession  of  materials 

The  drawing  (s€e  Plate)  is  from  a  or  information  sufficient  to  enable  me 

sketch  taken  in  1824,  and  includes  n  to  give  such  additional  particulars  as  t 

representation  of  the  base  and  remain-  .could  wish  to  communicate  res]pecting 

ing  pan  of  the  shaft  of  a  stone  cross  in  Jthein. 

the  sonth-eastcffn  ^ilarter of  thcChurch-       The  insdriptibns  on  the  Wilmot  moy 

yard.  :.  numents  are  copied  l^Iow.    The  first 

ThlsChHrch  laan  antieptatroetore,  two  have  .been  before  printed,  but  I 

dedicated  to!)t.  John  the  Baptist,  .with  coneeivc  they  are  not  on  that  accouoi 

a  low  lower  of  cr^at  strength.     lathe  the  less  in  place  here, 
chancel.^  which   eathibits  the  Saxon  Yours,  &c.        GBoaofc  Yatbs. 

style  of  ArchitectuDe,  are  several  hand-  ;  • 

some  nioDunjents  of  the  Wilmot  fa-  MonumeniallnscripiiimiinikfChancei 
mily.    Among  them  is  one  to  the  me-  qfBerkswell  Ckurck. 

Jusiiceof  theCourt  of  Common  Pleas,  •    V.  ^i  S**?'!  T^'t^-^"?^  '*•  ^^ 

xvho.  after  many  years  letirement  from  *«J»!f  «^  f*'  ft"  ^'^^   ui^^^V-r^'" 

the  Bench,  dieS^on  the  5th  of  Feb.  Si  W^f'DL^iIJ^•eil^"^^^^^^ 

1792.  in  the  gad  year  of  his  age,  and  ,^„j  ^  of  Robert  Wartot.  of  O.RHuitoii 

was  bhrwd  there.  b  ilie  county  of  Derby,  eM{.  by  UnuU  his 

"  Wilnot,  whom  loud  aiBbifcioa't  voice  in  wife,  one  of  the  dnif;hters  and  coheirs  of 

vain  Sir  Ssmoel  Marow,  of  thitf  parish,  bart.  and 

To  glory  call'd,  and  to  the  amr  of  Kings  j  Dane  Mary  his  wile,  only  daogbter  and 

Who  spurn'd  the  pride  of  pomp,  and  Forr  heir  of  Sir  ArtKur  Gajrley,  of  Newiuid,  ia 

tune's  train,  . '  [brings  *.'*  fehe  county  of  the  'City  of  Cuventiy,  fait. 

And  sought  the  peaee  which  Virtue  only  He  was  edneited  at  Ijtchfield  aad  West*' 

The  parish  of  Btfrkswell  Uei  about  r^!2y?5^'"i.»f  ^'*^*'*!*  ^  ^!« 

six  miles  west  by  north  of  the  city  of  fll*!*!}^*:^    ,  "*'^'     ,     *«*??, »»• 

Coventry,  at  a  short  distance  sont^  of  STJTi^h.  ilr  '^^  ^IL  ^^^ 
-ftf<i^'.i_r  J  J  %  Mlad  to'sna  bar,  praetited  as  ir  barrutef 
Meriden  on  the  London  road,  licon^  .fcentMyear..  UfonthellthdeyofFeb. 
tarns  a  handsome  mansion,  north  of  175*,  he  was  wpointed  one  of  hU  Majesty's 
the  Chtirch,  called Berkswell  Hall,  re-  Justices  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench; 
built  about  10  i^ears  since  bv  the  prel  noa  the  I9tb  day  of  November,  1756,  one 
sent  possessor.  Sir  John  EatdleyEard-  it  the  Commissioners  fiur  the  Custody  of 
ley  Wilmot,  Bart,  who  resides  there,  the  Oreat  Seal ;  and  upon  the  SOth  day  of 
The  pahibAage-hduse,  adjoining  to  the  kamt,  nee.  Chief  Justice  of  the  Court 
Church^^srd  on  the  south,  is  dccvpied  at  Common  Pleas :  which  office  be  resigned 
: : .  upon  the  84th  day  of  January,  1771.    He 

*  Sea  an  account  and  ehaimotfr  of  Sif  J.  had  issue  three  sons,  Robert,  who  died  a 
£.  Wibnot,  in  vol.  zcii.  p.  1 87  i  also  ftfdier  V^helor  in  the  East  Indies ;  John,  who 
memoirs  of  him  in  v61.  Lzxiii.  p.  151 ;  and  married  Fanny,  only  daughter  and  heir  of 
vol.  Lxzzi.  i.  p.  449*  Samuel  Sainthill,  esq.   and  Eardley ;   and 

•  Vide  Micbell's  ''  Farewell  to  Wick-  two  daughters,  Mary  Marow,  married  to  the 
ham,"  jprinted  ia  Memoirs  of  the  life  of  Right  Hon.  Lord  Eardley,  of  Belvidere  in 
this  emineaC  Judge,  by  the  late  Johnr  Wil^  tbe  county  of  Kent ;  and  £li«abethy  married 
mot,  esq.  his  sob,  a  second  edStmn  Afwfaiclf,  to  Thomas  Blomefield,  esq.  Mijor  hi  the 
wtfa  a  good  portrait  of  him  piefitkdi  was  Boyal  ArtilUry.-Dame  Samh  depaKed  this 
published  in  1 8 II .  lifr/oattbe  87th. of  Jul^^  171%,  Va. ^iM.  w«. 

Gent.  Mao.  Suppl,  XCVII.  Fakt  U  ytvx  ol  W  ms^  \  ixA^vc  ^ObaL^jud&«l^'^'^ 


578                Epitapht  on  the  fVllmoi  Family, -^Stonehenge,  [xcvii. 

mot,  on  the  5tli  of  Feb.  1792,  in  the  83d  .j     iTrban        Lake  House,  Jftlts, 

year  of  hit  age/'  *  *  June  \Q. 

Oa  a  beautiful  monument^  by  Ba-  "pVERYcndcavourto  elucidate  what 

con,  against  the  south  wall :  -1-^   is  doubtful  or  obscure,  deserves 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Mary  Marow,  libera!  consideration  with"  the  public, 

wife  of  the  Right  Hon.  Lord  Eardley,  and  and  1  feel,  that  the  diffidence  and  re- 

eldett  daughter  of  Sir  John  Eardley  Wil-  search  displayed  by  Mr.  Miles  in  p. 

Boc,  knt.  Lord  Chief  Juitice  of  the  Court  406,  in  his  Letter  on  the  Etymology 

of  Common  Pleat.    Her  conduct  in  all  the  of  Stonehenge,  reflect  on  him  equal 

variona  rdationi  of  life  was  to  eminently  credit.     I  am  sure,  however,  he  wifl 

dittinguithed,  that  Pro?idence  teemed  to  pardon  me  for  saving,  that  I  cannot 

have  raited  her  up  at  an  example  to  the  age  accede  to  the  correctness  of  hit  derira- 

ia  which  the  IWed,  that  rank  and  fortune  jj^n  of  that  well-known,  and,  as  it  ap- 

may  be  enjoyed  with  the  purett  innocency  ^^           ^^^^  appropriate  appeJlk- 

ofl.fe,andUeunrem.tt.ngexe^^^^  {j;^      I^  j,  j^     „^  ^^}^             f^      ^^ 

Chrittian  virtae.     She  died  univertally  la-  ^,         ,        .  .   ■'      ...     .l      .^  n  •  •  . 

meated.  Ut  Much,  1794.  ,«tA  48i  «d  »*'»"3'' .""  m'probable.  thai  itt  Brilwh 

liet  hcK  iDterrad.    ThU  memTritl  of  tSkc-  appellation  tras  Choir  Gaur,  but  I  am 

tion  and  of  lorrqir  U  erected  by  her  lurrW-  unable  at  present  lo  lay  to  what  period 

iog  hiubud."  t"'  existence  of  that  appellation  can 

Against  the  south  wall :  be  accurately  traced. 

<.  To  U»  ;».mory  of  th.  Hon.  Win;«  J'"'^^^' '"  *"•  *'"''' »"  Stonehenge. 

Eardley,   tecond   ton   of  the  Right  Hon.  ^  ' 

Lord  Eardley,  who  died  in  London  on  the  "  The  old  Britonti  or  Welch,  call  Stone- 

17th   of  Sept.  1805,  aged  thirty,  and  it  henge  Choir  Oaur,  which  tome  interpret 

buried  in  a  vault  adjoining.    Thit  tablet  it  the  Giant't  Dance ;  I  judge,  more  righilyy 

^erected  by  a  mott  affectionate  fatheff  in  Chorut  roagnut,  the  great  Choir,   round 

tettimoDV  of  hit  profound  grief  at  the  lots  of  Church  or  Temple.'* 

a  son  whose  gentle  mannert,  amit^le  temper,  ^^^e,  in  his  Enquiry  into  the  "  Pa- 

«d  un.ull.ed  mt^grity,  h^l  mott  det«Yedly  ^,|j,^^,,^,  ^„j  Druidical  Religion."  &c. 

•odeared  him   to  h«  family  «id   to  h,t  remarks  thus  on  the  above  jSissa^ : 

On  a  monument  by  Richard  West-  .   "  ^'-  ^tukeley  judges,  th^t  Choir  Ganr 

macott,  against  the  south  wall :  crT^  ""l.*!  ^  ■^'**'  Church  or 

«  o       j1    *u                    r  r  l    17  ^i  t»iand  Clioir,  but  hat  given  ut  no   other 

•  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  John  Eardley  foundation  for  his  opinion  than  the  general 
WUiuot*, 
Sir  John 
Chancery,  ^ 

r°*r  *"  ^i^lS?  «l«f  .^'IJ*  A™'!^  iii^'et7    irdoi'.i;dMd"inciilite"hrt'ideC 

P>7.1>.t.  "4.  to  the  French  Refuge...    He  „j  ^  „„,   j^    y^^  ^^  ,^.„„  „f    ^ 

d»d  Jun.  »8,  18 15,  aged  66  ]r.»..  ,^      ^^  g,,  ,hi^^  ,,  y^^^  ^^^  .^^ 

kTi!.^  *".    l!'.'^''l,!3    '^  V^  't  »»«»'J«'-    ">»  Choir,  in  the  He- 

eaute  which  be  knew  not,  be  tearched  out:  u.^     ..             •     .1      ^     .^ 

"  The  bletting  of  him  that  wat  ready  to  p^VJSPi?'  c*    c w,  T.*t  "^"^'   V 

perish  came  up?n  him,  and  he  cauted  the  ^"^  ^'tl^f^'^i^n^t  "^V  ^^'^^^ 

Tidow'.  bean  toting  with  joy  ."-Job.  ch.«9.  *^«P«^endt  the  idea  of  C,rcU  withmCtrcle, 

r\         u       .'r  1                      .         •     .  "^o  '*  thence  utfd  to  iicnify  am  loftr  pUe 

On  a  beaatiful  monument  against  of  bnilding  ,.i«d  in  th««i,m^  ««»«««* 

the  north  wall :  oUquii  fattigialui  vular  Omchm  eaedifiea- 

"  Swred  to  the  memun  of  J^i»^th  uu.    lU  Ga«r  i.  «  g^hning  together  rf 

Pn,ma.  ..fe  of  John  Ejri  ejr  E.rdJ*rW J-  aupa>ple,  CoUectio.  Cangrfgatio.    So  dut 

mot,  esq.  of  Berkswell  Hall,  in  thit  parith,  ^u                  ••/•■-*-      V..    . 

and  daughter  of  C.  H.  Pany.  M.  D.  ^  the  *>  ^^  «gmfication  of  111  TO  Chmr 

city  of  Bath.    On  the  l«th  of  March,  1818,  ^»^»  «  ihe  Circular  Htgh  Place  0/  Mr 

she  eave  birth  to  a  ton  and  a  daughter,  and  ^"^^^y  or  Cmigregatwu 

on  the  ««d  of  the  tame  month,  1^  2$,  Choir  Gaur  (thus    rationally  inter- 

eaving  her  husband  and  eight  chifdrrn  to  preted)  has  been  ludicrously  twisted  by 

deplore  het  untimely  lost,  her  blessed  tpiiit  ihe  monkish  writers  into  Chorea  Gigan, 

wMSummcmed  to  the  tribunal  of  her  Al-  xum,    but,    if    either    Sionehcnge   or 

mighty  Father,  m  the  well-rounded  ho^^  ^bury  possesses   a  real   claim  iS  the 

bemg  received,  through  the  merits  of  her  „r^..J„r^^ii„.-  ^    i    w      u 

Red^mer,  into  the  mLtloM  of  eternal  life.  •l>ove  appellation.  X  should  appropriate 

and  of  endlett  happinett  and  glory."  '^  *?  ^"«  former,  since,  on  reference 

■   "^ z. — i agjBiQ  to  the  work  of  Cooke,  he  gi?et 

•  See  Memoin  of  Mr.  WiUnot,  in  voU    — ■  . — ■ 

IMMMV.  u.  p.  93.  %  VUKraa^«C«tt»VAQ%iiVk<M  yetbom. 


f  AIT  I.]        Si0mheng€.'^Ecl^)ie  noiieed  bf  Herodotui,  9^6.  579 

a  distinct  appellation  to  Abfury»  by  de-  What  then  could  be  more  appropriatei 

rifiug   the   name  itBclf  from   n*lH  than  Ston-henge  or  the  hanging  stones, 

Abiri,  Potentes,  thus  allusive  to  the  obviously  and  simply  allosife  to  the 

Deities  whose  Temple  it  might   be  pensile  situation  of  the  imposts,  which 

pi^umcd  to  be.  lie  on  the  uprighu,  or  jambs,  of  the 

The  earliest  author,  who  is,  I  be-  trilithons,  and  of  the  outer  circle  of 

lieve,  authenticaHy  proved  to  mention  stones,   thus  emineniiy  descriptive  oC 

Stooehenge,  is  Henry  of  Huntingdon,  the  mode  of  construction,  and  clearljr 

who  wrote  about  the  year  1148,  and,  implicative  of  nothing  **  disgraceful' 

in  illustration  of  its  appellation,  I  beg  either  in  iu  use  or  allusion, 

leave  to  quote  his  wonls ;  they  are  very  Yours,  &c.        Edward  Dukb. 

interesting,  and  highly  appropriate  to  ♦ 

the  purpose  of  the  present  letter:  Mr.  Urban,        Evesham,  May  4. 

"  Qustttor  satem  sunt,  qua  mirft  Yiden-  VOUR  correspondent  Qu^BRBNS,  p. 

tur    in  AnglUU"    «  Secundum    est   spud  -I.    8,  supposes  that  the  famous  eel  ipse,^ 

Stanenges,  ubl  Ispides  mirae  moj^itudinit  m  which  is  said  by  Herodotus  to  have 

xnodum  porurum  elevati  sunt,  its  ut  portm  put  an  end  to  the  war  between  the 

porlis   tuperposUm  videsntur  :   nee  potest  Medes  and  the  Lydians,  took  place  in 

ftJiquii  excogitars,  qu4  arte  tanti  Ispides  the  year  B.  C.  626 ;  and  A.  Z.  at  p. 

adebinaUumelevaHsu7it,yre\q}i»nihicou'  208,   says,  that   "Sir  Isaac  Newton 

structi  sunt."  and  Mr.  Ferguson  have,  by  calcula- 

The  letter  of  Mr.  M.  displays  great  tions,  found  that  the  eclipse  your  Cor- 

research  and  ingenuity;  but,  as  ety-  respondent  mentions,  took  place  B.C. 

mologists,  we  must  not  suffer  ourselves  585 ;  not  as  Volney  asserts,  B.C.  685. 

to  be  led  away  by  similarity  of  sound,  I  confess,  however,  that  there  may  bm 

even  if  united  with  coincidence  of  eir-  some  question  about  this,  for  Larcher 

cunistances;  it  was  this  which  indueed  places  it  B.C.  597.** 

the  facetious  Monks  tortuously  to  say.  It  is  very  little  trouble  to  compute^ 

that  Choir  Gaur  was  Chorea  Gigan-  that  a  great  solar  eclipse  happened  in 

turn.  each  of  the  above  years ;  and  this,  • 

It  has  been  this  similarity  of  sound,  perhaps,  was  all  that  volney  or  Larcher 

which  may,  I  think,  unsuspectingly  thougnt  requisite ;  but,  if  the  account 

have  led  Mr.  M.  to  the  adoption  of  an  of  the  historian  be  at  all  to  be  depend- 

erroneous  derivtition.     It  is  very  true,  ed  upon,   five  minutes  more  labour 

that  Minerva  was  known  to  the  Lace^  would  have  been   suIRcient  to  have 

demonians  by  the  appellation  of  Ongai  convinced  either  of  them  of  their  error  ^ 

but  by  the  inscriptions  of  altars  disco*  for  by  merely  computing  what  is  tech- 

vered  at  Bath  it  appears  clearly  she  nicaUj^cal led  the  moon's  mfai»aiioifia/jf, 

was  worshipped  amongst  the  Britons  it  may  be  seen  that  neither  the  eclipse 

under  the  name  of  Sul,  or,  as  I  am  which  Volney,  nor  that  which  Larcher 

more  strongly  inclined   to  think,  of  supposed  to  have  been  the  one  in  ques- 

Sulis.    I  am  also  of  opinion,    that  tion,  was  total  in  any  part  of  the  earth's 

Stonebenge  was  a  Temple  dedicated  to  surface. 

Belenus,  or  Apollo,  as  Sol,  and  such  But  supposing  the  eclipse  not  to 
was,  as  I  suspect,  the  general  appro-  have  been  total,  as  it  is  described  to 
priation  of  circular  stone  Temples  have  been,  Volney  and  your  cor- 
throughout  the  world ;  but  I  am  greatlj  respondent  Quserens  can  by  no  possi* 
in  doubt,  whether  Stonebenge  and  si-  bility  be  right ;  for  the  eclipse,  which 
milar  stone  structures  were  Temples  of  they  suppose  to  have  been  the  one  in 
the  Druids,  nor  do  I  concede  that  they  Question,  was  invisible  in  that  part  of 
immolated  human  victims.  If,  how-  the  world  where  the  event  took  place, 
ever,  we  admit  (what  is  decidedly,  I  1  6nd,  by  calculation,  that  the  con- 
think,  not  so)  that  Minerva  was  wor-  junction  of  the  sun  and  moon  hap* 
shipped  in  this  country  under  the  ap-  pened,  with  respect  to  Greenwich,  oa 
peliation  of  Ooga,  yet  I  could  not  for  July  19,  at  about  54  minutes  after  one 
a  moment  give  my  assent  to  unseat  the  o'clock  in  the  morning. 
Saxons  in  their  peculiar  and  sppiro-  I  am  not  quite  ceruin  whether  Lar- 
priate  appellative— Stonebenge.  The  Cher's  eclipse  wis  visible,  or  hot,  at 
greater  part  of  the  names  of  our  towns  the  place  where  the  event  happened  ; 
and  villages  are  distinctly  traceable  to  not  knowing  exactly  the  situation  oCvu  ' 
their  languages;  and  is  it  not  rational  The  coii^\iikcV\sytt\ftKJ«^;\J«Rfc^>^^''^'^^'» 
to  suppose  they  would  give  tome  desig-  al  aV^uV  ^^^  ^J^«^k  \w  ^5" '^S^f^lS^ 


MO 


f  icVgwi  flkl'J^iayiAt  of  ili^  ttntm  liM^«        r(l^«  VMi 


k  fiiffiGiral  to  sImdw,  llUI  the  cciifiset  N«fwt6Q  be  fifthly. ab  tli^  itee  iicM  iof 

indepcnaent  of  ite  ool  being  toul.  was  Ab.ovealr  it  is  e^rtMS  thai  bis  op{iOt 

aot  tbe  000  id  question.    If  it  be»  neots  aie  wravg. 
tbcrefora^  uocertaio  whether  Sir  Isaac  Yoiifls*  &•>  J*  Tovkt. 


lions ;  and  I  therefore  forwarj  too,  from 
a  yoluminous  collection  of  family  ^ 
nealogy,  the  subjoined  pedigree,  which 
Tou  will  readily  allow  my  ca|)acity  to 
furnish,  when  I  inform  you  that  I  am 
doubly  descended  from  this  branch  of 
the  Fcrmors. 
Yours,  &c.  Cataractonikwsis. 
itiaccuracies  as  well  as  great  omis- 

Iticbard  Fermor,  of  Somerton  and  Totmorey  epq.  ob.  1 684^Frances,dAu.  of  Sir  Battl  Brooke* 

4 


.  Mr.  Urbav,  Matxh  8. 

THE  pedisree  of  Ferroor  of  Tos- 
more,  wbich  you  have  printed  in 
p.  11 4,  is,  I  perceive,  principallv  com- 
piled from  theepitaphsof  the  family,  and 
iti  authenticitv  may  therefore,  in 'great 
measure,  be  depended  upon.  In -the 
later  descents,  however,  tnere  are  some 


I  .  '  in 1 

Henry  Ferinor,^£Ilen,  dau.  and  Unula,m.CbM.     Mary,ai.Tbos.    Elizabetb,  mar.  Ste-' 

coheir    of   Sir  Towneiey,      of    Maire,  of  Lar-    pben  Teoipest,    of 

Geo.    Browne,  Towneley,  esq.    tingtdn,esq.ob.    Broogbtoa,  esq.  ob.' 

K.B.  ob.  17l«.  y^         1735.4*  17S8. 4s 


ofTusmoreyeiq. 
bit  wUl  dated 
170S. 


Jaaei  Fer-=f=Mtry,da. 
olSir 
Bob. 
Throokr 
mortopi 
bart. 


r,  of 
Tiimiors 
aadSoasar- 
t^ieM|.(l. 
in  17«9. 


Arabdh  Fermor,  tbe  Belinda 
of  Pf^*!  Rape  of  the  Lock, 
m.  in  1735^  to  F.  Perkins,  of 
Stftoa  Cottft,  esq.  ob.  a.  p. 

Anna  Fermor,  mn^  John  S<|t- 
ton>  of  Jamaicat  esq. 


T 


Henry  Fer-^Anne,    dau. 
mor,  of       I  of 


rrr 


Wigbtwicfc^ 
offianbory^ 


BaabuTTy 
esq.  Imng 
in  1717. 


I^enry  Fer-^Fraoces,  d.=Sir  Geo.    Robt.Fennor,    Jas.  Fermor,     Henry    ^Catharine* 


mor,  of 
Tiumore 
and  Somcr- 
ton',mar.{n 
1780. 


ofEdw.  Browne,     of  Rome,  esq.  m-Grcily,  da.  Fermor, 

dheldoni  of  Kid-       lifing    1794;  and  heiress  of  of  Wor- 

of  Weston,  dinston,     mar.  an  Italian  —  Maize,  of  cetter, 

esq.  living  caOxonj.  Lady.  =^  Yarm,     esq.  esq.  ob. 


in  1787.         bart. 


William  Fer^ 
flVMT^af  Tns- 
moreaadSa- 
tofuxom^  esq. 
bpni  1737, 
ob.  1806. 


:Franees,  d.    Heaiy 


and 


Cle 


ob.s.p.  1783.     1800. 


sister  of 
Thomaa 
and  4am«s 
Bowyer, 
esq. 


^  men-  Catharine   Fermor^    only  child 

of  JobaEr*  James  Far-  tina  «kI  heiress,  mar.  in  1 801  to  Henry  Maiva,* 

rington,  of  mor,  Boala*  SophSa»  of  iArtington,  esq.  who  by  hit  eldUd 

Beaufronta  siasties  in  Nuns  ai  brother's  death  became  Sir  Han.  f  ami 

esq.  ob.  Italy.  Penigfa  sop,  bart.  of  Brough  Hall ;  aha  diHl 

1787.  .  lA  Italy*  »*P*  18S4. 


I^uiam  Fermor,    Jaoies  Fermor,    Richard  Fermor,    Barbara,  Henrietta,  and 
esq.  '  esq.'  esq.  ob.  coelebe.  all  died  coelibes. 


Mr.  UiBAv,  March  g. 

AS  addenda  to  the  Top(]f;raphy  of 
BomertoB,  oo.  Oxon,.  1  beg 
leave  to  communicate  the  foUowinp 
Chufoh  notes  from  the  Harleian  M3S. 
6363. 

.On  the  Sooth  wall  of  the  Chapel,  a 
great  monumeot  of  smooth  stone,  with 
two  pillars  of  black  matble ;  upon  it 
tbo  pcopoctkin  of  a  man  with  hia 
gtimtWis  at  his  feet  lying  along,  to  the 
memory  of  Sir  Riehaid,  ton  of  Thomas 
Fermor.  0?er  him  this  inscription 
(which  is  now,  as  stated  in  p.  U69 
obliterated) : 

Qah  JSeaam  bie  qassris  }  jaeeo  bic  sub  mar*. 

more  pulvis^ 
Wm  Aichardus  nomiae  Fatmni  etam. 


Paas  cinis  in  ciaeres  rsdeo^paia  atbctaseandvy ' 
Hoc  mprieas  at  agas  ty  tibi  vivus  age* 

Arms :  on  one  side  Fermor  qoaner- 
ing  Bradshaw ;  impaling  quarterly  per' 
fess  indented  Ermine  and  Axiire.    On ' 
the  other  side  Fermor  and  Bradshaw, 
impaling^omwallis  and  Neville. 

On  the  North  side  of  this  Chapd,  a  • 
great  raised  mono  ment  of  smooth  stoviei 
thereon  the  proportion  of  a  man  lying 
on  his  side.    Over  him  these  verses : 

Sbtere  ne  pigeat  gressum,^  festine  viator, 

*  Quis  fuerlroqoeoculls  aceipe,  manta  aanii 
Fermor  enun  Johannes  nomine,  prima  pn- 
rentum  '  [mnsi 

Prelcsi  Feruioriss  spas  qvoqne  priflHi  do-  ' 
Flocabam  jivetaia,  vcmabant  saagniaa  giMi^  < 
K\J(^\«c»a%4>aKKX>9Qici^^VnMaa(^pB,-    ) 


m9Ti| 


Wethnii^fi9f  ImprmftamU^^TM  Cramp. 


Vk  BpartaSogMiir;  lAUlfr  ote  titlf  rt  9rt|^ 


.   Man  jubf^  tt  oiaeptaiii  dan  nontor  it«rp 
Qbteiyio  virMy  el  opet*  floremqQsJnvfpMe* 

Uxurit  IwhrjmM,  trutW  vou  pttria ; 
^t  turdo  ifU  caoo ;  mors  flecti  netcia  promit 

Telam,  et  me  duro  volnere  steroit  numi. 
Sed  me  quid  dico  ?  ciim  Uotum  terrea  proles 

IncloM  hie  Jecett,  tpiritua  utn  petat. 
9ortU  nt  iiu  Jegeni  miserere  et  &nst»  pre- 
care ;  [erit. 

Sort  mea  quae  aune  eet^  moi  tna  fertan 

Over  this,  Fermor  and  Bradshaw ; 
impaling  Compton. 
Over  the  south  door  of  this  Chapel : 

Jacobus    Smith   e(   Elizabetha    uxor   hie 
jacent  sepulti. 

Transif  OS)  specta  roonumeata  aortis 
Ultima  stamut ;  reputa  sepultot, 
£t  memor  nostri  pia  fonde  coelo 

Vuta  precesqoe. 

Viximus  qoondam  thalami  junlis 
LeM  dirioctiy  domus  mia  ? ivu 
£t  tuit^  sic  jam  tomulo  Jaceotes 

Condimor  uno. 

Yoars,  8dc,         Hknut  Gwtn. 

IMr.  Urban,  May  2. 

\VAS  not  a  little  surprised  at  the 
observathmi  of  your  correspondent 
C.  W.  in  yqur-Minor  Correspondence, 
on  the  subject  of  the  improvements  in 
St.  Jam^**  Park,  recommended  in  my 
communication  of  the   6th  of  Feb. 
The  charge  of  wishing  to  encroiich 
upon  the  public  comforts  and  conve* 
Qience,  cannot  with  any  justice  or  pro-' 
priety  be  produced  against  roe,  as  the 
various  notices  which  you  have  been, 
so  l^iqd  as  to  insert  during  the  past, 
twelvemonth,  respecting  Westminster, 
must,  latisfaclorify  to  every  impartial 
rrader»  prove  to  the  contrary:   more, 
particularly  that  one  which  exposed 
the  absuru  destruction  of  the  park  re- 
comgicnded   by  T.  A.  in  ■  previo^s 
communication.    It  would  have  been 
advisablf  bad  Q.  W.  possess^  a  little 
of  the  enquiring  spiiit  pf  the  £x-Chan- 
ctUori  to  have  read  the  article  atten- 
tively, ere  be  took  up  the  pen  to  record 
judgment  against  ipe.    He  would  then 
have  spared  me  the  trouble  of  noticing 
Kia  negligence  an4  consequent  incom- 
petency ;  and  himself  the  pia  of  being 
convicted  of  unjustly  cobdcmaii^g.   So . 
fi^r  from  desiring  the  demolition  oflhe. 
beautiful  grove  of  treet  in  Birdca^. 
walk,  and  wishing  to  make  a  garrii^e . 
wny  of  iht  renudmder  ^  the  path  (a 
gniH strttch  and.  an  cvideiit  absurdity' 
cffupl^tely.iabi^  bjf  qiy  ob|ervat\oiia 


a  neW  arfangtfoicift  aadiiia^ 
tribution  •f  the  grounds),  I  disiinetW 
stated  in  chat  oommunication  whio^ 
CkW.  complains  of«  that ''  it  will  ba 
nacassaryi^  when  this  plaa  is  put  io  ex<# 
eoution,  to  form  a  road  runmng  pmrnlUi 
with  the  park,  which  sbonld  be  tlia 
only  carriage-way  to  the  new  honsts  | 
*'  no  vehicles  whtUevee  heiiurpermitted 
within  the  park  gaier.**  To  remarii 
further  upon  an  attack^  lhe>  injusttoa 
of  which  must  he  acknowledged  by 
every  one  who  carefully  considers  thd 
plan  for  the  imprm-cmehts  of  the  park 
susgetted  in  my  communication,  would 
only  be  a  wa^te  of  the  time  of  yoor 
readers  ;  I  shall  therefore  subscribe 
myself  C«    ." 

Mr.  Urbah^  June  10. 

AS  I  frequently  suffer,  with  other 
sedentary  Correspondents,  th^ 
severity  of  the  cramp  in  my  leg9  (the 
same  as  the  German  krampse),  I  am 
desirous  of  knowing  from  those  who 

Srmpathise  with  me,  not  so  much  me- 
icai,  as  rather  any  practical  remedies ; 
for  this  thief  of  quiet  repose  comet, 
so    burglariously    upon    me    in    the 
night,  and  never  dares  to  intrude  dur- 
ing the  day,  that  I  find  no  means  of 
being  prepared  for  him,  and  therefore 
am  niost  anxious  of  shutting  him  out. 
After  a  day's  activity  ip  exercise,  and 
after  many  hours  occupied  in  study, 
after  digesting  a  problem  in  Euclid, 
or  striving  to  draw  a  just  conclusioo 
from  Leibnitz,  or  when  tracing  with. 
Newton,  Faber,  and  Cooper  the  close 
and  commencement  of  the  seven  vials, 
or  after  a  rapid  debate  on  the  arand 
question  of  tne  benefits  or  expediency 
of  the    diffusion    of   knowledge,    or 
keeping  it  like  misers  to  ourselves  be- 
fore the  seventh  vial  effuses,  I   am 
(Vee  to  confess  that  a  night's  entire 
rest  both  for  mind  and  body  are  as 
essential  for  human  comfort,  as  the 
settling  of  any  mystery  in  the  tafioua 
doctrines  of  faith  can  be  needful  for 
the  soul.    Now,  as  I  have  for  a  long 
time  past  been  much  in  the  habit  of 
experiencing  this  invasion  of  my  tran- 
ouillity,  and  of  being  made  to  start 
from  my  silent  pillow,  and  to  ory  oat 
fpf  repose  when  i  conceived  my  limbs 
to  be  in  full  poisession  of  it.  and  even, 
to  be  dragged  by  this  demon  to  break 
forth  from  my  Sed  and  bobble  about 
the  room*  unable  to  set  my  Icql  to  tlvc. 


589  TikOramp.'^On  Gcinifif.  Ixcrin 

horrors  of  seeing  the  harometer  point-  %or  to  increase  any  habitnal  dispositioii 
in^  to  three  lines  below  the  freezing  to  an  acidity,  to  which  those  who  are 
point  of  Fahrenheit,  I  do  conjure  you  little  accnstomed  to  air  and  exercise 
to  fold  up  your  curious  leaves  of  anti-  are  usually  sul^ected.'*  Now  I  am 
quity,  dear  Urban,  and  turn  to  such  told  that  veal  and  ham  are  of  this  kind» 
of  your  sybilline  oracles,  if  you  have  and  were  the  causes  of  the  trouble 
mny,  as  can  spread  ff/i^ to  my  wearied  above  described.  If  previous  caution 
sinews— can  brin^  back  the  calves  of  can  be  observed  at  bed- time,  a  spoon- 
my  le^  which  did  actually  last  nioht  ful  of  magnesia  may  be  set  ready  to 
sink  into  the  cavities  that  lie,  I  be-  still  the  enemy,  or  rather  if  suspected 
lieve,  behind  them,  and  place  my  toea  in  preparing  his  attack,  it  may  be  taken 
upon  their  proper  level  to  poise  my  before  goin^  to  bed.  This  corrects  the 
body,  insteaa  ot starting  upward  "like  acidity,  which  is  the  cause  of  the  at- 
a  broken  bow.*'  I  doubt  not  if,  in  all  tack.  But  I  do  not  vouch  for  these  re- 
the  repertorium  of  your  ninety-seven  medies,  and  having  never  been  accus- 
volumes  of  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  tomed  to  place  any  faith  in  what  I' 
youshould  find  yourself  at  a  loss  for  some  merely  hear,  and  do  not  well  under- 
immediate  remedy  (for  I  am  writing  stand,  I  trust  you  will  do  well  for  my- 
now  under  the  remains  of  what  I  suf-  self  and  the  rest  of  your  correspond- 
fered  five  hours  since),  vou  would  con-  ents  and  readers,  by  some  more  efTec- 
sult  some  venerable  fellow-sufferer  in  tual  and  convincing  prescription.  If 
our  learned  Universities,  and  recom-  you  wiH  bring  forth  your  succour, 
inend  them  to  use  their  Christian  call-  dear  Urban,  all  will  be  welL  A.  H*' 
ing  in  diffusing  to  a  poor  wight,  not  ^ 
altogether  insensible  to  their  merit  and                                  " 

learning,  some  consolation  to  this  mor- ^^  Gaming. 

tal  fiesn.     If  I  make  my  case  known  HHWO  houses  (says  a  contemporary 

to  the  Medical  College — those  with  Jl     Journal)  are  now  pulline  down 

6ven  the  president's  gold-headed  cane  in  St.  James'-street,  the  sites  of  which 

at  their  head,  seem  to  be  puzzled  for  we  presume,  are  to  be  added,  in  some 

a  prnctical  remedy,  and  turn  off  with  way  or  other,  to  the  national  disgrace 

a  smile,  and  say,  as  Dr.  Buchan  used  which  already  stands  theie,  a  mono- 

to  say,  grasp  a  roll  of  brimstone,  which  mental  outrage  upon  public  decency, 

you  may  buy  for  sixpence,  and  if  it  Well,    indeed,   may  the  affairs  of  a 

taices  away  the  pain  instantly  it  may  country  fall  into  the  hands  of  mere  po- 

as  well  be  adopted  ,*  or  a  glass  of  tar-  litical  adventurers,  where  those  whose 

water  as   Bp.   Berkeley  would    have  ambition  it  ought  to  be  to  serve  in  the 

said.    But  even  this  does  not  answer  highest  offices  of  state,  dedicate  their 

the  purpose,  seeing  that  the  anxieties  days  and  nights  to  a  selfish,  hideoua 

of  the  (lay  are  apt  to  make  us  thought-  vice,  which   is  now  risen  ta  such   a 

less  and  unprovided  against  those  of  height  among  us  as  to  require  palaces 

the  night,  until  it  is  too  late  to  send  to  for  its  orgies.     The  subject  is  one 

a  shop  for  these  articles,  which  I  shall  which  becomes  every  day  more  and 

be  therefore  told,  with  a  taunting  sneer,  more  appalling;  and  though  the   ef- 

that  It  was  my  duty  to  have  procured  forts  of  the  press  have  hitherto  been 

in  time.     It  is  all  very  true  doctrine,  of  little,  if  of  any  avail,  in  checking^ 

but  like  Job's  comforter,  it  comes  too  the  career  of  those  who  seem  impe- 

Jate.  Is  there  any  other  remedy  known  netrable  to  shame,  yet  as  long  at  our 

in  the  passing  world  for  this  intruder !  voice  can  reach  the  public  ear,  never 

Is  there  no  one  that  can  shew  the  cause  will  we  cease  to  raise  it  against  the 

of  his  coming?    Is  it  indigestion,  the  most  base    and    demoralising  system 

modern  resource  of  all  medical  difficul-  with  which  a  country,  laying  claim 

ties?    Here  is  presented  a  certain  da-  to  any  thing  like  honesty  and  virtue, 

turn  on  which  we  may  fix  our  com-  either  public  or  private,  ever  was  af- 

pass,  and  turn  this  hidden  enemy  from  flicted.    Every  man,  as  he  passes  this 

nis  lurking  corner,  and  finally  exclude  '  whitened  sepulchre,'  lifts  his  eyes 

him.     A  grave  and  experienced  Doc-  with  astonishment  at  the  joint  folljT 

tor  of  my  acquaintance  says,  "  Let  the  and  wickedness  which  can  alone  have 

patient,  and  especially  if  he  he  a  stu-  reared,  and  can  alone  support  an  edi* 

dious  man,  carefully  avoid  the  most  iice  at  once  so  low  and  to  magnificent* 

attractive  diet  or  disn  at  table  which  it  Sorely  it  is  a  monstrous  inequality  in 

M  any  degree  likely  to  produce  acHA,  iVv^  Vk«>  ^VviVv  ^^«in^  \»  «u^^;reM 


.  .f  ART  t .]  Oil  Gamu^.'^BrUuh  Dogs.  *4i8S 

flash-houses  And  other  minor  recepU-  vice  among  ua?    We  call  then  upon 

cles  for  thieves^  when  a  den  of  this  that  sex  who  happily  Aaoe hearts — ^wno» 

.description  can  rear  iH  head  in  the  by  their  attractions  and  virtue,  can  and 

most  public  part  of  London  with  im-  ou^ht  to  influence  men  in  all  their 

piuiity.    Surely  it  is  a  fearful  symptom  actions,  to  use  their  powers  of  per« 

among  the  signs  of  the  times,  when  suasion  in  saving  their  fathers,  hus^ 

those  whose  stations  in   society  call  bands,  brothers,  lovers,  and  with  them 

•upon  them  for  examples  of  probity  their  country,  from  this  growing  and 

and  worth  (to  say  nothing    of  the  astoundins  evil.     Never  let  it  be  said 

.higher  claims  which  their   families,  of  English  women,   that  they  stood 

their  friends,  and  their  country  have  quietly  by,  and  witnessed,  much  lesa 

lipon  them)  should  not  only  be  totally  encouraged,  a  ruin  m  which  they  and 

regardless  of  all  these,  but,  in  fact,  so  their  offspring  mtist  be  involved.     Far 

dead  to  their  own  real  interest  and  re<*  as  this  pestilence  has  spread,  it  is  stilly 

potation,  as  tobecome  the  habitual  com-  we  trust,  within  controlable  bounds^ 

nanions  of  mere  thieves  and  swindlers ;  and  it  is  to  the  virtue  and  good  sense 

Jbr  such  in  truth  are  the  demons  who  of  those  whom  the  contagion  has  not 

preside  over  and  thrive  by  these  places,  vet  reached,  that  we  look  to  erect  a 

however  they  may  think  that  their  ad-  narrier  against  its  further  progress, 
mission  into  better  society  than  that  of  ^ 

the  common  cut-purse  entitles  them  to ,  ^ 

be  considered  of  another  grade.    Shall        Mr.  Urban,  June  20. 

we  be  told  that  there  is  'fair  play' -,^,  ,  .    .       ^ 

at  these  places?     Fair,  indeed,  must  TPHE  general  supcrionty  of  the  ani- 
be  the  proceedings  at  places  which      ^    ™als  of  England  over  those  of 

have  gained  one  common  appellation,  other  countries  has  long  been  acknow- 

and  that  in  common  with  the  infernal  *«a?ed»  ^"^  »"  "<>  particular  is  this  pi*. 

regions.     In  them  we  believe  •  fair  is  eminence  mora  sinking  than  in  its 

foul,  and  foul  is  fair.*    But  be  it  so.  breed  of  Dogs,   which  from  the  re- 

JVdmit,  for  the  sake  of  argument,  that  I"o'«;  *VlV^»   "^s  been    highly  celc- 

the  play  at  suJsh  places  is  fair;  does  ^^^^ted.     We  are  told  the  d^s  of  Bri- 

it  follow  that  play  is  less  an  evil  on  »a»n  were  trained  by  the  Gauls,  and 

that  account?     Is  the  drunkard  less  a  "^^^  »»  ***«''  battles;  and  so  convinced 

beast  because  the  liquor  which  intoxi-  ^^e  "'«  Romans  of  their   prowess, 

cates  him   is  unadulterated  ?     Why,  ^^^^  persons  were  appointed  especially 

the  Slate  Lottery,  it  is  to   be  hoped  ^o  procure  and  forward  them  for  the 

ai  least,  was  fair;  but  that  has  been  combats  of  the  amphitheatre.     The 

abolished  on  account  of  its  alleged  de-  P^^    Gratins,    the    contemporary   of 

moralizing  tendency.    But  we  believe  O^'";  ««  ""  work  on  hunting,  com- 

there  is   no  such   thing  as  fair  play,  '"^nds  their  superior  boldness ;  at  the 

strictly  speaking,  at  any  of  these  hells  fame  time  he  confesses  they  were  far 

or  clubs.  A  mere  gamester  mpst,  from  »nwnor  in  beauty  of  form  and  colour, 

the  very  nature  of  his  occupation,  be  a  «  Si  non  adtpeciem,  mentiturosque  deeoret 

«ogue.     Watch  him—look  at  him  nar-  Protiatit  j  hec  una  est  catulii  jactara  Bri- 
rowly  while   at  the  card  or  hazard-  taonit. 

table.     See  whether  he  has  any  heart  At  magaun  dim  venit  oput,  promeodaqua 
or  any  of  the  common  feelings  of  na-  virtus, 

ture  about  him.    He  has  invariably  EtvocatextremopraceptdiscrimiiieMRvors* 

none,  and  is  therefore  tinder  little  or  Non  tunc  egregios  tantum  admirare  Mo* 
no  moral  restraint.     He  is  invariably  losses. 

a  bad  husband,  a  bad  father,  a  bad  In  the  old  romance  of  Sir  Triamour, 
son,  a  bad  brother,  and  a  bad  friend,  the  hound,  which  plays  so  distinguished 
J^t  his  play  be  ever  so  fair,  as  it  is  a  part  in  revenging  his  murdered  mas- 
called,  the  demon  of  selfishness  and  ter,  (the  main  incidents  of  which  beau- 
avarice  besets  him  as  a  morul  disease,  tiful  story  have  been  introduced  with 
and  he  is  from  that  moment  a  usdess  his  usual  ability  in  the  tale  of  the 
pest  opon  earth,  a  curse  to  himself.  Talisman  by  the  Author  of  Waverley,) 
nis  country,  and  his  connections.  This  is  'said  to  be  an  "  English  hound  ;"  at 
picture  we  verily  believe  it  not  over-  least  he  is  designated  as  such  in  the 
charsed ;  and  if  it  be  not,  what  terms  dramatic  representation  of  the  same  ro- 
can  be  too  strong  in  which  to  repro-  mance  by  Hans  Sachs^  Thft.  \»ev:^  ^ 
We  the  farther  spread  pf  this  hornd  Ua\;j  atASipiau^'w«t  vNVfc^^^«^- 


«Mtk>n  m  Which  they  wen  held ;  fdr 
Tanfti{lo»  In  hit  poem  La  Briia^  or  the 
INane,  thut  alludes  to  thenl  ?  » 

^*  E  i  cagtfaoli,  o  tUuio  noitrl  6  di  Brtt- 

ta^t, 
ftreh^  if  ir«k>r  de*  p«dri  in  lot  cl  >ervt. 
If  on  den  iMM  nMaggiar  dt  ttiman  Mgna." 

And  Gardlato  de  la  Vega,  with  mnch 
ttrength  of  description^  in  one  of  his 
Eclogues,  • 

^<  Como  leW^I  de  Irlanda  generoto 
Om  ^  JAvaFi  cerdoso  y  6ero  miim, 
^batate,  tospira,  fuerza  j  rme, 
V  apenat  le  conttrine  el  ataduni 
Que  el  dueoo  eon  cordurti  mos  aprieta." 

The  French  were  particqiqrij  un- 

SVilIing  ]  to  admit,  our  superiority  .  iu 
ogs,  though  they  were  much  sought 
after'and  prixtd  by  the  nobility.    Four 

fnglish  greyhMm^  -%¥ere  thought  by 
roissar^  a  valuable  addition  to.  ^he 
pack  6f  the  most  experienced  hunts- 
man of  his  day,  Gaston  Count  de  foiK) 
yet,  notwiihbtunding  the  preference 
shewn  for  them  in  this  and  other  in^ 
stances,,  their  writers  on  hunting,  ad* 
faittjng  the  English  dogi9  were  better 
trained,  were  sitill  indignant  that  they 
should  be  su])po8ed  At  all  superior  to 
the  French.  "The  Engliih  dogs,'' 
lays  Saloovey  "are  not  more  cleveri 
^d  GO  nut  possess  more  dexterity  than 
those  of  Franoe,  hut  they  are  naturally 
oiofc  obedient  and  docile]  they  are 
therefore  preferred  by  idle  hunters',  and 
lho0e  who  are  ignorant  of  the  art,  for 
11  requires  liitle  skill  to  manage  them : 
a  few  English  words  which  ihey  pride 
ibemselves  upon  knowing,  do  all  that 
\t  requisite :'  and  a  later  writer  com- 
plains, that  since  the  introduction  of 
English  dogs,  and  the  consequent  mix- 
thrc  of  the  breeds,  *'  nos  beaux  ehiens 
antiques  se  sont  ^vanonls,  on  n'y  con- 
nolt  plus  rien,  et  il  n'en  est  rest^  que 
la  curiosity  du  pelage.'*  Our  sood  ofd 
dogs  have  disappeared ;  nothing  is 
Known  respecting  them,  and  all  |liaC 
remains  of  them  is  the  singularity  of 
coat. 

It  is  not  very  easy  to  determine  what 

particular  race  of  dogs  is  referred  to  in 

some  of  the  extracts  above.     It  would 

^em  those  mentioned  by  Grotius  were 

pf  the  mastiff  or  bull-dog  breed,  or 

probably  of  that  kind,  which  in  the 

middle  ages   were  famous  under  the 

pame  of  aianus.    The  Irish  greyhound 

or  wolf-dog,  in  the  lines  of  Garpilaso, 

IS  well  known  to  our  naturalists ;  and 

until  the  present  century  the  nee  tx- 

isttd ;  but  it  18  bflieted  a  *dog  ot  A\\e 


BrUiik  1>6gh. 


r  iMCtk. 


iKprlWecd'isnot  now  <o  lie  found.  *FflU 
is  td  b6  Regretted  7  fisr  they  are  rtptt- 
sc^itd  M  most  faith ful>and€Diii:agco(itv 
and  ^  strength  and  pfm^r.  This  ttay 
•be  the  sort  of  hoonds  the  knights  of 
old  4Eept  with  them  for  a'^d^fenctf;  h 
woul0  hatw  biien  impossible  for  a  my- 
hoom)  61  the  common  kind  to  tiite 
performed  what  the  hound  of  Sir  TH- 
amoor  is  said  to  have  done.  Tile  Ivisk 
gnethound  was  ust^  iti  France  in  lli% 
ittn  cemtary  for  hunting  tlid  wild  bitafr 
and  woK;  t 

Boi  it  is  the  common  greyhound 
-that  appears  to  have  been  the  fkvoofice 
animal  of  our  forefathers,  the  p««iilitt' 
dog  of  chivalry;  and  ii!$  beanty^  a£t)- 
f  iiy,  and  grace,  well  fitted  it  'for  thfc 
eompanion  of  gallant  knights  and  favr 
ladies :  the  hawk,  the  horse,  and  the 
<hoond|  were  the  acconipdnimenu  and 
■tignt  of  ^nile  blood,  and  many  k 
bnwe  -ctvklitr  ma^^  be  seen  in  Mr 
trfafDfches  reposing  4ns  marble  limbs  M 
Che  faithful  b«dy  of  his  grle^dusirf. 
So  great  was  the  fondnen  for  tMb 
class  of  dogs,  that  about  the  eAd  ^(iht 
fourteenth  century  the  Cotmt  de  SaflP- 
oerre  founded  ah  order  Called  the  Op> 
tier  of  the  Greyliound.  According  (a 
the  oW  writers  on  the  subjeet,  in  oniet 
to  form  a  perfect  dos,  the  featares  *f 
several  animals  very  diffetent  in  thedn^ 
selves  were  necessary.  Dame  Juliana 
Barnes,  in  her  Book  on  Hunting,  thus 
i|ti9intly  sums  them  .up.  ' 

^'A  gre^houndie  sholde  be  heeded  lykt  a 

loftke. 
And  neckyd  like  a  drake 
Fotyd  lyke  a  oatte, 
Tayllyd  Ivke  a  ratit 
8yded  lyke  a  tane 
And  cbyayd  like  m  bene.** 

^he  then  goes  on  to  describe  lMy# 
he  shonia'  be  treated  ftat  by  year.  tSM 
At  last:  tvhen  he  has  grown  mfirm  hi 
the  service  of  his  master,  and  is^  ft« 
more  nse  in  the  sports  of  tlve  fieM/fH^ 
toerciless  old  lady  thus  cooMj  reeom^ 
mends, 

*«  Andt  when  he  is  com^  to  that  yere  • 

-    Rate  him  to  the  taanere ; 

'    For  the  beaCb  hounde  that  ever  byfcha 

hadde 
.   At  ninihe  ^re  he  U  fill  bidde."  . 

A  simitar  description  of  tf  perfect 
greyhound  is  in  the  old  FV^nch'pbeili 
on-  Hunting  by  Gaees  do  la  Bigne; 
from  which,  as  well  as  the  phMe'trea«> 
dse  of  Gaston  Phebus,  mncb  of  thd 


*^  T^aAtv^. 


•    -  ^ 


lom  of  the  St.  A\h$n*»  Book  it  d^  for  a  fcnul^  br  a  ml  buMtuig  dog, 
rWcd :  it  ia  as  follows^  a  pet  hoiMe  dog»  or  a  fieki  dog,  the 
•'  MiMMiid^  k»  av0frMiuiluUe,  Lady  Brach,  or  the  Lady's  Brach,  is 
Arpe  do  lioB»  eol  da  etDgDe,  a  task  too  great  for  me  to  undertake. 
Ettcora  y  sTok  antiv  oique,  I   therefore  leave  It  to  the  diligence 
Caf  il  avoit  oU  d'e«|ienrier«  and  erudition  of  some  future  Caius. 
Et.toutcato^blaaele  levriar;  Your?,  Arc.  H*. 
Oreille  de  aerpent  avoit,                                                               ^ 
Qui  far  la  testa  lui  gitoit )                                                          ™ 
Ecpaule  de  cbevre  Movaige,                          Mr.  URBirir,                         Jtm§  10« 
Custe  de  biche  de  bocaige,  ^^TOW,  9t  Stow6y  is  a  Tiliaae  sitt2« 
Loigne  de  cerf,  queue  de  rat,  O    ated  in  the  hundred  of  Wei),  and 
Cui«e  de  lievre,  plfe  de  chat."  d^ision  of  Dndsey,  ab<>ut  eight  milea 
Mention  has  been  made  of  the  race  S.E.  of  Oalnsbro'  and  ninew.W.  of 
o'f  doss  called  Alani,  Alaiins :  it  is  im-  Liticoln.  It  is  about  a  mite  to  the  north 
possible  to  say  whether  they  are  the  of  the  ftomSn  road  leading  frdm  the 
same  with  any  species  now  existing,  Komaii  High-street  (which  runs  on 
for  though  the  name  is  still  retained  the  cliff  from  Lincoln  to  the  Humber) 
in  the  Soanish,  Italian,  and  even  the  to  Nottinghamshii^  o?er  the  Trent  by 
French  language,  it  is  used  only  to  de-  Liulebro*  Ferry ;  and  has  been  sup- 
note,  generally,  a  large  dog,  a  watch  or  Pp^^  ^^  ^  ^"^  ancient  Sidnaeesler. 
house  dog.    They  appear,  nowever,  to  The  Lord  of  the  Manor  is  Sir  W. 
have  partaken  of  the  nature  of  the  mas-  Amcotts  Ingilby  of  Kettlethorpc,  M.P. 
tiff  and  bull-dog,  and  were  very  large,  for  the  couiiLy  of  Liocolo 


mav  have  been  the  origin  of  the  ani-  lectanea,  vol.  I.  pp.  49,  S85).  Wlien 
Q»ul  kself,  or  of  its  nan^,  the  breed  was  Leiand  calls  Eadnotus  Bp.  of  Lin- 
undoubtedly  in  great  estiinatton  for^  coin,  he  must  allude  to  the  whole  dis- 
uierly  throughout  Europe.  An  Italian  trict,  for  Siowe  was  the  seat  of  the 
author  of  the  14th  century,  auoted  by  Bishop  from  the  time  of  Leofwin, 
Tyrwhitt,  mentions  the  inhaoitants  of  under  whom,  A.D.  04g,  it  was  trans- 
Milan  as  particularly  attentive  in  ferred  thither  from  Dorchester  inOis- 
^recding '<  Canes  Alanos  alls  statursei  fbrdshire,  and  remained  thus  till  fte- 
^t  niirabilis  fortitudinis,"  and  Gaston  migius,  A.  D.  )052,  6r  tnereabouts, 
Phebus  in  treating  of  the  Alauns  di-  removed  it  to  Lfncoln.  Ifence  thcf 
videa  them  into  three  classes.  Aiiants  present  Church  is  traditionally  callMl 
genliU,  Alianit  vautres,  and  Allanis  d€  "  The  Mother  Church  of  Lincoln.*^ 
Zoucherie,  or  those  made  use  of  by.  tt  is  built  of  stoiie,  in  the  form'  of  the 
dro\'ers  and  butchers.  The  head  of  Cross.  The  dimensions  areas  follow: 
the  A^hiUi  gentiit,  he  observes,  is  lar^  fe(,t.  inch. 

and  shorS:  in   body  and  speed  he  la     .  t^octh  from  east  to  wttt ^,146    0* 

like  ihe  greyhound.    They  have  the        Width  of  the  nave' 87    $ 

advantage  over  the  greyhound  in  never     . of  the  tranaipt tT    0 

leitin|  go  iheir  hold  when  once  they       -"- — bftha  Aaucel «ff    e 

iiave  fastened  on  their  prey)  they  are  .  'the  cliancel, .  which  haii  evidently 

equally  proper  for  every  hind  of  onase,  l^en  vauhed.  Is  of  Anglo-Norman  ar- 

SdMJ  may  be  considered  the  6rst  of  dogs.  cHiteqture,  surroundea  hj  ■  row  of 

The  Atlumtt  vatUret,  adds  the  same  piohes  of  the  same  order,  with  fhe 

writer,  have  hnige  ears,  head,  and  lipaj  fiz-zag  moulding.    '!t'he  windows  are 

are  more  cluoHy,  and  worae  shaped  sorroonded    by    mouldings,    varioua* 

ihan  the  MiniiU^  and  are  only  used  in  (uit  all  of  th?  Norman  character.  This 

hunting  the  bear  or  boar.  part  of  the  Chuich  was  probably  built 

Bui  to  gjve  a  description  of  all  the  about  the  time  of  Remigius,  or  im^ 

yarieiies  «  our  British  dogSr  IQ  enter  |ned/ately  subsequent. 

iAio  the  Quality  and  nature  of  a  ftaehe  On  the  floor  in  the  chancel,  is  a 

or  Lime-ho4md,  a  Tyke  or  Tall^t,  to  co£n-shaped  monument,  with  a  head 

decide    the    knotty    point,    whether  and  hflf  bust  in  relief,,  on  w^ien. are 

Brach  life  only  a  «<  mannerly"  name  inscribed  these  lettQrs,-WAl*LEKt— > 

OaNT.  Mao.  A^  XGVII,  PAar  I. 


B 


V 


5d6 

STOE  —  N  —  ERU— ID.— Against 

a' pillar  on  enterin^^  the  chancel,  is  the 
following  inscription  engraved  on  a 
piece  of  orass : 

**  Aspice,  recpice,  prospice. 

**  In  tliis  chauncel  lytU  buried  y*  bodies 
of  Richard  Burgh,  of  Stowe  Hall,  esq.  and 
Anne  his  wife,  descended  from  y*  ancient 
mud  noble  faroilie  of  the  Lord  Burgh,  Baron 
of  Gainesliorough,  and  next  heyre  male  to 
that  familie,  and  the  said  Anne  was  eldest 
daughter  of  Antony  Dilliogton,  of  Knighton 
ia  the  Isle  of  Wight,  esq.  had  four  sons : 
viz.  that  nuble  and  valiant  soldyer  Sir  John 
Burgh,  Colluoel  Gen'rall  of.  his  Majestie's 
fbrcfts  to  the  Isle  of  Rh^  in  France,  where 
he  was  slain,  AD.  ]697>"  &c 

The  coat  of  arms  of  the  above  Rich- 
ard Burgh  is  still  described  on  the  old 
hall  of  Gainsbro, 

"  S  fleurs  de  lis,  supporters  8  lions  ram- 
paat,  crowned  with  3  falcons. 
"Motto — Nee  parvis  sisto." 

On  the  south  side  of  the  chancel  is 
a  marblt*  monument  to  Thos.  Holbech 
and  Anne  his  wife,  on  which  it  is  men- 
tioned .that  "  he  sometime  dwelt  at 
Stow  Park,  and  died  l6th  April,  IdQl.** 
Tliis  Thos.  Holbech  was  probably  the 
son  of  Bp.  Holbech,  who  for  his  own 
interested  motives,  on  condition  of  be- 
(foming  Bp.  of  Lincoln,  basely  yielded 
qp  the  principal  of  its  estates,  toge- 
ther with  the  treasures  of  the  Minster, 
to  gratify  the  rapacity  of  Henry  the 
Eighth, — a  monarch  whose  character. 


Account  o/Siowe,  eo.  Lincoh. 


[xcvii. 


the  ruins  of  each  stately  Abbey,  and 
the  plunder  of  each  majestic  Cathedral^, 
will  for  ever  hol4  up  to  ignominy  and 
detestation. 
The  tower  is  square  and  embattled, 
*  and  diminishes  towards  the  battle- 
ments; it  stands  upon  four  Gothic 
and  four  Norman  arches.  The  for- 
mer were  added  at  the  time  the  upper 
story  of  the  tower  was  erected.  On 
the  top,  between  the  pinnacles,  are 
two  curious  images  of  a  griffin  and  an 
eagle.  Alfric,  Archbishop  of  York, 
save  in  1023  two  great  bells  to  this 
Church.  The  tower  now  contains 
five  bells  and  a  clock.  This  clock  is 
a  piece  of  ancient  and  very  curious 
mechanism,  the  pendulum  vibrating 
only  three  or  four  seconds.  But  the 
most  interesting  object  in  the  Church 
is  the  font,  which  is  very  handsome, 
and  of  Norman  architecture,  probably 
coeval  with  the  one  in  the  moroins- 
^ayer  Chapel  in  Lincoln  Minster.  It 
a  octsgoasLl,  and  on  the  hase,  \vti\ch 


18  square,  is  carved  a  dragon  or  wivem. 
The  shaft  is  circular^  and  sarroundcd 
by  eight  short  pillars  with  foliated  ca- 
pitals. Near  tne  Church  are  two  tides 
of  a  moat,  which  it  is  supposed  sur- 
rounded the  ancient  manor-house.  In 
1216  Heniy  the  Third  remained  at 
Stow,  while  his  army  t^ent  to  Lin- 
coln, and  defeated  that  of  Lewis  of 
France.  About  a  mile  to  the  south- 
east stands  Stow  Park,  the  former  re- 
sidence of  the  Bishops  of  Lincoln, 
who  occupied  it  till  the  14th  century. 
There  are  moats  and  foundations  left, 
but  nothing  else  which  testi6es  its 
former  magnificence.  At  the  present 
day  Stowe  exhibits  nothine  worthy  of 
note,  but  its  Church,  and  that  in  a 
state  of  dilapidation  which  all  lovers 
of  antiquity  mast  lament. 

The  livmg  is  a  perpetual  curacy  of 
not  more  than  40/.  per  annum.      A. 

Mr.  Urban,  June  12. 

THE  following  account  of  the  three 
great  offices  of  Lord  High  Cham- 
berlain, Lord  High  Constable,  and 
Earl  Marshal,  may  prove  interesting 
to  some  of  your  readers.  I  notice  them 
merely  in  their  character  as  hereditary 
honours,  and  without  reference  to  those 
departures  from  the  regular  line  of  de- 
scent caused  by  forfeitures,  &c.  It  will 
be  seen  that  tliey  partake,  in  part,  of 
the  nature  of  Baronies  by  Writ,  and 
have  in  general  descended  through 
heirs  female  in  default  of  male  issue, 
though  there  have  been  some  remark- 
able exceptions.  For  instance,  in  the 
case  of  the  Office  of  Chamberlain.  On 
the  death  of  John  de  Vere,  the  14th 
Earl  of  Oxford,  in  1526,  the  honour 
instead  of  remaining  iii  abeyance  be- 
tween his  three  sisters,  or  the  abeyance 
being  terminated  in  favour  of  the  eldest 
(Elizabeth  the  wife  of  Sir  Anthony 
Wingfield,  and  whose  nearest  heir  is 
now  Count  Dillon),  waa  continued  tii 
the  person  of  a  cousin,  John,  the  1 5th 
Earl.  Again,  on  the  death  of  Henry 
the  18th  Earl,  in  1625,  the  honour, 
instead  of  devolving  on  his  three  sisien 
of  the  half  blood  (the  representative  of 
the  eldest  of  whom  is  the  Duke  of 
Atholl),  was  conferred  on  hit  first  cou- 
sin, Robert  Bertie,  Earl  of  Lindsay. 

In  the  case  of  the  office  of  CoiiBtable 
the  hereditary  descent  was  Urictly 
adhered  to  until  the  death  and  at- 
tainder of  Edward  Duke  of  Bucknig- 
ham^  when  the   office   was  abolish- 


•PAftT  1.]        Ofieei  of'  Qrt&i  Chamherkum  oild  Bigh  Qm$tah!e.  C587 

ed.  The  repreiCDUtive  is  now  the  Thbmas  of  Brotherton.  Akhoughthis 
Baron  Stafford.  In  the  case  of  the  of«  office  has  descended  through  heirs  fe- 
ficeof  Earl  Marshal  I  have  noticed  the  male,  it.hai,  since  1475,  been  vested  in 
early  possession,  because  the  hereditary  the  Dukes  of  Norfolk  *.  The  eldest  re- 
right  existed  for  a  considerable  period  presentative  in  the  female  line  is  Lord 
before  the  honour  was  conferred  on  Stourton. 

Office  of  Great  Chamberlain. 

c.  Aubrey  de  Vert,  created  Earl  of  Oxford  and  Great  Chamberlain,  1155,  ob.  1194.^ 

I  '  I ' 

c.  Aubrey  de  Vere^  8d  Earl,  ob.  1214,  i.p.       c.  Robert  de  Vere,  Sd  Earl,  ob.  19St.=p 

c.  Hugh  de  Vere,  4tb  Earl,  ob.  196S.qp 

«  c.  Robert  de  Vere»  6th  Earl,  ob.  1896.^ 


c.  Robert  de  Vere,  6tb  Earl,  ob.  1331,  s.p.  •       Aljmonsut  de  Vere.=^ 


c.  John  de  Vere,  7th  Earl,  ob.  136*6.^ 


c.  Thomas  de  Vere,  8th  Earl^ob.  1871.^  .    ,c.  Aiberic  de  Vere,  lOtb  Earl,  ob.  1400.^ 

c.  Robert  de  Vere,  9th  Earl,  ob.  1398,  t.p.        Richard  de  Vere,  llth  Earl,  ob.  1417.^ 

John  de  Vere,  1 3tb  Earl,  beheaded  1461  .:?=        Robert  de  Vere.=j= 

Sir  George  Vere,  c.  John  de  Vere,  1 3tb  Earl,  John  de  Vere.=|= 

ob.  1503.^  ob.  1513,  t.p.  I    ' 

r"  r 

c.  John  de  Vere,  14th  Earl,  ob.  1686.         c.  John  de  Vere,  15th  Earl,  ob.  1539.^ 


c.  John  de  Vere,  16th  Earl,  ob.  1569.=?= 

I ' 


c.  Edward  de  Vere,  17th  Earl,  ob  1604.^        Mar]r=y=Peregrine  Bertie,  Baton  Willougb- 

I  I  by  of  Ereaby,  ob.  1601. 

c.  Henry  de  Vere,  18th  Earl,  ob.  1685,  t.p.       c.  Robert  Bertie,  Earl  of  Lindsay, 

ob.  1649.7 
; J  » 

c.  Montague  Bertie,  9d  Earl,  ob.  1666.=t= 

I '' ' 

c,  Robert  Bertie,  8d  Earl,  ob.  1701.=?= 

I -* 

c.  Robert  Bertie,  Duke  of  Ancatter,  ob.  1788.^ 

I  I ' 

c.  Peregrine  Bertie,  Sd  Duke,  ob.  1 748.^ 

c.  Peregrine  Bertie,  3d  Duke,  ob.  1778.^ 

I 1 

Sir  Peter  Burrell,  1st  Lord  OwydyrqpPriscilla  Barbara,  eldest  dan.  and  eobeir. 
Peter  Robert  Burrell,  Lord  Owydyr,  Deputy  Great  Chamberlain. 

Office  of  High  Constable, 

c  Milo  de  Gloeester,  created  Earl  of  Hereford  and  Lord  >High  Constable,  1140, 

ob.ll48.=P 

c  Roger,  8d     c.  Walter, 8 d    c.  HenrT»        c.  Mabell,  5th    Margeiy,  eld. ^Humphry 
Earl,  ob.  Earl,  ob.  4tb  Earl,'  Earl,  ob.  dau  and 


1 1 54,  t.p.  s.p.  ob.  i.p.  s.p.  eobeir. 


debo- 
hun. 


Humphry  de  Bohun.=p  , 

c  Henry  de  Bobnn,  Earl  of  Hereford,  ob*  1880<=r= 


*  Sat  noU  V>  p«  b%9. 


0jfite$  tf  High  CVPifl^  #1^.  MmVMm^t^  [x^QirM- 


a 

y  T  If?'?  ^'.M  'u      ■■■ 'I   ■.■■■■I  iw  yji  ^  ^i.f  iT^ 

Hi^nphry  de  9ohw>.=F 
I ^"— ' 


c.  Humphry  de  Bohuo,  Sd  Earl,  ob.  1897.=r= 

c.  Homphiy  de  ]lphiin»  4th  £arl»  ob,  ^S21.=t= 

c.  Johi^  d«  BohuD,  j^th    9.  Humphry  de  Bohnn,  ^^  E^l,    William  de  Bohuii>  J^l  of 
Earl,  ob.  1  Sd5,  s.p.  ob.is61»s.p.  Nort!iampton.=p 

^     >  '    I     I  I        lit  ■      ** 

.   c.  Humphry  de  Bohnn,  7th  Earl,  ob.  1379.=f= 

-J 


'!■    ■  ■  ■  I     J. 


'  Eleanor,  eld.  dau.4md  coheir.^  c.  Thomas  Plantageuet,  Duke  of  Gloucester,  ob.  1399. 

I ' 

Anne,  dau.  and  heir.=^dmusd  Stafford,  Earl  of  Stafford. 

c.  Humphry  Stafford,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  ob.  1459.^ 

Humphry  Stafford.^ 


J 


r       '    ■• 

c.  Henry  Stafford,  SdDuke,  ob.  1483.=?= 

I r^. r— r— ^-r * 

c.  Edward  Stafford,  Sd  Duke,  beheaded  1 521  .^ 

Office  qf  Earl  Marshal  ♦. 
M.  Gilbert,  Marshal  to  King  Henry  I.^ 

Of  Marshal  to  King  Stephen.:?: 

Isabel,  dau^fiter  im^  hl^ir  qf^  m.    Wilnam  Msrshal,     m.   John  Marshal,  son  and  heir; 
Rich,  de  Qare,  sd  Earl  of        farl  of  Peiyibrokei        Marshal   to  King  John,  ob. 


Pembroke. 


ob.  1819.  1199»  s.p. 


M.  William     M.  Richard     M.  Gilbert      m.  Walter      m.  Anselm     Maud=pHugh  Bigod, 


3d    Earl     of 
Norfolk. 


Marshal,  Marshal,  Marshal,  Marshal,  MarsluJ*  dau. 

fid  Earl.  SdEarl,  4th  Earl,  5th  £arl,  6th  Earl,  and 

ob.  1831,  ob.  1834,  ob.  1841>  ob.  Nov.  ob.  Dec.  co- 

s.p.  s.p.  B.p.  1845,  s.p.  1845,  •.p.  heir. 

M.  Roger  Bigodf  4th  Earl,  ob.  1870,  s.p.        Hugh  Bigud,  Justice  of  England.=?= 

II.  Roger  Bigod,  5th  Efrl,  ob.  1307>  sj).  This  Earl  surrendered  his  office  and  Earldom 

to  tba  Kwg0  who  cQ^^ir^  (lien)  on  his  dtb.  son,  viz. 
M.  I^iomas  of  Brotheiton,  ob.  1338.=?^ 

Margaret,  dau.  and  heir,  ob.  1399<inJohn  Lord  Segrave,  ob.  1353. 

Elizabeth,  dau.  and  heir.=plohn  Lord  Mowbray',  ob.  TS6B. 

M.  fhomas  de  Mowbray,  created  Duke  of  Noilblk  aad  Earl        John  de  Mowbray, 
Miirshal,  obi  141SqS  '  ob.  »S79»  ft^p. 

M.  ^ohn  de  Mowbray,  «d  IhAB,  Margaret,  eW.  dan.  au^  i  Oil  Robert  floward, 

o  6 

*  Our  Correspondent  had  deduced  the  tifice  of  Sari  Marshal  from  Gilbert  de  Clare, 

Earl  of  Pembroke,  £rthar  of  Riehard  Eaii  off  Pembroke,  i^bo  died  in  117f>,  and  whose 

daiwhter  and  heiress  Isabel  married  William  Marshal  Earl  of  Pembroke ;  but  there  b  lii^ 

tit  douht  that  the  «ffice  was  alwa^tVicU  V|  ^^Uxa^^]  ^IVUnVkidtfe^ui  which  indeed  tlurj 


rAUK  I.] 


John  di  Mowbniy,  84  Dwke,       M.  Mut  Hwavd,  crtMid  Duke  «f  Norfolk  tod  Eirl 


ob.  146*1^ 


M.  John  de  Moitbniy,  4ik  Duke,  ob.  M75, 0.p.        From  whom  the  prtMol  Duke  •£ 

Norfolk  ^ 


The  following  are,  I  believe,  the  only  Baronies  by  Writ  now  in  existence  f. 

Date.  Id  vhom  vetted. 

...     litBA  ...  the  Baronesi 

...     1S64  ...  the  Berou 

...     IS99  ...  theBeroD 


Bwony* 
DeRoM 
Le  Detpenser 
Clinton 
Ferrers 
De  OifFord 
IMnltonofOlllesland 
Botetourt 
Zouche 
Audlej 

WiUoughby  of  EnMby 
Dftore 

Grey  of  Ruthyn 
Molines 

Bewicharap  of  Blets)io 
Botreanx 

$Scrppe  of  Bolton 
Hungerfbrd 
Sey  and  Sele 
Haitingt 

WUIoughby  de  Broke 
Cenyers 
Windsor 
Merdaunt 
P*g«t 
Compton 
NorrU 

Howard  of  Walden 
Clifton 
Strange 


1999 

U99 

1807 

1808 

1808 

1818 

1818 

1891 

1824 

1847 

1868 

1868 

1871 

1496 

1447 

1461 

1499 

1509 

1699 

1689§ 

1560 

1579 

1579 

1579 

1608 

1698 


.». 


Mara.  Towothend 
the  Baron 
LordDacre 
Duke  of  Beaufort 
the  Baron 
the  Baroo 
the  B^ooett 
the  Baron 
the  Baroneai 
Marq.  of  Hastings 
Duke  of  Gordon 
Mara,  of  Hastings 
Charles  Jones,  Esq. 
Marq.  of  Hastings 
the  oaron 
Mara  of  Hastings 
thefiaron 
Duke  of  Leeds 
Earl  of  Plymouth 
Duke  of  Gordon 
Marq.  of  Aoglesea 
Marq.  Townshend 
Eail  ^f  Abingdon 
the  Baron 
Earl  of  Darnley 
Duke  of  Atholl 


••• 


Heir  or  bcdf^. 

son. 

son. 

brother. 

brother. 

sisters  &  their  Iieirp. 

brother. 

son. 

daughters. 

aott. 

■OB. 

brother. 

afunt. 

brother. 

sisters. 

brother. 

brother. 

brother. 

son. 

brother. 

brother. 

■on. 

sop. 

■isters. 

son. 

brutlier. 

son. 

brother. 

son. 

son. 


Youra,  3cQ. 


Mr  IIbrak         Wanendon,  Bucks, 
Mr.  URBAN,  June\2, 

THE  Selbv  pedigtee  and  Sdby 
claifns,  wliScn  have  been  so  often 
discussed,  revived,  and  re-revived,  are 
again,  it  appears,  to  assume  a  new 
shape  under  the  labours  of  Mr.  Saul. 
It  would  have  afforded  mach  amnse- 
ment  to  exhibit  a  review  of  the  several 
varieties  which  have  been  observable 


in  ibe  attempt  of  different  writers  to 
establish  the  validity  qf  their  respective 
details:  but  the  subject  has  beea  to 
much  hackneyed,  that  your  readers 
would  scarcely  have  patience  tp  sub- 
mit to  a  perusal  of  two  of  the  later 
poblicationt  which  most  necessarily 
introduce  such  a  narrative.  1  will 
therefore  content  myself  with  an  an- 
swer to  the  inquiry  respecting  "  find- 


#  ]lt  !■  (roe  ihM.%  t)^  pfsifnt  Duke  of  Ncirfolk  jb  t^  heir  male  of  4obn,  1«|  pulte  of 
Norfolk*  but  hip  rjght  to  the  offioe  of  ^frl  Bdanhal  is  i>ot  derived  from  that  descent,  kait 
from  a  grant  by  Cities  t^B  Se^opd  io  X^%»  to  bis  funpeeto;  H^ojy^  t^\  of  Norwii:|iy 
vho  sucqeeded  his  Ji>rotber,  Tbpmi^  the  5fth  puke,  as  6th  Duke  of  tforfplk  in  1^77.  EojiT. 

f  We  have  printed  this  list  in  our  Corr^pondent's  own  word« ;  but  it  is  to  be  obsenred> 
that  Baronies  which  are  in  qbeyance  nust  M  deemed  to  exist.  Many  of  those  enume- 
rated have  not  been  admitted  po  be  vested  in  th^  individuals  entitled  to  thf  m ;  and  he  has 
omitted  one,  which  b  in  the  same  situation  ae  those  of  Multon  and  Scrope,  namely,  the 
Barony  of  Clifford,  created  by  Writ  in  1698,  and  which  is  now  vesled  In  the  Duke  o|  De- 
vonshire.   EBtr. 

t  These  B«r#ales  have  a«l  bcaa  o1fi|aed,  but  ibere  k  im  dookc  u  to  Ihelr  Ma^^^am 
vetted  in  the  persaw  meatioard.  * 

§  4  May,  91  Hen.  VJJI.  i.e.  anno  1599.    £d\t. 


590                The  Selbff  Qainu.— £r^l  of  Chriiiianity.  T  [xctii. 

ing  out  the  marriage  of  Richard  and  tive    mind    respecting    the    truth    of 

Isabella  Selby,   and    the    baptism  of  Christianity,    perhapa  there    is    none 

.  their  son,,  the  first  James,  somewhere  which  h  so  calculated  to  puzzle  and 
between  1 620  and  \630,  probably  at  confoond,  as  the  conviction  that  the 
or  near  Carlisle/'  by  suting  that  in  great  majority  of  mankind  have  always 
an  elaborate  pedigree  which  -was  been  ignorant  of  its  existence,  and  nn- 
brought  forward  some  few  years  ago  acquainted  with  its  doctrines.  "The 
by  certain  Bedfordshire  claimants  of  Christian  world,"  as  it  is  called,  is  but 
the  Selby  property,  supported  by  most  of  small  extent,  embracing  not  more 
determined  and  solemn  assurances  of  than  one-fifih  of  the  |)opulation  of  the 
the  documents  on  which  they  rested  earth.  If  the  inhabited  world  were 
their  claims  being  authentic,  the  firbt  divided  into  thirty  parts,  it  wpuld  be 
James  Selby,  as  they  call  him,  is  de-  fqund  that  nineteen  of  them  are  still 
scribed  to  lie  the  son  of  John,  not  of  possessed  by  pgans,  six  by- Jews  and 
Richard.  And  in  another  pedigree,  Mahometans,  and  6ve  only  by  Chria- 
drawn  up  with  probably,  equal  care^  tians  of  all  denominations.'*.— Jeiie/f 
and  supported  certainly  with  as  great  Did.  of  Religious  Opinions, 
pertinacity,  the  said  James  is  made  the  This  objection  has  accordingly  al- 
son  of  William  Selby,  not  of  Ri-  ways  been  urged  by  deists  as  an  insor- 
CHARD.  mountable  argument  against  the  troth 
Now,  Mr.  Urban,  the  claimants  of  Christianity,  and  it  is  in  fact  the 
ap|)earing  to  agree  in  this,  that  his  mo-  main  pillar  of  modern  infidelity. 
tner*s  name  was  Isabel,  and  Mr.  Saul  Hence  it  is  that  so  many  of  our  tra- 
averring  that  his  father's  name  was  vellers  return  home  either  secret  or 
Richard,  perhaps  it  may  answer  the  "avowed  unbelievers.  Nor  do  I  re- 
desired  pur|K)se  to  assume  that  **  they  member  ever  to  have  seen  this  obiec- 
all  had  her  to  wife,*'  like  the  "seven  tion  fully  and  fairly  answered,  till  I 
brethren,''  mentioned  in  the  Gospel;  met  with  a  recent  publication  on  "The 
and  as,  according  .  to  the  several  ac-  Nature  and  Extent  of  the  Christian 
counts  which  have  been  already  ob-  Dispensation,  with  reference  to  the 
ligingly  laid  before  the  public  (all  of  .Salvability  of  the  Heathen.*'.  In  this 
them,  as  we  are  assured,  from  authen-  work  it  is  unanswerably  demonstrated 
tic  documents),  "John  Selby  died  in  from  Scripture,  that  the  dispensation 
1633,"  "  Richard  22d  October,  l634,"  of  the  Gospel  extends  to  all  mankind, 
and  "  Wriliam  10  Feb.  l635;** — th^  and  that  everv  human  being  comes 
old  lady  having,  it  seems,  been  very  into  the  worla  in  a  salvable  condition, 
expeditious  in  her  manoeuvres :  and,  in  virtue  of  the  atonement  which  has 
moreover,  as  "James  Selby"  is  said,  been  made  for  the  sins  of  the  world, 
on  the  same  good  authority,  to  have  The  argument  is  altogether  scripto- 

.  been  "  married  iii   1666 !"  I  presume  ral,   and   is  carried    on    through   the 

to  hope  that  such  information  will  save  Adamic,     Patriarchal,    Jewish,     and 

.  a  great  deal  of  trouble,  And  .perhaps  Christian  economies.     It  is  supported 

.  enable  the  new  claimants  to  answer  by  a  large  mass  of  authority,  from  the 

their  own  questions  satisfactorily,  or  most  eminent  English  and^  foreign  di- 

supply  materials  for  fair  and  legittmale  vines.    Perhaps  there  is  rather  a  re- 

inference,  with  regard  to  the  important  duudancy  than  a  want  of  evidence; 

subject  of  their  inquiry.     Not  know-  but  this  is  a  fault  which  may  be  easily 

.  iug  in  what  manner  to  make  a  more  excused  on  a  subject  at  once  so  ob- 

.  direct  reply  to  the  Inquirer,  perhaps,  scure  and  interesting.  When  a  voyager 

Mr.  Urban,  you  will  be  so  good  as  to  has  met  with  a  coast  before  undescnb- 

become  my  treasurer,  and   to  receive  ed,  or  very  imperfectly  laid  down  by 

the  one  hundred  guineas,  which,   I  preceding  navigators,    we  allow  him 

-  doubt  not,    the  Inquirer   will  think  to  trace  every  point  and  nbok  of  land; 

•  SDch  a  communication  deserves,  and  and  even  so  it  is  with  the  doctrine  of 

which    he  very   liberally  offers,  and  heathen    redemption,    which    is    the 

'  which  mighty  be  much  worse  applied  /erra  tncogm'/a  of  theology,  and  which 

than  in  thus  ^eliciting  such  important  is  now  first  laid  open  to  the  wondering 

information !                           F.  Y.  £.  eye  of  the  Christian  student. 

^  But  the  most  imporunt  part  of  this 

Mr.  Urban,                       June  \  5.  theory  of  Christianity  consists  in   its 

«    A  MONGST    the.  various    doubts,  applicationto  those  controversies  which 

./jl  which  pass  thioogh  au  'mc^u\«v-  haxe  hitherto  divided  the  opinions  of 


PABT  X.]                   Historif  ofihtRuuian  DUmond:    •  "i  591 '^ 

Christendom.    It  not  only  destroys  the.'  the  lime  of  his  ataassination'maDy  pre- « 
main  objections  of  unbelievers,  but  it  crous    ornaments    belonging    to    the 
offers  the  readiest  method  to  demons-  Crown  were  pillased,  and  afterwards 
irate  the  errors  of  Popery,  of  Calvinists,  secretly  disposed  ofby  the  soldiers  who 
and  of  Unitarians.     By  subferling  the  shared  the  plunder, 
doctrine,  "  that,  there  is  no  salvation  Shafrass,  commonly  known  at  As- 
out  of  the  Church,"  Popery  loses  its  trakhan  by  the  name  of  Millionshik, 
fundamental   tenet.      By  establishing  or  the  man  of  millions,  then  resided  at 
the  salvability  of  the  heathen,  it  illus-  Bassora  with  two  of  his  brethren.  One 
trates  the  doctrine  of  univ'ersal  redemp-  day  a  chief  of  Avganians  applied   to. 
tion,  as  relative  to  all  professing  Chris-  him,  and  secretly  proposed  to  sell  for  a 
tians,  and  by  identifying  the  ofRces  of  very  moderate  sum   the    before-men- 
Christ,  as  the  Creator,  Saviour,  and  tioned  Diamond,  which  probably  was 
Judee  of  all  men,  with  the  attributes  that  called  the  Moon  of  the  Mountain, 
of  Deity,  it  unanswerably  establishes,  together  with  a  very  large  emerald,  a/ 
his  divinity.                                            .  ruby  of  a  considerable  si.ze,  and  other 
Upon  the  whole,   I  am  persuaded  precious  stones  of  less  value.    Shafrass 
that  this  work  is  worthy  of  serious  at-  was  astonished  at  the  offer,<and  pre- 
tention, for  its  originality  and  import-,  tending  that  he  had  not  a  sufficient 
ahce.     Without  disturbmg  any  of  our  sum  to  purchase  these  jewels,  he  de- 
doctrines  of  orthodox  theology,  it  sheds  manded  time  to  consult  with  his  bre- 
lisht  and  lustre  on  the  whole  scheme  thren  on  the  subject.  The  vender,  pro- 
of human  redemption.     It  brings  the  bably  from  suspicious  motives,  did  not ' 
whole  history. of  the  Bible  into  con-  again  make  bis  appearance, 
tact    with    the    principles    of    moral  Shafrass,  with  the  approbation  of  his 
science;    it   uses    PhiUrsophy    as  the  brethren,  immediately  went  in  search 
hand-maid  of  Religion;  and  without  of  the  stranger  with  the  jeweU;  but 
diminishing  our  real    for  missionary  he  had  left  Bassora.    The  Armenian, 
exertions,    it    inculcates   that  charity  however,    met     him    accidentally    at 
"  which  hopeth  all  things,  and  whicn  Bagdad,  and  concluded  the  bargain  by 
never  faileth.*'  paying  him  fifty  thousand  piasters  for 
An  Old  Correspondent,  all  the  jewels  in  his  possession.    Shaf- 
A  rass  and  his  brothers  beius  conscious 

Mr.  Urbah,  June  12.  ^»»*^  *»^  **?>  necessary  to  oT)serve  the 
e  .  I  f  I.  #-.  "nost  profound  secrecy  respecting  this 
S  a  constant  reader  of  the  Gen-  p„,chase,  resolved,  on  account  of  their 
tleman  sMagazme  I  am  inclined  {commercial  connection,  to  remain  at 
to  think  the  following  history  of  a  dia-  g^,,^,,  ^fler  a  lapse  of  12  years, 
mond  will  not  be  thought  uninterest-  (^^gori  Shafrass,  with  the  consent  of 
ing.  1  claim  no  merit  m  this  paper  ^j,  ^rothem,  set  off  with  the  largest  erf 
^yond  copying  it  from  Mr.  James  ihe  jewels,  which  had  till  then  been 
Forbes's  Travels  through  a  ^lart^of  concealed  5  he  directed  his  route  through 
*""*^  Sham  to  Constantinople,  and  after- 
wards by  land  throagh  Hungary  an4 
"  During  my  residence  in  Astra-  Selicia  to  the  city  of  Amsterdam, 
khao,  1  became  ac()uaiuted  with  the  where  he  publicly  offered  his  jewels 
heirs  of  the  late  Grigori  Safarof  Sha-  for  sale.  The  English  Government  is 
frass,  the  Armenian  who  sold  the  said  to  have  been  among  the  bidders, 
celebrated  large  Diamond,  which  is  The  Court  of  Russia  sent  for  the  large 
now  set  in  the  imperial  sceptre  of  Diamond,  with  a  proposal  to  reim- 
Russia.  The  history  of  this  Diamond,  burse  all  reasonable  expences,  if  the 
which  holds  so  distinguished  a  place  price  should  not  be  agreed  upon, 
among  those  of  the  very  6rst  water.  When  the  Diamond  arrived,  the  Rus- 
may  probably  afford  entertainment  to  sian  Minister  Count  Parim  made  the 
my  readers  9  as  I  shall  thereby  refute  followins  offer  to  Shafrass,  whose  no- 
many  false-  reports  which  have  been  gociatorM.  Lasaraf  was  then  jeweller 
circulated  on  this  subject.  to  the  .Court.  Besides  the  patent  of 
Shah  Nadir  had  in  his  throne  two  hereditary  nQbiliiy  •  demanded  by  tb« 
principal  Indian  diamonds,  one  which  .vender,  he  was  to  receive  au  aqoual 
wa&  called  the  Sun  of  the  Sea;  and  the  pensioii  of  six  thousand  rubles  dariog 
other,  the  Moonof  theMounUin.  At  life,  five  hundred  thousand  cabliftv v^ 
.    .  .      '                 .     ...  .  .    •    :^ 


A 


5N  On  th§  PrmhrninmU  Fo«ri*fi  in  Mm*  C'crii. 


anhf  onu^aUh  part  of  whidi  was  to  in  the  oiore  shining  talentSy  the 

be  pajtfbl*  on  clemand,  and  the  re*  popolari  the  more  imnificcnt  and  il- 

mahiiier  in  the  space  of  ten  yeart,  by  laurioos  opportunity  for  rirtae*^-or  the 

rf^ilar  inttahnents.     The  caprieiout  more   deoMed    by   conspicuoaa    and 

Shafrass  likewise  cUimed  |he  honour  violent  propcntitr.    Tbb  is  a  wise  dia- 

of  nobilifty  for  his  brothers^  and  Ta-  pensation,  for  it  keepa  the  gfeat  whole 

rious  other  tmmuniticv  or  advantagea,  upon  an  even  balanoe-^aU  the  mnlti* 

and  persisted  so  obstinately  in  htsde-  farious  gradations  of  tank  contribnte  to 

diarids,  that  the  negotiation  was  fhis-  fill  the  parts  allotted  to  them— > the 

tvated,  and  the  Diamond  returned.  more  elevated  be  the  rank  or  ulent» 

'  Shafrass  was  now  in  great  perplexity,  the  greater  is  the  necessity  to  study  its 

He  had  involved  himself  in  expences,  proper  use,  and  the  more  awful  is  the 

was  obliged  to  pay  interest  for  consider-  responsibility  attached  to  it;  but  it  is 

able  sums  he  had  borrowed,  and  there  the  part  of  those  who  look  on,  without 

was  no  prospect  of  selling  the  jewel  acting,  to  forbear  in  their  judgment 

to    advantage.      His    negotiaiors    left  before  they  adopt  the  evidence  offisred, 

him  in  that  perplexity,  in  order  to  and  see  whether  it  comes  frooi  the 

profit    by    his    mismanagement.     To  partiality  of  friends  and  partisans,  or 

tflude  his  creditors,  he  was  obliged  to  from  the  sinister  <)esign  orenemies. 

abscond  to  Astrakhan.  If  all  history  were  true,  as  recited. 

At  length  the  negotiation  with  Rns-  posterity  might  readily  judge  of  the 

sia  was  recommenced  by  Count  Gri-  characters  which  it  has  recorded  ;  we 

gOfy  Grigoriwitsh  Orlof,  who  was  af-  might  then  decide  with  Lingard  that 

terwards  created  Prince  of  the  empire,  the  imputationa  against  Charles  IX. 

and  the  Diamond  was  purchasea  for  and  his  family,  were  unjnst  on  the  St. 

four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  rubles  Barthelemy— or  we  might  adopt  the 

#ffMlv  money,  together  with  the  grant  luminons  pages  of  Gibbon    for  the 

of  Russian  nobility..  Of  this  sum  it  is  orthodoxy  of  our  creed. 

Mid  one  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  The  leading  characters  which  all 

rubles  fell  to  the  share  ot  the  nego-  historians  have  set  on  hi^h  before  our 

iiators  for  commission,  interest,  and  view,  must  be  carefully  mspeoted  be* 

similar  expences.  fore  their  dominant  passion  can  pass 

Shafrass  settled  at  Astrakhan,  and  any    impartial    sentence  —  and    tneir 

his  riches,  which  by  inheritance  de^  speeches  must  also  be  reviewed-,  before 

folted  on  his  daughters,  have,  by  the  tney  can  be  adopted  and  believed  to 

tiuravagance  of  his  sons-in-law,  oeen  have  been  delivered  by  the  great  men 

In  a  gfeat  measure  dissipated."  whose  names  thev  bear.  The  (|uestion 

■'  ^"   ■■  is,  whether  any  dominant  passion  does 

Mr.  Urbai^,                     June  10.  govern  the  human  mind,  and  excite  to 

'"''HENEVER  we  revise  the  eon->  the  appropriate  actions?    Let  us  refer 

duct  of  men  who  have  signal  ised  to  a  few  cases, 

tomselves  by  some  powerful  effort  of  The  dominant  passion  of  Tiberius  is 

genius,  judsmcttt,  or  policy,  we  are  said,  by  a  female  writer^of  great  perspi- 

ipf  etths^  rnigiously  or  philosophically  cuity,  though  yet  anonvmous,  to  have 

to  fftffie  their  conduct  up  to  some  pre*  been  dissiitfulation — of  which  l^a^itus 

domriam  passion,  atid  to  descant  freely  has  drawn  the  brief  but  very  icnii 

tm  the  motive  from  the  overt  act ;  and  outline. 

Arkkvg  the  latter  as  unequivocal  e\i*  •«  Jam  cdrpii,  Jaiti  viMt,  Boedum  dbri- 

detiee,  we  ptt>ceetl  as  unsparinglj^  to  taulatto  deserebat.    Jdam  snimi  fteor»  ser- 

^n<lertln  the  fotmer.    The  passions  onn^  ac  vulis  iaisatos*  qasdta  Mterdaai 

«r«  generally  charged  with  a  strong  touiistii,  ^uaaivit   aianifttiin   defcoiioM 

fropensify  to  e^il,  and  as  all  things  teg^bst*"    Auaal.  Lib. «.  o.  i. 

Ihifnan  'must  be  imperfect,  or  ±i  least  It  i<s  a  point  in  physiognomy  weH 

mixed,  the  instances  upon  record  on  worthy  of  due  rejection  and  obaefvn« 

which  most  writers  ha%*e  dwelt  for  tion,  that  this  ammi  rij^  should  be 

their  morat  examples,  have  generally  fbund  as  an  exterior  mark  of  inland 

^^n  adopfed  ftom  the  immerous  host  dissimulation,  if  the  hinguage  of  Taoi^ 

Of  those  which  are  rather  to  be  beheld  tos  bears  this  constmctioii>-^^ul  it  will 

as-beacOns  than  ah  guides.  The  minor  require  more  tfAm  present  notion  to 

Ittosntives  to  evil  or  to  good,  wMch  discern  whether  It  h  jusd(i#d  bf  tet. 

Mu^  vp  tlM  summifT  of  human  eof»-  It  is  saf4  thM  ^s  domi«teiH  panfam 

ductg  ue  absorbed  and  forgplleti  e\\V\et  o^taXfid  tA  hU  latest  moment! 


w 


PAST  I.] 


On  the  predominant  Paaiom  in  Men. 


99S 


.  *  Also,  the  Duke  D*Epernon,  a  man 
of  consummate  pride,  who  during' his 
Whole  life  time  had  piqued  himself  in 
expressing  some  mark  of  pride  in  all 
he  said  or  did ;  thus  after  a  long  illness 
and  extreme  old  age  had  greatly  sub- 
dued him,  this  propensity  was  manifest 
at  his  last  hour.  An  ecclesiastic  who 
had  administered  to  him  the  last  office 
of  his  religion,  led  him  to  express  his 
forgiveness  of  all  his  enemies  and  all 
his  servants  who  had  offended,  and  de- 
sired him  to  declare  that  he  also  asked 
the  pardon  of  those  whom  he  had 
offended,  knowing  that  he  had  but  a 
few  days  before  ilhreated  a  person  then 
in  his  service.  But  the  proposition 
did  not  fail  to  irritate  him,  and  he 
answered  in  an  animated  tone  of  voice, 
that  it  was  enough  that  he  had  pardoned 
those  who  had  displeased  him,  and 
that  it  had  never  been  known  that  for 
a.  man  to  die  properly,  a  master  should 
be  bound  to  make  the  amende  honour- 
able  to  all  his  domestics.  Gerard. 
Bayle. 

Again  :  few  ambitious  men  are 
capable  of  retracting  whenever  much 
shame  can  attach  to  their  recantation ; 
public  fame  is  their 


*<  Ruling  pMsion  strong  in  death  ! 


t» 


The  Duke  De  Guise  protested  his 
innocence  of  the  massacre  of  Vassi 
during  his  life-time,  and  continued  to 
do  so  in  his  last  moments. 

It  is  difficult  for  the  charitable  tem- 
per of  posterity  to  take  the  Duke*s 
own  evidence;  and  if  it  is  rejected,  it 
becomes  more  difficult  to  anticipate 
the  final  judgment  which  may  be 
passed  upon  the  act  and  the  falsehood 
together! 

His  brother  the  Cardinal  de  Lor- 
raine boasted  in  the  Council  of  having 
the  hatred  of  the  Huguenots,  but  not 
contented  with  sending  them  all  to  the 
Inquisition  for  the  libels  with  which 
they  were  charged,  he  extended  his 
indignation  against  all  Protestants 
likewise.  This  dominant  revenge  was 
increased  by  his  religious  fanaticism, 
and  thus  ministering  to  and  inflaming 
each  other,  he  died  in  the  midst  of 
their  overwhelming  fury !  How  much 
better  a  Christian  and  philosopher 
would  he  have  lived  andf  died,  and 
how  much  higher  would  have  stood 
the  pillar  on  which  his  trophies  were 
hung,  if  he  had  .followed  the  patience 
ind  forbearance  of  his  Divine  Master, 

Gbnt.  Mag.  SUppl,  XCVII.  Part  I. 


who  when  "he  was  reriled^  reviled 
not  again.*' 

.  Neither  the  Duke  nor  his  reverend 
brother  the  Cardinal  checked  their  ca- 
reer one  moment  to  reflect,  that  while 
they  were  retorting  so  violently  upon 
the  Huguenots,  it  was  their  own  spi- 
rit of  persecution,  and  their  own 
selfish  pride,  that  had  made  those  men 
their  enemies;  and  that  their  whole 
efforts  would  very  soon  become  as  the 
waste  scum  upon  the  surface  qf  the 
living  waters,  easily  discernible,  and  as 
easily  cast  away  i 

But  let  us  change  the  scene.  Perhaps 
these  men  had  never  been  well  taught, 
for  what  tutor  could  adopt  so  high  a 
lesson  as  the  superiority  of  humility 
and  conciliation  ;  a  temper  habitually 
nourished  in  lofty  superintendance  can 
ill  discover  what  it  is  to  be  truly  great; 
our  late  illustrious  Commander  in 
Chief  was  honoured  and  beloved  for 
■  his  urbanity  and  condescension,— and 
he  died  in  charity  with  all  men  !    i 

The  history  of  Joseph  furnishes  a 
celebrated  instance  of  a  dominant  pas- 
sion for  the  imitation  of  great  men. 
Raised  from  inferior  rank  to  the  hiehest 
in  the  government  of  a  powerfai  na- 
tion, he  is  in  every  stage  of  his  splen- 
did career  the  minister  of  truth,  of  for- 
bearance, of  rigid  prudence,  of  wise 
foresight,  of  generous  sentiment,  and 
of  filial  respect.  His  duty  was  .supe- 
rior to  all  ambition  ;  his  public  service 
was  free  from  corruption ;  he  served 
his  royal  master  and  his  people  also 
with  equal  justice;  and  he  died  as  he 
had  lived,  the  monument  of  these- vir- 
tues; his  dominant  passion  was  an 
unswerving  integrity,  and  he  main- 
tained it  to  his  latest  hour. 
«  Aristides  the  Just,  whose  general 
character  rose  superior  to  every  ca- 
lumny, furnished  every  good  example, 
raised  him  above  every  wish  for  wealthy 
and  closed  in  poverty ;  this  was  hit 
dominant  passion.  He  was  the  rival 
of  Themistocles,  by  whose  -influence 
he  was  banished  from  Athens  for  ten 
years;  but  before  six  years  had  ex- 
pired, he  was  recalled  by  his  people 
(ante  C.  434).  In  the  representation 
of  one  of 'the  tragedies  of  .^Ischylus,  a 
sentence  was  expressed  concerning 
moral  goodness,  when  every  eye  was 
withdrawn  from  the  actor,  and  fixed 
upon  Aristides.  When  he  was  hear- 
ing a  complaint,  the  plaintiff  stated 
the  injuries  which  hU  cy^'^lcs^^\!^.  \v^ 


J94  D^eue^  a/  Dr.  Paliy.  [xotiu 

committed  against  Aiisiidct}  "meii-        Mr.  Urban,       SaU»hury,Jmne  10. 
tion  the  wrongs  which  you  have  rb-    npHE  writer  of  a  recent  ingenioui 
cctved,"  replied  the  equitable  Judge,      i     publication    ("  Four    Years    in 
««i  sit  here  as  Jud^e,  and  the  law-suit    France'*)  has  undertaken  to  draw,  in 
it  tours,  and  not  mine."  (C.  Ncp.  and    ^\^^  New  Monthly  Magazine  of  Fe- 
iPlui.  in  VitA — Leroprlere.)  The  pride     bruary,  the  character  of  a  late  eminent 
of  justice  and  truth  thus  put  to  shame     author,  u"ndcr  the  title  of  "  Conversa- 
the  sinister  insinuation  of  the  selfish     ^jons  of  Paley,"  in  which  he  has  in- 
orator  who  was  looking  for  the  weight    terspersed  so  many  unjustifiable  reflec- 
of  his  own  ill-placed  allusion.                   tJons  on  the  conduct  of  that  respecta- 
In  our  owu  times  the  predominant     ^le  man,  as  well  as  on  the  venerable 
passion  exerted  for  public   good  was     EsUblishment  of  which    he  was  so 
most  evident  in  John  Howard,  who     bright  an  ornament,   that  I  trust  it 
left  all  his  domestic  cares  and  comforts,     ^\\\   not  be   found  inconsistent  with 
and  faced  the  dangers  of  wreichedriess     tbe  plan  of  your  work,  to  admit  a  few 
and  infection  to  produce  a  general  im-    observations  on  this  performance, 
provement  in   the  hard  lot  of  those        u  has  been  well  observed  that  little 
who  are  condemned  to  hopeless  impri-    advantage  can  be  derived  to  the  public, 
ionmenty  not  only  in  his  own  country,     and  still  less  to  the  rising  generation, 
bat  in  other  nations  of  the  Continent,     by  recording  the  foibles  of  the  illus- 
He  brought  to  light  not  only  their  suf-     inous  dead.    Their  characters  are  in- 
ferings,  but  also  the  causes,  and  those     ^^ed  a  national  property,  and  whoever, 
leiieved  in  great  degree  the  dreadful     by  his  representations,  and  still  more 
results.                                                       by  his  mistakes,  diminishes  the  gene- 
These  are  cases  in  which  the  predo-     ^^1  respect  in  which  their  memories 
minant  passion  is  stimulated  by  a  dis-     ^^  beld,   may  be  said    to    sully  the 
interested  and  unrelaxing  pursuit  of    splendour  of  our  national  fame,  and  to 
general  good ;  in  which  all   pereonal     loosen  the  influence  which  excellence 
fear  is  wholly  discarded ;  in  which  if    should   inspire.     I  am   unwilling   to 
the  love  of  fame  can  be  found,  it  is  an     accuse  the  writer  in  question  of  a  ma^ 
ingredient  that  does  not  here  render     ]iciou8  desire  of  misrepresentation;  but 
the  cup  either  tasteless  or  over-charged;     his  history  which  is  before  the  woald, 
and  in  which  1  rather  expect  to  fiqd     as  well  as  the  evidence  of  his  present 
that  the  most  strict  investigaior  of  mo-     memoir,  too  plainly  demonstrate  that 
tives  will  not  find  reason  to  dispute     be  was  utterly  incapable  of  duly  ap- 
the  merit  or  deny  the  grace  of  pure    predating  the  great  man  whom  he  ha^ 
example ;  and  will  readily  agree  in  my     presumed   to  delineate.    Thai  Paley, 
proposition,  that  the  dominant  passion     \\\^^  others  even  greater  than  himsefiL 
may  not  so  often   be  the  servant  of    ^jj  occasionally  unstring  his  bow,  ana 
evil,  as  of  general  and  personal  good,     indulge  himself  in   playful  conversa- 
although  it  may  be  more  usually  cited     ^lon,   is  sufficiently  evident ;    but   if 
in  that  class.                                              these  "nugae"  must  be  recorded,  let 
The  late  Bishop  Heber  of  Calcutta     ^bem   not    be  burthened  with  more 
would  be  forced  to  acknowledge  that     meaning  than    was  intended    at  the 
bis  predominant  passion  was  to  per-     moment ;  and  let  the  writer,  in  corn* 
form  his  Christian  calling,  and  that     mon  justice,  be  certain  that  he  fully 
though    his    own    inclination    might    comprehended    it.     But  the  preteni 
have  led  him  to  enjoy  at  Hodnet  the    narrator,  even  supposing    him   saffi* 
blessings  with  which  his  lot  had  sur-    ciently  qualified  for  the  task,  admiu 
rounded  him,  yet  that  he  was  bound     ^hat  he  "was  not  an  ear- witness  of 
to  yield  all  these  and  more,  in  order    every  saying  thus  set  down,*' and  there- 
to take  the  arduous  and  wider  field  of    fore  trusts  for  the  truth  of  "  some''  of 
duty  in  India,  to  meet  labour  and  fa-    hisanecdotes  to  "persons  of  all  credit,** 
tigue,  and  to  brave  the  dangers  of  cli-    ^bo  probably  may  have  received  them 
male,  in  order  to  become  the  instru-     ^iib  numberless  additions  from  twenty 
ment  of  spreading  far  and  wide  among    other  sources;  yet  a  classical  reporter 
converted  nations  the  consolations,  and     might  be  cautious  of  such  testimony, 
to  confirm  the  faith,  of  the  reformed    remembering  the  well-known  charac- 
apostolic  Church ;  and  he  yielded  up    ter  of  rumour, 
his  spirit  in  the  act  of  his  episcopal       _     ^  .  .     ^ ,  „ 


pAiT  I.]  Dtfmce  of  Dr.  Palmf.  895 


i;: 


ge  3,  as  cenuine,  since  it  relates  to  hcod  and  dalj  appreciate  the  system  of 

imself,  when  being  asked  by  Paley  this  oelebrateid  penormaDce.   To  him* 

some  trifling  question,  as  to  the  choice  self,  thereforpy  the  time  so  spent  muat 

of  a  dish  at  dinner,  **  he  endeavoured  have   been  time  thrown  away  1     Les 

to  answer  t/  tn    choice   and   correct  him  not,  however,  continue  in  the 

phraseology  J*  But  he  continues,  **noi  presumption,  which  he  has  erroneously 

allowing  me  to  finish  it,  Paley  cried'  taken  up,  that  the  tutors  of  Cam  bridn 

out.  Aye !  1  see  you  are  for  pork  stakes,  think  it    necessary   to  neutralize   by 

^0.  &c.**    His  a2>/tf  defence  of  the  Ja-  their  remarks,  eitner  the  princi|>lea, 

cobites  at  p.  8,  whose  party  Paley  did  the  consequences,  or  the  illustrations 

not  think  was  then  so  strong,  may  be  of  Palev*s  Moral  Philosophy.    Having 

added  as  a  pendent.    And  when  in  an  been  educated  at  one  of  tne  largest  col« 

argument  on  the  comparative  advan-  leges  in  that  University,  I  can  confi- 

tages  of  youth  and   age,  our  writer  dently  assert,  that  in  my  examinatioo 

ventures  to  differ  from  the  subject  of  with  many  fellow  stuaents,  in  that 

his  memoir,  who  in  answer  to  his  pro-  work,  ana  in  the  preceding  lectures 

position  certainly,  as  he  observes,  "  cot  upon  it,  not  a  single  syllable  (accord- 

nim  short"  with  a  '*  hold  your  tongue,  ing  to  the  best  of  my  recollection),  of 

you   know  nothing  of   the  matter.*'  reprehension  or  of  qualification  ever 

Gentle    reader !    is   it    very  difficult,  pa^ed  the  lips  of  our  able  tutors ;  nor 

whatever  this  sapient  person  may  have  did  I  ever  hear,  that  in  other  colleges 

written  or  thought  of  Paley,  to  collect  any  neutralization  of  Paley's  doctrines 

from   his   own    account  what    Paley  was  considered  necessary.    The  basis 

thought  of  him?  on  which   this  system  of  morals   is 

He  proceeds  to  relate  that,  when  reared^   is  found  so   consistent  with 

noticing  his   library,.  Paley,  after  he  religious  knowledge  and  liuman  expe* 

had  observed  his  other  works,  ''seemed  rience,  that  the  tutors  of  Cambriofi(e 

to  look  about  forhis' Philosophy.'  But*'  have  not  thought  it  necessary  to  lesseo 

(continues  this  immaculate  collector)  its  effect  by  minute  objections;  and 

"  he  mieht  reasonably  doubt  whether  their  pupils,  trained  by  mathematical 

it  would  be  allowed  a  place  on  the  studies  to  close  induction  and  referenct 

shelf   of    an    honest    man's    library.  toprinciples,theY  consider  as  not  likely 

There  it  was,  however,  the  rascally  to  be  led  away  by  any  occasional  lati« 

book,  and  I  did  not  say,  that  to  read  tude  of  expression.    This  anecdotUC 

it  once  was  to  read  it  once  too  often !"  with  others  of  his  own  calibre,  may 

How  the  author  himself  might  reason-  obiect  to  expedience  as  the  test  of  mo* 

ably  doubt  that  his  own  performance  rai  action,  but  the  Cambridge  student 

would  be  allowed  a  place  in  an  honest  recollects  that  the  expedience  of  Paley, 

man's  library,  is,  I  confess.  Sir,  beyond  through  the  whole  course  of  his  worv^ 

my  comprenension,  and  probably  be-  is  the  tendency  of  an  action  to  pro* 

yond  that  of  most  of  his  readers;  for  mote  the  general  good ;  and  that  thb' 

were   it  admitted   that  the  object  of  rule  proceeds  on  the  presumption  that 

Paley's  Philosophy  were  as  noxious  as  the    Almighty  wills  and  wishes  the 

the  objector  presumes  it  to  be,  yet  the  happiness  of  his  creatures, 
author  himself  (and  one  on  the  sub-         A  Catholic  convert  dismisses  tha 

ject  of  morals),  who  was  not  con-  sobjectof  the  University  by  reprehend- 

strained  to  publish  the  work,  would  ing  the  system  of  requiring  from  Its 

surely  be.  ot  a  different  opinion.    It  graduates  a  subscription  to  the  Articles 

could  answer  no  purpose  to  him,  to  of  our  national  Church !  and  he  pa« 

give  knowingly  to  the  world  a  system  triotically  laments  the  conseouent  ex- 

of  etroneous  precepts ;  for  its  recep-  chision  of  "  four-fifths  of  his  Majesty's 

tion  as  such  could  in  no  conceivable  subjects  from  its  advantages."    How 

manner  have  forwarded  his  views,  but  far  a  relaxation  of  the  present  rales 

must  have  had  the  effect,  even  to  his  would  be  expedient  in  this  respect,  i| 

own  conception,  of  diminishing  hi*  is  not  now  necessary  to  inZjuire ;  but  I 

reputation  for  judgment  and  virtue.—  will  venture  to  observe,  that  whatever 

8o  far,  however,  I    agree   with  the  computation   he  may  be   pleased  to 

anecdotist,  that  he  himself  had  read  make  of  the  general  body  of  Dissenters, 

the   book  once  too  ofken ;  for  there  there  is  not  one-fifth  of  those  whose  ' 

could  be  little  hope  after  this  declara-  circumstances  and  Views  lead  them.  Us. 

tion,   that   any  number   of   perusals  aooUe^  eA««.>awfk»Hi>MiM^  ^>a».^»f- 

would  have  enabled  him  to  compre-  bsLfttd  «w»  vV«a^wwi».  N4^?fti^>«^ 


596 


Defence  of  Dr.  PaUy. 


[xcrii. 


at  least  competence,  which  it  generally 
necessary  for  this  advantage,  are  found 
in  their  acquisition  to  diminish  the  ef-^ 
fects  of  sectarian  prejudices  and  aspe- 
rities. Of  the  Presbyterians  of  liberal 
birth  and  habits,  many  may  be  fairly 
presumed  to  prefer  for  other  reasons, 
the  northern  Universities.  Others 
among  them  have  not  thought  their 
own  notions  of  a  Church  government 
a  sufficient  reason  for  debarring  their 
offspring  from  exercising  their  own 
discretion  in  this  respect.  The  fol- 
lowers of  Whitfield  and  Wesley  fre- 
quently admit  our  Articles  as  con- 
nrmatory  of  their  own  tenets.  With 
respect  to  the  gentry  born  and  educated 
in  the  Catholic  persuasion,  of  whom  1 
would  speak  with  feelings  of  respect, 
some  of  the  most  distinguished  among 
them  have  not  declined  a  residence  at 
Cambridge;  and  although  the  obsta- 
cles to  their  obtainin;:;  degrees  may  by 
some  be  regretted,  yet  their  numbers 
can  add  but  little  to  those  who  are  ex- 
eluded.  Nor  do  1  presume  that  the 
lists  can- be  greatly  swelled  by  the 
English  converts  to  that  faith  in  the 
nineteenth  century. 

His  liberal  plan  of  drawing  foreign- 
ers to  our  colleges,  by  conferring  de- 
grees on  persons  of  all  persuasions,  I 
presume  he   may  have  adopted  as   a 
traveller  from  tne  Catholic  Universi- 
ties of  Salamanca,  Coimbra,  and  the 
Italian  States.     Bu^  why  should  this 
formidable  controversialist  suppose  that 
the  "aspirants  to  degrees  in  divinity 
subscribe   with   a  sign   or  a  smile?' 
Does  he  measure  the  general  belief  in 
our  Articles  with  that  given  by  Ro- 
manists to  the  infallibility  of  his  own 
Church,  and  to  the  miracles  recorded 
as  performed  by  the  host  of  saints  in 
his  own  calendar?     Does  he  think  it 
a  trifling  matter  to  charge  the  subject 
of  his  memoir  (p.  11)  with  insincerity 
of  attachment  to  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, of  which  he  was  both'a  minister 
and  ti  dignitary?     However  he   may 
have  imbibed  from  foreign  connexions 
and  Catholic  associations  the  notion 
that  disregard  and  insincerity  are  foi- 
bles both  venal  and  general  in  his  own 
persuasion,  he  may  be  assured   that 
Mere,  so  far  from  "few  condemning,*' 
fuch  sentiments  would  be  univertally 
condemned,  and  would  lessen  the  weigHt 
of  anycharacter  and  reputation.  How- 
ever Paley  mav  haye  desired  a  more 
Moeral  comprehension  in  t\\e  Navsionail 
Church,  docs  it  follow  Qcxccpi  \t>  vVi^ 


most  blunderins  intellects)  that  he  wat 
dissatisfied  with  its  doctrines?  His 
writings  I  am  persuaded  will  be 
searched  in  vain  for  such  a  proof,  and 
it  would  require  an  infinitely  more 
acute,  unimpeached,  and  accurate  au- 
thority to  establish  so  grave  a  charge 
from  nis  conversation. 

I  shall  not  trouble  jou  with  his  ob- 
servations on  Catholic  EmancipatioB 
(p.  15),  except  to  observe  that  he  ob- 
jects to  Haley's  arguments  as  political 
rather  than  dogmatic,  whilst  in  the 
same  page  he  himself  observed  that 
*'  religion  is  also  politics.**  He  after- 
wards accuses  him  of  inconsistency,  is 
subsequently  propounding  the  expe- 
dience of  rendering  the  Catholic  faith 
the  established  religion  of  Ireland,  as 
if  that  measurc'would  involve  all  the 
consequences  of  Emancipation.  But 
'*it  is  possible,'*  as  this  brilliant  po- 
lemic observes,  that  "  he  may  have 
converted  Paley  to  a  sense  of  justice," 
or  possibly,  as  he  continues,  the  Sub- 
Dean  **  never  cared  about  the  sub- 
ject on  which  he  conversed,  except  as 
a  subject  of  conversation,  for  he  never 
seemed  to  care  seriously  about  any 
thing.'*  It  may,  I  think,  at  least  be 
inferred,  from  this  and  other  admis- 
sions, that  Paley  certainly  did  not  care 
to  argue  seriously  with  such  a  compa- 
nion. Of  some  of  his  anecdotes  the 
best  that  can  be  said  of  ihem  is,  that 
they  are  utterly  trifling  and  worthless; 
others,  however,  are  not  without  point 
and  amusement.  That  of  the  recrait 
(p.  9)  is  commendable,  if  the  coat  of 
arms  is  apocryphal  (for  Paley  was  of 
an  ancient  gentleman's  family),  and 
the  "  pound  of  parenthesis  *'  may  rake 
a  smile.    I  will  admit  also,  that  the 

? general  lenour  of  the  narrative  is  free 
rom  acrimony  and  ill  temper  $ — hot 
such  negative  qualities  will  not  com- 
pensate with  the  public  for  a  character 
of  Paley  foundeJ  on  feeble  powers^ 
false  views,  religions  prejudices,  and  I 
might  perhaps  reasonably  add,  wilful 
misrepresentation,  mixed  up  as  it  is 
with  perpetual  though  childish  objec- 
tions against  the  Protestant  Religion. 
I  am  not  induced  to  make  these  ob- 
8er\'ations  as  a  clergyman  justly  indig- 
nant at  this  covert  attack  on  his  faith  ; 
I  am  a  layman,  but  one  among  thoa- 
sands  indebted  to  the  great  man  here 
traduced  for  what  fixed  principles  I 
have  imbibed  of  virtue,  morality,  and 
religion;  as  such, H  sense  ofgratitiid« 


FAIT  t.]                           Scripiurat  Ckfonology.  597 

doubt  not  that  all  who  acknowledge  ing  him  the  bride  or  true  church  should 

the  same  obligation,  will  not  only  par-  .appear,  and  his  wonders  be  seen,  for 

don    their   publicity,   but   as  readilv  his  son  Jesus  should  be  revealed  with 

(though    more  effectually)  repel  such  those  that  be /with  him,  and  they  that 

noxious  attacks  on  his  illustrious  name,  remain   should  a  period  within   400 

Yours,  &c.             Philopaleus.  ,  years  rejoice.     After  this  his  son  Christ 

^  (the  anointed  high  priest)  should  die» 

Mr.  Urb.\n,        Chelsea,  May  7*  and  all  that  had  (divine)  life^  and  the 

AS  several  of  your  pages  have  lately  world  (or  church),  be  turned  into  the 

been  occupied   by  Clericus  and  old  silence,  seven  day^.  (or  years),  ch. 

Presbyter  Orthotiox, on  the  Apocrypha,  vii,  30. 

allow  a  scrap  or  two  of  Chronology  in  While  Esdras,  in  the  priestly  line, 
addition  to  what  1  offered.  May  1823.  was  in  great  trouble  for  the  priesthood. 
We  again  observe,  that  as  Josephus  Daniel,  in  the  princely  line,  was  con- 
had  professedly  a  regard  to  the  He-  cerned  for  the  promised  prince,  the 
brew,  his  following  the  historical  £s-  righteous  lord  Jeremiah  foretold,  who 
dras  shews  the  book  called  Ezra  not  on  earnest  prayer  learnt  from  the  man 
in  the  Jewish  canon  when  he  wrote,  Gabriel  his  birth  at  seven  sevens,  from 
and  to  have  been  an  abridgment  of  thereadingof  Jereroiah*sroll,ch.xxxvi. 
Esdras,  after  the  final  desolation  .by  9,  from  whence  Jerusalem,  after  being 
the  Romans  against  Barchachab.  To  rebuilt,  should  continue  sixty-two  se- 
read  the  historical  Esdras  in  due  order  vens,  when  the  anointed  prince  would 
of  time,  at  ch.  ii.  15,  we  roust  go  to  be  cut  off  from  authority,  and  a  seven 
ch.  v.  7,  to  the  end ;  return  to  ch.  ii.  years  desolation  follow,  in  the  midst  of 
16,  and  follow  its  close  by  ch.viii.  and  which  some  would  be  compelled  to 
ix.  to  the  close  ;  return  to  ch.  v.  8,  and  covenant  with  the  desolating  prince  to 
read  to  the  end  of  the  seventh  where  worship  his  gods.  Pursuant  to  this, 
the  history  closes.  The  whole,  from  the  rigliteous  lord  from  David  appear- 
the  grant  of  Cyrus  to  the  dedication  of  ed,   and   was   owned   of  God.     The 


the  Temple,  contains  the  short  space  filthy  aarments  of  Jeaus  removed,  and 
of  21  vears,  corresponding  to  the  21  as  Nehemiah  in  34S5  made  known, 
days  Daniel  fasted  in  the  Temple,  the  Urim  and  Thummim  restored, 
but  which  Josephus,  from  his  igno^  when  the  prince  and  priest*  became 
ranee  of  Chrqnology,  has  extended  to  established'as  the  two  anointed  ones.  . 
upwards  of  200.  This  has  been  fa-  Daniel's  question,  arising  out  of  the 
vourable  to  applying  the  sevens  in  Da-  seventy  sevens  of  transgression,  atMl 
niel  to  our  Lord,  from  early  times,  by  the  seventy  years  penance  to  follow, 
those  Christians  disposed  to  fetch  im-  Gabriel  refers  to  the  reign  of  Zoro* 
puted  righteousness  and  atonement  babel's  line  by  sevens.  He  had  seen 
from  Gabriel's  sevens.  in  vision  the  times  of  Antiochus,  be- 
After  the  transportation  to  Babylon  fore  he  was  referred  to  it  by  sevens, 
for  seventy  years,  till  the  land  had  and  Uriel  told  Esdras  his  vision  was 
rested  for  as  many  sabbaths  as  it  had  the  same  as  what  his  brother  Daniel 
been  deprived  of  under  all  the  kings,  had  seen,  ch.  xii.  1 1,  not  then  ex- 
we  6nd  at  Babylon,  Salathiel  son  of  plained.  Uriel  does  not  call  Jesus  the 
Neri,  in  the  line  of  Christ,  captain,  nigh  priest,  Christ ;  for  as  not  being 
and  Esdras,  the  uncle  of  Jesus,  son  of  then  anointed,  Urim  and  Thummiin 
Jozedek,  hifl;h  priest,  2  B.  v.  16.  To  restored,  nor  filthy  garments  removed, 
these  two,  Neouchadnezzar,  through  the  title  was  not  in  him.  But  when 
Daniel,  was  favourable,  but  after  his  Uriel,  in  the  name  of  God,  says,  my 
death  Jehoiachim  was  released  from  son  Jesus  shall  be  revealed,  and  those 

f)rison„  and  Daniel  neglected.    This  that  be  with  him  shall  lejoice  within 

ed  Esdras,  in  the  30th  year,  ch.  iii.  4(X)  years,  they  in  reaching  from  the 

▼.  1,  froQi  the  ruin  of  the  city,  to  en-  vision  3446  to  3846,  agree  to  the  sevens 

teriain  great  fear  whether  the  priest-  in  Daniel,  400  being  a  round^inmber 

hood  in  his  nephew  Jesus,  could  get  that  ended  within  or  before  they  closed 

established.   Salathiel  the  captain,  who  with  the  death  of  God*s  anointed  high 

became  the  father  of    the  promised  priest  Onias,  2  Mac.  iv.  84,  and  ail 

righteous  Lord,  who  was  born  at  Babel,  that  were  faithful  unto  death.    The 

was  named  Zorobabel,  reminds  Esdras  silence  of  seven  days  is  shewn  by  the 

of  his  duty  as  high  priest,  which  was  daily  sacrifice  be\ti%%\»^  vks^:gl  ^^«^% 

followed  by  the  archangel  Uriel  assai*  u  vl  ^\d  on  ^vGk%vo  w^^^>>^^»'^>^>^ 


wo 


Portraiii  of  Lancashire  Wotthm  ? 


[XCTII. 


maUr  memorut,  eid  inUlhgmtia  TUiverea, 
brevity  i»  the  motbtr  of  memory,  though 
the  stepmother  to  understanding,  and  so 
recompenees   in   one    tbing  what  it  wants 

in  another.  And  indeed  it  is  not  Jto  tell 
how  that  notions,  though  but  raw  at  the 
first,  closely  laid  up  in  the  memory,  and 
again  drawn  out  by  the  Reminiscfntia,  or 
remembrance,  and  represented  to  the  medi- 
tation, do  wonderfully  multiply  and  improve 
themselves.  But  if  thou  canst  not  leame 
so  well  by  the  Analysis,  here  is  a  Synthe- 
sis, too,  or  a  collection,  and  putting  of 
things  together  in  the  several  poems  I 
witlul  present  thee ;  perhaps  thou  mayit 
learn  better  by  that.  If  tnou  canst  nei- 
ther learn  by  analytical  nor  synthetical 
order,  thy  case  is  a  great  deal  more  lamen- 
table, for  I  suspect  thee  of  a  axXn^oxapSidt, 
and  a  reprobate  sense.  If  thou  object 
against  my  poetry,  as  too  light  for  divine 
eabjects  (as  indeed  there  is  nothing  more 
easie  then  to  finde  fiiult)  Moses,  Deborah, 
and  Barak,  Hanna,  David,  Solomon,  Isaiah, 
Zachary  and  £liutbeth.  Old  Simeon,  and 
the  Virgin  Mary,  and  all  that  ever  spake 
to  God  in  songs,  numbers,  and  poetical  gra- 
tnlations  will  awarrant  and  bear  me  out  in 
that.  All  Soules  and  Geniuses  are  not  of  a 
like  temper,  nor  to  be  wrought  upon  after 
the  same  manner.  Some  are  so  harmo- 
niously and  tunably  set,  that  they  had 
rather  read  one  line  of  a  divine  sonet  or 
po€me,  than  an  hundredth  in  a  dull  and 
neavy  phrase,  which,  though  it  may  edifie, 
yet  it  doth  not  ravish,  and  so  bath  a 
more  imperfect  work  upon  the  reader. 
Now  in  these  cases  it  is  not  amisse  if  a 
minister  imitate  St.  Paul  in  this  thing,  viz. 
in  becoming  al  things  to  al  men,  that  by  all 
means  he  may  gain  same.  This  was  my 
real  intention  in  taking  these  paines,  and  I 
trust  (through  God's  blessing)  my  inten- 
tions will  not  be  frustrate. 

If  thou  object  unto  me,  building  upon 
another  man's  foundation  (as  indeed  this 
was  but  a  small  enchiridion  when  I  'first 
medled  with  it),  it  is  so  ordinary  and  so 
lawful,  that  it  is  more  shame  to  upbraid  it 
io  another,  then  to  be  guilty  of  it :  and  thus 
(Gentle  Reader)  if  thnu  wilt  trouble  roe 
with  no  more  objections,  I  shall  trouble 
thee  with  no  more  apologies  or  answers, 
but  humbly  crave  thy  daily  and  importunfite 
prayers  for  me,  that  I  may  be  a  faithful 
minister  and  steward  in  the  Lord's  House, 
that  at  last  I  may  give  up  my  account 
with  joy  and  boIJnesse  in  that  day  when 
all  the  tribes  of  the  earth  shall  mourn  be- 
fore the  Ixird,  to  whom  I  shall  also  ever 
pray  for  thee,  and  for  the  Israel  of  God. 
Meantime  taking  leave  of  thee  with  the 
the  Apostles'  x*'^'>  commonly  translated 
Farewell,  1  am. 

The  least  of  all  God's  ministers, 

jfiigwsf8,\S5\.  W .  MHt'Wowni. 


Here  follows  the  body  of  the  work  ; 
the  Bible  Opbmsd  is  in  a  larger  type, 
but  the  Poems  are  printed  with  a 
smaller  letter.  Yours,  &c. 

Shialet  Woolmir. 


Mr.  Urban,    Manchester,  June  18. 

HAVING  at  length  nearly  com- 
pleted the  arrangement  of  my 
Collections  for  the  "  Lancastrensei 
lUustres,**  I  have  still  one  or  two  dif- 
ficulties to  contend  with.  I  am  there- 
fore under  the  necessity  of  requesting, 
through  the  medium  of  your  useful 
Miscellany,  such  information  respect- 
ing Portraits  of  the  following  indivi- 
duals, as  your  numerous  contributors 
and  readers  may  have  it  in  their  power 
to  a  fiord. 

William  Booth,  Archbishop  of  York,  temp. 

Henry  VI. 
Laurence  Booth,  Abp.  of  York.  temp.  Edw. 

IV. 
Thomas  Lever,  D.D.  Master  of  St.  John's 

Coll.  Camb.  temp.  Edw.  VI. 
William  Fleetwood,   Recorder  of  Loadoa, 

temp.  Eliz. 
,  Rich.  Barnes,  Bp.  of  Durham,  temp.  EHx. 
Jas.  Pilkington,  Bp.  of  Durham,  temp.  £|lz. 
Matthew  Hutton,  Abp.  of  York.  temp.Eriz. 
Wm.Chadderton,  Bp.  of  Lincoln,  temp.  EKz. 
Henry  Alnsworth,  Hebrew  Commentator,' 

temp.  Eliz.  James  I. 
Wro.  Barlow,  Bp.  of  Linc»ln,  temp.  Jas.  I. 
Jeremiah  Horrox,  Astronomer,  '(of  Emm. 

Coll.  Camb.)  temp.  Chas.  I. 
Sir  John  Harrison,  knt.  M.P.  Fanner  of 

the  Customs,  temp.  Chas.  I.  and  II. 
Sir  Jonas  Moore,  knt.  Master  General  of 

the  Ordnance,  temjjk.  Chas.  II. 
Ralph  Brideoakc,  Bp.  of  Chichester,  temp. 

Charles  II. 
Richard  Keurden,  M.D.  Historian,  temp. 

Chas.  II. 
Charles  Legh,  M.D.  Historian,  &c.  temp. 

Will.  I.  *^ 

Robt.  Aiusworth,  Lexicographer,  &c.  temp. 
Geo.  I.  and  H. 

Jerem.  Markland,  Critic  and  Scholar,  about 
1760.  / 

John  Leland,  D.D.Divine  and  Author,  17S0. 

Chas.  Walmsley,  Catholic  Bp.  of  Rome, 
1760. 

Edmund  Law,  Bp.  of  Carlisle,  1768. 

John  Whitaker,  B.D.  Rector  of  Roan  Lang- 
home,  1777. 

I  am  desirous  of  ascertaining  whe-  • 
ther  any  Poriraiis  be  in  existence^  by 
whom  they  are  painted,  and  in  whose 
possession  they  now  are. 

Youts,  &c.        W.  R.  Whattox. 


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REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATION!?. 


112.  Sermons  explanatory  and  practical,  en        "  From  the  sacred  Scriptures  alone  hav# 

the  Thirty-nine  Articles  of  the  Church  qf  the  Iraowleiige  of  God,  and  the  practice  of 

England,  in  a  Series  qf  Discourses  delivered  tnie  Religion  in  all  ages  been  derived  ;  for*- 

at  the  Parish  Church  of  St,   Alphage^  where  Divine    Revelation    has    not  .been 

.  Greenwich,  by  the  Rev.T,  Waite»  D,C,L»  known,  the  worship  of  the  true  God,  and  an 

London,  Baldwin  and  Co.  1 826\  nniform  observation  of  the  duties  of  morality^ 

■■•T»*.u         u         •-.!     ^  —  r       ^  ^^^^  never  existed;  the  scattered  rays  of 

IT  IS  through  a  simple  compliance  divine  light  which  have  at  any  time  'pene- 

with  an  apostolic  ruU^  an  entire   re-  ^^^  .*^^  ^he  darkness  of  the  lieathea 

nunciation  of  the  badges  and  names  of  ^ia,  have  been  all  derived  from  this  source* 

a  party,   whether  "  of  Paul     or  •*  of  „<|  ^^y  .n   j,y  an  attentive  observer  b«^ 

Apollcw,"  that  the  usefulness  of  Dr.  traced    to    this    origin.     Every    Christian 

Waite's  discourses  will  be  greatly  ia-  Church,  therefore,  agrees  in  the  acknowledg- 

creased.     Inde|)endent1y  of  their  great  ment,  that  the  Scriptures  were  written  by 

excellence  as  illustrative  and  practical  Inspiration  of  God,  but  every  church  does 

9ermons,  they  breathe  a  piety   which  not  allow  that  they  conuin  all  things  ne- 

the  spirit  of  a  SecUry   would   taint;  cessary  to  salvation.    That  church  which 

and  they  possess  a  holy  beauty  which  ^J^"  itnlf  •lone  the  Catholic  Church,  mamw 

an  admixture  ofbigotry  would  mutilate  ^*  the  authority  of  oral  tradition ,  ass^ 

and  disfigure.     HifargumenU  are  of.  *^* '£• '^^l^*^ '**•  ^f '^  l^^^T,!  li^ 

r     J       ?      ,u     A'^»       r         •    r  ii-ui  vinr  been  written  occasionally,  wert  never 

fered  not  as  the  die  a  of  an  infal  ible  j^J^^  to  be  a  rale  of  Faidi ,  and  that, 
interpreter,  but  in  that  spirit,  which  ^j,.       necessary  to  salvation  were  d.-. 

•;  comparing  lhin«  spinlual  with  spi-  ii^eiid  verbally  by  the  Apostles,  which  il 

ritual,"  would  seek   to  conviuce    the  required  the  in&llible  authority  of  the  Ro-, 

humble  enquirer,  that  the  Articles  of  mish  Church  safely  to  preserve,  and  faith*' 

the  Established  Religion  are  deducible  folly  to  transmit  to  succeeding  ases.  Against 

from  the  Word  of  God — sanciioned  by  this  strong-hold  of  error,  the  champions  of 

the  authority  of  Scripture ;  and   that  the  Reformation  wisely  directed  their  first 

they  may  be  conscientiously  subscribed  assault.     They  rightly  judged,  that  if  re- 

hy  every  clergyman,   and  received  by  l*»g«on  were  to  depend  on  the  tradition!  of 

every  true  churchman,   either  for  doc-  ««°» i*."*"?^  ^  •»  variable  and  unceitain  as 

trioc  or  for  the  refutation  of  error.  *>?«"  inclinations  and  opinions ;  wherea^ 

placed  upon  the  word  of  God  as  its  only 

The  first  five  Articles  relate   to  the  foondation,  it  rasunoon  a  rock;  unshaken 

great  doctrine  of  the  Trinity,  a  doc-  by  the  agitotions  or  human  passions,  and 

trine  upon  which  alone  in  our  estima-  unmoved  by  the  fluctoations  of  an  ever-' 

tioD,  can  the  '*  hope  that  is  full  of  im-  changing  world." 
mortality"    rest.      This  doctrine    it        The   intimate  connection  and   de. 

irealedby  Dr.  Waite  with  great  ability  pcndance  between  the  Old  and  New 

—not  by  endeavouring  toexplain  things  TesUment,  are  very  ably  and  scriptu 


inexplicable,  nor  by  speaking  of  that  rally  shewn  in  these  discourses.  The 
which  is  ineffable,  but  by  the  lawful  former  shadowing  forth  in  the  sacri- 
process  of argu.Tient ;  irrefragably  prov-  fices  and  ceremonials  of.  the  law,  thal^ 
ing,  that  the  Trinity  in  Unity,  the  one  all-sufficient  sacrifice  which  waa 
great  mystery  of  our  holy  religion,  is  made  on  the  cross  for  us  ;  the  latter  iU 
plainly  taught  and  set  forth  in  the  justrating  in  minute  particulars  the 
Scriptures ;  and  that  by  the  attributes  predictions  of  prophepy,  and  bringing 
of  power  assigned  to  them,  each  Mem-  mto  marvellous  light  the  obscure  allu- 
ber  of  the  Triune  Godhead  must  ne-  gions,  and  the  dark  sayings  of  pairU 
cessarily  be  Divine;  that  by  the  co-  archs  and  jjeers.  And  while  the  cere- 
operation  of  each  the  work  of  our  re-  fponial  Law  has  been  abrogated  by  a 
demption  was  achieved,  and  that  to  dearer  and  better  dispensation,  the 
each  ouradoration  and  gratitude  are  due.  nioral  Law,  amplified  by  a  more  spi-^ 
The  sixth  and  following  Article  re*  ritoal  and  a  broader  interpretatioq,  re- 
ier  to  the  holy  Scriptures,  and  of  their  mains  obligatory  upon  us  all. 
sufficiency  for  salvation.  Of  them.  Of  the  eighth  Article,  which  iMdka 
Dr.  Waite  with  much  truth  and  beauty  ©f  the  Creeds,  the  same  scriptutil  W- 
obwrves:  cc»s  V%  %do^tA. 


(KXI           RiviBW.— Dr.  Waite*8  Setmom  «fi  <Ae  39  Articles.  [xcftn 

On  the  A tbaoawiD  Creed,  Dr.  Waitc  »b4  tl»  merU  of  Ooo^  Worla.  That  Chnrch 

writes  thus nuHBCMBed  that  the  me  of  the  SacruDeuU 

,  .     _      .        ,  can  make  up  all  the  deBciencea  in  our  &ith 

"  It  is  often  objected  the  Creed  teachaa  ua  ^^  obedience,  and  by  that  meant  justify  as. 

toeav— "theFatherisincoraprehensible,  the  ,^  j^         j^^  ^j^^^  ^j,e  inherent  holinesa  of 

SoA  Is  Uic<»«ipceliensible,a«l  tho  Holy  Ghost  ^  ^^^  j^  j^,  ^^  „^„^  „  peifcct. 

la  iaoomprehens'ibl^    and  then  proceydato  g^^  ^  accoont  of  it  God  is  boand  to  os- 

tifiMind  that  which  It  has  Uught  »»  »»  »-  !«,«  them  jost,  and  would  bo  nnjnst  if  ho 

foooeivable.     This  i.  amistolce.    The  word  ^^  ^      ^  ^^„  complete  knowledge  of 

■•  tho  original  creod  (immensus)  signifita  ^^  Scriptares,  and  an  eaposnio  of  the  por- 

inUto  or  immeasurable,  that  u,  not  con-  ^^  ^^  ^y^j^  ^^^^  doctrines  wero  perrm- 

isedby  any  bounds  of  place  or  duration »  ^  ^  ^^  ^^^  ^j^^  erroneooa  naUiro  tad 

■^•i  the  time  the  Croedwastranslateamto  dangerous  consoquMces.     There  u  in  eteiy 

Buglish,    the  word  incomprehcnwbla  had  ^^  ^  ^^^^     .  .^  of  self-justification.     U 

tmomfi    Theological    Writers     the    son*  ;,  ^.^  difficult  to    acquire   the   humiUty 

Viining.  absolutely  demanded  by  the  Gospel,  and  to 

So  far  we  think   satisfactory— nor  he  convinced  that  we  haw  no  clAim  to  41- 

mwe  disposed   to  quarrel   with   the  jije  fcvour  on  account  of  our  oirogoodnesa. 

argument  Which  asserts  the  strict  war-  3^^*^*71^'*^S"r:*' ?/^  ^ 

iSofScripture  for  what  is  laid  down  rhn^nttT  «dVn  ^^^^^^ 

^doctrine  m  the  Athanasian  Creed  ;  ^          „«onably  expect  to  ^itioct  tho 

bal  of  the  damnatory  clauses  5   Chris-  othw.*' 

tiaa  charity  would  pause  before  it  con-  '                    ...            .       . 

•igns,  on  questions  of  faith,  millions  to  The  controversies  that  hate  agitated, 

everlasting  perdition.  We  have  known  ana  continue  to  agiute  Christian  Com- 

mafiy  pious   people  to  whom    these  munities,  on  the  subject  of  "  Faith" 

clauses  were  a  stumbling-block,   and  and  ••  Good  Works,"  seem  to   have 

doubtless  they  are  an  offence  to  tender  been  as  daneerous  as  thev  were  extras 

consciences.    But  let  us  not  be  mis-  ordinary.    It  is  to  be  lamented  that 

t^ken ;    we  do  not  pretend   to  deny  these  divisions  have  too  frequently  er- 

but  that  even  the  damnatory  clauses  "ted  even  within  the  Church.    The 

may  be  proved  to  be  scriptural  by  strict  obvious  tendency  of  moral  •  preaching* 

fc^ieal    deduction,  but    we   consider  i*  presumption,  and  false  confidence; 

them  offensive  and  inexpedient  as  they  ^bile  the  solifidian  scheme,  for  want 

QOW  stand  in  the  Creecl  attributed  to  of  right  interpretation,  has  frequent- 

St.    Athanasius.     Condemnation    by  b  degenerated   into  AnUnomianism. 

mlUgum  is  beyond  the  reach  of  ordi-  "  Faith  working  by  Love'*  is  the  beau- 

nafycapaciiies,and  we  are  but  express.  t«^ul  epitome  of  a  chnslian's   hope; 

iog  a  wish  often  asserted,  and    even  forbidding  at  once  the  meritorious  eft- 

altered   by  Episcopacy  itself,    for  the  cacy,  but  inculcating  the  dutiful  ne. 

exclusion  of  the  clauses  referred  to.  c««>ty  of  good  works.    The  mterpre- 

--,,            4    .  ,      .        -  „          ,  tation  of  this  Article  by  Dr.  Waite,  b 

The  ten  Articles  that    follow  relate  in  ihis  spirit  not  only  susuined  by  the 

to   the  Doctrines  maintained  by  the  authority  of  Scripture,  but  hv  appoatie 

Church  of  England,  on  each  of  which  qaotaiionf  from  the  Homilies  of  the 


views  oo 


r.  Waitc  hasan  appropriatediscoursc.  fchurch  of  England.    His 

PM^ing  by  the  two  former  on  "  Orici-  ^his  important  tenet  are  no  lesa  forcibly 

Aal  Sin    and  "  Free  Will."  with  the  ^lear  than  they  are  correctly  expressiu 

single  observation  that  they  are  ably  and  if  generally  adopted,  wooM  tend 

inlerpreted.  we  arrive  at  the  important  g^^i-  10  heal  the  distensions  of  which 

Article  of"  Justification  by  Faith ;     a  we  have  complained ,  nor  isiheJWIow. 

f®^/'"?  ^,*I!f l*  ^^*  "8""y   .  ^"*^  ^°  »ng  Article,  of  "  Good   Works,-  lesa 

be  the  infallible  test  '* jtantis  aut  ca-  ^bly  discussed,  and  from  this  Sermon 

denltt    ecclesta    —  a  doctrine  which  ^e extract  the  concluding  part,  as  par. 

pr.  Waite  pronounces  a  distinguishing  taking  alike  of  sound  doctrine.  aJTof 

teijetoftheChurchof  England,though,  ^|^g^  illustration, 

as  he  truly  admits.  '*  It  has  not  been  80  --    ^ 

prominently  set  forth  in  her  Pulnils  "J^^  Gospel  allows  every  thing  to  onr 

M  iris  in  her  Articles  and  Uturgy.^^  Obedience,  thongh  nothmg  to  our  ment. 

^  The  least  as  well  aa  the  greatest  aetiona 

I  *<  This  Article,"  he  eontinnea,  «  was  in-  peribrmed  out  of  regud  to  its  priociplsSf 

lipM  to  pretenre  the  membert  of  our  com-  am  pleasing  and  aoceptable  %•  -0«d.    Th* 

«iiialoa  from  two  important  enon  oC  \Ka  ivX^  Ubours  of  the  humbla  '****i''4int  a#  • 

Church  of  Rome,  Sacramental  3ntt\&ciX\nii  cQKAa%<t»  ^uuiBft^  itfitof^iuia  VnjiiiMa  aiq- 


^TAAT  t]         Unrmsif.Tlh*  Waito*f  Sermons  pn  ihi  39  Jrticlet.        609 

foimad  by  Gb4»  an  m  MocpiAbl*  to  tb«  antwM.    With  lioiiled  iaciikiet  tod  a 

Almij^hty  M  ibe  motC  UltMtr'iou*  Mtiont  of  £oitt  iindentan()iii|b  it  it  impossible 

the  greatest  Sutefman  or  of  the  mighuett  •*  that  by  searching    man  "^  can  find 

Moimrch  upon  emrth.    He  who  tittech  in  ^q|  God,  or  oooiprehend   his  infiBita 

the  keovent  to  behold  the  iBhabitettU  of  tha  attributes  j  but  *  Fools  rush  in  where 

world,  contemplates  no  object  more  accept^  ^^g^js  f^^  ^^  ^f^^* »   Xhe  great  dift» 

«ble,  than  a  Chrlatia.  lesicned  to  hU  lol,  ^,^.^  ^^  ^,^j^  doctrine  have  been  occii. 

howerer  low,  and  en^ouring  to  dischtfge  ^j^^^^  .     attf  mpls  to  go  beyond  what 

all  hj. duue.  aright,  fromj^'iu^f. «g«dw  ^     been^evealcJj ;  to  pry  into  mytte- 

hia  Creator •  wUlj    othen    may  be  more  .  j«/e     i'      j^' '  «j 

honoured  upon  earth,  but  the  faie  of  such  [»«•  <*«?.  difficult  and  dangerous,  and 

a  man  u  great  in  heaven ;  the  world  may  ^  unravel  "the  secret  things  that  be- 

know  him  not,  or  in  its  admiration  of  wealth  long  to  the  Lord  OUif  God.' 
and  power  overlciok  him  j  but  he  is  known         «  Thj,  Article,"  tays  Dr.  W.,  «•  proves 

and  approved  of  God,  he  is  numbered  among  Htelf— the  expressions  in  which  it  is  stetad 

the  children  of  the  Most  High,  and  his  lot  4^  ^^^^^  ^f  Scripture,  and  therefore  admit 

h  among  the  saints.    In  our  obedience   to  ,fn«  contradictioni  whatever,  tberefiire, is 

mir  Maker  and  love  to  our  fellow  creatures  ^y^^  ^^^  ^f  ^j^^  y^^^  „^  q^^  coneemiog 

let  us  look  for  the  evidences  of  our  faith,  Predestination,  that  must  be  the  meaoiagof 

while  00  our  fiiith  in  the  merit  of  our  Re-  ^jj^  Church." 

deeiner  alone,  we  I'round  our  hope  of  aalva-  -,, .   1^    . ^      •       'j    ^1    j    •    j  £ 

n    Ji.-   iL*  J  .  »«..  ^«.».««.i.  «.r  This  Doctrine  is  evidently  derived  from 

ration.     By  this  test  do  you  constantly  ex-  .t      1        »      *  1..  l  '  •     «l 

_.  :    1  .„ J   «u-.-.^.^.  A'«^  ***«  devout  references  which  occur   m  toe 

amioe  yourselves ;    aod   whatsoever  things  m^    rp    .         ^     *,•    . ,     .         r  *l    r« 

•  1    *         -  *u--«-  — !.»....»  ;..-*  ^•^  Testament,  of  the  blessings  of  the  uoe* 

are  true,  whatsoever  things  are  honest,  just,         1   *    »i        u       j  j /•       •  ?*       j 

,      ,  e       J  .      .^    :r  .u..!  1^  P^l*  to  the  unbounded  foresicht  and  super* 

pre,  lovely,  or  of  good  report,  if  there  be  ^^^^  ^  j^  b.  ^         ^ 

any  virtue,  if  there  be  any  praise,  think  on  J^*^""""*-'  *".  •"'^  r^,^     ,     J^  .     .  ^*\ 
.• '     th        "     Paire  204  *''®  works  from  the  beginmng  of 

^  '         ^  the  world,"  saith  the  Apostle  James.    Con- 

The  three  following  Articles,  to  the  »equentlv  nothing  in  the  universe  can  be 

17th,  seem  to  require  no  further  oh-  ^be  result  of  accident,  aU  things  are  the  pro- 

servalion  from  us,  than  that  the  I4lh  is  ?"«»oo  «/»«  Almighty  mind,  which.  When 

directed  against  the  Error  of  the  Ro-  ^'  \"««*>  ^«    ^'[••*5«»  dependant   upon 

mish  Church,  which  maintains  Works  "^^J?  '^eT^t'^J^^  ''}^^\^2^ 
/.  e  \*  .1.  .c^u  •  ^  eoonectioa  from  the  beginning  to  the  eiia» 
of  Supererogation  ;  the  IMh  is  op-  Hence  the  salvation  or  Jerditi^  of  diftient 
posed  to  the  Opinions  of  various  Sects,  orders  of  men,  must  to  the  divhie  knowledge 
some  of  whom  believe  the  Son  of  God  y^L^^  been  apparent.  What  then  God  fore- 
to  be  a  peccable  and  finite  Being  like  .aw  would  be  prodooed  by  the  succeasion  ef 
themselves,  while  others,  contending  causes  and  events,  which  he  has  ordained,  ha 
for  their  own  perfectibility,  have  no  mav  in  the  strictest  sense  of  the  term  be  said 
need  of  an  atonement  for  sin,  or  grace  to  have  predestinated  what  he  foresaw,  be- 
to  secure  their  salvation  ;  the  l6th  has  fo«  he  created  man  upon  earth.  That  the 
reference  to  Sins  after  Baptism ;  the  ^wdom  of  hia  will  would  be  the  occasion  of 
Article  alteropU  not  to  define  what  •»,  he  foresaw  after  the  fiUI  of  Adam  j  that 
various  Theologians  have  endea*  the  dispensation  of  h!s  grace  to  human  kbd 
voured  to  explaiS,  the  precise  nature  *«»W  be  the  means  of  bnnging  some  to 

of  the  Sin  agaLt  the  HorG host    btU  ^ttgle"^  oVtt  m^i^t  'tu'^Zo^. 

simply  affirms  that  Sins  after  Baptism  ^^^  be  subjected  to  everlasting  eondeona^ 

•re  not  of  this  class,  and  that  Kepenl-  jjon  ;   yet  with  the  perfect  cooSimplation  ef 

ance  and  Amendment  of  Life  are  open  tha,e  resnlte,  he  determined  to  establish  tiM 

to  all  through  the  grace  of  God.     But  plan  of  Providence,  and  the  dispensation  of 

we  now  arrive  at  disputable  ground,  mercy  he  had  conceived.    In  this  sense. 

The  17th  Article  has  ocasioned  much  Predestination  is  the  everlasting  porpoee  of 

division  within  the  Church,  and   has  Ood  to  bring  by  Jesus  Christ  to  everlasting 

J>rovoked  as  much  of  the  odium  iheo*  ealvation  those  whom  he  hath  chosen  ia 

•gicum,  both  within  and  without,  as  ^**"*'  out  of  mankind,  and  of  no  other  do 

*ny  one  question  of  failh  that  has  pro-  *^•  ?^"P*"'^/Pf*'^;   }\^  °^  ***•  P'^^" 

doied  differences  of  opinion    among  tmation  of  individuals,  it  does  aot  relate  to 

«««.»l:,./I      tk-  :r.»....^Jlt^t:^n  ^r  .u:-  them  merely  as  men,  btit  as  christians,  as 

inankmu.     the  interpretation  of  this  ^i,«M«i«  rirU*  «.!»«/ «»««ir«.i     Tk/!kw.. 

A   .*  I     L    rv-    nr  ■.     *  oiiosen  in  i./iinat  oui  oT  maoKmo.     inedo^ 

Article  by  Dr.  \Vaite  is  written  in  a  ^,  ^^  „^  ^y^  ,hat  God  has  foreor- 

▼ery  fine  strain  of  piety,  and  of  enure  ^j^j,^  any  man  to  be  saved  or  to  perish 

•ubmisbion  to  divine  teaching.     Many  ^i^hout  regard  to  his  moral  or  reUgioiis 

dueslions,  he  observes,  may  be  raised  on  qoali6cations  j  but  that  He  who  daSs  la 

this  important  Article,  virhich  no  one  justice  and  mercy  with  all,  has  decreed  in  a 

«eed  be  ashamed  to  confess  be  canoot  peculiar  naffiMi  vm^  «a  \m^&9k<«%  ^aoS^  ^wcy 


-  ^ 


eoA 


RfiViEW.— ii^e  ^alliei. 


[xcvir, 


^he  Ootpel  %  Christ  to  ct«rlMtiiig  Mlvmtion. 
It  leads  UB  to  beliovt  that  God  hath  not 
vast  off  any  bat  thoM  who  do  not  like  to  re- 
■  tain  him  io  their  knowledge*  and  that  what- 
itver  religious  advantages  he  may  bestow 
upon  some,  he  is  not  willing  that  any  should 
perish,  but  that  all  should  come  to  repent- 
ance."   PageSbi. 

In  one  point  we  differ  from  lyr. 
Waite.  He  says,  **  if  there  is  a  God, 
he  must  be  omniscient  i  but  can  he  be 
omniscient  and  not  be  acquainted  with 
the  future  aciions  of  men ;  and  if  he 
does  know  them,  how  can  ihey  be 
otherwise  than  certain  ?  Yet  if  human 
actions  are  fixed  and  necessary,  what 
becomes  of  their  morality."  Page  2G2. 
Human  action  may  be  tixed  and  ne- 
cessary, where  Providence  has  a  par- 
ticular point  to  carry,  and  we  are  justi- 
fied in  predicating  so  far  from  the  ac- 
tual progress  of  Christianity  in  con- 
formity with  the  Prophecies.  But  we 
do  not  think  it  sound  logic  that,  be- 
cause actions  are  foreknown,  they 
inust  on  that  account  be  certain.  If 
this  postulate  be  admitted,  then  Fatal- 
ism mu  i  be  admitted  also.  The  ad- 
dresses of  Nathan  to  David,  and  of  the 
Apostles  to  Ananias  and  Sapphira, 
distinctly  disclaim  any  other  operation 
than  a  pure  free-will  in  their  particular 
criminalities. 

But  our  limits  remind  us  that  we 
must  abruptly  leave  this  useful  and  in- 
teresting volume.  On  each  of  the  re- 
maining Articles,  Dr.  Waite  has  a  se- 
|>arate  discourse. 

We  safely  recommend  this  Work 
not  less  to  the  Theological  student, 
than  to  every  one  who  would  under- 
stand the  doctrines  of  that  Church  of 
vrhich  he  professes  himself  to  be  a 
member,  and  the  faith  in  which  he  has 
been  baptized.  Then  haply  he  may 
Ifind,  that  a  good  Churchman  and  a 
liood  Christian  are  convertible  terms. 
That  the  tenets  of  his  religion,  standing 
e(|ually  remote  from  the  superstitions 
of  the  Romish  Communion,  and  from 
the  bewildering  dreams  of  Enthu- 
tiasni,  are  the  essential  principles  of 
Christianity  itself. 

To  private  families,  more  particu- 
larly to  those  who  observe  the  practice 
of  Sunday  Evening  Headinjc,  this  vo- 
lume will  be  a  great  acquisition;  the 
discourses  are  of  such  a  length  as  never 
to  weary  attention,  and  the  lan^uase 
in  which  they  arc  written  is  admirably 
adapted  to  conciliatCy  to  enlighten,  and 
to  improve. 


113.  T^  ralHei^  or  ^mer  aitd  Theagkti 
from SeelMied  Life.    Ifmo.  8  mIs. 

WE  feel  high  satisfaction  in  having 
been  instruuiental  (as  we  hope),  to  the 
cultivation  ofa^aste  in  Religion,  sa* 
perior  to  that  wfiich  has  recently  pre* 
vailed.     We  "have  never  thought  that 
•  shrubbery  would  be  improved  by  the 
intermixture  of   nettles   and    weeds, 
nor  the  Church  of  England  by  taking 
a  standard  of  vegetable  beauty  from  the 
rank   growth   of  the  dunghill.      We 
are  happy  to  find  that,  whether  by  co- 
incileiice  or  otherwise,  (for  so  as  the 
purpose  is  answered,  we  care  not  how 
the  matter  happened,)  men  of  educa- 
tion and   sentiment  have   thought  it 
worth    serious  attention  to    represent 
the  intrinsic  merits  of  our  Established 
Church  in  a  style  worthy  of  it ;  that  is 
to  say,  by  setting  ihose  merits,  like  the 
comp  Mient  pans  of  a  handsome j^wcl, 
in  a  mode  suited  to  show  their  effect 
Good  sermons  are  in  their  way  very  6t 
things  ;  but  they  are  as  jieglecied  as 
the  old  women  who  read  them.  Should 
it  however  occur,  that  a  medicine  cau 
be  converted   into  a  sweetmeat,  that 
sound  divinity    can  be    united   with 
beautiful  sentiment  and  fine  descrip- 
tion, then  people  do  not  go  to  Church 
as   boys  to  School.     Unconscious  to 
themselves  they  are  Uking  physic  in 
the  agreeable  form  of  lozenges.     Of 
such  a  kind  is  the  work  before  us  ; 
and  with  all  the  aspect  of  a  Novel  (a 
species  of  writing  which  is  like   the 
ideas  and  conversation  of  an  educated 
and  sensible  girl  of  twenty),  we  have 
here  a  good-natured  but  moral  and  ex* 
emplary  parson,  who  does  not   freest 
us  into  monosyllables  and  shyness  by 
the  gorgon  terrors  of  a  Wig — but  oo«r 
to  the  work  itself. 

A  discarded  Statesman,  disgusted  with 
ultra-liberalism,  all  oak  and  no  willow, 
retires  to  a  lone  estate  in  Wales.  At 
first  his  family  feels  all  the  privatiooa 
of  solitude,  arising  from  the  lost  plea- 
sure  of  endless  sounds  of  the  knocker, 
endless  how-do-yc-do*s,  and  very  cold 
and  very  hot,  and  Mr.  A't  very  ill, 
and  Mr.  B's  wonderfully  recovered, 
and  so  forth.  The  necessity  of  tuffi* 
cient  excitement  draws  on  by  degrees 
a  taste  for  the  picturesque,  for  the 
wonderful  beauties  of  Nature — we 
say  wonderful,  for,  though  Aliaoii 
very  justly  remarks  that  the  mere  man 
of  business  cannot  feel  the  true  de- 
Yt|^\\<^iva«:Vi\Vvvck^^  Tjet  the  beet  of 


^AYTi'.]       RBVUW.-^Hiiiit*f  Designs/or  Pananage  Bouiti. 


9M 


London,  with  all  their  leading  instincfs 
of  honey  for  the  hive,  will  have  trees 
and  shrubs  about  their  country  brick 
and  murtar  band -boxes,  and  feci  that 
living  in  streets  is  only  in  point  of  fact 
living  in  jails,  where  the  occupants  are 
not  prisoners ;  for,  as  a  jail  is  nothing 
more  thai\  a  mass  of  crowded  habitat 
tions  within  walla  instead  of  streets, 
X.ondon,  with  the  exception  of  win^ 
4iows  and  doors,  and  the  thoroughfare 
of  carriages,  equestrians,  and  pedes- 
trians, is  nothing  more  than  a  jail  in 
externals  ;  nor  can  any  human  power 
whatever  give  full  effect  to  a  Bne  pa- 
lace, unless  it  be  insulated  in  a  park. 
Thebes,  the  town  evenof  Gods,  might 
Ivave  had  much  to  excite  wonder,  but 
for  residence  who  could  like  a  quarry? 
The  son  of  the  retired  statesman 
takes  holy  orders,  and  settles  upon  a 
living  annexed  to  his  estate.  Hence 
proceed  his  truly  excellent  discussions 
of  ecclesiastical  subjects ;  his  incon- 
trovertible arguments  upon  the  superior 
benefit  of  a  Liturgy  ;  written  Sermons 
and  Creeds  sanctioned  by  authority* 
We  regret  that  we  have  not  room  to 
give  them  at  large.  As  however  there 
exist  two  volumes,  entitled,  "  The 
Nonconformist's  Memorial,"  in  which 
certain  persons  are  made  Saints, 
Apostles,  Confessors,  and  Martyrs — we 
shall  give  our  Author*s  opinions  of 
them. 

*'  In  perusing  the  History  of  the  Refor- 
mation of  our  Church,  and  pursuing  it  up 
even  to  the  present  time,  it  cannot  but  strike 
the  man  of  cool  observation  and  unbiassed 
feeling,  that  the  demands  of  the  Non- Con- 
formists were  for  the  most  part,  weak,  fri- 
volous, and  unworthy.  It  behoved  that  man 
to  have  a  high  opinion  of  bis  own  judgment 
— yea  of  his  inward  worth  and  holineu» 
who  would  venture  to  resist  authorities —  to 
witlidraw  himself  from  the  communion  of  his 
fellow-creatures,  and  disown  the  sacred 
functions  of  God's  appointed  ministers, 
merely  because  his  eyes  were  offended  with 
the  sight  of  the  priestly  raiment,  and  hu 
conscience  alarmed  when  he  saw  those  who 
were  receiving  the  elements  of  bread  and 
wine  kneeling  in  humble  adoration  before 
the  throne  of  grace — kneeling  to  petition 
for  the  bene6ts  of  Christ's  passion— « that 
their  bodies  might  be  made  clean  by  his 
body,  and  their  souls  washed  through  bis 
most  precious  blood."  The  Schismatics  of 
the  great  Revolution  did  indeed  carry  their 
opposition  to  the  Church  to  extraordinary 
lengths.  *<  Omitting  the  weightier  mat- 
ters of  the  law  Judgment,  mercy,  tad  ikith^" 
they  mode  war  against  weathercocks  and 
steeples— tgiimt  th«  lurplica  tad  tippet. 


TEe  sublime  and  scriptoial  litorgy  of  th« 
Church  was  trampled  under  foot,  to  moke 
way  for  conceits  and  blasphemies — for  long 
preachings  and  for  public  and  private  ecsta* 
sies.  Uniformity  of  worship  was  despised; 
evety  man  became  a  prophet  to  himself; 
sect  rose  up  after  sect ;  each  of  these  hod 
likewise  its  ramifications  and  subdivisions, 
till  at  length  the  nation,  ashamed  of  ite 
folly,  harassed  and  tyrannized  over  by  that 
very  licentiousness  which  it  had  nourished 
and  maintained  by  its  best  blood,  returned 
to  the  old  observances,  gladly  rallied  round 
the  insulted  altar  of  their  fathers,  and  hailed 
with  joy  unfeigned  that  peace  of  mind,  that 
solidity  of  doctrine,  that  decency  andorder^ 
which  are  alone  to  be  found  under  the  shel- 
tering win^  of  a  strictly  scriptural  £sublish- 
meot.     And  such  is  ours,    ii.  1 3 1 .  J  33. 

^  Until  obstinacy  in  a  pig  elevates  him 
to  the  rank  of  man  in  the  scale  of  ani- 
mal being,  we  shall  not  believe  that 
tenacity  of  frivolous  scruples  in  re- 
ligious matters,  is  sufficient  to  confer 
high  character;  for  well  does  our 
Author  conclude  this  topic — 

"Art  thou  su£5cieAt  of  Ihyseff  to  set  asida 
the  Artidesof  Faith—- to  neglect  the  Obser- 
vances and  despise  the  Esublishroents  of 
thy  Country  ?  Canst  thou  set  up  thine  own 
wisdom  against  the  wisdom  of  aces,  and  the 
belief  of  the  great  majority  of  tliy  thinking 
brethren?  Art  thon  not  proud,  doaling 
about  questions  and  strifes  of  words  ?  And 
dost  thou  not  risk  thine  own  eternal  salv»> 
tion  by  following  the  dictates  of  thine  own 
presumption  and  conceit  ?"  P.  184. 

Here  we  shall  leave  this  edifying 
book  ;  but  our  readers  are  not  to  con- 
ceive from  the  extracts  that  it  is  a  ser- 
mon. It  has  beautiful  traits  of  cha- 
racter—delightful sentiment —  usieful 
description,  and  very  sound  philoso- 
phical reflections  upon  various  politi- 
cal, civil,  and  moral  |ioints  of  popular 
thinking,  points  too  often  we  fear  of 
a  similar  character  to  epidemic  diseases. 

114.  Designs  for  Parsonage  Houses^,  Ainu 
Houses^  Sfc,  &ic.  with  Examples  rf Gables 
and  other  Curious  RemainsqfOld  EngUsh 
Architecture,  By  T.  F.  Hunt,  Arcfnttct, 
ifc,  4 to.  ftp,  84.  Ptalei. 

IT  has  long  been  remarked,  that 
whoever  wishes  to  alter  an  ancient 
house  full  of  gables,  projections,  and 
other  irregularities,  ought  to  do  it  in 
the  Gothic  style,  because  the  various 
inegularities  will  then  be  advantages ; 
but  if  he  attempts  to  do  it  in  the  Gre- 
cian manner,  by  sash  windows,  he 
will  only  snoil   it     With  te^"^  vc^ 


io  be  obforved,  tint  mabyof  them  sre 
oM  irregolar  bvildingh  ao<>  t^t  the 
icparaticm  of  them  in  the  Gothic  style 
imites  both  taste  and  economy ;  and 
u  to  building  stich  houses  de  novo  iii 
the  style  mentioned,  Mr.  Hunt  very 
judiciously  observes : — 

•*  Our  Eoglith  domastic  Arohitectaort 
•aiaas  to  peculiarly  adapted  to  the  purpo^ 
■••  of  buildings  oonnecteid  with  ecclesiMti- 
iai  iastUutioos,  that  its  adoption  is  almost 
,••  indispensable  i«i  designing  the  humble 
rastdsnrr  of  a  village  pastor,  as  in  forming 
iha  more  important  edifice — an  episcopal 
pJaoe/' 

<•  Without  entering  into  the  qaestion, 
whether  the  Greek  or  the  Gothic  be  the 
nore  worthy  of  general  cultivation,  the 
^thor  will  venture  an  opinion  that,  in  the 
vide  range  of  all  the  various  styles,  none 
will  be  found  to  accord  so  well  with  what 
has  been  denominated  *  Christian  Archi- 
teeture,'  as  the  style  of  our  own  country ; 
Ibr  even  the  purest  Grecian,  '  sublime  and 
beaotlfttr  as  it  is,  appears  to  be  out  of  har- 
mony when  brought  into  close  neighbour' 
hood  with  any  of  our  old  Churches.  Nor 
ie  the  advantage  of  assimilation  the  ouly 
dae  Co  he  derived;  it  possesses  another  qua- 
K^,  which  in  these  days  of  economy  must 
ha  biahly  recommendatory,  namely,  that 
finality  may  be  exercised  without  the  ap- 
paafSAee  of  poverty.  All  the  forms  which 
mrticularly  mark  this  congenial  style,  may 
ha  wrought  in  the  cheapest  materials  with 
eoaaparatively  little  labour ;  and  a  small 
portion  of  ornamental  wtirk  tastefully  dis- 
posed, b  capable  o(  producing  very  con- 
siderable effect."     P.  4. 

There  is  certainly  nothing  more  pic- 
turesque than  the  Gothic.  The  mis- 
fortune is,  that  people  confound  the 
ideas  of  it  in  dwellings,  with  cold  and 
dark  rooms,  endless  passages,  closets, 
and  a  bad  disposition  of  the  interior; 
bat  none  of  tnese  evils  are  indispensa- 
ble. On  the  contrary  freedom  from 
confinement  to<a  regular  form  of  the 
outside,  furnishes  a  means  of  greater 
convenience,  and  less  waste  of  room  for 
atajr  cases,  pantries,  &c.  Besides,  such 
a  house  not  being  subject  to  fashion  is 
another  saving.  No  more  ex  pence  is 
required  than  reparation  of  wear  and 
tear.  Concerning  the  merits  of  Mr. 
Hunt^s  plans  we  can  justly  say,  that 
they  are  perfectly  correct.  We  see 
nothing  Chinese  intermixed.  In  plate 
Ut.  we  object  to  the  length  of  the  roof 
at  One  end,  because  we  know  the  dif- 
ficulty of  keeping  such  long  roofs  water* 
pcooi.  We  also  feel  that  none  but 
9toac  tiles  which  rec^uUe  ViftaLV])[  vytit- 


Bbtisw.— Djrcr*f  Atadmdc  Vn^* 


fxcTti. 


ben,  will  harmonize  with  Qothie 
boildtRga,  and  oli  tiles  which  have  ba»> 
eome  gray  (as  recommended  p.  T-)**** 
still  not  the  thing.  But  surely^  if  there 
were  a  demand,  housepotters  can  ma- 
nufacture tiles,  of  a  sober  grey  ;  at  least 
we  should  think  they  might,  for  bricks 
are  made  of  a  drab  colour. 

115.  Academic  Unity  ;  being  (he  SubOanee 
tfa  General  Dissertation  containei  in  tkt 
Privileges  ^  the  University  of  Cambridge, 
as  translated  Jrom  the  Original  ixUiM,  vitk 
various  Additions,  By  G.  Dyer,  A*  A 
Editor  of  the*  ^  Prvnleges  of  the  University 
of  Cambridge,"  and  of  a  *•  History  of  the 
University  and  College  of  Cambridge,**  ifc 
with  a  Preface,  giving  some  Account  <f  the 
Dissenting  CoUq^esin  the  United  Kingdom^ 
and  qf  the  London  University,  800.  pp, 
193. 

WHEN  our  ancestors  imposed  dis- 
qualifications and  tests  upon  Catholics 
and  Sectaries,  they  did  it  with  the  view 
ofeocouraging  the  Established  Church, 
for,  as  they  thought  it  right  to  establish 
it,  they  thought  it  right  also  to  support 
it;  and  hold  out  a  prospect  of  superior 
civil  l>enefit  to  those  who  were  mem- 
bers of  it.  Now  Mr.  Dyer  thinks  this 
to  be  very  unjust,  and  makes  the  gist 
of  this  book  the  unfairness  of  requir- 
ing subscription  to  the  Articles,  in  order 
to  become  members  of  our  two  great 
Universities.  We,  on  the  contrary, are 
of  opinion  that,  if  Recusants  deem  it 
their  interest  or  pleasure  to  become 
members  of  such  Universities,  the 
Subscriptionists  have  precisely  the 
same  plea  for  denying  them  admission. 
It  is  neither  their  interest  or  their  plea- 
sure to  have  the  Colleges  filled  with 
men  of  all  religious  persuasions,  nor 
can  any  law  enforce  it.  Nearly  all  the 
rulina  powers  are  clergymen  «f  the 
Established  Church;  the  Sututes  of 
the  respective  Colleges  in  general  re- 
quire ordination  in  their  fellows  at 
certain  periods  of  their  standing;  often 
the  degree  of  B.  D.  or  D.  O.  By 
what  means  are  regular  clergymen  to 
be  compelled  to  admit  persons  of  whose 
doctrines  they  do  not  approve,  to  be 
inmates  of  dwellings,  which  in  a  cor-» 

EMrate  capacity  are  their  sole  property* 
y  what  feeling  of  pretended  right  is 
it  to  be  expected,  that  they  shoald 
communicate  their  knowledge  and  pa* 
tronage  to  their  political  enemies ;  or 
if  they  so  do,  where  is  their  integrity^? 
We  might  mention  ii»fim'te  mischiefs 
^Il4  \ti^Q\iNeiv\euces,  which  woutd  en* 


rA«Ti3    Vi^yiEw.^Thietrj^B  UUiary  of  the  Conqueit  of  England.   Wf 

tue  from  the  adoption  nfthe  liberalism  are  brevity  approachiDg  toineag;renv8s, 

secommended  by  Mr.  Dyer;  bat  it  it  and  occasional  carelessness.  We  doubt 

Qnnecessary.     If  the  two  Universities  rf  St.  Germain    foiisht    against    the 

furnish  as  ihey  do  the  Ministers  of  the  Saxons,  and  if  the  Welsh  proverb  con- 

Established  Church,  it  would  be  high-  eerning  the  Wolf  and  the  Lazy  Shep- 

W  improper  that  the  candidates  for  or-  herd  really  applied  to    the    Romish 

dination  shouid  be  exposed  tocorrup-  Church:  neither  do  we  perceive  it  in 

tion  of  their  principles  by    intimate  the  remains  of  St.  Cadnz,  but  it  occurs 

communion  with  all  sorts  of  heterodox  in  theGorwynion  of  Llywarch  HAu* 

thinkers.    Natural  prents  exercise  a  In  describing  the  march  of  William 

right  of  controul  as   to  what  society  to  London,  he  betrays  an  ignorance  of 

their  children  shall  keep.     Why  may  ourprovincial  geography. 
not  spiritual  parents  do  the  same  ?  The  second  portion  begins  with  the 

^  Tictoryof  Hastings,  and  ends  with  the 

^  year  1 070,  when  the  country  may  be 

ll«.  Hitiaryqfthe  Ccnquett  qf  England  by  considered  as  reduced.     A  curious  mis- 

Ihe  Normans,  with  Us  Causa  from  iha  inference  occurs    in  b.  5.      "  When 

earliest  Period,  and  iu  Cofuequetuesto  tha  ^|,g  y^^^^  ^jf  ^est  arrived,  at  the  time  of 

K'T^JUT^'    TransUud  from  the  Freuch  ^^y-       ^,i  ^3,^   ^^e  head  of  the  family 

o/A.  Thierry.     Bvo.  3  vols.  Whitaker.  ^^^^  ^j^^j  the  prayers  used  at  setf 

THE  Norman  Conquest  is  one  of  on  the  approach  of  a  storm — "  preceg 

the  most  splendid  events  in    history,  quasi  imminente  in  mart  tempestaie,^ 

whether  we  look  to  its  extraordinary  days  Matthew  Paris,  probably  without 

achievement,  its  immediate conseqoen-  expecting  this  bold  translation  of  bis 

ces,  or  its  ultimate  results.    It  united  words. 

the  British  kingdoms  under  one  head.  The  third  portion  comprizes  tho 
and  e\'en  the  separation  of  that  conii*  series  of  efforts  made  by  the  conquer- 
nental  territory  which  it  connected  ors  tu  degrade  the  natives,  and  termi- 
with  them  must  be  regarded  as  fortu-  nates  in  107^>  with  the  execution  of 
sate,  since  a  cause  of  unprofitable  wan  Waltheof.  The  fourth  contains  thd 
was  thereby  removed.  So  much  for  new  arrangement  of  the  country,  ter^ 
political  considerations,  but  historically  minating  in  |0S6.  The  fifth  contains 
the  Norman  Conquest  is  most  remark-  the  various  insurrections  and  civil  wars 
able,  as  beins  *<  the  last  territorial  fill  1152.  In  this  division  we  hare  to 
conquest  that  has  taken  place  in  the  remark  a  good  account  of  the  Scottish 
western  part  of  Europe:  since  then  polity , but  that  the  character  of  Lan  franc 
there  have  been  none  but  political  is  underrated,  that  the  extracts  intro-* 
conquests.*'  A  good  history  of  this  duced  into  the  text  disfiaure  it,  and  that 
event  has  long  been  a  desideratum  in  the  remarks  at  the  end  of  the  several 
literature,  nor  do  we  feel  quite  easy  books  are  pertinent 
that  a  foreigner  should  have  the  credit  The  sixth  division  terminates  with 
of  supplying  it,  though  there  are  por-  the  execution  of  William  the  Saxon 
lions  of  the  subject  which  derive  their  at  the  close  of  the  twelfth  century,  the 
advantages  from  that  circumstance,  last  event  which  marks  the  distinction 
We  thus  perceive  how  a  foreigner  between  the  two  races,  as  the  sepant- 
calmly  regards  those  parts  of  our  his-  tion  of  England  from  Normancfy  119 
tory  about  which  we  are  apt  to  be  the  following  reign  necessarily  mould- 
biassed  ;  and  we  obtain  information  ed  them  into  one.  Here  we  doubt  if 
on  many  points  which  is  accessible  Becket  be  a  Saxon  name,  and  still 
only  to  himself.  M.  Thierry  has  di-  more  if  the  Primate  befriended  the  Sax- 
vided  his  work  into  seven  portions,  on  population  as  such,and  still  perhaps 
He  begins  by  narrating  the  early  con*  further  whether  tha  Welsh  were  at- 
dition  of  Britain,  the  Saxon  invasion,  tached  to  him.  Adrian  the  /Aire?  was 
the  Breton  migration,  the  Prankish  surely  not  an  Englishman.  We  do 
Settlement  in  Gaul,  the  transactions  not  consider  Robin  Hood  as  a  political 
of  the  Dane^  and  Normans,  and  the  character,  and  still  less  as  a  Saxon  par- 
Anglo-Saxon  history  till  the  battle  of  tizan.  There  is  a  ballad  relating  m 
Hastings.  This  division  he  has  made  the  manner  of  his  death.  We  thought 
very  interesting,  by  blending  die  dif-  that  Bertrand  de  Boru  bad  been  a  t]F* 
ivrent  details,  and  placing  his  reader  |>ographical  error  for  Bertrand  d^  Ecir^« 
**8on)etnnes  in  Great  Britain,  some-  till  ^e  vtic«cr«^  \V  ^^a««:^^«MX  "^e^n. 
thnes  on  the  CDOtffien't.'*    His  def^U  wotk. 


wa 


Review.— Dr.  Bevtti'it  Honetf  Bee. 


£zcVii; 


The  last  party  or  conclusion,  gives 
an  account  of  the  several  nations  of 
Whose  adrentures  this  hiiitory  is  com- 
posed.    1.  The  Normans,  the  Bretons, 
the  Anjouans,  and  people  of  southern 
Gaul — an  interesting  chapter,  in  which 
however  we  are  sometimes  disappoint- 
ed.   2.  The  Welsh. — ^This  nation  ap- 
pears to  he  our  Author's  favourite,  and 
ne  has  devoted   considerable  research 
to  their  history,  before  and   after  the 
close  of  his  main  topic.  (Owen,  whom 
Froissart    calls    Yvairit  and   Camden 
JSoan/is  supposed  by  \lr.  Biackwell  of 
Mold,  the  Bard,  to  be  no  less  a  person 
^  than  Owain  Llovr,  or  ihe  bloody,  the 
'  darling  theme  of  the  poets,  and  con- 
cerning whom  no  historical  notice  was 
presumed  to  exist.)    Owen  Tudor  had 
three  sons.     The  union   of  England 
and  Wales  is  not  fully  stated.    3.  The 
Scotch — not  a  very   minute   piece  of 
biitory^   but   containing   some    good 
iketches.    4.  The  Irish,  a  subject  with 
WKich   M.  Thierry   has  taken   some 
pttns.     5.  The  English,  containing  a 
rapid  survey  of  the  political  changes  iu 
the  lower  orders. 

Our  readers  may  have  begun  to  per- 
ceive, that  M.  Thierry's  theory  is  the 
existence  of  a  perpetual  hatred  between 
ihe  Norman  and  Saxon  part  of  the 
population,  from  the  conquest  until  the 
reign  of  John.  In  this  he  is  undoubt- 
edly right,  but  he  has  pressed  too  many 
circumstances  into  his  service  to  sup- 
port that  opinion.  His  authorities  arc 
often  secondary,  and  his  judgment  pre- 
judiced. But  we  must  consider  it  as 
ihe  work  of  a  foreigner,  and  as  such 
0ught  to  treat  its  detects  with  tender- 
ness :  it  is  indeed  a  valuable  addition 
to  our  historical  library,  and  the  cor- 
rected and  enlarged  edition  which  has 
tiuce  appeared,  will  probably  merit 
this  praise  in  a  greater  degree.  The 
French,  we  happen  to  know,  are  vtry 

eirtial  to  these  volumes,  and  justly  so. 
ut  the  translation  is  faulty  and  inele- 
gant, and  disfigured  by  typographical 
errors. 

117.  The  Honey  Bee:  its  Natural  History, 
•   Phytiology,  and  Management,     By  Ed- 
ward Bevan,  M.D,  London,  1827* 

THE  latter  part  of  the  last  century 
and  the  commencement  of  the  present, 
have  given  birth  to  a  considerable 
number  of  valuable  tracts,  elucidating 
Clitf  Natural  History  and  Phy^iolooy  o'f 
(h9  Hooey  Btt,  as  well  at  »tTtm  t«« 


gular  treatises  on   its    management; 
but  the  work  before  ut,  by  Dr.  Bevan, 
is  the  first  (possessing  any  claim  to  the 
character  of  scientific)  in  which  are 
comprehended  all  those  departmenti 
of    Apiarian    knowled^j^e.  <—  It  it    a 
valuable     and     interesting      treatise: 
the    researches  of   the    Author    into 
both  ancient  and   modern   lore  have 
been   very  extensive    and    thorough- 
ly digested,   and  they  are   embodied 
in  a  pleasing    and   satisfactory   man<- 
ner :    his  attention  also   to   the   ha- 
bits and  economy  of  bees  during  a  long 
course  of  practise,  has  enable«l  him  to 
throw  considerable  light  on  their  phy* 
siology,  and  to  improve  their  manage- 
ment.—  The    wood-cuts  with  which 
the  %vork  is  interspersed  afford  a .  very 
excellent  illustration  of  the  subjects  to 
which  they  refer,  and  alt  the  requisite 
operations  of  the  bee-master  are  clear- 
ly detailed ;  indeed  the   book    forms 
al toother  the    most   complete    body 
of  mformation   on  every     branch  of 
the  science  that  has  ever  fallen  under 
our     notice,    and     we     conflpratulate 
our  Apiarian  friends,  as  well   at  the 
lorert  of  natural  history  in   general, 
upon  the  opportunity  it  affords  them 
of  obtaining,  at  an  easy  rate,  a  great 
deal  of  very  interesting  information, 
conveyed  in  a   pleasing  and   tasteful 
manner.    The  following  may  serve  at 
a  specimen  of  the  Author's  style,  and 
will  at  the  same  time  furnish  our  read- 
ers with  two  interesting  and  welKtold 
anecdotes  of  the  bee. 

'*  A  snail  having  crept  into  one  of  M« 
Reaumur's  hives  early  in  the  noniiog, 
afcer  crawling  about  for  tome  time,  adbercd 
by  means  of  its  own  slime  to  one  <^the  glaee 
panes,  where,  but  for  the  beet,  it  would 
probably  have  remained,  till  either  a  moiiC 
ur  or  its  own  spume  had  loosened  the  -id- 
heslon.  The  bees  havit^  d'lacovered  the 
snail,  immediately  surrounded  it,  and  ferawd 
a  border  of  propolis  round  the  verge  of  ita 
shell,  wbii'h  was  at  last  so  seeuraly  fixed  to 
the  glass  as  to  l>ecoroe  immoveable,  either 
by  the  moisture  of  the  air  from  without,  or 
by  the  snail's  secretion  from  within. — ^Ma* 
RALPi  has  related  a  somewhat  similar  tn- 
stance.  A  houseless  snail,  or  (lug  as  it  is 
called,  had  entered  one  cff  his  hives :  the 
bees,  as  soon  as  they  obserred  it,  pierced  it 
with  their  stings,  till  it  expired  beaeath- 
their  repeated  strokes ;  after  which,  btiae 
unable  to  dislodge  it,  they  covered  it.aM 
over  with  propolis.— In  theso  two  eases,  who 
can  withhold  his  admiration  of  the  iaganui^ 
and  judgment  of  the  bees  ?     In  ike  Jini 


FART  I.] 


RsYiBW.-^Bailey'f  PettoUttu 


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•ion  into  the  hire,  which,  from  iU  unwleldi- 
flMt  they  could  not  remov^,  and  which, 
firoro  the  impenetrability  of  its  shell  ihey 
could  not  destroy  :  here  then  their  only  re- 
source was  to  deprive  it  of  loco* motion,  and 
to  obviate  putrefsction,  both  which  objects 
they  accomplished  most  skilfully  and  secure- 

K,«d,  Mi.  u.u»l  with  thJ.  »g.eiou.     ""«»"«"»  •'••'-np  «,"'«=.n  »? 
crnturM,  at  the  Last  powiMe  expence  of    breasi  of  a  proud  and  wicked 


■ 

of  it,  as  the  Author  bespeaks  in  the 
motto  he  has  selected  for  his  title-page, 
is  a  tale  of  the  passions.  In  adopting 
such  a  subject,  a  young  Author  niust 
feel  he  is  treading  on  fearful  ground, 
in  the  delineation  ofthe  boisterous  and 
turbulent  feelings  which  agitate   the 

man,  or 


labour  and  materials.  They  applied  their 
cement  where  alone  it  was  required,  namely, 
round  the  verge  of  the  shell.  In  the  latin 
eoif^  to  obviate  the  evil  of  putrescence,  by  the 
total  exclus'on  of  air,  they  were  obliged  to 
be  more  lavish  in  the  use  of  tbeir  em- 
balming material,  and  to  furm  with  it  so 
complete  an  incrustation  or  case  over  the 
"  slime-girt  giant,'*  as  to  guard  them  from 
the  consequences  which  the  atmosphere  in- 
variably produces  upon  all  animal  substances 
that  are  exposed  to  its  action,  after  life  has 
become  extinct.  May  it  not  be  asked,  what 
means  more  effectual  could  human  wisdom 
have  devised  under  similar  circumstances?" 


118.  Poems    by    Two  Brothers,     pp.  928. 
iSnio.     Simpkin  and  xMarshall. 

Dr.  JOHNSON  has  a  remark, 
**  that  no  Book  was  ever  spared  in  ten- 
derness to  its  Author;* — we  think 
otherwise,  and  we  believe  that  oc- 
casion and  circumstances  have  fre- 
quently tended  to  mitieate,  if  not  to 
reverse  ih€*censure  of  criticism.  Why 
to  such  a  volume  as  this  should  a  te^it 
be  applied  which  should  have  reference 
only  to  high  pretensions?  These 
poems  are  full  of  amiable  feelings, 
expressed  for  the  most  part  with  ele- 
gance and  correctness — are  we  to  com- 
plain that  ihey  want  the  deep,  feeling 


the  mild  and  agreeable  tenants  of  the 
peaceful  bosom  of  a  young  and  inno- 
cent female.  He  nuist  feel  that  he 
has  to  follow  in  the  same  path  in 
which aByron  has  triumphantly  mo\ed, 
the  splendid  meteor  of  the  age,  and 
as  the  p<iinitr  of  scenes  of  vvbich  a 
RadcliHe  has  left  such  forcible  pic- 
tures ;  our  Pot't  has  to  encounter  com- 
parisons which  can  be  resisted  only  by 
the  master  hand  of  genius. 

The  plot,  as  far  as  it  is  disclosed  in 
the  live  cantos  already  published,  may 
be  told  in  a  few  lines,  and  we  adopt 
this  brevity  in  our  remarks,  that  our 
readers  may  not  be  deprived  of  tht 
pleasure  of  reading  specimens  of  Mr. 
Bailey's  genius,  by  extending  the  nar* 
rative  to  a  greater  length  than  absolute 
necessity  requires. 

Gelardoni,  a  beautiful  Italian  Girl, 
has  been  entrusted  in  her  infancy  by 
her  father,  on  his  being  called  to  the 
battles  of  his  country,  to  the  guardiaD- 
shipof  Pettoleiti,  a  feudal  prince,  under 
whose  care  she  has  arrived  at  an  age, 
in  which  her  natural  charms,  height* 
ened  by  the  accomplishments  bestowed 
by  her  guardian,  conspire  to  render 
an  object  of  univerf^al  admiration.  At 
the  opening  of  the  poem,  the  heroine, 
amid  the  luxuries  ot  the  palace  of  her 


of  a   Byron,   the   polished    grace  of    seemed  parent,   is   introduced   to   the 
Moore,  or  the  [>erfect  mastery  of  hu-     reader  as  the  prey  of  melancholy,  and 


man  passions  which  distinguishes 
Crabbe?  We  would  rather  express 
our  surprise  and  admiration  that  at  an 
age  when  the  larger  class  of  mankind 
have  barely  reached  the  elements  of 
thought,  so  much  of  good  feeling, 
united  to  the  poetical  expression  of  U» 


though  the  following  lines  applied  to 

her  condition  convey  little  more  than 

a  truism,  the  thought  it  conveyed  in 

delightful  language : — 

«  Ah  'tis  not  radiant  hall,  nor  roseate  grove« 

Can  always  yield  the  luxuries  we  love  { 

No,  no  i  the  heart  can  cloud,  by  magic  pow'r. 


should  be  found  in   two  members  of    The  brightest  scenes  of  paUce  or  of  bow'rJ 


the  same  family.  The  volume  is  a 
graceful  addition  to  our  domestic 
poetry,  and  does  credit  to  the  juvenile 
Adetphi. 

119.    PeUoUiH:  by  Henry  Bailav*    Small 
8vo.pp.  81.     London,  1890,  Kelfe. 

THE  scene  of  the  Poem  before  us 
appears  to  be  laid  in  Italy,  the  fertile 
soil  of  romance  and  poetry ;  the  subject 

Gewt.  Mao.  SuppLXCVlh  Part  I. 

E 


Canto  l,p.  i. 
The  cause  of  this  dejection  is  atter- 
wards  developed.  The  guardian  has 
contracted  an  unhallowed  affection  for 
his  beautiful  ward,  and,  to  win  a  re- 
turn of  his  passion,  surrounds  her  with 
those  luxuries  and  pleasures  which 
have  no  attractions  for  one  whose 
heart  is  with  her  father,  and  his  com- 
panion, her  former  playmate,the  youth- 
ful Fazello,  her  guardian's  son. 


bio 


Review. — Bailey's  Peliotetti. 


[kctir. 


In  the  character  of  Pet^oletti,  as 
drawn  in  the  |)oeift,  the  reader  can 
scarce  fail  of  beinji;  reminded  of  the 
haughty  gloom  of  Lara ;  but  the  hero 
of  the  present  story  has  the  thousand 
crimes  of  the  Corsair,  without  his  soli- 
tary virtue. 

In  the  first  interview  between  the 

Eerfidious  guardian  and  his  fair  trust, 
e  hints  distantly  at  his  passion,  and 
enumerates  his  kindnesses  to  her, 
and  especially  in  saving  her  from  a 
convent.  The  playful  expression  of 
kindness  by  the  innocent  Gelardoui  is 
told  in  language  natural  and  pathetic  : 

'*  She  did  not  understand 
His  meaning,  but  hU  manner  was  so  bland, 
That,  tempted  by  the  kindly  mien  she  viewM, 
She  cbarg'd  him  with  his  mure  uncourteous 

mood.*' 
**  Forgive  me  ?  'tis  the  folly  of  a  child— 
I   cannot  bear  thee  when    thy  looks    are 

wild ; 
And  now  thine  eye  beams  mildly,  might  I 

•ay, 
How  oft  it  grieves  me,  at  the  close  of  day, 
To  see  thee  from  my  lute  all  wayward  spring — 
Face  the  rude  storm — nor  even  round  thee 

fling 
Thy  cloak  for  shelter — but   with  fearless 

gaxe, 
Look  on  the  lightnings  in  their  fiercest  blaze; 
Nay»  do  not  trown ;  indeed,   to  give  thee 

P*iQ» 
I  meant  it  not ;  but  now  thou  smil'st  again—- 
Oh !  didst  thou  always  look  thus  placidly, 
Methinks,  bow  happy  would  thy  daughter 

be."  Canto  1,  p.  ^, 

The  ball  given  by  Pettoletti  to  wel- 
icome  the  return  of  his  son,  is  painted 
in  brilliant  and  glowing  coloura.  We 
felt  inclined  to  transcribe  the  passage 
entire,  which  details  the  happiness  of 
the  youthful  lovers  at  this  happy  meet- 
ing; but  of  this  pleasure  we  deprive 
ourtelves,  as  well  as  giving  the  impres- 
sion which  the  elegant  Fazello  made 
upon  the  softer  sex.  The  idea  con- 
veyed on  the  closing  line  of  the  fol- 
lowing stanzas  is,  however,  too  beau- 
tiful to  be  passed  over : — 

"  Amid  a  maze  of  female  charms, 
•That  ev'ry  breast  with  tender  pleasure  warmsi 
Fair  Gelardoni's  form  each  rival  mars ; — 
A  pearl  to  pebbles — morn  to  misty  stars." 

Canto  8,  p.  30. 

So  the  closing  Stanzas  of  the  2nd 
canto,  though  the  subject  has  already 
employed  the  pens  of  every  uoet  in 
'every  age,  will  be  read  with  pleasure, 
from  the  harmony  of  the  uiea»ure,  auc* 
the  iialural  Jimplicity  of  the  language  : 


<' In  earlier  days,  when  jeeling  1009*4  for 
Inve, 

She  ikoci^d  that  'twouU  nought  but  plea- 
sure prove : 

But  now  'tis  bom,  tis  nurs'd  with  weepiaf^ 
eyes,  [sigbAy 

With  wearying  hopes,  and  half-despairiag 

The  mother's  fond  anxiety — who  rears 

A  sickly  infant — racks  her  heart  with  fisars ; 

Yet,  so  much  dotes  she  on  her  cause  of 
grief, 

She  would  not  have  it  die,  though  'twec» 
refief."  Canto  3,  p.  35. 

The  jealousy  of  Fcttolettr,  and  his 
rage  at  hearing  from  his  son  the 
avowal  of  his  passion  for  Gclardoni,  is 
finely  and  beautifully  depicted  : — 

*^  The  vital  tint  upon  his  visage  fliea* 
As  fades  the  serpent's  colour  ere  It  diss. 
He  read  the  pass'iun,  in  their  looks  r«veal'd, 
Which  would  not  speak,  yet  could  not  be 

conceai'd. — 
His  humour  was  the  wildness  of  the  wind. 
No  power  could  £sthom  it,  ixo  spell  could 

bind." 

4F  «  «  •  ^ 

**  He  clench'd  his  teeth,   ho  check'd   hia 

hurried  pace. 
He  stood  with  horror  quivering  ta  his  hce  { 
The  rage  within  so  shak'mg  life's  fraU  wall) 
If  thus  confin'd,  the  fabric  soon  uuut  hl\ : 
But,  through  bis  parch'd  lips'  death-like 

purul  cane  K 

The  bursting  fury  ofthe  internal  flame. 
And   still   he  lives ;    behold !    his    sallow 

cheeks 
Kegain  their  swarthy  tint ;  he  breathes — 

he  speaks."  Canto  3,  p.  4 1 . 

We  will  not  deprive  the  reader  of  the 
pleasure  he  will  enjoy  from  the  |ierusal 
of  the  poem,  by  exuacting  further  from 
the  narration  of  the  story.  As  how- 
ever the  reader  has  been  told  that  the 
poem  is  a  tale  of  the  passions,  a  further 
extract  or  two  for  the  purpose  of  show- 
ing hovv  ably  Mr.  Bailey  can  display 
•the  forcible  as  well  as  the  softer  pas- 
sions, will  not  be  unacceptable. 

The  agonizing  suggestions  of  con- 
science are  finely  depicted  in  the  soli- 
loquy of  Pettoletti,  after  the  supposed 
murder  of  his  son  :-^ 

•*  Ye  balmy  eroves,  -but  give 

My  braiu  forgetfulness,  and  I  shall  live 

Shall  gather  hops — what  hope  is  thei«  lur 

me  ? 
That  thought  of  blood  will  never  cease  to  be. 
Were  memory  gone,  still  o'er  my   heart 

would  come 
A  nameless  sense  of  never  ceasing  gloom. 
Yet,    of  his   victim   death  mi;rht    be   d«- 

spoil'd- 


riRT  1.3 


R£viBW/f-]>uinbeU*s  Letter  to  Mr.  Peel. 


eii 


Wliat  then  ?  my  crime  were  known — my 

purpose  foiKd. 
But  tit  not  to — what  demons  seem    to  run 
About  my  path  to  wh'iiper  <  It  is  done.' " 

Canto  4,  p.  5ff. 

Th«8e1ine94irr  as  striking  for  the  foKt 
-of  the  description,  as  the  succeeding 
are  (or  the  tenderness  with  which  M#. 
Bailey  paints  the  distress  ofGelardoni, 
oo  receiving  some  hints  of  the  catas- 
trophe which  had  befallen  her  lover : — 

*'  How  great  her  anguish,  when  so  much 

she  knowsy 
And  yet  knows  not  ttie  measure  ofher  woes  ! 
Alas !  that  limitless  excess  to  bear, 
Is  living  anguish,  worse  than  lost  despair ! 
Poor  mourner !  left  all  lone  and  comfortless. 
No  friend  to  share  the  load  of  her  distress ; 
She  nurses — loves  it— waits  for  further  woe ; 
Nor  waits  in  vain— she  meets  a  deadlier 

blow; 
The  mormur'd  rumour  of  a  scene  of  blood. 
Discovered  o*er  the  mountain,  in  the  wood/' 
♦  •  *  *  • 

*'  Would  that  the  dead,*'  the  frantic  cried, 
might  come 

Back  from  the  grave ! — would  that  ray  lo- 
ver's tomh 


The  Bank  of  England  follows  a 
ceruin  rule,  and  exercises  the  natu- 
ral right  of  doing  what  it  will  with 
its  own.  When  the  Exchanges  are 
iii  favour  of  this  country,  it  en^ 
larges  its  issues  in  order  that  the  ut- 
most possible  wealth  may  flow  into 
the  kmgdom — when  the  Exchanges 
are  against  this  country,  it  narrows 
its  issues  in  order  to  prevent  a  ruin- 
ous influx  of  specie,  tor  it  is  to  he 
recollected  that  the  Bank  is  a  Com- 
mercial Company  trading  in  spe- 
cie, represented  by  paper  payable  on 
demand.  When  the  lormer  has  an 
influx,  more  of  the  latfer  may  be  is- 
sued ;  when  it  has  an  efllux  less. 
There  are  only  two  alternatives  left 
in  the  latter  case  ;  one  to  narrow  the 
issues,  the  other  to  suspend  payment. 
Now  the  Bank  of  England  must  cut 
its  coat  according  to  its  cloth,  htr- 
cause  it  is  a  capitalist,  anil  mutt  aei 
u)>on  the  principle  of  security. 

But  trading  without  capital  has 
however  a  natural  direction  towards 
over-production,  beca^fse    it    can  gel 


Might  break,  and  let  me  gaae  upon  bis  nothing  but  by  production.     It  cannot 

__,^      ^*^****,'                                  post."  trade  in  goods  unless  it  possesses  goods. 

What  though  my  reason  —or  my  Ufe  were  j„  jubstitutien  t>f  capitol  bills  of  ex- 

Unto3,p.6-4.    Canto4,  p.  78.  change  are  issued.      If    the    returns 

Here  we  must  pause,  as  our  limits  «ome  inHhey  can  be  taken  up— if  not, 

will  not  permit  us  to  give  more   ex-  the  consequences  must  be  bankruptcy, 

tracts.     It  was  our  intention   10  have  The  country  is  nevertheless  richer  m 

pointed   out  some  faults,     which  at-  commodities.     Instead  of  full  pockets 

tracted  our  attention  on  the  penisal  of  there  are  full  warehouses.     Now  it  is 

this  poem ;  this  part  of  our  task   we  utterly  impossibje  that  the  Bank   of 


forego  with  pleasure :  it  is  always  more 
pleasing  to  gather  flowers  than' to  seek 
out  for  weeds  ;  and  as  this  work,  we 
are  given  to  understand,  is  the  first  ef- 
fusion  of  a  young  poet,  and  is  the  hnr- 
binger  of  a  future  specimen  of  his  ta- 
lents, we  would  rather  hold  out  en- 
couragement under  such  circumstan- 
ces, and  conceal  defects,  wheneverthey 
are  more  than  counterbalanced  by  the 
beauties  of  a  work  of  genius. 


120.  Mr.Dum^telVBLeUtr  to  the  Right  Hon, 
Robert  Peel,  ife.  3[c.  ifc,     8vo.  pp,  67. 

Mr.  DtJiMBELL  commences  his 
Pamphlet  with  a  censure  of  the  Bank 
of  England,  under  the  presumption 
that  it  is  the  sole  arbiter  of  the  curren- 
cy, and,  by  inference,  of  the  whole 
commercial  prosperity  of  Great  Bri- 
tain. The  idea  is  not  novel,  hut  to 
us  it  IS  not  justified  by  circumstances. 


England  or  the  Country  can  stand  in 
the  place  of  customers,  can  advance 
the  value  of  these  commodities,  be- 
cause then  they  immediately  put  them- 
selves into  the  place  of  the  over-pro- 
ducer,or  producer  without  capital ;  that 
is  to  sav,  they  saddle  themselves  with 
AtxstocK  of  unsaleable  goods,  while  he, 
the  vendor,  gains  their  always  available 
capital.  We  have  no  limits  for  going 
further  into  palpable  things,  of  whicK 
ntrbumsai.  The  issues  of  the  Bank,  if» 
repeat,  must  be  limited ;  trade  is  oflrn 
unlimited;  but  would  persons  only 
reflect  that  when  Stocks  are  high  (he 
profits  of  Commerce  are  low,  they 
would  narrow  their  stock,  and  the  evil 
of  overproduction  would  be  aroided. 
i  nstead  of  thb  they  estimate  veiidibility 
by<he  cheapness  of  money,  and  do 
not  consider  that  if  a  man  recenres  less 
interest  for  his  money  he  can  aflbrd 
to  spend  less,  and  would  not  i(iiit  Kik 


<I9  RMYiEW.—OHtaluii^aTaU,  Ixcrm. 

coald  make  more  of  it.     Mr.  Dumbell    l^i,  OutaUsri:  a  Tak  of  Dutch  GmoMi, 
next  proposes  as  a   substitute   for  the  Crown  800.  pp.  S94. 

Bank  of  England »  either  a  Govern-        rrr,*?  j 

ment  Bank,  or  one  in  opposition  to  the  THE  design  of  this  Tale  is  to  ex- 
Bank  oF  England.  The  paramount  po»e  t^^e  malversation  of  Coloiiisu,  and 
absurdity  of  a  Government,  which,  in  'recommend  Sectarian  modei' of  pro- 
se, is  a  borrower,  and  through  the  una-  ^*^*»ng  Chrisiianiiy  as  fittest  for  the 
voidable  necessity  of  funding,  never  «^on^er»<«n  of  Slaves.  We  shall  there- 
repays  principal,  turning  Banker,  is  ap-  '^'^  *p^***  ©^  i^e  subject  in  the  view 
parent ;  and  as  to  a  Jomt  Stock  Com-  ^^^  ^I'^^^'^'nan.  It  is  readily  admitted 
.  panv.  We  should  have  only  two  whirl-  T*'"^  regard  to  Slavery,  that  free  laboor 
pools  for  absorbing  the  currency  in-  '*  ^^"^  better,  and  the  system  is  in  ail 
•tead  of  one — another  capital  sunk  in-  ''fspecis  bad,  hut  with  regard  to  secta- 
stcad  of  one  only,  viz.  that  of  the  ""'.an  modes  being  the  best,  we  ha\-c  far 
Bank  of  England.  different  opinions.    The   principle  of 

Mr.  Dumbell  then  recommends  the  Sectarianism  is  in  no  country  subniis- 
cultivatiun  of  the  potatoe.  (P.  37.)  •'^*  *o  authority — it  has  always  a  bias 
The  substitution  of  manual  labour  for  antimonarchical,  nor  do  we  recollect 
tools  and  machinery,  **  even  to  har-  *9  }^^  history  of  Great  Britain,  anv 
nessing  men  to  draw  gravel  on  the  c>^'il  good  which  has  resulted  from  it 
roads."  (P.  44.)  And  (p.  57.)  the  ex-  «qual  to  that  of  a  Church  Establish- 
tirpationof  lawyer t,^OT  lit  says,  that  ""cpt  protected  by  Government,  and 
as  "the  country  was  once  priest-rid-  acting  and  teaching  with  a  %'iew  to  its 
den,  it  is  now  lawyer  ridden. '  support;   on     the  contrary    Securies 

■    For  our  ]>arts  we  have  only  to  ob-     preach  up  their  own  creeds  and  their 
•erve,  that  whatever  be  the  wealth  of    own  people — they  enforce  no  civil  a«* 
a  country,  it  is  not  in  the  power  of    thority,  and  if  a  dependant  differs  from 
man  to  prevent  its  expenditure  among     his  master  upon  a  point  which  his  mi- 
the  population.    One  mode  may  have     nister  supporis,  he  will    be   expected 
a  more  moral  or  more  prudent  result     by  the   latter  to  side  with   him.     Ita 
than  another,  hut  the  fact  itself  is  in-    short,  will  any  reflectinc:  man  say,  that 
disputable.     Whether  money  be  spent     Sectarianism  is  favourable  to  subordi- 
in  profligacy,  or   in    prudence,  or  in     nation;  and,  if  it  be  not  favourable,  is 
charity,  the  sums  expended  must  be     not  the  introduction   of  insubordina- 
dispersed  among  the  several  tradesmen     tjon  among  our  Slave  Colonies    much 
who  supply  the  wants  of  the  respective    ^^^^  putting  a  match  10  a  barrel  of  gun- 
parties.     But  if  it  so   happens  that  a     powder?     It  matters  not  that  we  may 
fictitious  artificial   wealth,  dependent     be  told     such   Sectarians   were  good 
upon  contingency,  occasions  an  extra-     men,    had    good  intentions,   ana  so 
ordinary  influx  of  the  population  into     forth.     It  is  not  to  the  purf>ose.     In 
certain  modes  of  employ,  and  the  con-     our  judgment  they  are  as  unfit  for  pro- 
tingent  returns  do  not  ensue,   then  of     pagaiingC'hristianity  among  Slaves,  as 
course  misery  must  follow.     In  all  po-     they  would  be  for   chaplains   of  regi- 
litical  concerns  however,,  where  im-     menis,  or  ships  of  war.    Their  very 
mediate  remedies  do  not  present  them-     principles  are  hostile  to  authority.     In- 
selves,  the  proper  rule  is,  if  possible,  to     surrections  there  have  been,  and  it  is 
gain    time,     which    often     produces     idle  to  say  that  Mr.  Smith  was  an  ill- 
changes  of  situation,   and    furnishes     used  man,  because  in  their  views  of 
aafe  modes  of  action.    Though,  how-     things,  for  a  man  not  to  have  his  own 

>ever.  we  cannot  agree  with  Mr.  Dum-  way  is  deemed  a  civil  injury.  If  God 
bell  in  principle,  we  are  willing  to  ac-  has  not  all,  and  Caesar  does  not  pa- 
knowledge  that  there  is  energy  and  tiently  submit  to  foreso  his  own  por- 
ability  in  his  writing,  and  that  some  tion,  then  (in  the  vulgar  phrase)  the 
of  hiis  measures  for  tne  employment  of  fat  is  in  the  fire.  We  repeat,  that 
th^  distressed  poor  deserve  attention,  place  a  sectarian  chapel  in  the  heart 
particularly  those  concerning  certain  of  every  colonial  plantation,  yoo  will 
roads,  in  p.  43.     We  also  agree  with    soon  Bnd  it  necessary  to  build  barracks 

khim  in  one  leading  point,  that  the  directly  opposite  to  it,  because  Secta- 
claim  of  the  Poor  to  be  employed  and  nanism  in  its  doctrine  and  priociplef 
maintained  is  an  indefeasible    rijght,     deems  worldly  wisdom  a  thins   that 

groirioff  oat  of  eTery  &uie  o{  «oc\evj,    outg!ht  not  to  be  regarded,  peroapt  a 

where  die  soil  is  private  property.  vvti. 


^ATLT  i.]      RiTiiw.— On  Navti  Archiiectun.'^Si\mn*%  Antdoin.    '  ^i^ 


We  know  that  we  are  treading  on 
tender  ground,  and  subject  ourselves 
to  aspersions.  But  it  is  our  solemn 
and  decided  opinion,  that  if  the  Re- 
ligionists of  the  present  day  could  exe- 
cute their  wild  theories.  Religion 
would  be  turned  into  a  jest  at  honie, 
and  aniischiefabroad.  Whaieverdoc- 
trine(andsuch  a  doctrine  is  Religion) 
has  a  tendency  to  influence  the  public 
mind,  and  yet  does  not  profess  to  act  in 
subordination  to  authority,  such  a  doc- 
trine cannot  be  deemed  eligible  by 
us.  Episcopalians  in  religious,  and 
Loyalists  in  civil  Govemn^nt. 

The  Author,  though  we  do  not  ap- 

Crove  his  principles,  has  the  merit  of 
eing  a  very  able  sentimentalist. 


199.  Papers  on  Naval  Arehiteeture.    No. 
III.  Svo.pp,  336. 

THE  same  praise  is  due  to  this  as  to 
the  preceding  numbers. 

The  first  paper  is  a  sketch  of  the 
Progress  of  Naval  Architecture.  It 
concludes  with  observing,  that 

**  The  adoption  of  the  Swedish  rising 
floor  instead  of  the  French  flat  floor*  and  an 
increase  of  breadth  in  proportion  to  the 
length,  might  proHably  be  attended  with  very 
cootiderable  advantage  in  the  ships  of  the 
Royal  Navy  of  £ngland."     P.  965. 

The  second  paper  refers  to  the  va- 
rious methods  for  preventing  the  depre- 
dation of  sea  worms,  and  highly 
praises  Mr.  BelKs  invention  for  ren- 
dering wood  almost  incorruptible,  and 
protecting  it  against  worms. 

<*  It  will  render  every  country  indepen- 
dent of  others  for  the  supply  of  durable  tim- 
ber ;  for  the  wood  which  now  decays  almost 
as  soon  as  it  is  felled,  may  be  made  thereby 
far  more  lasting;  than  the  most  durable  tim- 
ber known.  This  is  not  merely  speculative, 
for  the  specimens  have  been  put  during  five 
years  to  the  severest  trials  known,  without 
undergoing  any  change."     P.  960. 

%Ve  have  a  further  valuable  disco- 
very, and  the  following  account  of  its 
almost  miraculous  service  in  a  situa- 
tion of  extreme  danger. 

«  The  question  is,  how  are  tha  bottoms 
of  shifts  to  be  protected  if  any  part  of  the 
meullic  sheathing  be  accidentally  removed  ? 
In  the  first  part  of  this  paper  the  durability 
of  animal  hair  has  been  proved,  and  its  pro- 
tecting the  bottoms  of  ships  verified.  With- 
in a  few  years  this  hair  has  been  manufae- 
tured  into  sheets,  by  a  process  called  feltioff ; 
thase  hava  bean  used  on  many  ships  timdtf 


wood  sheathing,  and  hava  not  only  proved  a 
perfect  protection  from  worms,  wbea  cop* 
per  has  been  removed,  but  saved  ships, 
which,  if  they  had  not  been  covered  with 
this  substance,  would  have  foundered." 

*'  It  is  a  singular  circumstance,  that  the 
first  vessel  on  which  the  patent  felt  was 
placed  by  the  British  Government,  was  saved 
by  it  from  shipwreck.  The  ship  Dorothea, 
sent  on  the  first  voyage  of  discovery  to  the 
arctic  regions,  was  crushed  lietweea  two 
fields  of  ice ;  the  shock  was  so  tremendoos 
that  several  of  the  beams  which  supported 
the  decks  were  broken,  and  all  on  board  ei- 
pected  the  ship  would  founder,  but  to  their 
surprise  no  leak  was  discovered  ;  and  henpa 
it  was  thought  that  the  beams  were  the  only 
paru  damaged.  She  arrived  in  £ng1aBd 
without  leaking ;  but  when  taken  into  a 
dock  and  stripped  for  the  purpose  of  exa- 
mining into  her  state.  It  was  discovered  chat 
ninety-six  of  the  timbers  under  water  wen 
broken,  the  plank  of  the  bottom  damaged, 
and  that  the  ship  had  been  saved  by  the  fek." 
P.  978. 

The  remainmg  papcra  are  of  high 
useful  character;  but  these,  with 
the  exception  of  a  Report  on  the 
Steam  Navigation  of  America,  are 
studies.  Upon  the  whole  there  ia 
much  judgment  exercised  in  the  s^ 
lection  of  these  papers,  and  much 
merit,  generally  speaking,  in  the  writ- 
ing of  them. 

t9d.  The  Stuart  AnecdoUs  ^  MechaMct 
and  Philosophy,  (Anecdotes  of  Steam" 
Engities,J  with  forty-Jive  Engravings  an 
Steel  nf  Steam  Machinery,  By  Robert 
Stuart,  Civil  Engineer,  \6mo,piibtifihiBi 
monthly  by  Wightman  and  Cramp. 

Only  two  numbers  of  this  instrac- 
tive  little  work  have  appeared,  but 
these  show  that  the  proposed  History 
of  Sienm  Engines  is  constructed  upon 
scientific  ana  elaborate  principles,  and 
is  also  very  entertaining.  The  first 
idea  of  Steam,  as  capable  of  being  made 
a  mechanical  power,  seems  to  have 
been  due  to  Nero  of  Alexandria,  who 
flourished  under  the  Ptolemies  ;  anU 
our  Authors  say, 

«  A  sagacity  little  short  of  prescience 
could  alone  have  enabled  him  to  anticipate 
the  grandeur  of  that  creation  that  was  to 
arise  firora  these  beautiful  but  comparative- 
ly insignificant  beginnings." 

It  would  be  impossible  for  us  to  ^ 
through  the  contents  of  thes9  num* 
bers ;  we  can  only  say,  that  they  are 
full  of  information,  and  ver^   l<y<ii  voi 


614         Riviw— Varder>  Sermon.'^^IUligwui  Contrwersf.        [xcvii. 


11M.  An  Account  qf  the  Proceedings  at  a 
Public  Meeting  held  at  the  City  of  York, 
<m  the  nineteenth  January t  1 897>  to  take 
into  consideration  the  expediency  of  peti- 
timing  Partiament  on  the  subject  of  the 
Immolation  of  Hindoo  fftdouv  in  Bri- 
tish India,  with  an  Appendix,  Ato.pp.  98. 

TH  E  sanction  of  murder  under  anj 
pretence  strikes  at  the  very  root  of  ci- 
irilited  well-being,  because  it  intro- 
daces  a  form  of  committing  it,  whidi 
lessens  the  horror  of  it,  and  least  of  all 
should  that  form  be  connected  with 
Religion.  It  appears  from  the  autho- 
rities quoted  in  tne  Appendix,  that  the 
barbarous  practice  reprobated  may  be 
suppressed  without  danger  of  mutiny 
or  rebellion ;  and  if  such  blessed  rc- 
suhscan  be  secured  by  measures  of 
only  common  prudence,  why  are  not 
suen  measures  put  in  execution  ?  We 
hope  that  public  attention  will  be 
drawn  to  the  subject,  by  several  excel- 
lent articles  which  have  appeared  in 
this  Miscellany. 

Lf  6.  The  Timid  Christian  encouraged  to 
come  to  the  Holy  Communion,  a  Sermon 
preached  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Asylum  for 

'  Female  Orphans,  Lambeth,  on  Sunday, 
Sept.  3,  18S6.  By  the  Rev,  Edward 
Bowman  Varder,  LL.B.  Chaplain  to  the 
Asylum.     8vo.  pp.39. 

OUR  Author,  speaking  of  the  dread 
eiUertained  of  takmg  the  Sacrament, 
lest  condemnation  should  be  incurred, 
saya  concerning  this  point, 

<•  Think  ye,  that  He  [Christ]  would  be- 
lie his  own  prophecy, and  contradict  his  gra- 
cions  errand,  by  loying  snares  for  his  people  ? 
Tbiak  ye,  that  He  would  ever  bid  us  do  one 
aaagle  act  by  which  we  could  risk  the  for- 
feiture of  hjs  redeeming  love  ?  Think  yp, 
that  He  would  ever  take  delight  in  the  ap- 
pointment of  an  ordinance  which  he  knew 
conld  not  be  performed  acceptably  unto 
€k>d,  and  whicn  he  knew  would  prove  the 
meant  of  separating  man  from  all  interest  in 
the  happiness  of  Heaven,  and  consigning 
Imn  to  endless  lamentation,  and  mourning 
and  woe?*'     P.  3«. 

The  fact  is,  that  the  encouragement 
eiven  to  the  tenets  of  certain  Religion- 
ists by  the  fanatical  party  of  our  own 
Church  has  elated  them  into  a  conceit 
that  they  are  oracles ;  and  in  their  fa- 
vourite prosess  of  ohirudinu;  their 
qnack  medicine  into  theology,  they 
hare  diseased  its  vital  organs,  and  occa- 
sioned a  necessity  for  such  sound  and 
judicious  counter-agents  as  are  furnished 
ill  ihfs  scriptural  and  ral\ona\  discounc. 


12f?.  Rdigious  Controuersy  decided  ly  Scrips 
ture  and  Antiquity,  or  the  Tree  knamn  by 
iU  Fndt.  A  Treatise  on  the  Divimiy  of 
Jesus,  a  Refutation  qf  Papal  Errors,  SCc, 
Bv  the  Rev.  Joseph  Taylor,  A»  JU.  ftcar 
qf  Smtterfield,  and  Head  Master  qf  the 
Royal  Free  Grammar  School,  Stourbridge. 
9vo.  pp.  Sd9. 

IT  is  certainly  troublesome  that 
when  a  Ghost  has  been  once  laid  in 
the  Red  Sea  or  a  horse-potid,  he 
should  disturb  a  peaceable  neighbour- 
hood again  by  midnight  walks.  Now 
Popery  is  such  a  Ghost,  which  has 
been  laid  many  years  ago,  and  requires 
to  be  again  exorcised.  Mr.  Taylor 
appears  as  one  of  the  exorcists ;  and 
the  following  is  a  favourable  specimen 
of  good  ratiocination  upon  a  subject 
not  easy. 

'*  He  whose  understanding  ia  infinitt 
cannot  know  that  now,  which  he  did  not 
always  know.  In  him  there  is  nothing  paat, 
nothing  to  come,  but  all  is  present.  Ater- 
nity  itself  can  add  no  improvement  to  the 
knowledge  of  that  all-wise',  all-comprehend- 
ing mind,  to  whom  all  futurity  is  open,  and 
from  whom  no  secrets  are  hid.  Satan 
neither  stole  nor  iorced  his  way  into  paia- 
dlse.  He  neither  escaped  the  notice  nor 
conquered  the  power  of  him  whoae  preaenee 
filled  heaven  and  earth.  Omaitcienoe 
cannot  be  deceived-*-  Omnipresence  can- 
not be  eluded  —  Omnipotence  cannoi  he 
overcome.  Man  in  his  original  state  had  a 
freedom  of  will,  and  a  liberty  of  action  to 
obey  or  disobey,  for  where  there  is  no 
choice  there  can  he  no  virtue  s  the  fore- 
knowledge of  the  Deity  therefore  did  not 
produce  natural  and  moral  evil,  for  can  we 
believe  that  God  forbade  the  fall,  which  hy 
an  antecedent  decree  he  had  rendered  inevi- 
Uble?"     P.  67. 

1 97.  Hints  on  the  Impressment  of  Seamen, 
6vo.  pp.  61. 

WE  have  never  read  or  heard  that 
in  any  country,  at  any  time,  the  sol- 
diers or  sailors  were  voluntary  agents; 
and  we  are  very  sure  that  if  a  nation 
is  to  remain  in  peace  and  comfort  some 
must  be  sufferers.  It  is  certainly  un- 
just thai  one  should  be  so  more  than 
another,  but  political  necessity  and 
moral  eouity  are  not  always  capable  of 
h.irmonious  action  ;  but  so  it  is  with 
Providence  itself.  Agues  attach  to 
the  innocent  inhabitants  of  marshy 
situations,  not  to  those  of  hilly 
grounds.  Of  course  it  is  desirable 
that  the  former  should  be  drained 
and  rendered  healthy — it  is  also  df- 
ivt^V  \W\.  \nv^x«&%ment   should  not 


^ART  I.]  RivieW. — Oh  Impressmeni, — ^Becooft  on  the  Brahmins^Sse.  615 

exist;  but  it  is  far  better  that  it  whom  reliance  can  be  placed.  We 
should  exist,  than  that  we  should  be  are  certainly  not  inclined  to  prefer 
unable  to  live  free  from  invasion,  the  Brahnuns  xo  Sir  Isaac  Newton 
A^  to  fighting  and  iV*  consequences,  and  the  Mathematical  Astronomen. 
a  ball  spares  not  captain  or  crew —  and  we  therefore  shall  not  commit 
and  the  necessity  of  a  profession  for  ourselves  upon  the  philosophical  cha- 
the  purposes  of  existence,  sends  the  racter  of  this  book.  Our  readers  shall 
son  of  a  nobleman  as  well  as  of  a  judge  for  themselves  by  the  following 
peasant  to  sea ;  the  only  difference  passage  -concerning  Acrolytes.  Some 
IS,  that  one  is  impressed  by  necessity,  of  these,  our  Author  says,  are  no  more 
the  other  by  a  press-gang.  At  tfie  than  metallic  bases  of  aborted  stars,  for 
same  time  it  would  be  a  very  good  he  has  no  doubt  that  in  the  upper  re- 
thing  if  neither  one  or  the  other  was  gions  of  the  empyreal,  numberless 
obligatory;  but  professional  men  know  celestial  bodies  nearly  extinct  still  cir* 
best  whether  it  is  so  or  not.  We  culate  in  a  similar  manner  to  the  per* 
see  no  objection  to  our  Authors  feet  ones.  (P.  59.)  He  then  adds  the 
plan  of  training  boys   for   sea-service  following  story. 

in  the  royal  navy,  in  the  sea-port  "To  conclude  this  subject,  I  shall  relate 
towns,  and  on  board  merchant  ves-  that  during  a  short  retideoce  at  Macao,  te- 
sels.  We  think  that  a  fair  case  is  veral  learned  persons  confirmed  what  I  for- 
niade  out  for  experiment — but  there  merly  read  in  the  Chlnete  History  respect- 
is  a  vindication  of  impressment,  viz,  iog  tbe  fidl  in  that  empire  at  different 
in  forcing  idle,  vagrant,  and  profligate  periods,  and  at  different  distances,  of  two 
young  men  to  become  useful  to  their  *^'^<*  »^»»'  «*?«  »f  which  burned  for 
country  by   fighting   in    its  defence;  "•"^^  «»  months  after  lU  ^1:  their  ba- 

for,  as  their  l?fe  is  otherwise  a  nuis-  *"  T  ^*,7"6»°°"f'  •"^.^•^  contained 

»..^^    .u               .u                        J    r  several  small  acrolytes  at  tbeir  extremities, 

auce.  they  are  thu.   prevented    from  ^^  „^„,,j  J^.    ^^  f^^  dUmeUt." 

doing  mischief ;  and  we  should  prefer  p.  59. 
penitentiary  ships  of  this  description 
to  |)eniteniiary  houses  of  correction,  ♦ 
very  expensive  and  very  useless  things,  1«9.  ^  Treatise  cf  Calutheidc    ExtreiMeg, 
growing  out  of  the  false    philanlhro-  Arranged  for  the  jnivaU  Tuition  of LaiUs. 
pv  of  the  day.     We  speak  from  facts.  i?y  Signor  Voarino.    Sw.pp.b'S. 
We  have  heard  of  starving  Irishmen  IT  is  certain  that  want  of  sufficient 
thanking  naval  officers  for  impressing  exercise   in  the  school  education  of 
them,  because  they  were  thus  taught  girls,  has  occasioned  spinal  complaints, 
how  to   earn   a   comforaible    subsist-  |>alsies,  deformity,  &c.     At  the  same 
ence;  and  we  sec  no  reasrm  why  bad  time  we  do  not  like   boy-girls,    i.e. 
people  should  not   be   made   of^  ser-  Hoydens.    This  incongrous  character 
vice  to  their  country  as  well  as  good  avoided,  we  think  that  exercise  is  pro- 
ones.     What  an  aio  would  it    be  to  per,  and  twirling  on  a  sling,   manoeu- 
morals,  if  fellows  of  lazy  and  worth-  \ring  a  quarter  staff,  and  the  other  ex- 
less  habits  knew  that  they  thus  ren-  ercises  recommended  by  Signor  Voa- 
'dered    themselves    likely    to    be    im-  rino,    may   introduce     flexibility    of 
pressed.  musclt^,  pliancy  of  arm,    and    other 

^        ~  qualifications  wnich  may  not  only  con- 

198.   The  Grave  of  Human  PhUo^hia,  «*"«  '<>.  ''«''"•'•  •>"'  '""'f  '•«  ?'<»«" 

ancient  and    modem,  or  the    uZerul  "^  """""8  more  easy  and  pleasant. 

System  qf  the  Brahmins  unveiled.    By  ♦ 

R.  de  fiecourt.     Translattd  from    the  130.  Common  Sense  on    Colonial  Slavery , 

French,  with  Additional  Notes,   by    A.  8fc.  %vo,pp.  l\7* 

Dalaas.    8t».;»p.  95.  VV£  ,^^,^14  1,^  gijj  ^^  ^  ^^^  abo- 

THERE  are  certainly  curious  things  lition  of  Slavery,  united  witli  the  pre- 
in  this  Brahminical  System,  and  servation  of  Colonial  Persons  and  Fro- 
many  perhaps  which  may  be  useful  perty :  but  this  is  aii  intemperate  pub- 
to  the  Philosopher.  At  ali  events,  lication  on  a  political  subject.  All 
an  insight  is  given  us  into  the  modes  such  we  hate,  because  we  think  pas- 
by  which  Thales  and  the  ancient  siou  fit  only  for  poetry ;  and  as  we 
Pnilosophers  acquirol  their  astrono-  entertain  no  hope  of  effecting  any 
mical  knowledge.  As  to  the  earth  object,  we  bhall  only  say  that  wc 
itself.  Cut ier  is  the  only  person  tipon  cannot  make  the  Slave  Trade  a  per^e^ 


6ia  RiviEW— i4ppeal  againii  an  Order  ^  BluiiUm.  [xcrii. 


tual  subject  of  discussion  — tadei  noi 
parum  quotidianarum  formarum. 


l3t.  jt  correct  Report  <if  an  Appeal  agtamt 
an  Order  of  Filiation^  heard  at  the  Epi- 
phany Sessioru  at  Nottingham.  8 wo. 
pp.  89. 

A    WOMAN    named    Hannah 
Cooper  was  pregnant  by  one  Francis 
l>ra|)vr ;  but  swore  the  child  to  a  re- 
spectable  surgeon,  who  upon  appeal 
.tatisfaciOrily  established  his  innocence; 
that  is  lo  say.  after  the  expence,  trou- 
hie,  and  anxiety   of  an  appeal.     We 
have  no  hesitation   in   affirming,  that 
the   Bastardy    Laws   in   their    present 
form  encourapie  perjury  and  illicit  in- 
tercourse.   They  stimulate  the  female 
(because  lier  oath  alone  is  sufficient)  to 
draw  respectable  persons  into  a  con- 
nexion with  her,  in  order  to  screen  a 
ftivoured  lover,  or  obtain  an  easy  sub- 
sistence withot  labour.     We    could 
name  a  prostitute  who  nsed  to  watch 
young  gentlemen    upon    their  return 
home  fromdinnerparties,inveigle  them, 
while  warm  with  wine,  into  a  con- 
nexion, menace  them  with  a  bastard, 
and  receive  hush-money  and  a  weekly 
allowance  from  each  successively.  This 
trade  she  carried  on   for  years.     We 
know  that  she  thus  passed  an  indolent 
life.     We  could  mention  other  similar 
cases,  but  think  it  unnecessary,  because 
it  is  so  common  a  thing,  that  in  many 
counties  Magistrates  have  resolved  to 
grant  no  larger  weekly  allowance  for  a 
child  sworn  to  a  gentleman,  than  to  a 
labourer.     The  breeding  woman^t  oalk 
(as  it  has  been*  called)  is  peculiar  to 
England,  but  as  pudore  amisto  omnia 
virtus  amittitur  is  a  just  adage,  impe- 
diments might  be  justly  thrown  into 
-the  abiise  of  it.     A  woman  might  be 
compelled  to  name  in  the  first  instance 
all  the  persons  with  whom  she  had 
had  a  connexion  during  the  period  rc^ 
quisite;  and  such   persons  might  be 
confronted  with  her,  and  thus  nave  a 
means  of  exonerating  themselves  from 
the  consequences  of  her  perjury ;  and 
if  the  real  father  of  the  child  could  not, 
from  her  promiscuous  intercourse,  be 
positively  identified,  such  child  mi^ht 
be  saddled  upon  him  whose  connexion 
with  her  corresponded  the  nearest  with 
the  natural  term  of  her  gestation  and 
delivery;  in  short,  we    are  satisfied 
that  able  lawyers  might  easily  make 
soch    ameliorations    in  the    Bastardy 


Laws,  as  would  tceure  the  accused 
firom  injustice,  and  prevent   pcrjorj. 
As  to  the  latter,  our  belief  is,  that  if 
the  woman  thought  she  would  lost 
every  prospect  of  pecuniary  relief,  ia 
case  or  false  or  incomplete  swearing, 
that  then  she  would  not  commit  tbc 
crime.     We  s|>eak  from  what  we  have 
seen,  under  the  experience  and  know- 
ledge of  such  cases  during;  a  long  resi- 
dence in  the  country;  and  we  solemnly 
believe  that  the  female  peasants  are  so 
regardless  of  chastity  as  they   usually 
are,  because  they  know  that  the  se- 
ducer in   low  lite  must  either  marry 
them  or  be  encumbered  with  a  heavy 
payment   instead.     But   parishes   will 
justly  say,  We  are  not  to  be  obliged  t« 
maintain  all  the  basurds  which  disor- 
derly young  men  arc  pleased  to  get 
Very  true ;  but  the  English  law  says, 
«•  Better  let  ten    guilty  escape,  than 
one  innocent  man  suf!er;**  and  there- 
fore we  say,  that  the  breeding  woman's 
oath  may  be  so  newly  modelled,  and 
the  Act  so  amended,  by  including  the 
measures    named  (or    nerhaps    bciicr 
ones)  in  the  process  and  examinations, 
that  perjury  may  be  rendered  imprac- 
ticable, or,  if  attempted,  be  palpably 
self-evident.     We    nave   thrown    out 
these  observations  as  mere  hints,  upon 
which  our  patriotic  lawyers  and  slates- 
men  may  improve. 

We  have  been  informed,  that  in 
France  a  woman  has  no  redress  from 
law,  on  account  of  irregular  preg- 
nancy; and  that  the  knowledge  of  the 
incumbrance  falling  wholly  upon  the 
women  themselves,  is  a  very  consi- 
derable check  in  prevention  of  bas- 
tardy. 


189.  Review  of  a  Pamphlet,  entitled**!)^ 
claratum  of  the  Catholic  Bishx^,  the  Fir 
cars  /tpustoliCf  and  their  Coadjutors  in 
Great  Britain,'*  Paragraph  by  Paragrafk. 
To  which  is  added,  An  Appeal  to  the  Me- 
man  Catholic  Laity,  who  signed  *'An 
Address  to  their  Proiestmd  Fellow  Qnm- 
trymen  i**  founded  upon  that  Deelaraikm. 
By  the  Rev,  George  ToimMnd,  M,A» 
Prebendary  of  Dnrhaoi,  and  Fiear  of 
NorthAllerton,  Author  of  the  Arrange- 
ment  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments, — 
Accusations  qf  History  against  the  CkurA 
of  Rome, — (Edipus  Romanus,  ifc,  ^. 
8vo.  pp.  1 14. 

WE  should  hnve  just  the  same  opi- 
nion of  an  importation  of  negro  If- 
males,  to  improve  the  beauty  of  otir 
English  breea  of  women,  as  we  shpfikl 


PART  I.]  Retibw. — ^Townsend  on  Roman  Catholicitm. 


«17 

the  sainctiont  and  the  securities,  the  rettric- 
ti(>D8  and  the  veto,  which  the  laity  would 
willingly  hare  conceded.  Thus  have  the 
Laity  uniformly  been  sacrificed  to  their  Priests, 
whose  claims  are. unlimited  as  the  usurpa- 
tions of  the  post;  who  would  never  he  satis- 
fied till  all  has  heen  restored,  as  in  the  years 
of  their  pomp  and  power ;  when  the  deci- 
sion of  theologians  in  their  closets  could 
agitate  the  nations  of  Europe,  and  shake  the 
thrones  of  kings."     pp.109 — 111.  ' 


Pope/*  which  requires  persecution  ^f 
the  Prolesluntt  as  a  duty ;  see  p.  532. 


of  amalgamating  Papislrjr  with  our 
Protestant  construction  ot  liberty  and 
toleration  ;  but  the  subject  is  so  nack- 
nied,  that  we  are  obliged  to  pass  over 
the  elaborate  confutations  of  this  scho- 
lar-like work,  in  order  to  find  room 
'  for  the  following  long  extract  which 
places  the  clock-work  of  Catholic 
Emancipation  in  naked  view,  and  ex- 
posts  the  main-spring. 

**Tlie  Noblemen  and  Gentlemen  who  com-  A  good  commentary  on  this  extract 
^  pose  the  laity  of  the  Church  of  Rome  in     may  be  seen    in   our   Review  of  the 

England,  would  have  retained  possession  of  "Episcopal  Oath  of  Allegiance  to  the 
•  their  seats  in  Parliament^  if  they  had  not     ^        

been  prevented  by  their  Priesthood;  which 

acted  under  the  influence  of  the  hostile  Fo- 
reigner whom  they  acknowledged  the  head 

of  their  church.    Till  the  twelfth  year  of 

Elizabeth,   the   Romish   laity   attended   at 

their  parish  churches.     They  were  satisfied 

with,  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  from 

which  were  merely  omitted  the  doctrines 

which  were  demonstrated  to  have  been  ad- 
ditions to  the  primitive  Christianity ;  and  in 

which  nothing  was  inserted  to  offend  them. 

But  the    Pope    forhade   their  attendance, 

even  after  he  had  proposed  to  sanction  the 

use  of  the  Liturgy,  because  the  Queen  re- 
fused to  acknowledge  his  supremacy.     The 

Romanists  obeyed  the   mandate,  and    the 

Pope  issued  his  bull  to  depose  the  Queen. 

Throughout  her  lung  reign,  one  continued 

plot  was  in  agitation  against  her  life  and 

crown,  and  religion,  conducted  solely  by  the 

influence  of  the  priests.     The  Romish  Laity 


133.  A. Reply  to  Dr.  Lingard's  Vindication, 
in  a  Letter  to  Francis  Jeffray,  Esq.  from 
John  Allen.     800.  pp.  90. 

Mr.  ALLEN  was  the  author  of 
the  two  articles  in  the  Edinburgh  Re- 
view,  which  relate  to  Dr.  Lingard's 
History  of  England.  Or.  Lingard  (we 
find  from  p.  3)  has  insinuated  that  the 
Reviewer  was  influenced  by  personal 
malice  and  prejudice  against  the  writer^ 
as  being  a  Roman  Catholic  priest. 
We  think  n  unnecessary  for  Mr.  Al- 
len to  vindicate  himself,  for  it  must  be 
plain  to  every  man  of  common  sense* 
that  a  Catholic  cannot  write  an  im* 
partial  history  of  a  Protestant  nation. 


either  did  not,  or  they  would  not,  or  they  without  dereliction  of  his  leading  reli- 

could  not,  break  the  yoke,  butMry  charged  gious  principles,  and  that  Dr.  Lmgard 

the  Priesthood  wUh  their  ruin.    To  this  day  gas  ^^red  in  this  latter  respect  no  man 

you   [our  author  is  addressiag  the  Catholic  ^3^  doubt.     In  short,   the  objeciiont 

nohdity  and  gentry]  are  obedient  to   the  ^j^^  ^hich  Dr.  Lingard  has  met  de- 

•ame  command;  you  ^JT Jtill  with  equ.l  j,j^^  ^^.^  frivolous;  to  speak 

justice  accuse  the  Priesthood  with  your  ex-  .     u      u  j  j    .  iV  ^ 

pulsion  frompow«,  »>d  with  th.  je.lou.y  »"''  •«  ^"   endeavoured  to  palliate 

of  the  Government  ud  people.  Your  Prittl-  ^9M&cjt»  of  the  ProlesUnU,  and  lo  ca- 


hood  alone  sanctioned  the  invasion  of  Ireland, 
by  a  foreign  army,  when  the  danger  of  the 
Queen  was  at  its  height.  Your  Priesthood 
alone  prevented  the  union  of  the  people* 
under    the   mildness    of   James,    when   a 


lumniaie  the  founders  of  the  Reforma- 
tion. Be  it  that  it  is  done  in  a  sly  Je- 
suitical way.  It  has  been  detected  and 
exposed ;  and  Dr.  Lingard'a  attempts 
to  vindicate  himself  are  like  those  of  a 


new  xwth  was  proposed  to  the  laity  after     school-boy,  who  having  done  a  wronff 


the  Gunpowder  Plot,  and  when  they  took 
the  oath  with  joy,  till  the  decree  was  re- 
ceived from  Rome,  and  the  discussion  be- 
which  has  never  vet  ceased.    All  the 


thing,  shuffles  and  prevaricates,  and 
tosses  and  flourishes,  and  protests,  &c. 
in  asseveration  of  his  innocence,  against 


gun,  wmcn  has  never  vet  cessea.    aji  ti.e  ^^^  damning  evidence  of  facts.     Mr. 

T71       l?\        A'      "*  'a'  ''''*""  A»^n»  ofcoSrse,  has  an  easy  usk,  f^r  a 

nently  brought  forward  in  every  discussion  ?-                     i-i.    u-     "^  ir  . 

of  thi  great®  question  which  now  divide,  u..  *«='*'"'fi«;«V*"'-r'..''''?  '"""*"^'  '?  '*?,'. 


are  proved  by  one  of  ytmr  own  communion 
to  have  been  solely  occasioned  by  the  Romish 
Priesthood.  Even  within  the  last  thirty 
years,  the  refusal  of  the  GovemYnent  to 
grant  the  indulgence  of  seats  in  Parliament, 
was  in  a  great  measure  owing  to  the  inters 


cute;  and  the  followinjg  extract  will 
show  that  Dr.  Lingara  has  provoked 
the  Critic'sgust  resentment.  It  ap))eart 
that  Dr.  Lmaard  on  many  occasions 
has  suppressed  and  disguiseu  /acts,  and 
added  or  altered  circumstaoCer,  in  or- 


^etfce  qf^lhe  Priesthood;  who  diasvowed     derto  give   a  -fallacious  colourtag  tO 
Obht.  Mao.  Suppl,  XCVILPart  L 


018 


BftVUW.— Dr.  LingariL-^Raman  CalAo/ici.' 


Ixeriu 


treosictions  where  the  credit  of  the  ihovght  requisite  in  \69B  to  hnpott  rt* 

[Catholic]  church,  or  the  honour  of  ttraiou  on  the  Catholics  of  England  ?    To 

Iti  churchmen,    was  concerued.     He  prevent  the  nation  from  relapsing  into  thoeo 

ban  also  intlulged  in  the  inosi  acrimo-  errors — Why  is  it  expedient  to   continiia 

nious  siriciures  on   modern  historians.  ^^°**  restrsinu  at  the  present  time  ?     Fai 

Notwithstanding    this,  the    Reviewer  preciicly  the  same  reason."    P.  16. 
did  not  apply  caustics,  only  adminis-        Now   if  the   Einanci|xition  should  A 


tered  gentle  purgatives,  but 

"  Never  was  a  work  hegiui  and  ended  in 
charity  more  ungraciously  received  by  the 
person  in  whose  favour  it  was  written.  I 
Bad  praised  Dr.  Lingard,  in  my  judgment, 
to  the  full  extent  of  bis  roeriu.  I  had^a- 
jtoned  highly ;  but  the  dish,  it  seems,  was 
not  peppered  enough  to  please  his  palate 


withdraw  a  serious  imijedhneni  from 
the  dissemination  of  Popery  in  a  PrOf 
testant  country  (connected  as  Protest* 
antisni  is  with  its  liberty  and  pros- 
perity), the  advocate  for  such  a  mea- 
sure can  only  be  regarded,  in  abstract 
reason,  as  a  fool  or  a  madniRn  ;  and  if 
a  ukan  is  not  mentis  compos^  he  ought 


He  was  indignant,  as  it  appeared,  that  1  had  not  to  be  voli  compos,  because  he  can 

written  what  ho  called  a  laboured  cuIo«ium  ^e^r  no  security  from  incalculable  mis- 

on  Hume  ;  and  what  seemed  to  have  offend-  ^kUf 
ed  him  the  most,  J  had  ventured  tn  examine 


chief. 


into  his  accuracy  and  fidelity  as  an  historian. 
That  he  should  be  alarmed  at  such  an  exa- 
mination, 1  can  easily  understand ;  but  on 
what  pretence  he  should  he  ofiFeoded  with  it> 
I  am  at  a  loes  to  compi^hend.  Historians, 
like  others,  are  liable  to  error.     No  one 


186.  A  Malvern  Tale,  tvith  other  Poems, 
By    Hugh    Stuart    Boyd,    Esq.     ISmo. 
pp,  94, 

TWO  young  women  went  to  pass  a 

,  .     . !_  .  1       rfc       pleasurable  hour  on  Malvern  Hill,  and 

has  treated  with  less  ceremony   than   Dr.     ^.^.^  ^^^^^^  j^^j  .      lightniniL.     Mr, 
JUngard  his  predecessors  iq  the  walk  of  lite-     t>«,„i   u.,.  ..,..:,.„«  ,L^  Sc  »u 

u|)on  the  sad   event,   not,  it    seems, 

•  The  cream  of  the  jest  is,  that  Dr.  without  censure,  for  a  religions  cox- 

Lingard  ha>  taken  from  Caverac  the  comb  (very  soon  we  shall  not  be  able 

account  of  the  St.  Bartholomew  mas-  to  crack  a  nut  without  a  profane  intro- 

sacre,  without  ever  knowing  the  works  duction  of  the  holy  name  of  religion) 

to  which  the  Abb^  had  referred,  and  objected  that  he  had  sent  the  young 

committed   the  egregious   blunder  of  ladies   to   Heaven,   without  knowinji^ 

classing  among  Hugonot  writers  the  any  thing  of  their  spiritual  state.     In 

President  de  Thou,  an  Archbishop  of  all  such  cases  (says  Tomline),  we  are 

Paris,    and    an    ex-Jesuit,    noted    in  to  leave  the  deceased  to  the  uncove- 

France  for  the  fury  and  virulence  of  named  mercies  of  God. — The  second 

his  orthodoxy,     pp.  11,  12.  story  refers  to  a  youth,  who,  being  vio* 

lenily  in  love,  went  abroad  to  get  rid 

1S4.  Br.  Lingard's  Postscript   to  Mr.  of  the  disease,  returned  and  found  C 


Aclbn's  Reply  would  require  us  to  enter 
into  a  tedious  investigation  of  quotations, 
which  would  be  utterly  uninteresting  to  our 
readers,  who  cannot  be  persuaded  tnat  th« 
Siassacre  of  St.  Bartholomew's  took  place 
vacoonived  at  (at  least)  by  the  French 
Court. 


185.  ^few  Oiservations  elicited  from  the 
perusai  of  a  Letter  in  support  of  the  poli- 
iical  Claims  qfthe  Romau  CathoUcstJrom 


was  very  probable,  because  he  kept 
his  love  a  secret,)  his  fair  one  married 
to  another. 

Some  minor  poems  are  added. 

187.  j4  Selection  from  the  Papers  of  Addi- 
son t»  the  Spectator  and  Guar^am,  fif 
the  use  qf  young  Persons,  By  the  Re»» 
£.  Berens,  M,  A,     12nio.  pp,  809. 

SOME  author  (we  believe   Blair) 

lord  Nugent  to  the  Rev,  StrGeo.  Lee,  has  mentioned  the  great  improvement 

MarL    By  a  Graduate  of  Christ  Church,  effected  in  its  day  by  the  publication  of 

Oxford.    Bvo,  pp.23.  the  Spectator.    Changes  of  the  tiroes, 

OUR  author  asks  the  following  per-  and  temporary  allusions,  render  the  pe- 

tinent  questions,  which,  as  the  sub*  rusal  of  the  whole  at  the  present  day 

ject  it  exhautted,  we  shall   introduce  rather   uninteresting,    and   to   young 

without  prefaee ;  people  utterly  needless.    The  teriou» 

••Why  WW  the  Stnart  family  dfivwifmm  ppers  of  Addison  will,  however,  mi 

the  thvone  of  these  realim  ?     That  thit  &1^  periods  be  vahiable  leetiires  ■pim 

«ini«m -might  avoul  tho  errors,  and  €icap#  the  permanent  subject-s  of  rehgion  arNi 

icon  the  tynnny  of  Popery. — Why  was  it  mOf^ ;  and  the  seiection  it  mm^  jto* 


XAiT  !•]    RfivtBW.-^Rolui»oik*t  8(tmum.^^Diihkt  Ittfimmui.  610 

<|iciou»ly  made  by  Mr.  Berens.     Bat  UUhmmd  tf  li^rmarUs  tn  vpiculttM 

we  shall  mention  t  collateral  benefit.  DiMtncU,    London,  1 819. 

It  is  the  possible  acaoiiition  of  the  ele-  WE  most  heartily  wish   that  thi^ 

gant  diction  of  Addison,  a  style  well  excellent  plan  of  forming  district  In- 

.  worthy  of  the  closest  sturly,  because  it  firmariea  in  brge  and  populous  bun* 

is  the  most  fit  of  ony  for  all  purposes;  dreds  was  carried  into  execution.    No- 

from  epistolary  plainness  to  historical  thing  can  be  more  shocking  than  the 

dignity.     Styles  of  a  loftier  character  present  system.     Every  medical  advcn- 

are,  in  point  of  fact,  formed  of  prose,  turer  when  he  first  settles  in  the  coun- 

embellished  with  the  essential  consti-  try,  like  Michael  Ordonnez,  thinking 

tuents  of  poetry,  and  are  in  their  very  to  get  rich  by  managing  the  aflairs  of' 

nature  i)eculiarities  appropriated  to  cer-  the  poor,  offers  himself  to  the  overseers 

tain  authors,  not  models   for  general  of  surrounding  parishes  at  lower  terms 

imit:ition.     For  instance,   who  could  than  his  predecessors,  to  f.trm  the  pau- 

transfer   the    manner    of  Gibbon    to  pers,  is   accepted,  and  almost  always  * 

other   writings;    but   that  of  Hume,  provides  them  with  worthless  drugs, 

which  is  culled  the  French  style,  and  and  partial  attendance, 

ia  of  the  same  character  as  that  of  Ad*  The  plan  before  us  proposes  to  rent 

dison,  is  one  of  universal  application.  rooms  or  houses,  and  convert  them  into 

^  district  Infirmaries  for  the  poor  within 

^  distances  of  seven  miles,  to  be  support-* 

188.    The  Glory  of  the  Church  in  its  fxten-  ed  by  voluntary  and  parochial  subscrip- 

.  tion  to  Heathen  Latubt  a  Sermon  preached  tions ;  donors  and  honorary  subscribe 


mnday.  May  11,   18*0.     By  Thonm,  ,i^^.              -^^^  „i,hi„  ,hree  miles. 

.  Kobinson,   31.  A.  domestic   Chaplain  t6  .^,  ^        L          i^L.i*                   j       1 

the  laU  lard  Buhop  rf  CJcuti.     8«,.  =*''  ^'v  '^>°"''  '^"  ''''V"'«'  *"     ?."* 

p„32,  exceeding  sevfii  niiin,4(.4i.  aiinnally. 

kf      i>/-\ntvTonvT     I     I    I.-  Everv  dittrict  Infirmiry  «o  formed 

Mr.  ROBINSON  pleads  his  cause  ^„„,j  {^  ,,,,,  ^^  concemraie  .11  the 

eloquently  and  ably,  and  refutes  the  ^^j^j    ^,,„,    „f   j^e   circumjacent 

calumny,  that  Providence  equally  re-  country,  and  pay  liberally  for  it.  and 


-    .  ,       ,  '."^fif"  of  paup^ism   more   particularly  calls 

count  of  the  service  rendered  by  he  fo,»7Jh    institutions:     Even  In   the 

-Society  for  the   Propagation  of  the  ^^^  ,^^,,  agricultural  counties  in  Eng- 

Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts.  ,^„j^  Herefordshire  and  Bedfordshii?, 

"More  than  m  century  has  eUpted  since  the  increase  of  annual  expenditure,  cm 

iU  first  iDcorporation ;  and  during  the  whole  account  of  paupers,  is  as  follows.     In 

of  that  period  her  labours  have  been  wisely  Herefordshire-— 

aiid  zealously  directed  to  tha  spiritual  wtnu        j^^g      i     ,735^     i     ,803.     I     1815. 
of  the  vast  cuntineot  of  America.     The  ^g      3^      X^^^^l    48,06?/.     59,256/. 
fruits  of  her  care  and  zeal  are  teen  in  the  '  ^       »      j  k*  »      '     1     ^» 
episcopal  churches  of  that  interestiug  coun-         It'  Bedfordshire- 
try,  whose  suted  and  regular  clergy  were  16,663/.  |  26,977/*  |  38,071/*  |  50,370/, 
originally  her  mmionaries,  as  those  in  the         ^^  ^  ^j^^„,^^  j^,j^r  ^f  ihc  gentry, 
remam.Dg  British  dom.n.on.  of  Canada  and  ^j^         3^^  medical  practilionen  of  the 
Nova  Scotia  are  to  this  day.       P.  94.  ^^^^JS  ^^  ^^^^j^.,^  \^  ^^^^^  jj.^^j. 

Mr.  Robinson  then  speaks  o^  the  bution  and  inquiry  on  this  subject^ 

extension  of  their  services  to  India,  they  state: 

and  of  the  excellent  measures  which         ..^ny  small  town  or  considerable  Tillag. 

they  have  taken.     Eveiy  friend  of  ra-  ^  ^^^  j^j^^^^^  ^,,^^  ^.      ^        ;*, 

Uoiial  piely  will  wish  theiu  the  fullest  p,^if,onen  in  the  district,  will  be  en  eli- 

success.  g'^l^  situation  for  an  Infirmary )  and  10,00€^ 

#  mhabitanta  will  yield  generally,  in  agriciil- 

189.  ObseroatMm  m  the  prevailing  Prac-  tural  districtt,  «000  persons  proper  to  bor 

-Mce  of  supplying  medieml  jissiaanee  U  come  subscribers.    This  would  produce  aa 

Me  PooTy  commonly  called  the  Farmis^  ^  income  of  760i,  v«  iMi»»>y*J»^^»w»'.^^«»^ 

Pam*ff ;  vM,  Suggttiwu  fvt  Of  «fCtt.  idA)i4  »00\,  \3»  «»  Y«»\)it%  ^«^^  V*V. 


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0fO 


RiTiBW.— Ldffon  Ahheffj^-On  ih$  Com  Lam.  \xcrtu 


At  the  imte  of  S/.  for  erery  hundred  of  their 
population  ;  a  sum  not  more  than  they  on 
an  average  now  pay,  where  extras  are  not 
included  in  the  contract,  with  an  occasional 
law-suit,  or  other  expences,  for  the  removal 
of  a  sick  pauper.  From  this  10502.  950/. 
would  be  required  for  drugs,  rent,  wine, 
collectors,  and  secretaries  per  centage,  and 
the  ren^aining  8002.  may  be  divided  among 
the  surgeons  for  their  services." 


140.  A  short  AccouTit  of  Leistoo  Abbry, 
tvith  descriptive  and  illustrative  Verses, 
8t«o.  pp,  44. 

LEISTON  is  in  the  county  of  Suf- 
folk, about  four  miles  from  Aldeburgh, 
and  five  from  Dunwich.  The  manor, 
at  the  lime  of  the  Domesday  survey, 
>vas  held  by  Rob.  de  Malet,  but  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  I.  was  forfeited,  through 
adherence  of  the  head  of  that  family  to 
Rob.  Curthose.  Henry  II.  granted  it 
to  the  celebrated  justiciary  Ranulph  de 
Glanville,  who  in  1182  founded  here 
a  small  Premonstratensian  canonry. 
This  first  abbey  flourished  about  one 
hundred  and  eighty  years,  and  having 
received  considerable  additions  of  pro- 
perty, was  refounded,  with  the  accom- 
paniment of  a  new  edifice,  in  1363,  by 
Kob.  de  Uflbrd,  Earl  of  Sufifolk,  in  a 
more  healthy  situaiioti,  about  a  mile 
from  the  old  site.  This  new  house 
was  burnt  down  about  1389,  and  re- 
built a  third  time,  by  whom  is  not 
known.    These  are  the  present  ruins. 


and  stand  in  an  inclosed  conntry  about 
four  miles  from  Saxmundham.  Part 
of  the  church  crypts  and  offices  re- 
main. The  former  appears  to  have 
.  been  a  handsome  building,  decorated 
with  ornaments,  formed  by  an  iuter- 
mixtare  of  black  squared  flints  and 
freestone.  In  the  walls  are  many  an- 
cient bricks  or  wall-tiles,  and  a  small 
tower,  entirely  of  brfck,  apparently 
built  about  the  time  of  Henry  Vll. 
Some  ornaments  on  this  tower  appear 
to  have  been  formed  in  moulds.  A 
subterraneous  passage,  said  to  commu* 
iiicate  with  rramlingham  Castle,  is 
also  shown.  The  editor  doubts  this  ; 
but  no  fact  is  better  established  than 
the  existence  of  subterraneous  passages 
for  escape  or  private  introduction,  as 
eircumstances  might  require. 
•  The  account  before  us  is  neatly  and 
satisfactorily  compiled.  According  to  a 
view  in  the  Antiquarian  Itinerary,  vol.  I. 
the  ruins  more  rc«cmb\e  ihc»to^  at  «^v 
de  (hun  an  abbey.  A  lowei  \s  lYvt  cVvwi 


feature,  and  the  masses  seem  to  group 
well.  To  the  work  before  os  are  an- 
nexed some  beautiful  lines  by  Bernard 
Barton,  but  the  severity  of  principles 
inculcated  by  the  amiable  and  philan- 
thropical  sect  to  which  he  belongs,  has 
evidently  cramped  the  expatiation  of 
his  Muse.  He  is  afraid  to  indul^  at 
length  in  sentiment  and  beauty  arising 
from  the  grand  efiect  of  the  rich  ma- 
chinery of  ancient  Catholic  worship; 
and  when  he  should  take  fine  Biehis, 
for  which  his  genius  well  qualifies 
him,  he  pulls  the  curb,  and  sermon- 
izes upon  toleration  and  prayer.  This 
disheartens  us,  as  to  Quakers  ever  mak- 
ing perfect  poets,  at  least  profane  ones. 
It  might  be  as  easy  to  make  them 
dancing- masters.  We  do  not  know 
whether  they  ever  grant  dispensations, 
as  the  Popes  did.  If  so,  we  hope  that 
they  will  grant  one  to  Bernard  Barton, 
so  that  he  may  separate  the  poet  from 
the  religionist.  . 


141.  Thoughts  on  the  Policy  of  the  pro- 
posed Alteration  of  the  Com  Loks,  8m. 
pp.  61. 

ACCORDING  to  our  experience, 
the  supply  and  prices  of  agricultural 
commodities  have  entirely  depended 
upon  seasons.  For  instance,  when 
there  is  a  great  quantity  of  winter  keep, 
live  stock  is  augmented,  and  butcher's 
meat  falls  in  the  ensuing  spring;  if 
winter  keep  be  short,  live  stock  is  di- 
minished, and  meat  rises  in  price.  As 
to  corn  crops,  we  could  demonstrate 
that  when  wheat  was  so  low  that  the 
ports  were  closed,  it  did  not  -advance 
m  price.  A  Corn-bill  we  have  found 
a  term,,  used  together  with  Parliamen- 
tary Reform,  as  a  watch-word  of  dtsaf- 
*fection  ;  and  we  think  that  the  demand 
iind  supply  are  so  dependent  upon  eir- 
cumstances, not  under  any  controul, 
that  such  circumstances  may  produce 
results  not  to  be  anticipated  ny  any 
person.  Cheapness  nas  the  aspect  of 
a  good  thing,  but  if  it  tends  to  dimi- 
nish production,  then  the  diminution 
creates  dearness  ;  and  if  this  be  met  by 
importation,  then  there  is  a  check  im- 
posed further  upon  production,  till  it  it 
lost  to  the  country  entirely.  We  like 
the  old  doctrine  of  letting  "  trade  alone  ** 
as  much  as  possible,  and  to  prevent 
fluctuation  of  prices  in  articles  depend- 
ant upon  seasons,  we  believe  tg  be  im- 


FAKT  I.] 


Miicdtaneous  Retiews, 


631 


14«.  No  Popery  a  An  Appeal  to  the  Pro- 
tetUmts  of  EDglftDd,  defeated  to  Lord 
Eltlon,  By  an  English  ProUslant  not  in 
Office.     8tx>.  pp.  40. 

THIS  is  a  Jesuitical  Pamphlet  with 
a  masked  title,  to  invite  perusal  by  the 
friends  of  Protestant  ascendancy,  in 
order  to  weaken  their  ohjeciiunt.  It 
holds  out  that  there  can  be  no  danger 
in  Catholic  Emanci))aiion,  because 
under  powerful  opposition  the  Reform- 
ation triumphed.  Had  such  triumph 
been  the  pure  unsupported  effect  of 
the  cause,  the  argument  would  have 
been  just.  The  fact  is,  the  power  of 
Henry  the  Eighth  and  Edward  the 
Sixth  nursed  the  infant  Reformation, 
but  Mary  had  nearly  destroyed  it,  and 
would  certainly  have  effected  her  pur- 
pose under  a  longer  life.  Elizabeth 
restored  it,  and  by  means  of  a  protract^ 
ed  reign  established  it.  Political  power, 
therefore,  was  the  worldly  agent  of 
success. 

143.  A  very  good  selection,  though  by 
no  means  so  perfect  as  it  ought  to  be,  of 
the  beauties  discoverable  iu  the  prose  pro- 
ductions of  the  immortal  Milton,  has  b««o 
lately  published  under  the  title  of  th« 
**  Poetry  of  Miltoiis  Prose;**  and  is  ac- 
companied by  a  tolerably  well-written  essay. 
In  one  of  the  notes  attached  to  this  the 
writer  displays  great  ignorance  of  the  style 
of  writing  in  vogue  at  the  period  in  which 
our  patriot  lived  :  considering  the  many 
lenteuces,  which  obscure  the  various  gems, 
as  almost  peculiar  to  himself;  and  attribu^ 
iog  them,  much  to  our  surprise,  to  a  pro- 
fciund  study  of  the  beauties  of  the  ancient 
Authors ! 

We  however  recommend  the  work  as  one 
well  calculated  to  give  the  juvenile  reader 
an  impetus  to  the  severe  study  and  exami- 
nation of  the  whole  of  our  Author's  laboured, 
intricate,  but  sublime  e£Fusions. 

144.  Storia  of  Chivalry  and  Romance 
are  but  the  efforts  of  a  feeble  pen — a  gene- 
ral want  of  interest  both  in  the  subjects  and 
the  mode  of  treating  them,  produces  ao  ir- 
resistible languor  in  the  rrader,  which  no 
flashes  of  the  spirit  of  the  olden  time  occur 
to  relieve.  '*  Tbeage  of  Chivaliy"  is  not 
ao  far  **  gone*'  but  that  its  romantic  enthu- 
siasm and  its  devoud  sincerity,  procure  for 
it  our  admiration  and  respect ;  but  it  re- 
quires some  portion  of  it.«  own  temper  to  do 
justice  to  its  heroic  enterprises.  The  at- 
tempt before  ns  is  well  meant,  but  it  is 
feeble  and  inefficient. 


145.  Senex  may  take  to  himself  credit 


for  bis  translation    of  the  Psalms :  some  of 
which  are  spirited,  and  all  pleasing. 

146.  Mr.  Maude's  Memorial  prores  thai 
he  has  many  poetical  ideas,  and  skill  in  ex- 
pressmg  them. 

147.  Mr.  Knowlks's  Plain  Statement  of 
the  Evidences  of  Christianity  promises  to 
be  a  very  useful  School-book. 

148,  The  Anti-Slavery  Monthly  Reporter 
(No.  18.)  exhibits  cases  of  cruelty  wbidh 
ought  not  to  be  permitted  in  the  treatment 
of  Colonial  Slaves. — No.  22  of  the  same 
work  would  transifer  our  Trade  from  the 
West  to  the  East  Indies;  and  treats  the 
Colonists  even  with  personal  hatred.  Nov, 
if  the  West  Indies  were  resigned  to- 
morrow. Slavery  would  still  exist  in  other 
countries  ;  those  countries  would  patronize 
the  deserted  colonies ;  our  shipping  trade  to 
supply  foreigners  with  colonial  produce 
would  be  lost.  Slaves  could  still  be  import- 
ed to  the  islands,  and  the  ultra- Abolition- 
ists would  still  recommend  us  **  to  cut  off 
our  noses  to  be  revenged  of  our  faces." 

149.  The  Calinet  Lmvyer  is  a  Tery  able 
compendium,  and  promises  to  be  of  consi- 
derable utility. 

160.  Mr.  Bridoes's  Poem  of  Protestant 
and  Catholic  well  pourtrays  the  civil  evila 
of  the  latter.  The  Scene  in  SwitzerUnd 
contains  some  excellent  descriptive  lines. 

151.  The  Poetical  Illuttrations  qf  Pas^ 
sages  of  Scripture t  by  Emily  Taylor,  may 
gratify  religious  readers. 

1 52.  We  can  conscientiously  recommend 
the  Rev.  Alexander  Stewart's  History 
of  Scotland,  as  a  School-book  of  great  merit. 

153*  The  WrUer'sand  Student's  Assist- 
antt  or  a  CompemHous  Dictionary^  b  very 
useful  to  prevent  repetition  of  the  same 
words  in  composition,  and  introduce  pre- 
cision.   

154.  Mr.  Russel's  Modem  Arithmetic  is 
well  calculated  to  save  the  Instructor  much 
time  In  the  examination  of  Sums. 

155.  Mr.  Mac  Henry's  Syrwnimes  qfthe 
Spanish  Language,  the  Author  being  a  Na- 
tive, is  eminently  useful  to  students. 

1 56.  Mr.  Peitrm an's  Treatise  upon  Latin  - 
Ohnposition  contains  many  valuable  rules^ 
and  is  otherwise  well  written, 

157.  M.  Viseland's  «  complete  course  of 
study  for  Englishmen  to  obtain  the.  French 
Language  at  home"  may  be  studied  with 
great  i«ivtiitai|2b« 


.     [     0tt     ]  [&CVfft 

LITERARY    AND    SCIENTIFIC   INTELLIGENCE. 


Royal  Society  of  Litiraturi.  I. — A  Continaation  of  *'  Memoirs  oftht 

.^      T^    .      n         1^     r»                   .    !_.  IntmductioH  of  Greek  Literature  inio  Eng' 

Tlie  Right  Rev.  the  President,  in  his  i^^nd  after   the   Dark  Aees:*      By   P.    K. 

Annual  Address,  aavcrted  to  the  successful  TYTLER.^sq.  H.A.  R.S.L      Thit   portioii 

labours  of  Dr.  Young,  an  Honorary  Mem-  of   Mr.  fytler's   Manuscript   eomprisea   s 

bcr  of  this  Society,  and  other  learned  indi-  p.^  of  the  Life  of  Thomas  Lynacre,  viz.  t 

yiduals,  in  dccyphenng  the  Egyptian  Hiero-  tu  Education   at  Oxford;    h'ts  btudiea   ia 

jlyphics.     He  noticed  the  proposed  Publi-  lu|y,   under  Polilian  and  Chalcocoodylesi 

jation  of  a  Translation  of  tlie  bacrcd  and  his  appointment  to  be  Physician  to  Henry 

Historical  Books  of  Ceylon  j   and  the  ex-  ^he  Seventh,  and  the  Princess  Mary,  and 

istence.  at  this  time,   in   this  country,  of  ^ne   of  the  Tutors  of  Arthur,    Prince    of 

numerous  MSb.  of  the   Budhoo   Rehgion  Wales;  his  Translation  of  ««  the  Sphere" 

and  Literature,  which  have  been  transferred  of  p„,clus  ;  the  publication  of  hia  Work, 

to  this  country  by  the  event  of  the  Burmese  entitl<;d,  «*  De  Emcndati  Structur4  Launi 

War;  and  he  spoke  of  the  beneBcial  conse-  Sermouis,"    and  of  the    "Rudiments   of 

quences  to  Literature,  likely  to  result  from  Laijn    Grammar."    written    in  English.— 

a  systematic  course  of  inquiry  after  mcJited  Read  May  3rd,  lS2f>. 

remains  of  Classical  Writers.  II.— On  an  'inscription  in  (he  Ionic  Dia^ 


are  about  to  be  published  by  anthority.  pre-  u  engraven  in  four  lines,  from  right  to  left, 

tent   another  encouraging  example   of  .he  upon  the  bronze  figure  of  a  dying  liare,  is  as 

bappy  results  of  industrv,  m  the  investiga-  ^^„^^,  ^  __^^^  AnOA.\nNI  TQI  U?U 

tion    of    unexamined    Manuscript    stores.  _,,,,,  ...  .v^^^,. 

Among  these  may  be  instanced  Letters  and  "^"^  ^  ANE0HKEN  HOAISTmN. 

other  remains  of  Cranmer,  and  some  addi-  Colonel  Leake  considers  nPIHAHI    (tb» 

tjonal  Latin  State  Letters  of  Milton ;     be-  only  word  that  presents  any  difficulty),  at 

sides  tlie  Treatise  de  Doctrini  Chiistianft,  the  Ionic  dative  of  nPIHNETi:,  with  the 

attributed  to  the  latter.  .     .  ^     .  additional  ionism,  of  N  converted  into  A. 

To  a  continuation  of  his  inquiry  into  the  •       -v  j  /. 

authenticity  of  that  Treatise,  which  formed  "  »^  ^Xsy/^w^  and  Xirpof  for  rnvfA^  and 

one  of  the  topics  of  the  Discourse  ilelivered  nrpov,  kindred  Attic.     He   remark*,  that 

^t  tbe  last  Anniversary,  the  President  de-  tome  of  the  public  inscriptions  fonnd  ar 

vtitcdthe  remainder  of  his  Address;  it  being  Priene,  are  in  the  JEuVic  or  Doric  dialect ; 

his  Lordship's  ojiinion,  that,  whilst  this  So-  which  appears  singular,  asPrtene  was  a  eitr 

i|iety  is  bound  to  promote  every  authentic  of  Ionia ;  and  be  accounts  for  the  singuk- 

tiitcrary  Discovery,  it  ought  not,  without  rity  by  suppAsing  that,  upon  some  fiartictilar 

the  moat  satisfactory  evidence,  derived  from  occasion,  the  Prienenses,  in  part  a  H<sot'iav 

a  scrupulous  examination,   to  sanction  the  colony,    renewed   the  memory  of  tliat  de* 

ascribing  of  any  Manuscripts  to  those  great  scent,  by  laying  aside  the  Ionic  form,  and 

Writers,  who  have  impressed  a  character  assuming  the  i£olic,  ra  their  pnblic  acti. 

iwoa  tbe  Literature  of  their  age  and  country.  The  most  probable  occasion  was  on  the  libe* 

His  Lordship  exemplified  the   necessity  of  ration  of  the  Greek  cities  of  Asia  by  Alex-* 

t^is  caution  by  additional  objections  to  tbe  ander  the  Great ;  and  the  change  of  dialect 

authenticity  of  the   Treatise  De  Doctrinft  may  have  Been  intended  as  a  eompliment  to 

(^hristian&,  in  evidence  of  the  foreign  orlgm  the  conqueror,  who,  as  a  Macedonian,  wae 

of  the  Work.  of  >£olic  origin.     Hephaestion,  a  lover  pf 

The  two   Gold  Medals   for  the  present  the  chase,  appears  to  have  dedicated  thie 

Year  were  adjudged  to  Sir  Walter  Scott,  elegant  emblem  of  his  favourite  recreation 

Uart.  '*  for  his  IlTuscrations  of  the  Manners,  to  ihe  patron  god  of  hunters ;  and  ahhowK 
Ai^tiqulties,  and   History  of  Scotland,    in'  we  have  no  account  of  a  Temple  of  .''IpoUa 

many  Works  of  pre-eminent  genius^  both  in  at  Priene,  yet  it  is  highly  probable,  that  one 

Kerse  and  prose,  particularly  tbe  \sdy  of  the  of  the   buildings,    remains  of  which   are 

Lake,    and  Waverley;"    and    to    Hober*^  found  among  the  ruins,  was  dedicated  to 

8outhey>  esq.  LL.D.  Poet  Laureat,  <*  Au-  lliat  deity;    who  is  expressl^  said,  in  the 

thor  of  the  History  of  Brazil,  and  of  several  hymn  to  Apollo  by  Homer,  to  have  taken 

•tlier  distloguisbed  Works  in  English  Lite-  delight  in  Mount  Mycale,  upon  which  Priene 

ERture."  ia  built. — Read  Mai/  I7lh,  1896. 

Tlie  following  is  a  Synopsis  of  the  Papers         III. — **  On  some  Egyptian  Monuments  in 

which  have  been  read  at  toe  ordioary  meet*  the  British  Museum  and  other  CoUections/* 

10^  5/oce  the  last  Report -.  '  ^1   ^^  "Kx^i  >Swtt.»  CiVk.w^\XA  Yorkc* 


rART  i«]  Pr^eidit^s  of  Royal  Sociity  of  Literainra.  M3 

M.RS.L.  and  W.  M.  LcAKB,  Ml).  M  R.S.L.  em  Me  Eastern  Origin  tf  tetmal  Fietieh»i 

This  Paper  consitts  of  descriptions  and  ex-  popular  in  different  Language*  of  Europe,^* 

planatioQfl  of  several  drawings  of  the  finest  By  Mr   W.  Ouskley,    knt.    R.  A.R.S.  L. 

works  of  Egyptian    Art    in   England,    in«  Tlie  former  part  of   this    Paper  relates  to 

tended  to  facilitate  the  important  study  of  several  fabulous  anecdotes  respectiae  Alex- 

tbe    Hieroglyphics.     In  an  Appendix    are  ander  the  Great,  commonly  supposed  to  Ym 

suhjoined  extracts  from    two   Letters,   ad-  of  Eastern  invention,  but  assigned  by  tha 

dressed    to    the    Rev.  G.   A.    Browne,  of  writer  chiefly  to  Julius  Valerius,  author  of 

Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  by  M.  Cham-  the  **  Res   Geat£e   Alexandri   Macedonis/* 

p<illion,  u)ion  the  subject  of  the   drawing  In  the  latter  part^  Sir  W.  Ouseley  reclaim^ 

(No.  14),  representing   the  Cover  of  tlie  in  favour  of  Eastern  writers,  the  invention 

Sarcophagus  of  RamesesMeiamoun,  brought  of  several  popular  fictions,  such  as  Pope's 

from  Thebes,  and  presented  to  that  Uni-  «  Jauuary  and  May,*'    Boccacio's  fourth 

versity  by  BeUooi.    The    Appendix    also  Story,  Pamell's  *<  Hermit,"  the  Story  of 

contains  eight  inedittd  Greek  in«cri])tions,  <'  Santon   Harsisa,"   various  Tales   in   thft 

copied  in  Egypt,  by  Mr.  W.  fiankes,   Mr.  Gesu  Romanorum,  &c.  and  others  which 

Salt,  Mr.  Henry  iLewis,  and  t!)e  late  Mr.  have  hitherto  been  supposed  to  be  of  £u- 

Cooke,  together  with  some  remaiks  upon  ropeaa  origin. — Read  Nov,  Iblh,  1899. 
thenj.  VII. — "  On  a  Poem  recenliy  pitMixhedat 

IV.— -Portions  of  a  manuscript,  entitled,  Paris,  by  M,  Crapeiet,  in  the  jlppendix  to 

"  Remarks  on  Brut   Tysitio,    a  Fabulous  On  Edition  of  the  Correspondence  If  Henry 

Chronicle,  erroneously  attributed  to  a  British  FlU**    By  Sharok  Turner,   eaq.    R.A. 

Prince  of  the  Seventh  Century,  and  printed  R.S.L.    By  coroparinz  this  Poem  with  wM 

in  the  second  volume  of  the  Myrvyrian  Arch'  extract  quoted  by  M.  Meteren,  in  the  Uis- 

dedagy  of  Wales  "    By  the  Rev.  Edward  toire  des  Pays  Bas,  and  alluded  to  by  Bur- 

]>AViEt,  R  A.R.S.L.— i2«a{/«/u7ie9l5f,  oncf  net,  Mr   Turner  concludes  that  it  is  the 

November  \sl,  1896.  long    lost   narrative    written    by    Crispin^ 

V. — **  Observations  on  the  First  Line  qf  Bishop  of  Miherye,  who  was  resident   In 

the    Iliad."     By    Granville   Penh,  esq.  London  at  the  period, of  the  execution  of 

M.R.S.L.    The  writer  remarks  that,  while  Anne  Boleyn.     fhis  narrative  states  tome 

the  modem    commentators    upon    Homer  curious  new  historical  facts ;  and  is  valua- 

labour,  without  effect,  to  reduce  this  cele*  ble  in  consequence  of  having  been  written 

biated  verse  within  metrical  rules,  we  know  immediately  after  tho  events  it  descriliesy' 

firom  the  authority  of  Plutarch,  that  it  was  and  from  being  the  work  of  an  imfiartid 

anciently  held  to  be  peculiar  as  a/utirpof,  foreigner,  of  high  rank  and  ability. — Read 

or  *  excedens  mensuram,*  as  Henry  Stephens  -Oec.  6th,  1 B96, 

renders  the  word.    The  object  of  this  Paper         VIII  — "  Indication  of  an  Insititums  Latin 

is,  to  inquire  how  the  Greeks,  or  rather  the  '«^  «'»  '*«  Hellenistic  Greek,  inveterate^ 

Poet  himself,  enunciated  the  line  ;  In  which  mutakenfor  a  genuine  Greek  fTord."     tSjf 

inquiry  Mr.  Pcnn   takes   for  his  guide  an  Granville  Penn,   esq.    M.R.S.L.      Tae 

observation    of   Plutarch,    in    the    Ninth  term  referred  to  is  iXctKno'Sf  which  occurs  in 

Book  of  the  "  Symposiacs,"  that  the  first  St.  Peter's  account  of  the  suicide  of  Judas, 

line  of  the    Iliad  is  equisyUahic  with  the  i^  jhc  AcU  of  the  AposUes  :       Upnsng 

^^^l^^^^'^'t^'^^'^'^'-^^til^m"*  y^foiJ^i^    iXaxfirs    p<ro^     Eng.  Trans, 

the  Ihad  IS  With  the  last  hue  of  the  Odyssey,  l^j;"       headlong  he  burst  asunder  in  tka 

Accordingly,  the  last  hue  of  each  Poem  >s  ^^^^In  St.  MaUhew's  Gospel,  tlie  word 
found  to  consMt  of  exactly  sixteen  syllables;  .  ^  ,  .      '        r 

but  while  the  number  expressed,  by  the  or-  ««**  ^  '"PJ^f  **»•  "°*«  ^^  "  •'^f*", 
dinary  enunciation,  in  the  first  line  of  the         «f  '^^w*  htmseff, 
Iliad,  gives  sixteen  sylUbles,  the  first  line        The    wnter   contends,   that  iXax«i<ri  it 

of  the  Odyssey  contains  seventeen  syllables.  »<>*>  »•  !»•»  generally  been  supposed,  de- 

^f  r.  Penn  suggesU  that  tlie  Poet,  in  the  rived  from  the  same  theme,  as  Xatxt,  iXaxi, 

first  Hoe  of  the  IHad,  paused  at  the  penthe^  Xclkm,  &c.  found,  in  classical  writers,  wikk 

numer,  closing  with  the  address,  6ia ;  and  the  signification  of  wnare,  sonitum  da^ep 

renewed  the  arsis  on  the  following  syllable*,  cum  strepitu  rumpi,  &c.  but  that  it  is  an 

The  line  would  then  be  read—  inflection  of  X»xftf ,  a  rendering,  in  Greek 

u,-*  a  I  «>?,  el  I  a-n,-Xir|— loJirr  '•»""•  »f  «l>«  I*t»»«'«> /<>,»»  u,  ImUer, 

~  u  or  ensnare;  used,  hke  many  Latm  verbs,. 

M  A^x^  i  X^^i-  ia  the  active  voice,  but  with  »  passhre  of 

,         ...  .  ^  reflective  sense,  i.  e.  laaueatut  est,  or  lamue^ 

Insteid  of  the  usual  form—  ^         ^  ^^  ^.    And,  by  furtW  adverting  to  the 

|i9i»7r  oMit  &!»  Iln— -XnVa^  A'x*^^*(«  peculiar  nsauner  in  which  the  uaitor  appeare 

p0^  U»«mJ^pr  ^Ml.^tto^i  ^  ^"^    accomplUhed  his  death,  vii.  hf 

Bead  Sfrnftmier  Ist,  1896.  throwing  himself  yieadlong  froa»  a  gsei* 

Vlr-««  (^tervaHanM  an  some  fxfraswB-  heigl|«>  ""^  being  suddenly  caught  inid««^ 

nvy  Jiieedotes  mneemifig  MeMmdMr;  md  (pw^)  •  t*»  «««•»  >»i  ^KW^^aaX 


(S^  Proceedings  of  Royal  Society  of  LUeraiure-  [xctii«. 

periphrutic  Unguige  of  St.  Peter,  and  the  •  Memoir  Dublithed  in  the  TransactioiM  of 

single  expression  of  St.  Matthew,   may  be  the  Royal  Society  of  Edmburgh,   U  oooai- 

reconciled,  as  identically  descriptive  of  the  dered  at  greater  length.     In  thia  theory, 

tame  act.— /2ead  Dec.  iOlh,  1826.  the  vitrification  is  ascribed  t«  corobustiim} 

either  in  consequence  of  the  Forts  havij^ 

IX. — "  Extracts  from    Manuscripts  re-  J^^n  used  as  the  positions  of  fire-beacont, 

lative  to  English  History."     By   the  Rev.  or  from  tlieir  having  been  set  fire  to  by  aa 

T.  D.  FosBROKE,  H.A.  R  S.L.    This  Paper  enemy. 

contained  the  following  Articles,  viz.  The  theory,  respecting  the  conatmctioB 

1.    Matters  relating  to   the  University  of  of  these  Forts,  which  Dr.  Jamieson  adopU, 

Oxford— From  the  Cotton  MSS.  in  the  "  *»»»*  of  intentional  vitrification,  by  igni- 

British  Museum-Faustina,  C.  VII.  tion  kept  up,  for  a  long  time,  in  a  wall  ori- 

9.    Girioiis  Custom  connected  with  the  Law  g»n»"y  formed  of  timber  and  loose  stones, 

ofGavelkind.— HarleianMSS.,No.l609.  ir.txed  together    for  that   purpose.      This 

3.  Specimens  of  Natuial  History,  among  theory  has  been  supported  by  several  Anti- 
our  Ancestors.— Cotton  MSS.,  Cleopatra,  quanes.  Dr.  J.,  m  confirmation  of  it,  eivts 
jQ   j^  an  account  of  an  examination  ntade  by  hioi- 

4.  Matters  reUting  to  the  Ancient  Peer-  ««lf»  o(  two  of  the  most  remarkable  speet- 

g;e.  — Cotton    MSS.,    Titus,    D.  xxi.  mens  of  the  Vitrified  Forts,  vix,  that  caUed 

eralds'  Certificate  concerning  the  as-  ^^^  Castle-Hill  of  Finhaven,  and  another 

sumption   of  the   Arms  of  England  by  w^en  or  eight  miles  east  of  Dunde*.  on  owi 

Maiy  Queen  of  Scou.— /i-id.  ?! **^«  collections  of  hilU  called  «« the  Uws. 

6.    The  Graces  at  Meals,  real  or  pretended,  These  appear  to  have  been  both  links  of.a 

in    use   among   the   PuriUns.— Harleian  wg^ijar  chain  of  ForU,  constructed  appa- 

MSS.,  No.  bSi.^Read  Jan.  3rd,  1827.  'f  *  ▼  ^<>'  fire-beacons,  by  which,  m  om 

of  the  approach  of  an  enemy,   the  whole 

X.— «  On  the  Portland  Fase."    By  Jas.  district  might  be  alarmed.— /2ca<i  Feb,  tlU 

MiLLiNOEN,  esq.  R.A.R.S.L.     The  object  and  March  7th,  1897> 
of  this  Memoir  is,  to  determine  the  Story         XII. — **  A  Description  of  the  ChartailaTy 

represented  on  this  celebrated  Monument  of  of  Ftaxley  Abbey,  in  the  County  of  Gbm- 

ancientart.    By  the  Antiquaries  who  first  cester"     By  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,   bart. 

announced  its  discovery,  in  the  sixteenth  M.R.S.L.    The    Document    referred    to, 

century,  it  was  supposed  to  represent  the  which  was  exhibited  to  the  Meeting,  b  in 

Birth   of  Alexander  the  Great.     A  subse-  the  form  of  a  roll.     It  was  unkoowii  to 

qnent  opinion  was,  that  the  subject  related  Dugdale,  Tanner,  and  the  Editors  ni  the 

to  the  judgment  of  Paris  ;  a  third,  that  it  New Monasticon ;  having  been rccentlydia- 

contained  the  Story  of  Orpheus  and  Eury-  covered  v  among  the  private  deeds  of  Tbos. 

dice.     Winckelroann,    however,  and  other  Wynniatt,  esq.  of  Stanton,  Gloucestershire, 

eminent  Archaeologists,   think  that  it  re-  It  contains  an  account  of  the  Rents  pay- 

{ presents  the  Marriage  of  Thetis  and   Pe-  able  to  the  Abbey ;    of  the    privileges  of 
eus  :  to  this  last  opinion  Mr.  Millingen  the  Abbey,  granted  by  Popes  Celestine  IIL 
accedes,  and  illustrates  it  by  various  argu-  and  Alexander  III. ;    together  with  aCatar 
ments   and  a   critical   examination   of  the  logue  (one  of  the  oldest  of  the  kind  extant} 
sculptures.     Other  ancient  Monuments,  he  of  the  Abbey  Library, 
observes,  since  discovered,  confirm  this  ex-         llie  Chartulary  of  the  Abbey  of  Flaxley. 
planation,  and  afford  us  all  the  certainty  of  appears  to  have  been  written  in  the  reign  of 
which  such  inquiries  are  susceptible.     Mr.  King  John. — Read  March  2\st,   1897. 
Millingen  assigns  the  Portland  Vase  to  the         XIII. — **  Tramcript  of  a  Manuscript  re- 
age  of  the  Antonines,  or  at  the  earliest  to  lating  to  Henry  the  Pijlh  of  Engiand,  fff 
that  of  Hadrian  — Read  Feb.  7th,  1 827.  served  in  the  King's  Library  at  Paris  $  witk 
XI. — '*  A  Memoir  on  the  Fitrified  Forts  prefatory    and  supplementary  Notes'^     By 
of  Scotland."    By  the  Rev. 'J.  Jamieson,  J.G.Smith,  M.D.  M.R.SX.    This  Do- 
DX).  R.A.R.S.L.     To  accouut  for  the  pre-  cument  was  among  the  materials  which  Dr. 
sent  appearance  of  these  Structures,  which  Smith  had  collected  for  a  History  of  the 
are  peculiar  to  Scotland,  four  different  the-  Battle  of  Agincourt ;  an  undertaking  which 
ories  have  been  conceived.  he  has  been  induced  to  abandon.     It  is  thus, 
The  first  theory,  published  in  the  Edin-  described    in    the    '*  Biblioth^ue    de    l> 
hurgh  Magazine,  in   the  year   1787,   viz.  France: — **  Factum  du  Sieur  de  Gaueaurit. 
that   they  were  formed  by  pouring  liquid  contre  Louis,  Seigneur  d'Estouteviiie,  o^Uy* 
mortar  between  two  walls  of  loose  stones,  a  plusieurs  choses  curieuses  sur  la  battaitit 
Dr.  J.  regards  as  merely  a  vague  conjecture,  d'Azincour,    De  Gaucoiyt  was  among  the 
founded  on  vulgar  tradition.    For  the  second  persons  of  consequence  taken  prisbiier*  •t'^ 
theory,  viz.   tliat   these  Forts  are  the  re-  the  surrender  of  Harfieur.     The  MS.  ia  a 
mains  pf  Volcanoes,  which  idea  originated,  memorial,  addressed  to  the  Court   of  Rev. 
with  Pennant,  he  shows  that  there  is  oo  quests  at  Paris,  which  accuses  the  K?h|^  or 
foundation  is  their  actual  appearance.    The  England  of  a  breach  of  promisor  in  JuKP|^ 
tbii;d,  proposed  by  Lord  >No()dhoQMV(e,m.  detained  De  Gancourt  a  prisoocrJiiJBiif-^ 


PAIT  i.] 


JLUeratute  and  Science. 


1125 


liady  ftfter  th«  ponetiial  ptrfonnaBce,  on  bif  * 
pMt»  at  great  trouUe  mm!  txpentCy  of  the. 
conditioiia  of  bis  liberation,  vnich  bad  been 
named  by  Heniy  bimtelf.    He  atatei,  that 
bo  did  not    recover  bis  liberty  until  after 
tbe  King's  decease— nor  then,  without  tbft 
payment  of  a  ransom  of  10,000  crowns,  be- 
sides tbe  fulfilment  of  tbe  original  condi- 
tions.—/?««/  jlprii  4lhf  1897. 

Society  of  Arts. 
•  •/icne4.  The  ceremony  of  the  distribn-^ 
tion  of  premiums  by  bis  FLoyal  Highness  the 
Duke  or  Sussex,  adjudged  by  the  Society 
of  Arts,  Manufactures,  &c.  took  place  at  the 
King's  Theatre,  and  attracted  an  immense 
concoorse  of  spectators.  Among  the  ho- 
norary candidates,  C.  C.  Western,  Esq. 
&T.  P.  obtained  a  gold  medal  for  his  long 
Anglo-meriao  wool.  One  of  the  most  in- 
teresting of  the  models  exhibited  was  the 
very  ingenious  invention  of  Mr.  Paine,  for 
lighting  the  clocks  of  churches.  Mr. 
Faine  explained  to  the  company  tbe  priwci- 
/  pie  by  wnii'h  the  ingenious  operation  of  db- 
playing  and  extinguishing  the  light  is  per* 
ibrmed  at  any  given  hours.  Tbe  clock  of 
St.  Giles's  church  is  at  present  illuminated 
on  Mr.  Paine's  principle.  Mr.  Paine  ob- 
tained for  his  performance  a  silver  medal. 
Medals  were  awarded  to  i^S  candidates. 

Literary  Property. 
A  short  time  since.  Lord  Palmerston 
moved  for  a  return  of  the  number  of  literary 
works  and  books  of  prints,  entered  at  Sta- 
tioners'-hall  in  each  year  previous  to  tbe 
1st  March,  1709  ;  and  also  of  those  entered 
hi  each  year  from  tbe  1  st  March,  1 709, 
to  the  3 1st  of  December,  1896,  in- 
clusive. There  are  no  books  in  exist- 
ence by  which  it  can  be  ascertained  what 
number  of  works  was  entered  previously  to 
1709;  but  a  return  has  been  made  of  tbe 
number  entered  from  that  period  up  to  the 
end  of  1 896.  This  document  is  interesting 
in  showing  tbe  vast  increase  of  publications 
within  the  last  fiew  years.  The  number  of 
works  entered  at  Sutioners'-ball  in  1 709 
was  87.  In  the  three  next  yean  the  nnm- 
-  her  was  somewhat  above  1 00 1  but  from  that 
period  down  to  1766  tbe  average  yearly 
number  was  not  50.  From  that  time  tbe 
number  went  on  slowly  increasing  till  to- 
wards tbe  close  of  the  last  centory,  when, 
perhaps  owing  to  the  great  political  ex- 
.eitement  and  tbe  spirit  of  inquiry  which  pre- 
vailed, the  number  of  works  entered  yearly 
augmented  lome  huAdreds.  At  the  com- 
inencement  of  the  present  centory  the  num- 
ber of  publications  seemed  to  have  decreased, 
mnd  the  yearly  average  continued  to  about 
800  down  to  1814,  when  it  amounted  to 
541.  In  the  next  year  (owing  to  Lord  £1- 
lenhorough's  new  and  strange  confirmation 
of  the  Copyright  Act)  tbe  number  Was  more 
than  doubled,  it  being   1,944.     From  that 

Gent.  Mag.  Suj>pL  XCVII.  Part  1. 


period' to  1896   (when  there  w«re  1,181. 
books  entered)  the  number  has  never  been 
under  1000.    Tbe  lowest  number  ever  en- 
tered was  17  (in  1739  and  1784),  and  the 
liigbest  1,454  (in  1899).    Music  forms  an- 
iiemintbe  above  account,  but  no  books 
containing  prints  only,  or  single  priBts,have  • 
been  entered  at  Statiooers'-ball. 

Mr.  Weitmacott's  Pictured. 

June  93.  The  cabinet  collection  of  C. 
M.  Westmacott,  Esq.,  was  brought  to  the 
hammer,  by  Mr.  Phillips.  A  fine  portrait 
of «  David  Garrick,"  by  Sir  Joshua  Rey- 
nolds, painted  m  the  very  best  style  of  that 
artist,  excited  much  interest :  it  was  knocked 
down  at  19  guineas.  <*  A  Madonna  and 
Child,"  by  Luini,  brought  90  guiney.  <*  A 
Flemish  party  regaling,"'  by  Molinaar,  lO 
ffuineas.  **  Tbe  Sacrifice  to  Silenus,"  a 
nne  specimen  of  Coypel,  splendidly  coloured, 
90  guineas.  '*  Landscape,"  by  Berghem, 
1 R  05.  6d,  «  The  Annunciation  of  tbe 
Virgin,"  a  chef  tfcntvre  of  Guido,  a  grand 
gallery  picture,  formerly  in  the  collection  of 
uie  Duehess  of  Alva,  lOO  guineas.  "  The 
Death  of  the  Virgin,"  by  the  same  artist 
and  from  the  same  collection,  4*0  guineas. 
«  Embarkation  on  the  Rhine,"  a  fine  high- 
ly finished  picture  by  Battams,  80  guineas. 
"  A  Bacchanalian  rrocession,"  by  Traneis 
Wouters,  90  guineas.  *<  A  Portrait  of 
Milton  at  the  age  of  45,"  by  R.  Walker, 
stated  to  have  come  oat  of  the  house  in 
Bread-street,  Cheapside,  where  MiltOn  was 
bom,  pus  up  at  10s.  6</.;  and  was  knocked 
down  at  only  655.  *'  The  Personification 
of  St.  Barbe  and  St.  Catharine,"  an  elabo- 
rately finished  and  richly  coKmred  picture 
by  Van  Eyck,  sold  for  I9l.  Bs,  6d,  '*  St. 
Mark  studying  tbe  Scriptures,"  fay  Spagno- 
letti,  10  guineas.  **  A  Portrait  ofVan<^ke, 
with  a  Sunflower,"  painted  by  Vandyke  him- 
self, 9 1  guineas. 

Sale  of  Fuseli's  Pictures  avd  Sketcbei. 

Mr.  Christie  disposed  of  the  finished  and 
unfinished  works  of  this  eminent  artist^ 
whose  &me  is  Indelibly  identified  with  the 
ffenius  and  works  of  Milton,  at  his  rooms 
May  98.  The  lots  were  97  :  among  which 
were  93  of  the  original  paintings  of  the 
Milton  gallery,  and  designs  firom  Homer, 
Hesiod,  Shakspeare,  Dante,  and  a  few 
historiod  compositions.  The  prices  they 
brought  were  in  general  good.  A  picture 
of«  Silence,"  from  Milton's  '  Jl  Penseroto,' 
sold  for  109  guineas.  A  large  oil  pabting 
of  the  *<  Deluge,  and  the  last  surviving 
Pair,"  was  Iniocked  down  for  39  guineas  t 
"  Eripliyle  slain  bv  her  son,  who  is  pursued 
by  the  Furies  ,"  the  colouring  so  vivid  that 
it  setms  touched  by  a  pencil  of  light,  50 
guineas ;  . "  A  Vision  of  Sea  Nymphs,"  51 
guineas  ;  <*  Dante,  in  his  descent  to  Hell, 
discoveripg  amidst  the  flight  of  baplesf 
lovers,  whirled  abfOt^^  vgl  ^Vsaxi>s»atA^  "^^^ 
forma  ol  ^%o\o  %«A  '^t^anssvifcTfc  ^\^ia»!d\V 


m6 


lAUrctkTt  md  Sdmei. 


E^CTII. 


«tato  6,  M  gulmu;  tlie  **  Birth  of  Sby 

riginj;  from  (he  huui  of  SmhI)"  90  gt. ; 
«  Maecioff  of  Hero  and  Leender,"  18 
gttiseet ;"  "  Lore  hi  the  Garden,"  16  gt. ; 
**  Hercules  MaatUtliig  Pluto,'*  81  guineas  ; 
**  Venus  reclioing,  and  her  Son,  the  prince 
of  flods  and  nMn,  winding  thread,"  36  gs. ; 
"  Satan  bursting  from  Qiaos,"  10  guineas; 
and  **  Perseus  starting  from  the  Cave  of  the 
€h»gons,"  SB  guineas. 

Sali  of  thi  Duki  07  BaoroRD's  Pictures. 
June  80.  A  select  assembbge  of  44, 
ohieflj  highly  finished,  Flemish  and  Dutch 
oabinet  pictures,  the  property  of  the  Duke 
«f  Bedford,  and  removed  to  town  from  his 
Chrace's  mansion,  Woburn  Abbeji  were  sold 
bj  Mr.  Christie,  who  stated  that  his  Grace's 
reason  for  dwposing  of  these  pictures  was  to 
make  room  in  his  mansion  for  works  by  liv- 
lag  Artists.  Among  the  Duke's  collection 
were  specimens  of  Teniers,  Sehklone,  Curp, 
Sahrator  Rosa,  Hans  Holbein,  Both,  Ru- 
htas,  Titian,  the  Poussins,  Claude,  Rem- 
bfandc,  and  Ruysdael.  **  A  Landscape," 
by  Cuyp,  describing  an  extensive  scene,  in- 
lersoersed  with  villages,  which  was  so  much 
adnured  in  the  collection  ofM.  Rigby ;  Cuyp 
has  represented  himself  drawing  this  delight- 
iiil  scene;  it  broiwht  570  guineas.  "A 
Burgomaster  and  his  Family  going  out 
Hawking,"  bj  Paul  Potter,  sold  for  400 
gwaeas.  «  An  Evening  Landscape,  with  a 
Chroap  of  Peasants,"  by  J.  Both,  1.S9  gs. 
"  A  Brown  Horse  in  a  Suble,"  by  A. 
C^7P>  70  guineas.  Two  pictures,  oompa- 
mons,  of  rocky  scenery  and  a  woody  soli- 
tude, with  figures  in  each,  by  Salvator  Rosa, 
96  guineas.  «  A  Portrait  of  Sir  Thomas 
More,  invested  with  the  Collar  of  the  Gar- 
ter," by  Holbein.  Upon  a  pedestal  is  in* 
seribed  the  date,  mdxxvii.  :  this  sold  for 
70  guineas.  <*  The  interior  of  a  Dutch 
Kitchen,"  by  Von  Suviren,  86  guineas.  A 
small  "  Holv  Family,  with  the  infrntChrUt 
instructing  St.  John  b  the  Scriptures,"  by 
fichidone,  86  guineas ;  and  "A  Woman 
tedUng  her  ChiW,"  by  D.  Teniers,  16 
gwncas. 

8au  or  HiBRiw,  Arabic,  Persig,  ako 
Turkish  Manuscripts,  8tc. 
A  curious  and  Interesting  collection  of 
Hebrew,  Arabic,  Persic,  and  Turkish  books 
(printed  and  manuscript]  was  lately  brought 
to  sale  by  Mr.  Evans,  of  PiJl-mall.  It 
contained  Hebrew  manuscripts  of  the  Penta- 
teuch and  Bible;  a  fine  manuscript  of 
the  «'  Passover  Service,"  in  Hebrew ;  se- 
rmtX  missals,  and  a  varietv  of  Hebrew  books, 
iaduding  the  «  Codex  talmudicus  Baby- 
kmicus  Hebraice,"  (a  fine  copy,  printed  at 
Amsterdam  in  1727)  and  the  «  Raph  Al- 
phoa,"  by  the  learned  Rabbi  Isaac  Elphys ; 
*lio  a  manuscript  copv  of  "The  Arabian 
Ji^tt'EntertainmenU,'^'  in  Arabic;  and  the 
^•Itbrated  Bedouin  Romance,  called  ♦«  An- 


tBTt^fai  86  vohnoes.  Amoiy  tlw  thooltagiGBl 
worka  in  this  collection  ^waa  a  manaarript 
treatise  of  BbhopPocock,  onUtM,  ««  Ye 
Rmiie  of  Christian  Relmi,"Y«ryfBbl7nd 
legibly  written  upon  veUom«  contsurinK  t9t 
leavae.  '  It  was  eonjeetured  fay  Lewis,  la  hii 
<«  Lid  of  the  Bishop,"  to  have  bean  writtCB 
in  the  year  1467 :  but  firom  aphraae  ia  tha 
body  of  the  manuscript  (sopposad  to  hare 
been  in  the  bishop's  own  hand-writtng)  it 
appears  to  have  been  written  m  1 448 ;  the 
btshop  (one  of  the  earliest  of  the  fiogllsh 
refimners,  who  denied  the  ia&llibifity  olthe 
ehvroh,)  leaves  out  the  dadantioa  ef 
"  Christ's  Descent  mto  Hell."  This  cnridvs 
work  was  purchased  at  ten  gnineas  by  Mr. 
Thorpe,  the  bookseller,  who  gav*  641.  ts.  fbr 
«*  BibliaSaera  Hebiaici,"  a  fine  naauscriBt  ef 
the  19th  century,  written  npow  ▼oUnm,  la  a 
hurge  bold  square  character,  ia  threo  co- 
lumns on  each  pase ;  containing,  besides  tha 
whole  of  the  books  of  the  Old  Taetamanr, 
the  Masorah,  and  enriched  with  vciy  ewioas 
oabalistical  illuminatbns.  It  waa  writtsa 
b^  the  celebrated  Spanish  Rabbi,  Davkl 
Kimchi,  of  whom  particular  mention  is  awde 
in  the  «  Bibliothaca  Suseexiana."  Mr. 
Thorpe  also  gave  10/.  lOs.  for  **Peatalea- 
ehos  Hebraice,"  an  ancient  oMaaacript  roU» 
written  on  African  skins  uiafine  boU  sqaaio 
character,  without  points  or  margiaal  aotes» 
consisting  of  820  colnmas,  42  linee  in  each 
column,  measuring  60  feet  in  lei^th,  and 
three  fret  m  width.  Aoother  trmnscrmc  of 
the  "Hebrew Pentateuch,"  upon  TeUuB» 
written  in  verjr  small  characters— «  fine  spe- 
cimen of  Hebrew  calligraphy,  on  a  roll, 
oinsisting  of  948  cohunns,  42  lines  in  a 
column,  sold  for  9/.  ]4j.  The  "Passover 
Service,"  in  Hebrew,  with  the  eommcnla- 
riee  of  Abarbanell,  a  modery  laannsrript^ 
beautifully  written  upon  vellum»  ocntainrng 
112  pages,  each  psffe  endrded  by  a  bonier 
of  gold,  omsmented  with  nnmeroos  iUu- 
minations,  10/.  I0«. ;  purchased  by  Mr. 
Pettigrew.  «  Historia  Esthers  et  Xhasue- 
ri,"  a  manuscript  upon  vellum,  sold  for 
i/.  I0«.  A  "  MsgelJa,"  or  HUtoiy  of  Esy 
ther,  in  Hebrew,  a  roll  manuscript,  upon 
parchment,  W.  84.  "  Codex  Talmudicus 
Bab^lonicus  Hebraic^,"  14  vols,  folio  m  the 
origmal binding,  7i«  "Ralph  Alphoa,  an 
elucidation  of  tbe  entire  Babylonian  Talmud, 
8  vols,  in  Hebrew,  5/.  6s. ;  purchased  by 
Mr.PeUigrew.  «  Lechem  Misaeh  Heb- 
raice b  folio,  prmted  at  Amsterdam  in  1682, 
U  8s.  «  Shadath  Sitzchock,  or  the  Biadr 
ing  of  Isaac,"  a  commentary  on  the  Penu> 
touch,  in  Hebrew,  by  Isaac  Orau>,  printed 
at  Vienna  m  1562,  one  guinea.  ««  Aatar," 
the  celebrated  Bedouin  romance,  in  36  vols. 
(damaged),  6/.  A  manuscript  copy  of  the 
"  Arabian  Nights' £utertainBents,''m  Ara- 
bic, i2s.  «  Moullakat,  or  the  GoMea 
Poems  suspended  in  the  Temple  of  Meoca»** 
in  Arabic,  two  guineas.     "  Waaeoloo,"  a^ 


PAftT  i.] 


UUenUwre  and 


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AraUe  and  Torimfa  fXetUmAry,  S  voU.  m 
feUo,  priattd  alt  ConiUatbopIe*  8/.  lOf. 
««  Peniaa  TaUi/'  a  largt  folio  voUiim  S/. 
1ft.  «  Burhari  Cate«**  a  P^nian  awl  Turkr 
Uh  Dictionaiy,  in  folio,  t^  17«.  '<  Camooty 
or  tbe  Ooeao,"  an  Arabic  Dicttooaiy^  tiaaa- 
-latod  Into  Turkish,  8  vols,  iblio,  AL  64. 
^'  Lekdji,"  a  Turkiah  Dictionary  priBted  U 
Coiutaii(iiiopiey«i.l6c.  «  Atlas  Tnrcicua/' 
•  Torkiah  Atlai>  with  hiatorical  and  no- 
Ijraphical  defcriptaons,  in  the  Toncith 
latignago,  ft  Fivo  iott,  dompritins  all  the 
Historiet  of  the  Turkbh  empire  hitherto 
poblifbed,  and  printed  at  Constantinople, 
71.  U.  <*  Tadj  Mewareekh,**  acelehratod 
Turkish  history,  in  the  Turkish  langoace 
(numuscript)  19s.  A  mannacripe  of  the 
Turkish  ronanoes  and  stories,  in  the  Turk- 
ish language,  2  vols,  one  guinea.  "  Story  of 
the  For^  Viiiers"  (the  original  of  the  Turkr 
ish  Tales)  ^  a  manuscript,  in  the  Turkish  lan« 
gnage,  16«. 

Collection  or  AuTOORAraf . 

jimil  97.  In  a  sale,  by  Mr.Southgate,  of 
a  collection  belonging  to  Capt.  M.SherwiU, 
were  some  rery  interesting  autographs,  and 
original  letters.  An  autograph  oi  James, 
the  Pretender,  was  sold  forSl.  10s. ;  an  ori- 
jgtnal  letter  from  Oliver  Cromwell  to  bis 
dauffhter  Bridget  (Lndy  Ireton),  of  the  date 
of  Oct.  115,  1646,  produced  5Ll5s.  6d.; 
a  letter  in  the  haod*writbg  of  James  II.  to 
hh  son,  dated  from  Windsor,  July  18,1687, 
brought  8l.  8s.)  an  original  Jetter  from 
Mary,  the  mother  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots, 
to  George,  Prince  of  Denmark,  8l.  15s. ;  a 
sheet,  from  the  copy-book  of  his  present 
Majes^,  when  Prince  of  Wales,  in  the  18th 
year  of  his  age,  signed  *'  George  P.,"  June 
t,  1775,  41. 14s.  6d.  Great  competition 
was  excited  for  this.  Autographs  of  Wm. 
Fitt,  Charles  J.  Fox,  Lord  Grer,  &e.  SL  5s. ; 
a  ticket  for  the  funeral  of  William  Fitt, 
signed  «<  I.  Heard,  Garter,"  ll.  IIs.6d.; 
an  original  letter  of  Algernon  Sydney,  dated 
Frankfort,  Sept.  8,  1660,  addressed  to  hie 
&ther,  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  on  the  suljcct 
of  a  legacy  of  5001.  left  to  him  by  his  mo- 
ther, 3l.  17s.  6d.  I  an  autograph  of  Sir  P. 
Sidney,  of  the  date  of  1574,  tl.  15s.;  an 
original  letter  from  Gen.  Washington  to 
Robert  Carev  and  Co.,  merchants,  in  Lon- 
don, dated  Williamsburgh,  June  I,  1774,  a 


frw  months  only  bcfioM  htt  appointment  to 
the  command  of  the  American  annies.  In 
which  he  statee,  thai  the  general  fiulwre  of 
his  wheat  crops  had  prevented  his  remit- 
ting the  account  doe.  Thia  was  knocked 
down  at  5l.  1 5s.  6d.,  after  much  competition. 

Drawing  Instromint. 

Profinsor  Schilling,  of  Breslan,  has  in- 
vented an  instrument,  by  the  aid  of  which 
plants  can  be  copied  roost  correctly  from 
nature,  even  those  which  sgre  so  small  as  to 
be  examined  by  naturalists  through  the  mi- 
eroecope.  This  instrument  is  similar  In  its 
construction  to  a  magic  lantern;  and  by 
the  means  of  an  attaehni  mirror,  the  Image 
of  the  magnified  object  it  thrown  upon  a  ho- 
rixontal  paper  surface,  where  it  admits  of 
bemg  copied  easy  and  accurately. 

Rafid  Convbtancr. 

His  Majesty's  Letters  Patent  (savs  thi 
Brighton  journal)  have  been  granted  for  the 
Invention  of  Machinery  for<  the  lapid  coi^ 
veyance  of  Goods  and  Passengers  bv  Air^ 
with  calculations  and  remarks,  tendwg  to 
prove  the  practicability,  effects,  and  advantn- 
ges  of  a  plan  for  rapid  conveyance  of  goods 
and  passengers  upon  an  Iron  Road  through 
a  tube  of  thirty  ftet  in  area,  by  the  power 
and  velocity  of  air,  by  G.  Medhurst*  Invent- 
or and  Patentee,  Denmark-strsei,  Sohq, 
London. — By  this  mode  of  conveyance,  it  as 
said,  passengers  may  be  convejed  to  a  greet 
distance  through  the  country,  with  ease  and 
great  safety,  at  the  rate  of  a  mile  in  a  mi- 
nuto,  or  50  miles  per  hour  upon  an  avet- 
age,  and  at  the  expense  of  one  fitfthing  p«r 
mile.— All  kinds  of  portable  goods  may  be 
conveyed  with  the  same  velocity,  at  the  e»- 
pe noe  of  one  penny  per  ton  per  mile.-— The 
conveyance  cannot  be  obstiiicted  by  frost, 
snow,  floods,  or  drought,  nor  endan^nred  k^ 
robbery,  by  darkness,  or  the  weather.— -Np 
lock  or  other  obstructions  will  be  leqnired  an 
the  passage,  for  the  force  of  the  impelling 
.air  will  be  sufficient  to  gain  an  ascent  of  100 
feet  in  a  mile  continually. — ^Artillery,  troops, 
.baggage,  and  stores,  may  be  conveyed  with 
the  same  rapidity,  safety,  certainty,  and  ex- 
pense, and  live  cattle  wUl  be  enabled  to  pass 
through  ihe  country  without  labour,  and 
at  a  very  small  expense  lor  carriage  or  food. 


ANTIQUARIAN 

Society  of  Scottish  Antiqoariu. 

At  the  last  meeting  of  this  Society  for 
the  session,  various  donations  were  presented 
to  the  Society,  and,  among  others,  1.  A. 
very  curious  relic,  in  the  highest  preeerva- 
iioQ,  presumed  to  have  been  a  Peruvian 
]ady*e  work-basbet,  with  its  contents,  which 
were  found  undei  a  cairn  of  stones,  on  the 
ehorie  of  Peniy  borM  in  fine  sand ;  which 


RESEARCHES. 

was  supposed  to  be  the  sepalchre  of  a  na- 
tive family  of  distinction  at  an  early  period. 
Bv  Captain  John  Ferguson,  R.  N.— 8.  One 
of  the  cnttmg  presses  used  in  forming  the 
silver  into  its  proper  shape,  previous  to  its 
being  stampedT,  wnich  belonged  to  the  old 
Mint  of  Scotland ;  and  the  engine  used  ha 
virrmg  the  Adgee  of  the  silver  coin  Jn.  the 
same  nunt.    By  Mr.  Alex.  Deochaait  moA^ 


€9B                                ^Aniiqvarian  Restarchet.                            [xcvn. 

•ngnver  to  dis  Mijetly  in  Scotland.— «.  armoar.  Hit  Lordakip  gsvs  18  gniaeM  fir 
A  very  perfiMt  reddish  browQ  earthen  Tate,  a  tuit  of  fluted  and  enmved  polbhed  tftMl 
eleven  and  a  half  inches  high ;  diameter  at  armour,  of  the  time  of  Henir  VlILi  4<.  18s. 
top,  outside,  ten  mches,  and  at  bottom  finr  a  suit  of  Halecret  Fnocn  arBoar  of  die 
three  and  a  half  inches — found,  with  several  same  thne ;  and  52.  for  a  suic  of  polished 
others,  near  the  Dean  by  Stockbridge,  Edin-  steel  armour  of  the  time  of  Queen  Eliia- 
burgh,  in  1824.  It  is  nearly  full  of  human  beth.  A  suit  of  steel  armour,  of  ttie  tiae 
bones  and  mould,  as  when  discovered ;  and  of  Henry  VH.  was  sold  for  SL  17e.  Four 
contains  also  a  curious  bone>  or  instrument  other  suite  of  polished  steel  armour,  of  the 
mMdt  from  bone,  at  present  undescrihed.  time  of  Henry  VIII.  (some  of  them  «ngFa«» 
By  Mr.  Auriul  Drummood  Hay. — Mr.  Hay  ed  and  fluted)  were  sold  for  19f  17f^ 
notified  at  the  same  time  that  he  had  been  6/.  7^.  6d ,  SL  105.,  and  Bl.  2s.  each.  A 
prevented  by  illness  alone,  from  preparing  snit  of  Pikeman's  armour  of  the  time  of 
for  presentation  that  nidit,  with  a  slight  James  I.  was  purchased  at  8L  by  th«  £arl  of 
description  of  each,  and  some  account  of  Meatb,  who  also  gave  three  guineas  for  a 
the  several  circumstances  of  thfir  discovery,  suit  of  Cavalier's  armour  of  the  timt  of 
about  thirty  more  ancient  vases,  which  he  Charles  I.  A  curious  suit  of  polished  stsel 
had  collected  in  France  and  England,  dur-  armour  for  a  lady,  was  sold  at  Si.  &s.  A 
ing  several  years  past.  The  thanks  of  the  curious  Asiatic  suit  of  chain  ma*f  and  leale 
Society  were  voted  to  the  respective  donors ;  armour,  gilt  and  inlaid  with  oriental  ebarae- 
after  which  the  following  papers  were  read :  tern,  brought  seven  guineas.  Another  sait 
— 1.  Notice  of  a  singular  and  apparently  of  chain  mail,  used  by  the  crusaders,  was 
very  ancient  coin,  found  in  the  Caitle-hill  knocked  down  at  two  guineaa.  There  wera 
of  Dundee,  in  1809,  with  a  sketch  of  the  a  great  variety  of  lances,  halberds,  battle- 
history  of  the  fortress  which  once  occupied  axes,  ^d  other  weapons  of  war,  besides 
that  eminence.  By  Richard  Huie,  Esq.  numy  articles  of  great  curioeitT  and  iatereet* 
M  J>.  F.S.S.A.  who  presented  the  coin  to  Several  croM-bows,  called  latches,  with 
the  Society. — 9.  Mr.  Waring  Hay,  F.S.S.A.  moulinets  and  goat's  foot  levers,  &c.  sold  at 
exhibited  to  the  Society  passports  from  Ge-  various  sums  from  one  guinea  to  81.  St. 
neral  Monk,  Charles  II.  and  the  Didce  of  Two  prod  cross-bows,  med  for  shootaag 
Lauderdale,  to  the  Newtons,  of  Newton  ;  bullets,  sold  at  1  /.  5i.  each.  Among  a  va- 
and  an  order  issued  by  the  Highland  army  riety  of  swords  were  three  two-handed  ones, 
in  1 745,  for  horses,  arms,  &c.  from  several  used  by  the  German  in&ntry  in  the  time  of 
gentlemen's  seate  in  East  Lothian.  And  at  Henry  VIII.  These  were  sold  m  separsie 
the  same  time  Mr.  W.  H.  exhibited  two  lote,  at  4f.  10s.  A  very  large  two-Imaded 
ancient  finger  rings  of  silver.  The  Baron  sword  of  state  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Leslie 
Clark  Rattray,  af^  the  reading  of  the  pass-  at  Si.  1 95. 6d.  A  two-banded  flaming  swoid 
ports,  mentioned  a  curious  anecdote  in  re-  of  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.  sold  at  ll.  ISs. 
lation  to  General  Monk's  proposed  removal  Five  steel  roorrions  sold  In  lots,  at  51.  St. 
from  the  chief  command  in  tnis  country  by  An  halberd  of  the  time  of  Edward  IV.  sold 
Oliver  Cromwell ;  and  Sir  John  Buchan  for  one  guinea.  Another,  engraved  with 
Hepburn,  after  the  reading  of  Mr.  Hay'a  the  Bavarian  arms,  \L  its,  A  Taritish 
interesting  pap^r  on  the  proceedings  of  the  matchlock  gun,  inlaid  with  silver  and  gold^ 
Highland  army  in  1745,  related  some  cir-  U.  10s.  A  German  matchlock  wall-piece, 
cumstances  in  the  civil  warfare  of  the  same  1  /•  A  curions  ancient  German  lock,  9L 
period,  in  which  his  own  ancestors  played  a  An  engraved  steel  chanfron,  1/.  14s.  A 
conspicuous  part.— 3.  Private  anecdote  of  tournament  saddle,  W.  Ss.  A  Spanish  eo- 
King  James  VI.  while  entertained  at  Lin-  tean  de  chasse,  \L  lOt.  A  curious  inm- 
cludea  Abbey,  on  a  progress  by  Dumfries  ;  bound  and  spiked  flail,  used  in  1550,  ia  an 
communicated  by  James  Grierson,  of  Dal-  insurrection  of  the  country  people  in  Fna- 
goner,  esq.  conia,  headed  by  Goets  Von  Herlechingen, 
c  .  .  .  with  the  Iron  hand,  lis.  A  fowlimr-piece. 
Sale  or  Ahcimt  Armour  AND  Arms  FROM  ^i^h  ..iver  mountings,  formerly  the>t^ 
UxRMANY.  p^rt„  of  Buonaparte,  301.  95.  A  fine  brooM 
June  91.  A  very  interesting  collection  of  mythological  group,  four  feet  nine  inches  in 
ancient  armour  and  arms,  from  the  castles  height,  A>rmiDg  a  fountain  (supported  upon 
ofStareroberg,  in  Bavaria,  and  Ambrose,  in  *  pedesul),  49/.  This  lot  was  understood 
Tyrol,  was  sold  at  Messrs.  Brookes's,  in  to  be  from  a  Ducal  collection  in  Germany. 
Bond-street.  It  comprised  thirteen  com-  A  pair  of  bagpipes,  composed  of  ivory,  wita 
plete  suits  of  armour  us^d  by  the  chivalry  of  silver  koys,  &c.  the  property  of  the  late 
Europe  and  Asia,  from  the  twelfth  to  the  King  of  Bavaria,  sold  for  1/.  1^.  An 
sixteenth  centuries ;  also  two  suite  of  cru-  lulian  marriage  knife,  the  handle  emboased, 
sader's  chain  mail,  and  t^  coat  of  oriental  representing  a  fury,  165.  A  Vizier  and 
ehain  mail.  The  principal  purchasers  were  Spanish  horsemaS,  1 55. 
Uje  Earl  ofMeath,  Dr.  Meyrick,  Mr.  Leslie,  PoMraii 
Mr.  Utterson,  and  Mr.  Riviere.  The  Earl  Qn  the  5th  of  June,  the  King  and  Qim 
Of  ;«Uitb  purchased  the  ptinci^  muu  oC  of  Naylcs,  with  the  whole  of  theirfiunily. 


FAIT  1.3                           Aniiquarian  Reuarchu,                                 699 

vent  to  vbit  Pompeii.  The  escevrntion  that  tad  in  that  pert  known  h  the  Chapel  i>f  tht 
1MU  made  in  pretence  of  these  augiut  per-  Mine  Altan,  en  old  oeken  coffin  wm  found* 
■oneges  was  one  of  the  roost  successful  ever  containing  the  remains  of  some  distinguish- 
tememheredy  on  account  of  the  abundance  ed  personage ;  believed  to  be  no  other  than 
and  quality  of  the  objects  discovered.  The  the  patron  Saint,  St.  Cuthbert,  '<  whose 
spot  chosen  for  the  operation  was  a  mansion  r^tless  body,  in  the  three  iiundred  and 
in  which  there  had  previously  been  disco-  ninth  yeare  after  his  first  buriall,  was,  with 
vered  a  very  beautiful  fountain  in  Mosaic,  all  funeral  pompe>  enshrined"  in  ^*  the 
bordered  with  shell  work,  and  nearly  similar  White  Church "  at  Durham,  in  tke  yeas 
to  another  that  had  been  discovered  in  a  995,  eight  hundred  and  thirty-two  yeare 
contiguous  house.  From  the  midst  of  the  ago !  The  skeleton  was  found  to  be  re- 
basin  rose  a  small  column  of  marble,  on  markably  perfect,  and  enclosed  In  the  le- 
which  was  placed  a  genius  of  bronze,  huld-  mains  of  robes,  richly  worked  with  gold ;  m 
ing  in  his  left  hand  a  bird,  with  its  wings  large  and  bright  gold  ring,  having  a  cmcifix, 
expanded,  from  the  beak  of  which  the  water  apparently  of  silver,  appended,  was  (bund 
issued,  and  then  fell  back  into  the  basin,  lying  on  the  breast,  and  below  it  the  re- 
A  thentrical  mask,  also  of  marble,  embedded  mains  of  a  book :  a  large  comb  was  also 
in  the  bottom  of  the  nich,  poured  forth,  io  found  in  the  coffin.  The  wood  of  which 
its  turn  another  stream  of  water.  Before  the  coffin  was  composed  was  about  three 
.one  of  the  feet  of  the  fountain  was  a  little  inches  in  thickuess,  and  strongly  clamped 
•bronze  statute,  in  a  sitting  posture,  with  a  with  bars  of  iron.  [See  p.  640.] 
basket  in  the  left  hand,  and  a  cap  on  iU  17  a 
head.    It  apparency  represented  a  thryeian  Eoyptiav  Antiquities. 

shepherd,  clothed  in  a  short  tunic,  but  nad  June  16.     A  very  curious  and  interest- 
evidently  no  connexion  with  the  spot  where  ing  assemblage  of  Egyptian  antiquities,  from 
it  was  found.    On  the  marble  pedestal  there  the  Levant,  was  sold  hy  Mr.  Christie.     It 
was  a  beautiful  piece  of  sculpture,  repre-  eionsisted  of  a  number  of  sepulchral  monu- 
senting  a  child,  half  naked,  lying  asleep,  ments,  presenting  a  great  variety  of  mytho- 
grasping  in  one  of  its  hands  a  little  basket ;  logical  figures,  and  St  inscriptions  in  hiiro- 
and  on  one  side  of  it  a  vase  overturned ;  its  glyphic  characters ;  also  various  figures  oC 
clothes  were  of  a  very  peculiar  make.     Be-  deities  and  animals  in  terra-cotta,  wood, 
fore  the  other  foot  of  the  fountain  was  a  basalt,   and  other  materials.    There  were 
kind  of  marble  Caryatides.    The  partitions  likewise  several  articles   of  an  interestug 
were  ornamented  with  very  elegant  paint-  nature,  as  affording  means  of  experiments 
ings,  which  appear,  to  judge  from  the  svm-  on  the  nature  of  the  process  of  embalming 
bolical  accessaries,  to  represent  the  birth  of  as  practised  by  the  ancient  Egyptians.     A 
Bacchus.     In  the  hall  was  a  stove,  with  its  large  sepulchral  tablet,  or  stele,  of  white 
trivet,  of  rusty  iron,  surmounted  by  some  stone,  in  high  preservation,   with   various 
fragments   of  bronze  vases.     In  the   two  figures  of  divinities,  and  hieroglyphic  in« 
cliambers  situate  on  the  sides  of  the  hall,  tcriptions,  was  sold    for   Si.  1  Os.     There 
was  discovered  a  great  number  of  other  in-  were   95  other  sepulchral  monuments,   of 
teresting  objects,   the  principal  of  which  various  sizes,  ornamented  with  figures  and 
were  tnro  strong  braeelets  of  gold,  a  small  hieroglyphics,  which  were  sold  in  lots,  and 
silver  coin,  a'  number  of  elegant  bronze  produced  altogether  ^bout  SO  guineas.     A 
vases,  and  a  very  beautiful  candelabrum  of  mummy  of  a  female  was  sold  for  9/.  lis,  &dm 
the  same  material.     The  King  gave  orders  The  apex  of  an  Egyptian  obelisk,  &c.  sculp- 
on  the  spot,  that  the  fountain  should  he  tured  with  hieroglyphics,  8/.  lOf.    The  top 
restored  to  the  same  sUte  in  which  it  had  of  an  alur,  containing  a  representation  of 
been  found ;  that  the  whole  of  the  shell-  different  objecU  of  sacrifice,  several  Imes  of 
work,  which  had  been  deUched  from  the  hieroglyphirs,  and  a  receptacle  for  libations, 
border,  and  had  fallen   down  among   tlie  i4«.     A   slab  of  basalt,  sculptured,  with 
mbbisb,  should  he  replaced ;  that  the  bronze  figures  and  hieroglyphics,  3/.  lOs.     An  em- 
sUtues,   with    which    it   was  ornamented,  balmed  cat,  W.     An  embalmed   hawk,  &r, 
should  be  removed  to  the  Royal  Bourbon  An  arm  of  a  mummy,  &c.  one  guinea.     A 
Museum,   and  that  their  place  shouM  be  draped  figure  of  Isis,  in  bronze,  about  It 
supplied  by  casts  of  baked  earth,  and  that  inches  high ;  and  a  bronze  wing,  or  feather* 
the  partitions  pn  which  were  the  paintings,  about  1 0  inches  long,  9L  3s.    The  sepul- 
as  well  as  the  fountain,  should  lie  defended  chml  monuments  had  been  viewed  by  some 
by  a  roof,  to  save  them  from  the  clumce  of  celebrated  Antiquaries,  who  consider  them 
damage.  to .  have  derived    considerable  iroportanee 

nn««.»  r.*u.r.i.<t  from  the  recent  discoveries  of  Dr.  Youmr 

Durham  Cathedral*  ,  --   ^,         ,,.       ,       ,                 ^^ 

and  M.  Champolhon,  hy  whose  successful 

A  very  curious  discovery  has  been  made  labours  a  key  has  been  furnished  to  many  of 

In  the  Cathedral  of  Durham.     In  carrying  the  hieroglyphic  inscriptions  which   went 

into  effect  certain  alterations  and  improve-  formerly  considered  merely  as  objects  of  cu- 

vents  at  the  eastern  end  of  the  Cnurclr,  riosity,  but  are  now  satisfactorily  explained ; 


tfao 


Aniiquanan  Rmearcha.^S^eH  Poetry. 


£XCTII. 


wad  it  BMiy  bt  MMPMbly  expeettil  that  b| 
the  utoAj  of  tveli  oI}mIh  naeh  iafiinnatloB 
ftlathrtt  to  tbe  history,  MtlnlMy,  !>«•» 
•ad  nuumerit  of  tht  •aeieot  J^ifptivwy 
Mij  he  ohtaiaed. 

Antbdiluvian  MuMMItS. 

Two  MammiM  of  the  Gaimche  ■peci«t» 
iMle  md  hmtAe,  have  lately  been  brought 
Urom  the  Itland  of  Teiiefille»  and  appear  to 
have  belonged  to  the  pritnitiTe  people  of  the 
AtUntidei,  of  which  the  Canary  Itlandi  sare 
the  reltct»  which  escaped  the  grand  catas- 
trophe that  orerwhelmed  thet  continent. 
Their  peculiar  method  of  presenration  by 
being  enveloped  in  a  diseranowelled  state, 
fai  bulls  hides,  confirm  the  account  given 
of  them  by  Plato.  They  are  in  a  fine  state 
of  preservation,  considering  that  they  ex- 
isted previoosly  to  the  Dduge,  «  period  of 
more  than  4,000  years.  A».  BretteN,  the 
printer,  of  Rnpert-stieet,  has  them  in  his 
possession. 


ToMBSTOVt  AT  Ch 

Some  time  since,  whQe 
were  employed  m  einhiag  n  wntor 
on  the  west  side  of  Cfiotter  cntheM, 
Ihey  discovered  an  ancient  tombstODo  abent 
foar  fsaC  below  the  tnrlkce.  It  is  about 
five  feet  is  length,  at  iho  top  two  fret 
across,  and  at  mo  bottom  I  {  root ;  oo  its 
centre  b  cnt  a  cross,  beasHtilully  oniameaf- 
ed  with  leaves  of  the  Jteur  dt  \fki  and  oa 
the  edee  is  the  following  inscriptioa  : 

"Hic  Jacet  Henrfeus  de  Bebyntoaa^ 
quondam  Armiger  Domini  Wlltieuii  Ab- 
batis ;  qui  obiit  in  Pestn  Sancte  Cadde 
no  D*ni  mcccxlv." 


On  widening  the  cilnr  end  of  AldefBgate- 
street,  contiguous  to  tne  new  Post-office,  a 
stone  was  discovered  on  the  c<wiier  hoose 
of  Bull  and  Mouth-street,  which  shows  the 
original  name  of  that  street  and  the  date  ef 
its  erection  to  have  been  **  Stewldey^s  stiae^ 
Iff  68." 


SELECT    POETRY, 


THE  MOONLIGHT  EVENING. 

n^HE  Sun*s   broad  orb,  whose  ling*riag 

beam 
5hed  tremblins  lustre  o*er  the  stream. 
Which  through  the  plain  with  silent  course 
Flows  gently  on,  has  spent  his  force, 
Tlngioff  no  more  the  mountaiu's  head, 
Wiui  nrewell  hues  of  rosy  red. 
The  vale  beneath,  in  soft  repose. 
As  the  grey  shades  of  evening  close, 
Imbibes  a  gleam  of  softer  lient, 
From  the  majestic  Queen  of  Night, 
Whose  sober  ray  mild  splendour  lends. 
As  through  the  sky  her  rule  extends, 
Aud  sleeps  upon  tne  tufted  trees, 
UnniiBed  by  the  srishtest  breeze. 
The  passing  clouds  that  slowly  sail 
Assume  a  tint  of  silvery  pale. 

Hail !  solemn  season,  when  the  sound 
Of  Reason's  whisper  is  not  drowa'd. 
Amid  the  din  of  mortal  strife, 
Or  clashing  noise  of  active  life. 
But  Uj\m  npon  the  listening  ear, 
la  tones  sublime,  distinct,  and  clear. 

Hail  1  season  when  the  blaze  of  day 
No  longer  can  the  world  display, 
f  n  colours  brighter  than  its  own^ 
Cheating  the  heart  to  error  prone. 
And  dazzling  Man's  deluded  sight. 
With  Cslse  attractions  vain  and  li^t. 

Hail  \  Contemplation's  choicest  hour ! 
When  yielding  to  the  rightful  power 
Of  sober  thought,  and  undeoeiv'd 
By  visions  crude,  too  soon  believ'd. 
Toe  Heav'a-taught  Bard  as|Mrc8<a  raise 
A  willing  song  ef  ardent  piaiset 


To  that  most  high  and  lofty  One, 
Who,  from  his  everlasting  throne« 
Directs  each  motion  of  those  spheres 
Which  mark  the  lapse  of  days  and  years. 
And  to  that  Lord  of  Truth  and  Grace, 
Reflected  in  whose  c^lorious  fuse. 
As  in  a  mirror,  brightly  shiiae 
The  traits  of  Majesty  divine. 

God  and  hb,  Christ,  Creation's  sdiesse^ 
And  man's  redemption  for  his  theme ; 
Thus  does  he  still  devoutly  own 
The  honour  due  to  these  alone. 
Till  when  Death  summons  him  away. 
In  regions  of  eternal  day 
Hb  soul  the  glorious  work  renews. 
And  the  deligntful  task  pursues. 
In  those  rich  realms  of  hUss  aboire. 
Where  all  is  harmony  and  love ; 
Where  sickness,  pain,  and  sorrow  cease* 
And  anxious  care  is  hush'd  to  peace. 
While  Saints  and  Angels  join  to  sing. 
The  glories  of  their  hieavenly  King. 
BUtrnffardf  June  18.       M.  CMAMBaaLm. 

A  FAREWELL  TO  ENGLAND. 

By  the  Rc¥.  John  Graham,  M.  A. 

inscribed  to  Lord  Kbnyoii  and  the  ComUm 
Dowager  o/'Rossk. 

(Wtr— «  Let  us  haste  to  Kelvin  Grove.*'} 
/^H  what  we  love  and  have,  we  never  daly 
pn»f  [iieaj 

Nor  value  what  is  dear  to  iia  until  awaqr  tt 
And  so  the  fickle  find  it,  when  thro'  (braigp 
fields  they  roam,  [sweet  bona. 

FoKsaking  all  that  love  thvn  in  t^ir  CMqi 


S^ST  1;] 


SOeci  p09ir§. 


6S1 


I  would  ratlier  Me  Besrcftotgli  than  Rieh- 

nHMid  Hill  I 
I'd  give  the  Thunet  and  Mtdvay  for  old 

Tamlaghtri]!; 
Though  ail  the  wealth  annmd  me  T  eoald 

fairly  call  my  own,      [hearth-stone. 
I  would  rather  sit  in  Claggan  on  my  own 

For  there  I'd  meet  the  partner  of  my  early 
.      day,  [weary  way ; 

Who  long  and  sweetly  eheer*d  me  on  a 
And  there  are  those  who  Joyfolly  would  cKmb 
upon  my  knee,  [versing  the  sea. 

To  welcome  home  their  wanderer  from  Uwt 

Vd  see  the  friends  who  lately  stood  intrepid 
at  my  side,  [tide ; 

And  stMnm'd  the  raging  fury  of  Oppression's 

1  would  shake  the  Londonderry  lads  all  kindW 
by  the  hand,       [post  will  ever  stand. 

Who  for  King  and  Constitution  on  their 

Then  fiurewell,  peerless  England,  all  attrac- 
tive as  tnou  art. 

You  hold,  indeed,  my  right  good  will,  hut 
Erui  holds  my  heart ; 

Adieu,  kind  friends  on  British  ground,  and 
kindest  of  them  all. 

Ye  noble  souls  of  Gredington  and  lovely 
Stretton  Hall ! 

fFestmimter  Abbey ^  Nov,  11,  1890. 


STANZAS 

OCCASIOMID  BY  A  SHIFWRECK  OM  THI  KOIITll 
WEST  COAST  or  IRELAND  IN  1 806. 

By  the  Rev.Jouii  Graham,  M,A, 

**  Fage,  ne  paree  maligmts  earenm 
OsiibuSf  et  capite  inhumato 
ParticuUan  date.** — HoR. 

vpHE  blast  is  o'er  that  vex'd  the  sullen  deep. 
The  wave  that  angry  roll'd  now  rolls  no 
more. 
But  the  tides  undulating  gently  sweep 
The  shatter'd  vessel's  cargo  to  the  shore* 


None  of  the  crew  that  mann'd  this  hapl 
b^rk 

Now  lifia  to  Heaven  a  supplicating  eye. 
Unknown,  despis'd,  vile  scorn's  neglected 
mark, 
Unburied  on  the  beach,  their  bodies  lie. 

Crowds  firom  all  parts  a  share  of  plunder  claim. 
And  move  with  htitried  step  to  seize  their 
prey, 

Yet  wander'd  there  an  nnsnspected  name 
To  mark  the  horrors  of  that  shameful  day. 

A  ho^ry-headed  villain,  weak,  tho'  bold. 
Attempts  in  vain  his  heavy  load  to  save, 

But.ere  he  quits  his  mercenary  hold. 
He  finds  ^  merited,  a  briny  grave. 

Oh,  ciirsed  loveof  gold  which  sinks  man  down 
Below  the  level  of  the  lowest  brute ! 

Here  by  thb  avaricious,  heartless  clown. 
Was  tasted  bitterly  thy  nauieons  fruit. 


Unfrelint  twodreds  fill  the  crowded  sliRBd^ 
And  plundtr  ia  their  universal  cry, 

Hyinpa  like,  each  mngniaaiy  band 
From  trampled  corpee  to  corpse  is  seen, 
to  fly. 

Oh,  lovely  Erin,  Heaven's  &vour'd  Me, 
In  climate,  soil,  and  situation  blest. 

Whose  hills  and  vales  in  radiant  beauty  amile, ' 
As  yon  bright  Sun  is  sinking  in  th#  west!' 

Ate  these  thy  sons  ?  oh,  can  we  call  them' 
thine,  [*rave,. 

These  bmtes  mora  cruel  than  the  wind  or 
Who  gloating  on  their  prey,  would  not  coii-' 
sini 
The  rifled  seaman's  body  to  a  grave. 

Naked  and  pale,  and  mangled  on  your  strand^ 
ReproacDwg  silently  your  hearts  unkind. 

Would  no  man  o'er  him  roll  a  wreath  of  sand# 
To  hide  his  ringlets  from  the  wanton  wind  ? 

And  unmolested  in  the  &ce  of  day. 

Shall  hungry  dogs  feast  on  these  features 
fine, — 

Shall  vermin  vile  or  prowling  birds  of  prey 
Dishonour  thus  the  human  face  divine  ? 

Yes,  Rapine  harden'd  here  each  sordid  hearty 
lill  to  the  horrid  scene  a  stranger  came. 

Who  acting  the  Samaritan's  good  part. 
Entomb  d  the  hapless  boy  without  a  name« 

Perhaps  that  boy  reluctantly  and  slow 
His  tender  parents  had  bat  lately  lefk,     ^ 

Wishinc  to  stay,  but  forc'd,  alas  !  to  go,  • 
And  leave  them  of  their  fondest  hop* 
benfL 

That  mother's  eye  which  nightly  on  his  bed 
Beheld  her  darling  happy  u  his  sleep. 

No  more  shall  glance  with  comfort  on  hU 
head. 
But  soon  in  bitter  agony  will  weep  I 

On  a  fond  fiuher's  breast  has  he  repos'd,— «' 

Sooundrels ! — perhaps  you  may  have  diil- 

dren  too  [pos'd» 

On  foreign  shore,^-oh !  were  they  thot  ex- 

Drown'd,  and  thus  trampled  on  by  fienda 

like  yoQ)**"* 

What  would  ye  say  ?  away — ^begono— away^ 
Dead  to  all  human  feeling,  deaid  to  shame; 

Tlie  very  first  and  last  may  mankind  saar. 
Were  ye  that  stun'd  your  blushing  Conn- 
try's  name. 


STONEHENGE. 

r^EAR'D  on  tlft  turfitee  of  a  spaciros 

plain, 
(Or  when  or  how,  our  search  is  all  in  vain,) 
Huge  blocks  of  stone,  of  rugged  sculpture 

stand. 
Which  both  our  wonder  and  respect  conV 

mand« 
Stones  of  prodigious  bulk,  (which  at  thb 

hour. 
Would  bid  defiance  to  out  uUnoa\  v^^^x^^ 


&% 


Select  Poetry. 


[xcTit* 


UpraUM  by  giant  force,  »Uim1  firm  as  roda, 
Abd  •com  the  element's  tumultuous  shocks : 
E'en  Time  consents  his  ruthless  hand  to  suy, 
And  moruls  boast  their  work  another  day. 
These  stones  so  huge,  so  wond'rous  to  our 

eyes, 
Not  without  form  or  symmetry  arise; 
For  if  the  structure  you  survey  aro«nd, 
Two  drdes,  and  two  oTak  will  be  found. 
The  sage  of  former  days  did  basely  swear. 
That  none  hut  magic  power  could  place  )t 

there ;  r  . .   .  , 

But  who,  the  ancient  tenanU  of  this  isle, 
Or  to  what  end  they  rais'd  so  vast  a  pile, 
In  history's  page  no  record  can  we  trace, 
So  will  eooclude  'twas  some  unletter'd  race. 
The  structure  was  a  heathen  fcne  will  say. 
Where  hoary  priesU,  call'd  Druids,  us'd  to 

pray. 
Whose  mystic  rites  the  Roman  did  explain. 
And  modem  bards  have  sung  in  many  a  strain, 
Here   then  the  Pagan  priest  the  heavtns 

adur'd, 
And  look*d  thro'  nature,  up  to  nature%Lord. 
Woukl  that  were  all  I  his  orisons  were  well. 
But  trace  his  footsteps  to  his  inmost  cell. 
My  blood  rons  cold  the  horrid  tale  to  tell. 
Here  a  Urge  stone  is  laid  abng  the  ground, 
And  here  f  see  a  human  victim  bound  ; 
An  aged  priest  uplifu  the  murd'rous  knife. 
The  wretched  man  in  pity  begs  hit  life ; 
Oh  what  a  piercmg  shriek  assails  my  ears. 
My   heart  is  rent,  my  eyes  suffus'd  with 

tears; 
Apd  now  again  1  hear  another  scream, 
I  wake  with  fright,  and  find  'twas  but  a 

dream. 
How  blest  are  we  who  live  In  modem  Umes, 
U  Droids  stain'd  their   altars    with  such 

crimes, 
And  priesU,  with  hands  still  stiflF  with  hu- 
man gore. 
The  God  of  peace  and  mercv  could  implore. 
Thank  heaven  such   rites  have  long  since 

given  way 
To  Christian  worship  and  its  milder  sway ; 
But  their  stupendous  monument  shall  last 
For  ages  yet  to  come,  an  emblem  of  the 
put!  J.  H.  B. 

THE  TEAR  OF  SYMPATHY. 

VpHOUGH  Friendship  feel  a  rending  pang 
•*•     To  mark  her  sons  with  parting  tear, 
And  Death  regret  a  wanton  stroke 
With  murmurs  o'er  the  lowly  bier. 

Though  Pity's  wearied  eyelids  han^. 
And  Griefs  pale  cheek  suffused  be. 

There  flows  a  philanthropic  tear, 
More  nobly  and  more  feelingly. 

Of  all  the  tears  which  Nature  knows, 
Or  pass  the  floodgate  of  the  eye, 

The  purest  bubble  of  the  heart 
Streams  in  the  Tear  of  Sympathy. 


Not  bound  to  agc^  or  sex,  or  olimoy 

No  narrow  channel  guides  its  way* 
But  o'er  the  wide  expanse  of  life 
Its  charitable  waters  stray. 
Ely-piace,  B. 

THE  PARTING- 

PAREWELL  to  the  friends  that  I  love, 
*^     Farewell  to  this  temple  of  clay. 
My  soul  soars  to  regions  above. 
Kind  angels  now  bear  me  away. 

Dear  mother,  attentive  and  kind. 

Dear  fiithar  affecticmate  too,- 
To  my  &te  let  me  now  be  reaign'd. 

For  I  soon  shall  be  lost  to  your  view. 

What  a  debt  does  your  Caroline  owe 
For  parental  affection  so  true, 

I  could  wish — hut  it  must  not  be  so, 
I  might  linger  still  longer  with  jou. 

Dear  brothers  and  sisters  adieu. 

Who  so  oh  have  retum'd  my  caress. 

Let  me  still  be  remember'd  by  you 
When  no  longer  my  lovb  I  expieas. 

For  attentions  so  soothing  and  kind 
In  the  hour  of  afiBiction  and  death. 

With  reluctance  I  leave  you  behind. 

And  with  gratitude  draw  my  last  breath. 

To  your  filial  affection  and  care 
1  now  my  dear  parents  bequeath. 

And  with  them  may  you  often  repair 
To  the  sod  that  1  slumber  beneath.     R. 


^  LIFE— A  Teitotom. 

WHERE'ER  we  go,  whate'er  we  sec, 
^^      A  trifle  yet  this  life  must  be. 
A  Totum  still  of  whirl'mg  power. 
That  varies  with  the  varying  hour  r 
Of  joy ,  of  grief,  of  hope,  of  woe — 
All  that  it  boots  us  here  to  know. 
Or  pleas'd,  or  sad,  or  grave,  or  gay. 
Still,  still,  in  Life's  frail  paasing  day 
The  ceaseless  toy  its  motion  keepa^ 
No  instant  pauses— never  sleeps. 
Ambition,  in  thy  whirling  round. 
No  hour  of  peace  shall  e  er  be  found. 
Will  Joy  iU  quick  vibrations  still. 
Or  Fear  obey  the  fruitless  will  .> 
Does  Hate  its  purpose  now  arrest. 
And  smile,  as  on  a  pleasant  guest  ? 
Will  Liove,  tluit  busy  restless  foe».  . 
The  cup  of  Circe  now  forego?  ^ 

Or  now  when  pleas'd,  or  now  when  blesa  d 
indiff'rencc  is  it  then  express'd  ? 
The  want,  the  wish,  the  joy,  the  woe. 
All  ills  that  restless  mortols  know. 
Commingling,  form,  with  varying  strife. 
The  blended  web  of  human  life ; 
Till  Death  shall  bid  the  tumult  cease. 
As  Ocean's  storms  subside  in  |)eacc. 

C.  WARtf. 


rART  I.] 


[    63S    ] 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS    IN    PARLIAMENT. 


House  or  Commons,  June  18. 

Mr.  Ctttmmg  tuted  that  it  was  hU  is- 
tcution  to  bring  forward  a  restricted  and 
taiaporary  measure  which  had  become  ne- 
cessary to  avert  the  temporary  evils  result- 
ing  from  the  loss  of  the  Corv  Bill.  He 
would  do  this,  either  by  a  distinct  motion, 
or  I7  an  amendment  upon  the  promised 
motion  of  the  Member  for  lUsex,  if  that 
hon.  gent,  should  persist  in  bringing  it 
forward. — Mr.  tVesUm  brought  forward  his 
notion ;  it  was  to  repeal  toe  clause  of  the 
Act  of  1898,  which  prevents  the  importa- 
tion of  foreign  grain  when  the  avenges  are 
below  80s. ;  70s.  being  the  minimum  es^ 
tablished  by  the  principle  of  the  law  of 
1882,  though  suspended  by  the  clause 
which  Mr.  Western  proposed  to  repeal. — 
Mr.  Cannings  in  a  speech  of  some  lencth, 
moved  an  Amendment  to  the  effect  that, 
'*  aU  foreign  grain  or  flour,  now  iu  British 
warehouses,  be  admitted  into  the  market 
firom  the  1st  of  Julv,  1887,  to  the  Ist  of 
May,  1828,  upon  trie  same  terms  as  laid 
down  in  the  late  Bill."  llie  right  hoQ. 
gent,  professed  to  feel  great  sorrow  and  se- 
rious alarm  at  the  loss  of  the  Bill,  which 
he  seemed  to  impute  to  the  effect  of  parlgr 
spirit  snd  to  management. — Mr.  Peel  said, 
that  he  would  vote  for  the  Amendment,  he- 
cause  he  hsd  been  all  aJi>ng  friendly  to  the 
late  Bill.  He  then  vindicated  the  Duke  of 
Wellington  from  the  unworthy  imputation 
which  had  been  cast  upon  him,  and  declar- 
ed his  perfect  conviction,  that  the  illustri- 
ous nobleman  in  question  had  acted  upon 
a  misapprehension  uf  Mr.  Husklsson's  mean- 
ing.— Sir  E*  Knatchl'ull  expressed  his  regret 
and  humiliation  that  such'  a  line  of  animad- 
version upon  the  Duke  of  Wellington's  mo- 
tives should  be  taken  upon  the  anniversary 
of  the  Battle  of  Waterloo.  The  unexpected 
allusion  to  the  occasion  upon  which  the 
Duke  had  saved  this  empire  from  great 
danger  was,  as  might  be  expected,  followed 
bv  a  tremendous  burst  of  teelins :  the  ap- 
plause lasted  several  minutes. — Mr.  A*  Bar'^ 
tng  highly  eulogised  the  Com  Bill,  and  ri- 
diculed the  Duke  of  Wellington's  amend- 
mant. — Mr.  Peel  defended  the  conduct  of 
the  Duke  of  Wellington  against  the  ridi- 
cule which  the  Hon.  Member  attempted 
to  throw  upon  it — ridicule  which  equally 
Implied  to  his  Right  Hon.  fnend  the  Pre- 
sident of  the  Board  of  Trade. — Mr.  BuS' 
kUsan  read  the  letters  whicb  passed  be- 
tween him  and  the  JTnke  of  Wellington, 
for  the  purpose  of  shewing  that  the  Puke 
could  not   have  misunderstood  hiiM.-7-Mr. 

Gent.  Mao.  Suppl.  XCVII.  Part  I'. 

H 


Canning  acquiesced  in  the  fairness  of  Mr. 
Huskisson's  conclusion  from  the  corres- 
pondence, but  added  In  a  tone  of  great  can- 
dour, that  he  could  not  exclude  from  hh 
consideration,  the  possibility  that  even  ■«> 
great  a  man  as  the  Duke  of  Wellington 
might  have  been  somethiog  like  an  instru- 
ment in  the  hands  of  others  (Toud  cheers). 
There  were  instances  of  equallv  great  men 
having  been  so  made  use  of.  Adding,  thet 
unless  bet^r  advised  than  he  was  at  present, 
he  should  certainly  introduce  a  Bill  seat 
session  tending  to  the  same  end.  The 
Amendment  was  then  carried  by  a  majority 
of  238  to  52. 

Tlie  third  reading  of  the  Coventry  Ma- 
gistrates Bill,  was  then  carried  by  a  ma- 
jority of  65  to  55. 

House  or  Lords,  June  20. 
The  Earl  of  PfincheUea  presented  a  m- 
tition  from  the  inhabitants  of  (xreat  Mar- 
low,  against  concession  to  the  Roman  Ci|- 
tholics ;  and  having  declared  his  hearty  con- 
currence in  the  Petition,  he  proceeded  tp 
animadvert  in  a  becoming  tone  of  indigni^- 
tion,  upon  the  imputation  of  unworthy  mo- 
tives cast  by  persons  in  another  place,  upota 
the  majority  who  had  voted  for  the  Dukp 
of  Wellington's  amendment.  —  The  Lortf 
Chancellor  and  hord  Goodrich  complaid^ 
of  the  Noble  EarKs  observations  as  diso^ 
derly,  and  deprecated  the  keeping  up  of  a 
contrQvery,  which  might  tend  to  evil  con- 
sequences.— Earl  Grey  admitted  the  irrega- 
larity  of  such  allusions,  but  remarked  th^t 
the  blame  of  the  altercation  mu^t  revert  to 
him  who  commenced  it,  who  was  respon- 
sible not  only  for  his  own  violation  of  order, 
but  also  for  the  retaliation  which  it  necet^ 
sarily  provoked.  He  (Earl  Grey)  had  rei^ 
speeches  in  which  their  Lordship's  house 
had  been  viliHed  in  a  manner  which  stru^ 
at  the  root  of  its  legislative  independence, 
and  he  trusted  that  some  means  would  be 
adopted  to  warn  the  authors  of  suisli 
speeches,  against  a  repetition  of  the  of* 
fence.— The  Marquis  of  Lansdoum  suggest- 
ed, that  it  was  open  to  the  House,  to  call 
the  printer  of  the  offensive  speeches  to 
the  oar.  —  Lord  EUenborough  contended, 
that  as  their  Lordships  connived  at  the 
printing  of  their  own  speeches,  it  would  be 
neither  generous  nor  consistent  to  do  so* — 
The  Marquis  of  Londahderry  wished  to 
know  from  his  friends  whether  the  author 
of  the  speech  would  venture  to  publish  It 
at  his  own  risk. — Ministers  declined  answer- 
ing the  question. 


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Procctdtfigs  iit  the  preseni  Ses$'ton  of  Parliament.         [xcfn. 


In  iha  House  of  Commons,  the  stmo 
day,  on  Mr,  HWmrton  pmenting  »  pctiuon 
connected  with  the  medical  profession,  Mr. 
Ped  t(M>k  occasion  to  intimate  that  it  might 
be  a  desirable  improvement  in  the  law,  and 
a  benefit  to  medical  science,  if  the  bodies  of 
all  person!  dying  under  execution  for  felony 
were  delivered  over  for  dissection,  as  is  now 
enjoined  in  the  case  of  murderers. 

Mr.  Ped  moved  fur  leave  to  bring  in  a 
Bill  to  faciliUte  the  recovery  of  Small 
Debts.  No  means  of  recovering  these 
debu  at  present  existed.  He  should  pro- 
pose a  system  similar  to  that  of  the  County 
Court  of  Lancashire,  where  the  sheriff 
appointed  an  assessor.  He  would  have  a 
jury  of  five  only.  He  intended  that  the 
creditor  having  explained  the  nature  of  his 
ddro,  instead  of  a  writ  being  issued  against 
the  debtnr,  he  should  be  served  with  a  sum- 
mons. In  place  of  counsel,  attomies  should 
be  employed,  their  fee  being  limited  to  iOj. 
As  summary  execution  after  verdictfrequently 
Occasioned  the  ruin  of  the  parties,  he  would 
leave  it  to  the  judge  to  require  payment  of 
the  debt  by  instalments,  and  in  tne  event  of 
fisilure  in  the  instalments,  he  would  limit  the 
remedy  to  execution  on  the  property,  in- 
stead of  allowing  it  to  be  extended  to  the 
person  (heoTf  hear) — the  judgment  of  this 
court  beioff  made  final.-^The  Attorney  Ge- 
neral aNn  highly  approved  of  the  principle 
and  details  of  the  Bill. — Mr.  Hothouse  re- 
gretted that  the  measure  had  been  delayed 
so  long. — Mr.  Peel  did  hope  to  have  brought 
forward  the  measure  early  in  the  session, 
but  was  prevented  by  circumstances.  He 
would  endeavour  to  have  it  {lerfected  in  the 
recess,  so  as  to  have  it  passed  into  a  law 
early  in  the  next  session.-^Leave  was  then 
given  to  bring  in  the  Bill. 

The  Corn  Trade  Bill  was  read  a  second 
time,  on  the  motion  of  Mr.  Herries. 

House  op  Commons,  June  91. 
Mr. /fume  moved  two  resolutions.  The 
first  was  to  the  following  effect: — Resolved, 
that  according  to  the  returns  laid  upon  the 
table  of  tl)e  House  on  the  1st  of  Jan.  18^7, 
it  appears  that  the  total  number  of  officers 
in  tne  naval  service  of  Great  Britain  in  5558, 
of  which  number  not  more  than  849  are  em- 
ployed. In  the  second  Resolution,  put  by 
the  Hon.  Member,  the  total  amount  of  the 
naval  dead  weight,  and  the  total  amount  of 
the  navy  estimates  voted  this  year  were 
stated,  and  he  concluded  by  moving  an  ad- 
dress to  the  Crown,  praying  Uiat  his  Ma- 
jesty would  be  graciously  pleased  to  give 
directions  that  no  further  promotions  should 
take  place  in  the  navy,  except  upon  extra- 
osdinary  occasions,  when  merit  or  length  of 
service  called  for  it. — Sir  George  Cocklmm 
explained  the  two-fold  purpose  of  naval  pro^ 
motion— first  to  reward  merit ;  secondly,  to 
keen  up  a  succession  of  officers  of  all  ranks 
ill  the  vigour  of  life ;  he  would  ibeveCore 
fiore  th*  prvrlons  (|uettion  on  ibe  tetoW 


tion,  and  negative  the  addrett.  ^- Sir  J. 
Yorke  argued  ibr  the  necesaity  of  oataUisk- 
ing  some  check  upon  the  system  of  naval 
promotion.  The  previous  question  was  esr- 
ried  upon  the  resolutions,  and  the  addreis 
was  negatived. 

The  House  went  Into  a  Committee,  oe 
the  Warehoused  Com  Bill.— Sir  Eduw^ 
KnatehbuU  confessed  that  he  was  uoC  dis- 
pleased that  the  measure  should  be  tried  ei 
an  experiment,  but  stated  an  optoioii  dHd 
the  late  Cora  Rill  was  not  so  much  the 
measure  of  Lord  Laverpool,  aa  it  has  bam 
said  to  be. — Mr.  Canning  aaaerted  thai  b 
introducing  the  Bill  he  used  Lord  Liver- 
pool's memoranda,  as  a  brief;  mad  adM 
that  he  had  heard  from  Lord  Liverpool  that 
the  measure  was  likely  to  haTe  the  support 
of  the  Hon.  Baronet. — After  a  lev  woiA 
from  Sir  E.  Knalchhdlf  Mr.  Banketf  Mr. 
Hutkisumi  and  Mr.  JVaard^  the  report  was 
brought  up,  and  the  Bill  waa  ordered  to  be 
read  a  third  time. 

House  op  Lords,  Jime  99. 
Lord  Goderich  moved  the  committal  of 
the  Corn  Averages  Bill. — Lord  Fkmkam 
proposed,  as  an  amendment,  that  '*  the 
words  <  £ngland  and  Wales '  be  omitted, 
and  the  words  'Great  Britain  and  Ireland' 
inserted  instead  of  them."  Upon  whidk, 
the  question  was  put«  firkt,  that  ''the 
words  '  £ngland  and  Wales '  do  stand  pait 
of  the  clause."  Content,  44  ;  Not  Coo- 
tent,  44.  Upon  which  the  Chsirmaa,  ca 
bound  by  precedent,  gave  his  casting  vote 
against  the  question.  The  words  **  Eng- 
land and  Wales,"  therefore,  were  exdnded 
from  the  clause.    The  amendment  was  then 

f)Ut,  *'  that  the  words  *  Great  Britain  and 
reland '  be  inserted."  Content,  87  :  Not 
Content,  43.  Majority  against  the  inser- 
tion of  the  words,  6.  The  Rill  by  this  de- 
cision not  applying  to  any  part  of  the 
King's  dominions.  Lord  Goderich  stated 
that  he  would  endeavour  to  rescue  it  from 
thb  ludicrous  position  at  a  future  stage. 

June  95.  Lord  Goderich  moved  the  se- 
cond reading  of  the  Warchouied  Corv 
Bill.  His  Lordship  expluned  the  nature 
of  this  temporary  measuret  and  the  mo- 
tives of  Ministers  in  bringing  it  forward, 
but  offered  nothing  new  upon  the  subject. 
— The  Earl  of  Malmedury  vindicated  the 
agricultural  interests  in  the  line  of  conduct 
they  had  pursued  on  this  occasion. — The 
Duke  of  U^eUington  entered  into  an  expla- 
nation of  his  motives  in  promising  the 
amendment  to  the  late  Bill,  which  it  waa 
clear  was  in  no  respect  adverse  to  the 
principle  of  that  measure,  the  abandon- 
ment of  which,  by  ministers,  was  as  m- 
necessary  as  it  was  injurious.  Hia  Graoe 
produced  a  further  correspondence  bctveeft 
himself  and  Mr.  Hoskisson,  and  cotcIimMI 
by  declaring  that  he  had  no  view  to  de- 


P4BT  I.]         Ftoctidings  in  ihe  preUni  Sation  of  PwrUamenL  635 

he  detired  merely  to  mike  it  more  peUtabte,  Bill,  In  a  speech  of  great  length.— The 
and, with  the  amendment*  he  believed  it  woald  Earl  of  Bld/m^  in  a  long  aad  extremelj  elo^ 
have  been  more  palatable ;  he  believed  fur-  quent  speech,  opposed  the  motion,  as  did 
ther,  that  whenever  Ministers  came  forward  Lord  Famham. — Lord  Callhorpe,  the  Lord 
with  another  Bill  upon  the  subject,  they  Chaneetlor,  and  the  B'ishop  of  Chester,  sup- 
would  be  compelled  to  adopt  some  mea-  ported  it.  On  a  division  the  numbers 
inre  of  the  same  chamcter.— Earl  Grey  were,  for  the  committee  61,  against  it  54* 
tnpported  the  Bill  before  the  House,  al-  — 
though  he  thought  .with  his  noble  friend  June  97.  The  report  of  the  Committee 
|hat  no  case  of  necessity  had  been  made  on  the  WAReuousio  Corn  Bill  wm  re- 
out,  yet  he  did  not  apprehend  that  the  ceived,  after  two  amendments  had  been 
measure  could  produce  much  injury  to  the  moved  and  negatived  without  a  division* 
^icultural  interest.  He  supported  it  also  The  first  was  by  the  Earl  of  Malmesbury^ 
on  the  groimd  that  it  was  a  safe  experi-  which  proposed  to  limit  the  release  of  Bond- 
ment,  and  that  by  its  means  they  would  be  ed  Com,  to  that  warehoused  before  the  first 
enabled  to  proceed  to  another  session  in  a  day  of  June,  instead  of  the  first  day  of  July, 
more  satisfactory  state  of  preparation  to  The  second,  moved  by  Lord  Re^esdale, 
formal  legislation. — Earl  Slaniupe  consider-  proposed  the  omission  of  that  part  of  the 
ed  the-  Bill,  in  the  fvnmnt,  state  of  the  measure  which  for  every  shilling's  increase 
country  to  be  perfectly  unnecessary,  and  in  price  diminishes  the  duty  to^  the  amount 
therefore  moved  that  it  ahonld  be  read  th^  of  two  shillings. — Earl  Grey  suggested  that 
day  three  months. — ^The  motion  was  nega-  great  relief  would  be  afforded  to  agricultu- 
tived  without  a  division  ;  the  Bill,  was  read  rists,  if  the  existing  prohibition  on  the  cul- 
a  second  time,  and  ordered  to  be  committed,  tivation  of  tobacco  in  this  country  were  re- 
Lord  Goderieh  moved  the  third  reading  moved.  It  had  been  originally  enacted  in 
of  the  Corn  Averages  Bill,  with  an  ad-  order  to  encourage  the  growth  of  that  olant 
ditional  clause,  the  effect  of  which  is  to  in  Virginia,  and  since  the  separation  ot  thai 
give  the  power  to  his  Majesty  in  Councilr  State  from  the  British  empire  it  was  cer* 
to  appoint  any  additional  towns  in  Great  tainly  do  longer  entitled  to  such  protection. 
Britain  and  Ireland  he  might  think  proper  — Lord  Goderieh  admitted  the  impolicy  of 
'to  be  included  in  the  aversges,  with  a  pro-  that  prohibition  even  at  ^the  time  of  its 
viso  that  the  aversges  so  taken  should  not  enactment,  and  promised  to  cousider  whe* 
operate  upon  the  duties  to  be  chaned  under  ther  it  might  not  be  removed  without  ma  • 
the  Bill  tnen  before  the  House.  The  clause  terially  injuring  the  revenue,  as  he  could 
was  agreed  to,  and  the  Bill  read  a  third  not  thiok  it  any  relief  to  agriculturists  to 
time,  and  passed.  permit  the  growth  of  tolieccoj  and  then  to 

.1  dog  it  with  any  duty  at  all. 

June  89.    The  Marquis  of  Londonderry  ...^^ 

called  the  .ttention  o^  tl..  Hou^  to  th«  j            The  UnitariahMakruo.  Bill 

»t«n»  |,r«ented  from  the  Fureign-office,  ^  „^   .„  „,j^,  ^y^  ,^  Lo  j  ^.^^ 

wd  ...m«lvert.d  oa  «h«  "«««•..  »»»«h,  j^ticfmight  introdnce  into  it  the  M.«.d. 

dnnng  the  fire  re.™  of  Mr.  Cwnuig.  «|.  ^^  ^^  B^.^^  ^  ^^ 

|n.»..tr.t.o.  of  th.t  office,  hj.  t.Ven  phc«  ^  ^^         ^   .„  ,^  «                 ; 

i.  every  dep«tment  of  tK.  fore^n  d^lo-  ^,  „^i/„  ^  ^^e   Mut,ui.  of  h^,i^m. 

defended  the  increase  m  question.     He  al-  -j...**  .  u^a.^  ••  •-          j*  *       i 

luded  to  the  pe.ter  .am.  obuined  for  hi.  •'*"*«'"  ^"^  '»  "  f^  '"'»  » '•"• 

services  by  the  Noble  Marquis  than  had  "~~~ 

been  granted  to  Mr.  Canning ;  and  adverted  In  the  Houib  of  Commons,  the  same 

somewhat  sharply  to  a  complaint  which  the  day,   the  subject  of  the  charges  againat 

Marquis  of  Londcmderry  had  made  of  a  dis-  Lord  C.  Somerset  was  brought  forward  by 

closure  of  his  correspondence  with  the  Fo-  Lord  £.  Somerset,  who,  in  announcinff  the 

reigti-office. — ^The  Marquis  of  Londonderry  resignation  of  his  noble  relative,  declared 

replied^  showing  that  a  private  memoran-  that  the  Noble  Lord  was  most  anxicius  to 

dum  of  the  Earl  of  Liverpool,  upon  a  con'  meet  any  inquiry  that  could,  by  possibilitY« 

fdential  communication  of  hb,  had  been  be  instituted  in  regard  to  his  conduct.— Mr. 

published  in  a  newspaper  without  his  (the  fVUmU  UorUm^  feeling  himself  called  upon 

iy)arqtus  of  L.'s)  having  known  that  auch  a  by  an  allusion  made  to  him,  did  not  heai- 

meoiorandum  h«d  been  made.     In  proof  of  tate  unequivocally  to  say,  indeed  he  fiilt  it 

this,  the  Noble  Marquis  read  a  correspond-  his  duty  to  declare,  that  the  Government 

ence  with  Lord  Dudley  and  Ward.  held  Lord  Charles  Somerset  to  be  iuUy  ac- 

.  Ths  Marquis  of  Lansdown   moved  the  quitted  of  all  the  chaiget  alleged  agains% 

committal  of  the  Dissenters*  Marriage  nim,  at  any  time,  or  firom  any  quarter. 


[   e»«   3   ' 


^XCTU. 


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►  it 


FOREIGN    NEWS. 


FRANCE. 

An  Ordinance,  imposing  ■  rigid  Cemor- 
thip  oa  tlie  PrcM  in  France,  .bu  received 
the  Royal  tignature  of  King  Cturle*.  This 
metsure  has  been  retorted  to  in  consequence 
of  the  late  failure  in  attempting  to  carry  the 
nroject  retjpecting  the  press  through  the 
legislative  Chaml^rs.  It  is  enacted  by  this 
Ordinance,  that  there  shall  be  at  Paris,  in 
the  office  of  the  Minister  of  the  Interior,  a 
bureau,  charged  with  a  previotu  examina- 
tion of  all  journals  and  periodicml  writings ; 
to  be  composed  of  six  censors,  named  by 
the  Minister  of  the  Interior.  Every  num- 
ber of  a  Journal  or  periodical  writing  must, 
before  it  is  priuted,  be  furnished  with  the 
viut  of  this  bureau,  which  shall  authorise 
iu  puUication.  In  the  departments,  the 
Prefects  shall  nommate,  according  as  may 
be  necessary,  one  or  more  censors  charged 
with  the  previous  examination  of  the  jour- 
nals which  shall  be  published  in  them. 

It  appears  that  the  new  Censorship  has 
already  commenced  operations.  On  Satur- 
day and  Sunday,  the  S9ih  and  30th  of 
June,  the  Journal  des  Delats  appeared  with 
large  vacancies,  the  latter  bein<;  in  the  part 
allotted  to  literary  articles.  This  is  in  di- 
rect opposition  to  the  wish  of  the  Directors 
of  the  Board,  who  are  said  to  have  threat- 
^ed  to  suppress  next  day  all  the  articles  of 
any  journal  neglecting  to  fill  up  the  va- 
cancies, where  articles  are  withdrawn.  In 
fact, -one,  La  France  Chntienne,  has  been 
discontinued  in  consequence.  Messrs.  Lour- 
doneix  aud  Deliege*  the  heitds  of  the  Bu- 
reau of  CensorshifH  have  had  a  meeting 
with  the  editor* ;  wlien  tliey  professed,  that 
the  only  object  was  to  briug  back  the  press 
to  a  calm  and  *<  polite"  discussion  of  pub- 
lic affairs — not  to  prohibit  any  subject  that 
is  decorously  treated.  Two  of  the  oldest 
journals,  the  Gazette  de  France,  and  the 
Jomrnat  de  Paris,  long  in  the  \mj  of  Go- 
vernment, have  been  discontinued  by  Mi- 
nisters. The  latter,  it  is  said,  could  have 
gone  on  without  assistance,  but  the  Mi- 
nistry preferred  extinguishing  It  altogether, 
ttKsufferinff  it  to  stand  on  independent  prin- 
ciples. IVlany  of  the  old  subscribers  are  said 
to  liave  shed  tears  on  the  occasion. 

It  has  been  notified  by  the  French  Mi- 
nister for  Foreign  Affairs  to  his  Majesty's 
Ambassador  at  Paris,  "That  the  French 
Government  has  declared  an  effective  block- 
ade of  the  port  of  Algiers,  and  that  every 
OMasure  autnorised  by  the  law  of  nationa 
will  be  ■  adopted  send  enforced  against  aU 
neutral  vessels  which  may  attempt  to  vio- 
late the  said  blockade." 


SPAIN, 

Public  attention  has  been  for  soae  tii 
absorbed  by  the  difference  thst  hae  Jost 
arisen  between  the  Spanish  Govemaftcat 
and  the  Court  of  Rome,  on  the  nomhia- 
tion  of  Bishoos  for  the  new  States  in  Ame- 
rica. His  Catholic  Majesty,  considering 
this  as  a  breach  of  the  Concordat,  and  an 
infiracUon  of  his  rights  of  sovereignty,  had 
caused  orders  to  be  given  at  the  fruaUeis 
not  to  receive  the  new  Papal  Nuncio,  Moa- 
stgnor  Tiberi,  who  was  coming  to  tQcceed 
Cardinal  Giustiniani.  Moosigoor  Tiberi* 
on  arriving  at  Irun  on  the  1 7th  of  June, 
found  there  a  letter  from  ^e  principal  Se- 
cretary of  State,  desiring  him  not  to  pro- 
ceed on  his  journey  t  and  on  the  intimatiMi 
given  him  by  the  Captain  General,  he  fa 
hct  returned  to  France.  Tbo  Councils  of 
Ca&tile  and  the  Indies,  which  were  sui- 
moned  to  give  their  opinions  on  this  de- 
licate affair,  and  on  a  letter  which  his  Ho- 
liness had  written  to  the  Kin?,  to  explain 
his  conduct,  has  terminated  its  deliben^ 
tions,  the  result  of  which  has  been  trmas- 
raitted  to  his  Majesty.  It  seems  that  the 
Council  of  State  will  also  discuu  It.  No 
question  has  arisen  fur  many  lews  that  haa 
caused  so  much  agitation  and  irritation. 

GREECE. 

I'he  surrender  of  the  Acrppolis  to  the 
Turks  is  confirmed  hy  the  arrival  of  the 
dispatc1)es  to  our  Government,  fh>m  Sir 
Frederick  Adam.  The  garrison  capitukled 
on  the  2d  of  June.  The  lives  of  the  gar- 
rison were  spared,  and  permission  was  jnvia 
to  Colonel  Fabvier,  and  the  other  PhUbel- 
lenes,  to  go  wherever  they  pleased. 

General  Church,  as  Commander-in-Chief 
of  the  land  forces,  has  published  his  official 
account  of  the  late  defeat  of  the  troops  under 
his  command.  He  gives  credit  to  the  Greefcit, 
jiarticularly  the  Suliots,  for  their  bravary  is 
the  action ;  he  states  that  it  was  neceisaiy 
to  attempt  the  relief  of  Athens  at  any  ris^ 
and  that  the  attack  failed  from  the  over- 
whelming force  of  the  Turkish  cavalry.  Of 
the  little  corps  of  Philhellenes  only  fear 
survived. 

German  papers  contain  several  dlspatchea 
from  Captain  Hastings,  annooncing  the 
capture  of  four  Turkish  vessels  and  the 
destruction  of  two,  by  his  steam-boat  aad 
her  Greek  consorts  in  the  Gulph  of  Volo ; 
and  also  the  burning  of  a  Turknh  brtf  of 
war  of  fourteen  guns  in  the  port  of  ni- 
keri,  though  lying  between  high  roekt  plena" 
in  shore,  and  protected  by  a  large  body  of 
Albanians  and  several  batteries. 


FULT  I.] 


Dvmestk  Ooeumium, 


d3T 


NORTH  AMERICA. 


C ATTAIN  f  RAHSUN.— "GftM^R  ptpVt  gtVt 

•cconnto  of  CafiU'm  FrMJtUa^-Uie  espcdi- 
tit^a  Appttft  to  liMvt  batn  compUtoij  mm- 
mmM.  Th«  firtt  <tespitch  it  daud  Fort 
FnBlUiiiy  19tb  Juae*  wktea  he  wm  moving 
from  hit  wiator  qwwttni  the  Mcond  do- 
^polch  is  d»tod  99th  Jum>  t  Fort  NormMi. 


HMi«g  Moirtd  tlM  iottm  of  tl*  Bfne- 
kcnzie  ritrtr,  tU  HftditJf  nMbod  tho 
ihorM  of  the  Pacific,  Captain  Franklin  has 
•urrevod  tho  coast,  from  IIS  to  148,  88 
west  loug. :  in  five  days  more,  he  calculated 
he  would  have  reached  Icy  Cape,  but  the 
expeditioa  having  endured  great  haidikips, 
for  fifteen  dajs  being  eovered  wkh  a  ^enait 
ft)g^  he  determined  to  retwB. 


DOMESTIC   OCCURRENCES. 


IRELAND. 
Ikcomks  or  THi  Priuthooo. 

By.  athsntic  fttums,  it  appears  that  tha 
amiiMi  bcoiMof  the  Irish  Protestant  Cknreb 
EstabHshmeat  nay  be  takeu  at  800,00<M. 
If  we  allow  one-third  of  this  as  the  income 
<if  the  Bishops  (and  this  is  a  fiiir  propor- 
tion), we  shaU  fiod  about  900,000/.  jtrrahM. 
tn  be  divided  amongst  1,900  Cler|nrroen, 
leaving  the  income  of  tho  parochial  Minis- 
ter at  an  average  of  1  tfO/.  per  arm.  Now, 
it  is  not  vasy  to  estimate,  by  aqy  authentic 
docttnients,  what  may  be  the  aggregate 
wealth  of  the  Popish  Clergy  in  IreUmi  s  4>ut 
there  are  a  few  tiata  from  which  the  infer- 
ence may  be  validly  drawn,  that  their  average 
incbiae  equals,  if  not  considerably  exceeds, 
that  of  the  Protestant  Clergy  of  that  coun- 
try. When  the  «  Provision  Wing'*  of  the 
Catholic  R«li«f  Bill  was  under  discossiott, 
it  was  prop<»sed  to  secure  a  Qovenunent  al- 
lowance to  the  Popish  Parochial  Clergy  of 
about  160^.  perann.  and  to  their  Bishops  of 
1,500^  per  am.  Those  Bishops  and  Clergy 
were  vehemently  opposed — Jiey  jok/ — td 
the  principle  of  the  Bill,  because  they  were 
aware  that  such  a  provbion  would  be  greatly 
below  what  they  now  receive.  Tho  average 
income  of  the  Popish  Clergy  was  consid^ 
%bly  imderrated,  in  proposing  to  give  them 
XbOUperann,  Their  present  iooomaa  ansa 
firom  regukttd  feet,  for  the  performance  of 
the  various  rites  of  the  Church.  No  mem- 
ber of  the  Romish  Church  can  dJepeasa  with 
tfiese  ritee,  nor  will  any  Plriest  perform  them, 
Jor  the  puorett  person  in  the  laid,  without  tha 
regulated  fee,  at  least,  being  paid.  As  to 
the  rich  of  their  fluck,  they  would  as  little 
think  of  putting  off  a  Priest  with  a  regulated 
fte,  as  an  attorney  would  of  letting  off  h'ls 
client  with  taxed  costs. 

A  Correspondent  gives  the  following 
sketch  of  these  regulated  feet : 

For  Christening  Child  and  Charck-jS.  «•  d» 

ing  the  Mother    .- 0     9  9 

Maes  over  tha  Dead.*.- -••  0    4  0 

Marriage  ^ «.•••«  19  8 

Coalessioo  Dues  —  (Easter,  Whit- 
suntide, and  Christmas)  each 0.96 

CoTlectioos  at  BurisTsj  average I   10  0 


Ditto,  Marrisges I   10  0 

Ditto,  Sutiont....- 1   10  0 

Sundry  Collections  in  Chapel,  do...  9     t  0' 
Month-minds,  and  Masses  for  Pur- 
gatory   .«•. 5     0  0' 

Bequesu  for  Masses  for  the  Soal... Unknown 
Scapulars,  Collects,  Beads,  Relics, 

Holy  Candles,  Holy  Water,  &c.  Unknown. 
Dispensations  for  Eating  Meat,  for 

Marrying  Cousins,  &c.  &c.....,.Unlmow« 
Indulgences,  Commutations  fur  Pe- 
nance, &c Unknown 

Tithes,  from  every  farmer  who  holds  e«ea 
three  or  five  acret  (half  a  barrel  of  tho  pro- 
duce at  least),  teven  shiUingtt  besides  pra-. 
seots  of  hay,  straw,  meal,  flour,  eggs,  bo^. 
ter,  potatoes,  fish,  fowl,  &c.— amount  inoaW 
oulable. 

In  short,  takii^  all  into  consideration*, 
wif  may  rate  the  animal  income  of  the  Popbh 
Clergy  at  two  thiliinga  a-head  per  ami,  foU 
every  member  of  their  flock.  And  if  thero 
be,  as  tho  Catholics  say  there  are,  at  laati 
jtr  miUimu  of  Catholics  m  Ireland,  tha  in* 
eome  of  the  Popbh  Clergy  amounts,  at  th« 
rate  above  stated,  to  twelve  millions  of  thil- 
Ungs  i  i.  e.  600,000t  per  oitn.  And  rap- 
poaiag  an  equal  number  of  Protattaot  and 
t\)pish  ClergY  in  Ireland,  tha  averaga  iov. 
toma  of  tho  latter  will  amaont  to  800^  pew. 
•Mt. — while  that  of  the  former  is  but  \$0U 
IB  EngUnd  808L— and  in  Soothmd  fltU 
per  arm. 

Ueoee  it  appeara,  that  tha  Irish  Roman 
Catholia  Clerxy^  are  the  richest  in  tha  UnltadI 
Empira,  awl  tha  Irish  Protestant  Clergy  thft 
poorest. 

But  fiirther,— wo  have  nat  ioalodadt  ha 
tha  foragoiag  caleulatioa>  tha  ravesoaa  ot 
the  Catholic  Bukoph  aor  tha  iiicomea  of 
mpoattariet»  Miaaeriet,  raligioua  haoaaa, 
4esuit  ettaUishmaott,  Km.  And  suinly  theaa 
may  be  fairly  attimatad  at  100,000/.  Mr  amt. 
Coosequaatly  tha  Popti^  C/rrgy  of  IrekuiA 
afeaammlly  dmwfaig,  son  ihefiooraat  psqpsH 
lation  an  tha  earth,  the  turn  of  70Q,000i« 
wbi«h»  added  to  tha  ravemm  o|  tho  Pjpo* 
tflaiaot  SitaUlshmmitf  knrat  the  iBlM^bim 
euparf  iiian  <l  Iialand  al  a  eoattfonf  mitf^ 
sterling  per  awatm  !  !  ! 


ess  Dome$ii€  Occurrencei.  Xxcviu 

INTELLIGBNCB  FROM  VARIOUS  nett,  iaeicleiit  to  hcuod  »toii«,  and  incfi- 

PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY.  caud  iu  proximity  to  the  active  agency  of 

^  fire»  bat  no  flame  appeared,    rortning  too 

HOLWORTH  Cliff,  co.  Dorset,  •«>»«  P'?**-  jhe  following  day,  they  mad* 

an  opemng  of  rather  larger  dimensiona  m 

(Continued  from  p,  898.)  front,  and  about  ten  feet  in  depth,  <m  the 

Notwithstanding  the  external  appearance  west  side  of  the  first  day's  operation,  merely 

«/  the  Cliff  (says  a  Corretpnndentj  presenu  leaving  a  portion  of  the  stone  between,  in  « 

such  marked  indications  of  the  agency  of  perpendicular  position,  sufficient  to  aupport 

internal  fire,  yet  a  manifest  disinclination  ^ad   prevent  the  decltniug*  super-straton 

has  been  shewn  by  many  individuals  to  be-  pf  rock  from  falling. 

lieve  the  existence  of  subterraneous  fire  After  working  alx>nt  three  hotna,  a  lurid 
within  it;  inferring  (imder^the  idea  that  flame  of  fire  appeared,  issuing  out  of  a  small 
the  original  cause  of  ignition  was  effected  by  fissure,  on  the  east  side  of  the  first  openings 
lightning  falling  on  or  rather  skimming  over  caused  seemingly  by  the  action  of  the  ex- 
a  sur&ce  highly  impr^nated  with  inflam-  temal  air;  a  communication  having. been 
mable  matter)  it  could  not  have  penetrated  opened  through  some  intervening  fissnret, 
deep  enough  into  the  soil  to  have  produced  almost  imperceptible,  which  produced  the 
such  a  consequence.  It  is  unnecessary  to  ignition.  The  flame,  about  a  foot  in  length, 
urge  any  argument  on  the  subject,  as  the  teemed  playing  on  the  surfue  of  the  atone, 
pomt  is  now  placed  beyond  a  doubt,  It  hav*  and  afker  some  time  fixed  on  a  portion  of 
ing  been  ascertained,  by  a  process  about  to  Ixtumen,  which  increased  it ;  it  then  sfwaad 
be  detailed,  that  fire  does  exist  within  the  iuelf  over  a  larger  space,  and  uUimately 
bowels  of  the  Qiff,  but  to  how  great  an  creeping  into  the  second  opening,  presented 
extent  cannot  be  determined.  This  pheno-  a  fire  of  considerable  magnitude ;  and  ttill 
nenon  is  obviously  produced. by  a  cause  very  extending,  aided  by  a  continued  eupply  of 
distinct  from  that  of  lightning.  The  opera-  external  air,  produced  so  great  a  body  of 
tions  of  Nature  are  proceeding  progressively  flre,  as  ultimately  to  resemble  that  of  a 
in  her  unfathomable  magaxine  beneath  us ;  imeliing  furnace.  This  appearance  cooti* 
and,  although  appearing  slow  to  us  short-  nued,  until  the  upper  part  of  the  cavern,  by 
sighted  moruls,  are  not  less  certain,  and  the  cunsumption  or  weakening  of  the  prop, 
are  gradually  and  regularly  advancing  to-  sunk  in,  and  filled  up  these  openings  (ae 
wards  completion  ;  the  effects,  fur  the  same  happened  originally  to  that  aperture  in 
reason,  seem  to  us  as  sudden  as  they  are  which  the  fire  first  became  visible),  whicK 
extensive,  awful,  and  astonishing.  has  consequently  suppressed  every  appear- 
How  little  do  we  really  know  of  the  ance  of  an  object  so  interesting,  until  the 
theory  of  the  soil,  on  which  we  are  con-  recurrence  of  an  event,  similar  to  the  pri» 
stantly  walking  !  How  much  less  still  of  jnuTy  cause,  may  open  another  aperture, 
this  vast  and  glorious  planet,  which  Provi-  "ITie  workmen  were  ^obliged  -to  continue 
dence  has  permitted  us  to  occupy  as  our  their  toilsome  and  unpleaMnt  task  during 
residence  for  a  few  years,  preparatory  to  our  the  later  part  of  the  second  day,  in  a  aitoa- 
futroduction  to  some  other!  We  who  are  tion  bordering  on  suffocation,  from  the 
apt  to  view  things  through  a  medium  of  our  united  eflfecU  of  oppressive  heat  and  efllovia. 
own  construction,  too  oflen  as  vain  as  de-  The  materials  excavated  from  the  two  onen» 
ceptive,  at  best  but  very  superficial,  and,  iogs  were  promiscuously  thrown  together^ 
without  any  references  to  first  causer,  roust  at  the  mouth  of  the  cavern,  forming  a  beapy 
of  necessity  deduce  specious  and  groundleu  which  ignited  spontaneously  in  ihe  coune 
conclusions  as  to  effects. — But  to  return  to  of  a  few  hours,  and  during  the  evening  ex- 
the  immediate  subject  of  the  Cliff.  hibited  a  novel  and  pleasing  sight  to  the 

It  was  considered  advisable  to  attempt  inhabitants  and  visitors  at  Weymouth,  a 

boring  the  soil  as  near  the  largest  aperture  along  the  coast.  Viator. 

as  could  be  done,  to  ascertain  its  peculiar  . 

^     qualities,  and  at  what  depth  beneath  the  ...  •  ^       ».•        n.    ^    «u 

^^     A       •  I  ^  1.    r      J     Tw.  .*•..»»*  A  discovery,  mtercsting  alike  to  the 

surface  fire  misht  be  found.    1  ne  attempt,  .      ,.  ^       j^lu  I'l.j^ 

r  V    •       tL't  J      -•  -  *-  .k^  k-Li  turalist   and    the   geolugical  student,   wsa 

however,  bavms  failed,  owmg  to  the  hard-  ,       £•      %  •  ^u    ii/r    ^  r^  ir 

r  A         .^  •  1      r     u«  k  »u.  ri:<r  :.  mmde  a  few  days  ago  in  the  Moat  CollierT» 

ness  of  the  materials  of  which  the  Cliff  is  .     ^,  .  ,  •'  *.  \a.  ,        ,     c  ir  -j  u« 

J   *      1  u    -  ..^    ^*  «^  —^-u  *n  the  pansh  of  Tipton^   in  Staffordahire. 

composed,  two  labourers  were  set  to  work,  ^      ^  ./~.  fT  .    r  *u    .      ». 

Jr^j*  «.:a. -..«™  A  petnfaction  resembling  part  of  the  trunk 

on  tue^U,  the  Mth  'fAPnl.  «tb  proper  ^V   con.ider  Jil-ixed^  £».  toirud.  tU 
.mplementt,  forth.  »«rpo«  of  e,o.«uog,  „^„i„g  to  length  two  feet  four. 

they  -"^.d  out  »d  «mo^d  .  ca».der»-         ^^  ^  .^  tlrcomfe^nce  four  feet  te. 

be  quMfty  of  the  .oU.  "J^'"5  *•  Pf'""  jnche.  with  the  b»k formed  into coJ.  •» 

cipal  aperture,  to   an    opening  extending  e      j  '  i  •  u..        •.• 

.t^ut  .S  ftet  by  «Ten  Tfront,  «>d  d^  foumi  m  neerly  ».  upr.ght  po..t.oD,  uh^ 

9\x  feet  in  depth.  Previous  to  finishing  their  ".  ; ' 

day*a  work,  a  few  sparks  of  fire  were  seen         *  The  stratum  of  rock  at  this  part  of  the 

fal/iog  from  some  broken  blocks  of  stone  ;  Cliff  exhibits  a  dip  of  at  least  40  degrees  to 

th§  /oterior  rock  exhibiud  a  de^tea  ol  it^-  tVi*  TxotCtxN«w^» 


JPART  I.]  Domestic  Occumnces,  C5$ 

the  strata  of  iron-itone,   at  the  depth  of  instance  of  the  Fongevity  of  trees.     Single 

upwards  of  two  hundredl  jardt  beiow  the  bodies,  bonee,  and  remnants  of  arms  and 

surface,  and  which,  in  the  extraction  of  it»  armour,  have  been  not  uofireqaentlj  found 

wae   broken  from   the  upper  part  of  th«  in  the  same  neighbourhood ;  but  it  is  rather 

trunk,  that  still  remains  in  the  earth.    On  remarkable  that  on  the  present  occasion  no 

the  exposure  of  this  fossil  to  the  atmospheric  warlike  implements  were  discovered. 
'    air,  the  coal  formed  from  the  bark  shivered  ^ 

from  the  trunk.    So  great  a  curiosity  is  LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY, 
this  specimen  considered,    that  the   pro*  ,        , 
prieton  of  the  colliery,  at  their  quarterly          ,       ,    ^  Iwititutiow. 
meeting,  passed  a  resolution,    generously  .   *^Tu      The  6rst  annual  general  meet- 
offering  it  as  a  present  to  the  Trustees  of  '"«  ^^'"S  members  of  this  Institution  took 
the  British  Museum ;  and  there  can  be  no  f/* *"*  ^  ^'»"'»^**  •■'°°-     '*  ''^  f«'™«i  ^« 
doubt,  that  it  will  be  deemed  a  valuable  ac-  T  ^^^  "•^•"y.P"'PO«e.  amongst  others 
quUition  to  the  numerous  fossils  which  are  f  g/^»og  "^formation  to  those  of  the  pro- 

already  deposited  in  that  national  institution.     J??"'*'*  ''^^  •/!  '°  ?«^?  <>'  »^  ^X  ™«»«  «^  • 

hbnu7,  and  of  fisciliUting  the  transaction  of 
A  curious  discovery  was  made  a  few  days     business.  The  report  suted,  that  456*  mem« 
ago    at   Pomham    Saint   Genevieve,   near     ^n  of  the  profession  had  subscribed  to  the 
Bury.    Mien  had  been  for  some  days  em-     Institution  to  the  amount  of  44,150^,  of 
ployed  in  felling  a  pollard  ash  near  the     whom  347  had  paid  the  first  coll,  the  amount 
church,  which  had  the  appearance  of  great     of  whose  sums  formed  four-fifihs   of  the 
antiquity,  being  not  less  tnan  eighteen  feet     ^^ole.    The    disbursements    amounted  to 
in    girth,  and  very  much    decayed;    and     *^  71/.  Is.,  and  the  funds  had  been  invested  in 
standing  upon  a  small  hillock,  which  seemed     Exchequer  bills,  with  the    exception    of 
to  have  been  left  at  a  very  distant  period,     340/.  9s.  remaining  in  the   banker's  hands; 
when  the  rest  of  the  soil  around  it  had  been     ^^^^  >o  many  individuals  had  already  shown 
lowered.     On  the  fidl  of  the  tree,  the  roots,     ^^^ir  approbation  of  the  plan  by  paying  their 
which  were  of  unusual  size  and  length,  tore     ^^^  instalment,  that  they  had  no  doubt  the 
up  the  ground  to  a  considerable  extent>     ^"'^  amount  originally  contemplated — ^name^ 
when  immediately  under  the  trunk   were     ^J  50,000/. — would  be  eventually  collected, 
discovered  a  large  quantity  of  skeletons,  or     when  the  objects   of  the    institution   wert 
rather  fragments  of  skeletons,  all  lying  in  a     ™ore  generally  known  among  the  profisssioi^ 
circle,  with  the  heads  inwards,  and  piled         '^^  Idea  of  this  institution,  it  appears, 
tier  above  ^ier,  from  the  depth  of  about     was  suggested  by  the  singular  fact,   that 
four  feet,  being  probably  the  remains  of    whilst  the  various  public  bodies,  companies, 
several  hundred  bodies.    The  most  perfect     <^°d  commercial  and  trading  classes  in  the 
of  the  bones  was  a  lower  jaw  of  large  di-     Metropolis,  ami  indeed  in  many  of  the  pr«n- 
mensions,  containing  the  whole  of  the  teeth;     ^'P^l  towns  in  the  kingdom,  have  long  pos* 
all  the  rest  were  very  much  decayed.     It  is     M*sed  places  of  general  resort  for  the  mora 
well  known,  both  from  history  and  the  tra-     convenient  transaction  of  their  business,  and 
dition  of  names,  that  in  the  rei^  of  Henry     while  numerous  institutions  for  promoting 
the  Second,  A.D.  1 173,  this  village  was  the     literature  and  science  amongst  all  ranks  and 
scene  of  a  sanguinary  and  decisive  battle,     conditions  of  society  have  been  long  esta* 
According  to  Hoveden,  the  Earl  of  Leices-     blished,  and  others  are  daily  springing  up, 
tet  having  made  a  descent  upon  Suffolk,  at     ^^fi  attomies  and  solicitors   should  still  be 
the  head  of  a  great  body  of  Flemings,  to     without  an  establishment  in  London  to  af- 
ftupport  the  claim  of  the  king's  undutiful     ford  them  similar  advantages;  moreparticu« 
son  to  his  father's  dominions,  and  having     larly  when  the  halls  and  libraries  of  tne  Inne 
been  joined  by  Hugh  Bigod,  Earl  of  Nor-     of  Ginrt,  the  clubs  of  barristers,  special 
folk,  who  put  the  Castle  of  Framlingham     pUaders,  and  conveyancers,  &c.,  fum'ish  a 
into  his  hands,  was  encountered  here  by     strong  presumption  of  the  advantages  which 
Richard  de  Lucy,  the  guardian  of  the  realm     would  prol>ably  result  firom  an  estsblisbment 
in  the  king's  absence,  with  a  less  numerous     of  a    similar   description  for   attomies  in 
but  braver  army ;  and  the  Flemings,  being     London. 

mostly  weavers,  and  other  tradesmen,  w«>re  Mr.  Tooke,  in  moving  that  the  report  bo 
broken  in  an  instant,  ten  thousand  of  them  received,  dwelt  upon  the  advantages  which 
put  to  the  sword,  and  the  rest  were  glad  to  must,  in  his  opinion,  arise  from  the  institu* 
compound  for  a  safe  retreat  into  their  own  tion  to  the  youn^  men  of  the  profession,  in 
country.  It  is,  therefore,  probable  that  esublishing  unirormity  and  liberality  of 
these  were  the  slain  of  the  victorious  party,  practice,  and  advancing  their  education  to 
firom  the  careful,  yet  singular  manner  in  that  sute  to  which  every  gentleman  ought 
which  the  bodies  wefe  deposited  t  and  that,  to  aspire.  It  was  calculated  to  further  the 
afber  the  earth  was  he^>ed  over  them,  tlie  interests  of  the  profession,  to  ^bridge  its  la- 
ash  was  planted  to  nsark  the  spot.  If  this  hour,  and  at  the  same  time  enable  it  to  prv-' 
iuppotitioa  bt  correct^  it  i^ords  a  striking    Mrve  ito  relative  position  in  society. 


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[xcvi. 


PROMOTIONS    AND    PREFERMENTS. 


GaZITTK  pKOMOTIOIff. 

JVar-Office^  JwM  «5,— 4th  lUg.  of  Foot, 
to  bear  va  ilMir  •oloiirt  waA  MpoiBtiaeiito 
the  Word  «*  BUdensburg."— The  Ceylon 
Reg.  to  bear  tlia  aame  af  tht  "  Ceylon  Rifle 
aeg/'— 40th  ditto,  U.-C0I.  Tbo.  Valiant, 
ttd  Foot,  to  be  L^ent-Col.— 58d  ditto, 
Major  Jonathao  Peel,  69th  Foot,  to  bt 
Lieat.*CoL^8td  ditto.  Brevet  CoL  Heaiy 
ThvratoD,  4(Hh  Foot,  to  be  Lieut  -Col. 

EecLifumcAL  PftartRMKitTfl. 
The  Hon.  aad  Rer.  Hagh  Ferej,  to  be  fip. 

of  Roeheitar,  vice  King,  dee. 
The  Right  Rev.  Dr.  Carr,  Bp.  of  Chiehet- 

tar,  to  be  aCaaoa  Res.  of  St.  Paare. 
Rev.  E.  Mellish,  to  be  Dean  of  HereAird. 
Rev.  Dr.  Millmgehamp,  to  be  Archd.  of 
-    Carmarthen. 

Rev.  W.  King,  to  be  Archd.  of  Rocheater. 
Rev.  Drr  Somner,  to  the  GoMan  Prebw  at 

Durham. 
Rer.  F.  W.  Baylev,  to  a  Preb.  in  Roeheifer 

Cath. 
Rev.  W.  C.  Leaeh,  a  Minor  Caaaa  and  Pre* 

ecator  of  El  j  Cath. 
Rev.  J.  Bluek,  Bower's  Giffbrd  R.  Essex. 
Rev.  R.  Coekburn,  Banning  R.  Kent. 


Rev.  J.  Greenwood,  Gainscal»e  R.  Eaaex. 
Rev.  R  Liicas,  Edith  Weston  R.  Rutlaad. 
Rev.  W.  Michell,  Barwick  R.  Soni^raet. 
Re? .  J.  Rudd,  to  Hallaughton  Preh.  ia  tltt 

Coll.  Church  of  Southwell. 
Hon.  and  Rev.  M.  J.  Stapleton,  Todley- 

cum-Capel  V.  and  Mereworth  BL  Kem. 
Rev.  T.  SjmondSf  Stanton  Harcoart  V. 


Civil.  PaAnmM 


Lord  Grmraay  ftohaa 


•f  Ex- 


atsa. 
Lord  Plttnk8t^  Chief  Jnslioa  •£  die 

man  Plena  in  Ireland,  vtor  Lord  Noebarj. 
HenryJay,  esq.  Attorney- gen.  for  Imlaa^ 
Joha  Wylde,  aaq.  ^•cum  q£  Lava,  Chief 

Justioe  of  the  colony  of  tha  Capo  ii  Qomi 

Hope. 
Lord  W.  Banttnok»  Gavem«r-geMWI   af 

India. 
Sir' John  Maloolm,  Govaraor  of  Boaafa^ 
S.  R.  LoshingtoB,  asq.  Gavaraor  of  Madaaa. 
John  Peter  Grant*  eaq.  ana  of  iha  Jadgea 

of  the  Supreme  Court  at  Bombay. 
Rev.  G.  P.  Ricbaida,  to  be  Maaier  m£  Bctvi^ 

ley  Free  Graaunar  SchooL 


BIRTHS. 


■  Jum  IS.  The  wife  of  Dr.  Tumbull,  of 
HnU,  a  aaa^-*— IB.  In  Baker-st.  Port- 
•aa-square,  the  wik  of  W.  Codringtoa,  esq. 
fcaon.>        go.    At  Howshamt  the  wife  of 

Cat  Cholmley,  a  aonaiid  heir. i9.  The 

mUt  of  Chat.  Harriaan  Batley,  aaj.  M.P. 
Bavtrky,  a  eM  aad  heir.— -^.  The  wifii 
of  W.  Heygate,  esq.  a  ana.— At  Charitoa 
Kinga,  GtwMeatenbire,    the   wi£i    of    G. 

Stevtcoson,  eaq.  a  aoa  and  heir. ^Tbe  wifis 

af  W.  Keadall,  esq.  Harrow,  a  son  and  hair. 
•— ^At  Gilstoa  Rectory,  HerU,  tha  wifii 

of  iha  Bar.  W.  H.  Wilkinson,  a  son. 

•4.    At  Ihondaa,  Keut,  the  wife  of  C. 

Tylden  Pattanaoa,  asq.  a  daa ^At  Saling- 

mm,  Easas,  tha  wUt  of  Capt.  Harange, 
LN.  a  «a«-f-^At  the  Vicarage,  Great 
Suughton,  Hunts,   the  wife  of  the  Rev, 

Tha.  Clara,  a  dau. 96.    The  wife  of 

O.  Sigel,  Jan.  eaq.  a  aop  ——-The  wife  of 
Wak    fi«vka»    aaq.  af  Fit«harria  Hottsa> 


Berks,  a  dau. Tha  wife  of  R.  Blagdaa, 

esq.  of  Albemarle-atreet,  a  dau.— At 
Wootcan  Bassett,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Tho. 
Hyde  Riplev,  a  son.  At  Giffonfe  Hall, 
the  wife  of  P.  Power,  esq.  a  dau  ■  H. 
At  Lynebaro,  the  seat  of  J.  Balteel, 
esq.  Devonshire,  lady  Eliz.  Bulteel«  a  soa 

aud  heir lo  SJoane-street,  tha  wife  pf 

tlie  Rev.  H.  Clissold,  a  son. The  wife 

of  C.  Marryat,  esq.  Clarence-terrace^  Re- 
gent*s*park,  a  son  '  Of  a  dau.  the  wife 
of  Clias.  Brereton,  esq.  surgeoai,  of  Bever- 
ley.——.4t  Camberwell,  the  wife  of  Toh. 
Browne,  esq.  a  dau.— ^-S7.  The  wife  of  K. 

Downea,  esq.  of  Soho-square,  a  dau. 99. 

At  Preston  Kectorv,  near  Bath,  the  wife  ti 
the  Rev.  John  HammoQd,  a  aon^  ao. 
Mrs.  J.  K.  Hooper,  of  QueenhUhe,  a  aonu 
At  Hoole,  Cheshire,  the  wife  of  Gipi.  C. 
Hutchinson,  R.N.  a  son. 


MARRIAGES. 

taiehf*    At  Stafford,  John  Keadcrdan,  ton,  Davooahire,  to  Aagoata  Mary  Daafia^ 

aiq.  Li«iit.  R.N.  to  Eliz.  Harriett,  dau.  of  eldest  dau.  of  Joseph  Ptorie  Baaai 

Mr.-Brutton,  Oovamor  of  Stafford  Comlj  Heaoton    Conit,    near  Bametapla. 

Priaonw— M».At  BarmarboK,  tha  Rev.  W.  Uigh«Mth,    W.  H.  Hiiahflack,      .^    ^ 

BickfofdCohaiD>of  Cohanii  near  Oakhamp-  Gower-st.  Bedferd-sq.  to  Eliza»  eldasTdaii. 


FART  lO                                     Marriages.  C4l 

of   Jaroet    Crowdy,    eiq.     of  the   former  .  T.  Greenaway,  eiq  —At  St.  Luke's  Chel- 

place.  MA*  the  Rev.   W.  Cowlard,   of  LarDertoii> 

Junes.     At  Dublin,  Geo.  Nesbit  Tre-  Devonshire,  to  Miss  Falkland,  of  Sloane-st. 

dennick,  esq.  of  Fort  William,  Donegal,  to     At  Clowne,  Derbyshire,  Rich.  Machell, 

Lydia  Magee,  dau.  of  the  Abp.  of  Dublin,  esq.  of    Broughton   Grove,   co.  Lane,  to 

6.    At  Norton,  Fred.  Francis  Findon,  Harriet,  only    dau.    of  tlie    late    Joseph 

esq.  of  Ripston,  co.  Wore,  to  Clara,  third  Pawsey,  esq.  of  Silsoe,  Bedfordshire.^— ><: 

dau.  of  John  Hawkes,  esq  of  Norton  Hall,  At  Great   Malvern   Abbey   Church,  Capt. 

Suffordshire. 9.      Tho.     Welsh,     esq.  Rich.  RoUo  Houghton,  7Sd  Reg.  to  Mana, 

of  Duchess-street,  Portland-place,  to  Miss  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Hardy,  R^c- 

Wilson,   formerly  of  Drury-lane  Theatre,     tor  of  Loughborough. At  St.  MugA- 

1.1.  At  Gretna,  John-Moulton  Bence,  ret*s,    Westminster,   Wm.  Fagan,    esq.  of 

esq.  son  of  the  late  J.  B.  B.  oTHoIy  House,  Temple-hill,  near  Cork,  to  Mary,  only.  dao. 

Gloucester,  esq.  to  Georgiana  Eliza,  only  of  Chas.  Addis,  esq.         At  St.  George '•« 

child  of  W.  Jenkins,  esq.  of  East  Heath,  Hanover-square,  Geo.  eldest  son  of  Geo. 

near  Oakingham,  Berks. At  Oxted,  near  Palmer,  of  Nnzing  Park,  Essex,  esq.  toEUz. 

Godstone,  Surrey,   Stephen,  third  son   of  Charl.  dau.  of  John  Surtees,  late  of  New- 

Tho.  Duke,  esq.  of  Blakehurst,  near  Arun-  castlc-upon-Tyne,  esq.       ■  S5.     At  Alv«r- 

del,  to  Frances,  second   dau.  of  the  late  stoke,  Heniy,  fourth  son  of  Dr^  Batney,  of 

LiMit.-Col.  Francis  W.  Bellis,  E.  L  C Gosport,  to  Frances,  fourth  dau.  of  th«  lau^ 

14.    Tlie  Rev.  Wm.  Doncaster,  Rector  of  Rev.  J.  W.  Dodd,  Rector  of  North  Ruqd- 

Winterboum  Bassett,  Wilts,  to  Miss  Wil-  ton,  Norfilk,.  and  many  years  one  of  the 

Hams,  dau.  of  Lieut.-Col.  Williams. At     masters    of    Westminster    School. At 

St.  Marylehone  Church,    the  Hon.  Capt.  George's  Church,  Gibbs  Crawford  Antrobua^ 

Arthur  Legge,     brother   tn   the    Earl    of  esq.   of  Eaton  Hall,  Congleton,  M.P.   to 

Dartmouth,  to  the  Right  Hon.  Lady  Anne  Jane,  second  dao.  of  Sir  Couttt  Trotttr, 

Cath.  Holroyd,  sister  to  the  Earl  of  Shef-     hart. ;-At    Eosham,   Oxfordshire,    John 

field. 16.    At  Cheltenham,  Capt.  Alice  Grandin,  esq.  of  Frith-street,  Soho,  to  Mies 

Campbell,  R.N.  ofArdpatrick,  Argyleshire,  Sarah  Attwood,  of  Newland  House,  Ena- 

to  Harriet,  youngest  dao.  of  James  Royds,  ham.-^—— 96.     At  St.  George's*  Hanover- 

esq.  of  Mount  Fringe,  Lancashire. 19*  square,  Felix  Lad  broke,  esq.  of  Grosv^nor- 

At  North   Ferriby,    Matthew    Babington,  street,  to  EYiz.  only  dau.  of  the  late  Marcus 

esq.  son  of  Tho.  Babington,  esq.  of  Rothley  Beresford,  esq.  and  the  L^y  Frances  Bertps- 

Temple,  Leicestershire,  to  Fanny,  dau.  of     ford. The  Rev.  Geo.  Au^.  Montgomery, 

the  late  Nicholas  Sykes,  esq.  of  Swanland,  to  Cecilia,  third  dau.  of  Dr.  Ueo.  Markham, 

near  Hull Chas.  Wager  Watson,  esq.     late  Dean  of  York. At  Wardour  Castle, 

son  and  heir  of  Sir  Chas.   Watson,  hart,  the  seat  of  Lord  Arundell,  Edw.  Doughty, 

of  Wraking,   Cambridgeshire,   to  Jemima  esq.  of  Snarford  Hall  and  West  Barkwortn, 

Charlotte  Garth  Collorton,   eldest  dau.  of  .  co.  Line,  brother  to  Sir  Henry  Tichboroe, 

the   Countess   Morel  dt  Champemont,  by  hart,  to    the    Hon.    Katharine,    sister  to 

the    late  Chas.  Garth  Collerton,   esq.   of    Lord    Arundell. » At    Creditnn,     Rev. 

Hainea  Hill,  Wilts. 90.    The  Rev.  H.  Henry  Strangways,  Rector  of  Rewe,  Devon. 

Proctor,  B.A.   only  son  of  the  late  Gen.  to  Hester  Eleooara,  elxth  dau.  of  Jamea 

Proctor,  to  Sarah,  fifth  dau.  of  Col.  Sher-     Buller,  esq.  of  Downes. 97.     In  Lnn<> 

wood,  of  the  Bengal  Artillery. At  St.  don,  Capt.  Geo.  Fred.   Ryves,  R.N.  C.B. 

George's  Hanover- square,  Sir  Alex.  Camp-  son  of  late  Adm.  Ryves,  and  nephew  of  tht 

Ml,  bart.  to  Mies  Malcolm,  eldest  dau.  of  late  Lird  Arundel  of  Wardour,  to  Charity, 

M^oi-Gen.  Sir  John  Malcolm,  G.C.B third  dau.  of  Thos.  Tlieobald,  esq.  of  rat 

At  Great  Horkesley,  Essex,  D.  B.  Chap-     Grays,    Essex. ^At    St.    Pancras    New 

man,  esq.    to   Cliarlotte  Anne  Dorothea,  Church,    Geo.    Francis   Travers,    esq.    to 

eldest  dau.  of  Rev.  Dr.  Ward,  Prebendary  of  Mary,  widow  of  the  late  Lieut-Gen.  Treitt. 

Salisbury,  and  rector  of  Great  Horkesley  and     98.     At  Chelfea,  Josepli  Jessopp^  eeq. 

of  Alphamstope.^— At  Croydon,  Surrey,  of  Waltham   Abbey,  Essex,  to  Eophem'ia 

Rich.  Maurice  Bonnor,  esq.  t«)  Anna  Maria,  Frances,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Capt. 

second  dau.  of  Matthew  Harrison,  esq. Drummond. 98.      At     St.    Jaroee't 

At  St  George's,  Haoover-sq.  Edw.  Mostyn  Church,  Chas.  Blackbnro,  esq.  of  Portsee, 

Lloyd,  esq.  eldest  son  of  Sir  £.  Price  Lloyd,  HnnU,  W)  Eliz.  second  dau.  of  Chas.  Rivinc- 

bert  to  the  Lady  Harriet  Scott,  eldest  cten.     tim,  esq.  of  Weterloo-place. 80.     At 

ofEarl  ofClonmell. ^Tho.  Gibson  luman,  St  Mary's,  Bryanstone-square,  Henry  Bar- 

«eq.   barrister,  to  Lonisa,    eldest  dau.    of  ing,  esq.  to  the  Lady  Augusta  BnideneH, 

]aleRev.W.Batchellor,ofGrosvenor-plaee,     fifth  dau.  of  the  Earl  of  Curdigan. At 

Bath. 91.    At  Chatham,  T.  A.  P^rry,  Cbokham,  Berks,  Capt  Aug.  Chas.  Skya- 

«sq.  of  Cheltenham,  to  Maria,  eldeet  dau.  of  ner,  to  Maria  A.  Robbins,  eldest  dau.  of  the 

•Tho.  Greeoaway,  esq.    of  Soothan||itoii ;  .  Ute  Licut-Col.  Price  Robbins,  by  hie'  9d 

^o,  the  samo'day,  the  Rev.  A.  DoaaM,  wife  Anna  Mafia,  now  wife  of  Lodp  Moc- 

A.M.  to  Harriet,  youngest  dan.  of  the  same  ris  Prior,  e«<^.  V9.MtvAa\«t  \*%.\kv\jkXkVjvi'^, 

Gent.  Mag.  Suftpl.  XC VfL  Part  L  '         ^ 


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^KCVIf, 


OBITUARY. 


Rbar-Adm.  Sir  A.  C.  Dicksom. 
June  17.    At  Tichfield,  Hnntt,  Ag^ed 
bb.  Sir  Archibald-Coliiiiffwood  Dickiun, 
second  Barunet  of  Hftrditishani  in  Nor- 
folk, and  Rear-Admiral  of  the  Red. 

He  was  born  June  30,  177S,  son  of 
William  Dickson,  esq.  Admiral  of  the 
Blue,  by  his  first  wife  Jane,  daughter  of 
Alexander  Collin^wood,  esq.  of  Un- 
thank  In  Northumberland.  He  received 
bis  first  commission  in  1791*  and  served 
as  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Royal  Geor{;e» 
bearing  the  flag  of  Sir  Alexander  Hood 
(afterward  Lord  Bridport),  in  the  me- 
morable action  of  June  I,  1794.  He 
subsequently  commanded  the  Megsera 
ihre-vessel,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Post-Captain,  Dec.  19,  1796. 

In  1799t  when  his  father  succeeded 
the  late  Richard  Onslow  as  commander 
of  a  division  of  the  North  Sea  fleer, 
Capt.  Dickson  was  appointed  to  his 
fla^-ship,  the  Monarch,  74  guns,  from 
Which  he  afterwards  removed  into  the 
Veteran,  64,  and  in  her  assisted  at  the 
capture  of  the  Dutch  Rear-Adm.  Storey 
and  his  squadron  in  the  Texel.  He  sub- 
sequently accompanied  the  armament 
sent  to  Elsineur  to  give  weight  to  the 
remonstrances  of  Lord  Whitworth, 
whom  the  British  Government  had  sent 
over  to  adjust  the  dispute  that  had 
Arisen  on  the  subject  of  searching  neu- 
trals supposed  to  be  carrying  supplies  to 
the  enemy.  The  Veteran  also  formed 
part  of  Sir  Hyde  Parker's  fleet  employed 
against  the  Northern  Confederacy  iu  th« 
spring  of  1801. 

Sir  Archibald  married  at  Tichfteld, 
Aug.  17,  I797t  Harriet,  dau.  of  Adm. 
John  Buurmaister,  of  that  place;  and 
succeeded  liis  uncle,  the  late  Sir  Archi- 
bald Dickson,  Admiral  of  the  Blue,  iu 
1903,  his  name  having  Been  included  in 
remainder  of  the  Baronetcy,  which  was 
conferred  Sept.  81,  180^.  His  two 
elder  brothers  had  died  before  that  date, 
the  eldest  at  the  age  of  15,  and  the 
second  in  1795,  after  having  married  his 
cousin,  the  first  Sir  Arch.  Dickson's 
only  cbikl,  but  had  no  issue.  The  same 
lady  afterwards  became  the  second  wife 
of  Adm.  John>Cbild  Purvis,  who  died 
Feb.  23,  18^5,  and  has  a  memoir  in  vol. 
xcv.  i.  563. 

During  the  greater  part  of  the  latt 
war.  Sir  Archibald  commanded  the 
Orion,  74;  and  on  that  ship  being  put 
out  of  commission,  in  the  spring  of 
18IS,  ht  was  appointed  to  the  Akhar,  of 
SO  gutist  in  which  he  aetved  on  the 
South  American  station  amW  Oi«  coiv- 


elusion  of  hostilities.  His  last  appoint- 
ment was  in  July,  1815,  to  the  Rocb- 
fort,  80,  the  command  of  which  be  re- 
tained during  a  period  of  three  years. 
He  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  Rear- 
Admiral,  Aug.  12,  1819. 

By  the  lady  before- mentioned  Sir 
Archibald  bad  three  chiMren,  William, 
who  has  succeeded  to  the  Baronetcy* 
Harriet,  and  Jane,  married  A"^.  17, 
1820,  to  Capi.  T.  W,  CArter,  R.N.  His 
cousin  of  hU  own  name,  the  son  of 
Mnjor  Gen.  Dickson,  is  a  Post-Captaiiit 
and  his  half  brother,  David  John,  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  same  service. 


Sir  C.  T.  Palmer,  Bart. 

i4»n/30.  At  Wanlip  HilU'Leiceattr- 
shire,  aged  55,  Sir  Charles  Tbomat  Pal-' 
mer,  second  Barunet  of  that  place. 

He  was  the  eldest  surviving  son  of 
Sir  Charles  Grave  Hudson,  the  first  ami 
late  Baronet,  by  hi^  first  wife  Catbarine- 
Susannah,  eldest  dau.  and  cob.  of  Henry 
Palmer,  of  Wan  lip,  esq.  He  sacceedcti 
to  the  Baronetcy  on  his  fatheKi  death, 
Oct.  24,  1813,  and  in  the  sane  year  as* 
sumed  the  name  of  Palmer,  under  the 
will  of  his  maternal  grandHsiber.  He 
married,  July  14,  1802,  Harriett,  dan; 
ai»d  cub.  of  Sir  Wm.  Pepperell,  of  Kit* 
tery  in  New  England,  hart,  by  whcnn  be 
had  issue:  Louisa-Cat  banne,  born 
1803;  Mary-Anne,  born  1806;  Cara- 
line-Harriett,  bom  1809;  George-Jo« 
leph,  who  has  succeeded  to  the  title, 
born  1811  ;  Charles-Axdale,  bora  1818  1 
William-Henry,  burn  1815. 


Admiral  Shivers. 

June  1.  At  Wick  ham,  in  Hampabire^ 
aged  76,  Thomas  Revel!  ShiTers,  esq. 
Admiral  of  the  Blue. 

In  1778,  this  officer,  then  a  Liewle* 
nant,  rummanded  the  Penguin  amed 
vessel,  statioiie:!  at  Newfoundland.  He 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Cummaii- 
der  about  the  year  1782 ;  and  at  the 
termination  of  hostilities  with  the 
United  States  of  America,  we  find  biia 
at  the  Leeward  IsUnds,  in  the  Espion 
sloop.  His  post  coramiseion  bears  date 
Srpt.  21,  1790. 

.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  with 
the  French  republic,  Captain  Shivers 
was  appointed  to  the  Ariadne,  of  94 
guns,  iu  which  he  proceeded  to  the  M»> 
diterranean,  and  was  pretent  at  the  eva- 
eaation  of  Touion.  From  that  ship  he 
waa  removed  into  the  Alcide,  74,   bear- 

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PART  1.]  Ob iTUA lY.— if or^.  De  la  Flaoej-^Btethaoen.  643 


In  1798  and  17999  the  decttted  XVIII.  rewarded  bim  with  tbt  dimity  of 

commanded  the  Standard   of  64  guna^  a  peer.     He  was  nominated  a  member 

and  subsequently  the  Dffi an cp,  74.     He  of  the  French  Academy  in  1816,  and 

wRs  advanced  to  the  rank  of  Rear^Adm^  President    of  the   Cumroiuion   for   tb^ 

April  98,  1808,  Vice-A(*miral,  Aug.  12,  ke-organiaation     of     the    Polytecbnie 

1819,  and  Admiral,  M»y  97,  1835.  School. 

Betides  numerous  articles  In  the  col- 

MARguis  DB  LA  Placb.  lections  of  the  National  Institute,  the 
March  5.  The  Marquis  de  la  Place,  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  the  Polytech- 
a  French  mathematician  and  astrono-  "*«  Schools,  the  principal  works  of  U 
mer  of  the  first  rank.  This  distinguish-  P*»ce  were  as  follow  i  — •«  Theory  of  the 
ed  onifimeiit  of  science  wa*  the  son  of  Motion  and  Elliptleal  Figure  of  tbt 
a  husbandman,  resident  at  Beaumont-  Planets,"  1784  ;  "Theory  of  the  attrac- 
eii  Ange,  near  Pont  I'Ev^que.  He  was  •"ons  of  Spheroids,  and  the  Figure  of  the 
born  in  1749;  and  for  some  time  he  PUaets,"  1785;  "Exposition  of  the 
taught  the  mathematics  at  the  scboiil  in  «y«em  of  the  World,"  9  vols.  1796; 
his  native  towm  but  he  was  induced  to  *' Treatise  on  Celestial  Mechanism,*'  4 
regard  Paris  as  the  only  proper  sphere  vo*»«  ^^99,  I80S,  1805;  "Analytical 
for  his  talents.  There,  by  his  skill  in  Theory  of  Probabilities,"  1819 ;  "Phi* 
analysis,  and  in  the  higher  geometry,  be  losopliical  Essay  on  Probabilities,"  1814. 
looii  acquired  rt-putation.  At  the  ex-  **  *'•  Marquis  de  la  Place  was,  if  we 
pence  and  under  the  immediate  patron-  miatake  not,  the  first  who  analytteally 
age  of  the  president,  De  Sar«m,  he  pub-  prortd  the  existence  and  extent  of  the 
lisbed  his  first  work,  the  "  Theory  of  the  I**"*""  atmosphere,  and  Terified  its  seeu- 
Motion  and  Elliptical  Figufe  of  the  I*""  equation.  He  also  determined  the 
Planets."  M.  la  Place  was  the  succes-  reciprocal  perturbations  of  all  the  prin«> 
sor  of  B^sout,  as  exsminer  of  the  Royal  «P*1  planets  ;  and  be  forwarded,  by  im- 
Corps  of  Artillery  j  and  be  became,  portant  discoveries,  a  similar  work  on 
successively,  member  of  the  Academy  of  <*»«  Satellites  of  Jupiter,  commenced  by 
ScifnrtfR,  of  the  National  Institute,  and  Lagrange,  and  completed  by  Delambre. 
of  the  Board  of  Longitude.  In  1796.  be  His  studies  were  not,  however,  confined 
dedicatedtothe  Counsel  of  Five  Hundred  to  the  malberoafics,  geometry,  and  at- 
bls  "  Exposition  of  the  System  of  the  tronomy;  be  devoted  himself,  with  con- 
Worid  ;•'  and  in  the  same  year  be  ap-  iiderable  ardour,  to  chemistry ;  in  com- 
peared before  the  bar  ».f  that  assembly,  junction  with  LavoUier,  he  invented  the 
at  the  head  of  a  deputation  to  present  calorimeter;  and  he  repeated  the  expe- 
the  Annual  Report  of  the  proceedings  of  rimenis  of  Monge  and  Cavendish,  on 
the  National  Institute;  and,  in  an  ap-  the  decomposition  of  water, 
propriate  address,  devoted  to  the  mc-  ' 
mory  of  men  of  talents  and  learning,  he  Beethoven. 
paid  an  affecting  tribute  to  the  worth  Jlfarch^].  At  Vienna,  Aged  57,  Lud- 
of  his  generous  benefactor,  De  Saron.  wig  Von  Beethoven,  the  far-celebrated 
Some  time  afterwards,  he  was,  under  German  composer, 
the  Consular  government,  appointed  He  was  bom  at  Baun,  where  bit 
Minister  of  the  Interior}  from  whiih  father  was  the  tenor  singer  in  the  Etec- 
office  he  wa«,  in  December  1799,  trans-  tor's  chapel.  His  earliest  instructions 
ferred  to  the  Conservative  Senate,  to  in  music,  were  received  from  Neefe,  the 
make  room  for  Lucien  Buonaparte.  In  court  organist;  and  ao  rapid  was  his 
July,  1B03,  be  was  elected  President  of  progress,  that,  at  the  early  age  of  eleven, 
the  Conservative  Senate ;  and,  in  Sep-  he  was  able  to  play  the  far-famed  pre- 
terober,  he  became  Chancellor  of  that  ludes  and  fugues  of  the  great  Sebastian 
body,  with  the  title  of  Grand  Cordon  of  Bach.  He  was  early  instnicted  in  com- 
the  Legion  of  Honour.  In  September,  position  ;  as,  at  the  same  age,  we  find 
1805,  he  made  a  report  to  the  Senate,  published  at  Manheim  and  Speyer, 
on  the  necessity  of  resuming  the  Gre-  under  his  name,  variations  to  a  march, 
p>nan  calendar,  and  discarding  that  of  sonatas  and  songs,  all  for  the  piano-forte, 
the  Revolution,  a  piece  of  mummery  The  Elector  of  Cologne,  attracted  by  his 
which,  with  all  its  absurdities,  had  been  youthful  genius,  became  bis  patron; 
stolen  from  the  Dutch  colonists  at  the  and,  in  1793)  he  sent  him  to  Vienna,  ae 
Cape  of  Good  Hope.  M.  La  Place  was,  court  organist,  under  the  celebrated 
In  1811,  named  counsellor  to  the  Ma-  Haydn.  Two  years  afterwards,  Haydn, 
temal  society  ;  and,  in  1813,  Grand  on  leaving  Vieuna  for  London,  placed 
Cordon  of  the  Re-union.  In  April,  young  Beethoven  under  the  care  of  A|. 
1814,'  he  voted  for  a  provisional  go-  bretchtsberger,  one  of  the  most  learned 
Temment,  and  the  dethronement  of  of  modem  contra  puntists.  At  this 
Buonaparte;   services  for  which  Louis  period,  however,  Beethoven  wu  «&«««. 


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fc"  • 


di^tiusuiftbed  for  hit  peribnnance  than 
for  bit  coropositiont :  the  critict  of  the 
AUgemeine  Mutikalithe  Zeitnf;  of 
LeiptiCf  the  firtt  mutical  Review  in 
Europe,  while  they  were  loud  in  their 
praitei  of  him  at  a  player,  were  pro- 
portionately tevere  in  their  remarkt  on 
hit  attemptt  at  compotition,  not  allow- 
infP  to  hioi  eren  tba  merit  of  framinf; 
variations. 

In  1801,  the  death  of  the  elector,  and 
the  precarious  tituatioo  of  the  court  of 
Cologne  during  the  war,  induced  Beet- 
hoven to  make  choice  of  Vienna  at  bit 
future  and  permanent  residence.  Ori- 
ginal and  independant  in  his  modes  of 
thinking,  at  well  at  in  the  style  of  bit 
musical  comp«>titiun,  Beethoven's  man^ 
nert  appear  to  have  been  rather  repul- 
eive  than  conciliating  {  his  friends  were 
few,  and  he  was  in  open  enmity  with 
many.  The  court  taste  at  Vienna  was 
in  favour  of  Italian  music ;  Salieri,  the 
Italian,  was,  at  thit  time,  in  possession 
of  all  the  honours  and  all  the  emolu- 
ments of  principal  Maestro  di  Capella  to 
t  heir  Imperial  Majetties :  and  Beet  bo  ven, 
without  patronage  or  support,  was  left 
entirely  to  his  own  resources.  Under 
circumstances  thus  unfavourable,  he  was 
induced,  in  1809f  tu  accept  an  office 
from  the  new  Westphalian  ^oiirt  of 
Jerome  Buonaparte,  of  the  situation  of 
Maestro  di  Capella  ;  fortunately,  how- 
ever, for  the  honour  of  Vienna  and  of 
Austria,  the  Archduke  Rodolph,  and 
the  Princes  Lobkowiti  and  Kin^ky,  in- 
duced him  to  rescind  his  determination. 
In  the  handsomest  and  most  delicate 
manner  those  princes  had  an  instru- 
ment drawn  up,  by  which  they  settled 
upon  Beethoven  an  annuity  of  4,000 
florins,  with  no  other  condition,  than 
thai,  so  long  as  he  should  enjoy  it,  he 
must  reside  at  Vienna,  or  in  some  other 
part  of  the  Austrian  dominions  not  be- 
ing ,  allowed  to  visit  foreign  countries, 
unless  by  the  express  consent  of  his 
patrons,  \yith  such  an  income,  equal 
to  nearly  400/.  a  year,  we  are  at  a  loss 
to  know  bow  it  was  that  the  latter  pe- 
riod of  Beethoven*s  life  was  passed  in 
penury,  and,  at  it  is  said,  almost  in  a 
^itate  of  destitution.  Beethoven  could 
not  have  forfeited  bis  annuity;  for, 
although  he  had  always  a  great  wish  to 
see  foreign  countries,  particularly  Eng- 
land, be  never  even  made  applicitioii 
for  leave  of  absence:  yet  early  in  the 
present  year  a  subscription  nas  raised 
for  his  benefit  in  this  country. 

Beethoven  had  received  a  regular 
classical  education;  Homer  and  Plutarch 
were  his  great  favourites  among  the 
ancients ;  and  of  the  native  poets, 
Sehiller  and  Goethe  (wbo  was  his  )>er- 


sonal  friend),  he  preferred  te  all  btbert. 
For  a  considerable  time  he  studied  mofw 
abstruse  subjects,  such  aa  Kant's  philo- 
sophy, &c. 

We  have  seen  a  list  of  no  few^r  tbaa 
120  of  Beethoven's  musical  compoai- 
tionsy  the  greater  part  of  which  are 
allowed  to  be  productions  of  the  hi|shest 
order.  His  overture  to  the  **  Men  of 
Rome  and  Lens,"  and  his  piano-fortc 
concerto  in  C  minor,  6.  p.  37t  would 
alone  be  sufficient  to  immortalize  him. 
In  many  of  bis  orchestral  symphonies, 
overtures,  quartettos  for  the  vtoliii,  con- 
certos, trios,  and  sonatas  for  the  piano- 
forte, he  may  be  ranked  with  Haydn  and 
Mozart.  Of  Handel  and  Mozart  Beeth- 
oven was  a  worshipping  admirer;  to  the 
works  of  modern  composers  he  aeems  to 
have  paid  but  little  attention.  When 
asked  about  «  Der  Freischuts,"  his  an- 
swer was,  '*  I  believe  one  Weber  bat 
written  it."  Of  his  own  productiona  he 
thought  bis  second  mass  was  the  best. 

For  many  years  Beethoven  laboured 
under  the  affliction  of  severe  deafness; 
latterly  he  had  a  confirmed  dn-psy.  In 
their  neglect  of  living  genius  the  feelings 
of  the  Gera^ans  appear  to  assimilate  too 
closely  with  those  of  their  brethren  the 
English;  for,  although  Beethoven  was 
allowed  to  languish  and  expire  in 
poverty,  bis  remains  were  honouivd  with 
a  s|)lendid  and  ostentatious  funeraL 

Capt.  Matson,  R.N. 

Laleljf.  At  Walmer,  Henry  Matson, 
esq.  Captain  R.N.  brother  to  Rear.  Admi- 
ral Richard  Matson,  and  cousin  tu  Vice- 
Admiral  John  Harvey. 

This  officer  was  born  at  Sandwich, 
and  entered  the  naval  service  In  1790, 
as  a  Midshipman  on  board  the  Arrogant 
of  74  guns,  commanded  by  his  mater- 
nal uncle  the  late  Capt.  John  Harvey, 
whose  heroic  conduct  on  the  memorable 
1st  of  June,  1794,  highly  disting:ui8hed 
him. 

From  the  Arrogant  Mr.  Matson  was 
very  soon  removed  into  the  Rose  of  2% 
guns  I  in  which  ship  and  the  Huaaa 
frigate  be  completed  his  probationary 
term  of  service  on  the  Halifax  station, 
where  be  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Lieut,  in  the  Rover,  a  Bermuda  built 
sloop  of  war,  about  the  month  of  June, 
179G. 

In  the  following  year  Lieut.  Matson 
proceeded  to  the  West  Indies,  and  Joined 
the  Prince  of  Wales,  a  second  rate, 
bearing^  the  flag  of  bis  uncle,  the  late 
Sir  Henry  Harvey,  K.B.  by  whom  he 
was  made  a  Commander,  and  appointed 
to  the  Cyane  of  18  guns,  March  8S, 
1799.  His  post  comraistion  bears  date 
Dec.  15,  1802. 


PART  I.] 


Obituahy. — Mr,  Giihert  Bwrm. 


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*  -  Aft«r  tervinff  m  flis-«tpte3ii  to  Com*- 
modoreSir  SamtMl  Hood,  lie  comnMtnded 
tbe  Blenbeim  of  74  g;ons,  ai^  a  prirate 
■hip,  till  July  1803,  when  he  joined  the 
Venus  frigate,  and  sailed  for  England  as 
conToy  to  the  homeward-boond  trade. 
During  the  ensuing  four  years  we  find 
him  employed  as  a  cruiser  on  the  Irish> 
Boulogne,  and  Leeward  Island  stations. 
On  the  10th  July,  1805,  be  captured 
rHirondelle,  a  French  privateer  of  16 
guns,  and  90  men  ;  and  early  in  1807, 
la  Determine,  of  14  guns  and  108  men. 
He  returned  to  England,  with  a  valuable 
fleet  under  his  protection,  in  the  autumn 
of  1 807 ;  and  <on  his  arrival  was  pre- 
sented  by  the  masters  thereof  with  a 
piece  of  plate  as  a  testimony  of  their 
gratitude  for  the  attention  he  had  paid 
to  them  during  the  voyage. 

Captain  Matson's  next  appointment 
was  in  May,  1809,  to  the  St.  Fiorenso 
of  40  guns,  which  frigate  formed  part 
of  the  expedition  sent  against  Walche- 
ren  in  the  summer  of  that  year.  He 
was  put  out  of  commission  in  March, 
1810;  and  was  afterwards  always  on 
half  pay. 

Mk.  Gilbert  Burns. 

May  8.  At  Grant's  Braes,  near  Had- 
dington, aged 66,  Mr.  Gilbert  Bums,  fur 
many  years  factor  to  the  late  Lady 
Blantyre,  and  the  present  Lord,  and  bro- 
ther to  Robert  the  celebrated  Puet. 

He  was  eighteen  months  younger  than 
the  Bard  of  which  Scotland  is  so  proud. 
Like  htm,  he  was  early-  inured  to  toil, 
and  familiar  with  the  hiirdsbips  of  the 
peasant's  lot.  Both  were  subject  to  de- 
pression of  spirits,  and,  from  whatever 
cause,  had  contracted  the  same  bend  or 
stoop  of  the  shoulders.  In  other  re- 
spects, their  frames  were  cast  in  a  very 
manly  and  symmetrical  mould,  and  the 
profile  of  their  countenances  was  nearly 
alike ;  the  principal  disparity  existing 
in  the  form  and  expression  of  the  eye, 
which  in  Gilbert  was  fixed,  sagacious, 
and  steady— in  Robert  almost  always 
*'  in  a  fine  phfenxy  rolling.*' 

Their  father  was  a  ytry  remarkable 
man,  and  Gilbert  was  completely  tbe  re- 
semblance of  his  father.  His  piety  was 
equally  warm  and  sincere ;  and  in  all 
tbe  private  relations  of  life,  as  an  elder 
of  the  Church,  a  husband,  a  father,  a 
master,  and  a  friend,  he  was  pre-emi- 
nent. His  brother  cherished  for  .him 
the  warmest  affection,  and  uniformly 
venerated  the  judgment  of  one  who  was 
allied  to  him  in  genius  as  well  as  in 
blood.  His  writings,  it  \*  true,  want 
that  variety,  originality,  and  ease,  which 
shine  so  conspicuously  even  in  the  prose 


works  of  the  Poet ;  but  they  had  nany 
redeeming  points  about  them.  His. 
taste,  too,  was  as  pure  as  his  judgment 
was  masculine  I  and  he  has  been  heard  . 
to  say,  that  the  two  most  pleasurable 
moments  of  his  life  were — first y  when 
he  read  Mackenaie's  story  of  La  Rocba ; 
and,  secondly,  when  Robert  took  him 
apart  at  the  breakfast  or  dinner  hour, 
during  harvest,  and  read  to  him,  while 
seated  on  a  barley-sheaf,  the  manuscript 
copy  of  tiie  far-famed  '*  Cottar's  Satur- 
day Night." 

When  Robert  Burns  was  invited  by 
Dr.  Blacklock  to  visit  Edinburgh,  Gil- 
bert was  struggling  in  the  farm  of  Mos- 
girl,  and  toiling  late  and  early  to  keep  a 
house  over  the  beads  of  his  aged  mother 
and    unprotected    sisten.    The   Poet's 
success  was  the  first  thing  that  stem- 
med the  ebbing   tide  of  his   fortunes. 
On  settling  with  Mr.  Creech,  In  Feb. 
1788,  Robert  received,  as  tbe  profits  of 
his  second  publication,  about  500/.  and 
with  that   generosity  which   formed  a 
part  of  his  nature,  he  immediately  pre- 
sented  Gilbert  with  nearly  the  half  of 
his  whole  wealth.    Thus  succoured,  the 
deceased  married  a  Miss  Breckonridge, 
and  removed  to  a  better  farm,  at  Din- 
ning,   in    Dumfriesshire,   still    reserv- 
ing a  seat  at  the  family  board  for  hia 
truly  venerable  mother,  who  died  a  few 
years  ago.    While  at  Dinning,  he  was 
recommended  to  Lady  Blantyre,  whose 
estates  in  East  Lothian  he  has  for  nearly 
a  quarter  of  a  century,  since  managed 
with  the  greatest  fidelity  and  prudience. 
In  1819  he  was  invited  by  Messrs.  Cadell 
and  Davies  to  revise  a  new  edition  of  his 
brother's  works  ;  to  supply  whatever  he 
found  wanting,  and  correct  whatever  be 
thought  ainisi.    He  complied  with  the 
invitation,  and  by  appending  much  va- 
luable matter  to  tbe  late  Dr.  Currie's 
Biography,  at  once  vindicated  his  bro^ 
ther's  memory   from   many   gratuitous 
aspersions  cast  on  it,  and  established  his 
own  credit  as  an  author.    In  regard  to 
remuneration,  his  feelings  were  modest 
and  diffident  in  the  extreme ;  but  a  lite- 
rary  friend   fortunately  counselled  and 
kept  him  right ;  and  on  receiving  pay- 
ment, the   first   thing   be   did   was   to 
balance  accounts,  to  the  uttermost  far 
thing,  with  tbe  widow  and  family  of  bis 
deceased  brother.    The  letter  which  ac- 
companied tbe  remittance  of  the  money 
was  in  the  highest  degree  creditable  to 
his  feelings. 

Gilbert  Burns,  though  not  very  ad- 
vanced in  years,  died  rather  of  a  decay 
of  nature  than  of  any  specific  diseaae. 
It  is  probable  that  his  death  was  acce- 
lerated by  severe  domestic  affiictiolis,  as 
on  the  4th  of  January,  he  lost  a  be'loved 


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da»cfat«r,  and  on  the  S6tb  of  Febraary 
bU  youni^it  son,  a  youth  of  f  reat  pro- 
niiM»  who  died  at  Edinburgh  on  tbt 
evoof  b«ing  liccntcd  to  the  ininistry. 
Mrs.  Bum*,  who  brought  bim  a  family 
of  six  son*  and  five  daugbters,  of  wbooi 
fivo  soM  and  one  daughter  are  livings 
aunrives  her  husband. 

Mr.  Tho6.  Pbrbott. 

April  8.    Thomas  Perrott,  a  wealthy 
and  highly  respectable    yeoman,    well 
known  through  Somersetshire  and  Wilt- 
shire as  the   Western   Politician.    For 
many  years   he   was  one  of  the  most 
sealous  supporters  of  Sir  Thomas  Leth- 
bridge,  in  the  severe  election  struggles 
for  the  representation  of  the  county  of 
Somerset,  and  spared  neither  time^  nor 
labour,  nor  money,  in  advancing  the 
interests  of    his  aristocratic  favourite. 
In  the  year  1680,  however,  Mr.  Pcrrott 
was  prosecuted,    with    several   of    his 
neighbours,  for  having  connived  at  the 
burning  of  an  obnoxious  person  in  eAgy, 
was  sentenced   by  the  Court  of  King's 
Bench  to  pay  a  fine  of  lOOA  and  impri- 
soned for  one  month  in  Cold baih- fields 
prison.     While  thus  confined,  his  senti- 
ments underwent  a  change  ;  and  on  hfs 
release   (perhaps    from   a  sympathy  to 
which  his  fellow   sufferings    had  given 
rise],  warmly  espoused  the  cause  uf  Mr. 
Hunt,  headed  the  petition  for  that  emi- 
nent  demagogue's  release,  and  promoted 
the  subscription   raised   tu  purchase  a 
piece  of  plate  for  the  same  personage. 
i)uring  the  late  election,  Mr.  Perrutt, 
with  equal  activity,  scoured  all  the  vil- 
lages for  voters  for  Mr.  Hunt,  and  sent 
iinqtbers  to  the  poll  at  his  own  expense. 
In  his  determination  that  the  borough- 
mongers  should  not  lay  a  finger  upon 
bis   property,    Mr.   Perrott    distributed 
every  sbiUing,  and  every  acre  of  his  ex- 
tensive  possessions,  amongst   his  chiU 
dren  some  time  before  his  death.    He 
used  to  say,  that  he  would  go  out  of  the 
world  without  allowing  his  family  to  pay 
one  farthing  of  legacy  duty.     On   his 
death-bed  he  besought  Mr.  Hunt  to  per- 
severe in  bis  efforts  fbr  the  representa- 
tion of  the  county,  and  the  pangs  of 
death  seemed  to  be  mitigated  upon  his 
being  assured  by  that  gentleuian  that  so 
long  as  llchester  gaol  was  within  view 
of  the  Court-  house,  the  worthy  Baronet 
should  meet  with  the  most  resolute  op- 
position. 

CLERGY  DECEASED. 

Lately.  Aged  69,  the  Rev.  Edw.  Bvam, 
Ractor  of  Shawell,  Leic  and  Hillroortoo, 
Www.  He  was  of  King's  Coll.  Camb.  M.A. 
1778,  and  was  prtseoted  to  Hillmorton  in 


180A  by  G.  Nasaoomb,  esq*  and  to  9i» 
well  iu  1815  by  the  King. 

The  Kev.  John  FUher,  Viear  of  KUk 
Oswald,  in  Cumberland.  He  was  of  Pdsr* 
bouse,  Camb.  B  A.  1768,  and  was  preeealsd 
to  his  livuig  in  1774  by  the  King. 

At  Limerick,  the  BLev.  Htwry  Jeven  Im 
gram,  Vioar  Choral  of  that  Catbedial,  u4 
for  nearly  40  years  Chaplam  of  the  garrisoa» 
and  Rector  of  the  parishes  of  Killmurry  sotf 
Derrygalvin. 

Suddenly,  at  StauotOB9  near  NewailE, 
aged  77,  the  Rev.  John  Biowuey^  for  just 
half  a  century  Carate  of  that  parish,  and  cf 
FUwbomugh.  He  was  of  Emanuel  Collsge, 
Cambridge,  fi.A.  1780. 

In  Thornhaugh-st.  London,  the  Rev. 
fK  Storr,  Master,  of  the  Gramaiar  SchoqL 
Thetfbrd. 

JuTie  4.  Suddenly,  at  Bcenchley  vicsi- 
age,  Kent,  aged  65,  the  Rev.  AndrtMx 
Aersteman^  Rector  of  Berssoodaey.  This 
much-respected  clergyman  was  of  Christ 
Coll.  Camb.  B.A.  1783,  M.A.  178Gs  aad 
was  presented  to  Bermondsey  In  1814  fay 
Mrs.  Hambly. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY. 

In  Queen-square,  Westminster,  aged  74, 
John  Dorringtoo,  Esq.  for  thirty  years 
Clerk  of  the  Fees  of  the  Hoase  of  Commons. 

June  1 8.  The  Viscount  Chichcaur,  in- 
fant son  of  the  Earl  of  Belfast.  He  was  christ- 
ened on  the  Sd  of  the  month  by  the  Abp. 
of  Dublin,  when  the  Duke  of  Devonshire 
and  the  Marquis  of  Donegal  (the  in&nt's 
grandfather)  were  sponsors,  and  the  Duke 
of  Wellington  and  many  of  the  first  nobililj 
were  present. 

June  «0.  In  Well-st.  Hackney,  aged  7 1 , 
Mary,  widow  of  Rev.  John  Eyres,  M.  A. 
minister  of  Ram's  chapel,  Homerton. 

JuTie  22.  In  Mount-su  Grosvenor-sq. 
md  68,  Wro.  Martin,  Esq.  of  Harrow 
Weald,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Middle- 
sex. 

At  North-bank,  Regent's  Park,  Arthur 
Burrow,  M.  A.  of  Hanley,  Staff. 

Jujte  96.  In  PortUnd-pIace,  aged  79, 
David  Lyon,  Esq. 

June  97.  Aged  98,  Mr.  Horatio  Rymer, 
of  Norfolk-st.  Middlesex  hospital,  sur- 
geon, Ute  R.  N. 

June  99.  in  Woburn- place,  aged  88, 
Charles  Bentley,  Esq.  formerly  a  member  of 
the  CouncU  of  Fort  William,  and  Chief  of 
Patna. 

June  30,  At  Camberwell-terrace,  aged 
68,  Catherine,  wife  of  Joseph  Pidler,  Esq. 

Bucks. — June  8.  At  Ricbinss  Lodge, 
Albinia,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Marmaduke 
Thompson,  M.A.  She  was  dau.  of  the 
Right  Hon.  John  Sullivan,  of  Richings,  by 
Lady  Henrietta- Anne- Barbara-Hobart,  se- 
cond dau.  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Buck- 
inghamshire, and  twin-sister  to  Lady 


F5A1TI.]      ,                             OBtrvkttr.  i47 

MaiT9  Co«itU«s  of  OuUfordy  the  nothtr  of  Attos  CmoUm*  obIj  dan.  of  tba  late  Ret  j 

til*  Af  arohioiMM  of  Bute,  to  whom,  and  to  John  Blakiiton,  Rector  of  little  Berfbnit 

the  present  Earl  of  Bockinghuathire,  Mrs.  Bedfordshire. 

Thon^MOQ   was   aecordiagly   first    cousin.  Sussex.— Alby  1.     At  Brighton,,  the 

She  received  the  name  of  Albinia,  after  her  Right  Hon*  Frances  Lady  CalUMrpe,  bo- 

■Mtenal  aunt,  Lady  Albinia,  fi^  of  Rich-  ther   of   Lord    Calthorue.     She    was  the 

aid  Cumberland,  esq.  youngest  dau.  of  Gen.  Ber  j.  Carpenter,  and 

Dkrbyshirb.— a/tfite  96.     At   Measham  was  married  to  Sir  Henry  Gough,  after- 
Hill,  in  his  76th  year,  £dward  Abney,  Esq.  wards  Lord  Calthorpe,  May  1,  1788.     She 

DoRSKTSHiRB.  7-  Jutu   1 6.      At   Wykc  was   mother  of  seven  sons :    Henry,  who 

Regis,  Dorset,  a^ed  7fi>  Thoe.  Richardson,  died  young,  Charles  and  George,  the  late  and 

Esq.  present  Lords,  the  Hon.  George-Fred.  Cal* 

ULOUCESTBS8HIRB.  —  May  fiS.    At  the  thorpe,  now  M.P.  for  Bnmber,   William* 

Baptist   Academy,    Stoke*s-cruft,    Bristol,  Other,  John,  a  Lieut  R.N.  killed  in  a  riot 

aged  90,  James  Dyer  Franllin,  son  of  the  at  Jamaica,  and  Arthnr ;  and  of  four  daugh- 

ISbv.  F.  Franklin,  of  Coventrv.  ters,  three  of  whom  are  deceased. 

June  14.      At  South  Petherton,    Rich.  Wilts.— «/icne  94.    Aged  70,  Mr.  Pitt 

Toller,  Esq.  solicitor.  Hampton,  a  wealthy  farmer,  of  Pottero. 

Jvru  10.     At  Bristol,  aged  74,  Marg.  Yomcsrirb. — June    14.      At  ElmfieM 

St.  Hill,  relict  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Evans  House,  Doncaster,  aged  79,  Lawrence  Peel» 

Husbands,  formerly  of  the  bland  of  Bar^  Esq.  late  of  Ardwiek-greeo,  near  Manehee* 

badoes.  tcr. 

June%\.     At  Chipping  Sodbury,  Mrs.  Ireland.  —  In  DubKn,    Sarah,  wife  of 

Wentworth  Stacpoole,  youngest  dau.  of  the  Robert  James  Graves,  Esq.  M.  D.  and  only 

late  James  Lloyd  Harris,  Esq.  of  the  Moor,  dau.  of  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  BriaUey,  Bishop 

Herefordshire.  ofCloyne. 

Hereforoshirb. — Aged  88,  Mrs^  Fran-  At  Bnttevant    Castle,   co.  Cork,  John 

«es,  relict  of  the  Rev.  Thos.  Wellington^  Hood  Wolieley,  Esq.  R.  N.  eldest  son  of 

of  WelliogtOD.  Adm.  Wolseley,  of  Rostrevor. 

KENT.-^-«/une  18.    At  Greenwich,  aged  •    June  If ,    Henry  Singleton,  Eso.  late  of 

76,  Mrs.  Ann  Collier,  sister  to  the  late  Sir  the  Commissioners  of  the  Board  of  Works  in 

Rich.  Glode,  Knt.  of  Mayfield- place.  Ireland. 

Juneib,    At  Margate,  in  her  77th  year,  .   Abroad.— AToo.  91.    At  fiaroda,  in  tlie 

Amelia,  relict  of  the  late  Tho.  Walker,  Esq.  East  Indies,  iu  his  90th  year,  Lieut.  John 

JuTieSO.    Aged  68,  Wm.  Kingsley,  Esq.  Chesshyre,   15th  Reg.  Bombay  Native  Inf. 

of  Sitiingbourne,  formerly  of  the  Bank  of  second  son  of  Capt.   Chesshyre,  R  N.  of 

England.  Swansea. 

Lbicestbrshirb. — June  'jS,    At  Snare-  A^.  99.   At  Neemutch,  £.  I.  Col.  Wn. 

atone    Lodge,  after   a    protracted  illness,  Thomas,  10th  N.  I. 

Geo.  Moore,  Esq.  High  Sheriff  of  Leices-  Dee.  b.     At  AlUhabad,  East  Indies,  Cle- 

tershire  in  1 794.  nsentina^  wife  of  the  Hon.  James  Ruthven 

Middlesex. — June  97.    At  Twicken-  El  phinstone,  senior  Member  of  the  Board  cf 

ham,  Maria  Marow,  eldest  surviving  dan.  Revenue. 

of  the  late  John  Eardley  Wilmot,  Esq.  of  Dec,  16.    At  Kamptee,  near  Nagpore, 

Tottenham.  aged  9 1 ,  Lt.  Thos.  Dale,  4 1  N.  I.  9d  son  of 

At  Enfield,  aged  90,  Mr.  Wm.  Gerraxd  late  Dr,  D.  of  Devonshire- st. 

Leifchild.  Jan.  4.    At  Bombay,  Mr.  J.  N.  Walker, 

Northumberland.  — June   13.     Aged  of  E.  I.  C.  civil  service,  Sd  son  of  late  Jae. 

76,     W.  Metcalfe,    Esq.    of  Tynemonth  W.  esq.  of  BhM^heatb-biH. 

House.  Jan.  18.     At  Macao,  China,  Catharine^ 

OxPORDSHiRR. — June  94.     At  New  Col-  wife  of  W.  H.  C.  Plowden,  esq.  and  dau.  of 

lege,  Oxford,  Henry,  eldest  son  of  Henry  Wm.    Harding,    esq.    of    Stratford-upon- 

Perkins  I  Esq.  of  Springfield,  Surrey.  Avon. 

Somersetshire.— i/tiAe  96.  At  North  Jan.  90.  At  Hondelle,  Ceylon,  Lt.  Geo. 
Perrott  House,  near  Crewkeroe,  at  a  very  Courtney,  97th  reg.  eldest  son  of  Mr.  Court- 
advanced  age,  Mfs.  Hoskins,  relict  of  the  ney.  Regent  Circus, 
late  Wm.  Hoskins,  Esq.  mother  of  the  Marck  93.  At  Abinedon-hall,  Jamaica, 
present  W.  Hoskins,  Esq.  one  of  the  sitting  a^ed  50,  the  Hon.  Robt  Vassall,  Member 
nagistntes  of  the  Bow-street  department,  of  the  Council,  8cc.  and  youngest  son  of 
London,  and  sister  to  the  Right  Hon.  Vise,  late  Johu  Vassall,  esq.  of  lEath,  and  Chatley 
Sidmouth.  Lodge,  Wilts. 

Stappordsuibb. — Lole^.  Affedl05,Mr.  March  fl*    At  Trinid«d,  aged  97,  Fred. 

tVm.  Willett,  of  the  Little  Eaves,  near  Barnewall  Jackson,  esq.  late  Lieut.  R.N. 

Bucknall.  April  1.     On  board  the  Upton  Caetle, 

Surrey. — June  18.    Mary,  relict  of  R.  approaching  St.  Helena,  Major-gen.  Samuel 

E.  Williams,  Eso.  of  Thames  Ditton.  Wilson,  E  I.  C. 

June  99.    At  Merton,  in  her  87ih  year,  Mcc^  4.     K\*tfk>a»«  K^oagasAa^  tf«^e^  ^S^ 


C4ft 


Obituary. — Addiiions  to  ObUuarjf, 


[xcTir: 


of  the  late  G.  F.  Lynn,  of  SouthwU;k  Hall, 
NorthMnptonabiro. 

June  6.  At  Dieppe,  Jane,  relict  of  Sir 
F.  H.  Bathartt,  second  bart.  of  Clarendon 
Park,  Wilts.  Her  maiden  name  was  Hatch- 
inson.  She  was  mother  of  the  present  Ba- 
ronet and  a  numerous  family. 

June  13.  At  Velletri,  in  Italy,  in  con- 
sequence of  an  aeeident,  and  after  linf;ering 
many  weeks,  the  Rieht  Hon.  George  Knox, 
D.C.L.  F.R.S.  and  MitLA.  a  Privy-Coun- 
cillor for  Ireland,  and  formerly  M.P.  for 
Dublin  University ;  brother  to  Vise.  North- 
land, and  to  the  Dp.  of  Derry.  He  was  the 
fourth  son  of  Thomas,  1st  and  late  Vise. 
Northland,  by  Anne  Vesey,9d  dau.  of  John 
Lord  Knapton  (and  great-granddau.  of 
James,  6th  £arl  of  Abercom).  He  first 
sat  in  the  Iruh  Parliament  as  M  P.  for  Dun*' 
gannon  in  1 797  ;  and  he  afterwards  repre* 
eented  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  A.  Browne,  esq.  LL.D.  In  1800 
«as  published  in  8vo.  his  "  Speech  on  the 
subject  of  an  incorporate  Union  of  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland.*  After  that  important 
event,  he  was  returned  alone  for  the  Uni- 
versity i  and  he  continued  ita  representative 
in  thi«e  successive  Parliamenta,  till  1 807. 
In  1805,  he  was  made  a  Lord  of  the  Trea- 
•ury  in  Ireland,  and  sworn  of  the  Privv- 
CounciL  The  former  post  be  resigned  in 
the  following  year.  He  married,  first,  Jan. 
87,  1806,  Anne,  dau.  of  Sir  Robt.  Staples, 
of  Duumore,  in  the  Queen's  County,  oart. 
by  Jane,  sistar  to  Thomas  Vise,  de  Vesci, 
and  by  her  had  issue,  Thnmas-Pery,  Ro- 
bert-otaples,  and  Henry-Barry.  Having 
lost  his  first  wife,  May  1 ,  1811,  Mr.  Knox 
married,  Sdly,  Nov.  1812,  Harriet,  young- 
est dau.  of  Tbos.  Fortascue,  esq.  {  but  by 
bar,  who  died  Jan.  90,  1816,  be  had  no 
children. 

Lately.  At  Aleppo,  of  the  plague,  aced 
89,  the  Hon.  Henry  Anson,  brother  of  Vis- 
count Anson.  He  was  the  fourth  son  of 
Tbos.  the  I  St  and  late  Viscount,  by  Anne- 
Margaret,  second  dau.  of  Mr.  Cckt  of 
Holkham.  The  Journal  des  Dttatt  gives 
the  following  account  of  the  fata  uf  Mr. 
Anson  and  his  fellow-traveller: — 


«On  the  6th  of  April,  a  Christian  ef 
Aleppo  came  to  M.  de.Leasepa,  the  consnl- 
general  of  France  in  Syria,  mad  deltwrad  M 
him,  with  all  the  precaution  uaed  in  a  tuns 
ofpjague,  a  note  in  the  following  terms  : — 
'The  £nglish  travellers  Fox  Strangewm 
and  Anson  are  detained  and  ill  treated  by  tbs 
Dili-Bashi,  who  arrested  them  at  Antiocb, 
on  the  road  to  Damascus.  They  imploR 
the  assistance  of  Eurqpean  aathoritiM.* 
The  hearer  of  the  nota  added  that  these 
gentlemen  were  confined  in  a  dongeon  of 
the  Castle  of  Sheick  Aboukir,  where  diej 
were  to  be  strangled  as  Greek  spies. 

**  The  French  consul,  after  aending  thes 
notice  of  the  receipt  of  their  message, 
hastened  to  demand  the  jprtsooera  of  Yous- 
souf- Pacha,  who  sent  them  to  him  with 
their  suite  and  all  their  effeeta.  Placed  by 
M.  D.  Lesscps  in  the  ancient  conaular 
house,  they  received  from  him  the  consola- 
tion and  assistance  which  their  sttuatioB  re- 
quired. One  of  them,  M.  Anaon,  beii^ 
taken  ill  with  the  plague,  M.  de  l.eiscpi 
caused  him  to  be  attended  by  a  Turlon 
physician,  celebrated  for  his^jraetice  in  the 
treatment  of  that  terrible  malady  ;  but  the 
'unfortunate  traveller  soon  sunk  under  the 
violence  of  the  disease. 

'*  M.  Strangeways,  who  would  not  leave 
his  friend,  and  who,  to  the  last  moment, 
waited  on  him  with  the  most  generous  at- 
tention, is  solely  Indebted  for  the  extraonfi- 
uary  good  fortune  of  escaping  the  eontagiam 
which  he  had  so  closely  braved,  to  tbe  aaaa- 
tory  precautions  which  M.  de  Leseepa  em- 
ployed, and  the  application  of  which  he 
nimself  directed,  but  more  partieolarW  to 
the  frequent  use  of  the  chlorures  of  M. 
Labarraque.  It  certainly  would  be  dificalt 
to  prove  by  a  more  remarkable  example  tbe 
utility  of  a  discovery  so  precious  for  hu- 
manity. As  to  the  conduct  of  M.  de  Les- 
seps,  it  needs  no  eulogy  :  he  worthily  per- 
formed, on  this  occasion,  all  the  dnuaa  of 
the  consul,  the  man,  and  the  Christian.** 

Lately,  On  his  wmy  t6  Madras  from  the 
Cape,  Jas.  Ludovick  Grant,  esq.  late  Matter 
Attendant  at  Madras,  and  eld«st  son  of  late 
f<A.-Gen.  Grant  of  Grant. 


ADDITIONS  TO  THE  OBITUARY. 


Vol  zcvi.  i.  281.'  A  neat  ronral  monu- 
ment to  the  memory  of  Dr.  Wingfield  has 
been  erected  in  Worcester  Cathedral.  The 
following  is  the  inscription :  **  Johanni 
Wingfield,  S.T.P.  Scholse  Westmonasteri- 
ensis  olimArchididascalo,  in  EcclesiA  Vigor- 
niensi  Prebendario,  viro  Grsecis  Latinisque 
literis  erudite,  et  singulari  huroanitate 
prcdito,  Conjux  tbcestissima  possuit.  Obiit 
]x.  Decembris  mdcccxzv.  JExmiU  lxvi." 
Dr.  Wingfield  was  elected  Head*matter  at 
IVestminster  in  1809,  andfetigne^m  v%0!\. 


Vol.  xcvi.  ii.  647.  The  Chev.  Wia.  Cm- 
toy  %  entered,  while  still  very  yo«ng»  om  the 
diplomatic  career,  in  the  service  of  Hit 
Catholic  Majes^,  in  which  be  gndadl^ 
rose  by  his  merit  to  the  highest  offieea. 
He  was  Knight  and  Treasurer  oT  the  Royal 
order  of  Charles  III.  Secretary  of  State, 
Ambassador  to  the  CourU  of  Lucca  mmI 
Tuscany,  and,  lastly,  to  the  Holy  S^.  In 
Rome,  as  elsewhere,  he  enjoyed  the  rslnfm 
due  to  his  vast  knurning  and   noble  ch^ 


[    649    ] 

INDEX 
To  Essays^  Dissertations,  and  Historical  Passages. 


•_* 


Tk£  principal  Memoirs  of  ike  Obituaby  are  disiineify  entered  m 
ike  "  Index  to  ike  Eseapt," 


Academic  Uniijf,  remarks  on,  616 
Accident  by  the  f&Ilin^  in  of  a  church,  455 
Jdelardol  Bath,  scientific  talents  of,  349 
jiethehpcard,  Saxon  coins  of,  319 
j^rica,  intelligence  from,  456,  553 
jfigle,  the  Jesuit,  biography  of,  S35 
Aileen  Arocn^  origin  of  the  air,  60 
A'mnowrtkt  ^sacred  poems  noticed,  599 
Alauntt,  description  of,  3 IS 
Algiers,  the  Dey  of,  offends  the  French 
government,  553.      blockade  of  de- 
clared, 636 
America,  Norik,  the  President's  mes- 
sage,   65.      intelligence    from,     65y 
863,  357 
America^  Soutk,  intelligence  from,  167, 

963,  357,  553,  637 
Amkertt  Town,  foundation  of,  553 
Anjou,  Margaret  of,  death  of,  517 
Anson,  Hon.  H.  death  of,  648 
Antiquariee^  Society  of,  of  London,  pro- 
ceedings, 160,  S50,  359,  446,  546 

—  Scoiiisk,  proceedings  of,  637 
Apocafypse,  on  the  fulfilment  of  the,  421 
Apocrypka,  opinions  of  the  church  on, 

defended,  30.    on  the  policy  of  re- 
jecting, 914,  315.    on  the  authority 
of,  315 
Apestla,  painting  of,  described,  249 
Architectural   Improvements   in    West- 
minster, 194 
Arekitecture,  on  the  terms  Saxon  and 

Gothic,  194 
Arms  and  Armour,   specimens  of,   57. 
arrangement  of  in  the  Tower,  195. 
sale  of,698 
Arts,   Society  of,  distribution  of   pre- 
miums, 625 
Ascension  Day,  on  obsenrance  of,  6 
Asia,  intelligence  from,  66,  167,  553 
Atkenian  Society,  prize  medals  of,  69 
Atkenry,  Barony  of,  noticed,  990 
Aubergine,  regetable  so  called,  990 
Auiograpks,  sales  of,  948,  697.    on  the 

collection  of,  415 
AveUury,  Wiles,   observations  on,  4I9» 

489,  483 
Bacon,  Ftitck  <»/*,  ancient  tenure  con- 
nected with,  15 
Bacon,  Lord,  character  of,  45 
Ballina,    Catholic  Cathedral    building 

-  in,  556 

Baronies  by  Writ,  list  of  589 
Barrow  opened  at  Nettleton,  I6l 
Bastetrdy  Laws,  evils  of,  616 
Batavia,  insurrection   in,    66.      battle 
with  the  insurgents,  167 
Gent.  Mao.  Suppl.  XCVII.  Part  I. 

K 


Batk,  connection  of,  with  literature  and 

science,  347>  544.    Sul  Minerva,  the 

patron  goddess  of,  399 
Bayeux  Tapestry,  remarks  on,  950 
Beaumont,  Sir  G.  H.  memoir  of,  464 
Bedford,  Duke  of,  pictures  of  sold,  696 
Beetkooen,  L,  won,  memoir  of,  643 
Beigrave  Squtire  described,  55 
Benger,  Miss,  memoir  of,  978 
Beoma,  Saxon  coins  of,  990 
Berkswell  Ckurck,  co.  Warwick,  account 

of.  577 
Beikel  Union,  visit  to,  304 
Bibliomaniac,  account  of  a,  494 
Blacker,  Prince,  residence  of,  135 
Bode,  Professor,  memoir  of,  973 
Bogota,  unsettled  state  of,  357 
Bonaparte,  notices  of,  496 
Bones,    See  Fssskls, 
Books,  number  entered   at  Stationers' 

Hall,  695 
Braneepetk  Castte,  Durham,  described, 

305 
Brazils,  Empress  of,  death  of,  363 
BremkUl  Ckurch-yard,  epitaphs  in.  493 
Brevianum  Romanum,  sale  of,  35 1 
Briefs,  abuse  of,  413 
Brimptonyioarage,%eiion  respecting,554 
Bristol,  ancient  history  of,  145 
Bristol  Pkilosopkical  Society,  proceed- 
ings of,  161,959 
Britisk  Museum,   new  library   opened, 

459 
Broom-plant,  origin  and  symbol  of,  487 
Brown,  Rev.  W.  memoir  of,  99 
Bruce  Manuscripts,  sale  of,  446 
Brun,  Malie,  memoir  of,  979 
Brumng,  Jokn,  inscription  on,  98 
Buckingkam  House  Palace  described,  54 
Budget,  discussion  on,  550 
Buenos  Ayres,  hostilities  in,  553 
Buildings,  Public,  Ac.  recently  erected 

in  London,  54, 55, 56 
Burgkersk,  Barons  of,  pedigree  of,  909 
Burial  Place,  ancient,  at  Carlsruhe,  359 
Burmese,  notices  of,  197 
Bums,  Gilbert,  memoir  of,  645 
Burton,  Robert,  tetter  of,  932 
Busvargus,  J,  genealogical   notices  of, 

97.     Inventory  of   the  goods  of  in 

1638,  98 
Byron*s  Poems,  lines  written  in  a  copy 
■   of,  97 

CaJbriri,  observations  on,  140 
Cetsar  Family,  anecdotes  of,  329 
Qilvinistic  Predestination  repugnant  to 

Scripture,  38 


650 


Index  to  Ess&ys,  8ic. 


Camalodunum,  Camerton  proved  to 
be,  253 

Qtw^herweilf  St.  Gtorp't  chvrdi,  Re- 
script ion  of,  9 

Cambridge  UniversUyy  prize  essRvi,  57, 
J 56,  946,  S45y  539.  defended,  SM, 
504.     imperfect  education  in,  506 

Camerton  proved  to  be  CamaU>diiiiti«, 
352 

C^nadat  factiout  spirit  of  the  Houae  of 
Assembly,  357 

Cariwrighif  Gen,  JFm.  mciBuif  of,  27  i 

Com  iron,  mode  of  aoftaniiig;,  1 59 

Cmstl£oooie,  l^ord^  a9emoix  of,  562 

Cathedral^  OilAaiic*  buildij^ia  Baltloa.^ 
554 

Catholic  Declaraiumt  ramarki  on,  617 

Catholic  Prmiho9df  iacomes  of  in  Ire- 

.   land,  637 

Catholic  QuettioHt  parliamentary  discus- 
sions on,  256»  259,  861.  the  duke  of 
Clarejice's  seutimeiita  oo,  456.  hie 
Maj;e«ty*f  sentiments  on,  457 

Caiholiost  reasons  why  Froteataiits  will 
not  credit  tbem,  3L  impolicy  of 
granting  concessions  to,  98.  on  tbeir 
petition  to  tbe  Hoiue  uf  Lords,  199. 
dissent  of  in  Silesia  from  tbt  Popisb 
ritual,  262.  royal  corre«potidence  on 
Ibe  disabilities  of^  541 

Cnulaincourt,  Gen,  memoir  of,  467 

Cavan,  history  of  the  Reformation  iO| 
223 

iJhamberlain,  CrivcU^beredittrypossessoff 
of  tbe  office  of,  5^7 

Chandler f  «/.biugrapbical  notices  o^  $48 

Charing  Cross,  intended  alteratioua  in 
tbe  vifiniiy  oi,  55 

Charles  I.  character  of,  42 

Chesbii'e,  provincial  words  used  in,  58 

Chiddingley  Place ^  Sussex,  account  of,  497 

Chinese  and  £uropum  Uiaies,  reconciliap 
tion  of,  11^  207.  not  recoocileaUe 
with  Scripture,  123 

Choir  Caur,  Gb-itish  appellation  of 
Stoeebenge,  578 

CholmondMle^,  Atar^ms^  ipemoir  o^  46S 

Oiri&tian  RevitWt  critique  in,  noticed,  8. 
observations  on,  149 

Cksisiianify,  on  tbe  extent  of,  590 

Christ^s  Hoqnial,  ^architectural  improve- 
flients  ill,  194 

Chronicles^  ancient,  publicatioii  of^  847. 
on  the  utility  vf,  417 

Chronology,  of  tbe  Median  Kings,  8f 
208.  of  China  and  Eerope,  U,  123, 
2Q7t  579.    of  the  Scriptures,  597 

Church,  opinions  of,  on  the  Apocrypha, 
defended,  30.  on  the  Tbirty^nioe  Ar- 
ticles of,  600 

Church  Establishment,  state  of  in  Ire- 
land, 355 

Church  of  Rome,  indexes  of,  153 

(Aurch  Preferment,  Society  for  pur- 
chasing, 228.  illegality  of  purcW- 
iug,  ^99 

Churches,  on  repairs  of,  46,    oiv  vVie 


Decalogue  being  put  up  in,  218,  413. 
memorials  of  those  burnt  in  London  ia 
1666,  188 
Churches,  New,  St.  George's,   Camber- 
well,  9-    St.  Mark's,  Kenniiigton,  10. 
btrik  near  Eaton-square,  55.     in  St. 
Mary-le-bone,  56.     in  Shoreditch,  56. 
St.  John's,  Hoxion,  209.    St.  Barna- 
bas'  chapel,  St.  Loike's,  OhA-aiMet, 
811.    St.  John's,  Lambetby  a^.    Su 
Luke's,  Norwood,  394 
Church-yards,  on  epitaphs  in,  399 
Golwulfl,  and  II,  Saaou  coins  of,  S99 
Ckrcuits,  Spring,  17 1 
Cline,  H,  memoir  of,  90 
Cloeh  DkiJls,  transparent  ones  ia  use,4MI 
Coal  Money,  account  of,  161 
Cohbold,  Hev.  T.  S.  memoir  of,  374 
C^n  discovered  near  Winchester,  555 
Coming,  trial  and  execution  for,  457 
Csins,  sales  of,  353,  547 
Coins,  British,  found  at  Wycombe,  493 
Xjoins,  Saxon,  of  the  kingdom  of  Kent, 
108,  219.    of  the  kingdonu  of  5AercU 
and  Kortbumberland,  899.     ou  these 
called  sceattas,  403 
Coins,  of  Metapoutum,  described,   383. 

of  Cieriou,  t6. 
Coliteum   in    the  Regent's  Park,    ••- 
<  ticed,  56 

OfUinson,  Dr.  S,  memoir  of,  178 
Cologne,  river  at,  noticed,  136 
Commandments,  on  their  heinf  put  up 

in  cliurcbes,  212,  413 
Constable,  High,  hereditary  posseeaors  of 

tbe  office  of,  587   * 
Conveyance,  Rapid,  air-tube  for,  687 
Com  LawSf  Parliamentary   discussioiis 
on,  257,  258,  355,  550,  551,  558,  633, 
634,  635.     bill  abandoned  by  Minis- 
ters, 552.    bill  for  relieving  bonded 
corn,  633,  634,  635 
Corporation  and  Test  Acts,  meetings  for 

tbe  repeal  of,  457 
Cosmography,  remarks  on,  894 
Cotton,  B,  death  and  character  of,  569 
Owentry,  repairs  of  St.  Mary's  Hall  jt , 

317 
Courtesy,  on  titles  by,  85,  231,  898 
Cowper's  Poem,  first  lines  of,  Noticed*  3 
Cradoeh,  Joseph,  memoir  of,  17 
Cramp,  observations  on,  581 
Cremation  of  Hindoo  ff^uhws,  barbarous 

custom  of,  343, 410, 4^ 
Cremome,  Lord,  memoir  of,  (68 
OimiMul  Code,  bills  for  amending,  257. 

!^6),  549 
Cromwell,  O/tvcr,  original  letter  of,  4 
Crusades,  notes  illustrative  o^  535 
Cubitt,  fV,  new  method  of  heating  hot- 
houses, dtc.  891 
Osp,  aiMsient  earthenware,  described,  20i 
Curtis,  Dr,  letter  to,  on  Uie  papal  peti- 
tion, 19B 
Qtrtoys,  Chev,  W^  notices  of,  64B 
Custome  of  tbe  antient  Remans,  307.  on 


Index^  to  Essayi,  ifc. 


661 


iJames^  seeattat  ol,  406 

Danish    Churekf  WttUcloM-t<iiiare>  de- 

tcriptioo  of,  304 
Dat€MQ{  China  and  Ewroye  recoocUedy 
ll»    8I7*      nut    recoodlcabla    with 
Scriptures,  123 
Datiett  Dip.  onginaf  letter  of,  387 
Daviex,  Mrt,  Sophia,  memoir  of,  184 
Dammm,  ff^m.  notices  of,  31 
Deatht,  number  of  in  Prussia,  963 
J)€bttf  SmaU^  bill  for  recovering,  634. 
Dicalogut  in  churcbes,  cenaiired>  SIS. 

commended,  413 
f}€  la  Zoueh  Ihtnifyf  pedigree  of,  487 
Denmark,  notices  of,  133 
Deni,  J,  memoir  of,  179 
Denton  Ckmreh,  Sussex,  font  in,  4d8 
Devonpori  Cahimn,  completion  of,  554 
Dewbety^  J,  fV,  iDemoir  of,  98 1 
Diaiuond,  Russian,  history  of,  591 
JHckson,  Adm,  Sir  A.  C.  memoir  of,  649 
Dignum,  C  mtmoir  of,  565 
DUig^nmt,    ancient   service   connected 

with,  14 
Didka,  Adnu  memoir  of,  364 
D Israels  *<  CurlotUiu  of  LMerature,'* 

remarks  on,  511 
Vohree,  Professor ,  notices  of,  98»  23Q 
JDogs,  Britiih,  superiority  of,  583 
Drawing,  instrument  for,  627 
f^rayton's  Potj^imi,  remarks  oo»  309 
Druids,   tempfo   of,  at    Fussaway,    co. 
Perth,  4.  monuments  of  in  Wiitshire^ 
I    483.    obstrvaiions  on,  579 
Dublm.  Uuiversiijff  prize  essays,  946,  345 
Dufi'us,  Lord,  memuir  of,  27 1 
Dugdate,  Sir  fV,  tnxices  of,  613 
Durham  Cathedral,  discoveries  in,  629 
Bardui/\  Saxon  coins  of,  300 
£ewl  Marshal,  hereditary  posacisora  of 

the  office  of,  588 
Earth,  on  the  supposition  that  it  is  boK 
low,   99.     on   the  different   theories 
of,  993 
East  Angles,  Saxon  coins  of,  219.  actat- 

ta»  of,  405 
East  Indies,  intellif^enee  fron»,  553 
EcUpstf,  noticed  by  Herodotua,  579 
Edbert,  Saxon  coins  of,.  919 
Education,  benefits  of,  47*   prijDe  medals 
for  treatisea  oo,  69.    report  of  the  ao* 
ciety  for,  in  Ireland,    167,  936.    hf 
France,  337 
Egbert,  Saaon  coina  of,,  103,  999 
Eg/rid,  Saxon  coina  of,  999 
Egyptian  Antiquities,  sale  of,  629 
Egyptian  Monuments,  notices  of,  323 
Elgiva,  Princess,  pedigree  of,  917 
EUerby,  T,  R.  me|Boir  o^  181 
Emsgratkni,    parliamentary   discuasioo 

on, 165 
Engineers,  Civil,  paper  read  before,  29 1 
England,  historical  notices  of,  40,  515 
Epitaphs,  on  plagiarisms  in,  215.  one  by 
.  VVealey  noticed,  290.  in  church -yards, 
399.    in  Bremhill  church-yard,  493 


Ethelbert,  Saxon  coina  of,  102,  404 
Ethebred,  Saxon  coins  of,  290,  300 
Ethelstan,  Saxon  coins  of,  900 
Eton  College,  regulatioes  in,  388 
Evans,  Dr,  memoir  of,  369 
Euphrates,  observations  on,  322 
Europe,  statistics  of,  314 
Fawcett,  Gen.  sons  of,  290 
Fellenberg,  M.  memoir  of,  469 
Fbrmor  FamUy,  pedigree  of,   114,580. 

rpitapbs  on,  580 
Ferrers,  Earl,  memoir  of,  561 
Fire  Arms^  origin  of,  251.    ancie«t  uses 

of,  447 
FlaxUy  Abbey,  chartulary  of,  noiiced, 

624 
Flaxman,  •/.  memoir  of,  273,  472 
Fletcher,  Wm,  memoir  of,  179 
Fly  Leaves,  xxxiv.  Beaaleel  Morris,,  2a 
XXXV.  Sir  J.  Harington,  119.    xxxvk 
J.   S.   a  brother  u(  the  angle,  221. 
Thos.  Lodge,  ib.    xxxvu.  Mayster  of 
the  Game,  310 
FofUs,  in  St.  Anne's  church,  Lewea,  antf 

Denton  church,  Sussex,  498 
Fn-tificatiens,,  British,  acooMit  of»  425 
Fossaway,  co.  Perth,    druidical  temple 

at,  6 
FbseU  Remains,  researches  in,  50.    dia» 
covered   in    Somersetshire,    351.     in 
Louisiana,  357.    in  Kent,  555 
Fotheringhay  Church  and    Castle,   coi 

Northumberland,  description  of,  40  li 
France,    intelligence    from,    166,  262, 
454,  559,  636.     incrense  of  literature 
in,  969.     on  education  in,  337.     na^ 
tional  guard  dissurved,'4d4 
Franklin,  Capt,  expedition  of, 637 
Free  IVade,  principles  of,  313 
J^eethinAing ChristianSyO fi  the  marriages 

of,  104,216 
FVesich  Revolution,   prophesied  in  the 

Apocalypse,  422 
Frost,  John,  on  a  fetter  of  Oliver  Cron- 

weir4 
Fuller,  Mt^or,  dJeath  of,  375 
Fksnerat  Ceremonies^   uf  the  ancients. 

300 
FUseli^s  Pictures,  safe  of,  695 
Cttius,  institutes  of,  recently  discovered 

158 
Game  Laws  Bill,  discussion  on,  356 
Gaming,  evil  effects  of,  589 
Gape,  Rev.  J.  C  memoir  of,  376 
Gavin,    Antonio^    biographieal    ootioea 

of,  127 
Genista,  origin  and  symbols  of,  487 
George   III,    correspondence    on    tb% 

Cathulie  disabilities,  541 
Gernusnj^,  ancient  tombs  of,  62.    litera- 
ture of,  446 
Gifford,  Wm,  memoif  of,  105-1 12.    fb* 

nerai  of,  111 
Glasgow  University,  inauguration  of  Rfr. 

Campbell  as  Rector  uf,  345 
Glass,  painting  on,  noticed^  42 


652 


Index  to  Essays,  8ic. 


GUnunter  Slap  CoiuU  opened,  456 
Goftar,  J,  death  and  obaracter,  375 
Coid,  on  the  origin  of,  13 
Good,  Dr.  J.  M,  memoir  of,  976 
Gotpel,  Latin  and  Greek  MSS.  ofsold,  35 1 
Greece,  intelligence  frdm,  553»  636 
Greek  Vaset,  ditquititiont  on,  35,  140 
Greeks,  defeat  of,  553,  636 
Greeks,  ancient,  funeral  ceremonies,  301 
,  Green-houses,  new  method  of  heating, 

S91 
Hall,  Bp.  his  «<  Peace  of  Rone,"  194 
—  Dr,  C,  H.  memoir  of,  563 
Hanover,  compendium  of,  135 
Harington,  Sir  J,  literary  notices  of,  190 
Harris,  Gen.  J.  jf.  memoir  of,  174 
Hastings,  Marquis  of,  memoir  of,  85 
Hawking,  observations  on,  53 
tiayley  Family,  memoirs  of,  204 
Heber,  Bp*  intended  monument  to  the 

memniy  of,  386 
Hebrew,  study  of,  recommended,  488 
Henry  V,  last  declaration  of,  3S1 
Hindoo    fFidows,    cremation    of,    343, 

409,  494 
Holworth  Cliff,  volcanic  eruptions  from, 

359,    638.      geological    observations 

on,  396 
Homer's   Iliad,   critique   on    the    first 

line,  693 
Honourable,  title  of,  explained,  8,  93S 
Howard,  Mrs,  Elii,  memoir  of,  183 
Hoxton  Church,  description  of,  309 
Iford,  Sussex,  account  of,  435 
Jmjsretsment  of  Seamen,  remarks  on,  615 
Indian  Seas,  letter  of   a  midshipman 


in,  197 


In/ant  Schools  rerommended,  35 

Infidelity,  symptoms  of,  117 

Inter  lineal  Translations,  advantages  of, 

445 
Ireland,  Education  Society  in,  167>  336. 

"  Three  Months  in,"  reviewed,  399 
Irish  Chronicles,  publication  of,  348 
Iti^y,  intelligence  from,  64,  553 
Jackson,  Dr,  Robert,  memoir  of  566 
'  Gen,  A,  C  memoir  of,  175 

James  I,  anecdotes  of,  44.    character 

of,  41 
•/enct/i,  denunciation  of, '166.    danger- 
ous spirit  of,  333.    government  of, 
334 
Jews,  papal  edicts  against,  65.    state  of 

in  England  in  1663,  160 
Johnston,  Gen,  memoir  of,  466 
Jones,  fVm,  death  and  character,  375 
■  Dr,  John  memoir  of,  37 1 

Kaye,  Sir  J.  Uster,  memoir  of,  363 
Keigwin,  Mrs,  M.  poems  of,  33 
Kemp  Family,  of  Tliwayt,  pedigree  ofj 

128 
MCennington  Church,  description  of,  10 
Aim/,  Saxon  coins  of,  103,319*    Saxon 

sceattas  of,  404 
Kimher,  John,  bibliomaniac  disposition 

vf,  425 


Kimmeridge  Coal  Money,  account  of,  I^t 
King,  Bp,  memoir  of,  869 
Kirkcudhrighi,  Lord,  death  of,  568 
KitcMner,  Dr.  FFm,  memoir  of,  470 
Knowledge,  Useful,  society  for  the  diffu- 
sion of,  58 
&UM,  Right  Hon,  G,  memoir  of,  648 
Laing,  Major,  death  of,  456 
Lambeth,  notices  of,  587*    St.  John's 
church  in,  described,  393.    St.  Luke's 
church,  Norwood,  described,  304 
Lancashire  ff^orthies,  portraits  of,  60O 
Languages,  on  the  affinities  of,  328 
Ldw  Courts  erected  in  Westminster,  55 
Law  Institution,  establishment  of,  639 
I^gge,  Bp.  memoir  of,  370 
Le  Gtyt,  C  W.  memoir  of,  367 
Leiston  Abbey,  notice  of,  630 
Leith,  origin  of,  as  a  local  name,  .*» 
Leominster  Church,  Saxon  inscription  in, 

414.    observations  on,  50!l 
Lewis,  historic  noticed  of,  485 
Libraries,  of  the   Duke  of   York,    58. 

Duke  of  Sussex,  59 
Usmore,  Frances  Lady,  memoir  of,  573 
Literary  Pleasures,  speculations  on,  507 
Literary     Fund    Society,     annivertaiy 

meeting,  443 
LUeratare,  increase  of,  in  France,  969. 

connexion  of  Bath  with,  347,  544 
Literature,  Royal  Society  of,  proceedings, 

321,443.     report,  633 
Lodge,  Thos.  literary  notices  of^  381 
lAjndon,  new  buildings  in,  described,  54- 
56.     architectural   improvement!  in, 
134.  memorials  of  churches  burnt  in 
1666,  188.     Chronicle  of,  418 
London  Bridge,  progress  of,   56.     first 

stone  l.iid  on  the  city  side,  66 
London  University,  noticed  56.    founda- 
tion stone  laid,  445 
Louis  Xiy.  anecdotes  of,  386 
Lyons,  tower  erecting  at,  553 
Magnetic  Variation,  observations    on, 

600 
^Maintenont  Madame,  anecdotes  of,  396 
Manuscripts  in   the   Duke  of  Sussex's 
library,  59*    publication  of  Oriental 
ones,  159.  sale  of  Hebrew,  Persic,  and 
Turkish,  686 
Marbles,  collected  at  Rome,  1 59 
Markets,  prices  of,  94,  190,  286,  388, 

478.  574 
Markham,  Adm,  memoir  of,  363 
Marlowe,  Christ,  literary  notices  of,  155 
Marriages  of  Freetbinking  Christiansy 

remarks  on,  104,  816 
Matson,  Capt.  memoir  of,  644 
Maxwell,  IV,  memoir  of,  569 
Maysterofthe  Game,  described,  310 
Mechanics*  Institution,  defended,  47 
Medals,  sales  of,  353,  547.    one  struck 

in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  483 
Median  Kings,  chronology  of,  7,  808 
Medico- Botanical   Society,    prgceedinga 
of,  61 


Index  to  Euays,  8sc. 


653 


Jhferciaf  ancient  Saxon  eoins  of,   299« 

Saxon  sceattat  of,  404 
Meteorological  Diary,  96,  19S«  288,  384, 

480,  576 
MethodisU,  loyalty  of,  9 1 5 
AJexicOf  proceedings  of  the  senate,  554 
Midshipman,  letter  of  a,  197 
MilUary  Anecdote,  5S6 
Miller,    Sir    J,    E.   Riggh    character 

of,  389 
Ministry,  change  of,  357,  457.    parlia- 
mentary discussion  on  the  change  of, 

450-454 
MUfmd,  ff^.  memoir  of,  368,  386 
Monk,  Professor,  notices  of,  98,  230 
Montagu,  Mrs,  E*  letter  of,  306 
Moore's  Fables,  plagiarism  from,  2 
Morris,  Betaleel,  literary  notices  of,  29 
Mortality,  bill  of,  94,   190,    286,    382, 

478,  574 
Mummies,  jintediluvian,  discovered,  630 
Mummy,  Egyptian,  opening  of,  352 
National  Guard  of  France^  diuolved,  454 
Negatives,  Double,  observations  on,  498 
NettletoHf  Wilts,  aiitient  barrow  at,  161 
Newby,  Rev. «/.  H,  memoir  of,  281 
Nobles  of  France,  titles  of  not  recog-* 

nized  by  Austria,  166 
Nonaniformity,  evils  of,  604 
Norman  Conquest,  remarks  on,  607 
North  Pole,  expedition  to,  1 59 
Northumberland,   ancient   Saxon  eoins 

of,  299 
North-west  Expedition,  intelligence  from 

Capt.  Beechey,  445 
North-west  Pole,    magnetic    variations 

t>f,  501 
Norwich,  riot  at,  555 
Nunn,  Robert,  memoir  of,  374 
Old-street,    St.  Barnabas*   Chapel,  de- 
scribed 211 
Onslow,  Earl,  memoir  of,  269.     cha* 

racter  of,  488 
Organic  Remams,  found  at  Skipsea,  160 
Oriental  Manuscripts,  ^ubWcjLiion  of,  159 
Orlov,  Count,  memoir  of  27 1 
Ojford  University  defended  388,  504. 

imperfect    education    in    482,     506. 

prize  essays  539 
Painting,  curious  ancient,  discovered  in 

Westminster  Abbey  251 
Painting  on  Glass  noticed  42 
Paley,  Dr,  defence  of  594 
Palimpsest  Manuscripts,  notices  of  322 
Palmer,  Sir  C  T,  Memoir  of  642 
PdpisU,    See  Catholics. 
Parliament,  proceedings    in  165,  257* 

355,  450,  549,  633.    reform  in  recom- 
mended 412 
Parsonage  Houses,  on  designs  for  606 
Passion,  Predominant,   disquisition   on 

592 
Pelham,  Bishop  George,  memoir  of  269 
Perrott,  Thos,  memoir  of  646 
Pestalozxi,  M.  memoir  of  468 
Petrifaction,  discovered  in  Tipton,  co. 

Stafford  638 


Physicians,  Royal  College  of  69,  208 
Phrenology,  progress  of  62 
Pictures,  sales  of  625,  626 
Pimlico,  King's  Palace  at,  described,  64 
Place,  Marq,  de  la,  memoir  of  643  # 
Plagiarisms  m  Epitaphs,    remarks  on 

215,  290,  398 
Planting,  observations  on  60 
Playters,  queries  respecting  the  family 

of  194 
'Pliny's  Natural  History,  fragments  of 
.    discovered  553 
Phinkett,  Dr,  Papal  Bishop,  memoir  of 

270 
Poets,  Greek,  beauties  of  499 
Polar  Expedition  under  Capt.  Parry  159', 

arrangements  for  351 
Political  Economy,  remarks  on  523, 61 1 
Polyolbien  of  Drayton,  remarks  on  302 
Pompeii,  discoveries  in  353,  629 
Pontesbury  Church,    Salop,  account  of 

297 
Poor,  on  supplying  them  with  medical 

assistance  619 
Pope,  disagreement  with  the   king  of 

Spainr  636 
Popery,   misfortunes  attendant  on   in 

England  421.    See  Catholics, 
Porson,  Prqfessor,  notices  of  98,  230^ 
Portland  f^ase,  remarks  on  624 
Portugal,    intelligence  from,  64,  166» 

262,  357,  455, 552.    operations  of  the 

insurgents  in  166.    change  of  ministry 

in  552 
Post  Office,  New,  progress  of  56 
Powlett,  Mrs,  memoir  of  472 
Predestination,    Calvinistie,   repugnant 

to  Scripture  38 
Preferments  in  the  Church,  Society  for 

purchasing  228.      illegality  of  pur- 
chasing 229 
Press,  law  for  restraining  in  France  166. 

censorship  on,  established  In  France 

636 
Priesthood,  incomes  of,  in  Ireland  637 
Prietts,  on  the  marriage  of,  in  France, 

428 
Protestants,  reasons  why  they  do  not 

credit  Papists  31 
Prussia,  anecdote  of  the  queen  of,  I3.4. 

intelligence  from  262 
Prynnet  ff^liam,  notices  of  544 
Radcliffe,  Colonel,  memoir  of  365 
Rasiall,  Rev,  TV.  memoir  of  91 
Rattle-snake,   death  from    the  bite  of 

166 
Reform  in  Parliament  recommended  418 
Reformation  in  Cavan,  history  of  223. 

notices  of  the  433.    soeiety  for  pro- 
moting 458 
Rewarding  the  Hounds,  description  of  3 1 1 
Rio  Janeiro,  panorama  of  543 
Road,  law  of  the  598 
Robertson,  Dr,  Abram,  memoir  of  I76 
Rochrfaucauld,  Due  de   la,  memoir  of 

560 
Rogers,  Mrs*  EUx.  Oa^xviVst  «\  "i^lV 


654                                     IndMM  lo  Emt$i,  l(c. 

Xtmamim,  emrt  •f  440  SUriJs  for  1897>  17 1 

Roman  AniifmHm  foand  at  NcvVwy  16 1  Shipping  IntertU,  oteenrmliOTM  m  Sll. 

iZMNon  ixncy  iDtiUutet  uf  158  Pariiamcntaiy  cUtciMnaa  oa  4M 

Rpmmmt,  andtnt,  funeml  ctfemonief  30  ^  Shivers,  Admiral^  memoir  of  €43 

aneicnl  cattooM  of  807  Shore ^  Mrt,  HarriH,  iBommr  o#  184 

JR0WM9  on  tb€  aiKicDi  site  of  I3S  Skremilmy,  Eari  ^,  moaioir  off  4CI 

Rotsmgham,  JEiiward,  Ittter  from  901  SheUtont,  found  on  PCakioa  Hill,  Dnw 

RowUuuUoHf  Tkamao,  mtnoir  of  564  setshire,  555.    neoc  Buiy  63d 

itactevy*  Ouht  aoolvcriary  of,  548  SAnw  TVacb,  rcmarlu  oik  151 

/{oyoi  Society,  proceedinp  of  34I9  443,  Smith,  Charles,  notice  of  9 

543  •■ '    '  ■    Mkn,  mtmoirof  866 

AoyoZ  Society  of  iMormture,  notico  of  Smew,  Lieui,  fK  J.  ■e—ir  &67 

SSI.    prooeedinct  443.    rvport  6S9  Somerset,  Charldte  Duchess  oi. 


Rudd,  Rev,  Dr,  James,  memoir  of  376  of  578 

Rudd,  Cot,  John,  memoir  o#  176  Somerton,  ca  Oxford,    aeoount  off  111. 

Muudetl,  PhiMp,  moniotr  of  S63  cburcii  of»  «id  epitapbo  115,  580 

Rumnj^mede,  national  monument  at  sii£-  Sophocles,  beauties  of  499 

SeMcd  16  JSjpain,  intelligence  frooi,  64,  166»  861, 

Russian  Dimmand,  bittory  of  591  857,  455,  636 

St,  Bamaba^  Chapel,  8t.  Luke's,   de>*  Spring  OrcmU  171 

scribed  811  Spring  Gum  BM,  disctiaeiOB  ••  SS6 

5r.i>at;tir«  G»//0^^  opening  of  62.    an-  Stawiford  and  fFuBwiugiam,    limmittlt 

nual  exbibitlon  in  846  Cossntoss  of,  momoir  off  571 

St.  Denis  Jbhey  Ckurch^  description  of  Siantey,  Rn,  F.  memoir  >or  474 

.  489  Siatianenr  Hall,  numbor  off  Books  co- 

St,  Edmund,  Saxon  coins  of  980  tered  at  695 

Si.  Hiiasy,  Hymn  of  wanted  388  StoHsties  of  Burope  SI4 

St,  Jago  do  OUH,  roTolution  in  553  Stewart,  Gen,  Sir  W.  meaaotr  off  174 

St.  Jamu*s  Park,  alteration*  in  9901  Stocks,  prices  of  96,  I98»  ir88,  SM,  41% 

improvements  in  581  576 

St.  Jokn*s,  Lambetb,  described  393  Stokes,  Ueuiemani,  nomoir  of  189 

'                  Westminster,   painting  pre-  Sionehonga,  on  tbe  txywaeiogf  off  407- 

sented  to  159  on  the  origin  and  intention  off  484,  571 

51.  Kathcrine^s  Hospital  noticed  56  Stowe,  co.  Linodn,  ncecunt  of  585 

St.  Luke'o  Ckureh,  Norwood,  described  Stratford  on  Avon,  Sbakapemrian  Jwikikt 

394  at  9,  456 

St,  Mar.k*s    Ckureh,  Kennington,    de«  Strong,  George  fFm.  memoir  of  184 

scribed  10  Strutt,  Benj.  memoir  eC  373 

Si,  Mknys  Hall,  Corentrj,  repaired  317  Stump-pye,  eaplanation  of  194,  3S0,  588 

St.  Nicholas,  customs  on  tbe  eve  of  407  Soger,  Abbot  of  St.  Dean,  account  of  489 

St.  Peter's  at  Rome  described  131  Sul,  derivation  of  4fO,  483,  579 

iSdmMef9,i.93,doubtnil  passage  119, 194  Sul  Minerva,   tbe   pairoa    goddoM  si 

Saxon  Ckhts.     See  Oins.  Bath  398 

Saxon  Inscription  in  Leominster  Cboreh  iShirgeont,  College  sf,  retolalioBa  of,  to 

414.    observations  Off!  503  petition  Pariiamoot  456 

Saxomp,  King  of,  memoir  of  559  Surtees,  Rev,  Maiihsm,  meoMMr  of  375 

Sceattas  of  tbe  Anglo  Saxons  403.     of  Smspension  Bridge  at  Hamnaormmitli  66 

the  Danes  406                                      .  Sussex,  Duke  ff,  libraij  of  59 

Schools  for  In/ants  recommendetl  85  Suttees,  account  of  one  in  India  343. 

Scotland,  ancient  bittory  of  189  custom  c»f,  343,  4019*  494 

Sctiptures,    Chinese    chronology    eom-  Sweden,  intelligooee  from  563 

pared  with  183.    on  tbe  study  of  83t.  Tanaris,  the  Celtic iopitcr,romariu  am, 

translations   of,     restrieted    by    ibo  419,488,483 

Church  of  Rome  153.    or  tbe  cbrono-  Tatton,  T.  f^.  memoir  off  368 

logy  of  597  Taylor,  Rev.  EUm,  memoir  of  882 

Seasons,  phenomena  of  the  333 Sir  Herbmif  Diary  eC  tbe  IMie 

Sdkp  Enmity,  claimants  to  tbe  estate  off  of  York's  illness  864 

589  Temple  Church,  restoratioiis  Id  386 

ScUmuniine  Sculptures,  remarks  on  33  Tenures,  ancient,  in  England,  aeooont 

Semer  Church,  inscription  in,  explained  off  14 

•  98  Tkoselaiod  Pauommiio^  at  TbnnLto%  re- 

Serpentine  River,  new  brid|ge  over  54     •  marks  on  85 1 

Shakipearian  Jubilee,  account  of  8.    ee-  Tsutaies,  the  British  Hanuty,  6 

lebration  of  456  tion^  on  483 

Shares,  prices  of  95,  I9h  Wf,  383,  479,  Tewkesburp  Church,  and  its  ai 

575  \%Qliced  181,  138 


Index  to  Estcyi^  ^c. 


655 


Thames  Quaif,  reaarks  on  S37 
Thames  Tumaei,  irrupCiMi  of  wattr  into 

458 
Theatrieal  Register  66,  n  I,  459 
Theology,  remarks  on  5UI 
ThsrlwaU,  Jiev,  Thas,  memoir  of  668 
TTurty'itme  JrtieUs^  disquisiiion  on  600 
Thomas,  Rev*  Hughf  memoir  of  474 
—  -  JahM,  memoir  of  379 
Thruxton,  teuelated  pavemeuU  at  351 
TtiMson,  Ahp,  original  letter  of  496 
TUles  by  Courtesy,  observations  on  25t 

331,  333 
Tembstome,    discovered,    near    Chester 

Cathedral  630 
Tembst  ancient,  of  GerKany  63 
Tower,  arrangement  of  the  new  horse 

armoury  at  195 
Trade,  Free,  principles  of  313 
Transubstantiatien,  stanias  on  381 
Tudor,  Owen,  anecdotes  of  418 
Tumulus,  opened  at  Nettleton  161 
Turner,   Miss,  trial  of  Wakefield  for 

the  abduetioa  of  360.    bill  fi>r  annul- 

liqg  her  marriage  550 
TwisSt  Cen.  fFm.  memoir  of  364 
'VniversiHes  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge, 

defended  388,  390,  483,  504.    imper- 
fect education  in  506 
yase,  Raman,  discovered  at  Newbury  161 
Vases  of  ancient  Greece,  disquisition  on 

35,  140 
yauU,  Royal,  at  Windsor  61 
VUlula,  John  de,  biof .  notices  of  348 
yineent,  Augustine,  notices  of  341 
Fiseount,  title  of,   assumed  by  sons  of 

Earls  who  are  not  Viscounts  333 
VUrified  Forts,  remarks  on  634 
Voltxmic  ErupHen  from  Uolworth  CUIT, 

J>orset8hire  359,  396,  638 
Fotive  Offerings  among  the  ancient  Ro- 
mans 408 
fFak^ld,  E.  G.  trial  and  coovictioo 

fur  abduction  360.    sentence  of  458 
fydllis.  Rev,  Richard,  memoir  of  474 


1Valpole*%  Anecdotes  of  Painting  41 
H^aMsdyhe,  Wilts,  observatloiM  on  41$, 

483,  483 
if'aterford,  Susem  Mmrehienees  tf,  me- 
moir of  573 
fFemyss,  Col,  J,  B,  memoir  of  563 
fFessex,  Saxon  sctatta#  of  404 
fFestmacott*s  Pictures,  sale  of  635 
/i^i/muwf^,  architectural  amprorementi 

in  134,  581 
f^estminster    Abbey,   andett   painting 

discovered  in  351 
fF heeler,  C  fl.  memoir  of  180 
fFhile,   Rev,   J,  Blanco,    biographical 

notices  of  136 
fFhitear,  Rev,  W,  memoir  of  379 
fmUmms,  Adm.  Robert,  memoir  of  46S 
Jftlliams,  tip.  John  character  of  496 
fruiiams,  Rev.  T.  library  of,  sold  351 
fFilmot  Family,  epitaphs  on  578 
fyindsor,  royal  vault  at  6 1 
fyingfield,  Ur.  monument  to  648 
fyUhers*s  Psalms,  letter  respecting  301 
ff^lsey.  Card,  notices  of  531 
ffbol,  petition  against  importing  555 
fyoolhampton  Rectory,  action  respetidng 

554 
Wren,  Anne,  biographical  notices  of  386 
IVrey,  Sir  Bourehier,  memoir  of  174 
Wycombe,  coins  found  at  493 
York,  Duke  of,  death  and  memoir  of  69- 
84.  equetiraan  statue  proposed  to  tbo 
memory  of  3.   elegies  and  poetical  tri- 
butes to  his  memory  3,  4,  101,   103. 
library  of  58.    character  by  Sir  W. 
Scott  83.    funeral  procemion  of  7  8-8 1 . 
anecdotes  99*  168.    on  the  prepara- 
tions for  his  funeral  101.    address  of 
condolence  by  the  House  of  Commons 
165.    monument  to  be  erected  to  167, 
865.    Sir  H.  Tayloi's  diary  of  bis  m* 
nem  363.    sales  of  his  eiVeots  366 
York  House  described  54 
Young,  5ir  Semnuel,  memoir  of  174 
Zoological  Society,  proceedinp  of  448 


INDEX  TO  BOOKS  REVIEWED. 


Academic  Unity  606 
Addison,  Selectioa  from  his  Papers  618 
Aged,  Consolations  of  the  338 
Agriculture,  importance  of  138 
Allen,  J,  Reply  to  Dr.  Lingard's  vindi- 
cation 617.    Postscript  to  631 
Allen,  T.  Hittory  of  Lambeth  536 
Atphonso,  a  Comedy  333 
Angell,  S.  Selinuntinc  Sculptures  33 
Ann-Slavery  Monthly  Reporter  631 
Apocalypse^  new  Interpretation  of  430 
Archteologta,  VoL  xxi.  Part  IL  534 
Arithmetic,  Modem  631 
Arms  and  Armour,  Engraved  Specimens 

of  57 
Atkinson, «/.  Secchit  Rapita  538 


BaUe^s  Pettoletti  609 
Beauties  of  eminent  Writers  148 
Becourt,  R.  on  the  Brahmins  615 
Beldam,  J.  Laws  aflbcting  Dissenters  531 
Belfrage,  Dr,  Consolations  of  the  Aged 

338 
Benett, «/.  on  Agriculture  138 
Bei^m,  Rev.  E.  Selections  of  618 
Bevan,  Dr.  the  Honey  Bee  608 
Bible,  Introduction  to  the  Study  of  331 
Booker,  Dr,  Luke,  Sermon  by  154 
Bowles,  Rev.  ^  X.  on  the  Wanidike 

and  Avebuiy  419»  483 
Boyd,  H,  S,  a  Malvern  Tale  618 
Brahmins,  System  of,  unveiled  ^15 
BriHgesU  Proteittnt  and  Catholic  631 


656 


Index  to  Reviews. 


Bristol,  Memoirs  of  144 
Britith  Poeteues,  Specimens  of  4S9 
Briiton,  J.  Picture  of  London  54.    Rob- 
son's  Viens  ISff.    History  of  Exeter 
Cathedral  5S9. 
Burton' t  Petition  to  Parliament  139 
Butler  J  Dr,  Samuel,  Charge  of  45 
Cnbinet  Lawyer  Q^l 
Ottar  Family,  Liires  of  339 
Calistfumc  Exereites,  Treatise  on  615 
QUvinittic  Preelestination,  Discourses  on 

38 
Canterbury  Cathedral,  Heraldic  Notices 

of  345 
Carrington't  Dartmoor  138 
CdtkoHcs,  on  PoUticai  Claims  of  618 
CaihoUe  Bisheps,  Declaratioo  of  616 
Qivendish,  Ceo,  Life  of  Cardinal  Wol- 

sey  520 
Chanctry,  on  the  Court  of  344 
Ckatmey,  Sir  H.  History  of  Hertford- 
shire 153 
Cheshire  Glossary  51 
Chivalry  and  Romance,  Stories  of  681 
O^ristian  Review,  No.  1.  149 
ChrisHaniiy,  on  the  Eiridences  of  681 
Christie,  James,  on  painted  Greek  Vases 

35,  140 
Church  t  rrmptum.  Remarks  on  533 
CUies,  Robson's  Views  of  136,  344 
Clerkenwell,  History  of  345 
Colonial    Slavery,    Commoh   Sense  on 

615 
Conquest  of  England,  History  of  607 
Cooh^s  views  of  the  Southern  Coast  of 

England  S48 
Cooper,  R.  B.  Vindication  434 
Corn  Laws,  thoughts  on  680 
'  Cbmniry  Fiear  538 
Court,  Megor,  on  Tithes  158 
CriHes  and  Scribblers  of  the  Day  844 
Croly,  Rev,  G,  on  the  Apocalypse  480 
Qivier's  Fossil  Osteology  49 
/>a/laway'iWalpole's  Anecdotes  of  Paint- 
ing 41 
Dartmoor,  a  Poem  138 
Death's  Doings  583 
Denmarh,  &c.  Tour  in  133 
Dissenters,  summary  of  the  Laws  afifect- 

ing531 
Draper's  Stories  from    Scripture   His- 
tory 538 
Dugdale,  Sir  fV,  Life  of  513 
Dumbelfs  Letter  to  Mr.  Peel  617 
Dyee*s  British  Poetesses  489 
Dyer,  G,  Academic  Unity  606 
Education  in  France,  view  of  337 
Education  in  Ireland,  Report  on  836 
Eldridg^s  Views  in  South  Wales  437 
ElHs,  H,  Letters  on  English  History  515 
JE'n^toiuffHlstory  of,  vindicated  40.  Views 

of  the  Southern  Coast  of  348 
English  CiHes,  Views  of  136,  344 
English  History,  lAiitn  on  515 
Evans,  T,  Selinuntine  Sculptures  33 
Exeter  Cathedral,  History  of  589 


Filiation,  appeal  a^iiitt  an  order  of  61{ 
FlageUstm  ParKamemiui  ium  943 
Flower  <f  the  Forest  538 
FraMce,  public  Education  in  337 
French  Language,  eoarse  ofjstudy  in^ 
FrosCs  Medico-Botanical  Oration  147 
Fn-est  Trees,  on  Planting  of*  139 
FhssU  Osteology,  Retearchet  in  49 
Foster's  Pocket  Encyclopedia  384 
Gleig,  Bishop,  Letten  on  Theology  S18 
Golden  Violet  839 
Graves,  Dr,  on  Calvinistic  Predestias- 

tion  38 
Greeh  Vases,  Painted,    disqoltition  so, 

35,  140 
Gregohre,  M,  Histoire  da  Manage  da 

Pr6treS  eti  France  4S7 
Hamper,  W,  Life  of  Sir  W.  Dugdale  \\\ 
Hawking,  Observationo  on  53 
Head  Pieces  and  Tail  Pieceo  S44 
Heart,  The,  and  other  Poemo  437 
Hertfordshire,  History  of  153 
Higkmore  on  Church  Cormption  533 
Hindoo  IFidows,  Account  of  a  meetisc 

relative  to  the  immolation  of  614 
Honey  Bee,  The  608 
Hood,  T,  Whims  and  Odditieo  335.  Na- 
tional Tales  336 
Home,  T,  H,  Introduction  to  the  Bible 

331.    Romanism  contradictory  to  the 

Bible  440 
Horrid,  Rev,  T,  W,  History  of  Lewes, 

424 
Bortus  SuhurbaanMt  155 
Howard,  L,  Liber  Eccleai«st\eui  338 
Hewlett,  Rev,  J,  H.  on  the  Uturgy  5S8 
Hunt,    T,  F.    Designi   for    Parsonage 

Houses  605 
Impressment  of  Seaman,  Hints  on  614 
Indexes,   prohibitory  and    expurgatory 

of  the  Church  of  Rome  153 
Inventions,  &c.  History  of  436 
Ireland,  on  Education  in   S36.     Three 

Months  in  399 
Italy,  Actual  state  of  130 
Jackson  s  state  of  the  Jews  538 
James  I,  Progresses  of  43 
Jesuits,  The  Modern  833 
Jews,  State  of  the  538 
Johnston, Dr.  on  Education  iu  France  337 
Kenilworth  FestUnties  538 
Knowles  on  Evidences  of  Christianity  681 
Lambeth,  History  of  586 
Latin  Composition,  Treatise  on  681 
Leamington  Spa,  Engravings  of  538 
Leiston  Abbey,  Account  of  619 
Lepage's  modem  Jesuits  333 
Lewes,  History  of  484 
Liber  Ecclesiastieus  338 
Lingard,  Dr,  History  of  England  vin- 
dicated 40.    Reply  to  his  Vindication 

617.     Postscript  to  681 
Literature,   Transactions  of  the  Royal 

Society  of  381 .    Report  688 
lAturgy,  Instructions  in  Reading  533 
Living  and  the  Dead  438 


Index  to  RetietDs. 


657 


Lodg9'w  Liv«t  of  the  Cieiar  Family  3S9 
jLofM/ofK  Picture  of  54.    Chronicle  of  417 
IjOW*t  Hiitory  of  ScotUnd  199 
Mae  Henry* s  Synonymet  631 
Maintenon,    Madame^   Correspondence 

of  3S6 
Mdhem  Tale  6X9 

Marlowe^  Chrittopher,  Works  of  155 
Maude* t  Memorial  6S1 
Meekanidt  Anecdotes  of  613 
Medico- Botanical  Oration  147 
Mendham,  J.  on  the  Chureh  of  Rone  153 
Military  Sketch  Book  523 
MilthmueTs  Poems  47 
MiWnCt  Prote,  Poetry  of  6S1 
MitekelfM  first  Lines  of  Science  538 
Moreau*s  Chronology  of  the  Navy  538 
Nmpolem  dans  I'autre  Monde  426 
National  Tales  336 
Natural  Pkenomena,  Encycl.  of  324 
Naufragui,  Adventures  of  343 
Nemal  Architecture^  Papers  on  613 
Navyj  Chronological  Records  of  538 
JVicolat,  N.  ff.  Memoirs  of  Aug.  Vin* 

cent  341 
Nichols,  J,  Pro|:resses  of  Jaaies  J.  43 
No  Popery  621 
Hfug^  CanoriP  24S 

Nugent,  Lordf  observations  on  his  Let- 
ter in  support  of  the  Catholics  618 
Odd  Moments  538 
Outalissi,  a  Tale  612 
Painting,  Anecdotes  of  41 
Paper  Money,  Observatiuiis  on  838 
Pamell^  Sir  H.  on  Paper  Money  238 
Parsonage  Houses,  l)esi|^ns  for  605 
Patriot,  Sung  of  the,  &c.  47 
PeeU  Right  Host.  R.  Letter  to  61 1 
Peithman  on  Latin  Composition  621 
Penrose, «/.  on  Scripture  Miracles  150 
Petlefs  Sacred  Music  340 
Political  Mconomy,  Lecture  on  523 
Poor,  on  supplying  Medical  Assistance 

to  619 
Pope,  on  Oath  of  Allepaiice  to,  532 
Portraits  of  British  Sovereigns,  Cata- 
logue of  335 
Prilres,  Manage  des,  in  France  427 
Progresses  of  King  James  I.  43 
Protestant  and  Catholic,  Poem  of  621 
Psalms,  Translation  of  621 
Reformation,  History  of  432 
Religious  Controversy ^  Treatise  on  614 
Robinson,  Rev.  T,  Sermon  by  619 
Rohson*s  Views  of  Eiigti>ih  Cities  136, 344 
Roche  Arnanld  on  the  Jesuits  233 
Rjodds  Catalogue  of  Portraits  335 
Rolle*s  Poems  437 

Romanism  contradictory   to  the   Bible 
440.     Letter  to  Protest auts  converted 
from  531 
Romish  Church,    Tax    Books    of   532. 

Episcopal  Oath  of  Allegiance  to  ib. 
Royat  Society  of  Literature,  Traiisac* 
t  ions  of  321.    Report  622 
Grnt.  Mac.  Suppl,  XCVII.  Part  I. 


RusseVi  Modem  Arithmetic  €21 

Sacred  Music,  Original  340 

Schiller*s  Wallenatcin  333 

Science,  first  lines  of  538 

Scotland,  Historleaof  129,621 

Seott,  ff^.  Beauties  of  Eminent  Writers 

148 
Scripture,  poetical    Illustrations  of  621' 

Stories  from  538 
Scripture  Miracles,  Treatise  on  150 
Sebright,  Sir «/.  S.  on  Hawking  53 
Secchia  Rapita  538 
Selinuntine  Sculptures  described  33 
Senior,  N,  fFion  Political  Economy  523 
Sermons  by  Booker  154.     By  Waite  601 

By  Varder  614.     By  Robinson  619 
Seyer^s  Memoirs  of  Bristol  144 
Shafton*^  Vagaries  435 
Singer,  S.  W.  Life  of  Card.  Wolsey  590 
iSA^/lo»'«  Specimens  of  Arms  aad  Armour 

57 
Slave  Trade,  Address  on  151 
Smith,  R.  Tour  in  Denmark»3cc.  133 
Soameis  History  of  the  Reformation  438 
Spanish  Language,  Synonymet  of  6S1 
Stewart's  History  of  Scotland  6S1 
Storer^s  History  of  Clerkenwell  345 
Stratford,  F,  P.  on  the  Chancery  Court 

344 
Stuartt  R,  on  Mechanics,  &c.  613 
Sweefs  Hortu*  Suburbanus  153 
Taxatio  Papalis  532 
Taylor,  E.  poetical  Illustrations  of  Serip- 

ture  621 
Taylor,  Rev,  J.  on  Religious'  Contro- 
versy 614 
Thames  Quay,  Papers  relating  to  536 
Theology,  Letters  on  518 
Thierry,  J,  on  the  Norman  Conquest 

607 
Thirty-mne  Articles,  Sermons  on  601 
Tithes,  calamitous  consequences  of  1.^2 
Tor  Hill,  The  429 
Toumsend,  Rev.  G,  on  the  Declaration 

of  the  Catholic  Bishops  616 
Transalpine  Memoirs  130 
Trench,  CoL  on  the  Thames  Quay  536 
J\do  Brothers,  Poems  by  609 
Vagaries  in  quest  of  the  Wild  and  Won- 
derful 435 
Values,  Tbe  604 

Varder,  Rev,  Dr,  Sermon  by  614 
Vases,  Greek,  Disquisitions  on  35,  140 
VtUeroy,  Castle  of  538 
Vincent,  Augustine,  Memoir  of  341 
Viseland  on  the  French  Language  621 
Visitation  Charge  Ah 
Voarino  on  Calisthenic  Exercises  615 
fVaite,  Rev.  T.  Sermons  by  601 
fVales,  South,  Views  in  437 
PVallenstein,  a  dramatic  Poem  333 
/f^/io/f'«  Anecdotes  of  Painting  41 
fVanderer,  Story  of  143 
fVansdikeand  Avebuty,Monumcnxs  of  419 
^hims  and  Oddities  335 


6A8 


Index  to  Bockt  atmanknced. 


fFhite,  F.  S.  Hittory  of  In?iBntibn8,  9te, 

436 
fyhite.  Rev. «/.  3.  ot»  Romanitm  *31 
ff^iibraham*t  Cheshire  Glossary  51 
fFillemetU*M   Heraldia  Notices  of  Can- 

tcrhurj  Catbadral  245 


ff^b,  PMn  Mmet  eta  Makior  ^^ 
fFkhtrt,  9y,  ••  Forest  Trees,  I  %^ 
FToUew,  Cn-dmaif  Life  of  530 
^r/(f.  View  of  the  339' 


INDEX  TO  BOOKS  ANNOUNCED. 


Alexander ^  J,  E.  Travrls  oP,  58. 

AlleH't  J,  R«ply  to  Dr.  Litt^rd,  157. 

■  T.  Hi«t«ry  of  Lambeth,  5?. 

American  Sketche§,  57. 

Amaud't  History  of  the  Vaudois,  57. 

Arts  and  Science*,  Register  of,  449. 

Bahbage's  1  able  of  Lof^rithms,  158. 

Bagseer*s  Dible»  58. 

Bur$helemon*§  Italian  Oratorio,  56. 

Barton,  B.  Widow's  Tale,  157. 

Bat  her  t  Rev.  £.  Setmoits^  346. 

BeckwUh*s  Orifhtial  Essays,  346. 

Bedflndstiire,  History  of,  157. 

BeltKamU  Di^ieourseft,  947. 

Bemoh't  JlfedHathnt,  346. 

Bevan*s  Treatise  on  the  Bf*e,  156. 

B9V9rley*»  Jubal,  946. 

Birkbeck,  Morrit's  Life  of,  346. 

Bismark**  Lectures  on  Cavalry,  347* 

Biumenbaek**   Institutions  of  Physiolo- 
gy, 158. 

Book  Colledov^i  Manual,  946. 

Bowlet'%  History  of  Bremhill,  946. 

Bowr%ng*t  Translations  of  Servian  Poe- 

BrittoHfJ,  Cathedral  Antiquities,  156. 
History  of  Peterborough  Cathtnlral, 
539.  Union  of  Architecture,  &c.  539< 
Architectural  Antiquities,  539*  Pub- 
lic Buildings  of  London,  539' 
try,  947. 

JS^otfA'f  Journey  through  Lnpland,  158. 

Bruee'f  Death  on  the  Pale  Horse,  946. 

Buckie,  J.  on  Tithes,  346. 

Burgess,  Rev.  S.  fV,  Sacred  Hours,  947. 
Christianity  ami  Deism  contrasttrd,  ih, 

Burke* s  Correspondence,  346. 

CalverVs  Views  in  the   lale  of  Wight, 
540. 

Canning,  G.  Appeal  against,  449. 

Carpenter,   fV.    Reply,    58.      Natural 
History  of  the  Bible,  347- 

CmwUheriS  History  of  the  Church,  57. 

(jat^olic  Emancipation,  Letter  on,  1 57* 

Ckristianity,  Lectures  on,  158. 

dark,  •/.  on  Lamlscape  Painting,  540. 

Qarke't  Geograpliical  Dirtionary,  946. 

Cierkenwell,  History  of,  57. 

O[tfi0/<r«  Account  of  Bmiiieiit  Men>  346. 

Clutterbuck^s  History  of  Hertfordshire^ 
946. 

ColemoHf  Rev.  J,  N.  Sermons,  346. 

CoUingwood,  Lord,  Memoirs  of,  347. 

ColHnii  Poetical  Works.  540. 

Colonial  Slavery,  Cotiunon  ^et\%e  ow, 

346. 
CMke*s  Viewf  of  Lontion,  \51. 


Cornish,  on  the  Doctrine  of  RearatTideTV, 
539. 

Country  Curate,  Exeorsvens  of,  946. 

County  Hieioriet  of  EngUmel,  Compen- 
dium of,  346. 

CoHsen'f  Account  of  KvrkstallAhfaejy  159. 

OiicA/ofiV  Converts  from  tnlMetity,  158. 

Croly,  Rev,  G,  on  the  Apocalypse,  34S. 

Cromwell,  Letter  of,  949. 

Crowquilts  Absurdities,  346. 

Cunningham**  Morning  ThcMai^hte,  44f . 

Qimer'# Scripture  Geology,  946. 

Dallas's  Sermons,  946. 

Davy,  Sir  H,  Discourses  of,  158. 

Deaiiry,  Rev.  IV  Sermons.  449; 

DewhurgCs  Dictionary  of  Anattovsy,  58. 

Dibdin,Dr,  Fox*s  Book  of  M<artyrs,  158. 

T.  Auto-hiogrsphy  of,  157. 

Draper^s  Stories  from  Scripture  History » 
346 

East,  Rev.  •/.  Sea-side,  540,  547. 

EdgwortKs  Dramatic  Tales,  947. 

Eldridge*s  Views  in  South  Wales,  44S. 

Ellmer  Castle,  540. 

Elton,  on  the  Person  of  Christ,  947. 

Espinasse,  J,  on  the  Statute  Law,  5S9. 

Evans,  J,  History  of  Bristol,  157. 

Every  Night  Book,  540. 

£tirtfi4;V  Scripture  Lexicon,  157. 

Flagellum  ParHameniarimm,  156. 

Foster's  Pocket  EneyWopetlia,  156. 

Frost, «/.  on  Botany',  346. 

Galloway's  History   of  the  Steam    En- 
cine,  449. 

Gilchrist's   .Unitariahism     abandoned, 
947. 

Gilpin's  Discourses,  946. 

Gondola,  The,  946. 

Grahamo's  History  of  North  America, 
158. 

Grinfield's  Christian  Di/tpensation,  946. 
Visions  of  Patmos,  449. 

Gwydir  Family,  History  of,  157 

HanshalVs  Histtiry  of  Cheshire,  346. 

Harding's  Stenography,  946. 

Hawkswortk's  History  of  the  Merovin- 
gian Dynsfity,  947* 

Henderson,  Dr,  on  Biblical  Criticism, 
540. 

Hindis  Elements  of  Trigonometry,  44S. 

Hofland^s  River  Scenery,  540. 

Holland,  Lord,  Letter  of,  .^46. 

Hood,  r.  National  Tales,  58. 

Hopfciiu>  Bp,  Selection  from  the  Works 


Index  lo  Booki  obmmmmL 


^9 


HnghnU  Voe»bal«ry  (•  tb«  CEdiimt  1>- 

ranniM  of  SophoclM,  540. 
Hulberi,  on  Relieving  the  Sick  Poor»  448. 
HumamUft  Voice  of,  640. 
Humboidt*s  Views  in  the  Br»iiU»  44S. 
Icelandic  Sagasj  947. 
India,  Human  Sacrifires  in,  442. 
Ireland,  Road  Book  of,  158. 
Jenkin*i  Architectural  OniamentSy  448. 
•/(mxiii^j^OmitholoKia,  540. 
JemiU,  The  Modern,  1 57- 
Johnson's  Orlando  Furiueo,  58^ 
Jeplin,  71  on  Corn  and  Currency,  157« 
Kenneif,  Dr,  oii  the  period  of  William 

III.  S46. 
Aiaoirilfff'fEWdencet  of  Christianity,  346. 
Lang's  Life  of  Mr.  Fox,  158. 
Im  Roche- JaqueUn,Marck.Memvir,  158. 
Lauderdale,  Earl,  Letter  to,  846. 
Lmwes,  £,  on  Naval  Bouk-kee|nu|f,  58. 
Le  Brunts  Comparative  Pbysio^Hoaiyy 

449. 
Lee's  Lectures    on   the  Uebreir  Lan- 

f^uaice,  157. 
iJngard,  Dr*  Postscript,  in  answer  to 

Dr.  Allen's   Reply  846.      History  of 

En^aady  540 
lAihgom,  JfV.  Transactions  of  the  Perth 

Literary  Society,  158. 
IJangallen,  Account  of,  448. 
London,  Ancient  Manners  and  Supersti- 
tions of,  58.    Buildings  of  illustrated, 

J  56. 
Lowndes's  Book  Collector's  Manual,  448. 
Jlladeira   and    Portugal,   Ramblet    in, 

448. 
Atadeiras,  Views  in,  448. 
ManielCs  Geolo|^  of  Sussex,  346. 
March's  Early  Life  of  Christ,  540. 
Alitton,  Fiscauntt  Letter  to,  157. 
MitchelCs  Newtonian  Philosopbyv  448. 
ASore's  Pietas  Privata,  346. 
Morelts  EienMots  of  Philosophy,  158. 
Moseley's  Dictionary  uf  Latin  Quanti- 
ties, 541. 
Afttnoy'f  Adventures  of  British  Seamen, 

158. 
Nau/ragMSi  Adventures  of,  847. 
Naval  and  MUUarjf  Magazine,  58. 
NeUon,  R,  on  Jus'ification,  441. 
Newnham's  Principles  of  Education,  £8. 
NiUoch^s  Lexicon  uf  Scripture  Names, 

847. 
Nicholson's  Architecture,  346. 
Nicolas,  N,  H.  Sief^e  of  Carlaverock, 

157.    Journal  of  Thomas  de  Bekyti- 

lun,  846. 
Niehuhf^t  Roman  History  translated,  167 
Noel,  Rev.  G.  T,  Sermons,  448. 
Normandg,  Architectural  Aniiqoitles  of, 

156,  539. 
Norlheote,  J.  Fables,  347. 
Novels,  series  of,  442. 
Nugse  Canorte,  157. 
Nuiiall,  Dr.  Interlineal  traailation  of 

Horace^  540. 


(/Connor,  Dr.  BiblialheoaMS.^towra- 
sis,  847.    Irish  aironides,  847. 

0/iver'f  History  of  Beveriey,  448. 

Orme'tf  Memolrty  847. 

Pamell,  Sir  H,  on  Paper  Money,  &c.  157. 

PeninsukLt  ^c.  Camiwignsin,  157. 

Plumtre's  ComuMntary    on  the  BiMop 
441 

Poeiie  Fugitives,  346. 

Pompeii,  and  other  Poems,  ^46.  Vietit 
of,  540. 

Prayer,  achievements  of,  540. 

Raine,  Rev,  J,  Account  of  the  opening 
of  the  grave  of  St.  Cutlibert,  540. 

Rent,  true  Theory  of,  157.  v 

Richardson,  Rev.  J,  on  the  Declaration 
of  the  Catholic  Bishops,  540. 

Robisuon,  Dr,  Magistrate's  Formularki, 
846. 

Robson's  Picturesque  Views,  158,  639.  . 

Roche's  Anacreon,  540. 

Romanse  Language,  Remains  of,  847. 

Rome,  Views  in,  448. 

Roos's  Travels,  346. 

Ross,  Rev.  J,  J*  Hirsch's  Geometry,  847. 

Russell,  Dr.  on  Sacred  and  Profane  His- 
tory, 540. 

Scholastic  Register,  54a 

Scrape's  Geology  of  Central  France,  57. 

ShaAspeare  Portraits,  luqniry  into,  540. 

Shephertts  Philosophical  Essays,  846. 

Sherwood,  Mrs.  Birth* day  present,  158. 
History  of  my  uncle  Timothy,  846.  . 

Shelton's  Specimens  of  Arms  and  Ar- 
mour, 347. 

Smith,  H.  Reuben  Apsley,  448. 

Smyth,  Copt.  State  of  Sardinia,  158.    . 

Soane  on  the  New  Law  Courts,  540. 

iSoK/Aey'j  Sir  Thomas  Moore,  158. 

^/^Aefu'jClironicles  of  Methodism.  847* 

Stei'enson's  Tour  in  France,  &c.  448. 

Stratford  on  the  Court  of  Chancery,  159. 

Sfrutt's  DelicisB  Silvarum,  58. 

Sumner's  Sermons,  846. 

Swan,  Rev.  fFi  Idolatry,  a  poem,  157. « 

Sweet's  Flora  Australasia,  158.  Florist's 
Guide,  347. 

Symes's  Borman  Empire,  158. 

Tales  of  all  Nations,  448. 

Taylor,  J,  Hiitory  of  the  Transmissioii 
of  Ancient  Books  to  Modern  Tiasai, 
347. 

Thaehera^s  Life  ef  Mr.  Pitt,  345. 

Theological  EneycUpediat  448. 

Thompson's  Davidia,  346.. 

Thomas  Old  Prose  Romances,  347, 448, 
539. 

Timhowski's  Travels  of  the  Russian  Mis- 
sion, 158. 

Townley,  Dr.  on  the  Laws  of  Mose4, 540L 

Usher's  Version  of  the  Psalms,  847. 

Village  Curate,  Excursions  of,  346. 

Wdlpole*8  Anecdotes  of  Painting,  540. 

fydtkin's  Memoir  of  the  Unke  uf  York, 
846. 


.^(K) 


Ind€X  to  Books  announced. 


fVeUh  Soci^,  Talet  of,  157* 
fflkU^t  History  of  Inventions,  346* 
ff^hiil€mcre*M  Picture  of  Briffhtou,  34S. 
H^Ucock^  J,  W,  on  Municipal  Corpora- 
tions, 539* 
fruUm€tU*g  Heraldic  Notices,  156. 
.fftlMm^  JL  on  the  Epistle  to  tbe  Ro- 
mans, 58. 


B^ramflkam'i    Antiquarifan    Trio,    1511. 

Ediiion  of  Bp.  Walton's  Prulegosena, 

346. 
Youngt  J.  R.  on  Geometry,  541. 
Zeliwood  on  Poaching,  S4$. 
Zoological  Journal,  346. 


INDEX  TO  POETRY. 


jingler,  Stanzas  on,  536. 

BaiUie,  «/oaima,  stanzas  by,  341. 

Booker,  Atrt,  stanzas  on  beholding  her 
remains,  956 

.Brandrtth,  H.  influence  of  religion,  6^2 

Briion,  D,  A,  stanzas  on  Life,  548 

ByrotCt  Poems,  lines  written  in  a  copy 
of.  S7 

(Chalmers,  Alexander,  sonnet  to,  162. 

CkamherUn,  M,  Moonlfght  evening,  630 

Charity,  stanzas  to,  48 

CondUionM  reqnises  en  gens  de  plusieurs 

-    estatz,  449 

Courtthip,  Modem,  lines  on,  448. 

Cu%ry,  Dr.  lines  on,  S49. 

England,  farewell  to,  630. 

Evening  by  MoenUght,  lines  on,  630. 

Farewell  to  England,  630. 

Ferdinand^ »  Dream,  548 

FirttSen9aiwn8,\B2 

fbote.  Miss,  stanxas  to,  548 

afford,  IV.  tribute  to  tbe  memory  of, 
63.    lines  on  Dr.  Ireland,  1  IS 

Golden  Violet,  contention  for,  S40 

Graham,  Rev, «/.  elegy  on  the  death  of 
the  Duke  of  York,  3.  charter  song 
of  Londonderry,  163.  Farewell  to 
England,  630 

Har^,  StockdaU,  on  the  death  of  tbe 
Duke  of  York,  4 

Heraud,  •/.  A,  ode  to  John  Martin,  353 

Uertee,  JV,  on  a  resting-place,  63.  tri- 
bute to  the  Duke  of  York,  109.  lines 
on  the  intended  monument  to  the 
Duke  of  York,  447.  Ferdinand's 
dream,  548 

H^  Fcmily,  on  the  picture  of,  S55 

HomcoidUitt  163 

Independence,  sonnet  on,  449 

In/ante^  in  plaster  of  Parts,  lines  on,  354 

Ireland,  Dr.  lines  on,  1 19 

JAb,  Sir  R.  lines  on,  S42 

Idtdy  at  the  Harp,  sonnet  to,  164 

London,  Miss,  extracts  from  the  Golden 
Violet,  240 

lA/e,  stanzas  on,  548.     a  tee-totum,  63S 

iMerary  Fund  Society,  sonnet  to  the 
Directors  of,  547 

London  in  tbe  morning,  164 

Londonderry,  Charier  song  of,  163 

Martin,  John,  ode  to,  353 

Mayne,  J.  on  death  of  Duke  of  York,  4 
AtiUhouse,  Robert,  popmsof,  41.  %vii\- 
jai  on  Sherwood  FuTeit,2b5 


Moendght  Evening,  lines  on,  630 

Mother,  lines  written  by  a,  449 

'Nichols,  J,  lines  on  hearing  the  deatli 
of,  63 

Ode  to  John  Martin,  353 

Old  Age,  sonnet  to,  547 

Opie,  Mrs,  stanzas  on  Resignation,  340 

Parting,  The,  633 

Physicians,  Royal  College  of,  208 

Poets,  Ancient,  beauties  of,  499 

Religion,  influence  of,  ii 

Resignation,  stanzas  on,  340 

Resting-place,  stanzas  on,  63 

Richardson,  D.  L,  sonnets  of,  -164 

Schiller's  fVallenstetHy  extracts  from,  334 

Scotch  Doctor,  lines  on,  243 

Sherwood  Forest ^  stanzas  oti,  255   * 

Shipwreek  on  the  coast  of  Ireland,  stal^• 
zas  on,  631 

Skeffington,  Sir^  L,  Spring  and  Morn- 
ing, 548 

Sonnet,  to  Sylvanus  Urban,  162.  to  Alex. 
Chalmers,  esq.  162.  London  in  tbe 
Morning,  164.  to  a  lady  at  tbe  harp^ 
164.  on  independence,  449.^  to  the 
Directors  of  tbe  Literary  Fund  Soci- 
ety, 547.    to  Old  Age,  547 

Sophocles,  beauties  of,  499 

Spanish  Minstrete  Tale,  840 

Sparrow  Hawk,  lines  sent  with  one, 
256 

Spring  and  the  Morning,  548 

Stonehenge,  lines  on,  631 

Sympathy,  tear  of,  632 

Taylor,  J.  tribute  to  the  memory  of  W, 
Giffbrd,  63.  sonnet  to  Sylvanus  Ur- 
ban, 162.  on  two  infants  in  plaster  . 
of  Paris,  354.  on  the  picture  of  tbe 
Holy  Family,  255.  sonnet  on  Inde- 
pendence, 449>  sonnet  to  tbe  Direct- 
ors of  the  Literary  Fund  Society,  547. 
sonnet  to  Old  Age,  547 

Tear  of  Sympathy,  632 

Tears,  lines  on,  437 

TSrauabttantiatian,  stanzas  on,  220 

Urban,  Sylvanus, %otifie^  to,  162 

IFard,  C  first  sensations,  162 

IFhen  isit  time  to  die  M 69 

fVindham,  Lady  Joane,  lines  to  tbe  ma* 
morv  of,  32 

York,  Dukeqf,  elegies  on,  3,  4.  tribates 
to  the  memory  of,  101,  102.  lin«s  on 
Vvvft  intended  monument,  447 


[  661  ]  . 


INDEX  TO  NAMES. 


Abbott,  J.  171.  Sir 

C.  459 
Abdy,  C.  C.  173 
Abercromby)  Sir.  J. 

460 
Aberdeen,  Earl,  950 
Aberdein,  339 
Abemetby,  68  ' 
Abingdon,  Ld.  454 
Abney,  E.  €47. 
Abraball,  J.   C.  J. 

H.68 
Abrabam,  Capt.  1 87 
Acland,   Sir  T.  D. 

443 
Ackloni,  P.  477 
Acton,  Sir  C.  S98 
Adam,  550.    Sir  F. 

636.  Adm.Cl7S 
Adams,  65.  A.  476. 

C.  M.  557.      W. 

D.  460. 
Adamson,  M.  378. 

W.  361. 
Adderl«y,A.  M.476 
Addis,  M.  641. 
Addison,  S48. 
Adelmare,  C.  339. 

P.  M.  16. 
Adtn,T.  381 
Adkin,  A.  385 
Agar,  J.S.  464 
Agassis,  L.  368 
Agnola,  Col.  559* 
Aing,  G.  B.  347 
Ainger,  W.  367 
Ainsley,A.3dl  E.iA. 
Ainswortb,  W.  599, 

600 
Airey,  W.  67 
Albemarle,  E.  363 
Alder,  G.  463 
Aldridge  161 
Alexander  176 
Alexeras  64 
Alford  380 
Algiers^  Der,  553 
AlUrdyce,  J.  558 
Allcoek,  R.  380 
Allen  10,  589.      E. 

93.    J.  573.     R. 

384.    T.558 
Allgood,J.460 
Allix,  R.  W.  368 
Allow,  190 
Althorp,   Ld,    358, 

543 
Amcott,  Sir  W.  585 
Amhenty  Earl,  89 


Amsinell,  H.  68 
Amyot  850.  T.  358 
Ancaster,  Duke  463 
Anderson,  A.  868 
Andr^e,  M.  P.  W. 

363 
Andrewes,  G.  17 
Andrews,   J.     189, 

457.  P.  E.  E.  68 
Angell,  B.  J.  363 
Angevine  487 
Anglesea,  Mar.  457, 

458,  459 
Annesley,  J.  556 
Anson,  C.  570.    Sir 

G.  867.    H.  648. 
Anstice,  R.  558 

Anthony,  E. H.I 87 
Antrobus,   E.   361, 

475.    G.  C.  641 
Apsley,  A.  57 1 
Arbuthnot,  C.  358, 

556 
Arden,  R.  488 
Argyll,  Duke,  348 
Arkwright,  M.  378 
Armstrong,  J.Ew460. 

M.G.  173 
Arnauld  333 
Arratcon,  K.  386 
Arrowsmitb.  £.476 
Arscott,  T.  188 
Arthur,  J.  367 
Arundell,  Arch.  3 1 8. 

K.  641 
Ashbrook,Mlss,476 
Ashby,  J.  380 
Asbfield,  C.  R.  867 
Ashworth  368 
Askew,  Dr.  19 
Aston,  F.  461.    S. 

476 
Athenry,  Lord,  390 
Atbill,  S.  T.  463 
Atkins,  L.  173 
Atkinson,  A.    189, 

381.    J.  B.  173. 

R.477 
Atlee,  F.  557 
Attwood,  341 
Atwood,S.  641 
Aubertin,  A.  381 
Auckland,  Ld.  443 
Austen,  G.  188,379 
Austin,  C.  460.    J. 

377 
Awdry  558.    H.  D. 

93 
Ayiisley,Ld.  C.385 


Baba  456 
Babbs,  M.  476 
Baber,E.  475 
BabiDgton,Dr.343. 

C.R.383.  J.  186. 

M.641 
Bacon   393.      Ant. 

391.    C.  E.463 

,  Lord,  208 

Baddelcy.  W.  C.  67 
Baggs  396 
Bailey,  M.  574 
Baillie340.   A.377 
Bain,  Dr.  4*6 
Bainbridge,  E.  381. 

G.  573.     H.  558 
Baker  843.    G.  68, 

189.     Sir  R.  806. 

T.  867,  460. 

Lady  306 

Baldwyn,  H.  398 
Ballard,  E.  883 
Bally  374 
Balmanno,  A  1 90 
Baropfield,   R.    W. 

378 
Band,   C.    E.   558. 

C.  L.361 
Bandun,  C'tess,  386 
Banger  379 
Bankes  355.    551, 

634.     M.  383 
Banks  18 

Bannesman,  A.  439 
Bannister,      Miss, 

563.    J.  563 
Bardwell,  W.  493 
Barbara,  H.  F.  473 
Baring  550.  A.  633. 

E.  174.      F.  556. 

H.641 
Barker,  F.  E.  573. 

J.  R.  93,368 
Barlow  443 
Barnard,  A.  475.  E. 

G.  363.  R.  C.  376 
Barnes,  J.  370.    N. 

460.    W.  377. 
Bamett,  W.  284 
Baron,  W.  378 
Barret  31 
Barrett,   Dr.    394. 

A.  173.  E.  K.  368 
Barrow,  C.  J.  67 
Barry,  848.      Miss 

558.     E.E.S.  379. 

J.  173.     M.473 
Bartholomew,     R. 

881 


Barton,   340,  34L 

H.  1.  463 
Basden,  L.  67 
Bashell,  J.  557 
Baskenrille,   J,    B. 

M.  171 
Bassett,  A.  M.  640 
Batchelor,  L.  641 
Bates,  J.  80 
Bat  hurst,   J.    648» 

T.  178, 
,  Earl  358, 

368, 453,  550 
-,  Lady  170 


Batley,  C.  H.  649. 

W.L.368 
Batney,  H.  641 
Baumgartner  500 
Bavaria,    Princesa, 

559 
Baxter,  A.  M.  363 
Bay  ley.   Jus.    17 1. 

A.  361.      F.  W. 

640.    J.  883 
Bayly,  W.  368 
Baynes,  E.  W.  380 
Beal,  A.  380 
Beale,  W.  473 
Beamish,  N.  L.  67 
Beard,  H.  G.  380 
Beattie  316 
Beauclerck,  Ld.  F. 

367,  558 

•,  Ld.  A* 

173 

Beaufort,  Card.  319 
Bea^foy,  M.  476 
Beaumont  67 

■    ,  Vise  3 19 
Beavan,S.  171 
Beaven, 571 
Beckett.  Sir  J.  358. 

S.463 
Beckinton,  W.  380 
Beckwitb,  A.  361. 

J.  346.    SirT.S. 

39 
Beddume  383.    B. 

557 
Bedell,  Dr.  835 
Bedford  9. 383,  393 

,  Lord  496 

Beeebey,  C  445 
Bectbam,A.W.469 
Beldam  531 
Belfrage,  H.  338 
4)ell6l3.  C.L.367. 

E.  475.    T.  189, 

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.S^  Ind$t  t»  Namet. 

BelUno,  Duke  Ili6  Blak«,Ud74l4  Bnckenbaiy   657.  Briitol.  B»i  873 

IIc1I«w,  Sir  E.  4TT  BUnehanl,  i.  376.  E.  ftSB.  Britlon     16,     437. 

BdlinEbam,  E:  M.       i56  Bradbun.f ,  T.  361          194, 344,  5« 

ITJ  Bl»nck»,J.3Bl  Br.dby.  E.  T  477  Bn»e«  446.    C.  186. 

BeliTt,  F.64I  BlaDd,R.lT3  BriiJdtick  5iE                J- !46 

Bclibtm  S4T  Blayilt,  J.  SBS  BradFanI,  S.  173  Brudcncll,  Lad*  64 

Benell,  L.  189  BIccbjiougb,  R- 9i  Bradtwy,  J.H.557  Brunei  4 S8 

Bannett,  UmU7S.  Blenoowr,  J.  J.  Ill  Bndoek,  U.a47S  Bri>mnt,J-58 

E.  S83  Blisi,  Dr.  Hi  Bndrelb,  C.  4T«  Bruiiidl  SSC 

Benuo,     J.     416.  Bloia,Caiit.86S  Bradibiw,  E.   174.  Bruiion.E.  H.640. 

Re*.  S.S46  BtaoiAeld.    Archd.  K.B.573                   J.  378 

Bant!84                        SI4  Bridy,  Bp.  894.   R.  Brymn.T.J.  171 

BttiKAll,  A.  iSi  BIcwmAcId  930  993  Biyar,  Miu  476    - 

^nibam.C^I'i.BU  Blare  S&l,  3S9  Brackenridce 94  Bucban  S89 

Beuilev,  Dr.  SO.  C  Blount  16  Bitgs.H.i}  Buebaiiui,  J.  981 

6J6.    R  69  Btatam,  C.J.4SI  Br-.iih«si(F,  J.  3HI  Buckb-nt.  LcLa44 

Banyon  361  Block,  J.  640  BnmMe,  J.  R.  113  BDckiD|[bam.Dul*a 

Bereni4T6  Blunt  408.      E.  W.  Bfaiirnkoiii.CuuiK,        uf  94T,  M3 

Bernrocd,  E.  641.       657  R.  bbH  Bui-klaiid  351.    Dr. 

S.H.3:7  Bl}lb,F.4«B  Bri»a.!<i,S.    87             159,555 

Barkaley,  Bp.  SH9.  Buardwan  T.  557  Rtunitutil,  M.  5b7  Bucklej,    D.    457. 

cue.  46.     E.  BockingGGS  Br>ndr>iii:2:.0                E.  P.  459 

983  Iladkiii,  C.  55T  Brnv,  \i.  H.  4T4  Bucfciton;  G.  981 

Benuuil,  £.  369  Budlcy,  Dr  968  Bmyhruuki:,    Lldj  Buddie  SBO 

Harminiban  990  BollTar  357  461  Buffon  993 

B>rnen.J.49&  Bulluul,  H.  68.    S.  Brecken,    J.   985,  Bulktiry,  R.  B.  W. 

Berntluff.  C(.  978         390  381                               Ul-     «    2fi; 

BerrlnftiMi,    J.    B.  Bund.C.P.  37G  Breckanr>dge,  Miii  BuU^rdtii       H.  E. 

173  Boniface,  H.  378  645                              64        J.2C7 

Harrow  99  BDiiner641  Brredon,  H.  967  Bulluck  3l)i!.  K.4;4 

Brrry,  J.  946.     W,  Bauie;,  Arcb.  64a  Breretoii,  C.64a  C.  Bunce,  G.  459.    M. 

985                             G.  981.     H.  K.  T.558.  U  A.37T.       377 

Bertie,  F.  179.    R.       463  U.  173  Buiinell,  H.  571 

586  BBsker,  E.  94  Bnteo,  M.  557  Buuii*iiartF,  949 

,  Lady  463  Booth,  A.  968.    M.  Brett,  R  R.  W.  67  Burdrkin  346 

BaM,  J<u.  17 1.    T.        L.  557  Breitell  630  Burder,  S.  361 

469.    W.  B.  368  Bootlr,  U.  368  Brewer,  J.  N.  9  Bunleti  18.    Sir  F. 

BeT(rley.R.H.94«  Bounquel,  H.  558  BrurLlttby.  N.  377        958,   356,    45«, 

Bewaber68  Bouiaoen,  H.  9|E8.  Brucksi.n,  N.  997          454 

B»le;,  Lord  358,       W.  570  Brodie,  J.  6*7  Burfard,  J.  186.  R, 

493,457  Botrill,M.5T4  BromfieM.M.  3BI         543 

BiekertDB,  J.  F.  93  Bouchrr,  .ST  Brombead,  M.  553  Burtceai  947 

Biddlc  A.  E.  579  Boulet,  M.  158  Bn>n>Uy,    C.    477.  Burgh,  K.  5ab' 

Btdwelt,  476.      E.  Bourkc,  R.  190  T.  473  Butghill,  Bp.  318 

T.  556  Bourmaiiter,      H.  BronU,  948  Burka,  Eim.  948 

Biicnell  379                    643  Brooke,  R.  349  Burleigh  396 

Bilkt,A.463  Baai^e4S8.    W.S.  BrookM6S8  Buni.H.  173 

Billiiigburii.J.5G7        4S0,  457,  460  Brouka,  W.  5C  Burnaby,  S.967 

Bioua,    C  A.  S5K.  Bou>hicld468  BrunKham  165,857,  BurnF,Dr.55« 

E.  377  Bouverie,B.967.C.  858,960.450  BumEU,  K.469.    J. 

Birdsao.   F.J.369        93.    E. 377  BroughtuM,    R.B.       571 

Birkbaek,346  Bo>er,  G.469  186  Burnet  £1,  ?93 

Bitbi>pp,  C.  67  Baweii,C.E.368  Br<'<iii«c1l,.')eli  Uurorll,    Bp.    S3S. 

Kisiboi,,Cul.H.I89  B<i*1ea490.     H.  C.  Brown  379.      &  C.        U.  A.  5SM. 

BUckburn.C.  641          883.    W.  L.  347,  556.    C,  A.  475.  Bun.*  943,335 

Blukiatoii,    A.  C.       489,    493.       W.  E.  984,  369.    H.  Burreu|;b,  Jui.  171 

647                              640  968,369.    W.99,  Burruuglie*, A, 390 

Blackiloac,  F.    C.  Bowman,  J.  S8I  03.    W.T.475  Burra*  378.  A.646 

68  Bawiioc947  Brownr,  Cul.  C.  67-  Bunoii,  E.  361.  R. 

Bl»d.»,J.  H.47T  Bowyer,M.C.S7  SirC.47r.   J.67,       939.W.S32.W. 

Blasdc'i,  640  Boyi-oct,  W.  998  477.    M.  475.  T.       W.  369 

Blagr^ire,  J.  985  Buyd,  T.  967.    Vf.  640  Buagxti'u*  97 

BUir  338                           C.  369  Brinn,  M.  579  Butler  31,  S43 

Blake,  Sir  F.   361.  Bt>yleS46  Bridfe  359  Buttuii,  M.  574 

G.  H.  369.      W.  Boyi,  M.  558  Brid|;«i,  M.  381  Buli,J.93 

J.  539  Buyton, M. 377  Bricht 379.  Dr. 968  Butlerwonb.J.S]? 


IntUx  ta  Noma.  SOU' 

Bat1«,J.9B3  CarrlnsteDSSS  Cibbcr    It.     C.  C.  Cumpton,  if.  9^ 

Biiitan,  F.  450  ,  LmJj  A.        394  Candly.  G,  8.  ST» 

Bye,  C.  J.  &se  IR7  CUrc,  T.  SW  CunckHn,  B.  f.J 

kyraii  I9,303,S99.  CamrSIS.  C. MS.  Cl>rcnee,D>iefcta&  ConercSTP,  P. & 

5ei,S09.  M.37T  E  SB.     P.J.3SB.  ,      Duke  Connup  5fiB 

Cidogan,  J.  474  J.  46(1.     S.  187,        I^S,  S5B,     390,  Comj-tom  IH 

Cc«ar,C.«9.    Dr.  S7I.    W,  319            811,    4*S,   4W,  Cunynghnm, C S7S 

339,331.    arJ.  Carlbsw,  E.  469            458,459,  MS  Cixikf ,  G,  ST,  341, 

3V9,  330,  331  Cirtwright  S6T.  M  Clirit,  J.B.  379.  T.  343.    J.  189.  W. 

Cilcuit.A.W.  888  C.86B                        S6T.  W.  3B0.  W.  H.349,343 

Calcrift,  450.    M.  Car)-  E.  9^                     N.  968  Cookcdry,  W.  IVT  ' 

187.  Caiden-igb  4?T  Clarke,  946.     Hn.  CiH>per39.    A.57B; 

C.ll.nd*r,J.  L  169  Carnr,  S.!.  477                 2Ail.     C    173.   E.  E.    P.    f7«.      H. 

Callrolt,  W.  H.341  Caulfield,  M.  378            A.  55B.  E.C.  ^73.  6l8.     H.  P.  381.' 

Ci\\ry,E.A.ihS  CavF,  T.  C.  B.  M9         J.  318.  M.  S74  N.   BIS.     R.   B. 

Callier,  A.  647  Ci««ndnb,  Hon.  C.  Clayton,  Utut.-col.  346.    W.  H.  ^»^ 

Caln^,  M>»  ses  C.  93g                        SS7  Coo«,  C,  SSf.    E, 

Catrmarde  ^63 ,  Lurd  G.  Clcnentian,  R.  P.  663 

CttHhur|>»,Udj647  939                              186  Copeman,  T.  H.  570 

.Lar<i63b  Caj  «T  airk,H.  554.  6i»  Cupeit»ki,  J.B.sr 

Calvert,  F.  657  Caylej  677                     G.  460  Coplnton,  J.G.460 

CalTlnM7  Cayly,  S.  P.  178  Cllffe,    L.  A.    179.  Curl»y,    Sir  J.   8. 

Cambride^,     Duke  Chadi,  H.D.  S7              M.C.4G9  358,459,460 

9GT,  543  Chalmen,  E.3B9  ClilKiml,  J.  E.  398.  Coi^ingcr,  Bp.  190 

CaiBdcn9S9  ChambcrluD,  Htai       dirT.  944'  Curbeic  1S3.    MiM 

Canipliell  4;9-     A.  968  Clinion,  Geo.  64  S43.     E.M.  186 

641.     Sir  A.  S7,  diamberUyn*,  W.  ,  Lord  SS3  Corbould,  U.J7T   ' 

641.      P.M.  (19.  67  ClinDM,H,e40  Corti,  Si|!nif)rl59 

J.  1B7,  tl68.    H.  Chamben,  A.  476.  Clu»,  J.  557  Colxrll,  T.  5T7 

379.    T.  345.  W.  P.  L.6T.  967,459  Cloyne,  Bp.  647  Cottle  574 

S7S  C)i,aii|>i>rys  93  Cluttcrbutk  946  Calton,  C.  Ml.  Col. 

CatiHIai  166  ChHTDpolllDn     699.  Cabb,J.3T«j  W.67 

Caniiy,  HBilameJa  M.  353  t:ubnurf ,  PHnce  79  CoulMn  S86.   8.  U 

46T  Chandlrr,  J.  348  Cochraiir,  Ld  653  Councna^    J.    39. 

Canniiii 64,65,949,  Ctiapmaii  379-     D.  Curkbarn,  G.  459.  L.  C.  573 

S5T,     36(1,    3H5,  B.  G4I.     R.  377          Sir  G.  634.      H.  Courtney,  0. 647 

990,     356,    358,  Chalbam  187                 184.       R.  640  Cuutu  658 

443,     450,    451,    ,  Earl  951  Cockerel!,  E- 463  Cuvintry,  T.  179 

453,     453,    454,  Chaunr3l9  Cuukiedgr,  R.  55T  CoobDrn  556 

467,    4SB,    4S9>  Cbavrs,  Marq.  164,  CudrinEion,G.461.  CuwUrd,  \V.  641 

460,     551,    631,  166                               W.  640  CuwperI73,W6 

634  ChtrretiJ.  373  Cobiin,  W.  B.640  Cui  380.   L.  F.  478 

Canterbury,     Abp,  Cbenhjre,  J.  647  Coke,  T.  W.  375  toyle,  .1.  68 

11.457  Clutter,   Bp.    914,  Colcbeiler,    E.  IBB  Crnbh  S4B 

Capmair,  J.  556  S30,  4S7.  635    '  Cukhriter,  Ld.  551  Craddoek,  R.  I73 

Capnn  547  ChntrrfKhl  337  Culdweli,  W.E.  IT9  Cradack  17 

Capron,C.4G9  Cbxoynd  18  Cilr,  J.361  Cramer  341 

Carherr*,  Lurd  168,  Chevalier,   T.    Vf.  Colcbrooke,  H.  T.  (.rinley,  T.  S69 

961    '  173                                 343  Cra»elEt,  633 

Canlale,  L.  186  Cbirbetter,    Cieia  C.ilFiDan,J.N.968.  CraTm,  Earl  390  - 

Carden,  R.  W.  68  460                             Re*.  J.  N.  346  Crawford,  A.  08.  ML 

Car*le»,  A.3SI1         ,  Earl  3S9,  Coles,  M.  477.    W.  A.S69.    W.  17^ 

Carew,T.3S  444                                 55S  670 

Ciircy,R.6!7 ,Viic.646  Coltord,  N.  W.  R.  Crawibay,  I.S7I 

Carhton  9S  CbiW,  H.  S77                 '79  Creoaer,  C.  967 

Car)i*le95t).  N.95I  Cliilden,  M.  67  Cullertun,  Mill  641  Cre(pi|rny  I73 

,  Bar!  45B,  Chitty,  J.6B  Cnlleti,  R.  983  Crewe,  H.  658.     J^ 

460  Chamley,  Col.  640  Cullinewoud,  J.  649  F.  556 

Carmarthen,  Man,.  Cbriiliin,   F.   959.  Culliiii,  H.  P.  l;!       ,  Lady  . ISO 

443  M.A.  189  >  Laiiy  189  Creykr,  S.36I 

Carnarvon,       E«r1  Chnitie   966,    358,  Ci>1nbr..ok,  Ld.  556  Cricbley36Q 

961,443  44G,     500.    695,  Columb,  G.  T.  459  CriJ,   DucbeM   lie 

Came,  J.  460  6S9.    A.  985,    M.  Cult,  M.  379  4TB 

Camea,  B.  J.  361  1.379.   S.  H.  64S  Culthurat,  C.  473  Criip,Dr.ll6 

Carpent«r,J.P.46l  Cburehill,    E.    W.  Colvllle,  N.  361  Crorker,  A.57S 

Carr,Dr.640  4S9  Coiobe«\9  Ctw^MSX,  *..■!»& 

Carriek,  Dr.  Ifil  Cbutt,  T.  V.  884  Ctttapon.  vn  twAxV\1 


66i  Inita  to  Namtt. 

Croke,  Le  B.  189  D4i'til,  949  Denton,  J.  381  DrmnmoDd,   E.  F. 

C^kcr,  J.  W.  460  D>Tid«on,  H.  99         l>crby,C<iuiiteii20G       641.    Sir  W.  SM 

Cr»te,  G.  S.67  Dane,  F.  378  DLicanei,  5&t  DrTdes.Slfi 

Crolr,  G. 346,  443  Ditim,    Dr.    387.    DrtronlAinu,  CI  Dudley,  Vac.  457, 
Cn>mptOD,S,E.55T        Cal.  3S6,  &&I.  C.    Detpard,  Col. 457  UB,     4S9.     4fi0, 

Cromwd1,0.339  A.  68.  E.  36a.  P.   Di-SL.GeurgcCuuiit       5S1,  6S5 

Crooki,  C  567  J-  460.  J.  H.  568.       G.  H.  94  DuBleld,  J.  171 

CRMb)>,R.3ie  J.T.:i;s.T  9!)8   Deuebar,  &.  69T  Dufdalt^irWAIl. 

CniM93  Davii, ;   ns,  3^4.  Dc'oiubirv,    Duke       317.    W.  S.  368 

Cmttiwaile  946  SirJ.3J4.TSj         3S6,    355,    457,  Duke,  £,  4*6,  57» 

Craieh  341  Dantan,  i4i.  C.  S.        459, 4S0,  M9  S.  641        . 

Crcnidac«37a  173.   J.  93,361.  DeHberrv,  J.  381  DuBartM|,SirJJ67 

CrDwilj,  E.  641  I~  378.    M.   173   Ucwine.  E.  985  DuoUr.  Sir  atTl- 

Cruikthinkt,  G. 59  Damn,  J.  68.     H.   Deoii!,  Capt.  173         Sir  J.  371.    Sir 
CruiKlcn  M  475  469  D'Hsiicirville  3«  W.  971 

Gnileithy,  M.  363  Dawkiiii,  H.  460       Dibdin,  Dc.asi  F.  Dununnon,  Ld.67 

Cruttwvll,  R.  386  DawMH,  Dr.    943,       3S6  Duncwmb,  F.H.&57 

Cubill,  W.99l,3aS       3     443,  4.SO,4S3,   Dick,  P.36S.  Q.  67  Duncfmbc,  T.  9«9 

CuDt,  H.  3GS  550.    E.4til.   G.    DickuoD.T.  984  Dundai,  A.  173.  J 

Cupiani,  J.  IBT  359,338.  H.S«7.    t>i<:k>'»SD».C.U.5.iB       H.  557.    T.475 

CnlniRr,  R.  314  J.  F.  463  Dickinuin,  C  137  Dunkin,   K.  H.SfO 

rumbtrland,  Duke  Day,   J,    I87.      T.-  DicblM,4B8  Dunirurd,  J.  lU 

67  3B4  Dilke,  171  Dupin,  M.  C.  561 

CumBlo,  J.  187  Dealt r7,RrT.W.S46   Dimngton,  586  ]>u|h)DI,  Che*.  461 

CuiMly54  Dean.  J.  557  DiUaii,'58G.  A.  461  Dunll,  D.V.  G57 

CupplM,T.6T  Deane,G.460  U'Ur»li,  ^01,511  Dwjer,  U.  61 

Curibir.  MA.  47s  DebbitS67  Ditchell,  P.  S-SS  DTcr,  606.    A.S71 

Curniek,  E.  173  De  Bcauvaii,  303       Dixie,  Capt.  361  Dvke,C.S74 

Curry,  Ur.  442  De  Beauroir,  Sir  J.   Diion,  488.     C.  C.  Dyne,  J.  68 

Curtit,  H.  T.  463.       443  460.    D.  I7I  Dynfror,  BaraneM 

Ur.  P.  198  De  Choiuul,  Duke   Dobia,  J.  SI  363. 

Cunolt,  C.  H.  369        336  Dobree,  231.   Prof,  Dywm,  F.  173.    H. 

Cartoya.  W.  648  I>e  ProTiuc,  Duke,       93a    S.  187  475, 476 

Curwep  958.  J.34B       3SB  Dod,  T.  C.  475  Enrdley,  S78 

Cutisii,  8.C.  &6I  De  Guiif,Duke  393    llodJ.F.  641  Earl.Capt.  P.  b75 

Cual9»9.  Sir  J.  IB  De  H»re,335  Dodpon.C.  368  Eden  161,445 

Culhbcft  3Sn  Deifbtun,  CM.  376   Dodwell,  38  £dEewottb,Dr.334, 

CunerS46  DeUGeld,  E.  U.  1 86   Dulbel.C469  6<5 

D'Aeth6g  DelafMie.  H.  461       Doiiuld,  A.64I  EdffxirUi  947 

DaU,  H.  399.  J.  ik  Dc  I'Aitle,  935  Doneaiter,  W.  641  Edmeadi,  J.  367 

M.B.£8.  T.647  Delxroain,  J. 67         DonoTan,  L.  173  Kdmamliuii  345 

nalet.  G.  1iJ3  Delane,  C.£73  Dorriiigiuii,  J.  646  Kdmui.di,  K.  361 

Dalhuuiie,  Ld.  357  De   Langley,   Edm.    Dorsei,  Duke  3S8  Edwirdet,  H.  463 

Dilla(346  309  Uoubtvday,  E. '^68  £d.ti>rd>,  D,J  3U. 

Uslinxjiy  205.  i3T  DeLanni,  331  Doughly,  P..  64  G   N.  I7I 

Dalm«iimDuk«l66  DelaRue,9S0  Diiu(lai,    W.RK.  Effinsban,  Ci.9M 

Dakoii, '1.386,389  Demaillet,51  459.     Hiu  461  Ecamlt.571. 

0'AWa,35l  Oeiaainbray.  P.  68   DoTetun,  E.30  Exennn  368  - 

lialyell,R.46D  De  MaiibreU,949      Di.«>iei.  E.  640.  R.  Egremoni,   Earl  31 

Dampier,  J.  L.463  De  Medici,  395  558.    S.  474  Eldun,    Earl    3S8, 

Dance,  Sit  N.  3B0  De  Monleipao.Ha-    ,  Lord  358  453,453,451,635 

Daniel.  Dr.  3!i6.  J.       deumkelle,    336,   Downham,  369  Eldnd,  M.  A.  384 

S.  558.  S.  377.  T.       337  Dowiiibire.Ld.  361  Eliai,B.3I7 

361  Dempecy,  M.  189       Dowion,   J.R.  189  £lio[,Lurd  459.460 

Dare,  R.  ff .  H.  68  Dempiier,  G.  567      Domt,  J.  F.  573  EUeaburou|>h,Lurd 

Darley,  H.  171  Uenbitb,  Lady  348    Doyle,  Dr.  199  356,4S1,4.S3,550, 

Daroley,  Earl  361,  Da  Ne rill,  306  D'Qytey    99,    346,       551,633 

551  OcDirai,  J.E.4S9       316  Ellerker,  A. 369.  E. 

DartniNitb,E.970  Deonan,  976.  Mitt   Draka  166  M.869 

Daru,369  A.  373  DrantBeld,  J.  363  Ellcnon,  Dr.  M9 

Da<hi>D«d,A.  174,  Denme,W.H.67       Driver,  F.  616,  M.  Eli  iM  496.     Sir 

463  Deniiil,  14.  R,  179         377  F.  967 

D'Auhigne.  396  Denniioh,  W.473.    Dr»yton303  EUiotl  93,  9*7.  E. 

Daulby.-Uiiie*  360  Denniu,  P.  475         Dre*,   168.   S.  173       463.    P.  674.    P. 

Dauncej-,  J.369  Dcanon,  33  -    Drinkwater,  J.  179       B.  67.    J.  173 

Dareji  463  Dent,),»\  XiTuec,W,  558  Bill*,  IS>,  »I|3S3, 


Indm  <o  Nameim 


M5 


4t9^    440,    Sis.  FtllMt.  W.  379 

F.W.  646,&57.  A.  Fenskm  3M 

356,  4te.  GUI.  M  FtDlejt,  D.  960 

Elpbin,  Bp.  564  F^on,  T.  976 

ElpbiiMtone^C.  647  Ferguton,  S03,S09, 
ElrinKton,  R.  G.  67       Cftpt.  J.  687 


ElttobSM 
Btlon  S47 
EliriQ.T.  H.S56 
Endin,  J.  476 
EoDtryy  377.    SIM. 

368 
Enrenby,  S.  146 


FeriDort  LIS 


Fowler,  C  SSI.  R. 

H.17S 
Fos,  CLJ.  946.    & 

L.  68.  H.  E.  I7f . 

R.W.44SI 
Fdy,  W.  U.  268 
Franeit  U.  363 


Ferraad,  K.M.361  Frankljind.rJMS09 

Ferren  488  T.  869 

Femn,  C*t«u  883  Frankliii,C«pt.  IS9, 

,  Ejirl  6S6  445^  637.    i.  IX 

FtfiTOMe  61  647 


FettinfT,  B.  M.  67       Friter,  567.  J.  S56 
Ji4»i«orth«Adm.  364   FtvoftbftOi,  Ld.  869    Pretling,  G.  H.  68 


Freeman^  IX-  496. 

F.  368 
Fraer,  M.  J.  868: 
Fremantle  &S£ 
Frencli«  E.  884.  Dr. 

172 
Friendȣ.a84.  iC 

C.  S43 


EweiMiiikf,8.  566 
Ewing  R.  883 
Exeter,  Marq.  469 
Extba#,  J.  94 


Erie,  M.  S.  463  Ffarington  475 

Emett,  Prisee,  949  Fid^,  J.  S79, 

Enkine,  Load  .557  Fidler,  C  646 

Ettlio,  S.  379  FietiDiw,  C  94 

Etberlnston,  E.  93  Fife,  Earl  459 

Evans.  351, 389.  E  Fintfb,  J.  67 

64S.   a  556.   J.  Fincbam,  Z.  98 

362.  SA.  188.  SL  Finrbem  4;«8 

E.  SL    868.     R.  Findli^,  A.  67.    X  Fricre  554 

67.    T.369,461         477  Frit b,  Col.  W.  67 

Evatty  Col.  68  Fbidon  68  Fronie  379 

Evelyn,  844  Fiiilater4€3  Pffott,  61.  J.  S,173, 

fivenvd,  M.  67,459  Finley  3l7  846,5(13; 

Xwbank»  H.  68  Finiiia,P48.  R.67  Fry,  E.  188 

Fliker,  &   173.    Jl  Fulier,E571.  F.67 

64aT.883.W.94  Porze^  A.  SST 

litaelarenc*  90  Fust,  F.  884 

Fitzgerald,  846,443  GAff578 

Eyn*,  Capu  186*  J.  Fitzberbcrt,  £.  H'.  Gage,  C.  190 

558                               539  Gainsford  803 

Byna,  Sf.  646  Filsroy  31  Gale,  Dr.  858 

Fabian,  Bf .  A.  378  Flu  Roy,  E.E.  476  Gidl  68 

Fagan,  C.S.  67.  W.  Flaxman,  J.  866  Gallagber,  H.  190 

641  FleteUer,  J.867  GMnbiec,  C  478 

Fair,  CoL  A.  67  FUnt,  J  .478  GandeU,  N.  578 

Faitbom,  M.  J89  Flower^   M.  A.  173  Gndy,  H.  P.  56 

Pakonar*  H.  189  Folker,  M.  477  Gape,  X  C.  376 

Falkland,  Mist  641  Fonnerau,  H.  558  Gapper,  E.  861 

FaOiner,  84a  Foot ,  G.  556 

Fane,  G.  47Ji.    9lr  Foots  948 

.     H.867  Foott,M.  377 

Farley,  D.  361 .    G.  Forbes  591.   J.  461 

m,463:    M.Se  Lord  459 

Banner,  17, 10. Capt  Ford,  A.  L.  5&8  J.  Gamier,  D.W.  558. 

194.    Sir  6^94.       B.  571  H.  B.  461 

R.  377  ForfcMiy,  W.  190  Garrard,  A.  93 

.Facnbam,  Lucd^9E8  Forster,  68.  T.  324^  Garrett,  J.  18 

634, 635                     T.  F.  384,    388.  Garrick,    18, 

FMrqubar,  £.  S.  4QD6       Lieut.  U.  347  685 

faaquUrson,  J^  J.  Fortescue,  H.  648  furrow.  P.  W..474 

5SS  Fosbsoke  181,  381,  Baron  121 

Farr,  &96                    484,461,694  Qarvay,,||p.884 


Gardiner,    £.  570k 

S.  573 
GgrUnd,  J.  a  171. 

R.  189 
Garnavlta  S.  883 


FanBcenct,  W.fi.U  Fbster^B.879^381,  Gascoyoe,  G«fi.454» 

S68  198.  L.  859               310 

Fswcctt,  A.  4&\.  1.  Kiihargill,U.Gw  30  Gaaeleet  171 

J.  574.    W.  900  Foulis,  L  D.  469      GuKonrt  684 

FinobiMi,  179  Foulkea  379              Ga?in  IjtT 

Fbkuigl»3a9  Foiilong,  E.  k06        Gan<MSl9 

Fcllowea^U.  M.  B.  Foontnino  547.  Sir  Gay»J.  468.  M.370 

558  A.  899  GMelee,Jiiaiie*379  Grtbcoi,  900»^  991. 

Cswr.  Mj*.  A«»p/.  XeVII.  Pam*  I. 


GMSt,  R.  19 
GenKs,  MadL  409 
Gent,   J. 8.  891 
George,  S.  £.  557 
Gerard,     384.    Dt. 

518 
Gery»H.468 
Gibbon  388 
Gibbe,  M.  A.  187 
Gibeme»C.  188 
Gibson,  C.  191.   F. 

488 
Giffand,F.38l.  i.38 
Gilbank,  W.  376 
Gilbert^).  347,443, 

S43 
GJlchriit,  847 
Gilkee,W.  187 
Gilpin,  Rev.  J.  846 
Gimingtiani,  J.  17  s 
Gi^t,  A.  868 
Gladstone  361 
GlamriUe,  F.  869 
Glpu€cster,Honpb . 

Duke  of  aif 

Glubb,  P.  867, 460 
Glyn,  a  C.  461 
Godertch,Vlse.4SI« 
450.457,459,466, 

551,553,549,983, 
634, 635 

Godfngr,  Capt  90f  ^ 
Godiva3l7 
Godwin,  H.67,  45^ 
Golding,  C.  557 
GoMsnitli  £49.  Dr. 

507 
Goocb,  Sir  T.  355. 

W.  556 
QoodenoQgh  Dc868 

Mrs.  571 
Goodman  379 
Goodwin,  E.  479 
Goold  846 
Gordosi,  H.  P.  LS6 

J.  67.  M.  R.  36r. 

8.  578.    W.    9L 

Sir  W.  156 
Gore,  E.  368.  J.  & 

461 
Gorges  388 
Goriiig,8irCP.  ITl 
Goss,  J.  341 

Gosson  988, 893 
Gough,316.  Sirlfk 

647 
Gonlbom  356 
Oofillett,A.4ei 
Oosrer,  Lord  F.  U 

450^556 
Gniboni^C94 
Grafton  377 

Dokryi 


605 


Index  Uo  WaMtaf.' 


C.569.  J.9127,990, 

400.   W.  R.37B 
Grab«in,  Marq.  358 
GrAnby,  Marq.  18 
Graiidin,  J.  641 
Grant,  C.  186,  355. 

Sir  C.  67.   J.   L. 

648.    J.   P.  640. 

P.  179.    W.  849 
Granville,  A.  B.347 
Gfauwell377 
Gratun^   459.    {H 

366.    J.  165 
Gravatt  458 
Graves,  S.  647 

Lord  640 

Gray,  Sir  C.  174.  E. 

368.     F.  478.    J. 
•36«.   R.S67.    T. 
.   497.  W.  173. 
Green,  Bp.  90 
J.  C.   369.   J. 

557.    M.  477.  T. 

186.    W  93,476 
Greenai»ay,H.  641. 

M.  641 
Greene,  T.  967 
Greenbowe,  160 
Greenland,  J.  160 
preenway,  G.  573 
Greenwood,  J.  640 
Grerory,    Dr.    51. 

E.  67 
Grtif.  C.  475 
Greville,  439 
Grey,A.363.  C.569 
Earl  551,559, 

633,  635 
Grier,  S.  94 
Griffin,  £.  A.  461. 

W.  186 
Griffitb,  J.  967,556. 

W.  G.  171 
Griffiths,  J.  171 
Griicby,  J.  68 
Grinisditcb  360 
Grimstun,  F.  381 
Grinfield,  946 
Grisewoody  J.  579 
Grotvenur,  Miss  D. 

469 

'         Earl  54 
Grove,  C.  558.     E. 

L.476.  J.  188,984 
Groves,  T.  571 
Grundy  985 
GubuiiiA,  L.  369 
Gucbt,  b.M.V.  557 
Guise,  Adm.  554 
Gultton,  i.  171 
Gunninir,  H.  968 
GurneyiU.  160,546, 

547 
Norwood,  J.  S6I 

Gutfcbmidt  559 

Ouy,  940.    M.  &13 


Gfryn,'581 
Hackluyte,J.414 
Hadow,  W.  A.  96Y 
Haie,  R.'6'28 
Haile,  H.  967 
Hailes,  Lord,  336 
Hake«ill'55 
Hale,  C.  969.     E. 
369.  H.  473.  W. 

969 
Halfbide,  J.  476 
Halford,  Sir  H.  90, 

364,  556 
Hall,  900.  A.  476. 

Capt.  B.  501.  C 

179,173,361.    C. 

H.  967.     E.369. 

G.  460.  G.B.  557 

¥t  377*  M.A.  378. 

R.  H.  188 

Bp.  194 

Hallam  477.  H^359 
Halley,  Dr.  994,509 
Halls,  J.  544 
Hallward,    J.    186, 

967.    N.  W.  68 
Halton554.    L.  M. 

179 
Hamilton,  J.   475. 

J.H.  173.  R.  461. 

W.  R.446 
HAmraond,CoL446. 

J.  640 
Hamper,  W.  939 
Hampton,  P.  647 
Hanbury,90.  H.380 
Hankinson  539 
HAnnyngton,G.  986 
Hanstien,  509 
Harange,  Capt.  640 
Harcourt,  Earl  67 
Harden,  E.  557 
Hardini;:,  946.  E.G. 

68.     F.  380.      J. 

983.    T.9I.    W. 

474,  647 
Hardin|^,SirH.358 
Hardwick9ll 
Hard«virke,E.J.188 
Hardy,946.  B.  475. 

C.  579.  J.  S.  469. 

M.  641 
Hare,  H.  476 
Harford,  E.  879.  U. 

573 
Hariufton,  Sir  J. 

393 
Harland,C.W.557. 

W.  C.  557 
Hartey,  Earl  of  Ox- 

ford,  398 
Harluw,T.  905 
Harries,  J.  556 
Harrington,  T.  986 
Harris,  39, 59,  187» 

996.  l>t.  Wi.  K. 


998.    £.  998.  G. 

556.  M.  998.    T. 

998.  W.  99,  993, 

995.  997.     W.  S. 

647 
Harris,  Lord  379 
Harrison,  A.M. 64 1. 

C.  173.  F.J. 469. 

J.  967.  J.  R.  189. 

M.  188.  W.  989, 

460 
Harrowby,Earl  457f 

458,  550 
Hart,  A.  459.  Sir  A. 

457 
Hartley,  T.  171.    J. 

473 
Hartiipp,  A.  E.  174. 

Sir  J.  414 
Harvey,  957*  Adm. 

644 
Harwood  949 
Hastings,  948.    T. 

557 
Udy  C.  M. 

180.    Lady  E.  86 
Marq.  71 


Haves,  B.  543 
Hawker,  R.  &  539 
Hawkes,  C.  641.  J. 

477.  M.  A.  68.  W. 

379 
Hawkins,  C.  469 
Hawksworth  947 
Hawthorn,  M.  68 
Hay,  A.  904.    A.D. 

698 
Uayley,   904,    906. 

Mrs.906.  G.  905. 

T.  904.  W.  904 
Hayne,  J.  968 
Hayter,  J.  381 
HeadUm,  H.  179 
Heald,  W.  M.  539 
Heatb»C.  179 
Heber,  Bp.  594 
Heberden  949 
H«llicar,S.  93 
Helme,  R.  469 
Helyar,  W.  968 
Henians,  595 
Hemptborne,  J.  460 
Henderson,  A.  190. 

T.443 
Hensley,  H.A.  571 
Heritage,  J.  573 
Heron,  Sir  R.  443 
Herries,  551,  634 
Htfrschel5l.J.F.W. 

347 
Herscbell,  Sir  Wm. 

341 
Hertford,Marq.  390 
Heskett,  P.  361 
Hesleton,  J.  98(     ' 


H«ygate,  W.  649 

Hibbert  187 
Hinkes,  S83 
Hickey,  J.  377 
Hicks,  S.  557 
Hisgs  574 
Hill,  97.  C.  189.  C. 

M.94.  E.  E.369. 

J.  573.  W.  381. 
Hilton,  G.  558 
Hincbcliffe,   Dr.  91 
Hinuber,  557 
Hitch  5 
Hitchcock,    W.  H. 

640 

Hitcbins,  R.H.376 
Hitt,  T.  93 
Hoare,  C.  J.  556.  J. 

968.  Sir  R.C.60, 

144,  161. 
Hobart,  A.  556 
Hobboose,  B.  380 

356,  551,634.  S. 

M.  558 
Hobson,  W.  968. 
Hockins,  J.  93. 
Hodges,  B.  477.  G. 

G.  986      M.188. 
Hod8oIl,T.  558. 
Hoey.  E.  463 
Hogarth  949 
Hoggard  188 
Hoffieck  586 
Holbein  335 
Hulberton,  R.  460. 
Holden,  J.  R.  989. 

W.D.  173 
Hole,  L.  369 
Holin8bed417 
Holland  949 
Lord,  454. 

559 
HoUinshead  959 
Hollis,  T.  189 
Holme,  J.  556.     R. 

945  . 
Holroyd  171,574 
— .  Lady,  641 
Holt,  C.  985 
Hoi  wort  by,  H.  369 
Home,  Sir  E.  347» 

443 
Hone,  J.  F.  460 
Hood,  T.  335,  335. 

Lord  948 

Hooke^R.  187 
Hooman,  J.  985 
H<M>p^r,  Bp.  919.  J. 

K.640.  M.38a 

Hope,  Sir  W.J.  459 
Hopkins,  M.  968 
Hopkinson,  C.  67 
Hoppner  463 
Horn,  E.  557 
Hornbuekl«,T..W. 


Index .  to  Nanmi  687- 

Hornby,  E.G.  173     H^tchinlon,   C«pt       T.  189,  476.    W.  KfiighUex,  L.  180. 
Hdrne666.  Bp.8«8.       C.640.  CH.  67.       S67  Kiiipe,8.574 

F.  M.  475.  M.  J.       J.  H.  67.  W.  460.  Jooson  111  KbOwkf^F.  346 

477.   T.  H.  331,       461  Jordan,  G.  W.  361.   Knoi;;Dr.  506 

333  Hacton,    Dr.   994,  Jorden  350  G.  648..  W.  341 

Horneck,  Dr.  496  S95.  M.  558  Jor|ce>  C  M.  187        Koek,  Gen.  167: 

Hornyold,  B.  M.S85    Hyatt,  A.  557  Jubilean^A.  S  Kottcbue»      Capi. 

Hursey,  J.  476  Ibbetsoo^  Lady  94     Juxson,  W.  115  30S  . 

Hursfield  498  If^narra,  Abb^  3S3     Kaimfei,  Lord  3S3      Lacretelle  166 

Horsley,  Dr.  S95        Ingestrc,  Vise.  67      Kaue,  J.  379  Ladbroke,  F.  641 

Hor^man  383    '         In^ledewy  T.  461        Karaitkaki  553  Ladert  545 

Horton    949.      W.    Ingram,     Dr.    351    Kater,  Capt.  543       Lafitte,M.455 

165, 357, 635  H.  J.  646.  M.463   Kay,  W.  557  Laing,  Major  456 

Horwood,  R.  384       Inman,  Tl  641  Kaye,  J.  460.     Dr.   Lake,  0. 379 

Hosken,  J.  F.  573      Irby,  H.  M.  573  J.  173.    Sir  R.  L.   Laking,  M.  558 

Hoskint    6*47.      J.   Iroiimonprer,  R.  67.       363.    S.  C.  173       L.Hnib  166,455,556. 
473  Irvine  456  K^an,  E.  459  £•  385.    W.  457» 

Hoste,  C.  1 88  Irvinf^,  Dr.  367  Kearney,  C.  367  459,  460  . 

Houghton,    R.    R.   Jackson  33, 460   F.   Kearton,  G.  187         Larobe,  P.  A.  173 

641  B.  647.J.17,376.   Keatine,  M.  361         Lambert  395 

Houlton,  C.  G.  190       T.  189  Keene  460.    C.  E.    Lamplougb,     Mist 

Hovenden,     V.    F.   Jacquin  61  367.     W.  475  363 

345  James,  Dr.  640.  A.    Kei|cwin,  J.  38  Landaff,  Bp.  457 

Howard  338,   339.       ^7.      J.  T.  460.   Kelly,  E.   367.    S.   Landon,  Mitt  340, - 

Sir  R.  115  W.  171  383  341.     E.439 

Howel,  £.  S.  463       Jamieion,  J.  634        Keltall,  J.  H.  363       Lane,   E.  475.     P. 
Howell,  M.  477    T.   Jaui^on  J38  Kemp  55,  183  188.    S.460 

477-  J  anion,. £.  U.  363      Kempthorue,  J.361    Lanfharne,  J.  476 

Howland,  R.  464       Jaques,  J.  68  Kendall,  £.381  W.   Langley,  A.  J.  376. 

Howorth,  £.  385        Jardine,  M.  363.  R.       640  G.  384 

Hoyle339  190  Kenkerden,  J.  640     Langton,  J.  985 

Hubbard  18  ,  Jay  640.    M.463       Kenmure,  Lord  543    Lantdown,     Marq. 

Hudson,  F.  380  Jebb,  Sir  R.  !^43         Kennedy,  a  345  356,    454,    457, 

HujSj^hes,  J.  556.    J.    Jefferay  497  Kenney  346  458,    553,    633, 

S..474  Jeffery,  E.  M.461       Kennion,  J.  377  635 

Hullett,  J.  367  Jekyll,  H.  W.  68  .     Kensifigton,  M.383    Larcher  303,.304 

Hullock,  Baron  171    Jenkins,  G.  E.  641     Kenyon  390  Laacellei  377 

360.  Jenkinson  460.    B.   Lord  541       •  Lady  E. 

HuUe,  Sir  C.  361.        556  .  Keppel,  G.  363   Sir       558 

Sir  S.  460  Jenkt,  R.  476  W.  67  Lasbman  497 

Homboldr,    Baron,  Jenner  SO.     G.  C.   Ker,  £.  173  Latlie,W.  385 

61.  335.    W.  885         Kerr,  A.  a  363  Latban  379 

Hume  68, 319,350,   Jennings,     C.    M.   Kerrich,  Miss  381      Latoucbe,    F.    M. 
333,    337,    378,       379.    W.  187         Kerrison,  M.  477  383. 

550,634.   Sir  A.   Jersey,  Earll  15         Kersteman,  A.  646     Latour,  J.  171 
96.    A.  M.  173.  Jerwood,  J.  396  Keys,  R.  377  Lauderdale,     Earl, 

Dav.  331,  356.  J.  Jessop,  J.  641  Kidder,  496  550,  551 

384.    J.  A.  186.     Juad,  M.  378  Kildare,  J.  199  Laiigblin  199 

Hundley,  C.  474        Joddrell  30.    Sir  R.   Kirkpatrick,  J.  93  .  Law,   C.   385,      E. 
Hunn  385  P.  461  Kimber  434  377.     J.  383 

Hunt,  J.  H  68         '  Johnson  350,  377,    Kimbolton,  Ld.  36   Lawless  169 
Hunter,   Dr.    486.       496,  530.  Dr.  80,   King  93,  640.     Dr.   Lawlor,R.334 
G,  67.     J.  347,       339, 390.  B.  173.       367.      Miss  558.   Lawrence,     A.    C. 
393,446,  547.  M.       F.  571.     R.  473.       E.  463.    J.  370,       361..  Sir  T.  473 
573..M.A.B.468       S.  381  384.  M.  463.  W.   Leach,  £.  463.     J. 

W.  F.  H.  A.  477     Jobn8ton,Sir  A.  159..      640  475,  556.     Sir  J. 

Huntley,  Lord  LOO         C.  361,  461.      D.  Kingsley,  W.  647  457,  459.     W.  C. 

Hurd35.1.     Bp.  18,        337,338  Kirk  by,  H.  574  640 

4^0.  Johnstone,      Capt.    Kitcbiner  335  Leake,  H.  363.   M. 

Husband,  A.  94  368.  C.J.  H. 461    Knatcbbull,   C.  93       W.  633.     W.  M. 

Husbands  M.  647     JoIit.M.  383  Sir  E.  454.      E.       333 

Huskisson  138,313,    Jones,  350,  .550.  A.        633,634  Leathes,  J.  F.  171. 

454,    553,    63J,        171.  E.  378,  573.   Knevett,  C.  463  H.  M.  558 

634.  VV.  457,458        H.  463.  H.J.  173.   Knight,  Miss,  363.   Lee  56,  445.      C. 
Hossey,  M.  A.  93  .  H.T.  573.  J.  171,       A.    187.    F.  363.       368.  .  £.  383 

Huichins360  473  S.  383.  Lteds,  5.  386 


H4a  t3  Nawiti, 


457f  460 
Lcffttr«,aS.869' 

LesfiCt,  B.  C.  B. 

99S   . 
l^SB*  Bp.  f€7.  A. 

641.    R99.   H. 

W.985 
LeiKb,J.  J78 
LeibnitBil 
LeifeUld,    W.    a 

S47 
Lcigb,  C  H.   I7K 

B.1.40S.  P.  171 
Lt  JIarcbmoty    R 

362 
LemoDy  8lrC.  171 
LoonardyT.  B.^ 

no 

Leofrie  317 

Lnebcr»  J.  377 
Leslie  6S8.     T.  M. 

558 
Letbbridc«>  J.   H. 

S68.    Sir  T.  368, 

865,480 
Letbon  27 
Lett  894 
Letttom,  Dr.  S42 
L»%«turi,S«r  R.488 
La7,D.885 
Lewellin,  L.  €8 
Lewin,  R«  J.  674 
Lewis  181,866,869. 
^  J.N.  178*   T.T. 

461.  W.46a 
LidtoiSftf.468 
LiUie,SirJ.&648 
Linifigstuii,C.&668 
Una,  M.  456 
Liiidtxy,  Cut.  661. 

J.  i<3, 880,  aoo» 

.  408 
Lindiey  3 
Liiiganl,  681.    Dr. 

346,  817 
Linley  841 
Liiiii,  D.  190 
Lltmore,  Lady  578 
■■    '  Lord  886 
Litter,  C.B.  574 
Utton  469 
Uttle  461 
LKtleda)el71 
Littlewood,  J.  377 
Lhrerpobl,  Barl  165/ 

348,     367,    367, 

451,    453,    463, 

684,635 
Liveiey,  E.  W.  573 
Livy443 
Uewellin  846 
LIurtntt  333 


Lloyd,  B.  M.  641. 

D.  C.   178.      R. 

384,986.  T.38L 

W.S61 
Locic,  J.  566 
Loekbaft  443 
Lockwoed,  C.  185. 

F.V.S67 
Loddiffe,  W.  643 
L<fd^  838.      Ednk 

339,330,331.  T. 

88 J,  333,  670 
Lofgen, J,  547 
London,  Bp.-ol  310, 

984,  465,  467 
L«idoiiderry,MArc^ 

356,    358,    377> 

453,    649>    633. 

636 
Longdeo,  6fa|.  17^ 

J. R.  378 
Loni^an,  F.  188 
Lonsdal  91 
LonsdmW,  J.  476 
Louii  XIII.  359 
Loutb,  Earl  300 
Lovat,  Lord  336 
Loveday,  A.  670 
Lovell  358 
Lovesy,  T.  384 
Loirdell,  G.  386 
Lomti  L    fi.  667. 

M.  878.    S.380 
Loweay  188 
Lowtber,  C.  S.  363. 

M.86I 

Lord  358 

Lowtbian,T.  188 
Loyola  334 
Luard,  E.  567     R. 

J.  361 
LucM,  L.  68.      R. 

566,  570,  640 
Luee,  M.  55^ 
Laceiia,  J.  L.  460 
Ludford,  M.  189 
Ludlaro,  Au  17 
Lunn  459 
LiisljiHftoii       460, 

640 

Lutber337 
Luttrell,  T.  478 
Liitwidn,  F.  J.  363 
Lutlbrd,  C.  667 
Lyell665 
Lygon,  G.  475 
Lyiicb,  T.  67 
Lyndburst,      Lord 

358.    451,    467« 

459,  46U 
Lyudedoeb,Ld.460, 

556 
L^nn,  A.  647 
Lyon, D.  646 
Lyons  430 
Lys,  H.C.173 


Lytont4tf 
Lytdttoh  390 
Miri>erly,V.L.«7 
M'Caul  346 
Macaulcy,  C644 
M'Caualand  946 
M'Cleverty,  E.  87^ 
MTocnfae,  67 
M'CulUeb,i.461 
M'Daniel,  D.400 
M*Derniotc,  169 
Blacdoiiald,Col.l35, 

894, 396,396,363, 

494.  /.3,10M13, 

508.    Sir  J.  460 

LadyL.187 

Mae  Dougall,  M.  J. 

558. 
Mae  Evoy,  P.  461 
Mac  Gilray  397 
Macgregor364 
M'Gregor,  Col.  67 

Sir  J.  61,543 
Maehell,  R.  641 
Macbiii,  G.  68 
Mack,  Gen.  73 
Mackay,  J.  B.  643 
Mackeatie  173 
Mackie,  A.&  668 
Mackianoo,  C.  179 
Mackintosh,  J.  949. 

Sir  J.  561 
M'Laaoe,  A.  361 
Maclaurin  394 
Maclean,  C.  M.  967 
M'Lcod,  N.  460 
Macklin  17 
Macmkbael,  W.368 
M'Millan,  1).  667 
M'Naghteii,  B.   A. 

450 
Macffherson,  D.  67 
Mac  Swine,  396 
Madan,  M.  380 
Maddy,  E  68 
Magee,  L.641 
Magenis,  J,  B.  68 
M*((nay,    J.     476, 

65r 
Mago,  F.  578 
Magnire,  M.  368 
MaboN,  J.N.4«0 
Mai,  S%.  338.  M.A. 

£63 
MainfT,  p.  ]86 

Maintenon,3S6,337» 

838 
Mair,  H.  863.  J.  H. 

459.    W.  876 
Maitland,  E  178. 
Malcolm,  Miu  641. 

Sir  J.  640 
Malinf,  J.  99 
Mallett,  J.  W.  67 
Malmesbary,    Earl 

443, 553, 634,835 


Maiptf,  C  697 

Viie.4^   . 

Maltbot,  T.R.83S 
MMlton,  Q  187 
Manby,  M.  H.  68 
Manchester,    IM* 

36,  331,  889 
Mandeville,  Via.  9^ 

381 

Maa^le^  ^  ^^ 
Manners,    C*    17L 

W.877 

Lady  490 

MantfieM^Loffd  978 
Mant,  996,316 
Maples,  J.  881 
March,  J.  384 
Marfett,  J.  171 
Manoi  301 
Mark,  W.  376 
Markhan,  Abp.  98 

363 
■       '  C.    641. 

J.H.440 
Marklaod,  J.  H.M7 
Mariborouf  h,  Duka 

of  348,  337,398. 
Maronia,  Bp.  664 
Marow,  M.  678 
Marriott,  J.  180*  L. 

187 
Marrit,  R.  476 
Marryat,  C.«40 
Marsden,  S.M.379. 

P.  B.  476.  4.  476 
Marsb,  H.  367 
Marsliall,    B.    190, 

556.  P.  190 
Marsoo,  F.  657 
Marten,  E.  116 
Martin,  A.  93.    6tf 

G.   113.     H.  679 

8.  381.   T.    476. 

W.646.  W.C.381 
Maryatt,  67 
Maskeline,  Dr.  994 
Mason,  A.  476.  G. 

90.    J.  976 
Massengale,  S.  178' 
Ma8terman,T.  968. 
Matcbett,  J.  C  668 
Matber,  P.  L.  968 
Matbews,    C    948. 

P.  J.  G.  369 
Matthews,  A.  673 
Maude,  T.  579 
Manikin,  J.  380 
Mavers,  W.M.  166 
Maw,  S.  68 
MaxweU,    958.    A. 

173.    H.  B.  469. 

J.  190 
May,  194.  J.  8.  986 
Mayd,  W.36l,363, 

460 
Mayers,  W.  M.  57  ; 


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W^M,  &.  4t«  '     '  Mollajr,  p.  MS  H«M«,L.M.SM  NoMdp.C.  m 

M*fBw,Dr.»»  Mtifittmt,   tf.  R.  Mumy.Ml.  ILISS.  Nugut,  Mb.  (3) 

Mcadotr*,  Udf   P.       459  C.  E.  4«¥  -LnrtMll 

383  HOlTiMin,  C.  9W.  MutKran.  C.  6a,  Nnrni,  8.  E.  Sttt 
H»tb,  Earims  M.  868  173.  G.8.68.  W.  Okkelij,  C.E.Ea 
Mcdlicott,  W.KST  Monk,9«,  iM.  Dr.  A.  460  0«k««,C.K,a 
M<U»b,fi.e40  SSG  MuigroteSe  0iiki>i4n,  C.  3T9 
Mrirille,  M.  E.  S»T  McHlkhoiur,  J.  KS  Muitcn,  J.  3B3  O'Brien,  S.  !a& 
Lotd  3&8  Monro,    60.    C.  H.  Myna,  C.  S7B  O'Cuiinell  400 

453  SS8  Nance,  J.  460  O'Connar  947,  Sfi 

HnKeatii,  P.S.5B7  Muniii^,  Mn.  306.  Napc4«on,EiBp.l59  O'Donnisbur  67 

H«n!eT,T.4eo  E.306,aui.G.36l  Nim.AnAHLSn  O'DunotiDE  ^46 

Hcredilb,  E.&63  Ladj  E.  Nub,S6,  III  O' Parrel  3SI 

MerMlyib  «4«  aes  Natlsn,  8. 6T  OOer,  S,  9».  ItW 

Merea,  SirT.  90S  SIrJ.  3S  Naylor,  D.  B.  Its  3M,    W.  Sgt 

UcraM,J.479  Alont|;amcrT,  S4D,  Nealr,  W.  4n  Otd>n,J.  473 

Merridew,  N.SIt  G.  ?25.  G.A.  «4l  Neck,  J.  578  <rG»»iiy, S.  «T 

Merrifivld,  1.  66  Monllnwr  166  N«1>an,  T.  38 1, 348  O'Kcllr,  C  A.  M 

Mttti,  Mirq.461  MantDn>rency,MiH  NeuciUe,  J.S.  9I  Oke,  J.96T 

Meirittr.  i.  JT3  383  Ncvill,  R.  30b  Olddcld,  S.  477 

MetGiir,H.46l  Mi>ntr«e,Dul<e  SS«  NeriUe.Cen.  513  Olhpc,  B.  IBS 

Meteaire,  W.    5T0,  Moody,  W.  474  New  by,  J.  H.  m  Orivn,  Dr.  34t.  B, 

G«T  MuuT.C.  333  Newsutlfl,    Duke         398.   E.  398.   i. 

Mcynrll,  H-CI?!  Moorby,  A.  187  504  398 

Mryrick,  Dr.    I96,  Maarv,  34B.  C.9H.  N««^t>93  Olirier,  D.S.  IM 

94S,S5I,353.359,       A.  P.  475.  E.3S3.  Newell,  5.  H.8T7  OINniirt,A.n     ' 

446,  63e.    O,  J.       P.M.  E.  68.    G.  Newbam,  R.  sr3  OlUrer,  E.  574 

A.  P.  367  64'r.  J.  187.  T.  W  »»*w»n  598.     R.  Omaunej,  A.  S7» 

Michwl  Annlo  309  Moranl,    Ladr    C.       W.  171  ONeill,  G.  H.  47T 

Mlchnut.U.M.  ISS       I7S  N«<rpmt,8ir  J.  Kg,  OnUy,0,S.5e7 

Mlfhelen>,3.67  More,  E.  I7S.    H.       355,356,450  Oiiila*,H.  MO.   R. 

MkheM,    W.    SBl,       346  NenWm  51.    Sir  J.        F.  537.  W  -Sff; 

5T3, 640  Morean,  P.  S68  S03, 304,«M,996,  Eirl  488 

Middletun,  D.  £81  Morewood,  J.  68  580  Opie  340, 535 

L«ly30S  Marfan,  D.  H,  483:  NiMock  S47  Ord  879 

Mien  5)4  G,   t68.      H.  D.  Nieeolh,  R.  397.  T.  Orford,  Lord    106, 

Miguel,  Don  455  184.   T.  173.  W.       89T  543 

Mildoiay  n^  36!,  448  NicboUl  38  Oritain,  Daka  S70 

Mllei.  161,578.  Sir  Moriwn,  A.  IT!  Nichall^irC.G.S70  OrDub7,J.  67 

E.  sea.  WA.40T  Moriu,  C.  94  Nieboll%,  S.  477.   T.  Orry  8S7 

Mill.  W.  68  Marrt],  B.  39.    J.        93  Oibom,  E.  68 

MitlarsfS  460,SI><.  U.  3T8.  NichDli23,4S,487,  Oibama47£  A.IT4. 

MilleoEeD,  J.  SS3.       W.  469  J.  91.344,  5«1  H.  379 

6S4  Moriey,  J.  R.  188  Nicol  G4S  Otnond,  H.  F.  S7t 

MiHer,  J.  S39-    Kr  HorM,  B.  98).   I.  Niealw,  N.  B.  S4E,  OiwaM,  4<a,  SSI 

J.  R.  387.  S.  558        375  S4I,  343,  418.  J.  La<|;98l 

MIIIh,  W.  H.  461  MDrtlm>r,1.4«  67  Otiley,  P.  897.   L. 

Hilllnfcbanp,    Dr.  MortoD66  Nithett4S  997-    T.  897 

640  Earis;7  Nobh,  C,377.    H.  OiiKley,.SlrW.sn 

Milli,  A.  471.  H.  F.  Monyn,  P.  BBS  463  Orarton  598 

570.    J.  475.  W.  Mauley,  A.  M.  368  Norbury,  Ininl  640  Owen    468.     £.  S. 

4.^9  Mauid,S.S79  Norfolk,  Duka  36,       378.»r£.W.C 
MlllwanI,  E.  863  Mooltm,  J.  641              587  R.  460 
Milinan  S40  MAuniey,  J.  64G  Norman,  J.  881  Oiford.  Bp.  539 
Milton,  T  379  Mount  Edgoumbe,  Nonii,  W.  475  P«c»,J.376.  WJL 
,  Lord  858,       843  Norriw,  R.  186  H.  SS4 

457,550  MontKpu.  R- iT3  Nonb344  Pipt,  Ld.«7,  173 

Mneti,  I.  171  MooDtaiD,  A.  S.H.  Norlb,  P.  SCI.    G.  PacQini44B 

Mtnn)i(94  67  381.    L.33  Paine  S3S 

Mitehell,  S.461  Mounlcbwln 459  Lord 341  Paley  395.   Dr.5» 

HitRird,396  tit,  i.  Moimaye.M.F.STB  Nonheik,  Earl  173  Palgrave,  P. SS7      ■ 

368  Muypie,  Dr.T.  SS4,  Northumberland,  P.Ik,  A.  174 

Moberley,  E  477  135  Duke  319,    390,  Pilliaer,  M.  463 

Moira,  Earl  359  Hud|!e,  Col.  394  368  Palmer  456.     C.  P. 

Moleewortb,  T,  W.  Mnndv,  E.  561.  W  Norton,  C.  574  367.   C.  «<\.. 

P.461  383'  Net(,j.ti.i>n  vn 


670 

Palmerttoiiy    Lord 

447,  635 
P«oton,J.  171 
PapiUon^  E.  M.  463 
Park  333,  Jos.  171 
Parker,  Abp.    537. 

E.P.558.  H.  173. 

S.  368,  377.    T. 

877.    W.  285 
Parket  360.  D.  899 
Parkhurtt  395 
Parlby,  B.  B.  67 
Pariirll,Sir  H.  338 
Paroissien,  G.  57 1 
Parr,  M.E.  189 
Parry,   tapt.    159, 

350,  445.  W.  H. 

W.68. 
Partal,  J.  367. 
Parton,  205 
Partrid{;e,M.  A.  368 
Pasmore,  S.  P.  68  ^ 
Patrick,  Bp.  395 
PattenKon,C.T.640 
Patteson,  J.  361 
Paul  382.     C.  557 
Pawsey,  H.  641 
Paxton,  F.  57 1 
P«acock,556.J.57] 
Peart,  W.  376 
Peddie,  J.36I 

Peebles,  W.  91 
Peel,  A.  47(5.  J.640. 

L.  367.  647.  R. 
165,349,257,358, 
360,361,356,358, 
450,453,454,543, 
549.550,611,633, 
634 

L^'dy  J.L.  656 

Peele,  G.  119 
Pegge  194 
Pegue,  iGen.  64 
Peile,  T.  VV.  539 
i'elbaro,  C.T.93 
Pen,  A.  573 
Pellew,  G.  173 
Pemberton,173,317 
Penfold,  £.461 
Penn  390.    G.  321, 

633 
Pennant,  T.  383 
Penruddocke,C.173 

J.  L.  173 
Fenyiton,  F.  189 
Pepper,  H.  S.  67 
Pepperel,  H.  642 
Prpyt  344 
Perteval,  S.  556 
Percy,  H.  640 
Perkins,  A.  173.  D. 
S.  268.     H.  557, 
647.    J.   283.    S. 
189.    W.  318 
Perrot,  Sir  J.  224 
Perry,  C.  462.  T.A. 
641.  W.47C 


Index  to  Noma, 


P^terboroughyDeta 

330,231 
Peters,  1 60.    W.  109 
Petit,  L.  H.  460 
Petracb  333 
Pet  re.  Lady  361 
Pettet34P,  341 
Pettigrew,  59,  351 . 
Pettingall  186 
Petty,  A.  S.  378 
Peyto,  Miss  376 
Peyton,  H.  461 
Pbelips,  A.  199 
Pbilip,  D.  VV.  443 
Philips,  F.  68. 
Pbillimore,  J.  460 
Phillips,  C.  298.  £• 

H.  187.  Hon.Mrs. 

G.  367.    R.  S98i 

SirT.  634 
PbillpotU  541 
Pickering  18 
Pidding,  J.  377 
Pierce  350 
Pigott,  W.  F.  383 
Piborel  166 
Pilgrim,  E.t.  3, 333 
Pilkington,Mri.3l6 
Pinchbeck  571 
Pingo,  J.  383 
Pinkerton  336 
Pitman,  T.  363 
Pitt  348,  359,  54 J, 

637.  W.  188,345 
Fitter,  J.  H.3H3 
Plat,  Dr.  113 
Planta,  J.  460 
Playfair  296 
Play  ters.  Sir  C.  194» 

194.     Sir  W.  194 
Plowden,  C.647.  J. 

C.  186 
Plowman,  £.  557 
Plumb,  D.  379 
PJunkett  258,  360, 

356 
— — — ^  Lord  451, 

459, 460,  640 
Pole,  C.  R.  173.    £. 

S.  C.I71 
Pollock  346.  F.  186.. 

G.  67.     R.C.  368 
Pond,  Miss  281 
Ponsonby,  J.  385 
Poole  295 
Poore,    G.  C.   171, 

367.    J.  384 
Pope  3 16, 348 
Poraon  330,  33 1 
Portland,Duke457, 

458,  459 
Ponman    33,    355. 

£.  B.  558.  H.  E. 

368 
Portwood,  G.  401 

B.^1 


Power,  P.  640 
Powney,  G.  384 
Poynta,  A.  ^7 
Pratt,  J.  187,  194 
Prentis,  S.  463 
Prentite,   Miss  561 
Preston,M.557.  Sir 

R.  549.    T.  376. 

W.306 
Priaulx,  H.  368 
Price,  F.  F.  395.   J, 

171.    J.  B.  367. 

W.  i87 
Prichard,  Dr.  445 
Prinii,G.  B.  P.  171 
Prior,  476.     W.57I 
Prise,  R.  515 
Pritchards,  L.  93 
Pritcbett,  M.  381 
Proctor,  H.641 
Prout,  W.543 
Prynne,  W.  544 
Puckering,    Sir  T. 

310 
Pugb,  Rey.  W.  399 
Purvis,  E.  361  . 
Pybus,  M.'557 
Pycroft,  D.  457.    L. 

381 
Pye,  H.J.  173 
Pyemont,  S.  382 
Pyke,  H.94.  J.  461 
i^uiiiton,  G.  D.  460 
Rabone,  A.  385 
RadcliflPe  343 

— '-  Lady  361 

Radclyffe,M.  187 
Radnor,  Earl  377 
Rae,  Sir  W.  460 
Rafn  347 

Ragusa,  Duke  166 
RaiDgiil,378 
Ramsay,  Capt.  G.N. 

188.  J.  383 
Ramsey  336 
Randolph  2 
Raiiken,   C.  W.  H. 

379 
Rankin,  C  68 
Raper380.  M.  378 
Rasbleigb,  C.M.475 
Rask  347 

Rastall,J.98.  W.9I 
RsTizaotte,    A.   M. 

173 
Rawdon,  Lord  7 1 
Rawes,  W.  570 
Rawlings,  J.  377 
Rawliiisoh,  J.  368 
Rawson,  W.  187 
Raymont  169 
Read, E.  557 
Reade,  W.  M.  173 
Reader,  Wm.  320 
Reaston,  R.  A.  570 
^^«Mmvir  608 


RedetfUlCyUyrdaaar. 

550,551.  5&3,635, 
Reed,S.  543 
Rees371 
Reer^,  J.  I7I 
Reeves,  J.  543 
Reggio,  Duke  455 
Reid,G.382.  J.  571 

'  Sir  S.  318 
Reine  20s 
Reofictt,  MUs  566 . 
Renniei6&    J.  54 
Renoaard  847 
Repton,  H.  379 
Rev^ly,  P.  368 
Revett  577 
Reyne|l,  t.  67 
Reynolds   187.     C. 

557.      Sir  J.  378, 

359, 464,  625 
Rice,  Dr.  104.     M. 

363.     S.  359,  450 
Richards  383.  A.  67. 

G.P.640.  J.  186. 

M.  558.  CI.  W.67 
Richardson,  Dr.557. 

C571.    T.  381, 

574,  647.  W.  367 
Ricbert,  A.  367 
Richlieu  338 
Ricbm.an^  E.  476 
Richmond,  L.  646 

' Duke  170 

Riddeii,  M.  429 
Ridge,  E.W.  189 
Ridley,  H.  J.  361 
RidsdaU,  R.  361 
Rigaud  C.  W.  380. 

S.  T.  367 
Rigby  554 
Rigbye,  R.  376 
Ripley,  T.  H.  640 
Ritchie,  W.  347 
Riviere  638 
Rivington,  £.641 
Robbius^M.  A.  641 
RoberU  554.      Dr. 

488.    A.  380.  H. 

556.    S.  573.   T. 

380.    W.H.  361 
Robertson,  Dr.  867. 

A.  irfb.    J.  574. 

J. H.  556 
Robinson  381,  460. 

A.  187.  E.  380.  F. 

171.    F.  J.  459. 

M.  439.    R.  188. 

W.94,  846,460 
Robson  344.     R.  B. 

383   . 
Roche,  M.  J.  93. 
Rrfcke,  T.  474 
Rockingham,  Marq. 

348, 
Roden,  Lord  261 
Rodir,  <^n.  357 
Vo54^^C.46l 


Index  to  Names, 


Oil 


Roebuck,  C.  461 
Rosen,  D.  185.   G. 

374,  573.  M.  478 
•Rollc,  Lord  359 
Rooke,  C.  284 
Roos,  De  556 
Rose,  249.  H.  H.  67 
Ross,  A.  477 
.Rossingbam,  E.201 
.Rcislyn,  Lord  550 
Rottenburg,  F.  173 
Route  187 
Rowe,  Miss  462.  C. 

J.  H  285.  S.  267 
Rowtes,  L.  268 
Rowley,    Dr.    267. 

A.  283 
Royds,  379.  H.64I 
Rucker,  R.  380 
Ruddy  J.  376, 640 
Rudell,  J.  460 
Rule,  J.  92 
.Runcker  443 
.Ranker,  M.  347 
Rupert,  Prince  249. 
Russell  460.   A.  68. 

J.  556.  J.  B.  572. 

W.  306,381 
Lord  J.  26, 

67,  443,  454 
— -  Lord  W.  550 
RutUiid,  Duke  69 
Rycroft,  SirN.  269. 

Sir  R.  269 
Rymer,  H.646 
RyvesG.F.67,641. 

W.  558 
Sabine,  Cap.  E.  543 
Sadler,  J.  H.  461 
St.    Alban's,  Duke 
.  543,  558 
St.  David's,  Bp.  62 
Sainthill,  S.  577 
St.  John,  R.W.  361 
St.L^(;er,Capt.462 
St.  Quint  in  461 
St.  Roman,  Ct.  455 
Saldanha  552,  553 
Sale,  R.  H.  67 
Salisbury,   Bp.  62, 
.     443, 554 
Salmon,    Dr.    475. 

W.  473 
Saltroarsbe,  P.  172 
Salvtey,  H.  67,267 
9andifinan,D.G.  190 
9andwicb,  Earl  20 
.■  LaMy  306 

Saniiyit,  M.  573 
.Sansom,  H.  571 
Santer,  C.  92 
Sarsfieid,  Gen.  357 
Sauroarez,  C.    173. 

P.  361 
Saunders,  Dr.  242. 

T.  171.  475. 
Saunderson  67 


Savery,  S.  109  • 
Smvill,  S.  W.  558 
Saville,  E.E.  174 
Savoy,  Princess  328 
Sawbrid<!P,  462 
Sittby  572 
Sayce,  E.  573 
Sayer,  J.  93 
Saykes,8irM.442 
Scarborough  381 
ScarIe(t,Sir  J.  360, 

457,459,460,550 
Sbarsdale,  E.  173 
Scharpe,  R.  318 
Schiller  333,  334 
Schilling  627 
Schreiber  62 
Sebweighseuser  203 
Schypley  318 
Scorer  G.  187 
Scott  248,278,476. 

551 
Scott,  Sir   J.    543. 

Sir  W.  443,  487 

Lady  64 1 

Seal,  C.  377 
Sealy,  J.  381.      W. 

188 
Seatoh,  G.  285 
Sebright,  Sir  J.  258 
Seeley  248 
Selby  574,  590.    A. 

283 
Selwyn,  W.  539 
Seymour  26.   E.  M. 

186.     J.  H.  267, 

556 
Sbadfortb,  T.  477 
Shaftesbury,  £.  358 
Shafto,  C.  557 
Shakerley,  G.  461 
Sbakpspear,  558 
Shannon,  Ctess  285 

Earl  286 

Sharp,  C.  571 
Shaw   56.    J.   194. 

T.67 
Sheardown,    E.  R. 
.     362 
Shelley,  A.  362.  Sir 

J.  269 
Shelly  248 
Shenstoh  248 
Shepherd,  T.  361 
— — —  Lady  M. 

246    . 
Sheridan,  D.    226, 

227.    M.  A.268 
Sherring,  E.557 
Sberwill,  Capt.  M. 

627 
Sherwih,   Dr.    546. 

M.173 
Sherwood,  Mrs.  246. 

8.  641.    W.  173 
Shield  341.     Miss 

461 


Shipperdsoh,  F.  93 
Sblrreff,  M.  A.  574 
Short,  W.  558 
Shovell,  Sir  C.248 

Shrapnell,H.93,267 
Shute  172 
Sbuttleworth,    A. 
.     188.     J.  187 
Sibley,  F.  362 
Sidmouth,Visc.249, 

647 
Sidney,  P.  627 
Sigel.G.  640 
SU1,S.  188 
Sime,  J.  283 
Simpson,  Miss  461 
Sinclair,  Sir  J.  6 
Singer  523  . 
Singleton,  H.  647 
Sinkler,  E.  J.  172 
Sipple,J.  380    • 
Skegg,  S.A.  187 
Skelton,  F.  377 
Skinner  255.   J.  67 

Ins,  250,  252 
Skryme,  Capt.  285 
Skurray  16 
Skynner641 
Slade.J.  168.  J.H, 

556.  W.M.ld6 
Sloper,  Dr.  18 
Smedley  562 
S«ieU,  W.  67 
Smerdon,    H.    106, 

107 
Smith,  Dr.  2,  156, 
176.  C.  J.  186. 
CR.  361.  CT. 
190.  D.  461.  £. 
M.  557.  F.  573. 
G.  S.  246.  J.  257, 
571.  J.  C.67.  J. 
F.  S.  267.  J.  G. 
624.  L.  378,381. 
M.  362.  M.  A. 
361.  0. 558.  P. 
558.     8.571.    S. 

A.  17  .^  I.  557. 
W.475.  W.R.B. 
557 

Smyth,  C.286.    G. 

B.  461 
Snelling,  A.  557 
Sneyd,  A.  475.     L. 

267 
Snow,  E.  W.  67 
Soane  55.     J.  539 
Sober,  C.  92 
Sole  350 

Somers,  Lord  221 
Somerset,  Duchess 

572 
Duke  26, 

443,  .■>43 
-^T Lord    C. 

635.    E.6Sa«  ¥. 


Somerville  300. 
Sopp,  E.  189 
Sorell,  T.  S.  67 
Sotheby  353,   547. 

£.  379.     H.  461, 
'475 
Soulisby,  Maj.  188 
Soutbey  340,  429. 

Dr.  67.  R.  622. 
Soutbgate  248,  627 
Sparkes,  S.  573 
Spawforth,  G   186 
Spearman,  M.  285- 
Spence  267.  R.  346 
Spencer,  C.  461.  H. 

283.     W.  P.  460 
-  Ctess  472 

E.  443,  542 

Spooner,  W.  D.  67 
Spray,  Dr.  570. 
Spurrier,  J.  I90 
Spuribeim  62 
Stacey,T.36l 
Stackbouse  350 
Stacpoole,  H.  556  . 
Stafford,  Baron  589 
— — —  Marq.  187 
Stainfortb  92    . 

Stamrord,C'tess571 

£363,460 

Stanhope,  Earl  127, 

187i  550,  635 
Stanley,  F.  447  * 

Lord  450 

Suples,  A.  648 
Stapleton,M.J.189 

640.  W.478   . 
Stapylton,  E.  478 
Starey,  Elis.  206 
S(arkie,N.L.G.268 
SUwell,a556. 
Stein mets,  M.  362 
Stephens  172..   E. 

A. 362.   J.  247  ^ 
Stephenson,      Col.- 

170,264.  R.  172. 

S.  159 
Stepney,  S.  187-, 
Sterling,  Col.  100 
Sterne  18 
Steven,  R.  475 
Stevens,  £.  E.  173. 

G.  M.  188.    M. 

C.  378 
StevensLin,  Col.  67. 

G.  640 
Steward,  H.  362 
Stewart  267.  A.380. 

F.  381       , 
Still;  M.  462 
Stinton,  Dr.  108 
Stirling,  C.  462.  C. 

D.  462 
Stockins,  W.  376     ' 
Stoddart,  J.  M.  268; 


en 

£.  M.  a8ft.      ML 
S.  IM 
ScoD«»  S.  SB'S*     It 
ITS 

Stopford,SirR.S«7 
Slorar  194.    U.  SL 

Mb.    J.  945 
Storey  S79 
atorr»W.  646 
Sturrtr  R.  S68 
Slothard  950 
Stourtoci«  Lord  587 

atimclU  U.77t  199 
8tracey475.  1.475 
Stmlfordy  Lord  9U5 
StMnfe  wagrt,  Ifi64e 

Strmoc«Mjn»  ^  !>• 

B.F.  188.  H.641 
Strain  baas  ^  ^7 
Strallbrd^  A.  P.  18; 

F.  P.  166,  i44 
Stratton,  H.  188 
StriekUii4,H.388 
StinMm^C.  189 
•lfioiigkluc»,L478 
SCfUtt,  950 
Stuart  918.  V.9S» 
SCMkeky,  Dr.  &78 
9t«rt»  Lady  C.  68 
a»aiiM,  W.  W.  67 
SwMHif  J.989 
SwaniM,    P.    17ft. 

P.  M*  m 
SwayM,  J.  574.  U. 

378 
Swed»iHKiN|:of55S 
S««ie,  J.  a79> 
8«»lft,  Daaa  943^ 
Sykca».  P.  641.    Sit 

M.  M .  368  N.  477 
SyaMMMla»M.E.476: 

T.  A5fi,  §40 
SuMkJ>ukaor690 
SMHvan,  J.  460 


iiufes  io  Mflnef. 


SuiDner»  Dr.  640.  J. 

B.946 
Siir»M«»  A.  986.  E. 

C.64I.    M.375 
Sustes»  Doka  967f 

851,445^695 
Stttheriand  187*  E. 

971.  J.  971 
Xibor,S.55» 
Tabnini,  Jv  983 
Taddy,  J.  984 
TuttMCr  Barl  939 
Tallat  458 
Talleymiid  949 
TallMib»  P.  I.  179. 

L.I79 
Taaiwort)HVIt.561 
Talc,  H.  991 
Tumlra,  G.  173 
TmwmI,  G.  F.  891 


Tlif  itiook,  Mm%96 
Tajdeiire,W.I71 
Taylof  946,  S8a  D. 

476.    £.989.  W. 

549^     Sir  H.  56, 

170,f6S,964,459» 

460.  J.  368,  473^ 

J.  G.  99,      M.  A. 

957.  T.  K08, 475» 

571 
Tebbi,  S.  369 
Tedttit,  HtS06.  M. 

906 
Tei^moutl^  Ld460 
Temple^  Sic  J.  199; 

M.  A.  68.  O.  179. 

W.  J.  479 
Tendon,  P.  F.  641 
Terniant,  F.  381 
TttnterdeD,Ld.451, 

459 
Terwin,.  J.  99,  353. 
Tetbenton,  C  68 
Tbackery  187.  Rrr. 

P.  345 
TbM»biait,C.641 
Tbevenoft,  E.  360 
Tbierfy608 
Thiitlecbwayta,  A. 

478.    S.5&8.  T. 

179 
Tbomat,  A.  378.  BL 

989.      EL9B.     F. 

J.  361.    U.  474;. 

M.  469.    Sir  N  . 

17.    W.  64T 
TbompsofH  A.  646. 

G.  H.  968.  J.  984, 

46D,  475.     J.  V. 

68.  M.  T.  P.  179. 

T.  958 
TbomtoB,  H.  190. 

T.34r.    vf.m 
Tborjibill,G.67,459 
Tbofiiton,    A.    99. 

H,  64a    J.  318. 

S.983 
Tborps  A.  K.  985. 

G.  189 
Tbretber,  E.  174 
Tburtby,    H.  469; 

L.  369 
Thymne,  P.  C.  98 
Lady  J.36t 


>^^ 


Tierney  949,  450, 

458,  460,  556 
11II„J.375 
Tillotton^  Abpw  499 
TiltOD,  £.  A.  5$e 
TinbefUkc,H.476 
Tlflidal^  Sir  N.  C. 

457,460 
TiMaaiarSOl 
Titterton  379 
Todd  393.  lUv.H. 
J.3!9a.   T.9M 


Toledo,  Abp.  64 
Tolfr^,  M.  A.  56» 
ToUer,  R»647 
Tonalioc,  Bp,9,99, 

39 
Tompaoi^  C.  171 
Tonkin,  H.  369. 
Tooke639 
Torre,  H.  173 
Toulmin,  P.  173 
Tottp,  J.  98 
Torey,  J.  580 
To«rosefid519,544. 

H.  J.  477.      Bi. 

968.    M.  P.  172 
Townthcod,  A.  U. 

361.     II.H.380 
Tozer,.  Capt.  558 

Trafford,Eaflol949 
Travanian  558 
Tcvrert,  G..F.  641 
Travis,  J.  381 
Tredemiiek,  G.  N. 

641 
TreTutii,  AT.  869 
TreiDayne»    J.    U. 

461 
Trencb  537 
Trent,  M.  641 
Trevor,  A.  B.  €& 

SirJ.M4.    T.T. 

478 
TriAtraiD,  H.  B.  461 
Tritton,  M.  988 
Trottopo,.  J.  189 
TroiDi^  Van  4619 
Trotter,  J.  641 
Troupbridge  476 

Tuan,  Abp..  559 
Tubb94 

Toeker,  £.461    6. 

559. 
Tudor,  W.  558 
TttfneU,  E.  469 
TumbuH,  Dr.  640 
Turner   947,    976. 

Miss    360,    454, 
:  458,  &50.      £.  P. 

3Ba     J.   Bl  W. 

349,  343.  S.  399, 

558,693'.  T.L56. 

W.454 
Turtoii949 
Tweddell,  i.  179 
Tweoiov,  J.  198^ 
Twittleton,  F.558 
Twiss    983w     Goo. 

381.    P.  476 
Tylee,  C;  5S7 
T>ler573.  J.B.461 
Tyndale  T.  377 
Tynte,  A.  461 
Tyrconnel,Lord  400 
Tyrcll,  Sir  J.  171 
Tytfihitt,.  J.  B.  nS. 


Tvder,  P.  P.  69f 
Udnoy,J.R.67 
Upton,  G.  P.  189 
Ursbia,  Priocoaa  dee 

398 
Usflber  996 
Uiber  947.    J.  988 
UUersoN  698 
Usbrldgo,  Eaf4  460 
VailUivt99L  P.  I8f. 

i..369. 
Valiant,  T.  640 
Vklfameo,  H.  173 
VondeiiborKb,     N. 

173 
Van^Greon.GMi.  I6T 
Vane,  H.  377 
VanbeythuyieneU 
.    M.  558 
Vambao^  E.  369 
Vaisall,  J.  379.    B. 

647 
Vaugban,BoMni  171, 

968.     E.B.  984. 

R.  579.     S.  478. 

W.  IT9 
Vakmoiv  166 
Venn,  E.  C  479 
Vonoer  850 
Verner,  W.  97 

Veniey99 
Vemow,  G.  68.   J. 

1711  L.  5.59 
VenilaM,  Bftrll69 
Veytey,  J.  S73 
V«dlef\  J.  186 
Villa  Flor  189 
VHIersMarsbat397 
Villele,M.de456 
VtMiert,  G.  877 
Vincent,  hug,  341 
Vine  499 
Vines,  E.  37^ 
Vivian,  J.  H.  I7f. 

Sir  R.  H.  97 
Voltaire  948 
Voree,  E.  179- 
Wobab,  J.  et 
Waite,  601 
Wakefield,  E.    99. 

E    G.   360^  434. 

458,  550.  W.488 
Wakeman,  W.  68 
Walden,  R.  318 
Wakiy  179 
Wklee,  M.  188' 
W^lkerb  A.  369.  A. 

647.    E.  M.  558. 

J.  970»  477,  543. 

JiN.947.   R.69S. 
Wall,  &  443 
WaMaee,  356,  338 
Wallers  A.  984 
Walllnrer,  W.  967 
Wmito;  R.  474 
WaLflfldiley  S41 


Indtx  lo  Nanus. 


673 


Wtlpole  M  337.  G. 

173 
WaUh,  F.T.475 
Wakingham,  Sir  F. 

Walter,  W.  377 
Walton,    Bp.    346. 

11.334.    8.475 
Warburtoa  633.  W. 

99 
Wtrd634.MiM64l. 

A.  297.    E.   188. 

J.  187.  J.  W.318. 

W.i86 
Wardale,  A.  93 
Warden,  J.  557 
Ware,  E.  883.    Sir 

J.  233 
Warlock,  A.  363 
.Warner   129,    191, 

545.    S.461 
Warren,  H.  188 
Warrender«  Sir    G. 

454,  460 

Lady  571 

Warrington,     £arl 

460 
Wartnaby,  W.  573 
Warton  348 
Warwick,  M.  378 

Earl  367 

Wafhiii^toii,    Geu. 

637 
Wasteneyt,  C.  463 
Waterfurd,  Marcli. 

573 
Watkint  346,381, 

574.    C.F.  461. 

M*.  P.  68 
Watson  336.    A.  K. 

460.    C.  W.  641. 

F.B.460.  P.  385. 

Sir  W.  350.    W. 

L.67 
Watt,  T.  A.  573 
Watts,  R.  558 
Wawii,  J.T.  557 
Wawne,  G.  B.  4«7 
Waylen  93 
Weare3l6.  J.  318, 

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